Palm Coast Observer 12-9-21

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VOLUME 12, NO. 45

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2021

Book stays off shelves — for now ‘Age-appropriate locations for sensitive matters in school buildings’ will be discussed next, Mittelstadt says. PAGE 3

‘Educational’ added to ‘Equity’ goal

Early ending

School Board’s Woolbright suggested the term defined

by Florida statutes.

BRENT WORONOFF STAFF WRITER

The word equity is back in the school district’s proposed Strategic Plan, this time with an asterisk.

At a Nov. 2 workshop, the School Board agreed to change the title of Goal 2 in the plan from “Equity” to SEE STRATEGIC PAGE 3

INSIDE COST OF GROWTH

Flagler County passes new impact fees PAGE 2

Car fire halts Flagler Beach parade. Fortunately, firefighters were already on the scene — they were in the parade themselves.

COVID ‘TEST’?

BRIAN MCMILLAN

Councilman objects after city’s email phishing test asks about COVID vaccination status PAGE 4

EXECUTIVE EDITOR

A car in the Holiday at the Beach Parade caught fire, halting the annual event on Dec. 4, not far from the Golden Lion, in Flagler Beach.

Fortunately, firefighters were already on the scene — they were in the parade themselves.

Heat from the car fire also temporarily threatened a nearby structure, according to Flagler Beach Fire Chief Bobby Pace.

Joining the Flagler Beach firefighters were others from Flagler County Fire Rescue. Pace said that Stations 11, 92 and Lt. Morgan Rainey led the effort.

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When the budget doesn’t add up: Fair teaches FPC students real-life financial lessons PAGE 11

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“That’s a mistake people make: They get their kids involved in music or art, and they don’t struggle to get them through that valley, so they can get to the concert and get to the mountaintop experience.”

“For them to navigate through this crowd and get a knock down on this vehicle the way they did in just moments’ time is just phenomenal,” Pace said. “They did an excellent job.

People could have been hurt. It was a lot of hazard and a lot of risk here, and they were on top of it. I couldn’t be prouder of them.”

No one was injured.

Denise Calderwood was in the crowd near the Golden Lion when the car caught fire.

“It was scary,” she recalled. “People didn’t know what was going on, and then you saw the black smoke, and we had to get people out of there, and there was no place for anybody to go.”

Soccer stunner

FPC dominates

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FPC halts St. Johns Country Day’s 44-game win streak BRENT WORONOFF STAFF WRITER

How shocking was Flagler Palm Coast’s 2-1 girls soccer win over St. Johns Country Day? The Spartans have won 10 consecutive state championships. United Soccer Coaches selected them No. 1 in the nation in its 2021 seasonending poll.

Before the Dec. 3 game, they were ranked No. 5 nationally by MaxPreps.

And they came into Sal Campanella Stadium riding a 44-game winning streak.

The streak is now history. The Bulldogs, who have battled injuries

AMELIA FULMER, Flagler Auditorium Director

INDEX

Briefs..................... PAGE 8 Business...............PAGE 18 Cops Corner.......... PAGE 8 Letters................... PAGE 6 Real Estate...........PAGE 19 Your Town.............. PAGE 2 Veterans................ PAGE 6

Photos by Jake Montgomery

Karl Knighten Jr. (11) takes it in for a layup

Photo by Jake Montgomery

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MORE THAN 60 BOATS SET PARADE RECORD An unprecedented 61 boats will participate in the 2021 Palm Coast Holiday Boat Parade, which begins at 6 p.m. on Dec. 18.

Dec. 18 was named “Palm Coast Holiday Boat Parade Day” in a proclamation issued by Mayor David Alfin at the Dec. 7 City Council meeting.

This year’s parade will be dedicated to the memory of former Mayor Jon Netts, who died in 2021.

County OKs impact fees

Netts, an avid boater, served as the city’s second mayor for two terms and as a city councilman for two terms. He was known for his encyclopedic knowledge of the Intracoastal and the city’s waterways, and for his support of the parade.

A live broadcast of the parade on KOOL-FM 100.9 will be co-hosted by Priscilla Netts.

Waterfront Park will be open for parking.

The fees would start at about $3,100 combined for a singlefamily residence.

JONATHAN SIMMONS NEWS EDITOR

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The Flagler County Commission voted 4-1 on Dec. 6 to add new impact fees and end a moratorium on others.

Commissioner Andy Dance was the dissenting vote: He’d wanted more time to review the proposed ordinance and hear public input and had proposed tabling it instead.

Impact fees are one-time fees paid by developers to offset growth’s impacts on public infrastructure and services. The increase will raise the cost of constructing new housing.

“Your impact fees are not covering everything,” Growth Management Director Adam Mengel told commissioners at a Dec. 6 meeting before explaining the proposed increases. “They’re covering a good bit of that new growth; they’re not covering it all.”

The county’s existing transportation impact fee, currently $1,438 for a single-family home, has been under a moratorium, but the County Commission voted Dec. 6 for an ordinance that would end the moratorium and increase the fee to $1,502, effective March 15, with annual increases planned for the following two years.

The county’s existing parks and recreational facilities fee will also rise, while the county will implement impact fees for five new categories: Law Enforcement, Fire Rescue, Emergency Medical Services, and Library. Those would stay flat through 2024.

Greg Blosé, president and CEO of the Palm CoastFlagler Regional Chamber of Commerce, said the chamber had worked with staff to ensure that the numbers in the new impact fee ordinance make sense.

“Flagler County needs to have its infrastructure in place for when new population continues to come here,” he said, “and I feel confident that what’s in front of you today does that.”

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Before anyone suspected that a car might catch fire at the end of the parade, Santa made his trademark entry into Flagler County — by parachute — on Dec. 4.

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SINGLE-FAMILY (DETACHED) IMPACT FEES EFFECTIVE IN MARCH 0F 2022: Transportation $1,502 Parks and recreational facilities: $304 Law Enforcement: $218 Fire Rescue: $738 EMS: $62 Library: $268 TOTAL: $3,092

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EFFECTIVE IN MARCH OF 2024: Transportation $1,599 Parks and recreational facilities: $371 Law Enforcement: $ 218 Fire Rescue: $738 EMS: $62 Library: $268 TOTAL: $3,256

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Superintendent keeps controversial book off the shelves for now As the School Board awaits new procedures, three of the four books in the complaint will be available.

BRENT WORONOFF STAFF WRITER

The book that has caused so much controversy in Flagler County and around the country will remain off school district library shelves. At least for now.

Flagler Schools Superintendent Cathy Mittelstadt announced on Dec. 7 that “All Boys Aren’t Blue” will not be returning to the district’s two high school media centers, pending new district procedures that are in the works on how to “access materials that may be sensitive in nature,” Mittelstadt said in a press release.

However, the other books listed in School Board member Jill Woolbright’s complaint will return to the shelves, Mittelstadt said.

At a School Board agenda workshop later in the day, Mittelstadt said the other three books — “The Hate U Give,” “Speak” and “Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You” — have been in circulation for a number of years, and teachers use them in the classroom.

Mittelstadt made her decisions on the four books after a district media review committee for secondary schools, led by LaShakia Moore, the district’s director of teaching

and learning, released its report in response to Woolbright’s complaint.

The committee recommended all four books return to the shelves, determining they are all “appropriate for use and should be retained as a resource available to teachers and students in our high school media centers.”

For “All Boys Aren’t Blue,” which was published last year, the committee recommended that before the book is returned to media centers, an opt-out process is communicated to families.

But Mittelstadt decided to keep the book out of schools until new procedures are in place. Moore and her team are expected to present their proposed procedures and protocols at an information workshop on Dec. 14.

Woolbright, who filed a criminal complaint to investigate “All Boys Aren’t Blue,” applauded Mittelstadt’s decision. But School Board member Janet McDonald asked that all four books be kept off the shelves until new procedures are put in place.

“In meantime, please remove those from the schools,” McDonald said. “We need to not put them back.

They’re still under consideration. It’s a nationwide issue. We need to make sure we are abiding by all the state statutes (regarding parental rights).”

Mittelstadt would not backtrack.

“I have put forth my decision on this matter,” she said, adding that if the board wants to appeal her decision, it has the power to do so.

None of the board members proposed an appeal.

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“The author has made public comments as to the age-appropriateness of this book, is 10th, 11th, and 12th grade. Our high schools are 9th through 12th grade. So we would need to create a procedure within our school media centers that have age-appropriate locations for sensitive matters within our school buildings. We can achieve that and we will.”

CATHY MITTELSTADT, superintendent

Mittelstadt praised the committee’s review of the four books in accordance with board policy.

“I thank LaShakia Moore, the parents who volunteered to be a part of this process, and our district staff. I reviewed their recommendation and used that in my final decision,” Mittelstadt said in the press release.

At the workshop, Mittelstadt stressed that she does not have final approval to ban a book. She said it’s

important for the school district to improve procedures to inform parents and train media center staff, and that Moore’s team began working on the protocols “long before” Woolbright’s complaint.

“I want to make sure we do this right,” she said.

In her complaint, Woolbright asked that “All Boys Aren’t Blue,” a sexually explicit memoir by George M. Johnson on growing up Black and

queer, be removed from schools. She said she asked the district to look at the three other books because they were on “Project LIT’s list of edgy books.”

“It was never about those books,” Woolbright said. “It was about ‘All Boys Aren’t Blue,’ and I applaud the decision. ... It’s a win-win for everybody. The county gets procedures that are going to satisfy all parents and all students.”

WOOLBRIGHT SAYS SHE FILED COMPLAINT ABOUT BLACK LGBT MEMOIR ‘ALL BOYS AREN’T BLUE’ TO SUPPORT PARENTS’ RIGHTS School Board member Jill Woolbright says she filed a Sheriff’s Office complaint about the presence of the memoir “All Boys Aren’t Blue” in school media centers because it contains graphic sexual content and she believes parents should have a choice about whether their children have access to it — not because the book’s author, George M Johnson, is Black and queer.

“I don’t care about the race of anyone or their sexual identity, that isn’t the issue; it’s the graphic detail,” she said.

“Parents do have rights in

Jill Woolbright.

the state of Florida,” she added.

“Families need to know what we’re teaching and what materials we’re using in Flagler County schools ... and then they can make choices accordingly: They can decide how they want to raise their children and where to put their children in school or even give the opportunity to opt their children out of certain things in our school system.”

Woolbright had initially complained about the book to Superintendent Cathy Mittelstadt, prompting district staff to remove the book and several others Woolbright had mentioned from school media centers — “All Boys Aren’t Blue” had been at Flagler Palm Coast High School, Matanzas High School and Buddy Taylor Middle School — to conduct a review.

But, saying she was dissatisfied that Mittelstadt hadn’t informed other School Board members, Woolbright then went to the Sheriff’s Office, stating she

believed the book’s presence in media centers violated the state law on obscenity.

The Sheriff’s Office looked into Woolbright’s complaint and found no crime. (“This complaint does not rise to the level of criminal activity,” Sheriff Rick Staly said in a news release.)

