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Weather: Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s. West winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. Friday Night: Clear. Lows in the lower 40s. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
- 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:
The Cold-Weather Shelter known as the Sheltering Tree, opens:The shelter opens at Church on the Rock at 2200 North State Street in Bunnell as the overnight temperature is expected to fall to 40 or below. It will open from 5 p.m. to 8 a.m. The shelter is open to the homeless and to the nearly-homeless: anyone who is struggling to pay a utility bill or lacks heat or shelter and needs a safe, secure place for the night. The shelter will serve dinner and breakfast. Call 386-437-3258, extension 105 for more information. Flagler County Transportation offers free bus rides from pick up points in the county, starting at 3 p.m., at the following locations and times:
- Dollar General at Publix Town Center, 3:30 p.m.
- Near the McDonald’s at Old Kings Road South and State Road 100, 4 p.m.
- Dollar Tree by Carrabba’s and Walmart, 4:30 p.m.
- Palm Coast Main Branch Library, 4:45 p.m.
Also: - Dollar General at County Road 305 and Canal Avenue in Daytona North, 4 p.m.
- Bunnell Free Clinic, 4:30 p.m.
- First United Methodist Church in Bunnell, 4:30 p.m.
The shelter is run by volunteers of the Sheltering Tree, a non-profit under the umbrella of the Flagler County Family Assistance Center, is a non-denominational civic organization. The Sheltering Tree is in need of donations. See the most needed items here, and to contribute cash, donate here or go to the Donate button at this page.
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. Today’s guests: former School Board member Cheryl Massaro and former County Commissioner Dave Sullivan. See previous podcasts here. On WNZF at 94.9 FM and 1550 AM.
The Scenic A1A Pride Committee meets at 9 a.m. at the Hammock Community Center, 79 Mala Compra Road, Palm Coast. The meetings are open to the public.
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.
Acoustic Jam Circle At The Community Center In The Hammock, 2 to 5 p.m., Picnic Shelter behind the Hammock Community Center at 79 Mala Compra Road, Palm Coast. It’s a free event. Bring your Acoustic stringed Instrument (no amplifiers), and a folding chair and join other local amateur musicians for a jam session. Audiences and singers are also welcome. A “Jam Circle” format is where musicians sit around the circle. Each musician in turn gets to call out a song and musical key, and then lead the rest in singing/playing. Then it’s on to the next person in the circle. Depending upon the song, the musicians may take turns playing/improvising a verse and a chorus. It’s lots of Fun! Folks who just want to watch or sing generally sit on the periphery or next to their musician partner. This is a monthly event on the 4th Friday of every month.
 Keep Their Lights On Over the Holidays: Flagler Cares, the social service non-profit celebrating its 10th anniversary, is marking the occasion with a fund-raiser to “Keep the Holiday Lights On” by encouraging people to sponsor one or more struggling household’s electric bill for a month over the Christmas season. Each sponsorship amounts to $100 donation, with every cent going toward payment of a local power bill. See the donation page here. Every time another household is sponsored, a light goes on on top of a house at Flagler Cares’ fundraising page. The goal of the fun-raiser, which Flagler Cares would happily exceed, is to support at least 100 families (10 households for each of the 10 years that Flagler Cares has been in existence). Flagler Cares will start taking applications for the utility fund later this month. Because of its existing programs, the organization already has procedures in place to vet people for this type of assistance, ensuring that only the needy qualify. |
Notably: Today, as I’m sure is being remarked in a million places and has been noted here on previous occasion, is the anniversary of the JFK assassination in Dallas in 1963, supposedly by Oswald’s 6.5mm Carcano rifle with telescope sight, in those “seven seconds that broke the back of the American century,” in DeLillo’s phrase, moments after JFK had told Jackie, in DeLillo’s imagining “We’re heading into nut country now.” (What is it about Dallas? It was in a pawnshop there that John Hinkley bought the .22 he used to try to kill Ronald Reagan in 1981, for $29.) Today as I’m sure is not being remarked in most places, least of all on these indifferent shores (indifferent about the bombs, the massacres, the war crimes, that is; I would not blame Americans to be indifferent about every tom-dick-and-harried country’s independence day), is also the supposed Independence Day of my old Lebanon, an independence from France, in 1943, once celebrated, and now ridiculed. The Lebanese can;t even be independent from themselves, as Hezbollah reminds the survivors every day. But it’s worth a memory or two, and a few cedars have managed to survive the bombings, though I’m not sure they’ll survive global warming even on their slopes 8,000 feet up in Lebanon’s mountains.
—P.T.
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November 2024
Friday, Nov 22
Free For All Fridays With Host David Ayres on WNZF
Friday, Nov 22
Scenic A1A Pride Meeting
Friday, Nov 22
Blue 24 Forum
Palm Coast Community Center
Friday, Nov 22
Acoustic Jam Circle At The Community Center In The Hammock
Friday, Nov 22
Flagler County’s Cold-Weather Shelter Opens
Saturday, Nov 23
Flagler Beach Farmers Market
315 South 7th Street, Flagler Beach
Saturday, Nov 23
Coffee With Flagler Beach Commission Chair Scott Spradley
Law Office of Scott Spradley
Saturday, Nov 23
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Flagler School District Bus Depot
Saturday, Nov 23
It’s Back! Gamble Jam at Gamble Rogers Memorial State Recreation Area
Gamble Rogers Memorial State Recreation Area at Flagler Beach
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… the body of the people has more to fear from oppression than from resistance. The consciousness of that melancholy truth, inspires a degree of persevering fury, seldom to be found in those civil wars which are artificially supported for the benefit of a few factious and designing leaders.
–From Edward Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, vol. 1 (1776).
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