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Don’t forget the leash
STEVE CLAIR ACCESS CONTROL MANAGER
Just a friendly reminder that even though we are a private gated community, animal owners are still required to follow the county ordinances and state statutes, in regard to animals being on leashes and in the control of their owners and including the proper disposal of dog droppings. Both Flagler and Volusia counties require all animals to be on a leash at all times when they are off your personal property. There are no exceptions in these ordinances for service animals or any other claim of control of the animal not on a leash. Both counties ordinances mirror state law on leash laws. As a pet owner, you are personally responsible for any injury or damages caused by your pet not being restrained. Animal waste complaints have increased with residents complaining of dog feces not being picked up by the owner, or the bags full of waste being left out on the sidewalks/roadways, or worse yet, left in someone’s yard. It really goes without saying that not only is it disrespectful to this beautiful community you live in, but it could be an attraction for other wildlife, not to mention a health hazard. GOLF CARTS
There has been several recent complaints of underage juveniles driving golf carts around the community, which is against HOA rules, as well as state statue. Contact the HOA in regard to any questions about who is authorized to drive a golf cart, and other rules for use within the community. Additionally, all golf carts must be registered annually with the HOA. Please remember, golf carts are subject to the “rules of the road”, the same as a motor vehicle, so please obey stop signs and other traffic control devices. For more, see Page 5.
Plantation Bay’s Nancy Pace gets her mail from the beloved Frank Greer.
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Signed, sealed, delivered Postman retires after 24 years JULIA AMBROSE CONTRIBUTING WRITER
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rank Greer is a face many Plantation Bay residents will recognize. Soon, he will retire, but he will take with him a host of memories about generations of residents he has served.
What does a day in the life look like for you as a letter carrier?
When I was up there in Plantation Bay 24 years ago, I was one of the original ones. Before, it used to be Plantation Bay and Halifax Plantation, but then it kept growing and growing. Soon it turned into two routes and then three routes, and now there's four routes. We get up in the morning and go into the office, sort through all the letters
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and magazines. We try to get it all in order and then load up the truck, bring it up to the mail house. So you had almost four routes to complete. What is your favorite part about being a letter carrier for Plantation Bay?
My favorite part is that I get to see a lot of the same people all the time. SEE Q+A PAGE 6
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The Plantation Bay Community is planning our 16th Annual Art Show and Sale, which will be held on Sunday, March 6, 2022, from 1 to 4 p.m. at Club de Bonmont. (This year would be our 17th year, but the 2021 event got canceled because of COVID.) The organization is issuing a call for artists. All Plantation Bay members and residents are invited to display their original works of art. A small entry fee is required. Please contact Kathy Pounds at kathypounds@bellsouth.net or 386-405-2157.
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Janice Mikutel serves students with special needs as Belle Terre nurse Mikutel has been a nurse since 2008, the longest tenure at Flagler Schools.
“She is everything you’d want in a nurse.” CHRISTIANA BUFFINGTON, parent
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ears ago, Belle Terre Elementary School nurse Janice Mikutel was in a classroom with a handful of students with disabilities, her fulltime assignment, when a boy had a seizure. She was prepared: Seizures were not uncommon among this group, and she had a list of everyone’s individualized emergency protocols. Most of the time, the seizures passed without complication, but this one was a concern. She kept an eye on the second hand of the clock on the wall, and then she made the decision: It was time for the emergency protocol. She brought the child to the bathroom, which in this classroom had been specially outfitted with a changing table, and she administered the prescribed rescue medication for the child — rectally — and the child responded. Mikutel is used to doing whatever is necessary to help the students. For her, it’s not a stressful situation but an opportunity to serve. “I’m saving their life,” she said in a recent interview with the Palm Coast Observer. “It makes me have pride in my work. Makes me want to come back tomorrow, do it all over again.” Mikutel has been a school nurse for 13 years, the longest of any nurse in Flagler Schools, which is why she is being recognized as one of this year’s Standing O’s. Her students, ages 3 to 14, often can’t use at toilet, can’t eat except through a tube, can’t talk, and many have seizures. When a day goes by with no seizures, Mikutel notices. “You cherish those good days,” she said. The classroom teacher, Mercedes Brunell, said Mikutel “goes out of her way” to serve the children.
