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Teacher: ‘Unfortunately, I don’t feel safe any more in my classroom.’

ACLU: ‘ We cannot allow this to continue as if it was just a childhood prank.’

Democratic Party: ‘Threats encourage other threats. We must stop it here.’

THREAT AND RESPONSE Dog Facebook account helps family cope with grief of son’s death.

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Black teacher targeted by racial online chat PAGE 3 Three other incidents result in student arrests. PAGE 3

Palm Coast lights up the Intracoastal with 47 boats in annual parade.

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TEACHERS, COPS OPPOSE COFFEY Unions voted against County Administrator Craig Coffey.

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CAPTAIN’S BBQ SAGA CONTINUES The county could be responsible for business losses over the entire term of the lease.

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MCDONALD AND HUSBAND FACE ETHICS CHARGES

Probable cause that the McDonalds had improperly reported their assets.

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ABANDONED DOG ADOPTED MINUTES BEFORE SCHEDULED TO BE EUTHANIZED The city of Palm Coast is calling it “A Christmas Miracle”: the daring rescue of an injured dog by Palm Coast Animal Control after she was abandoned on I-95. “Jocelyn the dog” has now been adopted by a local couple, according to a press release from the city of Palm Coast.

Jocelyn, nicknamed “Josie,” is now resting and recovering at her new home with her new owners Julian and Doris Boyden of Hammock Beach. The female blue pitbull is recovering following surgery to repair extensive injuries to her right hip and elbow.

“She’s enjoying all the love and attention,” Doris Boyden said in the release.

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‘Bernie the Dolphin’ stars at EPIC

Star Lola Sultan, who plays Holly Ryan, waves to locals who line the red carpet.

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The Coastal Florida Police Benevolent Association took a vote of “no confidence” in Flagler County Administrator Craig Coffey on Dec. 14, and the Flagler County Educators Association followed with a similar vote on Dec. 15.

Both issued statements demanding Coffey’s firing.

Coffey has sustained criticism from local law enforcement officers and from Sheriff Rick Staly over the county administration’s handling of the Sheriff’s Operations Center, which has been evacuated since June over concerns that it could be a sick building: More than two dozen Sheriff’s Office employees have reported symptoms they believe are related to the building. The building, formerly a hospital, was purchased by the county in 2013, renovated, and reopened as the Operations Center in 2015.

The County Commission, citing the Operations Center issue and several other matters, will vote on whether or not to fire Coffey during a commission meeting Jan. 14.

The local branch of the law enforcement union took the vote during a meeting for its contract vote, Coastal Florida PBA Secretary Treasurer Joseph Barile said.

The PBA also issued a letter announcing the vote, signed by Barile and Coastal Florida PBA Senior Vice President Jon Dopp on Dec. 14, to Flagler County Commission Chairman Donald O’Brien and the rest of the County Commission. “[Coffey’s] handling of the health concerns of the Sheriff’s Office operations center along with his blatant disregard for the safety of our members has led us to have serious concerns regarding his ability to safely resolve this serious situation,” the letter states.

“During the commission meeting on December 3, 2018, comments that Mr. Coffey made while speaking about the sick employees was brought to light and greatly concerned us. Chairman O’Brien

said during this meeting, ‘I can remember some very specific conversations between him (referring to Mr. Coffey) and I where, I mean basically what came across to me was those employees were faking it.’”

Coffey’s decisions regarding the Operations Center has led the local PBA to question his leadership abilities, the letter continues.

“That a County Administrator, a ‘leader,’ would imply that not one but over 30 employees are lying about their physical symptoms, is appalling,” the letter states. “We have no faith in him to put the best interest of the Sheriff’s Office, its employees, and the citizens of Flagler County first and believe that he is too preoccupied with his own personal agenda to be an effective leader of this county.”

The letter states that a delegation from the Coastal Florida PBA will attend the Jan. 14 meeting “and demand the firing of Mr. Coffey.”

The Flagler County Educators Association issued a letter Dec. 17 concerning its own vote of no confidence regarding Coffey.

The letter, signed by FCEA President Katie Hansen, states, “Mr. Coffey has a blatant disregard for the health and well-being of the very public employees who are responsible for protecting and serving this community. As a small community, many of our members’ significant others, family members, and friends proudly serve our community as first responders. Their health and wellbeing is important to us and to our county. For Mr. Coffey to further insinuate that these employees are simply faking sickness is inexcusable. As fellow public employees, this is the ultimate in disrespect.”

The FCEA, like the Coastal Florida PBA, demanded his firing.

“Flagler County residents deserve better from our county leaders, and the hard-working men and women of the FCSO deserve the respect and support of elected officials and the administrators they appoint,” the FCEA letter states.

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Flagler County’s government is preparing to clear out trees and underbrush in areas of the county that are most vulnerable to wildfires.

The three areas the county intends to target first are the Bulow Woods area, Belle Terre south and the Lehigh Trail trailhead area, according to a county staff presentation during the County Commission’s Dec. 17 workshop.

Speaking before the commission, Public Lands and Natural Resources Manager Tim Telfer noted that the county had seen large wildfires in the past: In 1985, when a fire destroyed 131 homes, damaged 200 and burned 25,000 acres; in 1998, when a fire destroyed 71 homes, damaged hundreds more, burned 82,000 acres and led to the evacuation of the county’s population of 45,000; and most recently in 2011, when a fire in Espanola

burned 5,100 acres.

These fires were so hot, Telfer said, that there were reports that drapes inside homes were bursting into flame from radiant heat as the fires approached.

After storm surge from Hurricane Matthew killed vegetation in large swaths of the barrier island, the Florida Forest Service moved in with bulldozers and cut fire lines in 30-foot-wide strips — about 4.5 acres’ worth — and the county removed 568 trees.

Now, the county has hired a new land management technician, Michael Orlando, to handle the work of creating new fire breaks.

The county expects to spend up to a total of $119, 095 — of which $89, 321 would be federal Hazard Mitigation Grant Program money — on the work, but will likely spend less, Telfer said.

The major three drivers of wildfires are topography, weather and fuels, Telfer said, and fuel is the variable the county has some control over.

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Students in teacher threat case should face felony charges JONATHAN SIMMONS NEWS EDITOR

The Flagler County NAACP believes that two white Flagler Palm Coast High School students accused of threatening to kill their language arts teacher, who is black, should face more serious charges than the ones filed by the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office — and that they would have faced such charges if they’d been black.

The teacher, Kimberley Lee, has not returned to the classroom since the Dec. 10 incident, in which the two 16-year-olds allegedly used their school-issued computers to engage in an internet chat with one another in which they repeatedly used a racial slur to refer to Lee and talked about killing her.

The students have been removed from the campus, but were not arrested and were not initially charged with a crime. They’ve since been charged with misdemeanor assault.

“I should be in my classroom right now, but I’m standing here,” Lee said during a press conference about the case held by the NAACP in front of the county courthouse Dec. 18. “Teachers deserve to teach. We deserve to teach in a safe environment. ... Unfortunately, I don’t feel safe any more in my classroom.”

The incident had been “heartbreaking,” she said.

“I miss my students,” she added.

Her husband, Travis Lee, said his wife had been teaching for 20 years.

“It’s unfortunate the way that this situation has happened,” he said. “Her safety in our home, as well as our family’s safety at home, we feel like has been compromised.”

ORGANIZATIONS SPEAK OUT

The press conference also served as protest: Community members held signs that read, “Teacher lives matter” and “Stand with our teachers.”

Representatives of the Palm Coast Democratic Club and the Volusia/Flagler American Civil Liberties Union also attended the event and gave statements.

“The ACLU has a long history of supporting free speech. We even support the right to hate speech,” Volusia/Flagler ACLU President George Griffin said. “But when hate speech turns the corner and turns into criminal activity, we must draw the line right there. We cannot allow this to continue as if it was just a childhood prank. If you read the transcript, you realize this was a viable, credible threat being made. And when you read the transcript, you see that the only reason for it was racial hatred.

To brush this aside is just wrong.”

Mike Cocchiola, head of the Palm Coast Democratic Club, said the club stands behind Lee and the NAACP in this case.

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in this community, this county, and [Sheriff Rick Staly] needs to stand up and do something about these threats,” Cocchiola said. “He needs to take every one of them darn seriously, because threats encourage other threats, and finally somebody is going to get a gun or a knife or something.

We must stop it here, and we must stop it now.”

INVESTIGATION

The Dec. 10 incident is one in a series of recent criminal cases involving local students. All have now been charged with crimes: A Buddy Taylor Middle School boy was charged over bringing a loaded handgun to school in his backpack Dec. 7; two Indian Trails Middle School students were arrested and charged Dec. 13 over alleged threats to commit a school shooting; and an FPC student was arrested Dec. 14 after witnesses reported that he’d threatened on Dec. 7 to “shoot up the school.”

