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Weather:
- 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 Daytona Beach (a few minutes off from Flagler Beach) here.
- tropical cyclone activity here, and even more details here.
Today at a Glance: A 20 percent chance of showers after 7am. Mostly sunny, with a high near 84. Breezy, with a northeast wind 7 to 16 mph, with gusts as high as 24 mph. Tonight: Partly cloudy, with a low around 77. Northeast wind 7 to 13 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
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 usually feature a special guest.
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.
Annual Intracoastal Waterway Cleanup: 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Participation in the event is not restricted to those on foot. Boaters are encouraged to volunteer to work in saltwater canals and intracoastal waterways while walkers can clear the paths and trails alongside the waterway. On the day of the event, volunteers will meet in the Sunshine Room at the Palm Coast Community Center and will receive a t-shirt, trash bags, gloves, and a safety sheet. Trash can be placed in dumpsters at select city parks and under the toll bridge. Register here.
Democratic Women’s Club of Flagler County meeting at 9:30 a.m. at the Palm Coast Community Center, 305 Palm Coast Parkway NE.
Jesus Christ Superstar at City Rep Theatre, 160 Cypress Point Parkway (City Marketplace, Suite B207), Palm Coast, $7:30 p.m. except on Sundays, when at 3 p.m. Tickets are $30 for adults, $15 for students. Book here. One of the great rock musicals of all time takes us on a spiritual, emotional and provocative journey that enthralls, edifies and invigorates us. With an all female cast, the CRT production explores these compelling themes from a different perspective. The ride of a lifetime.
‘The Great American Trailer Park Musical’ at Daytona Playhouse, 100 Jessamine Blvd., Daytona Beach, 7:30 p.m. except Sundays at 2 p.m. There’s a new tenant at Armadillo Acres and she’s wreaking havoc all over Florida’s most exclusive trailer park. When a stripper on the run comes between the Dr. Phil–loving, agoraphobic and her husband, a storm brews. Directed by: Ashley King and Melissa Cargile.
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.
Random Acts of Insanity’s Roundup of Standups from Around Central Florida, 8 p.m. at Cinematique Theater, 242 South Beach Street, Daytona Beach. General admission is $8.50. Every third Saturday RAI hosts Live Standup Comedy with comics from all over Central Florida.
 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: Is print making a comeback? “This week,” the Times reported in mid-August, “This week, The Onion began distributing a print edition for the first time in more than a decade and will soon deliver it monthly to everyone who subscribes to its site. The move is a throwback to the publication’s roots as a campus weekly in the late 1980s. […] The print edition is part of a variety of perks that the company plans to offer online subscribers, who pay $5 a month.” The Economist’s headline was snappier: “The Onion’s cutting edge: paper: A new era dawns for America’s self-declared finest news source.” Ben Collins, a former NBC reporter, is now the CEO of Global Tetrahedron, which owns the paper. “I just didn’t want this thing to go away,” he says. “Will it work? Mr Collins claims that the Onion has already beaten their target for print subscribers four-fold. The paper has readers who have known it for decades; many have missed the print version. Online, po-faced outrage stifles satire, and it is harder to maintain a distinctive brand when so many readers flit in from social media or search engines, suggests Chad Nackers, the editor-in-chief. Print provides a chance to do more daring, extended jokes again, and build a new fanbase.” The timing is not bad either. Four more years of Trump should be a boon. An easy headline last week: “Ohioan Disturbed By Reports Of Haitians Eating Vegetables.” Or: “Vatican City Police Unveil New Unit Of Sin-Sniffing Dogs.” It’s no Charlie Hebdo or Le Canard enchaîné, but we’ll take what we can, though $99 for just 12 issues seems a bit steep.
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Flagler County Drug Court Convenes
Flagler County Canvassing Board Meeting
Story Time for Preschoolers at Flagler Beach Public Library
Flagler Tiger Bay Club Guest Speaker: Carlos M. Cruz
Model Yacht Club Races at the Pond in Palm Coast’s Town Center
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
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In Lolita, Nabokov does not use a single obscene word to describe the highly erotic situations and scenes. I shall likewise refrain from the terms commonly employed to describe the sort of alimentation my various companions and I had to choke down. With very few – always triumphantly celebrated – exceptions during the journey, it was impossible to divine why these vomitive victuals, desperately trying to look like the lacquered perfection in the advertisements, should be supposed for human consumption at all. Ethnic cuisine offered no escape, as anyone who has tasted the Chinese egg rolls in Flagstaff, Arizona, or the Bavarian Knödel in Abbeville, South Carolina, knows. It is common knowledge that some of the worst food on this globe is eaten in Greece; so why, in God’s name, does every Greek who comes to America and is not as rich as Onassis or Niarchos immediately open a Greek restaurant? And how come the American public has not yet realized that bad Italian food has done more damage to this country than Cosa Nostra ever did? In Florence, Oregon, I definitely turned anti-pasta!
–From Gregor von Rezzori’s “A Stranger in Lolitaland” (1993).
Ray W says
A Scripps News article contains two snippets of information that may or may not prove interesting to FlaglerLive readers.
Since 1993, federal law mandates that all who fill out voter registration forms must self-affirm citizenship, under penalty of perjury, a felony offense.
Second, a Brennan Center survey of more than 23 million votes cast in the 2016 election uncovered 30 instances of “suspected” noncitizen voting.
Makes of this what you will. Me? I don’t know but I suspect that Flagler County has at least 30 voting precincts, possibly more. This offers scale to the possibility that non-citizen voting could alter election outcomes. Given the thousands and thousands of precincts in Florida and the tens and tens of thousands of precincts in America, the chance that just one of those 30 suspected noncitizens voted in Flagler County in 2016 is miniscule. Lacking evidence that after the 2016 election today’s election’s supervisors suddenly began letting non-citizens register to vote, it strikes me that the issue of non-citizen voting is a mirage, a straw man, a deception.
Laurel says
The cartoon is sad but true. During President Obama’s Administration, the rumor was Obama will take all our guns. Gun sales skyrocketed. Now the same rumor is being spread about Harris, a gun owner. Walz is a gun owner too. Yep, good for sales. The kids are “in our hearts and prayers.”