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Plantation Bay’s Janice Mikutel, a nurse at Belle Terre Elementary School since 2008, works in a classroom with a refrigerator and washer-dryer, to serve the special needs of four to five students.
“Our kids might have accidents, and she’ll do laundry,” Brunell said. “If anybody needs anything, she’s there.” A SECOND MOTHER FIGURE
When she was a middle school student as a girl in Georgia, Mikutel remembers calling her mother from a school phone. Mikutel was having monthly cramps, and she wasn’t used to it, so she wanted her mother to pick her up. She was told to see the school nurse instead; you can’t miss school every month. So Mikutel went to see the nurse, who let her lie down and rest for a
while. It was an awkward situation for her as a young girl, but the nurse made her feel at home. “She was almost like a second mother figure, to guide me through the joys of womanhood,” Mikutel recalled with a laugh. When she grew up, she joined the Navy and worked in the medical field. After finishing her service there, in 2000, she worked at hospitals and doctor’s offices and finally went to Daytona State College for a degree in nursing. Around the same time that she graduated, she also got married. But she soon felt burned out from the demands of family life
and 12-hour shifts, so she decided to take a big pay cut and apply to be a special-needs nurse at Belle Terre. A Plantation Bay resident, Mikutel was hired by Flagler Schools in 2008; her daughter, Isabella, also attends Belle Terre. When she first started, there was one student on a feeding tube, and she became adept at caring for the child and communicating with the parents. Over the years, there have been up to five students in the classroom, all on feeding tubes. The classroom has tables and wheelchairs, rather than desks, along with a refrigerator, stove and other accommodations. The students communicate with the teacher, paraprofessionals and Mikutel by using devices and choosing the correct word among a set of pictures. Despite their struggles — some take two or three years to learn to recognize a picture of their own face among a group of three faces — the students are happy to be in the classroom. “They know they’re in school, and they smile back at you,” Mikutel said.
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nicating. She cares a lot about every kid in the class. If there’s anything she can physically do to make their day better, she will absolutely do it.” Buffington knows that her daughter sometimes has a bad day, and she worries. So Buffington communicates directly with Mikutel and says, “I can come get her if needed.” When Mikutel reassures Buffington and says Mikayla is doing fine, “I know that with Janice saying it, it’s true,” Buffington said. “I absolutely trust her.”
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Christiana Buffington moved to Palm Coast from Volusia County in 2018, and she was nervous about sending her daughter, Mikayla, to school. Without a nurse in the classroom, she felt that the previous school didn’t meet Mikayla’s special needs. But Mikutel resolved all those concerns. She follows detailed instructions to keep Mikayla on the proper schedule, aligning care at school with care at home. “My daughter couldn’t go to school without someone like Janice,” Buffington said. “She is great at commu-
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As our community grows, we have more and more traffic, including an increasing number of private golf carts. There are more golf carts than ever being driven on the roads of Plantation Bay and Westlake. Each cart must be registered and have insurance. January is the month when private golf cart owners, who are not club members with a trail fee, are required to renew their golf cart registration with the Association. The cost of a renewal is $25. A firsttime registration fee is $35. A copy of the owner’s insurance policy must be submitted with a completed registration form. The policy must show coverage of at least $300,000 for personal injury per occurrence and have a minimum of $30,000 property damage coverage. Carts must be presented for inspection at the time of registration. Each year, a new decal color is chosen. This year the Association is issuing brown decals for 2022. All golf carts must be beige in color and not modified. Cart operators must obey all traffic signs. Drivers of golf carts must be at least 16 years of age. There is a maximum of four passengers per cart. If you have not already done so, please make an appointment to register your cart by calling the management office at 386-437-0038. Forms are at Plantationbayhomeowners.com or at the management office. As a reminder, golf carts are a vehicle and are required to obey the Law. That means stop at all stop signs. Golf carts are also a dangerous vehicle if not driven properly. We don’t want to see this head