But the FCSO’s deputies initially found no probable cause for any charges against the two students who threatened Lee, writing in a case report that there was a “joking manner to the [students’ online] conversation,” and that there appeared to be no credible threat. The students told deputies that they had been “joking” in the chat. (Read the transcript of their chat at https://bit.ly/2STnQNC ).

Later — after speaking with Lee, who said she’d feared for her life and wanted to press charges — the FCSO charged the students with misdemeanor assault, with a recommendation to the State Attorney’s Office that a hate crime enhancement be added. The FCSO stated in a news release when the misdemeanor charges were filed that the case didn’t meet the criteria for felony charges.

“I believe that we’ve had a history here in Flagler County of disparate treatment between black children and white children in Flagler County schools,” Flagler County NAACP President Linda Sharpe Matthews said at the press conference. “I believe after reading the transcript of the transmission between the two children that had those children been black, they would have been arrested immediately, and those charges would have been felony charges.”

She added that the Southern Poverty Law Center had intervened over disciplinary disparities between black and white Flagler County students in local schools.

Flagler County NAACP Legal Redress Chairman Eric Josey said that Sheriff Rick Staly had only “relented” and filed misdemeanor charges against the students after public pressure over the fact that they had not been charged at all.

“That is unacceptable, and flat out it’s very insulting and it’s not going to be accepted,” Josey said.

Josey added that the NAACP branch has emailed the State Attorney’s Office to announce that the NAACP will be filing a records request seeking statistical data on past arrests for aggravated assault and assault on school officials, categorized by race.

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The students are currently charged with misdemeanor assault.

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Kimberley Lee, right, speaks to the press Dec. 18 with her husband, Travis Lee.

“I should be in my classroom right now, but I’m standing here. ... Teachers deserve to teach.

We deserve to teach in a safe environment. ...

Unfortunately, I don’t feel safe any more in my classroom.” KIMBERLEY LEE FURTHER CHARGES POSSIBLE

In a press release issued Dec. 15, the local NAACP branch had written that Staly “initially sought to bury” the Dec. 10 incident, and that the NAACP “will be calling for State Attorney R.J. Larizza, 7th Judicial Circuit, to investigate and properly charge the students with Aggravated Assault with an intent to commit a felony, F.S., 784.021(b), Assault on a School District Employee, F.S. 784.081(2) and Evidencing Prejudice while committing offense, F.S. 775.085 within 10 days.”

The FCSO, in response to the allegations in the Flagler County NAACP’s press release, has stated that the case is still under investigation, that further charges are still possible, and that the agency must ensure that the facts of the case meets statutory requirements for any charges the agency files. It also stated that the initial investigation and case report “included opinion and conclusions to some aspects of the investigation that were flawed.”

“The sheriff and the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office have no intent to do anything other than to conduct a full and appropriate investigation, where race plays no role,” Investigative Services Chief Steve Brandt said in an FCSO news release issued Dec. 17. “It is unfortunate that a community organization chose to intervene during an active investigation and start throwing unsupported and false allegations. To make sure everyone’s rights are not being violated and to ensure that all aspects of the case are accounted for, we cannot and will not be rushed to conclude this investigation. This investigation will be based on evidence, not opinion and rhetoric.”

The FCSO news release states, “Despite the allegations in the [NAACP] letter, Sheriff Rick Staly and the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office never sought ‘to bury the case.’ The Sheriff’s Office conducts thorough, color-blind investigations on all cases until completion, without setting time constraints on the process.”

The case, “as with all Sheriff’s Office investigations,” according to the Sheriff’s Office’s news release, was reviewed and assigned to the FCSO’s Investigative Services Division “well before any organization raised a concern,” and the FCSO then filed charges for misdemeanor assault with a hate crime enhancement under F.S. 775.085.

Detectives are still investigating other aspects of the case, and are seeking search warrants to check the computers seized during the investigation, according to the news release.

“This part of the investigation takes time to obtain search warrants and to conduct a forensic analysis of the computers,” the news release states.

An FCSO document sent out to the press along with the FCSO’s Dec. 17 news release lays out the statutory requirements for various potential charges alongside the FCSO’s determination of whether the case met the individual required elements of the charge.

For example: An aggravated assault charge — a third-degree felony — would require that the assault “was made either with a deadly weapon or with a fully formed conscious intent to commit a felony,” and the document lists that aspect of the Dec. 10 case as still under investigation.

A felony charge of written threats to kill would require that the threat “was to the recipient of the communication or a member of his or her family,” and, in this case, it was not, according to the document. Whether the case meets all of the elements of the charge of assaulting a school employee, a misdemeanor, is also pending the outcome of the investigation.

Sharpe Matthews said she was satisfied with the FCSO’s acknowledgment that there had been errors in the initial handling of the case.

“We’re waiting to see what [the sheriff] is going to do, but we wanted the community to know that we are not sleeping on this,” she said.

Six Flagler County students have been charged with crimes over the course of one week in four separate incidents involving students’ alleged threatening actions or statements at school.

Two of those incidents involved threats to commit a school shooting, and one involved a racist threat to kill a teacher. (See story on left.) Another involved a student who brought a loaded handgun to school.

The case that most recently came to the Sheriff’s Office’s attention was reported on Dec. 14, when a 16-year-old Flagler Palm Coast High student was arrested after two girls told administrators that he’d threatened on Dec. 7 to “shoot up the school.”

The witnesses were walking to attendance with the 16-year-old boy on Dec. 7 when they overheard him say something about shooting up the high school, the girls told a school resource deputy Dec. 14.

One girl, 15, said the boy “ kind of chuckled when he said it,” according to the deputy’s account of the girls’ statement in a charging affidavit.

She was not sure if he was joking, but “she became concerned when he stated that he would ‘text’ her on the day that it was going to happen so she would stay home and not come to school.”

The other girl, 14, reported hearing the 16-year-old talk about who he’d kill first.

The boy acknowledged the comments to a deputy, but told the deputy “that it was a joke and he would not actually shoot up the school,” according to the affidavit.

The deputy arrested the boy on a charge of False Report Concerning the Use of Firearms in a Violent Manner, a felony.

On Dec. 13, two students at Indian Trails Middle School were charged after another student reported having heard them talking on a school bus Dec. 12 about planning a school shooting.

A girl who’d overheard the boys’ conversation reported it to a school dean.

She said that the older boy, 14, had said, “It’s not going to be today, but at the formal,” and had added, “There were going to be a lot more people in one spot.”

The boy was “advising her to hide,” and had said, “I’m not going to get killed, and I will be fine.”

When a deputy asked the younger, 13-year-old boy’s mother if he had any access to weapons, she replied that there were “no weapons in the house other than a cross bow.”

The boys are charged with false report concerning the use of firearms in a violent manner, a felony.

On Dec. 10, two 16-year-old Flagler Palm Coast High School students allegedly discussed killing their language arts teacher in a internet chat laced with racial slurs. The teacher is black. Both students are white.

On Dec. 7, a teacher at Buddy Taylor Middle School heard that a 14-year-old boy may have a firearm in his backpack. The student was detained, and a loaded .45-caliber semi-automatic handgun was found in his backpack. The teen has been arrested and charged with bringing the handgun to school.

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Craig Coffey: Shutting down Captain’s BBQ could cost county ‘millions of dollars’

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The county is also seeking to have the sewage from Bings Landing and Captain’s BBQ handled by the Hammock Dunes CDD plant.

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Flagler County is asking the Hammock Dunes Community Development District to use the CDD’s plant to handle wastewater coming out of Bings Landing and Captain’s BBQ. The issue brought County Administrator Craig Coffey to speak before the Hammock Dunes CDD’s Board of Supervisors during its regular meeting Dec. 14.

Captain’s BBQ and Bings Landing now run off a combined septic system, and the county wants to tie into the Hammock Dunes CDD’s wastewater system so that the park and restaurant — which is planning a controversial renovation that would involve the county handling its wastewater issues — would no longer run on septic.

Adding a new septic system specifically for the proposed new restaurant building could be a significant cost and the work could be a disruption at the park, and, Coffey said, the county has been pushing to convert as much of the barrier island as possible from septic to sewer for environmental reasons.

“We think it would be a smart environmental thing for you to do,” Coffey said to the board. “It would definitely solve a lot of problems.”

The county would pay for all the work, he said.

Hammock Dunes CDD board members were hesitant to commit to Coffey’s proposal before the County Commission makes a decision at its Jan. 7 meeting.

Board member Charles Swinburn said he wants to do the environmentally responsible thing, but also doesn’t want to inject the CDD into a dispute about whether there should be a new building.

CDD Manager Greg Peugh said the CDD would be able to handle the Bings and Captain’s BBQ wastewater.

“We have the capacity; that’s not a problem,” he said. “We may have to upgrade a pump station.”

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COUNTY TO ‘AIR DIRTY LAUNDRY’ ON BINGS ISSUE

County Administrator Coffey is preparing give county commissioners some information about the situation at Bings that he didn’t provide before the commission’s Nov. 19 vote to approve a relocation of Captain’s BBQ within the park.

