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YOUR TOWN BASIC TRAINING GRAD: KATZ

Air Force Airman Payton Katz graduated Sept. 17 from basic military training at Joint Base San AntonioLackland.

The airman completed an eight-week program.

He is the son of Ashley Katz and Simon Katz, of Palm Coast, and is a 2019 graduate of Matanzas High School.

20% CAPACITY POTATO BOWL Flagler Palm Coast and Matanzas high schools kick off the 2020 football season this week. The junior varsity football game between the two schools will be held 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 17, at Matanzas High School. The varsity football “Potato Bowl” game will be held 7 p.m.

Friday, Sept. 18, at Flagler Palm Coast High School.

Both stadiums will be at less than 20% capacity.

For these two games, all tickets will be pre-sold; no tickets will be sold at the stadiums.

Ticketing information can be found at www. fpcbulldogs.com or www. matanzaspirates.com.

Fans attending all sporting events on both campuses this season must have a face-covering to enter a stadium or gym.

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heroes’ Flagler Beach pier hosts 9-11 remembrance PAGE 11

Flagler Beach Fire Chief Bobby Pace and City Commissioner Ken Bryan drop red roses into the ocean.

SAFE PLACES THREATENED

How the pandemic has dealt a blow to veterans services

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Keith Tremblay, commander of the Veterans of Foreign War Post 8696, with Canteen Manager John Darrow.

Keith Tremblay, commander of the Veterans of Foreign War Post 8696, said the building on Old Kings Road in Palm Coast is a “safe place,” a place where veterans can talk to each other about what life was like in the service.

“War veterans usually don’t talk about it,” said Tremblay, who was in the Navy for seven years, including five years on submarines. “It’s a painful memory for them. But when they get around guys who were in it with them, they can talk about it. My father was in World War II, and the only story he ever told me, I pressed him for it before he passed away.”

Even though the VFW Post

8696 building is open, many are too nervous about the pandemic to visit. Over 60% of the membership is over 60 years old, Tremblay said. But those who do attend are able to feel connected.

“A lot of our members, this is the only place to go,” said John Darrow, a Vietnam veteran who manages the canteen for VFW Post 8696. “A lot are widowers, and their families are up north.

It’s very important to these people. The socializing prevents a lot of mental disease.”

Tremblay added: “Emotionally, it’s needed. You have to have it.”

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Veterans search for safe places SUICIDE PREVENTION EVENT The Flagler County Veterans Services Office will hold a suicide prevention event this October in coordination with North Florida/South Georgia Veterans Health System Suicide Prevention Coordinator Stefan Weeks.

At the event, which will be held 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Oct. 18 at the Veterans Memorial Monument in front of the Flagler County Government Services Building at 1769 E. Moody Blvd., VA Health Care System suicide awareness teams will provide educational literature to help prevent veteran suicide.

Veterans Services Office helps veterans apply for property tax discounts The Flagler County Veterans Services Office is assisting disabled veteran homeowners

Event organizers who rented the VFW hall in the past have also had to cancel most events, and that source of revenue is down about 90%, Tremblay said.

That financial hit comes as membership continues to decline.

The VFW accepts only veterans who fought in foreign lands, and today, Post 8696 has 639 members, down from 1,200 five years ago. “Last year, I had to remove 150 members from our rolls because they had passed away,” Tremblay said.

Some VFW posts already have

Flagler County cases per day

with applications for property tax relief discounts.

Veterans who have at least a 10% service-connected disability, as rated by the Department of Veterans Affairs, are eligible for a $5,000 property tax exemption, which is not limited to homesteaded property and may also be carried over to a surviving spouse.

Combat injury discounts are also available to veterans 65 and older who have a combatrelated disability, were honorably discharged and were Florida residents when they entered the service, according to the Veterans Services Office.

For more information, call the Flagler County Veterans Services Office at 386-3134014.

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dissolved. Similarly, Bowers said five of the 14 American Legion posts in District 17 are in danger of closing permanently.

Morris said he loves to serve veterans, and he’s not alone.

Wayne Zack, of VFW Post 8696, said he helps to distribute dayold bread to veterans. Tremblay recently helped a veteran move furniture. The American Legion and VFW have helped to pay bills for families in need — whether they were veterans or not.

Email Brian McMillan at editor@palmcoastobserver.com.

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closed, including the Disabled American Veterans office on Florida Park Drive, in Palm Coast.

Ernie Morris, of DAV Chapter 86, said the Veterans Administration no longer allows the DAV to transport veterans to appointments, and volunteers are often vulnerable and unable to help.

“I’m frustrated, discouraged,” Morris said. “I did 24 years in the Navy, and I’m fully retired now.

I’m disabled, and the main thing I do to pass my time is I help veterans get their benefits. … Like everyone else, you reach the point where you get a little depressed over it.”

Each year, Chapter 86 gives about 700 rides to veterans, but now they’re having to do their appointments by phone or video.

Flagler County Veteran Services Officer David Lydon also coordinates medical benefits for veterans and says his own video appointments with a physical therapist sometimes feel “counterintuitive.”

“It’s kind of checking a box that they’re treating you, not the full treatment,” he said. However, many veterans have shown their resilience.

“Veterans are very understanding of what’s going on,” Lydon said. “For the most part, veterans have adapted and overcome. I’m very pleasantly surprised.”

VFW Post 8696 lost $5,000 worth of food when the restaurant had to close down. It has since reopened, but business is still down about 40%, Darrow said.

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As unmasked citizens are pushed out, Commissioner Joe Mullins, standing on the left, raises his voice at Commissioner Greg Hansen while Commissioner Charlie Ericksen, at right, draws a deputy’s attention.

THE POLITICS OF

MASKS Residents broke the county’s rule requiring masks in the county’s Government Services Building, and refused to comply when told to mask up or leave.

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eputies guided the entire audience out of a crowded County Commission meeting Sept. 9 after a small group of attendees — there to call for the firing of local health department officials — refused to comply with the building’s mask requirement, disrupting the meeting with shouts and prompting a vulgar spat at the commission dais.

After the meeting restarted, a handful of people from the antimask group spoke to argue for the dismissal of Florida Department of Health-Flagler Health Officer Bob Snyder and Medical Director Dr. Stephen Bickel, accusing the men of “fear-mongering” and at times blaming them for decisions which they had no part in, such as business closures that had been required by the state, not the county.

When the group first filed into the commission chambers without masks, after passing through the building’s front doors where signs are posted stating that masks are required, Chairman David Sullivan’s tone was conciliatory.

“We’ve got over 50 people in this room, and we’re all going to have to have masks on unless you’re speaking,” Sullivan told the crowd. “So if you don’t have a mask on, either put one on or leave, get a mask, and then come back. So I’ll wait till that happens.”

The group didn’t move and didn’t mask. Sullivan asked them again, twice, and again, none compiled.

Sheriff Rick Staly walked over

and addressed the crowd.

Establishments, government buildings included, have the right to set guidelines on masks and to tell people to leave if they won’t comply. When someone refuses to leave after being told to do so, they’re trespassing — and can be escorted out by law enforcement, if needed, and charged if they resist.

“I’m trying to be as cooperative as possible,” Sullivan warned.

“I don’t know what else to do except say I’m not going to start the meeting until everybody has a mask on.”

Commissioner Joe Mullins said he wanted to weigh in. Sullivan and Commissioner Greg Hansen told him not to, because the meeting hadn’t officially started yet.

