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A voice to remember Radio host Marc Bernier has died from COVID-19.

JARLEENE ALMENAS ASSOCIATE EDITOR

For over 30 years, Marc Bernier’s voice filled the airwaves at WNDB. The host of “The Marc Bernier Show,” which aired weekdays on 93.5 FM and 1150 AM, often brought in local government officials, community members and political candidates and gave them a platform to speak on different issues. On his show’s website, there are over 4,000 pages of recordings of interviews and segments dating back to 2010.

On Saturday, Aug. 28, WNDB and Southern Stone Communications announced Bernier had died after a three-week battle with COVID-19.

Ormond Beach City Commissioner Dwight Selby said it is hard to believe that Bernier is gone.

“We were so fortunate to have Marc in our community,” Selby, often a featured guest on Bernier’s “Volusianaries” segments, wrote in an email. “... Very few communities, especially of our size, enjoy the quality of communication that Marc Bernier provided for several decades.”

Port Orange City Councilman Chase Tramont first met Bernier in 2015 when Tramont was running for office. He called him a “terrific friend, and a great man” who loved his family, community and country.

“His impact on this community, in my opinion, is unmatched,” Tramont said.

Seabreeze Sandcrabs get amped for the game against Spruce Creek Hawks.

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GIVING BACK

INSIDE

46 YEARS IN THE INDUSTRY

Former city manager dies

Bernier’s career began long before he joined WNDB. According to his bio on his show’s website, Bernier, a Rhode Island native, had been in the radio and televi-

The late Bernie Murphy is remembered for his humor and personality. He worked for the city

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John Hamlin, founder and CEO of Hamlin and Associates, donated $5,000 to the Ormond Beach Fire Department for the acquisition of new hoods. Pictured: Ormond Beach Fire Deputy Chief Tom Bazanons, Capt. Travis Taft, Hamlin and Associates President Grant Zimmerman, Founder and CEO John Hamlin, Fire Chief Richard Sievers and Battalion Chief Nate Quartier.

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permits issued within the city last week, valued at $1.6 million.

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unit apartment complex proposed for the northeast corner of North Yonge Street and Highland Avenue. Called the Courtyard at Ormond, the project includes a 10,889 square-foot retail building.

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schools currently offering an afterschool meal program, funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

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received by the city as reimbursement from the state for 2018’s Hurricane Michael.

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Group seeks transparency for airport projects

Civil Discourse to host meeting

In light of the upcoming runway extension at the Ormond Beach Municipal Airport, several affected citizens are banding together to make sure the community is aware of the project.

In June, the City Commission unanimously approved a work authorization to allow a new environmental assessment for the runway extension to the west, which was narrowed in scope from 1,000 feet to 600 feet after the city was unable to procure easements for the original plans. The 2015 Airport Master Plan update option that proposes a 600-foot extension to the west also includes a 400-foot extension to the east as part of a future phase.

Volusia resident Mike Rogers lives on Pineland Trail, and is one of the property owners who the city attempted to obtain an easement from in the original project.

He said the focus of the concerned residents is making sure the public is aware of what’s going on at the airport.

“The general public of Ormond Beach — 41,000 people roughly — the vast majority have no idea,” he said.

With the Federal Aviation

Civil Discourse will host a meeting on Tuesday, Sept. 14, to discuss the Ormond Beach Municipal Airport runway extension at 6 p.m. at Andy Romano Beachfront Park, located at 839 S. Atlantic Ave. All are welcome to attend to discuss their viewpoints.

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Charles Russell, Mike Rogers and Bret Berg.

Administration holding a 30day public comment period, and a meeting, soon, Rogers said residents should be more aware to have the opportunity to make their voices heard.

A date and location for the meeting have not been set.

“We want Ormond Beach as a community to understand what is going on, and if they still want to move forward with it, OK,” said Ormond resident Bret Berg, who is also part of the group.

Concerns over the runway extension include safety, increased noise, and the harm to the environment bigger jets could cause. Ormond resident Charles Russell spoke up in

“Being fiscally careful is a good thing. But taking money out of your pockets to put it in the city’s savings account is unacceptable.”

DWIGHT SELBY, city commissioner on city’s tax increase. See Page 6.

2004 about noise and safety when the city was trying to address the issue.

“It was aggravating then, and it’s aggravating now,” Russell said.

He added that there was arrogance surrounding the idea that citizens who complain about issues are a nuisance to the city.

In an interview with the Observer in May, Airport Manager Steven Lichliter said the runway extension would allow smaller aircrafts to take off further to the west, hopefully decreasing noise for the neighborhoods east of the airport.

On Aug. 27, Gov. Ron DeSantis appointed Maryam Ghyabi, chief executive officer of Ghyabi Consulting and Management, to the St. Johns River Water Management District Governing Board.

Ghyabi, an Ormond Beach resident, is a previous member of the board and former member of the East Central Florida Regional Planning Council.

Ghyabi is a member of the Pace Center for Girls VolusiaFlagler board of directors, chair of the ISB Coalition and past Chair of the Volusia County Association for Responsible Development.

Budget hearing scheduled The first budget hearing for the city of Ormond Beach will take place at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 8.

The city is planning to set a millage rate of 4.0308 mils, which 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.

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Mask up, VCS

“This is extremely difficult for all of us to make these very tough decisions because for every one person we’re helping, another person is not going to feel happy about this.”

JARLEENE ALMENAS

LINDA CUTHBERT, School Board chair

ASSOCIATE EDITOR

Volusia County School Board makes masks mandatory for students in split vote.

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he Volusia County School Board voted 3-2 at its special meeting on Tuesday, Aug. 31, to make masks mandatory, with a medical opt-out only, for children in grades K-12, effective Sept. 7.

School Board members Jamie Haynes and Anita Burnette voted against. The temporary mandate will be in effect until at least Oct. 15, should cases decline.

The decision was reached as the shouts and chants of people outside the Volusia County Schools’ DeLand Administrative Complex could be heard inside the board chambers. The crowd could be heard throughout the five-hour meeting — phrases including “Fire Fritz,” “USA” and “We will not comply” often interrupting the School Board members and district staff or forcing them to speak louder into their microphones — and once the vote was made, the crowd started to chant, “Shame on you.”

Still, the board members didn’t waver from their decision. Before the public was allowed to comment, a period that was limited to two hours, the board was given an overview of the number of COVID-19 cases by the Department of Health, as well as the Leon County circuit judge’s verbal ruling issued last week in the legal battle over the governor’s execu-

ARE STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES SAFE WITHOUT MASK MANDATES? As a legal battle has played out in Tallahassee over Gov. Ron DeSantis’ efforts to prevent school mask mandates, attorneys for the state are trying to fend off a separate lawsuit alleging violations of federal laws designed to protect the rights of students with disabilities.

