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Weather: Rain, cooler with highs in the lower 60s. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 90 percent. Tonight: Rain. Lows in the lower 50s. North winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain near 100 percent. See the daily weather briefing from the National Weather Service in Jacksonville here.
Today at a Glance:
The Saturday Flagler Beach Farmers Market is scheduled for 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. today at Wickline Park, 315 South 7th Street, featuring prepared food, fruit, vegetables , handmade products and local arts from more than 30 local merchants. The market is hosted by Flagler Strong, a non-profit.
Democratic Women’s Club of Flagler County meeting at 6 p.m. at the Palm Coast Community Center, 305 Palm Coast Parkway NE.
Palm Coast Open: A USTA Pro Circuit Event: At the Palm Coast Tennis Center, 1290 Belle Terre Parkway, Palm Coast. Check daily schedules here. Beware of rain postponements. In its 13th year, the Palm Coast Open features elite men’s tennis played on our hometown stage. Competitors worldwide travel to Palm Coast for a chance at winning a total of $15,000 in prize money and points toward their ATP ranking, a merit-based method to determine tournament entry and seeding based on men’s tennis rankings.
The Flagler Woman’s Club invites you to come and enjoy an evening of Bunco at 6 pm at 1524 S Central Ave, Flagler Beach. The Bunco Buffet will be served at 6 pm with Bunco to follow. Feel free to bring a dish to share. BYOB if you like. $10 donation at the door. Call Debbie at 312-607-8200 for more information.
Grace Community Food Pantry, 245 Education Way, Bunnell, drive-thru open today from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. The food pantry is organized by Pastor Charles Silano and Grace Community Food Pantry, a Disaster Relief Agency in Flagler County. Feeding Northeast Florida helps local children and families, seniors and active and retired military members who struggle to put food on the table. Working with local grocery stores, manufacturers, and farms we rescue high-quality food that would normally be wasted and transform it into meals for those in need. The Flagler County School District provides space for much of the food pantry storage and operations. Call 386-586-2653 to help, volunteer or donate.
Live From the Waterworks: Gamble Rogers Folk Festival’s Monthly Concert Series every third Saturday at The Waterworks, 184 San Marco Avenue St. Augustine. Doors open at 6 p.m., music starts at 7. The annual event celebrating the life and music of folk legend Gamble Rogers. Through June 2024. Check performers and book tickets here. Read more details about the festival here.
‘Tuck Everlasting,’ at Limelight Theater, 11 Old Mission Avenue, St. Augustine. Tickets: $22.50. Book here. 7:30 p.m., except on Sundays, when the show is at 2 p.m. What would you do if you had all eternity? Eleven-year-old Winnie Foster yearns for a life of adventure beyond her white picket fence, but not until she becomes unexpectedly entwined with the Tuck Family does she get more than she could have imagined. When Winnie learns of the magic behind the Tuck’s unending youth, she must fight to protect their secret from those who would do anything for a chance at eternal life. As her adventure unfolds, Winnie faces an extraordinary choice: return to her life, or continue with the Tucks on their infinite journey.
Rachmaninoff’s Second Symphony, at Jacksonville Symphony, 7:30 p.m. at Jacoby Symphony Hall, Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts, 300 Water Street, Suite 200, Jacksonville. Conductor Anna Rakitina makes her debut with the Symphony for one of the greatest of all late Romantic symphonies, Rachmaninoff’s Second. The second movement’s stunningly gorgeous string melodies are hallmark Rachmaninoff, and the final movement radiates triumphant resolution. Rakitina and the Symphony set the stage one of Rachmaninoff’s most tender and longing miniatures, his famous Vocalise, and Anna Clyne’s Restless Oceans, a piece that embraces unity and the power of women. Tickets $29 to $84. Book here.
Woody Allen’s ‘Don’t Dring the Water,’ at Daytona Playhouse: Feb 16, 17, 22, 23, 24 at 7:30 p.m., Feb 18 and 25 at 2 p.m. Tickets: $20, $19 and $10. Book here. It’s the Cold War and an American tourist, his wife and daughter rush into the US embassy two steps ahead of the Vulgarian police who suspect them of spying. The ambassador is away and his hapless son frantically plots their escape with even a little time to fall in love. With Chris Sinnett, Suzanne Bonner, Sunnie Rice, Zachary Goodrich, Carrie Van Tol and Terrence Van Auken, among others.
Random Acts of Insanity’s Roundup of Standups from Around Central Florida, 8 p.m. at Cinematique Theater, 242 South Beach Street, Daytona Beach. General admission is $8.50. Every third Saturday RAI hosts Live Standup Comedy with comics from all over Central Florida.
