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The Daytona State College Foundation has announced that Plantation Bay Club de Bonmont, located at 100 Plantation Bay Drive, will host a dinner/concert fundraiser on Friday, Nov. 12. “With the generous support of Flagler County Insurance Agency, Total Comfort Heating & Air Conditioning, and ICI Homes, a new Plantation Bay Scholarship Fund will be established to benefit students attending Daytona State College,” said Tim Norton, executive director of the Daytona State College Foundation. “Students eligible for the Plantation Bay Scholarship will include employees of Plantation Bay as well as persons living in Plantation Bay.” Renowned Nashville songwriters and musical performers Thomas Miller and Tim Nichols will entertain guests starting at 7:30 p.m. Dinner will feature a duet entrée of sliced filet mignon and chicken piccata. Known for songs they’ve written for country music’s biggest stars, Miller and Nichols have more than 12 No. 1 hits to their credit and multiple other Billboard-charted hits including: “You’re Gonna Miss This,” made famous by Trace Adkins; “It Ain’t My Fault,” made famous by Brothers Osborne; “Live Like You Were Dyin’” and “Southern Girl,” made famous by Tim McGraw; Grammy-nominated “Whiskey and You,” made famous by Chris Stapleton, and many more. Tickets are $100 per person, at www.DaytonaStateFoundation. org, or by calling 386-506-3407.
Plantation Bay resident Michelle Lamb will conduct all of Fun Coast Food Tours in Ormond Beach.
TASTING AROUND TOWN Ormond, Plantation Bay residents start food tour company JARLEENE ALMENAS
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ith several locally owned restaurants located in Ormond Beach’s downtown district, residents and visitors alike may have trouble picking just one dining destination. But, two local women have come up with a solution:
A food tour. Fun Coast Food Tours held its first official tour in Ormond Beach on Friday, Oct. 21. The company is the brainchild of Ormond Beach residents Linda Webster-Dubea and Michelle Lamb. Lamb recently moved to Plantation Bay from Brevard, North Carolina, and as she was making a list of fun things to do in her new town, her friend Webster-Dubea noticed a food tour was missing. “Her family, every time they vacation, that’s what they do,” Lamb said. “They search for food tours to go on to learn about the town and taste different foods from the restaurants.” Thus, their business was born. The pair began planning and researching food tours in March, and with their shared experience of working in the Cocoa Beach Chamber of Commerce 15 years ago, they have been able to get six local eateries to participate: Rose Villa, 31 Supper Club, Ormond Garage, The Grind Gastropub and Kona Tiki Bar, Frappes Italian Grille and Gold Leaf Coffee Co. Each walk-
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ing tour will take participants to four restaurants. As their business grows, Lamb said they hope to add more restaurants to their list of stops. Lamb, who previously worked as a contracted meeting planner for NASA and the European Space Agency, said food tours are a fun way to experience a variety of restaurants while getting to know the community. As a new resident, she said she’s looking forward to getting more involved and making friends, especially as she’ll be the one conducting each tour. “It’s so much easier to talk and get to know people when you’re enjoying good food,” she said. At each tour stop, the restaurant will get to showcase a dish for the participants to sample, in the hopes of enticing them to dine at their establishment at a later date. Tours are held regularly starting at 11:30 a.m. and last for three hours. Visit https://funcoastfoodtours.com/ Email jarleene@ormondbeachobserver.com.
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One Daytona announced the grand opening of Stoked Poké, a new restaurant that will offer poké bowls, acai bowls and other fresh eats. The lifestyle and entertainment destination located across from Daytona International Speedway also announced they’re welcoming a new restaurant and a retail store. The new businesses are expected to open between the end of the year and the first quarter of 2022. The announcement of these new additions comes only months after the reveal of multiple restaurants, a boutique, a photography studio, the expansion of a medical spa, and a new 122-unit luxury apartment complex at Icon One Daytona. “We continue to grow, our tenant numbers are stronger than ever, and we couldn’t be happier,” said Roxanne Ribakoff, president of One Daytona. “We believe our centralized location has played a big role in the success of our latest additions. One Daytona is committed to advancing the community, that’s why we place a big emphasis on small business owners.”
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County considers legal action against new owners of derelict hotel First Choice Investments is renovating the old hotel property on Old Dixie Highway, but has fallen behind schedule. JONATHAN SIMMONS NEWS EDITOR
Flagler County has already filed suit against the former owners of the derelict hotel property at 2251 Old Dixie Highway. Now it might sue the new owners as well. Fi rs t Choice I n ve s t ments bought the property last May and proposed an aggressive timeline to construct a new hotel called The Henry, named after Henry Flagler. But they’ve fallen behind schedule. They were expected to finish certain elements of the project by Aug. 20, or, if they were unable to, to give the county a $250,000 cash deposit. But they’ve done neither, Assistant County Attorney Sean Moylan told county commissioners at a Nov. 1 meeting. The deposit was supposed to both incentivize the owners to complete the job, and to give the county money to use to demolish the building if the owners left it unfinished. First Choice Investments has submitted a new timeline for the work and asked if the County Commission would be willing to reduce the $250,000 deposit. The owners’ reasoning, Moylan said, is that they’ve already mitigated most of the nuisances
The hotel property, across from Plantation Bay, partway through the renovation process.
