Palm Coast Observer 10-13-22

City considers sports complex

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Council considers study for sports complex

A sports complex feasibility study was proposed to the Palm Coast City Council at its workshop on Tuesday, Oct. 11.

The study, estimated to cost $113,870, would be conducted by Sports Facilities Companies and would determine the market demand in the area for a sports complex geared towards competitive youth sports.

Palm Coast Mayor David Alfin said the future development is a magnet and a catalyst for the city.

“It can become, and I think it will become, a model for the state of Florida,” Alfin said, “by denoting the Greenway and animal quarters right up front. Staking those out and doing our development work around that — we know what our priority is.”

Sports Facilities Companies is the company city staff chose for the study, pending approval from the City Council. It has 19 years of experience, according to the pre sentation by Assistant City Man ager Lauren Johnston. It completed similar sports complexes such as the Paradise Coast Sports Complex in Naples and the Publix Sports Park in Panama City Beach.

The envisioned sports complex would draw people in who are trav eling south for competition-grade sport fields, Alfin said. Vice Mayor Eddie Branquinho said the positive economic impact this complex could bring is a great investment, especial ly for the kids.

“There’s no such thing as a bad payment invested in kids,” Bran quinho said.

The study would take place in two parts, Johnston said. First is a market and competitive analysis scheduled for one to 12 weeks that would iden tify the regional market demand and potential economic benefits, as well as what facilities would be most in demand in the area.

The second task, Johnston said, would be contingent on the results of the first study, but would include a development plan, financial anal ysis and economic projection, and take an estimated of 12 to 20 weeks to complete.

Johnston said that the city has

identified this as a priority part of the city’s planned westward expansion. The area identified for this com plex is just west of the roundabout at Matanzas Woods Parkway and U.S. 1, near the Sunshine Express and Amoco gas station. The target start date for this sports complex is December 2022, with a target com pletion date of December 2024.

CULTURAL ARTS GRANT WILL HAVE A SECOND ROUND FOR SUBMISSIONS

Palm Coast has reviewed the applicants for the next round of cultural arts grants for fiscal year 2023, and will reopen it for another round of submissions.

The Cultural Arts Financial Assistance Matching Grant program has been revamped for its fiscal year 2023 application process. It

now includes two tiers — tier one for economic impact and tier two for local organizations — and has increased its funding from $30,000 to $50,000.

A total of 14 organizations applied for funds, and 12 are recommended to receive grants at this point, for a total of $15,000 awarded for tier one and $24,000 for tier two. Because $11,000 remain in the Cultural Art funds, city staff is reopening submissions for a second round with a tentative review date of Oct. 20.

The two tiers are judged on a separate rubric. Tier one has criteria for how much of a positive impact the applying program is expected to have on the city’s economy — ticket sales, hotel stays, expected number of attendees. Both tiers have to have a marketing plan, and showcase community involvement and the scope of the events.

City to collect impact fees on behalf of county

The Palm Coast City Council reviewed three interlocal agreements with Flagler County and its municipalities to collect new impact fees for developments on behalf of the county.

The new agreements come from the Flagler County Ordinance 2021-09 — or the Comprehensive Impact Fee Ordinance — signed in December 2021 and commits the municipalities and unincorporated county areas to collect impact fees to help sustain certain services.

In Palm Coast, the city will be responsible for collecting law enforcement, emergency medical services and library impact fees for new construction under these interlocal agreements, according to Joseph DeLorenzo, the city’s chief of staff.

Palm Coast Mayor David Alfin said it just makes sense to collect these fees on behalf of the county.

“Folks that are paying these fees will gravitate to or must come to the city for their permitting,” Alfin said. “So it just is common sense that we would take care of the collection on behalf of the county while that’s going on.”

Impact fees are onetime charges for new developments. The fees are meant to support growth for these services in tandem with the communities’ growth and can only be used for capacity improvement, not operational costs, DeLorenzo said.

The library fees are only for residential developments, but the law enforcement and emergency medical impact fees will apply to residential and commercial builds.

Photo courtesy of the City of Palm Coast

The Publix Sports Complex in Panama City Beach was built in part by Sports Facilities Companies. The company was chosen by city staff for a feasibility study for a sports complex in Palm Coast.

SIERRA

Evolution to the revolution

MICHELE MEYERS

CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Humanity. Compassion. Kindness. Equity. Inclusion.

These are a few of the words that cover the predominantly fuchsia pink exterior of Sally’s Ice Cream and the adjoining courtyard — words that owner Karen Barchowski lives by. “You’re fine the way you are,” she said. “It’s simple. It’s not very com plicated in any way at all. It’s love. That’s it.”

Customers, friends and fam ily gathered at the iconic shop for a Barchowski family farewell party organized by Flagler Pride on Sat urday, Oct. 8. Barchowski has been the owner of the shop located on the corner of A1A and Fourth Street in Flagler Beach for 10 years. Last Octo ber, she purchased 28 acres of farm land in Vermont. She has spent the past year getting everything ready to make the transition to a new life. Recently, she knew it was time.

“When your head, your heart and your soul are all singing the same song, that’s when you listen,” she said. “That’s my gauge. Does it feel good here, here and here? OK. It’s time. When you know, you know.”

Erica Rivera, the newly voted president of Flagler Pride, coordi nated the event with founder and vice president Eryn Harris. The organization has been having its family-friendly ice cream socials at Sally’s once a month. Harris reached out to Barchowski to ask if the group could have its events at her business because the ice cream shop is a sym bol of inclusivity in the area.

“She already had that sign on there that said ‘All are welcome,’ so that was like a for-sure, we can go here and we will be accepted,” Harris said. “Plus, there’s really good ice cream.”

At the group’s social in September, the group learned that a new owner would be buying Sally’s and starting on Nov. 1. The group agreed that the next hangout should be a celebra tion, possibly an end-of-summer bash. Rivera quickly began to coor dinate the event, and it evolved into the Barchowski Family Farewell Party. Local entertainers — Chris Gollon, Mike and Vin, Kat Karpinski and Dean Batten — performed at the event, followed by an hour of dancing with DJ Artie. Magik Audio, owned by Amanda Waldman, provided audio engineering for the event.

“It’s a wonderful event to say goodbye to Sally’s (Karen),” Palm Coast resident Brandon Stanley said. “I literally picked Palm Coast off a map, and this was the very first place that I came to when I visited the beach the very first time.”

Courtney VandeBunte, who is running for Flagler County School Board, District 2, spoke to the 50-plus attendees.

“I am a rare born-and-raised local,” she said. “One of my earliest memories as a child was my mom [giving] me two dollars, because that’s how much it was for a softserve ice cream then, riding my bike from 18th Street North and coming up here and getting ice cream. Back then, Sally’s was the only ice cream store in the community. It has since evolved into a symbol of inclusivity and love. It is a bittersweet day to say goodbye to Karen, but we know that Sally’s symbol will never change.”

There is not much left for Bar chowski to do in the final weeks lead

“When your head, your heart and your soul are all singing the same song, that’s when you listen. That’s my gauge. Does it feel good here, here and here? OK. It’s time. When you know, you know.”

ing up to the Nov. 1 closing date except make sure Sally’s runs smoothly and wait for a back-ordered air condi tioner.

“I’m just enjoying our time that we have here,” she said. “I’m looking forward to more big-table conver sations. I love hearing about every body’s lives, then you find out how that invisible line connects us all.

You find out you have all these things in common, which is so cool. The places you’ve walked upon, they’ve walked upon. It’s so funny, because it’s a very vast world, yet so tiny.”

The entrepreneur is uncomfort able talking about her ability to strike a balance between creating welcom ing, inclusive spaces and creating a business that’s economically viable.

She makes a positive impact by stay ing true to the people, her family and her community, which she credits for lifting her up.

“It’s really not me,” she said. “It’s everyone else around me, is what it is. I can put a building there. I can put a sign, but unless there’s enough

energy, love and acceptance there, it really wouldn’t matter. So, it’s really not about me.”

Her next venture combines the Vermont land purchase with her investment in the Revolution Kitch en, located in Burlington. The res taurant had caught her eye on mul tiple occasions, but she never went in. She decided to look online for businesses that were available in the area, and there it was. The owners were ready to retire. It was every thing Barchowski had dreamed of — a vegan/vegetarian menu, an ador able exterior with a garage door and an ideal location.

“I like to feed people who are hun gry,” she said. “If you need food, I will give you food. We’ll be able to start that off immediately. The evolution of the revolution.”

Sally’s Ice Cream owner ventures to Vermont

Bre Fleischer serves customers at Sally’s Ice Cream during the Barchowski farewell party.

Courtney VandeBunte and Karen Barchowski share a laugh at Sally’s Ice Cream in Flagler Beach.

Sunset at Sally’s Ice Cream in Flagler Beach.

Madison Barchowski and mom Karen Barchowski

KAREN BARCHOWSKI, owner of Sally's Ice Cream, regarding the right time to leave

Photos by Michele Meyers

Planning Board moves forward with two new developments

One development, on A1A in the northern part of the county, drew opposition from local residents.

WRITER

Two proposed single-family home developments won the planning board’s approval during a board meeting on Tuesday, Oct. 11.

One of the developments, just east of Interstate 95, is expected to have 81 homes, while the other, off State Road A1A, is expected to have 56 homes.

The board members considered two agenda items on each devel opment. Despite some opposition from residents, the board voted unanimously to recommend that the County Commission approve both developments.

The first development on the agen da, Wexford Cove, will be located between Old Kings Road South and Interstate 95, near Eagle Lake Drive.

The applicant requested a Site Development Plan review and then preliminary plat approval for the development plan.

Both were approved by the board.

Wexford Cove would be situated on 38.98 acres, and will be developed into an 81-lot single-family residen tial subdivision.

Although the development is in Flagler County, Volusia County Utilities will provide it with water and sewer service.

The second development, called Scenic Cove, generated opposition from residents.

Situated on 18.69 acres between the Intracoastal Waterway and State Road A1A on the south side of Beach Side Drive, the Scenic Cove devel opment area has been rezoned from low density mixed use to low density single-family residential, according to Planning and Development Board documents.

The site plan for the development, according to documents submitted by staff and the applicant, includes 56 50-foot-wide lots with the new rezoning and land use designations.

The lots are the same size as those in the Hidden Treasure Drive develop

ment just to the south, but local resi dents said they were concerned that the new development would bring overcrowding and displace fauna.

“I live in an oak Hammock,” said Barbara Patel, of Beach Side Drive, “and I don’t want the density of the homes to be such that those trees will have to be cut down.”

Several other residents spoke dur ing the meeting’s public comment period to voice similar concerns.

Deerwood Street resident Ramo na Epps and other locals said they were also concerned about how the increased density would impact stormwater flow and traffic in their area.

Clint Smith of Clint Smith Con

sulting, speaking on behalf of the applicant, said that larger lot sizes cost a lot more money.

The residences with the larger lots are also older and did not have to meet the same regulations as the newer developments, Smith said.

“Some of these subdivisions that have been around a long time don’t have 10% native vegetation set aside, and they don’t have 20% of their property in a stormwater treatment facility,” Smith said. “All these reg ulations push us into smaller lots; that’s just the way it is.”

Adam Mengel, the Flagler County government’s growth management director, said that the 50-foot lot size is consistent with demand.

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single-family homes proposed for the Wexford Cove develop ment, on 39 acres between Interstate 95 and Old Kings Road

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single-family lots proposed for the Scenic Cove develop ment, on 19 acres off North Oceanshore Boulevard north of Hidden Treasure Drive

“That is the market,” Mengel said. Board members Timothy Con nor asked county staff if the county government could impose a lot size, but Assistant County Attorney Sean Moylan said that the county can not regulate what property owners do with their property as long as the owners are meeting the “black-andwhite requirements” of the codes.

Once a developer has established that, Moylan said, the county can not deny the developer’s requests unless doing so for unless it violates against county’s codes.

“These people have land rights — rights that are allowed to them by law,” Board Member Mark Langello said. “Just like you have rights on your property.”

The Flagler County Commission will consider both developments during a commission meeting on Monday, Oct. 17.

SIERRA WILLIAMS

Map courtesy of Flagler County

The Wexford Cove development is about 39 acres and will be an 81-lot single-family home subdivision. Image from Flagler County Planning and Development Board meeting documents

“I live in an oak hammock, and I don’t want the density of the homes to be such that those trees will have to be cut down.”

Barbara Patel, Beach Side Drive

“These people have land rights — rights that are allowed to them by law. Just like you have rights on your property.”

Mark Langello, Flagler County planning board member

Ormond Beach City Commission praises staff for work during Hurricane Ian

ees did the right thing and took care of citizens.

He suggested the city take its Employee Appreciation Day “up a notch” to reward employees for how well they handled the storm.

HOW DID ORMOND BEACH FARE?

The city experienced a high of 16.59 inches of rain and wind gusts of 66 miles per hour during Ian, according to a National Weather Service sum mary of rainfall and peak wind gusts across central Florida.

BY THE NUMBERS — SANDBAGS EDITION

sible.

Having an engineer examine all of the seawalls would be an expensive ordeal, Shanahan said, and the city would be using tax dollars to benefit private properties. But, he added, the city could send all of the condo associations a notice suggesting they perform an inspection.

RECENT INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS HELPED

During the 2009 storm event, 176 homes flooded in Ormond Beach. Thirteen years later, about 20 homes took in water during Hurricane Ian.

“As horrible as that is, I was still encouraged to see such an incredible improvement, because that’s what we were working towards,” Ormond Beach Mayor Bill Partington said during the City Commission meet ing on Wednesday, Oct. 5.

City staff gave the commission a post-hurricane update at the meet ing, and commissioners praised city employees for their work dur ing the storm. Though the damage assessment countywide is over $157 million, the city of Ormond Beach sustained minimal damage in com parison to cities like New Smyrna Beach, Port Orange and Daytona Beach.

“We were blessed,” City Manager Joyce Shanahan said. “We did have a bad storm here, but it could have been much worse.”

Shanahan said she was proud of the city’s employees and has received many compliments via email from residents whom they helped. And some city employees — at least a dozen or more — lost homes as a result of the storm. One employee’s home took on 6-and-a-half feet of water, but he still showed up for work, she said.

“It’s times like hurricanes when you really understand how well your city works,” Shanahan said.

City Commissioner Rob Littleton said the actions of the city’s employ ees over the last week due to the storm have been “outstanding.”

There were too many instances to name, he said, in which city employ

“It’s important to point out that

this storm was not a hurricane when it got to us,” Partington said. “It may have been barely a tropical storm. It could have been considered a depression based on these numbers as far as the wind goes. But yet, just the path of it, the sheer size and the slow duration of it — you look at the impact that it had statewide, and on our city — it just goes to show you that every storm event is different.”

A total of 55 roads flooded in the city, though waters didn’t rise high enough to enter most homes. The city calculated that 10.3 miles of city streets experienced some flooding. There were 29 reported water breaks throughout the city during and after the storm, and the city issued two boil water notices. The water treatment plant sustained about $120,000 in damage, and the its wastewater plant about $100,000, but the damage was not to equipment that would render the plants nonoperational, said Pub lic Works Director Shawn Finley.

Debris collection by the city’s contractor, Crowder Gulf, began on Wednesday, Oct. 5.

Seawalls throughout the county have been a matter of concern since the storm, and city staff will have the seawall at Andy Romano Beach front Park inspected. Ian removed the stairs between the park and the beach, along with a ramp and some shade structures.

Beachfront structures, including condos, in Daytona Beach Shores were left with significant structural damage after Ian, and Ormond Beach City Commissioner Dwight Selby asked what the city’s responsibility might be about those. He mentioned the collapse of the Surfside condos, and said that he would like the city to be as helpful and proactive as pos

Ormond Beach city staff is docu menting the damage and flooding that the city sustained during Ian, Partington said.

He added that he’s hopeful that the federal government will recon sider its withdrawal of a city grant proposal for a drainage project on Fleming Avenue.

Partington said he believed that if that project had been completed before Ian, there would have been less flooding on that street because the city would have been able to pump the floodwater directly into the Halifax River.

“I think it would have taken some of the stress off the Tomoka River and the Tomoka River Basin and that northern section of the Halifax River,” he said.

Ormond Beach City Commissioner Troy Kent applauded the current and prior City Commissions’ decisions to pursue “non-flashy projects” to improve the city’s infrastructure.

“Tens of millions of dollars on things like stormwater,” he said.

He mentioned the federal funding the commission had acquired several years ago to interconnect the Cen tral Park lakes, an area that flooded significantly during the 2009 storm event.

That projects funded with that money allowed the city to pump the lakes down in preparation for Ian.

“That’s good planning, that’s good preparation, and it’s smart govern ment,” Kent said. “And I’m proud to be part of a team that has worked on this infrastructure, on non-flashy things but extremely important infrastructure projects, to keep you, pun intended, above water.”

Fortunato Park after Hurricane Ian

Photo by Michele Meyers

SEPT. 22 AN EMPTY VESSEL MAKES

THE MOST NOISE

10 p.m. — Rosewood Street and Walnut Avenue, Bunnell Noise complaint. A Palm Coast man called in a noise complaint, requesting that an officer bring a certified decibel reader.

The responding officer did, but, to the resident’s frustra tion, found the noise level to be within the allowed range.

The resident said he “was unhappy with [the] response to his call for service” and that every deputy should have a certified decibel meter, ac cording to the incident report.

The resident said he would be calling the commander during business hours.

SEPT. 28

SHOTS FIRED

5 p.m. — 1100 block of West Granada Boulevard, Ormond Beach Weapons complaint. A wit ness called police after he saw someone in a vehicle shoot five to six rounds from a passenger side window.

The witness saw a red Ca dillac leaving the parking lot of a shopping center, with the barrel of a handgun protrud ing from the passenger win dow, angled slightly upwards, according to an incident report. The passenger fired the rounds and the vehicle turned north onto Clyde Mor ris Boulevard.

Police found a 9 millimeter Luger shell casing at the park ing lot exit. Officers received

a lead regarding the vehicle’s owner, but were unable to make contact.

SEPT. 30 ONE MAN’S TRASH?

2 p.m. — 100 block of Wash ington Street, Ormond Beach Loitering or prowling. Police responded to a call about a man who tried to steal a bicycle from a local home, and later dropped it in a yard after being confronted by a homeowner.

The man, wearing a camou flage jacket, fled eastbound and was followed by one of the witnesses as she spoke to dispatch on the phone.

Police spotted the 37-yearold Ormond man running east on Grove Street and eventu ally found him crouched by a bush on someone’s property.

Police officers noted in their report that law enforcement officers were walking around and making radio transmis sions, “which would lead any reasonable person to believe that a law enforcement officer was present” as the man remained in hiding.

The man was secured in handcuffs, and was identi fied by one of the witnesses.

“Please don’t press charges on me,” the man said to po lice, according to the report.

When asked why he had tried to steal the bike, the man said it had been in the trash, and he’d thought he could take it.

He said he’d dropped the bike and concealed himself from police because he was scared of the female witness who’d followed him.

The bike’s owner chose not to press charges.

OCT. 6 COVERT CULVERT

2:18 p.m. — 60 block Boulder Rock Drive, Palm Coast Larceny. A 24-foot-long, 17-inch-wide driveway culvert was stolen out of a construc tion site on Thursday, Oct. 6.

The culvert was valued at

$689.90.

The reporting person told a responding officer that the theft had actually happened sometime between Oct. 3 and Oct. 4.

When asked why the theft wasn’t reported sooner, the reporting person said that their construction crews were busy cleaning up over 100 construction sites in Palm Coast after Hurricane Ian and did not feel that the crime “warranted it at the time,” ac cording to the incident report.

IMMEDIATE EVICTION

6:15 p.m. — 600 block of North Nova Road, Ormond Beach Burglary. An Ormond Beach resident called police after he discovered a man living inside the resident’s boat.

The resident told police that he had been on his way home from work when he noticed clothing hanging from his old boat outside his fam ily’s warehouse.

He stopped to see what was going on, and found the man sleeping inside.

Police made contact with the 35-year-old Ormond Beach man who’d taken up residence on the boat. He said he had been staying on the boat since the previous day, and hadn’t seen any “no trespassing signs” around, ac cording to his arrest report.

There was, indeed, such a sign on the south side of the building.

The man said he had en tered through the north side.

Police noted that the boat cover had beeen vandalized, as was the microwave inside the sleeping area. The man said he didn’t do it.

The resident estimated that the damaget totaled over $1,000. He wanted to press charges.

Officers found drug para phernalia in th e boat, and the trespasser admitted that he’d used heroin a few hours prior. He was taken to jail.

City staff address Woodlands concerns

SIERRA WILLIAMS STAFF

After Hurricane Ian flooded Woodland-area streets, resi dents voiced concerns about how the city handles storm water in the neighborhood.

The Woodlands butts up against the Graham Swamp trailhead area, which takes stormwater runoff from the canals west of Interstate 95.

During heavy rain, the water eventually overflows and backs up into roads and yards.

Donald Schrager, Palm Coast’s deputy director of stormwater, said runoff is high because of the way the city was designed: Water from the west side of I-95 pours into canals and ditches, which eventually lead into Graham Swamp and then into the Intracoastal Waterway.

But these canals and ditch es, Schrager said, are not designed to handle 500-year rain events like Hurricane Ian.

“It’s like the bucket exam ple,” he said. “If you pour all the water into a sink slowly, it will drain fine. But if you pour it all at once, it doesn’t.”

Ralph and Ivette Esposito, who live in the 40 block of Black Alder Drive, had stand ing water in the road and in their back yard for days after the storm. Ralph Esposito said that when he came home after evacuating, the whole street was covered in water.

Ivette Esposito said there was more water in the neigh borhood from Ian than there had been from Hurricane Irma, in 2017.

“We were very lucky it

spread instead of going up,”

Ivette Esposito said on Oct. 1.

Shraeger said that before Ian arrived in Palm Coast, the city had drained the canals in anticipation of the downpour, emptying as much water as possible into the Intracoastal.

Another Woodlands resi dent, Alejandro Figueroa Morales, was driving down Old Kings Road during the storm to check on his parents when he passed over a culvert with water seemingly rush ing from I-95 into Graham Swamp.

He recorded a short clip of the rushing water and shared the video on a private Wood lands community Facebook page.

His fellow Woodlands resi dents were concerned that the clip showed water draining from I-95 directly into their backyards.

But Schrager said that wasn’t the case.

The water, he said, came from the L-4 canal pipes just

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE CITY OF BUNNELL, FLORIDA will hold a public hearing as authorized by law at 7:00 P.M. on the 24th day of October 2022, for the purpose of First Reading of Ordinance 2022-26, in the Chambers Meeting Room of the Government Services Building located at 1769 East Moody Blvd., Bunnell, FL 32110.

ORDINANCE 2022-26

AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF BUNNELL, FLORIDA REPEALING SECTION 30-9 RURAL DEVELOPMENTS FROM THE LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE OF THE CITY OF BUN NELL; REPEALING SECTION 34-190 RURAL SUBDIVISIONS FROM THE LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE OF THE CITY OF BUNNELL; PROVIDING FOR CONFLICTING PROVISIONS; PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY AND APPLICABILITY; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.

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south of the P Section on the west side of I-4.

The pipes — which are being expanded — were over whelmed by the amount of water.

Schrager said the water overflowed from the L-4 canals into undeveloped land between Old Kings Road and I-95, which then drained into the culvert and Graham Swamp.

When asked why the L-4 pipes and culverts with simi lar issues, like those at Colbert Lane and Blare Drive, had not been fixed sooner after Hur ricane Irma, Schrager said that the upgrades are a slow process when every project is important.

In the meantime, he said, he’s just glad the water did not get into people’s houses.

“We learn from every rain event,” Schrager said. “Just because a system works now doesn’t mean we can’t make it better.”

Two caught stealing cooking oil

SIERRA WILLIAMS STAFF WRITER

Deputies caught two men stealing more than 7,000 pounds of used cooking oil — valued at almost $5,000 — from a local restaurant in the early morning hours of Thurs day, Oct. 6.

Flagler County Sheriff’s Office deputy Kyle Gaddie was on patrol at around 3 a.m. when he saw 48-year-old St. Johns County resident Rui Gen Lin and 41-year-old Gainesville resident Rong Chen pump ing used cooking oil out of a vat behind Woody’s Bar-BQue off of State Road 100 and Interstate 95 just after 3 a.m.

The men, wearing head lamps, were pumping the oil into large drums in a white box truck, according to an arrest affidavit. The box truck had one 1,000-gallon drum filled to just under max capac ity, and two completely filled 250-gallon drums, according to the affidavit.

Lin owns a company in Jacksonville known as L&L Recycling, LLC, which buys used oil and recycles it, according to a FCSO press release. But Lin and Chen had not been hired by Woody’s to take the oil, according to the press release.

“They own a company that buys and recycles old cooking oil but, in this case, they tried to increase their profits by stealing the oil,” Sheriff Rick Staly said, according to the news release.. “Used cooking oil is often recycled to make diesel fuel and used in other products.”

Theft of cooking oil, Staly said, is on the rise across the country because the price of oil is rising.

“We learn from every rain event,” Deputy Director of Stormwater Donald Schrager said.

Photo by Sierra Williams

Water flooded into the Graham Swamp from Hurricane Ian, overfill ing ditches and culverts and backing up into roads and backyards.

VCS teams up with Sheriff’s Office for school safety specialist position

This will replace the director of security and safety position previously held by Michelle Newman, who resigned last month.

JARLEENE ALMENAS SENIOR EDITOR

The Volusia County School Board unanimously approved an interlocal agreement on Tuesday, Oct. 11, between the district and the Volusia Sher iff’s Office for the position of a school safety specialist, who would also be an employee of the sheriff.

This will replace the direc tor of security and safety position previously held by Michelle Newman, who resigned last month. The agreement allows VSO to have command oversight and man agement of school safety and security, while providing the school district access to the sheriff’s resources, according to the School Board agenda item. The district also stated this would streamline com munications with VSO and other local law enforcement agencies.

The position will have a sal ary of $90,000. The sheriff will also assign a lieutenant to assist the new director.

School Board Chair Ruben Colon thanked Chitwood and his team for their efforts in drafting the agreement.

“What came before us today is the result of hard work, of understanding the differenc es between the work that we do and the work that you do,” Colon said. “And seeing this come into fruition is actually something I’ve actually want ed to see for a while because I wanted to see us get out of the law enforcement business and stick to the education busi ness, and allow folks who are in the law enforcement busi ness to be a part of the law enforcement business.”

He said that it might have sounded like he was speak ing in a circle, but due to state

IN NEIGHBORING FLAGLER COUNTY...

The Flagler County School Board is consid ering adding guardians to its schools, an inita tive proposed to begin in August 2023, should the board decide to partici pate in the Coach Aaron Feis Guardian Program.

The board was presented with three op tions during a Sept. 20 workshop — training and arming existing district employees who volun teer for the program; hire new employees to be guardians; or con tracting a vendor to provide guardians.

Volusia County Schools first implement ed its guardian program in 2018.

mandates requiring more collaboration between the district, municipalities and law enforcement agencies, the school district started to notice that they “weren’t speaking the same language” as the other bodies.

Volusia Sheriff Chitwood said that the district would be following Seminole County’s model with this interlocal agreement, with some dif ferences, such as the guard ian program, which will con tinue to operate as it has been in Volusia County Schools. Chitwood added that having a VSO captain embedded in the superintendent’s cabinet will help bring resources faster.

Not everyone is cut out to be a school resource officer or a school guardian, Chitwood said.

“We fully understand that this position is the same exact way,” he said.

Per the agreement, the new safety and security direc tor will be responsible for identifying long-range secu rity needs; maintaining and amending an emergency pre

paredness plan; developing and overseeing the imple mentation of emergency preparedness training and emergency education aware ness materials for use within schools; and collaborating all communications between the sheriff’s office command dur ing any critical school-related incident, to name a few.

The board agreed that, once hired, the new director would start as soon as possible.

BRIEFS

VSO: 39 stores selling alcohol, tobacco to minors

An undercover buyer under the age of 21 was able to purchase alcohol or tobacco 39 times during a monthlong operation across Volusia County that concluded this week.

The operation, a joint effort between the East and West Volusia Narcotics Task Forces and Deltona Narcotics En forcement Team, sent an un dercover, under-21 buyer into 64 stores around the county.

