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Early concept: 318 homes on former golf course Tomoka Oaks residents shared concerns with future developers in the heart of Ormond Beach. PAGE 4

Church fate sealed City Commission confirms plans to demolition church on Beach Street.

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Volusia debates tax rate PAGE 5

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Tyler Brownell and Jett Voegtle man the Hull’s Seafood Market.

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Four decades of fresh fish August 2021 marks the 40th year the Hull’s Seafood Market, on Granada Boulevard, has been selling fresh seafood, led by Captain Jimmy Hull. PAGE 3

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Special summer Ormond Beach’s special population camp promotes development of social skills.

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permits issued within the city last week, valued at $2.698 million. Six new business tax receipts were also issued.

$68,260

in grant funds from the federal coronavirus relief dollars to be used on the Taxiway Bravo design project.

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day extension given for businesses to have temporary banners without permits and time restrictions due to the pandemic.

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funding agreement with the River-to-Sea Transportation Planning Organization approved.

Church’s fate is sealed: City will demolish

A win for food trucks

With demolition of the Ormond Beach Union Church structure at 56 N. Beach St. slated to begin early next week, citizens approached the City Commission one final time pleading for a six-month delay — this time, bringing forward a last-minute offer to buy the property for $300,000.

The offer was brought forward by Ormond resident Frank Diefenderfer at the commission’s meeting on Tueday, July 20, and excluded the riverfront parcel. However, the commission was not interested in the proposal, which would have needed to go through a formal request process that City Attorney Randy Hayes estimated could take about four months.

City Commissioners Troy Kent and Susan Persis did express an interest in selling the property — which the city bought in 2018 for $729,000 — post-demolition for a profit.

Kent threw out a figure of $1.29 million for both the church and riverfront parcel, if that’s the direction the commission chooses in the end.

“Let the residents of Ormond Beach make some

Food trucks finally have a place in Ormond Beach.

The City Commission unanimously approved a land development code amendment at its Tuesday, July 20, meeting, that will allow food trucks to operate in the B-8 Commercial and I-1 Light Industrial zones.

This amendment was brought forth after the state passed a law that banned local government entities from prohibiting food trucks. Previously, food trucks were only allowed during special events held by the city or a nonprofit, at breweries in the I-1 zone and along North U.S. 1 as part of itinerant vending.

Food trucks are still prohibited in the downtown district.

Photo by Jarleene Almenas

A sign placed outside City Hall on Tuesday, July 20.

money on this deal if we’re going to sell,” Kent said.

At the end of the meeting, Kent also criticized Civil Discourse, a citizens civic group, for taking a side on the church issue. Civil Discourse Founder Linda Williams, who was visibly offended by Kent’s remarks, had previously stated they were advocating for was a delay to allow all parties to reach a decision together.

A temporary shell parking lot will replace the 1960 church, which was named one of the Florida Trust for Historic Preservation’s “11 to save” on Tuesday, June 21. The irony was not lost on Mayor

Tentative millage rate set The city has set a millage rate of 4.0308 mils, which is the same rate as the current tax rate and includes a dedicated public safety vehicle and equipment replacement fund.

The operating tax rate of 3.9128 mils is 4.7% above the rollback rate of 3.7370, according to city staff.

The first budget hearing is scheduled for 7 p.m. Sept. 8.

No bikini car washes

“We are purposely not trying to work in the dark.”

Email Jarleene Almenas at jarleene@ ormondbeachobserver. com.

The commission voted 4-1 to prohibit car and motorcycle washes citywide during special events such as Bike Week.

Rob Littleton voted against.

DWIGHT DURANT, president of Zev Cohen and Associates on the development of the Tomoka Oaks Golf Course.

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“That bothers me too — just the optics of that are horrible.”

Partington said he envisions something more than a parking lot for the property.

Resident Amy Valcik said to the commissioners that time will tell what they ultimately had in mind when they bought the property.

“Rest assured, we will not forget the commission’s stunning and arrogant dismissal of our voices on this issue,” Valcik said.

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August marks the 40th year the Hull’s Seafood Market has been serving fresh seafood, led by Captain Jimmy Hull.

years of familyowned freshness

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amily-owned and -operated Hull’s Seafood Market and Restaurant celebrates its market’s 40th anniversary this August.

Fresh-off-the-boat fish, service with a smile and an owner who has an affinity to lead with a strong work ethic, have given Hull’s its business longevity and popularity among foodies and fishermen alike.

Captain Jimmy Hull was born Oct. 7, 1955, in New Smyrna Beach into a family of physicians.

His father, brother and grandfather were doctors, but when Hull was 14 years old, his father bought him a boat, which permanently altered the trajectory of his career. At the time, Hull would head down to Inlet Harbor in his boat from his family’s home in Ormond Beach. The marina became not only a staging

Friends and Hull’s regulars Jordan Aufricht and Jessica Bickmeyer have known each other for 20 years.

Natalia McCalla, Anthony Zimmerer and Lydia Hamel

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Jimmy Hull aboard his commercial fishing boat the Work-a-Hull-ic.

area for fuel and bait, but a haven where he would hone his trade.

Charter boats were in abundance there, and eventually Hull was asked by the charter booking agent Bill Stevens to work as a mate for one of them. For four years, every summer he made money as a charter mate until he turned 18, got his captain’s license and borrowed money to purchase his own charter and commercial fishing boat.

After eight years of catching and selling fish to Park’s Seafood, BNB Fisheries and a multitude of local fish houses, Hull wanted to reinvent himself.

