Palm Coast Observer 4-21-22

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YOU. YOUR NEIGHBORS. YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD.

VOLUME 13, NO. 12

THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 2022

Flagler crime report Sheriff Rick Staly touts dropping crime numbers, new policing gear during annual address

Palm Coast City Council approves 151% raise for council members. Raises will take effect after the November elections.

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Inside: The Fine Arts

PAGE 2A Palm Coast Mayor David Alfin

City Councilman Eddie Branquinho

BRIAN MCMILLAN EXECUTIVE EDITOR

We would all be better off if we spent more time in art galleries and community theaters, right? Maybe our new feature, The Fine Arts, will inspire you to visit some art in person. But if you just need a creative break in your week, and you want to appreciate what some of your neighbors can do with a paint brush, or a camera, or on a stage, these pages are for you. We invite all art galleries in Flagler County and Ormond Beach to submit artwork, with an explanatory paragraph or two, to editor@palm coastobserver.com. School teachers can also submit student artwork for consideration. Check out the artwork this week, on Pages 19A, 20A and 22A.

INSIDE DRESS THIS WAY

School Board moves ahead with revised dress code PAGE 10A

GLASS TO SAND

Flagler Beach to start glass recycling program in May PAGE 4A

City Councilman Ed Danko

City Councilman Nick Klufas

City Councilman John Fanelli

$5 million in debt, pc3 may dissolve, but ‘What If?’ WHAT’S AT STEAK? Tomahawk Tavern: Axe throwing and steaks PAGE 11B

EAT IT AND WEEP

The building was bought in 2005 but membership has dwindled from 1,000 to 100. Leadership is looking for a miracle.

BRIAN MCMILLAN EXECUTIVE EDITOR

There were no toddlers being dropped off in front of the playground, no welcoming chatter from teachers or staff at the front doors of Palm Coast Community School, just dark windows. School was out, so it was no surprise that the parking lot was empty on Monday, April 18, but

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Business.................... PAGE 11B Cops Corner............... PAGE 8A Public Notices...........PAGE 19B Real Estate................PAGE 16B The Fine Arts.............PAGE 19A Veterans....................PAGE 12A

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Lead Pastor Mike Adler, left, with Director of Family Connections Mary Benvenuto

these dark windows and this distant hum of traffic on Palm Coast Parkway will be all that’s left of the private school and the accompanying church unless it can come up with more than $5 million by October, to pay off the building.

What chance does Palm Coast Community Church have of surviving? And what does a community lose when a church and school dissolve?

After arranging to meet with Lead Pastor Mike Adler to try to answer those questions, I went to the wrong entrance of the building. Oops. But he met me at the door with a smile on his face, a short man with glasses and buzzed hair, shorts and a black polo.

I followed him on our unplanned tour of the 48,000-square-foot labyrinthine building, through cubicles and corridors, with classroom signs on the walls, flowers made of balloons hanging from the ceilings. It’s a converted manufacturing facility, he told me later.

In a modest conference room, with two shelves that stored not only books but also cleaning supplies, Adler introduced me to Director of

Family Connections Mary Benvenuto, who wore a black T-shirt with the word “faith” turned into a cross.

THE BUILDING

Palm Coast Community Church, or pc3, was one of the area’s first churches. Billy Wight was one of the founders, in 1995, and no one called him “pastor,” just “Billy.” Benvenuto attended the second service that year and eventually became a staff member in 1999.

Thanks to permissions worked out

by Wight, the church met in Wadsworth Elementary School and then Indian Trails Middle School, always finding ways to welcome people who didn’t normally go to church. Today, the church’s website says, “We don’t care how you’re dressed, how many tattoos you have, or what candidate you voted for. We’re a church full of broken, imperfect people with every kind of story imaginable, and we’re saving a seat for you.”

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CITY WATCH

JONATHAN SIMMONS NEWS EDITOR

Palm Coast starts water quality monitoring program Palm Coast is implementing a new water quality monitoring program.

“It’s extremely important that we all work hard to protect our most important commodity,” Palm Coast Utility Director Stephen Flanagan said at a City Council meeting on April 19.