Parents of children with disabilities are asking a federal judge in South Florida for a preliminary injunction against the executive order DeSantis issued July 30 to try to block student mask mandates. Attorneys for the parents contend that the executive order violates the Americans with Disabilities Act and two other federal disabilities laws, in part because children with disabilities are more susceptible to serious illness or death from COVID-19.

“In refusing to allow school districts to implement commonly accepted protections for these children, such as a mask requirement, the Florida governor and his executive departments have essentially excluded them from the public schools and made parents of children with disabilities have to choose between their child’s life and health, and the rights of other parents who do not want their children to be told they must wear a piece of cloth on their face,” attorneys for the parents wrote.

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Parents protest a mandatory mask policy outside the Volusia County Schools’ DeLand Administrative Complex on Tuesday, Aug. 31.

tive order barring school districts from enacting mask mandates for students during the pandemic.

According to the Volusia County DOH, 824 children ages 5-18 in Volusia County tested positive for COVID-19 during Aug. 16-31, a period that encompasses the first two weeks of school, and represents an 847% increase compared to the number of cases reported during the first two weeks of school in 2020. From Aug, 31, 2020 to Sept. 13, 2020, DOH reported 87 cases.

“Our mission is to educate children, and right now, we are not doing that well,” School Board member Ruben Colon said. “The amount of disruption that the positive cases are causing because those students are out for 10 days a pop, and the amount of disruption that the quarantine is causing because of following the latest guidance from the Florida Department of Education — we’re putting out children in droves.”

SHIFTING FROM STATE’S GUIDANCE

In two weeks, Colon said the district has quarantined about 1,300 children due to possible exposure, following the guidance established by the Florida Department of Education. By following the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s guidance, which takes into account universal masking, the number of students that will need to be quarantined should decrease. Under DOE’s current guidance, all students — with the exception of those who have been infected in the past 90 days or are fully vaccinated —are sent to quarantine if exposed to COVID-19. They may only return after 1) receiving a negative test (after four days for the asymptomatic), 2) being asymptomatic for seven days after exposure, 3) 10 days after the onset of symptoms or a positive test, or 4) with a written permission from a health care provider.

Under the CDC’s guidance, a child who was within 3 to 6 feet of an infected student, if both are wearing masks, does not need to quarantine. The district will follow that guidance, starting Wednesday, Sept. 1.

Haynes, who has been in favor of an optional face covering policy since the beginning of the

COVID-19 pandemic, questioned the COVID-19 data provided to the board, claiming that many of those cases never set foot on a school campus. She also asked why other mitigating strategies were removed when masks were made optional. She asked that the board not change their stance on face coverings, as parents chose to return to brick-and-mortar schools because of it; VCS did not provide Volusia Live as an option this year.

“But why do parents out there, or grandparents or aunts and uncles, think that the burden of their health — an adult’s health — is resting on the shoulders of a child?” Haynes said.

The disruption in the board chambers following this statement prompted the chair to call for a five-minute recess. One by one, the board members left their seats. Upon their return, Chair Linda Cuthbert said it was important that the board members have the freedom to speak their minds and that the clapping, booing and cheering was not appropriate.

Cuthbert said that, when the board made masks optional, they didn’t expect that the delta variant would affect the community as much as it has. The variant is attacking every age group, and Cuthbert said they all know someone who has died from the virus. To date, 1,058 people have died from COVID-19 in Volusia County.

“This is extremely difficult for all of us to make these very tough decisions because for every one person we’re helping, another person is not going to feel happy about this,” Cuthbert said.

“These are the shoes we are filling right now.”

But, the chair added, they can’t keep things the way they are.

“We will never know if the mask is going to work if we don’t try to institute it for a temporary point to protect our children,” she said.

‘IT’S NOT PERFECT’

The mask mandate will provide exceptions for students in special education who cannot remove or put on a mask themselves. It also excludes students in pre-K. Like last year, masks will not be required during recess or while exercising or playing sports. If children do not comply with the

JUDGE RULES AGAINST MASK MANDATES Ruling that Gov. Ron DeSantis overstepped his constitutional authority, a Leon County circuit judge on Friday sided with a group of parents challenging DeSantis’ July 30 executive order that sought to bar school districts from mandating students to wear masks.

Ten districts have defied the governor’s order, enacting mask mandates with exceptions only for medical reasons. VCS is now one of them.

Circuit Judge John Cooper issued an injunction barring the state Department of Education, Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran and the State Board of Education from enforcing DeSantis’ order, but said he could not strike down a state DOH rule that was triggered by DeSantis’ order. The rule said, in part, that any local school mask mandates must allow parents to opt out.

DeSantis said Thursday that the Parents’ Bill of Rights was a lynchpin of the state’s arguments for preventing school mask mandates. He contends that parents should be able to decide whether their children wear masks during the pandemic.

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mask mandate, they will be sent home. Parents seeking a medical opt-out have a grace period until Sept. 13 to bring in a letter from a health care provider.

Haynes criticized the enforcement decision, pushing back on why they would send kids home for not complying with a mask mandate if the goal was to make sure more of them were in the classroom learning.

“What we’re trying to do is to stop the spread of the virus as quickly as possible so that, not only will we have fewer children infected, but we will have fewer children in quarantine,” said School Board member Carl Persis, who seconded Colon’s motion to make masks mandatory.

The board can’t cherry-pick which guidelines to follow, Persis said. He was one of the first board members to propose they make masks optional, but now the data has changed.

“It’s not perfect,” he sad. “It wasn’t perfect last year ... But last year we didn’t have near the numbers — not even close to the numbers we have this year.”

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City manager was ‘a once-in-a-lifetime kind of person’ Bernard Murphy Jr. died on July 25. He served as Ormond’s city manager from 1986 to 1990.

JARLEENE ALMENAS ASSOCIATE EDITOR

Thirty-five years ago, Bernard Murphy Jr. arrived at the city of Ormond Beach ready to serve.

He became the city’s third city manager in 1986, bringing with him 20 years of experience in the field already. Being a city manager wasn’t just his profession; it made him the kind of person he was, said his daughter Shannon Murphy Thornton. That is someone who was widely respected, highly principled and a leader that knew how to bridge divide.