“Fishermen are never home,” he said. “I had a wife, and I had to figure out what I was going to do. I kept seeing a fish market that had closed on Granada but never really thought about it until I found out the Fegers who owned the large commercial fishing docks in New Smyrna Beach also owned that closed market.”

Hull leased the 700-squarefoot market, and Emma Fegers taught him the world of running a successful fish market. Days consisted of product pickup runs to New Smyrna Beach and a quick turnaround back to the market to open the doors by 10 a.m.

Hull’s market grew one customer at a time, eventually leading to local fishermen bringing in their fresh water catch-ofthe-day to sell and the need to hire his first employee. As sales increased, Hull eventually ran a lucrative wholesale business, with six trucks making daily seafood deliveries to Carrabba’s, Outback Steakhouse, The Cheesecake Factory and country clubs.

In 2008, the economic decline forced restaurants to decrease their orders. Hull to responded to the reduction in sales with the expansion of his business.

His first step was to open a small take-out-only kitchen, but the increased demand led to the buildout of a full-service restaurant with indoor and outdoor seating.

Hull’s Seafood Market is still nestled on the corner of Granada Boulevard and Ridgewood Avenue, occupying the same building that was purchased in 1981 by its owner.

“If you could see where this little company came from and its ability to thrive through all the adversities it’s faced over the years,” General Manager Brian Cavanaugh said. “Competing with big grocery stores and chains, for instance — 40 years is one heck of an accomplishment.”

In 2004, Cavanaugh started working for Hull at the age of 16, doing everything from scrubbing trash cans to shoveling ice. He worked his way to a managerial position after a few years. Currently, he is the general manager and after marrying Michelle, Hull’s oldest daughter, is part of the family.

Even though Cavanaugh is not an avid fisherman, after 17 years at Hull’s he enjoys working on the crabbing vessels.

Angie Schaeffer, one of Cavanaugh’s managers, also began working at Hull’s as a teenager while she was attending Seabreeze High School 20 years ago. Hull would stand behind the cutting table, cutting and selling the fish as he taught her how to work the market. Both friends moved away for a few years but returned to be closer to their families and, once again, became co-workers at Hull’s.

“Jim Hull is one of the hardest working men I’ve ever met,” Scaeffer said. “I’ve pretty much learned my work ethic through him and, of course, my fa m ily as well.

I’ve learned the hard work through Jim.”

“I’m never going to retire. You could’t find a better place to be in business than right here in Ormond.”

JIMMY HULL

MAKING IT WORK Hull’s Seafood Market and Restaurant seats 250 people, requires 100 employees to run it smoothly, six boats to provide the customers with daily fresh seafood and an owner who still goes to the docks at 4 a.m.

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Paulette Boyer and Steve Pettenger examine the conceptual plan for the development. What did Pettenger see? “Ugliness,” he said.

After the golf course 318 homes on former Tomoka Oaks Golf Course

BRIAN MCMILLAN EXECUTIVE EDITOR

Dwight Durant, president of Zev Cohen and Associates

After many people criticized the concept that 300 homes could be built on the former Tomoka Oaks Golf Course, another resident asked how many homes could legally be built there. The answer, 645, elicited gasps of disbelief from the audience on July 15, in a nearly packed auditorium at the Ormond Beach Performing Arts Center.

Cobb Cole attorney Rob Merrill, representing the developers, reminded the residents that the conceptual plan presented at the meeting was preliminary: The lot size of 70 feet by 140 feet is not final, and neither is the number of homes, nor the layout.

“This is a starting point for conversation,” he said. “So if there’s something you hate about it, don’t hate it too much, because it could go away.”

Many attendees said they lived in nearby neighborhoods, Tomoka Oaks and The Trails, which were built in the 1970s and 1980s. One resident called the plan “insane,” another said it was “ugliness.”

Others praised the developer for sharing information above and beyond what was required.

TRAFFIC CONCERNS

“We’re anticipating that the city will require us to look at much more than just the access point to Nova Road.”

SANS LASSITER, engineer

Several comments showed that residents are concerned about the traffic. Engineer Sans Lassiter said the plan was to have one entrance/exit from the proposed development onto Nova Road, which is maintained by the state.

A study has shown, he said, that a traffic signal is already warranted

Photo by Brian McMillan

“This is a starting point for conversation. So if there’s something you hate about it, don’t hate it too much, because it could go away.”

ROB MERRILL, of Cobb Cole

at Nova and Tomoka Oaks.

“I don’t think this development is moving forward without a signal,” Lassiter said. He added, “We’re anticipating that the city will require us to look at much more than just the access point to Nova Road.”

Lassiter suggested that traffic should not impact The Trails to a great degree, but he said modeling was being done to analyze the issue further.

The development will likely not be gated and likely will have its own homeowners association.

SAVING TREES

The developer hopes to build houses closer to the interior streets, with larger backyards and buffers, Merrill said. “Pocket parks” would add to the walkability of the new neighborhood.

Tree surveys are being conducted by Zev Cohen and Associates. Because the golf course land is at a higher elevation than most developments, fill dirt will not be needed, meaning that many more trees can be preserved than is typical.

than hundreds of average-sized homes.

NEXT STEPS?

The meeting on July 15 was the second of three to take place before submitting plans to the city for approval.

The third meeting, which has not yet been scheduled, is the first that would actually be required by the city of Ormond Beach; the first two were done as a goodwill gesture to provide transparency and solicit feedback.

“We are purposely not trying to work in the dark,” said Zev Cohen and Associates President Dwight Durant.

After the third meeting, the developer would make an application to the city; after staff input, the development would go to the Planning Board for approval, and then two votes by the City Commission.

FOR SALE?