After its initial Nov. 19 vote, the commission on Dec. 3 —after newly elected commissioner Joe Mullins was sworn in — voted to reconsider the Nov. 19 vote during a meeting on Jan. 7. Commissioners said they want more detailed information.

“We didn’t air all our dirty laundry, so now we’re going to air all our dirty laundry,” Coffey said.

“We’re going to list the 10 major things wrong with the building.”

Captain’s BBQ leases its current building at Bings Landing from the county for $750 a month. It’s one of three restaurants on county property — the others are the restaurant at Bull Creek Fish Camp, and Highjackers at the Flagler County Executive Airport — that the county enticed to those locations by offering low-cost “sweetheart leases.”

The county is contractually responsible for maintaining the building. The problem, according to Coffey, is that the building has serious structural damage.

Repairing it would be expensive to the county and might become a perpetual project, while shutting the restaurant down in order to construct a new building in the same spot would mean putting Captain’s BBQ out of business during construction, Coffey said.

But there was a potential solution: The restaurant agreed to pay up to $1 million to build a new restaurant building in a new location nearer the center of the park, so that the restaurant could stay open in its current location during the construction process. The county would own the new building, demolish the old one, and t be responsible for the cost of adding parking for the new building and handling septic and sewer issues. The restaurant would also pay $1,000 a month to the county instead of the current $750.

If the county were to shut down Captain’s BBQ for months by closing the current restaurant building to build a new one in the same spot, Coffey said, the county would be legally responsible for the financial impact on Captain’s of that lost business during the months of closure — and possibly longer, something he hadn’t explained to commissioners before the Nov. 19 vote.

“I have to potentially pay them for the entirety of the lease … for business damages,” Coffey said, because of case law that seems to indicate that the county, as owner of the property, should be responsible for the longterm costs of the restaurant losing and having to rehire its staff, and losing business and the chance to build its brand, during a lengthy closure.

There are 13 years left on the current lease, and that could cost the county millions of dollars, Coffey said.

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School Board member, husband face ethics charges An Ethics Commission advocate found probable cause that Janet McDonald and Dennis McDonald improperly reported their assets.

Ethics complaints filed in April 2016 by the late county commission Frank Meeker against School Board member Janet McDonald and her husband Dennis McDonald have led to findings of probable cause against the McDonalds by the Florida Commission on Ethics.

Ethics commission cases are civil — not criminal — matters, but can lead to fines.

Dennis McDonald twice ran unsuccessfully against Meeker for the District 2 County Commission seat, once in 2012 and once in 2014.

Meeker’s complaints to the ethics commission alleged that the McDonalds had not properly disclosed their assets on the financial disclosure forms they filed when they ran for office — Janet McDonald in disclosures filed in 2013 and 2014 for her campaign for School Board, and her husband in 2011 and 2013 for his campaign for County Commission and for a state Senate seat.

Meeker wrote that in both cases, their “Form 6 filings appear to be false, incorrect, or incomplete, and fail to comply with the requirements of Article II, Section 8 of the Florida Constitution, and Section 112.31444, Florida Statutes.”

Meeker wrote that the McDonalds had not properly reported their real estate holdings in Florida and Connecticut, that bank accounts and some other assets were improperly listed in aggregate instead of individually, and that property values were overstated.

Dennis McDonald, in a written response to the ethics commissions regarding Meeker’s complaint, called the allegations “all false.”

The Commission on Ethics’ advocate was not convinced. The advocate wrote that the instructions on the financial disclosure form did require that individual items, such as the vehicles in Dennis McDonald’s auto collection, be listed individually, instead of in aggregate, as McDonald had listed them.

The advocate found in the case of Janet McDonald that she had overstated the value of some of her properties and understated the value of others. The advocate also wrote that McDonald was required to list her bank accounts individually, rather than in aggregate, and that she should have listed the individual assets held within her IRA. The McDonalds will have an opportunity to make their case before the Ethics Commission at a Protect all that you’ve built with a company you can trust. meeting in the future.

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How affordable housing should work Dear Editor: I read with dismay the letter in the Dec. 13 issue referring to the proposed affordable housing project as “Holland’s Ghettos.” Aside from the highly racist implications of that, there was a lot of information in there that just doesn’t apply to what is being proposed.

It is true, as the author of that letter suggested, that many subsidized housing projects in the inner cities are havens for crime and drug problems. But even there, the schools aren’t failing because of the housing; the communities are failing and prone to crime because the schools don’t provide even minimally adequate education and there are no jobs available even if you have an education. Drugs and prostitution become the only means of survival under these conditions of extreme and inescapable poverty.

What is being proposed here, however, as I understand it, is similar to what we have in the area where I live primarily, in North Carolina. The affordable housing there is in the middle of normal residential areas. It is well-kept, and the tenants are screened to prevent tenants prone to the type of activities the author seems to fear. The children attend the same local schools as the rest of the population. We have the same drug problems there as everywhere else, but there is no indication that drug use or trafficking, or other crime, is any more prevalent in the affordable housing

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The best way to keep people poor is to keep them stored away somewhere with no opportunity to escape poverty.

Getting people to a place where there are real education and employment opportunities gives them a chance to actually cost us less money in welfare and incarceration costs, and other social services, and to become the same productive citizens we’d like to think ourselves to be. Having also built and owned affordable housing, I found very few of my tenants to be less than upstanding people who just needed a chance, especially for their kids, at a better opportunity to improve their lot. It really does work, especially if there are adequate child care and transportation services to give people the ability to get to work and move around to the places they need to get to, along with easy access to shopping and medical care.

I truly hope we’re not going to let fear keep us from doing our small part to help make some people’s lives better. We all grow richer in many ways when the “least of our brothers” gets a chance to join us.

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Start over and get the Captain’s deal right Dear Editor: Captain’s BBQ at Bings Landing is a success, because it is what it is: quaint, old Florida, rustic, casual, walk in, pick

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out your beverage, walk to the counter and place your order, pick up your food at the window and enjoy it with friends, on the deck overlooking the Intracoastal Waterway, nestled under the trees, enjoying the atmosphere and surrounding of the setting, watching the boats, marine life, birds sunset and scenery. The experience.

It’s not about the food. Missing any one of those components, it all changes.

The people like it that way.

Changing the view, the building, the environment, the trees, or any one of the elements makes it something different.

Also to be considered is the fact that there is virtually no overhead or operating costs, which allows them to profit substantially on their investment.

That is why the proposed plan to move the restaurant and change the entire setting is a huge mistake, and will certainly end up in failure of the entire venture.

If the principals of this restaurant feel they have outgrown the existing building and setting, and it is restricting their growth, it is incumbent upon them to find more suitable commercial property to expand their operation. It is not the county, the county taxpayers, the voters and residents’ responsibility to upgrade their lease and further their low operational costs in order to further their profit margins.

Also, the fact that one of principals is now on the Flagler County Planning Board and owns other expensive commercial real estate further muddies the water of why this

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These are probably going to cause a lot of extra accidents, and the public as far as I’ve heard, did not want these to happen.

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One afternoon in December 2016, near where her family lived, she stood lookout while her boyfriend hopped a backyard fence in the R-section. He was going to steal pills. An alarm sounded, so he quickly jumped back over the fence. Deputies came, and they told the deputies they were trying to borrow a mop from the homeowner. Story didn’t check out, and there was also surveillance footage. Her boyfriend was sentenced to prison; she went to jail for being an accessory to burglary.

When she got out, she was on probation. At age 19, she was now a convicted felon. This was her new life. *** In 2014, the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics published the results of a study that tracked felons in 30 states since 2005. More than onethird were arrested again within six months. Two-thirds committed another crime in three years.

About half of all crimes in the United States were committed by about one-sixth of released prisoners.

What are the chances of a felon staying out of jail for good?

When Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly was elected in 2016, he felt that more resources should be offered to inmates to help them start over once they got out of jail. So he met with Becky Quintieri, the jail’s inmate services director, and asked her to explore some ideas. Staly’s late

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Hope Greening didn’t do hardcore drugs in high school — just a lot of weed. She felt she had a bright future. She signed up to be an athletic trainer after school in her junior year and learned how to wrap sprained ankles on the fields of Flagler Palm Coast High School. But she never had a ride home, so she quit. Fun while it lasted.

Short and saucy, always ready to tell you exactly what she felt, usually with some four-letter words sprinkled in. Dirty-blond hair. Girly, but low-maintenance, not a makeup person, really.

After high school, she was on a crazy drug trip for months.

Functioning addict, paying bills, working at Steak ’n’ Shake, not really homeless, but no real home, either. She was around bad dudes all the time and saw how evil the world could be. But she didn’t regret it. You learn from everything you do, so whatever.

Still, she didn’t want to be around her family while she was using. So she and her boyfriend stole a tent from a store and stayed in the woods in the E-section of Palm Coast, near a golf course.

