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Observer YOU. YOUR NEIGHBORS. YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD.

TEACHERS OF THE YEAR PAGE 15

VOLUME 12, NO. 48

Introducing the 2021 Standing O’s:

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JANICE MIKUTEL PAGE 5

PENNY BENNETT PAGE 6 “Penny is so generous with her time. She personifies the volunteer spirit that we value so much in our community. A very skilled crafter, I particularly liked wearing some of the unique masks she created during COVID, whether a spiderweb for Halloween or one decorated with Christmas ornaments. Even more so, knowing she donates the proceeds to local causes.”

“If anybody needs anything, she’s there.”

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MERCEDES BRUNELL, teacher who works in the classroom with Janice Mikutel

RICHARD HAMILTON

How they made a difference BRIAN MCMILLAN EXECUTIVE EDITOR

RYAN DEISING PAGE 12

School Board responds to disruptions Proposed School Board resolution would denounce behavior, not hate groups PAGE 2

Noise, traffic concerns near storage units?

Despite neighbors’ opposition, Palm Coast City Council approves selfstorage facility in split vote, 4-1 PAGE 3 INDEX

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PUBLIC NOTICES Beginning this week, the Palm Coast Observer now publishes legal notices, thanks to a state law change in eligilibility.

MICHELE SEYFERT PAGE 11

MARCUS ELLISON PAGE 9

Someone recently asked me how the Standing O nomination process works. It’s pretty simple: One Standing O picks his or her successor.

There’s no committee, no narrowing of candidates, no final vote. It’s one good person passing the baton to another good person.

The series of stories in the Jan. 6 edition, I hope, encourages people to see the good in each other — and hopefully inspires us all to intentionally do some good today for someone else.

Thanks to all the Standing O’s for making a difference.

“We’re where we are today because of his vision, and he continues to have foresight for the years ahead.”

“Marcus is not only very outgoing, helpful, resourceful and kind but is also always putting the needs of others before himself.

Marcus can be relied upon to step up on a moment’s notice to lend a hand to help with any type of emergency situation.”

“So many people have her phone number and they call her for whatever they need, and she helps.”

MARY McGOWAN, volunteer

PATTY MERCER

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MARIA McGOVERN, Flagler Schools technology coordinator

TATE WINECOFF PAGE 13

MICHELE FICOCELLO PAGE 8 “For victims, the goal is to give them back some control through resources and validation, and to ensure that their rights are protected. ...

[Michele] knows her job well, and you can always count on her.”

“He probably has the most school spirit of anyone I’ve seen come through Matanzas in a long time. ... On Western Day, he’ll come in a full cowboy outfit. If he could bring a horse on campus, he would.”

DONNA KEARNEY, victim advocate coordinator

ROB ROE, Matanzas SGA advisor

BETH BOYLES PAGE 10

STEVE DeAUGUSTINO PAGE 13

“Beth (Boyles) should be recognized.

She has been a tremendous help with everything since Caleb’s accident. She contacted us shortly after his injury and asked if she could start a GoFundMe for our family, and she has handled press related to Caleb’s injury and she has gotten Flagler Beach and Tortugas (Florida Kitchen & Bar) involved to support our family as well. These efforts have made it possible for us to stay with our son during his rehab in order to help him through this.”

“Coach D takes a lot of pride in FPC athletics.

He was determined to have a top-notch program that put kids first. Through sports, he’s provided a lot of opportunities for students in our county.

He’s a hometown hero.”

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The Flagler County School Board will vote on a proclamation that board member Cheryl Massaro drafted to denounce hate group protests at board meetings.

But the edited resolution will be missing two words, at board member Jill Woolbright’s request: hate groups.

Massaro presented her resolution at an agenda workshop on Jan. 4. Board member Colleen Conklin, who had supported such a resolution, did not attend the workshop.

Massaro suggested a proclamation at a Dec. 7 workshop in response to the November board meeting when adult protesters seeking to ban the book “All Boys Aren’t Blue” clashed with high school student protesters outside of the Government Services Building.

“I’m very concerned about actions that took place outside our building, caused by members of certain hate groups … especially when it’s targeting our students,” Massaro said at the Dec. 7 workshop.

She read a draft to the board at the Jan. 4 meeting, “denouncing intimidating actions, slurs, name calling or threats of violence toward Flagler County School district students and staff.”

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specifically denounced hate groups. Board member Jill Woolbright asked her to modify the text to denounce the behavior without using the term “hate group.”

Woolbright said she had a conversation with a representative from the Sheriff’s Office, who told her that no members of any known hate groups were identified at the November protests. She also referred to a list by the Southern Poverty Law Center identifying statewide hate groups in Florida and hate groups located in nearby counties, but none based in Flagler County.

“I witnessed poor behavior from all groups in our community,” Woolbright said. “Slurs, name calling, name calling from the podium addressing the dais.”

Massaro said video showed protesters wearing clothing that displayed names of two extremist groups, Three Percenters and Proud Boys.

Woolbright said the term “hate group” is subjective.

“I don’t want to be subjective,” Woolbright said. “I would denounce poor behavior against our students.”

School Board member Janet McDonald appeared to be against the resolution, saying the Sheriff’s Office and not the School Board should determine whether behavior goes over the line.

“I think there is antagonistic behavior on lots of parts,” McDonald said. “It’s their free speech. We don’t have to like it or approve of it, but they have the right to their opinions.”

Massaro removed “hate groups” from her draft. The resolution is expected to be on the Jan. 18 agenda.

BRIEFS Ribbon-cutting for long awaited behavioral health care center Flagler County and its partners SMA Healthcare and Flagler Health+ are hosting a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the opening of the Flagler Access Center, which will provide an open door for education, screening, and connection to behavioral healthcare services in the area. The event will be held at 10 a.m. Jan. 11, at the center located at 103 E. Moody Blvd., Bunnell.

“We are thrilled to be a partner in this initiative that will provide a connection for behavioral healthcare services for the citizens of Flagler County,” said SMA Healthcare CEO Ivan Cosimi.

“We have been looking for ways to expand our scope of services in the county, and we are confident this partnership will allow us to do just that.”

Flagler County officials were notified in June that the state would fund its top legislative priority: $245,000 to create a mental health access point. The Board of County Commissioners pledged to bolster the funding by $300,000 with money made available by the federal government through the American Rescue Plan.

“Addressing behavioral health issues – including drug abuse and the suicide rate – have been a priority,” said County Administrator Heidi Petito. “This initial funding is allowing us and our privateprovider partners to operate this new center without immediate concerns about grant writing or fundraising. This is a big first step to meeting our goals for the community.”

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The number of patients hospitalized with COVID-19 increased Tuesday, Dec. 28, to about 240 in AdventHealth’s hospitals across seven Central Florida counties, far lower than during the delta surge, which peaked in August with about 1,700 hospitalized patients.

Dr. Neil Finkler, chief clinical officer for AdventHealth Central Florida, said, “Get yourself boosted, get your loved ones boosted. It’s the No. 1 thing you can do.”

Surgeon general points to need for ‘high-value’ testing

Amid a surge in COVID-19 cases driven by the highly contagious omicron variant, Florida’s surgeon general on Monday, Jan. 3, indicated the state Department of Health would issue guidance that would “unwind the testing psychology” of the federal government.

Comments by Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo and Gov. Ron DeSantis taking aim at mass testing came after President Joe Biden’s administration last month announced a plan to distribute 500 million at-home coronavirus tests to Americans.

“We need to unwind this … planning and living one’s life around testing,” Ladapo said during a news conference at Broward Health Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale.

“Without it, we’re going to be sort of stuck in the same cycle. So, it’s really time for people to be living, to make the decisions they want regarding vaccination, to enjoy the fact that many people have natural immunity. And to unwind this sort of preoccupation with only COVID as determining the boundaries and constraints and possibilities of life.”

DeSantis also pointed to what he characterized as frivolous testing for COVID-19.

The number of Florida hospital patients with COVID-19 also has more than doubled during the past week, according to data posted Monday by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The agency reported that 5,700 inpatients had COVID-19, up from 2,406 a week earlier.

Ladapo acknowledged the rapid rise in cases but said omicron symptoms are generally less severe than previous variants.

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are eligible to receive services from the Flagler Access Center. Individuals who come to the center will be screened and connected to appropriate services.

The center will also utilize other social service providers within the county to provide a continuum of care.

“This is an important milestone for Flagler County,” Petito said. “This will allow us to better serve everyone in the community.”

The public is invited to attend the ribbon cutting. Light refreshments will be served.

A federal judge has blocked a Biden administration rule that would require staff members at Head Start preschool centers in Florida to be vaccinated against COVID-19.

Under the rule, Head Start staff members, along with volunteers and contractors who have contact with children, would need to be fully vaccinated by Jan. 31. Also, the rule includes mask requirements for all people at Head Start centers ages 2 and older.

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single-family homes planned for 240 acres south of the airport. The City Council approved the establishment of the Seminole Palms Community Development District during a Jan. 4 meeting.

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single-family homes planned for 146 acres of land in proposed Palm Coast 145 community, on the northeast side of U.S. 1 south of Belle Terre Boulevard. The council approved the establishment of the Palm Coast 145 Community Development District.

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units planned for Grand Reserve East, south of the Boston Whaler production facility. The City Council approve a rezoning and Future Land Use Map amendment for the development on Jan. 4.

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Despite opposition, council OKs storage facility Despite opposition from neighbors, Palm Coast City Council members on Jan. 4 voted 4-1 to approve a rezoning and special exception to allow the construction of a self storage facility on the west side of Old Kings Road north of its intersection with Town Center Boulevard.

The Secure Space self-storage facility would offer 287 covered RV/ boat spaces, plus 95,500 square feet of self-storage units, next to the Gold Choice Palm Coast Assisted Living & Memory Care at 3830 Old Kings Road.

At a city planning board meeting, and again at the Jan. 4 City Council meeting, locals said they worried that the facility would bring too much traffic and noise to the area.

They submitted a petition opposing the facility, with hundreds of signatures.

Resident Mary Alice Brandt said it’s the wrong space for a storage facility, and that the facility might hurt neighborhood property values.

“Why rezone this road to allow so much more impact on the neighborhood that is for the most part residential?” she said. “… It’s a lovely facility, but … just not there.”

Darlene Shelley, a resident of the Hidden Lakes community, said she’d always expected the parcel to be developed — but not as a storage facility.

“We were comfortable with the idea of a doctor’s office, a dentist, a lawyer a bakery or a similar conforming use across the street,” she said. “... A storage facility, however, does not belong here. … Potential crime, noise and light pollution will put the welfare of our neighbors in jeopardy and will be a huge inconvenience.”

Councilman Eddie Branquinho asked if the facility would generate noise that would be disruptive for the nearby assisted living facility.

Applicant David Butler said it would not.

“We believe it is the least intense project that could possibly be planned on this property, other than a cemetery, which we would not do next to our [assisted living facility],” he said.

as residential are incorrect.