Some residents asked if the property, which was purchased for about $2.6 million by Carl Velie, Ray Barshay and a third partner, could be purchased again by residents to stop the development altogether. Merrill said the property was not for sale.

Another resident asked the developer to consider innovative alternatives, such as an “agrihood” — a small farm surrounded by larger homes — rather

Over 100 attended the meeting at the Performing Arts Center.

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Volusia County Council sets maximum tax rate in 5-2 vote JARLEENE ALMENAS ASSOCIATE EDITOR

Volusia County Council Chair Jeff Brower asked for a 5% budget reduction in all divisions except public safety. But, he was met with opposition from some council members who said it would put the county in financial danger in the long run.

This came after a few members of the public asked the council at its meeting on Tuesday, July 20, for the county to adopt a rollback rate for next year’s property taxes.

In a 5-2 vote, Volusia County set a tentative operating budget of $1.048 million and a millage rate of 5.45 mills, which is the same as last fiscal year’s tax rate and is 4.3% higher than the rollback rate of 5.2244 mils. Brower and Councilwoman Heather Post voted against.

Councilmen Ben Johnson and Danny Robins were Brower’s harshest critics on the dais regarding possible cuts to the budget. Johnson said that while tax increases aren’t popular, they as council members had to look at the issue from a future fiscal standpoint. He said if the millage rate were lowered at the meeting, the council wouldn’t be able to raise it before the budget hearings in September.

The council, however, can still lower the millage rate before the budget hearings.

According to a county press release, the proposed budget includes the equivalent of about 34 new full-time positions, many of which are in public protection.

The budget also includes capital improvement project like technology upgrades for the Volusia Sheriff’s Office and the construction of a new fire station.

Johnson said the county can’t rely on one-time federal funds to lower taxes, as he said that could mean higher tax raises down the road when those monies are no longer available.

“If we hold public safety harmless, this money has to all come from out of these other funds,” Johnson said. “And what we could do is we could set this county back so far, so quick that we could be known as the council down the road ... that put a county that was in great financial situation and put it in a bad situation in the

About 430 people were hospitalized July 15 with COVID-19 in AdventHealth hospitals across Central Florida, an increase of more than 100 people since the same time last week, and a result of the highly contagious Delta variant.

“The good news is that we are not seeing infection in patients who are fully vaccinated in the hospital,” said Dr. Vincent Hsu, an epidemiologist and executive director of infection prevention,

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General Fund – 5.4500 Library Fund – 0.5174 Volusia ECHO – 0.2000 Volusia Forever – 0.2000 East Volusia Mosquito Control – 0.1781 Ponce De Leon Port Authority – 0.0845 (rollback rate) Municipal Service District – 2.1083 Silver Sands Bethune Beach Municipal Service District – 0.0144 Fire Rescue District – 3.8412 future.”

Councilwoman Barb Girtman said that a lot of the budget items that contributed to the tax increase — Volusia Forever, ECHO, Amendment 10, SunRail and the effects of the $15 minimum wage increase process — were issues locals voted in favor of. She said there may be some areas where the budget can be cut, and that can be discussed at the budget workshop, but for now, said the council should “hold the line.”

Post said that every year, the council hears the same reasons for not going to rollback, such as inflation, possible storms and raises for staff, but that there are potential avenues to look at saving money. Maybe, Post said countering Johnson, they should be known as the council who took advantage of federal funds to assess how to better conduct business.

“There are potential avenues where we could be shifting our gears a little bit and maybe shifting priorities and really look at saving monies without doing the pink slips, without having all this stuff happen,” said Post, referencing the threat of staff cuts. “Maybe that’s what Volusia County needs.”

Brower said the council did have possible new revenue sources brought before them for review: The naming rights idea for beach approaches he suggested, and the revenues the county could have brought in managing shortterm rentals. They can’t ask for revenue sources and them turn them down when they appear, he argued.

“For me it’s not a promise, it’s a philoshophy,” Brower said. “I want government to have less power so that people can keep more money in their pockets.”

The first public hearing for the budget is scheduled for 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 7.

at today’s AdventHealth Morning Briefing.

Hsu said the Delta strain, which mutated from the original COVID-19 virus and is now the dominant variant, is also infecting fully vaccinated people, though they are not typically sick enough to be admitted to the hospital.

With school set to start in less than four weeks Hsu and Dr. Michael Keating, chief medical officer for AdventHealth for Children, said they “strongly recommend” parents vaccinate any child who is 12 or older. The vaccine could become available to younger children later this year or in early 2022.

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More to the story Dear Editor: In regards to the airport, one of the commissioners stated the three property owners were invited to get their own appraisals. That is true; however, there is more to the story.

The FAA had a Zoom meeting with the city. Notes from that meeting included the following: n The Uniform Act applies to this land acquisition. n The FAA strongly recommends the city retain a firm well-versed in this law. n The city did not follow the Uniform Act, they went under their own city code.

The offer stated we could “get an appraisal at our expense to render a third opinion. Should we select this opportunity, under the city’s code of ordinances, the city may consider the average of the two closest appraisals.” When our attorney inquired what would happen if our appraisals came back significantly higher, the city stated it “most likely would not entertain them.”

The two appraisals had a 18.65% difference. That is a significant difference. After being told it would cost between $2,500 and $5,000 to get an appraisal, it seemed pointless.

The Uniform Act allows for negotiations and helps people being displaced from their homes with relocation or moving expenses.

The property owners did not know nor had they been met with about easements. Yet, in the Environmental Report signed off in March 2018, the city stated it met with the three property owners and that they were amenable to easements.

We never knew anything about an easement until January 2019 when we received a certified “Notice To Owner.”