The city contracted with the engineering firm EnglandThims & Miller in August 2020 to develop a monitoring strategy and identify “highestpriority” watershed areas.

The firm identified four highest-priority watershed areas and installed a pilot water quality monitoring station in one of them, the Lehigh Canal watershed.

The city is planning to add another monitoring station at a second highest-priority watershed area, the Matanzas River watershed.

The City Council voted 5-0 on April 19 to approve a $112,193 contract for with England-Thims & Miller to continue data collection at the Lehigh Canal station add an additional one in the Matanzas River watershed.

Palm Coast City Council approves 151% raise The Palm Coast City Council approved a 151% raise for council members and a 164% raise for the mayor April 19 in a 4-1 vote, with Councilman Eddie Branquinho dissenting. The raises will take effect only after the November elections, but will apply to all council seats, not just those on the November ballot.

The dollar amounts the council ultimately approved were suggested

by Councilman John Fanelli and are lower than the 365% raise proposed

by Mayor David Alfin several weeks ago, but, unlike Alfin’s proposal, Fanelli’s proposal also adds city benefits and cost-of-living increases for council members.

The raises’ proponents on the council said they believed that raising council pay would help attract strong council candidates, and that the current salaries — $9,600 for council members, and $11,400 for the mayor — combined with the positions’ heavy time commitment, dissuade potential candidates who work for a living.

“Here’s my question: Should a resident’s ability and availability to serve as a City Council member be dependent on their financial wealth?” Alfin said at the meeting.

“That’s the question I put out. ...

Do we restrict our candidates from running for office and serving the community because we are tying it to their financial wealth?”

The council had initially approved Alfin’s suggestion for an increase to $44,670 for council members and $46,470 for the mayor in a firstreading vote on April 5, but Alfin, inundated by negative comments from locals, then said he was willing to reconsider the amount of the proposed raises before the required second-reading vote on April 19.

Interim City Councilman John Fanelli said he’d looked at 16 comparable cities, and found that they had an average council salary of $24,097.61 and an average mayoral salary of $30,039.47.

He suggested setting the council and mayoral salaries at those levels — a 151% salary increase for council members and a 164% raise for the

"If this is about attracting better candidates, make yourselves ineligible for this raise."

MIKE MARTIN, resident

Palm Coast Mayor David Alfin

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mayor — extending city employee cost-of-living increases to the council, and granting council members city employee benefits, with an option to instead accept a pay increase of equal value.

City staff’s “opt-out” amount for city benefits is $750, which will be the amount offered to council members who’d prefer to accept it in lieu of benefits.

Fanelli is not running for election in November and therefore would not benefit from a council raise.

“I think this is a fair and appropriate compensation for the position,” Fanelli said.

City Councilman Eddie Branquinho opposed his proposal.

“We’re creating a contract for us, with benefits, without any kind of arbitration,” Branquinho said.

None of the current Palm Coast City Council members are running for re-election in November, although two seats are on the ballot — Fanelli’s and Branquinho’s. Fanelli, when he accepted the interim council position, made a commitment not to run in November, while Branquinho has said that he does not intend

to seek re-election. The other three seats are not up for election this year, so the members that hold them — Alfin, Councilman Nick Klufas and Councilman Ed Danko — will receive the raises after the elections are over.

Locals who spoke during the meeting’s public comment period slammed the proposed raises. Many said they believed council members deserved a raise, but not such a steep one.

“The fact that we’ve had a City Council since the city was incorporated proves that people are willing to work for the current salary,” resident Mike Martin said. “... If this is about attracting better candidates, make yourselves ineligible for this raise. ... When you include yourself, no matter what you say your motivation is, it comes across as greed. Flat out greed.”

“I find it very offensive for you to stand or sit there ... and ask for a raise at a time when all of us are struggling to make it,” Sue Urban said. “Half the people in this room, I can guarantee you, barely have enough food in their cupboards to feed their families.”

One resident said that a significant

increase in council pay would disadvantage non-incumbent candidates, since incumbents could use their council pay for their campaigns.

