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Mainland hires Travis Roland BRIAN MCMILLAN EXECUTIVE EDITOR

Travis Roland has been hired as the new head football coach at Mainland High School, where he was previously a player and assistant coach. He most recently coached Flagler Palm Coast High School, since being hired in 2016.

He will continued coaching FPC for two more months before making the switch.

“Thank you, Coach,” Flagler Schools tweeted on April 9.

“We know how hard that pull to go ‘home’ is. Thank you for all you’ve done for the FPCHS Bulldog FAMILY.” Coach Jarrett Lewis tweeted his congratulations to Roland and said, “The Bucs couldn’t have made a better choice and I know that the city has been waiting for this moment. I couldn’t be prouder of you lil’ bro and I know that generations will feel the benefit of this one!”

Roland recently announced on Twitter that Victor Campbell is joining his staff as offensive line coach.

Judith Bennett, of Port Orange, volunteers every week at the Halifax Humane Society. Lilly doesn’t mind.

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YOUR TOWN A HAPPY ‘BURNIVERSARY’

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Paramedic Matt McGee, Tyler and Amber Wilcox, Lt. Jeff Mullinax and firefighter Chris McClure.

Last year, Amber Wilcox suffered a tragic accident when a glass of hot caramel exploded on her right hand and legs, burning over 20% of her body.

On her “burniversary,” she was able to meet the first responders who saved her life: Paramedic Matt McGee, EMT Carina Simonsen, Lt. Jeff Mullinax and firefighter Chris McClure.

“To say I’m humbly grateful for this crew would be an understatement — and I wouldn’t be here today without the work they put in every day to keeping their communities safe,” she said.

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permits issued within the city last week, valued at $1.43 million. Five new business tax receipts were also issued.

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projects under review by the Site Plan Review Committee, including the Waffle House remodel at 1570 N. U.S. 1 and Phase 1A of Plantation Oaks.

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children participated in the Casements EggStravaganza Hunt from March 22 to April 1.

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design projects underway, including the Stormwater Master Plan update and a connector sidewalk for Tomoka Elementary.

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Celtic festival rescheduled The 10th-annual Ormond Beach Celtic Festival has been postponed to Sept. 11 and 12.

The festival — featuring clans, pipers and highland games — is usually held during the third week of April. It was canceled in 2020.

“Of course, it’s disappointing not be able to enjoy the festival this spring,” said festival founder and musician, Chuck Spano in a press release. “But there is still an issue with COVID safety that we hope will be behind us by the fall.”

Photo courtesy of Volusia County Government/Zev Cohen and Associates

A portion of Old Kings Road (dotted in orange) curls around the 36-acre parcel in Plantation Oaks.

On Tuesday, April 20, the Volusia County Council will decide whether or not to move forward with the acquisition of the $988,00 36-acre parcel of land within Plantation Oaks for conservation.

Following direction from council, county staff had been researching options to purchase the land and determined that applying for an ECHO grant through the historic acquisition/ stabilization grant program — an application process available year-round — would

be the best option, according to the agenda item summary.

The land qualified for the program because a report completed in 2001 found remnants of the Old Kings Road on the property as well as the structural remains and some artifacts of a late 18th or 19th century home, making it eligible to be designated as a historic site.

On April 1, the ECHO Advisory Committee reviewed the application, which proposed the development of a small park with “minimal amenities,

an internal trail of .75 miles and historic documentation of all relevant assets on the property,” according to the summary. The committee unanimously recommended approval of the application.

If approved by council, the property will be bought using: $234,647 from the county park improvement funds; a $15,000 contribution from the North Florida Trust and Dream Green Volusia; a $249,647 ECHO grant match; and $488,706 via a direct county expenditure of ECHO funds.

“There are parents waiting out there right now to determine if they’re going to send their kids back to brick-and-mortar, because there are parents that chose to not send their kids back because we did put a mask policy in place.”

Julian’s to be demolished Demolition permits for the former Julian’s property at 88 S. Atlantic Ave. are being reviewed by the city and will be issued soon, according to a recent staff report.

In 2019, the City Commission approved a rezoning and development order to allow the construction of a gift shop.

Public on-street parking will also be added behind the store on Florence Street.

Dogs on the beach? Tolls?

The Volusia County Council will also discuss two items related to the beach at its April 20 meeting.

The first is a discussion to allow dogs on the beach.

The second is a discussion to schedule a workshop on beach tolls for residents.

JAMIE HAYNES, school board member on mask policy. See Page 5

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‘Competing with the government’ Employers struggle to attract job applicants JONATHAN SIMMONS AND JARLEENE ALMENAS

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he Peach Valley Cafe West location in Ormond Beach didn’t lose many workers during the pandemic. But when the cafe did have vacancies, General Manager Brad Disch noticed something unusual: People would apply for a job, but would always seem to have an excuse for why they couldn’t make it to the in-person interview.

