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The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Tuesday, December 20, 2022

December 20, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Family Christmas Letter by Dave Whamond, Canada, PoliticalCartoons.com
Family Christmas Letter by Dave Whamond, Canada, PoliticalCartoons.com



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Weather: Showers. Highs in the upper 60s. Temperature falling into the mid 60s in the afternoon. North winds around 5 mph. Chance of rain 80 percent. Tuesday Night: Showers. Lows in the lower 50s. North winds around 5 mph. Chance of rain 80 percent.

Today at the Editor’s Glance:

The Flagler County School Board meets at 1 p.m. in an information workshop. The board meets in the training room on the third floor of the Government Services Building, 1769 East Moody Boulevard, Bunnell.  Board members will again discuss the potential availability of Narcan in schools, the future of the Belle Terre Swim and Racquet Club and the possibility of arming civilian staffers or others in schools. The board meets again at 6 p.m. in Board Chambers on the first floor of the Government Services Building. Board meeting documents are available here.

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The Rotary Club’s annual Fantasy Lights in Town Center opens tonight and will remain open through the month. It’s a free stroll. (Palm Coast)

Fantasy of Lights at Palm Coast’s Central Park: The Rotary Club of Flagler County hosts its 17th Annual Fantasy Lights Festival at Central Park in Town Center, through Dec. 30, 6:30-9 p.m. each night. Fantasy Lights is free self-guided walking tour around Central Park with over 50 large animated light displays, festive live and broadcast holiday music, holiday snacks and beverages. A favorite for the kids is Santa’s House and Village with a collection of elf houses festively painted and nestled among the lights, warm fire to roast marsh mallows or create smores, and encircling the village is Santa’s Merry Train Ride. See the full brochure here and the nightly schedule of events https://flaglerlive.com/wp-content/uploads/Fantasy-Lights-Program-2022_FINAL.pdf#page=7
For more information, please contact Bill Butler at 386-986-3760 or 386-445-0598 or email: [email protected].

Keep in Mind: FEMA has extended the deadline into January for Flagler County Hurricane Ian survivors to apply for federal disaster assistance: The Federal Emergency Management Agency has extended the deadline until January 12. The Disaster Recovery Center is in a large tent located near the arena in the center of the fairground’s property, 150 Sawgrass Road, Bunnell. Hours of operation are 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Disaster Recovery Centers serve as FEMA’s local outreach offices to provide disaster survivors with information from it, as well as from Florida state agencies and the U.S. Small Business Administration. Survivors can get help applying for federal assistance and disaster loans, update applications and learn about other resources available. Survivors can apply for disaster assistance at disasterassistance.gov, by calling 800-621-3362 from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. Eastern Time, or by using the FEMA mobile app. Those who use a relay service such as video relay service (VRS), captioned telephone service, or others, will need to provide FEMA the number for that service. Those who have insurance are encouraged to file a claim for damages to homes, personal property, and vehicles before applying for FEMA assistance. FEMA cannot duplicate other sources of assistance may have been received.

In Coming Days:

The Cold-Weather Shelter will open Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday nights: The shelter, run by the Sheltering Tree, a non-profit, opens at Church on the Rock in Bunnell only when the overnight temperature is expected to fall to 40 or below. It will open nightly from 6 a.m. to 8 a.m. starting Friday (Dec. 23). See: “Flagler’s Cold-Weather Homeless Shelter Facing Staffing Challenge as 4-Night Freeze Coincides With Christmas.”




Notably: France formally ceded Louisiana on this day in 1803, doubling the size of the United States for pennies and drawing the wrath of Federalists (the Republicans of the day) on Thomas Jefferson who, in Bernard DeVoto’s words, “understood the meaning of events better and estimated the forces at work more accurately than any other statesman of the time.” Federalists (not including Hamilton and John Adams, who knew better) thought he was nuts. A Boston federalist paper called it “a great waste, a wilderness unpeopled with any beings except wolves and wandering Indians.” The wolves haven’t left. They’re neo-Federalists now. Also, it’s Luka’s birthday. 

Now this: Janis Joplin’s Last Interview (on Dick Cavett)

 




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September 2025
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Monday, Sep 22
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Flagler County Government Tax and Budget Hearing

Government Services Building
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Monday, Sep 22
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Nar-Anon Family Group

St. Mark by the Sea Lutheran Church
Monday, Sep 22
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Palm Coast Charter Review Committee Meeting

Palm Coast City Hall
Monday, Sep 22
7:00 pm - 9:30 pm

Bunnell City Commission Meeting

Bunnell City Hall
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Tuesday, Sep 23
9:00 am - 12:00 pm

Palm Coast City Council Workshop

Palm Coast City Hall
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Tuesday, Sep 23
1:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Flagler County School Board Information Workshop

Government Services Building
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Tuesday, Sep 23
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Flagler County Affordable Housing Committee Meeting

Emergency Operations Center
Tuesday, Sep 23
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Book Dragons, the Kids’ Book Club, at Flagler Beach Public Library

315 South 7th Street, Flagler Beach
Tuesday, Sep 23
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm

Budgeting by Values: A Virtual Class to Learn Budgeting Skills

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Tuesday, Sep 23
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

NAACP Flagler Branch General Membership Meeting

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Tuesday, Sep 23
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Flagler County School Board Meeting

Government Services Building
Tuesday, Sep 23
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Random Acts of Insanity Standup Comedy

Cinematique of Daytona Beach
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“The American really loves nothing but his automobile: not his wife his child nor his country nor even his bank-account first (in fact he doesn’t really love that bank-account nearly as much as foreigners like to think because he will spend almost any or all of it for almost anything provided it is valueless enough) but his motor-car. Because the automobile has become our national sex symbol. We cannot really enjoy anything unless we can go up an alley for it. Yet our whole background and raising and training forbids the sub rosa and surreptitious. So we have to divorce our wife today in order to remove from our mistress the odium of mistress in order to divorce our wife tomorrow in order to remove from our mistress and so on. As a result of which the American woman has become cold and and undersexed; she has projected her libido on to the automobile not only because its glitter and gadgets and mobility pander to her vanity and incapacity (because of the dress decreed upon her by the national retailers association) to walk but because it will not maul her and tousle her, get her all sweaty and disarranged. So in order to capture and master anything at all of her anymore the American man has got to make that car his own. Which is why let him live in a rented rathole though he must he will not only own one but renew it each year in pristine virginity, lending it to no one, letting no other hand ever know the last secret forever chaste forever wanton intimacy of its pedals and levers, having nowhere to go in it himself and even if he did he would not go where scratch or blemish might deface it, spending all Sunday morning washing and polishing and waxing it because in doing that he is caressing the body of the woman who has long since now denied him her bed.”

—From William Faulkner’s Intruder In the Dust (1948).

 

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