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Bundled referendum for 2022?

Volusia Forever and ECHO could be bundled with a sales tax increase on a future vote. PAGE 5

Storage on Nova?

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Sandcrabs down Hawks for first time in 13 years PAGE 10

Large facility planned, but a zoning change is required. PAGE 4 INSIDE ISSUES TO WATCH IN VOLUSIA Eighteen topics include affordable housing and paying to park at the beach. PAGE 3

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BRIEFS OBPD: Man stole from elderly A 47-year-old man was arrested

by Ormond Beach Police for stealing cash and credit cards from an assisted living facility resident, whose family was alerted after the man was detected in the room by an Amazon Alexa device.

OBPD reported on Jan. 9 that on Dec. 22, Russell Bannister entered the victim’s room at Brookdale Assisted Living Facility, 550 Wilmette Ave. He fled the scene on foot but was arrested soon after. OBPD said it has identified two additional victims who live at different assisted living facilities in Ormond Beach. All were 90 years old or older. If you suspect a family member was similarly victimized, call 676-3520.

Seabreeze celebrates after Andres Torres’ (No. 3) goal against the Hawks.

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Bernard Sipps at Barracks of Hope, a Veterans Shelter, receives food support from Marvin and Sarah Miller, of The Jewish Federation.

The Jewish Federation recently donated food to Barracks of Hope, a local shelter for veterans.

The Jewish Federation operates the Jerry Doliner Food Bank, located at 470 Andalusia Ave. Visit jewishfederationdaytona. org for more information.

Breitenbach’s documentary Ormond Beach resident’s film targets environmental conservation in the South

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Riviera Park to get concrete parking

City wins second award for OB Life The Florida Civic Advance initiative recognized the city of Ormond Beach with a Citizen Engagement with Local Government award at its December summit in Seminole for the OB Life series.

The city were named cowinners in the category, along with the city of New Smyrna Beach for its Coastal Community Resiliency series.

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Applications submitted for the Feb. 13 Planning Board meeting, including a request to allow itinerant vending during special events at 1089 and 1170 N. U.S. 1.

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Permits issued last week, valued at $2.9 million.

This includes 14 garage sale permits.

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Lots for Pineland subdivision’s first phase, which recently received its Certificate of Completion for subdivision improvements.

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Once the project is completed, Riviera Park will have 23 concrete spaces.

Improvements to Riviera Park‘s parking lot are in the works, with the city currently in the bidding process for the $55,000 project, to be funded through a Community Development Block Grant.

The Ormond Beach City Commission approved the city’s intent to advertise for bidding at its Jan. 7 meeting via its consent agenda.

The proposed parking lot

improvements include converting the existing lot to 23 concrete spaces with one handicap space, according to a city memo. The concrete handicapped parking currently in the park is not compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act. The Neighborhood Improvement Advisory Board recommended the project for inclusion in this fiscal year’s

annual plan back in April 2019.

The memo states that the plan was later approved at the May 21, 2019, City Commission meeting.

The project also includes new sidewalk connections for direct access to the picnic pavilion and gazebo.

The north parking area will remain available while the east and south portion of the project is completed.

City closures for MLK Day Jan. 20

Traffic stops made last week.

Email News Editor Jarleene Almenas at jarleene@ ormondbeachobserver. com.

“These are very mixed messages that we’re sending out to the public.”

City Hall and all non-emergency facilities will be closed on Monday, Jan. 20 for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, the city announced in its weekly newsletter.

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or the first workshop of 2020, the Volusia County Council listed a total of 18 topics to discuss.

Some of them merited longer discussions than others at the Thursday, Jan. 9, workshop, such as outlining expectations for the County Attorney’s department.

Others, like implementing a citizens academy and gauging the

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county’s smart growth discussion with municipalities, were quickly addressed.

Then, there were issues that council decided merited an entire workshop alone to work out, namely the future of Volusia Forever and the ECHO program.

Here are the 18, with further explanation of several issues the council discussed at length during the workshop, and what steps the elected body decided to take in addressing them this year:

1,2 The county’s legal department

The council didn’t wait long to appoint a new interim county attorney after Dan Eckert resigned. At the council meeting before the workshop, Michael Dyer was appointed to serve in the position until the county found a permanent hire. This occurred despite the fact that Eckert, who submitted a letter of resignation on Dec. 10, was supposed to stay on until Jan. 31.

At the workshop, the council decided to take its time in looking for Eckert’s replacement, with Councilwoman Deb Denys saying it wasn’t time-sensitive and the search didn’t need to be expedited.

Inevitably, the discussion on how the legal department should operate moving forward circled back to the the Historic North Turn Legends Beach Parade issue. Denys said she wanted more frequent updates regarding legal inquiries requested by council, and she wanted to be presented with alternatives in cases like the Legends beach parade.

“I want options,” Denys said. “I don’t want to be just told, ‘No, no you can’t do it.’”

She also suggested the county look into asking for outside counsel when needed, but Councilwoman Barb Girtman disagreed. Staff should be able to handle their requests (the county has 13 attorneys), and the issue goes beyond just the legal department, she said.

“This is the culture of the county that they are accustomed to steering information with their recommendation, and what we’re saying is we need full disclosure, more options,” Girtman said.

Councilwoman Billie Wheeler said the council should see how requests are worded to the legal department to ensure it is reflective of what the council asked for. All responses, she added, should be in writing.

With major department head changes having occurred in the last year since County Manager George Recktenwald took over for Jim Dinneen, Wheeler said, “This is the time for us to make a change.” That includes written evaluations for the county attorney and Recktenwald, who said he will direct staff to come back with recommendations on how to proceed.

13 The future of Volusia Forever and ECHO

At the regular council meeting, citizens flocked to speak in favor of placing the Volusia Forever and ECHO programs on the ballot, as both will sunset this year.