line from a golf cart accident in Plantation Bay. On Dec. 18, 2021, 10 minors – one of whom had to be transported to the hospital as a trauma alert patient — were injured after the golf cart they were riding in flipped over when attempting to make a left turn into the parking lot of 2287 Airport Road. According to a police report, the golf cart, which was unregistered and only had a six-rider capacity, was occupied by 11 people at the time of the crash. A 12-year-old child had been at the wheel, and the lone adult in the golf cart, a 37-yearold Ormond Beach man, was arrested on child neglect felony charges after the crash. It was an incident that Ormond Beach Police Chief Jesse Godfrey called “preventable.” 2022 PLANTATION BAY BOARD OF DIRECTORS
At the annual election meeting on December 6, 2021, the Voting Members of Plantation Bay elected the same board members to represent Districts 6 and 7. The previous directors were also elected for the two At-Large positions. Directors serve a two-year term. The 2022 Plantation Bay Board of Directors is as follows: John Gamin, president; Bob Anderson, vice president; Robert Latocha, Treasurer; Helen Siegel, Secretary; Joan Beck, Jack Corbett, Roseann French, Derek Kaufman, and Kathleen Walter, Directors. If you need to make alterations to your home — including re-roofing, painting, changing landscape, screening on patio, placement of statuary, drive way resurfacing — all need to be reviewed and approved by the appropriate committee for Westlake or Plantation Bay.
16-year-old thief caught near PB What began as an interstate chase of a stolen car reaching speeds of 95 mph came to an end in January thanks in part to a new K-9 team, Sheriff Rick Staly, deputies from Flagler and Volusia County, VCSO’s AirOne, the Florida Highway Patrol and the latest in high-tech crime fighting technology. After a car was stolen in Nassau County, the Nassau County Sheriff’s Office notified the Flagler County Sheriff’s Communications Center on Jan. 14 that the car was being tracked by On-Star and was nearing the Flagler County line. The car thief then bailed out of the car and fled across I-95 into a wooded area on the east side of I-95. Staly and deputies from Flagler, Volusia and the FHP converged and set-up a perimeter. Flagler’s newest K-9 team, DFC Marcus Dawson and K-9 Baro, began tracking the suspect through a dense wooded area along the interstate. K-9 Baro kept tracking back toward the interstate, and a citizen called in and said he had seen a subject run across the interstate. Staly, who was out on one of his Friday night patrols near the old abandoned hotel and nearby gas station on Old Dixie Highway, pulled in to the BP gas station and spotted the suspect near the hedges of the parking lot. Staly exited his patrol car, pointed his Glock firearm at the suspect and ordered him to freeze, but the suspect ran into woods near the entrance to the Plantation Bay Golf and Country Club. The suspect was later transferred to the Department of Juvenile Justice.
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Q+ A FRANK GREER Some of them just come in and just chit chat every day for a couple of minutes while I'm working. They want to know what's going on. They tell me about their day. You hear all kinds of stories. You talk through a wall sometimes: I'm inside of a building, and they're on the outside, picking up their mail. So a lot of times, I don't see faces, but I recognize the voice. Is there any special story about your adventures with the community that's stuck out for you?
You see people, well, in fact of life, come and go. You see stories of life like the women getting pregnant and now their adult children are all grown up. I mean, it's been 20 some years, so you hear a lot of things inside that building. People don't realize when they're talking outside, I can hear everything they say, the gossip going on around the community. How do you think your connection with the community has changed your outlook as a person?