On the radio program, Woolbright said she hadn’t filed the complaint to get district media center staff in legal trouble.

“That’s not the point,” she said.

“The point is, we need to improve our processes, we need to improve our policy, we need to have direction on how to approve how books get in the media center, and ... to make sure that they are put in media centers that are age-appropriate. ... There need to be guidelines, policies and procedures, and transparency about how all that is taken care of in our district.”

— JONATHAN SIMMONS

McDonald defies SAT rules No denouncing ‘bad actors’ Strategic Plan adds ‘educational’

As students checked in for the exam at Matanzas High, the School Board member told testing staff that students did not have to wear masks.

BRENT WORONOFF STAFF WRITER

School Board member Janet McDonald said she was assured last year that students taking the SAT in Flagler County would have a choice to wear a mask or not during the three-hour college admission exam.

She said she was “shocked to hear at the last minute” that masks would be required by all students taking the exam at Matanzas High School on Saturday morning, Dec. 4.

McDonald said after a Flagler Schools administrator told her students taking the test would have a choice and then hearing from students that they were told that wouldn’t be the case, she went to the school during the test’s checkin and told coordinators and proctors that the students do not have to wear masks.

The SAT is administered by the College Board, a nonprofit organization founded in 1900.

According to the health and safety requirements listed on collegeboard. org, the College Board requires all students and staff to wear a mask at check-in and during SAT testing.

Students must also sit 3 feet apart during the test.

The requirements go on to say that “students who violate the requirements put in place by their test center or College Board should be dismissed from the test center; if this happens, their scores will be canceled, and they won’t receive a refund.”

In a phone interview Dec. 5, McDonald said masks can hinder students’ performance during the test, and they shouldn’t be required to wear them.

“We in Florida have choice,” she said. “No masks are required anywhere. We don’t ask our athletes to wear masks during high-stakes events, or even during practice. We should not be masking our students when they are taking a high-stakes exam.”

Corinne Schaefer, the College Board’s assistant coordinator for the

‘It’s not organized by us.

There were bad actors all over,’ board member Janet McDonald said.

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Janet McDonald

STAFF WRITER

Saturday SAT tests at Matanzas, said McDonald remained at check-in up until the start of the test when the doors were closed.

“I stayed until the start of the session. Then I did leave,” McDonald confirmed.

Schaefer’s husband, Jeremy Schaefer, is the College Board’s coordinator for the SATs at Matanzas. They are both Flagler County teachers. Corinne Schaefer said most of the students did not wear masks during the exam after listening to McDonald’s remarks at check-in.

“I would say 70 to 80% did not wear masks,” she said.

She said the testing staff contacted the College Board as well as school and district administrators inquiring what to do.

“The College Board said we had to tell (the students) to put masks on, but not to disrupt the test at that point or to kick anybody out. Just to make sure the kids had a good environment to test in.”

McDonald said her concern is based on science that shows masks interfere with oxygen flow that would potentially hinder students from performing at their best during the test.

“Masks don’t work,” she said. “All they do is limit oxygen. We know it’s just a control feature.”

But Stephen Bickel, the medical director for the Florida Department of Health in Flagler County, said masks do not pose a health risk.

“There are a lot of issues about masks you can debate, but health problems are not one of them,” he said. “Studies show a minimal change with carbon dioxide, but not with oxygen levels. And it’s so minimal. Why would surgeons wear masks if they hinders their performance? The idea that they’re harmful is farcical.”

Dr. Bickel also said that while there is a debate on how effective masks are in preventing COVID-19, “I don’t know one doctor not driven ideologically who think masks don’t work at all.”

School Board Vice Chair Colleen Conklin thought on Dec. 7 that the board could come together and issue a declaration denouncing hate group activity inside and outside board meetings.

Apparently, she was wrong.

Board member Cheryl Massaro said she was very concerned about protests outside of the Government Services Building during the Nov. 16 School Board meeting in which protesters — some dressed in militia garb — who were seeking to ban the book, “All Boys Aren’t Blue,” from school media centers, clashed with students protesting book removals.

Massaro said many of the demonstrators were not Flagler County residents, but outsiders who were told to come to the meeting.

Conklin suggested a joint statement denouncing the behavior.

But board member Janet McDonald objected. “It’s not organized by us,” McDonald said. “There were bad actors all over. Everyone has a right to behave within the manner of their demonstrations.”

Conklin said multiple videos showed that hate crimes were committed.

“As a board, we haven’t been collegial to each other,” McDonald said.

“Part of what happened outside has been reflective of what’s been happening inside. If we model our best behavior, then we have the right to say anything. But if we’re not dem-

Photo by Brent Woronoff

Colleen Conklin looks at staff presentation materials at the Dec. 7 School Board workshop.

onstrating it, then (we don’t have that right).”

Conklin said she agrees the board sets the tone.

“This has been three months of national news, stories, distractions that have very little to do with education. We set the tone and we have been nothing but a distraction to the school district,” she said.

She was disappointed that the board couldn’t even stand together to state that hate groups will not be tolerated at School Board meetings.

“It’s subjective,” McDonald said.

“It’s your perception.”

McDonald said the demonstrations appeared to be staged in video clips.

“Have you watched the videos, Janet?” Conklin asked.

Agreeing with McDonald, board member Janet Woolbright said, “I think we cannot make assumptions on who those people are.”

The board did decide to no longer read virtual comments at School Board meetings, although since this was a workshop, no formal votes could be taken.

The reading of the virtual comments began in the early days of the pandemic when the meetings themselves were virtual. But there was also disagreement on this issue.

“A number of people frankly don’t feel safe to attend our meetings,” Conklin said. “Our School Board meetings have been a circus the last three months. And people are sharing they don’t feel safe, whether it’s because of COVID of because of the environment.”

In a live public comment at the Dec. 7 workshop, Angela Pascucci agreed with Conklin.

“These meetings do not feel safe,” she said. “I was subjected to two hours of angry armed militia in my face (at the Nov. 16 board meeting), and that was nothing compared to what these kids went through. I hope you will consider leaving virtual comments.”

In other news, the board agrees to allow Superintendent Cathy Mittelstadt and staff to meet with Flagler County staff and the Flagler County Homebuilder’s Association, as requested by the HBA, regarding the district’s impact fee proposal.Mittelstadt said it would be just to have a conversation, because she does not have the authority to make a decision on changing the district’s proposal which would double impact fees on single-family homes.

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“Student Supports,” leaving the goal itself intact, which is to “increase access for all students to a highquality educational experience,” according to the plan’s “At a Glance” page.

“This goal aims to address the uniqueness of each student and reduce the challenges and barriers that impact student success,” the plan states.

Board member Cheryl Massaro, who provided the third vote to substitute Student Supports for Equity, said she changed her mind after hearing community complaints.

At the Dec. 7 agenda workshop, board member Jill Woolbright suggested an alternative: using the term “Educational Equity,” as defined

by Florida statutes.

The board agreed to the new title and will list the statutes after the goal’s text.

Bobby Bossardet, the district’s assistant superintendent for academic services, discussed the difference between equity and equality.

“Treating everybody equal doesn’t always end up in equal outcomes,” he said. “We believe equity gives all our students the opportunity to achieve equal success. That was the reason why (the goal) was presented to you with the word equity.”

Board member Janet McDonald was not in favor of returning the word to the title.

“Our hearts are all in the same place,” she said. “And if we let one word interrupt with our vision, we are all losing.”

Woolbright, who originally suggested taking the word out of the plan because of pushback from some community members, said a parents group that initially objected to the word’s usage would be satisfied if it was defined by state statutes.

Superintendent Cathy Mittelstadt said if the board wants to put in a disclaimer, it should add an asterisk to the new title of “Educational Equity,” and list the statutes on the bottom of the page to not “muddy up” the title.

The board agreed to change the draft, with McDonald dissenting.

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Palm Coast to seek private Danko objects after email phishing firm for city manager search test asks about COVID vaccination

JONATHAN SIMMONS NEWS EDITOR

Palm Coast received 86 resumes after city staff posted the city’s vacant city manager position on career websites.

But many of those people had no relevant experience, and of the six people the City Council shortlisted for interviews, three have dropped out.

Concerned about the dearth of qualified applicants, the City Council decided in a 3-2 vote at a Dec. 7 council meeting to begin the process of hiring an executive search firm to expand the existing applicant pool. The council directed city staff to start seek bids from search firms.

Palm Coast City Councilman Nick Klufas made the proposal that Palm Coast bring in outside help, saying he’d been concerned by the relative lack of experience among the people who’d applied.

Klufas said he’d become alarmed when the council’s initial process of ranking candidates hadn’t shown that any had the support of all five City Council members.

“I was a little distressed that we didn’t have any candidate that received five nominations from the council,” Klufas told the Palm Coast Observer on Dec. 3. “That was the really eye-popping moment for me, when I realized that we couldn’t even agree upon who we thought would be qualified for this position.”

At the meeting Dec. 7, Councilman Ed Danko and Councilman Victor Barbosa resisted, saying the city should proceed with the city staff-led process it had chosen during a previous meeting.

“We made the decision

The 86 resumes received included only a handful with experience as city or county managers in communities as large as Palm Coast.

unanimously to conduct this process,” Danko said. “... I would suggest that, perhaps, we go through the interview process ... before we make any other decisions. And if we’re not satisfied after that, then we certainly have the ability to go in a different direction.”

The council had previously considered hiring a search firm, but decided instead to have city staff handle the search.

The 86 resumes received included many people who had no experience in municipal government — teachers, salespeople, police officers and bakers, among others — while only a handful had experience as city or county managers in communities as large as Palm Coast.

Mayor David Alfin, noting the applicant pools’ relative lack of experience, had mentioned in previous press interviews that it may be worth hiring a search firm if the council can’t agree on a candidate.

He said so again at the Dec. 7 meeting, saying he’d met with Florida League of Cities experts who’d said that Palm Coast’s process for seeking a new manager had procedural flaws — they said Palm Coast should have developed a firmer list of qualifications, Alfin said — and that the advertised salary of $140,000 (depending on qualifications) was likely too low to attract the best candidates.

“They advised me that we did miss the mark on salary,” Alfin said. “... That leads me to believe that ... we may not have been given the opportunity to review all of the best of the best candidates that might be available.”

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IT departments sometimes try to trick their organizations’ non-tech staff members: To improve awareness of fishing attempts, the department may send a mock phishing email to organization employees to see who’s unwary enough to click an embedded link.

The city of Palm Coast’s IT department did that this week, sending out an email telling recipients that the county had new requirements for tracking COVID vaccinations, and that recipients must click a link to complete a form.

City Councilman Ed Danko thought the test inappropriate.

“Under the circumstances and present environment, in my opinion this is an unacceptable test on the part of our IT department,” Danko wrote in an email to Interim City Manager Denise Bevan. “Using the county as an excuse makes this even worse.