“This has always been designed as a mixed-use corridor,” he said.

When the council prepared to vote, one councilman — Victor Barbosa — voted no, although he said he’d recently bought a boat and had noted a shortage of storage space in the area.

Councilman Ed Danko also said he’d seen the need for more selfstorage in Palm Coast.

“I sold my camper because I had to drive 45 minutes to St. Augustine,” Danko said. “... If this had been built across the street from me, I probably would have kept my camper, and I probably would have stored it in there.”

Councilman Nick Klufas said that the council has narrow grounds, under Florida law, to deny a rezoning, and that the city could face a legal challenge if the council denied the self-storage proposal without sufficient cause.

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City to solicit proposals for saltwater canal dredging Palm Coast will begin soliciting proposals from companies that could dredge the city’s saltwater canals The topic of the canals wasn’t on the City Council’s Jan. 4 meeting agenda, but council members decided to take action after local residents spoke at the meeting’s public comment period to say that the canals have silted in so much that it’s hard for them to take their boats out.

Cloverdale Court resident Robin Whitcher said that the area off his dock is so shallow that he’s damaged two propellers. “Routinely, my boat is sitting in the mud,” he said.

He added that when he uses the north cut that leads from the Intracoastal into the C-Section, he has half a foot of clearance. His boat draws 38 inches.

Another resident, Dan Bryant, said his 43-foot ketch draws 6 feet. “If there’s a shallow spot in the canal, I know where it is,” he said.

Councilman Ed Danko suggested that the council direct the city manager to solicit proposals so that the council can get an idea of how much dredging would cost. Other council members agreed.

A rendering of the Secure Space storage facility, from the northwest, shown in City Council meeting documents.

Representatives of the applicant said that the project has been designed to mitigate most of the sound energy coming from nearby Interstate-95, which the owner is not required to do. Sound walls 13 feet and 6 inches tall, plus parked boats and RVs, are expected to help deflect the sound.

“We really designed this project to be sure that it was not intrusive to the neighbors,” said attorney Jay Livingston, representing the applicant.

Arena Lake Drive resident Tom Barrett was skeptical, and suggested taking noise readings before the facility is built, and then again after.

“Let’s get a baseline,” he said, “and then let’s take some noise readings later if you approve this thing. …

Because I don’t believe this is going to reduce the noise.”

Livingston said the project is also designed to retain 14 of 17 historic trees on the site, and that resident statements that characterize the area

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BRIEFS Reward offered for information on Palm Coast shooting A shootout during a home-invasion at a house on Regent Lane in Palm Coast on Dec. 29 killed one man and injured another, and CrimeStoppers is offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to an arrest.

The man who was killed has been identified as Zaire T. Roberts, 23.

Roberts had recently been released on probation after serving a seven-year sentence for aggravated battery with a firearm for the 2015 shooting that injured then-18-yearold Phillip Haire, who has since himself been arrested for a different shooting and remains in prison.

Evidence recovered from the crime scene Dec. 29 suggests an exchange of gunfire at the residence.

Anyone with information is asked to please contact CrimeStoppers of Northeast Florida at 1-888-277-TIPS (8477). Tips can also be sent directly to the FCSO via email at Tips@flaglersheriff.com.

Case agent Detective Sarah Scalia can be reached at SScalia@flaglersheriff.com, at 386-586-4808, or 386-313-4911.

Four arrested at Target for organized retail theft scheme Flagler County Sheriff’s office deputies have arrested four people for an organized retail theft scheme targeting the Palm Coast Target.

“These career offenders thought they could get away with stealing, but they actually just received some new accommodations for Christmas,” Sheriff Rick Staly said.

Deputies responded to a call at Target Dec. 22 about a possible shoplifting. It was the eighth call for shoplifting and suspicious incidents at Target that deputies had responded to in one week.

When they arrived, deputies were told that the suspects may have also been part of previous shoplifting

incidents based on video footage of the “getaway” vehicle.

The suspects were all believed to be involved in an organized retail theft operation in Palm Coast and Sanford.

Deputies first made contact with 41-year-old Teddy Cooper and 30-year-old Dominique Fuller.

Surveillance also showed 61-yearold David Bumgardner, committing retail theft on Sept. 13 for $377 and on Dec. 17 for $569. was seen in video footage returning a box of Legos for $53 without a receipt and receiving a gift card, which is when law enforcement was contacted.

One Target theft incident resulted in $1,300 of Legos being stolen, and the fraudulently returned item is believed to be part of that theft.

There was a total loss of $1,258 for the three incidents at the Palm Coast Target.

Another participant, John Firethunder, is currently out of jail on bond from Seminole County for Retail Theft.

All four suspects were arrested and transported to the Sheriff Perry Hall Inmate Detention Facility.

Sheriff’s Office catches car thief, recovers car Flagler County Sheriff’s Office deputies arrested a 35-year-old man Dec. 22 after they caught him driving a stolen car. The man was also driving on a suspended license and in possession of cocaine.

He said he did not know his license was suspended. He also told deputies that the car belonged to a friend of his fiancée and that he did not know it was stolen.

Deputies secured the driver. At the jail, they found a small plastic baggie with 0.2 grams of white powdery residue in his left sock, and a short blue straw with a white powdery substance in his right sock.

The baggie and straw both tested positive for cocaine.

“Another criminal made the mistake of coming to Flagler County,” Sheriff Rick Staly said. “... I would like to remind criminals: Do not bring stolen vehicles or your poison into Flagler County.

Georgia fugitive arrested in Flagler traffic stop had illegal machine gun A Georgia fugitive arrested in Flagler County during a traffic stop had a firearm that was later found to have been illegally converted into a fully automatic machine gun.

Deputies had stopped a vehicle traveling on Belle Terre Boulevard Nov. 21 due to a vehicle infraction.

The driver, 23-year-old Benjamin Bowie, was found to have a warrant in Georgia for Grand Theft Auto.

“Traffic stops are never ‘routine,’ and this case proves it,” Sheriff Rick Staly said. “Our deputies did a phenomenal job.”

Bowie is currently being held on no bond.

Teen caught with stolen SUV after fleeing, crashing into patrol car Deputies arrested a 17-year-old driving a stolen vehicle after the teen tried to flee a traffic stop and crashed into a deputy’s car.

The Flagler County Sheriff’s Office was notified of a car being driven with a stolen tag on Belle Terre in Palm Coast at 5:33 a.m. on Dec. 30.

The vehicle, a Lexus SUV, was observed in the drive-thru line of Culver’s. When deputy’s approached the vehicle, the driver was ordered to shut off the car, but refused.

The driver accelerated while deputies were holding the doors. As another deputy approached the scene, the suspect vehicle drove towards a marked patrol vehicle, striking the front of the patrol vehicle.

The suspect then jumped a curb and fled onto State Road 100.

Deputies saw the driver jump from the driver’s side door while the vehicle was still moving.

He ultimately laid down on the ground and complied with orders.

He was secured without further incident. He was turned over to the custody of the Department of Juvenile Justice.

Flagler firefighters deliver baby girl on New Year’s Day Fire Rescue Lt. Jon Moscowitz and Firefighter/ Paramedic Jimmy Melady delivered baby Sunnie at 6:02 p.m., on Jan. 1, 2022, 10 weeks early, weighing in at a mere 3 pounds 5 ounces.

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Flagler County Fire Rescue Lt. Jon Moscowitz and Firefighter/Paramedic Jimmy Melady started 2022 on a joyous, unplanned note this weekend, when they responded to mom-to-be Traci Kuehn’s call on New Year’s Day. With the help of Lt. Moscowitz and Firefighter/Paramedic Melady, Kuehn gave birth to a beautiful baby girl, delivered in Rescue 62, while Firefighter/EMT Tyler Allesee transported them to AdventHealth in Daytona.

This wasn’t the first time that Moscowitz or Melady have delivered a baby, but this delivery was momentous because it was on New Year’s Day. Kuehn, mother to baby Sunnie, expressed her gratitude for Moscowitz and Melady for assisting in safely bringing baby Sunnie into the world.

“These guys are my heroes,” she said.

“I am so thankful and grateful for their swift action.”

Coincidently, Melady grew up with Sunnie’s father, Brandon Smith.

“I cannot thank these guys enough for delivering my sweet Sunnie,” Smith said. “They did an incredible job, and I am forever grateful for them.”

Sunnie arrived at 6:02 p.m., on Jan. 1, 2022, 10 weeks early, weighing in at a mere 3 pounds 5 ounces. She and mom are recovering and doing well; however, Sunnie will remain in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at AdventHealth Daytona.

“What a great way to ring in the New Year, thanks to Flagler County’s finest firefighter/paramedics,” Fire Chief Michael Tucker said.

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Janice Mikutel serves students with special needs as Belle Terre nurse Mikutel has been a nurse since 2008, the longest tenure at Flagler Schools.

“She is everything you’d want in a nurse.”

CHRISTIANA BUFFINGTON, parent

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ears ago, Belle Terre Elementary School nurse Janice Mikutel was in a classroom with a handful of students with disabilities, her fulltime assignment, when a boy had a seizure. She was prepared: Seizures were not uncommon among this group, and she had a list of everyone’s individualized emergency protocols.

Most of the time, the seizures passed without complication, but this one was a concern. She kept an eye on the second hand of the clock on the wall, and then she made the decision: It was time for the emergency protocol.

She brought the child to the bathroom, which in this classroom had been specially outfitted with a changing table, and she administered the prescribed rescue medication for the child — rectally — and the child responded.

Mikutel is used to doing whatever is necessary to help the students. For her, it’s not a stressful situation but an opportunity to serve.

“I’m saving their life,” she said in a recent interview with the Palm Coast Observer. “It makes me have pride in my work. Makes me want to come back tomorrow, do it all over again.”

Mikutel has been a school nurse for 13 years, the longest of any nurse in Flagler Schools, which is why she is being recognized as one of this year’s Standing O’s.

Her students, ages 3 to 14, often can’t use at toilet, can’t eat except through a tube, can’t talk, and many have seizures. When a day goes by with no seizures, Mikutel notices.

“You cherish those good days,” she

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Janice Mikutel, a nurse at Belle Terre Elementary School since 2008, works in a classroom with a refrigerator and washer-dryer, to serve the special needs of four to five students.

said.

The classroom teacher, Mercedes Brunell, said Mikutel “goes out of her way” to serve the children.

“Our kids might have accidents, and she’ll do laundry,” Brunell said.

“If anybody needs anything, she’s there.”

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When she was a middle school student as a girl in Georgia, Mikutel remembers calling her mother from a school phone. Mikutel was having monthly cramps, and she wasn’t used to it, so she wanted her mother to pick her up. She was told to see the school nurse instead; you can’t miss school every month.

So Mikutel went to see the nurse, who let her lie down and rest for a while. It was an awkward situation

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for her as a young girl, but the nurse made her feel at home.

