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Flagler Palm Coast makes strong showing at Rotary tournament.

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OUR TOWN + Happy 100th birthday, Mr. Poole!

Preston E. Poole celebrated his 100th birthday M,onday, Jan. 5 with friends and family at The Windsor.

+ Retired Educators Association to give $1,000 scholarship The Retired Educators Association of Flagler County is offering a $1,000 scholarship to a Flagler County resident who has completed at least 60 semester hours of college and other criteria.

Finalists will be interviewed by two members of the REAFC scholarship committee. All supporting data (official college transcript, 300 word essay, along with the application) should be postmarked no later than April 1. For more information, call 445-0454.

bring me to you leaders By Jeff Dawsey | Staff Writer

Flagler Schools celebrates administrators of the year Rymfire Principal Paula St. Francis and FPC Assistant Principal Dustin Sims are county’s best.

As the school district prepares to announce its teacher and employee of the year Jan. 15, two administrators are already celebrating. For the first time, Flagler Schools has also identified a principal and assistant principal of the Paula St. year.

Francis R y m f i r e ’s Paula St. Francis was selected as the Flagler Schools Principal of the Year. In three decades of ser-

vice in the district, St. Francis has been a teacher, administrator and now a principal at two different schools.

Superintendent Jacob Oliva said St. Francis has credibility with teachers because she has been a teacher herself.

Dustin Sims “I got to have her as a principal when I was a classroom teacher,” Oliva said. “I consider her a mentor.”

He added, “She’s the first prin-

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It makes you want to continue to work harder and harder every day.

Dustin Sims, FPC assistant principal, and Flagler Schools Assistant Principal of the Year

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Consulate coming to Town Center

The Palm Coast Elks Lodge 2709 Americanism Essay Contest drew 453 student entries. The essay was to be entitled, “What the Pledge of Allegiance Means to Me” and the contest was open to all students in grades 5-8.

The winners are Adesuwa Salami, of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic School, and seventh-grader Sal Grinstead, of Indian Trails Middle School. Both of the winning essays now move on to the District Completion.

They also both received $100 from the Elks.

A Portuguese honorary consulate will take up space in the City Centre building in Town Center.

+ Community Chorus of Palm Coast seeks singers

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cipal at Rymfire, and she helped establish a culture of success.”

Mrs. Barbara Sauvelpahkick, assistant principal at Rymfire Elementary, has known St. Francis since 1986, when she moved into the county.

“We started off as mates working together teaching third grade,” she said. “Whether she was in the classroom or working as a curriculum specialist or as an assistant principal or now as a principal, her priority has always been what is best for the students. Everything she does re-

hello, portugal By Jonathan Simmons | News Editor

+ Congrats to essay contest winners!

The Community Chorus of Palm Coast seeks new singers. Rehearsals for the May 1 and 3 concerts begin 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 20, at Trinity Presbyterian Church, 156 Florida Park Drive.

Interested new singers should arrive at 6:15. For more information, call Linda Hodges at 904-631-3965.

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Kevin Gilbert took this picture near the Flagler Beach Pier of the SpaceX Dragon launch on Jan. 10. Submit your photos of Flagler County life to shanna@palmcoastobserver.com.

As Palm Coast’s new City Hall goes up in Town Center, two rooms in the bottom floor of the City Centre building across the lake from it will be remade to accommodate another government body: the Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

“It’s almost like a mini-embassy, if you will,” City Manager Jim Landon said at a City Council meeting Jan. 13. “Because of that, you will have people visiting Palm Coast. ... It’s another kind of government-type facility in the downtown arena. We think it will stimulate some activity in downtown Palm Coast.”

The ministry will use the space as an honorary consulate to replace a consulate in Orlando that must be shut down because its lease is ending, said Palm Coast Holdings Vice President David Lusby. Palm Coast Holdings owns the space the honorary consulate will be leasing.

“We really wanted them in Town Center and in that building; it’s an important user coming to Palm Coast,” Lusby said. “This is a pretty big deal, because there are people who have to do business with the Portuguese consulate from all over Florida or even further than Florida who will come to Palm Coast.”

The Portuguese government will rent space on the building’s third floor as the lower floor is renovated to its specifications.

“We have a signed lease for temporary space on the third floor, and we’re currently negotiating a lease with them for two units on the ground floor,” Lusby said in an interview Jan. 12. “We’ll probably have that in their hands tomorrow. All of the basic terms have been agreed to, and I don’t anticipate any problems,” he added.

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INDEX Calendar............ 22 Cops Corner...........8

Crossword........... 28 Diversions.......... 27

Letters..................6 Neighborhood..... 19

Real Estate......... 24 Sports...................9

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+ Local youth participate in beach/park clean-up Local youth who committed a violation of the law were given the opportunity to participate in the Flagler County Civil Citation Program during the holiday break.

The FCCCP is a diversionary program; if the program is successfully completed, the criminal charge the youth has been alleged to have committed will not be prosecuted and will not appear on the youth’s criminal record.

“This is a wonderful program offered to our youth who may not otherwise be eligible for community service due to their age,” said Sheriff James L. Manfre.

Once the youth receives a civil citation, they will be referred to a Juvenile Probation Officer coordinator to com-

+ City’s stormwater director John Moden to retire John Moden, Palm Coast’s city engineer and director of the engineering and stormwater department, who has played a major role in developing and maintaining Palm Coast’s infrastructure and managing the city’s stormwater system over the past 37 years, will retire Feb. 6.

A licensed professional engineer, Moden earned a bachelor’s degree from Michigan Technological University and worked first as a John Moden

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The cleanup collected 75 pounds of trash. plete the required hours. In accordance with Florida Statutes, the issuing deputy can assign up to 50 hours of community service hours to include attendance at appropriate classes.

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consultant before joining ITT Community Development Corp. in 1977. Moden was an engineer, project manager and construction manager for ITT, the original developer of Palm Coast.

Moden then worked in the regulatory section of the Army Corps of Engineers before serving as manager of Palm Coast Community Service Corp. from 1991 until 2005. PCCSC was responsible for maintaining Palm Coast’s communitywide stormwater system and deed restrictions.

Moden’s work included directly evaluating the maintenance needs of the stormwater system and restoring the drainage system after the fires of 1998 and the tropical storms of 2004.

In 2005, Moden was retained by the

a civil citation if they reside in Flagler County, admit guilt, and the criminal offense is a misdemeanor or a violation of a criminal county ordinance.

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city of Palm Coast as the director of the Stormwater Management Department. His department is now named Engineering and Stormwater, with two divisions and eight employees.

The Stormwater Division maintains the freshwater and saltwater canal systems. It also provides support (design and survey) for the continuing program of maintenance and rehabilitation of Palm Coast’s drainage system including frontyard swales and inter-connecting drainage ditches.

“It has been a very enjoyable 37 years,” Moden said. “Watching Palm Coast grow from a community of 3,000 people and all the people I have met and worked with along the way have been the most reward-

Juvenile Probation Officers, Junior Police Academy members and the Law Enforcement Explorers assisted and supervised the clean-up along county beaches and county parks collecting 75 pounds of trash and waste.

ing parts of my work. Early in my career, I would help with the design work but not be able to enjoy the results of my work.

Here in Palm Coast I have seen many of the projects I worked on and the way they function and am proud of the community that I have been a part of.”

Moden and his wife, Patsy, live in the Painters Hill area of Flagler County, and their two sons live in Palm Coast. Moden plans to continue living here after retirement.

“For nearly four decades, John Moden has been a leader in developing our community to very high standards to ensure an excellent quality of life for residents,” said City Manager Jim Landon. “We wish him well in his retirement.”

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flagler votes By Jonathan Simmons | News Editor

CANDIDATES SPEAK BEFORE PRIMARY Also, see Pages 12-13 for the Observer’s Q&A with each candidate.

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rimary elections for all the Senate District 6 and House District 24 seats will be held Jan. 27, and the special election will be held April 7.

About 45 people showed up the evening of Jan. 13 for the Flagler Votes Forum at which the Republican candidates for both seats spoke before the Jan. 27 primary.

The forum was Travis put on by the Hutson Flagler County Chamber, Flagler County Association of Realtors and Flagler Home Builders Association, and attended by all but one of the candidates.

Representatives Dennis Travis Hutson of McDonald Elkton and Ronald (did not Renuart of Ponte attend) Vedra Beach — who both resigned their House positions effective one day before the April 7 special election to run for the Senate District 6 seat vacated by John Thrasher — Ronald attended the foRenuart rum, but were not joined by the third candidate, Dennis McDonald. McDonald sent Michael McElroy to make an opening statement in his stead.

The three House District 24 candidates — Danielle Anderson, Paul Renner and Ron Sanchez — all attended. (See the box on this page for quotes from their answers.)

WNZF General Manager David Ayres moderated the forum.

Rep. Travis Hutson, who has been in office two years, gave the evening’s shortest response.

His answer to a question asking under what conditions he’d support oil drilling off the east coast

of Florida: “None,” he said.

Renuart, a physician by profession who has been in office six years, responded this way: “I think oil exploration and obtaining the oil offshore could be done very safely, but it would have to be done way offshore and done in a controlled manner. Unfortunately, we have countries such as China, Cuba and even Canada that are sucking oil out from underneath us, and we have a lot of oil reserves out there. We have put ourselves in dependent to some bad countries overseas, countries that I’ve even served in, and we don’t want to be dependent on foreign oil. And by having more oil available and certainly some refineries in the state of Florida, we would benefit from it financially and decrease our dependence on foreign countries. So in that way I would be in support of it, done in a safe manner, way offshore where you couldn’t see any oil drilling and know that it’s done in a safe process.”

The two candidates also differed on a question that mentioned a $2.5 billion increase in the state’s budget last year and asked “what, if anything, do you think should be done to reverse this trend” in times of growth.

“I don’t know why we’d want to decrease the state from having revenues,” Renuart said. “ ... The budget is money coming into the state based on estimations from conferencing. It doesn’t mean that the state Legislature spends all that money. This last year we had the largest budget in the history of the state of Florida. It was $77.1 billion. But we didn’t spend it all. We put $3.1 billion in reserves, and that too is a record … We were also able to give back, $500 million back to the citizens in the form of rolling back the auto registration fees, drivers’ licenses, and tax-free holidays.

We also were able to have more incentives to attract business ...

So having revenue is not a bad thing, but it’s how we use it. Be-

Question for the candidates for Florida House of Representatives, District 24: Flagler County seems to often be overlooked as a destination for new businesses.

What would you do to help bring Flagler to the front of the line with state’s Department of Economic Opportunity?

We have people that are from out of town, and they hear the name ‘Palm Coast’ and they run for the hills. So it’s really important that we get our reputation back in order. We need to get out there and let people know this is a friendly place to do business. — Danielle Anderson, news reporter

You have to make it attractive to people. If you have an impact fee going, you need to get that down. The cost of property needs to come down as far as commercial investments go. The other thing (is) being business friendly. That’s what St. Johns County has accomplished. We weren’t when I took office; we are now. And that’s what I’d like to see right here in Flagler and I know the way to do it. — Ron Sanchez, former St. Johns County Commissioner

We need … our chamber and our business leaders going and speaking to businesses … whether it’s going over to Orlando or Jacksonville, and making sure we’re getting some of those new businesses, not those cities. And we can do that by pressing our advantages. You know, the reason we came here is the beauty; the lower cost of living that exists in Flagler County is a huge advantage. — Paul Renner, attorney

cause I’ve been in the Legislature now six years. I’ve actually helped balance seven budgets.

Five of those budgets we had a down economy. One year we had a $6 billion hole ... And when your general revenue is only $25 billion, $6 billion is a huge part of it. And half of that general revenue goes to education, so we had to make some drastic cuts at that time. So we have learned from that not to spend all the money

but rather to put it in reserve ...

And that has made our bond rating one of the strongest in the Unites States, and that helps us save money for taxpayers as we have projects that are ongoing.”

Hutson, who has been in office about two years, answered the same question as follows: “Well, looking at the question of ‘times of growth’ and ‘reverse that trend,’ I don’t want to reverse growth, guys. At all. Now,

SALAMANDER RESORT By Jonathan Simmons | News Editor

County Commission delays hearing on proposed luxury hotel A public hearing on the proposed 198-room Salamander hotel on the site of the lodge at Hammock Beach has been moved from the County Commission meeting on Jan. 12 to a meeting Feb. 2.

