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Food trucks: sticky situation Do food trucks harm brick-and-mortar restaurants? Is that fair? City plans new codes. PAGE 2A

INSIDE FOSTER FAMILY KEEPS THE FAITH

Bottoms up

Ormond Beach hosts inaugural Beer Festival PAGE 7A

Ormond Beach family in middle of legal battle to regain custody of foster kids. PAGE 13A

CHURCH ON THE BEACH

At the Granada Beach Approach, 105 people attended Salty’s ninth anniversary. PAGE 3A

MADE FOR MOTHER’S DAY

Children made gifts for mom at the Environmental Discovery Center. PAGE 4A

EXPLORING CITY PLANNING Citizens for Ormond Beach begins education project. PAGE 5A

FPL CONTINUES INVESTMENT

Ormond to get energy efficient street lights; FPL to underground 98% of power lines. PAGE 8A

Kitty Barakat, of Tomoka Brewery, pours a cup of cold beer at the inaugural Beer Festival.

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INSIDE

Pictona: Holly Hill gets new pickleball courts PAGE 9A

A GRADUATION TO REMEMBER

Sticks, sand, stones Mom, son graduate together from Daytona State. PAGE 12A

The Salty Mermaid features 35 local artists at a new boutique.

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Julie and Rainer Martens address the crowd at the groundbreaking ceremony for Pictona.

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New codes to be written governing food trucks Planning Board seeks to protect restaurants.

WAYNE GRANT REAL ESTATE EDITOR

At the April 11 Planning Board meeting, there was a clash between food truck owners and restaurants in the “downtown” of West Granada Boulevard. Food truck fans said food trucks’ presence near the downtown would bring in more customers for all businesses. The eatery owners feared trucks would hurt established businesses.

The downtown restaurants can breathe a sigh of relief, because in their most recent discussion, on May 9, the board members stated they were in favor of food trucks but do not want them placed where they might compete with brick-and-mortar establishments.

The city legal department now faces the task of amending the Land Development Code for food trucks, dealing with complex issues of where and when they can be parked, distance from restaurants, permitting, etc. Lunch trucks, which deliver prepared food, will also be covered. City staff expects to have a code for the Planning Board to consider sometime this summer.

After the Planning Board reviews the proposed codes, the City Commission will have the final say in two public meetings, possibly in September.

Food trucks at the Sports Complex on Hull Road present possible competition with youth sports

leagues that raise money with concessions. The board members directed staff to allow the trucks in certain conditions, but not to compete with fundraising.

Also, the board members did

PLANTATION OAKS FUTURE GROWTH The city and county are currently working out an annexation for Plantation Oaks, a new development located between Interstate 95 and Old Dixie Highway with access from North U.S. 1, and the city will vote on the matter later this year.

Parker Mynchenberg, engineer for the development, told the board members at the May 9 meeting that the owners are excited about coming into the city. Asked about the progress, Mynchenberg said they now have 97 lots for manufactured homes, and there are other sections where as many as 1,577 stick-built homes could be built over several years, depending on market demand.

FEES FOR MURALS In other government news, the City Commission at its May 7 meeting voted to require businesses that want murals to pay the advertising fees for the

not want competition with existing vendors, such as the bait shop at Cassan Park, and Andy Romano Beach Park, which has a concession.

In regard to allowing food trucks serving lunch for workers, the board again did not want

Planning Board and City Commission meetings, which would total about $300.

Only Commissioner Rob Littleton voted against the fee. There was no discussion, but at the April 2 first reading, Littleton said he did not want to disincentivize business owners, saying they would be spending thousands of dollars on the mural.

Other commissioners called the advertising fee “nominal,” and did not want to pass it to taxpayers.

City Attorney Randy Hayes pointed out that the ordinance approving the mural project stated that the city would not incur any expense, so if they decided to absorb the fee, they would have to revisit that ordinance.

Commissioner Dwight Selby was absent but had voted against the fees at the first reading, saying he preferred to have a moratorium for the first year to get the program started. Other commissioners said they did not like being inconsistent with fees.

blanket approval, tending to favor industrial parks or businesses where no restaurants were nearby.

Food trucks that work with a restaurant and park in their lot also present a sticky situation.

The board members approved the joint ventures, but said there should be a distance requirement between the food truck and another restaurant.

A downtown restaurant owner presented the board with data showing their sales went down when food trucks were at the nearby river parks during an event, but the board indicated that food trucks should continue to be allowed during events.

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A food truck ordinance will be considered by the City Commission later this year.

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Salty at sunrise At the Granada Beach Approach, 105 people attended Salty’s Church’s ninth anniversary.

CAROLINE SMITH CONTRIBUTING WRITER

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Brad Yates led the Sunrise Service’s acoustic worship session alongside his wife, Tammy Yates.

giving a gift.

According to Yates, Salty Church provides services for displaced families, alongside its mission trip work in countries like Costa Rica or its work with the Christian Surfers organization.