There are a lot better ways to run a phishing test than using

Covid vaccination requirements as an excuse. This illadvised exercise only adds to the lack of trust of government by the public.”

The email was sent from a city HR department email address to recipients with a city government email account.

It cited “new and strict requirements from the county with regards to tracking Covid vaccinations” and stated, “All employees are required to complete the Covid vaccinations form and return it to HR as soon as possible,” with instructions to complete the form by the end of the day. A link followed.

Danko had asked city staff if the email was spam, and, after being told that it was, suggested that the IT Department inform other staff members know so that they wouldn’t click the link.

IT Director Doug Akins replied that IT would typically do so, but then explained that the email had actually been initiated by IT. People who clicked the link were taken to a page with text stating that the email was a test and explaining how to identify phishing emails.

The email was sent through a third-party software service and was designed to teach recipients about cyber security and help protect the city’s infrastructure, Akins said in a statement emailed to the Palm Coast Observer.

“The email is meant to be enticing and attractive in

“There are a lot better ways to run a phishing test than using COVID vaccination requirements as an excuse.”

ED DANKO, city councilman

“Phishing emails often create a sense of urgency to try and get recipients to take the desired action, and our simulation is in an attempt to recreate this experience.”

DOUG AKINS, city of Palm Coast IT director

order to prompt the end-user to make a decision on whether or not to click on the link,” he said. “... The goal is to help us understand where we may need to do a better job at training employees on how to recognize when an email may be a phishing or virus attempt.”

The third-party software company, called KnowBe4, offers a library of phishing test email topics for clients to choose from, city Director of Public Information & Engagement Brittany Kershaw said.

The test email didn’t send properly — landing in about 200 inboxes rather than all city emails accounts’ inboxes — so the city canceled the test and therefore did not receive data on what percentage of recipients had clicked the link, Kershaw said.

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City acquires Palm Harbor driving range property

JONATHAN SIMMONS NEWS EDITOR

City approves annexation of parcel off U.S. 1 The Palm Coast City Council voted 5-0 at its Dec. 7 meeting to annex into the city a 30-acre parcel of land off U.S. 1 at the western terminus of Whiteview Parkway.

The land, owned by the WAM Group Inc., was in the city of Palm Coast’s Utility Service Area — property that was not in city boundaries and would need to be annexed into the city in order to access city utility services.

The owner requested the annexation.

City to use grant to support car parts company Palm Cast will use a Recapture Enhanced Value Grant to support a car restoration supply company that is moving to a 70,000-square-foot-building at 2 Commerce Parkway.

Under the terms of the grant, the city will give the company, called Ground Up Inc., a 75% tax break for five years if it meets predetermined benchmarks, including creating and maintaining 25 jobs at the Palm Coast location.

The city will now own the range outright.

When Palm Coast bought the Palm Harbor Golf Course in 2008, one important element was missing: the driving range.

The course’s former owner, Centex Destination Properties, had retained that portion of the property and was proposing to build homes on it. That would have significantly degraded the functionality of the range. But a new owner, JDI Palm Coast LLC, bought the land from Centex in 2016, and has now agreed to donate it to the city of Palm Coast, protecting the driving range.

“This is probably the city’s best holiday gift that I can remember in a very long time,” Mayor David Alfin said at a Dec. 7 City Council meeting shortly before the council voted unanimously to accept the donation.

Alfin said that 52,463 rounds of golf were played at the Palm Harbor Harbor Golf Course last year — a course record — and that the course is on track to surpass that number this year. In the 2021 fiscal year, he added, the course brought in $1,404,882 in revenue.

“That’s a significant number for a revenue-producing amenity,” Alfin said. “We just celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Palm Harbor Golf Course, which make it significantly

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“This is probably the city’s best holiday gift that I can remember in a very long time. ... Not only is it a good deal, it is about as near and dear to us as anything could be.”

DAVID ALFIN, Palm Coast mayor

older than the incorporated city of Palm Coast. So not only is it a good deal, it is about as near and dear to us as anything could be.”

City Councilman Eddie Branquinho said he’d met repeatedly with the course’s owners and had lost many night of sleep over the property’s future.

“This golf course basically is useless without that driving range. ... We had an expert come here, coming up with ideas just in case we couldn’t get that range,” Branquinho said.

Now that the city will acquire the range, he said, “My heart is full of joy, and I think this is going to be some Christmas present to the city.”

The Palm Harbor course was Palm Coast’s first, designed by Bill Amick for ITT Corporation and opened in 1973, decades before Palm Coast’s incorporation as a city.

It was the home course of Hall of

Fame golfer Nancy Lopez.

Centex bought it in 2005 and approached Nicklaus Design about reconstructing the course, but abandoned those plans and closed the course during the economic downturn.

The city bought about 144 acres of the 160-acre course in 2008, leaving Centex with the 16 acres that included the driving range and leading to years of back and forth between the city and Centex, and later JDI, over the property’s future as the owners proposed building condos or townhomes on the property.

The city renovated the course and reopened it in 2009, and JDI bought the driving range land in 2016.

This year, JDI decided to donate the remainder of the course property to the city for federal tax relief.

Alfin noted that city staff, and particularly Palm Coast Chief Development Officer Jason DeLorenzo, have been working to protect the driving range for years.

“Projects like this are in fact going on behind the scenes — there is a machine running all the time, and this is the kind of thing that our city staff is able to bring to conclusion, cross the finish line, to the benefit of all of us in the city,” Alfin said.

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Fire Department adds equipment to protect staff from particulaterelated cancers Palm Coast’s fire fighters will have a new way to help keep themselves safe on the job: The city is buying a device to remove potentially cancercausing particulate material from firefighters’ bunker gear.

The device is called an extractor and functions much like an advanced washing machine.

“It takes particulates ... created from combustion from house fires and vehicle fires, and then extracts it out,” Fire Chief Jerry Forte said at a Dec. 7 City Council meeting.

“We wash the bunker gear, and once it’s decontaminated it is dried .... and then put back on the truck. This is a major component of our initiative for cancer awareness and cancer reduction in the fire service. ... It keeps all of the particulates out of the cab when the firefighters are driving to calls.”

The extractor will cost up to $7,499, and the city is using a Cancer Decontamination Grant to pay for 75% of the cost. The rest will come from the Fire Department’s 2022 operating budget.

The city has extractors at Station 25 and Station 24, and this new one will be at Station 21. That will place extractors within 5 miles of any city fire station, Forte said. The city hopes to have extractors at every station within five years.

“It takes particulates ... created from combustion from house fires and vehicle fires, and then extracts it out.”

JERRY FORTE, fire chief

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Q + A AMELIA FULMER, FLAGLER AUDITORIUM DIRECTOR

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Queen of ‘GRIT’ they bear their soul to you.

You don’t feel that when you’re watching television.

And it’s also a great way to see your friends.

BRIAN MCMILLAN EXECUTIVE EDITOR

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melia Fulmer was a music teacher for 31 years in Flagler Schools before she saw an opportunity: The Flagler Auditorium, which was an integral part of her students’ art experience during her teaching her career, was hiring a new director. She thought that if she could make the transition, which she did, she could be an even stronger advocate for all the arts in Flagler Schools and the community.

She spoke with the Observer on Dec. 3 about what’s changed in teaching, about creating a playlist of visiting performers’ music, and how to get your kids excited about the arts.

With all you do for the Auditorium, do you ever actually get to watch the shows?

I usually watch the shows. And if I’m lucky, sometimes I get to watch the sound checks in the rehearsals. I do so much studying for the shows.

We have Darlene Love, so I’ve been studying all the movies she’s been in and I’m learning her music and I have her on my playlist and when I go for my walks in the morning, I’m learning all the words to the songs.

That way I’ll enjoy it a lot better when they come. (For Love tickets, visit https://flaglerauditorium. org/.)

On Dec. 11, Darlene Love, a Grammy-winner and Rock and Roll Hall-of-Famer, is performing.

Why is this show a big deal for the Auditorium?

Darlene Love, being a headliner, is fairly expensive. And she also requires a lot of backline, which means a lot of instruments that we have to rent in this Christmas show.

She wants big bells and chimes.

She’s bringing 16 performers, her full band, and she has backup singers that really know what they’re doing. Darlene Love was a backup singer for Elvis and Sam Cooke, and she sang with Cher, she sang with Bette Midler, she sang with Bruce Springsteen. Everybody in her entourage is perfect, and they’re going to bring it; they wouldn’t be there if they weren’t fantastic.

LETTERS Extreme candidates abound in Flagler Dear Editor: Why, with a county population of over 115,000, do we have such difficulty attracting quality candidates for public office – candidates who are not ultra-partisan, who are not extremists, who don’t have questionable pasts, who value public service more than their own selfservicing causes?

We are saddled with at least five characters in city and county public office who are problematic for various reasons, with some running for re-election.

Victor Barbosa, who will vacate his City Council seat to run for County Commission, was weak on credentials to begin with, and has displayed his self-serving interests and a lack of decorum in council meetings. And very importantly, Barbosa has a Costa Rica criminal mystery that is in dire need of further understanding.

Then there’s Joe Mullins, the consummate divisive politician who has advanced unwelcome controversy during his time as a Flagler County commissioner. His questionable past includes a racketeering allegation. Now he’s making a run at re-election.

Janet McDonald, a School Board member, is a champion of wild conspiracy theories. It’s frightening that she has been tasked with the educational needs of our school kids, having regularly thrown science and rational thinking to the wind.

Jill Woolbright, vying for another School Board term, and in a similar extremist category as Janet McDonald, has been on a recent book banning mission, interjecting her cultural bias and political leanings into what books she thinks students should be allowed to read. She actually filed a criminal complaint to get the book removed. The sheriff seemed none too pleased with her performance.

City Councilman Ed Danko, we

You’ve been involved in schools for decades. What has changed since you were a new teacher?

Communication is not what it used to be. I think it’s very difficult for teachers to find the time to build relationships with parents, because teachers are busier than they used to be. You have a lot of parents that work two jobs and they don’t have time to get to know the teacher and trust that person and know that they’re going to do the right thing by your kid.

What does it mean to you to see Flagler alumni succeed in the professional arts world?

It means a lot, but I have to say, it means more for me that they become a successful adult and that they know how to work with other people.

They use their stage presence for whatever career they’re going into.

I can go on and on about how arts create workplace skills.

In the arts, you have to have guts.

You’ve got to be resilient, because you’re not always going to get the part you want.

You have to show initiative: You got to go and get your music, close the door, put down your phone and learn your music.

And you have to have tenacity: stay at it all the time.

I like to call it GRIT: guts, resilience, initiative and tenacity.

Music teaches leadership. It teaches students how to work with

will, unfortunately, have to contend with for a few more years. Ed Danko is the king of ultra-partisanship, a divisive presence at council meetings. He’s also a former local mayoral campaign adviser who embarrassingly got caught on video shamelessly lying in an attempt to mislead voters.