He’s experienced at least 12 noshows a week in the past couple of months when conducting new employee interviews.

Regardless, the positions have to be filled, and one can’t get so discouraged as to stop trying all together, he said.

“It just takes time and effort, and obviously it’s frustrating when people don’t show,” Disch said. “We try to do the best to try to create a safe, clean working environment so that people want to work with us.”

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Employers across the country have noticed that it’s getting harder to find staff. Many blame it on the unusually generous unemployment benefits the federal government has implemented in reaction to the pandemic.

When people are getting about as much money for staying home as they’d be able to make in the available jobs, some employers say, some workers will opt to stay home — especially when working puts them and their family at heightened risk of getting COVID-19.

In the past, the state Department of Economic Opportunity would call employers to verify that individuals on unemployment had actually followed through with job applications.

But Disch said he hasn’t received a call like that “in years.”

Flagler County Commissioner Donald O’Brien said his clients

have had a difficult time attracting employees.

“There’s a lot of incentive to stay home at this point, and people respond to incentives,” O’Brien said. “We talk about $15-an-hour minimum wage — it’s definitely happening now, because of the need to have to pay that to get people to show up.”

MARKET SHIFTS

CareerSource President and CEO Robin King suggested other factors may be causing or contributing to the no-show phenomenon.

Of the 85,963 people who filed unemployment claims in the Flagler-Volusia area since March 2020, only about 12% are still receiving unemployment, she said.

With so many positions open, it’s possible that job seekers are quickly finding jobs and not bothering to cancel other interviews they’d set before finding work, she said.

Large employers who have recently moved to the area — Amazon and the Buc-ee’s convenience store chain among them — might also be drawing many applicants who’d otherwise be taking restaurant and hospitality jobs, she said.

About 46% of Volusia and Flagler residents who worked in accommodations and food service lost their jobs in April 2020, and some likely used their time away from work to retrain for more lucrative positions, including health care ones, King said.

“If you’re in hospitality, you

“The number one skillset that the businesses are in need of are those soft skills — that they show up on time, keep their appointments.”

ROBIN KING, CareerSource CEO

have the customer service skills,” King said.

COMPETING WITH THE GOVERNMENT

Restaurants — especially small, local ones — often operate with a relatively narrow profit margin, vulnerable to sudden changes.

It’s not easy to just increase wages to attract more people, said John Lulgjuraj, owner-operator at Oceanside Beach Bar & Grill in Flagler Beach and president of the Flagler Beach Business Bureau.

Lulgjaraj is short by abut 20 or 25 staff members: He has about 65 and would like to have closer to 90.

But, like Disch, he’s getting lots of no-shows.

He’ll schedule managers to come in and conduct interviews.

But, he said, “we’re sitting there waiting, waiting, and the majority of the day is just sitting around waiting for people who never show up.”

“It’s such as waste of time and money,” he added.

With Flagler Beach Business Bureau Vice President Scott Fox, owner at the Tortugas’ Florida Kitchen and Bar, Lulgjuraj wrote a letter to Gov. Ron DeSantis, asking the governor to “turn the state unemployment benefit into an EMPLOYMENT benefit” that pays people who are working.

“As business owners we understand our obligations, we know how to compete with and against each other, we compete with the weather and hurricanes but NEVER had to compete with our government,” the letter states. “... We are all short staffed; out of 100 applications we may have received the last month, a handful show up to their interview.

We found out that people that are receiving unemployment ‘must be actively searching for work’.

We are being played.”

Lulgjuraj said he gets why people may want to stay home.

“It’s a tough situation,” he said.

“I can’t blame Americans for saying safe and not wanting to work. But also, I know that if the government wasn’t stimulating them, we wouldn’t have as big of a problem.”

If things don’t change and Lulgjuraj has to further increase staff pay, that would be hard to do without also raising prices of items on the menu. But that comes with its own costs, as the menus would have to be redesigned and reprinted.

So, what can be done?

For Disch, it’s been continuing to advertising job postings on social media and sites like Craigslist until one or two new employees follow through, he said.

“Now, we have to figure out a way to get people to want to work again,” Disch said.

‘GET MORE PEOPLE TRAINED’

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Public-facing positions in the restaurant and tourism industries aren’t the only ones seeing a dearth of applicants.

For the local manufacturing sector, a shortage of a skilled labor workforce isn’t a new problem.

That’s been ongoing for a long

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time, said Jayne Fifer, president and CEO of the Volusia Manufacturers Association.

