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Teen charged with threats vs. teacher Hatred has no place in community, sheriff says. Attorney says charges are a ‘political game.’ PAGE 2A

FCSO turns to data to fight crime

MOM’S ON A ROLL

Sheriff’s Office drives down crime, and crashes are also down.

An inside look at a strategy session.

PAGE 3A INSIDE CONSTRUCTION TO START AT HOLLAND PARK

New splash pads to be added, but the park will remain open throughout the process.

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The second-annual event is held close to Mother’s Day for parents and students to bond.

LEGISLATURE OKS BUDGET

Rep. Paul Renner, who represents Florida House District 24, highlights successes of the legislative session.

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PARAMEDICINE MAKES BIG STRIDES

Calls by frequent nonemergency callers have decreased by 80%.

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Isaac Eldredge and Ellen O’Shaughnessy participate in Bobsledding Scoot.

Teacher gets 1,984 votes and 1 cruise

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RESTAURANTS STRUGGLE WITH HIRING

Strong economy causes demand for workers.

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DEPUTIES: HARASSMENT AT SHELTER

Woman says she was victim of domestic violence and that her abuser followed her to the shelter.

Shelter director says the facility is safe .

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After 40 years, Tomko retires Rachael Spires values building relationships with her first-grade students at Imagine School at Town Center. PAGE 5A Spires reviews sight words with Danica Battaglia and Mason Boehm.

Photo by Paige Wilson

Diane Tomko says goodbye to FPC, but her legacy with Future Problem Solving will go on.

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Prosecutors charge teen accused of racist threats against teacher Another teen allegedly involved in the incident has not been charged.

JONATHAN SIMMONS AND BRIAN MCMILLAN

The State Attorney’s Office has filed felony charges against a 16-year-old girl accused of making racist threats against a black local school teacher in the course of a computer conversation with another student last December.

Both students are white. The case led community activists to protest against the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office, which activists accused of trying the bury the case because the agency had initially announced that it would not be filing charges. It later did file charges. The teen’s lawyer has called the State Attorney’s Office’s decision to file felony charges political.

The girl was arrested, taken to the Department of Juvenile Justice facility in Daytona Beach, had a first appearance hearing May 15

and has since been released on home detention, according to her attorney, Joshua Davis.

No charges are being filed against the other party in the conversation, a boy who did not actually know who the teacher was, according to an FCSO news release. The victim was Kimberly Lee, a language arts teacher at Flagler Palm Coast High School.

“Our investigators needed time to do an excellent job, which they did with this case,” Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly said in the FCSO’s news release. “Hatred and threats of violence have no place in our schools or our community.”

The two teens’ conversation came to the attention of law enforcement after a teacher noticed that one of the teens had typed on a school-issued laptop, “WERE GONNA GET AWAY WITH MURDUR TONIGHT.” The teacher tipped off the school’s IT department, which pulled up the students’ chat logs.

It began with the girl, who’d written, “My [racial slur] teacher is p---ing me off. ... Im in a bad mood already. I swear im gonna

stomp on her f---ing face and smash her weave into the ground.”

The boy replied, “LMFAOOOOOO,” then, later, added, “Kill her.”

The conversation continued, with the teens talking about setting a time of 1:35 a.m., and then telling racist jokes, according to an FCSO report.

Confronted by law enforcement, both teens it had all been an “inappropriate joke.”

The deputies who initially worked the case wrote that there was a “joking manner” to the student’s conversation. They recommended against filing charges, finding no credible threat.

But Lee was “petrified,” she later told deputies. She asked her husband to leave work immediately to be with her. The family bought a gun. At one point she woke up in the middle of the night, afraid the teens were in her home. She took a leave of absence, and wouldn’t return to school until March 1.

The FCSO reviewed the case and recommended misdemeanor assault charges, with a hate crime

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about them. I judge things based on what is written in the criminal statutes.”

In this case, he said, “The statute says that the written threat of harm or death must be intended to be delivered to the person that you’re threatening. ... The two kids were messaging each other on the school computer. ... So it was not sent to her, nor was it ever meant to be sent to her, so the statutory definition of sending a threat to kill to that person obviously is way off.”

Davis believes that Lee, in addition to the teens, has been treated unfairly. He was also bothered by the fact that, on May 14, the Sheriff’s Office released to the public not only the name of the teen girl, which is legal because she was charged with a second-degree felony, but also the name of the teen boy, who was not charged at all.

“There’s a problem there,” Davis said. “It’s become a political game, and it’s no longer about what happened.”

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The local branch of the NAACP pushed for felony charges.

The State Attorney’s Office ultimately found grounds for a felony charge, for the girl: making written threats to kill.

Davis said political considerations have influenced officials’ decisions about the case.

The Sheriff’s Office, Davis said, “simply forwarded charges to pass the buck to the State Attorney, and of course he’s got to be re-elected as well, and who wants the appearance of being a racist organization and not filing charges on racist statements?

That’s going to do you no good for re-election, so this is where we are. Now I’ve got a 16-year-old little girl down in Daytona behind bars and barbed wire for making stupid, racist comments about a teacher.”

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Driving down crime The Flagler County Sheriff’s Office is using data-based strategies to be precise in whom it focuses on and where it deploys resources.

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Crime dropped in Flagler County by 22% from 2017 to 2018. The Sheriff’s Office takes credit for that. How’d they do it?

Well, according to a presentation by the Sheriff’s Office May 14, getting there involved not only standard police leg work, but data — charts, graphs and sets of statistics that the agency’s command staff examines weekly to determine where crime is occurring, who might be involved, and where deputies should be deployed.

The FCSO invited the press to a demonstration “CRIMEMAPS” meeting — that stands for “Crime Reduction, Intelligence Monitoring, Employee Management, and Agency Performance Summary” — on May 14, billing the meeting in a news release as a meeting involving the FCSO, Flagler Beach and Bunnell police and others, which “follows crime trends and criminal intelligence in Flagler County to locate offenders and take them off the streets and put them in jail.”

Held in a room at the Emergency Operations Center on State Road 100, the meeting was organized through a slide presentation, with commanders of various units described recent cases, trends and initiatives.

Mostly, FCSO Cmdr. Paul Bovino explained, “We focus on people. We know that people cause the crime, and when certain people are in jail or out on the streets, crime increase or decreases.”

For instance: There’s been a string of car break-ins on or near northern State Road A1A. A map displayed in the slide presentation showed the locations — four cases between Jungle Hut and Marineland.

“In these cases, they’ve left property in the seats and the windows were broken,” FCSO Cmdr. Jeff Stuart said. “We’ve got three potential people that may have been involved.” But, he said, they weren’t sure yet.