“He was a once-in-a-lifetime kind of person,” Thornton said. “He was just full humor, full of stories that you might not even believe unless he had proof.”

Murphy died from congestive heart failure at the age of 80 on July 25, in Hyannis, Massachusetts. But in his wake, he left a legacy that touched 10 different cities up and down the eastern coast of the United States, including Ormond Beach, Flagler Beach and the town of Ponce Inlet.

According to his obituary, Murphy was sought after by city councils, trusted by department heads, appreciated by union leaders and celebrated by the citizens he served.

“He was the rare city manager

who could nearly square the circle: providing excellent city services, while keeping taxes reasonably low,” the obituary reads.

A LAID-BACK MANAGER

Born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, on March 1, 1941, Murphy was given the nickname “Bernie” by his parents Bernard Murphy Sr. and Eleanor Moshier Murphy. He was their first child, and the nickname stuck throughout his life.

A 1987 article from The Orlando Sentinel described him as “laid-back” in its headline, and noted that Murphy’s smile was contagious, that he often told funny stories about things that had happened to him, and tended to crack a lot of jokes.

That’s a trait that Charlie Lydecker, president and CEO of Foundation Risk Partners, remembers well. He met Murphy after both were hired in 1990 at Brown and Brown Insurance, a job Murphy took after resigning from the city of Ormond Beach to pursue a career in the private sector.

They worked next to each other, Lydecker recalled, and anytime he found himself facing a hurdle in the profession, Lydecker he could stop by Murphy’s office and talk to him about it. It didn’t take long for Murphy to cheer Lydecker up.

“I have lots of memories of hysterically laughing with him, not taking myself so seriously, leaving feeling a lot better,” Lydecker recalled with a laugh.

“He just always cracked me up, you know?”

J. Hyatt Brown, local philan-

thropist and chairman of Brown and Brown Inc., said he remembers Murphy as someone that was warm, friendly and full of energy.

“He had a lot of personality — a very engaging personality,” Brown said. “And lots of energy, and always had lots of questions because he was always thinking of new ideas.”

TIME IN OFFICE

While he was a city manager in Ormond for those three-andhalf-years, several memorable issues were going on in the city.

According to articles by The Orlando Sentinel, he was at the helm of Ormond Beach when the city joined Daytona Beach and Port Orange to create the Halifax Regional Water Supply Authority to supply untreated water to their cities in a year where underground water contamination was a public concern.

In his first few months on the job, he split police and fire into two separate departments. They were formerly under the city’s Department of Public Safety. In the latter half of his time in the city, Ormond Beach was also getting a new city hall. Ways to save Hotel Ormond made headlines as condos, now known as Ormond Heritage, were proposed.

But one memory that comes to mind for Lydecker involves Central Park. The brainchild of the city’s first city manager, Gerald Althouse, Murphy also played a role in bring the park system to fruition.

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Bernard Murphy and his wife, Linda, during his time as Ormond Beach’s city manager.

Lydecker remembers that when he met Murphy and told him where he was moving — right off Sandy Oaks Boulevard, which at the time was a “big shell pit” — Murphy told him that was a great place to live. He promised there would be a beautiful park system there within the next decade, and he was right.

“To this day, I drive by there and always think of Bernie,” Lydecker said. “That was one of his lasting legacies.”

‘ONE-OF-A-KIND’

After two years in the private sector, Murphy decided to return to government. In 1992, he moved to Staunton, Virginia, where he served as its city manager for eight years before moving back to Ormond Beach. In his last decade of his career, he was the town manager of Ponce Inlet, and later

the interim city manager for Flagler Beach in 2006, a position he held for four years before retiring.

Afterward, he served as an emergency-preparedness consultant to the International City Managers Association, and traveled twice to India and once to Ethiopia under the sponsorship of the United States Agency for International Development. He loved to travel, his daughter said.

Despite his job, he was the “best dad,” on and off the dais, Thornton said. She grew up watching him in his city council meetings and he acted like the same person she saw at home.

In the last year-and-a-half of his life, Murphy suffered from pancreatic cancer, but kept his interests in politics and history, according to his obituary.

He is survived by Thornton and her siblings Kevin Murphy, Seán Murphy, and their families. He was buried next to his second wife, Linda, in Thornrose Cemetery in Staunton, Virginia. A celebration of life is scheduled for 3 p.m. at Trinity Episcopal Church in Staunton on Saturday, Oct. 23.

The city of Ormond has always been blessed with good managers, said Lydecker, adding that Murphy helped put Ormond Beach on a map for the high professional standard the city would come to expect.

“He was just one of those effervescent personalities that always lit up a room,” Lydecker said. “...

You don’t get that often in life. I would say he was one-of-a-kind.”

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sion industry for 46 years, having hosted morning radio shows in New England before he moved to Florida in 1990.

In 2009, he joined EmbryRiddle Aeronautical University, where he moderated and produced “The President’s Speaker Series,” a live program that featured public policy experts. In 2019, he moved the series to Daytona State College and focused on local and regional issues.

Ormond Beach resident and retired attorney Jim Rose worked alongside Bernier during a 15-year period when he hosted a weekly radio show on WNDB. One thing he admired about Bernier was his manner of interviewing his guests in a courteous manner. His death is a loss to talk radio, Rose said.

“You don’t see that as much nowadays,” Rose said. “It’s nice to be able to sit down and discuss things with people and disagree without being disagreeable. Marc personified that.”

The biggest impression Bernier left on Tramont was his ability to ask the tough questions while being fair, the councilman said.

“He had one of the most important jobs that one could have,” Tramont said. “He informed the public and he took tremendous pride in his craft. There was nobody better.”

Ormond Beach Libertarian Joe Hannoush also was a guest on Bernier’s show several times, and loved the “Volusianaries.”

“He welcomed people to call in or email to opine on various

Photo courtesy of Joe Hannoush

issues he would talk about on how show,” Hannoush said. “Whether he agrees with them or not.”

BERNIER WAS UNVACCINATED

Bernier stance against COVID-19 vaccinations was very clear.

His last tweet before he was admitted to the hospital compared vaccine mandates to Nazi Germany. His Twitter account has since been deleted.

Tramont, who is recovering from COVID-19 himself after being hospitalized, has strong feelings about the way Bernier’s death has been reported.

“I think it’s despicable the way the media has latched on to one particular personal opinion of which he shared,” Tramont said.

“That has made headlines simply because of that, and I think it’s disgraceful. It shows the absolute worst side of humanity.”

On the June 9 “Volusianaries” segment, which featured both Hannoush and Rose as guests, vaccines and the origins COVID-19 were a topic of discussion.

