ORMOND BEACH
Observer YOU. YOUR NEIGHBORS. YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD.
FREE • THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 2019
VOLUME 7, NO. 31
Tax or no tax? Two Ormond Beach politicians for the Volusia sales tax, two against.
FOOTBALL RIVALS 9-10
Food
The debate about how to regulate food trucks. PAGE 3
PAGE 6 INSIDE LUCKY’S MARKET TO OPEN IN MAY Lucky’s Market, plus other news in Business Observer. PAGE 2
REMEMBERING VICTIMS’ RIGHTS
Ormond Beach Police officer, victim advocate and volunteer, honored for Victims’ Rights Week. PAGE 5
Fight
PRIORITIZING WATER PROJECTS Volusia County Council to designate sales tax revenue to fund water quality projects. PAGE 4
City comes first in septic to sewer effort The north peninsula will have to wait.
Egg-citing!
Calvary Christian Center hosts sensoryfriendly Easter egg hunt PAGE 12
INSIDE
JARLEENE ALMENAS NEWS EDITOR
Converting septic tanks to city sewer is high up on the Ormond Beach City Commission’s list of priorities for half-cent sales tax funding. Just not in Ormond-by-theSea. The City Commission didn’t vote on the issue, but three out of the five commissioners were in favor of converting the septic tanks in the city limits before they looked to the north peninsula, which according to a 2013 report by the Florida Department of Health in Volusia County, houses three of the worst suited areas in the county for septic. SEE SEPTIC PAGE 3
Courtesy photo
Bianca Gonzalez helps Lauryn Boone find eggs inside the Calvary Christian Kids Center for its sensory-friendly Easter Egg Hunt on Saturday, April 13.
Celtic-sized fun PAGE 11