After about a month, one day they returned to the tent to find some homeless people in it, messing

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mother had been a social worker, and Quintieri’s background was also in social work, so they both had personally witnessed success stories of people climbing out of their dark pasts.

Quintieri took her orders from the sheriff and got to work.

But the timing wasn’t quite right for Hope Greening. She was already out of jail and back on the streets. *** It was August 2017, and Hope had strict requirements from her probation officer. She had to apply to three jobs per day and report back weekly. No excuses. If you missed an appointment or did drugs, you were getting nailed for violation of probation. And she owed $1,200 for the privilege of going to her meetings and getting her mandated drug tests. Where was she supposed to get that kind of money?

She applied to 47 jobs over a few weeks. Not much luck. But one place gave her an in-person interview: a little restaurant in Bunnell on U.S. 1, where she had once eaten a hot dog with cream

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She wore jeans and a nice shirt to the interview. Of course, she didn’t really want the job. She was doing it just so she could tell the probation people she had done it and so she could pay off the $1,200. Plus, it would be nice to get a regular income so she could afford more dope.

At the interview, though, she had to say that she had a record.

And not just a little record — it was a felony. The conversation didn’t go too far. They’d have to get back to her later.

Never did.

Didn’t get the job.

Was it really possible to get a job once you’ve done time? *** She got to know a guy, Devin McKenna. He was 6 feet tall with short brown hair, been living in Flagler County since 1993. He was something else. He would put on some shin guards with spikes, tie a chainsaw to his belt (not running, of course), strap himself to a pine tree and shimmy

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ing out, and they were always busy. Running around town, fixing lawn mowers and weed eaters, doing drugs, eating at McDonald’s. It was just fun to be around him, and it wasn’t like she made a decision to stay — she just kind of never left. He was more than 10 years older, at 31, and he had a record, but hey, so did she, so whatever.

His dad’s house was a hive, always a dozen of Devin’s druggie friends coming and going, even though his dad didn’t really like it, didn’t like walking out of his bedroom in the morning and finding strangers sleeping on his couch and on his floor. Devin was something of a follower. He would do dumb stuff and get in trouble because he wanted people to like him.

The house was a trailer on Sawgrass Road, behind the Flagler County softball fields. Geese and ducks, a shed, a pen with horses and donkeys. Tattered Confederate flag on a pole. A driveway so long you can smoke a whole cigarette while you walk to the mailbox.

It was all good, until one day Devin said some things about another girl, and Hope was jealous and punched him in the head, and they were through. Had they even been together, really? Either way, they started seeing other people.

But they ran in the same circles, and she would end up at the McKenna house on Sawgrass every now and then. One time Devin was building a go-cart, and no one was helping, so she offered. When it was done, it would go like 40 mph. They would be up all night, fixing small engines. He had a real

knack for it. He had bad eyesight, but he had every mechanical part memorized, every step.

His dad, Robert McKenna, a heavyset man with a mustache, was disabled but had a scrapping business. People would call him all the time, and he would drive around and pick up things like refrigerators or old lawnmowers that didn’t work. The house on Sawgrass was fully furnished with the spoils of scrapping: couches, curtains, even a 5-foot-tall metal cage for Robert’s 27-year-old macaw, named Oscar. There was a flatscreen TV that had been discarded in a Palm Coast neighborhood but had just needed a minor tweak to work perfectly. That was now in Robert’s bedroom.

Then in December 2017, Devin was late to a probation appointment. These people were strict, so he thought he was a goner.

Heading back to jail for sure. But he wasn’t going to wait around for that, so he skipped out and headed back to the house on Sawgrass, avoiding any officers.

Of course, that didn’t work.

Cops showed up on Dec. 2, and Robert let them in. Devin stepped out of a closet in a bedroom and was cuffed and taken to jail. Busted.

It was the 54th time he had been arrested or written up by law enforcement since he was a teenager. Here he was again, heading back to jail. *** In Facebook videos and press releases, Sheriff Staly had a persona. He was the tough, law-andorder sheriff. He called the jail the “Green Roof Inn,” and reminded the public that the accommodations were not pleasant. You don’t want to be in jail.

The jail population continued

to climb. It passed the 200 mark.

The record was 256. Drug use was not just a problem in big cities: It was a problem right here in Flagler County.

And yet, Staly had hope. People could be rehabilitated, but there were three keys. First, they had to want to change. Second, they can’t get out of jail and go back to the same old friends and family members who are still doing drugs. If you do, the chances are slim.

And third, the community has to be willing to give you a hand up.

You have to be able to find a job.

If any of those three keys don’t work out, hope vanishes, and you get repeat offenders on a cycle — sometimes for generations.

The harsh reality is that even if you do get back out and change, you might not be able to ever get back the life you once had. Staly’s own relative, the son of his step brother, was a drug addict who had gone in and out of rehab three times before it clicked. It was a success story. He wasn’t on drugs anymore.

But the damage had been done.

Still in his 30s, health issues caused during his addiction caught up to him, and he died in April 2018. *** While his son Devin was locked up, Robert visited him all the time — and he also kept in touch with Hope. One day Robert needed some help on a scrapping run.

Sometimes the loads were huge: multiple trips, 13,000 pounds worth of scrap that had to be loaded and hauled for sale. So he asked Hope for help, and she was like, sure.

So they were driving, and it so happened that Devin called right then, from jail. He could

call as many times as he wanted, in 15-minute increments, as long as he had money in his account.

Robert answered and was like, Yeah, I’m with Hope.

Devin was amazed. He asked to talk to Hope, and he said he really appreciated it. It was a nice thing, surprisingly nice, for her to be helping his dad like that.

They stayed in touch. She still liked him. Maybe she loved him.

They got back together — while he was still in jail. He had four more months. Meanwhile, Hope moved into the house on Sawgrass. She helped Robert and waited for Devin’s return. *** Devin knew when his life had all started to go wrong. It was when his mom died in 2009, when Devin was 23. Anna Marie. She died on her 25th wedding anniversary with Robert. Heart attack in her sleep, 49 years old. Shook everyone up, but especially Devin.

Devin had already been in trouble with the law by that point, but it was mostly because he drank a lot. Not drugs. The last time he ever saw his mom before she died was when Devin was stumbling in through a door. That was it.

She died. Last impression, the way she would remember him in heaven: a drunk.

He was distraught. He started doing harder drugs in his 20s. He spent more time around other people who did drugs, too. He went to state prison in 2013 for 18 months after he was caught selling. When he got out, he went back to the same crowd, and it felt like there was no way out of the trap.

On the way to the funeral of one his friends who died of an overdose, Devin was an emotional wreck. And to make things

worse, he got stopped by a deputy, who arrested him for driving with a suspended license — and although Devin tried to hide it, the deputy found drugs on Devin that day, too. Back to jail.

He was in jail more than he was out, it seemed, and even when he was out, he was on probation. In the times he was back home on Sawgrass, he had anger problems. He dented the fridge one day. Kicked over a trashcan one day. Holes in walls.

One day while he was in jail, Hope wrote him a letter: Your mom’s watching over you, man. What would she say if she was alive today and she saw the stuff you’re doing? Any mom would be disappointed. But if you get it together, she’ll be proud of you. You just have to turn it around. *** Hope’s probation wasn’t going so well. She was still using. She pissed dirty on a couple of drug tests in the spring of 2018, but she found ways to get out of trouble.

She also got together with another guy but lied to Devin to hide it.

Devin finally got out of jail again in April 2018. But the freedom wasn’t exactly free. Instead of going home to his dad and Hope, he had to go to a drug rehab place in Jacksonville. But within the first hour of being there, he saw people doing drugs, and he called his dad. Get me out of here.

Getting him out would be a violation of probation — again. It would mean he would be hiding out — again. He knew and Robert knew and Hope knew that eventually Devin would wind up back in jail.

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Robert and Hope drove to Jacksonville to pick him up.

The next couple of weeks were good. They did some drugs. It was a reunion. But it didn’t last.

On May 1, Hope and Devin and a friend went to McDonald’s in front of Target. And they got stopped by a deputy. Hope was in the driver’s seat of a red Astro van, and she knew Devin was getting arrested again. What she didn’t think about right away was that she was also busted. They ran her name, and she got cuffed, too, for violating her own probation.

She had some nasty words for the deputy, and then she felt bad because he was nice enough to let her smoke a cigarette. She got tucked into a patrol car, and there was Devin sitting right beside her, also in cuffs.

Well. Ever been arrested with your girlfriend?

He said no. And she started laughing. She laughed a lot whenever she was nervous.

The thing is, she was starving.

They had gone to McDonald’s, but they didn’t actually get to order anything. And yet, here was the deputy’s car with a sack of food in the front seat, and it smelled so good. So wrong.