Klufas supported raises, saying they would help attract a more diverse group of council candidates.

But he favored increases more modest than Alfin’s initial proposal, suggesting phasing in the raises or setting them closer to the salary of local School Board members ($35,949 in Flagler County) while adding benefits.

“The success of our council and the effectiveness of our council is really a function of our diversity,” Klufas said. “And I think, judging based on community feedback, that we need higher quality. ... I think having someone who can compensate their working class life with being on our council will be a net benefit, to not only our council, but to the community.”

Branquinho, the sole council member who’d vote against the proposed raises during the April 5 meeting, said this is the wrong time for such a sharp increase. He suggested that the council increase council salaries to $12,000 and the mayoral salary to $15,000, or, alternatively, that the council have the proposed raises placed on the ballot as a referendum item.

“It’s no secret that I’m entirely against this raise, especially at the level of 365%,” Branquinho said. “...

I think that we should listen to the people of Palm Coast. That’s what we’re here for. And from what you’ve heard, what I’ve heard, the people are not in favor of this.”

Other council members rejected Branquinho’s proposals and voted in favor of Fanelli’s.

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State of the FCSO Staly touts dropping crime numbers, new policing gear during annual address means more people on the roads.

“I can tell you that the trend of people not knowing how to drive in Flagler County continues,” Staly said. “Crashes are up. ... If you travel any of our major roadways — like I-95, Palm Coast Parkway, State Road 100 — I don’t have to tell you that traffic is getting worse.”

The Sheriff’s Office is responding by adding three more motorcycle patrol deputies, bringing that unit to a total of 13 deputies, he said.

Sheriff Rick Staly

"I believe that an engaged community and an informed community is a safer community, and how we do that is through guardianship policing. ... We police with the community, instead of policing the community."

RICK STALY, Flagler County sheriff

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‘INTELLIGENCE-LED POLICING’ JONATHAN SIMMONS NEWS EDITOR

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rime is down 52% since 2017 in Flagler County, and calls for service are up, Sheriff Rick Staly said in his annual Addressing Crime Together meeting at the Hilton Garden Inn in Palm Coast on April 14.

Staly’s address this year comes as the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office prepares to move into its new headquarters building in Bunnell after almost five years of administrative homelessness: The agency’s staff has been divided between the county courthouse and an administrative building at the county jail ever since the FCSO permanently evacuated its former headquarters on State Road 100 in 2018 over mold concerns.

Staly focused on the agency’s new acquisitions — not only the planned opening of the new headquarters this winter, but also the agency’s new, $400,000 mobile command center and its first dedicated police boat — and the necessity of expanding to keep up with the county’s population growth.

KEEPING UP WITH GROWTH

“Growth is going to impact, and cause strains,” Staly said. “So that’s why we work with the Board of County Commissioners and the city of Palm Coast, because I don’t want us to lose our gains. Because if you lose the gains in crime reduction, you’ll never get it back.”

He praised the County Commission and City Council for funding additional deputy positions.

“Look at all those cities around the country that defunded the police when that was a cool thing to do,” Staly said. “And I’m proud to say that our County Commission and our city councils, they did the opposite. They added more deputy sheriffs; they gave the funding for this technology. ... We’re still not exactly where we need to be with the growth that’s occurring, but I’m confident that our elected bodies will continue to support.”

A larger population means more calls for service: The agency projects that it will have handled 117,000 by the end of the year.

More people in the county also

Staly said that the agency’s use of what he called “intelligence-led policing” and technology such as traffic cameras and license plate readers has helped increase the agency’s “clearance rate” — the percentage of crimes that are solved — to 34%.

“You may say that sounds pretty low. That’s actually a very good rate when you compare us to agencies across the state and across the country,” Staly said. “... So how did we achieve this? Because we’re doing things differently.”

The agency conducts regular probation checks for juvenile offenders, he said, and, when state prisoners are released into the community, “We knock on the door and say, ‘Welcome to Flagler County. How can we help you be successful so that you don’t go back to a state prison facility?”

If releasees want the agency’s help, Staly said, they’ll get it, but the welcome also ensures that prison releasees know that deputies are aware of their presence.