“We really thought that the COVID (pandemic) was going to help us, from this perspective: That so many people were disrupted in the tourism industry,” Fifer said. “We thought, ‘Boy, if we can capture them, and make them aware of what’s available in manufacturing, that maybe we could at least fix the pipeline a little bit.’ And we’re not seeing it.”

One of the roles of VMA is to build awareness of local manufacturers, of which Volusia and Flagler counties have over 450, said Fifer, all in diverse industries including boating, medical, food, and engineering. With an average wage of $58,000, Fifer said VMA is constantly working to inform the public that manufacturing is a viable career path, oftentimes with entry level wages starting at $15 an hour.

Recently, an advanced manufacturing technician training program was made available in the community, a “learn while you earn” opportunity that sponsors students to work at local companies while attending Daytona State College. It guarantees those who finish the two-year program an associates degree and a job.

It’s programs like this that the VMA advocates for.

“Get more people trained,” Fifer said. “Get more people in the jobs that we have.”

She has heard of people declining to return to work after being on unemployment, but she questions whether these individuals are thinking long term.

In that same vein, she also doesn’t know why the furloughs in industries harder hit by the pandemic didn’t motivate individuals to seek jobs in manufacturing.

“If somebody could come up with that answer, then we could solve it,” Fifer said. “I have no idea. Where were they? They’re talking about hundreds of people out of work.”

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“We are doing everything possible to sustain our businesses, but it’s time we stop competing with our government for who people are getting their paychecks from.”

JOHN LULGJURAJ and SCOTT FOX, president and vice president, Flagler Beach Business Bureau

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GUN THREAT 7:54 a.m. — Intersection of Lowndes Avenue and North U.S. 1 Disturbance. A 42-year-old Holly Hill man called police after he believed a gun was pointed at him in a road rage incident.

The man said he was stopped at a light behind a sedan when the light turned green. The sedan began driving “extremely slowly,” and the man decided to pass it.

Afterward, the sedan sped up and brake-checked him.

He got in the left lane and slowed down at the next traffic signal, where, he later stated, the driver of the sedan cursed at him and presented a gun on the window sill, covering it with his hand, the report states. He said the driver yelled that he had a gun.

Police discovered that the sedan was a rental car from Oklahoma. Police noted that the man advised that the gun was resting on top of the window sill, and not directly pointed at him.

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UNOFFICIAL ENFORCER 4:20 p.m. — Northbrook Circle Burglary of Conveyance. A 75-year-old Ormond Beach woman faces a felony burglary charge after she reached inside a 19-year-old man’s car and smacked the back of his head with two fingers after he parked in a “No Parking” zone.

Police report that the woman said she informed the man that he couldn’t park there and that he and his passenger were being disrespectful. The woman said she tapped the victim on the back of the head “after he was being smart with her,” the report states. Police told her that she should not be enforcing parking issues as that was their job.

The victim said he was waiting for his sister to get out of school when the woman showed up. He said she was “being very rude” so he decided to ignore her. That’s when she put her hands on him, he told police, adding that she walked away smiling. He told police he wished to pursue charges.

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The Volusia Sheriff’s Office has issued an alert regarding a scam involving individuals sending Uber drivers or other couriers to victims’ homes to pick up thousands of dollars in cash, according to a press release.

VSO has seen three similar cases occur in the last month, and a fourth was recently reported to the Ormond Beach Police Department. VSO has shared surveillance video on social media where an Uber driver arrives at a drop-off site in Orlando, where he handed a 78-year-old DeLand woman’s $17,500 to an unidentified suspect. Deputies report the Uber driver has been “extremely cooperative with detectives and is not charged with any crime.”

Sheriff Mike Chitwood is offering a $25,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the suspect seen in the video.

These types of scams involve a person calling a victim and claiming that a family member (oftentimes a grandson) was just in a car crash, or arrested, or in legal trouble, and in quick need of thousands of dollars.Sometimes a second caller may get on the phone to pose as an attorney, law enforcement officer or some other official. The victims of these scams are generally senior citizens, and agree to withdraw cash and hand it over to a driver who shows up at their home.

“These scams have been going on for years, but the Uber/courier aspect is new,” said VSO in a press release. “In the past, scammers relied on victims buying gift cards and providing the gift card numbers over the phone. Now they will send someone right to your grandmother’s door to take her money.”

Anyone with information is asked to call 254-1537 and potentially qualify for a $25,000 reward, or call Crime Stoppers of Northeast Florida at 888-277TIPS to potentially qualify for a reward of up to $5,000.

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JARLEENE ALMENAS ASSOCIATE EDITOR

The Volusia County School Board will begin discussions to amend its face covering policy at its next meeting on Tuesday, April 27.

Board member Jamie Haynes brought the issue forward at the board’s meeting on Tuesday, April 13. She suggested that, if the board wishes to make masks optional for the 2021-2022 school year, they should have the amended policy in place before July to allow parents ample time to decide the best learning option for their student.