Troy Kent, the Ormond Beach city commissioner for Zone 2, said in a phone call with the Ormond Beach Observer, “They’re really great neighbors to Ormond Beach. And they’re expanding in our community.”

Salty Church has received approval to build an addition to its Ormond Beach location, which will take over the parking lot in the rear of its current building.

“We had a public hearing about it about a month ago, and there was no one that filled out a card to say anything negative about the church whatsoever,” Kent said.

O’Brien said the construction work will begin within the next few weeks.

“The beach is an identity,” he said. “It’s a part of your blood and DNA, and when you pull the spiritual aspect into that, it really resonates with people.”

“The beach is typically a great equalizer. We don’t know who’s rich or poor, or sometimes, we don’t know who’s homeless or not. The beach is the one thing where there’s less ‘us versus them.’”

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As the sun peaked out at the congregation from behind billowing clouds May 12, an acoustic band comprising barefooted Brad Yates and his colleagues welcomed the early risers attending the ninthanniversary celebration of Salty Church’s Sunrise Service.

“I’d like to thank the decorating committee for the gorgeous backdrop today,” said Yates, who founded the Sunrise Service for Salty Church alongside Cal Fisher on May 10, 2010.

Located at the Granada Beach Approach, the 7 a.m. service provides tourists and locals with a view of the sunrise, accompanied by an acoustic worship session and message by Derrick Shirley.

Salty Church, founded by Robbie and Christine O’Brien in 2005, has locations in Ormond Beach, Flagler Beach and New Smyrna Beach.

Robbie O’Brien said that when the Sunrise Service started, the open, relaxed atmosphere aimed to attract “beach people,” like surfers and bikers.

“The beach is typically a great equalizer,” Robbie O’Brien said.

“We don’t know who’s rich or poor, or sometimes, we don’t know who’s homeless or not.

The beach is the one thing where there’s less ‘us versus them.’”

The past few weeks have attracted record attendance, according to Robbie O’Brien.

“Cal always said that attendance typically equals the temperature, so as it gets cold, the numbers go down,” he said.

“Lately, we’ve been having a hundred people.”

For their ninth anniversary, they wrangled in 105.

Fisher, who played on a sitting bongo drum during the worship portion of the service, helped found the Sunrise Service after talking to O’Brien about several churches’ Easter Sunday sunrise services around the area.

Salty Church had its own sunrise service that Easter Sunday and decided to give it a trial run for 90 days afterward.

“At the end of the 90 days, there were maybe 50 or 60 people coming, and we said, ‘Hey, do you want to keep doing it? Let’s do it!’ and we did,” Fisher said. “And here we are, nine years later, still doing it.”

Shirley, the teaching pastor for the Sunrise Service, described the service’s congregation as beautiful, loving and caring. Fisher said it’s “like a big family.” Shirley even brought Hershey’s chocolate and flowers for the mothers attending.

Shirley noted that even though there are many regulars, vacationers staying in the timeshares nearby either hear the music for themselves coming from the approach or they hear about the service somewhere down A1A. “Every Sunday morning is like Christmas,” said Yates, who feels that giving the congregation a worship service beachside is like

On Friday, May 10, the students of Ormond Beach Elementary School welcomed a special guest for their final Shifters Club bike ride of the 2018-2019 school year. NASCAR driver and race team owner, Scott Legasse Jr., was in attendance to lead the Shifters' afternoon ride as an honored guest. Mr. Legasse spoke with students about the importance of school and education, bicycle safety, and also provided them with a helmet fitting. Mr. Legasse completed his visit by holding a meet and greet with his racing car, opportunities for autographs, and words of encouragement about staying in school and working hard.

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CFOB hopes to make recommendations to the city next year.

When: 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Where: City Hall Plaza, 22 S. Beach St., every Thursday THURSDAY, MAY 16

SEA TURTLE PRESENTATION

WAYNE GRANT REAL ESTATE EDITOR

When: 7-8:30 p.m.

Where: UCF Bldg. 140, Room 206, 1200 W. International Speedway Blvd.

Dr. Llewellyn Ehrhart THURSDAY, MAY 16

ART OF HEALING: GEO PAINTING

When: 2:30-4 p.m.

Where: Ormond Memorial Art Museum, 78 E. Granada Blvd.

Register in advance: 676-3347 SATURDAY, MAY 18

NATIONAL KIDS TO PARKS DAY

When: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Where: Tomoka State Park Recreation Hall, 2099 N. Beach St. Park entrance fees apply.

SATURDAY, MAY 18, 19

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City Planning Director Steven Spraker explains the planning process to a civic group May 8.

“Along with the traffic problem.”

CFOB member Susanne Steiner said doesn’t think citizens hear about proposed zoning changes.

“I don’t think people see the ads in the paper,” she said.

Spraker gave a crash course on city planning, including the Comprehensive Plan — which is explained on the city’s website at shorturl.at/adko9 — and the Land Development Code, found at shorturl.at/nFZ57.