Some of the 39 successful purchases happened at:

„ Racetrac Gas Station, 1521 U.S. Highway 1, Ormond Beach

„ Exxon Gas Station, 1622 U.S. Highway 1, Ormond Beach

„

Sunoco Gas Station, 1546 W. Granada Blvd., Ormond Beach

„ J’s Discount Beverage, 595 Beville Road, South Daytona

„ Stream Smoke and Vape, 933 Beville Road, Unit A101, South Daytona

„

Just Relax Smoke and Vape Shop, 1780 S. Nova Road, Unit 2, South Daytona

„ Circle K Gas Station, 4622

S. Clyde Morris Blvd., Port Orange

„ Circle K Gas Station, 3664 S. Nova Road, Port Orange

„ Oak Hill Food Mart, 100 E. Ariel Road, Oak Hill

The East Volusia Narcotics Task Force is comprised of detectives from the Edgewa ter Police Department, New Smyrna Beach Police Depart ment, Port Orange Police Department, South Daytona Police Department and VSO.

The West Volusia Narcotics Task Force has detectives from the DeLand Police De partment and VSO. The Del tona Narcotics Enforcement Team is solely comprised of detectives from the Sheriff’s Office.

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Photo courtesy of Volusia County Schools

Carl Persis, VSO Capt. Daniel Shivers, Chief Tim Morgan, Anita Burnette, Sheriff Mike Chitwood, Su perintendent Carmen Balgobin, Linda Cuthbert and Ruben Colon.

“What came before us today is the result of hard work, of understanding the differences between the work that we do and the work that you do.”

RUBEN COLON, School Board Chair

Renew the half-penny tax to support Flagler’s students

Dear Editor:

My name is Zoe Estberg, and I am a 2019 Flagler County graduate.

This year, I will be a senior at the University of Florida. I have worked tirelessly toward a degree in mechanical engineering with a minor in biomechanics. My confi dence in this world of technology is largely due to the early exposure students were fortunate enough to have in Flagler.

As a fifth grade student, I was approached with the opportunity to pilot Flagler County’s paperless program. This was overwhelming at first. My teachers, along with others from our county’s tech department, guided me through this digital learning journey. Soon, I was not only figuring out how to navigate fifth grade, but also completing and submitting all of my assignments paperlessly.

Those who witnessed this method of teaching were inspired to do the same. Student attitudes towards assignments improved. I have never seen classrooms with students so eager to learn, and this would not have been possible without generous allocations for classroom technology.

Our success in preparing our students not only for their future, but their future in today’s world — which often requires technical proficiency — is imperative.

Now a senior in college, I can reflect on how beneficial my early technology exposure truly was.

Students who pursue higher educa tion can expect to face group work that will require skills in online communication and computer applications.

Unfortunately, not all of my col leagues were fortunate enough to receive early exposure to technol ogy. They now have to teach them selves technological literateracy on top of their already heavy academic loads.

Organizational skills and tools I once utilized as a high school stu dent have enabled me to help others

and simplify my own life. They have allowed me to stand out — some thing all Flagler County students can do, as long as the resources that were once provided for me, con tinue to be provided.

Obtaining fluency in technology is crucial to becoming a success ful adult. It is becoming a universal expectation that all of society is capable of operating technology.

Of all things prioritized for our students, technology is something that has set our group of students apart from others for decades.

For this and so much more, I thank you for your commitment in ensuring student access to resourc es that will propel them in the right direction toward becoming contrib uting members of society.

ZOE ESTBERG Gainesville

When the words ‘thank you’ are never enough

Dear Editor:

All of us tracked the path of Hur ricane Ian as it tumbled around between Florida’s east and west coasts.  Palm Coast residents grew anxious, and immediately, our city staff put Emergency Preparedness Action Plans into motion.

While each of you were busy pre paring your own personal proper ties for a big storm, city staff had you covered.

During the 96, 72, 48, and 24 hours in advance of landfall, they interpreted data, they assembled to forecast any community vulnera bilities, and they got down to work:

Publics Works and Utility crews set up multiple sandbag locations and then secured susceptible areas across neighborhoods.

Stormwater crews lowered levels in canals to prepare for possible flooding.

Parks and Recreation crews primed parks and opened a day care for city staff’s children so that employees could work.

IT flew drones to record the sta tus of city infrastructure before the storm hit.

Communications sent notices to the public reporting weather con ditions and evacuations, helping

them to best prepare.

Customer Service staffed call centers to answer questions and calm concerns.

Firefighters and first respond ers prepared equipment for possible rescues and missions.

Community Development worked with contractors to clean up construction sites and remove potential debris.

Flagler County sheriff’s deputies remained on duty and vigilant to protect our community.

Every city employee engaged consistently and flaw lessly with Flagler County Emer gency Management.

And next, we all hunkered down. City Hall served well as our Emergency Operations Center, where offices were filled with staff members who stayed for several days and nights.

When Hurricane Ian cleared out on Friday morning, your staff stayed on the job, cleaning up and clearing debris, conveying informa tion, listening to calls for help, and responding as quickly as possible.

Together, we are all family in Palm Coast, and nothing proved this more than this natural emergency named Hurricane Ian.

So, we believe that a mere “thanks” is not enough: Let’s all give a round of applause and salute the men and women who serve as our city employees.

This sentence may include “buzz” words, but it’s so true: Palm Coast just may be the safest city in all of Florida because it is protected by the most dedicated, experienced group of professionals in our entire State. We are truly blessed.

Offered with sincere appreciation by:

DAVID ALFIN, MAYOR; AND DENISE BEVAN, CITY MANAGER

Palm Coast

Editor’s note: The statement above was read as a proclamation at the Oct. 11 Palm Coast City Council meeting and was also submitted to the Observer as a letter to the editor.

Email letters of up to 400 words to editor@palmcoastobserver.com. Letters may be edited for length and clarity.

VETERAN

Omer Smith

Branch of military: U.S. Army

Dates of service: 1961-1984

Rank/occupation: Master Ser

geant/Communications

Hometown: Boonsboro, Maryland

Omer Smith served in the Army with distinction for 23 years and retired as a communications/elec tronics maintenance chief at Fort Stewart, Georgia. He was assigned to the White House — where he earned the Presidential Service Badge — to maintain secure communications. He earned many other awards during his service. Upon retirement in 1984, Smith settled in Palm Coast with his wife, Karen. They will have been married 55 years this December. He joined the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office, where he had a 21-year career as a deputy and sergeant. He’s been a member of the American Legion since 1984 and has held several positions, including department commander of Florida, leading the Legion at the state level. Smith works as the state chairman for the Legion’s Immigration and Natural ization program and the Boys State program, which is among the most respected and selective educational programs of government instruction for U.S. high school students.

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CORRECTION

A photo credit beneath two photos of the Flagler Beach pier on page 1A of the Oct. 6 edition stated: "Photos courtesy of the Flagler County gov ernment." The top photo was by Lori Vetter Bowers, of Lori Vetter Photog raphy, not the county government.

An American adventure: 50 half marathons in 50 states

Emma Craik has just one state left: Maine.

Emma Craik’s plan to run a half mar athon in each of the 50 states did not have a glorious beginning.

Her first race in South Carolina in 2012 was a near-disaster. She ran with an injured leg and wound up tearing a hamstring and injuring discs in her back. She finished the 13.1 miles walking and jogging.

“I told her not do it,” said her friend and fellow physical therapist Hella Reintjes — who, along with Craik, laughs about it now.

That ill-fated start shelved Craik’s pursuit for four years. The Ormond Beach resident returned to her quest in 2016. Six years later, she has run in 49 states, bringing along friends and filling up her travelogue with every sight she could fit in along the way.

She was supposed to run her final half marathon in Maine on Oct. 1.

But like her first race, and most of the others in between, there’s a story. This one involved Hurricane Ian. Craik, and the entourage accom panying her for the occasion, never made it to Orlando International Airport for their Sept. 29 flight. The airport was closed anyway.

Instead, she worked at the hos pital, and a tree hit her house. But damage was minimal. Maine will have to be rescheduled. Her 10-year adventure has never gone smoothly, anyway. But she seems to have loved every minute of it.

A DREAM DELAYED

Craik, 48, immigrated to the United States from Scotland in 1996. Her goal was to see the entire country, but life happened. She traveled for work but didn’t have time to sight see, and then she had children.

While watching her two daughters play soccer, a thought occurred to her. Rather than simply supporting her kids, she wanted to be an active role model.

“I wanted to do something my

kids were going to be proud of,” she said. “And they are. Every time I’ve thought about stopping, they’re like, ‘No, you can’t stop. This is brilliant. You gotta keep going.’”

Her daughters, now 22 and 20, built her a wall hanger to hold her medals. Painted across the frame is the phrase, “‘I just felt like running’ — Forrest Gump.”

Craik has always lived an active lifestyle. She played field hockey and rugby in Scotland. She plays tennis, and she’s run several 5Ks (3.1 miles). She wanted her next exploit to be more ambitious than a series of 5K races, so she decided to run half mar athons. Now she jokingly says that she should have looked into the 5Ks.

Her daughters, Kira and Eryn, joined her in Hawaii four or five years ago to run with her. They’ll never do it again, she joked.

“My older daughter was fine. My younger daughter, Eryn, complained the whole way. She’s not a runner,

but she did actually finish first in her age group. And she was very happy at the end,” Craik said.

Hawaii was one of the states that surprised Craik.

“I never thought I would like Hawaii, because I live in Florida, and you’ve got the beach right here. But it is entirely different, having the mountains and the rock crawls,” she said. “At the end, they had this little church and a guy was playing Elvis tunes on his ukulele from Blue Hawaii. It was just magical.”

CLIMBING, FLYING AND RUNNING

Craik is not a fast runner, she says. Her best time of 1 hour, 59 minutes, was in her second race in Tennessee — four years after the South Carolina race.

The number of trips she makes a year varies. Some years, when her daughters were younger, she traveled to just five states. Soccer matches, homecoming and proms took prior

ity. Last year, with both kids in col lege, she ran 10 half marathons.

Sometimes she groups them. She ran West Virginia, Virginia and Ohio in the space of a week, with active excursions in between.

“I climbed the Via Ferrata in West Virginia (at NROCKS in Circleville). That was five and a half hours of climbing with metal rungs. I had no idea. I thought it was going to be one of those kiddie things where you just go over the top,” she said. “I ran one half marathon on the Friday, climed the Via Ferrata on Saturday, ran another half marathon on Sunday, and then a week later, I ran another half marathon in another state. And I was dead. I was covered in bruises everywhere from the rock.”

Her friends say they never know what to expect when they accom pany her. Craik told Reintjes that temperatures in Colorado would be in the 40s and 50s.

“We get there, and it’s a blizzard,”

Reintjes said. “We drive up a moun tain, past car crashes, and we did our hiking. Everybody’s in snowshoes. And we’re climbing and climbing. Emma says, ‘You’ve got to see this lake.’ When we finally got there, it was frozen, white. I couldn’t feel my toes. But that’s OK, we had fun.”

In Idaho, it was pouring when Craik and her friend Anna Van Herck walked to a hot spring.

“The water was raging on the river right next to it. It was just amazing,” Van Herck said.

“If you had gone over into the river, you’d be gone,” Craik said, laughing at the memory.

In Alaska, Craik and her friends took a flightseeing tour over Denali. Craik always runs a tight schedule. But one of her friends broke an arm on the second-to-last day, so they had to make a “quick stop” at the hospital. During the race, Craig saw moose.

“They’re like 14 feet tall, and you’re not supposed to run from a moose,” she said. “So you’re think ing, ‘Do I keep on running or do I stop running, because the moose has seen me now?’”

The best food on her journeys? The lobster rolls and bisque at a little res taurant in Gloucester, Massachusetts.

The friendliest people were in Andalusia, Alabama. “I had a lovely time there,” she said.

Her most difficult half marathon? Albuquerque, New Mexico, where she suffered from altitude sickness.

Craik has learned how diverse her adopted country is, both geographi cally and demographically.

“In Oregon, we went to the state fair, and people were walking around with just body paint on,” she said. “In Louisiana and the southern states, they are much more reserved, but everyone I’ve encountered has been really friendly, and the runners that I’ve met are amazing.”

After Maine, she said, she plans to chronicle her adventures and make trips back to Scotland to visit her parents. She said she’ll continue to run 5Ks. But no more half marathons.

Photo by Brent Woronoff

Emma Craik displays her medals with friends Flor Verstraelen, Ann Van Herck, Hella Reintjes, Trui Peeters and Leen Derid der at the Nova Community Park in Ormond Beach.

Think PINK

WORONOFF

For the first time in three years, the Pink on Parade 5K was live on the campus of Adven tHealth Palm Coast.

The 5K had been a virtual event for the previous two years. AdventHealth Palm Coast Foundation Director

John Subers estimated that 1,000 participants and spec tators arrived the morning of Sunday, Oct. 9 for the 5K, the 1-Mile Pet Friendly Fun Walk and related festivities.

Three hundred ninety one runners and walkers complet ed the 5K distance (3.1 miles).

The event, organized by the city of Palm Coast and Adven tHealth, celebrates breast cancer survivors and raises money for cancer screen ings, education, materials and diagnostic testing. All of the money stays in Flagler County.

Before the start of the 5K, the Ladies of Flagler County — the largest team in the 5K race, with 65 par ticipants — presented the AdventHealth Palm Coast Foundation with a giant check for $1,670-plus. The plus represented the fact that the

group’s fundraising efforts were not finished.

Sisters Ana Reyes-Ouzts and Alina Perry-Smith began the networking group twoand-a-half years ago. The fundraiser was important to Perry-Smith, who was diag nosed with Stage 2 breast cancer in 2013.

“I had chemotherapy, radiation, a double mastec tomy — the works,” she said. A teacher at the time, PerrySmith had always wanted to learn photography, so she decided to take some pho tography classes. Now, she’s a professional photographer.

Paul Shuler, Seabreeze High School’s wrestling and bowling coach, won the 5K race with a time of 19 minutes, nine seconds. He said it was his first 5K victory, and his first race since recently turning 57.

Paige Brammer, 15, of Palm Coast, won the female division and finished third overall, with a time of 20:31. Brammer, a high school soph omore, is a cross country run ner at St. Joseph Academy in St. Augustine.

David Morden, 37, of Palm

Kimberly Wilsey, of Palm Coast, takes her dog on the Fun Walk.

The Ladies of Flagler County presents a check of $1,670-plus to the Adven tHealth Palm Coast Foundation before the 5K. With more donations coming in, the amount was still growing.

Female 64-69 winner Nancy Coye, center. Mary Goss Crowson, right, came in second place, while Nancy Larive, left, came in third place. All three are from Palm Coast.

Deborah Hayden, left, of Ormond Beach, won the female 70-74 age group. Phyllis Wolff-McDonagh, right, of Palm Coast, finished second.

Pippin, who was accompanied by Casey Pickering, won a Pink Out Your Pet award.