When we were hand-delivered an “Offer To Owner,” the city mentioned an RPZ zone (crash zone) being put on our property.

The reason an eminent domain attorney was retained is, not only did five attorneys state the city had done the first two steps of eminent domain, but we were finding out things the city failed to tell us, like wanting over 622 jet operations and becoming an executive airport; and investigating the feasibility of increasing the critical design aircraft to C-II to encourage larger corporate jets with faster approach speeds and require more fuel.

Does the city realize with larger jets they need a 1,700-foot RPZ in lieu of the minimum 1,000foot RPZ? Also, later we found there were four trees that were

west of their RPZ easement and the city said it could just take those trees for free, because of Chapter 333. We were not informed — we had to research it all.

KARIN AUGAT Ormond Beach

Editor’s note: The city was given a chance to respond.

The Ormond Beach Airport has been an active airfield in the community since 1943 as a training facility for the Navy and as a general aviation airport since 1959. All planned improvements at the airport are part of the Airport Master Plan. All planned improvements at the airport are advertised following federal and state protocols, which include advertisement in the newspaper. Public meetings regarding the runway extension project were held on the following dates: April 28, 2015, Aug. 24, 2015, Jan. 2, 2018, and March 23, 2018.

The runway extension project has never been a matter of eminent domain, only voluntary acquisition. The property owners asked the city to consider purchasing the properties entirely. The city agreed to consider purchasing the properties as voluntary acquisitions. The city conducted two independent, certified appraisals of the properties.

The property owners disagreed with the appraised values and were unwilling to justify their asking price with a certified appraisal.

The city’s planned airport improvement projects will not permit use of the airport by aircraft larger than those that may currently use the airport.

It is not too late Dear Editor: First off, thank you, Mayor Partington, for calling the special meeting, and thank you to the mayor and Commissioner Dwight Selby for advocating for the very reasonable request to pause the demolition of Union Church in order to fully explore all options available for the church property.

I think most people would agree that the argument for delaying the demolition is compelling, and we cannot understand why it would be denied.

Commissioners Kent, Persis, and Littleton’s case against such a delay was weak, as there is a possibility that the building is reasonably salvageable.

As far as rodents and asbestos, those would need to be removed whether the building was demolished or preserved.

Lastly, in addressing financial value, profitability, and “money attached” to the property, as Commissioner Selby pointed out, how can that be determined without the opportunity to fully research all options? For example, the church may qualify for grant money. Furthermore, it makes no sense to deny potential investors — such as Salty Church — a chance to further examine the option to buy.

Commissioner Rob Littleton: What is your asking price?

The people are asking for more time. We know it’s not too late for Commissioners Troy Kent, Susan Persis, or Littleton to change their minds (and their votes), which may not be easy, but is the right thing to do.

KEN AND JULIE SIPES Ormond Beach

Granada woes Dear Editor: A number on a shield can lead to a lot of confused priorities. Ormond Beach’s Main Street, Granada Boulevard, is part of State Road 40, a state highway that extends from Ormond Beach to Dunnellon through countless towns like Ormond Beach. Its designation as a highway may sow confusion about its purpose, but let’s be clear: Rhese few blocks, from U.S. 1 to A1A, need to be a street, not a road or a stroad (A stroad is a street/road hybrid, the futon of transportation alternatives. A Stroad is not a great street or a great road).

In the downtown, cars should move slowly and cautiously, and planning priority should be given to creating a great destination. There is a very direct conflict between safety and speed. Driving 35 mph is too fast.

We need to redesign the roadway to slow down the traffic, and signs alone will not be sufficient. If drivers passing through our downtown (using Granada as a thoroughfare) have their trip extended by one or two minutes, so be it.

It’s one or two minutes. There are other routes leading to the beachside that they can take that would take much longer.

BILL PARTINGTON II Ormond Beach

Water taxi insanity Dear Editor: I once had a boss who was an old country boy, and like most of his kind, was long on com-

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Civil Air Patrol cadet Emily Kraft, Shane Fitzgerald, Greyson Bertaina, and Duke Neubecker

After meeting only online for the duration of the COVID-19 lockdown period, Civil Air Patrol’s Ormond Beach Composite Squadron is off to a running start, according to a press release.

The squadron has resumed senior member and cadet programs in person, is putting together a hot air balloon program, and restarting cadet orientation flights, where cadets are introduced to the many aspects of flying.

In the past, the press release states CAP has been involved in and has supported military training exercises. Its squad-

mon sense. When presented with dubious information, he would say, “Don’t pee on my leg and tell me it’s raining.”

The Cross Florida Barge Canal was a bonehead proposal by business to ditch the Withlacoochee and Ocklawaha rivers for a barge canal for shipping interests. One thing that helped defeat it was called a “cost/benefit” analysis. Basically, is the cost worth what you get? It takes 30 seconds to go 1,500 feet across the Granada Bridge by car, rain or shine.

By water taxi you’re exposed to weather, must load/unload, and still walk for blocks. Water taxi users would take precious public parking space from park Users.

Who buys/maintains/stores the boat, sits at the dock all day, and pays operational costs?

A $50,000 design, high cost of dock, additional cost of design and building an Eastside dock to disembark at Fortunato park would be absurd.

Are you using our tax dollars to compete with private taxis and Uber?

Let’s discuss bait and switch.

Propose one thing, do another.

There are enough docks at the Granada parks, especially Cassen Park. The only logical place left to build one is, you guessed it, next to the developers’ underwater private property next to the park, which would give the owners free, publicly-funded dockage and park access. Details for the near-million-dollar baithouse are not clear, but are said to include a kitchen for food prep and an office. The current bait shop location is said to be “unsafe” and too close to the water.

