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Today at a Glance:
The Flagler County Commission meets at 9 a.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. Meetings stream live on the Flagler County YouTube page.
The Flagler County Canvassing Board meets today at the Flagler County Supervisor of Elections office, Government Services Building, 1769 East Moody Boulevard, Bunnell. The meeting is open to the public. Check the time in the sidebar or in this chart, which includes the full year’s meeting schedule (the pdf schedule does not include the dates and times of required Canvassing Board meetings which may be necessary due to a recount called locally or statewide.) The board is chaired by County Judge Andrea Totten. This Election Year’s board members are Supervisor of Elections Kaiti Lenhart and County Commissioner Dave Sullivan. The alternates are County Judge Melissa Distler and County Commissioner Donald O’Brien. March-April meetings are for the presidential preference primary, such as it is. See all legal notices from the Supervisor of Elections, including updated lists of those ineligible to vote, here.
This event has been postponed due to weather. 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.”
The Flagler County Commission meets in workshop at 2 p.m. at the Government Services Building, 1769 East Moody Boulevard, Bunnell. The commission will discuss the county’s capital budget at the workshop.
The Beverly Beach Town Commission meets at 6 p.m. at the meeting hall building behind the Town Hall, 2735 North Oceanshore Boulevard (State Road A1A) in Beverly Beach. See meeting announcements 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: 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.” Aug. 7: Candidate Night at Flagler Woman’s Club: The Flagler Woman’s Club invites you to Candidates’ Night at 7 p.m. at the clubhouse at 1524 South Central Ave, Flagler Beach. Meet the Candidates for the following local races: Flagler County Commission Districts 1,3 & 5; Flagler County School Board Districts 3 & 5; Palm Coast Mayor and Palm Coast City Council Districts 1 & 3. Each candidate will be given time for an initial presentation, followed by a question-and-answer period, and then closing statements. Afterwards there will be an opportunity to talk one on one with the candidates. Please be aware of and respect the club’s no campaign paraphernalia in the clubhouse rule. For more information call Joann Soman at 305-778-2885. There will be overflow parking at the Flagler Beach United Methodist Church at 1520 S Daytona Avenue. |
Notably: How about this delightful description of a small bout of writer’s block, from Malamud’s The Tenants: “Lesser had given up writing and gone to read in the toilet. After the noise had departed he once more urged forth the pen, but it no longer flowed though he filled it twice. He willed but could not effect. The locomotive, coated with ice, stood like a petrified mastodon on the steel-frozen tracks. The steamboat had sprung a leak and slowly sank until clamped on all sides by the Mississippi thickened into green ice full of dead catfish staring in various directions.” Writing as a locomotive (a metaphor Zola would have appreciated), as a steamboat on the Mississippi (ditto Twain). Imagine the pleasure, the miracle, of coming up with these images, the way Aaron Copland wrote “Rodeo” (or was it “Appalachian Spring”?) in his Brooklyn flat without having ever seen either the West or West Virginia. The mystery of creation: it’s what we mean when we say god works in mysterious ways, if god is our strange recombination of trillions of atoms and synapses somehow making beauty of dark matter. It is enough to read a line line Malamud’s here and there to fuel up against the dak matter of everyday life in these extremist times.
—P.T.
Now this:
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August 2024
Saturday – Wednesday, Aug 03 – 07
Kiersten Hawkins Pop-Up
Ormond Memorial Art Museum & Gardens
Monday, Aug 05
Flagler County Commission Morning Meeting
Government Services Building
Monday, Aug 05
Flagler County Canvassing Board Meeting
Flagler County Supervisor of Elections Office
Monday, Aug 05
Nexus Center/South Library Groundbreaking:
Monday, Aug 05
County Commission Budget Workshop
Government Services Building
Monday, Aug 05
Nar-Anon Family Group
St. Mark by the Sea Lutheran Church
Monday, Aug 05
Beverly Beach Town Commission meeting
Tuesday, Aug 06
Brendan Depa Sentencing
Flagler County courthouse
Tuesday, Aug 06
Flagler Beach Library Writers’ Club
315 South 7th Street, Flagler Beach
Tuesday, Aug 06
Flagler Beach Planning and Architectural Review Board
Tuesday, Aug 06
Palm Coast City Council Meeting
Tuesday, Aug 06
Bunnell Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board
Government Services Building
Tuesday, Aug 06
Random Acts of Insanity Standup Comedy
Cinematique of Daytona Beach
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Lesser had held out, thirty-six, unmarried yet, a professional writer. The idea is to stay a writer. At twenty-four and twenty-seven I published my first and second novels, the first good, the next bad, the good a critical success that couldn’t outsell its small advance, the bad by good fortune bought by the movies and kept me modestly at work enough to live on. Not very much is enough if you’ve got your mind on finishing a book. My deepest desire is to make my third my best. I want to be thought of as a going concern, not a freak who had published a good first novel and shot his wad. He fished an envelope out of the slot of his mailbox with both pinkies. If he didn’t some curious passer-by would. Lesser knew the handwriting, therefore source and contents: Irving Levenspiel, BBA, CCNY, class of 41, an unfortunate man in form and substance. One supplicatory sentence on thin paper: “Lesser, take a minute to consider reality and so please have mercy.” With a nervous laugh the writer tore up the let-ter. Those he kept were from the rare women who appeared in his life, spring flowers gone in summer; and those from his literary agent, a gray haired gent who almost never wrote any more. What was there to write about? Nine and a half years on one book is long enough to be forgotten. Once in a while a quasi-humorous inquiry, beginning: “Are you there?”, the last three years ago. I don’t know where’s there but here I am writing.
–From Bernard Malamud’s The Tenants (.
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