The deputy drove them to jail, like being in a taxi, the two of them in the back seat, and Hope told the deputy she was sorry for being nasty back there. He said it was all good, and she insisted.

Really, I know I was being nasty, and I’m sorry.

She looked at Devin and laughed again.

They got to the jail, and they had to wait in the car awhile, so the deputy got out and ate his food. Hope knew they had missed lunch at jail — she knew the schedule — so they’d be getting baloney sandwiches instead.

Horrible. Whole car smelled like McDonald’s.

So much for getting out and staying out. So much for a new start on life. Apparently, this was life. *** Devin had a much different reaction when he was in the backseat of that deputy’s car. Before Hope had gotten in, it was quiet.

He thought about his dad, about calling him with more bad news: I’m going to jail again. He knew his dad would be disappointed.

He broke down and started crying.

Then the other passenger door opened, and handcuffed Hope climbed in, still ticked off at the deputy. Devin hadn’t even known she had a warrant for her arrest.

Hope, this is it, he said. I can’t do this no more. I’m done using, I’m done selling.

She was laughing and talking about the smell of the McDonald’s.

This ain’t funny, he said.

He was crying. He wanted to

call his dad. He was so tired. The cops all knew him on a first-name basis, from the time he was selling. It was time to be done with this. *** Meanwhile, Becky Quintieri’s goal of gathering resources was humming along. A GED program began. She formed a partnership with Flagler Technical Institute to teach classes. Volunteers from Santa Mara del Mar Catholic Church helped. There were math tutors and reading tutors. Career Source agreed to offer a sort of insurance policy for potential employers who might be nervous about hiring a convicted felon.

Pastor Charles Silano was bringing Open Door Ministries to the inmates.

She felt like she was putting together a recipe for success. It might not be that any inmate’s improved life could be directly tied to a particular class, but connections were being made.

Inmates were meeting these people face to face, and when they encountered them again on the outside, they’d be more likely to speak up and get help.

And it felt good. Inmates sometimes called her on the phone when they got out and thanked her. One inmate still sends her pictures of the fish he catches.

One inmate was suicidal and called her. She insisted he check himself in, or she was sending law enforcement to him. She had that kind of a relationship with these people.

Staly was thrilled with the progress. The crime rate had dropped 17% in a year, and it seemed possible that these efforts were part of that improvement. Even if the classes did nothing but slow down the repeat offenders so they waited longer before they committed crimes, it was making the community safer. But there was only so much that could be done if the individual didn’t start with a desire to change. It had to be their choice first. *** Hope got 64 days, so she’d be out in July. Devin got till Jan. 16, 2019.

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some. Used with some. Pretty bad when you’re so connected in jail.

And then some of the older women noticed something. She was emotional, crying over stupid stuff like the chips and candy in her commissary bag. They told her she was pregnant.

She laughed it off.

She was thinking about her life a lot. Weighing pros and cons of trying to stop using. Was it even worth trying?

She got out on July 3, 2018, and Robert picked her up. He had a load ready for the junkyard, so they didn’t even go home — went straight to drop off the scrap.

Trying to keep her out of trouble.

Hope couldn’t shake what the ladies in jail had told her. So she got a pregnancy test at the store.

She peed on the stick.

She flipped it over.

And she laughed.

Days later, she went to visit Devin in jail. He was giving her a pep talk and a lecture. In previous visits, he could tell she had been high.

You better not be using, he said.

I’m not.

You better not be.

There’s a reason why, she said.

I’m pregnant.

It still hadn’t hit her yet. Not that she never wanted kids. But she was 19 years old, in and out of jail, baby’s father currently in.

This isn’t exactly how it was supposed to happen. *** Devin had already been given a hint that she might be pregnant.

One day while he was working in the kitchen, wearing a hairnet, serving up lunch chow for all the inmates, a female deputy told him that the women were saying Hope might be pregnant.

He was excited. He wrote letters and always asked how the unborn baby was doing. They talked about names. Devin was scheduled to be out of jail just before the due date of Jan. 20, so he should be able to be there in the hospital with Hope.

Robert was also excited. He collected more supplies through his scrapping: a rocking chair for Hope, a new bathtub and toilet.

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living area for Hope and Devin.

Hope was excited, too. She kept imagining what it would look like, once she could paint the ugly brown walls a more attractive color. She thought of the baby in a crib, right there in the corner.

Was it possible for Devin to get out of jail and be a good father?

Or would he be an absentee — the type of father who would end up back in jail off and on for the rest of his life?

Hope told herself that Devin was being genuine when he committed to being there for the baby. And she always felt better when Robert reassured her that Devin seemed to be doing better this time than he had in previous stints in jail.

But in quiet moments, when she really thought about it, she knew she couldn’t even rely on herself.

She had made commitments to others before, to stay clean, and then she would use again a few days later. You can’t predict the future. She didn’t make promises to anyone anymore.

At the minimum, she decided, she would have to make an arrangement with Devin: One of the two would have to be clean. If either fell back into old ways, the new baby would have to be able to rely on at least one. *** Hope was looking and feeling very pregnant. And she was not exactly aching to work, but she had to figure something out. This was no longer about someone nagging her while she was on probation: She had to get a job to provide for her baby.

She arranged for an in-person interview at a retail store in Palm Coast that was hiring. She looked in her closet for something that would be appropriate, but she had grown out of most of her clothes.

She put on a dress with flowers on it and went to the interview.

But what were the chances of getting a job looking like this?

Who’s going to hire a pregnant woman, about to pop? And someone with a felony conviction?

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They said goodbye and, We’ll let you know!

It was annoying. Hope exited the store. She couldn’t do anything about it, so she tried not to be upset. But she was running out of time. *** Meanwhile, back in jail, Devin and a deputy looked at Devin’s old mug shots. There was the drunk phase. Then there was the opioid phase, then the meth phase. And he looked like a different person in each mug shot. When he got to jail this most recent time, he joined the kitchen crew, and his weight was 224, and the number of days in a row he’d been clean was climbing fast.

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the baby was coming early. Miss Becky passed messages between Hope in the hospital and Devin at jail, and she tried to get Devin a furlough to be there for the birth, but it didn’t work out. While Devin was in jail, Carter arrived.

Hoped held him in her arms. He was so handsome.

He looked just like Devin — Robert even said so.

This was it. She was ready.

She had known people who had been shooting up while they were pregnant. She knew people who got their kids to pee in a cup for them so they could pass a drug test.

She wasn’t one of those people. If she had been weighing the pros and cons of using before, she wasn’t weighing anything anymore. Who was she to ruin Carter’s life just because she had no self control? No. She had been clean since she found out she was pregnant, and she was going to stay clean. That life was over.

Whether Devin was in it with her for good — she couldn’t base her life on that. As soon as she was healthy enough, she was going to get a job, and she had a friend of a friend who could watch Carter.

She held him close. He didn’t ask to be brought into the world.

And she was going to be responsible for him. She was a mom now.

It was a feeling. You look at him, and you don’t want anything to happen to him. *** On the night of Dec. 17, 2018, Devin knew he was down to 29 days left in jail. He and the other inmates were given little green razors so they could shave. Had to turn them back in afterward, and they were tossed in a bin. Routine, routine, routine.

He was thinking of Carter.

And he was also thinking of another child. Someone he had only met once. V was 4 years old and was living in Palm Coast now, with his mother’s parents.

He hadn’t been there for V, his son. But he was determined to be there for him now. He had broken the trust of V’s grandparents in the past, but he imagined one day in the future when he might win back that trust. And maybe Devin and Robert could go and pick him up one evening and take him to dinner.

On the morning of Dec. 18, Hope was cradling Carter again.

She knew about V, too, but not until recently. It was a shock to find out, and then it was another shock to find out that Devin had been aware of V but hadn’t told Hope.

So all these years, when Devin was strung out and doing drugs, he hadn’t been trying to help take care of V? Well, that wasn’t going to work.

Sure, it was a weird situation with V’s mom, but that wasn’t V’s fault. Hope wasn’t into baby mama drama, where she would be jealous or want to keep Devin just for herself and for Carter. If Devin was going to be there for Carter, he was going to be there for V, too — as much as V’s grandparents would allow, anyway.

Devin had lied to Hope in the past. She had lied to him, too.

The last time he had come back from jail, they had agreed to stay clean. But they hadn’t. They had gone right back to using.

Would it be different this time?

Only a month to go before it would get real, and he’d be home.

She wants to say yes, he’s going to do right. She hopes.

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Two of Flagler Palm Coast girls soccer’s finest signed their National Letters of Intent on Dec. 19.

Emily Puentes signed with North Carolina Wesleyan College, and Brielle Landry signed with Huntingdon College. Both players have been a huge part of FPC’s soccer program for four years, and are currently team captains. Landry is a four-year starter at right defender and Puentes is in her third year starting at midfield.

CHASING THE CENTURY MARK The Pirates’ Alyssia Paiz kicks the ball toward the goal against Clay.

