Peter Cerreta's New Show at Salvo, "Mutable" at ZinkZank, Charlie Brown at CRT, Bergen's Profanities

peter cerreta salvo — Peter Cerreta’s new show, ‘From Here To There,’ opens at Salvo Art Project Saturday evening. See below. (Peter Cerreta)

Weekend: A thunderstorm-prone weekend with highs near 90, lows in mid-70s. It’s still summer. Details here.
Drought Index is at 158.
Today’s tides: at the beaches, at the Intracoastal Waterway.
Today’s document from the National Archives.
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The Live Community Calendar
Today’s jail bookings.

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First Light
In Flagler and Palm Coast
Local Media Recap
Flagler Jail Bookings and Sheriff’s Crime Reports
In State Government
In Coming Days in Flagler, Palm Coast and Beyond
The Day’s Best Reads
Fact-Checking the Knaves
Palm Coast Construction and Development Progress Reports
Local Road and Interstate Construction
Cultural Coda

“The same century that saw the discovery of America saw the rediscovery of Greece and Rome; and the literary and philosophical transformation had far profounder results for the human spirit than the circumnavigation and exploration of the globe. For it was the humanists, not the navigators, who liberated man from dogma, taught him to love life rather than brood about death, and made the European mind free.”

–Will Durant, “The Renaissance” (The Story of Civilization, vol. 5, 1953).

In Flagler and Palm Coast:

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.

Flagler Restaurant Week continues, as do the county’s Senior Games. See the website. It is also Arts in Education Week.

Free For All Friday on WNZF with David Ayres: Guests include Bob Cuff, the newest member of the Palm Coast City Council, and Gail Wadsworth, the clerk of court, who will talk about a two-week amnesty from collection fees for people whose fines have been turned over to collection agencies. Starting with a commentary by FlaglerLive Editor Pierre Tristam on the Palestinian

Friday, Saturday, Sunday: “You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown,” a Musical, at Palm Coast’s City Repertory Theatre, at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday in City Market Place, 160 Cypress Point Parkway, Suite 207B, Palm Coast. Tickets are $25, available by calling 386-585-9415 or online at crtpalmcoast.com. See the preview here.

Friday: Bandstand Boogie Gala, a fund-raiser for the Flagler Beach Museum, 6 to 9 p.m. at Halifax Plantation Golf Club (3400 Clubhouse Dr. Ormond Beach). Come dressed for a dance party or if you have them, rock your leather jackets, letter sweaters, saddle shoes, or poodle skirts, then rock-n-roll it to the 45’s at the 15th Annual Museum Fundraising Gala.

Saturday: Masquerade 5K and Fun Walk to celebrate Arts in Education Week, 8 a.m. on the campus of Flagler Palm Coast High School and the Flagler Auditorium.

Saturday: Salvo Art Gallery at Nature Scapes marks a new show featuring artist Peter Cerreta, with a reception from 6 to 9 p.m. $10 cover charge. 313 Old Brick Road, Bunnell.

Saturday: ZinkZank Art Gallery opens a new show, “Mutable: Temporality and the Fickle Nature of Art Making,” with a free reception from 6 to 9 p.m. at the gallery at Marvin’s Garden, 4601 E. Moody Blvd Ste K-11, Bunnell.

Saturday and Sunday: Staged Reading of Neil Simon’s “Chapter Two,” at the Flagler Auditorium’s Black Box Theatre, directed by Bruce Heighley, a volunteer production to benefit the auditorium’s the Arts in Education Scholarship Fund and Temple Beth Shalom. Performance times are 7 p.m. on Sept. 17, 2 p.m. on Sept. 18. Tickets: $29 for adults, $18 for students. Call the Flagler Auditorium, 437-7547, for tickets, or go to flaglerauditorium.org.

Local Media Recap:

Updated jail bookings and day and night shift incident summary reports are available here.

10-Year-Old Girl Made Up Story of Man Suspiciously Photographing Children at F-Section Bus Stop

Flagler Residents Get 2-Week Amnesty From 40% Collection Fee on Traffic and Court Fines

Flagler Beach’s tax rate will increase 10.6 percent.

Giving Charm a Chance, City Rep’s 6th Season Opens With “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown”

THE WAR ON BUGS: How mosquito control keeps Flagler livable

Gov. Scott’s Office of Open Government Barricades Itself

In Latest Delay, Flagler’s Civil Citation Proposal for Pot Users Will Wait Until Late November

In Florida and in State Government:

Note: Some proceedings below can be followed live on the Florida Channel.

