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Weather: Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. East winds 5 to 10 mph. Friday Night: Mostly cloudy. Lows around 70.
- 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 Flagler County Canvassing Board meets today at the Flagler County Supervisor of Elections office, Government Services Building, 1769 East Moody Boulevard, Bunnell. The meeting is open to the public. Check the time in the sidebar or in this chart, which includes the full year’s meeting schedule (the pdf schedule does not include the dates and times of required Canvassing Board meetings which may be necessary due to a recount called locally or statewide.) The board is chaired by County Judge Andrea Totten. This Election Year’s board members are Supervisor of Elections Kaiti Lenhart and County Commissioner Dave Sullivan. The alternates are County Judge Melissa Distler and County Commissioner Donald O’Brien. March-April meetings are for the presidential preference primary, such as it is. See all legal notices from the Supervisor of Elections, including updated lists of those ineligible to vote, here.
Free For All Fridays with Host David Ayres, an hour-long public affairs radio show featuring local newsmakers, personalities, public health updates and the occasional surprise guest, starts a little after 9 a.m. after FlaglerLive Editor Pierre Tristam’s Reality Check. Today David welcomes Colleen Conklin, who will reflect on he 24 years as a School Board member, plus Carrie Baird and Cheryl Tristam of Flagler Cares. See previous podcasts here. On WNZF at 94.9 FM and 1550 AM.
The Blue 24 Forum, a discussion group organized by local Democrats, meets at 12:15 p.m. at the Palm Coast Community Center, 305 Palm Coast Parkway NE. Come and add your voice to local, state and national political issues.
Jake’s Women, By Neil Simon, at City Rep Theatre, 7:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, 3 p.m. on Sunday, at City Repertory Theatre, 160 Cypress Point Parkway (City Marketplace, Suite B207), Palm Coast. $25 for adults, $15 for students. Dive into the intricate world of Neil Simon’s Jake’s Women, where writer Jake’s troubled marriage to Maggie intertwines with his vivid conversations with his deceased wife Julie, his daughter Molly, his sister Karen, and his psychiatrist Edith. This captivating performance is packed with laughs and emotional depth. See: “The Sex Wars Through Neil Simon’s Wit: City Rep Stages “Jake’s Women,” a Comedy in Dramatic Acts.”
The Gatlin Brothers at Flagler Auditorium, 7 p.m., 5500 State Road 100, Palm Coast. Tickets $64 to $74, book here. Larry, Steve, & Rudy, the Gatlin Brothers are Grammy award-winners who have dazzled audiences for more than sixty-nine years. They have accrued a lifetime of noteworthy achievements in their storybook career, including a Grammy for Best Country Song (“Broken Lady”), three ACM awards for Single of the Year (“All The Gold in California”), Album of the Year (Straight Ahead) and Male Vocalist of the Year, along with five nominations for CMA Vocal Group of the Year, Single, Album. For more than 69 years, the Gatlin Brothers have entertained audiences in venues and stages all over the world from the Grand Ole’ Opry to Carnegie Hall. They have performed for the Grammy Awards, The American Music Awards, and the People’s Choice Awards. They appeared on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, Oprah, Hee-Haw, Love Boat, the Midnight Special with Wolfman Jack, the Merv Griffin Show, Solid Gold, the Barbara Mandrell Show and their own variety special on ABC just to name a few.
‘No Sex Please, We’re British,’ at Daytona Playhouse, 100 Jessamine Blvd., Daytona Beach. Nov. 7, 8 and 9 at 7:30 p.m., Nov. 10 at 3 p.m. Adults $25, Seniors $24, Youth $15. This riotous comic farce notched up a staggeringly successful sixteen-year run in the West End! Peter and Frances could reasonably expect to look forward to a calm, happy start to their married life together. Owing to an unfortunate mistake, however, they find themselves inundated with pornographic material from the “Scandinavian Import Company”. Senior bank officials, Peter’s snobbish mother, and a prim, respectable bank cashier become inextricably entangled in the rambunctious events that follow.
 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: Another scene glimpsed during Election Day at the public library off Palm Coast Parkway. Really, what is there to say?
—P.T.
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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
For the full calendar, go here.
I regard the rather long illnesses as a kind of death which separates us and makes us forget everyone and I try to accustom myself to this first kind of death in order to be less frightened one day of the other. However, by St. John I do not want to die.