Most of the council members agreed the conversation needed to continue, and Councilman Fred Lowry suggested holding a workshop with the past boards of Volusia Forever and ECHO. Denys said ECHO was created 20 years ago, and she wants to make sure both programs are suitable for today’s needs. There may be a way to include water quality and infrastructure projects into them as well.

“There’s clearly a trend that we have to update the meaning of [ECHO], but I think it’s a great tool, and clearly our citizens want us to revisit that,” Denys said.

Kelley brought up bundling Volusia Forever and ECHO into a one-cent sales tax, to be active for 12 years, but the council wasn’t on board with that idea. Later, on Monday, Jan. 13, Kelley spoke about bundling the programs again at the Elected Officials Roundtable meeting.

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With a list of 18 topics to go through, the council focused on the county legal department, affordable housing and paying to park at the beach, to name a few.

18 TOPICS DISCUSSED

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The search for a county attorney

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Expectations for the county attorney’s department

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Smart growth

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Revisiting the council travel policy

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Citizens academy

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SunRail

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Charging for beachfront parking lots

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Charter amendments for 2020

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Privatization of license plates agencies (except in DeLand)

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Selling the county garage by the Ocean Center

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Funding projects at the Marine Science Center

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Finding alternate beach parking

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ECHO and Volusia Forever

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Having a county employee pay study

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Affordable housing

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Increasing the number of veterans service officers

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Creating a follow-up process when council gives direction

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8 From a council to a commission The Volusia County Council could be called the “Volusia County Commission” should a charter amendment be placed and passed on the 2020 ballot.

This was a topic brought up by County Council Chair Ed Kelley, and agreed upon by several members of the council, who said some have confused them as representatives of cities rather than a county due to their current titles.

Kelley also suggested changing the title of chair to mayor, but the idea died at the workshop. Another amendment suggested for 2020 is to change the requirement of having to hold the first council meeting of the year on a Thursday.

The council also discussed their salaries and travel policy, the latter also a proposed topic by Kelley. Council members are paid $45,240 for serving, said county Public Information Officer Kevin Captain in an email. The County Council Chair is paid $9,000 more, with a salary of $54,288.

These figures, according to the council, are low. Council members also discussed how they are not reimbursed for travel inside the county, which Kelley said has cost him $25,000 in the last couple of years.

County Councilman Ben Johnson said they should look into increasing the salaries — but only if the increase is put into place after all of them are out of office.

“This is for the long-range good of the county of Volusia and the County Council, but it’s not for, in fact, us,” Johnson said. “We’re doing it for the right reasons at that point.”

15 Affordable housing Another issue slated for its own workshop is affordable housing. Wheeler suggested the group hold one in conjunction with the county’s Affordable Housing Advisory Committee as a starting point.

Council Chair Ed Kelley agreed.

“We have really engaged people on that board that really want to be involved and doing more than just being a rubber stamp for government grants,” he said.

He spoke about other cities’ initiatives in bringing in affordable housing, such as the tiny home community for transitioning homeless in Austin, Texas. The county is also plagued, like everywhere else, by things they can’t control, he added. Volusia can’t control construction costs, and Kelley said when you add that in conjunction with impact fees and permit fees, a home that would’ve cost $100,000 is no longer affordable.

County Councilwoman Heather Post said affordable housing is a national conversation, and that they don’t have to “reinvent the wheel.” They can research and see where programs are successful in bringing affordable housing to the working class.

Denys said they should hold a meeting with representatives from all 16 cities to talk about affordable housing.

“There’s all sorts of opportunities,” Denys said. “We can’t keep doing it the way we’ve done it because we’re not doing it.”

12 Pay to park Should people have to pay for beach parking? Four council members think it should be looked at.

Wheeler, Post and Girtman said they weren’t ready for the conversation yet.

Kelley and Johnson brought the topic to the workshop, with Kelley saying that this was discussed a couple of years ago due to complaints from people who couldn’t find parking in county parks, such as the Andy Romano Beachfront Park in Ormond Beach.

Recktenwald said the county hasn’t enforced a lot of its rules for these parks either, such as no overnight parking and trailers taking up more than one space.

“I support pay-to-park because I think that everything we’re talking about here, will fix itself,” Denys said.

Post said you should be able to be poor and go to the beach, and that she didn’t see how making people pay to park would solve the issue of a lack of parking.

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The Casements Guild volunteers provide daily tours (Monday-Friday 10 AM - 3:00 PM; Saturday 9:30-10:30 AM) and operate a gift shop. Large group tours by appointment only. The home has many rooms that are used for various classes (dance, art, exercise) and a kitchen used for cooking classes. The facility can be rented for weddings, socials, memorials, business meetings and seminars. For more information, please contact The Casements at 386-676-3216.

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porting comments alluded to the large buffers and the fact that Nova Road is a commercial corridor. It was also noted that a convenience store, retail, apartments, etc., could be constructed under present zoning. The presentation at the meeting also listed “sexually oriented business” as a permitted use, but board member Harold Briley pointed out that such a business would not be allowed because it requires more acreage than available at the site.

Spraker stated that average daily trips for a climate-controlled storage facility would be 154, compared to 854 for a 20,000-square-foot retail business, which could be allowed without a zoning change.

The development order would also allow the storage facility to have fewer parking spaces than required in the zone. The proposal seeks to have 14 spaces, rather than 52 as required in city code for that size storage facility.

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A landowner is seeking to build a three-story, climate-controlled storage facility on South Nova Road. It would be taller than local zoning allows, and neighbors are concerned. But the landowner says he is making up for the extra height by leaving more buffer around the building than required.

“They are going up rather than out,” Planning Director Steven Spraker told the Planning Board at its Jan. 9 meeting.

The 780-unit storage facility is planned for a 3.11-acre parcel at 263 S. Nova Road, on the north side of Fernery Lane.