To deal with this unfortunate and embarrassing political circus in our community, we need to acknowledge our past local election mistakes and look hopefully for much better quality candidates to emerge. We need, deserve and should expect so much better in next year’s election and beyond.

MAGGIE MINUTAGLIO Palm Coast

Waste Pro is working hard Dear Editor: I agree with the letter by Charles Dean in regard to Waste Pro doing well with our trash service. They cannot help it if no one wants to work. People are happy getting unemployment!

I see the guys on the trucks hustling in extreme heat and all.

I, personally, thanked those guys working, especially during the pandemic. When most of us were not working and forced to stay home, they were out there working.

PAT BARILE Palm Coast

Teachers should stick with the three R’s Dear Editor: The true meaning of “equity” is fairness or justice in the way people are treated.

In his previous letter, Mike Cocchiola was upset because “All Boys Aren’t Blue” has been or will be banned from school libraries. We did not have such issues when I started school in 1939. Homosexuals were in the closet, smut was under ground and teachers taught the three R’s. Teachers didn’t indoctrinate, changing gender was

The Auditorium’s events sometimes double as fundraisers for community causes. Why do you feel that’s important?

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Amelia Fulmer was a teacher for 31 years and has been at the director of the Flagler Auditorium since 2019.

Watch the interview on the Palm Coast Observer’s YouTube channel.

each other, and that’s what they’re going to need in their jobs.

It teaches how to be sensitive with each other. Because in music, somebody plays a long or wrong note, and you’ve got to be there to tell them, but you’ve got to know how to be sensitive. You have to be honest, but you have to be sensitive.

What was your relationship with art as a high school student, and what is your relationship with art now?

I taught children when I was in fifth grade. When I was in high school, I taught fifth grade choir at my church. So I started very young teaching. I played the piano in high school for my high school choir, and I even rode with my high school teacher to the middle school to play the piano for the middle school kids. So I was teaching choir back when I was 14.

Once you get in there and you start performing, it’s very much the same as it’s always been. And I still love it.

If someone is typically at home on the weekends, watching Netflix, what’s your pitch to get them off the couch and to the Auditorium for a show?

There’s nothing like a performer performing a piece of music or something they truly believe in and working to try to bring you in, and

impossible (still is), and last, but far from least, there were no teachers unions!

The school board is responsible for making sure the students can read; what type of book they read is the parents’ responsibility; sex education should also be left in the parents’ bailiwick.

DOUGLAS R. GLOVER Palm Coast

An update on safety on Cimmaron Drive Dear Editor: Thanks to those who help make our part of Palm Coast a safer place to thrive. Residents, drivers, the City Council and the mayor have started a process that should soon result in some major improvements for safety.

It all started with an old man with who enjoys riding on his bicycle to all of the amazing locations in Palm Coast, but, to get there, he had to exit his neighborhood using Cimmaron Drive. The safety issues were driving him crazy, so he discussed these concerns repeatedly for three years with his wife and children. His kids finally said, “Why don’t you stop complaining and start doing something about it!” So, he did.

The old man started the Safety on Cimmaron movement by talking to neighbors, who shared great ideas on how to proceed with getting something done on Cimmaron.

On Nov. 9, 2020, a phone call was made to the city of Palm Coast to get information on a traffic count for Cimmaron. There was not a current traffic count on record; therefore, the city agreed to schedule one to be completed within 60 days. Four people offered their help the minute they heard about the requested traffic count. When the traffic count came in it shocked everyone: 3,200 vehicles were using this 1.2-mile road with 800 resident homes in five different communities, with 40 side streets all using Cimmaron entering and exiting on that day. These numbers are before the construction of the new houses

The original bylaws of the Flagler Auditorium say our purpose is to be an advocate for the community.

The arts serve the people of Flagler County — it’s not the other way around. We don’t say, “The county needs to spend more on the arts.”

We should say, “How can the arts serve the county right now?”

What’s your advice to parents who might struggle to get their children interested in art?

I think you have to find opportunities; sadly, they don’t always find you. You need to think about what you enjoyed as a child; your child might enjoy that. And if they don’t, you find something else.

If you said, “Well, my son tried violin and didn’t like it,” well, did you get past that bad part? Did you get him through the dip and get them to the concert? Because the concert is the mountaintop. That’s a mistake people make: They get their kids involved in music or art, and they don’t struggle to get them through that valley, so they can get to the concert and get to the mountaintop experience.

What’s your vision for the Auditorium’s future?

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

Friedrich Hayek “Road to Serfdom,” 1944

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Well, I hope that it’s still existing the way it is now and 1991 when it opened 30 years ago. I don’t know if they thought it would have accomplished what it’s accomplished now. So I have to believe that we will continue to raise children in the arts and be a place where we bring national tours and our children can succeed not just in the art, but they can succeed in what the arts can bring to their lives. And we continue to make creative connections to each other.

that are popping up in those empty lots.

Word traveled fast, and the Cimmaron Safety Movement was up and running, with support from walkers, runners, bikers, cyclists and concerned parents.

Now was the time to make their cases for safety known to the mayor and City Council. To date, over 25 three-minute public presentations have been made. A prime topic is the scene of school children waiting along the narrow Cimmaron before daylight every school day. Many have been brushed by vehicles.

Residents who live on Cimmaron have had as many as six mailboxes damaged, replaced or repaired in a year’s time. We are thankful to see neighbors caring about neighbors and taking action for change.

With continued significant public concern and interest, a residentsigned petition was submitted to the city of Palm Coast for a sidewalk or bike path on Cimmaron with over half of the 800 residents’ signatures

by November 2021. The board of directors from one of the communities sent a letter of support, which added another 157 resident property owners in support. There were 37 volunteers who conducted house calls and visits.

The city of Palm Coast has installed safety and speed signs.

Police presence has also been increased to improve safety. They conducted a Cimmaron neighborhood meeting to share safety strategies and to hear concerns in an open discussion. Over 100 residents attended. The mayor, as well as a lot of other city personnel, were present.

Through the year, the Palm Coast Observer published updates and articles on Safety on Cimmaron to keep everyone informed.

The old man on the bicycle is excited to see the positive changes and is thankful for all of the support and action that is taking place for Safety on Cimmaron.

We still have a way to go!

Where is Safety on Cimmaron?

The City Council approved the budget in September with a feasibility study for collector streets, and Cimmaron is part of that study.

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The city will seek a consultant to negotiate the scope and fee which City Council will then have to approve. Timeline expectations are three months for approval, five months for the study completion, which would be June 2022.

Conclusion: It is just a matter of time before a fatal accident happens on Cimmaron or any of the other connector streets in our community. Cimmaron is the only one with only one entrance and exit for over 800 households (five communities).

Residents using Cimmaron have no other outlet or connector to use. The support for Safety on Cimmaron has been substantial. Let’s keep the momentum up and help these tax paying and voting residents safe.

If there are other streets with the same show of support and concern, they should be a part of the future plan.

AL KRIER Palm Coast

Editor’s Note: Al Krier is a member of a resident group called Safety on Cimmaron Committee.

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BRIEFS Man sentenced to 20 years in prison for drug sale tied to overdose death Michael McIntyre was sentenced Dec. 2 to 20 years in state prison for the Aug. 11, 2020, death of Chelsea Price.

McIntyre had pled guilty to Manslaughter, Trafficking Methamphetamine, and Possession with Intent to Distribute.

“This is another successful investigation of a poison peddler who caused an overdose death facing consequences for murder in Flagler County from selling drugs,” Sheriff Rick Staly said. “Our detectives did a great job and worked with the State Attorney’s Office to take this poison peddler off the streets and put him behind bars before he could cause another death. I hope this helps bring healing to the family of Chelsea Price and a warning to other poison peddlers – we investigate every overdose death as a murder and you will be next to go to state prison.”

McIntyre was initially taken into custody by the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office Special Investigation Unit and Major Case detectives during an undercover operation in Bunnell and has been in custody since that arrest in February 2021.

On Oct. 4, 2021, he was arrested and for the additional charge of First-Degree Murder by Unlawful Distribution of a Controlled Substance.

FCSO reports 355 traffic stops, 20 arrests, 33 crashes over Thanksgiving weekend The Flagler County Sheriff’s Office on Nov. 24 to Nov. 28 participated in Operation C.A.R.E. Wave, a county and statewide traffic enforcement operation focusing on crash awareness and reduction throughout the holiday weekend.

During the five day agencywide

traffic operation, members of the FCSO Motor/Traffic Unit and Community Policing Division reported making a total of 355 traffic stops, resulting in 32 citations, and 20 arrests.

Four of the arrests were a result of traffic stops leading to the discovery of an out-of-county warrant, no driver’s license, a Flagler County warrant, or possession of drugs or a firearm by a convicted felon.

The FCSO also responded to 33 vehicle crashes, including 23 without injuries, sic with injuries, and four hit-and-runs.

“The holiday weekend’s Operation CARE was a success and our Traffic/ Motors Unit and patrols were hard at work keeping our roadways safer in Flagler County with the increased traffic that occurred,” Sheriff Rick Staly said. “The purpose of Operation CARE is to remind the community that reckless driving behaviors are extremely dangerous and will not be tolerated. Great job to all the deputies who were able to identify the criminals arrested over the holiday and gave them a room at the Green Roof Inn to enjoy the Thanksgiving holiday! I hope everyone enjoyed their Thanksgiving and you stay safe as we go into a busy holiday season!

Remember that if you see something suspicious, say something by calling 386-313-4911.”

Senate panel signs off on proposal to expunge juvenile records A proposal that would allow juveniles who have completed diversion programs to have nonjudicial arrest records expunged for any offense except a forcible felony is moving swiftly through the Senate. Currently, minors who have gone through a diversion program only can be granted a records expungement for misdemeanor offenses.

The Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Criminal and Civil Justice on Wednesday, Dec. 1, unanimously approved a measure (SB 342) to expand the clearing of the records. The bill faces one more committee before heading to the Senate floor for a full vote.

Gov. Ron DeSantis vetoed a

similar proposal passed by state lawmakers during the 2021 legislative session this spring. The revamped version of the bill, intended for consideration during the session that begins Jan. 11, includes a tweak aimed at garnering the governor’s support, according to bill sponsor Keith Perry, R-Gainesville.

“The caveat is we’ve added in that forcible felonies are not allowed in this, and that is the difference between this bill and last year’s bill,” Perry, chairman of the subcommittee, told the panel Wednesday. Perry said he is confident that lawmakers will approve the measure and that DeSantis will support it because the revised bill addresses the governor’s objections.

“I have concerns that the unfettered ability to expunge serious felonies, including sexual battery, from a juvenile’s record may have negative impacts on public safety,” DeSantis wrote in a June veto message.

The committee on Wednesday also approved an accompanying measure (SB 344) that would provide a public-records exemption for juveniles whose records have been expunged. Similar bills (HB 195, HB 197) have been filed in the House.

state. Unfortunately, it’s also a low benefit state, meaning that the Floridians who pay much of their income to taxes, they don’t see the improvements in affordable housing, they don’t see the access to social safety nets, health care,” Eskamani said. “They don’t see action on climate change. They don’t see action on mental health or substanceabuse prevention or paying teachers better. So, we want to make sure that not only do we fight for a more equitable tax system, so that the money that comes into our coffers from those everyday people actually goes right back to them.”

