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The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Sunday, February 16, 2025

February 16, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

What Free World? by Pat Byrnes, PoliticalCartoons.com
What Free World? by Pat Byrnes, PoliticalCartoons.com

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Weather: Showers likely, mainly after 1pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 81. Breezy. Chance of precipitation is 70%. Sunday Night: A 20 percent chance of showers before 1am. Partly cloudy, with a low around 45.

  • 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:

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.

Blue Jeans and Bling Fundraiser: Blue Jeans and Bling is a scholarship fundraiser for 4-H and FFA Youth. Event is February 16th at 6 p.m. Tickets are $50 each and include steak or chicken dinner, desserts,  music, dancing and auction.

Artist Talk by M. Kathleen Warren, 2 p.m. at Expressions Art Gallery on Colbert located inside Grand Living Realty, 2298 Colbert Lane, Palm Coast. You’re invited to join us for an Artist Talk by M. Kathleen Warren, Photo-Encaustic Artist. Kathleen will be discussing her processes and her inspirations as well as doing a live demonstration of how she creates her beautiful artwork. Come join us and Kathleen will answer all questions at Expressions Art Gallery.

The Annual Strawberry festival in Palm Coast’s Central Park is on Saturday and Sunday, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. both days. Entry fee is $7 per person except for children 2 and under. The festival describes itself this way: “Family Fun & Festivities, Plant City Strawberries, Art & Crafts, Delicious Food, Free Bounce Houses, Organic Strawberries, Strawberry Shortcake, Live Entertainment, Free Rock Painting, Strawberry Fudge, Pony Rides, Free Strawberry Relay, Face Painting, Free Hula Hoop Contest, Pie Eating Contest, Free Petting Farm, Berry Cute Baby Contest, Free Sack Races, Train Rides, Free Corn Hole, Yummy Treats & Much More!”

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.

statista short term rentals

Notably: This is unexpected. Short-term rentals seem to have a terrible reputation here, at least in neighborhoods where they proliferate–the Hammock, Palm Coast’s C Section. Is the perspective skewed? Are Americans louder than their European counterparts? From Statista: “When asked about the impact of short-term rentals on quality of life in their neighbourhood, 35% of respondents to a European Commission study said that STRs had a positive effect. By contrast, just 12% said the effect was negative. The same study found that most of the positive perceptions of STRs were financial in nature. Almost 60% indicated that STRs are advantageus because they provide an additional income source for hosts, and just over half felt that they make traveling more affordable.”

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October 2025
flagler beach united methodist church food bank
Thursday, Oct 23
9:30 am - 12:00 pm

Flagler Beach United Methodist Church Food Pantry

Flagler Beach United Methodist Church
Courts around Florida are overworked and need more judges, the Supreme Court found. While the 7th Judicial Circuit, which includes Flagler County, was found to need some additional judges, Flagler County was not among divisions considered in need. (© FlaglerLive)
Thursday, Oct 23
10:00 am - 11:00 am

Flagler County Drug Court Convenes

Flagler County courthouse
Thursday, Oct 23
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Model Yacht Club Races at the Pond in Palm Coast’s Town Center

Central Park in Town Center
palm coast logo
Thursday, Oct 23
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Palm Coast Beautification and Environmental Advisory Committee

Palm Coast City Hall
flagler beach city commission logo
Thursday, Oct 23
5:30 pm - 10:30 pm

Flagler Beach City Commission Meeting

Flagler Beach City Hall
Thursday, Oct 23
7:30 pm - 10:00 pm

Thornton Wilder’s ‘Our Town,’ at Limelight Theatre in St. Augustine

Limelight Theatre
florida ethics commission
Friday, Oct 24
8:30 am - 10:00 am

Florida Ethics Commission Meeting

pierre tristam on the radio wnzf
Friday, Oct 24
9:00 am - 10:00 am

Free For All Fridays With Host David Ayres on WNZF

WNZF
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Friday, Oct 24
9:00 am - 10:00 am