“I’m weighing in as a citizen. So you all are gonna tell me I can’t as a citizen? Then I’ll walk out as with them as well,” Mullins said.

Other commissioners told him to go ahead.

The maskless among the audience applauded, and some began shouting.

“You guys are way overstepping your boundaries,” one yelled.

“This is America, land of the free!”

Sullivan called for the meeting to adjourn and then reconvene in 15 minutes, and deputies began herding the audience out of the building.

Mullins walked over to Hansen, jabbed a finger toward him, and — in comments that were picked up by a microphone and became a topic of conversation in the crowd — raised his voice and called Hansen a “fat son of a b---” before walking off as a deputy approached.

Mullins apologized to Han-

sen shortly before the meeting resumed, saying he’d misspoken.

COMPLAINTS ABOUT HEALTH DEPARTMENT

About 20 minutes after meeting attendees were guided out of the commission chambers by deputies, they were allowed back in: The unmasked were still unmasked, but were allowed to sit in the front of the room, spaced every other seat.

Sullivan rearranged the meeting schedule to allow them to speak first, with the requirement that they’d leave after they’d said what they wanted to say.

Resident Mark Phillips was first. Phillips stated a series of inaccuracies while accusing health department officials Dr. Stephen Bickel and Bob Snyder of spreading false information.

“Since the beginning of COVID, the situation has been grossly mishandled, in my opinion,” Phillips said. “Beaches were closed against the directives of the state health department, parks were closed against the directives of the state health department, and businesses were shut down which is a violation of our constitution.”

Phillips’ assertions were incorrect.

The county’s park closures did not contravene state directives: The state allowed counties and cities to decide on their own whether or not to close beaches and parks according to local conditions. (State parks also closed around Florida, and in some cases stayed closed longer than Flagler’s.)

Business restrictions, meanwhile, occurred at the direction of the state government, not local officials.

Phillips said masks don’t work because “a piece of cloth or a mask on the face to this virus is like a chainlink fence trying to stop a fly.”

Although it is true that virus particles themselves are smaller than the gaps between cloth mask fibers, the claim that this renders masks useless misconstrues how masks work: Virus particles are transmitted not on their own, but, rather, on water droplets that are much larger — that’s what masks are intended to block, and peerreviewed research has shown that, worn properly, they do so.

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Phillips called for the resignation of Bickel and Snyder.

Phillips was followed by Lisa Perkins, who noted that an executive order from the governor had defined recreational activities such as walking, hiking, biking and fishing as “essential activities.”

“However, based on their [Bickel’s and Snyder’s] advisement, our parks, our beaches our fishing pier and our trails were all shut down, leaving us without anywhere to conduct the essential activities,” she said.

Flagler County, acting on the advice of both health department and county emergency management staff, closed most of its parks and limited beach access on March 23, but began reopening them a few weeks later.

Another resident, Darlene Maria Darcey, said that when lockdowns began, people had been told the restrictions would be for two weeks to a month, to keep hospitals from being overrun.

“We’re seven months later, with no end in sight,” she said.

She blamed “constant fearmongering” from Bickel and Snyder, calling them “unelected voices.”

Darcey added that her daughter is a surgeon and had told her to ditch the mask and make sure to exercise, drink enough water, maintain good hygiene, and socialize because it’s good for mental health.

COMMISSIONERS BACK HEALTH DEPARTMENT

Snyder, speaking a few minutes after the anti-mask residents had left the room, opted to thank his staff for their dedication, and then mostly let the statistics do the talking.

“A National Geographic article from a week ago that tracks positive cases and deaths by each county and state in the nation,” he said, “showed that on a per capita basis, as measured by cases per 10,000 people, Flagler County has the lowest case rate in the state, at 125.1 per 10,000 people, and the third lowest death rate per 100,000 people at 15.”

He added, “This is a remarkable outcome, and one such as this does not occur by accident.

Absolutely not! ... This good outcome takes all of us to achieve, including every resident who complies with commonsense, simple, inexpensive acts like mask wearing, social distancing, avoiding large crowds.”

Sullivan thanked Snyder for his remarks, and said that Snyder and Bickel are “doing a great job.”

Hansen and Commissioner Charlie Ericksen agreed.

Mullins also commended them.

“Bob, I want to thank you guys for the work you’re doing over at the health department; you all are doing a phenomenal job,” he said.

He added, “I’m fully supportive with you guys; I want to make that publicly stated. If me wearing a mask will save someone else, then I don’t have a selfish bone in my body to not do that, and that’s what we need to do as a community.”

Commissioner Donald O’Brien expressed his gratitude for the health department and noted how many services it provides that have nothing to do with the pandemic, including health care for school children and the indigent.

“It’s comprehensive, and it affects the entire community,” O’Brien said. “It’s a sad day when we have to politicize the Department of Health.”

HEALTH OFFICER BOB SNYDER’S REMARKS In the Sept. 9 meeting, Florida Department of Health-Flagler Health Officer Bob Snyder praised the work of his staff and said the low case rate in Flagler did not happen by accident. He continued: “We have recently experienced good news about decrease in cases, less hospitalizations and emergency room visits related to COVID-19.

This is hopeful, and we have been trending in the right direction.

But, we are not out of the woods yet until a safe and effective vaccine is broadly distributed.

“We still anticipate occasional spikes in activity, like the one the last five days.

This was expected with the return of traditional classes in our schools, and sure enough, during the last two weeks, 20-plus students and school district staff have been isolated as positive cases, and numerous individuals have been identified as close contacts, and are now in quarantine.

“Also, we’ve seen a spike in cases at three longterm care facilities, which is very uncharacteristic for Flagler County. ...

“In addition to these occasional upticks, we have flu season right around the corner and hurricane season reaching its peak, so now is not the time to be complacent — but still a time of hope and comfort, knowing that together, we obviously know what to do. ...

“So, we just have to hang in there a few more months. We are now planning for vaccine administration...

“So I really think that this is a time of thanks, this is a time to be grateful.”

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BY THE NUMBERS

3.8 acres

Size of a parcel of land called Airport Commons, at the southeast corner of Airport Road and State Road 100, that will be annexed into the city of Palm Coast. The City Council approved the annexation during the council’s Sep. 15 meeting.

$30,000

Cultural arts grant money the city will distribute to 12 local organizations, including the Palm Coast Arts Foundation, Community Chorus of Palm Coast, City Repertory Theatre and African-American Cultural Society

136.8

acres of land that would be divided into 186 singlefamily residential lots as part of Grand Landings Phase 4, on the south side of Citation Boulevard about a mile east of Belle Terre Boulevard

Palm Coast to establish arts district in Town Center

City OKs plan for apartments

The city of Palm Coast will establish an arts district within the city’s Town Center Innovation District in an attempt to support the arts and create a local destination.

The City Council approved a resolution establishing the arts district as part of the Sept. 15 council meeting’s consent agenda.

Mayor Milissa Holland noted in a City Council workshop Sept. 8 that the proposed arts district has been a City Council priority for years.

“This was an initiative that began with the thought of, ‘How do we bring together and collaborate all the different art groups in the community?’”

Holland said. “... We’ve had complete participation and involvement with all of the different arts communities, which I think is exciting, and I think for the first time we’re seeing a lot more of that.”

The arts district’s mission statement is “To foster creativity and economic vitality through artistic, educational, and commercial endeavors in a dynamic urban community,” Palm Coast Parks & Recreation Department Director Lauren Johnston told

The Palm Coast City Council voted 4-1 on Sept. 15 to approve a master site plan for a 256-unit multifamily development called Aviara at Palm Coast, to be constructed on the eastern side of U.S. 1 half a mile north of White View Parkway. City Councilman Eddie Branquinho was the sole vote against the development.

The 256 units will be spread across 12 buildings, and there will also be a community clubhouse. The land is already zoned multifamily residential.

The proposed development will be 33% of the allowed maximum number of units, according to a city staff document.

Image courtesy of the city of Palm Coast

The boundaries of the city’s proposed arts district

council members.

Stakeholders include the Flagler Auditorium and the Palm Coast Arts Foundation, among others.

“We hope that our values set the state for the culture we will bring, with exploration, connection, education and innovation,” Johnston added.

The city envisions the arts district as a gathering place that attracts businesses and gives the local community a place to “display beauty and

artistry of all kinds, whether it be through a perfectly crafted microbrew, a thought provoking sculpture, or the clean lines of a 1957 Jaguar,” Johnston said, reading from a city staff document.

To create the district, the city will conduct a feasibility study on funding sources, construct an arts facility and develop programming that generates revenue and aligns with the city’s master plan, Johnston said.

"We’ve had complete participation and involvement with all of the different arts communities, which I think is exciting. ... For the first time, we're seeing a lot more of that."

MILISSA HOLLAND, Palm Coast mayor

Turtle sculpture to be unveiled LPGA champion Nancy Lopez will make a guest appearance for the dedication and unveiling of Turtle #10, NANCY MARIE, on the city’s public art Turtle Trail.

The event will be held at 12:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 29, at the Palm Harbor Golf Club. Masks will be required at the event, which will also be live-streamed on Palm Coast Connect, according to a Palm Coast Arts Foundation news release.

The sculpture was painted by local artist Bob Teller and was inspired by the history of the Palm Harbor Golf Club. Lopez became the club’s first touring pro in residence in 1978.

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At Alliance Financial Partners we use a team approach to serve our clients’ needs. “All of our staff recognizes the importance of being able to sit down face-to-face and receive sound financial advice that is easy to understand,” says Herrera. We focus on the “why” behind the planning process.

“We realize that financial decisions can be complex, and everyone’s goals and needs are unique,” said David Fowler, President/CFO. Aside from working on their practice, Fowler & Herrera have spent the past 10 years getting involved at a deeper level in the community. The partners and their team support local organizations and have served on boards such as the Flagler County Chamber of Commerce, Family Life Center, Advent Health Foundation, Flagler County Education Foundation, Auditorium Governing Board, as well as local ministries like Grace Community Food Pantry and Emmanuel’s Closet to name

a few.

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State Road A1A after Hurricane Matthew. The Army Corps of Engineers project is designed to prevent such damage in the future.

County will pursue eminent domain for two properties blocking project Two properties with a single owner are holding up the multi-million dollar dune to project from storms.

Flagler County will file suit to begin eminent domain proceedings for two beachfront properties whose owner has not agreed to allow a multi-million dollar beach renourishment project to proceed across the properties.

A decision in favor of the county would allow for the project to occur across the two parcels.

“I, probably as much as anyone, finds the idea of eminent domain to be repugnant,” County Administrator Jerry Cameron told county commissioners during a Sept. 9 County Commission meeting. “But if there is ever a case where you stand to lose tens of millions of dollars in insurance by a beach for 50 years, and one person that is not going to be able to make use of those lots anyway will hold that up and cause the rest of the neighbors, and indeed a good part of the rest of the city, to be exposed to extreme peril — if ever there were a case for eminent domain, this is it.”

The project, which would be completed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, would add additional sand to build up a dune that would protect the coastal areas behind it from flooding during a future storm such as Hurricane Matthew, which damaged much of State Road A1A and flooded nearby properties. The Army Corps would maintain the project for 50 years.

Because any gap in the project would create a breach point that could undermine the whole thing, the Corps does not want to proceed unless it will be able to complete the entire, 2.6-mile project length.

That requires signed easements from all of the coastal property owners whose properties are in the project length. The county government spent months trying to get people to sign, pointing out that they would retain all of their property rights and that the dune and widened beach would add value to their property by enlarging it. Most owners agreed.

Still, it took a grassroots effort

by Flagler Beach residents — who raised more than $40,000 to pay off a group of holdouts who had been pressing the county for money — to get some to sign, and one property owner who owns two lots still has not done so.

The remaining two properties, County Attorney Al Hadeed pointed out to county commis-

sioners during the Sept. 9 meeting, are remnants — stretches of beach east of A1A on which nothing, except a beach walkover, can be built.

Hadeed said he expected that the court system would be able to expedite the suit on the basis that the two properties are preventing initiation of the dune project.

The Army Corps is supporting the county’s decision to begin eminent domain proceedings, given that there seems to be no other option, Hadeed said.

“We have made numerous contacts with the owner,” he said.

“They’ve been unsuccessful.”

Several Flagler Beach residents spoke during the meeting’s public comment period. All urged the county to pursue eminent domain.

“This holdup ... of this project is a danger to the entire beachside community,” Flagler Beach resident John Cameron said. “Every business that was closed because the highway was torn apart by a raging ocean, and then the repair that took all those months — many of them went under; all of them got seriously hurt. We all got seriously hurt. The people need you to support this vigorously. ... It’s like a rotten tree hanging over your property, and you tell your neighbor, ‘You’re getting ready to crush my house — take that tree down.’

These people ... have set themselves up, and they have set all of us up, for a disaster, and this is the least painful way for them as well as for us.”

Resident Sisco Deen agreed.

“We’re all in peril over there.

Let’s get it done,” Deen said.

Ken Bryan, a Flagler Beach city commissioner who noted that he was speaking as a resident, not as a commissioner, said he agreed that eminent domain was the right move.

“There are a lot of residents there that are very, very concerned,” he said. “The businesses, and all of Flagler Beach, could essentially disappear if we have another couple hurricanes like we’ve had in the past.”

County Commissioner Donald O’Brien said he opposes eminent domain in almost every circumstance, but not in this one.

“I think this is a textbook example of where it should be used,” O’Brien said.

Other commissioners agreed.

The commission voted 5-0 to have the county government begin eminent domain proceedings.

“If ever there were a case for eminent domain, this is it.”

JERRY CAMERON, Flagler County administrator

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LETTERS

Gun article was polarized

On Mullins’ temper tantrum

Dear Editor: The city is considering allowing more house colors. As long as they still keep the house colors mellow, that would be fine. How would you like living next door to a two-story bright-blue house?

Not a good color. It’s hideous.

Dear Editor: I was really disappointed with the polarized article titled “Gun sales shoot higher.” I was especially disappointed with Sheriff Rick Staly’s comment about “threats made by some political parties against the Second Amendment.” As if that covers the whole conversation about guns.

I was at a talk Sheriff Staly gave last year on the Baker Act. He seemed to have some understanding about mental illness.

The conversation also went to the tragedy at the high school in Parkland, a mass murder committed by a mentally ill man.

I would like to see the Observer interview someone that can speak more to the complex issues regarding common sense gun laws. People from both political parties own guns.

Also, I think every reader knows a story of someone dying by suicide with a gun. Also domestic violence and murders with a gun towards a family member. How active alcoholics with guns can terrify a family with threats to harm or kill.

How children have mistakenly hurt/killed a friend. There did not seem a place in the article to discuss safety nor question the logic that an AR15 is lighter, thereby a reason to buy one.

I also know police officers see so much on the job with people causing harm or threats with guns. Can more of this also be written about?

Dear Editor: I watched last week’s disturbing County Commission meeting.

You had a clown car full of vocal out-of-control anti-mask recalcitrants expounding false information, attacking our Department of Health officials, and refusing to wear masks in a government building that requires it.

And then there was Commissioner Joe Mullins, apparently supportive of the anti-mask radicals. Mullins had an unhinged temper tantrum, followed later by an incoherent and politically biased rant.

At one point, Mullins stood up and aggressively postured, throwing personal puerile insults at other commissioners, calling one a “fat son of a b----” and even made a comment about his wife. He called another a “useless old man.”

It had to be embarrassing and disheartening for the other commissioners to watch the dignity of a County Commission meeting degrade so badly, especially when caused by one of its own members.

We have to wonder how much of Mullins’ never-ending divisive, controversial shenanigans the commission is willing to tolerate before they take action and censure him. It’s long overdue, but this should be the proverbial straw.

PAT STASIO

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My sign, my freedom of speech Dear Editor: My neighbor across the street owns a vacant lot next to her house, which is on the corner and is a great spot for signs. She wanted to have Biden-Harris signs on that corner, and last week we put up two signs. Those signs were stolen in broad daylight.

I bought two more BidenHarris signs and put them on the same corner. I put labels on the signs that read “private property” and “please do not steal.”

Days later, those signs were again taken, as well as the BidenHarris signs from my yard and my neighbor’s yard.

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Partnering with Flagler Broadcasting, the hour-long forums will be livestreamed and available to the public at no cost. Voters are encouraged to tune in to WNZF NewsRadio 94.9 FM, or watch the forums via social media pages on WNZF and Flagler Tiger Bay Club Facebook Live.

“The COVID -19 pandemic has changed the way voters become knowledgeable about candidates for office, hindering voters’ ability to make their best-informed decisions,” said Flagler Tiger Bay Club President Greg Davis.

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Dispatch success: 2 lives saved, 1 hour apart Communications Center starting tracking lives saved by dispatchers on the ‘Tree of Life’ wall.

BRITTANY KERSHAW FCSO PUBLIC AFFAIRS MANAGER

Flagler County Sheriff’s Office Communications Specialist McKenzie Davis saved two lives in two separate incidents on Sunday, Sept. 6, within an hour of each other.

Around 3:33 p.m. Davis answered a call from a mother stating that her 6-month-old child was not breathing. The mother was frantic, and Davis worked to calm her down while getting her prepared to administer CPR to the infant. Davis walked the mother through CPR instructions and counted aloud over the phone to ensure the compressions were being done at the proper speed. After a full round of CPR, the baby began breathing and moving again. The baby was transported to a children’s hospital for further observation.

Almost exactly an hour later, at 4:38 p.m., Davis answered another 911 call where a woman reported that her 71-year-old husband was in the pool and was not breathing. Davis instructed the caller to get the man out of the water, which was accomplished by family members on scene.

Since no one on scene was trained to do CPR, Davis told the caller to put the phone on speaker so that Davis could provide instructions.

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Communications Specialist McKenzie Davis.

Davis gave instructions and counted aloud while the family took turns performing compressions. Davis continued instructions until deputies arrived on scene.

Deputy Strack then took over CPR while Deputy Denker attached his automated external defibrillator to the patient, which advised a shock was not needed.

Paramedics arrived on scene and indicated that the patient had a strong pulse and he was transported to the hospital by ambulance. The patient is expected to fully recover.

“911 is the number you call in your darkest hour, and it is the voice on the other end of the line that can help you through whatever situation you are facing,” Sheriff Rick Staly said. “In these cases, McKenzie was able to not only calm the callers down enough to listen to the instructions, but she was also able to count with them to ensure they were doing compressions as often

ACCREDITED COMMS CENTER The FCSO Communications Center is an accredited 911 center and serves as the countywide Public Safety Answering Point for all Emergency 911 calls. The center answers all emergency and nonemergency phone calls and

provides dispatch services for the Sheriff’s Office, the cities of Bunnell and Flagler Beach Police Departments, Flagler County Fire/Rescue, City of Palm Coast Fire Department, and the Flagler Beach Fire Department.

as required. Already this year she has helped save four lives. She is a true hero and a great partner with our deputies in the field.”

Just one month ago, on Aug. 5, Davis answered a 911 call from a mother stating that her 1-yearold daughter was having a seizure and stopped breathing. Davis provided CPR instructions, and first responders arrived on scene and examined the child to make sure she was OK. This year the Communications Center starting tracking lives saved by dispatchers on the “Tree of Life” painted on a wall of the center. Each dispatcher’s name is written on a leaf and a heart is added for every life saved. The Tree of Life is quickly filling up as 911 dispatchers handle emergency calls and continue to save lives.

In June, Communication Specialist Joana De Guzman received a Life-Saving Award for walking a caller through CPR instructions when their family member stopped breathing.

Although the tree began in 2020, many other 911 dispatchers have made a difference by providing life-saving instructions prior to the tree.

In 2019, Communications Specialist Candice Cole provided CPR instructions to a caller who wasn’t sure if his neighbor was breathing or not. Cole asked for the caller to describe the breathing and was able to determine that it was agonal (gasping, labored) and quickly provided CPR instructions resulting in saving the patient’s life.

The hearts on the Tree of Life not only represents when a 911 dispatcher saves a life, but also when they assist in bringing life into the world. Communications Supervisor Amy Sisti received a heart for providing instructions to a father to help deliver his baby boy.

“These are just a few examples of the amazing work that our 9-11 dispatchers do to help our community,” Sheriff Staly added.

BRIEFS ‘Operation Unmasked’ nets 24 drug dealers

Rare bacteria causes first infection since 2013

The Flagler County Sheriff’s Office Special Investigations Unit recently obtained felony arrest warrants for 24 different subjects for various narcotics-related charges.

The arrest warrants are the result of numerous undercover investigations and search warrants into narcotics distributors within Flagler County.

There was a 198% increase in recorded overdoses in 2020 compared to 2019.

Narcan, a medication used to block the effects of opioids, has been utilized 80 times by deputies in 2020, compared to 40 times in 2019.

There have been 17 fatal overdoses in 2020, compared to 14 in 2019. Every overdose death is investigated by FCSO as a homicide.

In addition to drugs, there were also four firearms seized and $19,294 in drug currency seized during the search warrants. The approximate street value for all narcotics seized during this operation amounts to $109,505, with potentially 12,470 lethal doses.

The Florida Department of Health in Flagler County is advising residents and visitors to take precautions to avoid Vibrio vulnificus infections. In 2020, there have been 16 Vibrio vulnificus cases reported throughout Florida with two deaths, compared with 27 cases and 2 deaths in 2019. A case, contracted while fishing in an inland waterway, was recently confirmed in Flagler County. This is the county’s first reported case of Vibrio vulnificus since 2013.

Vibrio vulnificus is a naturally occurring bacteria found in warm, brackish and salt water like inlets and bays. Concentrations of this bacteria are higher when the water is warmer.