Female winner Paige Brammer

Overall winner Paul Shuler

Ken Richardson, of Ormond Beach, finished third in the male 70-74 age group.

Violet Shaefer, 7, finished second among girls 8 and under.

AdventHealth’s Pink on Parade 5K returns to Palm Coast.

finished second over all, with a time of 19:24. For complete results, go to https://runsignup.com/ Race/Donate/FL/Palm Coast/pink5k.

Photos by Brent Woronoff

Family Life Center hosts event for domestic violence awareness

The second annual Rise Up conference with the Flagler Domestic Violence Task Force will be held Friday, Oct. 14, at the DSC campus in Palm Coast.

SIERRA WILLIAMS STAFF WRITER

The Family Life Center and the Fla gler County Domestic Violence Task Force are presenting their second annual Rise Up Against Domestic Violence conference.

The conference will take place at 9 a.m. on Friday, Oct. 14, at Palm Coast’s Daytona State College Cam pus. The conference will break down into two sessions with a total of eight discussion topics, each led by a member of Flagler County’s Domes tic Violence Task Force.

The half-day conference will include discussions on what the Bible has to say about domestic violence, how domestic violence impacts chil dren, the signs of domestic violence and more. The task force members leading the discussions are from all walks of life — a chaplain, sev eral Flagler County Public Schools employees, Flagler County Sher iff Office detectives — all coming together, educating people on and bringing awareness to domestic vio lence.

“The idea is to promote education about domestic violence,” said Trish Giaccone, chief executive officer of the Family Life Center. “It really is a community effort.”

Giaccone said a lot of victims may not even know the extent of resources available to them in Flagler County.

The Family Life Center connects vic tims and survivors to the help they need, through outreach services.

The Family Life Center’s in-house services include a 24-hour emer gency shelter, with clothing and food provided. Its reduced COVID capac ity is 12, Giaccone said, but those who need shelter can stay for eight to 12 weeks, depending on their situ ation. These services are available to all in need regardless of gender, ori entation or age.

“When we say domestic violence crosses all boundaries, we mean domestic violence crosses all bound aries,” Giaccone said.

The shelter can connect survivors to a lawyer or Department of Child Services liaisons as needed. It also has advocates available 24 hours a day helping current victims. Survi vors rebuilding their lives find and take their next steps there.

The center even, Giaccone said, has a youth advocate for kids, help ing them process what’s going on.

Palm Coast City Councilman John Fanelli works with the task force through his work with Flagler Coun ty Public Schools.

During the conference, Fanelli will co-lead a discussion session called “ACE’s and Handle with Care.” ACE’s, Fanelli said, stands for ‘adverse children’s experiences’ and focuses on how research shows cer tain childhood experiences can lead to specific issues later in a child’s life.

His presentation partner, Taurean Wilson, a mental health counselor, will lead that part of the discussion while Fanelli will discuss the pro gram FCPS has in place to mitigate these experiences — Handle with Care.

The program partners schools with the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office and the Florida Department of

BY THE NUMBERS

215

Family Life Center victims helped through shelter out reach in its 2022 fiscal year 420

Number of crisis calls fielded by the Family Life Center in its 2022 fiscal year

5,047

people at bednights at the Family Life Center in their 2022 fiscal year

6,179

Hours of crisis counseling at the Family Life Center in its 2022 fiscal year

850

The number of domestic vio lence cases in Flagler County from July 2021 through Sept. 2022

Juvenile Justice to reduce a student’s stress if they are acting out because of a traumatic situation. The FCSO and FDJJ send basic information to the schools, Fanelli said — nothing detailed, to protect confidentiality, usually just a name and birthdate — and lets the school know the child is going through a traumatic event.

It could be anything: a home domestic violence situation, the death of a family member, a car acci dent.

Knowing that there is something going on prevents the student from being punished if they aren’t follow ing the rules, Fanelli said.

Normally, a student might be written up if they are acting out, out of dress code, tardy, or even crying or sleeping in class.

“But if it’s related to trauma, the last thing we need to do is add to that [stress],” Fanelli said. “Basical ly, what we’re doing is handling the student with care — exactly what the title [of the program] is.”

Educating and aiding children dealing with domestic violence cas es is just one side of the puzzle. It is equally important to educate peo ple about what domestic violence entails.

That includes teaching people about the cross-section between intimate partners and sexual abuse, something FCSO Detective Jordan St. John will undertake toward the end of the conference.

St. John spent five years as a road patrol officer, she said, and another year on major cases like sex crimes.\

She said she’d volunteered to join the task force six months ago to be a voice for the voiceless.

A big part of that, she said, is informing people about their options — including the fact that they don’t necessarily have to make a report to the police, she said.

“That’s the beauty of the task force,” St. John said. “It puts all [the options] together in a room.”

Events like Rise Up are critical to opening up that dialogue and get ting people the best help they can, she said.

“I’m one part of a big puzzle,” she said, “and it’s about getting people to their best quality of life.”

Anyone who wants to attend the Rise Up Against Domestic Violence conference can sign up at Eventbrite.

The conference is free.

Anyone needing help can call the Family Life Center hotline at 386437-3505.

BRIEFS

Ormond Beach Planning Board to meet Thursday

What’s coming up the development pipeline in Ormond Beach?

The Ormond Beach Planning Board will meet at 6 p.m. on Thurs day, Oct. 16, at the City Commission Chambers to discuss five items.

The first is a special exception comes from Paradise Pointe, a new assisted living and memory care facility. The facility seeks approval to allow a 6-foot decorative open aluminum fence with landscaping along its west property boundary with Aberdeen at Ormond Beach, in lieu of a 6-foot masonry wall.

Paradise Pointe, to feature 87 private apartments in a resort-style setting, is being constructed at 350 Clyde Morris Blvd. It will span three stories and 75,000 square feet, and is scheduled to open in the winter.

The next four items to be consid ered for approval by the board are all land development code amend ments. The first is an amendment to establish dimension standards for townhomes and enhance the con ditional use criteria for these types of development, as well. The second is a to reduce the required rear yard setback for screen enclosures, third to amend the expiration date for a development order variance from one to two years, and the fourth amendment is administrative in na ture regarding the second North U.S. 1 Interlocal Planning and Municipal Service area.

File photo by Brian McMillan Ormond Beach City Hall

“The idea is to promote education about domestic violence. It really is a community effort.”

TRISH GIACCONE, chief executive officer of the Family Life Center

“That’s the beauty of the task force. It puts all [the options] together in a room.”

JORDAN ST. JOHN, FCSO detective

YOUR NEIGHBORS

PIG-TURE PERFECT

Artists, food trucks, musi cians and lots of farm animals came to this year’s Creekside Festival to entertain locals and visitors over the weekend of Oct. 8-9.

The event was held at the Florida Agricultural Mu seum this year in stead of at its usual location at Princess Place, where the ground is still soggy from Hurricane Ian.

A petting zoo and pig swimming and racing — crowd members were excited to have their “swine” win — introduced children to animals not usu ally encountered outside of farm life.

JAKE MONTGOMERYEmma Sites, of Palm Coast, and Venture Frame, of St. Augustine, pet a rabbit at the pet ting zoo.

Above: Peyton Perez, 23, and son Theo Perez at Noah’s Ark petting zoo at the Creekside Festival.

Left: One of the pigs jumps in the pool during the race.

Amanda Lavan, 43, from the Florida Agricultural Museum, walks a mini horse, Churro.

Brian Lavan, 6, of Palm Coast, at the Kid Zone.

Creekside

LOCAL

THURSDAY, OCT. 13

ORMOND BEACH AREA

DEMOCRATIC CLUB MEETING

When: 6:30 p.m.

Where: 56 N. Halifax Drive, Ormond Beach

Details: The October meeting of the Ormond Beach Area Democratic Club will be held in person and on Zoom. Social visiting will be from 6:30 to 7 p.m., and the meeting will begin at 7 p.m. During the meeting, candidates will be available to speak and answer questions, and further activities will be planned leading up to the November election. Likeminded non-members are welcome to attend as guests. The club meets on the second Thursday of every month. Visit ormondbeachdems. org for a Zoom meeting request and more club information.

FRIDAY, OCT. 14

BE BEAR AWARE

When: 3:30 p.m.

Where: Ormond Beach Regional Library, 30 S. Beach St., Ormond Beach Details: A bear biologist from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conser vation Commis

sion will discuss bear biology, what to do if you encounter a bear, and how to reduce humanbear conflicts. Free program. Registration is not required. For more information, call 386-676-4191.

SATURDAY, OCT. 15

FIFTH-ANNUAL ISLAND FESTIVAL

When: 12-9 p.m.

Where: Central Park at Town Center, 975 Central Ave., Palm Coast Details: The fifth-annual Island Festival in Palm Coast is a familyfriendly cultural experience featur ing Caribbean bands, a vendor area with local art, island art, clothing and authentic island food vendors and trucks. Tickets cost $10 for early birds. Visit www.islandfesti val5.com.

OKTOBERFEST

When: 6-9 p.m.

Where: Anderson-Price Memorial Building, 42 N. Beach St., Ormond Beach Details: Get out your lederhosen and dirndls and join the Ormond Beach Historical Society for its an nual Oktoberfest event. The Bavar ians will play traditional German music, there will be German food and you can enjoy a cold beer. There will also be a 50/50 raffle and cos tume contest. Tickets cost $45. Visit ormondhistory.org.

PAT & PINK TRIBUTE — A SALUTE

TO WOMEN

When: 7 p.m.

Where: Flagler Auditorium, 5500 E. Highway 100, Palm Coast Details: This show is a fun draiser for breast cancer patient support. Tickets cost $27. Visit flaglerauditorium. org

386-748-8993 or visit spcavolusia. org.

THE THREE CHIMNEYS

ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE FAMILY DAY OPEN HOUSE

When: 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Where: The Three Chimneys, 715 W. Granada Blvd., Ormond Beach

Details: Attend a free Family Day Open House at this local archaeo logical site. There will be a reopening dedication ceremony at 1 p.m. Park at Granada Professional Center at 725 W. Granada Blvd. Docent guides will be on-site to narrate the history of The Three Chimneys.

MONDAY, OCT. 17

BIRD WALK: LONG CREEK NATURE PRESERVE

When: 10 a.m.

Where: Long Creek Nature Preserve, 1050 Palm Harbor Parkway, Palm Coast Details: Presented by the Flagler Audubon Society in partnership with Wild Birds Unlimited of Palm Coast. This is a short walk with lots of great bird activity. Visit flagleraudubonso ciety.com.

2022 NINE AND DINE

FUNDRAISER

When: 3:30 p.m.

to fish to participate in the program.

Bring a kayak, canoe or standup paddleboard, along with a life preserver and whistle. This is part of the county’s free Explore Volusia program. Registration is required. Call 386-736-5927.

NIGHT WITH A SCIENTIST

When: 5:30 p.m.

Where: Ormond Beach Regional Library, 30 S. Beach St., Ormond Beach

Details: Marine Science Center Manager Chad Macfie will describe the center’s rehabilitation pro

side Drive, Ormond Beach

Details: The Ormond Beach Art Guild will hold its Fall 2022 exhibit at The Casements, featuring local art ists. An opening reception will take place 5:30-7:30 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 14. Free event. The Casements is open 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday-Friday, and 8 a.m. to noon on Saturdays.

THE COLOR OF RAIN

When: Sept. 3 through Oct. 29

Where: Jane’s Art Center, 199 Down ing St., New Smyrna Beach

Details: See this art exhibition com posed of painted umbrella installa tions by the Florida Women’s Art Association. The opening reception is scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 3, from 4-7 p.m. Visit flwaa.com.

TURNING NEWS INTO ART

When: Sept. 12 through Oct. 28

Where: News Journal Center Fine Art Gallery, 22 N. Beach St., Daytona Beach

FOOD TRUCK TUESDAY

When: 5-8 p.m.

Where: Central Park at Town Center, 975 Central Ave., Palm Coast

Details: See this exhibition by the Florida Women’s Art Association. Opening reception will take place on Thursday, October 13, from 5:307:30 p.m. Visit flwaa.com.

WHERE THERE IS A WOMAN, THERE IS MAGIC

When: Oct. 1-28

Where: Palm Harbor Golf Club, 20 Palm Harbor Drive, Palm Coast Details: Join this golf fundraiser that includes dinner, a 50/50 raffle, and prizes. Hosted by the Palm Coast Historical Society. Golf and dinner costs $60; dinner only is $30. Visit palmcoasthistory.org/2022nine-dine-fundraiser/.

Details: Presented in partnership with the Palm Coast Observer, this month’s Food Truck Tuesday will benefit the Dolly Parton Imagina tion Library. Trucks will feature a variety of appetizers, main dishes, side dishes, and desserts available for purchase. Registration is not required. Visit parksandrec.fun.

Where: Galerie Elan, 230 S. Beach St., Daytona Beach

Details: See this exhibition by the Florida Women’s Art Association. The opening reception will take place 5-8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 7.

SUNDAY, OCT. 16

LOW-COST PET SHOT

CLINIC

When: 9-11 a.m.

Let’s Close the Case on Cancer Let’s Close the Case on Cancer

MOVIES IN THE PARK

When: 7:15-9:15 p.m.

Where: Central Park at Town Center, 975 Central Ave., Palm Coast Details: Bring your blanket, lawn chairs, picnic baskets and watch “The Nightmare Before Christmas,” rated PG, at Central Park. This event is presented by Palm Coast Parks and Recreation.

Where: Big Lots Plaza, 122 N. Nova Road, Ormond Beach Details: Get your pet vaccinated at a lower cost. Rabies shots will cost $5 for 1-year vaccinations. Other shots offered include dog distemper/parvo combo, dog flu, cat distemper combo, feline leukemia and more. Heartworm prevention and flea control products will be available for purchase. All vac cinations are administered with a licensed veterinarian. Cash only for shots; cards accepted for product purchase. No appointment needed. Clinic is open to everyone. Proceeds benefit abused animals. Call or text

TUESDAY, OCT. 18 HIGHBRIDGE PADDLE AND FISHING ADVENTURE

Breast Breast Investigators Investigators The The

When: 8:30-10:30 a.m.