It could be that the burglar was coming in from out of county to commit the crimes. Meanwhile, the Flagler Beach Police Department had reported two similar cases near State Road 100.

BURGLARY (commercial): 2017: 14 2018: 8 2019: 9 BURGLARY (RESIDENTIAL): 2017: 81 2018: 52 2019: 3v9 CAR BREAK-INS: 2017: 139 2018: 135 2019: 74 STOLEN VEHICLES: 2107: 39 2018: 29 2019: 23 ROBBERIES: 2017: 10 2018: 1 2019: 1 WHAT HAVE SCHOOL RESOURCE DEPUTIES AND THE POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE BEEN UP TO? COMMUNITY EVENTS: January: 9 February: 13 March: 15 April: 11

“We’re all talking whenever these crimes are occurring, and we’re communicating with each other,” Stuart said.

In domestic violence cases, the FCSO has become more proactive about monitoring releasees and people out on bail. They’re fitted with ankle monitors, and that makes it easy to see when they approach a victim they’ve been ordered, by a judge, to stay away from.

“We’re working a call with a violation right now,” a law enforcement officer said as the meeting began.

Traffic enforcement is also tech- and data-driven: The agency maps crashes and traffic violations by place and time. That makes it easy to see where to add more deputies — for instance, marking traffic incidents on a map quickly shows that Palm Coast Parkway at Belle Terre

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Parkway, and Palm Coast Parkway at Interstate 95, are two of the county’s worst intersections for violations: People roll through the reds. Charting violations by time shows that noon to 2 p.m. — when people are rushing around on their lunch breaks —are the worst times for violations.

“What I asked the team to do in the CRIMEMAPS meetings ... is to come up with a plan to attack whatever’s going on,” Sheriff Rick Staly said. He mentioned the car break-ins on A1A. The team, he said, might strategize ways to stop such crimes, “And then, at the next CRIMEMAPS meeting, if we find that we still got hit in that same place, then it’s, ‘Ok, what can we do differently; what can we do to adjust.’ It’s OK to fail, as long as we’re trying something.

And then you just regroup and focus to solve that problem in a different way.”

Deputies: Abuser harasses victim at shelter JONATHAN SIMMONS NEWS EDITOR

A felon and domestic violence offender who allegedly threatened the life of a local woman tracked her to a domestic violence shelter May 7, entering the shelter’s property and then driving his vehicle back and forth in front of it while the shelter called the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office.

“We contacted law enforcement to have him trespassed, and then he proceeded to drive up and down the road, calling and harassing the victim, coming in and out of the building, just really being scary to the victims that we have staying at the shelter,” said Trish Giaccone, CEO of the Fam-

ily Life Center.

Deputies responding to the emergency call arrived at the Family Life Center and interviewed the victim, who said she’d been in a 20-year relationship with the Dominic Petrillo, 52, according to an FCSO news release.

She told them that on May 6, she and Petrillo had been in an argument at their home in Bunnell, and he’d held her against the wall, pressing his arm and fist against her throat. Then he’d gotten a shotgun and pointed it at her, saying he was going to put a bullet in her head, she said.

Deputies noted in a report that she had bruising that supported her account.

Petrillo is charged with aggravated domestic battery by strangulation, aggravated domestic assault, domestic battery, and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, according to the news release.

It’s not the first time an offender has showed up at the Family Life Center trying to harass a victim, Giaccone said.

“It’s one of the difficulties of the work that we do,” she said. The shelter isn’t an island, she said, so it can’t stop an offender from driving back and forth in front of the building.

But, she said, “The reality is that our shelter is secure. ...

With law enforcement’s quick response, and even showing up

before something happens — they monitor our neighborhood on a consistent basis — our residents feel pretty safe, and we are still open to receive any victim who is in need of emergency shelter.”

The Family Life Center provides support to individuals and families involved in domestic violence situations, and has a 24-hour crisis hotline that can be reached at 386-437-3505.

“Getting out of an abusive relationship is not easy, but help is available,” Sheriff Rick Staly said, according to the news release. “I urge anyone in a violent relationship to seek help. Protect yourself by getting out.”

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The city of Palm Coast will soon begin construction on additions and renovations at James F. Holland Memorial Park — to include a new splash and play zone, LED lighting, improved bocce ball courts, and more shade coverings.

Palm Coast’s largest and oldest park, located at 18 Florida Park Drive, underwent a major renovation in 2017; this will be the second phase of that project.

“Holland Park is one of our most popular parks, and we’ve heard from so many residents how much they’re looking forward to the new splash park,” said Palm Coast Mayor Milissa Holland, daughter of the park’s namesake.

Holland Park will remain open during the new construction.

Within the next few days, in preparation for the start of construction in June, an area in the southwest section of the park will be fenced off for the contractor’s storage, office space and contractor parking. The looping roadway through the park will be closed in that area throughout the 14-month project, though parking for those using the park will not be affected.

The centerpiece of the additions is a splash and play zone to be added to the existing sugar mill-themed playground. The splash park design will reflect the river, ocean, lakes and swampy areas — with water fountains and sprayers shaped like frogs, turtles, octopus, whales, manta rays, starfish, sand dollars, lily pads and cattails. Spray loops will be installed all the way down one pathway, and kids will be able to spray their friends with water cannons. The new splash park is being designed by Vortex Aquatic Structures, designer of many large water parks.

About 20 new pieces are also being added to the “dry” part of the playground, including equipment for toddlers and children with disabilities. Little ones will be able to climb a treehouse, explore a steam engine and carriage, and operate a playdozer.

The playground is designed so children can develop their motor skills, learn through play and take on new challenges in a safe environment.

During playground construction, safety fencing will be used to protect children and their parents. One entrance to the playground will be closed at times to allow for construction access and improvements.

Other features of Phase 2 project include:  Addition of covered pavilions at the playground, small dog park, horseshoe, and shuffleboard to provide more shade.  Complete reconstruction of the bocce ball court with shade canopy covering, deck with seating, lighting, and hydro-irrigation system for the clay court.  Update to the restrooms at Pavilion 3.  onstruction of a new maintenance building, to be added at the back of the property.  New LED lighting, including at the tennis courts.

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Legislature plans more funding for students, environment Rep. Paul Renner, who represents Florida House District 24, highlights successes of the legislative session.

JONATHAN SIMMONS NEWS EDITOR

Delicious cuisine can be purchased from food trucks along Park Street next to Central Park, 975 Central Ave., from 5-8pm. Free entertainment. Part of the proceeds benefit a local organization whose work supports children and families. See list of food trucks at palmcoastgov.com/foodtruck.

