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FOR TOMMY TANT PAGE 16 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2021
Serving those who served
Taking sides on ‘All Boys Aren’t Blue’
Flagler County Veteran of the Year Tom Piekarski continues his fast pace of service. PAGE 3
Q+A
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“How do we feel about our two sons going to a war zone? We just have faith that God will watch out for them. That’s what we believe.” DAVID LYDON, Flagler County Veteran Services Officer
‘A dream career’ Shoshanah Mercado was one of six finalists for Florida’s School Psychologist of the Year award. PAGE 12 INSIDE SOMETHING EXTRA County will add $1.3 million prefabricated metal building to planned Sheriff’s Operations Center PAGE 9
Students protest censorship and display the books in question.
School Board members and the public quarreled over book banning.
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There were many highlights during 9 1/2 hours of Flagler School Board meetings on Tuesday, Nov. 16. Most of them centered on the question of whether the book “All Boys Aren’t Blue” should be available for students at school media centers. During three hours of public comment at the regular board meeting, most of which dealt with the book,
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the opinions were split. The issue came to light after board member Jill Woolbright filed a criminal report with the Sheriff’s Office a week earlier. She said the book’s availability in the schools was a crime according to a Florida statute that prohibits distributing obscene materials to a minor. Like much of the regular meeting, the board members’ closing comments bordered on theatrical, with Colleen Conklin ending her com-
ments by showing a video of “All Boys Aren’t Blue” author George M. Johnson defending the memoir about growing up Black and queer, which includes sexually graphic passages. Conklin and Woolbright delivered lengthy closing speeches, which will no longer be allowed in future meetings. During the very short business portion of the 5 1/2 hour regular SEE FRACTURED PAGE 10
Do Palm Coast’s canals need dredging?
CHAIR MULLINS
In split vote, Flagler County Commission selects Joe Mullins as chairman PAGE 11
INDEX
Business...............PAGE 19 Calendar...............PAGE 15 Cops Corner.......... PAGE 8 Letters................... PAGE 6 McMillan................ PAGE 6 Real Estate...........PAGE 21 Your Town.............PAGE 15 Photo by Jonathan Simmons
WHAT’S IN THE BOOK? Editor Brian McMillan weighs in on what he considers Rated-R material. PAGE 6
Boaters have noticed the canals silting in. JONATHAN SIMMONS NEWS EDITOR
Although Palm Coast doesn’t have a beach — the nearest are in Flagler Beach, Marineland and unincorporated Flagler County — it does have saltwater, lots of it, in the city’s canal system. For decades, that saltwater has enticed people to settle here. Palm Coast’s network of tidal canals link locals’ backyard boat docks and lifts to the Intracoastal Waterway; from there, it’s an easy shot for a motorboat to get to open water through the Matanzas Inlet. Palm Coast has long touted the canal system as an attraction: Palm Coast’s first welcome center was on the canal system; now an overhead shot of the canal network forms the background for the city’s new website. But it hasn’t done much to maintain those waterways, aside from fixing the occasional sagging seawall or removing debris. And now the city faces a question: SEE DO PALM COAST’S PAGE 5
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he best way to thank Flagler County’s 11,000 veterans is simply by appreciating your freedom, David Lydon says. As the county’s veterans services officer, Lydon spends his workweek helping veterans in a specific way: applying for benefits they are entitled to from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Lydon, who enlisted in 1985 in the U.S. Air Force and is still an active reservist, spoke with the Palm Coast Observer recently about duty, war movies and the Gettysburg Address.
Visit the county’s Veterans Services Office at the Government Services Building, 1769 E. Moody Blvd., Building 2, Suite 108, in Bunnell. You can also call 386-3134014. “We’ll devote the time to you and find out what benefits you might be eligible for,” David Lydon said. Photo by Brian McMillan
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My oldest son went to Iraq, and my youngest son went to Afghanistan. My wife and I — people ask us that: How do we feel about our two sons going to a war zone? We just have faith that God will watch out for them. That’s what we believe. And they came home safe, fortunately. I would not shy away from military service. What does the word “duty” mean to you?
Duty means we all have a responsibility to make our houses better, our communities better, our country better, and not just sit on the sidelines and watch everybody else do it. I always say, “Don’t sit in the wagon; get out and help pull the wagon.” Duty is being part of society and making this country great.
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If a young person is thinking about the military now, but is afraid of someday going to war, what would advice would you give?
Do you watch war movies?
I don’t make a habit of watching them. They’re full of Hollywood. That’s the nicest way to put it. (Laughs) I’m a retired police officer, too, and I don’t like to watch police movies. My kids all laugh and my wife laughs, and they say I can’t watch a movie and enjoy it. They don’t like watching movies with me.
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I’ve spoken with 80-yearold men who think of themselves as veterans first, even though they might have served for a relatively short period of time, say one or two years. What is it about military service that defines your identify forever?
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In the Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln said of the battlefield: “The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it.” What is he saying that is “sacred”?
They’ve sowed the seed and fertilized our soil for the freedom that we enjoy still today. So we should appreciate every time a veteran serves, especially when they’ve given their life so that we can enjoy the life we have. Sometimes all of us get so comfortable that we forget that sometimes — even veterans forget that sometimes. So Abraham Lincoln’s words are so important.
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MEET YOUR VETERANS RICHARD BOLLEURS Bolleurs, 46, served in the Army for 22 years, retiring in 2015 as a chief warrant officer 2. He did a tour in Iraq. His last position was as an accountable property officer. “Everyone sends their orders to us, and we ship them out,” he said. “I call it the Amazon of the military.” In Iraq, he was in badging control, doing background checks and vetting people who wanted access to U.S. operations or bases, even if they were in the State Department, he said. Bolleurs has lived in Palm Coast since December 2020. Tom Piekarski accepts the challenge coin in a handshake from Randy Stapleford.
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Serving those who served Flagler County Veteran of the Year Tom Piekarski continues a fast pace. BRENT WORONOFF STAFF WRITER
Tom Piekarski served in three branches of the military. As a volunteer, he is equally ambitious. Piekarski received the Col. Gary E. DeKay Flagler County Veteran of the Year Award at the Veterans Day ceremony on Nov. 11, at the Government Services Building. In accepting the award, Piekarski, 72, urged people to help those who have served their country. “It’s our duty to assist our veterans,” he said. “Veterans sacrifice a great deal to serve our country. Let’s continue to honor our veterans by becoming active veterans club members and help when you can.” Piekarski is active in many service organizations. He is junior vice commander at the Palm Coast Veterans of Foreign Wars, assistant chaplain at the Palm Coast Disabled American Veterans, a member at large in the American Legion, a member of the Flagler County Veterans Advisory Council and a member of the Flagler County Volunteers. The Veterans Day ceremony began with the posting of colors by veterans service organizations and a joint Color Guard from the Flagler Palm Coast and Matanzas high schools’ Junior ROTC programs. Lt. Col. Harry Gilman, a retired Army chaplain, delivered the invocation and benediction. Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts led the Pledge of Allegiance, and Navy veteran Earl Presley performed the national anthem. Randall Scott Morris, who served in Vietnam and is a member of the Flagler Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution, was the special guest speaker. A staff sergeant in the Army, Morris was awarded the
WE SALUTE YOU The following organizations participated in the Veterans Day ceremony: American Legion Post 115 Combat Veterans of America Marine Corps League 876, Military Officers Association of America Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 8696 Disabled American Veterans Chapter 86 Flagler County Veterans Service Office Knights of Columbus Assembly 2810 Marine Corps League 876 Military Officers Association of America, Flagler chapter Flagler Palm Coast High School Air Force JROTC and Matanzas High School Army JROTC Scout troops from across Flagler County 2K Ranch
Randall Scott Morris wears a replica uniform of the one worn by his fourth greatgrandfather, Lt. Andrew Putnam.
The combined Junior ROTC programs at Matanzas and Flagler Palm Coast high schools served as the Color Guard.
Bronze Star while in the service. Morris wore a replica of the uniform worn by his fourth great grandfather, Lt. Andrew Putnam, who fought in
The oldest veteran at the barbecue, 93-year-old John Vidota, who served in the Third Army under General Eisenhower in World War II, was the first person to cut the cake.
the American Revolution. Morris noted that Veterans Day is a time to honor those in the military who have served our nation, but he added that everyone who is a family member of a veteran has also sacrificed. Piekarski, who is one of 11 children, said he was inspired by his parents, who volunteered in many veterans organizations. His three daughters all serve their communities in some way, he said, as does his wife, Eileen. Following the ceremony, the city of Palm Coast served a free barbecue lunch to veterans and their families at Central Park in Town Center. Mayor David Alfin noted that there are about 12,000 veterans in Palm Coast. “Few duties as mayor mean more to me than recognizing our veterans,” he said. “We civilians don’t know all of you, but we owe all of you.” After lunch was served, the oldest and youngest veterans in attendance cut a sheet cake. The first to wield the sword was John Vidota, 93, who served in the Third Army under Gen. Dwight Eisenhower in World War II. Mikal George, 21, a Marine veteran, was the youngest.
