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Today at a Glance:
Coffee Chat and Town Hall Meeting with Palm Coast Mayor David Alfin, 8 a.m. aat Panera Bread, 5880 State Rte 100. It’s a free and public event for which you may sign up here. Through the Strategic Action Plan process–that is, the city council’s goals–each council member has prioritized engaging with Palm Coast residents to foster a stronger community connection and ensure that all voices are heard in shaping the future of the city.
Nar-Anon Family Groups offers hope and help for families and friends of addicts through a 12-step program, 6 p.m. at St. Mark by the Sea Lutheran Church, 303 Palm Coast Pkwy NE, Palm Coast, Fellowship Hall Entrance. See the website, www.nar-anon.org, or call (800) 477-6291. Find virtual meetings here.
In Coming Days: May 17: From Blueprint to Action: Local Strategies for Housing Policy Advancement, 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at the Palm Coast Community Center, 305 Palm Coast Parkway. This luncheon-style forum is tailored for individuals interested in housing policy, particularly in matters of affordability. Attendees will have the opportunity to engage with panelists and contribute their insights. Panelists include Scott Culp, Principal of Atlantic Housing Partners (for-profit affordable housing developer); Bill Lazar, Executive Director of St. Johns Housing Partnership (non-profit affordable housing developer); Ali Ankudowich, AICP, Technical Advisor with the Florida Housing Coalition; Annamaria Long, Executive Officer of the Flagler Home Builders Association; Maeven Rogers, City Administration Coordinator for the City of Palm Coast; and Jay Gardner, Flagler County Property Appraiser. Tickets for the luncheon forum can be acquired through Eventbrite here. May 18: Free Housing Fair and Financial Wellness Clinic, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Palm Coast Community Center, 305 Palm Coast Parkway. Attendees can expect vendors representing insurance companies, home inspection companies, and title companies, as well as builders and realtors. The fair caters to everyone: Home Buyers, Homeowners, and Renters alike. Free credit reports will be available for all attendees. Throughout the day, mini workshops will cover topics such as Financial Literacy, Home Buying, and Heir Property Issues. Industry professionals will be on hand to provide insights into the home-buying process, offer free credit reports, consult with HUD Housing Counselors, and discuss new mortgage loan products, down payment assistance programs, affordable housing initiatives, and rehab programs and loan options for homeowners. May 22: Stormwater Community Workshop for Flagler Beach Residents: 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Building Department, Wickline Center, 800 South Daytona Avenue, Flagler Beach. The city administration and engineers from McKim and Creed invite the public to a workshop to collect information and data about their properties and their stormwater concerns. Bring supporting documents and photographs. Call Chris Novak or Dale Martin at 386/517-2000 with questions. May 23: The Flagler County Association of Realtors hosts its 16th annual Meet the Mayors Q&A at 11:30 p.m. at the FCAR building, 4101 East Moody Boulevard. The session will include, by order of seniority in office, Bunnell Mayor Catherine Robinson, Beverly Beach Mayor Steve Emmett, Palm Coast Mayor David Alfin, and Flagler Beach Mayor Patti King. The session will also likely include a county representative. The invitation is open to the public, seats are limited register through eventbrite. Register Here. |
Notably: There was a time when this space was almost entirely given to notable dates in history–“the history of blood,” mostly, as Edward Gibbon put it, borrowing from Bayle’s idea that “history, properly speaking, is nothing but a list of the crimes and misfortunes of the human race”–and the occasional birthday. Today’s would be Duke Ellington’s, but that’ll be left to the item below. A few days ago I missed an important birthday. We all did. Cynthia Ozick turned 96 on April 17. Like Clint Eastwood, who just finished yet another movie at 92, or is it 93, Ozick has kept writing. I have always known her as old, of her own pen, having once read, and (amazingly, ironically, considering the topic) never forgotten the opening paragraph of her piece on Alfred Chester, the critic, in a New Yorker of 1992, when she was barely of Social Security age. It’s the image of Ozick looking at her reflection in a shop window that’s stayed with me all these years, and that I invariably think of when I see the daily debris of my decrepitude accumulate on my own reflection in the bathroom mirror: “The other day,” Ozick wrote, “I received in the mail a card announcing the retirement of an old friend–not an intimate but an editor with whom, over the years, I have occasionally been entangled, sometimes in rapport, sometimes in antagonism. The news that a man almost exactly my contemporary could be considered ready to retire struck me as one more disconcerting symptom of a progressive un-reality. I say “one more” because there have been so many others. Passing my reflection in a shopwindow, for instance, I am taken by surprise at the sight of a striding woman with white hair: she is still wearing the bangs of her late youth, but there are shocking pockets and trenches in her face; she has a preposterous dewlap; she is no one I can recognize. Or I am struck by a generational pang: the discovery that the most able and arresting intellects currently engaging my attention were little children when I was first possessed by the passions of mind they have brilliantly mastered.” Which evokes a line by Allan Gurganus in one of hos stories: “You really notice your looks only once you’ve lost them.” One’s looks, such as they ever were.
—P.T.
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Ladies Golf Event with BOLD Ladies of Flagler County
Flagler County Drug Court Convenes
Story Time for Preschoolers at Flagler Beach Public Library
Joint Meeting of Flagler County Commission and Ormond Beach City Commission
Free For All Fridays With Host David Ayres on WNZF
Flagler and Florida Unemployment Numbers Released
Blue 24 Forum
‘Sense and Sensibility,’ at Daytona Playhouse
From Blueprint to Action: Local Strategies for Housing Policy Advancement
For the full calendar, go here.
But all events are mixed in a fusion indistinguishable. What we call Fate is even, heartless, and impartial; not a fiend to kindle bigot flames, nor a philanthropist to espouse the cause of Greece. We may fret, fume, and fight; but the thing called Fate everlastingly sustains an armed neutrality. Yet though all this be so, nevertheless, in our own hearts, we mould the whole world’s hereafters; and in our own hearts we fashion our own gods. Each mortal casts his vote for whom he will to rule the worlds; I have a voice that helps to shape eternity; and my volitions stir the orbits of the furthest suns. In two senses, we are precisely what we worship. Ourselves are Fate.
–From Melville’s White-Jacket (1850).
Pogo says
@Send in the National Guard by John Darkow, Columbia Missourian
Ah yes, “…4 dead in O Hio…”
Nixon was returned to national office by the events in another song by the same band:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7PxnT5_P5k
Marx was wrong, a tragedy repeated (Trump returned to national office) is still a tragedy; change Miami to Milwaukee
https://www.britannica.com/event/United-States-presidential-election-of-1968/Conventions
In 1968, Nixon, et al, screwed the Paris talks and renewed the Vietnam War for seven more seasons; 2024 it’s “the border” — and Jared’s Gaza ocean resort.
What could go wrong indeed; say hello to President DeSantis, or just as bad
https://www.google.com/search?q=trump+and+desantis+meet
Foresee says
The name of the student shot dead by National Guard and lying dead on the ground is Jeffery Miller. I was at his brother’s house when he was on the phone with his family deciding what clothes he should be laid out in his coffin, jeans or more formal. Thinking about it brings tears to my eyes all these years later.