“There are parents waiting out there right now to determine

DISTRICT JOINS VAPING LAWSUIT The Volusia County School Board also approved that the district join a mass action lawsuit against JUUL Labs and other vaping manufacturers to seek compensation for the effects of on-campus vaping, as well as the cost of installing vape detectors and education on the harms of vaping.

Attorney William Shinoff will be representing Volusia, as well as about 250 districts around the country in the litigation. He told the board that his firm, the Frantz Law Group of San Diego,

if they’re going to send their kids back to brick-and-mortar, because there are parents that chose to not send their kids back because we did put a mask policy

GRADUATES TO GET MORE TICKETS at the county-operated Ocean Center were made at the request of the district.

Ceremonies are scheduled to be held June 3-6. All graduates and guests will need to wear a face covering and practice social distancing. High schools will announce details on graduation ticket sales in the coming weeks.

The ceremonies will still be livestreamed to allow extended family to watch remotely.

in place,” Haynes said. “At the same time, we may have some parents that will say, ‘I now may not want brick and mortar. I may want Volusia Online Learning because you’re going to make it optional.’”

Haynes said the district can put forth an emergency order for mandatory masks if the COVID-19 pandemic worsens during the next school year.

Kevin Pendley, the district’s general counsel, said his only caveat with making masks optionals is that the district could be legally challenged under the new law signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis, which provides immunity to individuals, businesses, schools and churches from COVID-19 related claims if they show they made a “good faith effort” to comply with health standards.

Making masks optional in schools

Jamie Haynes, Volusia county school board member

would go against the guidelines set by the Centers for Disease Control.

But Haynes argued that the district hasn’t followed CDC guidelines for other issues, such as participation in sports.

“This is cherry-picking what we want to do versus what we don’t want to do,” Haynes said.

School Board member Ruben Colon said that, while it feels like the community is headed in the right direction with vaccinations, he doesn’t know if the decision he makes on April 27 will be the same as the one he makes in July.

“That’s a long time away in COVID time and at that point we would be choosing to steer away from the guidance,” Colon said.

Still, he agreed that they should look at the policy.

Other suggestions by board members included demanding more cleanliness in schools and implementing an optional mask mandate for the July summer school sessions to see how many children wear masks, and if making masks optional is an effective measure.

Once policy language is agreed upon, the board could vote on an amended policy by late June.

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BRIEFS Homes Bring Hope to increase home ownership An area business leader and philanthropist is rallying support in an effort to make home ownership possible for more people, starting a movement known as Homes Bring Hope.

For more than 10 years, Forough Hosseini, a senior vice president of ICI Homes, has helped address the complex community problems of student homelessness and food insecurity. Her organizations, Food Brings Hope and VCan, help students and their families deal with these issues.

Now, she is intent on attacking the root cause of these and other problems, generational poverty.

“Even for hard working people, there is little chance of breaking the perpetual cycle of generational poverty unless they can find a path to home ownership and build equity,” Hosseini said.

“Homes Bring Hope is comprised of community leaders who want to help hard-working people triumph over poverty, become homeowners and break that cycle.”

Among community leaders joining the movement are Glenn Ritchey, Jill Simpkins and other philanthropists who are helping fund the initiative together with the Hosseini family.

Additionally, Homes Bring Hope is working with companies like Realty Pros Assured, Southern Title, Sliger and Associates, Daytona State College and Halifax Urban Ministries.

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High School seniors can now receive up to six tickets each for their graduation ceremonies, announced the school district on Monday, April 12.

In late March, the district and the county had taken measures to increase tickets to four per graduating senior, at the request of students and their families. Originally, the plans only allowed students up to two tickets. The district said in its announcement that the ease in capacity restrictions

California, have been litigating this case for 18 months.

Their argument is that JULL Labs and the other manufacturers marketed the product to youth without warning of dangers, No general fund money will be used for this litigation.

A 2019 report from the Department of Health found nearly 30% of Volusia County children between the ages of 11 and 17 said they had tried vaping in 2018.

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Don’t close Riverbend Golf Course Dear Editor: As a snowbird regularly coming from Canada to spend the winter months in Ormond Beach, I was saddened to hear of the closing of Riverbend Golf Club. Over the years, playing at Riverbend has been a significant reason for me wanting to return to Ormond year after year. I feel that the commissioners perhaps do not understand the true value of this course.

In short, this course is (or was) a gem, boasting a fantastic layout with no two holes alike, easily much better than any other course in the area, including the LPGA courses. So I think that for Ormond Beach to allow this course to become an overgrown field, or whatever is planned for this land, would be a huge opportunity lost. Last year during my two-month stay, I played 26 rounds at Riverbend and spent $885 in green fees, and this is typical for me for the last eight years that I’ve been coming to Ormond. This is also typical for many of my snowbird friends who also spend time in the area.

