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The Palm Coast City Council meets in workshop at 9 a.m. at City Hall. For agendas, minutes, and audio access to the meetings, go here. For meeting agendas, audio and video, go here.
Book Dragons, the Kids’ Book Club at the Flagler Beach Public Library meets at 5 p.m. at the library, 315 South Seventh Street, Flagler Beach.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers hosts a public meeting on the 3.2-mile beach renourishment project about to start in Flagler Beach, at 6 p.m. at Santa Maria del Mar Church, 915 N. Central Avenue, Flagler Beach. The session is designed to inform the public and answer questions about the extent of the project, its impact on residents, its duration, its noise, and other issues of concern. City of Flagler Beach and Florida Department of Transportation officials will also provide updates about the Flagler Beach Fishing Pier rehabilitation project, and related secant wall construction and repaving of State Road A1A.
The NAACP Flagler Branch’s General Membership Meeting is scheduled for 6 p.m. at the African American Cultural Society, 4422 North U.S. Highway 1, Palm Coast (just north of Whiteview Parkway). The meeting is open to the public, including non-members. To become a member, go here.
Random Acts of Insanity Standup Comedy, 8 p.m. at Cinematique Theater, 242 South Beach Street, Daytona Beach. General admission is $8.50. Every Tuesday and on the first Saturday of every month the Random Acts of Insanity Comedy Improv Troupe specializes in performing fast-paced improvised comedy.
| In Coming Days: June 25: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers hosts a public meeting on the 3.2-mile beach renourishment project about to start in Flagler Beach, at 6 p.m. at Santa Maria del Mar Church, 915 N. Central Avenue, Flagler Beach. The session is designed to inform the public and answer questions about the extent of the project, its impact on residents, its duration, its noise, and other issues of concern. City of Flagler Beach and Florida Department of Transportation officials will also provide updates about the Flagler Beach Fishing Pier rehabilitation project, and related secant wall construction and repaving of State Road A1A. June 27: Flagler Tiger Bay Club Candidate Meet and Greet: 5 to 8 p.m. at the Palm Coast Community Center, 305 Palm Coast Parkway. As part of Flagler Tiger Bay Club voter education program, we are hosting a candidate meet and greet. This is your opportunity to meet, talk with, get information, and form informed opinions about the people who want to govern our local communities. A s it stands today, approximately 70 percent or more of local positions up for 2024 local election could be filled at or before the August Primary Election. Make this a must attend event on your calendar. A Flagler Tiger Bay Club Straw poll candidate vote and results will be conducted by Flagler County Supervisor of Elections. There’ll also be voter registration and food available for purchase. Flagler Tiger Bay Club is a nonpartisan political club. We do not support or endorse candidates nor do we advocate or take sides on issues. |
Notably: Yes, tipping is out of control. From Statista: “As if inflation wasn’t putting enough pressure on Americans and their credit cards already, there’s another crisis straining personal finances: tipflation. A significant number of Americans believe that tipping culture has gotten out of control, as they are not only asked for higher tips but also in situations that didn’t require tipping a couple of years ago. This phenomenon, also known as “tip creep”, is supported by a recent Pew Research Center survey of nearly 12,000 U.S. adults. Pew found that 72 percent of Americans feel that tipping is now expected in more places compared to five years ago and that 29 percent of respondents think of tipping as an obligation rather than a choice. There’s also a growing sense of frustration with digital payment systems suggesting high tip percentages during the payment process, making a generous tip feel like the standard option that customers are forced to consciously (and seemingly stingily) opt out of. Other surveys have shown that many people feel overwhelmed and confused by the increased expectations to tip in a wider range of situations, leaving them uncertain of when to tip and when not to. Pew Research found that 26 percent of respondents found it hard to figure out whether to tip for different kinds of services these days. Interestingly, this percentage climbs to 35 and 40 percent for respondents with a bachelor’s or postgraduate degree, suggesting that people perhaps tend to “overthink” tipping.”
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June 2024
Tuesday, Jun 25
Palm Coast City Council Workshop
Tuesday, Jun 25
Book Dragons, the Kids’ Book Club, at Flagler Beach Public Library
315 South 7th Street, Flagler Beach
Tuesday, Jun 25
NAACP Flagler Branch General Membership Meeting
African American Cultural Society
Tuesday, Jun 25
U.S. Army Corps Hosts Public Meeting on Beach Renourishment Project
Santa Maria Del Mar Church Hall
Tuesday, Jun 25
Random Acts of Insanity Standup Comedy
Cinematique of Daytona Beach
Wednesday, Jun 26
Separation Chat: Open Discussion
Wednesday, Jun 26
The Circle of Light A Course in Miracles Study Group
Wednesday, Jun 26
Flagler County Public Library Book Club
Wednesday, Jun 26
Weekly Chess Club for Teens, Ages 9-18, at the Flagler County Public Library
Flagler County Public Library
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No more arresting emblems of the modern culture of nationalism exist than cenotaphs and tombs of Unknown Soldiers. The public ceremonial reverence accorded these monuments precisely because they are either deliberately empty or no one knows who lies inside them, has no true precedents in earlier times. To feel the force of this modernity one has only to imagine the general reaction to the busy-body who ‘discovered’ the Unknown Soldier’s name or insisted on filling the cenotaph with some real bones. Sacrilege of a strange, contemporary kind! Yet void as these tombs are of identifiable mortal remains or immortal souls, they are nonetheless saturated with ghostly national imaginings. (This is why so many different nations have such tombs without feeling any need to specify the nationality of their absent occupants. What else could they be but Germans, Americans, Argentinians . . .?)
–From Benedict Anderson’s Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (1983)
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