“She was almost like a second mother figure, to guide me through the joys of womanhood,” Mikutel recalled with a laugh.

When she grew up, she joined the Navy and worked in the medical field. After finishing her service there, in 2000, she worked at hospitals and doctor’s offices and finally went to Daytona State College for a degree in nursing. Around the same time that she graduated, she also got married. But she soon felt burned out from the demands of family life and 12-hour shifts, so she decided to take a big pay cut and apply to be a special-needs nurse at Belle Terre. A Plantation Bay resident, Mikutel was hired by Flagler Schools in 2008; her daughter, Isabella, also attends Belle

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“My daughter couldn’t go to school without someone like Janice,” Buffington said. “She is great at communicating. She cares a lot about every kid in the class. If there’s anything she can physically do to make their day better, she will absolutely do it.”

Buffington knows that her daughter sometimes has a bad day, and she worries. So Buffington communicates directly with Mikutel and says, “I can come get her if needed.” When Mikutel reassures Buffington and says Mikayla is doing fine, “I know that with Janice saying it, it’s true,” Buffington said. “I absolutely trust her.”

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Despite their struggles — some take two or three years to learn to recognize a picture of their own face among a group of three faces — the students are happy to be in the classroom.

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Penny Bennett gives to the community one stitch at a time Retired seamstress Penny Bennett makes masks, pet blankets, scarves and purses with all of the proceeds going to local causes.

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Penny Bennett sews a variety of items and donates the proceeds to the Flagler Woman’s Club.

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providing deceased loved ones with teddy bears made from a favorite article of clothing or blanket. The idea began when Bennett volunteered for a hospice and made head coverings for cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy.

People put in requests for her memory bears through Parkview Church in Palm Coast. Others come to her through word of mouth. Bennett says she doesn’t know how many memory bears she has sewn, but she has pictures of over 165. She sewed them all for free.

“It’s very emotional,” she said. “I stay in the background for this.”

Bennett started sewing when she was 5 years old, making clothes for her dolls. At 10, she sewed her own clothes.

“It’s a gift I have,” she said. “I plan on doing it until I no longer can.”

She said she couldn’t do it all without Jim’s support.

“My poor husband. There’s thread all over the place,” she said.

“The thread isn’t bad,” Jim countered. “But if you step on pins, that gets your attention.”

When Bennett is not sewing, she is overseeing landscaping projects at The Sanctuary at Palm Coast, where she and Jim live. She laid out every palm tree and plant and handled 1-149463

enny Bennett and her husband, Jim, moved to Florida about 20 years ago to retire. Now, Penny is working harder than ever.

She can be found toiling at her sewing machine in her sewing room, “12 hours a day, seven days a week,” Jim says with maybe a slight exaggeration.

Bennett owned a dress making business in Seattle for 34 years.

She specialized in custom-made wedding dresses. Now, she makes custom masks, pet blankets, loopy scarves (her own invention), memory bears and purses made from recycled jeans. All for good causes.

Bennett’s earnings go to the Flagler Woman’s Club, of which she’s been a member since 2002, when she and Jim moved here. The Woman’s Club, in turn, puts all the proceeds back into the community through local charities and scholarships.

“I think that’s important, keeping it all in the community,” she said.

She sewed about 900 unique and stylish masks for local boutique Chez Jacqueline earlier in the pandemic, with the profits going to the Flagler Woman’s Club during a time when nonprofits were unable to hold fundraising events.

Bennett spends as little as possible on supplies to optimize the money raised for nonprofits. Her loopy scarves are made from scrap yarns and ribbons. She buys jeans from a local thrift store to produce her purses.

She also makes memory bears,

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“Penny is a remarkable person, and so generous with her time. She personifies the volunteer spirit that we value so much in our community. A very skilled crafter, I particularly liked wearing some of the unique masks she created during COVID, whether a spiderweb for halloween or one decorated with Christmas ornaments.

Even more so, knowing she donates the proceeds to local causes.”

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“Penny is a remarkable person, and so generous with her time,” said Richard Hamilton, who nominated Bennett for a Standing O. “She personifies the volunteer spirit that we value so much in our community.”

“There is such a need out there,” Bennett said. “Everybody should volunteer with something, sometime.”

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Michele Ficocello supports and advocates for local crime victims JONATHAN SIMMONS NEWS EDITOR

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or a while, when COVID-19 lockdowns began, there was a lull in local crime cases. That’s ended: There’s since been an increase, and it’s keeping Flagler Beach Police Department Victim Advocate Michele Ficocello busy.

“COVID-19 has been, as everyone knows, a burden on everybody — especially crime victims,” Ficocello said.

Ficocello helps people who’ve been victims of a myriad of crimes

— everything from burglaries to domestic violence to sexual assault.

Last fiscal year, she assisted with 285 victims, some of them from the same criminal cases.

“Once we meet with somebody after a traumatic event, it’s all about sitting down, talking through it, and we’re kind of the people that answer that, … ‘Where do I go next?’ And it’s not just a one-answer solution; it’s something you have to work through,” Ficocello said.

Much of what Ficocello does involves connecting victims with other services, like mental health support or social service agencies that can help domestic violence victims gain financial independence from abusers.

The domestic violence cases can be some of the toughest Fico-

“Michele is extremely compassionate and works tirelessly to find solutions for every situation. Her tenacity and willingness to show others they matter by providing a kind word or a simple compliment is amazing and a natural reaction for her. ... Michele understands the power of community connections and believes we all play an important role in the health of our community. We just need to choose what kind of impact we want to make.”

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But some skills she learned in her first field about dealing with people carried over.

“When I was an instructor, my students would tell me about their problems,” Ficocello said. “And even working with horses, you have to be yourself ... so I think both of those things helped prepare me.”

Ficocello began as a volunteer — doing paperwork, filing, shredding, and watching victim advocates at work.

“These are very stressful situations, and it takes a while to build up your confidence,” she said. “It really was a process, because you jump into it out of the gate and you feel like you don’t know what to say.”

She quickly learned.

“A victim advocate has to have compassion, which Michele does,” said Flagler Beach Police Chief Matt Doughney. “She makes each victim feel special … whatever the crime is. Whether it’s a theft or a burglary or something with violence, each victim is different and reacts differently, and Michele does a great job of tailoring to their needs with her style of how to help them the best that she can.”

With others, Ficocello also helped form the Flagler County Advocate Alliance, is on the board of the Victim Services Coalition of the Seventh Circuit, and works with the county’s domestic violence task force and sexual assault response team.

There are times she knew she’d really made a difference.

“It’s never in the form that you think it will be in, because you always think it’s that the perpetrator gets arrested and goes to jail, and justice prevails,” she said. “I find it most rewarding when you see that person who’s been traumatized, and at their lowest, really flourish and get back on their feet and learn to live again, and smile. And if you accomplish that — that’s a victory for me.”

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“A lot of it first is safety planning: We try to figure out if they’re ready to get out of that situation and what would it look like and try to make a plan,” Ficocello said. “Our biggest asset is our network that we have with other advocates, with social service agents in the community.”

Some cases are referred by Flagler Beach police officers, and others come the State Attorney’s Office, the domestic violence shelter known as the Family Life Center, or the Sheriff’s Office.

Sometimes, Ficocello meets with crime victims at the scene of the crime or at their homes, and offers assistance.

“I’ll always ask … and if they say flat out say ‘No,’ then I’ll know I’ve done my part,” she said. Sometimes, she’ll leave them with a card and ask if they’d like to follow up later. “Sometimes they’ll reach out; sometimes they don’t, but then you’ll have a case where they say, ‘Absolutely, please follow up with me next week or a month from now.’”

Flagler Beach Police Department Victim Advocate Coordinator Donna Kearney noted that Victim Services is organized so that any advocate can pick up where another left off, if needed.

“For victims, the goal is to give them back some control through resources and validation, and to ensure that their rights are protected,” Kearney said. “Michele ... knows her job well, and you can always count on her.”

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Marcus Ellison: the volunteers’ volunteer at AdventHealth Palm Coast Ellison has been a hospital volunteer since 2005, the last seven years in Palm Coast.

“Marcus is not only very outgoing, helpful, resourceful and kind but is also always putting the needs of others before himself. Marcus can be relied upon to step up on a moment’s notice to lend a hand to help with any type of emergency situation.”

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arcus Ellison began volunteering in 2005 at St. Vincent Hospital in Indianapolis. He wanted to pay back the nurses who took care of him during a very trying year.

He has been a hospital volunteer ever since.

Ellison spent most of 2004 in and out of the hospital with spinal meningitis. To this day, he is bothered by neuropathy in his feet caused by the meningitis infection.

“I walk like I’m walking on broken glass,” he said. “There are days I can hardly walk.”

He has tried every treatment, drug and therapy for his affliction. Nothing has worked for very long. Still, he continues to volunteer.

He has volunteered at AdventHealth Palm Coast since 2014 when he moved here. He started as a volunteer in Same Day Surgery and then became second vice president and assistant treasurer with the hospital’s Volunteer Auxiliary board.

“Marcus is not only very outgoing, helpful, resourceful and kind but is also always putting the needs of others before himself,” said former auxiliary board president Patty Mercer, who nominated Ellison for a Standing O. Same Day Surgery is where Ellison

“I love my volunteers. I try to take them under my wing.”

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into a stack of chairs.”

He’s no longer on the road, but he has remained busy ever since. As second vice president of the auxiliary, he was in charge of keeping track of volunteer hours, service awards, birthdays, etc. It was a way of getting to know all of the hospital’s volunteers.

But he discovered that the operating system was balky and outdated with records hard to find and sometimes lost. After a year’s lobbying, his proposal for purchasing new software was approved. With the pandemic keeping volunteers out of

the hospital in 2020, Ellison built a new database from scratch to keep track of volunteers’ hours, trainings, vaccinations and certifications.

As assistant treasurer, he learned the bookkeeping system and became “the go-to guy” for questions regarding the auxiliary’s finances, Mercer said. When the auxiliary was dissolved last year, with the hospital taking over volunteer services, Mercer said Ellison’s insight helped guide the board to an amicable resolution.

Ellison was thrilled when volunteers were allowed to return to the hospital last year as he could interact again with patients, families, hospital staff and his fellow volunteers.

“I love my volunteers,” he said. “I try to take them under my wing.”

Ellison’s volunteer work extends beyond the hospital. For example, before the pandemic he dressed up as Santa and delivered gifts to the RCMA Flagler Child Development Center in Bunnell.

“There’s nothing better than those kids thanking you as Santa,” he said.

After leaving the center, he went to the Post Office to mail a package, still wearing the Santa outfit.

“I go by the motto, LTS,” he said.

“Life is too short to not have fun.”

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AdventHealth Palm Coast volunteer Marcus Ellison.

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“I loved it,” he said, “Helping the nurses, talking to patients, listening to their families, helping to calm them down.”