The Florida Association of Health Plans will continue its annual conference, which will include addresses by state Agency for Health Care Administration Secretary Liz Dudek and deputy secretaries Justin Senior and Molly McKinstry. (Friday, events start at 8 a.m., with AHCA officials speaking at 9:30 a.m., JW Marriott Orlando Grande Lakes, 4040 Central Florida Parkway, Orlando.)

The Florida Housing Finance Corp. Board of Directors is scheduled to meet in the Panhandle. (Friday, 8:30 a.m., Hilton Sandestin, 4000 South Sandestin Blvd., Miramar Beach.)

The Board of Directors of the Association of Florida Colleges is scheduled to meet. (Friday, 9:30 a.m., Lake Buena Vista Palace, 1900 East Buena Vista Dr., Lake Buena Vista.)

Unemployment: The Florida Department of Economic Opportunity is expected to release August unemployment numbers. (Friday, 10 a.m.)

COMMITTEE FINANCE REPORTS DUE: State political committees face a Friday deadline for filing reports showing finance activity through Sept. 9.

–Compiled by the News Service of Florida and FlaglerLive

In Coming Days in Palm Coast, Flagler and the Occasional Beyond:

♦ Sept. 25: Pastor Gillard S. Glover has invited the community for “Family and Friends Day,” starting at 10 a.m., at First Church – 91 Old Kings Road North, Palm Coast. “It will be a wonderful occasion with members reaching out with care and concern, and for partaking in a repast, which will be prepared,” organizers say. If you are planning to attend, please RSVP at 386-446-5759.
♦ Sept. 26: The Flagler County Stamp and Coin Club meets at 6 p.m. at the VFW Post 8696, 47 N. Old Kings Road, Palm Coast. The public is welcome.
♦ Sept. 27: Palm Coast will dedicate Frank meeker Field in memory of the late county commissioner and city councilman, at 6 p.m. on Field 3 at Indian Trails Sports Complex. The city will also dedicate a tree in Meeker’s memory on Oct. 4 in Central Park.
♦ Oct. 8-9: The Florida Agricultural Museum will host the seventh annual Pellicer Creek Raid on Saturday and Sunday, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The program will involve a number of living history groups from around the southeastern United States. Approximately 150 infantry, artillery, and cavalry troops will be demonstrating military life in Florida circa 1864. Parades will take place at noon and battles at 1 p.m. on both days of the event. During the rest of the program, the re-enactors’ historic camps will be open to the public. Admission is $5 per person. For more information, please contact the Florida Agricultural Museum at (386) 446-7630 or [email protected]. The museum is located at 7900 Old Kings Road North, Palm Coast.
♦ Oct. 21: Florida’s and Flagler’s September unemployment num,bers are released at 10 a.m.
♦ Nov. 5-6: Tommy Tant Memorial Surf Contest and Food Festival in Flagler Beach.
♦ Nov. 8: Flagler Fun Coast Bed Race, with Nov. 9 as rain date, In Flagler Beach.
♦ Feb. 6: The great violinist Itzhak Perlman opens the 2017 season of the Amelia Island Chamber Music Festival with a 7:30 p.m. performance at First Baptist Church, 1600 South 8th Street in Fernandina Beach. Tickets here.

The Day’s Best Reads:

Leader at burned Fort Pierce mosque: We do not judge https://t.co/NUOTuGzfCs pic.twitter.com/5Ox1UasU2g

— Spectrum News 13 (@MyNews13) September 15, 2016

Hillary Clinton's campaign is likely leveraging predictive analytics—as Obama’s did in 2012 https://t.co/swaWMbO8dZ

— Scientific American (@sciam) September 15, 2016

Salon talks to the author of "What the F" about the scientific purposes of profanity https://t.co/1w09hGcRzn pic.twitter.com/HG3yDJciTw

— Salon (@Salon) September 15, 2016

Gary Johnson is not worth any liberal’s protest vote: https://t.co/AFTJRQjVN1 pic.twitter.com/py1yf8HyOj

— Slate (@Slate) September 15, 2016

Is Fla on path toward ocean-to-gulf sprawl? Maybe…https://t.co/6qX29om8py

— John Kennedy (@JKennedyReport) September 15, 2016

Terrence Malick’s new film, “Voyage of Time,” is a work of hypnotic, ecstatic textures, @tnyfrontrow writes. https://t.co/Ubqrfk6gQN

— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) September 15, 2016

Fact-Checking the Knaves:

Palm Coast Construction and Development Progress Reports

The following is an update of ongoing permitting, construction and development projects in Palm Coast, through Sept. 9 (the city administration’s full week in review is here):

Click to access development-sep-10.pdf

Road and Interstate Construction: