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NEIGHBORHOOD Bed-der believe it! A racing event no one can sleep through. PAGE 19

OUR TOWN

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2014

BUSINESS

SPORTS

Standing ‘O’ Awards recognize excellence in Flagler businesses.

FPC tips off season.

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‘dream come true’

THE HAMMOCK

By Jonathan Simmons | News Editor Josh Marquis, Katherine JeffersonWeaver and Wendell Weaver

Jonathan Simmons | News Editor

Jonathan Simmons

Kay Boyer Ryan

Courtesy photo

+ Golfers raise big bucks for Navy League The St. Augustine-Palm Coast Council of the Navy League of the United States, which just celebrated its 40th anniversary, held its 18th-annual fundraising golf tournament at Grand Haven Golf Club Oct. 27. The 120-golfer field for this year’s tournament was one of the largest in the recent past. There were 36 active duty sailors, Marines and Coast Guardsmen participating in the event. The tournament raised close to $10,000 for the council. The tournament had two flights. A Coast Guard foursome from Naval Air Station Jacksonville won the blue flight: William Devault, Justin Miller, Adam Myers and Chris Yarrison. A team from the helicopter interdiction and drug interdiction tactical squadron took second place in the blue flight and third place by a team, led by retired Navy Vice Adm. Jim Amerault. Grand Haven civilians won all three places in the gold flight: Pete Bianchi, Chuck Culver, Tom Driscoll and Mike O’Brien. Dan Dinsmore and Louise Wolfe won long drive for men and women, respectively. Winners for closest to the pin were Mike Zollar for men and Kay Boyer Ryan for women. Other notables included a team of former NFL members Pete Banaszak, of the Oakland Raiders, Dave Cloutier, of the Boston Patriots, Isaiah Harris, of the New Orleans Saints, and Tom Sweeney, of the Philadelphia Eagles; and a team who were proud of their representation of the four different military branches serving our country: Delos Anderson, Army; Sam Cousino, Air Force; Bernie Hollenbeck, Navy, and David Hull, U.S. Marines.

SEE OUR TOWN / PAGE 2

Jonathan Simmons

Daniel Baker, representing Salamander Hotels and Resorts, with Hammock Conservation Coalition President Abby Romaine.

Conservation Coalition members speak out against hotel

FLAGLER FAMILY given a new home The Weaver family’s new home in Espanola was funded by donations. There were holes in the floor. The roof leaked and threatened to collapse. The county said the 1958 woodframe Espanola home

couldn’t be saved and couldn’t be rebuilt, and Katherine Jefferson-Weaver, its owner, didn’t know what to do. Her mother, who

lived nearby, was sick, and Jefferson-Weavers’ family didn’t want to move out of Espanola. “Even in the beginning, they told us we

wouldn’t have been able to build at all,” she said. “It was heartbreaking. I grew up on

said. “We’re working on curing each and every one of them” of post-traumatic stress disorder, he said.

Members of the Hammock Conservation Coalition spoke out against plans for a new, 198-room hotel on the beach at a Hammock Conservation Coalition meeting Nov. 11, saying the hotel would damage the area’s sensitive scrub oak habitat and hurt beach access. Hammock Conservation Coalition President Abby Romaine spoke against the project, as did six other speakers. Three people, other than ACP Communities representative Daniel Baker, there on behalf of Salamander, spoke in favor of the hotel. “The Salamander proposal is to put a parking lot in an area that has over 400 scrub oaks,” HCC member Jeff Southmayd said. “The HCC needs to strongly oppose allowing the county to throw out deed restrictions in favor of development in our Hammock.” “This is a very, very special place, but it’s also a very fragile place,” said Ann Butler, a master gardener and member of the HCC’s invasive plant committee. “One of the plat restrictions was for the developer to preserve and protect the scrub oaks. … Now the developer

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SEE HOTEL / PAGE 4

SEE HOME / PAGE 4

selfless service By Jonathan Simmons | News Editor TeensIn-Flight President and retired Marine Col. Jack Howell addresses the audience after receiving Flagler County’s Veteran of the Year award for 2014. Jonathan Simmons

Jack Howell honored as Veteran of the Year Flagler County awarded retired Teens-In-Flight President and retired Marine Col. Jack Howell its Veteran of the Year award Nov. 9 in a ceremony attended by about 50 local resi-

dents and officials. “I’m only happy to be able to fill some holes that I saw that were needed to handle the children — the teens — of our fallen and wounded warriors,” he

Members: 198-room hotel would endanger habitat and inhibit beach access.

INDEX Business.............27 . Cops Corner...........8

Calendar.............24 . Crossword........... 34

Dawsey.............. 15 Diversions.......... 35

Neighborhood..... 19 Real Estate......... 33

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