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DAYTONA BEACH POLICE CHIEF HONORED Craig Capri, a 1989 graduate of Daytona State College’s Law Enforcement Academy and current Daytona Beach police chief, has been honored as the 2019 LeRoy Collins Hometown Hero Award winner presented by the Association of Florida Colleges. The AFC is the professional association for Florida’s 28 state colleges, their boards and employees. Capri recently received his award during the Presidential Gala Dinner at the AFC Annual Conference in Palm Harbor, Florida.

“There are many individuals and organizations we partner with, but as the chief of the Daytona Beach Police Department, Mr. Capri is a true partner with Daytona State College in every sense of the word,” said Dr. Tom LoBasso, college president. “He exemplifies an officer’s commitment to serve and protect the community.”

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INSIDE FREE FOOD? NOT EXACTLY ...

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SURPRISE RESIGNATION

Volusia County attorney Dan Eckert resigns.

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Volusia County attorney Dan Eckert resigns Eckert submitted his resignation on the day the County Council was scheduled to evaluate him.

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The Volusia County Sheriff’s Office is asking for help identifying three people who scammed three different local Houligan’s restaurants out of a night’s dinner over the past three months.

The diners, two women and a man, scammed the Ormond Beach and the Port Orange locations in October and the Daytona Beach location on Nov. 23. Only the Houligan’s Daytona location at 1725 W. International Speedway Blvd. filed a police report.

After eating $90.52 worth of food at the Daytona restaurant, two of the suspects went outside to smoke and the third went to the restroom before exiting Houligan’s. In each case, all suspects ordered the same food and drinks, according to a press release.

Anyone with information should call the VCSO at 248-1777 or Crime Stoppers of Northeast Florida at 1-888-277-8477.

Volusia County attorney Dan Eckert has resigned, and his last day will be Jan. 31, 2020.

Eckert submitted a letter on Dec. 10 — the council meeting day scheduled for his and the county manager’s evaluations — asking for the County Council to accept his resignation. His decision follows a controversy about the Historic North Turn Legends Beach Parade: Eckert had advised the council that beach driving in the section of the beach in Ponce Inlet violated the incidental take permit by the Fish and Wildlife Service. However, citizens and a congressional staff member argued before council in October that there was no violation, and ultimately, the council decided it will allow the parade in February.

Eckert has worked for the county for 41 years. He had a salary of $227,042.45, interim county Community Information Director Kevin Captain said. As he had over 20 years of service, he is entitled to receive 100% balance of his accrued personal leave, with a maximum of 1,120 hours; Eckert accrued 7,874.

“I deeply appreciate the opportunity to have served,” Eckert wrote in a brief resignation letter.

At the council meeting, Councilwoman Billie Wheeler initially made a motion to move up Eckert’s last day on the job to Dec. 31,

but rescinded the motion after fellow council members said they wanted to have enough time to find an interim, and to honor Eckert’s original resignation request.

Councilman Fred Lowry said he always felt like the information Eckert gave the council wasn’t biased or partisan, and that Eckert had assembled a good staff and provided prompt responses for Lowry’s inquiries.

“If somebody ever pulls a fast one on you, you feel like you can’t trust them again,” Lowry said.

“I’ve never had that happen with Dan or with any of those working [in the legal department].”

Councilwoman Billie Wheeler said Eckert had honorably represented the county in many legal battles. “Your loyalty to Volusia County and your knowledge of the law, and your commitment, are to be commended,” Wheeler said.

This year, Volusia County Councilwoman Heather Post submitted a written evaluation for Eckert and listed three instances where she was dissatisfied with Eckert’s performance: her question on why the 911 SAVES Act text was not able to be obtained prior to it appearing online, the Legends Parade issue and the ongoing Amendment 10 legal battle, on which Eckert couldn’t provide council with an approximate cost, including staff time, other than the $1,500 in filing fees.

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ON EVALUATIONS AND RECORDS While Heather Post submitted a written evaluation of the county attorney and manager, Deb Denys made a slide presentation. That doesn’t mean her evaluation was “done in the dark” and inaccessible to the public, though, because there is a public record made of the meeting afterward, she said.