Will we have a gazebo constructed there, eliminating the best river view and fishing location at the par?

Also included is another new gazebo, in an unknown location. What else is hidden in that near-million-dollar price?

We were told the breakwater for the floating dock would be an innovative, ecologically, and aesthetically pleasing oyster bar with mangrove islands. You see what we got. The multimillion floating dock project and rock breakwater, space for 8-10 boats ($150,000 per), and a concrete eyesore. The continuous push for more dockage makes it appear the city wants to put in a marina in stages.

Wake up boaters, fisherman, park users, speak out! Don’t commercialize our river parks.

J.R. MILLER Ormond Beach

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Next month, five cadets will represent the Ormond Beach Composite Squadron at the Cyber Academy. a highly-selective program geared toward learning about technology and cyber security.

Visitors are encouraged to come to the Ormond Beach Municipal Airport and see how CAP makes a difference in the community. The squadron meets weekly every Monday evening.

CORRECTION

The city’s cost to demolition the church on Beach Street is included in the additional $129,579 that was, on Page 3 of the July 15 Ormond Beach Observer, repoerted would only cover the cost of the temporary parking lot.

CORRECTION Last week’s story on the budget had an incorrect percent increase on the road rehabilitation. Last year, the city spent $500,000, and this year, it is proprosed to be $750,000, or a 50% increase.

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MINIVAN THIEF 8:16 p.m. — 700 block of South Nova Road Grand theft. A 40-year-old Daytona Beach man faces felony and misdemeanor charges after he reportedly stole a minivan out of Flagler County.

Police spotted the minivan

in town and followed it into a shopping plaza parking lot. The man parked the vehicle and entered a convenience store, where he was detained by police. The minivan was returned to its owner.

But prior to that, police checked the vehicle and found narcotic paraphernalia. The man was taken to jail.

JULY 16

TOILET PAPER WRAPPING 1:14 a.m. — 100 block of Williamson Boulevard Possession of methamphetamine. Police arrested a 46-year-old Daytona Beach man who hid methamphetamine in toilet paper.

According to his arrest report, police responded to a local hotel after receiving a call about a man locked inside a bathroom that had been screaming for an hour. Police tried to speak with the man when they arrived, but only heard groaning. Eventually, they were able to get the man to agree to open the door.

Officers checked the bathroom and at first found nothing out of the ordinary. However, one officer took note of a discarded piece of toilet paper balled up next to the toilet. He opened it and found the drugs.

The man was taken to jail.

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GROSS ENCOUNTERS 10:36 p.m. — 500 block of Arroyo Parkway Battery touch. A 64-year-old Ormond Beach man threw a cup of urine at his roommate during an argument about whether or not the man would be moving out any time soon.

Police report the victim, still soaked in bodily fluid, said the man had been collecting his urine in containers all around the house. The man told police another story: that it was his roommate who had been collecting his urine in the man’s own containers, and that’s what the argument had been about.

The man did admit to flinging the cup of urine, but told police he didn’t mean to hit his roommate with it. Shortly after that statement, the man said “he wasn’t even sure that the cup contained urine,” according to the police report. He said his roommate had thrown a drink on him earlier in the day, and that’s why he retaliated during the argument.

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Q+ A BRIAN KELLEY, FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE

‘These are my soul songs’ JARLEENE ALMENAS ASSOCIATE EDITOR

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o matter how long Florida Georgia Line’s Brian Kelley spends on the road, he never forgets where he came from.

One could even say he’s always in a “Sunshine State of Mind.”

On June 25, the Ormond Beach native launched his first solo album featuring that very title, and all 17 songs capture aspects of Kelley’s life, from his own love story to his deeply-rooted faith.

“It was a blast to write, to create, to sing on, to put on my lead vocals on these songs,” Kelley said. “It means the world to me and I’m just very, very grateful for the response so far as well. ... I just honestly tried to write about my life, and I felt like if I did that, there’s a lot of people like me, and they would relate.”

This fall, Kelley and his Florida Georgia Line bandmate Tyler Hubbard will kickoff their “I Love My Country” tour, but first, he chatted with the Ormond Beach Observer about the inspiration behind his album.

What inspired you to write a solo album?

This past year and a half, for pretty much everybody, has been really interesting. Everything shut down for a while and us as touring musicians, basically lost our job, and it was a weird year for sure. There ended up being a silver lining. Tyler and I turned in our fifth record last year in May and released it this February, and in between that, I took a couple months just to do some soul searching.

We were living back on a construction site in our house here in Florida, on a two-year reno, and ended up living there from May to November. I was doing everything under the sun but music. I just needed a little bit of a break to kind of cleanse my creative palate, if you will.

Once I got back into writing around mid-August, I just started writing some songs that I felt like were different, were really, truly me, and next thing I know I’ve got pretty much a record and a handful of songs that I love. What inspired it was my wonder of life and travel, my wife, the state of Florida, — the great state of Florida — and my relationship with God. I just really wanted to make an authentic record that was fully me. I’m super thankful for the timing, for the outlet. These are my soul songs. They really mean a lot to me, and I’m super grateful to all my co-writers, a small little camp, but we all just lived these songs out. It never felt like we were really working when we were writing.

And I knew where I wanted to go with this record. I had a book full of titles and had a pretty clear vision of what I wanted to say, and what I didn’t want

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to say, and what I wanted this record to be.

What was the song writing process like? What kind of headspace where you in when you wrote these songs?

I just went with the mindset that every line has to be me. There’s no fictitious lines about anything in my songs, and anything that I’m doing. It’s all real. That was just the headspace. I felt like it was important just to be as authentic as I am and write about God, my wife, Florida, my travels, my spirituality, and that’s what this album is.

