Today at the Editor’s glance: The Community Traffic Safety Team meets in person and on zoom at 9 a.m. at the 1st Floor Conference Room, GSB 1769 E Moody Blvd. or via Zoom, Meeting ID: 823 5444 1058, Passcode: 565882 (at this link). The Palm Coast City Council meets in workshop at 9 a.m. at City Hall. It’s a long agenda, with discussions on streaming video of workshop meetings, the search for the next city manager, moving fireworks on July 3 to the county airport, closing Slow Way, and if that isn’t enough, an update on the council’s goals. Flagler Access Center Opening: Flagler County and its partners SMA Healthcare and Flagler Health+ are hosting a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the opening of the Flagler Access Center, which will provide an open door for education, screening, and connection to behavioral healthcare services in the area. The event will be held at 10 a.m. January 11, 2022 at the center located at 103 E. Moody Boulevard, Bunnell. See details here. The St. Johns River Water Management District Governing Board holds its regular monthly meeting at its Palatka headquarters at 10 a.m., Governing Board Room, 4049 Reid St., Palatka. Click this link to access the streaming broadcast. The live video feed begins approximately five minutes before the scheduled meeting time. Meeting agendas are available online here. Notable birthdays today: Alexander Hamilton (1755), William James (1842), Aldo Leopold, who gave birth to the study of ecology (1887), and Alice Paul, an early advocate of the Equal Rights Amendment (1885).
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Rotary’s Fantasy Lights Festival in Palm Coast’s Town Center
Acoustic Jam Circle At The Community Center In The Hammock
Rotary’s Fantasy Lights Festival in Palm Coast’s Town Center
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“We were beaten all the time, as a matter of course, with the hairbrush across the bare legs for ordinary occasions, and with the razor strop across the bare bottom for special occasions, like the prize-winning. It was as though these ignorant people, at sea with four frightened children, had taken a Dickens novel—Oliver Twist, perhaps, or Nicholas Nickleby—for a navigation chart. Sometimes our punishments were earned, sometimes not; they were administered gratuitously, often, as preventive medicine. I was whipped more frequently than my brothers, simply by virtue of seniority; that is, every time one of them was whipped, I was whipped also, for not having set a better example, and this was true for all four of us in a descending line. Kevin was whipped for Preston’s misdeeds and for Sheridan’s, and Preston was whipped for Sheridan’s, while Sheridan, the baby and the favorite, was whipped only for his own. This naturally made us fear and distrust each other, and only between Kevin and myself was there a kind of uneasy alliance.”
–From “Memories of a Catholic Girlhood,” by Mary McCarthy (1957).