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Beth Boyles organized community assistance for the Struble family Boyles began a GoFundMe page shortly after Caleb’s accident and has been in ‘go mode’ ever since, helping raise about $50,000 through various fundraisers.

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hen Beth Boyles received a phone call in July from her friend Betty Struble, she went into “go mode.”

Struble relayed devastating news.

Her son, Caleb, 17, fractured two vertebrae in his neck July 19 when he dove into a shallow sandbar off Flagler Beach during lifeguard practice. The accident would change the Strubles’ lives. The phone call began a mission for Boyles.

“In my gut, I knew it was going to be life-changing,” Boyles said.

“I thought about what can I do to help them. I knew it was going to be a long-term thing, so I just kind of went into that go mode.”

She started by retrieving their mail and taking care of their cats.

When the extent of Caleb’s injuries became known, Boyles began a GoFundMe page for the family. She reached out to business owners, and to local nonprofit Flagler Strong, which held a silent auction for Caleb and his family in August. With her help, Tortugas Florida Kitchen & Bar held another silent auction and fundraiser in November.

Boyles began relaying updates from Caleb’s parents, Betty and Michael, on the Flagler Beach for Friends Facebook page. She has been posting every day or every other day for the past five months on the group page. The group has over 23,000 members, and Boyles’ posts

“Beth (Boyles) should be recognized. She has been a tremendous help with everything since Caleb’s accident. She contacted us shortly after his injury and asked if she could start a GoFundMe for our family, and she has handled press related to Caleb’s injury and she has gotten Flagler Beach and Tortugas (Florida Kitchen & Bar) involved to support our family as well. These efforts have made it possible for us to stay with our son during his rehab in order to help him through this.”

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Beth Boyles holds up a Caleb Strong shirt, designed by Flagler Beach Ocean Rescue lifeguards.

frequently garner over 1,000 reactions and comments.

“The first couple of months I got chills with all the messages and support, all the people reaching out,” she said. “For three days around Thanksgiving, I didn’t post anything, and I got all these messages, ‘What’s going on with Caleb?’ He has a huge following.”

Caleb, a senior at Matanzas High School, fractured the C5 and C6 vertebrae, which are in the lower neck region. Soon after the injury, he underwent surgery at Orlando Regional Medical Center.

“It was a very scary situation,” Boyles said. “He was on a ventilator for some time. At that point, he had no movement in his arms and legs.”

In August, he was transported to the Shepherd Center, a rehab hospital in Atlanta that specializes in

spinal cord injuries. At first, because of COVID-19, only Michael could stay with him. About six weeks later, Betty and younger son Byron, 13, were able to join them.

Caleb has made tremendous strides since he has been at Shepherd, Boyles said. On Dec. 22, Boyles posted a video of Caleb walking on a treadmill with the help of two therapists. By the end of the session, he was carrying up to 90% of his bodyweight, she said. On New Year’s Day she posted a video and pictures of Caleb taking a walk with his family’s help along the Chattahoochee River.

Michael Struble is Boyles’ chiropractor. Boyles and her husband, Joel, became good friends of the Strubles.

“I adore their two boys,” Boyles said. “I want my son, who is 5, to be just like them.”

Betty is Michael’s office manager.

Since the accident, the office has been closed with no money coming in, Boyles said. She said she understands the predicament, because she and Joel, who is a contractor, have a similar arrangement, running Joel Boyles LLC together.

Caleb’s GoFundMe page has raised $26,593 as of Jan. 3. Boyles estimates

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Micheal, Caleb, Betty and Byron Struble go on a New Year’s Day outing to the Chatahoochee National Recreation Area.

that all of the fundraisers, including a fishing tournament in September at the Flagler Beach pier, has raised about $50,000 for the family.

The money helps pay the mortgage, electric, cellphones, gas, food and office bills. The local community helped decorate Caleb’s room at Shepherd Center and provide comfortable clothes for Caleb to wear during his rehab sessions through an Amazon Prime wish list that sold out within 24 hours, Boyles said.

Michael Struble nominated Boyles for a Standing O. On Facebook Messenger, Betty Struble said Boyles’ “efforts have made it possible for us to stay with our son during his rehab in order to help him through this.”

Caleb may be coming home next month, Boyles said, and she is planning a welcome home celebration. Boyles is working with local restaurants to supply a “meal train” that will supply dinners for the family for their first month home.

Caleb will still have a long road ahead with intensive therapy once he comes home, Boyles said, but he continues to exceed doctors’ expectations.

“We believe strongly that Caleb will walk again,” Boyles said, adding that she hopes he’ll be able to walk across the stage for graduation.

Boyles said that during recent a FaceTime call with Michael Struble, Joel commented on how much better Michael looked and sounded.

“I’m a lot better than I was three months ago,” he said.

“They’re an amazingly strong family,” Boyles said. “They’re going to make it.”

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Michele Seyfert leads effort to provide hot meals for homeless people Seyfert created the Our Father’s Table program, serving weekly hot meals through the United Methodist Church of Palm Coast.

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Michele Seyfert (kneeling) at Our Father’s Table’s storage facility with volunteers (from left) Marvin Ellison, Adrienne Ellison, Sandra Strickland, Gerald Strickland and Charlie Seyfert.

“Michele is a selfless individual who meets human suffering right here in Palm Coast with kindness and hope. She works tirelessly to assist people in need wherever she finds them. Her generous Christian spirit shines unfailingly upon everyone — donors and people she helps.”

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tion with other volunteers, cooks meals on Saturday nights. A recent one featured turkey with mashed potatoes and green beans, salad, and desserts from Starbucks and Panera Bread.

“The volunteers, they really put their heart and soul into preparation,” Seyfert said. “They want to serve something that’s very nutritious and complete. Sometimes they’ll say, ‘They’re eating better than my husband!’”

Mary McGowan handles the scheduling for food pickups and does some cooking.

“I see how [Seyfert] interacts with people, and she sets a very, very good example,” McGowan said. “I’ve been in business management all my life, and I’m always looking for something to streamline … and she’s just so good with the people, and she’s

really taught me to be that way, too.”

“When I say my prayers at night, I always thank God for her and her husband, Chuck, because there’s not a day that goes by that they are not there for somebody in need,” McGowan added. “So many people have her phone number, and they call her for whatever they need, and she helps. ... She and her husband both find jobs for people. They find bicycles for people to get around. They know a lot of people. She reaches out, hooks them up.”

Adrienne Ellison met Seyfert through the church’s outreach program, then volunteered to help at Our Father’s Table.

“She would go into the actual camp, which was located not too far from the church, and she would bring not only food and sandwiches and meals, but she also assisted with

problems,” Ellison said. “She was taking them to a medical facility, she was helping to try to get housing for them, providing monetary needs for them, so she really went over and above.”

“She exhibits at the true attributes of a good solid Christian individual ... who’s dedicated to helping others,” said Marvin Ellison, Adrienne Ellison’s husband and a fellow Our Father’s Table volunteer.

To prevent the spread of COVID-19, Our Father’s Table volunteers have been preparing more meals in their homes rather than at the church’s kitchen, and Our Father’s Table has switched to takeout rather than an in-person meal while increasing deliveries and the overall number of meals served, Seyfert said.

About 50 volunteers now contribute, including Bible study groups from other churches and a group from the Grand Haven’s women’s club that comes every Saturday to package meals.

“It really is a community effort,” Seyfert said. “A lot of people coming together from different agencies, different churches — coming together just to serve and make a difference in somebody’s life.”

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n the spring of 2017, there was a homeless camp across the street from the Palm Coast United Methodist Church, behind the county library branch on Belle Terre Parkway.

Michele Seyfert attended the church and headed its outreach committee, and was volunteering at The Sheltering Tree — the cold weather shelter operating in Bunnell — and at the Soul Cafe, also in Bunnell.

She realized that there were no ministries in Palm Coast that provided homeless people with hot, prepared meals.

Seyfert decided to change that, creating the Our Father’s Table program at the Palm Coast United Methodist Church.

“There’s not enough places for people to live affordably,” she said.

“As everything’s going up — gas, food, especially housing — the need for food is increasing more and more.”

Seyfert sees a lot of grandparents on fixed incomes who are caring for grandchildren.

“It just goes so far, and so we can supplement, at least, their food budget,” she said.

The Our Father’s Table program started with meals donated by restaurants and grocery stores, prepped by volunteers and served weekly at the Palm Coast United Methodist church. The first meal, served on a Saturday night, had 12 attendees.

It’s since expanded to 115 meals served on Saturday nights, plus another 80 or so meals delivered during the week to homeless individuals or others who need the help.

“It might be an individual living in their car,” Seyfert said. “Sometimes someone will come by for a bicycle” — Our Father’s Table’s storage facility is next to that of The Bike Men of Flagler County, a service that provides and repairs bicycles for people who need them for transportation — “and we will be able to find people that way, indirectly. It might be someone living in a tent a block away from where we’re storing our food.”

Seyfert coordinates food donations and volunteers, and, in a rota-

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Ryan Deising led Flagler Schools’ pandemic shift to remote learning

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or years, Flagler Schools Chief of Technology and Innovation Ryan Deising has worked to help provide every student with a computing device through the district’s one-toone program.

The shift to online learning in the spring of 2020 made the impact of that initiative particularly clear.

“The technology in place gave us a huge advantage over what a lot of surrounding districts had,” Deising said. “Most districts did not have the computers or infrastructure to support having every student at home, learning remotely. We had those things in place, and we had a team that spent countless hours working … so that they still could supply that top-level education that we’re striving for in Flagler Schools.”

Deising grew up in the Ormond Beach area and began working for Flagler Schools in 2001 as a technology coordinator, then became a network engineer before becoming moving into leadership roles.

“His institutional knowledge far exceeds anyone about Flagler schools. It’s amazing,” said Joe Rizzo, executive director of the Flagler Education Foundation, who nominated Deising. “When he started, it was two people, and that was the technology department, and he’s grown the department to a Google standard. We have tech offices in every school; we maintain over 20,000 devices on a regular basis. We collect

“He’s out in the classrooms, talking to the students, talking to the teachers, looking at the classrooms to really see what’s going on and how we’re using the technology and what we could do to change or help make things better.”

TERESA PHILLIPS, Flagler Schools instructional technology coach

Phillips was a teacher for a decade before becoming an instructional technology coach. As classes moved online because of the pandemic, she said, Deising was attentive to teachers’ concerns.

“He really listens to teachers and the needs that we have in the classroom,” she said. “He always looks at the teachers’ and students’ needs. He’s out in the classrooms, talking to the students, talking to the teachers, looking at the classrooms to really see what’s going on and how we’re using the technology and what we could do to change or help make things better.”

When the pandemic began, the district initially planned to take an extended spring break. It quickly became clear that wasn’t going to be enough, and staff started preparing for remote learning.