LARRY WOLFE Wolfe, 75, retired from the Army in 1972 after 2.5 years of active duty and six years in the reserves. He was an operating room technician at Fort Sam Houston. But that did not end his service. Wolfe was a Washington, D.C., firefighter for 28 years. Since moving to Palm Coast three years ago, he has been a volunteer for the Flagler Beach Fire Department. “I like serving the people,” Wolfe said. ORAL GROVES Groves, an Army veteran, served in the 169th Engineer Battalion in Vietnam. He was a power production specialist. “We did depot repair on power generators,” he said. “In Saigon, every installation had a power plant. I was also a substitute operator, and the things I saw stationed at the hospital were wrenching — guys with no limbs. That’s why I continue to serve at a number of organizations.” Groves is a procurement officer for the Disabled American Veterans. TOMMY TUCKER III Air Force veteran Tommy Tucker served in Thailand during the Vietnam War. He retired as a master sergeant after 26 years of active duty and 22 years of civil service, also with the Air Force. His son, Tommy Tucker IV, also served, retiring after 21 years. Now, he works for the Veterans Administration in Crestview. Before moving to Palm Coast six years ago, Tommy Tucker III was an information assurance officer at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma City. “I kept an eye on our network, making sure the bad boys stayed home,” he said. Tucker said the computer network supported 2,000 airmen and 5,000 civilians. TOM PIEKARSKI The Flagler County Veteran of the Year began his military career in the Navy. He was stationed in the Philippines during the Vietnam War. He retired from the Air Force and had time in the Army too, he said. “I spent a lot of my life around helicopters,” he said. “An Army Aviation unit in the Philippines, all helicopters. A search and rescue unit in the Air Force, that was helicopters.”
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CITY WATCH
Council honors 26-year Volunteer Fire Rescue member Charles “Charlie” Esposito, a founding member of the city’s Volunteer Fire Rescue service, has volunteered for the city’s fire service in various roles for 26 years. Palm Coast’s City Council recognized Esposito with a proclamation during a Nov. 16 council meeting, and Mayor David Alfin presented him with a plaque. “He has made an indelible impact on Palm Coast Volunteer Fire Rescue members,” the plaque states. “As a Length of Service Awards Program founding member, countless lives have been changed and improved. Thank you for your 26 years of continued service and commitment. Esposito, who’d worked for ITT Corp., helped start Palm Coast’s volunteer firefighter program and became a captain in the Fire Police, and served as president and vice president of the Volunteer Corporation, according to the text of the proclamation. He created the Length of Service Awards Program Board in his first year of service with Fire Rescue, and created a Helicopter Landing Zones Manual that’s still in use by Flagler County’s Fire Flight helicopter crews. He’s now an associate member of the city’s Volunteer Fire Rescue service, and is retiring from the Length of Service Awards Program Board. In other news at the meeting:
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Branquinho to remain vice mayor Councilman Eddie Branquinho is retaining his seat as the Palm Coast City Council’s vice mayor. He has already served in that position for a year. His fellow council members selected him to remain as vice chairman in a unanimous vote at the council’s Nov. 16 meeting.
Council appoints liaisons to boards The City Council has made its annual appointments to local boards. Council members opted to retain their current appointments. They are: River To Sea Transportation Development Council: Mayor David Alfin Flagler County Tourist Development Council: Councilman Nick Klufas Stewart-Marchman-Act Behavioral Healthcare: Councilman Nick Klufas St. John’s Water Management District: Councilman Eddie Branquinho Florida Department of Juvenile Justice Circuit 7 Juvenile Justice Council: Councilman Victor Barbosa Affordable Housing Advisory Committee: Councilman Ed Danko.
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A 141.5-acre parcel of land on Roberts Road about half a mile north of State Road 100, just south of the Boston Whaler production facility, may soon become a community of up to 217 single-family homes. The property, which is for now called Grand Reserve East (the name is expected to change), was annexed into the city from Flagler County
Charlie Esposito listens as Mayor David Alfin reads a proclamation recognizing Esposito’s 26 years of volunteer service.
jurisdiction in August. The property’s owner, M.L. Carter Services Inc., requested the annexation: The land is within Palm Coast’s utility service area, and properties in the service area must annex into the city in order to receive city utility services. The homes will be on 50-, 60and 70-foot-wide lots, attorney Jay Livingston, representing the owners, said at the Nov. 16 City Council meeting. It’s not yet clear whether the community will be gated, he said. As part of the annexation process, M.L. Carter Services agreed to reduce the number of potential units in the development: When the land was under the county’s jurisdiction, up to 300 units would have been permitted, making the development’s density about three units per acre. The reduction to 217 units will make the development’s density approximately 1.8 units per acre. City Council members at a Nov. 16 meeting voted unanimously to approve a Future Land Use Map and
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Zoning Map amendment for the land, which will now have a FLUM designation of Residential and Conservation and a Zoning Map designation of Single-Family Residential and Preservation. The development will need to undergo state review and submit a subdivision master plan to the city for approval before construction. GRAND LANDINGS NORTH LAND REZONED FOR SINGLE-FAMILY
A wooded 70.2-acre property about a mile east of Belle Terre Boulevard and south of the Flagler Executive Airport — another property annexed into Palm Coast from Flagler County — may become a 138-home development. The City Council on Nov. 16 voted 4-1, with Victor Barbosa dissenting, to rezone the land from its current county zoning designations of Industrial and Planned Unit Development to the city designation of Single-Family Residential. The developer has presented the city government with a preliminary site plan showing 138 single-family detached homes on lots with a minimum width of 50 feet and area of 6,000 square feet each.
Unimpressed with the batch of applicants for the position of city manager, Palm Coast Mayor David Alfin says the city might want to reopen the application period and hire an executive search firm. “Based on my initial review of the applications, I am a bit disappointed in the quality of the applications,” Alfin said Nov. 12 on Flagler Broadcasting’s “Free For All Friday.” He noted that few of the applicants had relevant credentials and municipal government experience. “I am afraid that when people are doing internet searches, they may not come to the right conclusion about where our city is going,” Alfin said. “So, if we are, as a group, not comfortable in coming together on what a shortlist of candidates might be, I may very well recommend that we suspend the search in favor of hiring a third party search firm that has expertise in municipal city personnel.”
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“He has made an indelible impact on Palm Coast Volunteer Fire Rescue members,” the plaque states. “As a Length of Service Awards Program founding member, countless lives have been changed and improved. Thank you for your 26 years of continued service and commitment.”
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Do Palm Coast’s canals need dredging? CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
The canals have never been dredged, not since they were dug as dry ditches and an earthen plug was removed to let them fill with seawater. But should they be? Palm Coast City Councilman Ed Danko thinks it’s time. “It’s part of our city, like anything in our city,” Danko had said at an Oct. 12 council meeting. “… We’re all in this together, and it’s a huge amenity.” At his suggestion, the city has placed on this year’s National Citizen Survey a question asking respondents if they believe the city should hire a consulting firm to see what dredging would cost. MAINTENANCE
Saltwater canals were one of Palm Coast’s original amenities. Around 1970, three decades before the city incorporated, ITT Levitt Development Corp. would bring prospective buyers in by boat to look at homesites, according to an article by Palm Coast City Historian Art Dycke. “Prospective buyers were driven to a small dock on the east side of the
Intracoastal Waterway across from the present day Palm Coast Resort,” Dycke wrote in a 2015 edition of The Palm Coast Historian, published by the Palm Coast Historical Society. “They were taken by boat to the emerging Welcome Center. There, land and preconstruction homes were marketed starting at $13,000. Even before Palm Coast opened officially, sales were brisk.” By the following year, ITT was digging a network of 15 miles worth of canals in what would eventually become part of Palm Coast’s C-Section. There is no maintenance program for the canals themselves —at least, not for the saltwater ones. The city has a fee-funded stormwater maintenance program, but that only handles the freshwater canals. For saltwater canals, the city government maintains canal end walls and stormwater pipes draining into the canal system, and will remove debris or obstructions that could affect public safety. But that’s it. “The saltwater canal’s influence on the stormwater system is controlled by tidal fluctuations, and dredging below the waterline
“The only amenity really that’s not being maintained — and it’s the first amenity — is the saltwater canals.”
has no effect on the city’s stormwater system,” the city said in an emailed reply to questions about the canal system. “For these reasons, the city has not, to date, performed any dredging or regular maintenance of the canals.” The only exception has been “minimal spot dredging to clear navigational hazards” in conjunction with other repairs or capital improvements nearby, using money for those associated projects. City staff haven’t undertaken much investigation of what it would cost to dredge the canals, but did find that the Tampa area recently spent over $55 million on a dredging project, according to a city spokeswoman. It wasn’t clear how the scope of that endeavor would compare with a Palm Coast dredging effort, she said. GETTING SHALLOWER
A navigation summary for a small C-Section anchorage basin on Active Captain, an interactive Garminbased boating chart app and website, notes the shallow nature of the area. “Be very careful with any boat that draws more than 5 feet,” it states. “It can be lower than 6 feet at the entrance, requiring some tide help to get in. The basin has 6 feet of depth at low tide.” Some cities or counties that have saltwater canals — like Cape Coral, which advertises 400 miles worth of them — have regular maintenance dredging programs designed to keep the center of their canals at a navigable
MARK LEWIS, local boater
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In an ad on the Flagler Beach pier, ITT Levitt offered boat tours of the nascent community of Palm Coast.