Topics covered by Spraker included three types of usages in the various zoning districts: Permitted uses, which are allowed “by right” without a hearing; Conditional, which means certain conditions must be met; and Special Exceptions, which require public hearings by the Planning Board and City Commission. He called a Planned Development a “negotiated zoning district,” which also requires a public hearing process.

For example, in a B-8 Commercial District, an adult day care center is permitted, a bowling center is conditional and outdoor recreation is a special exception.

After the presentation, Myers

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told the audience that CFOB plans a speaker series this year.

CFOB has invited state elected officials Senator Travis Hutson and Representatives Tom Leek and Elizabeth Fetterhoff to speak July 10. There will be a discussion about recycling Sept. 11, and the group tentatively plans a presentation on the city budget Nov. 13.

The semi-annual member’s dinner will be Oct. 16, 2019, where their citizen of the year will be announced..

When: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

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Zoning, Land Development Code, Planned Business Development, Special Exception, Permitted Use. These words were all used frequently last year on social media and in audience comments during City Commission meetings as the public discussed the development of Ormond Beach, spurred by Granada Pointe on West Granada Boulevard.

Citizens For Ormond Beach, a nonprofit civic group established 30 years ago, has waded into the complex world of city planning.

On May 8, the group had a public meeting where Ormond Beach Planning Director Steven Spraker gave a presentation on the process, including zoning, the role of the Comprehensive Plan, flood plains, and other aspects of planning.

Liz Myers, CFOB president, called it an educational opportunity for the community to help city residents be more informed on the issues that affect the future of the city.

“There was such an uproar last year over clearing and development,” she said in a phone interview.

She said CFOB plans to form a committee to research and compare Ormond Beach’s ordinances and land use policies with other communities’. As an example, CFOB wants to look into how other cities provide notifications to residents about public meetings on land use and zoning changes.

Locally, signs on the property and newspaper ads are utilized.

A couple of years ago, CFOB extensively studied the problem of zombie housing (foreclosed properties that were in disrepair) and was successful in getting the city to revise codes and adopt policies to address the problem.

Now, Myers said CFOB would like to work with the city on development rules and present recommendations to the city in 2020.

Before the meeting, Carol Johnson, not a CFOB member, said she wanted to learn how things are approved.

“I’m concerned about too much commercial development of Granada Boulevard,” she said.

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KIWANIS KICKS OFF SUMMER READING CHALLENGE

Observer “If we are to build a better world, we must remember that the guiding principle is this — a policy of freedom for the individual is the only truly progressive policy.”

FRIEDRICH HAYEK “Road to Serfdom,” 1944

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Kiwanis of Ormond Beach has kicked off a summer reading challenge for students. Shown are Kris Light, Robbin Durden, Amy Airgood, Clifford the Big Red Dog, Lyle Shearer and Dominic Scardigno.

Research shows that children who do not read in the summer can lose two to three months of reading development, called the “summer slide.” The Kiwanis Club of Ormond Beach is attacking this problem by launching the Ormond Beach Reads!

Summer Challenge.

The campaign kicks off at Ormond Beach Elementary School on May 13 with a visit from best-selling children’s author Sandra Markle, who will conduct several workshops for the students.

The Kiwanis Club of Ormond Beach will give all 350 students an opportunity to select four books from a Kiwanis Summer Reading Book Fair at the end of the day. In addition, every OBES teacher will be able to select

ten books from the Fair for their classroom libraries. OBES will challenge its students to read more than 250,000 minutes over the summer and encourage other Ormond Beach schools to join the challenge.

The school will open up the Summer Reading Book Fair to the public and students at the other four elementary schools on May 13 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Kiwanis will be matching every purchase with a free second book. All five Ormond Beach elementary schools will be encouraged to have students log their reading minutes through the Scholastic Summer Reading Challenge site, a free online and mobile-friendly summer reading tracker. The site also includes resources to help par-

ents keep kids reading through summer vacation.

The Kiwanis Club chose OBES as the sponsored school because it is a Title 1 school with nearly 80% of students qualifying for free or reduced lunch, according to Kiwanis Club President Elect and local author Dillon Kalkhurst.

“Because the summer slide is cumulative each summer, low socioeconomic students slip further behind,” he said.

The Kiwanis Club of Ormond Beach was able to raise the money required to purchase the books by selling SaveAround Coupons That Care books, and also received a generous grant from the Kiwanis Florida District Foundation.

PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICERS ADDED Two new firefighters and four police officers were introduced

LOCAL ARTIST FOUNDS SOCIETY The new American Tonalist Society has announced that seven paintings were sold at its inaugural exhibition, Shades of Gray, May 3-10 at the Salmagundi Club in New York City, including Wolf Moon by ATS co-founder Daniel Ambrose, of Ormond Beach.

The society and its exhibition were covered in the May issues of American Art Collector, Southwest Art and Fine Art Connoisseur magazines, according to a press release from the society. The American Tonalist Society was founded by four East Coast artists during an artists’ retreat in Maine. The tonalist movement focuses on emotion, spirituality and mood, using a minimal palette of hues.