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Learn to perfect cooking skills while watching a demonstration class and tasting dishes as the chef prepares the menu at the Publix Apron Culinary School in Jacksonville. Participants will depart the Palm Coast Community Center at 10:45am and return at 3:30pm. The fee is $67 and includes the price of food. Deadline to register at parksandrec.fun/adults is June 7.

The public is invited to celebrate Flagler County’s First Responders.

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Pastor Kevin M. James, Sr. Each first responder will receive a devotional book and everyone is invited to a free bar-b-que lunch following the 10 a.m. service.

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become less and less relevant,” Renner said. “So, we are looking, this year, to a new formula.” In the meantime, Renner said, the state has used other measures to send more money to Flagler Schools.

Renner was instrumental in proposing two bills designed to help keep costs low for Floridians: the Patient Savings Act, which is intended to give patients greater access to health care cost information so they can shop around for nonemergency procedures and keep some of the savings if they find a lower-cost option; and the Assignment of Benefits Reform Bill, designed to disincentivized contractors and lawyers from teaming up to scam homeowners and insurance policies and cause expensive litigation. For AOB cases, Renner said, “The incentives now are in place for people to work things out.”

The Legislature adjourned May 3, but bills remain before Gov. Ron DeSantis, who has until the end of the week to sign or veto legislation.

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Helen Krawchuk Perlman passed away peacefully on May 2, 2019 at a very young 93. She was born in Palmerton, Pennsylvania where she graduatedhigh school and business school before moving to Washington, D.C. to work for the State Department during World War II. She traveled world wide to keep our Country safe.

She met the love of her life, Richard Perlman, in Washington and they were married on March 19, 1947. They were married for 71 years before Dick passed away at 104 years old in March, 2018.

She is survived by her brother, Russell Krawchuk, her son and daughter-in-law, Mark and Allyson Perlman, her daughter, Nancy Perlman, and her grand daughter, Barrett Perlman.

Helen and Dick retired from the Washington, D.C. area and moved to Palm Coast in 1979. Helen was always an athlete, but we think it’s fair to say that she didn’t show her prowess until taking golf up seriously in Palm Coast.

To some she was known as the Grand Dame of golf. She won 60 titles, 12 times at Palm Harbor, 15 times at Pine Lakes, 14 times at Matanzas Woods, 5 times at Cypress Knolls, and 12 times in 16 years at the Jim Miskelly Tournament. All of these championships were after the age of 60!

Helen didn’t just play golf, she also served as the President of Palm Harbor and of Pine Lakes Country Club.

She volunteered at numerous golfing events and helped make golf great in Palm Coast.

There will be a memorial service for Helen at Mother Seton Catholic Church on June 6, 2019 at 11:00 a.m. followed by a reception in their Seton Hall.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be made to the Palm Coast Lions Charities, P.O. Box 350879, Palm Coast, FL 32135. For online condolences go to: www.craigflaglerpalms.com. Arrangements are in the care and trust of Craig-Flagler Palms Funeral Home & Memorial Gardens.

Florida’s Legislature has passed a $91.1 billion budget, which is awaiting the governor’s signature.

“We have a balanced budget requirement in our constitution — we don’t spend anymore than we take in,” Rep. Paul Renner, R-Palm Coast, said on Flagler Broadcasting’s Free For All Friday program May 10. ” More of that money is coming to environmental initiatives and to K-12 students this year.

“We had the increase and every year since I’ve been in the legislature,” Renner said. “This year it was in the $242 (per student) range … so a healthy increase.”

Flagler County students, he said, tend to lose out in the formula the state uses to allocate property tax dollars that are gathered up from each county and then redistributed by the state for education purposes: Flagler has generally given more tax money than other counties, while receiving less.

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Imagine School teacher awarded cruise for two Rachael Spires values building relationships with her first-grade students at Imagine School at Town Center.

PAIGE WILSON COMMUNITY EDITOR

As Rachael Spires’ first-grade students at Imagine School at Town Center moved from table to table around the classroom, many were smiling and laughing as they completed each learning activity.

Some wore cowboy hats or bandanas, to suit the day’s Western theme corresponding with the current book they were reading, “Cindy Ellen: A Wild Western Cinderella.”

Spires believes bringing her lessons to life impacts her students on a daily basis.

“For me, it’s all about the engagement,” she said. “I love to make things come to life. I like everything to be hands-on.

Whatever we’re reading, that’s what we’re doing in centers.”

For her efforts as a teacher, Spires was awarded a seven-day cruise for two from Norwegian Cruise Line, through its Giving Joy campaign. Thirty teachers, out of 12 million nominations from the U.S. and Canada, were chosen as the winners, according to a press release. Spires secured her anonymous nomination with 1,984 votes.

After she came home from the awards ceremony in Seattle in

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early May, she returned to her classroom in Palm Coast to celebrate her birthday with her students on Tuesday, May 7. Pink ribbons were strung, and the day’s activities were amped up a notch with a Western theme.

“One of my biggest things is building relationships,” Spires said. “I believe that unless you know the whole child, they’re not going to feel safe and secure. So, that’s something that we strive for.”

Every morning, her students share experiences they had after school the day before — they tell of scraped knees after days at the

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pool, the food they had last night for dinner, their adventures at the park. They sing a song, and then they dive into their activity centers.

“I want to make a difference in the kids’ lives,” Spires said. “I just want the kids to be happy, and I want them to learn.”

While she knew of her aspirations to be a teacher when she was in high school, Spires ended up earning a degree in accounting.

After two years post-graduation sitting at a cubicle, she realized it didn’t bring her joy. So, she went back to school and became a teacher after all.

Spires said she loves to use her creativity to brainstorm activities for her students’ “centers” every day; it’s where she sees the most growth from her students.

She now has a master’s in reading and is working on a doctorate of education in curriculum, instruction and assessment.

She’s grown personally, as well as professionally, over the years.

“I think for me that’s been the biggest thing that I’ve had to grow with — just learning that even though I’m a perfectionist and everything has to be very structured, it’s not always going to work that way because they’re 6,

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Clerk: Ceding space would hurt functionality Observer Tom Bexley says if more of his space is taken by FCSO staff, his own services would be fragmented.

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I have been reading and hearing lately about the availability of space that my office has at the courthouse — specifically, as it relates to the sheriff’s needs at the courthouse and the current disruption of his office. While I do care about the disruption of his office and how it effects his operations, I

Thanks for restoring our Flagler shore Dear Editor: I’d like thank Mr. Greg Hansen, Ms. Faith Alkhatib and the county staff who worked hard to “restore the shore.” The replenishment along our beach line here in Matanzas Shores was most welcome. Not only does it add to our ability to defend against another surge, it has added a bit to our beach.