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“I think there are probably a lot of cost effective ways to do this. But if we start to do it like we’re building the Panama Canal, we might be making a false step.” DAN BRYANT, Palm Coast resident and sailboat owner
depth. Others put off dredging until they’re facing a price tag in the tens of millions of dollars. Boaters who live on the canal system in Palm Coast have noticed the depths decreasing over the years. “It’s gotten shallower. It’s silted in,” said Barry Kipnis, a member of the Palm Coast Yacht Club. Kipnis, who’s boated for 55 years, bought his home in Palm Coast because of the water access. He used to have a boat with a 5-foot draft. Certain areas were tough to navigate. “You had to be very careful at the entrance to the northern canal at the Intracoastal Waterway, because those corners had silted in to the point you had to stay at the center,” he said. “That was years ago, and since then, probably it’s gotten worse.” Resident Jon Blake also pointed to particular areas where depths can’t accommodate the draft of sailboats or larger motorboats. “Certain boats have to come in on the tide because it’s shallow in places,” he said. “Certain places, it’s fine, other places it’s shoaled in. ... If you have a sailboat or anything else, you’re on the ground a lot of the time.” Sailboats tend to have deeper drafts than powerboats of the same size — a 25-foot sailboat might have a 4-foot or 5-foot draft, because of the length of their rudders and centerboards or swing keels. Blake used to have a saliboat, before moving here.
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“If it was here it would be sitting on the bottom right now,” he said. It was a wing-keeled boat which drew about 5 feet. “We ... decided this was not a place for sailboats,” he said, between the draft and the difficulty of navigating with a mast. Now he has a trawler. Resident Jim Potochick and his wife Danette used to have a boat that drafted 4 feet. It was tough to get a boat with that kind of draft through the northernmost cut leading into the C-Section from the Intracoastal. “We may have dug up a little sand once in a while,” he said. They got rid of that boat got one that drafts about 2 or 3 feet. Resident Dan Bryant sails: On a 43-foot ketch that’s been in his family for 37 years, he sailed Chesapeake Bay, sailed up to Maine, then sailed it down to Palm Coast in the summer of 2020. His boat draws 6 feet. He had the area around his dock dug out to accommodate it, and needs to be in by about two hours before low tide. He said the canals — areas of them, at least — need attention. “I think there are probably a lot of cost effective ways to do this,” he said. “But if we start to do it like we’re building the Panama Canal, we might be making a false step.” When Mark Lewis was looking for a place to live, he wanted one where he could keep his boat and have water access. He’d looked at the town of Rockledge, on the Indian River Lagoon, but was concerned that the town canal system’s connection to the Intracoastal seemed to be silting in, and there didn’t see to be a plan to fix it, he said. So he ended up in Palm Coast. He’s concerned that the same problem will happen here, affecting boaters’ ability to navigate to the ICW and, therefore, the value of the waterfront property. Palm Coast maintains its other amenities, he said, and should maintain this one. “The only amenity really that’s not being maintained — and it’s the first amenity — is the saltwater canals,” he said. “As the canals continue to deteriorate and they silt up, the value of this amenity deteriorates. ... I think some money needs to be put aside, and I think areas on an annual basis need to be cleaned up.”
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‘All Boys Aren’t Blue’ is brave, important, empathetic — and Rated-R Let’s promote most of the book, but not make the explicit material available without parental permission.
BRIAN MCMILLAN EXECUTIVE EDITOR
George M. Johnson’s “All Boys Aren’t Blue” has uplifted me. I believe that the book was written, as the first several pages proclaim, “with care and love” and as a “gateway for more people to find their truth and find their power to live in that truth.” The book has given me greater empathy for gay Black teens. But should we overlook the sexually explicit material the book contains and keep it in high school media centers? THE BOOK IS RATED-R
Some parts of the book, such as when Johnson describes what is
happening to the genitals of two young cousins during a sexual molestation, are so vivid that a teenage reader may feel like a witness to the act — which is exactly why Johnson felt violated in the story. The reader, in a sense, is being subjected to a version of the same trauma Johnson endured. I believe the author’s intent is educational, not erotic, and therefore it’s not pornographic. But I disagree with Johnson’s statement, in a recent interview with FlaglerLive Editor Pierre Tristam, that the book is suitable for ages 14-18. If the scene is depicted faithfully in a movie, genitals and all, it would be Rated-R, meaning theaters wouldn’t allow children under 17 without a parent. A Flagler Schools committee will ultimately decide the matter, but if I had a vote, “All Boys Aren’t Blue” would be available only with parental consent — or perhaps only to ages 17 and up — just like a Rated-R movie in our society. If authors choose to include explicit material in books, I will defend their right to do so, but the authors have to realize that their choices may disqualify their books from school libraries. Teens can always seek out the books in other venues, and parents are, of course,
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George M. Johnson’s “All Boys Aren’t Blue” is available on Kindle for $10.99.
free to buy whatever books they want in their own homes. It’s not possible for everyone to feel protected from traumatic images and words in the “real world” of media — on the internet or even in a city library — but safety should be the standard in a student media center. If we want to protect vulnerable students, let’s protect all of them. For art to be thought provoking, it doesn’t have to be explicit. WHAT’S NEXT?
Johnson gave the following warning in the FlaglerLive interview: “Removing my book doesn’t mean that your child won’t still have experiences with the topics I discuss in my book. It simply means
they won’t know how to deal with those situations when they happen. And you’ll have no one to blame but yourself.” If the district does restrict school access to Johnson’s book, it also must keep that warning in mind and do everything possible to help the vulnerable teens Johnson is trying to reach and serve. I would support having teachers assign portions of Johnson’s book in classrooms, giving his main ideas wide circulation. “All Boys Aren’t Blue” isn’t the only solution to the problem, though. What other books can be added to the media center that would reach vulnerable teens? What articles and essays might serve similar purposes? Regardless of whether the book is available to everyone, parents have the most important role in becoming Johnson’s allies in promoting empathy. I challenge every parent to have an age-appropriate “talk” with your children about these issues, in your own way. Whatever our race or sexual orientation, we can help our children become better classmates and friends. We can teach our children to fight racism, abuse and homophobia — and we can set a loving example by starting the conversation at home.
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Vaccines save lives, but the government shouldn’t mandate them In general, I do not support medical mandates because I do not think they are very effective and do not achieve what they desire.
FRANK FARMER GUEST WRITER
Recently, Dr. Joseph Lapado, the designated surgeon general of Florida, went to the office of Sen. Tina Polsky in preparation for his confirmation by the Senate. At the meeting, Sen. Polsky requested that
he wear a mask as she had a compromised immune condition. Later, she revealed that this was due to a newly diagnosed breast malignancy. Dr. Lapado declined to do so, and the meeting imploded. The incident has resulted in much publicity and accusations by both pro mask and anti mask factions. As a former surgeon general of Florida, I have been asked about my views on the matter. Before I was a physician, I was a historian in a university setting and wrote my Ph.D. dissertation on the attempts to eradicate a specific disease in the South in the early 20th century. As I researched that topic, I became very familiar with the history of vaccines and continued that interest throughout my medical education and career. As a historian and physician, I believe that with all the great medical innovations over the last 300 years such as blood typing, transfusions, MRIs,
CT scans, new surgical techniques, antibiotics and others, none have saved more lives and helped benefit society more than vaccines. Because of vaccines, we no longer have the great scourges of smallpox, polio, yellow fever, influenza, and other diseases that have claimed millions of lives over the centuries. I encourage all eligible individuals to get the COVID vaccine with the advice of their physician. In general, I do not support medical mandates because I do not think they are very effective and do not achieve what they desire. A mandate is exactly what is says — an order to do something. This is a rigid doctrine and, in my opinion, does not consider all the variables that should go into every medical decision. In the case of COVID-19, some of those variables include the general health of the individual, the age group of the patient, previous infection with COVID-19, immune
status of the person, religious beliefs, psychological condition and mental health, to name a few. The American people are an intelligent group and very independent, with a strong sense of their ability to make their own decisions about their health. They respond much better to explanations and reasoning than to mandates. Dr. Lapado is an intelligent person, with a degree from Harvard and hundreds of published scientific papers. I am sure that he can make persuasive arguments on the effectiveness or ineffectiveness of masks in preventing the spread of COVID-19, but the incident in Sen. Polsky’s office is more than Dr. Lapado’s views on mask wearing. The surgeon general is the embodiment of all the physicians in Florida. When he entered that senator’s office, with her name on the door, he was essentially entering her home. If he declined to wear
a mask, he could have congenially exited and offered to have a zoom or telephone conference. Dr. Lapado has the right to wear or not wear a mask anywhere in any public area of the Capitol, but surely we can accept that an announced immuno-compromised sitting state senator, in her office, can be afforded a little leeway in regard to her request. Courtesy, compassion and empathy should reside in all of us. With all the above being said, Dr. Lapado is a very well qualified medical doctor. He deserves a bit of patience as he adjusts to his new role as the surgeon general. Let us give the grace to Dr. Lapado that we should give to all human beings. He will either embrace this role or he will not. Frank Farmer, of Ormond Beach, was Florida’s surgeon general from 2011 to 2012.
