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Weather: Mostly sunny. Patchy fog this morning. A chance of showers with a slight chance of thunderstorms this afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent. Heat index values up to 107. Tonight: Partly cloudy with a chance of showers with a slight chance of thunderstorms in the evening, then mostly cloudy after midnight. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
- Daily weather briefing from the National Weather Service in Jacksonville here.
- Drought conditions here. (What is the Keetch-Byram drought index?).
- Check today’s tides in Flagler Beach here.
- tropical cyclone activity here, and even more details here.
Today at a Glance:
The Bunnell City Commission meets at 7 p.m. at the Government Services Building, 1769 East Moody Boulevard, Bunnell, where the City Commission is holding its meetings until it is able to occupy its own City Hall on Commerce Parkway in 2025. To access meeting agendas, materials and minutes, go here.
‘The Guy Who Didn’t Like Musicals’ at City Repertory Theatre, at 7:30 p.m. Thursday July 18, Friday July 19, Saturday July 20 and Monday July 22. A matinee performance will be at 3 p.m. Sunday July 21. In CRT’s black box theater at City Marketplace, 160 Cypress Point Parkway, Suite B207, Palm Coast. Tickets are $30 adults and $15 students, available online at crtpalmcoast.com or by calling 386-585-9415. Tickets also will be available at the venue just before curtain time. See Rick de Yampert’s preview: “Alien Menace and Combustible Dancing Shake Up City Repertory Theatre with “The Guy Who Didn’t Like Musicals.”
The Flagler County Beekeepers Association holds its monthly meeting from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Flagler Agricultural Center, 150 Sawgrass Rd., Bunnell (the county fairgrounds). This is a meeting for beekeepers in Flagler and surrounding counties (and those interested in the trade). The meetings have a speaker, Q & A, and refreshments are served. It is a great way to gain support as a beekeeper or learn how to become one. All are welcome. Meetings take place the fourth Monday of every month. Contact Kris Daniels at 704-200-8075.
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.
 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. |
Diary: I still miss Paris.
—P.T.
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Free For All Fridays With Host David Ayres on WNZF
Scenic A1A Pride Meeting
Blue 24 Forum
Acoustic Jam Circle At The Community Center In The Hammock
Flagler County’s Cold-Weather Shelter Opens
Flagler Beach Farmers Market
Coffee With Flagler Beach Commission Chair Scott Spradley
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
It’s Back! Gamble Jam at Gamble Rogers Memorial State Recreation Area
For the full calendar, go here.
Not long before he committed suicide, Hemingway recalled the Paris of his youth, the city where he was poor, in love, and became a writer. All his laconic depression is expressed in it, all his sensitivity, and all his hardness as well, everything that resides and lives in the lost paradise. I often returned to this book. The older I got, the more it seemed to me that Hemingway was sending readers back to the age, which varies depending on the person, when they were least distant from their dreams. He drew every reader into the inescapable labyrinth of nostalgia, into the pitiless mirror of failures. I continued to reread the book because I still had not found, in myself, that magic, abandoned age. I sought it while Hemingway spoke to me about his. I looked for it, waited for it, didn’t find it, and now I know that it will never come back. It is buried somewhere before January 7, if it ever existed at all. It doesn’t matter. I no longer have either nostalgia or regrets: in that respect, the event took everything from me. After the attacks on November 13, 2015, A Moveable Feast became a bestseller in France, for a reason that was unrelated to its content, and was linked simply to its French title: Paris est une fête (Paris is a Feast). People wanted Paris to be a feast, a delight, and to remain one, they wanted it desperately: just as Hemingway had wanted it desperately, and not completely in vain, one last time, and for himself.
–From Philippe Lançon’s Disturbance: Surviving Charlie Hebdo (2018).
Jim says
This cartoon sums up the Republican party of 2024. Everything is “Heil Trump” with no acknowledgement of all his failures, his lies, his felony convictions, his conviction on rape (yea, rape – look at what the judge said), theft of top secret government documents (hidden strategically in a toilet), sex with a porn star while his (3rd) wife is having his child, magnificent leadership of the country during the Covid pandemic(drink bleach, swallow a flashlight, 1M dead), kissing the ass(es) of every dictator in the world who would hold still long enough, abandonment of our allies, misogyny on levels “no one has seen before”, veterans are “suckers and losers” (quote from his 4-star general chief of staff), pardons of his cronies for crimes they were convicted of by evidence, just to name a few of his more infamous “accomplishments”.
None of the “politicians” in this cartoon can be trusted to do what is right for this country. They have all shown they’ll willingly bend their knee to the cult of Trump. Why? Because they are all more interested in their personal political future than the future of this country.
So when you vote in November, keep this in mind. You can vote for the Fascist Republican will the full knowledge that his cult members have loyalty only to him at the expense of this country or you can vote for Kamala Harris and give this country a fighting chance to remain a democracy.
I’ve said this many times – if you are considering voting for Trump, take the time to read about the history of Germany in the 1930’s. You might find some amazing similarities to now.
Pogo says
@Just because