“I just wish I would have maybe talked to him a little bit more about it,” Rose said. “He had his reasons. It wasn’t really a political reason with him.”

Joe Hannoush was a guest on Marc Bernier’s show several times.

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‘Take precautions’ Halifax Health chief nursing officer shares thoughts on COVID-19 surge

MARY JO ALLEN VICE PRESIDENT, CHIEF NURSING OFFICER AT HALIFAX HEALTH

As chief nursing officer for Halifax Health’s three hospitals, I believe it is important to share my thoughts and the thoughts of many in the medical community regarding variants, vaccines and the vulnerable. First, here is what we know about the COVID-19 Delta variant: It is more contagious than the first COVID-19 variant by four to five times. This means more people are and will become infected with this virus. This is a much more serious threat to life than the first variant.

This leads me to my second point; the three vaccines available are all proven to keep those infected with the virus out of the hospital and now the Pfizer vaccine has full FDA approval for 16 and older, with Moderna and J&J soon to follow for 18 and older.

This is not to say that receiving the vaccine will guarantee you won’t need hospitalization but the data shows you are less likely to get sick enough to need

hospital care if you are vaccinated. And if you are hospitalized, you are more likely to walk out on your own two feet. On Thursday, Aug. 19, we had our highest patient census of 180 admitted patients who were COVID-19 positive. Around 85% of those patients had not been vaccinated. Now we are seeing a lower patient census, but still much higher than the first surge census by three times.

Third and finally, we need to protect the most vulnerable. Who are they? Anyone over 65 years old, anyone who has chronic diseases like diabetes, COPD, pulmonary disease or cancer and anyone who is immunocompromised for any reason. We should continue to wear a mask and social distance around these groups, which may include children.

Unlike in the earlier surges, we have seen increases in both pregnant patients and pediatric patient hospitalizations. One of our obstetricians recently said they hardly felt the first several surges; however, this one has been markedly different, with pregnant patients having to be hospitalized, some in critical care, some having emergency C-sections to increase their chance of survival as well as their baby’s. At Halifax we’ve not seen seriously ill children, but other facilities have.

To conclude, be safe, take precautions and live your life well.

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L E TT ERS The airport is vital Dear Editor: Since there has been some discussion on the plan for an extension to the main runway at our airport, I would like to give a brief history and the reasons that the improvements to the airport are in the best interest of the community.

The Ormond Beach Municipal Airport is a part of the national transportation system that includes large and small airports.

Our airport was originally built as part of the coastal defense system for WWII and has been an asset to the city since the 40s.

It is used as a transport airport for air ambulances, a training airport for new pilots, and base for the Civil Air Patrol. And it is also the base for several business aircraft. The business aircraft normally leave in the morning and return late in the afternoon.

Not a lot of noise or activity from them, but very valuable to our economy and jobs.

It is also used by several other flight training organizations such as Embry-Riddle and Phoenix Aviation. Most of the current activities are landings and take-offs by student pilots and instrument approach/safety training. As part of the national transportation system, all pilots and airplanes can use the airport at any time. Of course, there are exceptions such as commercial air transport aircraft that are simply too big and heavy for our runways, even after the exten-

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sion is completed.

The expansion that has been already funded by the FAA is to move the takeoff location further to the west on our east/west runway, the one most often used.

This creates a safety buffer by giving the pilots a longer takeoff run. The additional runway gets the airplanes in the air and at altitude with runway to spare.

This is a very important safety consideration.

There are also over 400 high paying jobs on the airport with total business revenue of over $56 million. If you add the total employment of the adjacent business park, the airport area is one of the largest revenue producers and employers in the city of Ormond Beach.

In summary, most of the improvements to our airport are funded by the FAA and are mainly to keep the airport updated and safe for all the airplanes that use this part of the national transportation system. It is also a vital part of the economic development assets that the city uses to attract new businesses.

DAVID SLICK SR. CEO of Command Medical Products Inc

Nothing left to lose?

Dear Editor; A recent letter that an Ormond Beach resident wrote to the Observer stuck with me for some reason. She was framing

I will be voting no Why this City Commissioner is against a 4.7% tax increase.

DWIGHT SELBY ORMOND BEACH CITY COMMISSIONER

The Ormond Beach City Commission is poised to raise your taxes 4.7%, but they will do it without my support, and I’d like to tell you why.

I will oppose this tax increase for one very simple reason: The city doesn’t need the money. The tax increase will generate about $800,000 in additional revenue.

The city has $8.8 million in reserves (or 25% of the Operating Budget). The city has a policy of maintaining reserves at 15% (or $5.4 million). That means the city has excess reserves of $3.4 million.

Don’t get me wrong: Being fiscally careful is a good thing.

But taking money out of your pockets to put it in the city’s savings account is unacceptable.

It’s your money, and it should stay in your bank account until the city absolutely needs it.

Although I don’t believe we should raise taxes at all, I recommended a compromise of half the proposed increase (or 2.35%), which would have covered the increase in the cost of living.

Unfortunately, that compromise received no support from any of the other four City Commission individual freedoms and mask mandates though the lens of the political picture here in Florida.

“Freedom’s just another word for nothin’ left to lose...” her letter told us, before centering on the common sense of wearing a mask and tuning out what the political class has made into a culture war.

Actually there is a lot to lose if one chooses not to wear a mask or be vaccinated. Maybe it won’t be your life. Maybe it will just be your home, your paycheck or your savings, supposing you are hospitalized and treated for COVID. Have those of you who have not been vaccinated looked into this?

I have, even though I have been vaccinated. The perception that COVID treatment is covered by insurance depends on your health plan, supposing you have one.

When COVID first broke out, plans were waiving these deductibles. Not any more. Not my plan anyway. How about yours?

Some people I know did lose their paychecks. And I can offer to you that my deductibles should I be hospitalized with COVID would be at least $2,000, with the unknown about the cost of treatment hanging over me the whole time I was in there.

I have better ways to spend two grand. Just saying. “Nothing, it ain’t nothin’ / Honey, if it ain’t free. / And feeling good was easy. ...”

That’s the next verse. Feeling good about not getting vaccinated, or masking up? The financial consequences are far from free.

BOB BAUMER Ormond Beach

members.

In case you’ve heard that most of the tax increase will be used to finance the new $625,000 Public Safety Fund, let me explain why that’s not completely accurate.