For more information, please visit the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website at https://www.cdc.gov/.

Library extends hours to assist students

The Flagler County Public Library Palm Coast Branch extended its hours — including two evenings — beginning Monday, Sept. 14, to assist K-12 students, said Library Director Holly Albanese.

The new hours at the Palm Coast branch — 2500 Palm Coast Parkway NW — are as follows: Monday – 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Tuesday – 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Wednesday – 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.

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Appeal against The Gardens rejected Conklin: Setting threshold for school closure likely ‘unrealistic’

The process that brought the proposed 335-home development to the county’s planning board was not improper, county commissioners decided.

JONATHAN SIMMONS NEWS EDITOR

County commissioners rejected an appeal by opponents of a controversial proposed development off John Anderson Highway on Sept. 9, finding that the process by which the development reached the county’s planning board was not improper.

But while they ruled against the development’s opponents on technical grounds, commissioners warned the developer to address critics’ concerns before the proposed development, called The Gardens, reaches the commission again for a decision on the development itself.

Attorney John Tanner presented the appeal, representing a grassroots organization called Preserve Flagler Beach and Bulow Creek.

He argued that county Growth Management Director Adam Mengel had acted improperly by adding the proposed 335home development to the planning board’s agenda while issues

“Mr. Tanner’s arguments, every one of them, is valid. ... I enjoin Mr. Chiumento and his party to take a hard look at those, and fix them.”

GREG HANSEN, Flagler County commissioner

raised during an earlier review by the county’s Technical Review Committee remained unresolved.

County Attorney Al Hadeed told commissioners that it was not unusual for a proposal to move forward when some issues remain outstanding.

Mengel chairs the TRC, and said it had been the TRC as a board, not himself as an individual, that made the decision to move the project to the planning board.

But Tanner said it was improper — “passing the buck” — and that the outstanding questions should have first been dealt with first.

“This project is so raw, or green, that the planning board should never have had to look at it,” Tanner said.

He said that developer Ken Belshe was trying to present the development as falling within a 2005 planned unit development, or PUD, in order to avoid 2011 county comprehensive plan floodplain regulations.

Meanwhile, he said, the area already has a flooding problem, and other homes along John Anderson Highway had fish in their yards during the most recent hurricanes.

There should also be an independent traffic study conducted on the proposed development’s impact, he said, and that has not occurred.

And, he added, the developer has marked some land within the PUD area as set aside “for future development,” contradicting the

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requirements of a PUD. That land, Tanner said, should be deeded to the state for a park.

“There’s just way, way too many unanswered questions,” Tanner said. “This county needs to protect its people. ... Sometimes, private property rights have to give way to the public good.”

Michael Chiumento, the attorney representing the developer, said objections to the details of the development itself were immaterial to the grounds on which Tanner had appealed.

The Planning Board had heard Tanner’s appeal in August, and denied it.

Commissioner Donald O’Brien said he believed Tanner made a number of excellent points about the development, but said he didn’t see support for Tanner’s argument about the propriety of the process that brought The Gardens to the planning board.

Commissioner Greg Hansen agreed.

“Mr. Tanner’s arguments, every one of them, is valid,” Hansen said. “I enjoin Mr. Chiumento and his party to take a hard look at those, and fix them.”

Parents and teachers have repeatedly pressed the Flagler County School Board to come up with a threshold to use for determining when to close schools due to COVID-19.

Board member Colleen Conklin has brought those concerns up in past board meetings. But at a meeting Sept. 15, Conklin said her conversations with district staff have led her to believe that setting a threshold may not be feasible.

“There are so many variables in every single situation that are different,” she said. “There’s no cookie cutter solution to this situation. And so to write down in a policy or come up with a specific number or a threshold, would just be unrealistic, almost. Each case really deserves the time to be looked at individually.”

That said, she added, “We’re all watching the numbers.”

So far, she said, the district has had 36 confirmed COVID-19 cases, with the largest number at Old Kings Elementary. Still, she said, the cases there are only about 1.5% of the school’s total population.

“So I say that with the caution that we try to keep things in perspective, but also stay very vigilant in looking at the factors and variables that are contributing to what is happening at each loca-

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Two new student School Board members were seated on the board Sept. 15.

Brianna Whitfield is representing Matanzas High School, and Kyleigh Ruddy is representing Flagler Palm Coast High School.

Whitfield is captain of Matanzas’ volleyball team, is dual enrolled and plans to major in communications in college. Ruddy is the president of FPC’s Future Problem Solving club, treasurer of the Interact Club, and a drum major for the marching band.

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‘I can’t forget’ Surviving firefighter inspires at Palm Coast Elks’ 9-11 ceremony

BRIAN MCMILLAN EXECUTIVE EDITOR

Of the 343 firefighters who died that day, he knew more than 50 of them.

Rich Glover, a New York firefighter on Sept. 11, 2001, spoke at the Elks Lodge 2709 for its annual ceremony, surrounded by flags planted around the entrance to the lodge and the twisted-beam

monument.

“Every day, you remember somebody different,” he said after the ceremony. “A song comes on the radio, and you start thinking about this guy, that guy.”

He was impressed with the first responders’ resiliency during the tragedy.

“We lost the heart of the fire department in New York City, and within a day or two, we regrouped,

“We lost the heart of the fire department in New York City, and within a day or two, we regrouped, and we went back to work.”

RICH GLOVER

and we went back to work,” Glover recalled.

He said America can’t forget its history.

“I can’t forget,” he said. “These people that came out today — they haven’t forgotten.”

The history of Sept. 11 teaches us that police departments need to be supported and funded, to prevent terrorist attacks, Glover said.

Photos by Brian McMillan

‘COVERED WITH ASH’

Another first responder on Sept.

11, 2001, attended the Elks ceremony: George Latimer Jr., who has lived in Palm Coast since 2016. He is a retired sergeant with the Port Authority Police Department.

“I was there for the rescue right after the first tower fell,” he said.

“It was horrific. The ash on the ground was an inch or two thick.

I saw two of our detectives sitting on a bench in a daze. People were covered with ash.”

TWO LOST

Jim Zimmerman, a member of the Citizen Observer Patrol, and Diane Scarnecchia attended the Elks ceremony. “We feel for everybody that was there and all those who were lost,” Zimmerman said. “A sad day in our country.”

Lew Calobrisi joined the Fire Department of New York in 1961 and retired in 1993. He has lived in Palm Coast for 23 years, and on Sept. 11, 2001, he was visiting Long Island was on a plane, about

George Latimer Jr. worked for the Port Authority Police Department and was among the first responders on Sept. 11, 2001.

to leave to return to Florida.

He later learned that firefighters from two engines he had worked on had died in the attack.

‘THE PEOPLE WHO SACRIFICED’

Bill Hall, exalted ruler of the Elks Lodge 2709, said the lodge is dedicated to holding an annual ceremony.

“We lost a lot of good people that day,” he said. “And we will never forget. That’s what this is all about: not forgetting 9-11. Not forgetting the people who sacrificed their lives to save them.”

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The Knights of Columbus led the procession with a flag ceremony on the pier.

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Remembering 9/11 Among those in attendance was Rudy Andre, a former NYPD detective who helped sift through debris after the attack in 2001.

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fter a brief rain on the morning of Sept. 11, the American flag whipped in the wind as it was carried to end of the Flagler Beach pier, under a rainbow. The crowd gathered to hear stories, to sing and pray together, to remember.