DeSantis is expected this week to release his budget proposal, which will serve as a starting point as lawmakers negotiate a final spending plan during the session that starts Jan. 11.

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House Democrats want the state’s next spending plan to be more “people-centered” as Gov. Ron DeSantis prepares to send a full budget proposal to the Legislature.

Democrats said during a conference call Tuesday that they expect the Republican-controlled Legislature during the 2022 session to produce a “generous” budget because it will be an election year.

But they said working-class Floridians will see few direct benefits without increased funding for affordable housing, nursing and education, along with other changes to address increasing property insurance rates and revamp a tax structure that prioritizes corporations.

Rep. Anna Eskamani, D-Orlando, said the focus of the new 20222023 budget, which is expected to total about $100 billion, should be on benefiting a greater number of Floridians.

“Folks called Florida a low tax

COPS CORNER DEC. 3

A REAL STINKER 7:52 p.m. Mahogany Boulevard at Sugar Bush Street Possession of hashish, possession of 20 or more grams of marijuana.

A deputy stopped a car for speeding.

When the deputy approached the car, it smelled of marijuana.

The 25-year-old driver admitted that he’d smoked pot in the car about 40 minutes before.

The deputy asked him if there was any marijuana in the car, and the driver handed the deputy a grocery bag and said that was all he had. The deputy searched the car and found 38 more grams of marijuana, plus a hash pen with a THC cartridge. The deputy arrested the driver.

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Florida gas prices are slowly adjusting to the recent crude oil price plunge. Sunday’s state average has slipped to $3.30 per gallon, after declining 4 cents during the past week. That downward trend is likely to continue this week, unless oil prices suddenly rebound.

Visit GasPrices.AAA.com to view daily gas prices.

Crude oil prices plummeted after Thanksgiving, on concerns about how the omicron variant could impact global fuel demand. The price of US crude dropped 13% after Thanksgiving. Friday’s closing price of $66.26 per barrel is 15% below the price on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. It’s also 21% below the 2021 high of $84.15/barrel which was recorded nearly four weeks ago.

“An oil price drop of that magnitude, if sustained, could potentially drive the state average back below $3 a gallon,” said Mark Jenkins, spokesman, AAA - The Auto Club Group. “... Florida pump prices are falling at a rate of 1-cent a day. Unless that rate accelerates, it could take a few more weeks” The most expensive metro market is West Palm Beach-Boca Raton ($3.48), while the least is CrestviewFort Walton Beach ($3.17).

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‘WHAT WAS WHAT?’ 3:19 a.m. 100 block of Cypress Pointe Parkway Cocaine possession. A deputy was standing outside his patrol car when he noticed an SUV drive by with its horn “honking in a steady pattern,” according to the deputy’s report.

“There did not appear to be any cause or reason for the vehicle’s horn to be utilized,” the deputy wrote in the report.

The deputy, concerned that the driver may be having a medical episode, stopped the car.

The driver of the car opened the door to step out, and, as he did so, chucked a plastic baggy through the car’s sunroof.

“What was that?” the deputy asked.

“What was what?” the man replied.

The deputy asked the man again.

“That was crack, man,” the man replied.

The deputy found the baggy, which tested positive for cocaine.

The deputy asked the man why he’d been honking his horn.

“I was a feeling myself,” the man replied.

“From past experiences, I interpreted this to mean that he was in a good and celebratory mood,” the deputy wrote in the report.

The deputy arrested the man.

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The district expects to add more services in Rima Ridge and Espanola, and may expand its coverage countywide.

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JONATHAN SIMMONS NEWS EDITOR

The East Flagler Mosquito Control District may undertake a multiphase expansion project that would bring regular mosquito control services to certain communities in western Flagler — or, potentially, to the county as a whole.

County Commissioner Joe Mullins, whose district includes western Flagler, has pushed for the expansion.

“We want to be able to provide equal services throughout the county,” he said at a Dec. 6 commission meeting.

“That area’s grown ... and they should not have to call every time they need a service.”

The East Flagler Mosquito Control District currently provides regular mosquito control services to areas that pay a tax for those services.

Some other areas, like Rima Ridge and Espanola, pay a

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reduced tax for more limited services, such as on-demand spraying in response to resident complaints of mosquito activity.

The County Commission at the Dec. 6 meeting approved an agreement that streamlines the district’s process of handling those on-demand services. Under a 2003 agreement, the county was responsible for fielding resident complaints about mosquito activity and relaying those to the district. Under the new agreement, the district will be able to collect and respond to those complaints itself.

The district expects to go further in the future, expanding regular services to those areas so that residents don’t have to call in complaints.

Areas annexed into the district’s purview for regular services would be taxed at the regular service rate.

The district is currently in the first phase of the proposed expansion, working with a survey company to expand its boundaries to bring services to parts of Plantation Bay and to northwestern Palm Coast, where development is occurring, county Emergency Management Director Jonathan Lord said at a Dec. 6 Flagler County Commission meeting.

Once that survey process is finished, Lord said, the mosquito control district will bring the proposed boundary revision to the Flagler County Commission for approval, then implementation in the 2022 and 2023 fiscal years.

The next phase would occur around 2024 or 2025, with the addition of the Rima Ridge Special Assessment District and Espanola Special Assess-

“By the time we’ve got multiple residents calling ... we’ve already bypassed the issue where it’s a nuisance. Now it’s no longer a nuisance; it’s really a problem.”

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ment District.

There’s less certainty about the third phase: The district could add only Daytona North, or it could add the entirety of the county.

“That’s a few years out, and that’s something that I think we all need to look at jointly with the mosquito control district to determine what is the appropriate action out there,” Lord said. “There’s a lot that needs to go into looking at how we go into Phase 3 — including the results of Phase 1 and 2, and how that impacted the tax rates.”

The district plans to use money accrued in funds for the Rima Ridge and Espanola districts to provide some enhanced monitoring there before those areas are phased in for regular service, Lord said.

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“I need daycare. I don’t have money,” Matthew Macleod exclaimed. “What do I do?”

Macleod was standing in front of the child care table at VyStar Credit Union’s Reality Fair on Dec. 3 at Flagler Palm Coast High School.

Corinne Schaefer, FPC’s Career

and Technical Education department head, invited VyStar to conduct the program at the media center for the school’s On The Job Training students.

The Reality Fair teaches financial literacy to high school students by thrusting them into real-world situations.

“We teach them to prepare for the future, so they don’t have to repair

CERTIFIED TO GIVE ESB EXAM Corinne Schaefer has become the first Career and Technical Education teacher in the school district to achieve the Entrepreneurship and Small Business certification through Certiport.

As a result, Schaefer, the CTE department head at Flagler Palm Coast High, can now give the professional-level certification exam to her students.

“I’m giving the test to my Level 2 students on Dec. 9. We’ve been preparing for it,” Schaefer said.

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The students will be able to add the certication to their resumes, and the state provides money to the ESB program for each student who passes the exam, said Adam Blair, Flagler Schools’ curriculum specialist for CTE. Daytona State College also provides three college credits for students who pass the ESB class and the certification exam, Blair said.

Schaefer’s students are starting their own small business, creating Paw Prints T-shirts.

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Marcae Smith goes over her debts with FPC teacher Leah Groom.

Flagler County Public Lands & Natural Resource Manager follows his grandfather’s lead “This is teaching me about the real world and all the bills you have to pay. You have to pay them. You can’t get around it.”

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their past,” said VyStar’s High School Branch Coordinator Omega Milton, who facilitated the fair.

Each student was provided a reallife scenario that included an occupation, a salary, marital status, credit score and the number of children they must provide for — from 0 to 3.

Once they calculated their monthly deductions for taxes and health insurance, they walked around the room, stopping at 11 tables, manned by community volunteers, to balance their budgets.

Each table represented a service — groceries, housing, utilities, child care, charitable contributions, entertainment, transportation, home and car insurance, the mall (clothing, etc.), credit union and “Life Happens.”

Think of the last table as a Chance card in Monopoly. You could receive a bonus from your job or you could have a flat tire or an unexpected medical bill.

Flagler County School Board member Colleen Conklin manned the “Party Alley/Entertainment” table. She said she was told to upsell.

So, she sold one student a cruise, who probably couldn’t afford a cruise within his scenario. She expected he would return to cancel the cruise.

But most of the students were prudent, she said.

In many cases they took the other extreme, said Brett Winney, VyStar’s Palm Coast branch vice president, who assisted with the fair.

He said some would go to the mall table and say their children didn’t need any clothes, or their entertainment budget would include just a cup of coffee.

“It’s funny how many of them talked themselves out of concerts or going to Disney,” Winney said. “But when you ask them what they did last summer, they’ll say, ‘We went to Disney.’”

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Corinne Schaefer, FPC’s Career and Technical Education department head, discusses calculation forms with students.

Perhaps the most eye-opening information the students learned was the high price of child care.

“This is expensive,” Macleod said.

“I’m a kindergarten teacher, a single parent with three kids, and I’m renting an apartment. There are a lot of things I have to pay for. For the most part, I have to go with cheaper options.”

But he found a solution for his daycare problem. Cody Fain had an unemployed spouse in his scenario, so Macleod worked out a deal where he would pay Fain’s “wife” to watch his kids.

“This is teaching me about the real world and all the bills you have to pay,” Macleod said. “You have to pay them. You can’t get around it.”

Matthew Macleod, left, and Cody Fain.

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Tamara Walker truly had a real-life scenario. The youngest of three children with a single mother, Walker’s scenario was a single mother with three kids with bad credit.

In real life, Walker has a job and a credit union account and puts away $150 of every paycheck into savings.

She has a credit card that her mother co-signed for her, and she pays off her balance every month.

“I do not want to go into debt,” she said. “I watched my mother go into debt and get out of debt. I watch her do everything. My mom taught me a lot. She’s very inspirational.”

Walker took her scenario to the next level. Sure, she can balance her budget now, she said, but what happens when the kids get older and have to deal with “life issues?”

For many, the experience was a reality check. Marcae Smith’s “husband” was unemployed. After buying car insurance, she went back to the insurance booth to cancel it and decided to ride a bike instead.

“You see kids get a little upset, because they’re running out of money,” said Adam Blair, Flagler Schools’ curriculum specialist who is in charge of Career and Technical Education for the district.

In the program’s debriefing period, Milton noted, “Some of you had all the money in the world. Others said, ‘I don’t have enough to feed my children.’ This is real life. Some people live paycheck to paycheck.

Everything you experienced is real, and it’s true.”

Student-run branch at Matanzas Winney said VyStar is just starting up the Reality Fairs again after a pause due to the pandemic. He said this was the 20th fair he was involved in during his nine years with the credit union.

VyStar also has a program in some schools in which students run an actual VyStar branch in-school.