Last year there were several occasions where I could not get a start time at Riverbend because the course was booked solid, so don’t tell me this course can’t be run successfully if managed properly.

In an article published in the Ormond Beach Observer, Economic Development Director Brian Rademacher explained the FAA stance that golf courses in proximity to airports could

potentially encumber land that would otherwise be used for aeronautical purposes, and that certain hazards could impact airport operations, such as the congregation of people and the attraction of wildlife.

The statement regarding the congregation of people is nonsensical. No people are anywhere near the airport’s operations and the wildlife safety issues he speaks of are issues every airport has to deal with whether bordered by a golf course or not.

Montreal’s Trudeau International Airport is bordered by a large golf course which has had no impact whatsoever on airport operations or safety.

As a regular visitor and a regular contributor to your economy, I and a good number of my friends urge the city to consider adopting Riverbend as a municipal golf course. You would be getting a steal.

The course doesn’t require a large infusion of money to get it back in shape and if managed correctly could be a revenue generating great asset to the city and a draw for visitors and citizens alike.

PAUL DENISON St. Lambert, Quebec, Canada

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Standardized exams won’t be used to pass, fail students Answering the question of how the state would handle standardized testing this year, the Florida Department of Education issued an emergency order Friday waiving accountability measures tied to state exams.

Concerns about consequences of testing had loomed as exams kicked off this week for some students. Education officials and lawmakers grappled with the issue because of the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on schools, including many students learning remotely.

Under the emergency order, graduation for high school seniors this spring will not be contingent on passing exams “if the district determines on a caseby-case basis that the student’s high school record establishes a comparable level of achievement.”

The order also makes clear that end-of-course exam scores can be waived when determining whether students get promoted to the next grade levels and allows school to opt in to receiving school grades based on students’ test scores.

The Florida Education Association supported nixing consequences for students and schools, but Andrew Spar, president of the statewide teachers union, said “teachers did not get the same kind of consideration” under the emergency order.

“Test scores still will be allowed to impose very real costs on them through their evaluations.

The educators who have served Florida’s students throughout the pandemic also deserve to be shown some grace. They have faced unprecedented challenges this school year,” Spar said.

Transgender athlete ban heads to full Florida House

A proposal to ban transgender females from taking part in girls’ or women’s high-school and college sports is teed up for consideration by the full House, after a Republican-controlled education panel overrode fiery objections Tuesday.

The House Education & Employment Committee voted 15-6 to approve the proposal (HB 1475) sponsored by Rep. Kaylee Tuck, R-Lake Placid, with Rep. James Bush, D-Miami, the only Democrat supporting the bill.

Dubbed the “Fairness In Women’s Sports Act,” the proposal would make participation in athletics contingent on determining a student’s “biological sex,” a disputed term that refers to the sex assigned at birth.

Tuck said “inherent, biological differences between men and women” give males an edge in sporting events.

Abigail O’Laughlin, a former high-school athlete from Okaloosa County, opposed the measure.

“I am quite honestly offended that the claim of protecting women is being used to exclude transgender individuals, when there are far bigger issues at stake when it comes to equity for women,” O’Laughlin told the committee.

Observer “If we are to build a better world, we must remember that the guiding principle is this — a policy of freedom for the individual is the only truly progressive policy.”

Friedrich Hayek “Road to Serfdom,” 1944

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1,000 POUNDS OF PET SUPPLIES The Leo Club of Seabreeze High School, along with local business partner Mollo Bella in Ormond Beach, recently collected and donated over 1,000 pounds of pet supplies to to the Halifax Humane Society.

The donation, made on March 24, included 17 pounds of peanut butter.

Halifax Humane Society’s million-dollar volunteers BRIAN MCMILLAN EXECUTIVE EDITOR

Judith Bennett leads Lilly, a 9-year-old pointer mix, out of the Halifax Humane Society and takes her for a walk in the grassy play area on April 12. Lilly is rated 1, meaning she’s easy to walk.

Others are not so cooperative and can’t leave, but that doesn’t stop Bennett: To help socialize some dogs, she sits in the kennel with them.

“I’ve always loved animals,” said Bennett, who has three cats at her Port Orange home. She walks dogs for a couple of hours every Monday at HHS and also fixes pup pops for the animals — frozen treats made of turkey, chicken broth and peanut butter.

Bennett is one of 100 regular volunteers, plus another 350 or so who occasionally donate their time at HHS, according to Volunteer Manager Zoe Beriss. In 2020, volunteers donated about 83,000 hours of time, which is almost a $1 million value. And one of the most important things volunteers do is help to socialize the animals.