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BEACH CLEANUP PLANNED The Ormond Beachside Restaurant Row Foundation successfully held its first fundraising event on April 27, a beach cleanup with 70 participants collecting 275 pounds of trash.

The foundation is a business group that seeks to revitalize Ormond beachside. The event was organized by Lena Lux of Tipsy Taco and included a cornhole tournament, live music raffles. The money will be used to incorporate as a nonprofit group. There will be another beach cleanup on June 8. Register at Tipsy Taco Cantina at 11 a.m.

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More than 50 brewers and beverage companies took part.

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Ormond Beach welcomed the inaugural Beer Festival at Rockefeller Gardens at The Casements on May 11. Proceeds benefitted the Rotary Clubs of Ormond

Beach charities. The event included food trucks, games, live music and several area breweries. An Uber promotion code was provided to get festivalgoers to and from the festival. The list of participating beverage companies and brewers topped 50.

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Florida Power and Light has invested $4 billion to improve the power grid in Florida since 2006.

FPL to underground 98% of power lines Ormond Beach power poles will be inspected every eight years by FPL. CAROLINE SMITH CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Hurricane-related power outages have been reduced by about one week on average, and Florida Power and Light is working toward a goal to put 98% of all power lines underground by 2024, as part of a $4 billion statewide energy investment since 2006.

According to an FPL press release in April, 40% of power lines are already underground. But the energy grid investments aim to harden or underground up to 98% of existing power lines. These efforts will secure power for community facilities like hospitals and fire or police departments.

“Since Hurricane Wilma, we realized that there were changes that we needed to make as a com-

pany in how we provide power to customers and how we ensure reliable service in good weather and bad,” said Bill Orlove, an FPL spokesperson. “Certainly, that was an example of the bad.”

FPL has strengthened 61 main power lines in Volusia County and aims to strengthen 11 more with the ongoing investments.

According to Orlove, it took 18 days to restore power to all customers after Wilma and 10 days after Hurricane Irma, thanks to the grid hardening.

In addition, FPL will be clearing and maintaining trees and brush that knock down power lines when hurricane force winds are present.

“Trees were the No. 1 cause of outages during Hurricane Irma,” he said.

For their future efforts in Ormond, FPL will inspect the power poles every eight years and install new smart meters to help record and communicate energy information for motoring and billing, according to FPL’s website.

PUBLIC OR PRIVATE? 8 p.m. — 1500 block of West Granada Boulevard Information. Police were called about solicitors in a department store parking lot. A man in the lot told the officer that he and several friends were petitioning in reference to a political matter.

The man, whose address was given as “transient,” said he believed the parking lot was owned by the public. He then cited city ordinances that did not make sense to the officer.

An officer explained to the subject that he was inaccurate in all of his statements, and that he and his friends were going to be trespassed from the property.

The subject and his friends left the property.

employee was ejected for simply wanting to eat. The manager asked the caller why FDLE would be involved in such a trivial matter. The manager said the caller sounded a lot like the man who had left earlier, and he told him he should not be making calls like that.

A police officer took information about the incident and went to the home of the suspect, who told the officer that he was never given a reason to move his car. He said he did not make the phone call.

The man was trespassed from the business and an intelligence bulletin was created. In the report, the officer stated that at no time did he hear the man state he was a police officer or involved with any specific agency.

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PARKING PROBLEMS 5:16 p.m. — 800 Block of South Atlantic Avenue Information. A restaurant manager asked a man to move his car.

The man said the business would lose his patronage, and the manager responded, “Sorry, but OK,” according to an incident report.

The man then moved his car to another spot which was also not allowed. When approached by security, the man said they would have to tow the car. He then entered the business.

The manager told the man he was not welcome. The man referred to himself as law enforcement, but left the area.

The manager later received a call from someone who claimed to be from the Federal Dept. of Law Enforcement, asking why his

Thieves steal thousands in boat equipment More than $50,000 worth of boating equipment was stolen the night of May 2 at Stor-It Boat and RV Center, at 99 Portland St. Police were called the morning of May 3, according to Ormond Beach Police Department incident reports. The fence around the property was cut in two places.

Surveillance video showed two white males, both dressed in camouflage outfits including hoods and gloves. One suspect was described as being 5 foot 9 to 5 foot 11 inches tall and weighing 220 to 240 pounds, and the other was 5 feet 10 inches to 6 feet tall and weighed 180 to 190 pounds.

Several lower units of boat motors were taken, and they do not have serial numbers. Also taken were gauges, compasses, radar, Bluetooth digital radios and fish finders.

STRANGE OFFER 11:06 a.m. — 500 Block of South Yonge Street Information. A caller said she was the subject of harassing phone calls at her business. She said she’d received a private message through an app from an unknown account. The person who sent the message stated that he would buy a lamp from her for $250 if she would show her breast. On a later date, the business owner said, she received a message from someone with the same first name asking for her telephone number. She said she wanted to make the report in case the unknown person comes to her store.