The landowner is requesting a rezoning from B-8 (commercial) to Planned Business Development. In the PBD, the height would be 32.33 feet, rather than the zone-required 30 feet. In addition, there will be parapets on the corners, extending the height to 42 feet.

Some residents of the Whispering Oaks subdivision say the size of the building would not fit in with the surroundings. They also worry about increased traffic on Fernery Lane, a cul-de-sac.

Some Planning Board members made statements about the proposed building being too tall, but ended up recommending approval of the change in a split vote. Sup-

Residents fear that the facility would increase traffic on Fernery Lane, and said they’ve already seen trucks turning into the road by accident from Nova Road, and then traveling to the end of their cul-de-sac to turn around — something that may happen more often, they said, if the storage facility is built. They also expressed concern that trucks with trailers won’t be able to turn left through a median cutout on Fernery Lane into the storage unit parking lot, and will have to go to the end of Fernery Lane to turn around.

But developer representatives said their driveway on Fernery Lane will allow traffic to pull in rather than go down Fernery Lane.

They also said they were required to show that garbage trucks and trucks with trailers will be able to turn left into the lot and not travel down Fernery Lane.

The height of the building also prompted objections.

“We feel it’s an eyesore,” said Candice Lucas, a nearby resident.

Her daughter, Brianna, also spoke, saying she walks around the neighborhood with her dad.

“We don’t want to stare at a building that’s right there,” she said.

Robert Lucas said a 40-foot building would be out of place with no similar buildings in the area.

“What’s happening to Ormond Beach?” he asked. “I moved here 40 years ago, and it was a desirable community.”

He said he was involved with zoning in his hometown in Massachusetts.

“We always took homeowners into consideration rather than developers,” he said.

Greg Venoma said he’d rather have the storage facility than a convenience store, but was concerned about the parapets.

Ted McTiernan called it a huge structure smashed into a residential area.

“It’s a monster,” he said. “This building is out of place.”

The developer was asked about lowering the parapets, but said that’s not possible with the design, because they conceal an elevator shaft.

Residents also said they feared traffic backups exiting onto Nova Road, but were assured that traffic would not be that heavy. PlanSEE STORAGE PAGE 8

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Sales tax to be ‘bundled’ with eco measures on 2022 ballot?

“These are very mixed messages that we’re sending out to the public.”

‘It only makes sense,’ County Council Chair Ed Kelley said.

JARLEENE ALMENAS NEWS EDITOR

While an infrastructure sales tax is seeming less and less likely to make an appearance in the 2020 ballot, Volusia County elected officials are mulling over another possibility: What if a sales tax referendum was placed in the 2022 ballot, and there was a way to bundle Volusia Forever and ECHO in with it?

It was a suggestion brought up

by DeLand Mayor Bob Apgar at the Roundtable of Volusia County Elected Officials meeting held on Monday, Jan. 13, since both Volusia Forever and the ECHO program sunset this year. Apgar said he had planned to hold four small group meetings in the hiatus between the roundtable meetings to get a better grip on how to handle a new referendum, though due to the holidays, he was only able to hold one.

“Over this time I became personally more and more convinced that we’ve lost some advocates along the way for a referendum in 2020,”Apgar said.

His “aha moment” came, he said, when he thought about bundling an infrastructure sales tax, Volusia Forever and ECHO into a one-cent sales tax — a move County Council Chair Ed Kelley found favorable.

HEATHER POST, County Councilwoman

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DeLand Mayor Bob Apgar suggested “bundling” the Volusia Forever and ECHO programs with an infrastructure sales tax in the 2022 ballot.

Kelley said $15 million a year goes ECHO and Volusia Forever.

In 2000, residents voted to tax themselves .2 mills for each program, a total of .4 mills, for 20 years. The funds brought into those programs totals 6.5% of the total tax Volusia County collects, Kelley said.

Volusia Forever was formed to finance the acquisition and improvements of conservation and outdoor recreation lands. The last purchase made using these funds was in fiscal year 20112012, said county Public Information Officer Kevin Captain in an email.

In 2018, ECHO financed $2.3 million worth of projects around the county.

By combining the programs with a sales tax, Kelley said the

county would be able to reduce property taxes and shift some of the burden to be paid by tourists.

“To me, it only makes sense,” Kelley said. “But being able to get there, it takes a chalkboard or something for you to see you’re taking sales tax money and using it to help fund things that the tourists and others use, for which they’re paying.”

But, can it even be done? Apgar said the county will need to look into the legality and specifics of it all.

At least one person in the room thought this bundling was a bad idea. County Councilwoman Heather Post said bundling amendments at a state level hasn’t been received well by citizens, and she expected the same reaction at the local level.

She also mentioned that at the last roundtable meeting, when the discussion revolved around improving infrastructure for space.

“These are very mixed messages that we’re sending out to the public,” she said.

County Councilman Ben Johnson said Apgar was right in waiting until 2022, but that residents want ECHO and Volusia Forever to be on the 2020 ballot.

Johnson suggested putting a caveat in the 2022 sales tax referendum pertaining to bundling them together at that point.

Apgar said there’s a long way to go until 2022, and that this notion of bundling a referendum could die very quickly.

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A legacy to preserve

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Ormond Beach resident’s film targets environmental conservation in the South.

JARLEENE ALMENAS NEWS EDITOR

Ormond Beach resident Eric Breitenbach spent four years searching for the South that one of America’s first naturalists saw in in the 1770s.

It was a journey decades in the making, one that Breitenbach kept in a folder on his desktop for years after he took a sabbatical in the late 1980s from Daytona State College to photograph each county in Florida. Right before he left, an English professor handed him a copy of “Bartram’s Travels,”

by William Bartram, a book published in 1791.

