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Weather: Patchy fog in the morning. Sunny. Highs around 90. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Monday Night: Clear. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
- 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:
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.
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.
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.
| In Coming Days: Oct. 10: Groundbreaking for Fire Station 26 in Seminole Woods: Palm Coast government hosts a groundbreaking for the future Fire Station 26 at 72 Airport Commerce Center--the road opposite Ulaturn Trail in Seminole Woods--at 9 a.m. The public is invited to attend. The brief ceremony, lasting approximately 30 minutes, will be held at the site. Parking will be available along Airport Commerce Center Way, and attendees are encouraged to wear comfortable walking shoes due to the site’s terrain. Wharton & Schultz is the lead construction firm for the project, which is expected to be completed within 12 months. Funding for Fire Station 26 comes from fire impact fees and a $5 million state appropriation of public dollars. Oct. 10: Town Hall with Palm Coast Council Member Theresa Pontieri, 6 p.m. at the Southern Recreation Center, 120 Belle Terre Parkway, Palm Coast. This event is free and open to the public. Attendees are welcome to ask questions and discuss issues that matter to them in an open forum. Residents are encouraged to join this important conversation to help strengthen community ties and ensure that every voice plays a role in shaping the future of Palm Coast. Pontieri will discuss economic development in the city and answer questions from attendees. Don’t miss the opportunity to engage and share your thoughts. Oct. 16: Flagler Cares hosts its quarterly Help Night from 3 to 7 p.m. at the Flagler County Village Community Room, 160 Cypress Point Parkway, Suite B304, Palm Coast. Help Night is organized and hosted by Flagler Cares and other community partners as a one-stop help event. Representatives from Flagler County Human Services, Early Learning Coalition, EasterSeals, Family Life Center, Florida Legal Services, Lions Club, and many other organizations will be available to provide information and resources. The event is open to the public, free to attend, and will offer assistance with obtaining various services including autism screenings, tablets (low-income qualification), fair housing legal consultations, Marketplace Navigation, childcare services, SNAP and Medicaid application assistance, behavioral health services, and much more. Flagler Cares is a non-profit agency focused on creating a vital, expansive social safety net that addresses virtually all the health and social needs of our community. Flagler Cares works with clients to identify needs and create solutions that address those unique needs. Flagler Cares is proud to have a wide range of community partners who are committed to providing high quality services to those who need them most. Flagler Cares is also passionate about filling gaps and bringing needed services into the county where they did not previously exist. For more information about this event, please call 386-319-9483 ext. 0, or email [email protected]. |
Notably: The funny, caustic, appropriately angry Appalachian attorney and activist Frank in 2022 wrote and self-published a book called J. D. Vance Is a Fake Hillbilly: Think Twice Before Calling (All) Coalfield Appalachians Racists, Sexists, and Ignoramuses. It’s not a very good book so far as JD Vance is concerned–it doesn’t engage with Vance’s awful Hillbilly Elegy, but rather provides an overview of what the stereotypes usually get wrong about Appalachia, from its labor history to its pioneers in labor, politics, and so on, and for that, the book is worth the read. On page 101, in a passage about the numerous mining disasters and innumerable lives lost underground, Kilgore includes the image of a letter found near a miner who was among those killed in the Fraterville mine explosion of 1902, the worst mine disaster in Tennessee history: 216 killed, 190 of them instantly, 26 more as they slowly asphyxiated. This letter is one of the most moving few lines I have ever read, like the heartwrenching last letter to his wife that Maj. Sullivan Ballou wrote before losing his life in the first battle of Bull Run. He wrote it as he lay dying:
—P.T.
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Groundbreaking for Fire Station 26 in Seminole Woods
Flagler County Drug Court Convenes
Palm Coast Democratic Club Meeting
Flagler Beach City Commission Meeting
Town Hall with Palm Coast Council Member Theresa Pontieri
Evenings at Whitney Lecture Series
Free For All Fridays With Host David Ayres on WNZF
Flagler County Canvassing Board Meeting
Blue 24 Forum
LGBTQ+ Night at Flagler Beach’s Coquina Coast Brewing Company
For the full calendar, go here.
At its peak of coal production, McDowell hosted a population of nearly 100,000, many of whom were multi-racial, multi-national, multi-cultural residents, and the county ranked in the top sector of the richest jurisdictions in the nation. Fast-forward, and the reverse is painfully true: A population decimated by the decline of coal-related jobs is racked with the problems every locale in the world experiences when good incomes are no more and poverty takes hold. As a result of forces beyond the control of its working class, West Virginia, which hosts the most Appalachians per capita of any state (nearly 100%), can find no escape from elitist wrath. Had J.D. Vance been the self-appointed sage of West Virginia, instead of his non-Appalachian section of Western Ohio, the boy’s head would have exploded. So much to mock, so little time. However J.D. spins it, affirming stories abound when it comes to the inclusive attitude of West Virginia, especially its southern section which is closely tied culturally and politically to far Southwest Virginia.
—From Frank Kilgore’s J. D. Vance Is a Fake Hillbilly (2022).
Laurel says
Need childcare? Call Vance. Trump and Vance have it all figured out. After all. “childcare is childcare.” Problem solved.
Sherry says
LOL! Thanks for my morning laugh Laurel and greetings from jet lagged me in Paris. Here child care is provided my those lazy criminal immigrant “darkies” that are eating the cats and dogs. Hey, it keeps the strays off the streets. . . much less dog shit to step in also!.