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Additional deputies to patrol for speeding
STEVE CLAIR ACCESS CONTROL DIRECTOR
Here’s the good news: Both Flagler and Volusia sheriff’s offices have agreed to have some extra patrols on property, where they will be targeting several identified areas where there have been numerous complaints of speeding and running stop signs. Our “radar signs” have been gathering data in those areas where drivers like to exceed the 30 mph speed limits and these locations will be patrolled by the deputies for this traffic enforcement, also including those intersections where some chose to ignore the stop signs. Bad news: For those choosing to violate the traffic laws, there may be some “unmarked” police vehicles in here, or those vehicles you might not associate with police
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A GOOD RIDE
How PC Bike boomed, then closed, during COVID-19. See story at PalmCoastObserver.com James Clayton and Jake Scully were co-owners of PC Bike for 18 years until it closed on July 21.
SUSHI WITH A VIEW Fugu now open in downtown Ormond Beach
Photos by Jarleene Almenas
Fugu General Manager Rosemary Neary, Executive Chef Frankie Hernandez, Owner Kirt Roberts and Sous Chef Marin Avila.
JARLEENE ALMENAS ASSOCIATE EDITOR
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here’s a new sushi restaurant in downtown Ormond Beach, and, coupled with views of the Halifax River from its outdoor patio and a dining room covered in black light murals, the owner seeks to
bring a unique experience to every person who walks in the door. Fugu Sushi restaurant owner Kirt Roberts has had a vision for what he wanted from the start, and he never compromised. The pufferfish sculpture overlooking the sushi bar played a big role in the ambiance he wanted to create, as well as being the namesake of
Photo by Brian McMillan
the restaurant. “I wanted it to kind of look like a club and the focal point to be the sushi bar, and the fish over the sushi bar,” Roberts said. “That’s why that’s lit up the way it is.” Rest assured — no fugu, or pufferfish in English, is on the menu. But there are specialty sushi rolls such as the “Ormond by the Sea,” a King crab California roll wrapped in salmon, and the “Tomoka,” a yellowtail fish roll with scallions, cucumber and cream cheese wrapped in spring roll skins. Roberts, who has been in the restaurant industry for 50 years and is a managing partner at Rose Villa Southern Table, was approached by local developer Bill Jones several years ago with the concept of bringing a sushi restaurant to downtown. At the time, Roberts wasn’t interested, but after getting involved with Rose Villa about five years ago and getting to know more about SEE SUSHI PAGE 3