County staff had proposed postponing the meeting — and sent out an email warning those interested in showing up for the hearing that it may not happen as scheduled — for two reasons: The resort company, Salamander, sent the county a revised site plan Friday, Jan. 9, leaving staff no time to review the changes before the Jan. 12 meeting; and County Commissioner Charlie Ericksen would not be able to attend the Jan. 12 meeting for health reasons.

The county wants to have all its commissioners present for the hearing on the hotel, which has divided public opinion and might draw hundreds for public comment.

The commission voted unanimously in favor of the delay at the Jan. 12 meeting.

The intended audience of the county’s warning that the hearing may not happen appeared to have received the message: A contingent of hotel supporters, who had planned to attend up wearing white shirts to show their position, wasn’t there, and no one spoke about the hotel during the meeting’s public comment period.

County Administrator Craig Coffey said after the Jan. 12 meeting that the site

plan that came in Jan. 9 “is a tweak to the site plan already submitted.”

Deputy County Administrator Sally Sherman said that the revised site plan eliminates some parking on the south side of 16th Road and shifts the entire building an additional 15 feet away from the ocean.

Commissioner Barbara Revels assured the audience at the Jan. 12 meeting that the messages they have sent the commission will be read and considered.

“I’m speaking for myself but maybe for the rest of the commission, that we are all in receipt of all the messages and emails and packages that have been sent, and I myself have read every single one of them every single

time they come in — I’ve got heads nodding — and so I have put all of those in a particular format in my saved emails so that I can go back and review them chronologically or by sender, and we will be doing that before the next meeting,” she said.

“So rest assured that none of that information is lost, and thank you for your input.”

The amended site plan is posted on the county website at flaglercounty.org.

The commission’s decision to move the hearing on the hotel to Feb. 2 will mean that another topic that had originally been scheduled for that date — a proposed vacation rental ordinance — will have to be pushed to another date, probably Feb. 16, Coffey said.

I do want to stop a lot of wasteful spending in Tallahassee, I’ll tell you that. I’d like to do that right now. But in terms of what we should be doing, is giving the money back to the people. We gave money back to the people last year in terms of the $500 million. It should be more. We should stop the wasteful spending and give more of the money back to you. It’s your tax dollars, and you deserve to have it.”

INBRIEF + Woman dies, children hurt in school bus crash on Jan. 9 A 23-year-old woman was killed and 25 children and a school bus driver were hospitalized with minor injuries after a crash involving two cars and a school bus the morning of Jan. 9, Florida Highway Patrol officials said.

The crash occurred on Whiteview Parkway at Ravenwood Drive at 7 a.m., and the school bus was bound for Buddy Taylor Middle School, Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman Paula Priester said.

FHP officials said a Mazda sedan driven by a young woman was heading west on Whiteview Parkway, with a Subaru driven

by Brian Szmitko, 19, behind it. The school bus was heading east on Whiteview Parkway.

“The Mazda had stopped and was waiting to turn left, when it was rear-ended by the (Subaru), and that caused it to be pushed in front of the school bus,” FHP spokesman Sgt. Dylan Bryan said.

All 25 of the children and the bus driver were treated and released from the hospital. ElisaMarie Amber Homan, 23, the driver of the Mazda, died Jan. 13.

+ Correction In the Jan. 8 edition, the Palm Coast Observer quoted School Board memebr Sue Dickinson as saying that the School District receives about $1,500 in impact fees from the construction of a new home. The correct number is more than $5,000.

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The honorary consulate, to be named after the Summit Nutritionals International CEO Caesar DePaco, would pay $1 per month for the temporary space on the third floor of the Chiumento building for up to about five months while the two units on the bottom floor, units 105 and 106, are built out for its use, Lusby said.

Then, according to the lease that is being finalized, it would pay about $4,500 per month for the roughly 2,850 square feet of first-floor space, he said.

“Very initial conversations” about the use of the space for the honorary consulate began just before Christmas 2014, Lusby said. Staff at the site, he said, will likely include a consular general and vice consular general, and four or five employees.

Portuguese American Cultural Center President Eddie Branquinho, who has been working with DePaco on the non-diplomatic aspects of coordinating the honorary consulate’s move to Palm Coast, said it will have to be accredited by the State Department before it begins diplomatic functioning, a process that has already begun and usually takes several months. Once that happens, he said, the honorary consulate will be able to handle legal documentation and representation of Portuguese citizens on behalf of the Portuguese government. Honorary consulates do not issue visas.

Portugal has an embassy in Washington, D.C., six full consulates, and 12 honorary consulates, according to the official Embassy of Portugal to the Unites States website.

volves around making sure the students feel that they are important, that they can succeed.”

St. Francis won the Teacher of the Year Award as a Flagler County teacher in 1994, and she also was awarded the Superintendent’s Award of Excellence in 2005.

“She’s a person who doesn’t take ‘No’ for an answer,” Sauvelpahkick added. “She will do whatever she can to get whatever is needed for her students and her staff, and she’s been instrumental us get set up and get contacts for our flagship program at the school. She’s caring and knowledgeable about her staff, and her door is always open for us, the students and our families.”

Dusty Sims, an assistant at FPC, was named Assistant Principal of the Year.

“It was a surprise and very honoring,” said Sims. “It makes you want to continue to work harder and harder every day. This award sends a message of how we do so many great things at Flagler Palm Coast High School. I’m just a reflection of what our students and our teachers do in the classroom every day.”

Since becoming assistant principal in 2011, Sims has helped increased the school grade 56 points, increase Advance Placement participation by 100 students through utilizing community organization to assist in the recruiting process, increase Bottom Quartile Reading to 67% up from 42% and improve writing scores 11 percentage points from the 2012-2013 to the 20132014 school year.

“He knows how to build a team environment,” Oliva said. “He has a great ability to listen and figure out what needs to be done, and how to get everybody on the same page to get there.”

Sims joined FPC in 2004, as a teacher and the baseball coach, where he was the Florida Athletic Coaches Association 6A District 5 Coach of the Year for four consecutive years and a Five Star Conference Coach of the Year three times.

“Dustin is very student-centered, always looking for ways to improve the students individually,” said Lynette Shott, FPC’s principal. “He develops great relationships with students, faculty and community leaders. ... You couldn’t ask for a better colleague.”

— Brian McMillan contributed to this story.

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Late last year, each of nine schools in the Flagler County School District identified a teacher and an Employee of the Year; seven more employees were selected from administration departments, include transportation and food services.

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Thursday, Jan. 15, at the Flagler Auditorium, the district will announce the countywide winners, selected from among the school winners. The Flagler County Teacher of the Year, as well as the Employee of the Year, will then be considered for the state award.

Last year, Jill Espinosa, of Belle Terre Elementary School, was among five finalists for the state award.

TEACHERS OF THE YEAR AND EMPLOYEES OF THE YEAR FOR EACH SCHOOL, 2014-2015 Ed Wolff (Belle Terre Elementary) Marlene Vazquez (Bunnell Elementary) Brandi Moberly (Old Kings Elementary) Kathy Baldwin (Rymfire Elementary) Lesley Poland (Wadsworth Elementary) Erin Weed (Buddy Taylor Middle) Erica Cerasi (Indian Trails Middle) John Seth (Flagler Palm Coast High) Troy Carabello (Matanzas High)

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MEMORY LANE By Jeff Dawsey | Staff Writer

Joe’s NY Pizza opens new store at original site After 20 years, Joe’s NY Pizza has reopened the doors to its popular pizzeria, making two restaurants in town.

Joe Bennici Jr. hadn’t turned the door key to the Joe’s NY Pizza in Flagler Regional Plaza in nearly 20 years, so when he first walked back into the building, he immediately took a trip down memory lane.

“I was like, ‘Wow, this is crazy,’” Bennici said. “It was 20 years ago when we put the hoods up over the oven and the stove in the back, so it’s kind of hard to describe the feeling.”

Joe and Michael Bennici, owners of Joe’s NY Pizza & Pasta at 1070 Palm Coast Parkway NW, have opened up a second pizzeria at Joe’s original location at 119A Flagler Plaza Drive (behind Woodys Bar-B-Q).

Joe Jr., Michael and their parents, Eileen and Joe Bennici, moved to Palm Coast and opened up the pizzeria in 1995, but after Joe Sr. became sick, the family decided to sell the restaurant in 2001.

“It was very hard for us to sell it, but we couldn’t keep the place, as my husband got sick,” Eileen Bennici said.

“Now, I’m happy we got it back. I worked day and night in this place back then, and it has a lot of memories of my husband.”

Joe Bennici Sr. died a year after the Bennici family parted ways with the first

restaurant, and the brothers, Michael and Joe, left the restaurant business.

A few years later, the brothers linked back up and decided to open Mike and Joe’s NY Pizza & Pasta in 2004, at the Palm Coast Parkway location.

“We just stood there with tears in our eyes,” Joe Bennici said. “It was something we had done on our own, without our father’s help.”

Before the brothers opened their restaurant, Michael Bennici decided to remove his name from the title, so they could honor their late father.

“I thought it would be nice to just have the name ‘Joe’ for our father on the place,” he said. “Although he wasn’t much of a pizza guy or a cook, he taught us everything we know about business.”

Michael Bennici says that the greatest advice his father gave them was to always treat customers like family because “they are the only true bosses; they can fire everyone.”

The Bennici’s have served Palm Coast with that mentality and have maxed out their capacity at the Palm Coast Parkway location.

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Bennici said. “We have been blown away by the reception and customer loyalty we have in Palm Coast. We know most of our most of our customers on a first-name basis, and we know what they eat and when, and I think that’s what separates us from most of the other places.”

The Bennici brothers have always wanted to return to their original location in memory of their father, and now that they are back, they don’t plan on leaving.

“We’re here to stay in Palm Coast at both locations,” Michael Bennici added. “There have been a lot of different pizzerias that have come and gone, but we have put our blood, sweat and tears into this place because we know we’re not going anywhere. We got our baby back and a piece Photo by Jeff Dawsey Mike, Eileen and Joe Jr. Bennici reopen Joe’s NY Pizza in 2015. of our dad back.”

Joe Sr., Eileen and Joe Jr. Bennici opened up Joe’s NY Pizza in 1995.

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+ After 15 years, Palm Coast is getting worse and worse Dear editor: I read the 15th-anniversary paper, and I hardly recognized this utopian metropolis the movers and shakers of Palm Coast were reminiscing about. Let me say that when I came here in 1987, this was a great place to live. It’s been going downhill ever since, and, no, my coming here wasn’t the cause of the demise or devastation of what could have been a pleasant little village.

1987 was two years after the “big fire,” and the part of the W-section we built in had no mature trees, hardly any wildlife and very few houses or people. We were mostly retirees who had lived through the great depression, World War II and the Korean police action; we could relate to each other and we looked after each other; we were satisfied with the way things were.

Little did we know that, on the other side of Interstate 95, a group of malcontents were scheming to change everything. In the back of their evil little minds, an idea was forming like a nit getting ready to hatch.

They would change Palm Coast from a service district to a city that they would rule for eons!

You are probably thinking that I was not in favor of Palm Coast becoming a city; you are correct: If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

I was a founding member of a group that was against it. The population wasn’t dense enough to support a city, and state law wouldn’t allow it, but like a lot of things that occur in Palm Coast, rules and laws don’t seem to mean much. They got a waiver, got the people to believe a cock and bull story about lower taxes and a seat at the table.

Well, the taxes never came down, and they wanted all the seats, the table and the house the table was in.

I saw no mention in this fabrication of our auditorium that we voted against but was built anyway; they built it claiming it was an addition to the high school; this is similar to the building of a City Hall, which we voted against also but this time I believe they are calling it an act of God because this is where the money to build it seems to be coming from. Mayor Jon Netts had me fooled: I thought he had an in with the creature from the nether region, you never know.

The prize jewel in this collection of misdeeds is the landfill tax we voted for.