Where: Highbridge Park, 39 High bridge Road, Ormond Beach Details: Learn about restoration in areas of the Tomoka River and strategies for restoring mangroves, oysters and salt marsh. An environ mental specialist will discuss the importance of these habitats and share information about ethical angling. Participants are encouraged to bring their fishing gear. A Florida saltwater license is required to fish, and all regulations must be fol lowed, though you are not required

ONGOING

MAZE DAYZ AT COWART RANCH

When: 5-10 p.m. Friday Oct. 7, 14, 21 and 28; 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday, 8, 15, 22 and 29; and 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 9, 16, 23 and 30

Where: Cowart Ranch and Farms, 8185 W. Highway 100, Bunnell Details: The ninth-annual Maze Dayz is now happening in Bunnell. Get lost in the farm’s maze, visit the pumpkin patch, buy local produce, take a hayride and take part in other farm activities. Tickets cost $10; children 2 and under are free. Visit MazeDayz.com.

ORMOND BEACH ART GUILD

SPRING ART EXHIBIT

When: Oct. 10 through Nov. 4

Where: The Casements, 25 River

MOAS EXHIBITIONS

When: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday; 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Sunday Where: Museum of Arts and Sci ences, 352 S. Nova Road, Daytona Beach

Details: Want to spend a day looking at fine art? The Museum of Arts and Sciences has the following shows on display: “Art as Alchemy: An Exhibition from Miami’s New World School of the Arts” (through Oct. 16) ; “Epiphany! Visions of Art”; “Minor Masterpieces: Porcelain Painted Scenes from the Collection”; and “Tech Savvy: Home Technology from 1890s to the 1990s”.

Let’s

Just the Facts:

The Flagler Palm Coast homecoming king and queen and their court

Flagler Palm Coast High School cel ebrated Homecoming 2022 this past weekend with a home football game on Oct. 7 and the homecoming dance on Oct. 8.

Hannah Kurek and Dylan Toriello were named homecoming king and queen at halftime of the football game. Kurek is senior class vice president and a mem ber of the softball team. She plans to attend college and become a marine biologist. Toriello plays lacrosse and is a member of the SGA. After graduation, he plans to go into construction.

Nevaeh Edwards and Andy Toros were named senior princess and prince.

The remainder of the senior home coming court included Zay Davis, Bianca

Gallo, Cameron Driggers, Lyric Kelley, Grayson Ronk, Shyleigh Leblanc, Dalton Schell, Alexandria Murray, Tyler Siegel, Madelin Sims, Robert Stanier and Madi son Winter. Each member of the senior court was escorted on the field by their parents.

The freshman princess and prince were Tatev Hartenyan and Tyler Phok. Mi randa Shay Spencer and Marcus Mitchell Jr. were named sophomore princess and prince. And Edwina Mezo and Nazair Mc Carthy were named Junior Princess and Prince.

Faculty members David Bossardet and Evana Fretterd were named homecoming duke and dutchess by student vote.

BRENT WORONOFFSophomore Princess and Prince Miranda Shay Spencer and Marcus Mitchell Jr.

Freshman Princess and Prince Tatev Hartenyan and Tyler Phok

Homecoming Dutchess Evana Fretterd and Homecoming Duke David Bossardet

Homecoming Queen Hannah Kurek and Homecoming King Dylan Toriello Photos by Brent Woronoff

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FINE ARTS

DR.E

Art can be fun, and An nabella Kaney-Olivari’s ceramic and mixed media sculpture, titled “Dr.E,” is certainly that.

Her piece will be on display at the fourthannual Volusia County Schools’ student juried show at Gallery500 through Oct. 21. It was awarded “Best of Show” during the open ing reception. KaneyOlivari, a Seabreeze senior, won a $500 scholarship, plus $500 for her school’s art pro gram, according to a blog post by the gallery.

Gallery500 director Amber O’Neal said that one can’t help but smile at the sculpture.

“Art is meant to be enjoyed, whether it is deeply thought-pro voking and makes a statement or it is fun and quirky,” she said.

O’Neal added that she’s always astound ed by the creativity of the students’ work.

“They don’t have the ‘art knowledge’ or ex perience of a tenured artist, but they are true artists in that they have a drive for the arts and the creativity to push the boundaries and present new ideas to the viewer,” she said.

The students’ work will also be on display during the One Day tona Art Festival Oct. 22-23.

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Courageous comeback

BRENT WORONOFF ASSOCIATE EDITOR

Flagler Palm Coast quarterback D.J. Murray did not have his most prolif ic running back to hand off to or his usual left tackle to protect his blind side.

Running back Marcus Mitchell (sprained ankle) and tackle Drew Droste (knee) sat out the Oct. 7 homecoming game to ensure they would be healthy for this week’s important district contest. Down 22-0 to Eau Gallie, Murray could have packed it in. But he decided to put his team on his back.

The junior ran for three touch downs in a nine-and-a-half minute span and got within three yards of a possible game-tying touchdown and conversion.

But Robert Stafford, a Univer sity of Miami commit, intercepted Murray’s fluttering pass, released as he was getting hit, and returned it 97 yards for a touchdown with two seconds left to give the Commodores (6-1) a 35-20 victory.

“If (Murray) doesn’t get hit, our kid’s open in the back corner of the end zone,” FPC coach Robert Paxia said. “He gets hit. And the ball just got flubbed up in the air. There’s a reason (Stafford’s) going to Miami. He’s really, really good.

“We persevered,” Paxia said. “We battled, we grinded. We never quit.

We controlled our effort and our attitude. And that’s all I ever ask them to do.”

FPC fell behind 22-0 on Tyler Sheehan’s pick-six with 4:11 left in the third quarter. But Murray scored on a 5-yard run with 23 seconds remaining in the quarter to put FPC on the scoreboard. He added a 3-yard touchdown run early in the fourth quarter and scored again from the 2 with three minutes left to make it a one-possession game at 28-20.

“We really showed our grit in the second half when we started turning things around,” Murray said. “I think we just came out flat. We underes timated them a little bit. And then, once we realized that it was game time, the defense started making big plays, and I just tried to command the offense with as much positivity and leadership as I could, so we could come out here and try to come back into the game.”

It was the third time this season the Bulldogs played a game with out a full week’s rest. They defeated Ponte Vedra 20-17 four days earlier on Monday, Oct. 3.

“It’s just not fun to play two in a week,” Paxia said. “We played three in a week, then we had a week off, then we played two in a week. It took us a half to get things ironed out on defense, when normally we have an extra day of practice, and we would have fixed those things. We have not mastered the two games in a week. We’re good when we play one game

UP NEXT

Nease (1-6) at Flagler Palm Coast (4-3), Friday, Oct. 14, 7 p.m.

District 4-4S standings:

1. FPC 1-0.

2. Nease 0-0.

3. Ponte Vedra 0-1.

Matanzas (2-4) at Gainesville (0-7), Thursday, Oct. 13, 7 p.m.

District 4-3S standings:

1. St. Augustine 2-0.

2. Clay 1-0.

3. Menendez 1-1.

Matanzas 0-1.

Gainesville 0-2.

in a week.”

The Bulldogs are 4-0 with six days off between games and 0-3 with three days or less between games. Follow ing the Eau Gallie loss, FPC had a full week to prepare for its critical home game against Nease on Friday, Oct. 14.

The Bulldogs will clinch the District 4-4S title and an automatic playoff berth with a victory over the Pan thers. With only three teams in the district, the Bulldogs put themselves in the driver’s seat with the win at Ponte Vedra.

Nease is just 1-6, but the Panthers have scored 30 or more points in three of their losses. They feature four-star quarterback Marcus Stokes, who is committed to play for the University of Florida. Stokes flipped from his first choice of Penn State, follow ing in former Nease quarterback Tim Tebow’s footsteps to Gainesville.

Stokes has passed for over 1,100 yards and rushed for over 400 this season. But he has thrown just seven touchdown passes with eight inter ceptions. He has nine rushing touch downs.

“This is just another bump in the road,” Murray said after the Eau Gal lie game. “Next week is the one that really matters, so we can do some thing that’s only been done four times here (winning the district). We finally have a week to prepare for Nease. I feel like we’ll have a great week of prac tice and be really prepared to play this game and win the district title.”

FPC battles to the end in loss to Eau Gallie; Bulldogs can clinch title with win over Nease

Photos by Brent Woronoff

Tra’vel Adams and Ethan Laupepa (51) tackle Eau Gallie quarterback Jay Latson.

Ethan Roland (13) catches a pass from D.J. Murray.

Landin Simmons gets some running room.

D.J. Murray (1) scores a touchdown for the Bulldogs.

“We have not mastered the two games in a week. We’re good when we play one game in a week.”

ROBERT PAXIA, FPC football coach

Sam Peters makes a splash for Matanzas

Peters gave up swimming five years ago to play football. But after tearing an ACL, he has returned to the pool.

Sam Peters was a pretty good swim mer when he gave up the sport five years ago, at 11 years old.

“I just didn’t really like swim ming, and I wanted to start playing football,” the Matanzas High School junior said.

He played defensive end at his high school in Fort Collins, Colorado, until tearing the anterior cruciate ligament in his knee a year ago. His family moved to Palm Coast in the summer, and Peters wanted to start playing football again.

However, his father, Dave Peters,

steered him in another direction. He wanted Sam to play a sport. He didn’t want him re-injuring his ACL.

“He was doing great in football,” Dave Peters said. “But he tore his ACL, and you rarely do that swim ming. So, I said, ‘I think you’re going to be a swimmer again.’”

It helped that one of Sam’s first friends at Matanzas, Teddy Vander

bilt, is on the Pirates’ swim team. Vanderbilt set a school record as a freshman last season. Now, Sam Peters owns a school record as well.

Peters broke the record in the 50-yard freestyle with a time of 13.74 seconds.

“I was definitely surprised,” he said. “I didn’t think I was going to get this far in one season.”

But once he got in the water, mus cle memory took over, he said.

“I didn’t have any major issues with my strokes,” said Peters, who

JARONIS SETS ANOTHER RECORD

Sam Peters is not the only Matanzas swim mer to break a school record this season.

Junior Karolina Jaronis broke the school mark in the girls 100yard butterfly, with a time of 1:04.51.

It is the sec ond time Jaronis has etched her name in the school record book. Last season, Jaronis and teammates Aryanna DiFatta, Isabella Tietje and Madelyn Derringe broke the record in the 200-yard free style relay with a time of 1:52.70.

also swims the 100-yard butterfly and occasionally the 100-yard free style in addition to a couple of relays.

“My knee hurt a little bit at first,” he said. “But I got used to it. I think swimming helped rehabilitate it.”

Peters not only set a school record in his first season as a high school swimmer, he also has been named captain of the team.

“He’s a great kid,” Matanzas swim coach Carrie Purdy said. “He was very helpful and showed leadership skills. He’s very team-oriented, and he’s a competitive swimmer.”

and Volusia counties this season have had a different problem. Because of persistent afternoon thunderstorms, the teams have had limited pool time. Two of the Pirates’ meets were can celed.

A pump at the Palm Coast Aquat ics Center was damaged by Hur ricane Ian, and the Pirates had to shift their practice last week to the Ormond Beach YMCA while the city waited for parts to repair the pump.

Sam Peters returned to swimming this season after tearing an ACL play ing football for his high school in Colorado last year.

SAM PETERS

Dave Peters said when the family lived in Texas, Sam was highly ranked in his age group in the butterfly. But once they moved to Colorado, his interest waned.

“When we got to Colorado, the team was pretty intense,” Dave Peters said. “They were a twice-a-day kind of practice team. And he just quickly grew tired of that.”

High school swimmers in Flagler

Peters has been staying in shape with dryland workouts. Now that he has one school record, he said, he’d like to shave time off his 100-yard butterfly and 100-yard freestyle.

He said he now plans to stick with swimming for the rest of his high school career.

“It’s definitely a lot different (than football), to say the least,” he said.

“But it still has that aspect of bet tering yourself to improve the team. It’s more individual, I would say, but the team aspect is still there.”

Coseta Viola Odle, age 90, passed away peace fully on October 1, 2022 She is survived by her sister, Ruby A. Malcom, daughters Sharon and Aline; granddaughters Briana, Jessica, Laila, Dominique, and Diva; extended family, friends, and neighbors.

Ms. Odle was born in Jamaica, West Indies, moved to the United States, and lived in New York City during the mid-1950s, in her young adulthood. She excelled as an expert bookkeeping manager and tax consultant. She lived a challenging yet extremely productive and active life style. Trading-in snow days for endless days of sunshine, Ms. Odle relocated to estab lish a new home within the city of Palm Coast, Florida in 1999. She had a natural green thumb and cultivat ed a massive garden. From it, she shared the fruits of her labor like she did with all things. Selfless, loving, hardworking, intelligent, determined, and benevolent. Ms. Odle was well-respected amongst her peers and loved by her family and closest friends. She will be forever loved and truly missed.

Family and friends are invited to celebrate Ms. Odle’s life with visitation and viewing on Tuesday, October 18th, 2022

at Craig Flagler Palms

Funeral Home & Flagler Memorial Gardens, 511 Old Kings Rd S, Flagler Beach, FL 32136. A Mass of Christian Burial will occur on Wednesday, October 19th, 2022 at 10:00 AM EDT at Palm Coast United Methodist Church, 5200 Belle Terre Pkwy, Palm Coast, FL 32137.

Knowing Coseta’s love for gardening and flowers, if you would like to donate flowers, please address them to the funeral home. In lieu of flowers donations may be made to the American Heart Association: https://www. heart.org/donate where you

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Sam Peters swims the 100-yard but terfly and two freestyle events.

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Sam Peters broke the school record in the 50-yard freestyle in his first season swimming competitively in five years.

File photo

“My knee hurt a little bit at first. But I got used to it. I think swimming helped rehabilitate it.”

LINES

Local to be inducted into Brown’s Hall of Fame

Thirty-one years ago, Trishna Patel left her family in Mumbai, India, at the age of 13 to play tennis in the United States.

She had been accepted to Nick Bollettieri’s prestigious IMG Tennis Academy in Bradenton. She went on to play tennis and major in econom ics at Brown University and was the Ivy League’s Player of the Year in 1997 when she led the Bears to the Ivy League title and a trip the NCAA championships.

On Oct. 29, the Ormond Beach resident will be inducted into the Brown University Athletics Hall of Fame.

Pirates second at Volusia-Flagler golf tournament

Matanzas finished second behind Spruce Creek at the Volusia-Flagler golf tournament on Oct. 10 at Crane Lakes in Port Orange.

Senior Ashtin Arlaud led the Pirates with a 72, followed by Alek Libby with a 75, Jacob Roster with an 80 and London Parker with an 89.

Pirates sweep Bulldogs

The Matanzas volleyball team improved to 12-6 with a 3-0 victory against Flagler Palm Coast on Oct. 6. The Pirates won 25-16, 25-12 and 25-21.

