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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.
Coffee With Commissioner Scott Spradley: Flagler Beach Commission Chairman Scott Spradley hosts his weekly informal town hall with coffee and doughnuts at 9 a.m. at his law office at 301 South Central Avenue, Flagler Beach. All subjects, all interested residents or non-residents welcome. The gatherings occasionally feature a special guest.
Torch Run in Support of the Special Olympics: Join law enforcement in support of Special Olympics Florida in a 1-mile run, with athlete arrival at 12:30 p.m., to be ready to run at 1 p.m. Running from the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office Operations Center (61 Sheriff EW Johnston Dr, Bunnell), past the Flagler County Emergency Operations Center, turning around at the Flagler County Tax Collector Office, and ending back at the Operations Center.
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.
Peps Art Walk, noon to 5 p.m. next to JT’s Seafood Shack, 5224 Oceanshore Blvd, Palm Coast. Step into the magical vibes of Unique Handcrafted vendors gathering in one location, selling handmade goods. Makers, crafters, artists, of all kinds found here. From honey to baked goods, wooden surfboards, to painted surfboards, silverware jewelry to clothing, birdbaths to inked glass, beachy furniture to foot fashions, candles to soaps, air fresheners to home decor and SO much more! Peps Art Walk happens on the last Saturday of every month. A grassroots market that began in May of 2022 has grown steadily into an event with over 30 vendors and many loyal patrons. The event is free, food and drink on site, parking is free, and a raffle is held to raise money for local charity Whispering Meadows Ranch. Kid friendly, dog friendly, great music and good vibes. Come out to support our hometown artist community!
‘Sense and Sensibility,’ at Daytona Playhouse: All shows at 7:30 p.m. except on Sundays, at 2 p.m. Daytona Playhouse, 100 Jessamine Blvd., Daytona Beach. Adults $20, Seniors $19, Youth $10. A playful new adaptation of Jane Austen’s beloved novel follows the fortunes (and misfortunes) of the Dashwood sisters—sensible Elinor and hypersensitive Marianne—after their father’s sudden death leaves them financially destitute and socially vulnerable. When reputation is everything, how do you follow your heart?
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.
 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: Raymond Carver. He might have been 86 today. He never made it to 50. One would like to say he died too soon (don’t we all), his occasional violence–in his life, not just in his fiction–giving you pause: “His characters spoke a language that sounded ordinary, except that every word echoed with the strange, and in the silences between words a kind of panic rose. These lives were trembling over a void,” George Packer wrote of him in The Unwinding. “Ray had his fingers on the pulse of a deeper loneliness. He seemed to know, in the unintentional way of a fiction writer, that the country’s future would be most unnerving in its very ordinariness, in the late-night trip to the supermarket, the yard sale at the end of the line. He sensed that beneath the surface of life there was nothing to stand on.” He was made for Reagan’s 80s, made even better for Trump’s present, though chances are he, like his characters, would have been all in for Trump.
—P.T.
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Coffee With Flagler Beach Commission Chair Scott Spradley
Flagler Beach Farmers Market
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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Then I saw an ad in Writer’s Digest. It was a photograph of a man, a successful author, obviously, testifying to something called the Palmer Institute of Authorship. That seemed like just the thing for me. There was a monthly payment plan involved. Twenty dollars down, ten or fifteen dollars a month for three years or thirty years, one of those things. There were weekly assignments with personal responses to the assignments. I stayed with it for a few months. Then, maybe I got bored; I stopped doing the work. My folks stopped making the payments. Pretty soon a letter arrived from the Palmer Institute telling me that if I paid them up in full, I could still get the certificate of completion. This seemed more than fair. Somehow I talked my folks into paying the rest of the money, and in due time I got the certificate and hung it up on my bedroom wall. But all through high school it was assumed that I’d graduate and go to work at the sawmill. For a long time I wanted to do the kind of work my dad did. He was going to ask his foreman at the mill to put me on after I graduated. So I worked at the mill for about six months. But I hated the work and knew from the first day I didn’t want to do that for the rest of my life. I worked long enough to save the money for a car, buy some clothes, and so I could move out and get married.
–From Raymond Carver, from his Paris Review interview, Summer 1983.