Bicyclist runs into fishing line tied at neck level A man riding a bike in Central Park ran into a fishing line which had been tied across a sidewalk at neck height, according to an incident report by the Ormond Beach Police Dept. The line hit his throat but no medical attention was needed.

The incident occurred at about 7 p.m. May 5 at 601 Hand Ave., which runs by a lake in Central Park.

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Former Mainland football player Jachai Polite, who was picked by the New York Jets in the fourth round of the 2019 NFL Draft, recently signed his contract with the Jets.

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Mainland football player Lukas Walker picked up an offer from Jacksonville University. It was Walker’s second Division I offer. Walker is an offensive lineman for the Buccaneers.

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Seabreeze football player Edon Coma recently received his first college scholarship offer. The Sandcrabs’ offensive lineman was extended an offer from Stetson, a Division I team that plays in the Atlantic Sun Conference.

Rainer and Julie Martens (middle two) smile at the ground-breaking ceremony for Pictona.

Match makers

Ormond Beach couple help launch creation of 24-court pickleball facility in Holly Hill RAY BOONE SPORTS EDITOR

Ormond Beach resident Rainer Martens used to travel the world with his softball team, the Florida Legends, the most decorated senior softball team in the United States. He retired from softball in 2015, and the desire grew for him to transition to another sport.

He chose pickleball, which his wife, Julie Martens, had been playing since 2012.

“I felt like I needed to go play her sport,” he said. “It’s been great.”

The Martenses noticed a lack of court availability in the greater Daytona area. So, with a publicprivate partnership with the city of Holly Hill, the Martens celebrated the ground opening for Pictona, a 24-court pickleball sports complex at Holly Land Park, located at 1066 Ridgewood Ave. The ceremony took place on the afternoon of Friday, March 10, and included Holly Hill Mayor Chris Via, City Manager Joe Forte, Commissioner John Penny, the Martenses, and Pickleball Daytona’s Mimi Cook, who is also an Ormond Beach resident.

“The Wimbledon of pickleball will be in our backyard,” Via joked.

The courts, which are scheduled to open in 2020, will host

Rainer Martens (center) pushes his shovel into the ground at the Pictona site.

Photos by Ray Boone

“The Wimbledon of pickleball will be in our backyard.”

CHRIS VIA, Holly Hill Mayor

leagues, tournaments, instructors and more.

And beyond the need to have more access to the sport, the Martenses are a couple invested in physical activity.

“Our entire careers have been around physical activity,” said Rainer Martens, who was a professor of sports psychology and the owner of a publishing company that published physical activity resources. “This gave us an opportunity to support more physical activity in a community we felt needed it.”

Julie Martens added: “This will be a community center for active people.”

The Martenses, along with all the others involved in the process, stuck golden shovels into the ground, signaling “the first real step in seeing it come to fruition.”

“We’ve got a lot to do,” Julie Martens said. “But this was step No. 1.”

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The Halifax Rowing team competed in the U.S. Rowing Southeast Regionals on May 11-12.

Arman Khazraee, Vince Leffler, Gavin Smiley, Dylan Anderson and Thomas Spelmans earned a top-five finish in the Junior Men’s 4+. The Men’s 4+ crew competed against teams from Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, North Carolina, South Carolina and Florida. More than 45 teams participated in the two-day event.

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The Halifax Rowing team also competed in the Florida Masters Regatta on May 9 in Orlando. Some of the top finishers were: girls middle school 4+: Teagan Pytel, Mackenzie O’Dwyer, Sloan Clark, Hannah Spelmans and Alana Francis (first place). Mixed middle school 8+: Pytel, O’Dwyer, Michael Gutierrez, Francis, Spelmans, Thomas Power, Jay Saeed, Daniel Pierce and Sloan Clark (first).

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Sandcrabs show promise in spring scrimmage Fresh off a 1-9 season, the Sandcrabs took another step in the right direction in spring camp.

RAY BOONE SPORTS EDITOR

S Caiden Quieron upends a running back in the scrimmage game.

Seabreeze’s Isaiah Shirley looks down the field for an open receiver.

Seabreeze’s Matthew Bosset runs down the field against the defense.

eabreeze’s football team recently had its best week of practice, according to the Sandcrabs’ new head coach Pat Brown.

“The guys are buying in,” he said. “They’re locked in, and I think we’re starting to see that on the field more and more.”

What’s something that still needs to change? Consistency.

Fresh off a 1-9 season, the Sandcrabs took another step in the right direction in spring camp.

Seabreeze held its annual intersquad scrimmage on the night of Friday, May 10, at the Ormond Beach Sports Complex, where the white team (the defense) defeated the red team (the offense) 30-7. The defense was given points for forcing turnovers and turnover-on-downs.

Both teams made plays. The defense recorded several interceptions in the first half, and running back Otis Walker scored the offense’s only touchdown on a 5-yard run with 5:15 to play in the third quarter.

“We were just flying around on both ends,” Brown said. “This isn’t a finished deal. It’s still in progress. But we work on it every day.”

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Salty dreams The Salty Mermaid features 35 local artists.