The agency’s Real Time Crime Center uses a network of traffic cameras and plate readers.

“We use license plate recognition readers throughout the county.

Obviously we don’t disclose where they are, but I promise you that driving here tonight, you probably went past some LPRs,” Staly said.

The system automatically reads plates and compares them to a national database of stolen tags or cars, or to known tags numbers of fugitives or people whose driver’s license has been suspended.

“We get so many hits we have to triage it and focus on the serious offenders,” Staly said.

Traffic cameras help deputies track suspects and identify areas with crime, so that the agency can increase its presence there, Staly said.

“So instead of just deputies driving around aimlessly, we’re focusing them into the problem areas,” he said.

CRIME TRENDS

Although overall property crime is down 2.1%, Staly said, vehicle thefts are up, from four by this time last year to 13 this year. In 42% of those cases, the victim left their keys in the unlocked car, and in another

The new Sheriff’s Operations Center under construction near State Road 100 is expected to open in October or November.

40%, the victim had loaned the car to someone who didn’t bring it back.

Commercial burglaries are also up, from one by this time last year to four this year.

Most of the people arrested for those crimes aren’t local. “They’re coming from Jacksonville, Daytona,” Staly said.

In terms of violent crime, murders are down — there have been none so far this year — aggravated assaults are down 8%, fondling is up 8%, and robberies are up 12%.

“And usually, that’s a drug ripoff,” Staly said. “It’s rare that it would be ... somebody walking into a 7-Eleven and robbing it. I can’t remember the last time we had that.”

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CRIME AND CALLS FOR SERVICE

52%

overall decrease in crime in Flagler County since January 2017

1.9%

increase in domestic violence since 2017

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decrease from 2019 to 2021 in FCSO’s ‘Big 4’ focus property crimes: commercial burglaries, residential burglaries, car burglaries and stolen vehicles

NEW HEADQUARTERS AND EQUIPMENT

If the current construction timeline for the new Sheriff’s Operations Center off Commerce Parkway near the Wendy’s restaurant and the county’s Government Services Complex stays on track, Staly said, the FCSO will be moving there in October or November .

“It’s a 51,000-square-foot, hightech, very professional building,” Staly said.

He gave an example: The new headquarters will contain a “Faraday room,” an electronically secure space where confiscated devices can be held without the worry that someone could hack them and erase the contents.

“When we seize a cell phone or iPad or laptop, it goes into this room, and no dirtbags sitting in a parking lot or Commerce [Parkway] can sit there and try to penetrate into that to erase anything,” Staly said. “We’re the only agency in the four counties that has a Faraday room. We don’t have it yet, but it’s coming.”

The new building, Staly said, “will last for many, many, many decades.”

The Sheriff’s Office also just took delivery of its first vessel created specifically for policing — a 25-foot 2022 Boston Whaler Justice 250 with twin 225 horsepower engines.

“These are expensive, but my feeling is, if you buy the right thing made for the job, it’s going to last decades, instead of eight years and then you’ve got to replace it,” Staly said.

The boat will let deputies head out into the Atlantic Ocean, even in bad weather, and replaces a 1999 boat that sits low in the water and isn’t suitable for ocean use on anything but a calm day.

“And I will assure you that when emergencies happen, it’s usually not

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total crime in Flagler County in 2021, down from 1,849 in 2017

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projected total calls for service in 2022, up from 114,729 in 2017 CAR CRASHES

3,219

crashes or hit-and-runs in 2021, including 14 fatalities and 635 crashes/hit-and-runs with injuries

2,902

crashes or hit-and-runs in 2020, including 27 fatalities and 664 crashes/ hit-and-runs with injuries LICENSE PLATE READERS

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arrests using license plate reader technology in 2021

57

stolen vehicles recovered

32

stolen tags recovered

9

missing persons located

36

fugitives arrested

a nice calm day,” Staly sad.

Deputies will also soon have a new mobile command center, which is now being constructed in Sanford and will replace the FCSO’s 1999 Winnebago RV. “It’s expensive, but it’s like a fire truck,” Staly said. “If you build it for what you want to use it for, it’ll last for decades, and that’s what this vehicle will do.”

