bserver O PALM COAST
YOU. YOUR NEIGHBORS. YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 2014
FOOTBALL PREVIEW
DIVERSIONS
NEIGHBORHOOD
Lace ’em up! Time for football in Palm Coast.
Sterling Rice’s new jewelry line will be sold in Ormond Beach boutique. PAGE 16B
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SPECIAL SECTION
OUR TOWN
Power of the Purse event names Woman of the Year.
HAND IN HAND
following the money By Jonathan Simmons | News Editor
PRIMARY: AUG. 26
County, school and city races will be among those on the ballot. Courtesy photo
Buddy faces the flip-flop in the video contest.
+ Palm Coast cat is finalist in national contest Palm Coast’s very own Leah Lester and cat Buddy have been chosen out of thousands of video submissions as finalists for “The Friskies” 2014. The Friskies are awards for the best Internet cat videos of the year. Now, with the public’s vote, Buddy has the chance to reach cat stardom! Now through Sept. 8, Palm Coast residents can vote for their hometown cat in the video, “Cat vs. Flip-Flop,” and help donate food to shelter cats in need at the same time. To view the finalists’ videos and cast your vote, visit thefriskies.com.
Flagler County’s Aug. 26 primary election is just days away, following two weeks of light turnout for early voting at the Flagler County Public Library, the Palm Coast Community Center and the Supervisor of Elections Office. The Palm Coast Observer has compiled a series of charts — see Page 3 — illustrating campaign contribution data for the
Flagler County Commission, the Flagler County School Board and the Palm Coast City Council races. Information was culled from candidates’ self-submitted contribution reports. To view a sample primary ballot for the Aug. 26 election, visit flaglerelections.com, scroll under “Public Notices” and find the link to the PDF.
EARLY VOTING TURNOUT Results Aug. 11-19. Early voting ends Aug. 23. • Flagler County Public Library: 1,707 • Palm Coast Community Center: 665 • Supervisor of Elections Office: 692 Total: 3,064
So, Gibbs contacted the Survivor Glam Squad. The Survivor Glam Squad, which has been located in the Daytona Beach area since 2012, was founded by Keely Webster after she watched her grandmother battle with cancer. “She prepared for her own funeral when she was in the hos-
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pretty and witty and bright By Shanna Fortier | Community Editor
Photos by Shanna Fortier
Alva Edison Whitney Jr., of Palm Coast, turned 100 years old Aug. 8. He received a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering in 1935. From 1941 to 1945, he worked on coated fabric materials for DuPont that included work on Navy bedding bag material and doublecoated life preserver jackets. Working for Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company in their Chemical Division for 34 years, he retired in 1984. He moved to Palm Coast in 1998. His sister, Marion Whitney Kearns, will be celebrating her 105th birthday in September.
Survivor Glam Squad The Survivor Glam Squad teamed with Atmosphere Reinvented and others to do hair and makeup for breast cancer survivors. Twelve women and one man, all breast cancer survivors, received a makeover, including hair, makeup and nails Monday, Aug. 18, when the Survivor Glam Squad visited Atmosphere Reinvented in Palm Coast. “I think that it’s important as a community that we all support each other and come together to do activities for people who have gone through kind of a
rough time,” said Nancy Gibbs, who organized the event and is also a breast cancer survivor. “Going through those treatments is not fun. I think it’s important for anyone who has gone through the treatment to get back to where they were prior to cancer. They need to start living their lives and quit focusing on the fear of, ‘Is it coming back?’”
Bulldog Drive project provides big savings When the city of Palm Coast undertook the Bulldog Drive improvement project back in January, it identified three main problems that needed fixing. “One of them was to stop the flooding around (Flagler Palm Coast High School), where the parking lot, after heavy rains, would be under three or four inches of water,” City Manager Jim Landon said at Tuesday’s School Board meeting. “Secondly, we wanted to improve the traffic flow around the school, primarily on State Road 100. Before and after school, the traffic would actually come to a stop. With those being highway through-lanes, that was very dangerous. The third one was to develop Bulldog Drive into the Town Center area.” With the exception of some landscaping and the installation of permanent pumps for a drainage system, work on the project has been completed, Landon said. According to an agenda item, the project cost $5.1 million and was funded with the Town Center CRA, tax dollars specific to that location. The board unanimously approved an easement for the gateway feature at the southwest corner of Bulldog Drive and State Road 100. Landon added that early on in the process, questions were raised regarding old rightof-ways and the possibility that Bulldog Drive was in fact owned by the county, not the city. But the potential benefits of the project outweighed semantics. “... Someone said that we’re spending millions of dollars on property (Bulldog Drive) that we don’t own,” Landon said. “But it’s still public property. Even if the county does own it, the state owns the state highway, the school district owns school property, as long as it’s public land, and public dollars for public good — in this case
Survivor Karen Dean is eager for a hairstyle change and stylist Elizabeth Davis is giving it to her.
+ Happy 100th birthday, Alva!
Joey LoMonaco | Staff Writer
INDEX Cops Corner...... 12A Crossword........... 8B
Diversions........ 16B Letters............... 6A
Real Estate....... 14B Sports.............. 15A
Neighborhood..... 1B The Voice......... 17B
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