Would you hand your child heroin? Why then is it OK for the schools to hand this book to our children who do not have fully formed impulse controls? What is next? Do we have live sex shows in school? I mean, we want the kids to be educated right? It is the schools’ job to protect our children from harm — and porn harms!
Blame the left for indoctrination
our way of life. I do not love the path our country is headed down. I will fight to resist that course in whichever manner is required to preserve our country. In the eyes of the Democrats I am a potential terrorist, a threat. In actually, I am an American, just like Mr Cocchiola, and I support his right to freedom of speech, religion and pursuit of happiness, but I draw the line at his party’s tactics and labeling. We all need to remember, the right wing and the left wing are of the same bird!
negative influence, save his feelings. He further stated that until that lawsuit is canceled, Mr. Goodman should remain off the planning board until the lawsuit is resolved. The consent agenda part starts at 57:58 on YouTube; I recommend watching. As stated by Commissioner Joe Mullins, the commission caused this litigation to be necessary. The county has continued to blatantly ignore a legal, binding and signed agreement with Captain’s BBQ. This litigation could be resolved easily by the commission. The item was approved as amended by Sullivan, Mullins and Commissioner Donald O’Brien, so they are complicit to this act of intimidation, in my opinion. Commissioner Greg Hansen voted no, and Commissioner Andy Dance abstained due to a business conflict. If this is how the commission is allowed to operate, then we have taken quite an alarming turn at Albuquerque. Threats, intimidation and retaliation are often resolved by the courts. Perhaps this latest intimidation action toward a witness and plaintiff in a litigation proceeding needs greater scrutiny?
LETTERS ‘Pornographic’ book should not be in schools Dear Editor: Recently a School Board member in our school district is fighting against George M. Johnson’s “All Boys Aren’t Blue.” She is getting tons of flack for it, but she has my full support. We have an age limit on cigarettes. There is an age limit on when you can drive. There is an age limit on when you can go to bars. There are limits on recreational drug usage and limits on illegal drugs. Why do we as a society create these limitations? Could it be because we recognize that our brains need time to develop the ability to control our impulses? For me, as a parent, this isn’t about an LGBT standpoint. If this were a heterosexual couple, the descriptive details would be just as appalling to me. My point is, removing this book from schools is not about censorship. It’s about age appropriateness. If parents are OK with their children reading this, let them buy it for them. But having explicit porn in schools is not OK with me. I have done extensive research on porn and the effects porn has on our brains. Did you know that the same center in our brain that lights up in heroin users is the same center of our brains that lights up with porn watching? What that means is that porn is just as addictive as heroin.
KAY RAYMOND Palm Coast
Blame Democrats for sorry schools Dear Editor: In Mike Cocchiola’s letter to the editor in the Oct. 28 edition, he encourages those of his persuasion to “get mad, stand up against radical right.” I am a bona fide member of the right; I am to the right of Attila the Hun, and every day I thank my ancestors for endowing me with the intelligence needed to become a conservative. Mike doesn’t need to tell his coconspirators to get mad; they already are. Blaming the Republicans for the condition of our sorry school system and saying they are becoming the American Taliban is delusional and a lie. The teachers unions and the Democrats run the schools. DOUGLAS R. GLOVER Palm Coast
Dear Editor: I am submitting this rebuttal to a letter written by Mike Cocchiola, former head of a local Democratic Club, entitled “Get mad, stand up against radical right.” Mr. Cocchiola states that our education system is under attack by the radical right; but our education system is being attacked, influenced and altered by the radical left of the Democratic Socialist Party. Canceling books, altering or erasing history, teaching our children to hate each other through critical race theory, and teaching that there are more than two genders are just a few of the examples of what is occurring in our education system. Parents from all parties have started to stand up and resist this type of indoctrination in our schools. We are trying to preserve our education system and have our children learn to think for themselves. We still believe in God, our Constitution and the freedoms our ancestors have fought and died for. If the Republican Party, or the right wing, is the new American Taliban, then surely the Democratic Party, or the left wing, is the new Nazi Party of the United States! I label myself as a Conservative Libertarian Constitutionalist. I am also an Army veteran (paratrooper) of 22 years. I love my country and
HENRY C. McMILLAN Palm Coast
Commissioners’ vote against Mike Goodman needs scrutiny Dear Editor: The fact that David Sullivan has used his position on the Flagler County Commission as a tool for intimidation is shameful. Dave Sullivan pulled consent item 7C from the Nov. 1 agenda to amend it to approve Jack Corbett but reject Mike Goodman from the Planning and Development Board. The background information he cited was that because Mr. Goodman is a party with Captain’s BBQ’s current litigation with the county and that he has been a negative influence on the planning board. He provided no proof of this supposed
PAUL ANDERSON Palm Coast
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End of watch: Sgt. Dominic Guida, of the Bunnell Police Guida suffered a cardiac event during a training with the FCSO; he died at the hospital shortly thereafter.
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‘Above and beyond the call of duty’
KRISTEN BATES BUNNELL CITY CLERK
On the evening of Nov. 9, Sgt. Dominic Guida, after participating in a training event with the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office, suffered a cardiac event and was rushed to AdventHealth Palm Coast, where he died. Mayor Robinson, Vice Mayor Rogers, Commissioner Gordon and
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Bunnell Mayor Catherine Robinson with Dominic Guida at the June 2020 high school graduation ceremony.
Commissioner Barnes were at the hospital when the city learned of death. Guida joined the Bunnell Police Department in July 2016. He worked his way through the ranks and had been promoted to sergeant in January 2020. He was a much-loved officer and co-worker. He loved his job and being in the community. Mayor Catherine Robinson said: “This is a day of sorrow and tragedy. The death of Dominic Guida is a profound loss to the city and the Bunnell Police Department.” City Manager Alvin B. Jackson Jr. added: “This is a very numbing time, and it’s hard to believe we lost him so fast. He was truly a kind, humble, fun loving and lively police sergeant. There will be a great hole in our city and Police Department.”
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The Flagler County Sheriff’s Office celebrated the third quarter of 2021 with an awards ceremony on Tuesday, Nov. 9, inside the Kim C. Hammond Justice Center. During the ceremony, Sheriff Rick Staly recognized exceptional service by dozens of Sheriff’s Office employees and members of the community, including honoring the team directly
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$1.3 million building added to FCSO plans The prefabricated metal building will be used to house the FCSO’s purchasing department and serve as storage space. JONATHAN SIMMONS NEWS EDITOR Photo by Jonathan Simmons Image courtesy of the Flagler County government
The Flagler Access Center will be located in this building, which formerly housed the Bunnell branch of the Flagler County Public Library.
The planned new FCSO Operations Center.
serve as additional storage space. It’s expected to be finished in January 2023, a few months after the completion of the main FCSO Operations Center building. About 2,000 square feet of the metal building will be office space with a restroom, while the remainder will be a warehouse with six overhead doors designed to let vehicles drive in and out. The Sheriff’s Operations Center is under construction at a site off Commerce Parkway, near the State Road 100 Wendy’s and the county government’s Emergency Operations Center and Government Ser-
vices Building complex. It will be 51,615 square feet — about twice the size of the former Sheriff’s Operations Center on State Road 100. The FCSO had evacuated its former Operations Center in June 2018 because of concerns that mold in the building — a former hospital that sat vacant for years before its renovation for the FSO’s use — was making employees ill. The Sheriff’s Office’s staff has been divided between the county courthouse and an administrative building at the county jail since the evacuation.