That sparked the inspiration that would eventually lead to “Cultivating the Wild,” a onehour documentary to premier at DSC on Jan. 29. It details the efforts of six people working to restore the South to what it once was, and why it matters. All six share a common denominator: A love for the nature Bartram saw and documented.

“The writing is beautiful,” said Breitenbach of Batram’s book. “The descriptions are very intense, and he also wrote some of the most beautiful things about Native Americans and the early settlers that were in the south at that time.”

In 2015, Breitenbach, a DSC professor, drove around the Southeastern United States and met individuals who had written what he believes to be the best books on Bartram. One of those people was Dorinda Dallmeyer, a professor at the University of Georgia and author of “Bartram’s Living Legacy: The Travels and Nature of the South.”

He asked her to join him in helping to produce the film, and though she hadn’t ever done anything similar, Dallmeyer agreed.

“She was kind of encouraged

FRIEDRICH HAYEK “Road to Serfdom,” 1944

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by my enthusiasm, and I was encouraged by her knowledge,” Breitenbach said.

HURDLES OVERCOME

There were a lot of moving parts to take care of during the filmmaking process, Dallmeyer said.

One was fundraising.

The film’s budget came in at $70,000, and a Kickstarter campaign brought in over $30,000 of that.

“All of us were very grateful for the amount of support that we got from people, some as far away as India, for the film,” Dallmeyer said. “We never would have known that had we not used Kickstarter to be able to reach people we didn’t even know existed out there.”

The film also had to overcome several logistical challenges, like making sure they had boats to go out in the river and finding the right cinematographers to capture the numerous scenes of wildlife. A total of 35 people worked on “Cultivating the Wild,” Breitenbach said.

And once filmmaking was done, it was time to edit. There were 60 hours of footage that needed to be cut down to just one.

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Daytona’s Museum of Arts and Sciences to host short film concert Want to see award-winning short films on a big screen? Here’s your chance.

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What: Asbury Short Film Concert When: 7 p.m., Friday, Jan. 31 Where: Museum of Arts and Sciences, 352 S. Nova Road Details: Watch a lineup of award-winning short films. Doors to the museum will open at 6 p.m. for a reception with a cash bar and light hors d’oeuvres. Auditorium doors will open at 6:45 p.m.

Recommended for ages 16 and up. Tickets cost $25 for museum nonmembers, and $20 for members. Visit MOAS.org or call 255-0285.

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The Museum of Arts and Sciences and Asbury Shorts USA are bringing award-winning short films to the community, all in a fast-paced evening in front of a real screen.

Unless you’re a short film connoisseur, chances are you haven’t seen the films selected to be showcased at the Asbury Short Film Concert at MOAS on Friday, Jan. 31, said Doug LeClaire, director for Asbury Shorts USA. The concert is returning to Daytona Beach for the second year in a row, though it is the 39th-annual tour for the Brooklyn, New Yorkbased traveling film show. It is also the longest running short film exhibition in New York City.

The films are always an eclectic mix; one of LeClaire’s favorites this year is “A Whole World for a Little World,” by French director Fabrice Bracq. The 2017 short film is about a mother telling her baby a fairytale as a way to explain how she met the baby’s father.

Another notable one is the 2010 film “Death, Taxes and Apple Juice,” by Tamar Halpern,

“So there’ll be a representation of comedy, drama, animation — all in one sitting, but very fast paced and very entertaining,” DOUG LECLAIRE, director for Asbury Shorts USA

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MOAS Executive Director Andrew Sandall, Rick Spencer, and Director of Asbury Shorts USA Doug LeClaire at the showing of the 38th Asbury Short Film Concert at the Museum of Arts and Sciences in April 2019.

which is about two young ladies discussing their problems in life.

One of them is helping the other file her taxes.

The twist? The protagonists are 9 years old.

“So there’ll be a representation of comedy, drama, animation — all in one sitting, but very fast paced and very entertaining,” LeClaire said.

The concert first came to Daytona last year after MOAS Executive Director Andrew Sandall reconnected with one of Asbury’s organizers, he said in an email.

Sandall had collaborated with the organizer on projects at another museum, and after the organizer

visited MOAS, he thought the auditorium would be a great fit for the show, Sandall said.

The museum has been working hard for the past couple of years to utilize its facilities for the community, he continued, as well as find ways to entice new visitors who may not be interested the traditional programs. The film concert is a way to do that.

“Bringing such an amazing show as the Asbury Short Film Concert to the museum has seen a new audience coming to MOAS for what may be their first ever visit to the museum and hopefully seeing just how much we have to offer and inspiring them to come

back for a visit or to attend some of our other programs,” Sandall said.

Most of the films audiences will see are made by either younger filmmakers trying to catch a break in the industry, or established artists who have made short films their art medium of choice, LeClaire said. Those who attend will see the fruits of their labor in just minutes.

“It’s story-telling in a short form, which is challenging for filmmakers,” LeClaire said.

It’s an art form that amazes Sandall, who said some of the staff who participated in the test screenings of the films for the concert couldn’t believe how much storytelling goes into each of the films.

“It’s one of those programs that really has to be seen to be believed and I know that everyone who attended the first concert last year rushed to tell all their friends what an amazing experience they had missed,” Sandall said.

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DOUBLE, DOUBLE, ‘TOY’ AND TROUBLE 6 p.m. — First block of Benjamin Drive Battery touch. A 28-year-old woman was arrested for hitting her boyfriend with a toy tea pot, police report.

Police responded to the residence after being alerted about the pair arguing in their front yard. Initially, the boyfriend told police it was all verbal. Later in the afternoon, police spoke with the woman, who told them two versions of why they were arguing. She said the argument was over her not getting a job at a local restaurant, and that the boyfriend was jealous.