Your song “Boat Names” was inspired by your own love story with your wife. What was it like capturing that in a song form?

“Boat Names” was the first song I wrote for this project. I’m just super grateful for the opportunity. I had a random cowrite come up and it was over Zoom, and it was with two writers that are really great, and I’d never written with them together, so I was a little anxious number one, but two, it was over Zoom. But I got through that and showed up.

I had a little bit of “Boat Names” started, a little intro lick and and a couple of the verses, and a couple lines of the chorus written down in my journal.

Once we finished that song, that was the anchor and the guiding light for the record. I just wrote it from a real place. It was nothing more than me writing a

dreamer love song to my wife — about, “Hey, one of these days I’m going to make your name one of them boat names.” And that’s real to me. I’ve told her that basically since we met. I said your name is a beautiful boat name: Brittney Marie. It’s going to happen.

A music critic stated that your album is a “love letter to the beach life.” What is it about living around the water that inspires you as a musician?

As you know, I grew up in Ormond Beach, Florida, and I was baptized in the Atlantic Ocean. From the moment I left to go to Nashville, I knew that at some point if I ever made it or had some extra money or whatever, the first thing I wanted to do was have a house, a piece of dirt in Florida. It’s super important to have some roots in Florida, and it just changes everything. I needed to get back to how I grew up.

I love Nashville, always will. I love working in Nashville creating in the studio. I love fishing in Nashville, but when it came to home, it was important to be connected to our community in Florida, and I love the weather here. It’s a part of my soul.

I really have to shoutout my cowriters, the musicians on this record and my coproducer Corey Crowder. I’m just blown away by the level of talent that I was able to have on my record. I’m super grateful for them putting their

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heart and souls into this with me.

How do you stay grounded?

The first thing is faith. That is everything to me. If I don’t have that, I’m lost. That’s the first immediate thing, and then my wife — my family. Brittney and I, we’re just trying to live a pretty easy, simple Florida life. We’re in the community, and we’re involved. I’m part of a state park board down here, and just kind of doing normal people things keeps you humble. We’ve got four big German shepherds and I’m the pooper scooper in the family, so that will keep you humble pretty quick.

We’ve been very blessed with success and very, very grateful, but I think Tyler and I, we’re just normal dudes from Florida and Georgia, and we love our families and we love God and we love creating.

THREE FUN FACTS ABOUT BRIAN KELLEY  Kelley and his wife Brittney got married in 2014, and renewed their vows on their fifth anniversary in 2019.  Their four German Shepherds are named Smoke, Stone, Sage and Sunday.  Kelley did find their dream boat, a sport fishing 56-foot Sunny Briggs. And he followed through with his promise: He named it “Brittney Marie.”

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‘ALL AROUND YOU: CARING FOR FLORIDA’S NATIVE BIRDS’ When: 5:30-6:30 p.m.

Where: Ocean Art Gallery, 197 E. Granada Blvd.

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FRIDAY, JULY 23

SUMMER SOUNDS When: 6-8 p.m.

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CHRISTMAS IN JULY When: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Where: Downtown district, from A1A to Orchard Street Details: Join downtown businesses for a summer celebration in Historic Ormond Beach Dozens of restaurants and shops will be offering deals on yummy bites, summery sips and one-of-a-kind finds, all day long.

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HAPPY WANDERERS WALKING CLUB When: 6:30-8 p.m.

Where: Granada Plaza Shopping Center, 161 E. Granada Blvd.

Details: The Happy Wanderers Walking Club will set out for an “Ice Cream Walk” at 7 p.m from Granada Plaza. Registration begins at 6:30 pm. For more information contact Board President John McClellan at 781-686-0660 or visit https://happywanderersfl. org/

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HOLLY HILL MAYORS’ CAREER FAIR When: 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

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‘A beautiful journey’ Ormond Beach artist Joan Baliker, 90, isn’t slowing down

Joan Baliker’s “Amma,” The Hugging Saint is displayed at her son Paul’s gallery in the Hammock.

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Joan Baliker’s five-level dollhouse.

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rmond Beach artist Joan Baliker turned 90 this year. But the sculptor, painter, author and interfaith minister isn’t slowing down by any means.

“It’s been quite a beautiful journey,” she says. “And every day I ask, how can I serve, what would be helpful to everyone? And then I get all these ideas and that’s why I’ve been so busy because they just keep popping up. ‘You should do this book. You should do this.’”

Baliker has written children’s books about the five-level dollhouse she and her husband Jim built years ago which she’s populated with figurines of children of different cultures and races and placed symbols denoting love, choice and cleansing among all the tiny furniture and artwork.

“It’s a foster home where everyone’s living together peacefully,” she says.

Recently she acquired a new dollhouse that she decided to convert into a fire station to appeal to boys.

“I figured we’ll get them on the hook too,” she says.

The five-tiered house, the subject of her picture books, “The Mysterious Mystical House,” and

“It’s Weird, Very Weird,” has been exhibited at the Museum of Arts and Sciences and the Ormond Beach Regional Library.

Now she wants to donate both miniature houses to a school or learning center or hospital where children can interact with them and learn from their messages.

“My thought is if you can help children from an early age realize that we can be from different cultures and religions and live together peacefully, we won’t have this chaos that we’re having now, where everybody is against everybody,” she says.

Her bronze sculptures run along a similar theme. “Peace” is a life-sized sculpture of a woman — actually a young Joan — meditating.