Staly closed his address with an appeal to community members to take commonsense steps to prevent crime.

“Lock it up. Don’t leave keys in [your car]; prevent yourself from becoming a victim,” he said. “ Lock up your bicycle. Remove valuables from in view inside your car. ... Please take your guns inside. Don’t leave them in the car; put stuff in the trunk. And keep your garage doors closed, even when you’re home, unless you’re sitting in the garage. Because those all become crimes of opportunity.”

The FCSO’s new marine patrol vessel.

Photos courtesy of the FCSO

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The City of Palm Coast brings the fun!

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Flagler Beach to start glass recycling program Starting May 4, Flagler Beach residents can recycle their glass products in their blue recycling bin with their aluminum and tin products.

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Bring your family down to the Palm Coast Aquatics Center on Saturday, May 28 for a day of fun & safety! Our certified lifeguards & swim instructors teach pool safety through swim lessons, fun activities, and games.

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As Earth Day approaches on April 22, the city of Flagler Beach has announced a new glass recycling initiative.

The Flagler Beach City Commission approved the purchase of a machine that the Sanitation Department can use to recycle glass products. The machine, nicknamed “Big Blue,” will transform residents’ recycled glass into useable products. The machine pulverizes the recycled glass and creates both glass sand and glass gravel.

These products can be used to create sand bags, decorative landscape mulch, drainage, and more.

Starting Wednesday, May 4, Flagler Beach residents can recycle their glass products in their blue recycling

Flagler Beach’s new glass recycling machine, nicknamed “Big Blue.”

bin with their aluminum and tin products. Residents are asked to separate their corrugated cardboard from the blue recycling bin. For now, the city is not recycling plastic and is working on identifying local recycling options.

Mayor Suzie Johnston said, “We are proud that the city of Flagler Beach runs our own recycling program and that residents’ items are truly

to the community, City Manager William Whitson, added, “The addition of Big Blue is a game changer. This will allow Flagler Beach to positively impact the environment while also creating a product that people can use and enjoy.”

The city will be demonstrating “Big Blue” during a press conference on April 21.

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Flagler Beach to get high speed MetroNet

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Fiber optic availability ‘will transform the way people do business in the city,’ City Manager William Whitson said.

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JONATHAN SIMMONS NEWS EDITOR

The MetroNet fiber optic telecommunications company that’s planning to bring high-speed internet options to Palm Coast will expand to Flagler Beach as well, with construction in Flagler Beach expected to start early in 2023 and take 12 to 18 months after the company is able to cross the Intracoastal Waterway.

“The retrofit of fiber optics in our community, from my point of view, is absolutely huge. It’s just a game changer,” Flagler Beach City Manager William Whitson said at a City Commission meeting April 14.

Even someone who doesn’t have internet at their house and isn’t interested, he said, could benefit when they go to sell their home, since fiber

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availability is valuable.

“It also will transform the way people do business in the city,” he said. “It’s good for the city. It puts us in another tier, because we’re in competition with other communities to attract business and residents. So this is a good thing.”

Even people who aren’t big internet users could benefit from the increased speeds, MetroNet Government Affairs Director Kris Smith told commissioners at the meeting.

She gave an example.

“More and more people are streaming TV,” she said. “ On Saturday night, when you’re trying to watch that movie on Netflix with your family, you don’t want to see the ‘wheel of death’ while you’re waiting and waiting and waiting for it to upload. ... We hope to be able to provide that reliable choice to you.”

Fiber is also “symmetrical,” with the same download and upload speeds, she said: Local residents would be offered one gigabit, or 1,000 megabits per second, for both.