A second version of the argument told to another officer was that her boyfriend had cheated on her. She denied hitting him with the toy, saying that she was continuously dropping it on the ground during the argument and that when her boyfriend bent over to pick it up, he called her nasty. She responded by knocking his hat from his head, according to police.

The boyfriend had no visible injuries. The woman was taken to jail.

ning Board member G.G. Galloway told the audience that he makes frequent usage of storage facilities and has never had to wait in line to get into the properties.

Michael Woods, of Cobb Cole, representing the owner, said they took several measures to accommodate residents after two neighborhood meetings: There will be box-type lighting to direct light downward, and limited signage.

The driveway on Fernery lane has been moved farther away from homes. There will be no monument sign, only wall signs. The dumpster has been incorporated inside the building. No windows will look out on the neighborhood.

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SMOKED OUT 2:06 a.m. — 300 block of West Granada Boulevard DUI. A 34-year-old Holly Hill man who ran a red light told police it wasn’t his fault: It was the car’s fault.

Police noticed the man driving over the speed limit on South Yonge Street before he ran the red light at the Granada intersection, according to the man’s arrest report. The officer noticed that the man’s car was “smoking profusely” and later determined it was coming from his brakes.

As the pair spoke, the officer noticed the man’s eyes were bloodshot and glassy. The officer could smell alcohol on the man’s breath, which the officer noted he missed at first because of the smell of the brakes. The officer asked if he would be willing to complete some field sobriety exercises, and the man agreed.

However, after the man called his mom to come to the location, he changed his mind and said he wouldn’t complete the exercises.

Police found three clear plastic bags of cocaine in the vehicle as well as an 18-pack of Bud Light, with one beer missing. Two more empty beers were found in a cooler in the rear passenger seat.

The man refused to provide a breath sample. He was taken to jail.

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Noting that the design will preserve twice as many trees as required and have a much larger buffer than required, Spraker told the board that staff recommended approval.

The building is expected to be mostly obscured from the neighborhood with the large treed buffer, but it’s unclear how visible the building will be to residents.

Spraker said he could not guarantee there would be no view of it from the neighborhood.

According to a memo from the city’s landscape architect, since the area is heavily wooded, the Land Development Code requires that 15% of the natural vegetation remain. The development will retain 32%. The requirement for tree preservation is 12 specimen trees, and the project is preserving 33 trees, the memo stated. The total tree requirement is 215, and the project shows 241 trees. No historic trees are on the site.

According to documents in the meeting packet, the front land-

scape along Nova Road is required to be 20 feet and a minimum landscape buffer of 25 feet is provided.

The north requires a 6-foot buffer, and a landscape buffer of 20 feet is provided. The buffer along Fernery Trail is required to be 10 feet, and a minimum landscape buffer of 12.5 feet is provided. The rear landscape buffer requirement is 20 feet, and a minimum buffer of 67 feet is provided in the plans.

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Board member Mike Scudiero agreed with residents that the building seems out of place.

“It’s a bit of a square peg,” he said. “It’s a large building … 780 storage units.”

Lori Tolland, board member, said she thinks it might not be a perfect fit, but Nova is a commercial area.

She said the traffic problems are workable, and signage could be used to protect the community.

Other commissioners pointed out the other businesses that could be there, without a zoning change.

“There will be a public outcry no matter what goes there,” Galloway said. “This is a commercial corridor. It’s something we have to face.”

Board member Al Jorczak pointed out the trees, saying the live oaks could be 60 feet tall in 15 to 20 years. Jorscak made a motion to approve the rezoning and the development order. It was approved 4-1, with Scudiero voting no.

Harold Briley and Galloway had to recuse themselves from the vote. Briley is on the Board of Directors of the Whispering Oaks HOA, and Galloway’s real estate company represented the seller of the lot.

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The New Rivalry Buccaneers guard Jordan Sears scored a team-high 19 vs.

Spruce Creek.

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Seabreeze’s boys wrestling team made program history on Saturday, Jan. 11. The Sandcrabs won the district duals championship for the first time in school history.

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Former Buccaneers receiver D’Marcus Adams, a former redshirt freshman at Florida State University, announced that he is transferring from FSU to Florida Atlantic University.

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Mainland football’s Ra’Mello Dotson, a standout defensive back for the Buccaneers, announced that he is taking an official visit to Georgia State University this upcoming weekend. The Panthers play in the NCAA’s Division I Sun Belt Conference.

The Buccaneers' Jordan Sears drives to the hoop against Mainland.

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ith about 6 minutes left in regulation, Spruce Creek’s Anthony Fonseca k n i fe d t h ro u g h Mainland’s defense and banked in a layup to tie the game at 52.

The crowd that was packed into the gym at Spruce Creek High School roared.

But the Buccaneers responded.

Mainland senior guard Jordan Sears, the team’s leading scorer, dribbled the ball up the court. He manipulated a screen and rose for a pull-up midrange jump shot to help the Buccaneers regain the lead.

As he ran back on defense, Sears put a finger to his lips and shushed the rowdy crowd.

“It’s fun to be in a game like this,” he said. “I live for this.”

Despite a game-high 21 points from Hawks guard Max Oles, the Buccaneers defeated Spruce Creek 66-63 the night of Thursday, Jan. 9.

Four Buccaneers players scored in double figures on Thursday night. Dontrell Thompson scored 10 points, Kenny Witherspoon scored 11 and Taron Keith 14.

Sears led Mainland with 19 points on 8-for-20 from the field.

Sears, who went 3-for-7 from the free throw line, struggled at certain points throughout the game. But he kept grinding — even going back and forth with the Hawks’ Oles.

“I just stuck to my roots,” he said. “I kept playing my game.

I just let my game come to me when the game started getting into crunch time.”

In addition, for the past several seasons Mainland’s primary rival in Volusia County has been Atlantic High School. However, since former Sharks head coach David Howard’s move to Spruce Creek, the Hawks are the new challenge.