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Front row, left to right: Christine Delong, Jill Trecki, Mariann Trecki and Meaghan Trecki.

Second row: Coach Maurice Gilbert, coach Kelly Kastner and coach Katie Kastner.

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Bulldogs girls lacrosse player Mariann Trecki signed her National Letter of Intent with the University of Central Florida on Dec. 13.

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Matanzas’ girls weightlifting team took first place in its Senior Night meet on Dec. 13. First-Place Finishers: Andie Tice (110), Savannah Evans (119), Nia Felton (129), Taylor Phillips (169), Alicia Daughtry (183) Juliana Smith (199) and Chiara Longo (UNL). SecondPlace Finishers: Katie Welker (119), Emily Thompson(129), Tehya Schermerhorn (139), Rebecca Torres (139), Aubrey Kravanta (154), Diana Croft (210), Tori Phillips (169), Gabriella Homen (199) and Evelyn Henriqson (UNL).

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FPC had two “Champions of Character” award winners on Dec. 12: Shelby Beck, a four-year volleyball starter, and Will Patin, a four-year varsity soccer player. Beck has a 4.9 weighted GPA and is an active member of the Student Government Association, where she serves as the vice president. Patin holds a 4.6 weighted GPA and is also part of the Teens-in-Flight program and is a Community Problem Solver.

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Matanzas’ boys basketball team edged out Seabreeze 57-53 on Dec. 13 at Seabreeze High School.

The win brought the Pirates to a .500 record at the time.

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atanzas soccer player Alyssia Paiz entered the Pirates’ game against DeLand on Nov. 15 four scores shy of 100 goals for her high school career. She scored three quick goals against the Bulldogs, who are traditionally one of the area’s top teams.

On Paiz’s third goal, it was announced to the crowd at Matanzas High School that she needed one more goal to eclipse the century mark. Her sister Gabbi Paiz, who graduated in 2014, was the first in school history to accomplish that feat.

The Bulldogs’ forwards turned to their defenders and gave a direct order: Do everything to stop Paiz from scoring again.

While driving toward the net near the halfway point in the second half, Paiz had a chance to score but was wiped out in the penalty box and nearly broke her thumb.

The officials awarded her a penalty kick.

Twelve yards and open grass was all that stood in between Paiz and the Bulldogs’ goalie. Sounds simple enough, right?

On the outside, Paiz was calm, but on the inside, she was nervous. She’d been playing soccer for 14 years, including four years on the Pirates’ varsity team, and had only ever taken five penalty kicks, making three of them.

“I’m pretty well-known for bombing balls over the net,” she said. “I was telling myself that I could do this. I was beating the goalie the whole night. I knew this goalie: what she could do and what she couldn’t do. I just

Matanzas’ Alyssia Paiz competes in a game against Clay.

needed to keep it simple.”

She hit the ball hard and kept it low to the crowd, tumbling toward the bottom left corner of the net.

She stared at the ball as if it were traveling in slow motion. Each revolution felt like an eternity.

The Bulldogs’ goal keeper initially jumped to the right side of the goal when Paiz made contact with her kick. The slight movement in the wrong direction was all that was needed to throw off the keeper’s timing. She lunged toward the ball as far and as quickly as she could, but it rolled past the goal line just outside her fingertips.

The Pirates’ bench erupted, the crowd went wild, and Paiz celebrated with a knee slide across the field. Her teammates then dogpiled her.

“It was amazing,” she said. “I

“Alyssia is dedicated. She has a willingness to win. She comes to practice even if she’s not feeling 100%. I would love to see that out of every single one of our players.

Every team needs a goal-scorer like that, and we’re blessed to have her.”

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didn’t think I’d be able to do it.”

There wasn’t much time for celebration, however. Paiz quickly set her sights on breaking her sister’s career total of 104.

Even more than eclipsing 100 goals, this was the record Paiz wanted to reach above everything.

She got her chance when the Pirates faced Palatka on Nov. 30.

Paiz delivered a ground ball into the bottom left corner of the net in the last few minutes of game.

“Gabbi didn’t want it to happen. But she knew it was going to,” she joked.

Paiz currently sits at 108 goals for her career and will continue to add to that total as the season goes on. But more importantly, she has bragging rights.

“My sister had a big reputation in soccer here,” she said. “And now, I have it.”

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FLAGLER SPORTFISHING CLUB n When: 7-9 p.m. n Where: Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 8696, 47 Old Kings Road N. n Cost: Free n Details: The guest speaker will be Captain Tommie Durham, the sales manager at Big Boys Play Toys in Palatka. For members, there will also be a chili cook-off.

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Debbie Staly and Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly wave to spectators from aboard the lead boat.

ith one boat coming as far as Hilton Head, South Carolina, to participate in the Palm Coast Holiday Boat Parade, event organizer Sarah Ulis said she was pleased with this year’s growth.

“This year, we saw a lot of new boaters, people who have never been in the parade,” Ulis said.

“Almost half of them were brand new and had never been in the parade before.”

The 36th-annual parade was held on the evening of Saturday, Dec. 15. Hundreds of spectators lined homes along the Instacoastal Waterway, many under decorated docks, to watch a line of 47 well-lit boats parade by.

“It is such a thrill to be part of it.

It’s unbelievable,” Ulis said. “I feel like it’s Palm Coast giving itself a big hug.”

As the grand marshals, Palm Coast Mayor Milissa Holland and Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly rode on the lead boat in the parade, driven by Captain Robert Ulis.

The largest number of boats participated this year, Sarah Ulis said.

Last year, there were 40 boats. She hopes to increase the publicity out of Central Florida even more next year to encourage boaters from North and South Florida to participate in the seasonal fun.

“We have an advantage here because the Instracoastal is fairly narrow and it’s not out in the Atlantic and it’s not in a big bay, so it’s easy to see from the shore and makes it a more intimate event,” she said. “And, what Flagler Broadcasting did brought a new dynamic to the parade and extended it beyond just watching the boat parade, to have the com-

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Sarah and Robert Ulis, the event organizers, head out to lead the boat parade.

mentary, which they did a beautiful job with.”

New to this year was a live broadcast with KOOL 100.9 FM. The anchors were Flagler Broadcasting’s “Doctor Dave”; former Palm Coast Mayor Jon Netts; Ansley Cestare, of Flagler-Palm Coast High School’s TV Production program; and Donella Crawford, representing the Palm Coast Yacht Club, which was the presenter of the parade.

“I think it was great to have an opportunity to be with other people who have experience being on the radio,” said Cestare, who has been interning with KOOL 100.9 FM for a few weeks. “It was great to be able to communicate with them, laugh with them and talk to other people around there nonstop for a whole hour.”

Cestare noted that the announcing the parade was very different than quick news shows with FPC-TV, but she enjoyed the change.

“I wouldn’t be surprised to see her on the ‘Today Show’ one day,” Sarah Ulis said about Cestare.

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ehind the puppy pictures on the Facebook page “The Adventures of Jelly, Bean and Sophia,” there’s a family that’s coping with loss.

The Facebook page, created by the Toth family of Palm Coast, now has over 80,000 “likes” and “followers.” It was started in December 2016 as a collaboration between Mary Toth and her son, Drew, to showcase the fun lives and personalities of their three fluffy friends: Jelly, Bean and Sophia.

One month after the page was created, Drew died of a drug overdose.

“It just devastated our house and our family,” Mary Toth said.

Mary Toth and her wife, Reese Toth, had only lived in Palm Coast for about seven months before creating the “The Adventures of Jelly, Bean and Sophia” account, but its rapid growth made it a special community that they knew they needed to continue — now, in honor of Drew.

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by Drew and filled it with love and positivity on the dogs’ account.

“Through our dogs, we’ve found happiness,” Mary Toth said. “And through my son’s death, there is healing. My son has given me many gifts since he’s been dead; he was my best friend.”

Mary Toth said that Sophia was Drew’s dog of choice, and she’s a constant reminder of him to this day.

The Toths began fostering children in January 2018, and the house was soon full. Over the last year, they have had up to three dogs and six foster children at once.

They have officially adopted two boys and are in the process of adopting two girls, Mary Toth said.

“Before I knew it, I could see Mary lifting up out of her grief,” Reese Toth said. “And I knew it was the dogs. And before you knew it, I could see the dogs doing the same things for the kids.”

Mary and Reese said they’ve seen their dogs warm their way into their kids’ hearts — a stark contrast from the day the kids walked into the home unsure and angry.

“After they started to get close with the dogs, you just start to see that horrible day, the worst day of their life, disappear,” Reese Toth said.

Mary was adopted as a baby herself, which fuels her passion to continue fostering.

“We know what these kids’ lives were like because those are the lives we lived,” Reese Toth said.

Though she wasn’t adopted, Reese Toth said she has a complicated past. Her childhood dog, Sebastian, a Norwegian elkhound, saved her countless times from an aggressive stepfather; it’s how she knows the power of human-dog connections.