Former library space will become mental health drop-in center The Flagler Access Center will offer a crisis triage and treatment unit, and mental health and substance abuse therapy. JONATHAN SIMMONS NEWS EDITOR
The FCSO Operations Center construction site.
Photo by Jonathan Simmons
The former Flagler County library building on State Road 100 in Bunnell near its intersection with U.S. 1 will become a mental health care drop-in facility called the Flagler Access Center, operated by SMA Healthcare and Flagler Health+/ Care Connect. The 4,943-square-foot building at 103 E. Moody Blvd. will be open for regular services 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, with a crisis triage and treatment unit onsite from 8 a.m. to midnight on weekdays and noon to midnight on Saturdays and Sundays. A separate, on-call crisis response team will be available 24/7, 365 days a year. In the first phase of the center’s two-phase opening, it will offer Bak-
er Act transport and screening, care coordination linking clients to other mental health, substance abuse, housing and employment services, and a housing assistance program serving homeless people. Flagler Health+/Care Connect will also provide services for youths through a probgram called “BRAVE,” for “Be Resilient and Voice Your Emotions.” The second phase will add three therapists for adult and youth mental health and substance abuse therapy. Those services will be provided at an SMA facility at 301 Justice Lane until the new Flagler Access Center obtains licensure to provide them. The county government is using American Rescue Plan Act money to fund the building’s conversion. County commissioners voted at a commission meeting Nov. 15 to enter into an agreement with SMA that will let SMA use the countyowned building. SMA will be paid for its services through a state grant administered by Lutheran Services of Florida. The agreement will be for one year, but renew automatically each year unless the county or SMA opts to terminate it.
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meeting, the board approved a new operations procedure manual that limits board members’ closing comments to five minutes and restricts public comments at the beginning of meetings to be about agenda items only. Public comments at the end of meetings can be about any topic. Had that procedure been in effect for this meeting, nearly all of the public comments would have been held until the end. Board member Janet McDonald suggested that board members’ closing comments be restricted to their own words only, referring to Conklin’s video. Meanwhile, Woolbright said Johnson threatened her on Twitter, saying “Finish her.” Woolbright said “lots of people” had sent her the tweet, and “lots of people, including myself, sent it to the sheriff.” Earlier in the day, Johnson wrote on Twitter, “The Proud Boys and Moms for Liberty also claim I ‘threatened’ Jill by saying ‘finish her’ to a writer. This is why we need books bc reading comprehension is at an all-time low. Want to know what is a threat? Filing an unethical criminal complaint against a Black person’s book.” Johnson attached a screen shot of a tweet by Keka Araujo to Johnson that said, “I can cover this if you like.. I WILL PUBLICLY CLOWN HER. I am absolutely BIASED.” Johnson replied: “Finish her!” Later in her comments, Woolbright got emotional, saying she felt “nothing but empathy and compassion for
George Johnson … because we are more alike than we are different.” Woolbright said she grew up in an extremely abusive home. She said she was abused by her father and repressed those memories, so she knows first-hand that a book like Johnson’s, which describes a sexual assault by an older cousin, can trigger repressed memories of trauma. ‘CRIME OF THE THIRD DEGREE’
“I have advocated for children my entire career,” Woolbright said. “I taught kids in foster homes. I advocated for those kids — some I mainstreamed.” She said, in a meeting with School Superintendent Cathy Mittelstadt and Board Attorney Kristy Gavin on Nov. 3, that she did not ask for four books to be pulled, as reported by FlaglerLive. She said she asked only for Johnson’s book to be removed. Woolbright said she did bring up three other books in that meeting – “Stamped,” “The Hate U Give” and “Speak” – that she found on a list by Project Lit of “edgy” books that she looked up and discovered were also available in district media centers. She said she told Mittelstadt and Gavin that in her research of Florida statutes, making “All Boys Aren’t Blue” available to students “is a crime of the third degree.” “They assured me it would be taken care of, but days later I hadn’t heard anything,” Woolbright said. She said the other board members “were not alerted that there was a possible crime.” Woolbright said she had been
BOARD APPROVES RAISES The School Board may be fractured, but it unanimously approved a memorandum of understanding with the Flagler Educational Support Professional Association, raising bus driver and paraprofessional salaries to a minimum of $15 an hour. All other support professionals will receive a raise of 66 cents an hour.
“I know you wish it would be more, but this is a great start,” said Paul Peacock, the district’s chief operations officer. “I want everyone to know, this is a work in progress,” board member Janet McDonald said. “It’s a journey,” said Vice Chair Colleen Conklin. “I don’t think we’re there yet.”
“My concern is for the children of Flagler County. This book needs to be investigated as a crime in our media center. This is pretty heavy stuff, violating our own policies. That’s why I felt the need to file the report, so I know it will be investigated.” JILL WOOLBRIGHT
blindsided as a board member several times, and that she got scared and lost confidence in Gavin. She said she then sought counsel on the matter with a private attorney. Mittelstadt said there is a process the district takes when books are challenged. “I exercised my right to engage my team to go through (the four books in question), and they’re doing that now,” she said. Mittelstadt said they started doing that at the conclusion of the meeting with Woolbright. PROTESTERS’ YELLING MATCH
Board member Cheryl Massaro said that because of Woolbright’s criminal report, the School Board is powerless to make a decision about the book while the FCSO investigates. In the meantime, students will be unable to read the book. Outside of the Government Services Building before the meeting,
high school students and adults protesting the possible banning of “All Boys Aren’t Blue” and other books got into a shouting match with members of the community who wanted sexually graphic material removed from school book shelves. McDonald and Conklin acknowledged a fracture on the School Board. “I apologize, because this board has been involved in non-stop drama, and there are extremely important issues we need to focus on,” Conklin said. McDonald told the dwindling audience members at the tail end of the marathon meeting, “A lack of trust on the board is what you’re seeing.” Then she praised Woolbright for her courage. “Jill, I have to thank you profusely for your courage and will to carry this through, because this is a benefit for everyone in the community.” Most of the public comments cen-
tered on Johnson’s book, with many people who advocated removing the book wanting to read aloud the graphic passages, only to be rebuked by Board Chair Trevor Tucker. Several other speakers questioned the board’s decision at its Nov. 2 workshop to change the title of one of the goals in the new Strategic Plan from “Equity” to “Student Support.” McDonald said she preferred the term “Student Success.” Massaro, who delivered the deciding vote to make the change, said she would like to return the item to a workshop agenda to discuss it again. The fracture of the board was apparent at the start of the regular meeting when Mittelstadt led the annual reorganization to select a new board chair and vice chair. While they unanimously selected Tucker to serve a second consecutive term as board chair, two nominations were made for vice chair. McDonald nominated Woolbright, while Massaro nominated Conklin. Tucker broke the deadlock, voting for Conklin, who will also serve a second consecutive term in that position. Before Tucker adjourned the meeting at 11:42 p.m., Mittlestadt had the final word. “I believe we can reach out and reestablish trust where it may be fractured right now,” she said. “I implore you to think with open minds. Trust and respect for all. I embrace that.”