Scenic A1A Pride Meeting

Hammock Community Center
palm coast democratic club
Friday, Oct 24
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm

Friday Blue Forum

Flagler County Democratic Party HQ
Friday, Oct 24
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Acoustic Jam Circle At The Community Center In The Hammock

Friday, Oct 24
7:30 pm - 10:00 pm

Thornton Wilder’s ‘Our Town,’ at Limelight Theatre in St. Augustine

Limelight Theatre
Friday, Oct 24
7:30 pm - 10:00 pm

‘The 39 Steps,’ at the Daytona Playhouse

Daytona Playhouse
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I who love words and the endless possibility of words am saddened by this inevitability. For with local accent will disappear local tempo. The idioms, the figures of speech that make language rich and full of the poetry of place and time must go. And in their place will be a national speech, wrapped and pack-aged, standard and tasteless. Localness is not gone but it is going. In the many years since I have listened to the land the change is very great. Traveling west along the northern routes I did not hear a truly local speech until I reached Montana. That is one of the reasons I fell in love again with Montana. The West Coast went back to packaged English. The Southwest kept a grasp but a slipping grasp on localness. Of course the deep south holds on by main strength to its regional expressions, just as it holds and treasures some other anachronisms, but no region can hold out for long against the highway, the high-tension line, and the national television. What I am mourning is perhaps not worth saving, but I regret its loss nevertheless. Even while I protest the assembly-line production of our food, our songs, our language, and eventually our souls, I know that it was a rare home that baked good bread in the old days. Mother’s cooking was with rare exceptions poor, that good unpasteurized milk touched only by flies and bits of manure crawled with bacteria, the healthy old-time life was riddled with aches, sudden death from unknown causes, and that sweet local speech I mourn was the child of illiteracy and ignorance. It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better. But it is true that we have exchanged corpulence for starvation, and either one will kill us. The lines of change are down. We, or at least I, can have no conception of human life and human thought in a hundred years or fifty years. Perhaps my greatest wisdom is the knowledge that I do not know. The sad ones are those who waste their energy in trying to hold it back, for they can only feel bitterness in loss and no joy in gain.

–From Steinbeck’s Travels with Charley (1962).

 

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Comments

  1. Pogo says

    February 16, 2025 at 8:44 am

    @”…What the heck is the free world?”

    It was real, and it mattered — and there were human beings who cared…
    https://www.google.com/search?q=four+freedoms+speech

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  2. amerikkka kills says

    February 16, 2025 at 11:15 am

    Is it almost time to remove all the Nazis and their sympathizers ? Label gop as domestic terrorist… or do you prefer the concentration camps?

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  3. Sherry says

    February 16, 2025 at 8:51 pm

    trump’s “Crazy” DOGE wrecking ball “Firing Spree” has put our nuclear program at great risk:

    WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has halted the firings of hundreds of federal employees who were tasked with working on the nation’s nuclear weapons programs, in an about-face that has left workers confused and experts cautioning that DOGE’s blind cost cutting will put communities at risk.

    Three U.S. officials who spoke to The Associated Press said up to 350 employees at the National Nuclear Security Administration were abruptly laid off late Thursday, with some losing access to email before they’d learned they were fired, only to try to enter their offices on Friday morning to find they were locked out. The officials spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation.

    One of the hardest hit offices was the Pantex Plant near Amarillo, Texas, which saw about 30% of the cuts. Those employees work on reassembling warheads, one of the most sensitive jobs across the nuclear weapons enterprise, with the highest levels of clearance.

    The hundreds let go at NNSA were part of a DOGE purge across the Department of Energy that targeted about 2,000 employees.

    “The DOGE people are coming in with absolutely no knowledge of what these departments are responsible for,” said Daryl Kimball, executive director of the Arms Control Association, referencing Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency team. “They don’t seem to realize that it’s actually the department of nuclear weapons more than it is the Department of Energy.”

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