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Penny Shumate holds the sea glass art she created that started her path to having her own business.

Sunlight streams through the large window at The Salty Mermaid, a new shop on State Road A1A, and when the door opens the ocean breeze can waft in.

It’s a light and airy place stocked with colorful objects from 35 local artists, including paintings, hand crafted jewelry, candles, soaps, bath salts, custom shirts, handpainted wine glasses and much more, most with ocean themes.

“Coming here is not like going to work,” said owner Penny Shumate. “You’re wearing flip-flops, looking at the ocean and surrounded by beautiful art.”

One wall is covered by an original, fanciful mural of a mermaid and sea life left by the previous tenants, a tattoo shop, and it fits in well. Shumate wants a comfortable, colorful vibe.

Opening the business across the street from Tom Renick Park at 1546 Ocean Shore Blvd. in Ormond-by-the-Sea was a dream come true for Shumate.

Living nearby, she envisioned the shop drawing walk-ins from the park and drivers traveling the busy highway.

“I feel like this was meant to be.”

PENNY SHUMATE, shop owner in Ormond-by-theSea

The mural on the wall was done for the previous tenant, a tattoo parlor. The new owner said it fits the decor of The Salty Mermaid.

There is a variety of art at The Salty Mermaid.

Art is on display at The Salty Mermaid.

This piece was recently purchased.

She was excited to see the vacancy in the strip mall on A1A where she dreamed of having her business.

“I feel like this was meant to be,” she said.

PARADISE

The Shumates have lived in Ormond-by-the-Sea for four years, having come down from Jacksonville to escape the congestion.

“To me, this really is paradise,” she said.

Shumate had a hobby creating art with sea glass and donated a piece in an antique window frame to a local charity a couple of years ago. Orders for her work started coming in so she started going to art shows.

Her husband, David, was encouraging and supportive, she said, and traveled with her to 12 art shows in a row on weekends while working his regular job through the week Dreaming of having her own art shop, she went around to artists that she liked at the festivals and asked if they would be interested in displaying their works in a shop. Since opening, artists have been approaching her and she now has a variety at a wide range of prices. She said she keeps her commission low so the artists can charge a good price for their works.

There’s no other shop like it all the way to Flagler Beach. Also, her Facebook page, The Salty Mermaid Art, has 900 followers and attracts customers from hundreds of miles away, she said.

“The first month was phenomenal,” she said.

The store is open 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. each day, and she posts sales on her Facebook page.

Previously, Shumate worked as a licensed aesthetician and has also been a retail manager. She said she wants to thank all of her customers for supporting small business and local artists.

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Mom, son graduate together Mother accomplished long-sought goal.

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Couple helps customers start healthy lifestyles BreakThru Nutrition celebrates one year.

WAYNE GRANT REAL ESTATE EDITOR

BreakThru Nutrition, 130 N. Nova Road, recently celebrated its oneyear anniversary of helping the community get healthier with blended shakes, energy drinks, etc., and the results are evident on their “Break Thru Wall.”

Customers record their accomplishments on the wall in the shop to record health milestones, such as weight loss.

“The wall gives people recognition for their accomplishments,” said Lucas Telfer, who owns the business along with his wife Joanne. “Their stories are incredible.”

They also offer smoothies, boosters, specialty drinks and iced coffee, providing a healthy lunch alternative.

“A heavy lunch can often leave you feeling tired and sluggish in the afternoon,” Telfer said. “It affects your productivity and attitude.”

He said they help people “break thru” in their path to health, saying the biggest aspect is the mindset and being ready for change.

The couple moved down from Wisconsin, where they owned several similar businesses. Joanne Telfer, now a mother of four, got interested in nutrition first, seeking to get in shape after pregnancy. Her husband decided to also seek a healthier lifestyle, and they ended up starting their own business.

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Matt and Katie Gabriel attend graduation ceremonies May 13.

of classes each semester, because her previous credits were applied.

But this kept her busy along with her job, so the family helped out at home. Her husband pitched in with cooking, she said.

She was curious about how taking a speech class would work over a computer, but it was fine, she said. Two of her speeches were made over Skype and two others were recorded with an audience.

She enjoyed working with teachers and classmates, communicating on discussion boards.

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Her son will work as a camp counselor this summer and then likely pursue a four-year degree starting in the fall. She looks back on her education as time well spent.

“It gives you a goal,” she said.

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Lucas and Joanne Telfer stand in front of the BreakThru Wall at their new business.

Katie Gabriel believes in lifelong learning. She did a lot of learning over the past couple of years, plus accomplished a goal she’s had since the 1980s: completing her college degree. As a plus, she graduated along with her son, Matt, on May 13 from Daytona State College.

Matt, 20, earned an associate degree with a focus on music, while mom, 48, got her associate degree in general studies.

Matt attended classes on campus while his mother did all of her work online, at night after coming home from her full-time job at AdventHealth.