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In split vote, County Commission selects Mullins as chairman Commissioners Andy Dance and Greg Hansen voted for Hansen to be selected as chairman, rather than Joe Mullins. JONATHAN SIMMONS NEWS EDITOR
Joe Mullins
Flagler County commissioners chose Joe Mullins as the commission’s new chairman on Nov. 15, doing so despite objections from locals who said Mullins uses social media to demean and bully residents and isn’t fit for the position of chairman. The vote was 3-2 for Mullins, with Commissioner Andy Dance voting against his nomination and saying he was doing so because of Mullins’ “online banter.” Dance nominated and voted for Greg Hansen as chairman; Hansen also voted for himself. Hansen was later selected to serve as vice chairman. Mullins, after accepting the nomination, said he wouldn’t let the commission or the community down. “If we all come together and we work together, we can do great things, as we’ve seen,” he said. Mullins, as the meeting began, was the commission’s vice chairman. The positions of chair and vice-chair rotate around the board each year, with the vice chair typically holding that role for one year,
then assuming the role of chairman. Mullins’ position as vice-chairman left him in line for the chairmanship. But he had also been vice-chairman, and therefore in line for the chairmanship, the year before, and had declined to take it: He’d said at the time that home and business concerns were eating up his time, and offered to remain in the position of vice chair. Last year’s commission reorganization meeting had also occurred a couple of months after Mullins had insulted fellow commissioners during a meeting, referring to then-fellow commissioner Charlie Ericksen old and lazy and calling Commissioner Greg Hansen a “fat son of a b----.” (Ericksen didn’t run for reelection and is no longer on the commission; Hansen is.) Commissioners at the time had admonished Mullins, but declined to censure him. That year, as this one, he’d regularly derided constituents on Face-
book, mocking some for their weight, suggesting others were on drugs or were unfit parents, offering to send Trump supporters to Democrats’ homes for a “Trump welcome,” or suggesting putting liberals on a train and driving them out of the county. He made up demeaning nicknames for people who tangled with him online, referring to one woman who worked at a local restaurant as “Cheeseburger Chelsea”; in online arguments, he prodded his critics with unfounded claims, on multiple occasions suggesting that an individual he was arguing with had had, or was pursuing, sex reassignment surgery. On his half-hour weekly radio program on Flagler Broadcasting, he’d commented about wanting to see liberals beheaded, drawing anger from Democratic Party members. At last year’s reorganization meeting, Mullins nominated Commissioner Donald O’Brien to continue as chair. Other commissioners accepted. He made no such offer Nov. 15. This year, as last, locals lined up to tell the commission that Mullins was the wrong person for the job. “There’s been many examples of extremely poor public behavior on his part,” said Robin Polletta. “Do we truly want this sort of individual to represent Flagler County at a time when it’s posed to experience amazing growth and ... great potential?” Local Pastor Sims Jones said he’d
worked with Mullins on projects in the past, but had started to worry when he began getting calls from other people asking how Jones could work with someone like Mullins. Jones had been especially troubled when the calls started coming from other pastors. “So I stopped working with him,” Jones said. “And I assured other people that we need to come out and make sure that he is not, or will not, ever become the chairman of this board — because there are a lot of good people on this board, and we don’t need Flagler County to go any further down into the dirt than what this man is going to bring it down to.” About 10 people had made comments objecting to Mullins’ potential appointment by the time Commissioner David Sullivan, who’d rolled his eyes during one such comment, formally nominated Mullins for the position of chairman. O’Brien was displeased that Mullins had turned what O’Brien said should be a “simple, non-controversial innocuous process” into a controversy. “I’m frustrated at being put in this position and stressed out regarding the vote of selecting the chair,” O’Brien said. “The role of chair is nothing more than a ministerial job, one of signing documents authorized by the commission and conducting orderly meetings. That’s it.” He said that the locals who’d warned against making Mullins the
public face of the commission were overplaying the importance of the chairmanship. Then his comments turned to Mullins’ actions. “My frustration is due to the fact that — Commissioner Mullins, I’m going to address this to you — for all of the good that you do in the community, and you do a lot — you’re always a cheerleader Flagler County, you make a lot of charitable contributions, you recognize and support staff with lunches and things like that, and a lot of other positive activities — but despite all that good, your social media activities and contentious stands on some highly charged political issues has caused you to be a lightning rod, and it’s damn frustrating,” O’Brien said. O’Brien said he didn’t pay attention to the “online nonsense.” But, he added, “My inbox is pretty damn full with emails of people not wanting you to be chair, and it’s frustrating.” He asked Mullins if the chairmanship was something he wanted, given his personal and business concerns. “It is something I’m interested in, and I do feel like we should rotate it,” Mullins replied. “... I would be honored to have that position and represent the county as I do on many committees, many national committees. I love this county, and I’m going to work hard for it and I’m going to do the best I can. And I do realize that is one spot, it’s one of five.”
County plans $7.4 million project to extend broadband to west Flagler The county will use American Rescue Plan Act money to fund the expansion. JONATHAN SIMMONS NEWS EDITOR
Western Flagler County residents will get broadband internet connections through a new partnership between the county government and a private company called Charter Communications, with the county using $1 million in American Rescue Plan Act money to fund the westward expansion. “We have moved fast and done it in
a year,” said Commissioner Joe Mullins, who’s pressed for the broadband expansion. “That’s called getting results.” The project is expected to cost about $7.4 million overall. “This is an example of Flagler County getting it right,” said Greg Blosé, president and CEO of the Palm Coast-Flagler Regional
Chamber of Commerce. “The way that your staff and Charter, this public-private conversation worked behind the scenes for months and months and months, really renewed my faith in government.” The three-phase effort to extend broadband service to approximately 1,144 homes on the west side will begin with a Phase 1 that will include
823 connections, followed by a Phase 2 with another 148 and a Phase 3 with 67 more. The county will use $1 million in the first two phases, while Charter will cover part of its share using a Rural Digital Opportunity grant. Money is already in place for the first phase, but funding gaps remain for the next two phases.
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uesday, Nov. 9, started out as just another day at Buddy Taylor Middle School for school psychologist Shoshanah Mercado. She was radioed down to the cafeteria, told a student needed to see her, which is a regular occurrence for Mercado and the other psychologists who work for Flagler County Schools. When she arrived, she was blown away. The room was festooned with balloons and candy. Buddy Taylor students and staff were waiting for her. Flagler Palm Coast High School administrators and FPC student government representatives were also there to celebrate. “I thought, ‘If this isn’t what winning feels like, I don’t know what is,’” Mercado said. Mercado was one of six finalists selected for the Florida Association of School Psychologists’ most prominent award — School Psychologist of the Year.
Another finalist — Charles Eccleston of Brevard Public Schools — was announced as the winner at the FASP annual conference, which was on a Zoom call Nov. 4. But that did not stop students and staff from Mercado’s two schools from celebrating. FPC Assistant Principal Kiera Crawford told her, “We’ve been planning this for over a month.” “It’s so indescribable to be recognized not just by peers in your profession, but everyone in our district. It’s almost overwhelming to see that,” Mercado said. “It’s difficult to be in education these days, so to get that appreciation for what you do is extra sweet.” John Seaton, the school district’s senior psychologist, nominated Mercado for the award. “When students are in crisis, Shoshanah puts aside anything else … to help that student resolve the crisis or get the additional treatment/intervention he or she needs,” Seaton wrote in his recommendation. Buddy Taylor principal Cara Cronk also filled out a recommendation. “Ms. Mercado has made a huge difference on our campus. (She) assists parents who don’t know where to turn by providing them with community resources,” Cronk wrote. “I have worked with numerous school psychologists during my 27 years in education. She is by far
the best I have had the privilege of working with.” Mercado has worked for Flagler Schools since April 2012. Mercado said sometimes people don’t know what school psychologists do, but the school district understands the importance of their role in supporting students, teachers and parents. School psychologists perform assessments for students who may need academic or behavior intervention or specialized instruction. They test for learning disabilities, anxiety and depression. In addition to the students she’s assigned to, Mercado will counsel students who come to her and want to talk about their problems. Teachers will ask her to reach out to students who are homeless or suffering from trauma. In 2015, the district limited each psychologist’s responsibility to one school. “In the state of Florida that’s very rare,” she said, “But it’s something our district felt strong about with the mental health needs of our students.” Because the district is shortstaffed by two psychologists, Mercado has two schools again
“I thought, ‘If this isn’t what winning feels like, I don’t know what is.’” SHOSHANAH MERCADO, FASP School Psychologist of the Year finalist.
— FPC and BTMS — but she said the district is trying to fill those positions. The district is also working with mental health counselors and community providers, matching up families with their insurance providers or finding help for those who have no insurance or are underinsured, she said. “There is a lot we’ve done to beef up mental health support in the last few years,” Mercado said. “How amazing is it to be school psychologist? It’s a dream career for me. I think we’re valuable in so many ways for kids.”
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Why do you feel it’s important for people of different faiths to be unified?
Two problems with this question. 1. Whether Catholics or Protestants or Orthodox, we Christians share the same basic beliefs as the followers of Jesus Christ as expressed in the Creed. So it is not “people of different faiths” but people who believe in Jesus Christ but who have different ways of worship. 2. “Christian unity” is a long-term goal, not a reality. It is a way of building bridges among different Christian denominations who have been estranged from each other for centu-
ries. Catholic, Protestants and Orthodox Christians come together during the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity to confront the growing trends of “de-Christianization” in private lives and public life. Church membership in most denominations is on the decline. Why is that?
Most traditional Christian churches have been in decline since the 1960s, as the Ten Commandments are not practiced by the majority of people in private or in public life. The commandments “to love God and to love neighbors as oneself” and “do not lie, cheat or
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steal” make very difficult and unpopular demands. Therefore Christianity is not very popular in most societies. What can be done to reverse the trend?
The social downward trend is not reversible, but may be stabilized. It all starts with the family, the school, public leaders, religious leaders and the media, in particular the social media. What have you learned from serving the people of Flagler County?
Christian folks in Flagler County like people everywhere yearn for a stable, equitable, peaceful lives and justice in society like people everywhere. People of different Christian denominations who came together in ecumenical celebrations, to pray together, to sing together for 90 minutes once a year as we have done for 14 years, have found the experience comforting and uplifting.