“We took a staff that normally works within our schools and our school buildings, and pivoted that to a centralized-help-desk kind of

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Ryan Deising poses in front of computers from decades past. The school district now issues laptops and tablets to its students.

scenario,” Deising said. “We had to cover time ranges that were very large, because we had students that were doing work at 7 a.m. and students that were doing work at 7 p.m.”

Deising’s staff created a drivethru tech support station for families and prepared teachers to teach from home or from blended classrooms in which some students were on campus while others learned from home.

“The instructional technology team really worked with our administrators and teachers in each individual grade level,” Deising said. “We really didn’t have a huge opportunity to bring folks in, so most of that was done in a remote setting. So they were getting training in the environ-

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Maria McGovern, the district’s technology coordinator, said Deising’s planning had placed the district in a strong position when the pandemic began.

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and distribute the devices every year.

The amount of stuff his department does is just amazing. Kids show up and get a computer, and people don’t even think about how it happens.”

When Deising began working for Flagler Schools, many students had limited access to technology outside of a school computer lab.

“The amount of technology that students and staff have access to has significantly changed,” he said.

“I think the biggest impact on Flagler, when it came to technology, was the approval of the half-penny sales tax to implement a one-to-one program in our community. ... We were basically the first district in the state of Florida to get to a one-toone ratio across elementary, middle and high.”

“One-to-one” refers to the district program that loans MacBooks to upper level students and tablets to younger students so that every student has a device for at-home computing — one computer to one student — a major shift from the days when student computing involved rolling computer carts into classrooms and having two students share one computer station.

The one-to-one program was funded by the half-penny sales tax program that Flagler County voters first approved in 2002 and have renewed in successive years. The half-cent tax will be on the ballot for renewal again this year.

Teresa Phillips, Flagler Schools instructional technology coach, has seen two of her own daughters benefit from the one-to-one program Deising had helped implement as they attended district schools.

“They have that background with the technology that every profession needs; they’re not having to learn that on top of everything else,” Phillips said. “It really levels the playing field with all these students. You don’t have that great digital divide that a lot of other districts may have.”

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Tate Winecoff is ‘the total package’ Winecoff is president of the SGA and Pirate Athletic Committee besides being a straight-A student and accomplished athlete.

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he term “I should have” is not in Tate Winecoff’s vocabulary.

The Matanzas High School senior likes to get involved. He plays football and basketball and will also be on the weightlifting team this spring. He is president of the Student Government Association as well as the Pirate Athletic Committee. He’s a member of the Leo Club and the National Honor Society.

He has a 5.0 weighted GPA in the Cambridge Advanced International Certificate of Education program and takes Advanced Placement classes. He’s a straight-A student, remembering just one B in his academic career – in fifth grade, when he missed the A grade by a fraction of a percentage point. He is partially dual-enrolled, taking two classes at Daytona State College and three classes at Matanzas. He also has two jobs, working part-time at Publix and at Surfside Shakes.

“When I came into high school, it was always my goal to have no regrets,” Winecoff said. “ ... You never know if you’re going to like it until you do it. And so, ever since I was a freshman, I’ve just tried to get involved in every club that might seem of interest and every event that I might enjoy, and it’s opened up a lot

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Tate Winecoff said his plan entering high school was to get involved in everything he could.

of opportunities to me, especially in SGA.” Winecoff was the SGA’s treasurer as a sophomore and the vice president as a junior before becoming president this year.

“He’s a big-time contributor,” SGA advisor Rob Roe said. “He probably has the most school spirit of anyone I’ve seen come through Matanzas in a long time. He will do anything you ask of him.”

Winecoff said the value of serving others was introduced to him at a young age.

“I’ve always tried to give back,” he said. “My parents are super big on always trying to help others and being a blessing in your community.

That was a principle taught to me very young. I think once you get into high school, the windows of opportunity you have to do that increase so much, because there are so many different ways you can get involved.”

The SGA is Winecoff’s favorite organization because it serves the school as well as the community.

It plans homecoming and prom.

In 2020, SGA members had Zoom calls with residents of assisted living facilities “to help them see some faces, because they didn’t get visitors during COVID,” Winecoff said.

This past year, the SGA sent thankyou cards to hospital workers.

“It’s just really nice, especially being the president, to be able to oversee everything and watch your fellow members work so hard and pull off a successful event and see all

Saturday, Nov. 6, 2021 Matanzas senior Tate Winecoff runs the ball.

“I struggle when I don’t have anything to do. I get bored very easily.

I’ve always believed that you can do anything you put your mind to.”

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the smiling faces that are a result of something we did,” he said.

Winecoff has always tried to support the Pirates’ athletes by attending at least one game a year for every sport. As president of the Pirate Athletic Committee, he helps plan events at games. And separately, with the help of a few friends, he’s organized student sections at athletic events with a different theme for each game.

There was the construction theme at a volleyball game against Flagler Palm Coast, with students wearing hard hats. There was a holiday theme at a basketball game, with students wearing Grinch and Santa costumes, ugly sweaters and Christmas pajamas. And Winecoff doesn’t just organize, he goes all-in.

“On Western Day, he’ll come in a

“He probably has the most school spirit of anyone I’ve seen come through Matanzas in a long time. ... On Western Day, he’ll come in a full cowboy outfit. If he could bring a horse on campus, he would.”

ROB ROE, Matanzas SGA advisor

full cowboy outfit,” Roe said. “If he could bring a horse on campus, he would.”

Of course, in his own sports, he goes the extra mile as well.

He’s played just about every position on the football field. Primarily a receiver, he also plays on defense and special teams. He filled in at quarterback when he was needed this season, scoring three touchdowns in a 32-8 victory against Orange Park Ridgeview. He’s also a holder, long snapper and backup kicker and punter. His versatility will help, should he decide to walk on to a football team in college, he said.

“He’s always been a programguy. He’s always worked hard in the weight room,” said football coach Matt Forrest. “He’s a team-first guy.

We’ve asked him to play multiple positions, and his response is always, ‘Whatever I can do to help the team.’

To have him on the football team my first two years here has spoiled us.”

One wonders how he finds time for everything.

“I struggle when I don’t have anything to do,” he said. “I get bored very easily. I’ve always believed that you can do anything you put your mind to. I can always find time during the day, whether I have to rearrange a schedule.”

Winecoff plans to major in business and finance in college. He has been accepted to the University of Central Florida, the University of South Florida, Appalachian State and Tennessee and is waiting to hear from Florida, Clemson and Wake Forest.

Like he has done in high school, Winecoff plans to make the most of his collegiate experience.

“He’s one of those people who uses his gifts to make everybody better,” said Matanzas Athletics Director Jordan Butler. “He is everything and embodies everything we want in a student athlete. We preach: person, student, player. And he’s the total package.”

Steve DeAugustino has been a mentor and coach to generations The Hall of Fame wrestling coach has been a teacher and administrator at Flagler Palm Coast High School for 40 years.

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hen Flagler Palm Coast athletic director Steve DeAugustino was asked about some of the high school’s wrestling achievements, he decided to take the reporter down to the wrestling room to look over photos, plaques and clippings on the walls.

DeAugustino wound up taking a stroll down memory lane, looking at photos of state champs and medalists, stopping in front of some, repeating their names, recounting their feats and where they are now.

DeAugustino has been a teacher and administrator at FPC for 40 years. He was the head wrestling coach for 27 years. During that time FPC won three state championships (1993-95), was a state runner-up twice (1989, 1996) and finished among the top four 15 times.

He comes from a wrestling family.

He is a member of the Florida State Chapter of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame. His father, Steve, uncle Gus and cousin Mark are also Hall of Fame state chapter members.

“Coach D is a legend,” said Bobby

Bossardet, Flagler Schools’ assistant superintendent. Bossardet wrestled for DeAugustino and won an individual state championship. After graduating from college, Bossardet joined DeAugustino’s staff and replaced him as head coach when DeAugustino became AD in 2007.

DeAugustino later returned to the wrestling mat for five more seasons as an assistant coach. He was also the head softball coach for four years and an assistant football coach for 10 years.

“Coach D takes a lot of pride in FPC athletics,” Bossardet said. “He was determined to have a top-notch program that put kids first. Through sports, he’s provided a lot of opportunities for students in our county.

He’s a hometown hero.”

Not a week goes by that DeAugustino doesn’t hear from a former student at FPC. “There are grandchildren of kids I coached who are (students) here now,” he said. “That’s part of the reason you stay here. When you grow up with a community, you get attached.”

THEN AND NOW

There were 320 students at FPC when he was hired as a PE teacher and coach in 1981. Now, there are over 2,500 students at the school.

DeAugustino said the only teacher who has worked in the school district longer than he has is his wife, Renee, who teaches at Wadsworth Elementary School. On Jan. 18, they

“Coach D takes a lot of pride in FPC athletics. He was determined to have a top-notch program that put kids first. Through sports, he’s provided a lot of opportunities for students in our county. He’s a hometown hero.”

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will celebrate their 37th wedding anniversary.

Steve and Renee have three grown children, who all attended FPC. Stephen, a producer for NBC sports in New York, and Jaclyn, a traffic reporter and weekend anchor for WESH news, both work in TV. Michael is a wrestler at Northwestern University. He was named to the National Wrestling Coaches Association All-American team in 2020.

Both of DeAugustino’s sons wrestled at FPC. DeAugustino wrestled at the University of Maryland. After graduation, he taught at a junior high in Hyattsville, Maryland, and heard about a head coaching job at small school in Florida.

“I stayed at the Bunnell Motor Lodge, and I was prepared to go back the next day,” he said. “But they hired me on the spot, and I ended up staying at the Motor Lodge for a year.”

Bossardet said DeAugustino was a father figure to many of his wrestlers.

“Wrestlers have a tendency to be a little rough around the edges,” Bossardet said. “He always treated us like we were one of his own. Our grades always needed to be on point.

There were times I would call him just to chat. One time me and a friend got into a fender bender, and the first person we called was Coach D. He was more than a wrestling coach to us.”

OVERCOMING CHALLENGES

As athletic director, DeAugustino said he is able to help every athlete at FPC. “To me there’s not a difference between football or tennis. The passion is the same,” he said. “You try your best to get them all everything they need. When the money is tight,

Photo by Brent Woronoff

Steve DeAugustino has collected many memories and developed scores of relationships in his 40 years at FPC.

you still got to make that effort.”

DeAugustino has dealt with many challenges over the years. Since August, he has had to replace the football scoreboard, and, after basketball season, workers will have to sand down the main gym floor after a valve broke on a hot water tank and flooded the gym in November.

“Fortunately, we have a good team here, a supportive administration and a supportive superintendent,” he said His biggest challenge, he said, has been negotiating the myriad changes caused by the pandemic.

“There are grandchildren of kids I coached who are (students) here now. That’s part of the reason you stay here. When you grow up with a community, you get attached.”

STEVE DeAUGUSTINO

“Times are moved, teams can’t come, you don’t have bus drivers.