Prices, Smith said, will be comparable to existing offer-

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ORDINANCE 2022-XX AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF BUNNELL, FLORIDA PROVIDING FOR THE REZONING OF REAL PROPERTY TOTALING APPROXIMATELY 84,060 ACRES WITHIN THE CITY OF BUNNELL AS DESCRIBED IN EXHIBIT “A” PROVIDING FOR THE TAKING OF IMPLEMENTING ADMINISTRATIVE ACTIONS; PROVIDING FOR THE ADOPTION OF MAPS BY REFERENCE; REPEALING ALL CONFLICTING ORDINANCES; PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY; PROVIDING FOR NON-CODIFICATION AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE. ALL INTERESTED PERSONS ARE INVITED TO PARTICIPATE as may be legally permitted on the day of the meeting. Instructions on how to participate by electronic or other means if in person participation is not legally permitted can be found on the City of Bunnell’s website at www.bunnellcity.us by clicking on the banner on the City’s homepage. Questions regarding use of available technology to access the public hearing can be answered by calling (386) 437-7500. The public is advised to check the City’s website for up-to-date information on any changes to the manner in which the meeting will be held and the location. The failure of a person to appear during said hearing and comment on or object to the proposed Ordinance, either in person or in writing, might preclude the ability of such person to contest the Ordinance at a later date. A copy of all pertinent information this ordinance can be obtained at the office of the Bunnell Customer Service Office, 604 E. Moody Blvd. Unit 6, Bunnell, FL 32110. Persons with disabilities needing assistance to attend this proceeding should contact the Bunnell City Clerk at (386) 437-7500 x 5 at least 48-business hours prior to the meeting.

If a person decides to appeal any decision made by the City Commission on this matter a recording of the proceeding may be needed and for such purposes the person may need to ensure that a verbatim record is made which includes the testimony and evidence upon which the appeal is based. (Section 286.0105, Florida Statutes)

ings in the area.

She warned that the construction process will be noticeable in utility easement areas.

“It’s messy. It’s invasive, at best,” she said. “We restore as we go. So you might see a giant machine; you might see folks digging, a man in a hole.

Within 24 to 36 hours, that should be restored. We restore as we move along.”

MetroNet will be sending postcards to residents explaining who they can contact if they have questions about the construction process. There will also be

“Even though someone may not have internet at their house or not even want it, if they ever go to sell that property, that’s a good selling point — fiber to the home. So that’ll increase their value.”

WILLIAM WHITSON, Flagler Beach city manager

FIRST INSERTION The City of Bunnell Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board will hold a public hearing to consider the following Special Exception Request: APPLICATION BY THE PALM COAST BAPTIST CHURCH OF FLAGLER COUNTY, INC. AKA THE FLAGLER COUNTY BAPTIST CHURCH FOR A SPECIAL EXCEPTION TO ALLOW A SCHOOL LOCATED AT 500 N. PINE STREET IN THE R-1, SINGLE-FAMILY DISTRICT NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE CITY OF BUNNELL PLANNING, ZONING AND APPEALS BOARD will hold a Public Hearing at 6:00 P.M. on May 3, 2022 in the County Commission Chambers of the Government Services Building located at 1769 East Moody Blvd., Bunnell, FL 32110 to consider the Special Exception Request.

ALL INTERESTED PERSONS ARE INVITED TO PARTICIPATE in person or as may be legally permitted on the day of the meeting or by available technology. Instructions on how to participate by electronic means can be found on the City of Bunnell website at www.bunnellcity.us or with the published agenda.

The failure of a person to appear or participate during the public hearing and comment on or object to the request, either in writing, in person as legally permitted on the day of the meeting or using available technology, may preclude the ability of such person to appeal the City of Bunnell Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board’s decision at a later date. .

A copy of all pertinent information this ordinance can be obtained at the office of the Bunnell Customer Service Office, 604 E. Moody Blvd. Unit 6, Bunnell, FL 32110. Persons with disabilities needing assistance to attend this proceeding should contact the Bunnell City Clerk at (386) 437-7500 x 5 at least 48-business hours prior to the meeting.

NOTICE: If a person decides to appeal any decision made by the City of Bunnell Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board on this matter, the person is responsible for obtaining a verbatim record from the recording of the public hearing, which includes the testimony and evidence upon which the appeal is based. (286.0105Florida Statute)

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real-estate-style signs placed at the entrances of neighborhoods before work begins.

“It should be a quick restoration process,” Smith said.