SULLIVAN, Margaret Clare “Peggy” (Hurton), age 89, formerly of Fort Myers, passed away peacefully Monday at hospice in Palm Coast, Florida, on November 8, 2021. Born on April 14, 1932 in New York City, Peggy is survived by her daughter, Eileen Trinkle, who cared for her during the last months of her life, and her husband Michael, her son Frank Walsh and his wife Caroline Daz, grandchildren Michael (Fawn), Joseph (Wendy), Spenser (Jessica), Jessica (Kenneth) and Courtney, and seven great-grandchildren. Peggy was predeceased by her parents, Harry and Bridie Hurton, her brother Joseph and her sister Mary,
her husband James and her beautiful Granddaughter Nikki. Peggy, an avid reader known for her sharp wit and stinging remarks, raised her two children by herself in the Throggs Neck Houses in the Bronx. A mass will be held at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic Church in Palm Coast, FL on November 19, 2021 at 11:00
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FPC STUDENTS FOUND A ‘SPOOKTACULAR’ WAY TO THANK THEIR FACULTY AND STAFF The FPC Student Government Association and the Education Foundation invited Flagler Schools “staffulty” (faculty and staff) to join them at the very first Autumn Adventure on Oct. 29, for a spooktacular time at Flagler Palm Coast High School. FPC SGA created the event as a way to say thank you for all the teachers and staff do for all the students of Flagler Schools by creating an event just for them. The SGA executive board presented the opportunity at a general assembly meeting and asked for volunteers to lead sections. Those section leaders then created teams where they brainstormed and eventually decided what to create. They worked throughout October painting and making their visions come to life.
her passionate color expressions in paintings of gardens and wetlands bird life. “Our days are a constant infusion of information and expression,” she said. “Art provides the unique opportunity to fill our souls with joy and possibility.” Visit www.bettieeubanks.com.
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On Oct. 29, the kids were ready and excited to welcome the Flagler Schools staffulty. They built a balloon arch to mark the entry door and had transformed the hallways of FPCHS into an indoor trick-or-treating event, including crafts, activities, popcorn and cotton candy. Some of the sections themes were Rapunzel, pumpkins, Marvel, Willy Wonka, and “Up.” Administrator Amy Ferrer’s daughter Alli said, “This was the best trick-or-treat ever!”
The African American Cultural Center and Museum of Florida in Flagler County will host a “30-Year Retrospective of Fine Artist, Bettie Eubanks.” The exhibit will formally open to the public on Nov. 20 during which there will be a “Meet the Artist” reception from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. The exhibit will remain open to the public 2-6 p.m. Thursdays to Saturdays, and 1-4 p.m. Sundays until Jan. 2. Eubanks says she must paint to tell her story, to express her feelings and to influence the world in her own way. A graduate of Jersey City State University and the Newark School of Fine Arts, she is best known for
Flagler Sheriff’s Children’s Charities, a charity established by Sheriff Rick Staly in 2020, will be hosting its Shop with a Cop event Dec. 10 to provide holiday gifts to children in the Flagler County community who would otherwise not have a holiday. Children are selected to participate in the event by nominations from FCSO employees and Flagler Schools staff. “Shop with a Cop is a great way to give back to the community and really reinforce the positive relationship between children and law enforcement,” Sheriff Rick Staly said. “I am looking forward to seeing the children’s eyes light up, which is really what the holidays are all about.” To donate, visit https://bit. ly/2Y4cMpg. Email shopwithacop@ flaglersheriff.com.
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FLAGLER PALM COAST HS NAMES OCTOBER STUDENTS OF THE MONTH FPC Students of the Month is an initiative coming from the principal’s office. They are chosen by the teachers in each department, and students receive a certificate and a treat (cookies this month). There is a student chosen from each grade level by each department. The 9th grade student is listed first, followed by 10th, 11th, and 12th: Physical Education: Madeline Johnson, Daniel Dayton, Brianna Tucker, John Lee
Fine Arts: Evangeline DosSantos, Isabella Boston, Helena Santos, Briana Aguiar CTE: Emily, Kayla, and Caylee Effert, Gabriella Stevens, Christina Nguyen, Alex Pantano English: Caleb Taylor, Da’rieon Scott, Annalisa Mezzo, Hailey Bovino Social Studies: Mariah Estrella, Andy Diaz, Marissa Jesus, Haard Patel Science: Ben Cazzaniga, Aidan Colon, Ava Lombardo, Kara-Ann
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This year’s “Festival of Trees” at the Flagler County Public Library main Palm Coast branch is early this year, because Thanksgiving falls on the last Thursday of the month. The festival begins at 6 p.m. Friday, Nov. 19. “We feature many trees that are decorated by local nonprofit organizations, and we wanted to make sure everyone has ample time to come in and see them,” said Library Director Holly Albanese. “This annual tradition – sponsored by both the Library and the Friends of the Library – is a favorite.” The overhead lights are dimmed, and the trees lit bright to create a winter wonderland. Jazz singer Linda Cole, who is the niece of Nat King Cole, will provide musical entertainment. “She is a favorite here in Palm Coast,” Albanese said.
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HOLIDAY AT THE BEACH PARADE RETURNS DEC. 4 Flagler Beach’s “Holiday at the Beach” parade will be Saturday, Dec. 4, at 1 p.m. The holiday parade in 2020 was canceled due to COVID-19. This year’s holiday parade will be organized by the Rotary Club of Flagler Beach. The parade will be limited to 50 entrants, and registration for the parade can be done online at the following website: https:// www.needsconnector.com/ holidayatthebeach For any questions about registration for this year’s parade, please contact Sues Alexander at 770-910-0359.
LOCAL EVENTS Nov. 22-24 – Fall Fun Camp – Monday to Wednesday, 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at Palm Coast Community Center. Join us at the Community Center over Thanksgiving Break to enjoy games, activities, and fun! Open to students in grades K-8. $25/day. Registration is required at www.parksandrec.fun/camps. More info: 386-986-2323. Nov. 25 – Feet to Feast 5k Run/ Walk – 7:45-11:30 a.m. at Daytona State College Palm Coast Campus, 3000 Palm Coast Parkway SE. Motivate your entire family to run before they feast! Finisher medals and super soft, long sleeve T-shirts will be awarded while supplies last. From $15 to $40/person depending upon age and date of registration – the earlier you sign up, the more you save! Register at https://runsignup. com/feettofeastpalmcoast. More info: 386-986-2323. Nov. 27 – Tree Lighting Ceremony – 6 p.m. at Central Park. Submit Your Town stories to editor@palmcoastobserver.com.
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he Tommy Tant Memorial Surf Classic celebrates the life of a local surf standout, and three local surfers were celebrated for winning the three pro divisions during the 20thannual event. More than 200 surfers competed Nov. 13-14 near the Flagler Beach Pier. Tant died unexpectedly in 1998 from an aortic aneurysm. The 24-year-old athlete was unaware he had inherited Marfan syndrome, a disorder that affects connective tissue. The first four contests were organized by Dan Worley, Katie McNitt, Jamie Dittbender and Fran Noble to remember Tant and embrace the Tant family. In the fifth year, they handed the contest over to Tant’s younger brother, pro surfer Will Tant. “It’s still a community effort,” Will Tant said. “That’s the beauty of it. For 20 years, the community has come together to support the event and my family.” Proceeds support the Tommy Tant Memorial Scholarship, the Flagler Food Bank and the National Marfan Foundation. The event raises awareness for Marfan syndrome and related disorders, many of which cause aortic aneurysms. Will Tant was proud that locals captured first place in all three professional divisions on Saturday, Nov. 13: Men’s Pro — Robbie McCormick Women’s Pro — Haley Stephens Pro Junior — Ryan Huckabee Sunday’s competition featured amateurs and included a Memorial Paddle Out at noon. Will Tant explained that it’s a tradition among surfers to paddle out and join hands while on their boards. “The movement of the ocean will push out from the center to create a perfect circle of everyone who’s joined hands,” he said. “It’s really special.”
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Final run: Williams ends stellar cross country career with state medal FPC’s Jada Williams finished sixth at the Class 4A championships, just 0.7 seconds out of fifth place.
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Driving back from the state cross country championships, Flagler Palm Coast runner Jada Williams was already thinking about jumping into soccer season. Her coach, Dave Halliday, was already thinking about the lofty track and field achievements she could reach this spring. There was barely time to savor her sixth-place finish at the Class 4A state meet Nov. 12 at Apalachee Regional Park in Tallahassee. But in the process, she secured her spot as the most dominant female cross country runner in school history. “She came out and shined on the biggest stage, like she always does,” Halliday said. The three-time state qualifier completed the 5-kilometer course in exactly 19 minutes, just seventenths of a second behind fifth-place finisher Kate Drummond of Gainesville Buchholz, who ran 18:59.3. “I’m a little disappointed I didn’t get top five, but I’m really proud of myself,” Williams said. “It’s the fastest I’ve ever run at the course.” Entering the final stretch, Williams had dropped back to seventh place, and finishing in the top five appeared to be out of reach, but she wasn’t giving up in the final cross country meet of her high school career. “There is a really big hill before that last stretch and (Annabella Cardona of Miami Braddock) moved ahead of me,” she said. “I had to work getting back into that spot and try to catch the fifth-place runner.” She passed Cardona and began carving into Drummond’s sizable lead. “I wasn’t sure if I would be able to get to her at all, but I got really close at the end,” Williams said. “If I had one faster step, I could have done it.” Penelope Sosa of Miami Coral Park breezed to victory in the race with a time of 18:12.4. Williams finished in the top 10 for the second year in a row. “I was real proud of her. She had a real strong race,” Halliday said.