“I can tell you, as an abused child, [Sebastian] slept with me and stayed with me,” Reese Toth said. “They had to put him out of the house if they were going to do anything. So, I knew immediately that an animal was going to protect me over anything else. I mean, he would sit in my doorway until my stepfather was in bed, and then, he would come and get in bed with me.”

Reese Toth said she feels a similar connection with the family’s dogs now. They know when she’s in pain and when she is due for a doctor’s visit, due to injuries from a motor vehicle crash six years ago.

The dogs seem to have a sixth sense about her and her family’s needs.

“Dogs to me are just a manifestation of love,” she said. “Even when we’re in the deepest, darkest of places, and other humans

Jelly holds a ball in her mouth, next to Reese Toth, Sophia, Mary Toth and Bean.

Park, the Flagler Beach Pier and the Daytona International Speedway, as readers follow Jelly’s quest to find her ball.

The Toths have much more in the works for “The Adventures of Jelly, Bean and Sophia.” They’re working on writing a movie script, and they want to create a nonprofit in honor of Drew, through the series.

“I wanted to give back some way, in my son’s name,” Mary Toth said. “So, we’re in the process of coming up with some name for a nonprofit. My son loved shoes, like Jordans. I think he had 35 pairs when he died.

When our foster kids came, they had nothing. They go to school and get uniforms, but the only way they can express themselves is through their feet.”

Reese Toth hopes to use their fostering experience to help local single mothers and those dealing with the aftermath of abuse.

“My passion for fostering is that I know I’m saving them from an environment that I’m very familiar with. And I can give them the things that no one gave me,” Reese Toth said. “But animals definitely saved my life. When I couldn’t connect with another human, I could connect with my dog.”

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Jelly plays with her ball.

can’t get us out, the dogs can.”

The family just added a new pup, a little Yorkie and Havanese mix named Luke. They recently came out with their first children’s book, “Jelly and the Lost Ball,” which was written by Mary Toth and illustrated by her brother, Ryan Toth.

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Palm Coast Animal Control Officer Kasey Hagan (middle) visits “Jocelyn the dog” and her new owners Doris and Julian Boyden on Dec. 14.

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The story began Dec. 4 when Palm Coast Animal Control received a call of a dog injured on the side of I-95 near the weigh station. Animal Control Officer Kasey Hagan found the pup, but she was extremely scared and fled deep into the woods where Hagan could not follow. Kagan set a dog trap overnight in an attempt to contain her and get her the help she needed.

Hagan returned first thing the next morning and was so happy to find the dog in the trap. The pup was very cold and in pain with obvious injuries.

Palm Coast Animal Control took her to the Flagler Animal Hospital for an evaluation. She was then transferred to the Flagler County Humane Society in the hopes of reuniting her with her owners.

It was determined the dog would need an orthopedic specialist to repair her broken

bones. The Humane Society posted a story on its Facebook page and did receive some donations toward her treatment, but the dog was in a lot of pain and the owners had not come forward. It was recommended she be humanely euthanized.

After conferring with Animal Control, the decision was made that Jocelyn would be put down Saturday morning if the owners didn’t come forward by then.

On Saturday morning, Dec. 8, minutes before Jocelyn was to be put to sleep, the Boydens came to the Humane Society after seeing the Facebook post and decided to adopt her.

That same morning they also adopted a cat.

“The timing was truly impeccable and a true Christmas miracle,” Hagan said in the release. “My Christmas has been made already just by knowing this pup gets to carry on living life one treat at a time. This is why we do what we do.”

One final holiday reminder from Palm Coast Animal Control: “Adopt, don’t shop!”

Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly, school resource deputies and Flagler Schools administrators met with a student-led Community Problem Solvers group at Flagler Palm Coast High School on Wednesday, Dec. 12, to discuss a proactive plan designed by the students to increase safety on school campuses, according to a news release.

The plan, developed by the students, included a survival kit, first aid training for teachers, drones to monitor the school’s perimeter, a short safety video and employment of FCSO K-9 deputies to conduct random patrols at the school.

Staly offered to provide the K-9 patrols to FPC and assigned FCSO Director of Domestic Homeland Security Randall Stroud to work with the school and Superintendent Tager to make the student’s vision a reality.

the photo backdrops. This year members dressed in costumes, as well. Anna and Elsa from Disney’s Frozen and elves were there to assist in Santa’s living room. And, of course, Santa Claus took the time to visit with every child.

FPCHS Activities Director Cheryl Perry said the event raised $1,275, with 425 people in attendance. The money will help 11 children at Operation Changing Lives and to support families at FPCHS with grocery gift cards for holiday meals.

PILGRIMAGE TO THE HOLY LAND On Monday, Nov. 26, members of Mt. Calvary Baptist Church of Palm Coast, along with Pastor Reverend Edwin Coffie and group leader Loyce N. Allen started their 10-day pilgrimage to the Holy Land. They returned on Dec. 5 from Israel after visiting the birth place of Jesus Christ in Bethlehem, sailing

the Sea of Galilee and walking through many historic places, including garden of Gethsemane and the Western Wall.

BREAKFAST WITH SANTA The Matanzas High School Key Club hosted a Breakfast with Santa on Saturday, Dec. 13, where pancakes were served and games were played. There were 31 student volunteers and the club was able to raise $473 for Relay for Life and to send students to a leadership conference.

RYMFIRE WINTER CONCERT Rymfire Elementary School’s winter concert took place Thursday, Dec. 6. It was a fun night with performances by Rymfire’s chorus, steel drum players, bucket drummers, dancers and more.

DINNER WITH SANTA Flagler Palm Coast High School held its annual Dinner with Santa on Wednesday, Dec. 12.

The event was started about 10 years ago by the FPC Student Government Association as a fun holiday event that everyone could afford. The price for admission was set at $3 per person and has never been increased.

The student government members donate and prepare all the food.

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Charlie, an African Grey, who was featured in the Observer in fall 2017, has now been seizure free since Sept. 24, 2017, thanks in part to community support to fund the bird’s treatment, said Trudy Tappan, who cares for him. Charlie still takes medicine daily, but just one that is keeping him healthy.

Because of his medication regimen, he is housed in the private home of the Baiata Bird Sanctuary president. Charlie is active and enjoying life, making all sorts of new sounds and listening to all types of music. He has a female African Grey companion, but they live in separate cages. Both are older birds, but delightful, and they thoroughly enjoy each other’s company.

“I want to thank all of you who contributed to Charles wellness by your thoughts, prayers, and contributions,” said Tappan in an email.

Alabaster Minstries hosted “Toys for Joy” teen outreach for Christmas on Tuesday, Dec. 18. The ministry provided gifts and dinner was donated by Golden Corral.

It was a festive night with Palm Coast Community Choir, karaoke games and lots of giveaways gifts for teens and their families.

Spoken word was performed by Gabriella Monet, with hip-hop flavor on the meaning of “love.” This outreach was done in partnership with local Palm Coast businesses, including Mayor Robinson of Bunnell, Chanfrau and Chanfrau, Katz and Green Law Office, Palm Coast Methodist Church, Tomaka Eye Associates, Tranquility Senior Care and many more.

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CELEBRATING THE SEASON AT ISTC On Friday, Dec. 14, Imagine School at Town Center’s Imagine Nation Theater presented a double feature: “The Nutcracker Suite” (A mini musical based on Tchaikovsky’s famous ballet) and a reader’s theater version of “A Christmas Carol — The Auditions,” complete with audience participation and a finale where the story was retold faster and backwards.

BOY HAS ‘TWO MONTHS’ TO LIVE Connor McLaughlin, a Flagler County kid that has synovial sarcoma, relapsed in May 2017.

At that time, his family was told they would be lucky to get another year with him. An update posted on Dec. 17 on Connor’s

Marilyn J. Colangelo of Chestertown, MD, died on Tuesday, December 11, 2018 at Heron Point.

She was 83.

GoFundMe page said that Connor isn’t going to be able to complete his bucket list, as his condition is worsening.

“We have been in Wolfson’s hospital since yesterday,” said Julie McLaughlin in the post.

“Connor has been in pain and it’s being managed as much as possible. He had a scan today.

Connor has internal bleeding and fluid from his cancer. It has more than doubled in size in his right abdomen and in just 10 days. He also has new areas on top of the 9 tumors in his lung and the spot on his spine.”

She added that he cannot have surgery and will stay at Nemours Children’s Hospital “until he goes to his eternal life.”

“They gave us a time frame of two months or less, but with the amount of blood that he needs it will probably be less, and he could possibly hemorrhage,” Julie McLaughlin said in the post.

“Please feel free to donate to PayPal or his GoFundMe, so we can stay with Connor until the end and bring his sisters and family up to see him as much as possible.”

Visit the GoFundMe at https:// www.gofundme.com/saving-connor or PayPal.me/SavingConnor.

