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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2020
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Teacher doesn’t need to apologize Dear Editor: In regards to the “Backpack Apology Sought” article in the Oct. 8 Ormond Beach Observer: Kudos to the gym teacher for doing what was right. No apologies are needed unless it is from the mother of the student trying to start controversy. Anyone questioning “all lives matter” in any form, whether it be verbal or written, truly has to be racist. I can’t imagine what would happen if a student came in with a back pack saying “white or yellow lives matter!” The truth is that all lives do matter and most people do not look at the world in black, white or yellow. You are what you are, and very good people are on all sides. There are only a few who want to keep the controversy going. The sad thing is that the education system seems to like the controversy and is promoting it. It has to end in the school systems and at home. Please ... Let’s everyone get along, and the world will be a much better place. TERRY YORK Ormond Beach
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Taking the bait Dear Editor: The city of Ormond Beach just approved a $47,000 design for a new bait house expected to cost another $865,000. Zone 2 Commissioner Kent called it a “once in a generation opportunity.” Citizens have asked for a new medical emergency center on the beachside to replace the hospital on A1A that was abandoned, then razed by Advent. Property
Brewing Up History!
crime in the city is far higher than the national average, with unfilled vacancies in the Police Department. Infrastructure leaks have become an epidemic while the city allocates millions in resources to buy Medjool palm trees, a church, a floating boat dock, a relocated police station, and now a bigger and better bait shop next to the floating boat dock. Mayor Partington stated he would like to get input on conceptual plans for the new facility from the public, Ormond MainStreet, and the past Downtown Steering Committee. As he did in the 2018 election, Granada Pier Bait and Tackle owner-operator Ike Leary has already given his input: 2020 campaign contributions of $500 each to Mayor Partington and Commissioner Kent and $250 each to Commissioners Dwight Selby and Rob Littleton. MICHAEL YOUNG Ormond Beach
Letter writer got it right: Start fresh Dear Editor: In last week’s edition of the Observer Lori Bennett was right on! If you didn’t read it please do. If you did, read it again and remember this as you go to the polls in November. And that goes for the County Council also. Let’s start fresh all the way around. SYLVIA MEINCKE Ormond Beach
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OCT. 2
UNDERDRESSED BURGLAR 7:06 a.m. — 100 block of North Yonge Street Unarmed burglary. While responding to call about a burglary in a local restaurant, police were given a heads up that there was a suspicious person nearby. The reporting officer went to investigate and found an empty car. After a few minutes, a 51-year-old Palm Coast man, clad in only an undershirt and underwear, appeared and asked the officer to jump the battery on his car, according to the police report. Another officer found a pair of shorts across the street and asked the man if they were his. The man said they weren’t, but put them on anyway. He told police he had been hanging out with a woman and his car ended up breaking down at that location. Inside the burglarized restaurant, police discovered tables had been moved and smeared with ketchup. There was also ketchup on the floor and several ceramic table settings were destroyed. Police also found a T-shirt containing a logo with the man’s place of employment at the restaurant, as well as a pair of flip flops, which officers believed could fit the man’s feet, but he refused to try them on. He was taken to jail.
OCT. 4
THAT’S NOT MY CAR 1:18 a.m. — First block of West Granada Boulevard
Civil service. What happens if a valet accidentally gives your car to someone else? That’s what one 61-year-old Daytona Beach woman found out when it happened to her at a local restaurant. She and another restaurant patron owned the same model vehicle and were at the restaurant at the same time. The patron drove off with the woman’s car without noticing it wasn’t hers, according to the police report. The valet service arranged a ride home for the woman. Later that morning, the patron responded to the police and drove back to the restaurant to pick up her own car and drop off the other woman’s car.
OCT. 8
A PIRATE’S LIFE FOR ME 1:30 p.m. — 1400 block of West Granada Boulevard Drunk person. A 60-year-old Ormond Beach man told police repeatedly that he was a “pirate” as he laid on top of a bicycle near a local grocery store. The reporting officer noted that he looked like he had just fallen, but that the man said he was “relaxing and did not fall,” according to the police report. He told police he had previously drink a fifth of rum two or three hours ago. Because the man had no one to pick him up, he was taken to a local hospital.