The project was also a great example of how owners and county staff can work together for the benefit of all.

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Refreshing to find tree huggers in Palm Coast Dear Editor: My wife and I are both Florida natives. When we retired two years ago to this area, we knew that the political climate leaned toward Republican/conservative. However, it is a little refreshing to see all this opposition to the Captain’s BBQ expansion at Bings Landing. We had no idea that there were so many anti-capitalist , tree hugging, liberals here also.

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have been asking myself lately about the current disruption to my office and how this has affected my operations.

While it was true at the time that I had to limit my services to the public, I felt the need to help a fellow constitutional officer and his employees when it was declared that the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office’s Operations Center was unsafe for his people to remain. In fact, I was the one who initially offered the space that he is currently occupying. To be clear, that space included our wedding chapel, the information area space as you walk in past security, the IT training facility that his detectives cur-

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rently occupy (which had to be dismantled), a portion of space in our criminal/civil division, an office in our records division, a portion of space in our finance suite and our entire injunction suite.

All of this was done in the spirit of cooperation and was done willingly and without any input from the sheriff or the Board of County Commissioners. While it did not completely accommodate all of the FCSO’s needs, it did provide a safe working environment for 60 or so of his employees that currently occupy the courthouse, and he was grateful at the time.

Further consideration had been given to other parts of my office, but no other space could be given without directly interfering with the core responsibilities dictated to me

by the state Constitution, state law and by judicial rules.

I have heard the sheriff, the BOCC and others mention that the FCSO’s operation is now fragmented and has no continuity, which I have no doubt is true. However, I can’t help but ask that if more space is taken from my office, will my operations be just as fragmented and lack continuity? I think that is a fair question that needs to be asked more often, and I think most of us know the answer, or they will once the services that my office provides are directly affected or are put at odds with the Constitution, state law and judicial rules.

Tom Bexley is the Flagler Clerk of the Circuit Court and Comptroller.

EDITOR’S NOTE In a letter published in the May 9 edition, Wanda Christie said County Attorney Al Hadeed was “instrumental in the proposal of this lease” between Captain’s BBQ and the county at Bings Landing. She later told the Palm Coast Observer that Hadeed should have warned the county of potential liability.

Hadeed responded this way in an email to the Palm Coast Observer: “I did not write that lease. … The lease was presented to me as a completed document. I identified the additions I had made to correct its legal form. … [Then-County Administrator Craig] Coffey preferred to negotiate his own transactions and to prepare the documentation (or have others prepare it). Later, upon document completion, the document is presented to me for review to look for illegal or improper provisions or any missing provisions, such as an insurance clause or indemnity. … It is not my role to supersede negotiated terms; for example, if I thought a rental amount was too low. Contract terms … are within the prerogative of the administrator subject to the decision of the Board of County Commissioners.”

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Several months after a 23-yearold inmate died following a seizure at the Flagler County jail, the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office has chosen a new medical contractor for the inmate facility.

The FCSO will now use Southern Correctional Medicine, a faith-based, Christian provider founded by a family physician in 2009 and headquartered in Waycross, Georgia, according to an FCSO news release.

Southern Correctional Medicine is replacing Armor Correctional Health, the provider that was in place when inmate Anthony Fennick died on Feb. 9.

Southern Correctional Medicine will take over on May 31.

Fennick’s family said Fennick, in the days before his death, had told Armor Correctional Health staff that he was sick. But staff had treated his complaints dismissively, according to his family. The FCSO asked Armor to replace the two nurses who’d worked there during Fennick’s deterioration. Sheriff Rick Staly was not happy with the company’s response.

“They sent us a bill, and they denied any responsibility,” he said in a news conference at the time.

The FCSO announced it would be replacing Armor.

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Southern Correctional Medicine offered more hours off care, and a higher level of care, than Armor did, according to the news release. The county jail, with Southern Correctional Medicine, will have two on-duty nurses Monday through Friday, and one at night and on the weekends, plus a mid-level care provider and a doctor available for more on-site hours weekly.

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The raid was the culmination of an investigation that began in early April following complaints from residents concerned about drug activity at the house, according to an FCSO news release.

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Lindsay is a medical marijuana patient, and she had “multiple other substances that she was legally in possession of,” according to an FCSO arrest affidavit. She initially spoke with deputies, but later stopped talking and invoked her right to an attorney, according to the arrest affidavit.

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The business had previously been served with a cease and desist letter on Nov. 1, 2018, after deputies investigated an armed robbery that had taken place there on Oct. 29, 2018. The gambling activities ended, then began again, according to the news release.

“These internet cafes are illegal in Florida and often become targets for crimes, just like the armed robbery that took place,” Staly said, according to the news release. “We gave them fair warning the first time that their activity is illegal in Florida. Now we are back again after finding illegal activity. Any similar businesses operating in Flagler County need to cut their losses and close their doors or face arrest with a future ‘Operation End Game’ coming to you.”

Local homeless man found dead beside Flagler Plaza parking lot A 45-year-old homeless man who goes by the name of Marc Smith was found dead in the grass at the Flagler Plaza shopping center on the southwest corner of Old Kings Road and State Road 100 the afternoon of May 10.

A deputy arrived at the plaza at 12:12 p.m. after a person who works in one of the businesses there reported finding Smith’s body. The deputy recognized Smith, who was lying “on his back in a pile of his personal belongings and trash,” about 15 feet from the parking lot, according to the deputy’s report.

“Marc has refused medical attention through several previous calls for service where Marc was reported as a suspicious person or solicitor under the I-95 overpass at SR. 100 E.,” the deputy wrote in the report.

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time to really find out about what is happening in people’s lives. I make sure they understand what they are supposed to do with their medicines, and that they take them. I also have an opportunity to find out if there is food in the home and if there is power.”

In addition to bonding with clients, Prather has been forging alliances internally with all divisions of Social Services, and externally with the Flagler Health Department, AdventHealth Palm Coast, as well as organizations like ClearCaptions that help people with hearing or vision loss.

“It takes everyone to make this program successful,” Prather said. “We share information with one another so we can provide resources that are going to improve their lives. We’ve been able to help people get their power restored – which is sometimes a matter of that they forgot to pay their bill, and other times because they had to make a decision about whether to fill a prescription or to pay their light bill.”

Work is underway to get one of Prather’s patients a new trailer, because his current mobile home is old and beyond repairable.

