The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Sunday, August 25, 2024

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Weather: Partly sunny. A chance of showers with a slight chance of thunderstorms in the morning, then showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 80 percent. Sunday Night: Mostly cloudy with showers and thunderstorms in the evening, then partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers after midnight. Lows in the mid 70s. East winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 80 percent.

• Daily weather briefing from the National Weather Service in Jacksonville here.
• Drought conditions here. (What is the Keetch-Byram drought index?).
• Check today’s tides in Daytona Beach (a few minutes off from Flagler Beach) here.
• tropical cyclone activity here, and even more details here.

Today at a Glance:

Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village: The city’s only farmers’ market is open every Sunday from noon to 4 p.m. at European Village, 101 Palm Harbor Pkwy, Palm Coast. With fruit, veggies, other goodies and live music. For Vendor Information email [email protected]

Grace Community Food Pantry, 245 Education Way, Bunnell, drive-thru open today from noon to 3 p.m. The food pantry is organized by Pastor Charles Silano and Grace Community Food Pantry, a Disaster Relief Agency in Flagler County. Feeding Northeast Florida helps local children and families, seniors and active and retired military members who struggle to put food on the table. Working with local grocery stores, manufacturers, and farms we rescue high-quality food that would normally be wasted and transform it into meals for those in need. The Flagler County School District provides space for much of the food pantry storage and operations. Call 386-586-2653 to help, volunteer or donate.

Al-Anon Family Groups: Help and hope for families and friends of alcoholics. Meetings are every Sunday at Silver Dollar II Club, Suite 707, 2729 E Moody Blvd., Bunnell, and on zoom. More local meetings available and online too. Call 904-315-0233 or see the list of Flagler, Volusia, Putnam and St. Johns County meetings here.

Notably: A sight from inside The Anchor in Flagler Beach the other evening, as the beach renourishment barge (one of two) swung by, feeding sand onto the beach near the pier. The project was nearing its end. It’s been as if an undersea volcano poured this million square yards of sand on the latest first day of creation. Worth the martini and mussels, god’s apéritif after his/her/their third day.

—P.T.

Now this: Continuing the Luka collection:

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The pint bottle in my hip pocket must have showed, the way I was standing, for someone touched my shoulder and said,
“Pal, can you spare a drink outa that there bottle?” I turned around and looked at him, wondering if I should give him one and then take him into the tavern to give Charlie a gander at him. Bringing in my own prospect would be better, in a way, than picking someone up inside. But I decided against it. He was a bum and a wino all right, but a young one, and fairly husky, a hillbilly kid; a lot of them turn wino when they hit a city. He was red-eyed and had the shakes- a hopeless alcoholic who’d probably be better off dead- but why should we take the chance of picking someone who might fight back and give us trouble when there were so many complete wrecks to pick from, old geezers who couldn’t blow the foam off a beer? I told him to get lost and he got lost. At least, I guess he did; I never saw him again and he never knew what he missed.

—From Fredric Brow’s The Murderers (1961).

 

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