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OUR TOWN

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+ Red Knights donate $1,500 to burn center The Red Knights donated $1,500 to the Shands Burn Center May 25. The donation was the proceeds from the group’s poker run.

+ FPC TV crews win Telly Award Students in Carl Brazell’s TV production program at Flagler Palm Coast High School recently received the official notification that their submission to the 35th-annual Telly Awards was selected to receive a Telly. The award is honoring Flagler Palm Coast High School’s promo under the category “TV Programs, Segments, or Promotional Pieces – Education.” The Telly Awards were founded in 1978 to honor excellence in local, regional and cable TV commercials. Non-broadcast video and TV program categories were soon added.

+ VFW collects wheelchairs The Palm Coast VFW, 47 Old Kings Road, is collecting medical devices which are then loaned to anyone in the community who needs them. Currently there is a need for wheelchairs. To donate a wheelchair, walker, cane, or other item no longer needed, call Bob Davis at 315-0131 or the VFW at 446-8696.

THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 2014

SPORTS

NEIGHBORHOOD

Bike like you mean it: Can you take the 6 Legged Monster? PAGE 13

Introducing Miss Flagler County: Windsor Mills! PAGE 17

metro palm coast By Joey LoMonaco | Staff Writer

Data: Output to reach $1.5 billion by 2020

Palm Coast generates $1.1 billion now, the least of all US metros. When Palm Coast’s population spike was documented by the 2010 census, the city gained a lofty distinction — it became an official U.S. metro area. But with that moniker comes some “percentage anomalies,” as Flagler County Communications Manager Carl Laundrie calls them. Palm Coast ranked

last among the 363 metro areas in terms of Gross Metro Product, or the market value in dollars of the goods and services produced by a city in a given year, according to data released by the U.S. Conference of Mayors. The city is growing, though, and on another list, this one

measuring expected seven-year economic growth among the same cities — and Palm Coast cracked the Top 10, at No. 9. The study predicts Palm Coast will see its GMP increase from $1.1 billion to $1.5 billion from now until 2020. That’s an annual in-

SEE METRO / PAGE 5

at peace By Joey LoMonaco | Staff Writer

Family, friends celebrate legacy of Dr. Rick Doolin I’ve changed my perspective of God/Jesus over the years. First, He was vengeful. One cuss word, and I’m going to hell. Rick Doolin wrote those words during the final few weeks of his life. Confined to hospice care in his P-section home, Doolin, a popular professor of sciences at Daytona State College, drafted his own eulogy on Rick Doolin the backlit screen of a smartphone. He died early Sunday morning of pericardial mesothelioma, a rare form of cancer. He was 43. Hundreds of friends, family and former students gathered Tuesday night at Palm Coast Community Church for a superhero-themed life celebration. The service sprinkled in clips from the 2009 “Star Trek” movie, one of Doolin’s favorite franchises. Will Wight, son of pastor Billy Wight, fondly remembers catching the flick with Doolin at a Jacksonville IMAX theater on opening night. When it came to the scene where Spock asks his dad why he married a human, receiving the reply “marrying your mother was logical,” Wight jokingly recalled, “Rick leaned over and said, ‘That’s what I

NEWS

City Marketplace rent saga continues; plus: No morning lifeguard? PAGE 3

FLAGLER VOTES

Jonathan Simmons | News Editor

Candidates qualify for city, county, school elections Primary elections will be Aug. 26 for the Nov. 4 general election.

A total of 23 candidates for the School Board, the Flagler County Commission and the Palm Coast City Council have qualified for upcoming elections. Primaries will be held Aug. 26 for the partisan Flagler County Commission elections and for all races in which more than two candidates are competing for a seat, necessitating a run-off. Those include both Palm Coast City Council seats up for election — District 2 and District 4 — as well as the School Board race for District 2. General elections will be Nov. 4.

PALM COAST CITY COUNCIL

Joey LoMonaco

Jesse Doolin, 10, rests on the shoulder of his mother, Stacey Doolin. told Stacey when I proposed to her.’” Doolin leaves behind his wife of 19 years, Stacey, and sons Jesse, 10, and Noah, 7. The couple attended a marriage accountability group at PC3 for the last several years. “Rick was a guy who would break the rules, and I was a rule follower,” Stacey Doolin said. “He taught me how to have a lot of fun, and I appreciate that. Because now, these boys will be able to know that and just grow

up the way a man should — having a good time and breaking some rules.”

Two seats will be open for Palm Coast City Council elections this year. City Council elections are nonpartisan. Councilman David Ferguson, who represents District 2, announced Friday, June 20, that he will not seek a second term. (See palmcoastobserver.com for a story on Ferguson’s decision.) There are three candidates for the District 2 seat: Joel Rosen, Heidi Shipley and Anne-Marie Shaffer. The two with the most votes will face each other in November. Councilman Bill Lewis represents District 4 and will run against Woody Douge, Steven Nobile and Norman Weiskopf. The top two vote-getters in the August primary will run against each other in November.

FLAGLER COUNTY COMMISSION

Then, I thought God indifferent. Not caring about the physical suffering, just the spiritual growth. While Rick Doolin’s final lecture is in the books, he’ll continue to teach science. Doolin elected to donate his body to the Anatomical Board of Flori-

Two Flagler County Commissioners are up for re-election this year. Commissioner Frank Meeker, a Republican who represents District 2, will be challenged by Republican Dennis McDonald. The candidate that wins the August primary will face off against How-

SEE DOOLIN / PAGE 4

SEE ELECTION / PAGE 5

INDEX SEE OUR TOWN / PAGE 2

Sports................ 13 Cops Corner...........8

Crossword........... 30 Diversions.......... 31

Letters..................6 Neighborhood..... 17

LoMonaco.......... 13 Classifieds.......... 32

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