Monday Briefing: Youth Orchestra's Suite Indulgences Concert, Stamp and Coin, PCAF's Blown Tent

The Palm Coast Arts Foundation's Big Tent is not as much of a big tent after last week's wind-storm. It would not have been much of an issue--it's repairable--but the Foundation was preparing for its annual co-production of Shakespeare in the Park, with City Repertory Theatre. So: the planned performances from Thursday through Sunday have been moved to CRT's venue at City Marketplace--and all shows are sold out. See details here. (PCAF) — The Palm Coast Arts Foundation’s Big Tent is not as much of a big tent after last week’s wind-storm. It would not have been much of an issue–it’s repairable–but the Foundation was preparing for its annual co-production of Shakespeare in the Park, with City Repertory Theatre. So: the planned performances from Thursday through Sunday have been moved to CRT’s venue at City Marketplace–and all shows are sold out. See details here. (PCAF)

Today: Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 70s. South winds 10 to 15 mph. Tonight: Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s. South winds 5 to 10 mph. See the latest National Weather Service-Jacksonville Briefing here.
Today’s document from the National Archives and the Astronomy Picture of the Day.
Today’s National Commemorations.
Today’s tides: at the beaches, at the Intracoastal Waterway.
Drought Index: 249
Global Warming: The daily carbon count.
A.Word.A.Day from Wordsmith.org. Today’s word: whicker.
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
In State Government
Statista’s Chart of the Day
Announcements
In Coming Days in Flagler, Palm Coast and Beyond
Fact-Checking the Knaves
Palm Coast Construction and Development

“Bolaño has been taken as a kind of reset button on our deplorably sporadic appetite for international writing, standing in relation to the generation of García Márquez, Vargas Llosa and Fuentes as, say, David Foster Wallace does to Mailer, Updike and Roth.”

–From a review of Roberto Bolano’s “2666,” by Jonathan Lethem, The New York Times, Nov. 12, 2008.

Previously:

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.

In Court: Juvenile arraignments and pre-trials are scheduled for 1:30 p.m. before County Judge Melissa Distler in Courtroom 404 at the Flagler County courthouse.

The Bunnell City Commission meets at City Hall at 7 p.m., Commission Chamber, City Hall Building 3, 201 West Moody Boulevard. Commissioners will swear in police detective Kyle Totten and hear an update on city finances. See all agendas and background materials here. Listen to the meetings here.

The Flagler Youth Orchestra performs its winter concert of the season, “Suite Indulgences,” 7 p.m. at Flagler Auditorium, 5500 East Hwy 100, Palm Coast, call 386-437-7547. Conductor Sue Cryan and fellow associate conductors of the FYO will lead five orchestras with more than 350 string musicians — a cross-section of public, private and homeschooled students. The Suite-themed program will feature music by Bach, Beethoven and much more. Adult tickets are $8 with $1 from each ticket going to the Auditorium’s Arts in Education Fund, and children 17 and under are $3. The orchestra’s proceeds help underwrite instrument scholarships and repairs, teaching staff and concert productions. The Flagler Youth Orchestra is made possible by the Flagler County School District, with the support of the Friends of the Youth Orchestra, whose sole mission is to provide free music education after school to all Flagler children with a desire to play an instrument.

The Flagler County Stamp and Coin Club meets at 4:30 p.m. at the VFW Post 8696 47 N. Old Kings Road. From 4:30 – 6 p.m. the time is used for buying, selling and trading stamps and coins. The club meeting starts at 6 p.m. and ends at 7:30. There is a live auction of stamps and coins at the end of the meeting. The club is open for members, the general public, and all who are interested in stamp and coin collecting and investing. Free stamps and coin evaluations at all our meetings. The club is the only non-profit Stamp and Coin Club in Flagler County. For more information please visit the club’s web site.

The Flagler Palm Coast High School Advisory Council meets at 7 p.m. in the Bulldog Learning Center.