County Council Chair Ed Kelley agreed. All council members gave County Manager George Recktenwald a positive evaluation, and a 3% raise on his $215,000 salary was approved.

has a great deal of experience in his role, I do not have the confidence that County Council is being provided unbiased information and direction, with no omissions of information, and no outside influence playing a role in decisions or actions made,” Post wrote about Amendment 10.

Councilwoman Deb Denys said she wanted to go “on the record” about her uncertainty regarding the county’s legal department, saying that if the parade had been an issue in the years prior, why didn’t legal tell the council? The issue then was played out publicly, she pointed out.

“That’s not going to happen again, and if it does, we’re going to sell some newspapers,” Denys said.

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Q +A HEATHER POST, VOLUSIA COUNTY COUNCILWOMAN

Prioritizing traffic money, ‘infuriated’ by half cent discussion JARLEENE ALMENAS NEWS EDITOR

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olusia County Councilwoman Heather Post — who represents District 4 on the council including Ormond Beach and the western half of Daytona Beach — was recently appointed as chair of the National Association of Counties’ Veterans and Military Services Committee. She also serves as the vice chair of the National Association of Counties’ Justice and Public Safety Courts and Corrections subcommittee and vice chair of the Florida Association of Counties Federal Committee.

Here’s what she had to say about several countywide concerns: Traffic is on a lot of residents’ minds. What’s on the forefront of that issue?

I’ve had a number of meetings over the last couple of months with DOT and obviously county staff about it. We could talk about the Tomoka Bridge for a second. It appears that [widening] it will only cost $20 million. That is a project that is going to happen. It’s moving forward. It’s just going to take time because of all the different processes it needs to go through.

I know there’s been a lot of talk about Tanger Outlets and bus service. It was brought up to me three years ago when I first came into office. I looked at it. I talked to county staff. The information I got at the time is that it would be $850,000 to just provide bus service to Tanger. That sounds

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ridiculous, but it was all laid out and shown to me that the reasoning behind it is we have to move things around and then we also would have to buy a whole other bus to get the routing right in order to not be pulling greatly needed service from other areas.

[At that cost,] there’s no way that I would approve that because I see so many other areas in my district where I’m looking at infrastructure needs where that $850,000 can be used for. When I look at the priorities, providing bus service to Tanger, when we have bus stops all in front of Tanger, that’s not in the best interest of the public.

For the disabled, we provide the Gold Service, which is door-todoor drop-off.

Talks about the half-cent sales tax have resurfaced. What is your opinion?

I’m infuriated by it. Truly. The message before was that we desperately needed to ask for money for the public to provide for infrastructure that we did not provide for in creating all this development. Then, we have a member of the County Council standing next to Kent Sharples — just like last time where the CEO Business Alliance was pushing the sales tax — and both of them get up and give a huge spiel that we must get money from the public for infrastructure for space. I think the space industry is very important, but I really think we need to be looking at our current needs and providing for those before we go onto other things.

Can you tell me about some EMS improvements made over the last year?

We just graduated the very

first class of the nurse triage in dispatch. That’s going to help when people call in and don’t necessarily need fire or an ambulance to respond to help assess what is going on in the situation to better care for everybody.

The other thing is we’re stationing an ambulance in Ormond-by-the-Sea’s [fire station by Dec. 13]. We don’t normally station ambulances in fire departments. [Ormondby-the-Sea] has needed an ambulance for a long time.

You’ve pointed out that there are unrecorded veterans in Volusia County. What are you working on to remedy that?

I’m working with a number of different veterans organizations and trying to get them to understand that we really need to get this recorded. There’s only two ways that our veteran numbers are counted. One is if the use the VA. The other is if you join one of the local organizations, so the VFW. When I initially came into this role, I was told we had about 65,000 veterans in our county.

Since then, I’ve learned how our county determines those numbers. So there are many people in Volusia County that are not counted. I would say we’re closer to probably 95,000.

What can you tell me about the Medicaid Inmate Exclusion

policy?

When someone is arrested and placed into the county jail — so they’ve been charged with a crime but they haven’t been convicted — a lot of people bail out, but a lot of people don’t.

The problem is, through the Social Security Act, the moment you go into jail, you automatically lose your Medicaid. Our biggest problem in our county jail is the mental health and the opioid addiction issues. Somebody has to pay for all of that health coverage the moment that they’re in, right?

We are hemorrhaging our budget on addressing all of those health-related issues of people coming into the jail. The supplement of Medicaid being covered for those people having health insurance — that money that should be available but is not — is huge.

