Tuesday Briefing: School Board ‘Branding,’ Food Truck Tuesday, Couch to 5K Challenge, De Gaulle

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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: 164
The OED’s Word of the Day: jeel, n..
The Live Community Calendar
Today’s jail bookings.

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• In Coming Days in Flagler, Palm Coast and Beyond
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• Palm Coast Construction and Development
• Local Road and Interstate Construction
• Cultural Coda

“Charles de Gaulle, Julian Jackson insists in the preface of his new biography, “De Gaulle” (Harvard), is “everywhere” in modern France, its undisputed hero. This claim, like some other confident statements in the book, may strike a reader as both narrowly true and what a French thinker might call metaphysically false. His name is certainly everywhere—on the great airport outside Paris; on the Place Charles de Gaulle, once called the Étoile, where traffic streams perpetually around the Arc de Triomphe—but his example seems remote. He is more a ceremonial than a controversial figure, his work now done. In forty years of passing in and out of France, I have almost never heard him pointed to as an exemplar useful in any way for today’s crises. His name having been placed on l’Étoile is apt: the traffic goes around all day but never stops for long. If he lives anywhere, it is in the endless flow of books about the Second World War written by Americans and Brits, in which he emerges as the biggest pain in the ass in the history of the liberal order.”

–From Adam Gopnik’s review of “De Gaulle,” the Julian Jackson biography (2018), in the Aug. 20, 2018 The New Yorker.

Previously:

Government enslaved to special interests | Free press, II | Free press, I | Bureaucracy | Vivaldi | Drugs as Jesus | Machado de madness | The New New Republic | OxyContin’s power | Above the law | Bathroom businessman | Cranks | Drugstores | Sacha Baron Cohen | A Separate Peace | A man at 40 | Upward redistribution | War’s hangover | Patrick Henry’s monarchist constitution | Cohabitation in reason | Eiseley on Thoreau | Fear of truth | Trump correction | Trump’s immoral equivalencies | Newspaper trash | Pre-fascism | Eskimo wisdom | Private prison growth | Conned | Pointless preventive care | Balzac on self-righteousness | Sarah Palin’s jerks | Inarticulate Society | Harsh sentencing | Life expectancy narcissism | Democracy crisis, not civility crisis

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.

The Sheriff’s daily incident reports and jail bookings are posted here.

Primary election early voting in Flagler County at three locations: Flagler County Public Library, 2500 Palm Coast Parkway N.W., Palm Coast; Palm Coast Community Center at the corner of Clubhouse Drive and Palm Coast Parkway, 305 Palm Coast Parkway; and Supervisor of Elections Office in the Government Services Building, 1769 E. Moody Boulevard, Building 2, Suite 101, Bunnell.

The Palm Coast City Council meets at 9 a.m. at City Hall in Town Center. The council is expected to approve an “innovation” agreement with Coastal Cloud, the Palm Coast firm and approve a lease for construction of a cell tower at 1290 Belle Terre Parkway, among other items.

The Flagler County School Board meets in workshop at 1 p.m. in Room 3 on the third floor of the Government Services Building, Bunnell. The board will discuss “branding” and communications. The board meets again at 6 p.m. in regular session.

The Bunnell City Commission meets at 6 p.m. for a workshop to interview two of four candidates for city manager: Phyliss Marshall-Hartman at 6 p.m. and Alvin jackson at 7 p.m. This will be Jackson’s second interview. See Marshall-Hartman’s resume here, and Jackson’s here.

The Bunnell Planning Board meets in the Bunnell Conference Room in Building 1 at City Hall (note the venue change) at 6 p.m.

Flagler County Historic Bus Tour, 9:30 a.m. starting from Holden House Museum in Bunnell, 204 East Moody Blvd. Discover the many historic and interesting sites in Flagler County on this one hundred mile bus tour led by local historian Bill Ryan. Relax and cool off on a comfortable air conditioned bus while uncovering the hidden history of Palm Coast and the Flagler Beaches. Tours will depart promptly at 10 a.m., include a lunch stop at the historic Bull Creek Fish Camp restaurant (lunch not included in tour price) and normally return to Holden House at approximately 2:30 p.m. Tours begin at Holden House Museum in Bunnell. There is ample parking here on West Side lot of Holden House Museum. West side is towards US1. Please park on the west side of Holden House. You should arrive in the parking lot between 9:30 for check-in. There is a briefing at the History Annex (Behind Holden House) The tour will depart promptly at 10:00 in an air conditioned Flagler Transport bus. Tours will depart promptly at 10 a.m. and include a lunch stop at the historic Bull Creek Fish Camp restaurant (lunch not included in tour price) and normally return to Holden House approximately 2:30 p.m. Tours are normally scheduled once each month, and are subject to availability. There is a fee of $20.00 per person. Planned comfort stops are scheduled. These tours are becoming very popular and reservations are required. Please call 386-439-5003 to make reservations.