“But if there’s questions — we didn’t put something back the way that someone liked it, maybe we did damage the sprinkler system and we didn’t realize it, and it’s been a few days and you turn your system on — we want folks to be able to communicate with us and know that we will make it right.”

Commissioner Jane Mealy suggested that MetroNet host a meeting with locals.

“We have a lot of residents who even don’t have computers — it’s an older crowd; they’re not interested,” Mealy said. “But they’re going to have this happen in front of their house, regardless of whether it’s going to help them directly or not. So I think to do something personal, like a tailgate meeting ... if they want to come, they’ll come.”

Smith said MetroNet expects to hire a number of locals and add a storefront somewhere in the area.

“We’re shopping around,” she said. “We’ll have lots of community involvement.”

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recycled. We’ll now be able to recycle more than 12 tons of glass a week.”

According to the Glass Packaging Institute, “Glass is 100% recyclable and can be recycled endlessly without loss in quality or purity,” and “over a ton of natural resources are saved for every ton of glass recycled.”

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Volusia ME facility to cost $16.1 million

JARLEENE ALMENAS ASSOCIATE EDITOR

Volusia County’s new medical examiner’s facility is one step closer to fruition after the County Council unanimously awarded a $16.1 million construction contract to Wharton-Smith Inc on Tuesday, April 19.

The facility, to span 19,892 square feet, will be built on an estimated 3.3-acre parcel about a mile away from the current building at 1360 Indian Lake Road in Daytona Beach. A county press release states that the new single-story building “will provide more modern and spacious work space, stateof-art autopsy stations and a family meeting room,” and is designed to meet the medical examiner’s space needs for the next 20 years. The site is also capable of supporting future building expansion, should the need arise.

County Engineer Tadd Kasbeer told the council that the new building will allow the county to pursue accreditation through the National Association of Medical Examiners, something that will help with both retaining employees and recruiting future ones.

The cost is a bit higher than the county anticipated. The county had previously budgeted for a $13 million project.

“But based on what inflation has over the last three years, this is right in line with the national inflation,” Kasbeer said.

Plans for a new medical examiner’s facility have been

in the works for the last several years. In 2018, the county medical examiner at the time resigned after one month on the job due to “dangerous conditions” at the facility, per her letter to the Florida Medical Examiners Commission.

In December 2019, the County Council authorized staff to negotiate a contract with Wharton-Smith Inc, which is based out of Sanford, to serve as the construction manager and general contractor for the construction of a new facility, according to county documents. In April 2020, the council approved part of the pre-construction services contract which included coordination with architect firm Schenkel & Shultz, Inc. County Manager George Recktenwald said that the delay in beginning the project — now anticipated to begin in September and take a year to complete — originally was due to the county’s partnership with Seminole County, which ended in 2018. According to the Orlando Sentinel, the disagreement revolved around asking Seminole, which then contracted medical examiner services from Volusia, to pay over $6.1 million for the new facility.

“So it goes back that many years,” Recktenwald said. “...

But that being said, we saved up for this as we do most of our projects, and we capped it off with a little bit of the COVID money. That was able to get us over this hump with the difference.”

Volusia County Medical Examiner Dr. James Fulcher, who was hired in 2019, spoke the obvious sentiment at the council meeting: the current medical examiner’s facility is “dysfunctional.” One of the building’s shortfall was highlighted during the

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The new facility will ensure the county is prepared for any mass disaster in the future, he said.

“All these things will help us,” Fulcher said. “It really will, and I think we’re going to get a long lifespan of this building.”

Council members agreed that the new facility is a necessity. Councilwoman Heather Post, who tuned in virtually to the meeting after suffering a recent bad fall, said this is the final step of bringing the medical examiner’s facility up to par.

“Absolutely, we must push this forward and you must expedite to get it done as soon as possible,” she said.

Councilman Ben Johnson, a former Volusia County sheriff, shared that discussions for a new medical examiner’s facility date back to before the recession. The county had discussed adding it as a wing to the evidence building, but that plan was scratched due to the recession. He added that it might have worked out for the best, as they are likely getting a “more complete, better building.”