What do you think residents should be focused on this coming year?

Being more involved and being more cognizant of your local government. Not everybody wants to, or will, attend meetings and certainly I can understand that, but just to have a general understanding of what’s going on in your community. These are decisions that affect you and your families.

It’s only when the citizens actually take note of things that their voice is really expressed.

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Six art pieces housed at the Daytona Beach International Airport will be displaced due to the ongoing renovations. Three of the pieces could be thrown away.

The Volusia County Council unanimously approved the removal of the art pieces, all of which date back to 1992, at its meeting on Dec. 10. County documents state that the artwork was placed in the airport as part of a Courtesy photo program that began in 1990.

“Earth Spirit in Continuum,” by Jane Jennings, of The pieces in question include Port Orange a mixed media piece by Christie Coyle with an uknown purchase Coyle piece will be placed into price; a mixed media on paper storage, and so will the Howell piece by Stephen Danko, bought wall sculpture — if it is able to for $4,000; a clay wall sculp- be taken down without damage, ture by Steve Howell, bought for something county staff is doubt$20,000; a series of six oil paint- ful of. If it is damaged, then it ings by Steve Vaughn, bought for will be disposed of, county docu$6,600; an outdoor aluminum ments state. marble sculpture by Lin Emery, Butler said the difficulty of bought by $52,840; and an alumi- removing it is due to the piece num and hand-formed paper art being comprised of individual piece by Jane Hubbard tiles, and that the artist Jennings, bought for doesn’t want to have $7,000. a part of it.

These pieces do For the other two not fit because of pieces, the Emery the airport renosculpture and the vations, said Dona Jennings paper artButler, county work, it’s the end of director of comthe road. munity services.

“Both of these The two pieces are beyond repair,”

by Danko and Butler said. “They Vaughn will be will be disposed of relocated to be completely.” displayed at the “Heaven, Man and Earth,” by Ocean Center. The Steve Howell, of Gainesville.

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Bandon Castaldi cuts the hair of customer Seth Mallory at his new shop, Proper Barber Co.

BARBER SHOP OPENS DOWNTOWN ORMOND BEACH Proper Barber Co. has opened at 150-A W. Granada Blvd. in the Granada Crossings Plaza, where owner Brandon Castaldi does classic barbering with a modern twist.

Men’s barbering has taken off in the past five years, Castaldi said. His customer on a recent day, Seth Mallory, agreed.

“I get my hair cut twice a month,” he said. “I like to be clean cut.”

He said it’s important in his job as a car salesman.

Castaldi said the tradition of

gathering at the barbershop is coming back.

“Guys sit and talk,” he said.

“Coffee and beer are available.”

On Saturdays, the TVs are tuned to college football.

A 2013 graduate of Seabreeze High School, Castaldi grew up in Ormond Beach. He was working as a barber at a local shop when the opportunity came up to open his own business.

Castaldi said he enjoys getting to know people.

“Every 30 minutes there’s a new person sitting in my chair,” he said.

He said many of the current styles have come from Europe.

The Halifax Health-Hospice Annual Tree of Remembrance Holiday Collection of ornaments and collectibles will be available to shoppers at Hospice Ormond Beach Care Center, 235 Booth Road, from Nov. 27 through Dec. 23. They are also available at Volusia Mall and other hospice care centers.

Items can be purchased with a donation varying from $20 to $500 and proceeds will support the Halifax Health-Hospice Patient Memorial Fund. In recognition of each purchaser’s donation, by their request, a loved one’s name will be placed on a memory tag and placed on the Tree of Remembrance in the Volusia Mall. Visit www. halifaxhealth.org/hospice or call 386-425-4701.

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The instruments above will go to students in need. Shown are Robert Dunn, of Fields BMW; John Tremble, of 103.3 the Vibe; Anthony Wild, of Kids Rock the Nation; John Dupuis, of Volusia County Schools; and Lee Grasso, of Fields BMW

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FIELDS BMW HELPS KIDS GET MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS Anthony Wild, of Kids Rock the Nation, presented several musical instruments recently to John Dupuis, musical director for Volusia County Schools at Fields BMW of Daytona, 1050 N. Tomoka Farms Road. The automobile dealership is a sponsor for the organization, which donates musical instruments to children in need as well as to schools for students whose parents can’t afford them. Visit www. fieldsbmwofdaytona.com and www. kidsrockthenation.org.