“Socializing benefits the dog,” said Community Outreach Director Barry Kukes (pronounced KOO-kiss). “They could have been a stray, out on the street, wandering around, scavenging for food, scared of humans. Oth-

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Leo Club President Brianna Blackwood, Halifax Humane Society Development Manager Michelle Heb and Andrew Knight.

ADOPTABLE PETS Bagheera, a 4-year-old terrier mix. Her adoption fee is $70.

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Lilly among the large dogs who are easy to walk. Others are not able to leave their kennels for the time being.

ers are brought in here by animal control, and now we have to go through trying to socialize them.

They can be very fearful, they can shut down and not want to be around people. Having them socialized — it’s a lot easier to get them adopted.”

Four behavioral specialists are on staff to help the dogs prepare for adoption, and HHS also has 12 dogs in the Prison Pups and Pals program, where inmates have a dog with them 24/7. “We see dogs that are, to be honest, crazy — they’re aggressive and mean, and when they come out (of the Prison Pups and Pals program), they’re perfect dogs,” Kukes said. “They’re socialized.

It’s amazing.”

To learn more about adoptions or upcoming summer camps, visit halifaxhumanesociety.org.

DID YOU KNOW?  25,000 animals are brought to HHS every year.  In 2012, 7,600 animals were euthanized. But that year, HHS added a spayneuter clinic, and euthanizations declined to the point that in 2020, there were 424 euthanized.  Most of the 42 dogs that were brought to HHS after being involved in a dogfighting scheme have been helped through Humane Society US.  April is Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Month.

Babe, a 3-yearold Hound mix.

Her adoption fee is $70.

Teddy, a 5-yearold domestic shorthair. His adoption fee is $35.

Boots, a 7-yearold domestic shorthair mix.

His adoption fee is $35.

To adopt any of these animals, or see others, visit the Halifax Humane Society’s main campus at 2364 LPGA Blvd. or call 274-4703.

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A new insurance agency opened in Ormond Beach on Monday, April 12.

Brightway, The Lester Agency, located at 570 Memorial Circle, suite 225, is run by Brandon Lester, a Volusia resident for the past 15 years. Lester has worked in franchise sales and regional management for seven years before joining Brightway. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in hotel and restaurant management from the University of Phoenix in Orlando.

“I joined the Brightway family because I want to be able to help every client,” said Lester in a press release.

The agency will be open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday, and weekends by appointment.

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“STITCHING LIVES TOGETHER” STORYTELLING SESSION When: 11:30 a.m.

Where: Anderson-Price Memorial Building, 42 N. Beach St. Details: See the story of Harriet Tubman’s life. Exhibit is open to the public from 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Free, donations appreciated.

Visit Ormondhistory.org NATIONAL POETRY MONTH CELEBRATION When: 1-4 p.m.

Where: Rockefeller Gardens, 26 Riverside Drive Details: Join the Creative Happiness Institute for a free open mic event featuring 25 local poets.

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SPORTS Seabreeze’s boys tennis team serves Mainland a 7-0 loss The Sandcrabs headed to districts in Gainesville on Monday, April 12, with an 11-1 season record.

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Sandcrab Mac Chiumento sets up for a big serve.

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he Seabreeze boys tennis team won seven matches against Mainland on Thursday, April 8, bringing the Sandcrabs to 11-1 for the season. Number one player Tyler Trumble won his singles match against Nick Dejulio and his doubles match in which he was paired with Player of the Match Elliott Rosser.

Ro b e r t Ho l tg rewe h a s coached the Seabreeze tennis team for 38 years. This was his last official high school season match before he retires this year.

Under Holtgrewe’s tutelage, the Sandcrabs have gone to the state championships 15 times.

“We have districts on Monday, and we will probably win that,” Trumble said. “We will go to states, for sure.”

Seabreeze’s experience as well as Mainland’s inexperience reflected in the 7-0 outcome of the match. Mainland coach Pat Monahan explained that the majority of his players had never played competitive tennis before this season. Dejulio was the only player that had played last year.

“This is a very fun bunch,” said Monahan. “Unfortunately, I only have three players coming back next year because the rest of them are seniors.”

Seabreeze Sandcrabs head to the District 4-Class 3A tournament in Gainesville on Monday and Tuesday, April 12-13.

Photos by Michele Meyers

Seabreeze player Tyler Trumble with the serve.

FAMILY TIES

Seabreeze coach Robert Holtgrewe coached Tyler Trumble’s father, Paul, from 1987 to 1989.

The family now calls Denmark home but, in 2018, while visiting the area, Paul Trumble discussed the possibility of his son playing for Seabreeze at least one year.