After speeches by Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly and Knights of Columbus District 17 Deputy Kevin Ryan, many dropped red roses toward the blue-green water below.

‘THE HELP I COULD GIVE’

Rudy Andre was one among many in uniform on the pier. He retired as a detective in Harlem with the New York Police Department in 1979 and moved to Flagler Beach in 1992. When the towers were attacked, he booked a flight at his own expense and flew to New York City to find a way to help.

He ended up volunteering for a month, sifting through hundreds of millions of tons of World Trade Center debris on a conveyor belt, at a landfill.

“It was probably the hardest thing I had to do,” he said.

He saw hundreds of shoes. He remembers that their treads were partly worn out, and many still had laces tied. It was harrowing to think how the shoes had remained intact while those who wore them had not.

His objective at that conveyor belt was to find ways to identify those who had been killed.

One woman was identified by a Macy’s credit card. Another man by his revolver. A firefighter was identified by fingerprints on a left hand that came through the debris.

But he found that the debris, which was four inches deep on the conveyor belt, was moving too quickly for the volunteers to be truly thorough. So he left his post and brought a rake and a pail to the end of the line, so he could be a second

set of eyes.

“I identified hundreds that way,” he recalled. “It was the help I could give.”

When Andre came across a glass shard from a World Trade Center window, he plucked it off the conveyor belt. Typically, he keeps it on display on a mirror with some other items at his house, and it was on display for some time at the Flagler Beach Historical Museum, to help everyone remember what happened on Sept. 11.

But on the Flagler Beach pier, he had it in a pocket in his uniform.

“I keep it close to me this particular day,” he said.

‘NEVER SEEN AGAIN’

John Feind, a former four-term Flagler Beach city commissioner, arrived at the pier ceremony in the uniform he wore as a captain before he retired from the Newark Police Department. He knew at least one person who died on Sept. 11, 2001: Anthony Infante.

Feind was in charge of the cadet program in the police academy many years ago, and Infante was one of the recruits he oversaw.

Later, Infante became a deputy chief for the Port Authority.

“They saw the plane strike, and he and his staff got on the tubes and were never seen again,” Feind said, referring to the New York subway system. “I think about him on Sept. 11.”

Frank Consentino

‘HONORING OUR DEAD’ The scene by the sea struck a personal note for Navy veteran Frank Consentino, color guard commander for Knights of Columbus Assembly 2810. He watched the events of Sept.

11, 2001, unfold on TV from his home in New Hampshire.

“It was another Pearl Harbor,” he recalled thinking, “and the tears started to come down my face.”

Consentino served for six years in the Navy, long after Pearl Harbor, but he is a student of military history.

He has traced his family history back generations and has identified 47 ancestors who served a total of 225 years of military service, going back to 1774.

“The location, at the pier, is very appropriate,” he said.

“I have a certain love affair with the sea because I was a sailor. We honored our dead by burying them at sea, so by dropping a [rose] into the sea, we are honoring our dead and the ones who survived.”

The Rev. Manny Lopez, of Santa Maria del Mar Catholic Church, said a prayer for the occasion.

‘SURROUNDED BY HEROES’

RUNNING TO DANGER

Kevin Ryan, deputy for District 17 of the Knights of Columbus, spoke at the ceremony on the pier and recalled knowing Michael Judge, who was identified as the first person to have died on Sept.

11.

“We are surrounded by heroes,” Ryan said. “He is only one of many.

But he was a shining example for us to remember that we are here for a much bigger purpose, and that’s to take care of each other. …

These heroes run to danger. They continue to run to danger.”

Staly shared a story of John Perry.

The text of his speech is as follows: “Nineteen years ago, on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, offduty police officer John Perry, of the 40th precinct in the Bronx, went to police headquarters to file his retirement papers.

“When he heard the explosion as hijacked American Airlines Flight 11 crashed into the World Trade Center, Tower one, he raced to the site without hesitation.

“Sadly, like many others, Officer John Perry never returned. I don’t think anyone would have blamed him if he had decided to stay behind that day. But, he was a cop, through and through. He knew what he had to do.

“He, like so many other first responders, ran toward the danger, not from it — many for the last time.

“2,977 people died in the attacks on September 11, and many more have passed away since, due to illnesses they contracted running into the World Trade Center buildings to help others. Over 400 first responders are among the dead.

“Today, we mourn their loss, share their stories and commemorate their incredible valor. The men and women lost that day will forever live on in the hearts of family members who love them, the friends who remember them and a nation that honors them, now and forever. We will never forget! May God continue to bless their families and our nation!”

MOURNING IN UNIFORM

One New York Fire Department firefighter served in his own way.

Michael Pugliese retired in July 2001, just two months before after the towers fell.

“I had my bags packed,” he said, planning to go downtown and help.

But his wife didn’t want him to go, fearing it would be too dangerous. Instead, he wore his uniform to dozens of memorial services and funerals. His uniform became his symbol of mourning.

Pugliese moved to Flagler Beach 10 years ago and dropped a rose off the pier at the end of the ceremony.

Email Brian McMillan at editor@palmcoastobserver.com.

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YOUR NEIGHBORS In it for the long haul Volunteers help clean Palm Coast’s Intracoastal Waterway

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“If we don’t keep it clean, nobody else will.”

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13TH-ANNUAL CLEANUP The mascot for the 13thannual event was Sir Otterton the otter, named by city employees in a recent contest.

Past years have had different mascots of animals found in nature such as a dolphin, turtle and manatee.

There were 150 volunteers this year, about half the normal number, according to city staff. Also, there was no ceremony at the Community Center to celebrate the work of the volunteers, due to the pandemic.

“It was great that we were still able to have the event with some major changes, but we will be very happy to hopefully get the event back to normal next year,” said Jordan Myers, environmental planning technician with the city.

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Since the city’s inaugural event in 2008, volunteers have collected more than 20,000 pounds of trash – each year averages about 2,000 pounds.

The event is supported by a $5,000 Florida Inland Navigation District grant award.

ith the sun streaming through the Spanish moss at Herschel King Park on Sept. 12, volunteers filled black plastic bags with trash — including shoes, headlights and a rusty, unopened beer bottle — as part of the city of Palm Coast’s 13thannual Intracoastal Waterway Cleanup.

“This is our city,” said Ariel Curtis, scoutmaster for BSA Girls Troop 4281. “If we don’t keep it clean, nobody else will. We all have to pitch in.”

Curtis, in her sixth year as a leader, has four girls in her troop and hopes to eventually have 10-15 as younger girls advance.

Visit beascout.org and look up Girls Troop 4281 to join.

Also at Herschel King Park was BSA Troop 281 Scoutmaster Jason Wheeler, who was pleased with the scouts’ positive attitude.

“They’ve been cooped up for so long they’re just happy to be outside,” he said.

Wheeler was pleased that 28 boys have remained involved in the troop through unusual times; in-person meetings resumed two weeks ago after a spring and summer of Zoom meetings. Twelve also went to summer camp this year.

“We have great parents,” Wheeler said. “They’re the ones who make this thing go.”

Jaci Phillips and her son, Vincent, equipped themselves with battery-powered fans for the cleanup.

Above: Shawn Cox, Vanessa Fulghum and Ed Narrington Left: Jason Wheeler has been a scouting volunteer for 12-15 years. This is his first year as scoutmaster of Troop 281.