MAGIC OF LIGHTS DONATES FUNDS A portion of the proceeds generated from Magic of Lights, the

drive-thru holiday lights show Nov. 22 to Jan. 1 at Daytona International Speedway, will support the AdventHealth facilities in Volusia and Flagler counties. From Dec. 2 to Dec. 8, AdventHealth will donate all of the funds it receives to the Volusia County School District.

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TOP AWARD NAMED FOR HYATT BROWN

The Daytona Regional Chamber has announced that the annual Enterprise Award will now be named the J. Hyatt Brown Enterprise Award. It’s the most prestigious business award, a press release stated, recognizing a company that has made significant contributions to the quality and growth of the community.

Nancy Keefer, president and CEO of the Chamber, said re-naming the award is a long overdue tribute to

Halifax Health and Daytona State College announced a new sponsorship agreement in a ceremony Dec. 4 that will provide $500,000 in scholarship funding for DSC students in nursing and health-related fields and guarantee post-graduate employment for all scholarship recipients. Students may begin applying for the scholarship in the spring term.

In recognition of the agreement, the college will rename its softball stadium the Halifax Health Softball Stadium for a term of 25 years and designate Halifax as the “Official

Healthcare Provider of Daytona State College Athletics” for five years.

Jeff Feasel, Halifax Health president and CEO, said the program, Education to Employment, is a great way for the health system to build a sustainable pipeline of care givers and increase the economic vitality of the area.

All scholarship recipients will be selected by Daytona State College and may be either full- or part-time students, according to a press release. They must have a minimum GPA of 3.0 and be a resident of Volusia, Flagler or Brevard counties. Scholarship recipients must enter into a separate agreement with Halifax or a Halifax affiliate regarding future employment.

Brown and a small way to say thank you for choosing to invest in the community.

This year’s J. Hyatt Brown Enterprise Award will be presented to Team Volusia, a public/private not-for-profit corporation, that recruits business to Volusia County.

The annual dinner is set for Jan. 30.

Contact Ken Phelps at the Chamber, 386-523-3675 or email Ken@ Daytonachamber.com for sponsor or attendee information.

BONEFISH MEET, GREET AND EAT Bonefish Grill, 814 S. Atlantic Ave., is inviting the public to meet the new managing partner, Ali Bell, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Dec. 12. There will be appetizers and giveaways.

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Sandcrabs blank Mainland 2-0 Seabreeze’s top three goal scorers are currently out with injuries.

RAY BOONE SPORTS EDITOR

Despite being down five starters, including all three of their attackers, Seabreeze’s boys soccer team defeated crosstown rival Mainland 2-0 the afternoon of Tuesday, Dec. 10, at Mainland High School.

The Sandcrabs’ second-year head coach, Eli Freidus, was not satisfied with the win, however.

The Sandcrabs, who were solid on defense, had trouble on offense. Seabreeze was missing its top three goal scorers in Chance Shamlou, Michel Hanna and Frazer Cross.

“But it shouldn’t have mattered,” Freidus said after the

Seabreeze’s Andres Montoya heads a ball to a teammate.

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The Sandcrabs’ Andres Torres dribbles the ball up the field.

Mainland’s goal keeper stops a shot.

game. “We’re just not playing well. We have to figure out where we’re at with things.”

Junior midfielder Gavin Gilman, who usually comes off the bench, scored both of the Sandcrabs’ goals in the first half.

“I feel like we could have played a lot better, but I’m happy with the win,” he said. “The goals I scored, I count it to my teammates.”

The Sandcrabs are still trying to figure out how to navigate the season without last year’s starstudded senior class.

“We knew we were going to have some struggles after we lost all those guys from last year,” Freidus said. “And it’s hard to deal with injuries that we’ve had.

We’ve got some team chemistry things to work out.”

Danny Peralta has been with Mainland’s boys soccer team for the past 3 1/2 years. This season is his first as the Buccaneers’ head coach, and he believes this is the most talented bunch he’s seen yet.

“However, a lot of these guys aren’t used to playing club.

They’re used to street soccer,” he said. “We’ve got a great bunch. It’s just putting the fundamentals together. It just takes practice.”

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