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Weather: Sunny, with a high near 86. Calm wind becoming west around 6 mph in the morning. Monday Night: Clear, with a low around 67. Southwest wind around 5 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:
In Court:Â Felony court is not in session today and tomorrow at the Flagler County courthouse.
The Flagler County School Board holds a pair of meetings for the New Board Members, Janie Ruddy and Lauren Ramirez, at 9:30am and 10:30 a.m in Room 3 at the Government Services Building, 1769 E. Moody Blvd., Bldg. 2, Bunnell, FL 32110.  Will Furry the board chair, and Ramirez, then Ruddy, will be in attendance. The purpose of the meeting is to review the Board Member manual. The meetings are open to the public.
The Flagler County School Board meets at 1 p.m. in an information workshop. The board meets in the training room on the third floor of the Government Services Building, 1769 East Moody Boulevard, Bunnell. Board meeting documents are available here.
The Flagler County Library Board of Trustees meets at 4:30 p.m. at the Flagler County Public Library, 2500 Palm Coast Pkwy NW, Palm Coast. The meeting of the seven-member board is open to the public.
The Flagler County School Board meets at 6 p.m. in Board Chambers on the first floor of the Government Services Building, 1769 East Moody Boulevard, Bunnell. Board meeting documents are available here. The meeting is open to the public and includes public speaking segments.
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.
In Coming Days: |
Notably: When my mother died in November 2013, four days before my 49th (she had done a far better job raising me than I had caring for her as Alzheimer’s or Pick’s disease or whatever cruelty waterboarded her for the last decade and a half of her by-then-so-called life) it was, as such things so often are, an occasion for my closest family members to reunite. Our mother had spent most of her dying years in Palm Coast, and died in the den in our house in the P Section, a house that was in large part hers really, so it was natural that everyone converge on Palm Coast, of all places, after all of us had lived more substantial parts of our lives on other continents, in New York, in Chicago and Texas (my cousin Philippe), or Montreal (my cousin Danielle). Even my older brother managed to make it all the way from Brunei. The resurrecting consolation of the gathering aside, probably the most important thing we did, or that my middle brother Robert–always the most giving of us three of Monique’s boys–did, was buy a few trees: an olive tree, a citrus tree, and an oak. The oak, we all called the Nonna Tree, in my mother’s memory (ironic as that always seems): she had been Nonna to our children, as her mother had been Nonna to us–the two or three drops of Italian blood in the family granting us the right to the honorific. I’d long imagined the Italian thing more aspiration than reality–more of our casual (and in retrospect shameful) bigotry against any association with our Arab blood, but a DNA test revealed it to be more accurate than we knew–that, and a good deal of Ashkenazi Jewish blood on top of it, at least in me. The citrus tree I proceeded to assassinate over time, as I have done almost every tree planted in my yard, including a beautiful Lebanese cedar gifted me after a lecture I gave to a group in Volusia County eons ago. I’d left the sapling cedar unprotected from deer, who gnawed and gnawed until it might as well have been the toy thing of Israeli shrapnel. But the young oak grew, and grew, and grew. Magnificently, awesomely, and so rapidly. This year it had risen higher than the roof of our two-story house. But Hurricane Matthew had done a job on it, and tilted it south-southeast enough that I worried whether it could withstand bending over like that much longer. Then came Hurricane Milton. You can see the Nonna Tree above, exactly a year ago in the picture to the left, and on Sunday. Taller, but also more more Pisa-like, as if the Nonna Tree were branching toward its Italian lineage. The damage to our roof, which will require a $16,000 or $18,000 replacement, is a much smaller hit than to see the Nonna Tree dying its own premature death. We will be contacting a couple of tree nurseries to explore open-bark surgeries if need be. Or (given our household’s habits) radiation therapy. Who knows. Maybe we can get it right yet. As for the Olive tree, I clobbered that one into the ground too, but as you well know olive trees are damn near indestructible–Israeli settlers notwithstanding–and this one has simply sprung a new skyward branch that’s slowly becoming its main trunk. It’s like an olive branch to my Mediterranean ancestry, or a companion to the Nonna Tree. If whales communicate, I have no doubt that trees exult. We simply have not yet learned to hear their bark or read their leaves.
—P.T.
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Palm Coast Code Enforcement Board Meeting
Separation Chat: Open Discussion
Flagler Beach Library Book Club
The Circle of Light A Course in Miracles Study Group
Weekly Chess Club for Teens, Ages 9-18, at the Flagler County Public Library
Flagler County Republican Club Meeting
Flagler Beach Parks Ad Hoc Committee
Flagler County Drug Court Convenes
Story Time for Preschoolers at Flagler Beach Public Library
Model Yacht Club Races at the Pond in Palm Coast’s Town Center
For the full calendar, go here.
I come from there and I have memories
Born as mortals are, I have a mother
And a house with many windows,
I have brothers, friends,
And a prison cell with a cold window.
Mine is the wave, snatched by sea-gulls,
I have my own view,
And an extra blade of grass.
Mine is the moon at the far edge of the words,
And the bounty of birds,
And the immortal olive tree.
I walked this land before the swords
Turned its living body into a laden table.
I come from there.
I render the sky unto her mother
When the sky weeps for her mother.
And I weep to make myself known
To a returning cloud.
I learnt all the words worthy of the court of blood
So that I could break the rule.
I learnt all the words and broke them up
To make a single word: Homeland.
—Mahmoud Darwish, “I Come From There”
Pogo says
@A conversation not had — from The Conversation
“…In our view, the more aggressive Netanyahu’s government is (both in Lebanon and in Gaza), the greater the likelihood that Trump will be elected. This all works perfectly for Netanyahu as it could allow him to look beyond Lebanon and target his biggest obsession: Iran.”
As stated
https://theconversation.com/how-the-middle-east-conflict-could-influence-the-us-election-and-why-arab-americans-in-swing-states-might-vote-for-trump-240065
It is happening here — and now
https://www.google.com/search?q=rise+and+fall+of+third+reich
Ray W, says
General Motors has a defense division that just announced a tactical truck variant for the military. It combines a BEV powertrain with an Extended Range 2.8-liter turbocharged Duramax V-6 diesel in its Silverado 2500HD chassis.
The combination allows a driver to operate the truck in an electric-only “Silent Drive” and “Silent Watch” mode in “high-threat zones.”
When the 12-module battery runs low, the diesel fires up to generate electricity for the electric motors, thereby extending the range of the vehicle. This way, the truck can better avoid heat-detecting thermal cameras while operating on battery mode before the battery runs low.
Ray W, says
Earlier this month the Wall Street Journal asked 60 economists to forecast possible inflation based on adoption of former President Trump’s proposed economic policies, should he be elected, as compared to those economic policies proposed by Vice President Harris should she be elected.
68% of economists said inflation would be higher under Trump. 12% said Harris’ policies would lead to higher inflation. 12% said there would be a “noticeable gap.”
Ray W, says
NOT be a “noticeable gap.” Sorry.
FlaPharmTech says
Pierre, what a beautiful ode. Thank you.
Pierre Tristam says
Thank you FlaPharmTech.