You pretty much had to stay on top of it every day,” he said. “But the kids are back on the field, and it’s nice to see the stadium and gym full again.”

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Girls soccer: Williams, Catalan and O'Malley score goals in FPC's 3-0 win Matanzas goalkeeper Emma Diaz had 18 saves against the Bulldogs’ relentless pressure.

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Jada Williams, Makayla Catalan and Ava O’Malley scored goals for Flagler Palm Coast as the Bulldogs shut out Matanzas for the second time this season, 3-0 on Jan. 4 at the Pirates’ stadium.

The result was much more palatable for the Pirates than FPC’s 8-0 win on Dec. 8, Matanzas coach Scott Crooke said.

“Our girls played a great game,” said Crooke, who was especially pleased with Emma Diaz in the net.

The senior goalkeeper had 18 saves as Bulldogs kept the pressure on the Pirates’ defense.

“Emma has improved significantly,” Crooke said. “She’s worked hard this season. She’s more demanding and aggressive for the ball, and she’s making better positioning decisions.”

Williams and Catalan gave FPC (9-6-1) a 2-0 halftime lead, which was where the score remained until O’Malley squeezed in a goal off a corner kick with 2:35 left.

“We finished better the last game,” said FPC coach Pete Hald. “But Matanzas played well. They were pretty aggressive and defended well.

Emma made some nice saves.”

The Bulldogs host Spruce Creek at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 6, and then travel to Pierson Taylor on Saturday, Jan. 8, for a first-round Five Star Conference Tournament game.

“We’ve got a lot of ranked teams now on our schedule,” Hald said.

“We’re ranked 14th in our region, and we need to be in the top eight (to get an at-large playoff berth), so we have the teams ahead of us. We need to beat them.”

Matanzas (5-7) was scheduled to play games on four consecutive nights. They traveled to Crescent City on Jan. 5 and will visit Neptune Beach Fletcher on Jan. 6, before returning home Friday, Jan. 7, for a 7 p.m. game against Father Lopez.

Matanzas’ Sahara Wilks, right, and FPC’s Emma Swearingen.

“Emma has improved significantly.She’s worked hard this season.

She’s more demanding and aggressive for the ball, and she’s making better positioning decisions.”

SCOTT CROOKE, Matanzas coach

Olivia Slusarz, 11, and Makayla Catalan, 4.

Matanzas goalkeeper Emma Diaz stops a shot by Jada Williams 20.

FPC goalkeeper Kaitlyn Holley, stops a shot by Matanzas freshman Eva Servello.

FPC’s Heather Hall-Alcala

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Teachers of the year

JAMES GAMBONE Flagler Palm Coast High

NANCY SNELL Matanzas High

‘My greatest inspiration still comes from seeing the excitement on a child’s face when they realize they can be successful in math class,’ Gambone wrote.

‘Teaching is a career of hope,’ Snell wrote.

‘Hope for the future.

Hope that you are touching a student’s life. Hope that what you are doing is making a difference for today and the future.’

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ames Gambone had wanted to become a lawyer. He was majoring in political science with a minor in criminal justice when one class changed his career trajectory.

The class, called “Minorities in Crime,” required students to volunteer at an inner-city elementary school in Jacksonville.

Gambone was paired with two fourth grade children, tutoring them for a semester and seeing major gains in their reading and math skills — and in their outlook on school in general.

“I realized from that experience that my true calling was teaching, and more specifically, teaching students that have the most difficulty in school,” Gambone wrote in an essay for his Teacher of the Year application.

He changed his major, earning a bachelor’s in elementary education, and, later, a master’s in educational leadership.

“Twenty-six years later, my greatest inspiration still comes from seeing the excitement on a child’s face when they realize they can be successful in math class,” he wrote.

He began teaching math at Flagler Palm Coast High School — his alma mater — in 2000. He also coaches FPC’s girls flag football program, and has led his team to several district championships, and made it to the final four of the state playoffs in 2006.

Gambone realized that a major reason many students

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James Gambone

“Some students may never use the quadratic formula in their life, but in the process of teaching the quadratic formula, we have the opportunity to teach the students through a growth mindset approach how to problem solve and not give up.”

JAMES GAMBONE

struggle with math is that they lack confidence.

He scaffolds problems to build their skills. Sometimes, the source of their confusion isn’t math, per se.

“The lack of understanding is many times due to the vocabulary,” he wrote .

He tries to incorporate reading when teaching math, and works to make sure students understand the material on a conceptual level.

“The so-called ‘drill and kill’ teaching of math is over,” he wrote.

And he gets strong results:

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In 2020-2021, as COVID-19 disrupted classes, the state end-of-course pass rate for sophomore first-time test takers was 12%. For Gambone’s 163 students, it was 38%.

To support students who are struggling, Gambone began an online algebra tutoring program that began with 10 or 15 students and now has more than 50.

“I find that students who rarely ask questions in the classroom setting would ask clarifying questions during online tutoring, often using the chat feature,” he wrote.

“Over time, these same students began to participate more freely in class.”

Math coursework can help students learn life skills that will serve them in the future, he wrote.

“Some students may never use the quadratic formula in their life, but in the process of teaching the quadratic formula, we have the opportunity to teach the students through a growth mindset approach how to problem solve and not give up,” he wrote. “Whether our current students become entrepreneurs or work for a company, their success will depend on their ability to dissect a problem and figure out how to solve it.”

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atanzas Teacher of the Year Nancy Snell’s educational career began in Papua New Guinea, then shifted to Panama, then to ESOL instruction in the Florida Panhandle before she moved to Matanzas in 2019 as the school’s instructional literacy coach.

As instructional literacy coach, she serves many classrooms, assisting new teachers and English Language Arts teachers, and visited all junior and senior Intensive Reading classes at the beginning of the year to share a graduation presentation.

On the school’s multitiered student supports team, she spends extra time with seniors, helping prepare them for graduation through oneon-one and small group chats to review requirements.

“Seeing a student grow and change in the classroom is a testimony to the difference a teacher can make,” Snell wrote in an essay submitted as part of her Teacher of the Year application. “This is a difference that can have a far-reaching effect as these students step into adulthood and become valued members of their community. Any challenge or hardship along the way pales in comparison to knowing you have made a difference in the life of a student.”

One of Snell’s responsibilities is to support new Matanzas teachers with mentoring

“Seeing a student grow and change in the classroom is a testimony to the difference a teacher can make.”

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and coaching. That’s become more demanding as the number of new teachers has increased.

With many new teachers beginning work days or even weeks after school has started and therefore missing the regular new teacher orientation, Snell suggested that on a teacher’s first day, she provide a morning orientation and remain available for troubleshooting through the afternoon.

That proved helpful, and Snell’s weekly support schedule was shifted to include slots for rotating into new teachers’ classrooms for support.

Many in education antici-

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Nancy Snell

pated a return to normalcy this school year, and that hasn’t happened. But Snell had a message of optimism.

“It’s easy to focus on how things have changed, how things are different, and how things are disappointing,” she wrote. “Teaching is a career of hope. Hope for the future.

Hope that you are touching a student’s life. Hope that what you are doing is making a difference for today and the future. Be the one that rises above the challenges and makes that difference.”

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Nancy Snell, right.

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“I remember walking home from school when I was young. I was pretending that I was fumbling for my keys and telling my children that I have papers to grade,” she wrote in an essay for her Teacher of the Year application.

After a detour to train cast members at Walt Disney World and start her family, Blumengarten came back to education, first as an office aid for Flagler Schools in 2011, and, after she finished her degree, as a classroom teacher in 2018.

“What inspires me? It is every time that I hoped, wondered, and dreamed of what it would be like to teach in my own classroom,” she wrote.

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Blumengarten has taught English Language Arts to seventh graders and eighth graders since she started at Indian Trails in 2018.

COVID-19 has made it tricky to reliably track student progress over the last couple of years.

Still, she wrote, “It was easy to see, as the year progressed, that students were gaining knowledge and understanding. Success in my ELA class rolled over into my Future Problem Solver class as well.

Students in their first year of competing not only won at the state competition, but also received a third place in Community Problem Solvers during the international competition.”

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the football program at Flagler Palm Coast High School this past year, volunteering to conduct temperature checks to help keep the team safe to practice over the summer.

She assists twice a week with the Credit Recovery program for students who are at risk of failing one or more classes.

“During this time, I have been able to build such strong relationships that the students ask to stay additional days just to complete their work,” she wrote.

Blumengarten is most proud of her influence on former students. She was recently at a football game between Matanzas High School and Flagler Palm Coast high School, and former students came up to her to say they were doing well in class or were now in advanced English language arts classes.

“My heart was filled with joy as student after student would come up to me,” she wrote. “The common theme of their conversations with me was that I would be proud of them.”

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covered this when I was tutoring in college, and changed my major to education so that I could be a part of that joyous moment of understanding and enlightenment for other people.”

The Buddy Taylor Middle School Teacher of the Year particularly enjoys science — and teaching it.

“Our world very much relies on science and technology, and whenever I read about new discoveries or investigations, it inspires me to prepare the children of the future in those fields,” she wrote. “Our world faces some overwhelming environmental and health issues in the future, and I like challenging students to imagine themselves as part of those solutions.”

It’s easier to motivate kids to care about such things when they know that the adult in the classroom cares about them.

“If the student knows that you care about them, then they have more buy-in to the academic process in your class, and it can easily be spread to other classes,” she wrote. “One way that I show students that I care about them outside the classroom is by attending games, plays, talent shows and other extracurricular activities.”

Another way is to have students track their grades in all of their classes and write out a list of their missing work.

Acosta uses that information to help keep them from falling behind, but also to help herself stay aware of what the students are learning in other classes so that she can incorporate concepts from other disciplines into her lessons.

She’s also worked with colleagues to blend language arts and math-based questions into science content.

A point-based reward system helps keep students on track and engaged.

But teaching is about a lot more than academics, she wrote.

“The most precious things in everyone’s life are their connection with people, and if this pandemic has taught us anything, it has shown us how precious those connections are,” Acosta wrote. “We teach the whole child, not just a subject. Making a connection and making it personal to the student makes learning more meaningful.”

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Teachers of the year

CAITLIN HALL Old Kings Elementary

ROBERT CERASI Rymfire Elementary School

A school counselor, Hall has served as the Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports team leader.

Cerasi created Rymfire’s physical education curriculum, directs its Running Club and partnered with others to create a program teaching children about nutrition, exercise and healthy life choices.

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ld Kings Elementary School counselor Caitlin Hall notices the little things: When a child’s parents are too busy with their phones to notice the child’s elation at the rainbow in a puddle, or when a child is anxious because they’re not sure where their next meal is coming from, or when a ketchup stain on a child’s shirt reveals that the child has worn the same one for several days in a row.