We were told by the state to build another landfill because ours was leaking, and if we didn’t build it they would shut us down or flog us or have us spayed or neutered. As you probably know we never built a landfill; shortly after voting in the tax, we cut a deal with Volusia County to take our trash for a pittance (just kidding). We kept on collecting the garbage tax for about 10 years. A county official told me they couldn’t find a judge that would allow them to stop but when the tax expired they quickly found a judge that let them buy a helicopter with the ill-gotten loot.

I watched the pro-city gang when they got in office issue building permits to anyone who had a hammer, a few nails and some credit at the lumberyard. We became the fastest growing city in Florida, the USA, the world and maybe the universe. They had figured it out; the more houses, the more property tax money.

Now we are well on our way to becoming the world’s fastest growing project. Before you accuse me of racial bias, the world’s first project was built in London for white people! I have no idea and can’t find out how many section 8 houses we have, how many people are living in these houses, but the number of pit bulls has got to be in the thousands. How many gang bangers, drug dealers, sexual deviants, murderers and crazies (can we still use that term?) do we have?; God only knows and He or She seems to have deserted us or just gave up.

I had a police officer tell me to stay out of certain sections of Palm Coast because they are dangerous and getting progressively worse. This brings to mind something else former Mayor Jim Canfield and his cronies failed to do: We don’t have a police department!

Flagler Beach and Bunnell have police departments, but the biggest city in Flagler

+ Ethical accusations are distractions, not substantial Dear Editor: The Dec. 18 edition of the Palm Coast Observer tells us about how the Florida Commission on Ethics is chasing after our sheriff for trifles, while at the same time totally ignoring the really serious malfeasance of our city leaders, namely, spending millions of our dollars for things we have clearly and repeatedly said that we do not want!

The witch hunt after our most professional and competent servant —Jim Manfre — whose responsibility to keep us safe tops the criticality of all other public offices — for some alleged “petty cash” trifles — is equivalent to the FBI raiding Bernie Madoff’s office to arrest his receptionist because someone thinks she took home a pencil and tipping their hats to Bernie as they walk past him in the next room!

How much of our taxes are going into this charade over something that could have been handled by a phone call?

Please get real, “Ethics Commissioners”; you are wasting our money and insulting common sense!

Our city officers were elected and took solemn oaths to serve us and to carry out our wishes, not to arrogate to themselves what they think is best for us. It smacks of Jonathan Gruber telling his buddies that Americans are too stupid to know what’s in their own best interest. You commissioners need to be holding our officials’ feet to the fire for what they promised us at election time.

This kind of behavior — ignoring serious matters while stirring up picayune baubles — must come from some strain of arrogantitis. For those

County doesn’t! What we got is a New York lawyer who is sheriff and the chief of police in Palm Coast, and he’s spread too thin. The only time you see a law enforcement officer is when you are on Belle Terre going 47 mph; if you see one in your neighborhood he probably lives in your neighborhood or you live beside the mayor. The Palm Coast tax money supports the Sheriff’s Office, yet we have to pay extra for the little service we get.

It ain’t right. It’s not too late to convert that unwanted City Hall into a jail, that big extravagant watchtower on top of the building would be a nice touch; the jail birds could keep track of how long they’ve been locked up.

You may be thinking that if I don’t like it here, why don’t I leave? Well, like I’ve told many others, I was here first, and I’ll be here when you’re gone — 28 years and counting.

Douglas R. Glover Palm Coast

+ Thanks for special edition celebrating city’s 15 years Dear Editor: My wife and I thoroughly enjoyed reading the Jan. 1 edition celebrating Palm Coast’s 15th anniversary.

We have been residents since 1999, and we appreciate your coverage of the development of the city. The contributors did an excellent job of informing the public of what has happened here in the last 40-plus years. The professionalism of your reporting was top notch. A great way to start off the year. Please keep up the good work.

Charles and Sandy Trautwein Palm Coast

+ New REC secretary an embarrassment to Republicans Dear Editor: It must be difficult enough to be a conservative Republican in Flagler County these days, what with all the good

unfamiliar with the term, that’s a virus that infects public servants at their inauguration. Its principal feature is to cloud someone’s ability to discern the difference between being “ordained to rule”— autonomously — and “elected to serve” — i.e., to carry out the wishes of those who gave them their office to begin with. Shame.

George Hibbard Palm Coast

+ Sheriff Jim Manfre’s explanations are unbelievable Dear Editor: So there I was, driving to the beautiful beaches of Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, or was it the mountains of Naples, Florida, or to visit all the Ivy league colleges in New Orleans?

I’m driving a Crown Victoria, or was it a BMW or the Dodge Charger — they’re all so alike you, know. The emblem in the center of the steering wheel that I was looking at for hours during my drive of almost 2,000 miles, must have been obscured, I “cannot remember.”

Oops, then the minor accident with a U-Haul truck. I’ll “think about making a report about that.”

Once I reached my destination, a friend’s cottage, I was told it could cost up to $430 a night to stay there. What?

I think I’ll “just think” about paying $99 per night, far more generous of me than the $75 cleaning fee asked for.

I “don’t recall” a conversation about the discrepancy. Maybe I should have saved some detailed receipts?

You believe this so far?

Jim Connor Palm Coast

economic news and responsible moderate leadership inconveniently defying their alternative reality. But to elect a senior official of the Republican Executive Committee who happens to be a nationally infamous gay-hating stalker certainly has to test their formidable ability to overlook egregious behavior within their own ranks. Now, I know that people make mistakes and the Republican Party tends to forgive, and try to get others to forget, all manner of personal transgressions. But, Andrew Shirvell’s past actions are so bizarre, so disturbing, that we all need to question the moral compass of the organization that elected him to high office. His election should be voided and his rather frightening anti-gay activities condemned.

Mike Cocchiola Palm Coast

+ Stay the course! Don’t give in to red light runners!

Dear Editor: My favorite sound bite of the year was from May 2: “We feel like we’re harassing our citizens,” said Jim Landon, Palm Coast city manager, on why he favors eliminating red-light cameras.

The only citizens complaining/screaming like babies are the red light runners who endangered everyone else’s life who share the road with them.

Mr. Landon, did you ever check that and incorporate that information into your “feelings” before deciding to put our lives at risk and fold under whining lawbreaker pressure?

Wow, sure can’t make them unhappy that they have to stop for red lights — and who, once caught on camera, scream even louder because they have to pay a fine until they learn to drive safely.

It is offensive to those who do drive safely and don’t want to be killed by those who don’t.

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+ Try Palm Coast Resort site Dear Editor: I read four letters in the Observer from Palm Coast residents regarding the “proposed hotel” at the Hammock location. I agree with all four letters and hope that my letter offers a viable solution to residents in Flagler County.

The proposed resort need not be inflicted upon the Hammock residents. We in Palm Coast have a perfect area on the opposite side of the Intracoastal Waterway.

We had that fine hotel and resort destination and the location yearns to be rebuilt, as originally promised by our Palm Coast City Council and management. A view of unequaled beauty with direct access to all Flagler County golf and art destinations are screaming to be rebuilt.

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the flow of traffic it once enjoyed. We are in desperate need of a “destination resort” that would afford residents and visitors a dining experience with a beautiful view. This was all promised in 2005 but never happened — perhaps the time has come for us to realize our dream.

Let us not forget a one-time promise that never materialized — perhaps it is not too late to keep that promise to Flagler County residents. It has been on our “wish list” for too many years — let’s see if people working together with good intentions can make our wish come true. We need it here in Palm Coast in a location waiting to be restored with just such a project.

Dana Williams Palm Coast

+ Bottom line: Salamander project would benefit county Dear Editor: In my opinion, the Hammock Beach

Resort project will have a substantial favorable impact on Flagler County. It will provide a world-class resort which will attract large conventions, and vacationers, who will provide much needed support to businesses in our county. It will benefit all residents, including those who own properties in the Hammock, by providing revenues which will assist in the stabilization of our property taxes, increase job opportunities, and perhaps increase the possibilities of those visitors who would build homes, and relocate their businesses to our oasis located between Daytona Beach and St. Augustine.

It is beyond my comprehension that a relatively small group of people who seem to be intelligent and successful would oppose its approval. They approach this issue with less than factual statements, and scare tactics, in order to seek support. I wonder how many of these people live in the Hammock on a full-time basis, or how many own mega-

mansions which are being used as rental properties. I understand that there are large homes on the beach in the Hammock which create environmental and wild life hazards, of which they claim to be of utmost concern. Is this a case of “Do as I say, and not what I do”?

While Salamander Hotels has agreed to satisfy almost all of their demands, they continue to oppose this project.

My plea to the Hammock residents is to put your egos aside, and do the right thing for yourselves, and those of your neighbors. I am hoping that the Board of County Commissioners will vote in favor of this project, while considering the bottom line benefits our county will realize.

Bob Alex Palm Coast

+ Beware the unintended consequences of 198 rooms Dear Editor: Please consider the following and vote no to the mega-hotel/convention center on Flagler Beach: 1. The County Commission would redefine and abrogate the meaning of “perpetuity” in county contracts.

2. A mega-hotel/convention complex would begin the process of making Flagler’s beaches indistinguishable from the rest of Florida’s concrete canyons. For example, Fort Lauderdale beach has become pretty much for visitors — not residents.

3. The County Commission should represent and serve the existing community rather than “developers” who will reap profits and move on.

4. The county commissioners should consider unintended consequences. A new 198-room beach hotel will draw away customers from the existing hotels and motels in Flagler County with the potential effect of putting them out of business.

Small businesses are the backbone of the community; the earnings of small businesses remain in the community.

A mega-hotel will send profits out of the community just as retail chain stores do.

5. It would be much more interesting and appropriate if the developer replaced the existing structure with a convention center, meeting rooms, restaurant, golf amenities, etc., and build extremely exclusive, high-end “cottages” around the property so that wealthy visitors would be attracted to Flagler while our existing hotels would continue to benefit from providing affordable rooms for visiting convention attendees.

Exclusivity is a rare and highly marketable feature versus the existing commonplace mega-hotels throughout Florida and around the globe.

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Yes, the writer “assumes,” but has no facts. In the May 22, 2014, issue of the Observer, there was a story about the cameras where Undersheriff Rick Staley was quoted: “The last time we looked at the data of our 10 top crash locations in the county, nine had red light cameras, and of those, the No. 1 reason for the crash was a rear-end collision.”

In other words, the No. 1 cause of the accidents was drivers stopping short because of the cameras.

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All of the machines tested were satisfactory and certified by the Canvassing Board, Lenhart said.

+ Hearing on fees for Dennis McDonald’s lawsuit continued

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County Commissioner Nate McLaughlin and Citrus County Supervisor of Elections Operations Manager Maureen Baird tested ADA voting equipment at the meeting.

+ Canvassing Board meets interim supervisor The Flagler County Canvassing Board held a drama-free meeting Monday, Jan. 12, in its first session since former elections supervisor Kimberle Weeks resigned unexpectedly Jan. 6.

Weeks, who is under investigation by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, had butted heads with numerous county officials, often transforming what would have been mundane Canvassing Board meetings into tense, accusation-riven spectacles.

In her resignation letter, she nominated her senior chief supervisor, Kaiti Lenhart, to take her place, and Gov. Rick Scott’s office affirmed Lenhart’s appointment as interim supervisor (until the 2016 elections) Friday, Jan. 9.

At the Jan. 12 meeting, the three Canvassing Board members — Lenhart, County Judge Melissa Moore Stens and County Commissioner Nate McLaughlin — ran a state-mandated test of voting equipment with a random selection of 14 Accuvote machines, which are on the ballot boxes, and three ADA-required touch-screen voting machines. Citrus County Supervisor of Elections Operations Manager Maureen Baird assisted with the

A Jan. 12 hearing to determine the amount Palm Coast resident and current Florida Senate District 6 candidate Dennis McDonald will pay in legal fees for a lawsuit deemed without merit by a judge in August has been continued to an undetermined future date.

McDonald and his attorney, Joshua Knight, agreed at an Aug. 25 hearing to pay at least a portion of the approximately $19,000 in legal fees Palm Coast incurred fighting McDonald’s lawsuit about trees in the Palm Harbor Shopping Center after Judge Dennis Craig signed an order that said, “The court finds that (McDonald) or his attorney knew or should have known that the allegations in the complaint were not supported by the material facts necessary to establish the claims, namely, the attachments to the Complaint contradict and do not support the factual allegations within the complaint, which should have been obvious,” and granted the city’s motion for sanctions.

