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Weather: Partly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms this morning, then showers and thunderstorms this afternoon. Some thunderstorms may produce heavy rainfall. Locally heavy rainfall possible this afternoon. Highs around 90. Temperature falling into the lower 80s this afternoon. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of rain 90 percent. Tonight: Tropical storm conditions possible. Mostly cloudy. Showers and thunderstorms, mainly in the evening. Some thunderstorms may produce heavy rainfall. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph. Chance of rain 90 percent. See the latest on Tropical Storm Debby here: “Tropical Storm Debby Expected to Become Hurricane Before Big Bend Landfall Monday and Swing Northeast.”
- 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:
Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village: The city’s only farmers’ market is open every Sunday from noon to 4 p.m. at European Village, 101 Palm Harbor Pkwy, Palm Coast. With fruit, veggies, other goodies and live music. For Vendor Information email [email protected]
Grace Community Food Pantry, 245 Education Way, Bunnell, drive-thru open today from noon to 3 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.
The Magic of Motown, 7:30 p.m. at the Peabody Auditorium, 600 Auditorium Boulevard, Daytona Beach. Tickets here. This high energy homage to the legends of Motown will transport you back in time as you visit the very best of “Hitsville, USA!” The show features a cast of 15 powerhouse vocalists who embody everyone from Diana Ross & The Supremes to Marvin Gaye & The Jackson Five! Accompanied by a six-piece band with horns, their songbook delivers all your favorite hits like, “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” to “Midnight Train to Georgia.”
Unlimited Devotion performs at the Original Cafe Eleven, 501 A1A Beach Blvd., St. Augustine, 8 p.m. Tickets here. Unlimited Devotion (aka UD) was conceived in Miami in April 2012 as a vehicle for exploring the Grateful Dead’s songbook. The band quickly developed a dedicated following and has steadily evolved its repertoire, personnel, and musical personality to reflect its current members’ jazz and funk influences. Today, UD is based dually in Tampa/St. Petersburg and Miami. Its reputation for delivering energized, adventuresome performances has made the quintet one of the top drawing acts in Florida.
LOL Jax Film Festival at WJCT Studios, 100 Festival Park Ave., Jacksonville. Doors open at 5 p.m. Today: Local comedy films, Local stand-up comedy, filmmaker Q&A and an Awards Show to end the night.
Al-Anon Family Groups: Help and hope for families and friends of alcoholics. Meetings are every Sunday at Silver Dollar II Club, Suite 707, 2729 E Moody Blvd., Bunnell, and on zoom. More local meetings available and online too. Call 904-315-0233 or see the list of Flagler, Volusia, Putnam and St. Johns County meetings here.
| In Coming Days: Sept. 16: NAACP Candidate Forum: The NAACP Flagler Branch hosts a candidate forum featuring local candidates in the Nov. 5 election for Palm Coast City Council, at 6 p.m. at the Palm Coast Community Center, 305 Palm Coast Parkway NE. September 17: Celebrate Constitution Day With County Judge Andrea Totten, 1 p.m. at the Flagler County Public Library, 2500 Palm Coast Pkwy NW, Palm Coast. The special Constitution Day program features the Honorable Andrea K. Totten in the Doug Cisney Room. The event offers a unique opportunity to explore the significance of the United States Constitution and its impact on our lives today. Judge Totten will share her insights into the importance of upholding constitutional principles in our democracy. Engage in enlightening discussions, ask questions, and deepen your understanding of the Constitution's role in shaping our nation's history and future. Don't miss this enlightening and educational event at the heart of our community's civic engagement. Sept. 19: Sheriff's Summit to Protect and Serve Seniors, 3 to 5 p.m. at the Sheriff's Operations Center, 2101 Commerce Pkwy, Bunnell. Participants will benefit from a presentation about frequent scams and frauds, have access to free document shredding and paramedicine, and will get a tour of the Sheriff's Office Museum. The event is free to the public. Sept. 19: 988 Suicide Prevention Walk: 5:30 at Wadsworth Park, 2200 Moody Blvd., Flagler Beach. The Rotary Club of Flagler Beach will host an Awareness Walk to promote the 988 National Suicide Crisis Hotline at 6:00 p.m. on September 19, 2024. Participants will walk from Wadsworth Park in Flagler Beach, over the Rt. 100 bridge to Veterans Park where we will gather for a brief ceremony. Anyone wishing to participate should arrive at Wadsworth Park at 5:30 pm. After a brief welcome, the walk will begin at 6 p.m. Participants are encouraged, if possible, to wear purple and/or teal, the colors of suicide prevention awareness. Advanced registration is not required. All are welcome at this cost-free event that aims to bring the community together to raise awareness about the importance of mental health and the critical resources available through the 988 hotline. Sept. 25: The Palm Coast Tiger Bay Club presents a candidate forum ahead of the Nov. 5 general election, Sept. 25, 5 to 8 p.m. at the Palm Coast Community Center, 305 Palm Coast Parkway NE. The forum will feature the candidates in three runoff elections for mayor and Palm Coast City Council seats. The forum is free and open to the public, and will be simulcast on WNZF and live-streamed on FlaglerLive, among other media sources. |