“The Peace Seekers” reprises the meditating woman surrounded by advocates of peace representing all the major religions: Mahatma Gandhi, a Hindu; Martin Luther King, a Christian; an Islamic whirling dervish; a Tibetan Buddhist; a rabbi blowing a shofar; and an American Indian “calling for a vision.”

Baliker studied fashion illustration and design at the American Academy of Art in Chicago, becoming an interior decorator in 1950 and then traveling the world as a military officer’s wife.

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Joan Baliker at her Ormond Beach home with her Seaside Fire Station dollhouse.

After divorcing her first husband, she married Jim. They’ve been married 60 years “and it’s been magical; we’re still dancing,” she says.

She became an interfaith minister at age 70. That same year she had her first show exhibiting her bronze sculptures. Her son, Paul Baliker, a world-renowned driftwood sculptor and owner of the Baliker Gallery in the Hammock, got her sculpting career started when he handed her some clay and said, “See what you can do with this.”

Joan raised four boys. She always wanted a girl so she could build and decorate a dollhouse with her, because playing with a dollhouse with her sister was a fond memory of her own child-

hood. Finally, when she had a granddaughter, that dream became reality.

“Well, she really wasn’t into dollhouses,” Joan admits. “But I went from there.”

The dollhouse, like her bronze sculpture, became a way to blend her spirituality and her art. The five-level dollhouse, originally had four levels. She added a top level for a wizard.

“The top one is where you go for truth,” she says. “The wizard is the wisest part of yourself.”

Like Joan, Jim, 87, is not one for retirement. He and their son David reopened Bali Golf Company, a club-repair business, within the past year after selling a similar business nearly 30 years ago.

The shop is more than a busi-

ness. It’s a place where golfers hang out and exchange stories.

“I got to know some of the guys,” Joan says.

“During the pandemic it was good for me to be able to go out there. So I was telling this one gentleman what I was doing with the dollhouse, because he has a daughter. And that’s when he said, ‘I’ve got a dollhouse.’ It was a beautiful dollhouse. And I thought I was finished doing dollhouses.”

Now it’s become the “Seaside Fire Station.”

And like the five-level dollhouse, it’s looking for a new home.

“Peace” is displayed on the front porch of Joan Baliker’s house.

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Ormond’s special population camp promotes development of social skills

Shoshana Ravede paints tiles as she smiles at Special Populations Coordinator Lori Koplin

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t’s in the name.

The Social Squad, a summer club for kids 16 and older, meets at the Nova Community Center in Ormond Beach, bringing an opportunity for kids with special needs to participate in activities and socialize with one another.

Special Populations Coordinator Lori Koplin has only had one job in her lifetime that did not involve helping people with special needs.

“I like the innocence that they keep,” she said. “They have love for everybody. It doesn’t matter who you are, they are excited to see you. I also like seeing their growth and change.”

She had been working in an exceptional student education or ESE class at a DeLand middle school when she applied for Camp T-Rec, short for therapeutic recreation, at the community center in 2005. She was hired and currently runs the year-round program which has a reach of approximately 200 children.

Koplin believes that the development of social skills in children with special needs is paramount to their success. The camps offer individual activities such as drawing and painting but also group projects that require communication and interaction. Camper John Hearn is an example of the potential benefits derived from attending the special populations camps. In his 20 years as a camper, his communication has gone from non-verbal to carrying on conversations while helping the coordinator keep on-task. After Hearn had aged out of school, the Lunch Bunch program was creat-

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Above: Faith Stoddard focused on her schedule of lunch, snack and go home.

Below: Josh Bouquet is all smiles at the Social Squad summer club.

Madison Smith concentrates on drawing animals.

ed for him and others in the same position to consort. Meetings are held Wednesdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. during the school year.

Tony LeCates kept his friends entertained while they painted on tiles and drew various animals. He was waiting to make a lava lamp with the coordinator’s assistant,

Coral Long.

“I’m here to hang out with my friends,” LeCates said. “But I’m also waiting for the action.”

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DSC ANNOUNCES NEW SCHOLARSHIP Daytona State College recently announced the creation of the “Falcon Fast Track” scholarship program to provide support for Volusia and Flagler counties’ 2020 and 2021 high school graduates.

Eligible students who enroll at DSC full-time, defined as 12 or more credit hours, will receive a $1,500 scholarship. Those enrolling in six to 11 credit hours will be awarded a $750 scholarship.

“The ‘Falcon Fast Track’ program is designed to assist first-time in college students who are right out of high school begin their educational journey now,” said Heidi Pinney, DSC Director of Financial Aid. To become and remain eligible for the scholarship, students must: n Have graduated from a Volusia or Flagler County public, private or home school in 2020 or 2021. n Be defined as a “first-timein-college student” (exclusive of dual-enrollment, advanced placement, or accelerated credit participation in high school). n Enroll in an associate degree program with at least six credits for the fall 2021 semester. n Complete the scholarship application at daytonastate.edu/ scholarships n Be registered for classes

by July 30. If all funds are not expended by this date, DSC will continue to accept and process scholarship applications.

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THURSDAY, JULY 22, 2021

YOUR TOWN

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he sold-out Mermaid Party Camp gave Ormond Beach girls a chance to make beach bags, bracelets and wooden wall hangings, led this month by Kristin Heron, Michelle Davidson and Amber Green, at the Ormond Memorial Art Museum. The girls were thrilled when, Heron said, “a live mermaid showed up near the pond in the gardens!”

“How come we never see mermaids in the water?” one camper asked the mermaid in a quiet moment.

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Oceanfront condo tops the sales list A

condo in Ormond-by-the-Sea was the top real estate transaction in Ormond Beach and Ormond-by-the-Sea for the week of June 6-12 in the Multiple Listing Service.

