Weekend Briefing: Kimberle Weeks Wants Out, Men’s Futures Tennis, Medical Pot Summit, Sugar’s Evils

Weekend: Mostly sunny. In the 70s Friday and Sunday, in the 60s Saturday, lows in the 50s throughout. Details here.
Drought Index is at 393.
Today’s tides: at the beaches, at the Intracoastal Waterway.
Today’s document from the National Archives.
The OED’s Word of the Day: hegemon, 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 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
• Local Road and Interstate Construction
• Cultural Coda

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.

Daily incident reports and jail bookings are posted here.

Friday: The Palm Coast City Council holds a workshop on its strategic direction for the near future, at City Hall in Town Center, starting at 9 a.m.

Friday: Farmer’s Market near Veterans’ Park in Flagler Beach, starting in early morning to noon.

Friday: Sally’s Safe Haven, the organization that provides safe, supervised visitations between children and a parent with restrictions on such visitations, holds a joint committee meeting at 9 a.m. in TRaing Room B at the Emergency Operations Center in Bunnell. The agenda is here.

In the state’s felony case against former Elections Supervisor Kimberle Weeks, a motion to dismiss the case is scheduled for hearing before Circuit Judge Margaret Hudson at 9 a.m. in Courtroom 301 at the Flagler County Courthouse.

Friday: Bee Hive, the musical, at the Flagler Auditorium, 7:30 p.m.

Friday, Saturday and Sunday: the USTA Pro Circuit Men’s Futures Tourney, which started Jan. 27, runs through Feb. 5 at the Palm Coast Tennis Center, 1290 Belle Terre Parkway. Daily tickets will be $5 for adults, and free for juniors 16 and under. A schedule of matches is posted here.

Saturday: Flagler Audubon Society Bird Walk for the Shorebird Survey. At various parks around Flagler County, starting at 8 a.m. The society’s website does not provide further details. Contact Jason Giraulo for questions, [email protected].

Saturday: L.E.A.D. Children: Child Fair, A fun-filled fair that will provide important information and fundamentals in helping you, to help your child to succeed in the future. There will be activities, food, raffles, and more. The target group for this event are low-income families and expecting mothers, but all are welcome. You can enroll your children ages 0-5 in schools (Voluntary PreKindergarten) , or programs that can benefit them and yourself. George Washington Carver Community Center (Gym) (201 E Drain St, Bunnell), 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Mostly useless information: Don’t tell Donald Trump but Feb. 3 marks the anniversary, in 1451, of the accession to power of Mehmet II, also known as The Conqueror, especially known as the conqueror of Constantinople (present-day Istanbul, about which Bettany Hughes (“Istanbul: Tale of Three Cities,” published here only in September) and Thomas Madden (“Istanbul: City of Majesty at the Crossroads of the World”) have just written very good books. Muslims had been trying to take Constantinople for centuries. They finally succeeded only because it had become a shell of its once-Byzantine grandeur. In one of the many lesser-known tragedies of American history, the remnants of Shays’ Rebellion are crushed on this day in 1787 in Petersham, Mass., thus setting the precedent that in the United States, civil rights and economic injustice will always play second or third fiddle to business and established interests: Shays’ Rebellion was a catalyst for the reform of the Articles of Confederation that became the U.S. Constitution. Speaking of Shays’ trickle-down: You’ll see a lot of rather conservative politicians experience instinctive apoplexy today (Feb. 13) as the 16th Amendment was ratified in 1913, authorizing the federal government to impose the income tax, seen at the time and since as a means of leavening out inequality, which was very steep. Only a few days after taking power in 1933, Hitler on this day announces his policy of Lebensraum (living space) and Germanization of Eastern Europe as the foreign policy of the Third Reich. It was, in other words, Germany First.

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.

Medical marijuana: The Florida Association of Counties will hold a summit to discuss a wide range of issues related to medical marijuana. Speakers are expected to include Sen. Rob Bradley, R-Fleming Island, House Majority Leader Ray Rodrigues, R-Estero, and Christian Bax, director of the Florida Department of Health’s Office of Compassionate Use. (Saturday, 9:30 a.m., Embassy Suites by Hilton Orlando Lake Buena Vista South, 4955 Kyngs Heath Road, Kissimmee.)