Most of what that fund consists of is being used to pay for things previously found in other accounts like $200,000 for new police vehicles (formerly in the Vehicle Replacement Fund) and $230,000 in fire engines (the $90,000 loan payment on one older fire engine and the $140,000 per year payment for two new engines). So the tax increase isn’t paying for enhanced public safety spending because nearly 70% of that fund (or $430,000) was already in the budget.

Nobody supports the brave men and women of the Ormond Beach Police Department more than I do. In addition to serving on the City Commission, I am president of the Ormond Beach Police Foundation, which has raised over $140,000 of private donations in support of training, technology, equipment and benevolence for our brave men and women in blue.

So here’s the bottom line. The proposed General Fund (a.k.a.

Operating Fund) for the city is $35 million. The proposed tax increase is $800,000. The city has $3.4 million in excess reserves. Cut the taxpayers some slack. Do not raise taxes. Use a quarter of the the excess reserves to fully fund the budget, and the city will still have $2.6 million in excess reserves.

Dwight Selby was elected commissioner for Zone 1 in November 2016 and re-elected in 2018 and 2020. He is CEO of Selby Realty Inc.

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REPEAT OFFENDER 10:56 p.m. — First block of East Granada Boulevard Driving with a suspended license. A 42-year-old Ormond Beach woman was charged with a felony after she crashed into a tree and abandoned her vehicle.

According to police, witnesses saw the woman get out of her car, which was blocking the roadway, and walk away. Officers found her and the woman admitted that she left her vehicle because she was scared and worried due to her license being invalid.

As the woman had to be transported to the hospital because of the crash, the officer issued an affidavit for her charges in lieu of arrest to limit possible COVID-19 exposure. The woman has three prior convictions for driving with a suspended or revoked license.

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SLIDE FOR A DUI 5:20 p.m. — Intersection of West Granada Boulevard and North Tymber Creek Road DUI. Police arrested a 23-yearold Flagler Beach man who, while driving under the influence, ran off the roadway and almost flipped his SUV over, according to a witness report.

The man then pulled into a local preschool and “started pulling stuff out of the SUV,” the report states, before he got back in his car and continued driving eastbound on Granada Boulevard.

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Before local police could pull the man over, a Volusia deputy had already made contact, so the reporting officer drove to the preschool instead to see what he could find. The deputy then informed the officer over the radio that the man had left an inflatable water slide at the school.

According to the police report, the man was returning the slide after borrowing it. It was, indeed, at the school, the officer discovered.

Once the reporting officer made contact with the man, the deputy advised him that the man’s breath smelled like alcohol. A series of field sobriety exercises were conducted, which the man failed.

The man admitted to drinking while at a family birthday party earlier in the day. He was taken to jail.

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NEIGHBORHOOD DISTURBANCE 9:30 p.m. — 100 block of North Beach Street Drunk person. Police transported a 39-year-old Daytona Beach man to the hospital after they found him drunk in a residential area.

The man was holding a cup full of alcohol, and proceeded to tell police that he was a professional surfer and that he knew the mayor, among other “nonsensical statements,” the report details.

The reporting officer was unable to find someone to take custody of the man in his state.

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BEE STEWARDS

Environmental Discovery Center’s beekeepers strive for public awareness of bees

FREE FAMILY ART NIGHT n When: 6-7:30 p.m. n Where: Parish Hall at St. James Episcopal Church, 38 S. Halifax Drive n Details: Ormond Memorial Art Museum’s free family art night returns to an in-person format at a new location as the museum undergoes construction. Adults with their children or grandchildren may drop in to create a wall hanging from recycled and colorful materials. The project will be taught by OMAM staff member and local art teacher Linda King.

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LIFELONG LEARNING

Athearn, of New Smyrna Beach, was brought in to the EDC as a consultant to help put the honeybee program together. Dunlop, being a local resident, answered his call for volunteered help, and the pair has been overseeing the colony of bees ever since.

Beekeeping was always an interesting topic for Athearn.

Around 2005, a friend of his, who happened to be a beekeeper, was leaving the state and wanted to leave his bees with someone to take care of them. Athearn picked them up, and even though he didn’t know what he was doing — there was no local beekeeper club at the time — he decided to give it a go.

“I just read books and messed it up,” said Athearn as he laughed.

“You do a lot of that with beekeeping. You learn from your mistakes.”

Now, 16 years later, Athearn has enough successful hives that he is able to sell his honey at local fa r m e r ’s markets and events.

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hile strolling the grounds at the Environmental Discovery Center, visitors might hear a soft buzz in the air.

Since the city of Ormond Beach opened the facility in 2016, a honeybee hive has been on constant display. Screened on both sides with glass, the hive provides the public with an educational opportunity to learn about the inner workings of what is one of the sweetest working environments in nature.

Beekeepers Marlin Athearn and Jack Dunlop have been instrumental to the hive’s success from the start. Both members of the Beekeepers of Volusia County organization, the men describe beekeeping as both an art and a science.

“You have to do it,” said Dunlop, of Ormond Beach. “You can read all the books you want, but until you open that hive, and start getting into it, you don’t really learn how to be a beekeeper.”

Despite the decades of experience collectively between them both, there is still learning to be done.

“Usually with beekeeping, the more you learn, the more you realize you don’t know,” Athearn said.

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Beekeepers Marlin Athearn and Jack Dunlop have been taking care of the hive at the EDC since the facility was built.

Photos by Jarleene Almenas

A carpenter bee pollinates plants outside the Environmental Discovery Center. It is a native species.

wanted to be a beekeeper when he retired. In 2013, a friend who used to be a beekeeper mentored him and helped him get started.

He met Athearn when he joined the Beekeepers of Volusia County, which was formed in 2010 by Tom Bartlett.

What makes a good beekeeper? The continuing educational programs such as the Bee College hosted by the University of Florida’s Honey Bee Research and Extension Lab. A lot of beekeeping today pertains to keeping bees alive, Dunlop said, and programs and new research help make that possible, especially as honey bees are not native to the United States; they were brought over from Europe by the colonists.

THE ROLE OF A BEEKEEPER

Most of the work Athearn and Dunlop do at the EDC’s hive is monitor it for issues. If there’s nothing wrong, they don’t touch the hive.

“In beekeeping, the beekeeper is basically a steward,” Athearn said. “So you basically only need to interject yourself when the hives start to have an issue, or you can see an issue coming on.

The objective is to try to fix the problem, or help them through

the problem so that [the hive] continues on its way.”

Some common issues that may arise have to do with swarming, the honey bees’ way of reproduction where a colony splits into two or more. Unborn queens are left behind, and once born, they must leave the hive, mate and return.

