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Free For All Fridays with Host David Ayres, an hour-long public affairs radio show featuring local newsmakers, personalities, public health updates and the occasional surprise guest, starts a little after 9 a.m. after FlaglerLive Editor Pierre Tristam’s Reality Check. See previous podcasts here. Today: Assistant County Administrator Holly Albanese and Commissioner Dave Sullivan talk about the new south branch library, breaking ground next week. On WNZF at 94.9 FM and 1550 AM
First Friday Garden Walks at Washington Oaks Gardens State Park, 6400 North Oceanshore Blvd., Palm Coast, 10 a.m. Join a Ranger the First Friday of every month for a garden walk. Learn about the history of Washington Oaks while exploring the formal gardens. The walk is approximately one hour. No registration required. Walk included with park entry fee. Participants meet in the Garden parking lot. The event is free with paid admission fee to the state park: $5 per vehicle. (Limit 2-8 people per vehicle) $4 per single-occupant vehicle. Call (386) 446-6783 for more information or by email: [email protected].
The Blue 24 Forum, a discussion group organized by local Democrats, meets at 12:15 p.m. at the Palm Coast Community Center, 305 Palm Coast Parkway NE. Come and add your voice to local, state and national political issues.
First Friday in Flagler Beach, the monthly festival of music, food and leisure, is scheduled for this evening at Downtown’s Veterans Park, 105 South 2nd Street, from 5 to 9 p.m. The event is overseen by the city’s Community Redevelopment Agency and run by Laverne M. Shank Jr. and Surf 97.3
Free Family Art Night: “Textured Turtles”, Ormond Memorial Art Museum and Gardens, 78 East Granada Boulevard, Ormond Beach. All art supplies are provided. No art experience is needed, and all ages are welcome. Free Family Art Night is a popular, monthly program typically scheduled on the first Friday of each month to coordinate with the free, family-friendly movie shown outdoors at Rockefeller Gardens. The two programs offer a stimulating evening for families, at no charge, in the heart of downtown Ormond Beach. Our art program takes place in the OMAM Classroom, rain or shine, but the City’s outdoor movies are weather dependent. Movie information can be found here or call The Casements at 386-676-3216.
| In Coming Days: Aug. 3: The annual Back to School Jam is scheduled for 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Flagler Palm Coast High School gym, 5500 State Rte 100 E, Palm Coast. Administrators from all of our schools will be on-site to answer questions. There will also be school shirts available for purchase at each school’s booth. District personnel will be on-hand to provide information on various programs and services, including after-school programs. Our Transportation department will be rolling up its booth to address bus schedules and our Food Services team will be available to answer questions about what you need to know about the free breakfast and lunch programs that are available to all students this coming school year. Additionally, dozens of local vendors will be on-hand with information about their youth-focused activities and programs. Be sure to get photos with various mascots and the always popular “Costumers With a Cause” roaming the gym. Food trucks and a bike rodeo will set up behind the gym. Aug. 5: Nexus Center/South Library Groundbreaking is scheduled for 1 p.m. on the acreage opposite the Sheriff’s Operations Center on Commerce Parkway in Bunnell. The “Nexus Center” will be a multi-purpose facility to house a new library and the county’s Health and Human Services Department. See: “Flagler County Library’s $14 Million South Branch ‘Nexus Center’ Breaks Ground in August, Ending 10-Year Wait.” Aug. 6: In Court: The resumption of a sentencing hearing is scheduled for 8:30 a.m. before Circuit Judge Terence Perkins in Courtroom 401 at the Flagler County Courthouse in the case of Brendan Depa, the former Matanzas High School special needs student accused of assaulting a paraprofessional, in an incident recorded on video. The first part of the sentencing hearing took place on May 1. Depa tendered an open plea in late October, leaving the judge wide discretion to sentence him either as an adult or as a youthful offender. See: “Despite Severe Autism, Judge Finds Depa, Ex-Matanzas High Student, Competent to Be Tried for Assault on Aide,” “Brendan Depa’s Mother Tells Her Son’s Story,” and “The Brendan Depa I Have Come To Know.” |
Notably: The Economist this week ran a graphic showing cost overruns, in percentages, between 1960 and 2024, of certain initiatives. Nuclear storage comes at just under 250 percent. The Olympics are second, at just under 200 percent, followed by Nuclear power, over 1000 percent, IT, dams, aerospace, buildings and defense, all at or above 50 percent. “But do cities benefit from holding the games?” The Economist asks. “The economics of hosting the Olympics are challenging. In 2016 a review of studies examining the economic impact of the games concluded that the short-term effects are “near-zero” and that the long-run ones are “elusive”. Ten of the 13 summer games until 2016 had resulted in losses, and all of them ran over budget.” Paris is expected to overshoot its budget by 115 percent. It cost $9 million to organize the Olympics 100 years ago in Paris, in 2022 dollars. This year: $9 billion. No wonder cities are more often rejecting hosting. But 3 billion people will still tune in. I write this with two screens on, from Paris.
—P.T.
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August 2024
Friday, Aug 02
Free For All Fridays With Host David Ayres on WNZF
Friday, Aug 02
First Friday Garden Walks at Washington Oaks Gardens State Park
Washington Oaks Gardens State Park
Friday, Aug 02
Blue 24 Forum
Palm Coast Community Center
Friday, Aug 02
First Friday in Flagler Beach
Friday, Aug 02
Free Family Art Night at Ormond Memorial Art Museum and Gardens
Ormond Memorial Art Museum & Gardens
Saturday, Aug 03
Coffee With Flagler Beach Commission Chair Scott Spradley
Law Office of Scott Spradley
Saturday, Aug 03
Flagler Beach Farmers Market
315 South 7th Street, Flagler Beach
Saturday, Aug 03
Flagler Beach All Stars Beach Clean-Up
Saturday, Aug 03
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Flagler School District Bus Depot
Saturday, Aug 03
Flagler’s Back to School Jam 2024
Flagler Palm Coast High School
Saturday, Aug 03
Sunshine and Sandals Social at Cornerstone
Saturday – Wednesday, Aug 03 – 07
Kiersten Hawkins Pop-Up
Ormond Memorial Art Museum & Gardens
Saturday, Aug 03
Random Acts of Insanity Standup Comedy
Cinematique of Daytona Beach
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Paris lifts the soul, and then exasperates. It expresses reason in its orderly layout and tugs at the heart. The City of Lights mixes magic with the mundane: it is a place of bridges in the moonlight and harshly lit rer underground stations; zinc rooftops and brutalist tower blocks; fine dining and fury on the streets. As the host of the Olympic games, which begin on July 26th, Paris is more than ever a showcase, set to dazzle and delight the world. But the French capital’s often-hidden complexity and paradoxes are also part of its richness.
–From an Economist review of a series of books on Paris, July 23, 2024.
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