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Weather: Partly sunny in the morning, then clearing. Areas of dense fog in the morning with visibility one quarter mile or less at times. Highs in the upper 70s. Northwest winds around 5 mph, becoming north in the afternoon. Thursday Night: Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s. Northeast winds around 5 mph.See the daily weather briefing from the National Weather Service in Jacksonville here.
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.
Story Time for Preschoolers at Flagler Beach Public Library, 11 to 11:30 a.m. at the library, 315 South Seventh Street, Flagler Beach. It’s where the wild things are: Hop on for stories and songs with Miss Doris.
Read Across Flagler Literacy Night, 4 to 6 p.m. at Palm Coast’s Central Park in Town Center at Town Center, with storywalks, free books (banned books not included), entertainment, crafts, a bake sale, and Amar Shah, author of the Play the Game Series. The event is sponsored by the Rotary Club of Flagler County and presented by Flagler Schools.
Bill Ryan’s Zoom For You: The Story of Hernandez: Bill Ryan, Flagler County’s indomitable historian, offers a free zoom lecture on “Hernandez, Our first Hispanic member of Congress,” at 4 p.m. at this link (You can Dial by your location 646 931 3860 Meeting ID: 811 3735 8286 Passcode: 922395) or on Facebook Live. If you happen to be at the Willis L. Miller Library in Valdosta, Georgia, you can visit Bill in person.
 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: Note the United States’ ranking in violations of rights: systematic. No surprise. No wonder we need the Bhagavad Gita. From Statista: Last year, the Middle East and North Africa received the worst score of the regions on the Global Rights Index with an average of 4.53. Analysts write that while Qatar has seen progress, this low score is partly due to the ongoing use of the kafala system in the Gulf countries, which continues to leave migrant workers open to severe human rights abuses. The MENA region was followed by the Asia-Pacific with 4.18, Africa with 3.84, the Americas with 3.52 and Europe with 2.56. Trade unionists and workers were murdered in eight countries in 2023. These include Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Eswatini, Guatemala, Peru and Sierra Leone. As this infographic shows, only a few select countries received the green mark of approval – all of which are in Europe. The rest of the world shows a less hopeful picture, with 87 percent of countries having violated their workers’ right to strike in 2023, up from 63 percent in 2014.”
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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
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village
Al-Anon Family Groups
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When Bernie came on, the congregants voiced their euphoria. “Is this old opera house gonna stay standing after this event?” Sanders said. He was both in the moment—referencing the weekend’s whistle-stop tour of Merrimack, Concord, Dover, Keene, and beyond—and playing his greatest hits. “The corporate media and the establishment said, ‘Bernie is a nice guy, but his agenda is crazy,’ ” he said. He playfully cited his so-called “radical” ideas: equal pay for women, unions, free public higher education, Big Pharma being “not only greedy, they are bloody corrupt.” After an abbreviated stump speech, he concluded that his slogan, “Us, not me,” is also a “profound moral and political state.” “We are better human beings when we are compassionate—when my family cares about your family, when your family cares about my family,” he said. The crowd erupted; it felt good to hear a thousand people cheering for compassion. Sanders turned around, took a “group selfie” with the ecstatic crowd, and headed to a canvass launch in Concord. Everybody else filed out to a song by the Doobie Brothers, hopped up on political resolve and takin’ it to the streets. Sanders’s lead in the polls was climbing. That night, in Keene, he drew the biggest crowd of any candidate this year, accompanied by the bands Twiddle and Sunflower Bean.
–From “’Which Side Are You On?’: Bernie Sanders Storms Through New Hampshire,” by Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, Feb. 10, 2020.
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