When she started at DSC in 2017, she was nervous because it had been so long since she went to Hunter College in New York in the 1980s. Also, she had never taken classes online. The first time she hit the start button on the computer to begin a test was tense, she said, But, getting a degree was something she always wanted to accomplish, because she came so close before. Her education was interrupted by marriage and then raising a family.

“I knew if I didn’t do it, I’d kick myself. And at my age it’s getting harder to kick myself,” she said with a laugh.

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In struggle for custody, foster family keeps the faith

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In honor of National Foster Care Month, one Ormond Beach family is sharing their story.

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SUCCESS WITH EXCELLERATE On Sunday, May 19, during the 9 a.m. and 11:15 a.m. services at the Calvary Cristian Center, the church will be celebrating six of the Excellerate programs’ current students aging out of the foster care and awarding them with cars. “This is a time of celebration and to present the students to the congregation of Calvary Christian Center,” Steve Patton, Excellerate national director, said.

Excellerate is a nonprofit 501c3 organization that offers a 16-week course focused on life skills training and developing displaced young adults who are either currently in foster care or have been recently aged out of the foster care system.

one said. “It’s happening all over the state and all over the nation, and so we really just felt this pull in our heart to try to bring change — and everyone tells us that it’s crazy, there’s no way you can fight city hall.”

But she’s not giving up. There was once a time she used to be scared of everything, she said.

Now, her forearm is a reminder of staying strong: a tattoo reads “Faith over Fear” in looping cursive.

‘I WAS AT PEACE’

Cason told DeSimone in December 2017 that she wanted her to adopt the girls.

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children available for adoption In the Volusia/Flagler/Putnam County tri-county area: n There are approximately 1,400 in out-of-home care. n 49 foster children are awaiting adoption

“I was so at peace with the fact that they were in their home and knowing that they were doing well,” Cason said.

Now that they’re gone from DeSimone’s home and are out of state, Cason is only able to talk to them over the phone once a week.

She always worries about them.

“It’s just mind-blowing to me how much the system has failed,” she said.

KEEPING HOPE

DeSimone said she and her husband felt the call to foster children one day after attending Calvary Christian Church. That was two

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Ormond Beach resident Trish DeSimone will always remember Dec. 7, 2018.

In court, she recalled, she and her husband were told that two of their foster children, a pair of young sisters that had lived with them for 16 months, would be removed from the home to be placed with the children’s great aunt and uncle out of state.

When they walked out of the courtroom, the DeSimones were told the Florida Department of Children and Families had already sent out representatives to pick up the children. The girls were at DeSimone’s mother-in-law’s house, and she made DCF follow them there so that she and the girls’ birth mother, Alycyia Cason, could say goodbye.

“The last thing that we said was, ‘We’ll see you in a few minutes,’” DeSimone said.

That didn’t happen. Neither DeSimone nor Cason have seen the girls since that day, but they have hope they’ll see them again soon. The DeSimones and Cason are in the middle of staging an intervention adoption to get the children back, so that the children will be able to live with the DeSimones again, which is where Cason wants them.

“We’ve come to learn that our case is not uncommon,” DeSim-

years ago, and since then, they have fostered 10 children.

At one point, she had a total of eight children in her house (the DeSimones have three biological children). Still, she felt like there was more she could do.

That’s where her inspiration for “Flippin Scripts” came in (search for “Flippin Scripts - Foster Care Change” on Facebook).

Through this new organization, DeSimone advocates for foster children, hoping to unite foster families with birth families to create normalcy for the children, always with the children’s best interests in mind. She mentors birth parents and assists foster families as they navigate the system (including things like babysitting and help with lawn care).

Flippin Scripts also aims to bring awareness about foster care and adoption and to gather people to bring about change. The goal is to develop a resource or community center one day. Email flippinscripts2019@gmail.com or call DeSimone at 386-235-9038.

Change in the system is coming, DeSimone said. She can see it.

“If we come together, we can do what’s best for the kids,” DeSimone said.

Her legal battle to get the girls back has fueled the fire behind the organization, she said. Their trial will take place this month, and DeSimone said that whatever happens next is God’s will.

“I know they’re coming home,” DeSimone said.

“Just when?” Cason asked.

“Soon,” DeSimone said. “I know they are.”

At the state level, in 20182019, the Department of Children and Families reported:

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Five-bedroom home tops list

RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS

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house near the Scenic Loop was the top real estate transaction for the week of April 7-13 in Ormond Beach and Ormond-by-the-Sea. David Simons, of Flagler Beach, sold 224 Vista Della Toscana to Charlotte Banister, of Ormond Beach, for $790,000. Built in 2005, the house has five bedrooms, 4.5 baths, two fireplaces, a swimming pool and 4,136 square feet. It sold in 2014 for $599,000. Following is a partial list of the week’s other sales.

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Jeffery and Valerie Herrin, individually and as trustees, sold 8 Fernery Trail to Matthew Christopher and Shelby Salyerds, of Ormond Beach, for $308,000. Built in 1989, the house has three bedrooms, 2.5 baths, a fireplace, swimming pool and 2,538 square feet. It sold in 2009 for $260,000.