“I am not in education for the academics,” she wrote in an essay submitted as part of her Teacher of the Year application materials. “I am in education with the hope and dream of helping at least one child, to make a difference in just one child’s life throughout my career. I will always take the time to see the rainbow in the puddle, I will always make a child belly laugh with a lame joke I heard on TikTok, I will always provide food to a child in need, and I will always notice the little ketchup stain right next to their belly button.”

As the coordinator for behavior mutli-tiered systems of supports (MTSS) for her grade levels, Hall has seen a significant decrease in disciplinary referrals, from 354

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“I am not in education for the academics. I am in education with the hope and dream of helping at least one child, to make a difference in just one child’s life throughout my career.”

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in 2019-2020 to 188 in 20202021.

The MTSS system sets personalized goals and incentives for each student and helps them through proactive behavior management.

Hall has also been part of the core team for the school’s Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports program, and has served as team lead this past year.

As a counselor, she doesn’t get as much classroom time with student as regular teachers.

“As a school counselor who pops into over 30 classrooms to complete 15-20-minute social-emotional lessons with students, I feel like I need to rely on strong instructional practices to be effective,” she wrote.

Those practices include using essential questions, modeling behavior and having students practice newly learned behavior independently, she wrote. She’s most proud of the relationships she’s built with students.

“I rotate with them each year from one grade to the next, so I am able to build meaningful relationships,” she wrote.

That can affect students across the school.

“As a school counselor, I wear many, many hats,” she wrote. “I provide individual counseling services to any and all students who are in need.

By providing this specific service, I am able to have a positive impact on students who may be struggling mentally/ emotionally/socially, which in turn positively affects numerous classrooms.”

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he same quote has been sitting on Rymfire Elmentary School PE teacher Robert Cerasi’s desk for 20 years. “A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or what kind of car I drove. ... But the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child,” it states, paraphrasing a quote by former “Scouting”

“From my struggles, I have always wanted to give back. ... I feel that every student has value, and it has been my number one goal to make a positive impact on each student that I teach.”

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As a PE teacher, Cerasi has an advantage that most other teachers don’t: He sees each student every school day.

“I am able to touch the lives of all of my students each and every day,” he wrote in his application materials for the Teacher of the Year award.

“I believe in building strong relationships. ... I want them to be successful, and it’s my job to make them feel cared for and appreciated.”

Cerasi has been teaching at Rymfire since it opened in 2006 and is head coach and director for the Rymfire Elementary Running Club. He’s been teaching for 23 years, and created Rymfire’s physical education curriculum.

School hadn’t come easy for him when he was a boy.

“I had to work extremely hard to overcome my struggles,” he wrote. “From my struggles, I have always wanted to give back. ... I feel that every student has value, and it has been my number one goal to make a positive impact on each student that I teach.”

To make sure students are progressing, he has his younger students demonstrate skills like galloping, hopping, skipping and running at set intervals throughout the year, while older students are assessed in running, pushups, sit-ups and agility. Older students also learn sports like floor hockey, basketball, soccer and pickleball.

To integrate broader learning into his classes, he’s worked alongside a health teacher and partnered with nurses at AdventHealth to

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Robert Cerasi.

create a “Mission Fit” program teaching second-grade and a fourth-grade students about nutrition, exercise and healthy life choices.

He’s spearheaded the school’s field days, which have involved more than 1,000 students.

“My biggest strength is how I am able to motivate my students to work as hard as they can, while students still have an enjoyable experience,” he wrote. “My high energy and passion is contagious, and it encourages my students to do their very best.”

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Teachers of the year

SUSAN BRYANT Wadsworth Elementary Bryant has been on the Literacy Committee for three years — helping plan events like Dr. Seuss Night and Read Across America — and also emphasizes STEM skills in the classroom.

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adsworth Elementary Teacher of the Year Susan Bryant finds herself amazed by her students’ resilience.

“I hear my students’ stories of parent drug addiction, having a parent in jail, or living with grandparents and having no contact with parents at all,” she wrote in an essay for her Teacher of the Year application materials. “To have students sitting in my classroom, having shared their experiences with me, and still smile, laugh, achieve and excel. That is what continues to inspire me.”

Bryant had her own struggles as a girl.

“Coming from a less than perfect childhood allows me to better relate and empathize with students who have experienced similar issues within their own home,” she wrote. “... I often share some of the experiences of my own life.”

Bryant teaches the fourthgrade Dreams Program class at Wadsworth. It was

designed to teach gifted students and students who were above grade level in reading or math, but now includes students with a broader range of skill levels, including some who are a year or two behind grade level.

She visits students in the lower-level Dreams classes, and tells them how excited she is to have them in her future classes. At recesses, she plays basketball or kickball with students to promote positive interactions, and encourages other classes to compete with hers on projects.

Bryant has been teaching in the Dreams program since the second year of its implementation, and has taught at Wadsworth since 2015, after teaching pre-kinterdarten in New York since 2005.

This past year, 75% of her class reached stretch growth goals in math, and all students received level 4 or level 5 scores on the Florida State Assessment math test — including students who’d started at a first-grade or second-grade level.

She likes to let students take the initiative during wholegroup instruction, and asks a lot of “how” and “why” questions about why an answer is correct. In math lessons, students come up with their own word problems about the skills they’re learning.

She’s also been on the Literacy Committee for three years, helping plan events like Dr. Seuss Night and Read Across America, and emphasizes STEM skills in the classroom, finding STEM challenges for students.

SVETLANA PANAMENO Bunnell Elementary Panameno wants every child to realize they’re capable of anything they want, as long as they work hard for it.

“It is more critical now than ever before to address the mental health needs of our students.”

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But to reach students, she wrote, it’s important to advocate for more than their academic needs.

“It is more critical now than ever before to address the mental health needs of our students,” she wrote. “We cannot change the curriculum we are given, we cannot change the high-stakes tests, we cannot change the prior experiences our student walk into the building with, but we can change or they go from here.”

vetlana Panameno used to start her work days pretty early — at 6 a.m. — and, one day, one of her colleagues asked her why she was there so early.

“Do you think anyone will say ‘thank you’ to you?” the colleague asked.

“I do not do this for a ‘thank you,’” Panameno had said. “I expect greatness from my students; how can I expect it, if I myself don’t give it?”

Coming in early to prepare for the day was her way of doing her part to ensure that students would be productive, she wrote in her personal essay for the Teacher of the Year award.

Panameno has taught at Bunnell Elementary since

“As time passes on, I begin to see my students’ minds develop, and they begin thinking beyond what is in front of them.”

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Svetlana Panameno

2006, for her entire teaching career in Florida, and has a master’s degree in ESOL instruction and an endorsement to teach gifted and talented classes.

Panameno wants every child to realize they’re capable of anything they want, as long as they work hard for it.

“I take a lot of pride in my students’ successes, and that continues to inspire me on a daily basis,” she wrote. “…

I ask my former students, ‘What could I have done to better prepare you for the following grade?’ ‘We are prepared, and thank you for pushing us,’ is what they say.

Those responses are what inspires me to continue what

I do. I want them to be great!”

Panameno teaches advanced classes at Bunnell Elementary. But her students aren’t always ready.

“My students enter my room with behavior issues, as struggling readers, and students that are several years behind grade level,” she wrote.

“Yet, I take them all and make sure they pass third grade with a level 3 or higher on the FSA.” About 95% of her students achieve stretch growth on their final diagnostic at the end of the year.

Panameno also reaches out to families and offers free private tutoring after school to help them improve in their weak areas.

“This is probably what causes my students to do well,” she wrote. “It is very difficult to address the needs of so many students within a class day.”

Panameno has also been involved in special projects — helping begin the gifted program, leading a thirdgrade showcase about butterflies, and, most recently, working with a colleague to order Wisconsin Fast Plant seeds, which have no dormancy period and will be used to teach students about the growth cycle.

“Students are asked to take our topics a step further, and that can be scary and uncomfortable,” she wrote. “As time passes on, I begin to see my students’ minds develop, and they begin thinking beyond what is in front of them. That is my proud moment as a teacher.”

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Teachers of the year

NATALIE MULDOON Belle Terre Elementary

CAMI BROCKSMITH iFlagler

Muldoon, an academic coach, helps students achieve their potential.

‘Showing [students] that you care and will be there for them helps them succeed academically and emotionally,’ Brocksmith wrote.

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atalie Muldoon’s eighth grade daughter often quotes her own teachers, going as far back as prekintergarten. Her younger daughter has teachers who have helped her through tough challenges. It’s a reminder of how important a good teacher can be in a child’s life.

“These lessons can be life long,” Muldoon, an academic coach at Belle Terre Elementary School, wrote in a personal essay for her Teacher of the Year application. “I am inspired to be an educator that can motivate students like my daughters. I pray that they will continue to be positively impacted by amazing educators.”

Muldoon has been at Belle Terre Elementary for as long as it’s existed, since 2005, and taught at Indian Trails K-8 for a year before moving to Belle Terre. She taught in Fort Lauderdale for five years before moving to Flagler County, and is ESE-certified with endorsements for teaching

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gifted students and ESOL students.

Some years, as a classroom teacher, she taught gifted students and students with learning exceptionalities in the same classroom — an experience of which she’s particularly proud. “I was able to grow both populations of students,” she wrote.

Muldoon also takes pride in helping students grasp a subject that many children dread — math.

“I would say that my main strength is my true belief that everybody is a ‘math person,’” she wrote. “I believe students need to be told that they are good at math. They need to be

“I would say that my main strength is my true belief that everybody is a ‘math person.’ I believe students need to be told that they are good at math. They need to be allowed to explore and think about math.”

NATALIE MULDOON

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allowed to explore and think about math. They need to know that it is okay to make mistakes, and you don’t have to be fast at solving problems to be a mathematician.”

She takes on extra work, facilitating training sessions for other teachers and starting projects — like Operation S.O.S. (Supporting Our Soldiers), which collected donations in partnership with the VFW for service members; as well as science fairs and Math Olympics, among others.

“A great part about teaching is that there are always opportunities to take on other projects and adventures,” she wrote.

She’s strived throughout her career to be a leader.

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Brocksmith knows the importance of relationships.

“Growing up, I had severe asthma, and having educators that built a relationship with me it was important,” she wrote in an essay submitted as part of her Teacher of the Year application. “They showed they cared about me and would help if I missed school because I was sick. Now, being an educator myself, I know firsthand the importance of student relationships. I know showing them that you care and will be there for them helps them succeed academically and emotionally. I still keep in touch with numerous students post graduation.”

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“I was excited to have students participate in this program and see the positive impact it had on them academically, socially and emotionally,” she wrote. “Watching this impact that I helped create is part of my inspiration to keep this program going through the years.”

Counseling students is Brocksmith’s way of making a mark on the world, she wrote.

“As a school counselor, I believe that every student has the potential to achieve great things, and it is up to me to help them get there,” she wrote. “Whether a student needs academic counseling or emotional counseling, I support them through their emotional distress or academic bump. I teach my students to inspire themselves and others to leave a legacy in any area of their lives.”