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As Flagler County prepares for its annual “Crosstown Showdown” between the Flagler Palm Coast Bulldogs and the Matanzas Pirates, a lot of attention has been focused on a first-year starter who won’t be able to play — or even attend the game.

Eleventh-grade Bulldog Jayden Wilkinson was diagnosed with Acute Myelogenous Leukemia on Thursday, Sept. 10.

Like everyone else, Wilkinson couldn’t wait to return to the field after last football season on JV and the last six months of the pandemic. And, after the Florida High School Athletic Association cleared the way for sports, Wilkinson was just as excited as his coaches and fellow teammates. His excitement grew even more when head coach Travis Roland tagged him as the starting right tackle.

But Wilkinson will have to wait at least until next season with hopes to play again.

“He’s such a great kid who does all the right things and is so full of life,” Wilkinson’s mother, Julie Diaz, said. “It just sucks. But I know he’s going to beat this.”

Diaz said Wilkinson’s problems began with a spider bite. Then, it turned into stomach pains, and, eventually, they thought he had COVID-19. But, after a negative test result, they continued visiting doctors until it was finally revealed that he had leukemia.

On Sept. 12, Wilkinson cut his shoulder-length blonde locks in preparation for chemotherapy.

Though it was difficult for him, others joined him by shaving their heads as well, including his stepfather, Andrew, and Roland.

“It rocked my world and put things in perspective for me when I heard about Jayden,” Roland

said. “I lost my aunt and my best friend to cancer, so it’s near and dear to me. And I know Jayden would give anything to be healthy so he can be out here with us.”

Roland shaved his head to show Wilkinson that he would be with him through his entire journey.

He’s called him every day since his diagnosis and has promised that he would call him every day for the next six months, even on Saturdays and Sundays.

“I’ve always appreciated Coach [Roland],” Wilkinson said. “And when he FaceTimed me with his head shaved, I just laughed.

That’s Coach.”

SUPPORT FROM MATANZAS

While FPC has supported Wilkinson and his family, crosstown rival Matanzas has also joined.

The school, athletics, parents and students have posted “#TeamJayden” on social media, including the Matanzas football team.

“There are some things in life that are much bigger than sports, and this is one of them,” said Matt Forrest, the Pirates’ coach. “Even though the rivalry is what it is, our Matanzas football family is in his corner as he fights this battle.

Jayden and his family have our full support.”

The Bulldog cheerleaders have banners to show their support for him. Players will dedicate each game to him, and Roland will mention him in his pregame speeches. While Wilkinson won’t be on the field, on the sidelines or in attendance on Friday night, his presence will be felt.

“Sometimes, people don’t know what we go through as coaches, with our emotions,” Roland said.

“Right now, we’re trying to keep kids protected from COVID. We’re trying to keep them doing right in school. We’re trying to coach them to be a good football team, and then when you have a kid that gets a diagnosis like this, you’ve got to help him be strong, because obviously he’s going to be be angry. But you’ve got to try be as positive as we can and work through it for him.”

Wilkinson’s GoFundMe page is https://de.gofundme.com/f/ u7epz-team-jayden.

“He’s such a great kid who does all the right things and is so full of life. It just sucks. But I know he’s going to beat this.”

JULIE DIAZ, Wilkinson’s mother

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CAPTAIN’S BBQ GETS TRIPADVISOR AWARD Captain’s BBQ has earned Tripadvisor’s Travelers’ Choice award.

According to Tripadvisor, Travelers’ Choice winners are calculated based on the millions of reviews and opinions collected in a single year from travelers around the world on Tripadvisor. The award takes into account the quality and quantity of traveler reviews, and ratings specific to each award category.

“We couldn’t have done it without our amazing team — everyone that works here deserves credit for this accomplishment,” said Marcos McAtee, general manager.

Captain’s has also earned Trip Advisor’s Top 10 list for America’s Best Barbecue for several years in a row.

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Bruce Page, Intracoastal Bank CEO, announced the addition of Candice Murphy to Intracoastal as

ART OF JUDI WORMECK An opening reception for “Painting with Paper: A Retrospect,” featureing the art of Judi Wormeck, will be held 1-3 p.m. Sunday, Sept.

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Bars and other alcoholic beverage vendors may resume sales and service of alcoholic beverages for consumption on the premises with 50% capacity and seated service only.

The city of Palm Coast Community Development Department is working to communicate this new COVID-19 related development to the few business in city limits this affects.

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During a Zoom version of Eggs and Issues, hosted by the Daytona Regional Chamber of Commerce on Thursday, Sept. 10, members of the Florida Chamber of Commerce gave a rundown of how the upcoming election could impact businesses with issues at the local, state and federal level, including the state chamber’s stances on the amendments.

Andrew Wiggins, senior director of political affairs and coalitions advocacy, said what the state of Florida is experiencing lately is groups creating constitutional amendments when policies fail during a legislative session.

One of the amendments the Florida Chamber opposes is Amendment 2, which aims to raise the minimum wage to $10 per hour, effective Sept.

30, 2021, and then increases it annually until it reaches $15 in 2026. The chamber feels that the mandate would “negatively impact job growth, limit opportunities for entry-level workers, increase prices and increase financial pressures on Florida seniors,” according its website.

“It is a measure that is extremely concerning to us, and many others in the business community of what it can do to our state and our economy, especially during COVID when things are very tough and tight,” Wiggins said.

The Florida chamber also opposes Amendment 3, which if enacted, would allow all registered voters to vote in primary elections for state Legislature, governor and cabinet regardless of political party affiliation. Wiggins said this would “jumble” the primary elections process.

Amendment 4, however, is supported by the Florida Chamber. This one seeks to require constitutional amendments to be approved in two elections before being enacted.

The chamber did not take a position on Amendments 5 and 6, which respectively impact Save-Our-Homes benefits and allows a spouse of a deceased veteran who had combatrelated disabilities to keep the ad valorem tax discount on a homesteaded property or transfer it to a new property. It also remained neutral in regard to Amendment 1, which further clarifies that only U.S. citizens can vote in Florida elections.

Nicholas Catroppo, vice president of political operations, also spoke about the conversation occurring at the federal level regarding coronavirus liability protections for businesses.

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Hammock Beach house on golf course tops real estate list WAYNE GRANT REAL ESTATE EDITOR

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house in Hammock Beach was the top real estate transaction for the week of Aug. 6-12 in Flagler County in the Multiple Listing Service. Richard and Stacey Lipton, of Bradenton, sold 22 Kingfisher Lane to Joel Koblentz, of Brookhaven, Georgia, for $885,000. Built in 2016, the house is a 3/3.5 and has a fireplace, elevator and 3,820 square feet. Following is a partial list of other transactions for the week.

Following is a partial list of other transactions for the week.

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$268,000. Built in 2018, the house is a 4/2 and has 1,913 square feet. It sold in 2019 for $243,000.

Robert G. Schwartz Revocable Trust, of Brookhaven, Georgia, sold 7 Avenue de la Mer, Unit 703, to Geraldine Devars, of Palm Coast, for $750,000. Built in 2003, the condo is a 3/3 and has 2,390 square feet. It sold in 2003 for $845,000.

Indian Trails Elizabeth and Robert Dupont sold 30 Buffalo Bill Drive to Timothy and Melissa Kromphardt, of Palm Coast, for $285,000. Built in 2002, the house is a 4/2.5 and has a swimming pool and 2,808 square feet. It sold in 2003 for $125,400.

