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Weather: Sunny. Much cooler with highs in the lower 50s. North winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph. Tuesday Night: Mostly clear. Patchy frost. Lows in the mid 30s. North 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 will open tonight: 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 6 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.
The Palm Coast City Council meets at 6 p.m. at City Hall. For agendas, minutes, and audio access to the meetings, go here. For meeting agendas, audio and video, go here.
The Bunnell Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board meets at 6 p.m. at the Government Services Building, 1769 East Moody Boulevard, Bunnell. The board consists of Carl Lilavois, Chair; Manuel Madaleno, Nealon Joseph, Gary Masten and Lyn Lafferty.
Flagler Beach’s Planning and Architectural Review Board meets at 5:30 p.m. at City Hall, 105 S 2nd Street. For agendas and minutes, go here.
The Flagler Beach Library Writers’ Club meets at 5 p.m. at the library, 315 South Seventh Street, Flagler Beach.
Notably: Sydney Shlenker? I saw this name I’d never seen before in an essay on Elvis, in a reference to the Memphis Pyramid–not one in Egypt, but in Memphis, Tennessee. He owned sports teams and was a sort of event promoter, then he moved to Memphis and built a pyramid there until he went bankrupt. The pyramid is still there, its own arena, though it’s had a checkered history. It seems to be used as a sports shop these days, a fitting fate for a useless structure with too grim a history to celebrate: too many slaves perished building these things, if maybe not in Tennessee, at least not the Tennessee of 1990. The “Egyptian tomb was a kind of life insurance, an investment in peace of mind,” H.W. Janson writes in his tomb-like History of Art (in art history, give me Gombrich over Janson any day). Peace of mind for whom? Six mummies and a half, while six million poor souls baked outside. These Egyptian pyramids are the perfect monument to the disconnect between rationalism and superstition, the sort of rationalism that allowed the Egyptians to build mathematically perfect pyramids yet didn’t keep them from holding the most idiotic superstitions, so I suppose pyramids have their place in the heart of Dixie. In Memphis, Graceland is still a worthier place. And would I say the same thing about I.M. Pei’s sumptuous little pyramid at the Louvre? That’s what you’re seeing above this paragraph, and at my Luka’s touch below it.
—P.T.
Now this:
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January 2025
Tuesday, Jan 07
Flagler Beach Library Writers’ Club
315 South 7th Street, Flagler Beach
Tuesday, Jan 07
Flagler Beach Planning and Architectural Review Board
Tuesday, Jan 07
Palm Coast City Council Meeting
Tuesday, Jan 07
Bunnell Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board
Government Services Building
Tuesday, Jan 07
Random Acts of Insanity Standup Comedy
Cinematique of Daytona Beach
Wednesday, Jan 08
Michael Jennelle Docket Sounding
Flagler County courthouse
Wednesday, Jan 08
River to Sea Transportation Planning Organization (TPO) Bicycle/Pedestrian Advisory Committee Meeting
Airline Room, Daytona Beach International Airport
Wednesday, Jan 08
Separation Chat: Open Discussion
Wednesday, Jan 08
The Circle of Light A Course in Miracles Study Group
Wednesday, Jan 08
Weekly Chess Club for Teens, Ages 9-18, at the Flagler County Public Library
Flagler County Public Library
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“Day by day brought a renewal of their toils. Hour by hour, they moved prosperously up the long windings of the solitary stream; then, in quick succession, rapid followed rapid, till the bed of the Ottawa seemed a slope of foam. Now, like a wall bristling at the top with woody islets, the Falls of the Chats faced them with the sheer plunge of their sixteen cataracts; now they glided beneath overhanging cliffs, where, seeing but unseen, the crouched wildcat eyed them from the thicket; now through the maze of water-girded rocks, which the white cedar and the spruce clasped with serpent-like roots, or among islands where old hemlocks darkened the water with deep green shadow. Here, too, the rock-maple reared its verdant masses, the beech its glistening leaves and clean, smooth stem, and behind, stiff and sombre, rose the balsam-fir. Here in the tortuous channels the muskrat swam and plunged, and the splashing wild duck dived beneath the alders or among the red and matted roots of thirsty water willows. Aloft, the white-pine towered above a sea of verdure; old fir-trees, hoary and grim, shaggy with pendent mosses, leaned above the stream, and beneath, dead and submerged, some fallen oak thrust from the current its bare, bleached limbs, like the skeleton of a drowned giant. In the weedy cove stood the moose, neck-deep in water to escape the flies, wading shoreward, with glistening sides, as the canoes drew near, shaking his broad antlers and writhing his hideous nostril, as with clumsy trot he vanished in the woods. In these ancient wilds, to whose ever verdant antiquity the pyramids are young and Nineveh a mushroom of yesterday; where the sage wanderer of the Odyssey, could he have urged his pilgrimage so far, would have surveyed the same grand and stern monotony, the same dark sweep of melancholy woods;–here, while New England was a solitude, and the settlers of Virginia scarcely dared venture inland beyond the sound of a cannon-shot, Champlain was planting on shores and islands the emblems of his faith. Of the pioneers of the North American forests, his name stands foremost on the list. It was he who struck the deepest and boldest strokes into the heart of their pristine barbarism. At Chantilly, at Fontainebleau, Paris, in the cabinets of princes and of royalty itself, mingling with the proud vanities of the court; then lost from sight in the depths of Canada, the companion of savages, sharer of their toils, privations, and battles, more hardy, patient, and bold than they;–such, for successive years, were the alternations of this man’s life.”
—From Francis Parkman’s France & England in North America (1865).
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