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Weather: A slight chance of thunderstorms. Showers. Highs around 80. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 80 percent. Tonight: A slight chance of thunderstorms in the evening. Showers likely. Lows in the lower 70s. Northeast winds around 5 mph. Chance of rain 70 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 Daytona Beach (a few minutes off from Flagler Beach) here.
- tropical cyclone activity here, and even more details here.
Today at a Glance:
Pink Army Run in Town Center: The City of Palm Coast joins AdventHealth Palm Coast Foundation for the Annual Pink on Parade 5K Run/Walk (aka Pink Army) and the 1-mile Pet-Friendly Fun Walk/Pink Out Your Pet Contest (sponsored by the Flagler Humane Society). Proceeds stay in Flagler County to assist qualified individuals with early detection screenings, cancer-related education, materials, and cancer diagnostic testing. Packet pickup will be available on race day beginning at 6:30am at AdventHealth Palm Coast. Registration and payment will be accepted the morning of the race. Pink on Parade at 7:45 a.m., Pink Carpet Pooch Strut at 7:55, and 1-mile Pet-Friendly Fun Walk at 8. Costs are $40 for entry in Pink on Parade 5k and the One-mile Pet-Friendly Fun Walk, $20 for students under 18.
Creekside Music and Arts Festival cancelled: Today’s Creekside Festival was cancelled due to excessive rain. at Princess Place Preserve, 2500 Princess Place Road, Palm Coast, Fla., Saturday and Sunday, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day, admission is $10 per person, kids 12 and under get in free. Free parking. Gather under the majestic oaks for this local tradition that celebrates the natural beauty of Northeast Florida. Bring a lawn chair and enjoy a variety of music including bluegrass, country, rock & classic hits. Shop rows of unique arts & craft vendors. There’ll be historic demonstrations from a blacksmith, a fur trapper and pottery wheel creations. Kids zone with train rides, pony rides, petting zoo, hayrides, bounce houses. Big food court. Fall festival brews in the beer garden. Explore the Princess Lodge and other historic sites. Organized by Flagler Broadcasting.
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]
ESL Bible Studies for Intermediate and Advanced Students: 9:30 to 10:25 a.m. at Grace Presbyterian Church, 1225 Royal Palms Parkway, Palm Coast. Improve your English skills while studying the Bible. This study is geared toward intermediate and advanced level English Language Learners.
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.
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.
Notably: “Boots on the ground.” Am I the only one to think the phrase among those best retired, if not taken out back and shot? You hear it everywhere, all the time. Of course you hear it in relation to military “deployments” (another word civilians love to use when they want to feel more brawny than they could ever possibly be). But you hear it said mostly by civilians. In major storms, at corporate retreats, in sports. The journalist Karl Zinsmeister, not satisfied with prostituting himself and the profession as an “embed” in the early days of the Iraq war, titled his book that way. Wikipedia tells us the expression “certainly dates back at least to British officer Robert Grainger Ker Thompson, strategist of the British counter-insurgency efforts against the Malayan National Liberation Army during the Malayan Emergency” (“Malayan Emergency” being an insurer-pandering euphemism worth its own eulogy). But the BBC tells us that Thompson only “came close to using” the phrase, titling one of his chapters with the more effete “Feet on the Ground.” William Safire in a 2008 “On Language” column on “Let’s do this” and “boots on the ground” attributes the phrase’s origin to that Carter’s failed rescue of the hostages in Iran, which ended with the death of eight American servicemen in the Iranian desert. General Volney Warner was quoted in the Christian Science Monitor as saying: “Many American strategists now argue that even light, token U.S. land forces — ‘getting U.S. combat boots on the ground’ would signal to an enemy that the U.S. . . . can only be dislodged at the risk of war.” To which Safire added: “The vivid figure of speech soon triumphed over the formal ‘infantry in the field.'” Boots as people. It’s easier to say boots than to say men and women, easier to de-personalize than to humanize, and to kick it off with boots on the ground revs up the imagery of power and conquest at home. It browns the brawn to a crisp, ready acquiescence: hell yeah, more boots on the ground.
—P.T.
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May 2025
ESL Bible Studies for Intermediate and Advanced Students
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village
Gamble Jam at Gamble Rogers Memorial State Recreation Area
SunBros Cafe Celebrates the Life of Travis Sundell
Al-Anon Family Groups
Memorial Day Ceremonies
Nar-Anon Family Group
Flagler County Beekeepers Association Meeting
Bunnell City Commission Meeting
Palm Coast City Council Workshop
Flagler County School Board Information Workshop
Book Dragons, the Kids’ Book Club, at Flagler Beach Public Library
Budgeting by Values: A Virtual Class to Learn Budgeting Skills
NAACP Flagler Branch General Membership Meeting
For the full calendar, go here.
I had the vaguest idea of what a redneck was. Someone intolerant–and uneducated–that was what the word suggested. And it fitted in with what I had been told in New York: that some motoring organizations gave their members maps of safe routes through the South, to steer them away from areas infested with rednecks. Then I also became aware that the word had been turned by some middle-class people into a romantic word; and that in this extension it stood for the unintellectual, physical, virile man, someone who (for instance) wouldn’t mind saying “shit” in company.”
–From V.S. Naipaul’s A Turn in the South (Knopf 1989)..
Ray W, says
The Cool Down reports that a Sharjah University research team has concluded that ferry boats assigned to limited routes could use tanks of compressed air to power propellers.
“While it may not be suitable for leisure cruising purposes, the operation of a pneumatic system is well-suited for ferrying passengers between predefined stops.” Professor Abdul Hai Alami, the team leader, said in the summary.
“Analysis showed the air propulsion system to be superior to both battery- and fossil-powered boats. Compressed air provided a 6% propulsion boost and less air pollution when compared to electric ferry motors, the research found. The tech also avoids expensive metals and substances in batteries, which can be harder to recycle, all according to the lab report.”
Make of this what you will. Me? We already know how to compress air. We already know how to use compressed air to rotate a shaft. The issue is how much compressed air would be needed to propel a ferry across a narrow body of water? Once that is known, then the design of a compressed air system can be incorporated into a ferry. Who knows the overall initial cost? No battery? No diesel engine? It might be economically feasible from the beginning to use such a system. If the system proves to be more efficient than the two other options, why not use it?
Pogo says
@Boots
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qcr2X8Dr8dk
@Naipaul again? Guess it never gets old…
As stated
https://www.google.com/search?q=v.s.+naipaul+indian+caste+system