Mainland tennis coach Pat Monahan and Seabreeze coach Robert Holtgrewe organize their players' matches.

Eye on the ball for Buccaneer Sal Victor.

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Mason Boice with the pickoff attempt.

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The Seabreeze Sandcrabs baseball team lost to the Flagler Palm Coast Bulldogs 7-0 on Friday, April 9.

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he Seabreeze Sandcrabs lost to the Flagler Palm Coast Bulldogs Friday, April 9, 7-0.

Seabreeze catcher Canyon Brown hit a single in the bottom of the first inning but the Sandcrabs were unable to hold on to that momentum. The game remained scoreless until a double

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in Tate Underberg and Christian Diaz at the top of the third inning.

Solid pitching by FPC pitcher Tanner Araujo and infield support held the Sandcrabs to zero runs in the third.

Underberg and Diaz struck

TRIBUTES

Leah was born in Jersey City, New Jersey as Leah Winnifred Dalziel to Joseph and Edith Dalziel, who immigrated to the United States from their native Scotland. Leah grew up in Brooklyn and then Bellmore, New York. Leah was a budding artist and received an Associates Degree in commercial art then worked in the advertising industry before marrying William Burri, raising four children and keeping house.

Eventually she found her way into the hospitality industry, managing a crew of housekeeping staff and later owning and operating a small motel in Lake George, New York with her second husband Robert Tidball.

Leah was a loving mother and wife, who used her creativity to make all her children’s clothing, to decorate her home, plant and maintain beautiful gardens, and eventually to develop her own style of watercolor painting. In retirement, she spent more time with her art, often painting pictures for friends and family members.

Leah loved gardening, dancing and water aerobics, and spending time at the beach.

She was involved in her local art league when she moved to Florida and had many friends who were artists or members of the YMCA water aerobics class she attend-

Leah was a loving mother and wife, who used her creativity to make all her children’s clothing, to decorate her home, plant and maintain beautiful gardens, and eventually to develop her own style of watercolor painting. ed in Ormond Beach, Florida. With her husband Bob, she square danced for years, making matching outfits for them. After Bob died, she moved to Texas to be closer to her daughter, Pam. Leah was a long time resident of Carriage Inn, Bryan, Texas. She moved to College Station to live with family at the beginning of the Covid-19 Pandemic.

Leah was preceded in death by her husband, Robert Tidball; her parents Joseph and Edith Dalziel; her sisters and brothers-in-law Dolores and Bob Neumann

DONATIONS: Donations in honor of Leah’s memory may be made to Hospice Brazos Valley or St. Judes Children’s Hospital.

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Leah W. Tidball (March 26, 1933-March 28, 2021). Leah Tidball died peacefully following a slow decline on March 28 at her home in College Station, Texas with her family by her side.

and Veronica and Herb Seaman; and two stepchildren, Joann and Bobby Tidball.

Leah is survived by daughters and sons-in-law, Pam and Ethan Grossman of College Station, TX; Vicki and Keith Cash of Bloomfield; Barbara Pannoni and Chang Choi of Mountain View, CA; son and daughter-in-law Bruce and Heidi Burri of Sandy, UT and a stepdaughter Sue Perry and her husband John of Edgewater, FL as well as stepchildren Heather and Scott Tidball. She was delighted to have ten grandchildren and eleven great grandchildren.

Leah’s family is forever indebted to Comfort Keepers and Hospice Brazos Valley for the wonderful care Leah received.

Funeral arrangements are in the care of Callaway-Jones Funeral and Cremation Center of Bryan. A small private celebration of life will be held in the near future.

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Three more runs in the seventh inning by FPC sealed their win.

“My pitcher Tanner came in and did an unbelievable job and threw strikes,” FPC head coach Anthony Campanella said. “We played good defense. We put everything else aside. That’s the big thing that I tell our guys: Do your job and do what you know how to do and then the game will dictate how it happens.”

Seabreeze head coach and Bulldog alum Jeff Lemon utilized three pitchers in an attempt to offset the barrage of FPC hits.

Ethan Gilbert pitched for the first three innings before being relieved by Robert Doeing, then Zach Sager. The pitchers had a total of 76 strikes including two strikeouts and 12 hits allowed in seven innings.

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home on the Halifax River was the top real estate transaction in Ormond Beach and Ormond-by-the-Sea for the week of Feb. 28 to March 6 in the Multiple Listing Service.

Colleen McKernan, of Ormond Beach, sold 400 Riverside Drive to John and Elizabeth Reilly, of Ormond Beach, for $1,065,000. Built in 1949, the house is a 3/4 and has a fireplace, swimming pool, boat dock, boat house and 3,224 square feet.

Following is a partial list of the week’s other sales.