Palm Coast Alateen Sereniteen and Al-Anon meetings: Alateen, part of Al-Anon Family Groups, is for teens bothered by someone else’s drinking. The group meets at 8 p.m. every Monday at Advent Health, 60 Memorial Medical Parkway, Palm Coast, at the south entrance, in meeting room D. Al-Anon meets at the same time. For more information about Alateen or Al-Anon, call toll free 1-888-4AL-ANON, or visit www.al-anon.org. Note: All Aalteen meetings are only open to teenagers who have been affected by another person’s drinking. For AA and NA meetings in Palm Coast, Flagler Beach and Bunnell, go here.

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):

Monday: Palm Coast City Hall, 160 Lake Avenue, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Tuesday: Epic Theaters, 1185 Central Avenue, Palm Coast, 1 to 6 p.m.
Tuesday: Post Office, 2 Pine Cone Drive, 1 to 4:30 p.m.
Thursday: Walmart, 174 Cypress Point Parkway, Palm Coast, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Saturday: Walmart, 174 Cypress Point Parkway, Palm Coast, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Saturday: Verizon, 4895 Belle Terre Parkway, Palm Coast, 5 to 9 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

Sources: Flagler County Sheriff's Office, Flagler Beach Police Department, Bunnell Police Department. This is Flagler County's only comprehensive, one-stop compilation of all local law enforcement's daily day and night shift commanders' reports.

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.

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AGENCY SCRUTINIZED: The House Public Integrity & Ethics Committee will hold a public hearing about the Florida Coalition Against Domestic Violence. The hearing comes amid investigations into spending by the nonprofit organization, including compensation paid to former coalition CEO Tiffany Carr. (Monday, 1 p.m., 404 House Office Building, the Capitol.)MOODY, BUCHANAN HOLD MEDIA AVAILABILITY: Attorney General Ashley Moody and U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Fla., will hold a media availability before a meeting of the Statewide Task Force on Opioid Abuse. (Monday, 12:30 p.m., Manatee Memorial Hospital, 206 Second St. East, Bradenton.)

–Compiled by the News Service of Florida and FlaglerLive

Which World Leaders are Producing the Most CO2? “According to an analysis of 2018 flights of world leaders, Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe racked up the most CO² emissions. He produced more than 14,000 tons of CO², followed by U.S. President Donald Trump (11,000 tons) and South Korean President Moon Jae-in (11,000 tons). Online travel agent FromAtoB requested data from the 20 biggest economies on Earth in 2018 and received numbers from 15. The ten world leaders producing the most CO² are listed in the chart.”

Announcements/Press Releases:

Flagler Beach Citizens’ Academy: Eight consecutive Wednesdays beginning on March 4, 2020, running through April 22, 2020, from 2:00—5:00 PM. Learn all there is to know about the history of your city, how your government works and is financed, and the responsibilities of staff and elected officials. Tour your city’s recreational, first responder, library, and public works facilities. Discover plans for the city’s future and opportunities for resident involvement. These sessions are open to anyone residing within the City of Flagler Beach. There will be a limit of 20 participants. Registration applications are available at City Hall, Building Department, Library, Police Department, Fire Department and on our City’s website (www.cityofflaglerbeach.com). All applications must be received by February 21, 2020.

Jane Mealy, Commissioner
City of Flagler Beach
PO Box 70
Flagler Beach, FL 32136

You will then receive a detailed schedule of the sessions and where each will be held. If you have any questions, contact Jane Mealy at: 439-4811 or
[email protected]

Through April 4, Palm Coast Mayor’s 90/90 Challenge: Get outdoors and get active – join us for the Mayor’s 90/90 Challenge! The challenge is to move at least a mile a day for the 90 days from Jan. 6 to April 4. You can choose your own form of exercise. Log in to Palm Coast Connect and record your progress throughout the month. Everyone who completes the Challenge will receive a prize. Share your progress along the way on social media using #Mayors9090 and #ConnectToFitness. More info: www.palmcoastconnect.com and 386-986-2323.

Coming Days:

The Live Calendar is Flagler County’s and Palm Coast’s most complete, detailed and searchable community calendar of events, including culture, the performing arts, theater, government, the courts and justice system and a lot more. If you’re not listed here, you’re not getting the visibility you deserve. To include your event, please fill out this form. Any other issues, email the editor.

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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. 16 2019:

Click to access development.pdf

See the full Week in Review here.