McDonald, a former Flagler County Commission candidate, had filed an injunction and temporary restraining order against the city in 2013, saying the city planned to illegally remove trees in the Palm Harbor Shopping center, as well as 395 trees in the city’s right-of-way in the widening of Palm Coast Parkway.

The city said no developer had submitted a plan that involved removing the trees in the center, and that the city would ensure that construction preserved as many as possible. Trees to be removed along Palm Coast Parkway would be replanted or mitigated by the planting of 458 new trees on the stretch of the parkway that is to be widened, according to a city news release.

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3/2 in desirable pine lakes neighborhood. This Howell home has a formal living & dining room & offers loads of space. Loads of extra features like trey ceilings, security system, garden tub in master, sprinkler on well, screen for garage door, generator hook up and so much more. The pool is solar heated so you can enjoy all year long. You must schedule to see this home it is your new paradise.

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Incompetent thief 11:09 p.m. First block of Robinson Drive.

Delayed residential burglary attempt. A 47-year-old man arrived at his home and found pry marks on his front door.

The wannabe-thief didn’t make into the home.

A deputy wrote in a report that he observed “a single pry mark to the exterior door jam, near the deadbolt,” but no other damage or evidence.

It did not look like the thief had tried the other doors or windows.

The deputy photographed the damage.

Maybe next time they’ll really go to jail 2:12 p.m. 1800 block of Guava Lane, Bunnell. Scam. A 75-year-old man got a call Jan. 7 from a young man claiming to be his grandson. The young man said he and a friend were on a trip to New York when they got pulled over by a state trooper, and were jailed because the kids in the backseat had cocaine in their pockets. The young man said he needed $2,500 for the bond.

The young man told the 75-year-old to get $2,500 worth of Vanilla Reload Network Cards from a local gas station and then call a particular number, which he said was for the NYPD. The 75-year-old did so, and then told whoever answered at the phony NYPD number the redeeming numbers for the cards.

But the next day, the young man called again and said he needed another $2,500 for a lawyer. The older man got suspicious.

He called his actual grandson and asked him what he wanted to do with the cards.

The grandson “did not know what he was talking about and said his friend never won a trip to New York and he was never in trouble, that he was still in Oregon,” according to a Sheriff’s Office report.

The man called the scammer’s number back, and was again told to provide the numbers form the cards so they could be redeemed. He refused and said he was calling the Sheriff’s Office, and the scammer hung up and wouldn’t answer any more calls.

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This is a beautiful 3/2 home has an open plan full of light with loads of upgraded features. Features include: Silestone counters, tile back splash, under counter sink, garden jacuzzi tub, double vanity, walk in closet, and wired for a security system. Exterior has Pest tubes, Irrigation with well, fenced by neighbors on 3 sides and a large screened in patio.

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This home was the Builder’s Model. Architectural Features Include, Tray Ceilings and Plant Shelves, Terrific Open Space and Front-to-Back View, Beautiful Master Bedroom with french door and Bath Suite with Garden Tub and Large walk in Closets, Home Office/ Den off Pool, Lots of Windows and Light, Great Entertainer’s Floorplan. MLS# 208892 Call Kristin Matthews 386-283-3347. $230,000

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Special Primary Election: Jan. 27

THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 2015

FLORIDA SENATE, DISTRICT 6, REPUBLICANS

Travis Hutson

Q &A

AGE: 30 CITY OF RESIDENCE: St. Augustine YEARS LIVED IN THIS COMMUNITY: Whole life in Northeast Florida

Dennis McDonald

Ronald Renuart

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Q &A

AGE: 64 CITY OF RESIDENCE: Palm Coast YEARS LIVED IN THIS COMMUNITY: Owned a home in Palm Coast since 1998.

HOBBIES/INTERESTS: Sports hunting and fishing FAMILY: Wife Tanya, and daughter Taylor

HOBBIES/INTERESTS: Car collector / Family, sports, improving our community FAMILY: Married 40 years to Janet, three adult children

n Explain how your professional career so far has qualified you for this position.

n Explain how your professional career so far has qualified you for this position.

As a current member of the Florida House of Representatives, I already have a working knowledge and understanding of the legislative process.

During my time in the Legislature, I have championed crucial legislation focusing on the economy and public safety, including passing landmark legislation to close loopholes in the release of sexual violent predators, making Northeast Florida’s most vulnerable citizens safer. In addition, as a businessman, I understand the hard times we have faced in recent years, as well as the fiscal responsibility needed for recovery. n What would you contribute to this office that

you feel your opponent cannot or will not?

Having represented three of the four counties within Senate District 6 in the Florida House, I feel I am uniquely qualified to serve this district in our state’s Capitol. I already have a working knowledge and understanding of the district and what our slice of Northeast Florida is looking to enhance and accomplish in Tallahassee.

n What are the three most significant challenges facing your constituents today? If elected, what would you do to address the challenges?

(1) I am committed to reducing government waste and spending by limiting the role of government; (2) I vow to continue to improve our education system by empowering parents; and, (3) I am dedicated to growing the economy and job base by keeping taxes low and ensuring fiscally responsible budget decisions are made.

My 40 years of experience as vice president of operations for a large general contractor and construction industry consultant has required me to interface with all levels of government in order to provide successful outcomes in the private sector.

n What would you contribute to this office that you feel your opponent cannot or will not?

I come from a position of ethics and take seriously the commitment to represent the citizens of our district to ensure we all live in a safe and strong community. Once elected, I will exclusively serve District 6 needs for the full term. Being a Florida senator is not a part-time job, as both of my opponents have stated. This is foolish and shows their lack of ethical commitment.

n What are the three most significant challenges facing your constituents today? If elected, what would you do to address the challenges?

a) Leadership, or what I call the failure of our representatives to respond to their voters’ needs and requests: The recent failure of the U.S. House to remove Boehner from leadership parallels a practice in the Florida Senate. I will not sign a pledge card for the party boss (leadership) that both of my opponents have already signed. I rejected the offer because it would not allow me to properly put the residents of my district first. Additionally, my opponents are responsible for Common Core and red light cameras remaining in Florida, and are proud to have just passed the largest budget in Florida’s history, while calling themselves “conservative.” b) Florida Common Core and unfunded mandates: FCC/Florida Standards is an education gimmick not designed by educators, vetted in public, validated by educational experts or field tested before implementation, and is driven by unproven, onerous and costly testing. Corporate greed drives this model in opposition to the classic education still used by top achieving countries. Students will fall far behind on this “side road to failure,” resulting in our inability to compete in the global economy. The continuous unfunded mandates associated with FCC start now with $1,200/student for technology that is passed on directly to counties by the state from the Federal Department of Education. I will work to keep Florida sovereign, rejecting federal overreach that undermines local input and decision-making. c) Better Value for Tax Dollars: We do this in our personal and business transactions, why not in our state’s transactions? I will read and understand all legislation through the lens of my constituents and those impacted by the legislation and funding proposed, not the lobbyists or the corporate interests, which support my opponents. I will be a full time senator for my constituents with no distractions.

AGE: 50 CITY OF RESIDENCE: Ponte Vedra Beach YEARS LIVED IN THIS COMMUNITY: 18

HOBBIES/INTERESTS: Camping, attending college and NFL football games, target shooting, and muscle car restoration FAMILY: Married to Tamara Ferrell Renuart; seven children and three grandchildren n Explain how your professional career so far has qualified you for this position.

As a practicing physician for over 20 years, I come in contact with real citizens with real concerns about the economy and local issues. My experience and knowledge has allowed me to assume leadership roles in shaping health care legislation. I am also a combat veteran who served in tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, and I retired after 20 years of service as a full colonel. During my last term, I was the chairman of the Veterans and Military Affairs Subcommittee and I authored the Florida GI Bill which has made Florida the most veteran friendly state in the nation.

n What would you contribute to this office that you feel your opponent can’t?

I bring great knowledge and experiences from my leadership in the medicine and the military. In Tallahassee, it is not just who you know but also what you can contribute. While serving in the Legislature from 2008 to 2012, Florida faced over $6.4 billion in reduced revenues, and I am proud of the bold decisions that we made to balance the budget without placing the burden on taxpayers or our grandchildren.

n What are the three most significant challenges facing your constituents today? If elected, what would you do to address the challenges?

Jobs and the economy is still the most critical issue. Florida has done well to recover from the recent recession and the unemployment rate is significantly improved since I came into office. I have been working with Enterprise Florida to attract new business and industry to the senate district, and we have had success in the northern parts of the district.

Our water supply needs to be conserved and protected. Shallow aquifers are developing intrusion of saltwater from pressure placed on them from overdevelopment in areas of our state with limited water supplies. Central Florida developers are pushing to siphon surface water from the St Johns River, which may adversely affect the river and its tributaries. My undergraduate degree is in zoology from the University of Florida, and I studied many of the fragile ecosystems in rivers in North and Central Florida.

One solution would be to have these developers tap the deeper Floridan Aquifer when planning new communities.

Access to affordable health care is still a challenge for many Floridians. The failed health care policies of the Obama administration have not improved the cost of health care. Expanding the state’s Medicaid program is not the answer. In 2013, I helped develop an alternative program to expand access to without expanding and overburdening the state’s Medicaid program. The Legislature needs to look for a Florida solution to improve access and affordability without compromising quality of care for its citizens.

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FLORIDA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, DISTRICT 24, REPUBLICANS

Danielle Anderson

Q &A

AGE: 39 CITY OF RESIDENCE: Palm Coast YEARS LIVED IN THIS COMMUNITY: 15

HOBBIES/INTERESTS: Art, family time at the beach, “Jeopardy!”, exploring new places, visiting 39 new places in Florida this year FAMILY: Two daughters, Wilhemina and Penelope

n Explain how your professional career so far has qualified you for this position.

My professional career includes office management, the hospitality/service industry and small business development/support. I am currently a journalist, which is an incredible opportunity to meet all of the people in the community and learn about their story. Listening is what being a journalist is all about, and that is the most important quality of a good leader. Folks are elected to represent the will of the people, and the way to know the will of the people is to listen to what they have to say.

n What would you contribute to this office that you feel your opponent cannot or will not?

I will contribute the experience of business development in small communities, connections to all three counties through my journalism career and the volunteer board positions I hold, such as the Friends of A1A Scenic & Historic Coastal Byway, spanning St. Johns and Flagler counties and the United Way Women’s Initiative Flagler. These give me a unique perspective that only someone who has spent time in our communities can develop.

n What are the three most significant challenges facing your constituents today? If elected, what would you do to address the challenges?

Economic opportunity is a huge challenge in all three communities, especially Flagler. We are on the rebound, but un/underemployment is still a problem here. I will work to change the perception of the area. It is not difficult to open a business here, and we want to convey that message to those considering bringing their business to the local area. By the same token, it is important to attract higher paying jobs here so families can enjoy a quality of life conducive to families which is what we are made up of.

Supporting our education system is another challenge. With Gov. Rick Scott promising to increase funding per student this year, it is an opportunity to support teachers and students. Offering additional opportunities to students who are interested in learning a trade will ensure a higher graduation rate while providing a ready workforce to our local trade businesses.

Whether it is our local veterans’ services, women and children in need, special needs, the homeless population or our seniors, we need a concerted effort to have a well-functioning system to handle the needs of our community. St. Johns and Volusia counties are in the process of streamlining their services in various ways with the support of community organizations, and Flagler County can also take the lead on organizing our efforts.

Having a representative that understands our assets and is willing to build on them while addressing the challenges is key to the success of our district. I am asking for your vote so we can make the priorities important to our community a priority in Tallahassee.

Paul Renner

Q &A

AGE: 47 CITY OF RESIDENCE: Palm Coast YEARS LIVED IN THIS COMMUNITY: Raised, work and live in Northeast Florida for 35 years.

HOBBIES/INTERESTS: Traveling, reading, exercise and playing with dog, Mia FAMILY: Married

n Explain how your professional career so far has qualified you for this position.