I think I was 35 when I got started. Both of my parents were alive at the time, and as my parents grew old, my mother had Alzheimer's, and I could see how the disease progresses. Some of these customers struggle with that, and after my mother, I was able to understand. There's nothing wrong with them. I don't have that
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thing that was up there was a gas station. We had a stamp machine on the building, but it never worked. That's why I started buying stamps. Could you describe in one word, what being in a close knit community feels like to you?
problem because I've dealt with it before, and I deal with it all the time, even today. These people, they still come and get the mail. Sometimes they can't find their mailbox. I've gotten to the point where I've put stickers on the boxes to help. I put a smiley-face sticker on the box for them. By dealing with it, I can handle life easier. What is the backstory behind your “off duty” sign on the door?
When I'm on vacation, these guys will put a sign on the door. When I'm there, they come and knock on the door all the time. Sometimes they get a little carried away and they write a little sassy note: “Don't knock on the door.” I used to mail packages and letters when the rates were a lot simpler, but just in the past five years, I've had to stop doing that because the rates got too complicated. I still sell the stamps. If somebody needs stamps, I have stamps. That's just something I do as a courtesy. Back then, they didn't even have the Publix across the street. There was nothing; the only
Family. They've treated me like part of the family. I've had keys to their houses. I'd go to the house and check on the house when they're on vacation. I mean, you do that with your regular mailman that drives up and down the street all the time? Don't think so. I've been here for so long and they invite me to come on in, have something to eat, have something to drink. There are actually some people that I will have my lunch with; I'll go to their house, and I'll take my lunch break at their house. They treat me like family. What is next for you? How do you plan on spending some of your free time with your retirement approaching?
I'm still working now because I get bored real easy. I don't want to sit around the house and wait for the mailman to show up and have that as my only goal in life. I've seen that. In some of my old routes, this poor old woman would just sit there in the window waiting for the mailman to show up. It got to the point where I would have to go inside and talk to her for about five minutes. That would be the highlight of her day. I don't want to
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Some residents struggle with Alzheimer’s, says Frank Greer, so he sometimes puts a smiley-face sticker on a mailbox to help them find it. Greer is retiring from his job in Plantation Bay.
do that. Of course, I don't have the money where I can just go all over the place and take trips and cruises and play golf all the time. But that's not what I do. What I like to do is fix things. I'm kind of a handyman. Instead of hiring people to do the work, I'll start doing some of it
myself. That could be a good time passer. I've been working ever since I was 10 years old. My parents used to have a gas station. I used to pump gas and work on cars. So I was just constantly working; I didn't know what else to do. I’ll just fix things and work around the house.
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drivers to back up when approaching the gates. This is usually caused by the following driver actions, and not the failure of the equipment. — Approaching the gate too quickly; — Driving too far to the right of the “reader box” in the residents lane; — Following too closely to the vehicle in front of you, commonly referred to as “piggybacking.” It is a somewhat complicated electrical process for the gate to open when it reads and identifies your transponder. It will read the transponder registration number for your vehicle as you approach the gate, then it must determine if your transponder is valid and authorized
to open the gate for entry to the community. There are several electrical components that all have to work in unison to make it all happen and open the gate arm. If you are approaching the gate too fast or too far to the right in the residents lane, it cannot read the transponder number properly or quick enough, and will not open the gate, causing you stop, back up and allow it to read the transponder. Also, if you are too close to the vehicle in front of you, (piggybacking), it cannot read your transponder for the gate to remain open. The gates are designed to allow only one vehicle in per opening. This is controlled by an underground magnetic field as your vehicle passes over it. It is intentionally designed to prevent
unauthorized vehicles from “piggybacking” in the community and to prevent damage to vehicles from the gate arm dropping down on your vehicle. About 95% of the incidents of vehicle damage is due to the gate arm coming down on a vehicle are caused by the driver following too closely the vehicle in front of them. We continually review our video surveillance system to determine what caused the damage incident and who is at fault, with the vast majority being the vehicle operator for not following the above procedures. Also, as I’ve experienced, some residents are driving through these gates way too fast. Many times, as myself and staff are doing maintenance or repairs to the gates, there have been several close calls of us
A BIG THANK YOU This holiday season, Access Control staff were extremely overwhelmed with the generosity and most thoughtful donations given to them by the residents during the holidays. All of your monetary gifts, delicious cookies, cakes, and candies were shared among all the shifts and all staff members. I think each of us all may have possibly gained a few extra pounds and inches to our waistlines because of your generosity of these thoughtful gifts! On behalf of all the Access Control staff and myself, please accept our most sincere thank you and gratitude to all of you that contributed and recognized staff this holiday season. We look forward to continuing to serve our beautiful community of Plantation Bay and you the residents this coming year.