As high school branch coordinator, Milton oversees the program in eight counties.

Matanzas High School has the program with 12 students running the branch during lunch periods. It’s a full-service branch exclusively run by the students, where they handle everything except loans. The branch currently has 58 accounts, Milton said.

The 12 Matanzas students get class credits for running the branch. After school and during the summer, the majority of them work at a VyStar branch and get paid, Milton said.

The students also help Milton conduct presentations to Matanzas classes on financial education that include topics such as credit, savings and budgeting, student loans and writing a business plan.

They’ve reached 700 students at the school with those presentations, Milton said.

Milton said she once lived paycheck to paycheck herself. As a result, teaching financial literacy “is a passion for me,” she said.

It was the gentle nudge of his grandfather that pointed Michael Lagasse toward a career in Land Management after spending much of his early 20s working on shrimp boats, going to college sporadically, working in the restaurant industry, and surfing whenever he could.

“It’s not like we ever had long conversations about what he did, so it was a little bit by example,” Lagasse said of his late grandfather, “Papa” Bob Lagasse (1929-2010), who – following a Naval career as a cryptographer, a stint at Cape Canaveral as an agronomist, and a career as a real estate broker – worked as the senior land acquisition agent at the St. Johns River Water Management District from 1989 until 1997.

“He knew of my environmental consciousness,” said Michael Lagasse, who was recently promoted to Public Lands and Natural Resource Manager. “He knew I like to live, work, and play outdoors. He was trying to inspire me knowing who I am, so he suggested that I focus on college in an environmental field. He had seen the work the Water Management District did and figured I’d like that type of work.”

Michael Lagasse pays homage to his grandfather by prominently displaying in his office a poster created for his retirement — titled Lagasse’s Legacy — that depicts the properties he purchased within the St. Johns River Water Management District during his tenure. Though most of the 123,635 acres of property, development rights, or conservation easements the elder Lagasse purchased for the district are outside of Flagler County, he was involved with the acquisition of a portion of the county’s Haw Creek Preserve.

“During his time at the St. Johns River Water Management District, there was a bit of misunderstanding about its mission to acquire lands in service of protecting water resources,” Michael Lagasse said. “As I understand it, Papa had a unique ability to develop rapport and trust with landowners. ... So many folks feel connected to their property, and are able to see the benefit of selling some of those rights away while keeping their core interests intact on the property.

It really can be a win-win.”

It wasn’t a direct route that brought Michael Lagasse to Flagler County but a “nice circle” that landed him here in September 2011.

Having worked in environmental consulting, ecotourism, and for the State of North Carolina, and for Alachua County in Florida, his experiences have been varied and useful for his position at Flagler County.

“What I like best is developing capacity to effect change. A lot of our ecosystems — like at Princess Place Preserve — were in need of attention when I was hired. And, whenever we can, we pool our resources with outside agencies to best provide for the residents of Flagler County,” he said. “As a result, we have been able to build teams within the county, and with the assistance of outside agencies, to help manage the resource.

Now that it’s been 10 years, it’s rewarding to see the effects of the work that we have spearheaded with the help of our partners.”

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Reality Fair volunteers at the FPC media center.

Michael Lagasse, pictured with “Lagasse’s Legacy.”

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Dylan Long only had an inkling of why he was called down to the Flagler Auditorium on Tuesday morning, Dec. 7.

“They did a good job of disguising it,” the Flagler Palm Coast High School senior said.

Long and his mother, Amy, were called up on stage. She received a bouquet of flowers, he was given a bundle of balloons as the Flagler County Education Foundation and the high school celebrated his selection as one of six winners statewide of the Take Stock for Children’s Leaders For Life Fellowship.

The fellowship will provide Long with a $40,000 four-year scholarship on top of the full tuition-paid scholarship that all Take Stock in Children students receive. The fellowship scholarship can provide housing, meal plans, computers, leadership training and internship opportunities. The students also receive a semester abroad while in college.

Since the program’s inception, 63 Leaders For Life Fellowships have

YOUR TOWN SPERRY’S TUMOR IS BENIGN Have you met Sperry? Sperry was originally brought to the Flagler Humane Society by her owner in March 2018. She was then adopted and returned — twice. She was promoted to the

been awarded. Long was the second Flagler County student to be named a finalist for the award, and the first in the county to win the fellowship.

“I’m really appreciative of everyone that has helped me over the years,” Long said. “This will take a huge financial burden off of me for college.”

Long impressed the selection committee with his academic record.

He ranks sixth in a class of 628 graduates with a 5.25 weighted GPA. He scored 1540 out of a possible 1600 on his SAT. Long has also logged 631 volunteer hours and participated in 27 Take Stock in Children events. He has met frequently over the past four years with his Take Stock in Children mentor, Peter Sutcliffe.

Take Stock in Children is a nonprofit in Florida that provides lowincome students one-on-one support with a volunteer mentor, college success services and the opportunity to earn a college scholarship.

“The Take Stock in Children program gives these kids an amazing opportunity. It puts somebody significant in their lives to give them a safe haven,” said Joe Rizzo, Flagler County Education Foundation’s executive director.

The foundation raises money for the program, which gets matched by the state Legislature.

“Three years ago, we started with 30 kids (in Flagler County). Today we have over 100 kids,” Rizzo said.

Long said he and his two sisters have been raised by a single mom since 2015, when his father left.

honorary position of Director of Affection Research and Development.

Director Amy Wade-Carotenuto reported that Sperry had a scare recently, as a tumor was discovered.

“A veterinary exam determined this growth should be removed ASAP,” Wade-Carotenuto wrote. “We waited on pins and needles for nearly two weeks for those laboratory results. I had all but resigned myself that this was cancer and we would pamper her and love her for whatever time we had left. Then I received the best text I’ve ever received: ‘Amy, it’s benign.’”

Marguerite A Sisti 1946-2021 Marguerite A Sisti, 75, of Palm Coast, FL passed away peacefully at home on October 28, 2021 surrounded by her loving family. She was born on March 20, 1946 in Newark, NJ to John & Grace (Volpe) Krumbine.

Marge worked for New Jersey Bell, Bell Atlantic, and Verizon from 1969-2000.

She started as a Directory Assistance Operator, and then became a Yellow Pages Proof-reader. Work also brought Marge and her husband Tom together.

They met at work- where they both were Directory Assistance Operators in River Edge, NJ. In her spare time, Marge enjoyed knitting, crocheting, baking, playing Mah Jongg, playing slot machines at any casino, and spending quality time with her two grandchildren Brooke & Brett. Once they settled down in Florida for retirement, Marge & Tom quickly found a calling to become involved in volunteering at AdventHealth Palm Coast hospital starting in 2012. For 9 dedicated years, Marge enjoyed sitting with Emergency Room patients’ family and friends to simply listen, to give them encouragement, and just stay with them for an hour or so. Marge had a knack for always knowing when someone needed to just talk or

“I’m really appreciative of everyone that has helped me over the years. This will take a huge financial burden off of me for college.”

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Amy is a social worker, who works for a nonprofit, and recently earned a master’s degree in social work.

“She’s a single mom who went back to school and has a full-time job,” Long said.

Long plans to major in computer science. He and FPC teacher Kevin Saint recently began a club called Sustainable Flagler with a goal to help FPC achieve a green school designation.

Long said the University of Florida and UCF are his top Florida college choices. He has also applied to Georgia Tech, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Carnegie Mellon University.

“The Peter & Sue Freytag Take Stock in Children program, and the Flagler County Education Foundation are incredibly proud of Dylan and all of his accomplishments,” said Christy Butler, the foundation’s student services coordinator.

PCAF INTRODUCES TURTLE 15, ‘NORMAN’ The Palm Coast Arts Foundation introduced Turtle 15 to the public art Turtle Trail during an unveiling ceremony on Nov. 7. “Norman,” by Ron Lace, has been installed at the entrance of the Flagler County Health Department at 301 Dr. Carter Blvd in Bunnell. Sponsored by the family of Dr. Orin Kaufman in his memory, Norman represents the iconic illustrations of Norman Rockwell, known for his hundreds of front-page illustrations of the Saturday Evening Post Magazine.

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needed someone to console them. She was proud to be the AdventHealth Volunteer President in 2019 and 2020.

Marge was an excellent cook, and a great baker. She made many delicious cookies and treats, especially at Christmastime. She loved traveling to New Jersey for her grandchildren’s birthdays (both in August), and for Christmas.

Marge was preceded in death by her father John Krumbine Sr., her mother Grace (Volpe) Krumbine, her sister Norma Vecoli, her brother John Krumbine Jr., and her son Michael Curry Jr. Marge is survived by her husband, Thomas Sisti, daughter Michele (Joseph) Redner, grandchildren Brooke & Brett Redner, sister Leonora (Riccardo) Grenci, nephews Russell and Richard Grenci, and Joan Ann (Charles) Everett. A public visitation is scheduled from 9:0010:30am Monday, December 13, 2021 at Heritage Funeral & Cremation Service, 4601 East Moody Boulevard, Bunnell, FL, 32110, followed immediately by an 11am funeral mass at St. Stephen Chapel, 2400 East Moody Boulevard, Bunnell, FL 32110. www.

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Robert Richard Wachholder, 71, of Palm Coast, passed away on November 26, 2021.

Robert was an incredible husband, father and grandfather. Known for his kindness and sense of humor, Robert brought smiles to all who were lucky to have known him. Robert truly lived life to its fullest and will be greatly missed.

He is survived by his loving wife Regina; children Scott (Nurit) and Shannon; and granddaughter Claire. A celebration of Robert’s life will be held at a later date.

Robert was an incredible husband, father and grandfather.

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Philippine American Association of Palm Coast's annual Christmas party

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ith food, dancing and singing, the Philippine American Association of Palm Coast celebrated the Christmas season at its annual party. In Tagolag, “Merry Christmas” is “Maligayang Pasko.”

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Louis Joseph Geneve 1930-2021

Lillian Todini Vonderosten passed away peacefully on November 25, 2021 surrounded by her three children.

A parishioner of St. Peter’s Church in River Edge, her faith was always a guiding light in her life. or setting sail on a Red Hat Cruise, Lillian always lived life to the fullest.

In 2017 she moved North to be closer to her children.

She will be dearly missed by Gerard, Vivian and Nicole and her many friends.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Lewy Body Dementia Association at https://www. lbda.org. Services for the family will be held privately at a later date.

DONATIONS: In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Lewy Body Dementia Association at https://www.lbda.org.