The greatest privilege in my life has been serving our country in the military. During more than 20 years on active duty and in the reserves, I served in multiple leadership roles, including forward deployments to combat zones in two wars, Operation Desert Storm (1991) and Afghanistan (2011). After active duty, I attended law school and continued public service as a criminal prosecutor. Today, I am a business attorney and partner in a law firm.

With demonstrated leadership under pressure in the military and broad experience as a prosecutor, partner in a small business, and business attorney, I will be an effective advocate for our community in the state Legislature.

n What would you contribute to this office that

you feel your opponent cannot or will not?

Our campaign is focused on the positive reasons to support our candidacy. However, as described above, I have a lifetime of public service and a record of results. The one word I would give voters to support our candidacy is: leadership.

n What are the three most significant challenges facing your constituents today? If elected, what would you do to address the challenges?

1) Promoting economic growth; 2) expanding opportunity; and 3) improving our quality of life.

To promote growth, I will ensure that taxes remain low, apply fiscally conservative budgeting priorities, and hold government spending in check, just as businesses and individuals do.

We can expand opportunity through top-quality education. I support school choice, so that parents and students can choose the education best suited to each child’s needs. We should allow for customized education, which may include tutors or online learning to supplement classroom instruction. Our flagship programs are another great example. We should provide greater flexibility in the classroom and empower parents outside the classroom, so that each child stays at or above grade level in all subjects.

Finally, Flagler County provides a great quality of life. As we grow, we need to maintain what drew us here. This includes strong public safety, good roads, clean beaches and smart resource management of our water sources, parks and recreation facilities.

Ronald Sanchez

Q &A

AGE: 72 CITY OF RESIDENCE: Highway 13, outside of St. Augustine YEARS LIVED IN THIS COMMUNITY: 15

HOBBIES/INTERESTS: Fishing, very little golf, government, serving people FAMILY: Wife, step-daughter, one grandson

n Explain how your professional career so far has qualified you for this position.

I have eight years in banking. Almost 40 years self-employed in two successful small business.

Eighteen-and-a-half years in government positions. Ten-and-a-half years was with St. Augustine Beach and was unpaid. All of these years have been working with and serving people.

n What would you contribute to this office that you feel your opponent can’t?

I can’t talk of what my opponents can or cannot do; however, I think my experience and record are very important to this position. I don’t need to talk about being conservative, I have a record to prove it.

n What are the three most significant challenges facing your constituents today? If elected, what would you do to address the challenges?

All three counties have some of the same problems. Water quality, transportation infrastructure, quality of life issues, no more unfunded mandates and so on. I believe people are concerned about spending and further taxation. I will not support new or additional taxes and will look at everything to see if we can cut spending. In St. Johns County, we changed the concept of buying from “what we want to what we absolutely must have.”

The state is aware of these challenges, and it is a matter of creating support to solve them. I am good at working with fellow members of a committee to get things done. This again is where the experience comes in handy.

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+ Palm Coast street superintendent resigns City of Palm Coast Street Superintendent Tony Capela resigned suddenly late on Friday, Jan. 9, submitting to the city just a onesentence letter that said that he was resigning, “effective immediately.”

The letter gives no reason Tony Capela for the resignation.

Capela, 46, was hired Nov. 6, 2006, Palm Coast spokeswoman Cindi Lane said, and oversaw about 100 people in his role as head of the Division of Streets and Drainage, part of the city’s Public Works Department.

“There was no problem, no issue” with Capela, Lane said.

“It was completely his choice.

Tony was a very valuable employee to the city.”

Capela was cleared of ethics charges of favoritism and corruption in a 2012 case in which the

+ County Commissioner Revels faces up to $2,500 in ethics fines The Florida Commission on Ethics’ advocate has recommended that Flagler County Commissioner Barbara Revels be fined a total of $2,500 for two ethics violations concerning the commission’s vote to purchase the old Memorial Hospital property for use as a new Sheriff’s Operations Center.

The case will go before the Florida Commission on Ethics Jan. 23. The Commission’s advocate has found probable cause on two of three allegations brought against Revels by Palm Coast resident Ray Stevens: that she had twice, without disclosing a potential conflict of interest, voted on the hospital purchase even though she was a business associate — through shares in Intracoastal Bank — of Bruce Page, Michael Chiumento and James Newslow, owners of the hospital property.

The commission’s advocate found no cause for a third allegation, that by accepting an increase in her line of credit at the bank, from $100,000 to $300,000, in late May 2014, she had accepted something of value meant to influence her vote.

Revels released the following written statement on the case to the press after a Jan. 12 County Commission meeting: “After working with the Flagler County Ethics Commission to resolve the question of a voting conflict of interest to purchase the Bunnell hospital property, I now have a clear understanding of the statute’s intent on ‘business relationships.’

“At the time I felt I complied with all requirements and could vote on the purchase. I have since learned that my minority ownership of stock (less than 1%) still gives the appearance of a business relationship with other stock owners.

“To avoid the appearance of impropriety, I should have filed a conflict of interest form and not participated in the vote.

“Further I am pleased the Ethics Commission determined that I did not benefit from the sale nor did I receive favorable treatment from the bank. The commission only found a procedural violation.

“The appropriate use of Flagler’s citizens’ tax dollars is always my overriding concern when making these kinds of decisions. I still believe the county received a good value in the purchase of the property.”

Florida Commission on Ethics found no probable cause for complaints against him that had been filed by a former employee.

Lane said Jan. 13 that the city had not yet decided whether it will promote someone to Capela’s

position or conduct an outside search for a new division head.

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Knight, who filed two lawsuits against city and county governments, was arrested on battery domestic violence and false imprisonment charges Jan. 12 after his wife told deputies he’d attacked her and torn her clothes.

The incident happened the afternoon of Monday, Jan. 12.

Knight, who represented the Flagler Palm Coast Watchdogs in a suit against the county over the purchase of the hospital last September, had been in court that morning for Joshua Knight a hearing to determine how much he and his client, Senate District 6 candidate Dennis McDonald would have to pay in court fees for a suit against the city of Palm Coast. That hearing was continued.

When Knight got home at about 2:20 p.m., his wife later told deputies, he was “acting angry and aggressive” and smelled of alcohol. In the course of the night, he shoved her into the bedroom, she said. As he turned away, she shut the door, locked it, and called his father.

Knight’s father called the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office from Georgia. Knight “refused to let her leave the bedroom for approximately 30 minutes” according to the arrest report.

He was arrested Knight and took him to jail.

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THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 2015

winning pedigree By Jeff Dawsey | Sports Writer

Jeff Dawsey | Sports Writer

Finalists sweep championships FPC wrestling team had 11 Top-6 finishes at the 29th-annual Rotary Invitational.

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Pete LoPrete, with two outs, knocks in a run to contribute to his team.

Pete LoPrete celebrates 90th birthday playing ball Fourscore and six years ago, Pete LoPrete began playing baseball, and at 90 years old, pitching in the Wadsworth Park Senior Softball League, he still enjoys the game with childlike enthusiasm.

The softball league threw LoPrete a birthday party on opening day, which was Friday, Jan. 9. Many of his friends and family came out and celebratJEFF ed with him.

“We all admire Pete DAWSEY and look up to him as an icon,” said Bob Seelig, the league’s treasurer. “It’s encouraging that he still comes out here with that big smile on his face and plays as hard as he does. There aren’t many 90-year-olds playing softball right now.”

“I started very young, and now it’s just automatic that I come out and play” LoPrete added. “I never think about age.

Softball is a game I fell in love with and have kept playing.”

LoPrete was born on Dec. 24, 1924, in New Jersey, where he still plays softball in the summer league. His favorite softball memory came when he got his team’s first hit on the King and his court — a famous four-man softball entertainment team — while playing in the military in the Philippines during World War II. “That was fun,” he said. “I really enjoyed that. It’s been a good life for me, traveling around the world playing softball. I’ve met some good players, guys and gals.” LoPrete has won many softball championships; he also placed second at the 2003 U.S. National Senior Olympic Softball Championship in the over-70 division with his New Jersey team.

On the league’s opening day, LoPrete, among other stats, recorded a strikeout and an RBI, facing two outs.

When asked how long he wants to continue to play, LoPrete responded, “As long as these guys want to put up with me.

They’re amazing. We come out here and kid around and laugh at each other; I just hope we can keep it up. It’s still fun.”

The Flagler Palm Coast wrestling team finished in second place at the 29th-annual Flagler Rotary Invitational Saturday, Jan. 10, at FPC High School.

The Bulldogs went into the final day in third place, but all four of their finalists won their championship matches, and other wrestlers won consolation bouts, which vaulted FPC ahead of Winter Springs, the 2014 Rotary champions.

The champions for FPC were Zac Branning, Jackson Trivett, Kaz Maia and Alfred Shavers, who was also awarded the Outstanding Wrestler.

Shavers defeated the defending state champion, Brandon Staley, who was previously undefeated.

“He gave me my only loss at Lyman, and I just went out there with confidence,” Shavers said. “That loss made me work harder. I wasn’t challenged before him, so I wasn’t as focused as I was today.”

On his future state finals plans, Shavers added, “I plan to win. I’ve beaten him once; I can do it again.”

Zac Branning won the 106pound weight division at the 29th Flagler Rotary Invitational.

Shavers is 19-1, while Trivett and Maia remained undefeated at 20-0 on the season.

Trivett also became the first FPC wrestler to win backto-back Rotary Tournament championships in over 15 years.

Other notable finishes include Evyn Insalaco and Jakob Dempsey, who placed third, and Tariq Johnson, a fourthplace finisher. Michael DeAugustino finished in fifth, and Avery Holder, Eric Rosso and Steve Canidate finished in sixth.

“Going into this tournament, we knew it was going to be hard to beat the best team in the state (South Dade), who is nationally ranked,” coach Tom Bartolotta said. “We wrestled hard and improved, but we had some minor setbacks.

Overall, I’m proud of my team, and I am learning what it takes to make this program a top notch program like it was under Steve DeAugustino.”

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Jackson Trivett became the only FPC wrestler to win back-to-back Rotary championships since the 90s.

Photos by Jeff Dawsey

Rocky Samples competed in the third-place match at the Rotary Tournament.

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Alfred Shavers celebrates his win over the defending state champion.

Kaz Maia gets his armed raised after winning the 145-pound weight division.

Photos by Jeff Dawsey

Maverick Dennis pinned Will Kohlhaas of Fletcher High to take fifth place for the Pirates.

MATANZAS GETS TWO IN FINALS ROUND AT ROTARY TOURNAMENT

The Matanzas Pirates were represented by Maverick Dennis and Rocky Samples on the final day of the Rotary Tournament.

Dennis finished in fifth place in the 170-pound division by way of pinfall, and Samples finished in fourth, losing in the thirdplace match of the 103-pound division. Overall, the Pirates finished in 11th place out of the 32 schools that competed.

“It’s obviously a tough, tough tournament,” coach John White said. “I was hoping we could finish Top 10, but we had some good success. My 132- and 138-pounder did some tremendous jobs; they’re only second-year wrestlers. This is the kind of tournament where you come in and see what you have to work on, so we’ll get back to training, and hopefully, we’ll be ready. I’m excited.”

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through hoops ... By Jeff Dawsey | Sports Writer

Shakir and Mlinac: colorblind friendship Tahiem Shakir and Madison Mlinac are best friends, and they don’t care who gets offended.

Amid the racial controversy from the various police shootings around the country, Matanzas’ Madison Mlinac expressed his thoughts with a Twitter meme from the “Remember the Titans” movie, in which Julius Campbell, the black captain of the integrated football team, went into the hospital to visit Gary Bertier, the white captain, who had just gotten into a bad car crash. When Bertier’s nurse notified Campbell that only family was allowed in the room, Bertier replied, “Alice,

Madison Mlinac and Tahiem Shakir often lost their voices cheering for the volleyball team this past season.

are you blind? Don’t you see the family resemblance? He’s my brother.” Mlinac had Pirates’ co-captain Tahiem Shakir, his “brother,” in mind.

Mlinac and Shakir grew up around the other race. Mlinac says that he’s played basketball all his life, and he made black friends as a young person. Shakir has always been colorblind in the way he sees people, which shows even now. Every day, he says that he hugs a white girl with Down syndrome because “she loves it, and she’s such a sweet girl,” but according to Shakir, all of their peers don’t accept their friendship.

