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Today at a Glance:
Drug Court convenes before Circuit Judge Terence Perkins at 10 a.m. in Courtroom 401 at the Flagler County courthouse, Kim C. Hammond Justice Center 1769 E Moody Blvd, Bldg 1, Bunnell. Drug Court is open to the public. See the Drug Court handbook here and the participation agreement here.
The Palm Coast Beautification and Environmental Advisory Committee meets at 5 p.m. at City Hall, 160 Lake Avenue, Palm Coast.
The Flagler Beach City Commission meets at 5:30 p.m. at City Hall, 105 South 2nd Street in Flagler Beach. Watch the meeting at the city’s YouTube channel here. Access meeting agenda and materials here. See a list of commission members and their email addresses here.
Flagler Playhouse’s The Great American Trailer Park Musical, 7:30 p.m. Pirate Theater at Matanzas High School, 3535 Pirate Nation Way, Palm Coast. Tickets: $30. There’s a new tenant at Armadillo Acres—and she’s wreaking havoc all over Florida’s most exclusive trailer park. When Pippi, the stripper on the run, comes between the Dr. Phil–loving, agoraphobic Jeannie and her tollbooth collector husband—the storms begin to brew.
Neil Simon’s ‘The Sunshine Boys,’ at Daytona Playhouse, 100 Jessamine Blvd., Daytona Beach. Tickets are $20, youth $10. This classic Neil Simon comedy with a nephew trying his best to re-unite his elderly uncle, a former vaudevillian great, with his long-time stage partner for a TV reunion. Problem is the two old men have not spoken in twelve years and never liked each other.
“The Kitchen Witches,” at Limelight Theatre, 11 Old Mission Avenue, St. Augustine. Isobel and Dolly are two “mature” cable-access cooking show hostesses who have hated each other for 30 years, ever since Larry Biddle dated one and married the other. When circumstances put them together on a TV show called The Kitchen Witches, the insults are flung harder than the food! Dolly’s long-suffering TV-producer son Stephen tries to keep them on track, but as long as Dolly’s dressing room is one inch closer to the set than Isobel’s it’s a losing battle, and the show becomes a rating smash as Dolly and Isobel top both Martha Stewart and Jerry Springer. Tickets are $27.50-$32.50, including fees.
Flagler Beach Traffic Alert: Crews from Construct Co Inc. will be working on SRA1A for the next 2-3 weeks, installing pilings for Dune Walkovers at the following locations:
1316 South Oceanshore Boulevard South 14th Street South 15th Street South 17th Street
Notably: One of John McPhee’s most delicious books–his first, actually–is Oranges, which ought to be required reading for any reporter who starts work in Florida, or anyone who wants to get a little more out of the state than its surfaces. It’s a small book but nicely layered with what turns out to be the disappearing history of the Florida orange and its surrounding culture, making Oranges pre-archeological. So much of those Polk County expanses of orange groves he wrote about have been plowed under by subdivisions (he wrote in 1966), or made less enticing by free trade. I rarely find Florida oranges that tasty. Those we buy are typically from California or Latin America, the Florida kind more seed than sweet. The picture above is not Florida. It’s from my daughter’s backyard in Phoenix, from a tree that seemed heavy with the tastiest oranges I’ve had since… dare I say it? I found those Arizona oranges to have that mix of sweetness and tartness of Mediterranean oranges, though as Alexander Theroux notes, “there isn’t a single mention of oranges in the Bible.” They’d all been exported.
—P.T.
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Rotary’s Fantasy Lights Festival in Palm Coast’s Town Center
Rotary’s Fantasy Lights Festival in Palm Coast’s Town Center
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All this family closeness is almost like an African hut where everybody sleeps and screws in full view of everybody else. But, then, Harry asks himself, what has Western man done with all his precious privacy anyway? To judge from the history books, nothing much except invent the gun and psychoanalysis.
–From John Updike’s Rabbit at Rest (1990).
ASF says
The Palestinians have been on the receiving end of no less than five two state solutions since 1948. They rejected every single one of them out of hand, followed by them deliberately choosing to engage in armed conflicts, terror attacks and rocket fire (much of which misfires back into their backyards, injuring and killing many of their own citizens in the process.)
Cause and Effect applies to the Palestinians as much as it does to the Israelis and all human beings. Their negative choices have predictably negative consequences.
As far as statehood is concerned, the Palestinian governments thus far have insisted that the only option they will consider is everything or nothing. Abbas has already stated publicly that any government the Palestinian Authority will maintain control over will be a coalition government that includes Hamas. He knows what side his bread is buttered on–that’s why Abbas is currently serving out the ninteenth year of a four year term of office.
At this point, it would be a serious mistake to reward the slaughter that Hamas started on October 7th with a “statehood” offer which would further endanger Israel’s security. Israel would never agree to that, nor should they be pressured into doing so. There is no other nation or government in the world that would agree to voluntarily submit to the terms of surrender dictated to them by malignant outside forces that swear to utterly destroy them. It’s the epitome of arrogant insanity to expect them to do so.