Born on January 14, 1935 in New York City, she was the daughter of the late William and Ethel Albin Cusanelli. She was married for 35 years to Louis A. Colangelo, Sr. of New York. Mrs. Colangelo and her husband moved to Palm Coast, FL, following her husband’s retirement, until he predeceased her in 1994. Mrs. Colangelo moved to Chestertown, MD, in 2014 to be closer to her family. In addition to reading and table games, she always enjoyed family gathering and keeping up with her New York relatives.

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Connor McLaughlin (middle) with his family at a childhood cancer awareness event in September.

Mrs. Colangelo is survived by two sons; Louise A. Colangelo, Jr. and his wife Lisa of West Friendship, MD, and Mark William Colangelo and his wife Helen of Bel Air, MD; four grandchildren, Louis III, Andrew, Caroline and Patricia; and an aunt, Evelyn Salat of Chestertown, MD. A visitation will be held on Friday, December 28, 2018 from 6:30pm to 9:00pm at Thomas M. Quinn & Son, 41-45 58th Street, Woodside, NY. Interment will be in Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Hawthorne New York, on Saturday, December 29, 2018 at 10:30 am.

In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made in her name to the American Cancer Society, Attn: tribute Giving, 8400 Silver Crossing, Oklahoma City, OK 73132.

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Flagler County Snowfest raises $4,000 for Flagler County student scholarships

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For its second festival of the year, the Snowfest on Saturday, Dec. 15, was held at City Hall in Town Center, along Central Park, to allow room for the event’s growth. In March, it was held at Flagler Palm Coast High School.

Recently-elected Flagler County Commissioner Joe Mullins said he chose this new location to encourage the city and the county to come together.

“This year, it’s a lot bigger. We’ve got a lot more attractions and rides and a lot more of the schools performing,” Mullins said.

His 12-year-old daughter, Clara, was the original inspiration behind the Snowfest, which he started in Georgia several years ago before moving down to Flagler County and getting elected.

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Palm Coast resident Isaiah Wiggins enjoys the snowfield.

“I wanted to teach her about giving back to charity and doing something fun while you do it,” Mullins said.

Children at the event ran around from the snowfield, which is made with broken-down ice (similar to what a ski resort would do), to the two snow slides, to the rockclimbing wall, vendors and more.

This year’s event raised $4,000, Mullins said. Last year, the Snowfest raised about $4,000 as well, for the Education Foundation, which works to ensure Flagler County students have the

resources they need to thrive.

Members of the Rotary Club of Flagler County collaborated with Mullins to volunteer their efforts at the event. Rotary Club of Flagler County President Cindy Evans said the money raised is going to the club’s high school student scholarship program, as part of the club’s annual donation to the Education Foundation.

There will a check presentation to the Rotary Club in January.

“The kids have been just ecstatic,” Mullins said. “Next year, we’ll probably grow it even more.”

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The star-studded premiere of ‘Bernie the Dolphin’ got a red-carpet treatment.

Thursday, Jan. 24, 7:30PM The Musical and “not your grandma’s doo wop”, these five charismatic, handsome, triple threat Broadway stars - with their hot 5-piece band - tear it up, with musicality, dancing and showmanship not found with any other group in the world!

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Every time signs or aerial shots of Marineland Dolphin Adventure graced the silver screen in the new movie “Bernie the Dolphin,” applause filled theater No. 7 at EPIC Theaters in Palm Coast.

The movie premiere was a grand event the evening of Sunday, Dec. 16, as locals lined a red carpet that rolled out of the theater to wel-

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come the stars of the movie, which was filmed in part at Marineland.

Before the showing, kids and adults alike hollered for photos with and autographs from the stars, including youth actors Lola Sultan and Logan Allen, and Kevin Sorbo, who is famous for the series “Hercules: The Legendary Journeys.”

“That’s one thing I still think is magical about going to a packed movie theater, is the reactions from people watching something that you’re in,” Sorbo said. “I’m looking forward to this, it’s going to be fun.”

The family film, which is set in St. Augustine, tells the tale of a brother and sister’s journey to save a sunburned dolphin

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Members of the “Bernie the Dolphin” cast and crew.

“Bernie the Dolphin” will show in select theaters for the public, but not at EPIC in Palm Coast.

The movie is currently available on demand and will be on DVD in February.

Marineland is no stranger to the big screen, as it opened 80 years ago as a Hollywood filming destination.

Co-star Lily Cardone, who plays Sidney Simms, said her role as a dolphin trainer gave her an inside look into the park, its employees and its dolphins.

“The research I learned online could not compare to the research that the people at Marineland taught me, being there,” Cardone said. “I learned so much about our wildlife and the environment. It’s a beautiful park with beautiful people.”

Marineland guests will have the opportunity to view the filming of Bernie 2 in person at the park, 9600 Oceanshore Blvd., Marineland, Dec. 18-22.

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Kevin Sorbo, who plays Winston Mills, takes a photo with Palm Coast residents Lily Lisowski and Olivia Chochev.

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“Bernie” high-fives St. Augustine Beach resident Angel Meisel.

named Bernie, who is played by a Marineland dolphin named Aqe. “I hope that they laugh and have a good time and cheer and applaud and go tell all their friends to go watch it and get it on demand, as well, because little movies like this need support,” Sorbo said. “We don’t have a big advertising budget to get these movies out there. And small movies like this need to get out there.”

After the show, the stars answered questions from the audience about the filming process and adventures on set.

Filming begins this week at Marineland Dolphin Adventure for the sequel.

“We can’t tell you much. All we can tell you is that we’re all going to be in it,” said Lola, who plays Holly Ryan.

“Everybody is going to really enjoy it,” added Logan, who plays Kevin Ryan.

“You’ll like me a lot more in the second movie,” Sorbo, who plays “bad guy” Winston Mills, said to the audience.

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Condos Shannon Kolbe, of Palm Coast, sold 60 Surfview Drive, Unit 819, to David and Julia Mendenhall, of Palm Coast, for $475,000. Built in 2004, the condo has three bedrooms, 2.5 baths and 1,640 square feet. It sold in 2004 for $435,100.

Grand Haven Edwin and Kathleen Faust, of Big Canoe, Georgia, sold 7 Village View Way to Clifford and Eileen Hosking, of Palm Coast, for $372,000. Built in 2003, the house has three bedrooms, two baths and 2,211 square feet. It sold in 2016 for $320,000.

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Indian Trails Vito Buono, of Las Vegas, Nevada, sold 8 Burning Bush Place to Christopher Haines, of Palm Coast, for $220,000.

Built in 1998, the house has four bedrooms, 2.5 baths and 2,178 square feet. It sold in April for $220,000.

Lehigh Woods Andy and Delmira Marques, of Hazlet, New Jersey, sold 46 Royal Oak Drive to Ira Morring, of Palm Coast, for $191,000.

Built in 2005, the house has three bedrooms, two baths and 1,634 square feet. It sold in 2005 for $197,200.

Ocean Palm Diane Olbrys, of Flagler Beach, sold 228 Ocean Palm Drive to Robert Seifried and Francine Ruvo, of Massapequa, New York, for $570,000. Built in

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David and Donna Hodnik, as trustees, sold 10 Rue Grande Mer to Lee Ann and Gary Thurston, of Palm Coast, for $1,215,000.

Following is a partial list of other sales.

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Iver and Jean Jensen, of Parkman, Maine, sold 16 Crompton Place to Daniel Leonard Jr., of Palm Coast, for $172,000. Built in 1974, the house has three bedrooms, two baths and 1,652 square feet. It sold in 1998 for $79,900.

Pine Lakes James Canfield, of Towson, Maryland, sold 34 Lago Vista Place to Loren and Anita Fittro, of Keystone Heights, for $200,000. Built in 1996, the house has three bedrooms, two baths ad 1,622 square feet. It sold in 2007 for $235,000.

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Bryan Dillberto and Heather Herr, of Fernandina Beach, sold 18 Corning Court to Charles Lemon and Pamela Kelley, as trustees, for $515,000. Built in 1999, the house has three bedrooms, three baths, a fireplace, swimming pool, boat dock, boat house and 2,611 square feet. It sold in 2017 for $445,000.

house has three bedrooms, two baths and 1,218 square feet. It sold in 2017 for $125,000.

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Palm Harbor Albert and Pauline Dicken, of North Yorkshire, England, sold 13 Clee Court to Denise Yanasheski, of Palm Coast, for $452,000. Built in 1988, the house has three bedrooms, 2.5 baths, a fireplace, swimming pool, boat dock, boat house and 2,280 square feet. It sold in 1992 for $227,000.

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Seminole Woods Equity Trust Co. sold 34 Slumber Path to Pueblo Properties LLC, of St. Louis, Missouri, for $335,000. Built in 2018, the house has six bedrooms, 3.5 baths and 3,725 square feet. It sold in July for $270,000.

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LEATHER RECLINER, Soft brown recliner, plush in great shape $75, 386-246-8683.

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