“We have the best person in Flagler County doing this work for us,” Deputy Fire Chief Joe King said of Prather. “She loves what she’s doing and she cares so much. And people know that – they don’t have to let her into their homes, but she hasn’t been turned away once.”

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The program, which started in April 2018, served 71 patients in its first year in Palm Coast, Bunnell and Flagler Beach.

“I made 453 patient visits this past year,” said Caryn Prather, Flagler County’s community paramedic. “It’s been such a rewarding experience. I have the opportunity to visit with patients for about 30 minutes, and really assess what their needs are.”

Prather’s client base started with people who were frequent users of the 9-1-1 system for non-emergency medical needs and transportation to the hospital. Since its inception, these calls have decreased by 80%.

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One of the results of this robust job market is currently a common sight around the area: help wanted signs at restaurants. A local jobs professional believes this service industry job would be a good opportunity for young job seekers to gain valuable experience, and a couple of restaurant owners explain how they deal with the demand for employees.

Help wanted signs are often seen at restaurants, because many people apply in person.

“That’s the easiest way for them to advertise,” explained Christine Sikora, vice president of innovative workforce solutions at CareerSource Flagler/Volusia.

Sikora is a strong advocate for working in the hospitality industry, including restaurants, saying it’s a great experience.

“You have to learn conflict resolution and customer relations.

These skills can be applied to many other jobs,” she said.

She said there were more potential employees for the restaurants during the recession, but now some have gone back to jobs they had before being laid off. Also, the hospitality industry depends on students, and their number fluctuates during the year.

Joe Cofer, managing partner of Houligan’s at Destination Daytona, said, “A few years ago, there was an abundance of people applying for jobs. It’s not just the restaurant industry.” He said res-

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Johnny Lulgjuraj, manager at Oceanside Beach Bar and Grill in Flagler Beach, said there’s always been a shortage of workers, even when the economy is good.

“There are so many restaurants,” he said. “A person can go down the street and get another job. There’s a lot of jumping around.”

He partners with local high schools to let students know of the benefits of working in the service industry, such as learning team work and customer service.

“It’s a building block for success in life,” he said.

Learning the basics of cooking and food safety also are things a person can take with them the rest of their lives.

He agrees that it’s more than just salary when it comes to retaining employees. He had one employee who simply wanted a good parking spot. Others want a particular schedule. He said he wants employees to “be real” and let him know their needs.

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FPC GIRLS: A TIGHT BOND

Javier Bevacqua, the head coach of FPC’s girls basketball team, has been around tennis his whole life. He grew up playing the game, and his son and daughter both currently play. So when the opportunity to become the head coach of the Bulldogs’ girls tennis team presented itself, he had to pounce.

The Bulldogs saw plenty of success in his first season with the team. They went 10-1 during the regular season — despite several matches being canceled due to weather. They came in third place in the conference championship after losing three tiebreakers, and they came in third at districts, losing on four tiebreakers.

“We had some games in the bag,” he said, “and we let them slip away.”

The Bulldogs’ top player was Tina Grund-

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ner, a junior exchange student from Austria.

It was Grundner’s first and only season with the team. She’s returning to Austria at the conclusion of this school year.

“My tennis experience was really great because we had a really fun team,” she said. “We just had a good connection. We supported each other a lot.”

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Coming into the 2019 season, Flagler Palm Coast boys tennis Coach Per Berg knew his team was going to be strong.

The team was seniorladen, and as a result, experienced — except at the No. 1 and No. 2 spot.

The Bulldogs’ best players were brothers Eric and Daniel Beren-

MATANZAS GIRLS: SHOWING IMPROVEMENT

In addition to Bevacqua and Pease, Brandie Alred also began her first season as head coach in 2019. Alred had played tennis throughout her 20s, and with a position opening up to coach the girls at Matanzas, she couldn’t say no.

Each high school team had its shining moments throughout the 2019 season, for FPC and Matanzas.

blit. Eric, a junior, was the team’s No. 1 player.

“It was one of our best seasons ever,” Berg said.

The Bulldogs won the Five Star Conference Championship on March 28 at the Florida Tennis Center, defeating a tough Spruce Creek team. The Bulldogs also finished second at districts behind Buchholz, but lost 4-3 at regionals.

One surprise this year was the addition of Mat-

thew Pokorny.

Pokorny, who was a top 50 tennis player in the state in middle school, gave up tennis when he entered high school and became FPC’s top swimmer. After years without picking up a racket, he joined the tennis team this season and earned the No. 3 spot.

“He was a little rusty at first,” Berg said. “But he’s a great athlete.”

“I thought it would be a lot of fun to take my knowledge and transfer it to these girls,” she said.

The Pirates, who had a losing season the year prior, finished the regular season 6-6. They also finished fifth in the conference, defeating the entire lower bracket in the tournament to earn their spot.

The Pirates were led by sophomore Natalie Valenteychik, who last season was the Pirates’ first freshman No. 1 since 2012.

She made it to the second round of districts before losing to Creekside’s Imani Graham, who won an individual state title this season.

Valenteychik was more of a “lone wolf” last season, choosing to practice alone. She was more involved with team practices this year.

“I actually talked to people this year,” she said. “It was more enjoyable.”

step-by-step in 2019 under first-year head coach Jeremy Pease. He said many of the players struggled to even hit a ball properly when the season started.

“Everyone improved throughout the year,” the junior said. “We did great as a team.

We all played very well together. It’s mind blowing how far we’ve come in such a short amount of time.”

Despite the Pirates’ relative inexperience, they still had one player qualify individually for the FHSAA state tournament: their No. 1, sophomore Ilya Korolev, who was far and away the Pirates’ top player.

The tournament was held May 1-3 at Sanlando Park in Seminole County. Korolev got to bypass the opening round. In the second round, he faced one of the top players in the state in Naples High School’s Michael Moll.

Moll was the first set 6-2, but Korolev battled back to capture the second set 6-2, forcing a tiebreaker.

However, Moll won the tiebreaker 11-9.

“Ilya was amazing for us this year,” Gaynor said.

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“We did great as a team. We all played very well together. It’s mind blowing how far we’ve come in such a short amount of time.”

Matanzas’ boys tennis team struggled last season.

Pirates No. 2 Josh Gaynor was just happy to see his team improve

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Two participants in the Flagler Sheriff’s Police Athletic League’s middle school sports track and field program participated in the Florida Youth Running Association’s state meet.

Travaine Whittick ran a 54.7 in the 400 meters, and Brayden Cox placed first in the discus with a 142.7.