“We played against tough teams all the time, so we don’t ever back down from pressure,” Keith said.

“This is what we want.”

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“We were battle-tested early. Those kind of games got us prepared for this.”

JOE GIDDENS, Mainland coach

Mainland’s boys soccer team won their first two games of the season recently. The Buccaneers defeated Deltona 4-0 on Jan. 9 and took down Belleview 5-2 on Jan. 10. The Buccaneers now have a 2-101 overall record.

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Sandcrabs down Hawks for first time in 13 years Andres Torres and Eli Juezan scored in the second half to lead Seabreeze.

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The Sandcrabs’ Ryan Betau passes the ball.

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Seabreeze’s boys soccer team hadn’t beaten rival Spruce Creek in nearly 13 years. That includes last season’s debacle, when the Sandcrabs’ Andres Torres scored an own-goal in a contest that ended in a 1-1 tie.

He’d thought about that game almost every day since. He got his chance to make up for it when the Sandcrabs faced the Hawks the night of Friday, Jan. 10, at the Ormond Beach Sports Complex.

The Hawks scored first late in the first half to take a 1-0 lead.

However, Torres put one in the back of the net to tie the game with 15 minutes left in regulation. With 5 minutes to go, his teammate Eli Juezan put a ball past the Hawks’ goal keeper to give Seabreeze its first lead of the game.

The Sandcrabs, who had been struggling with several injuries as of late, held on to beat the Hawks 2-1.

“I’ve always dreamed about scoring against Spruce Creek,” Juezan said. “I think it’s a huge boost for the rest of the season.

It’s going to keep us going.”

The Sandcrabs have always talked about the “Spruce Creek curse,” according to Seabreeze head coach Eli Freidus.

“Hopefully, we finally broke it,” he added.

With the postseason nearing, the Sandcrabs still have plenty of tough games left on the schedule.

“We need to finish out,” Freidus said. “There’s still a lot we need to work on.”

Above: Seabreeze’s Tanner Barnwell passes a ball to a teammate.

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The Seabreeze High School Chorus won second place at the Worldstrides Heritage Festival in Orlando last spring.

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Seabreeze High School Chorus headed to Carnegie Hall in March JARLEENE ALMENAS NEWS EDITOR

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he Seabreeze High School chorus has two months to raise $34,000.

Why? To perform at Carnegie Hall in New York this March, an honor bestowed on the chorus after it performed well last spring at the Worldstrides Heritage Festival in Orlando. The chorus received a gold rating at the festival at Universal Studios, earning second place.

The students also won the spirit award for showcasing camaraderie and support for other groups.

The Seabreeze chorus was one of two groups invited to perform at Carnegie Hall, though initially the invitation was for a concert in 2021. SHS Vocal Department Director Julia Hood petitioned for 2020 instead, seeing as waiting an additional year would have meant excluding students who would be graduated by then.

“I didn’t want to not include

the juniors from last year who worked so hard,” Hood said.

So 2020 it was.

This isn’t Hood’s first time bringing students to Carnegie Hall; as a teacher in Silver Sands Middle School in 2001, she brought a small group for a national honor choir.

This time, aside from her students performing in the 200-person honor choir, her chorus group was also selected to be the featured choir.

A total of 30 students — comprising the general chorus, advanced vocal ensemble and the musical theater class — are planned to go on the trip, which comes with a $58,000 price tag.

That amounts to $1,780 per student.

So far, Hood said students have paid $24,000 toward the trip.

That leaves $34,000.

Fundraising has been a challenge for the choir. Unlike SHS’s marching band, which performed in London’s New Year’s Day parade last year, the vocal depart-

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ment doesn’t have a 501c3 organization. All fundraising must go through the school.

This Saturday, Jan. 18, the chorus will be hosting a fundraiser at Hard Rock Daytona Beach. Those who want to donate funds can also do so through this GoFundMe page: https://www.gofundme. com/f/send-seabreeze-chorusto-carnegie-hall If the department was able to cut the needed $34,000 in half, “that would be blessing,” Hood said.

SHS senior Ben Kuftic said any help getting students to Carnegie Hall is appreciated. If they don’t take advantage of this opportunity, when will they get another one? he asked.

“It’s just something really great to be able to share your passion about music — which, everyone loves music, everyone listens to it all the time, but to be able to share that with someone is something not a lot of people have, and I think they should,” said Kuftic, who also participated in the 2020 Florida All-State Concert Chorus

in Tampa recently.

It’s an opportunity to share their voices, said SHS senior Ashley Butial. There are also a lot of different projects going on at once in the department; aside from preparing for Carnegie Hall, the students are also getting ready for Solo and Ensemble and an “Into The Woods” musical in early February.

“It’s a little overwhelming, but I’m super excited to take on these challenges,” Butial said.

The students will also have a chance to participate in a workshop with a Broadway performer in New York, Hood said. It’ll be a “once-in-a-lifetime” opportunity, and part of why Hood pushed for this class of students to go to Carnegie Hall. It stems from their love of music.

“It’s not only fun, but they have a good time making music, and that’s really what this is all about — it’s about coming together to make music and to share that,” Hood said.

Seabreeze High School Chorus fundraiser n When: 8-10 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 18 n Where: Hard Rock Hotel Daytona Beach, 918 N. Atlantic Ave. n Details: See this free Concert for a Cause featuring the band, “Greye,” which will take the stage at 8 p.m. Students will perform at 9:30 p.m.

Event will also feature a silent auction.

Donations are appreciated.

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LEARNING CENTER The Ormond Beach Lions Club Foundation presented the Great Kids Learning Center with a $1,000 donation in a ceremony on Jan. 13, according to a press release.

The Great Kids Learning Center is an after-school learning program that helps local children develop “the attitudes, character and motivation necessary to succeed in school and life,” the press release states. The program has students from five elementary schools: Ormond Beach Elementary, Ortona Elementary, Osceola Elementary, Pathways Elementary and Tomoka Elementary.

