Weekend:: Dry and in the 60s Friday, cloudy and in the 70s Saturday and Sunday, lows in the 50s. 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: 68
The OED’s Word of the day: verbunkos, n.
The Live Community Calendar
Today’s jail bookings.
Today’s Briefing: Quick Links
- First Light
- In Flagler and Palm Coast
- Flagler Jail Bookings and Last 24 Hours of Incident Reports
- Announcements
- In State Government
- In Coming Days in Flagler, Palm Coast and Beyond
- Fact-Checking the Knaves
- Palm Coast Construction and Development
- Local Road and Interstate Construction
- Cultural Coda
“But we must work to the end of one’s life. Job, one of my mentors, says man is born to work, just as a bird is born to fly.”
–From an Aug. 3, 1770 letter by Voltaire, who was then 75.
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 talks about the top stories of 2018 with Palm Coast Observer Editor Brian McMillan and Publisher John Walsh, and FlaglerLive Editor Pierre Tristam, starting a little after 9 a.m.
Friday: Light the Way, Walk With Me, a walk organized by the Freedom7 Human Trafficking Task Force starts by gathering at 5 p.m. at Wadsworth Park in Flagler Beach.
First Friday in Flagler Beach, with music, food, vendors from 6 to 9 p.m.
Saturday: A memorial celebration is scheduled at 1 p.m. at the Flagler Auditorium for Charlie Helm, the financial adviser and philanthropist well known across Flagler for many years.
Saturday: Flagler Beach Historical Museum Native American Pottery Days, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.: Join us for two Saturdays in January for FBHM Native American Pottery Days. Docent Don Davis, a professional potter, will lead a three-hour pottery class on Saturday, January 12th at the museum to introduce attendees to the Indian artifact collection and reproduce two to three pieces of pottery from the Timucuan period. Two weeks later on Saturday, January 26th attendees will again meet at the Museum for smudge pot firing of their pieces, a special decorative effect. Both days will start at 10am and last approximately three hours for session one and two hours for session two. Tools and supplies are included in the registration price of $20 per person, $15 for museum members. To register, please email [email protected] or visit www.flaglerbeachmuseum.com. Walk-ups are welcome.
Saturday: Palm Coast Historical Society Lecture: Learning about history of our Flagler/Volusia County area helps to appreciate all that we have here in Palm Coast. A free lecture about some of our area’s history will be presented by Daytona News Journal’s Mark Lane, free of charge. Advance registration is required. Call 386-986-2323. 10 a.m., Palm Coast Community Center, 305 Palm Coast Parkway, Palm Coast.
Sunday: “The Bronx Wanderers” at the Flagler Auditorium, 7:30 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):
- Sunday: Bealls, 1210 Palm Coast Parkway, 11 a.m. to 5 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.
COLLEGE PRESIDENTS GATHER: The Council of Presidents of the Florida College System will meet. (Friday, 8:30 a.m., Association of Florida Colleges, 1725 Mahan Dr., Tallahassee.)
CITRUS FORECAST UPDATED: The U.S. Department of Agriculture is scheduled to release an updated forecast for Florida’s citrus-growing season. (Friday, noon.)
—-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 Dec. 7, 2018, with a link to the full week in review here.
Click to access week-in-review-dec-14-2018-development.pdf
Road and Interstate Construction:
Cultural Coda
Ciaccona in E flat major by Silvius Leopold Weiss, performed by Nigel North
Previous Codas:
- Brahms’s Requiem
- Schubert’s Piano Quintet in A major, D.667 (“Trout”)
- Charpentier: Messe de Minuit pour Noel (Midnight Mass for Christmas)
- Mozart – Violin Concerto No.3, Hillary Hahn
- Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, Ivan Klansky, piano
- Victor Herbert’s Irish Rhapsody
- Malcolm Arnold: Serenade for Guitar and Strings
- Claude Bolling – Suite for Chamber Orchestra and Jazz Piano Trio: Gracieuse (Carlo Pari)
- Aldo Ciccolini Performs Brahms’s Intermezzo n.2 op.118
- 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)