–Compiled by the News Service of Florida and FlaglerLive

 

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

♦ Feb. 6: Ground Breaking for the relocation and extension of Runway 11-29 at the Flagler County Airport, 1:30 p.m. at the airport.
♦ 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.
♦ Feb. 8: Jonathan Canales, the man accused of shooting his girlfriend in the neck and leaving her to bleed in a bathtub for hours in their Mondex trailer in Nov. 2014, is scheduled for a pre-trial at 1:30 p.m. in Courtroom 401 at the Flagler County Courthouse. Canales had been judged incompetent to stand trial previously.
♦ Feb. 8: Superwash Express, the car wash on 110 Cypress Point Parkway, marks its grand opening with a ribbon-cutting at 4 p.m. at the new business. The public is invited.
♦ Feb. 8: The National Marathon to Finish Breast Cancer is scheduled in St. Johns County.
♦ Feb. 10: The Flagler County School Board holds a special meeting to discuss the selection process of the next superintendent, 8 a.m. in Board Chambers at the Government Services Building in Bunnell.
♦ Feb. 23: County Administrator Craig Coffey is the speaker at the Flagler Chamber’s Common Ground Breakfast Series at the Hilton Garden Inn, in Palm Coast. Registration begins at 7:45 a.m., breakfast is at 8 a.m. $20 for members in advance. Email [email protected] or go here for more information. Details here and here.
♦ March 7: Bunnell and Flagler Beach hold their municipal elections.
♦ March 22: The boy Scouts Council holds its Golden Eagle Dinner at 6 p.m. at Hammock Beach Resort, honoring Bob Cuff, now a Palm coast City council member.

The Day’s Best Reads:

Palm Coast Construction and Development Progress Reports

The following is an update of ongoing permitting, construction and development projects in Palm Coast, through Jan. 13 (the city administration’s full week in review is here):

Click to access developments-jan-2017.pdf

Road and Interstate Construction:

• Florida Department of Transportation Road Project List

Cultural Coda:

David Letterman: The First Show, Feb. 1, 1982

Previous Codas:

• Roy Eldridge, 1957
• Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers: A Night In Tunisia (1958)
• T. Paige: Put The God Things First (sic.)
• Dick Cavett Interviews Janis Joplin, Gloria Swanson, Margot Kidder, Dave Meggyesy
• Theodor Adorno and the Critique of Capitalism: An Introduction
• Narciso Yepes in Concert, 1979, 10-string Guitar
• Keith Jarrett: Solo Concert, Tokyo, 1984
• What Is Woman?
• Poem Op.41, No.4 by Zdenek Fibich
• Watch a Performance of a Scarlatti Sonata on the Oldest Surviving Piano
• Bach: Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248, John Eliot Gardiner and the Monteverdi Choir
• Thirty Minutes of Bud Powell
• The Exquisite Billy Evans Plays My Foolish Heart
• Buxtehude’s Toccata in D, BuxWV 155, Performed By (the Slightly Mannered) Nathan Laube
• What Will Humans Look Like in 100 Years? A Ted Talk
• Hillary Hahn Performs Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in E Minor
• J.S. Bach: Magnificat, BWV 243, Conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt
• Between The Lines: Speaking With Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Mendelssohn’s Violin Sonata in F Minor, Performed by Shunske Sato, violin, and Shuann Chai, piano
• Pinchas Zukerman Plays the Polonaise in D Major by Henryk Wieniawski
• Mendelssohn Piano Trio No 1, Lang Lang at the Piano
• Bohuslav Martinu: Symphony nº 4, Performed by the Spanish RTV Orchestra, Walter Weller, cond.
• Ferdinand David’s Concertino for Trombone, Performed by Joe Alessi
• Boris Berezovsky plays Medtner’s Piano Sonata No.1
• Medieval Music: Les Compagnons du Gras Jambon
• Robert Caro on Robert Moses
• Leonidas Kavakos Discusses the Beethoven Violin Sonatas
• Palestrina: Missa Brevis
• D.H. Lawrence: Coldness in Love
• S.L. Weiss: A Presto, Bernhard Hofstötter, lute
• Beethoven’s 4th Piano Concerto, Mitsuko Uchida, Piano
• Josquin des Prez: La déploration sur la mort de Johannes Ockeghem, Performed by Vox Luminis
• The Life and Times of Donald J. Trump: A Feature Film Set to Pink Floyd’s The Wall
• A Year By Year Animated History of Europe, in 10 minutes
• Bob Dylan: Don’t Think Twice‘
• Alexis Weissenberg Performs Mozart’s Piano Concerto in E flat, K 271, Second Mvt.
• Marshall McLuhan, W.H. Auden and Buckminster Fuller Debate Modern Technology and Media (1971)
• Christoph Graupner’s Entrata, GWV 453
• Bach and Vivaldi: Concertos for flute and strings, Anna Fusek & Capella Anna
• 1966 Junior Wells sings live the 1959 classic “What’d I Say”
• Vittorio Monti’s Czardas played by The Kanneh-Masons Children
• Paolo Restani plays Mendelssohn’s Capriccio Brillante op. 22 for piano and orchestra
• Pentatonix and Dolly Parton: Jolene
• J.S. Bach: St John Passion, BWV 245, Performed by Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki, dir.
• Martha Argerich Performs Bach’s Partita No 2, BWV 826
• Haydn’s Symphony Nr. 104, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
• Su Meng: Paganini’s Caprice no 24 on Guitar