George Biddle, individually and as trustee, sold 187 River Beach Drive to Robert and Melissa Burns, of Ormond Beach, for $245,000. Built in 1958, the house has three bedrooms, two baths, a swimming pool and 1,864 square feet.

Douglas Romine, of Eatonton, Georgia, sold 207 Forest Hills Blvd. to Andrew Meldrum, of

Ormond Beach, for $177,000.

Built in 1974, the house has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,372 square feet. It sold in 1982 for $47,800.

Halifax Plantation Craig and Jennifer Capri, of Jacksonville Beach, sold 3756 Belfast Circle to Billy and Vicki Adams, of Ormond Beach, for $415,000. Built in 2001, the house has four bedrooms, three baths, a fireplace, swimming pool and 2,694 square feet. It sold in 2010 for $155,000.

Steven and Stacy Ayers, of Sanford, sold 3938 Tano Drive to Richard Patella and Cheryl Ammons, of Ormond Beach, for $350,000. Built in 1992, the house has three bedrooms, three baths, a fireplace and 2,928 square feet. It sold in 1998 for $190,000.

1005 Hampstead Lane to Peter and Shannon Lucarelli, of Ormond Beach, for $650,000.

Built in 2003, the house has four bedrooms, 4.5 baths, a swimming pool and 3,332 square feet. It sold in 2003 for $491,310.

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The top transaction was a condo steps away from the ocean.

Vanacore Homes Inc., of Ormond Beach, sold 3165 Bailey Ann Drive to Philip and Jill Weycker, of Ormond Beach, for $271,300. Built in 2018, the townhouse has three bedrooms, two baths and 1,695 square feet.

Hunter’s Ridge Glenn and Wanda Moore sold 10 Westland Run to Douglas and Cheryl Duncan, of Port Orange, for $265,000. Built in 2012, the house has three bedrooms, two baths and 1,874 square feet.

Ormond Beach, for $250,000.

Built in 1997, the house has four bedrooms, 2.5 baths and 2,303 square feet. It sold in 2002 for $109,000.

Kings Crossing Maurizio and Paula Triani, of Ormond Beach, sold 7 Lionshead Drive to Miguel and Myriam Cabrera, of Ormond Beach, for $425,000. Built in 2000, the house has three bedrooms, three baths, a swimming pool and 3,151 square feet. It sold in 2002 for $311,000.

Tom and Krista Haritos sold 134 Forest Quest to Phillip and Carol Stacy, as trustees, for $255,000. Built in 2004, the house has three bedrooms, three baths and 2,272 square feet. It sold in 2010 for $155,000.

Ormond Lakes Charles and Arden Dewar, of Cumming, Georgia, sold 15 Deerskin Lane to Dayton and Michelle Cripe, of Ormond Beach, for $323,500. Built in 1998, the house has four bedrooms, two baths, a swimming pool and 2,391 square feet.

Anthony and Karen Dinelli, of Gainesville, sold 11 Canterbury Woods to Karen Kennedy, of

Plantation Bay Nicholas and Maria Cardaci, of Manorville, New York, sold

Jimmy and Linda Chumney, of Ormond Beach, sold 1279 Royal Pointe Lane to John and Gayle Lascari, of Shirley, New York, for $260,000. Built in 2006, the house has three bedrooms, two baths and 1,905 square feet. It sold in 2009 for $170,000.

ORMOND-BY-THE-SEA Cynthia Boser, of Daytona Beach Shores, sold 150 Heron Dunes Drive to Kenneth and Tara Manderville, of Ormond Beach, for $580,000. Built in 2003, the house has four bedrooms, three baths, a swimming pool and 2,620 square feet. It sold in 2015 for $530,000.

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

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Stunning custom, 2460 sq ft, 4 bedroom 2 bath pool home on over-sized corner lot in cul-de-sac! Exquisite tile, generous rooms!

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DeannaKershner@yahoo.com

100FT INTRACOASTAL FRONTAGE

Big & Bright, 3 BR/3.5 BA with 3 Car Garage.

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Over 1/2 Acre lot with dock located in Hammock Beach area along Intracoastal.

Majestic oaks. Family owned almost 50 years. Estate sale.

2000 sq. ft. class A office space on high visibility corridor. Fully built out with reception/work area, 4 large offices, conference room w/ wet bar, break area & more. Very Impressive space. 1200 sq. ft. also available. Both at very competitive rates.

Asking $495,000

386-447-3004

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Palm Coast Flagler Beach Realty

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866-222-4920 www.holidaybuilders.com

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Scott Nieminen 386-447-3004

Palm Coast Flagler Beach Realty

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125 Bickford Dr., Palm Coast, FL

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Deanna Kershner

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A “HouseSold” Name!

904-669-0781

Asking $204,900

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Carol Tunis

QUAIL HOLLOW 4 BR 2 BA Home with over 2000 ft. of living space. Living room, dining room & family room. Very large master suite with two closets, double vanities, garden tub and shower. Spacious kitchen.

Quiet neighborhood, community pool.

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