Hanna Schagen led Matanzas with 10 kills, while Rylan Miller had 18 digs, and Sydney Moses had 32 assists.

The Pirates will host Tocoi Creek at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 13.

“I found out about it this sum mer,” she said. “A few of my team mates from the ’97 team live in the New York and New England area, and they’re going to come down. And we got in touch with our coach, Norma Taylor, and she’s going to come.”

Patel worked in finance for many years in New York City. In 2015, she moved to Ormond Beach and became the head pro at the Trails Racquet Club where she handles all the adult programming. Three and a half year ago, she also started a junior program at the club — the Trailblazers.

“It’s a great group of kids and their families,” she said. “We started with seven or eight kids. Now we have close to our goal of 50. We have kids playing on all levels. It’s not elite, it’s more recreational, introducing people to tennis.”

Last year, Patel also became the head coach of Seabreeze High School’s tennis team, taking over for longtime coach Bob Holtgrewe, who retired.

“Bob has been an invaluable source of information,” said Patel,

“(The Traiblazers are) a great group of kids and their families. We started with seven or eight kids. Now we have close to ... 50. We have kids playing on all levels. It’s not elite, it’s more recreational, introducing people to tennis.”

who already had been some of the Sandcrabs’ players on an individual basis.

Patel said when she was still living in India she was having good results playing international tournaments in the 12 and 14 age groups when Bollettieri’s academy offered her a scholarship. At the time, tennis stars Andre Agassi, Jimmy Arias, Monica Seles, David Wheaton, Mary Joe Fer nandez and Mary Pierce were at the peak of their careers and training at the academy.

“I was homesick initially,” she said. “But I was fairly focused, and I knew I wanted this. It was a very controlled setting, a very unique high school experience during that time.”

At Brown, Patel set school records in 1997 for single-season combined wins (61) and singles wins (36), while ranking second in school history in single-season doubles wins. Playing No. 1 singles and doubles, she led the Bears to a 19-3 record, 7-0 in the Ivy League that year.

She was named first-team All-Ivy

League in singles in 1997, first team in doubles in 1995 and 1997 and second team in singles in 1995 and doubles in 1996.

Three of Patel’s former team mates plan to attend her Hall of Fame induction: Michelle Keys, the cap tain of the 1997 team; Elisa Banner, Patel’s doubles partner; and Leela Raju, the No. 4 singles player and No. 2 doubles player on the ‘97 team.

“Leela had an awesome winning percentage. She almost never lost,” Patel said.

In New York, Patel had a success ful career in investment banking and risk management working for Salo mon Brothers, and Citigroup when the companies merged. Now she is back in tennis, devoting her time to coaching others.

“This opportunity to have a sec ond career almost came at a really wonderful time,” said Patel, who is the mother of two young boys. “I’m going to see where it takes me, and where I can take it.”

SHS girls 3rd at pre-state cross country meet

Seabreeze sophomore

Mackenzie Roy finished third at the FSU Invitational PreState cross country meet on Oct. 7. Roy finished with a time of 20:15.9 to help the Sandcrabs girls to a thirdplace team finish.

Mackenzie’s twin sister, Ariana Roy, finished seventh in 20:38.7, while Seabreeze senior Nickole Dane placed 13th with a time of 21:05.6.

At the New World Spectacular in Jacksonville, three FPC runners shattered their personal records. Justin Gilliam finished second overall with a time 16:23, improving his PR by almost a minute. Hayden Herndon finished third with a 16:25, dropping his PR by 25 seconds. And Barak Olago was fifth in 16:42, dropping his PR by 34 seconds. Peyton Woodward placed 15th with a time of 17:15.

Among the girls, FPC’s Cassidy De Young placed fourth with a time of 20:03.

Matanzas’ Nina Rodriguez and Sierra Howard, placed 11th and 12th, respectively, both finishing in 20:44. FPC’s Genesis Epstein was 13th in 20:50, followed by teammate Arianna Slaughter in 14th place with a time of 20:52.

Best of the week

CROSS COUNTRY

Five Star Meet at Doris Leeper Park, New Smyrna Beach, Saturday, Oct. 15, 8 a.m.

Run Matanzas, Saturday, Oct. 15, 7 a.m.

GOLF Palm Coast Cup: FPC boys and girls vs. Matanzas boys and girls, Palm Harbor Golf Club, Oct. 20, 3:30 p.m.

File photo by Michele Meyers

Trails Racquet Club’s head tennis pro Trishna Patel coaches the Seabreeze tennis team and runs the Trailblazers youth tennis program.

TRISHNA PATEL

Top seller: Condo in Hammock Dunes

Acondo is Hammock Dunes was the top real estate transaction for the week of Sept. 1-7 in Flagler County in the Multiple Listing Service. Manuel and Diane Lopez, individually and as trustees, sold 7 Av enue de la Mer, Unit 402, to Dennis Fetch, as trustee, for $880,000. Built in 2003, the condo is a 3/2.5 and has 1,944 square feet.

WAYNE GRANT REAL ESTATE EDITOR

Condo

William and Dawn Magee, of Palm Coast, sold 146 Palm Coast Resort Blvd., Unit 210, to James Blew, of Palm Coast, for $535,000. Built in 2007, the condo is a 3/3 and has 2,005 square feet. It sold in 2014 for $325,000.

Belle Terre

Steven and Sandra Mettee, of Palm Coast, sold 74 Pritchard Drive to Alan and Anthony Burpee, of Palm Coast, for $472,000. Built in 2007, the house is a 4/2 and has a swim ming pool and 2,526 square feet.

Cypress Knoll

Joao and Isabel Faria, of Palm Coast, sold 33 Esperanto Drive to Leticia Bravo, and Jose and Maria Olavarria, of Palm Coast, for $390,000. Built in 2006, the house

is a 4/3 and has 2,634 square feet. It sold in 2020 for $265,000.

Grand Reserve and Golf Club D.R. Horton Inc. Jacksonville, of St. Johns, sold 711 Grand Reserve Drive to Summer and Patrick Kleinfelder, of Bunnell, for $322,990. Built in 2022, the house is a 4/2 and has 1,862 square feet.

Indian Trails Edwin Cook III and Sonya Mathews, of Olive Hill, Kentucky, sold 42 Beckner Lane to Desiree Hachmeis ter and Michael Mahoney II, of Palm Coast, for $384,000. Built in 2017, the house is a 4/2 and has 2,208 square feet. It sold in 2017 for $211,900.

Gregory and Patricia Boyd, of Hartsville, South Carolina, sold 59 Brockton Lane to Daniel Naw rocki and Evelyn Alfaro, of Quebec, Canada, for $340,000. Built in

2002, the house is a 4/2 and has 1,862 square feet.

Jonathan and Jennifer Tanenbaum, of Rochester, New York, sold 36 Belvedere Lane to Jessica Robles, of Palm Coast, for $325,000. Built in 1988, the house is a 3/2 and has 1,468 square feet. It sold in 1988 for $79,200.

Elsa Stiuso and Joseph Gonzales sold 52 Brewster Lane to Kim berly Dodson, of Palm Coast, for $275,000. Built in 1988, the house is a 3/2 and has 1,543 square feet.

Lakeview Mark McCaffrey, of Howell, Michi gan, sold 161 London Drive to Mark and Mary Pacey, of Palm Coast, for $447,000. Built in 1993, the house is a 2/3 and has a swimming pool and 2,430 square feet. It sold in 2021 for $329,000.

Lehigh Woods FIN Homes LLC, of Jacksonville, sold 3 Renworth Place to Rolando and Christine Berdion, of Palm Coast, for $437,500. Built in 2004, the house is a 3/2 and has a swim ming pool and 2,036 square feet. It sold in April for $390,000.

D.R. Horton Inc. Jacksonville, of St. Johns, sold 6 Rydell Lane to Johnny Jones Jr. and Lisa Staley, of Palm Coast, for $353,990. Built in 2022, the house is a 4/2 and has 1,862 square feet.

Not in Subdivision Darryl and Pamela Snyder, of

Anderson, South Carolina, sold 95 Rose Drive to Anthony Hall, of Palm Coast, for $531,000. Built in 2004, the house is a 3/2 and has a fireplace, swimming pool and 2,246 square feet. It sold in 2016 for $235,800.

Offerpad SPE Borrower A LLC, of Chandler, Arizona, sold 42 Box wood Lane to Joel Carreon and Twyla Abo, of Palm Coast, for $414,000. Built in 1987, the house is a 5/2 and has 2,130 square feet. It sold in April for $400,000.

Rosemary Standart sold 31 Folson Lane to HPA III Acquisitions 1 LLC, of Chicago, for $278,400. Built in 1986, the house is a 3/2 and has 1,481 square feet.

Oakview Acres Gabriel and Jacqueline King of Merritt Island, sold 20 Maple St. to Robert and Christie Gerace, of Flagler Beach, for $697,000. Built in 2004, the house is a 3/2.5 and has a swimming pool and 2,869 square feet. It sold in 2020 for $480,000.

Palm Harbor Johanna McCahon and Maryann Rodino, of Palm Coast, sold 39 Coral Reef Court N. to Christine Paris, of Palm Coast, for $720,000. Built in 2002, the house is a 4/2 and has a swimming pool, boat dock, boathouse and 2,409 square feet. It sold in 2021 for $630,000.

Roger and Patricia House sold 8 Cherry Court to Karl and Irene Bar ber, of Palm Coast, for $500,000.

Built in 1982, the house is a 3/2 and has a fireplace, boat dock, boat house and 2,441 square feet.

William Davis and Marie Davis, of Port Orange, sold 19 Federal Lane to Maverick and Kari Dennis, of Palm Coast, for $295,000. Built in 1977, the house is a 2/2 and has 1,371 square feet. It sold in 2015 for $78,000.

Pine Grove Scott and Donna Taylor, of Guyton, Georgia, sold 11 Porpoise Lane to Sheryl Perham, of Palm Coast, for $282,000. Built in 1981, the house is a 3/2 and has 1,288 square feet. It sold in 2017 for $126,000.

Pine Lakes Paul and Edna Lingerfelt sold 14 Westgable Place to Lynn Lugo, of Palm Coast, for $610,000. Built in 1994, the house is a 5/3 and has a fireplace, swimming pool and 3,294 square feet.

JNS Contracting Florida LLC, of West Palm Beach, sold 42 Wood holme Lane to Kenneth and Patri cia Wojtalik, of Palm Coast, for $395,000. Built in 2022, the house is a 3/2 and has 1,721 square feet.

Ascension Gonzalez and Guadalupe Gaytan, of Palm Coast, sold 59 Wel lington Drive to Justin and Sandra Smith, of Palm Coast, for $350,000. Built in 1989, the house is a 3/2.5 and has a fireplace, swimming pool and 2,179 square feet. It sold in 2014 for $130,000.

Seminole Woods

Joe Young, of Intracoastal Proper ties V LLC sold 3 Sentry Court to Bradley Sherman, of Palm Coast, for $449,000. Built in 2022, the house is a 4/2 and has 2,274 square feet.

Toby Tobin, of gotoby.com, contrib uted to this report.

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The top transaction in Flagler County was a condo that sold for $880,000.

House on an acre with barn tops sales list

Ahouse in Riverbend Acres was the top real estate transaction in Ormond Beach and Ormond-by-theSea for the week of Aug. 28 to Sept. 3 in the Multiple Listing Service. Phillip and Ella Wellman, of Sevier ville, Tennessee, sold 229 Riverbend Road to Daniel and Heather Clark, of Ormond Beach, for $700,000. Built in 1987, the house is a 3/2.5 and has a fireplace, barn and 2,136 square feet.

ORMOND BEACH

Jeffrey and Joann Barnes sold 144 Creek Forest Lane to Joseph and Chrystal Laucius, of Ormond Beach, for $613,000. Built in 2017, the house is a 3/2.5 and has a swim ming pool and 2,385 square feet. It sold in 2017 for $299,700.

Sharon Chausse and William Payne, of Ormond Beach, sold 37 Reynolds Ave. to Lisa Park, of Daytona Beach, for $475,000. Built in 1955, the house is a 3/2 and has 1,769 square feet. It sold in 2014 for $118,600.

Belinda Lovell, of Clermont, sold 216 Arlington Way to Bay Street Homes LLC, of San Francisco, for $443,900. Built in 1957, the house is a 2/2.5 and has 1,896 square feet. It sold in 2016 for $144,500.

Edward Heaphy sold 1108 Avenue H to Maria McNeary, of Ormond Beach, for $85,000. Built in 1979, the manufactured home is a 3/1 and has 750 square feet. It sold in 2021 for $28,000.

Breakaway Trails

Joseph Heffernan and Marcia Costa, of Daytona Beach, sold 2 Creek Bend Way to Robert and Suzanne

McLaughlin, of Ormond Beach, for $675,000. Built in 1997, the house is a 4/2 and has a fireplace, swimming pool and 3,098 square feet. It sold in 2014 for $399,000.

Barbara Kisley, individually and as trustee, sold 4 Carriage Creek Way to Tisha and Michael Maher, of Ormond Beach, for $450,000. Built in 1988, the house is a 3/2 and has a swimming pool and 1,594 square feet.

Castlegate Patrick and Mary Hanley, of Ormond Beach, sold 27 Queen Anne Court to David and Kristi Darrah, of Ormond Beach, for $530,000. Built in 1994, the house is a 3/2.5 and has a fireplace and 2,483 square feet.

Halifax Plantation

Douglas and Carol Wicks, of Day tona Beach, sold 3240 Tralee Drive to William and Karla Hager, of Ormond Beach, for $455,000. Built in 2013, the house is a 3/2 and has 1,894 square feet. It sold in 2021 for $425,000.

Hunter’s Ridge

Craig Waither, individually and as trustee, sold 3 Pine Look Pass to Aubrey Schock, of Ormond Beach, for $500,000. Built in 1996, the house is a 4/2 and has a fireplace,

swimming pool and 2,415 square feet.

Northbrook

Elissa Maier, of Kings Park, New York, and Linda Libby, of North port, New York, sold 2 River Palm Way to Andrea Thompson, of Ormond Beach, for $335,000. Built in 1980, the house is a 3/2 and has a fireplace and 1,584 square feet.

Yahaira and Ivan White, of Ormond Beach, sold 110 Northbrook Lane to Christopher and Rachel Rundlett, of Miami, for $261,000. Built in 1981, the townhouse is a 3/2.5 and has 1,512 square feet. It sold in 2017 for $126,000.