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Matanzas’ softball team’s season came to an end in the first round of the regional tournament on May 8 with a 5-0 loss to Melbourne. The Pirates, who recently won their first district title in program history, won 21 games this season under their new coach, Sabrina Manhart.

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Other members of the Palm Coast Mutiny Wrestling Club also competed at the AAU State Championship, including Quentcy Robinson (7th grade, 95 pounds); Carter Wilder (8th grade, 95 pounds); Braden Hawley, who placed fourth in the 106-pound class; Sam Russo (152 pounds); and S.J. Culbreth, who placed fourth in the 16-pound class.

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When Zach Sanford was first hired as the new head coach of Flagler Palm Coast High School’s wrestling team last summer, he recognized that the Bulldogs needed several things to help return the storied program to its former glory.

One of those things was a feeder program.

“Every good team has a feeder program,” he said. “To be a power house program in this state, you have to have one.”

Sanford established the Dogs of War, an Amateur Athletic Union

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The program is designed to run year-round.

The age groups are from kindergarten through 12th grade (there’s a separate class for high school kids). Classes are held on Tuesdays and Thursdays. The high school class practices from 2:30-4:30 p.m., and the younger class practices from 6-7:30 p.m.

They also travel around the state to compete in AAU tournaments.

Their latest tournament was at Bayside High School in Palm Bay, where over 500 kids attended.

“These kids are awesome to coach. It’s fun watching them,” Sanford said. “Every single thing you teach them, you can see it click. You can tell that it’s a permanent click. It’s a feel good moment. There’s a lot of feel good moments involved with this.”

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Flagler Palm Coast’s football team, now entering its third year under head coach Travis Roland, held its first spring intersquad scrimmage on the afternoon of Friday, May 10, at FPC High School.

The white team defeated the green team 7-0.

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FPC teacher Diane Tomko is retiring, but Future Problem Solving will go on

PAIGE WILSON COMMUNITY EDITOR

With 40 years in education, Flagler Palm Coast High School teacher Diane Tomko is retiring with the peace of mind that everything she’s poured her heart and time into will continue.

For the last 15 years, Tomko has bled green and white as a Bulldog.

Before that, she taught at what is now Buddy Taylor Middle School for 15 years. It was there that thenPrincipal Buddy Taylor, who died in 1991, encouraged Tomko to find a way for the middle school students to write well, she said.

From her 10 years of teaching in West Virginia before moving to Palm Coast in 1988, Tomko was familiar with Future Problem Solving Program International — a program that molds students into creative thinkers and practical doers.

In 1993, Tomko launched the first FPS writing team at BTMS; the small team earned third in the state.

The FPS program of Flagler County has grown from those few students to now several hundred students participating yearly.

“I think that it shows students and families that school isn’t just four walls — it’s a community, and it’s global,” Tomko said. “It shows them that all the skills that they’re learning in class are really applicable in the real world.”

Tomko said watching her former students go on to do great things — like start their own businesses based on the projects they created in FPS — is what makes all the work worth it.

“It’s humbling, and it’s inspiring,” she said. “And it keeps us, we as teachers, moving forward — to say we have this group of students every year that surpass whatever the bar is you set for them.”

John Birney Jr., now an apprentice at JBirney Financial in Flagler Beach, said he considers himself “pretty lucky” to have had Tomko as a teacher for seven years, as she transitioned to teaching at FPC just as his class was moving into ninth grade.

“Mrs. Tomko had that special sauce,” Birney said. “When she saw creativity blossoming in someone, she was right there alongside you nurturing that and poking and prodding and trying to get you to think that way, because it’s more than just math and English.”

He said the way of thinking that FPS teaches makes a difference in his life to this day — tackling realworld problems he comes across.

“She’s really created a dynasty,” Birney said.

Flagler School Board member Andy Dance got to know Tomko through his involvement fundraising for FPS, as a parent of

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“I think her reputation might even have proceeded me meeting her,” Dance said, laughing.

He said that when his daughter Kayla Dance was in ninth grade at FPC, she showed no interest in joining FPS. But through regular interactions with Tomko, she was able to see how some of her talents would be best utilized in FPS projects. Kayla Dance went on to go to the FPS International Competition with her sister.

“I think the most striking thing is how she is able to get the most out of the students and get them to come out of their comfort area in order to excel,” Dance said about Tomko.

But Tomko is quick to deflect personal praise; her focus is always the students.

“People only know about me because of the wonderful things the kids have done,” she said.

Before she became a teacher, Tomko wanted to be a surgeon or neurologist.

She said that during the ’70s, society pushed her into medical avenues like nursing. It was when she started volunteering as a candy striper in a hospital that she realized this field wasn’t the best fit for her.

“I was in a burn unit, and I couldn’t do it. I have too much empathy; I just couldn’t do that,” Tomko recalled. “So, I volunteered for Special Olympics and I thought, ‘I think I’d like to teach because I’ll work with the brain, one way or the other.’”

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tion, she’s taught every grade level except kindergarten. But her involvement leading FPS has impacted her more than she can even describe.

Tomko’s husband died when he was 48. As a widow, she said, “This program has saved my life in many ways.”

“Working with young people that have vision and want to make more positive their futures is encouraging, and I think it keeps you young at heart,” she said.

What’s to come now?

Tomko’s not sure. But she’s excited to wake up without a schedule for once. She plans to travel a bit, spend time with her son and daughter-in-law, her grandsons and her parents — and maybe even learn Spanish and Italian.

“I definitely will continue to help Flagler Palm Coast High School because, you know, ‘Once a Bulldog, always a Bulldog,’” she said.

As for FPS, Tomko is confident it will continue to thrive, as two of her former FPS students, current FPC Media Specialist Sarah Reckenwald and FPC language arts teacher Caitlin Hutsell, will have the reins.

“I’m planning for right now to stay in Palm Coast — but I’m a Future Problem Solver, so whatever the future brings, I’m ready for it,” Tomko said. “I feel comfortable that the youth of today are going to be the citizens of tomorrow that are going to be taking care of me in my old age.”

“I definitely will continue to help Flagler Palm Coast High School because, you know, ‘Once a Bulldog, always a Bulldog.’”

DIANE TOMKO, FPC teacher

SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION When: 1 p.m.

Where: Flagler County Library, 2500 Palm Coast Parkway NW Cost: Free Details: On the agenda for the Flagler Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution is a video on the Revolutionary War Battle “Siege of Yorktown,” produced by the U.S. National Park Service.

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POOL SAFETY DAY When: 1-4 p.m.

Where: Palm Coast Aquatics Center, 339 Parkview Drive Cost: $1 for seniors and youth age 17 and under; $2 for adults Details: At the event, certified pool staff will lead activities to teach safety in and around the pool. Staff will demonstrate water rescues. $1 for seniors and youth age 17 and under; $2 for adults.

