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Weather: Mostly cloudy. Widespread dense fog in the morning. Showers likely with a chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 70s. East winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent. Tuesday Night: Showers with a chance of thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 60s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming south after midnight. Chance of rain 90 percent. See the daily weather briefing from the National Weather Service in Jacksonville here.
Today at a Glance:
The Flagler County School Board meets at 3 p.m. in workshop to go over the items on its upcoming school board meeting two weeks hence. The board meets in the training room on the third floor of the Government Services Building, 1769 East Moody Boulevard, Bunnell. Board meeting documents are available here.
The Flagler Beach Library Writers’ Club meets at 5 p.m. at the library, 315 South Seventh Street, Flagler Beach.
Flagler Beach’s Planning and Architectural Review Board meets at 5:30 p.m. at City Hall, 105 S 2nd Street. For agendas and minutes, go here.
The Palm Coast City Council meets at 6 p.m. at City Hall. For agendas, minutes, and audio access to the meetings, go here. For meeting agendas, audio and video, go here.
The Bunnell Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board meets at 6 p.m. at the Government Services Building, 1769 East Moody Boulevard, Bunnell. The board consists of Carl Lilavois, Chair; Manuel Madaleno, Nealon Joseph, Gary Masten and Lyn Lafferty.
Hammock Community Association Meeting Featuring County Attorney Al Hadeed on History of the Hammock: The association meets at 6:30 p.m. at the Hammock Community Center, 79 Mala Compra Rd, Palm Coast. Hadeed, who moonlights as a historian (and that’s a historian, not an historian), will talk about the history of the Hammock. It’s open to the public.
Random Acts of Insanity Standup Comedy, 8 p.m. at Cinematique Theater, 242 South Beach Street, Daytona Beach. General admission is $8.50. Every Tuesday and on the first Saturday of every month the Random Acts of Insanity Comedy Improv Troupe specializes in performing fast-paced improvised comedy.
| In Coming Days: Oct. 16: Flagler Cares hosts its quarterly Help Night from 3 to 7 p.m. at the Flagler County Village Community Room, 160 Cypress Point Parkway, Suite B304, Palm Coast. Help Night is organized and hosted by Flagler Cares and other community partners as a one-stop help event. Representatives from Flagler County Human Services, Early Learning Coalition, EasterSeals, Family Life Center, Florida Legal Services, Lions Club, and many other organizations will be available to provide information and resources. The event is open to the public, free to attend, and will offer assistance with obtaining various services including autism screenings, tablets (low-income qualification), fair housing legal consultations, Marketplace Navigation, childcare services, SNAP and Medicaid application assistance, behavioral health services, and much more. Flagler Cares is a non-profit agency focused on creating a vital, expansive social safety net that addresses virtually all the health and social needs of our community. Flagler Cares works with clients to identify needs and create solutions that address those unique needs. Flagler Cares is proud to have a wide range of community partners who are committed to providing high quality services to those who need them most. Flagler Cares is also passionate about filling gaps and bringing needed services into the county where they did not previously exist. For more information about this event, please call 386-319-9483 ext. 0, or email [email protected]. Oct. 18: Wandering Spiral Performs at The Gathering Place, 7 to 9 p.m. Oct. 18 at The Gathering Place, 204 Moody Blvd., Flagler Beach. The music duo Wandering Spiral, featuring Michelle Davidson and Rick de Yampert, FlaglerLive’s arts and culture writer, will perform original East-West fusion, Buddha lounge and trance soundscapes on sitar, Native American flutes, metal and wooden tongue drums, crystal and Tibetan singing bowls, digital tabla, tribal percussion and ethereal synth. Heather Hodovance will guide participants through opening and closing meditations and intention setting. Cost is $20. For more information or to purchase tickets in advance, go online at gatheringplace.events or call 386-338-3227. More details here. |
Editorial Notebook: It’s pleasant enough when presidents appear on talk shows. Nothing wrong with it. They’re all doing it since Clinton did his Arsenio bit with the sax (not the trumpet, as I had it in an earlier version until corrected by a friend. I must’ve freuded the Clinton memory with Dante’s judgment in the Inferno: “And he had made a trumpet of his ass.”) I imagine the littler Bush went on Leno and Obama did Letterman before and after Letterman was cancelled (he went on his “My Next Guest Needs No Introduction”), Trump is on a right wing talk show on TV or radio very six hours, and now Biden on Seth Myers (no the oddest choice: Myers is a gentler Maddow on NBC’s network). But it wasn’t an impressive appearance. The audience applauded dutifully, a few times. Myers tried to ask a few questions but didn’t go further than his initial attempt when he touched on age, so it wasn’t nearly enough. He let Biden get away with a one liner that was so obviously prepared, it might as well have been on the cue cards. The little lapel pin of the American and Ukrainian flags was a clever touch. Glad it wasn’t an American and Israeli pin, though that’s probably in his breast pocket. At least twice he stopped in mid-thought with an “anyway, don’t want to get started,” as if he’d forgotten he’d used the line already, and when he was barely finished. He was careful, slow, pre-packaged. Fine. The point he made–that it’s not how old one is, it’s the ideas that matter–was a strong one, if made weakly. But for all that, it’s still disheartening that he goes on a TV talk show but refuses to meet the press face to face, to engage in serious, sustained questioning. He’s got to break out of the cocoon, not to keep reminding us of Cocoon.
—P.T.
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Flagler County School Board Information Workshop
Flagler County Library Board of Trustees
Nar-Anon Family Group
Flagler County School Board Meeting
Bunnell City Commission Meeting
Palm Coast City Council Meeting
A Community Presentation on Sand Dunes By Florida Sea Grant and UF/IFAS Extension Flagler
Food Truck Tuesday
Flagler Beach Library Writers’ Club
Random Acts of Insanity Standup Comedy
For the full calendar, go here.
What a strange phenomenon is the drug of hope. I was to hear this explanation from countless governors and soldiers across the Middle East over the coming quarter of a century—Westerners as well as Muslims—all insisting that things were getting worse because they were getting better, that the worse things were, the better they would become.
–From Robert Fisk’s The Great War for Civilization: The Conquest of the Middle East (Knopf 2005).
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