Today: Cool Friday, warming to the 70s Saturday and Sunday, when it is likely to be mostly cloudy, with showers along the way. Nights in the 50s Friday, the 60 Saturday, down to 50 Sunday night. Details here.
Today’s document from the National Archives and the Astronomy Picture of the Day.
Today’s tides: at the beaches, at the Intracoastal Waterway.
Drought Index: 203
The OED’s Word of the day: http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/141089“>lowrie, n.
The Live Community Calendar
Today’s jail bookings.
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“For let me tell you, gentlemen, that to be afraid of death is only another form of thinking that one is wise when one is not; it is to think that one knows what one does not know. No one knows with regard to death whether it is not really the greatest blessing that can happen to a man; but people dread it as though they were certain that it is the greatest evil; and this ignorance, which thinks that it knows what it does not, must surely be ignorance most culpable.”
–Plato, from Socrate’s “Apology.”
Previously:
Note: all government meetings noticed below are free and open to the public unless otherwise indicated. Many can be heard or seen live through each agency’s website.
The Sheriff’s daily incident reports and jail bookings are posted here.
Free For All Fridays on WNZF: Host David Ayres welcomes Palm Coast Interim Manager Beau Falgout, Sheriff Rick Staly, Ray Parker, who is starting a new museum for veterans, and County Commissioner Joe Mullins, starting a little after 9 a.m. with a commentary by FlaglerLive Editor Pierre Tristam.
Friday: Access Flagler First: For those in need of any social services, including food, clothing, haircuts, WIC, health screenings, SNAP (food stamps), free phones and much more, such as contact with innumerable local agencies for health, education, mental health and other supports. Members of the Flagler County Opioid Task Force will also be promoting Narcan Awareness, the emergency product first responders administer individuals experiencing a drug overdose. From noon to 3 p.m. at the Flagler County Fairgrounds, Cattlemen’s Hall, 150 Sawgrass Road, Bunnell. Contact Pastor Charles Silano, Grace Tabernacle Ministries, 386-586-2653, or Janet Nickels, Flagler County Human Services, 386-586-2324. Friday: Access Flagler First: For those in need of any social services, including food, clothing, haircuts, WIC, health screenings, SNAP (food stamps), free phones and much more, such as contact with innumerable local agencies for health, education, mental health and other supports. Members of the Flagler County Opioid Task Force will also be promoting Narcan Awareness, the emergency product first responders administer individuals experiencing a drug overdose. From noon to 3 p.m. at the Flagler County Fairgrounds, Cattlemen’s Hall, 150 Sawgrass Road, Bunnell. Contact Pastor Charles Silano, Grace Tabernacle Ministries, 386-586-2653, or Janet Nickels, Flagler County Human Services, 386-586-2324.”>See the full flier here.
Friday: Staff members for U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., will hold “mobile” office hours in Flagler and St. Johns counties: 10 a.m., Flagler First Friday, 150 Sawgrass Road, Bunnell. Also, 10 a.m., St. Johns County Library, Hastings Branch, 6195 South Main St., Hastings.
Friday: Flagler’s Legislative Delegation meeting: Florida House Rep. Paul Renner and Sen. Travis Hutson hold the annual legislative delegation meeting with local officials and organizations from 3 to 5 p.m. in the Flagler County Commission Chambers, 1769 E Moody Blvd., Building 2, Bunnell, to elect a Chair and Vice Chair of the Flagler County Delegation and take public testimony on legislative issues, appropriations, and local bills in the upcoming legislative session. Flagler County Delegation meetings are open to the public.
Friday: The St. Johns County legislative delegation, made up of Sen. Travis Hutson, R-St. Augustine, Rep. Paul Renner, R-Palm Coast, and Rep. Cyndi Stevenson, R-Saint Johns, will meet as it prepares for the 2019 session. 9 a.m., St. Johns County Administration Building, 500 San Sebastian View, St. Augustine.
Friday: Coffee Series at the Palm Coast Community Center, 9 a.m.: Tammy Cornelius, the Cardiology Cath Lab Manager at Florida Hospital Flagler, will help you “Know Your Numbers. They Could Just Save Your Life.” We know a lot of numbers by heart, but do you know the most critical numbers for your heart health? Cornelius will discuss heart health and the important numbers you need to know, as well as signs and symptoms of heart disease and peripheral vascular disease.Coffee Series is sponsored by Florida Hospital Flagler, Parks & Rec’s health and wellness event partner. It is held at the Palm Coast Community Center, 305 Palm Coast Pkwy. NE. The coffee and lecture are free, but pre-registration is required: www.parksandrec.fun/seniors.