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COMMUNITY STARS When: 6 p.m.

Where: Palm Coast Community Center, 305 Palm Coast Parkway NE Cost: ticket sales will begin in mid-June Details: “Celebrating Our Community Stars” recognizes individuals, organizations and businesses that help make the community a special place to live.

The Rotary Club of Palm Coast will host its second-annual event, with emcee Eddie Herrera, CEO of Alliance Financial Partners.

Nominations are open until July 1. Awardees will be selected from nominations submitted to the club. To request nomination forms, visit the Celebrating Community Stars Facebook or email palmcoastrotary@gmail.com.

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The winner is senior Breanna Roux, who designed a poster about a music festival in Photoshop, using terminology relating to tools in Photoshop itself.

“We have done this contest since 2012, and it gives kids who want to go over and above the normal assignments something to look forward to every year to push themselves further,” teacher Ed Beckett said. “Everyone who enters this contest improves their skill because of it. Plus, when they win, they get to strut around campus as the Photoshop Wizard of FPC for an entire year.”

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The winners are as follows: Spots winner- Garrett Brown: Redfish, with thirteen spots Tournament trout winners- first: Shane Moore- 5.70 lbs., second: Dallas Moore- 4.50 lbs., third: Mitchell Dees- 4.15, fourth: Ronnie Council- 3.45 lbs.

Flagler slam winner - Gene Morrow Tournament flounder winnersFirst: Brian Sousa- 3.15 lbs., second: Jordan Weiner- 2.30 lbs., third: Clayton Simmons- 2.10 lbs. and fourth: Gary Lane- 1.70 lbs.

Tournament Redfish winnersfirst: Dave Barner- 7.75 lbs., second: Jett Voegtle- 6.75 lbs., third: Wyatt Seay- 6.05 lbs., fourth: Dave Farlow with Jr. Angler Adriana Farlow- 5.70 lbs.

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Brian Jones, of Palm Coast, will participate in “Race Across America” in June, in support of one of his best friends, George Pollock, who has been diagnosed with facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy.

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BATTLE OF THE BOOKS AT RYMFIRE Rymfire Elementary School had its first Sunshine State Young Readers Award Junior Battle of the Books Competition on Friday, May 10. Thirty-six students were invited to participate on a team to battle against the other teams to show their knowledge of the 15 different books on the 2018-2019

SSYRA Jr list. Media Specialist Melanie Tahan said she decided to do a junior battle after having such huge participation in the program with first- and secondgraders this school year. All students received a certificate and celebrated with a cookie dessert party.

Jones has always been an avid bicyclist; he began racing at the age of 14, and at 16 he began participating in Pro/1/2 races around the county, often racing 60 events a year. This year will be his 46th year of racing bicycles.

When Pollock asked him to be on an eight-man team to do the “Race Across America,” he jumped at the chance. In their first attempt in 2017, the FSHD (7 men and 1 woman) pedaled 3100 miles in six days, placing 10th in the competition. The team will be participating again in June.

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Palm Coasts Parks & Recreation will offer its first-ever mermaid class for children ages 6-11. The classes will be taught by Cassie Courchesne, a city of Palm Coast Swim Instructor and Lifeguard who teaches swim classes and some specialty aquatics classes.

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Participants must provide their own tail and will learn proper swimming techniques, fluke splashes and how to correctly care for a mermaid tail.

To qualify for the class, children need to know how to swim as they will have to pass several prerequisites, such as swim 50 yards without assistance, float on front and back without assistance, roll from back to front and be comfortable in deep water.

Prerequisites will be tested on May 25 at noon.

This class will be held during two summer sessions. Session 1 is June 1-29; session 2 is July 6-27. The classes will be held on Saturdays from 4:15-5:15 p.m. at the Palm Coast Aquatics Center.

It’s $25 per session.

Limited spots available. Register at www.parksandrec.fun/ aquatics.

ADVENTHEALTH AWARDS STUDENTS AdventHealth Palm Coast’s medical executive committee awarded four local graduating high school students with $750 scholarships, totaling $3,000, on May 8, according to a press release.

Flagler Palm Coast High School students Keilee Gocking, Marianne Trecki and Prosperity Wright, and Matanzas High School student Taylor Phillips were chosen based on various criteria, including class rank, SAT and ACT scores, extra-curricular

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senior from Flagler Palm Coast High School. Her great-grandmother came from Ireland in the early 1900s as a teenager. Her grandmother was very proud of her Irish heritage and told many stories of their Irish family traditions.

The club is a social and charitable organization with membership open to all. Call Eileen at 445-5725.

IRISH CLUB AWARDS STUDENT At its meeting on May 8, Irish Social Club of Palm Coast presented a $1,000 scholarship award to Tara Tallaksen, a graduating

MHS students Sophi Brice and Marlee Schrum stand with Dot V., Irma B. and Maria W at Grays Adult Family Care Home.

MHS STUDENTS BUILD GARDEN FOR SENIORS Marlee Schrum, the president of the Matanzas High School Forensic Student Investigators club, volunteers on Saturdays at the Gray’s Adult Family Care Home in Palm Coast. After showing the residents pictures of the butterfly garden she and her mom put together, owner Nicole Gray said having a butterfly garden there for the residents would be wonderful.

MHS teacher Gloria Barton, club Vice President Sophi Brice and other club members decided

to create a butterfly garden for the home. The two students explained what plants butterflies enjoy and how to upkeep the garden.

“It made us proud that we had an opportunity to make seniors happy when they look to their garden,” Schrum said in a press release. “We will continue expanding and growing this garden as the summer goes on.”

The students plan on teaching the seniors how to make origami butterflies next.

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Keri and Rassi Kullbai high-five before playing bowl bean bag toss.

Carmen Fleischmann and Gabriel Gibson play human ring toss.

The second-annual event is held close to Mother’s Day for parents and students to bond.

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other-son teams paired up for the second-annual Olympics at Belle Terre Elementary School, on Friday, May 10.

With creative games like noodle balloon field hockey and human ring toss, plus activities like rock

wall relay and olympic tic-tactoe, mothers and mother-figures ran around in color-coordinated shirts competing with their students for an evening of fun.

Amanda McGovern, of BTES PTO fundraising, said last year’s event have six activities, but this year, there were 18. The teams were given a punch card to complete each activity. McGovern

said 152 people preregistered to participate.

“We bumped it up a notch and kind of fine-tunned it,” she said.