Editorial Notebook: The medal table at the Olympics is probably one of the most clicked on and least interesting part of the competitions. It reflects its most distasteful aspect–rank nationalism, or nationalism ranked, as if somehow the standings reflect a country’s worth, when all it advertises is the wealth poured into athletes (United States) or the slave-driving (China), and when the Olympics are really about individuals, not nations. At the Olympics’ website you have to work very hard to find a list of countries, outside the medals table–as in: the more than 200 nations represented. I couldn’t find it. It’s ice to represent one’s country, it’s even moving, though the raising of the flags at medal ceremonies always combine the emotional with the nauseous. I say this even though if the red stripes and cedar of Lebanon’s flag were ever to see an Olympic pole again (it never won a gold, and last won a medal–a bronze–at the Moscow Olympics, where it had no business going) I’d lose it–as I very much did when the Americans (let’s not go down the path of “Team USA”–see below) beat the Soviets at Lake Placid at the Winter Olympics that same year. But there are limits. There were limikts even then: beating the Soviets was nice. It wasn’t war, though it turned into one more chauvinistic boost to the Reagan campaign. As I write this on Aug. 1, The New York Times for some reason, and unusually for an organ not usually given to chauvinism, has the United States atop the medal table of the Paris Olympics, with 31 medals, France in second with 26, then China at 22, Britain at 20, and Australia at 17. The table of course is wrong: the United States is not the leader. As CNN and even the more traditionally chauvinistic Wall Street Journal (on its editorial pages, anyway, not its news reporting), have China at the top, then France, then Japan, then Australia, then the United States. They calculate standings appropriately, with the gold medal leader at the top. China have accumulated 11 golds so far, France and Japan have eight each. The United States have just six, with 13 silvers and 12 bronze. But it’s only fair, and correct, to give the heavier weight to gold, the rest being consolation prizes. The Olympic website also has China in first. Not that I relish seeing China in the lead: the price paid, and the motive behind that drive, is suspect. It carries that sting of 1936 Berlin. But fair is fair. The Australians, anyway, are not happy.
—P.T.
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Contractor Review Board Meeting
Flagler County’s Technical Review Committee Meeting
Flagler Tiger Bay Club Guest Speaker: U.S. Attorney Roger B. Handberg
Separation Chat: Open Discussion
The Circle of Light A Course in Miracles Study Group
Weekly Chess Club for Teens, Ages 9-18, at the Flagler County Public Library
Palm Coast City Council Final Budget Hearing
Palm Coast Planning and Land Development Board
Flagler County School Board Meeting
Flagler County Drug Court Convenes
Story Time for Preschoolers at Flagler Beach Public Library
2nd Annual Sheriff’s Summit to Protect and Serve Seniors
988 Suicide Prevention Walk
Free For All Fridays With Host David Ayres on WNZF
Flagler and Florida Unemployment Numbers Released
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By the way, although American spectators had started doing that “USA! USA!” chant with its cheerfully fuck-you edge at international sporting events during the 1970s, it was in the 1980s that it became a national cultural habit, first at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, when Team USA (a new coinage) beat the unbeatable Soviet hockey team, then spreading into professional wrestling and Reagan reelection campaign rallies and finally to any sort of excited mob of Americans who felt like madly insisting on our awesomeness, to perform feelings of patritic self-confidence, which used to abide more organically and implicitly. 0n other words, the “USA! USA!” chant was yet another expression of the nostalgia tic, an old-timey barbaric yawp spontaneously invented and then ritually reenacted.
–From Kurt Andersen’s Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America: A Recent History (2020).
FlaPharmTech says
Pierre, have you seen the man begging for money at PC Pkwy and Belle Terre waving the sign “Homeless for Trump”. Curious if he’s indeed homeless or a grifter. Great image for trump…I guess.