Paul Nieminen, of Atlanta, sold 104 Surfview Drive, Unit 2407, to Lev Rejanovinsky and Marianna Rejanovinshi, of Palm Coast, for $310,000. Built in 1992, the condo is a 2/2 and has 1,158 square feet. It sold in 2013 for $209,000.

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Louise Paratore, of Palm Coast, sold 17 Summer Terrace, Unit 51, to Anthony and Leslie Catanzaro, of Palm Coast, for $215,000. Built in 2003, the condo is a 3/2 and has 1,369 square feet. It sold in 2014 for $150,000.

The top real estate transaction features a fireplace and an elevator.

Beach Haven John and Rebecca Yovich, of Aurora, Colorado, sold 25 Sandy Beach Way to William and Laurel Nendza, of Palm Coast, for $567,000. Built in 2015, the house is a 4/4 and has 2,680 square feet.

Cypress Knoll Phyllis Berry and Michael Folger, of Palm Coast, sold 8 Evans Park Place to Terry Weekley, of Palm Coast, for $369,200. Built in 2005, the house is a 5/3.5 and has a swimming pool and 2,634 square feet.

Belle Terre DLP Brite Homes LLC, of St. Augustine, sold 22 Pebble Stone Lane to Michael and Gencie Ball, of Palm Coast, for $253,900.

Built in 2020, the house is a 4/2 and has 1,779 square feet.

Palm Coast Centre LLC, of Flagler Beach, sold 9 Emerson Drive to Nwamaka Onyeozili, of Palm Coast, for $285,000. Built in 2018, the house is a 3/2 and has a fireplace and 1,744 square feet.

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Grand Haven Bonnie and Ray Umphreys, of Palm Coast, sold 66 Osprey Circle to Keith and Roberta Harrison, of Flagler Beach, for $454,000. Built in 2007, the house is a 4/2 and has 2,456 square feet. It sold in 2008 for $420,000.

Grand Reserve and Golf Club Michael Volpe, of Bradenton, sold 219 Grand Reserve Drive to Michael and Phyllis Folger, of Bunnell, for $352,500. Built in 2018, the house is a 3/3 and has a swimming pool and 2,044 square feet. It sold in 2018 for $272,000.

Scott and Pamela Steele, of Bunnell, sold 211 Grand Reserve Drive to Debra and Vincent Sigur, of Godley, Texas, for

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Terrence Jordan, of Deptford, New Jersey, sold 110 Berkshire Lane to Timothy Shevy, of West Sand Lake, New York, for $198,000. Built in 1985, the house is a 3/2 and has 1,631 square feet. It sold in 2019 for $135,000.

Morningside Sheryl Melick and Kirstyn Melick, of Walden, New York, sold 608 Shearwood Drive to Paul and Renza Bricca, as trustees, for $640,000. Built in 2016, the house is a 3/3 and has a boat dock, boat house and 2,093 square feet.

Palm Harbor Frank and Jo Ann Caccavale, of Shirley, New York, sold 15 Clarendon Court S. to David and Donna Lewis, of Palm Coast, for $406,000. Built in 1979, the house is a 3/2 and has a swimming pool, boat dock and 1,902 SEE REAL ESTATE PAGE 20

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Joao and Armandina Silva, of Lowell, Massachusetts, sold 11 Fariston Place to Felisberto and Lusia Nabico, of Palm Coast, for $230,000. Built in 2004, the house is a 3/2 and has 1,724 square feet. It sold in 2019 for $237,000.

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Painting walls and replacing flooring throughout the house has been a true family effort.

(It’s not done yet.)

Luke, 2, is the one who seems to be the least helpful. While the older kids can bring in supplies and help cut vinyl plank pieces, Luke wanders around, pushing buttons on the printer and scouring the pantry for lollipops.

“Where’s Luke?” is the constant refrain. “How did he get another lollipop?!”

During one homeimprovement session, my 5-year-old daughter, Kennedy, took some initiative. She pointed to an outlet cover in the family room and asked, “Does this need to be taken off?”

I said that it did, and she produced, from behind her back, a screwdriver. “Good thing I have this in my hand,” she said with a grin.

While my wife, Hailey, was at the store, I also wrestled apart the sectional couch. I ended up

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turning two stubborn sections upside down before they would separate. The carpet under underneath was not pretty.

“Look at all this crap,” Kennedy said, pointing to the piles of coins, pacifiers and socks that had been lost between the cushions over the years.

“Hey,” I said, “don’t call our stuff crap.”

“Well, it is crap,” she said.

There were necklaces and doll heads. There were forks. We found the “poison” card from Clue.

I texted a photo of the pile to Hailey, and she responded: “Oh my!”

We got everything cleaned up and painted, and the flooring was laid down. It felt great for a while.

Then we noticed some water on the new flooring in the kitchen.

Wipe it up, no big deal, right?

As Donald Trump once said, “Wrong.”

The water kept reappearing, and we learned that a pipe had leaked in the island sink, and water was bubbling up from the seams of our brand new vinyl planks.

We cut out a piece of the flooring and set up a fan, hoping it would dry overnight. Very discouraging. I gave up for the night.

It was Luke who helped brighten my mood.

I brought him to the bath tub and turned on the faucet. He started clapping and said, “Good job!”

Then I helped him take off his shirt, and he said again, “Good job!”

When I think of everything going wrong in life, I hope I can hear that high-pitched 2-yearold voice in my mind, drawing my attention to the things that are going well: Good job! Good job! Good job!

Pine Grove DLP Brite Homes LLC, of St. Augustine, sold 158 Point Pleasant Drive to Brandon Starner, of Palm Coast, for $259,399. Built in 2020, the house is a 3/2 and has 1,875 square feet.

Gerald and Ellen Lapointe, of Cape Coral, sold 21 Port Echo Lane to James Challender and Debra Kepler, of Palm Coast, for $173,900. Built in 1999, the house is a 2/2 and has 1,148 square feet.

It sold in 2007 for $141,000.

Pine Lakes Holiday Builders Inc., of Melbourne, sold 36 White Hall Drive to Pamela and Scott Steele, of Palm Coast, for $238,308. Built in 2020, the house is a 3/2 and has 1,637 square feet.

Plantation Bay Carmen Prebel, of Ormond Beach, sold 414 Wingspan Drive S. to James and Shanan Gibson, of New Smyrna Beach, for $755,000.

Built in 2018, the house is a 3/3 and has a swimming pool and 3,100 square feet. It sold in 2018 for $761,400.

Quail Hollow Brian and Sarah Herr, of Bunnell, sold 47 Karas Trail to Jacob and Tami Reeves, of Palm Coast, for $240,000. Built in 2006, the house is a 4/2 and has 2,169 square feet.

It sold in 2006 for $294,900.

Seminole Woods Patricia Sadowski, of Palm Coast, sold 132 Sea Trail to Robert and Jennifer Hardy, of Palm Coast, for $206,575. Built in 2003, the house is a 3/2 and has 1,940 square feet.

It sold in 2015 for $151,000.

Toscana Applied Building Development of Orlando P.C. Inc., of Davenport, sold 32 New Water Oak Drive to David Hatcher, of Palm Coast, for $480,000. Built in 2020, the house is a 4/3 and has 2,632 square feet.

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