“There are certain groups that will make smart comments and black jokes about some of the things Madison and I say or do,” Shakir said. “I try not to let it affect me. I just smile and keep it moving.”

The two don’t understand the racial disconnect in America. To them, the color of skin isn’t worth missing out on a potential life-lasting bond, which they share.

“I feel like all these fights and the racial slurs are beyond stupid, and they shouldn’t be used in any sense,” Mlinac said. “It is completely unnecessary; it’s just a color. We are the same inside, just different colors, but that shouldn’t change the way we think of each other.”

Shakir remembers two separate relationships he had in high school with girls of the opposite race that were going well until the girls’ parents realized he was black.

“The parents ended our relationships

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Tahiem Shakir and Madison Mlinac before they even had a chance because they didn’t like black people,” he said. “It angers me that adults are like that. Neither of their parents met me, but they never gave me a chance, based on the color of my skin.”

Unlike those girls’ parents and the kids who make nasty remarks, Mlinac and Shakir gave each other the chance at friendship through sports, and they have gotten closer as the years have passed. The two became friends during their freshman basketball season. Mlinac says that he began to grow closer to Shakir because Shakir didn’t take his jokes as seriously as his other friends did, and when he would go to

school sporting events and scream, Shakir would join in, and they would cheer together. It’s not unusual to see the pair in a Matanzas fan section screaming, showing their support. Madison was voted leader of the Pirate Nation this year.

After basketball season, the two will become Matanzas’ high jumpers, where they say they spend the entire meet day motivating each other to perform well.

“Everyone needs someone like Madison to keep your head up and to motivate you like we do for each other,” Shakir said.

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JUST BETTER By Jeff Dawsey | Sports Writer

FPC wins easily over Mainland The Bulldogs put up eight goals to stop Mainland with the mercy rule.

The Flagler Palm Coast Bulldogs (15-4-1, 5-0-1) soccer team imposed the mercy rule on the Mainland Buccaneers (1-11-3, 1-8) by beating them, 8-0, Tuesday Jan. 13, at Mainland High School.

FPC’s Julio Adao recorded a hat trick, scoring on three unassisted goals to lead the Bulldogs. Jeff St. Val scored two goals, and Gerald Lalane, Robbie Ferguson and Buchanan Mercuis each netted one. Stanley Joseph finished with three assists, while Gabriel Orren had two and Nield Joseph one. Carter Kusek had three saves to record FPC’s seventh clean sheet of the season.

“All of our guys contributed in this win,” coach Reg Monsanto said. “We put in all 21 players on the roster, and everyone chipped in and did a great job. We tied against them last year, when we should’ve won, so we’re glad we were able to avenge that.”

The Bulldogs are riding on a four-game win streak with just another regular-season match before they host the district tournament.

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The Bulldogs have one of the most dominant offenses and defenses in the area, averaging over four goals per game, while only giving up one per contest. They have 10 players who have scored at least five goals this season, nine of them scoring at least seven.

“It is a dream come true that we don’t have to lean on one or two guys to do it all for us,” Monsanto added. “That’s the style we set out to play, which gives all of our players many opportunities in front of the goal.”

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THE BITE REPORT By Jonathan Simmons | News Editor

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Women Jan. 6: Modified odd and even: 1st Flight: Barbara Mott, Zita Corum, Marilyn Gingles, draw, 90; Second Place, Alice Ebbenhorst; Lori Comeau; Vivian Yozzo, Joan Callahan, 94; 2nd Flight: Cathy Lindstrom, Barbara Edwards, Carol Wolfe, Pat Golomb, 90; Second Place (tie): Karen Gillis, Pat Smith, Ruth Erdner, Elaine Worsfold; and Sara Lockhart, Margaret Healy, Diana Figliuolo, and Marion Schile, 91.

Men Jan. 7: Stableford two-man team: Dennis Durand and Rick White 77, Roger Consolla and John Kantakevicius 77; 2nd Flight: Larry Geiser and Mike Prior 75, Steve Schile and art Canino 72; 3rd Flight: Hawley Rogers and Chuck Culver 73, ted Kolva and John McNamara; 4th Flight: Bob Mehl and Blind Draw 70, Ken Moffa and John Redfern 70; Closest to the pin: No. 5 Bob Mehl, No. 8 Jan Marsh, No. 14 Mike Prior, No. 17 Larry Geiser.

Redfish bite to pick up ry off the pier.”

Guide Chris Herrera said he’s had success on the flats with redfish, and found black drum in the creek holes in the first half of the incoming tide.

“A lot of the smaller stuff, right now, is in the flats. You’re getting the black drum in the holes, first of the incoming tides.

Redfish are up in the flats. They’re eating, but not great.”

Quartered crab and cut mullet are bringing the bite, he said, as are soft plastics fished slowly across the bottom.

It’s still been too cold for pompano, he said, but there’s a bit of a trout bite in the creeks, and sheepshead are biting in Matanzas Inlet, especially in the last two hours of an outgoing tide on fiddler crabs or shucked, cut oysters.

“They see that they just jump all over it,” he said. “As the weather patterns change and it gets nice out, look for schools of reds up on the flats looking for something to eat.”

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Gleichmann said his charters “slaughtered the little redfish” in the lower slot 18- to 22-inch range on two trips on Sunday and Tuesday before the rainy weather began. He fished in 2- to 3-foot water in the canals, where fish were congregating as the temperatures began to drop, he said. In Flagler Beach, he said, “The sheepshead fishing on the pier has been on fire. We’ve had two or three members (of the Flagler Sportfishing Club) catch sheepshead in the 4- to 5-pound catego-

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Sean Sweeney welcomes a spray of color as he nears the finish line at the Color Me Crazy for Christ 5K hosted by Trinity Presbyterian Church.

Powdered paint met runners at four stations Saturday morning at Trinity Presbyterian Church’s Color Me Crazy for Christ 5K run/walk. The event, which drew 100 participants was a fundraiser for the church’s middle school mission trip and its senior high trip to a summer youth conference.

“The race was a success,” said Brooke Tucker. “Our main goal was to host a fun community event and to not lose money while doing it. Everyone had a smile on their face at the finish, and we earned money for our youth, so it was a success.”

Trinity is already looking forward to hosting the same event next year with plans to make it bigger and better.

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Student collaboration brings ‘Cinderella’ to life Nine weeks of collaboration between Flagler Palm Coast High School theater student Gerald Kitt and Valerie Sanson’s sixth-grade drama class at Wadsworth Elementary School took the stage for two performances of “Cinderella” Monday and Tuesday.

The partnership was part of the school’s STEAM flagship, which aims to introduce students to science, technology, engineering, art and math with the goal of developing the whole child. Principal John Fanelli said that by giving students the opportunity to experience various electives in elementary school, it prepares them for class selection in higher grade levels.

“They will have first-hand knowledge of what they like,” he said.

Sanson’s theater class is doing just that by introducing them to the art of acting.

“Sometimes we seem to lose what the value is, but we are fortunate here in Flagler that with flagship emphasis is helping to rebuild the arts,” Sanson said. “When I started teaching 25 years ago, we had four productions a year, and I’m thrilled to work with this

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Sanson stressed the importance of theater in schools with a statement in the program reading, “There are many benefits of a dramatic theatre education to include increasing a child’s perception of their world, a heightened self-understanding, broader character traits, improved verbal and nonverbal communications, creativity, and interdisciplinary learning while interfacing diverse cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds.”

As student producer and director, Kitt said the collaboration allowed him to grow throughout the process.

“I learned tolerance,” he said. “Seeing the kids grow throughout the performance, I see myself in them.”

But the collaboration did not stop with Kitt. FPC students Trevor Dunham and Christina Goodin also assisted with technical aspects of the show.

Costumes were rented from Ann Paris and the Buddy Taylor Middle School drama program and altered by Janet Powell. And Wadsworth art teacher Lizzie Campanella and her art students created Cinderella’s carriage.

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Wadsworth art teacher Lizzie Campanella and her art students created Cinderella’s carriage.

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Below: Nyzayah Watson plays the role of Fairy Godmother.

Student director Gerald Kitt accepts flowers at the end of the play.

Chancelor Parker plays the prince in the Wadsworth production of “Cinderella.”

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The Palm Coast Civil War Round Table — 6:30 p.m. at the Palm Coast Community Center, 305 Palm Coast Parkway. Meets the third Thursday of each month.

Re-enactor Margaret Kaler portraying Dr. Esther Hill Hawks. Dr. Hawks was unable to serve as an Army surgeon during the war because of her gender. Therefore she educated newly freed slaves on Hilton Head Island and established Florida’s first interracial school.

“Olympics of the Mind” Competition Kickoff Registration — 7 p.m. at the Flagler County Youth Center, 5510 E. State Road 100. Encourages all high school students, who meet the criteria (must be

of African-American or Latino descent), to register to win scholarship dollars. Call 675-3774.

FRIDAY, JAN. 16

AARP Driver Safety Program — 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Palm Coast Community Center, 305 Palm Coast Parkway NE. For motorists over 50 to update their driving knowledge and skills. Call 445-1476.

Tree-Planting Ceremony to Remember Mary Lou Baiata — 9 a.m. at Central Park at Palm Coast Town Center. The Garden Club at Palm Coast will commemorate Florida Arbor Day. There will be a special tree-planting ceremony to remember Mary Lou Baiata, founder of Nature Scapes Landscape and Garden Center. Guest speaker Jason DeLorenzo. Call 446-0341.

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Luncheon for the Survivor Group — 11:15 a.m. at the Knights of Columbus, N. Old Kings Road. Information about Women’s Self Defense Classes. Reservations are mandatory. Call 586-0407.

Book Sale — 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Flagler County Library. Hosted by the Friends of the Library of Flagler County.

Books, puzzles, CDs and DVDs available.

Pennsylvania Club of Flagler Luncheon — 1 p.m. at Hilton Garden Inn, 55 Town Center Blvd. Come dine and socialize with fellow Pennsylvanians. Call 597-7599.

Flagler Youth Dek Hockey Game Registration — 9 to 11 a.m. at Flagler Palm Coast High School. No skating required. For boys and girls ages 6-15. The registration fee is $25 to cover the cost of team T-Shirts, refreshments and season end awards. Games are every Saturday morning until April 18. Call 569-9998.

Freethinkers Meeting — 9:30 a.m. at Belle Terre Swim and Racquet Club. Call 4462643.

Maya Angelou Pageant — 10 a.m. at Carver Community Center. Girls ages 13 to 18. Pageant immediately following the march/parade. Register call 334-8791.

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Refreshments. Free. Call 437-7633.

SUNDAY, JAN. 18

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration — 8 a.m. at First Church, 91 Old Kings Road N. Learn how God uses change agents like the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., as the Rev. Dr. Gillard Glover preaches at 8 a.m. and 10 a.m. Call 446-5759.

Waterfront 5K and 10-Mile Run — 9:30 a.m. at Waterfront Park. A part of the Palm Coast Running Series where experienced and novice runners a year-round opportunity to compete, or walkers to enjoy exhilarating walks in Palm Coast. Register at www.palmcoastgov.com/WaterfrontRun Prayer March for Life — 3:30 p.m. at Veterans Park, Flagler Beach. Come join in prayer to end abortion.

Society Dinner Meetings — 4 p.m. at the African American Cultural Society, Inc., 4422 U.S. 1 N. Featuring member Edward H. Brown Jr., historian and author. The focus will be on the history of black freedom activities from antiquity through civil rights. Cost for each dinner is $20 for members, $25 for nonmembers. Reservations: 447-7030 or at aacspc.eventbrite.com.

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Ecumenical Service for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. — 11 a.m. at the First Baptist Church, 6050 Palm Coast Parkway NW. Hosted by the New York City Retirees of Florida Chapter 2. Dr. Terence S. Culver, the principal of Belle Terre Elementary School as the Guest Speaker. Music will be provided by the Community Chorus of Palm Coast under the Direction of Linda Hodges.

This year’s theme: “There is but One Race and that is The Human Race.” Parents are urged to bring their children. All are invited to attend. Contact Marie McCray at 9864847 or Thea Smith 446-4657.