Friday, Saturday: 
The Flagler Beach Library hosts a two-day holiday book sale, from 10 to 5 on Friday and from 10 to 2 on Saturday, with a sneak peek for cardholders only on Thursday from 10 to 5, 315 South 7th Street, Flagler Beach.
First Friday at Flagler Beach’s Veterans Park, with vendors, games, food, music and other delights, from 6 to 9 p.m. The Matanzas High School Steel Band will perform. Members of the Flagler County Opioid Task Force will also be promoting Narcan Awareness, the emergency product first responders administer individuals experiencing a drug overdose.
Friday: Christmas With a Deputy: The event focuses on providing Christmas gifts for children in the Flagler County community who otherwise would not have a Christmas. This year the Sheriff’s Office raised $16,717.00 for the event. We will meet at Chiumento at 5:30 p.m. and depart for Target at 6:30 p.m. Don’t be alarmed by all the sirens and police lights: the children will all be riding in patrol cars, with participants from all local law enforcement agencies.
Friday, Saturday: The Choral Arts Society marks the Christmas season with a pair of concert at 7 p.m. Friday and 3 p.m. Sunday at St. Thomas Episcopal Church, 5400 Belle Terre Parkway, Palm Coast. For more information contact Betty Christian at [email protected] or call 407/474-1437. See the website at http://www.casfl.org.
Friday, Saturday, Sunday: Christmas Classic Radio Show: “It’s a Wonderful Life,” Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m., Sunday at 2 p.m., at The Flagler Playhouse, 301 E. Moody Blvd., Bunnell. Call the box office at 386-586-0773 or visit the website for tickets here. The Christmas Classic Radio Show, It’s a Wonderful Life reworks the classic holiday film starring Jimmy Stewart and is set in a 1940s radio studio with a cast of five actors playing multiple roles and creating sound effects. They tell George Bailey’s story of redemption, renewal and rejuvenation. This show is NOT part of our regular subscription season. Tickets for this show are $25.
Saturday: Flagler County Art League Winter Show and Annual High School Student Show: More than 100 pieces of student art from both Matanzas and Flagler Palm Coast High Schools have entered their work in the FCAL Annual High School Student Show opening from 6 to 8:30 p.m. in the new, larger FCAL Gallery. This not only gives them an opportunity to demonstrate to the community what they have accomplished but they have told us that they love to see what other students in the county have created. Their works in pencil drawing, photography, painting, digital design/art and mixed media are impressive and once they are judged tomorrow there will be cash and certificate awards given at the opening reception, similar to FCAL’s usual judged shows. FCAL’s Winter Show has a wonderful variety of media – painting, drawing, sculpture, stained glass and much more! Awards for both shows will be given at 7 p.m. at Saturday’s reception. At City Marketplace, 160 Cypress Point Parkway, Suite A208, Palm Coast.
Saturday: The Palm Coast Starlight Parade takes place starting at 7 p.m. at Central Park in Town Center – featuring colorful lighted floats, talented marching bands, and prizes for the top entries. All participants are encouraged to add lighted holiday displays to their floats. The route will begin at the Round-About on Central Avenue (east of Market Avenue) and head east; turning north onto Park Street, east onto Lake Avenue, and south on City Place; then continuing south on Bulldog Drive. Parade entry is free. The judging categories will be: Best of Parade, Best Marching Unit, Best Float and Best Decorated Vehicle. Prior to the Starlight Holiday Parade, the City of Palm Coast’s Parks & Recreation Department will host a fun-filled afternoon at Central Park starting at 4 p.m. Visitors will enjoy live entertainment and performances; arrival of Santa and visits with Santa, food and beverages. Santa will visit with children until 6 p.m., and families will be able to take their own photos.
Saturday: ASL Chat, 6 to 9 p.m. This is an event open to the Deaf community, families, and students! Come to enjoy a cup of coffee and meet some new people! Share to spread the word! We meet on the second Saturday of every month at the Palm Coast Starbucks on the intersection of Highway 100 and Belle Terre, by Aldi. Address: 100 Belle Terre Boulevard, Palm Coast.
Saturday: The German-American Friendship Club of Palm Coast hosts a dance and Christmas dinner party at noon. Call 386-446-1226.
Free Cup of Tea and Social Saturday: Stop by A Scent to Remember to enjoy a free cup of loose leaf tea by Flagler Tea Company, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. A different tea is featured each week. If you want to try something different, you can ask for a cup to brew the tea of your liking. 208B. S. Central Ave., Flagler Beach. 386-631-3692, [email protected]
Sunday: Holiday in the Garden at Washington Oaks Gardens State Park, 6400 North Oceanshore Blvd., 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., holiday music, vendors, photos with Santa, children’s arts and crafts, free entry with toy or canned good donation.