Mara Fiorello, of Newberry, sold 930 Arroyo Parkway to Merton and Nancy Miller, of Ormond Beach, for $645,000.

Built in 2017, the house is a 3/2.5 and has a fireplace, swimming pool and 2,215 square feet.

Dimitrios and Athanaisia Mikrogiannakis, John Mikrogiannakis, Aphrodity Mikrogiannakis and Angelo Mikrogiannakis sold 132 Sandcastle Drive to George and Tracy Lupanow, of Ormond Beach, for $347,000. Built in 1978, the house is a 3/2.5 and has a fireplace and 2,102 square feet.

Martin and Esther Ashton, of Daytona Beach, sold 86 Lake Park Circle to Jacob Leshner, of Ormond Beach, for $270,000.

Built in 1976, the house is a 3/2.5 and has a fireplace and 1,746 square feet.

Riga Inc., of Daytona Beach, sold 224 N. Tymber Creek Road to Evelyn Trisch, of Stock-

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Michael and Laurie Cohen, of Ormond Beach, sold 30 Chrysanthemum Drive to Eva Damon, of Ormond Beach, for $317,500. Built in 2013, the house is a 4/3 and has 2,090 square feet. It sold in 2014 for $200,000.

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Jacqueline Waugh, of Ormond Beach, sold 1 Tomoka Oaks Blvd., Unit 121, to Mary Jo Trodd, of Ormond Beach, for $184,500. Built in 1980, the condo is a 3/2 and has 1,430 square feet. It sold in 2014 for $110,000.

John Egner, of Longwood, sold 278 Selden Ave. to Corey and Meagan Weber, of Daytona Beach, for $125,000. Built in 1961, the house is a 2/1 and has 936 square feet.

Breakaway Trails Susanne and Loraine Ferrara, of Massachusetts, sold 3 Pleasantwood Way to Lawrance Fitch, as trustee, for $317,000.

Built in 1988, the house is a 3/2 and has 2,228 square feet.

Halifax Plantation Nancy Dostie, of Chesterfield, Missouri, sold 1481 Kilrush Drive to William and Nancy Lindroth, of Ormond Beach, for $430,000. Built in 2005, the house is a 3/2 and has a swimming pool and 2,375 square feet. It sold in 2010 for $287,500.

The Trails Micky Pedersen, of Daytona Beach, sold 6 Birchwood Trail to Brice and Doreen Lechler, of Ormond Beach, for $240,000.

Built in 1979, the townhouse is a 3/2.5 and has a fireplace and 1,780 square feet. It sold in 2013 for $83,200.

Christopher Sweeney, of Ormond Beach, sold 3208 Grafton Drive to Donald and Colleen Walbrun, of Ormond Beach, for $312,000. Built in 2018, the house is a 3/2 and has 1,695 square feet.

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Oak Forest Raymond and Jennifer Rivela sold 1300 Oak Forest Drive to Robert Hunsaker, of Ormond Beach, for $320,000. Built in 1977, the house is a 3/2 and has a swimming pool and 1,718 square feet.

Pine Hills Bonnie Lambert, of Bunnell, sold 1851 Linda Ave. to Kyaw Thein and Kathryn Maran, of Daytona Beach, for $125,000.

Built in 1980, the house is a 2/1 and has 864 square feet.

Reflections Village Scott and Teresa Siewert, of DeLand, sold 21 Old Macon Drive to Peter Tripoli, of Ormond Beach, for $380,000.

Built in 1998, the house is a 4/2 and has 2,608 square feet. It sold in 2020 for $354,000.

Neil Kelley and Mary Huggins, of Ormond Beach, sold 104 Via Madrid Drive to Michael Piccione, of Ormond Beach, for $700,000. Built in 2012, the house is a 3/3.5 and has a swimming pool and 2,654 square feet. It sold in 2016 for $600,000.

Lucy Vogel sold 6 Sea Chase Terrace to Michelle and Kyle Truesdale, of Ormond Beach, for $422,000. Built in 1988, the house is a 3/2.5 and has a fireplace and 2,441 square feet.

It sold in 2010 for $210,000.

James and Lisa McKenzie, of Flagler Beach, sold 110 Beau Rivage Drive to Mark and Louann Cornell, of West Brentwood, Tennessee, for $395,000.

Built in 1963, the house is a 3/2 and has 1,978 square feet. It sold in 2019 for $379,000.

John Adams, of Adams, Cameron & Co. Realtors, contributed to this report.

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Built in 2018, the house is a 3/2 and has 2,053 square feet. It sold in 2019 for $305,000.

James Morton, of Hendersonville, North Carolina, sold 139 Grove St. to Christopher Guerriero and Eliane Moyses, of Ormond Beach, for $230,000.

Built in 1956, the house is a 2/2 and has 1,026 square feet.

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