 Keep Their Lights On Over the Holidays: Flagler Cares, the social service non-profit celebrating its 10th anniversary, is marking the occasion with a fund-raiser to "Keep the Holiday Lights On" by encouraging people to sponsor one or more struggling household's electric bill for a month over the Christmas season. Each sponsorship amounts to $100 donation, with every cent going toward payment of a local power bill. See the donation page here. Every time another household is sponsored, a light goes on on top of a house at Flagler Cares' fundraising page. The goal of the fun-raiser, which Flagler Cares would happily exceed, is to support at least 100 families (10 households for each of the 10 years that Flagler Cares has been in existence). Flagler Cares will start taking applications for the utility fund later this month. Because of its existing programs, the organization already has procedures in place to vet people for this type of assistance, ensuring that only the needy qualify. |
Notably: I am of course a deeply pious man, and one of the houses of worship I frequent is the Library of America, as ecumenical and ecstatic an experience as you’ll know in these otherwise spiritually impoverished years. Once a year LOA announces its coming titles–each that typically 800 to 900-page volume in its uniform burgundy, green or tan cloth, for a ridiculous price of still-under $30. The envelope arrived a few days ago. We can look forward to Jimmy Breslin’s “Essential Writings” (I never thought Breslin was LOA-worthy, but that’s what the library does: it challenges worn out judgments about who belongs in the pantheon and who doesn’t), including some of his great columns (like the one about the guy who dug Kennedy’s grave) or about the assassination of Malcolm X. I may have never read Breslin again, past my years heading to school in the New York subway, the extremely rare times I might’ve bought a Daily News, but I’ll be reading him now. Other volumes: Wendell Berry (it’s going to take me a while to work up an appetite for him), Joan Didion’s third and final volume of Memoirs and Later Writings (which a friend and faithful reader of this pace will devour with me, though I will send him his own copy), the novels of rnest Gaines (LOA invariably has those writers none of us has ever heard of), and the next volume of Ernest Hemingway, this one containing A Farewell to Arms and Death in the Afternoon. But well ahead of it on the must-read list: Jim Crow: Voices from a Century of Struggle, that volume being just Part One, from Reconstruction to the Red Summer of 1919, when white supremacy unleashed a reign of terror in many cities. Also: Helen Keller’s autobiographies, five novels from Ursula Le Guin (don’t forget the K.), a volume of Latino poetry, some Walker Percy, and a follow-up to the excellent book of Pacific Theater World War II memoirs, this one focused on the European theater. Year after year, the library reminds us that there’s no need to make America great again. It has not always been great, and often been revolting (see Jim Crow), but these volumes allow for those continuing reckonings that, if we cared to turn the pages, allow us to reflect even on the worst angels of our nature and seek the way out promised by that ever-unachieved Declaration of ours.
—P.T.
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Flagler Beach Farmers Market
Coffee With Flagler Beach Commission Chair Scott Spradley
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Gamble Jam at Gamble Rogers Memorial State Recreation Area
ESL Bible Studies for Intermediate and Advanced Students
Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Al-Anon Family Groups
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Everything now, we must assume, is in our hands; we have no right to assume otherwise. If we–and now I mean the relatively conscious whites and the relatively conscious blacks, who must, like lovers, insist on, or create, the consciousness of the others–do not falter in our duty now, we may be able, handful that we are, to end the racial nightmare, and achieve our country, and change the history of the world. If we do not now dare everything, the fulfillment of that prophesy, recreated from the Bible in song by a slave, is upon us: ‘God gave Noah the rainbow sign, No more water, the fire next time!’
–From James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time (1963).
Laurel says
No country for old men?
Well, you can always fall back on Millennials gropy Lauren Boebert, Matt Gatez and finally removed George Santos. Many would love to have “I can’t recall” Senior Advisor to the President of the United States (dad) Ivanka Trump, and Senior Advisor to the President of the United States (dad in law) Jared Kushner, but they got their $2billion ++ and are no longer interested.
Then there is Gen X Ron DeSantis (need I say more?), child harassing Marjory Taylor Green and White, Christian Nationalist Mike Johnson.
Better, right? Ageism.
Laurel says
Did I mention Millennial, I’m in charge of the money Lara Trump? She might be good for y’all.
James says
Look like they made their choice Laura.
That party’s over, gald I wasn’t invited.
Just say’n.
https://lasvegassun.com/news/2024/feb/17/trump-fully-devours-the-republican-establishment/
dave says
All I know our Congress is so screwed. No term limits which there should be, and back stabling, bekering, egos, good pay I see why Nobody wants to run for President, Until this country puts age limits in Congress, the good old boy and girl congressional disease will continue. And Presidents and old age, there needs to be some medical evaluation done not by the candidates doctors but doctors outside of the political field. It’s a fine mess we have right here in the USofA. All I can say, one day you will be old to and ‘Getting old ain’t for sissies’. The expression emphasizes that aging is not a straightforward journey. It requires a willingness to confront the inevitable challenges of advancing years. But it appears our political system is immune to that.