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Death Over Dinner — 6 to 7:30 p.m. at Florida Hospital Flagler, Education Room D. Death over Dinner is an open, honest conversation about all aspects of death and about celebrating life. The group meets monthly in Palm Coast for lively discussion and a meal. This is an educational, practical and joyful series of gatherings that encourages conversation about death and how to get more out of life. It will include a session on estate planning with an elder attorney and many other topics: talking to your family, creating a bucket list, organ donation, and much more. Space is limited.

Please call 585-4032 to reserve a seat.

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Wild Card Tournament — all day at the Palm Coast Tennis Center, 1290 Belle Terre Parkway. Monday through Wednesday, Jan. 19-21, a preliminary event leading up the USTA Pro Circuit Men’s Futures Tournament scheduled for Jan. 24 to Feb. 2. $54.25 per person — singles only.

Winner receives a wild card entry into the main draw; runner-up receives a wild card entry into qualifying. Call 986-2550.

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Lunch n’ Lecture: Palm Coast Birding — 11 a.m. at the Palm Coast Community Center. The presenter will be Jason Giraulo, the city’s digital communications coordinator, who is also founder and director of the new Birds of a Feather Fest being held in Palm Coast in February. Free. Pre-register by 11 a.m. Jan. 20. Call 986-2323.

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shanna’s kitchen By Shanna Fortier | Community Editor

Hall, Culinary Team USA bring home two golds The first time I interviewed Jason Hall, chef at the Hammock Dunes Club, he had just passed a gruling eight-day cooking exam to become the 67th Certified Master Chef. That was in 2012, and he told me that his next goal was to make the American Culinary Federation’s Culinary Team USA and to compete in the Culinary Olympics.

SHANNA He made the team FORTIER in 2013 and with two years until the Olympics, he and the culinary team recently returned from Luxemburg, where they competed in the at the 12th-annual Villeroy & Boch Culinary World Cup where they earned two gold medals and the the highest score in the cold-food competition.

The team placed third overall in the world against national chef teams from 29 other countries. George Castaneda, Culinary Team USA member and executive chef of Sodexo North America in Franklin, Tennessee, won the Villeroy & Boch Culinary World Cup in individual cooking becoming the first American chef to ever win gold as an individual.

“We’re extremely proud of him; he’s a massive talent and extremely humble,” Hall said Monday at a private tasting held at the Hammock Dunes Club. “We always felt like we were gelling more and more, but when we got there, our hot food was the smoothest we had every done it, and it showed just how well we worked together and how far we had come.”

I felt humbled to get an invite to the event which preceded a question-andanswer session with members of the

Hammock Dunes Club.

Myself, along with three other writers and members of the American Culinary Federation had the extreme pleasure of tasting four of the dishes that were presented in Luxemburg and the opportunity to talk with the team candidly about their experience.

“We’re probably the youngest team in history,” Hall said before the courses came. “I think we proved ourselves in Luxemburg.”

Going in to the tasting, I was prepared to eat things I had never heard of before, fancy classic dishes that tantalized the taste buds. Of the four dishes presented, there were two that I couldn’t get enough of. This first was the entre, presented by Hall. The dish, a horseradish crusted tenderloin with sweetbread sausage, carrot puree, Brussel sprout and celery rootblack truffle presse, aimed to show utilization of the entire animal. The sausage was a mix of ground trim, raw sweetbread, smoked julienne tongue and poached sweetbread.

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The dessert plate presented by Culinart Team USA member Corey Siegel.

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Hammock Dunes Club chef, Jason Hall, certified master chef, is one of six chefs that competed in the hot-food kitchen Nov. 22 where they prepared a three-course dinner for 110 people in six hours.

But my ultimate favorite was, of course, the dessert dish. Presented by Corey Siegal, 23, the youngest ever member of the team, the dessert plate was a play on the dish presented at the competition, including crème fraiche cremeux with a salted caramel sauce, bread pudding carpaccio, apple pie filling with a brioche doughnut and red current sorbet over gingersnap.

“It’s a really awesome experience to go to battle with these guys against other countries,” Siegel said with a huge smile on his face as the table of tasters tried not to lick their plates clean.

But this is just the halfway mark. For the next two years, the team will be working toward bringing home a medal from the 2016 Culinary Olympics in Germany.

“All of us have full-time jobs, so it’s not uncommon for us to stay long after our staffs go home,” Hall said when asked

about preparation for competition. “I’ve literally stayed here until the next day working on a dish and that’s just the commitment we all have.”

But unlike other countries competing, the USA Culinary Team is not government-funded and must fundraise. Because proteins and dairy in other countries have different fat content, the team must bring much of their own product to work with for competition. Bringing with him all the beef and dairy to make 110 servings of his dish in Luxemburg, Hall’s luggage fee rang up to $900. To help offset expenses, the team has sponsors. But locally, the members of Hammock Dunes Club wanted to do something to help their favorite club chef. At a Taste of the Team fundraiser held Tuesday night at the club, the team was given a donation check of $30,000.

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Palm Harbor home tops sales list at $459,000

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William Richardson Jr. and Alan Richardson, of Falls Church, Virginia, sold the home at 7 Pacific Drive to Jean Clause St. Pierre and Lisette St. Pierre, of Palm Coast, for $140,000. Built in 1989, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,605 square feet of living area.

James Blake, of Palm Coast, sold the home at 23 Packard Lane to Robert Clark, of Palm Coast, for $116,000. Built in 1981, it has three bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 1,288 square feet of living area.

Cinnamon Beach Benjamin Scott Jr. and Andrew Pratt, of Piqua, Ohio, sold the condo at 300 Cinnamon Beach Way, Unit 242, to Kenneth and Judith Ciesielski, of Fort Mill, South Carolina, for $330,000. Built in 2005, it

Hammock Beach Club John McMahan, of Ponte Vedra Beach, sold the condo at 200 Ocean Crest Drive, Unit 316, to Alison Athens-Moore and Darren Moore, of White, Georgia, for $330,000. Built in 2003, it has three bedrooms, three baths and 1,676 square feet of living area.

Hammock Dunes La Grande Richard and Judith Rathburn, of Belmont, Michigan, sold the condo at 15 Avenue De La Mer, Unit 2304, to Betty Gilley, of Atlanta, for $325,000. Built in 1996, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,458 square feet of living area.

Harbor Side Village Fannie Mae sold the condo at 50 Palm Harbor Parkway, Unit 31, to Grand Cul De Sac Opportunities Fund LLC for $160,000.

Built in 2003, it has three bedrooms, 3.5 baths and 2,149 square feet of living area.

Hidden Lakes Jurgen and Adel Escher, of Palm Coast, sold the home at 80 Arena Lake Drive to Gary and Rita Desalve, of Palm Coast, for $280,000. Built in 2013, it has four bedrooms, two baths and 2,731 square feet of living area.

Robert Doornbos, of Frankfort, Illinois, sold the home at 8 Reindeer Lane to Ronald Long and Vicki Powell Long, of Fort Lauderdale, for $158,650. Built in 2005, it has three bedrooms, two baths and 2,249 square feet of living area.

Palm Harbor Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. sold the home at 20 Clearview Court S. to Luc N. Dorias, of Palm Coast, for $287,000.

Built in 1980, it has three bedrooms, 2.5 baths, a pool, a fireplace, a summer kitchen, a boat dock and house and 2,509 square feet of living area.

Kunka Petkov, of Staten Island, New York, sold the home at 33 Farmbrook Lane to Karen Zimmerman, of Palm Coast, for $110,000. Built in 1974, it has three bedrooms, two baths and 1,783 square feet of living area.

Selma Klettke, individually and as trustee of the Adolf G. and Selma Klettke Revocable Living Trust, sold the home at 50 Foster Lane to Harold Urunson and Milla Urunson, of Denver, for $123,000. Built in 2004, it has three bedrooms, two baths and 1,557 square feet of living area.

BKG Properties LLC and SMT Properties Group LLC sold the home at 14 Foxhall Lane to Alan and Linda Goldman, of Randolph, Massachusetts, for $196,000.

Built in 1991, it has three bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 1,735 square feet of living area.

Pine Grove Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. sold the home at 37 Poinsettia Lane to William Montanez and Eva Montanez, of Carrolton, Texas, for $177,000. Built in

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Keith Stewart Mundis, of Taylor, South Carolina, sold the home at 321 12th St. N. to Charles Merenda, of Flagler Beach, for $277,000. Built in 1985, it has three bedrooms, two baths, a pool, a boat dock, house and lift and 1,658 square feet of living area.

Glenn and Patricia Mueller, of Palm Coast, sold the home at 4 Village View Drive to Edgar and Sharon Walter, of Flagler Beach, for $295,000. Built in 2002, it has three bedrooms, two baths and 1,960 square feet of living area.

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JPMorgan Chase Bank sold the home at 22 Belvedere Lane to Island Investments of PC LLC for $65,000. Built in 1986, it has two bedrooms, two baths, a fireplace and 1,650 square feet of living area.

Henry Leipold, of Palm Coast, sold the home at 78 Burbank Drive to David Parag, of Palm Coast, for $185,000. Built in 1995, it has three bedrooms, two baths, a boat dock and 2,532 square feet of living area.

Diane and Richard Simons, of Palm Coast, sold the home at 6 Lakeside Place W. to James and Cindy Atwell, of Silver Springs, Maryland, for $280,000. Built in 2003, it has five bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 2,675 square feet of living area.

Fannie Mae sold the home at 4 Barkwood Lane to Christine F. Heise and Charles Anasagasti, of Palm Coast, for $165,000. Built in 2006, it has three bedrooms, two baths and 2,341 square feet of living area.

Steve Thomas, of Palm Coast, sold the home at 11 Birchwood Place to Michael Morrison, of Palm Coast, for $230,000.

Built in 2000, it has three bedrooms, two baths, a pool, a fireplace and 2,518 square feet of living area.

Clarence Gomes and Sue Gomes, of Bradenton, sold the home at 16 Biscay Lane to Dennis St. John and Shirley St. John, of Palm Coast, for $145,000. Built in 2003, it has three bedrooms, two baths and 1,749 square feet of living area.

Sonya Hope, a personal representative of the estate of Karolyne Underwood White, sold the home at 61 Blakemore Drive to Mohammad Rana, of Oakdale, New York, for $60,000. Built in 1980, it has three bedrooms, two baths, a fireplace and 1,263 square feet of living area.

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A Palm Harbor home tops the sales list for Flagler County residential real estate transactions the weeks of Nov. 27 to Dec. 10, 2014. John and Julia Wilson, of Palm Coast, sold the home at 2 Cherrytree Court to 2 Cherrytree LLC for $459,000. Built in 1998, it has four bedrooms, two baths, a pool, a boat dock and 2,693 square feet of living area.

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Palm Coast, for $134,500. Built in 1984, it has three bedrooms, two baths and 1,692 square feet of living area.

JPMorgan Chase Bank sold the home at 1 West Place to JKR Investment Group Inc. for $127,000. Built in 2002, it has four bedrooms, two baths, a pool, a spa and 2,133 square feet of living area.

Fannie Mae sold the home at 91 Whispering Pine Drive to Bozena Baster-Dobrzeniecki, of Palm Coast, for $160,000.

Built in 2005, it has three bedrooms, two baths and 2,043 square feet of living area.

JKR Investment Group sold the home at 3 Woodshaw Lane to Charles and Shirley Morrison, of Palm Coast, for $172,500.

Built in 1987, it has three bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 1,716 square feet of living area.

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The home at 2 Cherrytree Court has four bedrooms, two baths, a pool, a boat dock and 2,693 square feet of living area.

2006, it has five bedrooms, three baths and 3,004 square feet of living area.

Louis Grego, of Palm Coast, sold the home at 47 Primrose Lane to Francisco Araque, of Palm Coast, for $193,000. Built in 2003, it has three bedrooms, two baths, a pool, a spa and 2,020 square feet of living area.

Fannie Mae sold the home at 64 Providence Lane to Douglas Gutierrez, of Palm Coast, for $115,000. Built in 1997, it has three bedrooms, two baths and 1,318 square feet of living area.

Pine Lakes Wells Fargo Bank sold the home at

12 Walla Place to Aleksandr and Galina Karmonik, of Brooklyn, New York, for $155,000. Built in 1998, it has four bedrooms, three baths and 2,664 square feet of living area.

