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Weather: Partly sunny with a chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs around 80. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
Saturday Night: Partly cloudy with a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the evening, then mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the upper 50s. Chance of rain 50 percent. See the daily weather briefing from the National Weather Service in Jacksonville here.
Today at a Glance:
A1A cleanup postponement notice: Due to the weather forecast, today’s A1A Cleanup has been rescheduled to Saturday April 13.
Warbirds Over Flagler Fly-In at County Airport, a two-day air show, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at Flagler Executive Airport, 201 Airport Rd, Palm Coast, $5 per carload. The family-friendly event offers fun and thrills for everyone that showcases past and present foreign and U.S. airpower with static displays of vintage and modern military aircraft and vehicles, warbird flybys, a kids’ zone, and music. There will also be plenty of food and beverage vendors. Gates open on both days at 10 a.m. so attendees can begin to enjoy the music, vendor booths, and static displays. Opening ceremonies will be held at noon Saturday with the national anthem, a few words by dignitaries, and a Warbird Parade Flyby. Between 1 and 6 p.m. there will be dozens of warbird flybys and RC aircraft demonstrations.
Free Youth NCCAA Sports Clinic at Holland Park: The annual National Christian College Athletic Association (NCCAA) Sports Clinic will be held on March 23, 2023. at James F. Holland Memorial Park and Palm Harbor Golf Club between 8:30 am and 1:30 am. This free event promises a morning filled with fun and skill-building exercises. The clinic will offer free soccer, baseball, softball, volleyball, basketball, and golf sessions. Professional coaches and collegiate athletes representing the NCCAA will be on hand to provide guidance and support as participants learn and practice fundamental skills. Baseball, softball, basketball, soccer, and volleyball clinics will take place at James F. Holland Memorial Park, while the golf clinics will be held at Palm Harbor Golf Club. Participants must arrive early to register and secure their spot in these exciting sessions.
The 2024 Flagler Wellness Expo by the Intuitive Living Institute, a for-profit company in the Hammock, is held at Flagler Palm Coast High School from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. $5 per person. Intuitive provides alternative and holistic health services through what it calls “master energy healers.” The expo will feature numerous local businesses that specialize in fitness, nutrition, acupuncture, crustal and energy healing, yoga and other alternative health fields.
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.
F*uck Expiration Jen Beaman Ride Strong Route 66 Celebration: 7 p.m. at Crossroads Tavern, Bunnell. Jen Beaman’s expiration date for cancer was October 2023. She wants everyone to celebrate that she is not only still here, but she’s going to test her fate and leave us for her adventure riding route 66. Come join us in her celebration and send her off on her motorcycle with lots of love. Please bring you favorite appetizer.
Caryl Churchill’s ‘Vinegar Tom,’ at City Repertory Theatre, 160 Cypress Point Parkway (City Marketplace, Suite B207), Palm Coast, 7:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, 3 p.m. on Sunday. $15-$30. Book tickets here. From Director John Sbordone’s program notes: Caryl Churchill’s VINEGAR TOM, written in collaboration with the Monstrous Regiment Theatre Company, uses the hunt for witches in the 17th century, as stool to investigate the subjugation of women in a male dominated society. The lessons of the past, though more blatant than the present, are reflected in many aspects of our own society. Churchill, a leading feminist writer in Britain for over 50 years, explores the free spirited Alice, the subservient Susan, the caged in Betty, the destitute Joan and the ever helpful Ellen in the context of their repressive environment. She uses modern techniques such as the episodic scene to convey the pervasiveness of the subjugation without absorbing the audience in emotional crisis. She asks us to observe the behaviors without getting lost in their melodrama. One technique establishes these goals graphically. The songs are intended to covey a contemporary commentary on the behavior of the past. CRT is proud to present this daring exploration and thankful to Benjamin Beck for composing the compelling music to accompany our efforts.
The Doo Wop Project at Flagler Auditorium, 7 p.m., 5500 State Road 100, Palm Coast. Tickets $64 to $74, book here. The Doo Wop Project begins at the beginning: tracing the evolution of Doo Wop from the classic sound of five guys singing harmonies on a street corner to the biggest hits on the radio today. In their epic shows The Doo Wop Project takes audiences on a journey featuring foundational tunes from the Crests, Belmonts and Flamingos through the vocal artistry of Smokey Robinson, The Temptations, and The Four Seasons all the way to DooWopified versions of modern hits from Michael Jackson, Jason Mraz, Maroon 5, and Sam Smith. Featuring stars from the Broadway hits Jersey Boys, Motown: The Musical, and A Bronx Tale, The Doo Wop Project brings unparalleled authenticity of sound and vocal excellence to recreate—and in some cases entirely reimagine—the greatest music in American pop and rock history.
Florida History and Cultural Festival: The DuVals: The First Family of Florida, noon at Anderson-Price Memorial Building, 42 N Beach Street
Ormond Beach. Free. The Ormond Beach Historical Society hosts the Florida History and Cultural Festival on March 23. The festival includes several museums, authors, artists, and historical artifact collectors and exhibitors. The folklorist presentation, occurring from 2:15-3:15 pm, features William Pope DuVal who was appointed the first governor of Florida in 1821. DuVal was responsible for establishing a government for Florida, creating a capital, and spreading American culture. Together with his wife Nancy Hynes, Gov. DuVal spurred population growth for the new colony. Governor DuVal and his wife are portrayed by David Fussell and Kathy Kniery. Kniery and Fussell are Florida storytellers who have been crafting their stories together over the past 8 years. Together they perform stories about the history and folklore of Florida and family. Funding for this speaker series is provided in part through a Florida Humanities Community Project Grant with funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities and in partnership with the Ormond Beach Historical Society.