Sunday: Worldwide Candle Lighting, for Children gone too soon, 6 to 9 p.m., Wickline Park, 800S Daytona Ave, Flagler Beach. The Compassionate Friends Worldwide Candle Lighting unites family and friends around the globe in lighting candles on the hour to honor the memories of the sons, daughters, brothers, sisters and grandchildren who left us too soon. As the candles are lit at 7 p.m. they will create a virtual wave of light that moves around the world, from time zone to time zone. Hundreds of thousands of persons commemorate and honor the memory of all children gone to soon.
Sunday: Worldwide Candle Lighting, for Children gone too soon, 6 to 9 p.m., Sunsplash Park, 611 S. Atlantic Ave., Daytona Beach. Organized by The Compassionate Friends of Volusia and Flagler Counties. Contact Carol Fisher (386-793-1779) or Patricia Armor(386-290-8752) with questions or for more information. The Compassionate Friends Worldwide Candle Lighting unites family and friends around the globe in lighting candles for one hour to honor the memories of the sons, daughters, brothers, sisters, and grandchildren who left too soon. As candles are lit at 7 p.m. local time, hundreds of thousands of persons commemorate and honor the memory of all children gone too soon. Now believed to be the largest mass candle lighting on the globe, the 22nd annual Worldwide Candle Lighting, a gift to the bereavement community from The Compassionate Friends, creates a virtual 24-hour wave of light as it moves from time zone to time zone. This event started in the United States in 1997 as a small internet observance and has since swelled in numbers as word has spread throughout the world. Hundreds of formal candle lighting events are held and thousands of informal candle lightings are conducted in homes as families gather in quiet remembrance of children who have died, but will never be forgotten. https://www.compassionatefriends.org/event/22nd-annual-worldwide-candle-lighting/
You and your family are invited to bring framed pictures, photo albums, special songs, letters or poems (if you’d like). We will have table of love with pictures and momentos. We encourage all to bring flashlights, and dress appropriately for the weather.
Sunday: Dolphin Conservation Experience, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Introducing a new level of collaboration between Ripple Effect Ecotours and Marineland Dolphin Adventure. This unique combination of kayak and walking tours will introduce visitors to the complete “Dolphin Conservation Experience”. The day will start at Marineland Dolphin Adventure, where guests will be immersed in the history and legacy of conservation at this amazing facility. After a short break, guests will be delighted with a 2 hour kayak tour venturing into the Marineland Matanzas Basin where Ripple Effect Ecotours expert guides will focus on the Atlantic bottlenose dolphin natural habitat. We hope you will take part in this exciting new “Dolphin Conservation Experience” and help spread the Marineland Ripple Effect. Cost for this event is $55/person, and requires advanced reservation. Visitors can view our entire tour calendar online and register for this and other events at www.rippleeffectecotours.com or by phone at (904) 347-1565.
Sunday: Society for Crypto-Judaic Studies: Dr. Sharonah Fredrick is among the presenters at the 9th Conference of the the Society for Crypto-Judaic Studies and the St. Augustine Jewish Historical Society at World Golf Village, 500 S Legacy Trail, St Augustine. This unique conference that will explore the lives and challenges faced by Jews and descendants of Jews who traveled to areas of America under the thumb of the Spanish Inquisition. Focusing on those Jews who converted to Christianity or hid their religious heritage, the conference will discuss the lives of these Crypto-Jews or Conversos who settled in America in the early years of the country, specifically in the Southeast. Presentations by scholars and historians will discuss the history of Spanish and Portuguese communities in the colonial period, operation of the Inquisition in the New World and research into crypto-Judaism especially as it pertains to what today is called the Southeastern United States. You can learn more about Dr. Fredrick and register for this important conference by visiting https://scjssajhsconferenc.wixsite.com/onedayconference/presenters . Conference registration including conference attendance, a lunch and keynote speaker and coffee and pastry service in the morning hours is $50. Registration after October 29 will be $65. Registration, which will commence August 15, should be directed to this Pay Pal account or sent to Post Office Box 174, SAJHS Conference, 701 Market Street, Suite 111, St Augustine, FL 32095. Checks and payment should be made payable to “SAJHS Conference.” The conference will end with a performance of “The Secret” by Lee Weaver – a compelling tale of the experience of a crypto-Jew in 16th century St, Augustine, The performance will be at 7 p.m. Sunday evening in the hotel. Tickets for the performance are $20.