Evelyn Carr, of Palm Coast, sold the home at 17 Westfalls Lane to Ronald and Carole Rockwood, of Palm Coast, for $109,500. Built in 1986, it has three bedrooms, two baths, a spa and 1,247 square feet of living area.

Vincent and Susan Agostino, of Palm Coast, sold the home at 44 Woodlawn Drive to William and Linda Clark, of Palm Coast, for $195,000. Built in 1999, it has three bedrooms, two baths, a pool and

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Jo-Ann Mack, of Palm Coast, sold the home at 125 Wynnfield Drive to Donals and LaRose Walker, of Palm Coast, for $180,000. Built in 1995, it has three bedrooms, two baths and 2,132 square feet of living area.

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. sold the home at 72 Wellstone Drive to Leonardo Hylton and Romira Hylton, of Palm Coast, for $134,900. Built in 2004, it has four bedrooms, two baths and 1,861 square feet of living area.

Rishard Rothfeld and Barbara Rothfeld, of Palm Coast, sold the home at 24 Wellwater Drive to Christine Williams, of

Steven Thomas and Bruce Garrison, trustees of the 20 Zoeller Court Trust, sold the home at 20 Zoeller Court to Jamie Carlsen, of Wesley Chapel, for $132,000.

Built in 2005, it has three bedrooms, two baths and 1,625 square feet of living area.

Erica Douge and Emmanuel Douge, of Palm Coast, sold the home at 18 Lloyd Trail to Karen Garcia-Jimenez, of Palm Coast, for $144,000. Built in 2004, it has four bedrooms, two baths and 2,255 square feet of living area.

Seminole Woods Santander Bank sold the home at 17 Slumberland Path to Lilly Ann Avarez, of Palm Coast, for $135,000. Built in 2006, it has three bedrooms, two baths and 1,773 square feet of living area.

Tidelands FL House LLC sold the condo at 80 Riverview Bend S., Unit 822, to Ronald Jackson Flora and Kathy Deshazer, of Palm Coast, for $144,000. Built in 2006, it has three bedrooms, two baths and 1,461 square feet of living area.

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PALM COAST BUSINESS ACTIVITY According to Palm Coast’s Business Assistance Center, the following companies were issued tax receipts Dec. 18 to Jan. 7: • Asian Farmers Market LLC is a retail sales store at 3 Kings Way. • Serenity Spa & Wellness Center is a salon at 1 Farraday Lane.

PALM COAST PERMITS

The following is an update for permit activity in the city for Dec. 18 to Jan. 7.

Total number of all permits issued: 328.

Commercial permit applications:

• Hawkins Construction applied for three permits: one $1,323,000 permit for a shell building (Unit G) at 250 Palm Coast Parkway, Unit 200; a second for $280,000 for a shell building (Unit D) at Unit 900; and a third for $262,000 for a shell building (Unit C) at Unit 700.

Commercial permits issued:

• Hawkins Construction was issued an $872,000 permit for a nine-unit shell building (A-1) at 250 Palm Coast Parkway, Unit 500.

• Hawkins Construction was issued a $467,000 permit for a seven-unit shell building (A-2) at 250 Palm Coast Parkway, Unit 500.

Residential permits issued:

• Town and Country Homes was issued a $371,000 permit for a single-family residence at 102 Whittington Drive.

• Skyway Builders was issued a $364,000 permit for single-family residence at 14 Bluejack Court.

• Intervest Construction was issued a $334,000 permit for a single-family residence at 59 N Waterview Drive.

• Seagate Homes was issued a $306,000 permit for a single-family residence at 27 Ethan Allen Drive.

• Seagate Homes was issued a $300,000 permit for a single-family residence at 88 Slumber Meadow Trail.

• Adams Homes was issued a $289,000

permit for a single-family residence at 10 Zorro Court.

• Vanacore Construction was issued a $280,000 permit for a single-family residence at 200 London Drive.

• KB Homes was issued a $253,000 permit for a single-family residence at 102 S. Starling Drive.

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Occupancy permits:

• Ellen Sue Schedin was issued an occupancy permit for Thai Korner Restaurant at 1280 Palm Coast Parkway, Suite 209.

• Chris Cuyler was issued an occupancy permit for Sunrise Shades and Lighting at 4984 Palm Coast Parkway, Unit 7.

• Chris Cuyler was issued an occupancy permit for Home Theater Rooms Inc. at 4984 Palm Coast Parkway, Unit 7.

• Chris Cuyler was issued an occupancy permit for Sound Systems Engineering Inc. at 4984 Palm Coast Parkway, Unit 7.

• Robert Lane was issued an occupancy permit for Those Cabinet Guys at 15 Hargrove Grade Lane, Unit 2L. • Lithia Antoine was issued an occupancy permit for Assisted Living Facility-Life Touch Home Care at 47 Pickering Drive.

Certificate of occupancy:

• Manley Construction was issued a $58,250 occupancy permit for renovations at NAC Health Plan 309 Palm Coast Parkway NE, Suite 1.

• Choouinard Construction was issued a $20,000 occupancy permit for kitchen renovations at Pizza Hut at 1475 Palm Coast Parkway NW, Unit 110-111.

• Bracey Building Contractors was issued a $25,000 occupancy permit for renovations at Halifax Health Hospice at 122 Flagler Plaza Drive, Unit 122-125.

Development orders issued:

• Grand Haven Commercial, LLC was issued a development order for a tier-one technical site plan for Grand Haven Sales Center.

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+ Real estate agent earns e-PRO certification Erika Przybylek of RE/ MAX Flagstaff has successfully completed the e-PRO Certification Program and has been awarded the e-PROCertification, the official Erika Przybylek technology certification program offered by the National Association of Realtors.

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+ Fitness and rehab studio opens in Palm Coast Local Flagler County residents David and Desiree Challice have opened PEAK Fitness & Rehab in Palm Coast offering personal training, Pilates, golf fitness and concierge physical therapy. The facility is a professional fitness studio owned and operated by physical therapists.

The couple has lived in Flagler County since 2005. Desiree Challice holds a doctorate in physical therapy and is a certified Pilates instructor. She is the former staff PT for Easter Seals for East Volusia/Flagler County Schools, and the current Flagler County Schools PT. David Challice has a four-year degree and experience treating clients in both outpatient and home health settings. He is a former golf pro, as well as a graduate of the Titleist Performance Institute.

They are both certified Strength and Conditioning Specialists with 25 years of combined experience.

The studio is located at 17 Old Kings Road N, Suite O. Call 445-2348.

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Jonita McCree has been named the December 2014 Top Listing Associate, and Kathy McEnaney has been named the Top Sales Associate for December 2014.

+ Virtual Homes Realty teams up with Toys for Tots Virtual Homes Realty served as a collection location for annual Toys for Tots drive.

“We were so proud that the community came together to bring such joy to so many underprivileged boys and girls.

Our location managed to fill three boxes and had nearly 70 toys delivered for us to provide,” said Alina Pekarsky, owner of Virtual Homes Realty.

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ON STAGE | by Shanna Fortier | Community Editor

5 CAN’T-MISS SHOWS “SO GOOD FOR THE SOUL” Where: Flagler Auditorium, 5500 State Road 100, Palm Coast When: 7:30 pm. Friday, Jan. 16 Info: “So Good for the Soul” celebrates the best of the best from Berry Gordy’s hit-making factory. Tickets are $29 for adults and $18 for youth. Call 437-7547.

DAVID MALLETT Where: Lohman Auditorium, 9505 Oceanshore Blvd., St. Augustine When: 6 p.m. Jan 17 Info: Larry Mangum will open for singer/songwriter David Mallett. Tickets are $15 in advance and $20 at the door. Call 904-794-4163.

THE BILL HALEY COMETS Where: Ormond Beach Performing Arts Center When: 7:30 p.m. Jan. 17 Info: Bill Haley and The Comets are credited with 17 Top 40 records between 1954 and 1974. Tickets now on sale at ormondbeach.org or 6763375.

LONDON ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Where: Peabody Auditorium, 600 Auditorium Boulevard, Daytona Beach When: 7 p.m.

Jan. 17 Info: Presented by the Daytona Beach Symphony Society. The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra is one of London’s most prodigious orchestras.

Grammy Award Winner Pinchas Zukerman will conduct and perform as a soloist in Beethoven’s violin concerto.

Additional selections for the evening include Beethoven’s Egmont Overture and Brahms’ Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68. Visit dbss.org or call 800-745-3000.

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ARLO GUTHRIE: ALICE’S RESTAURANT 50TH ANNIVERSARY TOUR Where: Peabody Auditorium, 600 Auditorium Blvd.,

Sue Pope and Nancy Grote star in Palm Coast City Repertory Theatre’s production of “Grace and Glorie.”

‘GRACE AND GLORIE’ EXPLORES UNLIKELY FRIENDSHIP The comedy “Grace and Glorie” will open Friday, Jan. 16 at City Repertory Theatre in Palm Coast.

“Grace and Glorie,” written by Tom Ziegler, tells the story of two unlikely friends. Grace, a 90-yearold cancer patient, has checked herself out of the hospital and returned to her homestead cottage to die alone. Glorie, her volunteer hospice worker, is a Harvard MBA recently transplanted to the rural backwater from New York City. As the story develops, the two find common ground and gain new perspectives on the highs and lows of life.

Palm Coast’s City Repertory Theatre will open the show for two weekends, staring Sue Pope as Grace and Nancy Grote as Glorie.

Director John Sbordone said that when Pope brought him the script, it was too good to pass up.

“It’s keeping with CRT’s policy of taking the best actors and seeing what they want to perform,” he said. “One of the things that we are especially grateful for is that we are working with extraordinary actors, and these are two of the best in the area. It’s a pleasure because you immediately start the production at a higher level and you watch it grow from there.”

This is Pope’s third show with

CRT, most recently playing Nurse Ratchet in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.” Locally, she has also been on stage at the Limelight Theatre in St. Augustine and the Daytona Playhouse. But this is not her first time playing Grace.

Fourteen years ago, as a 40-something-year-old professional woman, Pope walked in to a casting hoping to play Glorie, but she was almost immediately cast as Grace.

“I fell in love with Grace, and that’s why I brought it to John,” she said while sitting in the theater during a break in rehearsal.

Grote will be making her City Rep. debut in her role as Glorie, but it is not her first time on stage.

Having lived in New York her whole life, she pursued a career in musical theater working with big industry names including Carol Channing, Richard Harris and Don Ameche. She stopped dancing and moved to Florida eight years ago, and has been in productions with Limelight Theatre and A Classic Theatre in St. Augustine.

Sbordone saw Grote performing in St. Augustine and approached her about playing Glorie.

“It’s been a wonderful chal-

lenge for me,” Grote said. “I think people will see a lot of themselves in these two characters. Everyone has had tragedy in their lives and there is a lot of identification with these two characters.”

It’s a show about life and death and friendship.

“You’re left with a really hopeful feeling that, yes, death is going to come, but at the same time, everyone will be OK and everyone will move on,” Grote said.

One thing that will be different on stage for this production is a full set. While CRT productions have been known for a minimalist approach, the set for “Grace and Glory” includes wood paneled walls, a kitchen and a bed, with lighting by Ken Flanagan. But Pope and Grute have also added personal elements, including a quilt made by Pope’s great-greatgrandmother and a photograph of one of Grote’s family members.

When describing the show, Sbordone said he liked best what the New York Times wrote .

“They called it like ‘The Odd Couple,’” Sbordone said. “It’s a poignant play, but there’s so much humor to it.”

When: 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 21 Info: Son of legendary musician Woody Guthrie, iconic singer-songwriter Arlo Guthrie dumped a pile of trash 50 years ago. Guthrie immortalized the saga in “Alice’s Restaurant” and now celebrates the 50th anniversary of that timeless classic. For tickets, call 671-3460.

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IF YOU GO What: “Grace and Glorie” Where: City Repertory Theatre, 160 Cypress Point Parkway, Unit B207, Palm Coast When: 7:30 p.m. Jan. 16, 17, 23 and 15; and 2 p.m. Jan. 18 and 15 Tickets: $20; call 585-9415.

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