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She’s helped implement the district’s Grad 100 credit recovery program, which helps students who are risk of failing a course get caught up. Since implementation, the graduation rate has improved: It was 81% in the 2016–2017 school year, and rose to 88% the following year and 92.3% in 2019-2020.

“I spend time with each student, helping them understand what they’re learning, answering questions about their current progress, starting additional courses, and listening intently when they feel distressed,” she wrote.

“I also encourage students, reminding them weekly that they can do this and will graduate.”

She also initiated iFlagler’s dual enrollment program to help students start an academic or vocational program while in high school.

“I advocated for this program because our iFlagler students are also part of Flagler County and need to have the same opportunities that all students have in the brickand-mortar schools,” she wrote. “College and career

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Teachers of the year

JESSIE BEAR Imagine School at Town Center

DAWN LORD Flagler Technical College

Bear’s ‘expressions of dedication and compassion for her students and their learning was clear and evident in the words she spoke, as well as everywhere you looked,’ a classroom observer wrote.

Lord’s health care students are often hired by FTC’s community partners as soon as their training is compete.

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legacy is what we leave behind that is notable. A teacher’s legacy is the impact instilled for love of learning; the compassion, fortitude, and inspiration to further one’s knowledge is one of the greatest legacies one can give.

It is with this mindset that Imagine School Town Center’s Teacher of the Year was chosen. Our 2021-2022 Teacher of the Year is Ms. Jessie Bear.

Debbie Keyser, the decision maker for our Teacher of the Year, summed it up with the following based upon her observation and experience: “Ms. Jessie Bear’s classroom (eighth grade English Language Arts) is warm and inviting, a haven for students to learn, meeting their basic need to feel accepted and safe.

“When speaking with Ms. Bear, her expressions of dedication and compassion for her students and their learning was clear and evident in the words she spoke, as well as everywhere you looked.

“Her classroom is arranged for student success, with the learning objectives and procedures with rubrics for work completion displayed.

“Using creative seating arrangements for student interaction, she is able to use her with-it-ness traveling about the class to assure that each student receives the understanding and justice they need for learning.

“Her lesson on the Civil Rights Movement explored the contributions and experiences of different individuals of those times advocating for social change in the novel titled: ‘Claudette Colvin: Twice Towards Justice.’

“Ms. Bear led the students into describing the feelings of injustice felt by others and this dialogue was heartfelt and authentic.

“Becoming an instrument for change, instilling qualities of virtue and character into the minds of students is just as nourishing for the mind as food is for the body.

“Ms. Bear’s commitment to her students’ learning and the passion she provides for her students’ academic and emotional growth is inspiring.”

Jessie Bear.

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“Ms. Jessie Bear’s classroom (eighth grade English Language Arts) is warm and inviting, a haven for students to learn, meeting their basic need to feel accepted and safe.”

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lagler Technical College Teacher of the Year Dawn Lord began teaching health care program students at FTC in April 2020, right as things were shutting down because of the pandemic and health care institutions were barring visitors.

But Lord, concerned about students’ ability to complete their programs, created a comprehensive plan to return students to the classroom in May — maintaining social distancing, mask wearing, proper hand hygiene and a strict requirement that anyone feeling ill stay home.

Clinical hours that would have been off-campus became simulated experiences that Lord led at the FTC campus.

“As a result, learning loss was minimized and program completion was minimally delayed,” Lord wrote in an essay for her Teacher of the Year application.

The guidelines she created were used to help bring other programs back on campus.

Lord began her Flagler Schools career as the nurse at Indian Trials Middle School in 2018 before shifting to FTC. At FTC, some of her students have almost no medical knowledge when they enter her classroom. Others are already working in healthcare. Her lessons must engage students at both ends of that range.

“All of these individuals share one goal: to better their lives by advancing themselves in a healthcare career,” she wrote.

For students with no health care background, “From the ground up, I help them build

“I help them build interpersonal and communication skills as well as clinical skills, all while explaining the rationale behind the techniques.”

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interpersonal and communication skills as well as clinical skills, all while explaining the rationale behind the techniques,” she wrote.

Some students enter the phlebotomy course with needle phobias as well as concerns about hurting a patient.

But simulated practice leaves them ready for careers, and many are quickly hired by FTC’s community partners, she wrote.

“This is a testament to the dedication the students have,” Lord wrote.

Students studying to become nursing assistants and patient care technicians are often hired as soon as their training is compete — sometimes even before they’ve been able to become certified.

“In teaching the next generation of medical workers, it is imperative to pass along the enthusiasm and passion that you have for providing medical care to the community,” she wrote. “Watching students learn and embrace the art of caring for others is inspiring because I know the impact they will have on those they will care for in the community.”

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Condos Michael and Donna Sandoval, of Providence, Rhode Island, sold 80 Surfview Drive, Unit 621, to Terry Vereen, as trustee, for $530,000.

Built in 2003, the condo is a 3/2.5 and has 1,640 square feet. It sold in 2013 for $287,500.

Gary and Pamela Hardesty, of Palm Coast, sold 42 Captains Walk, Unit 42, to John Beckman Jr. and Shawn CoxBeckman, of Marco Island, for $395,000. Built in 1989, the condo is a 2/2.5 and has 1,565 square feet. It sold in 2002 for $188,000.

Donna Comerci-Mezzo, of Palm Coast, for $303,490.

Built in 2021, the house is a 4/2 and has 2,044 square feet.

James and Susanne Chirco, of Palm Coast, sold 38 Presidential Lane to Fredric and Debra Bedard, of Palm Coast, for $295,000. Built in 2000, the house is a 3/2 and has 1,642 square feet.

Grand Reserve and Golf Club D.R. Horton Inc. Jacksonville, of St. Johns, sold 85 Birdie Way to Allen Eichhorn, of Bunnell, for $326,990.

Built in 2021, the house is a 3/2 and has 1,585 square feet.

Joseph Sullivan, of Royal Oaks, California, sold 9 Mid Oaks Circle, Unit 9, to Juan Munoz, of Glen Allen, Virginia, for $173,500. Built in 1980, the condo is a 3/2 and has 1,163 square feet. It sold in 1990 for $62,000.

Indian Trails Millicent, Fitzroy, Lavern and Joy Harris, of London, United Kingdom, sold 41 Barbera Lane to Julieta Marcano, of Palm Coast, for $240,000.

Built in 1992, the house is a 3/2 and has 1,471 square feet.

It sold in 1992 for $88,300.

Atlanta Beach Gregory and Annette Pusateri, of Starke, sold 2620 Central Ave. S. to Aaron and Kelly Hudson, of Greer, South Carolina, for $552,500.

Built in 1993, the house is a 2/2 and has 1,638 square feet.

It sold in 2013 for $295,000.

Lehigh Woods Vincenzo Romano, individually and as trustee, sold 1 Rae Drive to John and Jeanne Spurr, of Redding, California, for $435,000. Built in 2001, the house is a 3/3 and has a fireplace and 3,380 square feet.

Beach Haven Rene and Shohreh Fontaine, of Palm Coast, sold 28 Hidden Treasure Drive to James and Tracey Sheppard, as trustees, for $615,000. Built in 2018, the house is a 4/2 and has 2,301 square feet. It sold in 2019 for $485,000.

Brite Properties of Florida LLC, of Orlando, sold 41 Rolling Fern Drive to Brenda Lagocki, of Palm Coast, for $325,000. Built in 2021, the house is a 4/2 and has 1,779 square feet.

Belle Terre Holiday Builders Inc., of Melbourne, sold 34 Palmer Lane to James Mezzo Jr. and

WJHFL LLC, of Greensboro, North Carolina, sold 11 Richel Place to Asmeda Perez, of Palm Coast, for $275,990.

Built in 2021, the house is a 4/2 and has 1,650 square feet.

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Holiday Builders Inc., of Melbourne, sold 11 Rolling Place to Nancy Burnett, of Palm Coast, for $262,990.

Built in 2021, the house is a 3/2 and has 1,552 square feet.

Matanzas Woods Jocelyn Bien-Aime, of Miami, sold 13 Lee Drive to Michael Morrison, of Palm Coast, for $431,900. Built in 2006, the house is a 4/2.5 and has a swimming pool and 2,420 square feet.

Palm Harbor Alice Dralle, individually and as trustee, sold 12 Cedarford Court to Kit Burns and Shawn Huenniger, of Palm Coast, for $460,000. Built in 1989, the house is a 3/2 and has 1,597 square feet.

of Palm Coast, for $363,000.

Built in 1991, the house is a 3/3.5 and has a swimming pool and 2,991 square feet. It sold in 1992 for $240,000.

Pine Lakes Patrick Slattery Jr., of Palm Coast, sold 51 Woodward Lane to Denise Duez and Theresa Belmont, of Palm Coast, for $387,000. Built in 1999, the house is a 3/2 and has a swimming pool and 1,809 square feet. It sold in 2016 for $180,000.

Palma Vista Gregg Humphrey and Robin Humphrey sold 1009 N. Daytona Ave. to James and Brenda Kelling, of Flagler

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Beach, for $895,000. Built in 1998, the house is a 4/2/2 and has a swimming pool, shared dock and 3,150 square feet.

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Pine Grove D.R. Horton Inc. Jacksonville, of St. Johns, sold 31 Post Oak Lane to Thomas and Mary Kipp, of Palm Coast, for $307,635. Built in 2021, the house is a 4/2 and has

Lee Huang, of Bronxville, New York, sold 112 Westgrill Drive to James and Jamie Banta, of Palm Coast, for $272,000. Built in 1986, the house is a 3/2 and has 1,800 square feet. It sold in 1986 for $95,700.

Seminole Woods Mona Dunphy sold 4 Sled Court to Elizabeth and Braden Darkins, of Palm Coast, for $308,000. Built in 2013, the house is a 3/2 and has 1,786 square feet. It sold

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Mark and Cheri Fort, of Manlius, New York, sold 11 Felter Lane to Rafael Mangual and Monique Ramos, of Palm Coast, for $342,500.

Built in 1976, the house is a 3/2 and has a swimming pool and 1,987 square feet. It sold in 1992 for $30,000.

Marsha Brown and Stacey Burton, of Manassas, Virginia, sold 6 Freemont Court to Elias Ocasio, of Delray Beach, for $285,000. Built in 2002, the house is a 4/2 and has 1,964 square feet.

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RH Asset Holdings LLC, of Orlando, sold 11 Sleepy Hollow Trail to Josey and Irene Papoula, of Fall River, Massachusetts, for $269,150. Built in 2021, the house is a 3/2 and has 1,500 square feet.

Toscana David Hatcher sold 32 New Water Oak Drive to Myung and Gum Hyun, of Marysville, Ohio, for $765,000.

Built in 2020, the house is a 4/3 and has 2,632 square feet.

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