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He was born on April 27, 1930, in Corona, a neighborhood in the borough of Queens, New York. He along with his late brother Charles were the sons of Francis and Theresa Geneve. He was a graduate of St. Ann’s Academy in New York City and Adelphi University on Long Island, New York. Following his honorable service in the U.S. Navy in 1955 he was employed by Grumman Aerospace Corporation (currently Northrop Grumman) first as an aircraft mechanic and then a Logistics Engineer. He retired from Grumman in 1989 and along with his loving wife Regina moved to Palm Coast, Florida. He was preceded in death by Regina his wife for 51 years and two infant sons (Otto and William). He leaves behind his son Robert and wife Patricia, his daughter Ellen and husband Michael Gioielli, six grandchildren (Jennifer Ranson, Michael, and Timothy Geneve, Steven, Brian, and Christopher Gioielli), and seven great grandchildren (Ashley, Ella, and Nathaniel Ranson; Simone, Maddox, Luca and Leonora Gioielli). Lou and Regina were very active in their church where Lou served as a founding mem-

ber of Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic Church (History of St Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic Church (seaspcfl. org), a Liturgical Minister and a Grand Knight in the Knights of Columbus Fraternal organization. A Visitation will be held on January 8th, 2022, 10 AM at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church on Belle Terre Parkway in Palm Coast, FL. followed by a Memorial Service at 11 AM. In lieu of flowers the family requests that donations be made in Lou’s name to the Rocky Mountain Down Syndrome Association (https:// www.rmdsa.org/donate/) or the Special Olympics fund (https://support.specialolympics.org/).

SERVICE: Saturday, January 8, 11AM St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church DONATIONS: In lieu of flowers the family requests that donations be made in Lou’s name to the Rocky Mountain Down Syndrome Association (https://www.rmdsa.org/ donate/) or the Special Olympics fund (https:// support.specialolympics. org/).

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Born in Manhattan and raised in the Bronx, Lillian made lifelong friends at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Elementary School in the Bronx and St. Vincent Ferrer High School in Manhattan.

Lillian met her first husband Gerardo “Jerry” Todini in her twenties and their evenings were spent with friends at the Italian Social Club on Van Nest Avenue in the Bronx and afternoons strolling on Arthur Avenue. She and Jerry moved their three children Gerard, Vivian, and Nicole across the Hudson to River Edge New Jersey where Lillian lived for more than thirty years.

Lillian worked at the A&P and as a bank teller.

A parishioner of St. Peter’s Church in River Edge, her faith was always a guiding light in her life.

With the passing of Jerry in 1986, Lillian found companionship and love with her second husband Len Vonderosten, who passed away in 2018.

Lillian and Len moved to Palm Coast, Florida where she co-founded the Razzle Dazzle Gals Red Hat Chapter. Whether it was helping Len with Toys for Tots for the Marine Corp League, organizing a dance, sitting around the kitchen table having coffee with friends,

Louis (Jack) Joseph Geneve passed away peacefully on November 21, 2021, in Palm Coast, Florida.

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SPORTS Tough like Taugher Bulldogs play ‘Taugher’ defense and nail 12 longrange shots to knock off Seabreeze BRENT WORONOFF STAFF WRITER

Bryce Taugher scored only three points in Flagler Palm Coast’s 78-51 victory over Seabreeze on Dec. 6 at the Bulldogs’ gym.

But his value to the team can’t be calculated on a scoresheet. The senior does all the dirty work. He hustles, he disrupts and he energizes the whole team.

And he always covers the opponent’s best scorer in FPC’s man-toman pressure defense. Taugher held Seabreeze shooter Jordan Calder without a 3-point basket. Calder hit three 3-pointers in the fourth quarter after FPC had secured the win and Taugher went to the bench.

“I gave him no room,” Taugher said.

“We wanted to make other guys make plays,” said FPC coach Derrick

Williams. “If (Calder) would have hit shots early, it might have been a different story.”

While the Sandcrabs (0-4) were struggling to get open shots, the Bulldogs filled the basket with 12 3-pointers.

“We’re trying to shoot the ball better,” Williams said. “Tonight, we shot it well.”

Rya’sir Jefferson led FPC with five 3-pointers and 22 points. Alex Aviles scored 20 points with four 3-pointers. Karl Knighten added 13 points for the Bulldogs.

“Basketball is a funny game,” Williams said. “If you hit shots from the 3-point line, it’s a great equalizer.

Once you make shots, the zone gets extended, and it gives you driving lanes.”

FPC improved to 2-3, and this one was never in doubt. The Bulldogs led 42-17 at the half and stretched the margin to 68-38 after three quarters.

FPC was scheduled to play two more home games before the end of the week – St. Augustine on Dec. 7 and DeLand on Thursday, Dec. 9 at 7 p.m.

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FPC’s Bryce Taugher (5) goes above Seabreeze’s Aiden Bailey (10) and Gio Mitchell (42).

“We’re trying to shoot the ball better. Tonight, we shot it well.”

DERRICK WILLIAMS, FPC coach FPC’s Karl Knighten Jr. (11) drives the lane against Cole Nettles (12).

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“The girls were jumping and hugging. There were tears.

All the odds were against us the last few weeks. I think it all just came out. It was exciting but also very emotional.”

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Savannah O’Grady (14) and Rayliana Giaccone each scored a goal in the win against St. Johns Country Day.

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of those swingers. She hit it perfectly into the right upper panel.”

Rayliana Giaccone made it 2-0 in the second half with a left-footed goal from the penalty spot.

FPC’s defense then withstood the Spartans’ unyielding attack. The visitors had 16 corner kicks in the game, 12 in the second half. But they could not score off any of them. Holley finished with nine saves.

“We were back on our heels,” Hald said. “Our back four (Hailey Tucker, Makayla Catalan, Jada Williams and Ariana Johnson) and our holding mids (Emma Swearingen and O’Grady) really got after their assignments against some really good players.

These are players that don’t stop moving.”

“They bombarded our net,” Bradley said. “It took a total team effort. Hats off to St. Johns Country Day. They’re still one of the best teams in the state and in the country.”

With six games scheduled over 11 days, including matches against three undefeated teams as of Dec. 5, Hald wanted to make sure FPC’s signature win is a starting point, not an exclamation point.

“We’ve got to move on,” he said. “Hopefully, we can keep going with this.”

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throughout the season, handed St. Johns Country Day its first loss since Nov. 22, 2019.

So how shocking was it?

“A lot of people asked me if they should come to the game, and I told them, ‘I think you should skip out on this one,’” said FPC assistant coach Cat Bradley.

“My phone was blowing up after the game,” she said. “I even told my boyfriend not to come. You just think the worst. They’re the No. 5 team in the nation.”

Those who were in attendance got to celebrate with the players after the win, the news of which started reverberating around the state minutes after the result.

“It was awesome,” Bradley said. “The girls were jumping and hugging. There were tears.

All the odds were against us the last few weeks. We’ve had ups and downs with injuries and everything. I think it all just came out. It was exciting but also very emotional.”

Two days earlier, FPC lost to DeLand for the first time in over a decade. It was FPC’s third loss in four games.

The Bulldogs (5-3-1) were missing four injured starters.

Goalkeeper Kaitlyn Holley returned against St. Johns Country Day after missing two weeks with a concussion. Holley and the Bulldogs’ defense turned away a relentless barrage of shots after FPC had taken a 2-0 lead.

“The most dangerous lead to have is 2-0,” FPC head coach Pete Hald said.

The Spartans turned up the pressure and scored two minutes before the mid-period water break.

“That kind of disrupted their momentum,” Hald said.

“It gave me a chance to talk to them, calm them down.”

FPC took a 1-0 lead in the first half on Savannah O’Grady’s free kick from 25 yards that landed near the upper right corner of the net.

“It was a really good shot from the right side of the field,” Hald said. “It was one

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It was just another training day, and another first-place finish, for Flagler Palm Coast weightlifter Anniel “Annie” Buchanan.

Buchanan is the reigning girls state champion in the Class 3A, 199-pound weight class. The senior is aiming for a second consecutive state title this season to add to her two third-place finishes she earned as a freshman and a sophomore.

She was one of seven Bulldog lifters to place first at Matanzas High School’s trimeet Dec. 1. FPC, which has returned five state qualifiers from last season, handily won the meet. But the season doesn’t begin in earnest for the Bulldogs until regionals in late January.

“We weren’t going full out today. We were only going about 85%,” FPC coach Duane Hagstrom said. “We weren’t pushing too hard. We’re just training right now.”

Still, FPC improved to 11-0 on the season, compiling 56 points, with Matanzas (5-1) finishing second with 35 points and Ponte Vedra finishing third with 19 points.

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FPC’s Chloe Long finished third in the 169-pound class.

415-pound total to win the 199-pound class by 190 pounds. Her total would have been enough to easily win the state title last year, but she left little doubt at the championships that she was the best in the state, hoisting a total of 450 pounds, 85 pounds more than any other 199-pounder.

At Matanzas, she matched her state bench press of 235 and ended her clean and jerk lifts at 180.

“We didn’t push it today.

We’re just working our way up,” she said. “We continue working no matter what. The grind never stops.”

Buchanan benched 255 during the summer and recorded a 245-pound bench press in November, Hagstrom said.

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FPC’s Anniel Buchanan won the 199-pound class with a 415 total.

class winners at the tri-meet included: Gabriella Barros at 101, Aryanna Rosa at 110, Kelsey Gocking at 129, Aun’yale Howard at 139, Dianna Croft at 154 and Colleen Haaf at unlimited.

Rosa finished fifth at state last season, while Croft, Howard and Gocking were also state qualifiers.

Matanzas had two weightclass winners – Kenna Peck at 169 pounds and Tabatha Salcedo at 183. The Pirates’ top lifters – Andie Tice at 129 pounds and Karissa Jackson at 139 pounds – each finished second. Tice totaled 265 pounds, 20 pounds behind Gocking. Jackson lifted 285, trailing Howard by 20 pounds.

Also finishing second for Matanzas were Hema Roanauth (101-pound class), Zuri Estberg (111) and Morgan Matthews (unlimited). FPC’s runners-up were Jada Ortiz (119), Charity Alonso (245), Midlyne Thomas (183), Miracle Guerrero (199) and Zoey Gotera (unlimited).

RESULTS FPC 56, MATANZAS 35, PONTE VEDRA 19 At Matanzas, Dec. 1 Weight class winners: 101: Gabriella Barros (FPC), 55-50105; 110: Aryanna Rosa (FPC), 125-130-255: Amelia Mobley (PV), 120-130-250; 129: Kelsey Gocking (FPC), 130155-285; 139: Aun’yale Howard (FPC), 145-160-305; 154: Dianna Croft (FPC), 170-145315; 169: Kenna Peck (MAT), 140-125-265; 183: Tabatha Salcedo (MAT), 125-115-240; 199: Anniel Buchanan (FPC), 235-180-415; UNL: Colleen Haaf (FPC), 150-150-300.

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Matanzas boys wrestling begins with second-place finish at duals Four Pirates won all four of their matches at the Matanzas Southern Paint Scuffle on Dec. 4.

“We’re a small school. But our kids buy in.”

T.J. GILLIN, Matanzas boys wrestling coach

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Matanzas boys wrestling coach T.J. Gillin is excited about the 2021-22 season for a number of reasons.

The Pirates return three state qualifiers and add a two-time state champion to the coaching staff. And they began the season Dec. 4 with a strong showing at their duals tournament.

