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Weather: Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly sunny. A chance of showers. A slight chance of thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 70s. West winds around 10 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent. Monday Night: Partly cloudy with a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the evening, then mostly clear after midnight. Much cooler with lows in the mid 40s. Chance of rain 40 percent. See the daily weather briefing from the National Weather Service in Jacksonville here.
Today at a Glance:
The Flagler County Commission meets at 5 p.m. at the Government Services Building, 1769 E. Moody Boulevard, Building 2, Bunnell. Access meeting agendas and materials here. The five county commissioners and their email addresses are listed here.
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.
| In Coming Days: March 16: Food Truck Palooza, Kick-off for the annual Food-A-Thon, is from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Flagler Palm Coast High School, 5500 State Road 100, Palm Coast, with over 40 food trucks, kids free fun zone, prizes, and live entertainment that includes Southern Chaos and Robert Keele. $5 parking will benefit Grace Community Food Pantry. March 23 and 24: The 2024 Flagler Wellness Expo by the Intuitive Living Institute, a for-profit company in the Hammock, is held at Flagler Palm Coast High School from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. $5 per person. Intuitive provides alternative and holistic health services through what it calls “master energy healers.” The expo will feature numerous local businesses that specialize in fitness, nutrition, acupuncture, crustal and energy healing, yoga and other alternative health fields. March 23: F*uck Expiration Jen Beaman Ride Strong Route 66 Celebration: 7 p.m. at Crossroads Tavern, Bunnell. Jen Beaman’s expiration date for cancer was October 2023. She wants everyone to celebrate that she is not only still here, but she’s going to test her fate and leave us for her adventure riding route 66. Come join us in her celebration and send her off on her motorcycle with lots of love. Please bring you favorite appetizer.
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April 3: Flagler Cares hosts its quarterly Help Night from 3 to 7 p.m. at the Flagler County Village Community Room, 160 Cypress Point Parkway, Suite B304, Palm Coast. Help Night is organized and hosted by Flagler Cares and other community partners as a one-stop help event. Representatives from Flagler County Human Services, Early Learning Coalition, EasterSeals, Family Life Center, Florida Legal Services, Lions Club, and many other organizations will be available to provide information and resources. The event is open to the public, free to attend, and will offer assistance with obtaining various services including autism screenings, tablets (low-income qualification), fair housing legal consultations, Marketplace Navigation, childcare services, SNAP and Medicaid application assistance, behavioral health services, and much more. Flagler Cares is a non-profit agency focused on creating a vital, expansive social safety net that addresses virtually all the health and social needs of our community. Flagler Cares works with clients to identify needs and create solutions that address those unique needs. Flagler Cares is proud to have a wide range of community partners who are committed to providing high quality services to those who need them most. Flagler Cares is also passionate about filling gaps and bringing needed services into the county where they did not previously exist. Notably: From the recesses of lesser known works that move you and enchant you, there’s always the odd piece by Charles-Valentin Alkan, a virtuoso pianist and composer, “once joined with those of Chopin, Liszt, Schumann and Brahms, as one of the greatest composers for the piano in the age that followed the death of Beethoven,” writes Keith Anderson in the liner notes to a 1990 recording for the Marco Polo/Naxos label. “At the same time he won praise as one of the most remarkable pianists of his time. Nevertheless much of his life was spent in eccentric obscurity, withdrawn from society.” He’s still in too much obscurity but those labels have been doing him honor. He actually first appeared on stage as a violinist in 1821 before he became a celebrated pianist–when he chose to perform. He would often withdraw from the stage, and tough his music at times makes you feel as if he is trying to bury his emotions in virtuosity (and how many of us don’t bluster our way through life for fear that our inner emptiness show?) he could at times sound as moving and heartbreaking as Schubert, making you pause and think: well, yes. There is, not just that, but still and more. He does that in his “La vision,” from his Esquisses, in the videos below, a couple of versions because I could not fine d alive concert version, but the live home video and the recorded Marco Polo versions will do. Bob, this one’s for you.
—P.T.
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March 2024
Monday, Mar 18
County Commission Workshop on Hurricane Recovery Grant Program
Government Services Building
Monday, Mar 18
Flagler County Commission Evening Meeting
Government Services Building
Monday, Mar 18
Nar-Anon Family Group
St. Mark by the Sea Lutheran Church
Tuesday, Mar 19
Palm Coast City Council Meeting
Tuesday, Mar 19
Flagler County Canvassing Board Meeting
Flagler County Supervisor of Elections Office
Tuesday, Mar 19
Food Truck Tuesday
Central Park in Town Center
Tuesday, Mar 19
Flagler Beach Library Writers’ Club
315 South 7th Street, Flagler Beach
Tuesday, Mar 19
Flagler County Canvassing Board Meeting
Flagler County Supervisor of Elections Office
Tuesday, Mar 19
Flagler County Canvassing Board Meeting
Flagler County Supervisor of Elections Office
Tuesday, Mar 19
Random Acts of Insanity Standup Comedy
Cinematique of Daytona Beach
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… he resents being made to realize, this late, that the songs of his life were as moronic as the rock the brainless kids now feed on, or the Sixties and Seventies stuff that Nelson gobbled up—all of it designed for empty heads and overheated hormones, an ocean white with foam, and listening to it now is like trying to eat a double banana split the way he used to. It’s all disposable, cooked up to turn a quick profit. They lead us down the garden path, the music manufacturers, then turn around and lead the next generation down with a slightly different flavor of glop.
–From John Updike’s Rabbit at Rest (1990).
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