MAYOR’S FITNESS CHALLENGE STARTS Following a kick-off on Saturday, Jan. 4 at the South Ormond Neighborhood Center, the Mayor’s Health and Fitness Challenge in Ormond Beach has officially begun.

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GLENN MILLER ORCHESTRA n When: 7-9 p.m. n Where: Ormond Beach Performing Arts Center n Details: Big band standards like “Chattanooga Choo Choo,” “In the Mood” and “Moonlight Serenade.” Tickets start at $23.

Call 676-3375 or buy at the box office.

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Mayor Bill Partington and Ms. Tortuga

duced the participants to the event sponsors and the challenge’s Perks and Wellness Partners, according to the city’s Jan. 10 weekly review.

Participants also received a T-shirt and goody bags.

Among the events included in this year’s challenge are Jazzercise, Tai Chi, square dancing and walking with the mayor. The challenge will end on Saturday, March 28. Winners will be announced at the City Commission meeting on Tuesday, April 7.

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Save Blue Paradise will is joining forces with paddle boarding group Women Making Waves for the event, which will take place from noon to 2 p.m. Save Blue Paradise is also looking for more volunteers.

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The show will feature all types of automobiles.

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Those who enjoy car shows have a new opportunity the last Saturday of each month beginning Jan. 25. Daytona Cars and Coffee, presented by Bruce Rossmeyer’s Destination Daytona and powered by Destin 2 Shine, will include classics, imports, jeeps, modern muscle cars, trucks, show bikes and supercars.

The free show was started a year ago at the Streamline Hotel

by Realtor Shawn Pruner, of Ormond Beach, and his son, Austin, and later expanded at Tanger Outlets. Pruner has now brought the show to Destination Daytona where it will run from 9 a.m. to noon.

“It’s a tremendous location with more flexible room and layout,” he said. “It’s a great place for functions.”

There’s a pavilion that will serve as the VIP section and a cover for attendees in the event of rain and several retail businesses.

Attendees will be able to socialize over coffee, and it will be fun for the whole family, as there will be things for kids to do, Pruner said.

Because of the variety of cars and the social aspect, Pruner said the show is a unique experience.

It started when he and his son, Austin, “had a blast” at an import car show. While Pruner likes older cars, his son likes imports, so they decided to bring old and new together.

Hours for the closeout sale can be found on their Facebook page, Purple Dragonfly Boutique.

When people talk of boosting commercial areas, they usually mention “shops and restaurants.”

The city is losing one locallyowned shop, Purple Dragonfly Boutique, 1462 W. Granada Blvd., in Ormond Towne Square. Owners Gayle Giacobbe and Rebecca Taylor cite competition with online shopping as the reason for closing the 13-year old shop that features apparel, jewelry, accessories, shoes and home décor.

“In today’s environment having a brick and mortar retail store has become very challenging,” they wrote in a Facebook post.

“We cannot compete with the vast variety, price point and convenience of online shopping.”

In an interview, Giacobbe said shoppers would try on clothes and then buy online so they wouldn’t have to pay sales tax. She believes online shopping affects big box stores as well as mom-and-pop stores.

Their new hours for their closeout sale can be found on their Facebook page. Giacobbe said they expect to close around midFebruary.

Giacobbe said they had a blast operating the store, made many friends and appreciate their loyal staff and customers.

She said people should realize how much locally-owned business benefit the area. The profits

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stay in the community and the businesses support local charities The store was known for supporting local charities, including Futures Foundation for Volusia schools, breast cancer awareness, United Way, Halifax Humane Society, Halifax Urban Ministries and more. Taylor has served as chairwoman of the Volusia Schools district advisory committee, and Giacobbe was assistant chairwoman for two years.

Asked about future plans, Giacobbe said they don’t know what the future holds.

While other local businesses acknowledge competition from online, some close while others are able to remain open.

Buttleman Sporting Goods Inc. closed its business on N. U.S. 1 in 2015 after 44 years. The owner said big box stores were able to sell the merchandise cheaper, and shoppers would look at his sporting goods and then order online.

My Adornments in Fountainsquare Shoppes on East Granada Boulevard closed last year after 20 years, but it was due to retirement.

Owner Laurie Schammel said online shopping was a competitor, but she could have remained open.

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Shawn Pruner, shown with sons Austin and Jacob, has brought his car show to Ormond Beach.

Pruner also said hosting the event gives him a chance to spend time with his son.

He said the event has seen a large reach via social media, on average about 60,000 people a month.

Exhibiting cars at the show is free, except for 50 VIP spots under the pavilion. To register a car, visit www.eventbrite.com/ manage/events/88581779487/ tickets/154879543.

There will be a poker run, giveaways, 50/50, DJ, pool table inside of Destin 2 Shine, electric bikes, inflatable games and free coffee while it lasts.

The event will benefit charities, and this month it will be Boys and Girls Club of Volusia and Flagler Counties.

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house in Ormond-by-the-Sea was the top real estate transaction in Ormond Beach and Ormond-by-the-Sea for the week of Dec. 8-14 in the Multiple Listing Service. Michael and Elizabeth Saxon, of Savannah, Georgia, sold 6 Sandy Beach Drive to Greg and Gwyn Boughey, of Ormond Beach, for $572,500. Built in 1957, the house has three bedrooms, two baths, a fireplace and 2,187 square feet. It sold in 1998 for $172,000. Following is a partial list of the week’s other sales.

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ORMOND BEACH Desiderata and Giovanna Triani, of Ormond Beach, sold 117 Ormond Shores Drive to Nancy Perdue and Joshua Perdue, of Ormond Beach, for $320,000.