Sometimes, due to windshields or predators such as dragon flies, the queen bees don’t return.

That’s when the beekeeper comes in. Without a queen, the hive will die. The beekeeper then can either put resources in place to breed a new queen, or simply buy one.

The current queen bee in the EDC is fairly young. The hive swarmed a couple of times last month, and re-queened itself without Dunlop or Athearn’s help. That’s a sign of a successful hive, confirmed Athearn.

‘SAVE THE BEES’

When the slogan “Save the Bees” is used, it’s not referring to honey bees — it’s the native bees that need help.

In the state of Florida, there are over 300 species of native bees. Loss of habitat and the use of pesticides in lawns are some of the biggest threats to native bees, many of which nest underground.

Using native plants in yards is one way to help.

“People will want to save nature, except in their yard,” Dunlop said.

“Weeds are where the native bees get their food from.”

During the honey bee programs he leads at the EDC, Dunlop will often focus on the basic biology of honeybees and his role as a beekeeper. The hope is that, by getting the public interested in honey bees, they will also take an interest in native bee species.

“The more the community learns about honeybees, the more vigilant they’ll be about helping bees in general,” Athearn said.

DID YOU KNOW? n Honeybees

provide pollination services around the U.S. for various different crops, such as blueberry, watermelon, citrus and almond. n Florida has 4,400 beekeepers who manage 515,000 honeybee colonies. n 10.7 million pounds of honey are produced each year in Florida. n Each honeybee colony makes about 50 pounds of honey per hive, per year. n Honeybees communicate the location and quality of nectar and pollen sources to other bees by “dancing.” (You can see them do this through the glass at the EDC!) n Each colony of honeybees usually has about 20,000 worker bees, all female.

Source: The University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences Extension’s Honey Bee Research and Extension Lab

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ART WALK n When: 5-8 p.m. n Where: Ormond Beach MainStreet Arts District, 128 W. Granada Blvd. n Details: Join Ocean Art Gallery, Frame of Mind, Arts on Granada, Thays Art Gallery and Studio, Culture Period Hair Salon and Neighborhood Shop on the first Saturday of the month for art openings and events. Free. Visit OrmondBeachMainstreet.com

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SPORTS Alex Capua (30), Luca Sarno (60), Madox Bovee (75), Sam Orlowski (55)

Dimitri Campbell looking for that pass.

Seabreeze comeback falls short in season opener MICHELE MEYERS

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Spruce Creek’s Minckler scores three touchdowns as Hawks hold off Sandcrabs 32-20.

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he Seabreeze Sandcrabs football team fell prey to the Spruce Creek Hawks in their season opener Friday, Aug. 27, losing 32-20.

The Sandcrabs fought back from a 25-7 deficit.

Sandcrabs punter Mac Chiumento launched the kickoff after a 30-minute lightning delay at the “Hawks’ nest.” Less than halfway into the first quarter, Creek senior running back Kevin Minckler ran in a 39-yard touchdown. Minckler was back in the end zone three minutes later with a 30-yard scoring run.

A 2-point conversion and another touchdown made it 15-0

Denali Campbell (25) with the carry.

Seabreeze Head Coach Pat Brown

Photos by Michele Meyers

Kickoff by punter Mac Chiumento (28).

before Seabreeze answered with a 7-yard touchdown run by running back Toma Pouncey Jr. In a tweet, Seabreeze head coach Pat Brown said, “Tonight was a physical game and a real heavyweight fight. I gotta tip my hat to the young man Kevin Minckler. He is the toughest player in this area. Got hit every play, went to sideline for concussion check, cramps and every time came back!”

After halftime Spruce Creek converted a blocked punt into a field goal to go up 25-7. Seabreeze made it 25-14 late in the third quarter when Tayshawn Galery recovered a Sandcrabs’ fumble and ran for a touchdown.

The Sandcrabs scored again with 8:48 left in the game to pull within a touchdown at 25-20. But Minckler scored his third touchdown of the night with 3:01 left to end the Seabreeze rally.

“Hey, man, look,” assistant coach Teron “T” Rayam said to his players. “You can’t decide in the middle of the game that we’re going to play. You can’t decide in the middle of the game that we’re going to turn up.”

Kevin Minckler scored 3 touchdowns for Spruce Creek Hawks.

Toma Pouncey Jr. with the Sandcrabs' first touchdown.

“You can’t decide in the middle of the game that we’re going to play. You can’t decide in the middle of the game that we’re going to turn up.”

TERON “T” RAYAM, assistant coach

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The Seabreeze Sandcrabs headed back to the courts this month to kick off the 2021 volleyball season.

Head coach Sara Swayze and assistant coach Erika Binford will be leading the girls in a newly reclassified district, which changes every two years. Class 5A District 4 includes Mainland, Matanzas, and Menendez.

The new district will allow the Sandcrabs, who won 5 and lost 11 games last season against tough competition, to be more competitive and confident, according to Swayze, who is in her third season as coach. “This year is going to be different,” she said.

The team also welcomes two star freshmen: Andie Litz, setter; and Madison Ethrid, starting middle.

Chloe Womack, a senior on the volleyball team, shared her perspective on the changes this season. “Already, there’s so much more excitement, so much more sportsmanship,” she said.

This year marks the beginning of a new tradition called Sand-

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Seabreeze varsity team: Andie Litz, Mollie Martin, Madison Ethridge, Sydney Townsend, Megan Overbey, Sarah Randolph, Chloe Womack, Bella Dillman, Ava Brantley, Skylar Martin, Sophia Tan.

One of the early nondistrict games of the season that was marked on the scheduled as the third game, Aug. 26, at the Spruce Creek Hawks, who are coached by Swayze’s mother, Cara Swayze.

“It means everything to me, to be able to go to my mother for coaching advice,” she said. “It’s a very humbling experience.”

crabs Supporting Sandcrabs, which was started by Seabreeze’s new principal Earl Johnson, who is also a former Seabreeze student-athlete. Each sports team will be paired with another team as a buddy system. The teams will be encouraged to attend each other’s games as often as possible.

Volleyball is paired with baseball for the 2021 season. Both teams will come together for a local beach cleanup on Sept. 18.

“I’m very proud to be a Sandcr-

Head coach Sara Swayze and assistant coach Erika Binford.

Photos by Lydia Hamel

ab,” said Binford, another alumna, who is coming up on her 20th year coaching for Seabreeze. “It’s amazing to watch the team grow over the years. This year is going to be a good one. … Sports are very important in young lives. It’s good to be a positive influence.”