“They’re just having a really good time and just enjoying a motherson night — to have some pizza and have some fun.”

The BTES Bobcat ambassadors, made up of fifth- and sixth-graders, plus volunteers from Flagler

Palm Coast and Matanzas High school Student Government Associations, ran the games and activities for moms to enjoy with their kids.

It was $25 for each pair to participate, which included event T-shirts. The profits served as a fundraising for the BTES PTO, to later use for school activities.

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house in Flagler Beach was the top real estate transaction for the week of April 4-10 in Flagler County. R. Wayne Hartford and Deborah Skiadzien, individually and as trustees, sold 3303 Ocean Shore Blvd. to Joseph and Mary Murphy, of Flagler Beach, for $995,000. Built in 2018, the house has five bedrooms, 4.5 baths and 2,458 square feet. Following is a partial list of other sales for the week.

Louis, Missouri, sold 38 Village Drive, Unit 12, to David and Kathleen Bolock, of Charlotte, North Carolina, for $118,000.

Built in 1985, the condo has one bedroom, 1.5 bath and 945 square feet. It sold in 1992 for $55,000.

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PALM COAST Condos Gregory and Patricia Rose, of Palm Coast, sold 19 Avenue de la Mer, Unit 202, to Irene Hynes, as trustee, for $690,000. Built in 2005, the condo has two bedrooms, 2.5 baths and 2,340 square feet. It sold in 2016 for $600,000.

Connie Smith, of North Haverhill, New Hampshire, sold 21 Marina Point Place to Larry and India Fannon, of Piney Flats, Tennessee, for $243,000.

Built in 1993, the condo has three bedrooms, 2.5 baths and 1,565 square feet. It sold in 2016 for $173,000.

Anthony Saccavino and Alexander Saccavino, of St.

Belle Terre AM and OM Renovations LLC, of Palm Coast, sold 24 Prestwick Lane to Gregory and Rebecca Burd, of Palm Coast, for $219,900. Built in 1989, the house has three bedrooms, two baths, a fireplace, swimming pool and 1,754 square feet. It sold in 2018 for $123,000.

Fuquay Randy Whitesell, of Delray Beach, sold 1436 Flagler Ave. S. to Albert and Heidi Gerth, of Bradford, New York, for $299,500. Built in 1989, the house has two bedrooms, two

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Indian Trails Channy Khoen and Om Sovanneth, of Palm Coast, sold 44 Burning Ember Lane to Manuel and Maria Cavadas, of Hillside, New Jersey, for $270,000. Built in 2008, the house has three bedrooms, three baths and 2,860 square feet.

Adams Homes of Northwest Florida Inc., of Gulf Breeze, sold 48 Buttermill Drive to Theodore and Brandy West, of Palm Coast, for $249,150.

Built in 2018, the house has four bedrooms, three baths and 2,265 square feet.

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baths and 1,412 square feet. It sold in 1997 for $84,500.

Lester and Anggraeni Ingram sold 169 Belleaire Drive to Kennith and Jennifer Fuller, of Palm Coast, for $215,000.

Built in 2000, the house has three bedrooms, two baths and 2,084 square feet.

Grand Haven Frank and Anna Simone, of North Haledon, New Jersey, sold 11 Sandpiper Court to Anthony and Linda Mladinov, of Malverne, New York, for $355,000. Built in 1997, the house has three bedrooms, two baths, a swimming pool and 1,991 square feet. It sold in 2000 for $285,000.

Lakeside at Matanzas Shores Kathleen Fischer, of Alexandria, Virginia, sold 9 San Diego Lane to Dante Mendoza and Josefina Zapata, of Palm Coast, for $265,000. Built in 1992, the house has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,498 square feet. It sold in 1992 for $144,300.

Hammock Beach Irene Hynes, as trustee, sold 12 Avenue Monet to David Kushashvili and Milena Jguenti, of Palm Coast, for $735,000.

Built in 1996, the house has three bedrooms, 3.5 baths, a fireplace, swimming pool and 4,010 square feet. It sold in

erine Greene, of Palm Coast, for $302,000. Built in 1981, the house has three bedrooms, two baths, a fireplace, boat dock and 2,317 square feet. It sold in 2008 for $277,500.

Jacek Domanski, of Glendale Heights, Illinois, sold 13 Freemont Court to Jemon and Cheryl Little, of Palm Coast, for $219,900. Built in 1993, the house has four bedrooms, two baths and 1,955 square feet. It sold in 2015 for $166,600.

Sea Colony Helen Resnick, of Palm Coast, sold 15 Sea Vista Drive to Dorothy Vaughn, of Palm Coast, for $330,000. Built in 1991, the house has three bedrooms, two baths, a fireplace and 1,382 square feet. It sold in 1989 for $155,000.

Seminole Woods Patricia and Edson Howe, of Bunnell, sold 9 Smith Trail to Christopher and Evelyn Helm, of Palm Coast, for $237,000.

Built in 2005, the house has three bedrooms, two baths, a swimming pool and 1,989 square feet. It sold in 2015 for $140,000.

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EMERGENCY CALLS WELCOME

Attorney for Personal Representative: Personal Representative:

Serving Flagler and Volusia County Many Years Lic# CRC1329768, Lic# CCC1329185, Insured Office Manager Debbie 386-447-7633 jdcoastalremodel@cfl.rr.com All workmanship is warranty up to (1) year

Seth S. Diamond Attorney Florida Bar Number: 55714 Sloto & Diamond, PLLC 9100 S. Dadeland Boulevard, Ste. 1607 Miami, Florida 33156 Telephone: (305) 379-1792 Fax: (305) 379-2328 E-Mail: eservice@slotolaw.com Cathleen Daniels 27 North Waterview Drive Palm Coast, Florida 32137

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For failure to pay rent, the following property will be auctioned ONLINE AT WWW.STORAGETREASURES.COM by competitive bidding to satisfy the owner’s lien. Bidding shall end on May 23rd, 2019 at 2pm. The winning bidder shall consummate the sale and the property will be sold at Snapbox Bunnell 2303 N State Street Bunnell, FL 32110.

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Effective June 1, 2019, Thomas Joiner, MD, Palm Coast, Florida, will be retiring from his practice with AdventHealth Medical Group East Florida. His current office is located at Parkway Medical Plaza, 120 Cypress Edge Drive, Palm Coast, Florida. Patients of Dr. Joiner may contact CIOX at 904-208-0124 or fax their request to 770-810-4147 if they elect to transfer their medical records. To protect patient confidentiality, a signed medical record release of information form must accompany any request for transfer of records. Patients will receive a letter with additional information and a copy of the release form.

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