Ocean Village Sandra D’Silva, of Quebec, Canada, sold 146 Northshore Drive, Unit A, to Jordan Lilley and Abigail Flassig, of Ormond Beach, for $220,000. Built in 1947, the villa is a 2/1 and has 675 square feet. It sold in 2014 for $107,000.

Park Ridge Joan Goldstein, of Sharon, Mas sachusetts, and others sold 19 Lake Meadow Way to Steven and Janice Kendall, of Ormond Beach, for $350,000. Built in 1994, the house is a 3/2 and has 1,562 square feet.

Pineland Ryan and Narina Speaks, of Ormond Beach, sold 318 Sunset Point Drive to Julie and Daniel Coe, of Ormond Beach, for $440,000. Built in 2022, the house is a 4/2 and has 1,862 square feet.

The Trails

Stefany Yakots, of Ormond Beach, sold 310 Timberline Trail to Gregory Adams and Linda Chadwick, of Ormond Beach, for $270,000. Built in 1981, the house is a 3/2 and has a fireplace and 1,474 square feet.

Tomoka Oaks Rickey and Shannon Westfall, of Port Orange, sold 57 N. St. Andrews Drive to Brandon and Tamar Lester, of Ormond Beach, for $360,000. Built in 1978, the house is a 3/2 and has 1,544 square feet.

Woodmere Linda Rode, as guardian, sold 736 W. Lindenwood Circle to Nicholas and Elena Beck, of Ormond Beach, for $305,000. Built in 1974, the house is a 3/2 and has 1,570 square feet.

ORMOND-BY-THE-SEA

Leslie Bishop, of Jesup, Georgia, sold 21 Valhalla Ave. to Tina Wil son, of Centreville, Virginia, for $485,000. Built in 1968, the house is a 2/2 and has 1,555 square feet. It sold in July for $501,100.

Susan Lanford, of Daniel Island, South Carolina, sold 1183 Ocean Shore Blvd., Unit 1004, to Charles and Whitney Perkins, of Gaines ville, for $475,000. Built in 1995, the condo is a 2/2 and has 1,198 square feet. It sold in 2016 for $260,000.

Joseph and Heather Roberts, of Winter Garden, sold 1183 Ocean Shore Blvd., Unit 402, to Roberts

Realty Holdings LLC, of Orlando, for $460,000. Built in 1995, the condo is a 2/2 and has 1,198 square feet.

Janice Bojarski, of Buford, Georgia, sold 3170 Ocean Shore Blvd., Unit 2040, to 3170 Ocean Shore Blvd. LLC, of Indian Rocks Beach, for $399,900. Built in 1994, the condo is a 3/2 and has 1,300 square feet.

Michael and Donna Fontana, of Ormond Beach, sold 2898 Ocean Shore Blvd., Unit 5020, to Trent and Stacey Dufour, of Ormond Beach, for $375,000. Built in 1985, the house is a 2/2.5 and has 1,420 square feet. It sold in 2019 for $235,700.

Ruben and Monica Fernandez sold 3100 Ocean Shore Blvd., Unit 104, to Joanne and Bruce Gayeski, of Middletown, Connecticut, for $355,000. Built in 1991, the condo is a 2/2 and has 1,000 square feet. It sold in 2019 for $208,000.

Krisann and Jeffrey Cobb, of Ormond Beach, sold 121 Lynnhurst Drive to Lori Bailey and Ed Castillo, of Key Largo, for $350,000. Built in 1956, the house is a 2/1 and has 1,167 square feet.

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

The townhouse at 110 Northbrook Lane sold for $261,000.

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TO ALL PERSONS HAVING

ESTATE:

THE

You are hereby notified that an Order of Summary Administration has been entered in the estate of Ruth N. Bridge, deceased, File Number 22-CP-0449, by the Circuit Court for Flagler County, Florida,

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TO CREDITORS IN THE SEVENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COURT, IN AND FOR FLAGLER COUNTY, FLORIDA PROBATE DIVISION File No.2022-CP-000692

48 IN RE: ESTATE OF FRANK MARZIGLIANO, Deceased.

The administration of the estate of FRANK MARZIGLIANO, deceased, whose date of death was August 9, 2022, is pending in the Circuit Court for Flagler County, Florida, Probate Division, the address of which is 1769 E Moody Blvd, Building #1, Bunnell, FL 32110. The names and addresses of the personal representative and the personal representative’s attorney are set forth be low.

All creditors of the decedent and other persons having claims or demands against decedent’s estate on whom a copy of this notice is required to be served must file their claims with this court ON OR BE FORE THE LATER OF 3 MONTHS AF TER THE TIME OF THE FIRST PUBLI CATION OF THIS NOTICE OR 30 DAYS AFTER THE DATE OF SERVICE OF A COPY OF THIS NOTICE ON THEM.

having claims or demands against the estate of the decedent other than those for whom provision for full pay ment was made in the Order of Summary Administration must file their claims with this court WITHIN THE TIME PERIODS SET FORTH IN FLORIDA STATUTES SECTION 733.702. ALL CLAIMS AND DEMANDS NOT SO FILED WILL BE FOREVER BARRED. NOTWITHSTAND

ING ANY OTHER APPLICABLE TIME

PERIOD, ANY CLAIM FILED TWO (2)

YEARS OR MORE AFTER THE DECE DENT’S DATE OF DEATH IS BARRED.

All other creditors of the decedent and other persons having claims or de mands against decedent’s estate must file their claims with this court WITHIN 3 MONTHS AFTER THE DATE OF THE FIRST PUBLICATION OF THIS NO TICE.

ALL CLAIMS NOT FILED WITHIN THE TIME PERIODS SET FORTH IN FLORIDA STATUTES SECTION 733.702 WILL BE FOREVER BARRED. NOTWITHSTANDING THE TIME PE RIOD SET FORTH ABOVE, ANY CLAIM FILED TWO (2) YEARS OR MORE AFTER THE DECEDENT’S DATE OF DEATH IS BARRED.

The date of first publication of this notice is October 13, 2022.

Personal Representative: COLLEEN MARZIGLIANO 104 Anchorage Drive Flagler Beach, FL 32224 Attorney for Personal Representative: Heather S. Maltby HEATHER@EPPGLAW.COM Florida Bar No. 116571 E.P.P.G. Law of St. Johns, PLLC 200 Malaga Street, Suite 2 St. Augustine, FL 32084 Telephone: 904-875-3774 October 13, 20, 2022 22-00121G

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE

Notice is hereby given that on 10/14/22 at 9:00 am the following storage unit #3101 at Town and Country Storage, Bunnell Fl, 1 Enterprise Dr. leased to Elisabeth Gilloz will be auctioned online at WWW.Storagetreasures.com. October 13, 2022 22-000220F

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE

Notice is hereby given that on 10/14/22 at 9:00 am the following storage unit #3100 at Town and Country Storage, Bunnell Fl, 1 Enterprise Dr. leased to Elisabeth Gilloz will be auctioned online at WWW.Storagetreasures.com.

October 13, 2022 22-00222F

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Notice Under Fictitious Name Law

According to Florida Statute Number 865.09

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned, desiring to engage in business under the Fictitious Name of Cicada Moon Vintage located at 109 San chez Ave, in the City of Palm Coast, Flagler County, FL 32137 intends to register the said name with the Division of Corpora tions of the Department of State, Tallahas see, Florida.

Dated this 5th day of October, 2022. Merriam Sprouse October 13, 2022 22-00223F

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Notice Under Fictitious Name Law

According to Florida Statute Number 865.09

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned, desiring to engage in business under the Fictitious Name of Ellaoune Realty located at 3 Monterrey Drive, in the City of Palm Coast, Flagler County, FL 32137 intends to register the said name with the Division of Corpora tions of the Department of State, Tallahas see, Florida.

Dated this 6th day of October, 2022. Gina Ellaoune October 13, 2022 22-00224F

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NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 7TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR FLAGLER COUNTY, FLORIDA CIVIL DIVISION CASE NO. 2021 CA 000501

REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING, LLC, Plaintiff, vs. KAREN GABRIEL KIRBY A/K/A KAREN G. KIRBY; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, ACTING ON BEHALF OF THE SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT; UNKNOWN PERSON(S) IN POSSESSION OF THE SUBJECT PROPERTY, Defendant(s)

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to a Final Judgment of Foreclosure filed August 11, 2022 and entered in Case No. 2021 CA 000501, of the Circuit Court of the 7th Judicial Circuit in and for FLAGLER County, Florida, wherein REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING, LLC is Plaintiff and KAREN GABRIEL KIRBY A/K/A KAREN G. KIRBY; UNKNOWN PERSON(S) IN POSSESSION OF THE SUBJECT PROPERTY; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, ACTING ON BEHALF OF THE SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT; are defendants. TOM W. BEXLEY, the Clerk of the Circuit Court, will sell to the highest and best bidder for cash BY ELECTRONIC SALE AT: www.flagler.realforeclose.com, at 11:00 A.M., on November 4, 2022, the following described property as set forth in said Final Judgment, to wit: LOT 29, OF BLOCK 33, OF PALM COAST, MAP OF WYNNFIELD, SECTION 22, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF AS RE CORDED IN MAP BOOK 8, PAGE 18, OF THE PUBLIC RECORDS OF FLAGLER COUNTY, FL Any person claiming an interest in the surplus from the sale, if any, other than the property owner as of the date of the lis pendens must file a claim before the Clerk reports the surplus as unclaimed. This notice

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NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 7TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR FLAGLER COUNTY, FLORIDA CIVIL DIVISION CASE NO. 2020 CA 000354 BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON TRUST COMPANY, N.A. AS TRUSTEE FOR MORTGAGE ASSETS MANAGEMENT SERIES I TRUST, Plaintiff, vs. ALL UNKNOWN HEIRS, CREDITORS, DEVISEES, BENEFICIARIES, GRANTEES, ASSIGNEES, LIENORS, TRUSTEES AND ALL OTHER PARTIES CLAIMING AN INTEREST BY, THROUGH, UNDER OR AGAINST THE ESTATE OF RUPERT G. HOLMES A/K/A RUPERT GEORGE HOLMES, DECEASED; WINSTON HOLMES; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, ACTING ON BEHALF OF THE SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT; LEASECOMM CORPORATION; UNKNOWN PERSON(S) IN POSSESSION OF THE SUBJECT PROPERTY; ALL UNKNOWN HEIRS, CREDITORS, DEVISEES, BENEFICIARIES, GRANTEES, ASSIGNEES, LIENORS, TRUSTEES AND ALL OTHER PARTIES CLAIMING AN INTEREST BY, THROUGH, UNDER OR AGAINST THE ESTATE OF VIVIENNE HOLMES, DECEASED; TIANNA HOLMES, Defendant(s) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to a Final Judgment of Foreclosure filed September 8, 2022 and entered in Case No. 2020 CA 000354, of the Circuit Court of the 7th Judicial Circuit in and for FLAGLER County, Florida, wherein BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON TRUST COMPANY, N.A. AS TRUSTEE FOR MORTGAGE ASSETS MANAGEMENT SERIES I TRUST is Plaintiff and ALL UNKNOWN HEIRS, CREDITORS, DEVISEES, BENEFICIARIES, GRANTEES, ASSIGNEES, LIENORS, TRUSTEES AND ALL OTHER PARTIES CLAIMING AN INTEREST BY, THROUGH, UNDER OR AGAINST THE ESTATE OF RUPERT G. HOLMES A/K/A RUPERT GEORGE HOLMES, DECEASED; WINSTON HOLMES; UNKNOWN PERSON(S) IN POSSESSION OF THE SUBJECT PROPERTY; ALL UNKNOWN

HEIRS, CREDITORS, DEVISEES, BENEFICIARIES, GRANTEES, ASSIGNEES, LIENORS, TRUSTEES AND ALL OTHER PARTIES CLAIMING AN INTEREST BY, THROUGH, UNDER OR AGAINST THE ESTATE OF VIVIENNE HOLMES, DECEASED; TIANNA HOLMES; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, ACTING ON BEHALF OF THE SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT; LEASECOMM CORPORATION; are defendants. TOM W. BEXLEY, the Clerk of the Circuit Court, will sell to the highest and best bidder for cash BY ELECTRONIC SALE AT: www.flagler.realforeclose.com, at 11:00 A.M., on November 4, 2022, the following described property as set forth in said Final Judgment, to wit: LOT 33, BLOCK 6, OF PALM COAST MAP OF PINE GROVE, SECTION 28, A SUBDIVISON, AC CORDING TO THE PLAT OR MAP THEREOF DESCRIBED IN MAP BOOK 9, AT PAGE 53, OF THE PUBLIC RECORDS OF FLAGLER COUNTY, FLORIDA.

Any person claiming an interest in the surplus from the sale, if any, other than the property owner as of the date of the lis pendens must file a claim before the Clerk reports the surplus as unclaimed.

This notice is provided pursuant to Ad ministrative Order No.2.065.

In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you are a person with a disability who needs any accommodation in order to participate in this proceeding, you are entitled, at no cost to you, to pro visions of certain assistance. Please con tact the Court Administrator at 200 East Moody Boulevard, Rm.125, Bunnell, Fl 32110, Phone No. (904)437-7394 within 2 working days of your receipt of this notice

pleading; if you are hearing impaired, call 1-800-955-8771 (TDD); if you are voice impaired, call 1-800-995-8770 (V) (Via Florida Relay Services).

Dated this 29th day of September 2022. Marc Granger, Esq. Bar. No.: 146870 Kahane &

P.A. 8201 Peters

Plantation, Florida

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in this case, including orders, are available at the Clerk of the

Court’s

You may review

You

Court’s

WARNING: Rule 12.285,

Current

Family Law

NOTICE OF ACTION FOR Name Change of Child IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE Seventh JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR Flagler COUNTY, FLORIDA Case No.: 2022 DR 000829 Division: 47 Naomi Chirico, Petitioner and James Catignani II, Respondent.

TO: James Catignani II

FIRST

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

THE CIRCUIT COURT, SEVENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT IN AND FOR VOLUSIA COUNTY, FLORIDA PROBATE DIVISION

NO: 2022 11956 PRDL

10 IN RE: ESTATE OF EDWARD L. CUMMINS, Deceased.

The administration of the Estate of ED WARD L. CUMMINS, deceased, whose date of death was April 18, 2022, is pend ing in the Circuit Court for Volusia County, Florida, Probate Division, the address of which is 101 N Alabama Ave, Deland, FL 32724. The names and addresses of the Personal Representative and the Personal Representative’s attorney are set forth be low.