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.
Gamble Jam: Musicians of all ages can bring instruments and chairs and join in the jam session, 2 to 5 p.m. . Program is free with park admission! Gamble Rogers Memorial State Recreation Area at Flagler Beach, 3100 S. Oceanshore Blvd., Flagler Beach, FL. Call the Ranger Station at (386) 517-2086 for more information. The Gamble Jam is a family-friendly event that occurs every second and fourth Saturday of the month. The park hosts this acoustic jam session at one of the pavilions along the river to honor the memory of James Gamble Rogers IV, the Florida folk musician who lost his life in 1991 while trying to rescue a swimmer in the rough surf.
“Wait Until Dark,” 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. A sinister con man, Roat, and two ex-convicts, Mike and Carlino, are about to meet their match. They have traced the location of a mysterious doll, which they are much interested in, to the Greenwich Village apartment of Sam Hendrix and his blind wife, Susy. Sam had apparently been persuaded by a strange woman to transport the doll across the Canadian border, not knowing that sewn inside were several grams of heroin. When the woman is murdered the situation becomes more urgent. The con man and his ex-convicts, through a cleverly constructed deception, convince Susy that the police have implicated Sam in the woman’s murder, and the doll, which she believes is the key to his innocence, is evidence. She refuses to reveal its location, and with the help of a young neighbor, figures out she is the victim of a bizarre charade. But when Roat kills his associates, a deadly game of cat and mouse ensues between the two. Susy knows the only way to play fair is by her rules, so when darkness falls she turns off all the lights leaving both of them to maneuver in the dark until the game ends.
The DeLand Outdoor Art Festival: The 59th annual festival will be held at Earl Brown Park, 815 S. Alabama Ave. Admission is free. Fine artists from throughout the Southeast will be competing for thousands of dollars in cash prizes and awards. The festival offers a craft section with items for sale ranging from handmade jewelry, clothing, soaps, infused products, to carved wooden toys. Festival planners believe the event will attract more than 135 artists and crafters. More than 6,000 spectators came to the festival during its two-day event last year. As usual, country, folk, bluegrass, blues and other musical performances will be going on throughout this year’s festival. Entertainers will be on stage between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Food ranging from Greek salads to popcorn, Bar-B-Q, Kettle Korn to Home Made Ice Cream and much, much more to tempt and satisfy your pallet. Festival goers are encouraged to sign up in the information booth for the Spectator drawing of $100 to be spent on fine art & crafts. The drawings are held every hour both days from 11:00 am to 3:00 pm. Meanwhile, The West Volusia Beacon newspaper will continue its tradition of sponsoring the Youth Division of the festival. Casey Marshall, a local graphic designer, is sponsoring the division. The division features artwork from students throughout West Volusia. Other sponsors include: City of DeLand; the DeLand Department of Parks and Recreation; Tinker Graphics and the Florida Department of Transportation.
 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: It is Akira Kurosawa’s birthday. He was born in 1910. He died in 1998. He lives on through 50, 60 great films. No need to stretch this one out, because you’ll need every minute of the next two hours and twenty minutes to watch “Dersu Uzala,” one of his very best (based on a Russian memoir by Arsenev, the Captain in the movie). It’s Saturday. Take a break. You won’t regret it. The cinematography alone, shot on location in the Siberian taiga, will keep you hooked.
—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
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village
Al-Anon Family Groups
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Americans don’t know much about Russia, but what they do know (or think they know) has been etched into their brains from birth: The place is a big, loutish and at times exuberant mess. It is the world headquarters of suffering. If the czars and the Communists differed in every other way, they shared an ability to incite dread on an almost unimaginable scale. Americans also know this: A big part of Russia is called Siberia. It’s the worst place on earth, a 5 million square mile penal colony filled, from the Ural Mountains to the Sea of Okhotsk, with exiled zombies who would rather be dead. The American Heritage Dictionary has even turned the place into history’s biggest descriptive noun: Siberia, a remote and undesirable locale. But what if that weren’t true? What if that remote locale, one of the last great swaths of unspoiled earth, turned out to be incredibly desirable? What if Siberia had the world’s most important lake, its biggest gold mine and more diamonds, gas, timber and open spaces than any place on Earth? And what if people in Siberia were more independent than they are anywhere else in Russia? What, in short, if Siberia was one of the most promising places on Earth? “Nobody would believe a word of that,” said Victor Kress, the imaginative governor of the Tomsk region, in western Siberia, where the capital city has 500,000 residents and another 500,000 are spread out in dozens of the most inaccessible communities in the world. “Even in Russia people want the story to read: Siberia is the worst place there is. It drives everybody nuts when the truth turns out to be different.” It certainly has driven the people who run Russia crazy. Of course, if Siberia is far from the worst place there is, it is also not paradise. It’s too big and uncontrollable to be paradise. Siberia is so enormous that almost 2 million square miles would be left over if the entire continental United States was dumped in the center of it. Lake Baikal alone is larger than Belgium; more than a mile deep, it contains a fifth of the earth’s supply of fresh water.
–From Michael Specter’s “Siberia: A Promised Land of Frozen Milk and Honey,” The New York Times, Feb. 8, 1998.
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@You know it’s true
“…Lake Baikal alone is larger than Belgium; more than a mile deep, it contains a fifth of the earth’s supply of fresh water.” It wouldn’t stop Putin (or Trump) from poisoning it to murder one person.
Pogo says
@P.T.
To borrow a phrase, these fellows, Kurosawa and Arsenev — they’re very big, very good fellows.
Thank you very much.