associated with the former hotel building — for instance, by filling in the pool and removing litter and debris — and, therefore, the cost of demolition would be less than $250,000. They’ve proposed seeking a new demolition estimate from a contractor and using that amount as the deposit amount, Moylan said. The County Commission isn’t interested. “It does take care of the demo-
lition part, but it doesn’t cover the incentive part,” Commissioner Greg Hansen said. Commissioner David Sullivan said that the hotel First Choice Investments has said its building will be costly, and if a $250,000 deposit is causing problems, he’s concerned that First Choice won’t be able to follow through on its plans. Other commissioners were also unwilling to waive the con-
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tract requirements. The county has an ongoing nuisance suit against the former owners of the property and could add the new owners to that suit with a claim for breach of contract, asking that the court require First Choice Investments to adhere to the contract’s requirements, Moylan said. The commission instructed the county attorney’s office to move forward with that plan.
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Florida legislators propose replacing the mockingbird with the osprey as the state bird WHAT ARE FLORIDA’S OTHER STATE CRITTERS?
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he mockingbird — Mimus polyglottos, meaning the mimic of many languages — has been Florida’s state bird since 1927. But the mockingbird is also the state bird of Texas, Tennessee, Arkansas and Mississippi. Is it really the right bird for Florida? A proposal to remove the mockingbird as the state bird was offered by Sen. Jeff Brandes, a Republican from St. Petersburg, and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is reopening the debate on who should be the state’s avian representative, offering a new alternative: the osprey, Pandion haliaetus, also known as the fish hawk. But given a choice between the
in Flagler eight years ago, he said, birders knew of three scrub-jays remaining in Flagler; now, as far as they know, there are none. Using the scrub-jay as the state bird would have the benefit of making Florida’s state bird unique, Giraulo noted. But when the switch to the scrub-jay had been proposed in the ‘90s, the mockingbird had also earned an enthusiastic supporter in the person of Marion Hammer, a lobbyist for the National Rifle Association. Hammer’s backing of the mockingbird helped kill the campaign for the scrub-jay, said Halifax River Audubon President and Conservation Chair David Hartgrove. But the osprey, like the mockingbird, is found nationwide;
other species of osprey are found on all continents except Antarctica. And, Giraulo said, ospreys don’t really scream “Florida” — not nearly as much as, say, the state pie (key lime) or the state flower (the orange blossom). For that purpose, something like the flamingo might be a better pick, he said. Hartgrove agreed. “Personally, I would prefer to see a bird that’s suffered population declines and is an iconic, easily identified species, like the roseate spoonbill, become our state bird,” Hartgrove said. “However, I have my doubts that anything serious will be done to change the status quo.” When the FWC put the question of the state bird before 77,000 elementary- and middle-
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mockingbird and the osprey, the choice for some local birders is clear: Neither. Flagler Audubon President Jason Giraulo said his chapter members tend to favor making the Florida scrub-jay — the only bird that lives exclusively in Florida — Florida’s state bird. It’s an idea also favored by two legislators, Sen. Tina Polsky (D- Boca Raton) and Rep. Sam Killebrew (R-Winter Haven). “Both times over the past two decades, the scrub-jay has been suggested, and for some reason or another, was always shot down,” Giraulo said. He suspects developers, in particular, may not be enthusiastic about making the state bird a species that’s been decimated by development. When Giraulo started birding
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HABITAT: Mockingbird: Open areas like fields and parks, edges of forests, suburbs Osprey: Coastal areas, rivers and lakes, swamps DIET: Mockingbird: Insects, berries, seeds, fruit Osprey: Overwhelmingly fish, but occasionally invertebrates or small reptiles, mammals or birds FEEDING HABITS: Mockingbird: Forages on open ground; scans fields from elevated perches nearby Osprey: Dives feet-first into water, grasps prey with talons. On average, catch fish at least once every four dives FAMILY LIFE: Mockingbird: May pair
for life, or have multiple pairings over lifespan. Females generally lay three to six eggs and fiercely defend their nests. Osprey: Form lifeling breeding pairs. Females generally lay three eggs, but can have from one to four. Both parents incubate eggs; male does most of the hunting for the young. WINGSPAN: Mockingbird: 15 inches Osprey: 6 feet RANGE: Mockingbird: Most of the U.S., Mexico, parts of southern Canada Osprey: Subspecies on all continents except Antarctica. Found across North America; ospreys in colder climates migrate south in winter, while many Florida ospreys are year-round residents.
schoolers in 2008, there had been a clear winner — the osprey — so that’s the species the commission has proposed as an alternative this year. “The osprey is a good, non controversial choice for Florida’s state bird,” Hartgrove said. “Ever since the banning of DDT in 1972, the populations of all of the birds at the top of the aquatic food chain (ospreys, bald eagles, brown pelicans, etc.) have seen resurgent population increases. So there are plenty of ospreys for people to see, not only along our coasts, but
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inland as well.” Giraulo also noted the osprey’s status as a conservation success story. “No matter what the state bird is, the most important thing — whether it’s protecting whatever little scrub-jay habitat exists, or celebrating the survival of the osprey — is that it’s important for people to connect with what nature we have here,” Giraulo said. “Because it could be gone in an instant.” Email Jonathan Simmons at jonathan@palmcoastobserver.com.
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