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Today at a Glance:
Flagler Tiger Bay Club Candidate Forum, starting with a meet and greet at 5 p.m. and the forum itself at 6, featuring the candidates for Palm Coast City Council and the Flagler County Commission, at the Palm Coast Community Center, 305 Palm Coast Parkway NE. The forum will be livestreamed on WNZF NewsRadio, Flagler News Weekly, FlaglerLive, AskFlagler, and Palm Coast Observer. Radio station 94.9 FM WNZF will carry the Candidate Forum live starting at 6 pm. Food for purchase will be available, provided by World Plate Caterer.
Drug Court convenes before Circuit Judge Dawn Nichols at 10 a.m. in Courtroom 401 at the Flagler County courthouse, Kim C. Hammond Justice Center 1769 E Moody Blvd, Bldg 1, Bunnell. Drug Court is open to the public. See the Drug Court handbook here and the participation agreement here.
The Flagler Beach City Commission meets at 5:30 p.m. at City Hall, 105 South 2nd Street in Flagler Beach. Watch the meeting at the city’s YouTube channel here. Access meeting agenda and materials here. See a list of commission members and their email addresses here.
The Palm Coast Beautification and Environmental Advisory Committee meets at 5 p.m. at City Hall, 160 Lake Avenue, Palm Coast. But it’s a good idea to verify whether the committee is actually meeting this evening, as it tends to be lax.
Beats and Eats: Live Concert and Food Trucks at the Stage in Town Center, 6 p.m. at The Stage at Town Center, 1500 Central Avenue, Palm Coast. Beats & Eats combines the food truck lineup residents know and love with live concert entertainment, building on the success of both Food Truck Tuesday and the Palm Coast Concert Series. The event will take place monthly from May through October. Live music, food trucks, vendors, yard games, and beer and wine.
Model Yacht Club Races at the Pond in Palm Coast’s Central Park, from noon to 2 p.m. in Central Park in Town Center, 975 Central Ave. Join Bill Wells, Bob Rupp and other members of the Palm Coast Model Yacht Club, watch them race or join the races with your own model yacht. No dues to join the club, which meets at the pond in Central Park every Thursday.
Flagler Beach United Methodist Church Food Pantry: Flagler Beach United Methodist Church‘s food pantry is open today from 9:30 a.m. to noon at 1500 S. Daytona Ave, Flagler Beach. The church’s mission is to provide nourishment and support in a welcoming, respectful environment. To find us, please turn at the corner of 15 Street and S. Daytona Ave, pull into the grass parking area and enter the green door.
World Cup:
Group E: Ecuador vs. Germany (East Rutherford, N.J.), 4 p.m. ET
Group E: Curacao vs. Ivory Coast (Philadelphia), 4 p.m. ET
Group F: Japan vs. Sweden (Arlington, Texas), 6 p.m. local / 7 p.m. ET
Group F: Tunisia vs. Netherlands (Kansas City, Mo.), 6 p.m. local / 7 p.m. ET
Group D: Türkiye vs. United States (Inglewood, Calif.), 7 p.m. local / 10 p.m. ET
Group D: Paraguay vs. Australia (Santa Clara, Calif.), 7 p.m. local / 10 p.m. ET
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Notably: I’m writing this the afternoon of June 21 as Spain is halfway through its clobbering of Saudi Arabia at the World Cup, just 3-0 at the half. More Spanish goals are expected. It’s not been an interesting game: even the Spaniards are self-indulgently sloppy, knowing they will cruise to the elimination round with this thrashing, knowing the Saudis have no chance. The World Cup has always had its lopsided matches (Scotland’s 7-0 loss to Uruguay in 1954, Poland’s 7-0 thrashing of Haiti in 1974, Germany’s 8-0 clobbering of poor old–but really: let’s not pity the regressive buggers too much–Saudi, Hungary’s 10-1 beating of El Salvador in 1982 and of course Germany’s 7-1 semi-final win in Brazil in 2014). But those tended to be the exception. Now that the soccer federation’s bottomless greed has opened the tournament to 48 teams, lopsided results are routine, embarrassing, dull. They are also upending records. It was meaningful when a player scores five, six, seven goals at a World Cup. But that was back when the tournament had so many fewer matches or teams. It doesn’t mean much that Messi had a hat trick against Algeria the other day, a team that was last in the tournament in 2014. It’s not the worst team this year. There are so many others. But when you pit big leaguers against Double-A or Single-A, what would you expect? In the space of those few lines, the Spaniards have now gone up 4-0. They’re competing with Germany, who beat Curaçao 7-1. Swede beat Tunisia 5-1 only to fall to Holland by the same score. Canada took out Qatar 6-0. Maybe it’s the price to pay (an additional price to pay) for what has been on the whole a pretty thrilling couple of weeks, with more quality matches than not. Maybe a few lopsided matches are worth the surprises, like the Americans’ furious run to the next round, though there haven’t been too many upsets, unless you call Brazil’s 3-0 win over Haiti something of an upset: when Haiti can keep the mighty Brazilians to just three goals, instead of 10, it is a victory of a kind. But Brazil is not the Brazil we’ve known. This year’s Brazilians could well be the Americans. Anyway, I don;t mean to be that negative even about the lopsided games. You watch a Germany-Ivory Coast matchup, thrilling as it was the other day, and all is right with the world, or at least the World Cup, at least on the field and in the stands, away from the luxury boxes.
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June 2026
Flagler Beach United Methodist Church Food Pantry
Flagler County Drug Court Convenes
Model Yacht Club Races at the Pond in Palm Coast’s Town Center
The Circle of Light A Course in Miracles Study Group
Palm Coast Beautification and Environmental Advisory Committee
Flagler Tiger Bay Club Candidate Forum
Flagler Beach City Commission Meeting
Beats and Eats: Live Concert and Food Trucks at the Stage in Town Center
Free For All Fridays With Host David Ayres on WNZF
Scenic A1A Pride Meeting
Friday Blue Forum
Acoustic Jam Circle At The Community Center In The Hammock
For the full calendar, go here.
Meeting ‘FIFA standards’ cost money, but it also dashed the Brazilian dream of staging a truly Brazilian World Cup, complete with, say, the sensuously long, loose, low goal nets in which shots had nestled throughout the Maracanã’s history. João Philippe de Orleans e Bragança, a Brazilian investment manager (and direct descendant of Brazil’s last emperor), told me: ‘We had to build these European stadiums in place of the typical South American caldeirão (‘cauldron’), which is packed, warm and vibrant. It was not a Brazilian World Cup, but a FIFA World Cup in Brazil.’ Brazilians feared that the tournament would prove a case study of cultural colonialism: a northern organisa-tion imposing its rules on a southern country.
Nothing Brazilian seemed to meet the ‘Padrão FIFA’. Nobody with power over the tournament cared about the country’s tradi-tions or as FIFA saw it, it’s markers of backwardness. A single family – João Havelange and then his son-in-law Ricardo Teixeira had ruled Brazil’s dreadful football association, the CBF, for almost the entire period from 1958 to 2012.”
–From Simon Kuper’s World Cup Fever: A Soccer Journey in Nine Tournaments (2026).
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