“She came out and shined on the biggest stage, like she always does.” DAVE HALLIDAY, FPC cross country and track coach on senior Jada Williams
Last year, Williams was 10th with a time of 19:17.7. In her first state meet as a sophomore, she finished 26th with a time of 19:19.10. SOCCER, THEN TRACK
Williams will have no time to rest. There is no such thing as an offseason for the senior who has been playing soccer since she was 4 years old and competing in cross country and track and field since she was a freshman. “I’m going to jump back into soccer practice and play in the next game if I can,” she said. Williams followed her older brother into soccer and had hoped she would eventually play soccer in college. But her plans changed after her sophomore track season when she said she realized distance running was what she was meant to do. Halliday expects Williams to sign a college track scholarship. She has some official visits planned in the next few weeks. She is also going to ramp up her offseason track training while also playing soccer. In track and field this spring, she is going to try to break five minutes in the 1,600 meters. She already has the school record in that event at 5:09. She will also try to break the school record in the 3,200 meters. “I’m looking forward to seeing her going after some of these records and medals,” Halliday said. EYES ON COLLEGE
Williams has never trained for track and field during soccer season, but this will be her final chance to reach her goals and impress college coaches. “When you have bigger goals, it takes more offseason training,” Hal-
ILLNESS KNOCKS OUT SPOONER AT STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS Matanzas junior Zach Spooner had hoped to finish among the top 10 at the Class 3A state cross country championships, but he was one of a few Pirates who caught a bug, and he was unable to train all week. Spooner tried to run at the Nov. 12 state championships in Tallahassee, but he had to pull out before finishing the first mile, Matanzas coach Tim Kane said. “He wanted to give it a go,” Kanes said. “He gave it all he had. It was tough, because people he had beaten the past couple of weeks medaled. Some other Matanzas runners completed the course, but their times were affected by illness. “I worried all year about COVID, and a simple cold kicked our butts,” Kane said. The Matanzas boys finished 32nd, and the girls finished 29th in the team standings. Hunter Smith was the top Pirates boys finisher at 117th (17:55.2), followed by Andrew Hatten (146th, 18:15.1) and Jaden Smith (150th, 18:17.9). Freshman Mariah Mills led the Matanzas girls (104th, 21:04.7), followed by Nina Rodriguez (117th, 21:17.5) and Sierra Howard (135th, 21:41.8). “The season didn’t end the way we wanted it to,” Kane said. “But our boys lose one from our top five and our girls lose one from our top five, so most of the kids will return, and they’ll get stronger.”
liday said. Williams, who compares the double training to her sophomore cross country season when she also played club soccer, is ready for the challenge. “I haven’t done (track training) during soccer season before, but I think it’s best,” she said. “If my future is going to be running, I don’t want to get behind.”
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An app that helps doctors improve their soft skills. Holograms for medical drones. A platform that improves virtual patient-physician interactions. Students from area high schools presented these ideas and others at the 2021 MedNexus Innovation Challenge on Thursday, Nov. 4, in the Community Wing of Palm Coast’s City Hall. The competition, presented by the University of North Florida, along with the city of Palm Coast and Flagler Schools, opened in August to all Flagler, St. Johns and Volusia County high school students. Flagler Palm Coast High School teams took first and second place. The MedNexus Innovation Challenge is a team-based entrepreneurship competition that showcased top regional high school students tasked to pitch their solutions to Florida’s evolving health care needs. Twenty-four teams with a total of 86 students applied, and the top six teams were mentored by UNF, Impower, and AdventHealth professionals. The competition began with opening statements by Executive Director and CEO of MedNexus Dr. David Szymanski, Palm Coast Mayor David Alfin, and Flagler Schools Superintendent Cathy Mittelstadt. Each team was given seven min-
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An app that allows students or professionals to practice the necessary soft skills required for their healthcare specialty. App features include: mentor communication, practice system, quizzes and automated voice responses. Flagler Palm Coast High School Team Members: Team Captain Chloe Kaczmarek, Co-Captain Natalie Quintanilla, and Madison Bianco HOLODRONE – SECOND PLACE WINNER
A holographic technology software for existing medical drones. When a medical drone arrives with supplies in emergency situations, the Holodrone software allows the recipient to press a button which projects a three-dimensional image and vid-
eo of a professional explaining how to use the equipment. Flagler Palm Coast High School Team Members: Team Captain Lizelle Pear, Co-Captain Roymara Louissaint, Christina Nguyen, Jared Foley, Destiny Ruiz LUNA CARE – THIRD PLACE WINNER
A platform that improves virtual patient-physician interactions and encourages diverse patient populations by allowing users to explore health care specialists based on wants and needs. Users can be matches by a variety of criteria such as race, insurance, language, and medical history, reviews, etc. Creekside High School Team Members: Team Captain Ryan Flack, Co-Captain Ashlea Stanley, Helen Do, Ayushi Elhence, Alyssa Buckingham
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Max and his family have lived in Flagler County for almost 12 years, and my children and I moved here in 2015. We all fell in love with the coastal community. After many serious conversations, Max and I followed our dreams and opened Golden Magnolia Inc. We specialize in luxurious custom home design, and last year we built nearly 90 custom homes.
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on our local community by growing our businesses that generate more commerce that impacts more employment locally. That is another reason why we have been so excited to purchase the White Orchid Inn. The White Orchid was once known for its serene, art-deco style and its stellar ocean-front views. Now, the Golden Magnolia Resort and Spa will continue to honor Flagler County’s historical location that was originally owned by the Moody family, built in 1945. We are thrilled to announce that we recently purchased two more historical buildings Daytona Beach. We want to continue to build history by
GOLDEN MAGNOLIA INC. Marianna Gorshelek, president; Max Tarannik, vice president 1272 Palm Coast Pkwy SW, Palm Coast, FL 32137 Phone: 386-447-7007 www.GoldenMagnoliaResort.com Company’s strengths: Customer service, continuity, growth, expansion. “We love where we live, and our goal is to continue to grow and offer the Golden Magnolia Resort experience in various locations across the state,” Gorshelek said.
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Condos Paul Yaneshak and Cynthia Shenette sold 100 Palm Harbor Parkway, Unit 21, to Jennifer Pellegrino, of Palm Coast, for $275,000. Built in 2001, the condo is a 3/2 and has 1,455 square feet. It sold in 2016 for $135,000.
Edward and Kathleen Muraca, of Belleville, New Jersey, sold 21 Fairways Circle, Unit 21, to Joan Jirkovsky and Joan Banks, of Alachua, for $160,000. Built in 1980, the condo is a 2/2 and has 1,150 square feet. John and Patricia Scarola, of Tacoma, Washington, sold 4600 Moody Blvd. E., Unit 8B, to Catherine McErlane, of Palm Coast, for $110,000. Built in 2005, the condo is a 1/1 and has 781 square feet. Grand Reserve and Golf Club Beverly Ward, of Pelham, New Hampshire, sold 134 Golf View Court to Denise and Henry Zukowski, of Medford, New York, for
$315,000. Built in 2019, the house is a 4/2 and has 1,694 square feet. It sold in 2019 for $199,000. Indian Trails Pauline Hardy, of Palm Coast, sold 68 Barring Place to Norman and Millisa Wasson, of Fayetteville, Arkansas, for $570,000. Built in 2005, the house is a 4/4.5 and has a fireplace, swimming pool and 3,683 square feet.
Michael, Anthony and Ralph Rubino sold 7 Bayside Drive to George and Reta Brandon, of Palm Coast, for $355,000. Built in 2001, the house is a 3/2 and has a swimming pool and 1,625 square feet. It sold in 2014 for $138,000. Linda Souza, of Palm Coast, sold 24 Burning Bush Drive to Yaslin and Pedro Carvalho, and Marcia Tapia, of Palm Coast, for $335,000. Built in 2003, the house is a 4/2 and has a fireplace and 2,251 square feet. Lehigh Woods Tyra Reitzel, of Palm Coast, sold 13 Rolling Place to Jessie and Shannon Grangruth,
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Plantation Bay Dolores Digeronimo, of Ormond Beach, sold 32 Kingsley Circle to Christopher and Stacie Garcia, of Ormond Beach, for $337,000. Built in 1986, the house is a 3/2 and has a fireplace and 1,971 square feet.
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