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YOU. YOUR NEIGHBORS. YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD.

SPORTS

NEIGHBORHOOD

Tommy Tant festival draws hundreds of athlests to Flagler County. PAGE 13

Gala celebrates Flagler Auditorium’s role in the community.

OUR TOWN

Jed and Wyatt Davis

+ PC3 packs 250 Christmas boxes for needy children The congregation of Palm Coast Community Church on Nov. 16 packed over 250 boxes to send to the organization Operation Christmas Child. The packing party included Christmas music, pizza and a shopping mall to pack up goodies for the children who would receive the boxes. The mission of Operation Christmas Child is to demonstrate God’s love in a tangible way to needy children around the world, and together with the local church worldwide, to share the good news of Jesus Christ.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2014

NEWS

Italian American Social Club marks 40th year in Palm Coast. PAGE 3

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feed flagler By Brian McMillan | Executive Editor

Beach Thanksgiving For the first time, Oceanside Beach Bar and Grill volunteers will host a meal on Thanksgiving as part of the Feed Flagler program. At about 2 a.m. on Thanksgiving, while most people are snug in their beds and dreaming of mashed potatoes and gravy, Johnny Lulgjuraj will be pulling into his restaurant on State Road A1A to show up for work. This year, for the first time, Oceanside Beach Bar and Grill, in Flagler Beach, will serve as a host location in the communitywide Thanksgiving effort, Feed Flagler. For the past several weeks, volunteers and churches and school children have been collecting nonperishable food to give food pantries a boost, as well as preparing for a hot meal to be served in three locations. (See the box on page 4 for times and locations of the hot meals.) “Over the years we have been asked to donate thousands of dollars worth of gift cards and cash for multiple wonderful causes around the county, and regardless of our financial situ-

Courtesy photos

Brothers Tony and Johnny Julgjuraj, with their mother, Marina ation, we do whatever we can reached out to Flagler County do help the cause,” said Johnny Deputy Administrator Sally Lulgjuraj, who owns Oceanside Sherman and County Commiswith his brother, Tony. sioner Nate McLaughlin. They Lulgjuraj said Hailey Cordova met at Oceanside to discuss reached out to Elaine Studnicki, of the Sheltering Tree, and she SEE OCEANSIDE / PAGE 4

recovery By Jonathan Simmons | News Editor

Open Door program graduates first resident Courtesy photos by Julie Davis

Brian Scherer

Kaylee Putnam

+ Toys for Tots extends registration Registration for Toys for Tots will be held at Flagler County Association of Realtors office, 4101 E. Moody Blvd., Bunnell, on the following dates: 2-4 p.m. Nov. 20; 9-11 a.m. Nov. 21; 2-4 p.m. Nov. 25; and 9-11 a.m. Nov. 26. Visit ToysforTots.org or call 437-0095.

SEE OUR TOWN / PAGE 2

The addiction recovery and jail diversion program, spearheaded by the Rev. Charles Silano, is still fighting the city of Bunnell. Even as it fights to keep its doors open, the Christian-based addiction recovery and jail diversion program in Bunnell headed by Grace Tabernacle Pastor Charles Silano graduated its first resident Sunday during its first fundraising banquet, attended by more than 100 people. The Open Door Re-entry and Recovery Program is still wrangling with the city of Bunnell over the right to operate, Silano said, and recently was granted an order by a federal court in Jacksonville to challenge a restrictive city ordinance that would have barred it. The program can continue to operate as the case

SEE RECOVERY / PAGE 4

CANVASSING

Jonathan Simmons | News Editor

Election certified, one race challenged Even as the county’s Canvassing Board certified the general elections in a Friday-afternoon meeting, a challenge to one of the races was presented: Palm Coast resident Carol Mikola has filed paperwork with the Department of State challenging the election of School Board member-elect Janet McDonald. “There’s a question about this person’s eligibility to hold office,” Mikola said at a Nov. 14 Canvassing Board meeting. But the Canvassing Board can not withhold the certification of an individual race. “We are required to certify the results before any lawsuit could be filed,” Canvassing Board Chairwoman and County Judge Melissa Moore Stens said to Mikola during the meeting. Instead, on the advice of County Attorney and Canvassing Board Attorney Al Hadeed, the board noted in paperwork to be submitted to the state that it had received the challenge but declined to adjudicate. Mikola’s complaint was twofold: that McDonald was not qualified to run because she was not registered lawfully as a voter, and that she is not qualified to hold office, for the same reason. It’s too late for Mikola to press the first claim against Janet McDonald, Hadeed said, but she could go forward with the second. Mikola said the Department of State has forwarded her election fraud complaint against Janet McDonald to the State Attorney’s Office for investigation.

‘Inaccurate’

Photos by Jonathan Simmons.

Richard Jarosz, left, graduated form Open Door Sunday, Nov. 16, and was presented with a certificate and a new study Bible by the Rev Charles Silano, right.

As the board completed final paperwork Nov. 14 to be sent off to the state about the election, another issue arose: Elections Supervisor Kimberle Weeks had typed, on one of the reports, that Canvassing Board members had been removed. County Commissioner and Canvassing Board member Barbara Revels objected, writing on the document that she refused to sign it, and then signing next to her statement.

SEE ELECTION / PAGE 5

INDEX McMillan...............6 Calendar............ 28

Cops Corner...........8 Crossword........... 40

Diversions.......... 35 Neighborhood......25 .

Real Estate......... 30 Sports................ 13

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