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#2 Professional Client satisfaction and personal service is our top priority. Our full service real estate company is proficient in all aspects of buying and selling a home in Plantation Bay and the Daytona Beach area.
#3 Performance $73,770,000 in real estate sold by Venture Development Realty in 2021 so far!
#4 Powerful Advertising We open the door to an
extraordinary audience of potential buyers that are being marketed to visit Plantation Bay. We advertise specifically for Plantation Bay, marketing your home locally, as well as, extensively in the Midwest and NE US.
#5 Social Reach VDR demonstrates social media leadership
on multiple social media channels, expanding reach and connecting with more potential buyers.
#6 Rapid Response By providing a continuous stream
of service throughout the duration of the sale, including long after the deal has been made, homebuyers or sellers will develop meaningful relationships that extend beyond the original transaction.
#7 Discovery Tours We have the unique ability to allow
buyers the ability to experience Plantation Bay as its residents would,with full access to all amenities.
#8 Property Management
VDR offers online application for tenants, tenant screening and placement. Rent collection and timely remittance to owner. Repair coordination & tax statement administration.
#9 PB Inside Track
Venture Development Realty is the only Real Estate Company that offers buyers up to $10,000 in membership discounts at Plantation Bay Golf & Country Club.
Commission Credit Program - Seller must list an existing home with Venture Development Realty, Inc. (an affiliate of ICI Homes) and enter into a purchase agreement to purchase a new home from ICI Homes without the participation of an outside broker. The new home cannot be an inventory home or a model. ICI Homes will reimburse seller an amount equal to the real estate commission paid on seller’s existing home, up to, but not to exceed 6% of the purchase of the new ICI Home. This reimbursement will be paid at time of closing on the new ICI Home and may be used for closing costs, options, upgrades or a discount on the base price of the new ICI home but will not be paid out in cash. Not valid with any other discounts. ICI Homes reserves the right to change or discontinue this promotion at any time without notice. Additional restrictions may apply.
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Contact us for more info. 386.437.6840 / VDRInc.com
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FEBRUARY 2022
Plantation Bay
Showcase Homes Coming Soon!
The Arbor II
The Blossom II
The Davenport
45 Longridge Lane 2 Bed / 2 Bath / 2 Car Garage / 1,562 ft²
43 Longridge Lane 3 Bed / 3 Bath / 2 Car Garage / 2,078 ft²
398 Stirling Bridge Lane 4 Bed / 3 Bath / 3 Car Garage / 2,537 ft²
The Juliette
The Juliette III
The Egret VI
374 Stirling Bridge Lane 3 Bed / 2 Bath / 2 Car Garage / 1,979 ft²
380 Stirling Bridge Lane 4 Bed / 3 Bath / 3 Car Garage / 2,193 ft²
305 Stirling Bridge Lane 4 Bed / 3 Bath / 2 Car Garage / 2,512 ft²
Dreaming about a new Home? Ask us about increasing your buying power!
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*Seller must list an existing home with Venture Development Realty, Inc. (an affiliate of ICI Homes) and enter into a purchase agreement to purchase a new home from ICI Homes without the participation of an outside broker. The new home cannot be an inventory home or a model. ICI Homes will reimburse seller an amount equal to the real estate commission paid on the seller’s existing home, up to, but not to exceed 6% of the purchase of the new ICI Home. This reimbursement will be paid at time of closing on the new ICI Home and may be used for closing costs, options, upgrades or a discount on the base price of the new ICI home but will not be paid out in cash. Not valid with any other discounts. ICI Homes reserves the right to change or discontinue this promotion at any time without notice. Additional restrictions may apply.
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