–—Voltaire, from a letter of Sept. 10, 1724 (he was 30 years old; he lived to be almost 84).
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@Happy new year
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Eat up — that’s all there is…
Basie: Jim, didn’t I teach you anything?
Jim: Yes. You taught me that people will do anything for a potato.
— From the 1987 film, Empire of the Sun
Ray W, says
Texas A&M’s agriculture college published “AGRILIFE TODAY.” I was curious about turkey availability this Thanksgiving.
On November 5th, the publication explored the issue. I don’t suppose it is the most complete analysis on the subject, mainly because it focused on 8-to-16-pound whole turkey wholesale prices in 2024 in comparison to 2023 prices, as opposed to a more comprehensive analysis of the entire turkey marketplace.
Here are some bullet points:
– 2024 wholesale price per pound is 99 cents.
– 2023 wholesale price per pound was $1.12.
– Five-year-average price per pound is $1.22.
– 2024 turkey production thus far is 6% lower than last year.
– Avian flu infections prompted the slaughter of some 15 million turkeys since the original U.S. outbreak early in 2022.
– The author noted that family menu choices for Thanksgiving are changing. Large family gatherings may no longer include two turkeys. Instead, one turkey and another source of protein such as ham may be offered.
Make of this what you will.
Me? I can only hope that all FlaglerLive readers, if they choose turkey, enjoy possible lower grocery store sale prices for whole turkeys this Thanksgiving. Happy Thanksgiving! And don’t forget the Greek Festival this weekend at Greek Orthodox church on the riverfront just south of the Seabreeze Bridge on North Halifax Drive.
As I have been commenting for years now, drought conditions across the upper Midwest in both 2022 and 2023 caused grain prices to rise. So did the 2022 Russian reinvasion of the Ukraine. I have commented several times about cattle ranchers culling their herds early by selling young cattle before full maturation because feed prices had climbed due to drought. After two years of selling less mature cattle early due to drought-caused higher feed prices, and not rebuilding herds for the same reason, total cattle head count dropped to a low not seen in America since 1951. 8-to-16-pound turkeys take less time to mature compared to larger turkeys, too. Perhaps growers have been selling their turkeys at a less mature size over the past two years. As an aside, a few years ago, prior to the drought years, I saw a 44-pound turkey in a Publix display aisle.
Ample rain last fall and throughout much of this year increased crop yields. I didn’t get this from the article. I looked it up separately. Maybe, turkey growers are allowing more of their flocks to mature to larger sizes because grain prices for corn, wheat and soybeans are down, per the USDA, from both 2023 and 2022. This might explain why 8-to-16-pound turkey totals are down 6% over last year, yet prices per pound still dropped. Consumers might now have access to larger whole turkeys, lessening overall demand for smaller whole turkeys. I know I am inferring the causes and effects, but it makes sense.
On a similar issue, egg prices remain high. As of September 25, 2024, when CNN Business addressed egg issues, an industry standard dozen large eggs was selling for $3.20 per pound, up 28.1% from 12 months earlier. Like turkeys, since 2022, avian flu outbreaks on chicken farms have mandated slaughter of over 100 million hens, though the slaughter was greater in 2022 when egg prices neared $5 per dozen large eggs than it has been thus far this year.
CNN Business reported that the five largest egg companies, due to recent consolidation efforts, now control between 36% and 40% of the egg marketplace. The largest, Cal-Maine Foods, controls about 20% of the national marketplace.
Per CNN Business: “When egg prices spiked to record highs in early 2023, Cal-Maine’s profit skyrocketed 718%. …”
According to CNN Business, quoting from an industry watchdog:
“High egg prices in 2022 and 2023 were a product of price gouging by dominant egg producers, who used the cover of inflation and avian flu to extract profit margins as high as 40% on a dozen loose eggs.”
Phil Lempert, a grocery industry analyst, told CNN Business: “Bird flu is the number one reason for high egg prices, absolutely.”
To me, corporate greed just might be in second place.
Many of the gullible FlaglerLive commenters among us disinformation-laundered lies about egg-prices that were first uttered by the professional lying class of one of our two political parties. Higher egg prices were primarily caused by war, drought and avian flu. Inflation intervened, too, but inflation was caused by the pandemic and exacerbated by the Fed, by Trump and by Biden, not Biden alone.
FlaPharmTech says
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