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Weather: Mostly cloudy in the morning, then clearing. Highs in the upper 60s. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
Monday Night: Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming mostly cloudy. Much cooler with lows in the mid 40s. Northwest winds around 5 mph. See the daily weather briefing from the National Weather Service in Jacksonville here.
Today at a Glance:
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 likely in early 2023. To access meeting agendas, materials and minutes, go here.
The Flagler County Beekeepers Association holds its monthly meeting from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Flagler Agricultural Center, 150 Sawgrass Rd., Bunnell (the county fairgrounds). This is a meeting for beekeepers in Flagler and surrounding counties (and those interested in the trade). The meetings have a speaker, Q & A, and refreshments are served. It is a great way to gain support as a beekeeper or learn how to become one. All are welcome. Meetings take place the fourth Monday of every month. Contact Kris Daniels at 704-200-8075.
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.
Rotary’s Fantasy Lights Festival in Palm Coast’s Town Center: Nightly from 6 to 9 p.m. at Palm Coast’s Central Park, with 55 lighted displays you can enjoy with a leisurely stroll around the pond in the park. Admission to Fantasy Lights is free, but donations to support Rotary’s service work are gladly accepted. Holiday music will pipe through the speaker system throughout the park, Santa’s Village, which has several elf houses for the kids to explore, will be open, with Santa’s Merry Train Ride nightly (weather permitting), and Santa will be there every Sunday night until Christmas, plus snow on weekends! On certain nights, live musical performances will be held on the stage.
In Coming Days:

Dec. 23: Culmination of toy drive for Toys for Tots at AW Custom Kitchens, European Village, starting at 11 a.m. A drawing for all eligible participants will take place at 2 p.m. Anyone who will have donated toys for the drive will have a chance to win various items, including a 65-inch 4K Smart TV, an Apple iPad, a pair of Apple Air Pods, and gift cards from the co-sponsors of the event. Fifty such cards have been donated. With proof of a voucher, donors also will receive a free hot dog, a free drink, a free popcorn, a free cotton candy, and a free snow cone. There will be a variety of fun things to do such as a bouncy house for children in thanks to the community for its generosity. See details here.
Notably: George Brinton McClellan Harvey, Wikipedia tells us, “was an American diplomat, journalist, author, street railway magnate, and editor of several magazines. He used his great wealth in politics. He was an early promoter of Woodrow Wilson, but they became bitter enemies. Harvey was a conservative who wanted Washington to protect big business from what he saw as unjust privilege by labor unions. He repudiated Wilson when he saw Wilson oppose political machines and threaten big business in the style of progressive era reformers.” Warren Harding appointed him ambassador to Great Britain. On this day in 1922, Harvey was the featured guest at a dinner marking the inauguration of a group called the Forum Club in London. He said in his speech–as reported on the front page of the New York Times the next day–that “An old adage was that an ambassador was sent abroad to lie for his country. He had done that, he said.” He also said that the world was sick and tired of war, and that there would not be any more war for a while: “You cannot create any great war in this world for years to come, because the people will not have it. They will not kill each other. That is very encouraging.” He hadn’t been kidding about lying.
—P.T.
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November 2023

Saturday, Nov 25 – Saturday, Dec 30
Rotary’s Fantasy Lights Festival in Palm Coast’s Town Center
Central Park in Town Center

Sunday, Nov 26 – Sunday, Dec 31
Rotary’s Fantasy Lights Festival in Palm Coast’s Town Center
Central Park in Town Center

Monday, Nov 27
Nar-Anon Family Group
St. Mark by the Sea Lutheran Church
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Monday, Nov 27
Flagler County Beekeepers Association Meeting
Flagler Agricultural Center

Monday, Nov 27 – Monday, Jan 01
Rotary’s Fantasy Lights Festival in Palm Coast’s Town Center
Central Park in Town Center

Monday, Nov 27
Bunnell City Commission Meeting

Tuesday, Nov 28
Palm Coast City Council Workshop

Tuesday, Nov 28
Flagler County School Board Information Workshop
Government Services Building

Tuesday, Nov 28
NAACP Flagler Branch General Membership Meeting
African American Cultural Society

Tuesday, Nov 28
Flagler County School Board Meeting
Government Services Building

Tuesday, Nov 28 – Tuesday, Jan 02
Rotary’s Fantasy Lights Festival in Palm Coast’s Town Center
Central Park in Town Center

Tuesday, Nov 28
Random Acts of Insanity Standup Comedy
Cinematique of Daytona Beach
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That experience, of foreign travel, is very important to me, for the very reason that Israel continually claims that it is a part of Western culture. You should understand: the Israelis are not satisfied with having conquered us. They want to turn us into a colony of theirs, in every sense of the word, culturally as well. That means that they don’t want only to confiscate land, but also to impose themselves on the soul and thoughts of the conquered. It is very important for Israelis–in a sometimes touching way–to impress us. To convince us how much Israel is superior to us. And by the way, there is a huge difference between the propaganda that Israel directs toward the West Bank, where it wants to appear omnipotent, and the propaganda it directs toward the West, in whose eyes it wants to appear as a victim, surrounded by powerful enemies.
—Raja Shehadeh quoted in David Grossman’s The Yellow Wind (1988).
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