Raul Lopez, of Duluth, Georgia, sold 1425 Ocean Shore Blvd, Unit 602, to Daryl and Patricia Harris, of Ormond Beach, for $810,000.

Built in 2006, the condo is a 3/3 and has 2,515 square feet.

Built in 1987, the condotel has 379 square feet. It sold in 2019 for $84,000.

Following is a partial list of the week’s other sales.

Timothy and Diane Alter, of Barre, Ohio, and William and Eugenia Rehrmann, of Ormond Beach, sold 22 Carriage Creek Way to Karen Lawrence and Shon MacDughlas, of Ormond Beach, for $370,500. Built in 1988, the house is a 3/2 and has a fireplace and 1,922 square feet. It sold in 2017 for $150,000.

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ORMOND BEACH Michael and Patricia Stovall, of Perry, Georgia, sold 1 China Moon Drive to Joseph and Rita Schaar, of Ormond Beach, for $380,600. Built in 1991, the house is a 4/2 and has a fireplace, swimming pool and 2,346 square feet. It sold in 2018 for $282,500.

Robert Teuchtler Jr., individually and as trustee, sold 50 Caladium Drive to Michael Cloutier and Patricia Myers, of Ormond Beach, for $369,000.

Built in 2002, the house is a 3/2 and has a swimming pool and 1,603 square feet. It sold in 2013 for $155,000.

Patricia Perea, of Ormond Beach, sold 62 Pleasant Drive to Juan Montes, of Savan-

nah, Georgia, for $292,000.

Built in 1955, the house is a 3/2 and has a fireplace and 1,458 square feet. It sold in 2012 for $135,000.

Emily Carole, of Ormond Beach, sold 17 Cypress View Trail to Gina Kalis, of Ormond Beach, for $290,000. Built in 1988, the house is a 3/2 and has a fireplace and 1,708 square feet. It sold in 2013 for $154,900.

Alexander McAdam and Evelyn McAdam, of Annandale, Virginia, sold 10 Chippingwood Lane to Amy Shirley, of Ormond Beach, for $231,500.

Built in 1979, the house is a 2/2.5 and has 1,386 square feet.

Paul and Sally Cantrell, of McMinnville, Tennessee, sold 453 S. Atlantic Ave., Unit 2090, to Steven and Doreen Frich, of Stacy, Minnesota, for $94,000.

Breakaway Trails David Julian, of Ormond Beach, sold 19 Carriage Creek Way to William McDowell, of Ormond Beach, for $375,000. Built in 1991, the house is a 3/2 and has a swimming pool and 2,164 square feet. It sold in 2016 for $261,500.

Castlegate Shancerrae Jordan-Clark and Jessie Clark, of Daytona Beach, sold 20 Queen Anne Court to CK Realty Holding LLC, of Windermere, for $385,000.

Built in 1995, the house is a 4/2.5 and has 2,141 square feet.

Hunter’s Ridge Pankil Parikh and Seema Patel, of Denton, Texas, sold 17 Abacus Ave. to James and Lori Luton, of Ormond Beach, for $384,000. Built in 2016, the house is a 3/2 and has 2,340 square feet. It sold in 2016 for $255,000.

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JUNE 6 - JUNE 12

Christopher and Catherine Harder, of Champaign, Illinois, sold 7 Abacus Ave. to William and Michelle Grindle, of Ormond Beach, for $380,500.

Built in 2013, the house is a 3/2 and has 2,682 square feet. It sold in 2018 for $307,500.

Joseph and Bibi Daprile, of Ormond Beach, sold 11 Meadow Ridge View to Preston Combs, of Ormond Beach, for $287,000. Built in 1995, the house is a 3/2 and has 1,863 square feet. It sold in 2011 for $127,000.

Plantation PInes John and Cynthia Carswell, of Ormond Beach, sold 291 Pine Cone Drive to Matthew Russell and Sydnie Brueckner, of Ormond Beach, for $639,900.

Built in 2008, the house is a 4/2.5 and has 3,735 square feet.

Trails South 40 Carol Barnes, James Barnes, Lorie Schlomann and John Cunningham sold 135 Horseshoe Trail to Michelle Roberts, of Ormond Beach, for $259,000. Built in 1983, the house is a 3/2.5 and has a fireplace and 1,795 square feet.

ORMOND-BY-THE-SEA Harriet Blum, of Ormond Beach, sold 40 Sand Dollar Drive to Anita Logosso and Susan Agnew, of Ormond Beach, for $405,000. Built in

1988, the house is a 3/2 and has 1,649 square feet.

Constance Nevins and Our Home Church and Ministries Inc., of Ormond Beach, sold 40 Seabreeze Drive to David and Vicky Farber, of Ormond Beach, for $300,000. Built in 1957, the house is a 4/1 and has 1,281 square feet. It sold in 2015 for $195,000.

Michael and Jean Conway, of Holden, Massachusetts, sold 2700 Ocean Shore Blvd., Unit 515, to Edward and Debra Lewis, of Pittsburgh, $260,000.

Built in 1986, the condo is a 2/2 and has 925 square feet. It sold in 2020 for $197,500.

Thomas and Jesse French, of Ormond Beach, sold 5 Beechwood Drive to Rodney Funke and Christa Gobbi, of Roseville, California, for $255,000. Built in 1957, the house is a 2/1 and has 955 square feet. It sold in 2013 for $108,000.

James and Patricia Wait, individually and as trustees, sold 2820 Ocean Shore Blvd., Unit 10, to Elizabeth and Jennifer Marshall, of Lake Worth, for $245,000. Built in 1972, the condo is a 2/2 and has 1,216 square feet.

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

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