Matanzas finished second at the Matanzas Southern Paint Scuffle, winning three of four matches. The Pirates defeated Mainland (66-9), Jacksonville Wolfson (60-21) and Oviedo (48-30) before falling to Creekside 51-23 in the final.

“We’re a small school,” Gillin said.

“But our kids buy in.”

Four Matanzas wrestlers went undefeated at the tournament. Bradyn Cox, at 160 pounds, dominated his competition with four pins, all in the first period. Carter Wilder (120), Toryion Stallings (126) and Jordan Mills (170) also went 4-0 on the day.

Landon Wright (182) and Adyn Cox (220) went 3-1.

Wilder, Tyson Mills and Jordan Mills all advanced to the Class 2A state tournament last year. Gillin said they all have a chance to place in the top six at state this season.

Carter Wilder talks to assistant coach Mike Fries after a match.

Jordan Mills went 4-0 at 170 pounds.

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Tyson Mills (152) missed the duals after getting wisdom teeth removed.

Wilder and Stallings each wrestled up a weight class. Wilder, a junior, plans to compete at 113 during the

season. Stallings, a sophomore, is slated to compete at 120.

Gillin is beginning his third year as the Pirates’ head coach and his 10th year in coaching. He was an assistant

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This season, he added former Seabreeze head coach Mike Fries to his staff. Fries was a four-time state finalist and two-time state champ when he wrestled at FPC. “Bringing in Mike has been huge.

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First UNF MedNexus students finish first term Palm Coast Mayor David Alfin and MedNexus Executive Director David Szymanski presented the students with new lab coats during an afternoon ceremony.

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The first cohort of students at the University of North Florida MedNexus in Palm Coast’s Town Center has completed its first semester.

MedNexus, dedicated to higher education for health care professionals like nurses and therapists, opened this past fall term with 21 undergraduate prelicensure nursing students and held a “Scrub Day” ceremony on Dec. 7 to mark their successful completion of the semester.

Palm Coast Mayor David Alfin and MedNexus Executive Director David Szymanski — who stepped down from his position as president of UNF to take the MedNexus role — presented the students with new lab coats during the afternoon ceremony.

“I can’t tell you what a wonderful milestone that is, to see those bright, shining, happy faces,” Alfin said during a Dec. 7 City Council meeting.

“These are ... nursing students who will now be available to serve our community here locally. Another example of how we are working to ... provide opportunities to those younger residents of the city of Palm Coast.”

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between the city, UNF, Daytona State College, AdventHealth and others to provide higher education opportunities for local students interested in health care careers.

The students in the Palm Coast Nursing Scholars program are expected to graduate in the summer of 2023, according to UNF Media Relations Director Ginny Walthour.

UNF hopes to admit another 21 for the Fall 2022 term.

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MedNexus plans to admit at least another 24 freshmen nursing students for Fall 2022 with the expectation that they’ll become Palm Coast

undergraduate prelicensure students in the Fall 2023 term, she added.

For information on MedNexus offerings, go to https://www.unf. edu/UNFMedNexus/.

UNF also offers an online master of science in nursing (MSN) program with tracks for education and leadership, as well as a family nurse practitioner (FNP) program, a psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner (PMHNP) program and a nurse anesthesiology program.

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BIZ BUZZ FLORIDA’S HOUSING MARKET: HIGHER MEDIAN PRICES, TIGHT INVENTORY Florida’s housing market showed higher median prices, more cash sales and tight inventory levels in October compared to a year ago, according to Florida Realtors latest housing data.

“In markets across the state, the forsale inventory continues at low levels, and that puts pressure on prices and also impacts closed sales – some buyers may have paused their home search for now,” said 2021 Florida Realtors President Cheryl Lambert, broker-owner with Only Way Realty Citrus in Inverness. “Last month, the median time to a contract was 12 days for single-family homes and 15 days for condo-townhouse properties.”

The statewide median sales price for single-family existing homes in October was $358,950, up 17.7% from the previous year, according to data from Florida Realtors Research Department in partnership with local Realtor boards/associations.

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In October, single-family existing home sales paid in cash increased by 25.4% year-over-year, while cash sales of condo-townhouse units rose by 6.5%.

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Condos Marie Salvador, of Palm Coast, sold 120 Avenue De La Mer, Unit 1502, to Yuriy and Zoya Geller, of Palm Coast, for $650,000. Built in 2006, the condo is a 3/2.5 and has 2,463 square feet. It sold in 2018 for $490,000.

Carolyn McLaughlin, individually and as trustee, sold 48 Rivers Edge Lane, Unit 48, to John and Gloria Bearden, of Marietta, Georgia, for $280,000. Built in 1989, the condo is a 2/2.5 and has 1,565 square feet. It sold in March for $250,000.

2016, the house is a 4/3 and has 2,356 square feet.

Bunnell Development Co. Robert and Doris Durham, individually and as trustees, sold 606 Boundry St. to Joyce Crews, of Bunnell, for $255,000. Built in 2003, the house is a 3/2 and has 1,382 square feet.

Fuquay Gregory and Kelli McKinley, of Flagler Beach, sold 1852 Flagler Ave. S. to Brian and Heidi Burke, of Flagler Beach, for $329,000. Built in 1974, the house is a 3/2 and has 1,038 square feet.

Andrew Sciumbata, of Fairfax, Virginia, sold 60 Club House Drive, Unit 201, to Jack and Cindy King, of Palm Coast, for $191,000. Built in 1977, the condo is a 2/2 and has 986 square feet. It sold in 2017 for $118,000.

George Moody The Beach House Seaside at Flagler Beach LLC, of Flagler Beach, sold 409 S. Daytona Ave. to Timothy and Deborah Bennett, of Flagler Beach, for $462,500. Built in 1949, the house is a 2/1 and has 924 square feet. It sold in 2013 for $140,000.

Beach Haven Lynn and David Perkins, of Palm Coast, sold 19 Beach Haven Parkway to Scott and Mona Pendleton, of Palm Coast, for $700,000. Built in

Grand Reserve and Golf Club D.R. Horton Inc. Jacksonville, of St. Johns, sold 60 Lob Wedge Lane to William and Shirley Rankin, of Bunnell, for $319,135. Built in

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Hammock Dunes Maria and Ralph Dumke, of Ponte Vedra, sold 21 Montilla Place to Robert and Sherrie Greenberg, of Palm Coast, for $1.54 million. Built in 2017, the house is a 4/4 and has a fireplace, swimming pool and 3,468 square feet.

Indian Trails Bruce Garrison and Steven Thomas, individually and as trustees, sold 2 Beverly Place to John Basile and Marta Fontana, of Palm Coast, for $380,000. Built in 1983, the house is a 2/2 and has a fireplace, swimming pool and 1,872 square feet. It sold in April for $138,800.

Lehigh Woods Annette Astaiza, of West Hampstead, New York, sold 29 Red Birch Lane to Donald Raines and Tamara Taulbee, of Palm Coast, for $282,900.

Built in 2004, the house is a 4/2 and has 1,761 square feet.

Holiday Builders Inc., of Melbourne, sold 21 Rydell Lane to Jordan Villarreal and Bianca Debruyne, of Palm Coast, for $239,990. Built in 2021, the house is a 3/2 and has 1,552 square feet.

Palm Harbor Howell and Alice Anders, of Palm Coast, sold 3 Fleming Court to Matthew Fisher and

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Holiday Builders Inc., of Melbourne, sold 16 Post Lane to Ethan Zajicek, of Palm Coast, for $256,990. Built in 2021, the house is a 3/2 and has 1,552 square feet.

Pine Lakes Marcus and Joy Sanfilippo, of Palm Coast, sold 35 Waters Drive to Robert and Julia Schmutzler, of Palm Coast, for $395,000. Built in 2004, the house is a 3/2 and has a swimming pool and 2,128 square feet.

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Roxana Rodriguez, of Palm Coast, for $545,000. Built in 1979, the house is a 3/3 and has a swimming pool, boat dock, boat house and 1,730 square feet. It sold in 2019 for $335,000.

Mary Grierson, individually and as trustee, sold 46 Filbert Lane to Kelly Kastner, of Palm Coast, for $220,000. Built in 1978, the house is a 2/2 and has a boat dock and 1,016 square feet.

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pool and 2,176 square feet. It sold in 2019 for $194,900.

Janis Thompson, of Simpsonville, South Carolina, sold 7 Powder Lane to Felix and Elva Cruz, of Palm Coast, for $290,000. Built in 2003, 2021 RESTAURANT the house is a 3/2DIRECTORY and has 1,852 square feet.

Pine Grove Lou and Saundra Martinez sold 27 Patchogue Lane to Joseph and AnneMarie Smyth, of Palm Coast, for $350,000. Built in 1987, the house is a 4/2 and has a swimming

Holiday Builders Inc., of Melbourne, sold 43 Powder Horn Drive to Kymberli Holmes, of Palm Coast, for $262,990. Built in 2021, the house is a 3/2 and has 1,552 square feet.

D.R. Horton Inc. Jacksonville, of St. Johns, sold 15 Westchester Lane to William and Teresa Underwood, of Palm Coast, for $294,635. Built in 2021, the house is a 4/2 and has 1,862 square feet.

Gretchen Savage, individually and as trustee, sold 2 Westrobin Place to Victoria Rabbitt, of Palm Coast, for $260,000. Built in 1985, the house is a 2/2 and has a swimming pool and 1,573 square feet.

Plantation Bay Volusia Residential Construction LLC, of Daytona Beach, sold 335 Stirling Bridge Drive to Craig and Lisa Dutton, of Ormond Beach, for $705,960. Built in 2021, the house is a 4/3 and has 2,512 square feet.

Volusia Residential Construction LLC, of Daytona Beach, sold 333 Stirling Bridge Drive to Johnson and Juanita Akinleye, of Ormond Beach, for $595,832. Built in 2021, the house is a 3/2.5 and has 2,702 square feet.

Seminole Woods Holiday Builders Inc., of Melbourne, sold 10 Slipper Orchid Trail E. to Stanley Grim, of Palm Coast, for $239,990. Built in 2021, the house is a 3/2 and has 1,284 square feet.

Toby Tobin, of gotoby.com, contributed to this report.

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PAY ONLY ONE DOLLAR DOWN And Take Over Payments From

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THIS FRIDAY & SA TURDAY

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ONE DOLLAR DOWN IS ALL YOU PAY TO TAKE OVER THE PAYMENTS FROM THE BANK! Do you want a $129 payment with $1 down? Do you want a $150 payment with $1 down? Do you want a $199 payment with $1 down?

Pick the vehicle that fits your budget!

The bank owns these cars, trucks and vans - Palm Coast Ford is the site that have selected to sell them. Remember, THESE ARE NOT BANK REPOS! These are brand new and preowned vehicles shipped here from around the country, made possible by the bank, to dispose of immediately! Bring ONE DOLLAR for the bank and bring your trade to our store!

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