James says
Regarding the cartoon.
It occurred to me recently, after stumbling across a few “new” “news” sources, that the era of “glasnost” has indeed come to an end… if it had ever existed in the first place. And so with it, the end of the internet as a reliable, credible source of information.
I use “quotes,” since the news sources were new to me… although they are purportedly to have had long histories… and the few articles that I’d read that were news, seemed so outlandish as to be taken into consideration only as borderline tabloid muck.
But needless to say, the content had one interesting effect on me… I did ask the question to myself “who owns this ‘information’ source?”
The answer… as best as a quick Google search could provide (yup, I realize the possible ultimate futility of that)… at least in regard to an article of recent question, had confirmed that the source was somewhat genuine. Which then raised the question again, is the content to be believed? A pop-up ad asking for a donation gave a partial answer… and also gives rise to a new depth of meaning to the loss of “freedom of the press” which was brought about by the demise of a physical press and it’s real associated physical operational costs in this country.
Reliable sources need funding to survive, and so reliable domestic sources such as the NY Times for instance can only afford to give away so much.
So what does this have to do with the cartoon? Everything and perhaps nothing.
The source in question was “The Guardian.” Their nemesis… “Fox news.” The “back story” long and involved apparently, to put it mildly… something perhaps we Americans don’t quite understand. But the world is indeed a whole lot smaller than it once was.
I’d be more inclined to question the former, if it were not the case that it does seem clear that all paths lead back to the latter.
Just my opinion.
Keep Flagler Beautiful says
It’s not even funny. A waste of space.
Ray W. says
As I understand the chronology of the “unified Reich” language in a recent short-lived Truth Social video, it began with a Wikipedia site dating from 2022 that contained the language in a WWI segment. The language came from an unknown content creator who posted the language in a paragraph dealing with the industrial growth of Germany after the unification of Germany into the first Reich, which occurred in 1870.
A Turkish graphic designer borrowed the Wikipedia language for use by customers when creating content that needed WWI-era language.
Someone associated with the Trump campaign then lifted the language from the graphic design created by the young Turk and placed it in the video that was posted to Truth Social. The Truth Social video meme was a fictional newspaper headline: “What’s next for America?” The fictional story contained the language, “…the creation of a unified Reich.” The video was designed to attack the Biden administration. Who knows who saw what and who approved the posting of the video to the Trump campaign site. It was quickly taken down. Blame will be deflected. No one will take responsibility. No one will learn anything new.
As an aside, not all editorial cartoons are supposed to be funny. Keep Flagler Beautiful’s comment really doesn’t mean anything. I didn’t take the cartoon as funny. There is just too much autocratic thought being tossed around during this year’s national campaign to take much of anything as funny. But if a Trump campaign content creator thinks it advantageous to the Trump campaign to create a fictional newspaper headline and then to insert into the body of the fictional article the language of the future of America being a unified Reich, I suggest he or she be fired. But that is just me.
Sherry says
@kfb. . . unfortunately, you are quite correct. The statement on that cartoon hat is too close to the truth!
BTW. . . you do understand it’s a “political” cartoon, which is meant to be thought provoking- not funny. . . right?
The fact that it drove you to comment says it struck a nerve. . . mission accomplished!
Foresee says
There is a distinct difference between the words “funny” and “clever”, but you conflate the two words in order to disparage the cartoon to fit your political viewpoint. That MAGA is trying to make Trump a dictator who is above the law is no joke.
Bill C says
You know what is funny? Trump saying the crowd at his rally in the Bronx drew 25,000. Photographic evidence shows it was 800- 1000 people showed up. The joke is on you for believing his usual lies.
Bill C says
Trump doesn’t know Reich from wrong.
Sherry says
@ Bill C. . . LOL! Thanks so much for my morning laugh!
Pogo says
@AmeriKKKa ain’t bootiful no more
It’s not even funny. A waste of space.
Exactly right (pun intended) and seen by children of all ages, everywhere u turn, including school zones
https://www.google.com/search?q=fuck+biden+flag+for+sale
MAGA shitheads dish it out with fire a fire hose, and whine like sissy bitches when the wind shifts.