All creditors of the decedent and other persons having claims or demands against decedent’s estate on whom a copy of this notice is required to be served must file their claims with this court ON OR BE FORE THE LATER OF 3 MONTHS AF

THE TIME OF THE FIRST PUBLI CATION OF THIS NOTICE OR 30 DAYS

THE DATE OF SERVICE OF A COPY OF THIS NOTICE ON THEM.

All other creditors of the decedent and other persons having claims or de mands against decedent’s estate must file their claims with this court WITHIN 3 MONTHS AFTER THE DATE OF THE FIRST PUBLICATION OF THIS NO TICE.

ALL CLAIMS NOT FILED WITHIN

THE TIME PERIODS SET FORTH IN FLORIDA STATUTES SECTION 733.702 WILL BE FOREVER BARRED. NOTWITHSTANDING THE TIME PE RIOD SET FORTH ABOVE, ANY CLAIM FILED TWO (2) YEARS OR MORE AFTER THE DECEDENT’S DATE OF DEATH IS BARRED.

The date of first publication of this notice is October

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR VOLUSIA COUNTY, FLORIDA PROBATE DIVISION File No. 2022 12080 PRDL Division: 10 IN RE: ESTATE OF RACHAEL COOK-MATTES, Deceased.

The administration of the estate of RA CHAEL COOK-MATTES, deceased, whose date of death was June 29, 2022, is pend ing in the Circuit Court for Volusia County, Florida, Probate Division, the address of which is 101 N. Alabama Ave, DeLand, FL 32724. The names and addresses of the personal representative and the personal representative’s attorney are set forth be low.

All creditors of the decedent and other persons having claims or demands against decedent’s estate, on whom a copy of this notice is required to be served, must file their claims with this court ON OR BE FORE THE LATER OF 3 MONTHS AF

TER THE TIME OF THE FIRST PUBLI CATION OF THIS NOTICE OR 30 DAYS AFTER THE DATE OF SERVICE OF A COPY OF THIS NOTICE ON THEM.

All other creditors of the decedent and other persons having claims or de mands against decedent’s estate must file their claims with this court WITHIN 3 MONTHS AFTER THE DATE OF THE FIRST PUBLICATION OF THIS NO TICE.

ALL CLAIMS NOT FILED WITHIN THE TIME PERIODS SET FORTH IN FLORIDA STATUTES SECTION 733.702 WILL BE FOREVER BARRED. NOTWITHSTANDING THE TIME PE RIOD SET FORTH ABOVE, ANY CLAIM FILED TWO (2) YEARS OR MORE AFTER THE DECEDENT’S DATE OF DEATH IS BARRED.

The date of first publication of this notice is: October 13, 2022.

NANCY S. RAMSKI

Personal Representative 44 Wood Haven Dr Palm Coast, FL 32164 Heidi S. Webb Attorney for Personal Representative Florida Bar No. 73958 Law Office of Heidi S. Webb 140 South Beach Street, Suite 310 Daytona Beach, Florida 32114 Telephone: (386) 257-3332

Email: heidi@heidiwebb.com

Secondary Email: filing@heidiwebb.com October 13, 20, 2022 22-00109I

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR VOLUSIA COUNTY, FLORIDA PROBATE DIVISION File No. 2022 12232 PRDL Division: 10 IN RE: ESTATE OF JASON DAVID KRAKOWIAK, Deceased.

The administration of the estate of JASON DAVID KRAKOWIAK, deceased, whose date of death was December 29, 2020, is pending in the Circuit Court for Volusia County, Florida, Probate Division, the ad dress of which is P. O. Box 6043, DeLand, FL 32721-6043.

The names and addresses of the personal representative and the per sonal representative’s attorney are set forth below.

All creditors of the decedent and other persons having claims or demands against decedent’s estate, on whom a copy of this notice is required to be served, must file their claims with this court ON OR BE FORE THE LATER OF 3 MONTHS AF

TER THE TIME OF THE FIRST PUBLI CATION OF THIS NOTICE OR 30 DAYS AFTER THE DATE OF SERVICE OF A COPY OF THIS NOTICE ON THEM.

All other creditors of the decedent and other persons having claims or de mands against decedent’s estate must file their claims with this court WITHIN 3 MONTHS AFTER THE DATE OF THE FIRST PUBLICATION OF THIS NO TICE.

ALL CLAIMS NOT FILED WITHIN THE TIME PERIODS SET FORTH IN FLORIDA STATUTES SECTION 733.702 WILL BE FOREVER BARRED.

NOTWITHSTANDING THE TIME PE RIOD SET FORTH ABOVE, ANY CLAIM FILED TWO (2) YEARS OR MORE AFTER THE DECEDENT’S DATE OF DEATH IS BARRED.

The date of first publication of this notice is: October 13, 2022.

JYL LYNN KRAKOWIAK

Personal Representative 600 Scott Drive Ormond Beach, FL 32174 Heidi S. Webb

Attorney for Personal Representative Florida Bar No. 73958

Law Office of Heidi S. Webb 140 South Beach Street, Suite 310 Daytona Beach, Florida 32114 Telephone: (386) 257-3332

Email: heidi@heidiwebb.com

Secondary Email: filing@heidiwebb.com October 13, 20, 2022 22-00110I

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INSERTION

TO CREDITORS

(Summary Administration)

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR VOLUSIA COUNTY, FLORIDA PROBATE DIVISION

File No. 2022 10837 PRDL Division 10 IN RE: ESTATE OF ALBERT EATON, JR. Deceased.

TO ALL PERSONS HAVING CLAIMS OR DEMANDS AGAINST THE ABOVE

ESTATE:

You are hereby notified that an Order of Summary Administration has been entered in the estate of Albert Eaton, Jr., deceased, File Number 2022 10837 PRDL, by the Circuit Court for Volusia County, Florida, Probate Division, the address of which is 101 North Alabama Avenue, DeLand, Flor ida; that the decedent’s date of death was August 1, 2021; that the total value of the estate is $29,412.87 and that the names and addresses of those to whom it has been as signed by such order are: Name Address Frances Eaton 4381 Bells Ferry Rd. NW Apartment 4001 Kennesaw, GA 30144

INTERESTED PERSONS ARE NOTIFIED THAT:

All creditors of the estate of the decedent and persons having claims or demands against the estate of the decedent other than those for whom provision for full pay ment was made in the Order of Summary Administration must file their claims with this court WITHIN THE TIME PERIODS

NOTICE OF ACTION IN THE CIRCUIT COURT, SEVENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT IN AND FOR VOLUSIA COUNTY, FLORIDA CASE NO.: 2022-31347 FMCI DIVISION: 36

The Petition of Natalie Geipel, et al, Petitioner vs. , Respondent TO: Richard Plunkett 48792 Rock Point Rd Oakhurst, CA 93644

YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that an action has been filed against you and that you are required to serve a copy of your written defenses, if any, on petitioner or petitioner’s attorney: Natalie Geipel 39 Flowertree Dr Ormond Beach, FL 32174 on or before October 21, 2022 and file the original with the Clerk of the Circuit Court at P. O. Box 6043, DeLand, FL 32721-6043 before service on Petitioner or immediately thereafter. If you fail to do so, a Default may be entered against you for the relief demanded in the petition.

Copies of all court documents in this case, including orders, are available at the Clerk of the Circuit Court’s office. You may review these documents upon request.

You must keep the Clerk of the Circuit Court’s Office notified of your current ad dress. (You may file Florida Family Law Form 12.915, Notice of Current Address.) Future papers in this lawsuit will be mailed to the address on record at the Clerk’s Of fice.

WARNING: Rule 12.285, Florida Fam ily Law Rules of Procedure, require certain automatic disclosure of documents and in formation. Failure to comply can result in sanctions, including dismissal or striking of pleadings.

REQUESTS FOR ACCOMMODA

TIONS BY PERSONS WITH DISABILI

TIES If you are a person with a disability who needs an accommodation in order to participate in this proceeding, you are en titled, at no cost to you, to the provision of certain assistance. Please contact Court Administration, 101 N. Alabama Ave., Ste. D-305, Deland, FL 32724, (386) 257-6096, at least 7 days before your scheduled court appearance, or immediately upon receiving this notification if the time before the ap pearance is less than 7 days; if you are hear ing or voice impaired, call 711.

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SOLICITUD DE ADAPTACIONES

PARA PERSONAS CON DISCAPACID ADES

Si usted es una persona con discapa cidad que necesita una adaptación para poder participar en este procedimiento, usted tiene el derecho a que se le pro porcione cierta asistencia, sin incurrir en gastos. Comuníquese con la Oficina de Administración Judicial (Court Ad ministration), 101 N. Alabama Ave., Ste. D-305, Deland, FL 32724, (386) 2576096, con no menos de 7 días de antel ación de su cita de comparecencia ante el juez, o de inmediato al recibir esta notificación si la cita de comparecencia está dentro de un plazo menos de 7 días; si usted tiene una discapacidad del habla o del oído, llame al 711.

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Dated: September 6, 2022.

LAURA E. ROTH CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT (SEAL) By: /s/ Gabriella Albarran Deputy Clerk CL-0133-1912 Sept. 22, 29; Oct. 6, 13, 2022 22-00101I

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR VOLUSIA COUNTY, FLORIDA PROBATE DIVISION File No. 2022 12285 PRDL Division: 10 IN RE: ESTATE OF ROBERT DUSTIN HUNTRESS, aka ROBERT D. HUNTRESS Deceased.

The administration of the estate of ROB ERT DUSTIN HUNTRESS, also known as ROBERT D. HUNTRESS, deceased, was found on August 2, 2022, deceased at Home, is pending in the Circuit Court for Volusia County, Florida, Probate Division, the address of which is P. O. Box 6043, De Land, FL 32721-6043. The names and ad dresses of the personal representative and the personal representative’s attorney are set forth below.

All creditors of the decedent and other persons having claims or demands against decedent’s estate, on whom a copy of this notice is required to be served, must file their claims with this court ON OR BE FORE THE LATER OF 3 MONTHS AF TER THE TIME OF THE FIRST PUBLI CATION OF THIS NOTICE OR 30 DAYS AFTER THE DATE OF SERVICE OF A COPY OF THIS NOTICE ON THEM.

All other creditors of the decedent and other persons having claims or de mands against decedent’s estate must file their claims with this court WITHIN 3 MONTHS AFTER THE DATE OF THE FIRST PUBLICATION OF THIS NO TICE.

ALL CLAIMS NOT FILED WITHIN THE TIME PERIODS SET FORTH IN FLORIDA STATUTES SECTION 733.702 WILL BE FOREVER BARRED.

NOTWITHSTANDING THE TIME PE RIOD SET FORTH ABOVE, ANY CLAIM FILED TWO (2) YEARS OR MORE AFTER THE DECEDENT’S DATE OF DEATH IS BARRED.

The date of first publication of this notice is: October 13, 2022.

PATRICIA N. ROSEN Personal Representative 350 W. 24th St. #17A New York, NY 10011

Heidi S. Webb Attorney for Personal Representative Florida Bar No. 73958 Law Office of Heidi S. Webb 140 South Beach Street, Suite 310 Daytona Beach, Florida 32114

Telephone: (386) 257-3332

Email: heidi@heidiwebb.com

Secondary Email: filing@heidiwebb.com October 13, 20, 2022 22-00111I

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR VOLUSIA COUNTY, FLORIDA PROBATE DIVISION File No. 2022 12338 PRDL Division: 10 IN RE: ESTATE OF VICTOR WILLIAM HARKE, Deceased.

The administration of the estate of VIC TOR WILLIAM HARKE, deceased, whose date of death was found on August 2nd, 2022 is pending in the Circuit Court for Volusia County, Florida, Probate Division, the address of which is P. O. Box 6043, De Land, FL 32721-6043. The names and ad dresses of the personal representative and the personal representative’s attorney are set forth below.

All creditors of the decedent and other persons having claims or demands against decedent’s estate, on whom a copy of this notice is required to be served, must file their claims with this court ON OR BE

FORE THE LATER OF 3 MONTHS AF

TER THE TIME OF THE FIRST PUBLI CATION OF THIS NOTICE OR 30 DAYS AFTER THE DATE OF SERVICE OF A COPY OF THIS NOTICE ON THEM.

All other creditors of the decedent and other persons having claims or de mands against decedent’s estate must file their claims with this court WITHIN 3 MONTHS AFTER THE DATE OF THE FIRST PUBLICATION OF THIS NO TICE.

ALL CLAIMS NOT FILED WITHIN THE TIME PERIODS SET FORTH IN FLORIDA STATUTES SECTION 733.702 WILL BE FOREVER BARRED.

NOTWITHSTANDING THE TIME PE RIOD SET FORTH ABOVE, ANY CLAIM FILED TWO (2) YEARS OR MORE AFTER THE DECEDENT’S DATE OF DEATH IS BARRED

The date of first publication of this notice is: October 13, 2022.

Signed on this day of, 10/5/2022. HEIDI S. WEBB Personal Representative 140 S. Beach St., Ste. 310 Daytona Beach, FL 32114 Heidi S. Webb Attorney for Personal Representative Florida Bar No. 73958 Law Office of Heidi S. Webb 140 South Beach Street, Suite 310 Daytona Beach, Florida 32114 Telephone: (386) 257-3332

Email: heidi@heidiwebb.com

Secondary Email: filing@heidiwebb.com October 13, 20, 2022 22-00112I

a/k/a JOSEPH PRINCIPE

Deceased.

TO: Joseph S. Principe, 927 Jefferson Street, Jefferson City, MO 65101

YOU ARE NOTIFIED that a Petition for Order Authorizing Personal Representa tive to Sell Homestead Real Property and a Petition for Order Authorizing Personal Representative to Sell Real Property have been filed in this court. You are required to serve a copy of your written defenses, if any, on petitioner’s attorney, whose name and address are:

Thomas J. Upchurch, Esquire

Upchurch Law 1616 Concierge Blvd., Suite 10031 Daytona Beach, Florida 32117 within thirty (30) days from the date of first publication of this notice, and to file the original of the written defenses with the clerk of this court, whose address is 101 North Alabama Avenue, DeLand Florida 32724, either before service or immediately thereafter. Failure to serve and file written defenses as required may result in a judg ment or order for the relief demanded, without further notice.

The date of first publication of this notice is October 13, 2022.

Thomas J. Upchurch, Esquire Florida Bar No. 0015821

Upchurch Law 1616 Concierge Blvd., Suite 10031 Daytona Beach, Florida 32117

Telephone: (386) 492-3871

Email: service@upchurchlaw.com

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