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Weather: Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Sunday Night: Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
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Today at a Glance:
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.
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]
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.
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.
 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: Meanwhile. B’Tselem, the Israeli human rights organization, recently released “Welcome To Hell,” “a report on the abuse and inhuman treatment of Palestinians held in Israeli custody since 7 October 2023. B’Tselem collected testimonies from 55 Palestinians held during that time and released, almost all with no charges. Their testimonies reveal the outcomes of the rushed transformation of more than a dozen Israeli prison facilities, military and civilian, into a network of camps dedicated to the abuse of inmates as a matter of policy. Facilities in which every inmate is deliberately subjected to harsh, relentless pain and suffering operate as de-facto torture camps.” The start date of the report is notable, of course: it’s the day when Hamas attacked and massacred some 1,200 Israelis, starting the disproportionate retaliation in Gaza we’ve become familiar with, now approaching 40 times as many victims among Palestinians than Hamas’s barbarism caused among Israelis, though over the months we’ve come to ignore it all, and all along, it’s as if nothing was happening in the West Bank, even though the West Bank has been the site of a surge in Israeli killings of Palestinians unseen since the uprising of 2000. B’Tselem’s report will not be read much, of course. But it needs dissemination.
—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
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I was shaking with fear, and then they pounced on me. One of them slapped me, and the other spat in my face and said to me in Arabic: “Yihya Sinwar will die.” They ordered me to repeat what he said. Two of them stripped me like the other prisoners, and then threw me on top of the other prisoners. One of them brought a carrot and tried to shove it in my anus. While he was trying to shove the carrot in, some of the others filmed me on their cell phones. I screamed in pain and terror. It went on like that for about three minutes. Then they shouted at us that we had two minutes to get dressed, and left. I felt broken inside. Tears rolled down my face while I was getting dressed (the witness choked up and burst into tears). Terrible thoughts went through my head. Then they took us back to the room. When we got back to the cell, we were still in shock, crying silently. No one spoke. We couldn’t look at each other. I asked myself: “What happened? Why is this happening to us?”
—From the testimony of A.H., in the Hebron District, in “Welcome to Hell,” B’Tselem, August 2024.
Kennan says
Unfortunately, Pierre people just do Realize the real world, importance and the real world implications of what’s happening in Gaza. 7000 miles away we find ourselves unaffected. Kudos go out to the student Protesters over the last year. One of the few shining spots that make me realize that humanity is not gone.
I find it staggering that the current administration as well as the one coming in, do not realize the ripple effect that this Nazi like behavior will have on our value as both the country and a player on the international scene. We are now hurling towards the pariah of the world scene. Well, earned by the behavior and support we have shown a nation and a leader that has had no other mission other than, the complete annihilation of another group of people.