Food Truck Tuesdays, 5-8 p.m. at Central Park in Town Center, 975 Central Ave, Palm Coast. Purchase and enjoy delicious cuisine available from food trucks situated along Park Street next to Central Park, and enjoy free entertainment. This month’s beneficiary is Walk to End Alzheimer’s. More info: www.palmcoast.gov.com/foodtruck or call 386-986-2323.

Couch to 5K Challenge sponsored by Florida Hospital Flagler, every Tuesday and Thursday through Oct. 11, 5:30-6:30 p.m. at Palm Coast Community Center Trail Head, 305 Palm Coast Pkwy. This group training and exercise program does not require any running experience. It is designed to encourage, motivate and challenge the individual to compete with his/her peers. The final goal is to run the Pink Army 5K on Oct. 14. Stop being a couch potato and sign up today! Please wear running shoes and dress to be outside. Registration includes race registration into the Pink Army 5K. $50/person that includes Pink Army 5K registration. Pre-registration required at www.palmcoastgov.com/register. More info: 386-986-2323.

Blood Donations: The Big Red Bus will be at the following locations this week:

• Wednesday: Florida Hospital Flagler, 60 Memorial Medical Parkway, Palm Coast, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
• Friday: Matanzas High School, 3535 Old Kings Road, Palm Coast, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.
• Saturday: Epic Theaters, 1185 Central Avenue, Palm Coast, 1 to 7 p.m.
• Sunday: Metro Diner, 250 Palm Coast Parkway, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
• Sunday: Epic Theaters, 1185 Central Avenue, Palm Coast, 1 to 6 p.m.

Jail Bookings and Last 24 Hours' Incidents in Flagler, Palm Coast, Flagler Beach, Bunnell

Jail Bookings, June 19-22 Sheriff's night shift incident reports, June 21 Sheriff's day shift incident reports, June 21 Flagler Beach's night shift incident reports, June 21 Flagler Beach's day shift incident reports, June 21 Bunnell police's night shift incident reports, June 21 Bunnell police's day shift incident reports, June 21
Previous and archived reports

Announcements:

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.

AQUATIC PRESERVES DISCUSSED: The Florida Department of Environmental Protection will hold a rulemaking workshop related to aquatic preserves. (Tuesday, 1 p.m., Marjory Stoneman Douglas Building, 3900 Commonwealth Blvd., Tallahassee.) RUBIO HOLDS ‘MOBILE’ OFFICE HOURS: Staff members for U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., will hold “mobile” office hours in Pinellas County. (Tuesday, 1 p.m., Clearwater Countryside Library, 2642 Sabal Springs Dr., Clearwater.)

CANDIDATES CONVERGE ON PLANT CITY: The Greater Plant City Chamber of Commerce will hold a forum that is expected to draw a wide range of state and local candidates, including Baxter Troutman, a Republican candidate for agriculture commissioner; Ashley Moody, a Republican candidate for attorney general; and Jeremy Ring, a Democratic candidate for chief financial officer. (Tuesday, 6:30 p.m., Hillsborough Community College, Trinkle Center, 1206 North Park Road, Plant City.)

—-Compiled by the News Service of Florida and FlaglerLive

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

Cats and Dogs Looking For Homes

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 Aug. 3, 2018, with a link to the full week in review here.

Click to access week-in-revioew-aug-13-20181.pdf

Road and Interstate Construction:

• Florida Department of Transportation Road Project List

Cultural Coda

Karajan: Dvorak Symphony No.8 Rehearsal

From Michael Callaghan on YouTube: “Herbert von Karajan conducting a dress rehearsal of Dvorak’s Symphony No.8 in Japan 1973, with the Berlin philharmonic orchestra. It’s mostly a standard run through of the symphony’s more tricky passages, where a strong sense of balance between the instruments is key.”

Previous Codas:

• Aretha Franklin: Full Concert (1971)
• Toru Takemitsu: From Me Flows What You Call Time
• Carl Nielsen’s Quintet op. 43 Performed by Carion
• Modest Musorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition for Woodwind Quintet
• Anton Reicha: Woodwind Quintet in Eb major op.88 no.2
• Balakirev: Islamey, Performed by Giuseppe Mentuccia
• Jean Rondeau Plays Soler’s Fandango
• Chloe Moriondo’s “La vie en rose”
• Martha Argerich Plays Liszt’s Piano Concerto No 1 in E flat major
• Beethoven on Piano for Romsai the Elephant
• Yuja Wang Plays Liszt’s Sonata B minor
• Evgeny Kissin Plays Schumann’s Toccata Opus 7
• Beethoven : Piano concerto No.3 Performed by Alice Sara Ott at the Piano
• Kurt Atterberg: Suite No. 3, Op. 19 for violin, viola and string orchestra, Pantomime
• Kurt Atterberg: Sinfonia for Strings
• David Letterman First Ever Appearance On The Tonight show With Johnny Carson: 1978
• Andres Alen: Variations on a Theme By Milanes
• Stephen Heller, Etude Op 46, 11
• Constitutionally Speaking with Justice David Souter and Margaret Warner
• Agustin Barrios Mangore: David Russell Performs the 4th Waltz Op. 8
• A Few Bach Inventions