The team will be taking extra COVID-19 precautions. “My biggest fear is the season getting cut short because of COVID,” said Swayze. Regular sanitation of the equipment and social distancing

will be in full effect this season.

Brad Montgomery, the school’s athletics director, said he hopes to see “lots of hard work, lots of fun and competition this season.”

The season is off to a slow start, as the Sandcrabs have lost their first four games. The next home game will be 6:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 13, against Matanzas.

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The Flagler County Fairgrounds course at the Spikes & Spurs Classic was a muddy mess with puddles so deep the water came up to the runners’ ankles.

Running through the woods was like running through a swamp, stench and all.

“It was like running on wet sand on the beach,” said Seabreeze’s

Tyler Herndon. “They put gravel on the mud in the woods, and it made it like quicksand with pebbles. It was like running through a bowl of cereal.”

Herndon finished 14th among boys with a time of 18:26.2 at the 10th-annual meet hosted by Flagler Palm Coast High School on Saturday, Aug. 28. He led the Sandcrabs to a fourth-place finish among 14 teams.

The Seabreeze girls placed third, with four runners finishing among the top 20.

“We were in a pack for most of the time,” said Seabreeze junior Nickole Dane. “Our goal was to run in the 20s.”

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twins Ariana Roy and Mackenzie Roy were 15th (21:54.3) and 16th (21:55.6) respectively, and senior Ella Chandler was 19th at 22:08.7.

“It was hard to run in the water,” Mackenzie Roy said. “Your feet would sink ,and your shoes would get really heavy.”

Dane said at one point there was a strong stench. But the biggest challenge, the twins said, was keeping your footing through muddy, narrow stretches.

“The hardest part was being able to pass people and pick it up and slow down on turns,” Ariana said.

“We were trying to stay together,” Mackenzie said, “but people were cutting us off.”

“It was a really hard course, a lot of unavoidable puddles,” said FPC’s Jada Williams, who finished fourth in the girls’ race with a time of 20:56.5. “The woods were very muddy. You had to keep your balance. You had to

be very strategic where you step.

But everyone had to deal with the same conditions.”

Not everyone hated the course.

Matanzas’ Zach Spooner finished ninth in the boys’ race, with a personal-record 17:52.4.

“I love this course,” he said. “It just rained, and it was all muddy, and the woods smelled disgusting. Cross country is about getting gross and dirty and running your heart out.”

Ponte Vedra won the girls’ team title with 46 points, followed by Ocala Vanguard (87) and Seabreeze (109).

West Forsyth (Georgia) won the boys’ title with 34 points, followed by Vanguard (62), Ponte Vedra (66) and Seabreeze (160).

Mainland finished 13th in both races.

Sophomore Hayden Herndon finished 23rd for the Seabreeze boys with a time of 19:01.4.

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Runners splash through a puddle: FPC’s Megan Swearingen (49) and Taylor Novak (44), Mainland’s Hannah Gilbert (210) and Veronica O’Brien (217)

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FPC’s Robert Paxia returns to his alma mater; Mainland’s Travis Roland returns to his former school.

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Coaching on the field he once played on will be a “surreal” experience for Flagler Palm Coast’s Robert Paxia. For Mainland’s Travis Roland, the surroundings will be quite familiar.

Due to a quirky twist of fate, the two teams will open the football season Friday, Sept. 3, at FPC’s Sal Campanella Memorial Stadium. This was supposed to be the second game of the season for both schools, but their openers were postponed because of COVID-19 issues with their opponents.

So Paxia will make his debut at his alma mater in a very tough game against the coach he replaced. And Roland will make his debut for his own alma mater against the school that gave him his first head coaching opportunity.

“FPC was an amazing place,” Roland said. “I would not have been able to get this job if (FPC athletic director) Steve DeAugustino and (former principal) Dusty Sims didn’t give me that chance.

I’m beyond grateful for that. FPC will ever and ever and ever hold a special place in my heart.”

Paxia, meanwhile, considers himself a Bulldog for life. The former offensive lineman and state weightlifting champ graduated from FPC in 2008 and returned to the school a year later to begin his coaching career. After four seasons as an assistant with the Bulldogs, his coaching odyssey took him to five schools in eight years before coming home.

Mainland, the premier program in the Volusia-Flagler area, comes into the season having made the playoffs 27 consecutive years. The Bucs won the state championship in 2003 when Roland was a team captain.

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‘Window of opportunity’ Local real estate agents are seeing an increased interest in Ormond’s beachside, a sign that could bode well for the revitalization of the area.

The demand in commercial real estate has peaked in the second quarter of 2021, though activity began to pick up at the end of 2020. The Quality Inn and Suites located at 295 S. Atlantic Ave. sold for $3.5 million (to become a Comfort Inn), and soon after that, the Chateau Mar Beach Resort (formerly a Howard Johnson) at 507 S. Atlantic Ave. sold for $3.1 million.

Real estate agent John Haley, of Coldwell Banker Premier properties, specializes in the hospitality industry and said he’s seeing his prediction of more people and buyers coming into the area come to life.

“Hoteliers want two things: water and tourism,” Haley said.

“Ormond Beach clearly supplies that.”

But it’s not just new buyers; existing hoteliers are also seeking other properties, particularly oceanfront lots, which are few and far between. Haley said he has cash buyers with “huge interest” that simply can’t find parcels.

One of the last parcels of vacant

oceanfront land is at 251 S. Atlantic Ave., which is located across from the former Florida Hospital site. The land sold for $2.55 million in 2011, and while there have been no site plan submittals for a new hotel, Ormond Beach Planning Director Steven Spraker confirmed there have been “initial discussions” regarding the property.

The former hospital site, now also vacant after the building was demolished in 2018, was recently put under contract within a week of being on the market, according to Haley.

Other commercial properties that have sold in Ormond-bythe-Sea 2021 include Betty’s A1A cafe and the Ocean Crest Motel.

With very little vacant parcels available, what is available is being snapped up quickly, said John Adams president of Adams, Cameron and Co. That includes properties available for leasing, including those at the Ormond Mall in Ormondby-the-Sea, where many of the spaces sat vacant for a long time.

Realty Pros is currently marketing the spaces left inside the former Security First Building at 140 S. Atlantic, and that is quickly filling up.

“In recent times, there’s so much more demand, and there’s an old saying that commercial

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Interest in commercial real estate is peaking on the beachside, according to local real estate agents.

real estate trails residential real estate,” Adams said. “So whatever you see in residential is what you’re going to see in commercial short after that.”