Sunday: “Someday at Christmas” Sandy Hackett’s Rat Pack, at the Flagler Auditorium, 5500 East Hwy 100, Palm Coast, call 386-437-7547, 3 p.m.
Blood Donations: The Big Red Bus will be at the following locations this week (schedule your donation by going to the website and entering a Palm Coast zip code, then locating one of the venues below):
- Saturday: Aaron’s, 229 St. Joe’s Plaza, Palm Coast, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- Sunday: Santa Maria del Mar Church, 915 North Central Avenue, Flagler Beach, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Jail Bookings and Last 24 Hours' Incidents in Flagler, Palm Coast, Flagler Beach, Bunnell
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In Florida and in State Government:
Note: Some proceedings below can be followed live on the Florida Channel. Most legislative proceedings can be followed through the Senate or House websites.
PUERTO RICO CONGRESSWOMAN AT TIGER BAY: Congresswoman Jennifer González-Colón of Puerto Rico will speak to the Tiger Bay Club of Central Florida. (Friday, 8 a.m., Citrus Club, 255 South Orange Ave., #1800, Orlando.)
ETHICS COMMISSION HEARS CASES: The Florida Commission on Ethics is scheduled to take up issues from across the state, including Miami, Madeira Beach, Starke, Auburndale, Sebring, Bartow, Charlotte County and Monroe County. (Friday, 8:30 a.m., 1st District Court of Appeal, 2000 Drayton Dr., Tallahassee.)
MIAMI-DADE DELEGATION HOLDS HEARING: The Miami-Dade County legislative delegation will hold a public hearing as it gets ready for the 2019 legislative session. (Friday, 10:30 a.m., Miami-Dade County Public Schools Administration Building, auditorium, 1450 N.E. Second Ave., Miami.)
ASSISTANCE OFFERED IN PANAMA CITY: Staff members for U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., will host a recovery-assistance center in Panama City to help people and businesses affected by Hurricane Michael. Numerous organizations and agencies are expected to participate. (Friday, 11 a.m. Central time, Bay High School, John L. Cobb Gymnasium, 301 East 13th St., Panama City.)
RISK MANAGEMENT EYED: The Self-Insurance Estimating Conference will analyze issues related to the Risk Management Trust Fund. (Friday, 1:30 p.m., 117 Knott Building, the Capitol.)
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2018
ASSISTANCE OFFERED IN PANAMA CITY: Staff members for U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., will host a recovery-assistance center in Panama City to help people and businesses affected by Hurricane Michael. Numerous organizations and agencies are expected to participate. (Saturday, 10 a.m. Central time, Bay High School, John L. Cobb Gymnasium, 301 East 13th St., Panama City.)
—-Compiled by the News Service of Florida and FlaglerLive
In Coming Days in Palm Coast, Flagler and the Occasional Beyond:
Keep Up with Donald Trump’s attacks on the press through the ACLU’s running tab here.
Keep Up with mass shootings in a running database here.
Palm Coast Construction and Development Progress Reports
Here’s a summary of the latest city developments as of Nov. 11, 2018, with a link to the full week in review here. (The city has not updated its reports since mid-November.)
Click to access developments-nov-11-20181.pdf
Road and Interstate Construction:
Cultural Coda
Aldo Ciccolini Performs Brahms’s Intermezzo n.2 op.118
Previous Codas:
- Erik Bosgraaf in performance at Wilton’s Music Hall
- Erik Bosgraaf & the Stradivarius of the recorder
- Medtner : Sonata for Piano in A Minor Op. 38 n°1 “Reminiscenza” (Evgeny Svetlanov)
- Ferdinand Ries: Quartet in D minor
- Rossini: Sonata Nr. 1 in G Major
- Copland’s 3rd Symphony
- Zdenek Fibich: Poem Op. 41, No.4 from “At Twilight”
- Kuhlau: Sonatine No.1 in C Major, Op. 20
- Beethoven 33 Variations on a Waltz by Anton Diabelli Op 120, Gavin Arturo Gamboa, piano
- Philip Glass: American Four Seasons with violinist Robert McDuffie
- Elgar’s “Nimrod”: Daniel Barenboim with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, 1997
- Valentina Lisitsa plays Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2
- Ravel : Piano Concerto in G major (Martha Argerich : Orchestre national de France)
- Schubert: Piano Sonata No.20 D.959 / Paul Badura-Skoda (1993)
- Antonio Vivaldi’s “Vedro con mio diletto” from Il Giustino by Jakub Józef Orliński
- Bill Evans Trio: Some Day My Prince Will Come (1965)