Built in 1981, the house has five bedrooms, four baths, a fireplace and 2,371 square feet. It sold in 2017 for $260,000.

Peggy Law, of Ormond Beach, sold 180 Ellicott Drive to John Fratus and Thomas Thorsky, of Medina, Ohio, for $305,000.

Built in 1963, the house has three bedrooms, two baths, a fireplace and 2,002 square feet. It sold in 1982 for $83,000.

Robert and Charlotte Allen, of Daytona Beach, sold 31 Lincoln

Ave. to Edward and Jennifer Dimayuga, of Ormond Beach, for $290,000. Built in 1895, the historic house has three bedrooms, two baths, a swimming pool and 1,646 square feet. It sold in 2002 for $130,000.

OfferPad LLC, of Chandler, Arizona, sold 816 Lindenwood Circle to Susan Fletcher, of Ormond Beach, for $230,000.

Built in 1975, the house has three bedrooms, two baths and 1,718 square feet. It sold in October for $211,100.

Joan Christman, of Ormond Beach, sold 918 Northbrook Drive to Ginette Fortier, Tony Pittman and Jennifer Brace for $229,000. Built in 1978, the house has three bedrooms, two baths, a fireplace, swimming pool and 1,526 square feet. It sold in 1978 for $54,000.

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The top real estate transaction is east of State Road A1A in Ormond-by-the-Sea.

HALIFAX PLANTATION Suzanne Harbin, of Charleston, South Carolina, sold 3219 Galty Circle to Leonard Lukowski and Gerald Klaft, of Ormond Beach, for $285,000. Built in 2003, the house has three bedrooms, two baths, a fireplace and 2,186 square feet. It sold in 2013 for $209,900.

ORMOND LAKES Joan Kendzior, of Ormond Beach, sold 7 Blockhouse Court to William and Joann Maffeo, of Clinton, Connecticut, for $273,000. Built in 2000, the house has three bedrooms, two baths, a fireplace and 1,912 square feet. It sold in 2010 for $144,375.

HUNTER’S RIDGE Tyler Dean, individually and as trustee, sold 49 Canterbury Woods to Basil Baker, of Brooklyn, for $339,900. Built in 2002, the house has four bedrooms, two baths, a swimming pool and 2,371 square feet. It sold in July for $218,700.

REFLECTIONS VILLAGE Cheryl Beece, of Palmetto, sold 29 Reflections Village Drive to Vernon Thurman II, of Ormond Beach, for $187,500. Built in 1998, the house has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,471 square feet. It sold in 2004 for $192,000.

TOMOKA OAKS Barry and Joanne Zinn sold 45 Oakmont Circle to Erin and Taylor Creedon, of Ormond Beach, for $330,000. Built in 1971, the house has four bedrooms, two baths, a swimming pool and 2,146 square feet. It sold in 2017 for $309,000.

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Edward and Jennifer Dimayuga, of Ormond Beach, sold 51 Oakmont Circle to Lauren Riegner, of Ormond Beach, for $275,000.

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ORMOND-BY-THE-SEA Franklin and Alicia Dana, of Richmond, Virginia, sold 3685 John Anderson Drive to Amy Beals, of Ormond Beach, for $500,000. Built in 2004, the house has three bedrooms, four baths, a fireplace, swimming pool and 3,593 square feet.

Robert Reese, as guardian, sold 2411 John Anderson Drive to Frank Schaub and Janet Patterson-Schaub, of Ormond Beach, for $486,000. Built in 1971, the house has four bedrooms, three baths, a fireplace, swimming pool and 2,614 square feet. It sold in 1978 for $103,000.

Raymond and Cherie Lopez, of Orlando, sold 1903 John Anderson Drive to Gary Armstrong, of Ormond Beach, for $370,000.

Built in 1960, the house has four bedrooms, two baths, a fireplace and 2,619 square feet. It sold in 2005 for $368,000.

Robert and Christie O’Brien, of Ormond Beach, sold 117 Ocean Grove Drive to Johnny Dutra Jr. and John Sutton, of San Diego, for $326,500. Built in 1963, the house has three bedrooms, two baths, a swimming pool and 1,661 square feet. It sold in 2005 for $296,000.

Anthony and Mirella Carulli, of Davie, sold 3100 Ocean Shore Blvd., Unit 3050, to Boyd Lindsley and Michael Farmer, of Oviedo, for $236,000. Built in 1991, the condo has two bedrooms, two baths and 873 square feet. It sold in 2017 for $216,000.

Patsy Morgan, of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, sold 48 Ocean Crest Drive to John Talley and Leslie McCullough, of Ormond Beach, for $227,000. Built in 1972, the house has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,334 square feet. It sold in 1982 for $65,000.

Eric and Heather Garvey sold 60 Ocean Shore Drive to Floyd Marsh, of Pompano Beach, for $182,500. Built in 1955, the house has two bedrooms, one bath and 756 square feet. It sold in 2011 for $67,000.

Cynthia McLean and Donna Wilkinson, of Raymond, Maine, sold 122 Lynnhurst Drive to Mary Soiland, of Ormond Beach, for $166,500. Built in 1956, the house has two bedrooms, one bath and 848 square feet. It sold in 1990 for $60,000.

Dorothy Carroll, of Lawrence, Ohio, sold 1415 Ocean Shore Blvd., Unit 306, to Theresa Rinko, of Ormond Beach, for $150,000. Built in 1974, the condo has one bedroom, one bath and 837 square feet. It sold in 1998 for $74,000.

Victor Gallego and Clara Giraldo, of Elmhurst, New York, sold 1435 John Anderson Drive to Egeneto Investments LLC, of Flagler Beach, for $140,000.

Built in 1957, the house has two bedrooms, one bath and 1,025 square feet. It sold in 1995 for $60,000.

John Adams, of Adams, Cameron & Co. Realtors, contributed to this report.

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