Adams added that real estate

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A1A and stop in and find a restaurant or a retail establishment, or something else along those lines,” Adams said. “Everything is coming in new.”

While Julian’s was one of his favorite restaurants in Ormond Beach for many years, and he does love the history of Ormond Beach, some properties haven’t stood up to the test of time. A new gift shop will replace the former restaurant. It’s construction that will revitalize the area a bit, Adams sad.

Properties like the Fountain Square Village and the former Lucky’s — soon to open as a new Publix — are among those that have undergone improvements in recent times.

Couple that with the area’s lower prices compared to other beachside communities, and both Haley and Adams said buyers are seeing the opportunities present in Ormond Beach.

“There’s a window of opportunity now like I’ve never really seen before,” Haley said.

Ormond Beach has been undervalued “for years,” said Adams, and people are seeing that the area also has good tourism, a steady consumer base and beautiful natural resources.

“When you bring it all together, there’s a lot of opportunity there,” Adams said.

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home on North Beach Street was the top real estate transaction in Ormond Beach and Ormond-by-the-Sea for the week of July 18-24 in the Multiple Listing Service. Jeromie and Annette Allan sold 577 N. Beach St. to Aaron and Jeri Delgado, of Daytona Beach, for $1,875,000. Built in 1994, the house is a 4/5.5 and has a fireplace, swimming pool, boat dock, boathouse and 5,430 square feet. It sold in 2019 for $1,430,000.

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

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ORMOND BEACH William and Ann-Marie Bethea, of Ormond Beach, sold 385 John Anderson Drive to Heather and Ryan Welch, of Ormond Beach, for $975,000.

Built in 1969, the house is a 4/2.5 and has a fireplace, swimming pool and 3,307 square feet. It sold in 2013 for $350,000.

Brent Rohol, of Ormond Beach, sold 341 Cumberland Ave. to Daniel and Yoselin Diaz, of Ormond Beach, for $442,000.

Built in 1975, the house is a 3/2.5 and has a fireplace and 2,426 square feet. It sold in 2016 for $280,000.

Christina Davis, of Ormond Beach, sold 221 Riverbend Road to Alvin Sayre Jr. and Karen Corum, of Ormond Beach, for $420,000. Built in 1978, the house is a 3/2 and has a fireplace and 1,856 square feet. It sold in 2016 for $242,500.

Roger Williams, of DeLand, and Michelene Williams, of Daytona Beach, sold 143 Ivanhoe Drive to Colleen Salway and Christine Heald, of Ormond Beach, for $399,900.

Built in 1962, the house is a 3/2 and has a fireplace and 2,187 square feet. It sold in 2011 for $165,000.

Richard Jack Daniels and Richard James Daniels sold 89 Chrysanthemum Drive to Allen Cowan and Vivian Lord, of Charlotte, North Carolina, for $375,000. Built in 2020, the

house is a 4/2 and has 2,064 square feet.

Ryan and Emily Cobb, of Jacksonville, sold 38 Kenilworth Ave. to Sandra and Troy Hart, of Ormond Beach, for $359,000. Built in 1955, the house is a 3/2.5 and has 2,134 square feet.

Craig and Josie Coulson, of Ormond Beach, sold 1111 Wandering Oaks Drive to Moshe Ozeri, of Ormond Beach, for $345,000. Built in 1981, the house is a 3/2.5 and has 2,308 square feet. It sold in 2018 for $257,000.

Maria Flores, of Orlando, sold 42 Pinehurst Circle to Lawrence Burgess, of Ormond Beach, for $192,000. Built in 1975, the house is a 3/2 and has 1,165 square feet.

Trajan Cvetanoski sold 640 N. Nova Road, Unit 414, to Alice Marvin, of Ormond Beach, for $129,000. Built in 1976, the condo is a 1/1 and has 748 square feet. It sold in 2018 for $72,000.

Breakaway Trails Christian and Kristin Birkedal, of Ormond Beach, sold 51 Black Hickory Way to Charles and Mary Henderson, of Ormond Beach, for $445,000. Built in 2005, the house is a 4/2 and has 2,300 square feet. It sold in 2013 for $218,900.

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Hidden Hills Sarah Fogle, of Ormond Beach, sold 15 Raintree Lane to Michael Mavar, of Ormond Beach, for $324,000. Built in 1984, the house is a 2/2 and has a fireplace and 1,800 square feet.

Ocean Village Ian Terrier, of Doral, sold 11 Oriole Circle, Unit A, to Sarah and Timothy Kelly, of St. Augustine, for $126,000. Built in 1947, the villa is a 1/1 and has 504 square feet.

Ormond Lakes Donald and Amy Decicco sold 18 Minnow Drive to David Fowler for $585,000. Built in 2006, the house is a 4/3.5 and has a fireplace and 3,362 square feet.

Pine Hills Ronald Vallette Jr., of Lakeland, sold 1823 Linda Ave. to Beverly Sisk, of Franklin Springs, Georgia, for $250,000. Built in 2006, the house is a 3/2 and has 1,434 square feet. It sold in 2010 for $99,700.

Tomoka Oaks Robert Tugwell, of Daytona Beach, sold 319 River Bluff Drive to Hollandia Real Estate LLC, of Ormond Beach, for $425,000. Built in 1980, the house is a 3/2 and has a fireplace, swimming pool and 2,206 square feet. It sold in 2019 for $336,000.

The Trails Dean and Erin Shaw, of Ormond Beach, sold 8 Iroquois Trail to Alan and Melanie Rasmussen, of Ormond Beach, for $490,000. Built in 1977, the house is a 5/3 and has a fireplace and 2,788 square feet. It sold in 2010 for $153,000.

ORMOND-BY-THE-SEA Dane Hymore and Greg Henderson, of Ormond Beach, sold 37 San Jose Drive to Anne and Dwight Price, of Ormond Beach, for $395,000. Built in 1981, the house is a 3/2 and has 1,470 square feet. It sold in 2015 for $185,000.

Dean and Erin Shaw, of Ormond Beach, sold 59 Sunny Shore Drive to Alan and Melanie Rasmussen, of Ormond Beach, for $255,000. Built in 1958, the house is a 2/1 and has 954 square feet. It sold in 2018 for $175,000.

Whitney Shoemaker, of Ormond Beach, sold 1513 Ocean Shore Blvd., Unit 8A, to Albert and Kimberly Manfredi, of Sorrento, for $185,500. Built in 1985, the condo is a 1/1 and has 767 square feet.

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

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