“But it was not something that was forgotten, nor not needed, and I’m happy to be able to support this,” he said.

Chair Jeff Brower said the facility is important to local law enforcement and residents alike.

“This is one of those things that is not just nice to have,” Brower said. “It’s an absolute requirement.”

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Planning Board requests less lots for Plantation Oaks Palm Coast Plantation Oaks is part of the National Gardens Development of Regional Impact, which had its residential density limit reduced to 2,115 units in 2001.

JARLEENE ALMENAS ASSOCIATE EDITOR

How many homes is too many?

A major amendment for Plantation Oaks, a residential development located between Old Dixie Highway and U.S. 1, came before the Ormond Beach Planning Board on Thursday, April 14, seeking approval to add 291 singlefamily homes to the project.

Plantation Oaks is already approved to build 1,577 homes, composed of both age-restricted manufactured homes and single-family lots.

The additional requested lots by developer Parker Mynchenberg, manager of Plantation Oaks of Ormond Beach LLC, were proposed to be split in three phases: 80 in phase 1 and 86 in phase 3 on what was previously slated to be a golf course for the subdivision, and 125 lots in a formerly designated school site.

The Planning Board members, like the several speakers from the public who voiced opposition to the project, were not excited about this new ask, the developer’s second for the 1,033-acre project annexed into the city in 2019 and first approved by the Volusia County Council

BRIEFS New contribution limit to face fight Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday, April 6, signed a bill that would limit out-of-state contributions to political committees trying to place proposed constitutional amendments on the Florida ballot.

But a week before the signature, opponents signaled the bill would face a court fight.

The bill (HB 921) includes a $3,000 limit on contributions from out-of-state donors to committees trying to collect enough petition signatures to move forward with citizens’ initiatives. It came after U.S. District Judge Allen Winsor in July issued a preliminary injunction against a 2021 law that limited contributions from in-state and out-of-state donors to initiative drives.

While the new bill was narrowed to only apply to outof-state donors, attorneys for the ACLU Foundation of Florida last week set the stage for a challenge. They requested that Winsor approve filing briefs on the bill — a request that Winsor granted.

In last year’s preliminary injunction, Windsor found that the 2021 law unconstitutionally restricted speech. But the overall challenge to the 2021 law remains pending, with the ACLU and other plaintiffs seeking a summary judgment against the contribution limit.

In the request filed last week, the ACLU attorneys said their brief would address “why the relief sought in the pending motion for summary judgment encompasses” the new law, which is slated to take effect July 1.

“Plaintiffs brought this pre-enforcement action to achieve peace of mind and certainty that they would not face civil or criminal consequences for exercising their First Amendment rights,” the March 30 request said.

“Plaintiffs’ prosecution of this case has been guided by their desire to reach a speedy, thorough, and final resolution

in 2002. “[Plantation Oaks] was originally designed to be selfcontained, and it’s kind of morphed into something different,” board member Lori Tolland said. “I think we really need to consider this request with caution. ... I think there’s some room for discussion for the site where the school was to have some build-out, but I’m not really comfortable with all of that building on the golf course.”

Tolland also expressed concern that, if Mynchenberg’s request was approved without a lot reduction, the city would be rapidly approaching its maximum impact of development.

Plantation Oaks is part of the National Gardens Development of Regional Impact, which had its residential density limit reduced to 2,115 units in 2001. With another application within the DRI in the works for unincorporated Volusia County —a 144-unit residential subdivision called Dixie Ridge, which will be under county jurisdiction — if the Ormond Beach City Commission ultimately OKs the 291 proposed new units for Plantation Oaks, the total number of residential units in the DRI will be 2,012, which is 103 less than the DRI’s density limit.

The Planning Board asked for concessions to be made.

“I want more open space,” Board Chair Doug Thomas said. “I want less lots.”

And in his last meeting as board chair, having served on the Planning Board for 32 years, Thomas wasn’t timid about guiding his colleagues through the process, negotiating with Mynchenberg to add more recreational space

of those issues. A full airing of arguments now will place the court in a better position to finally resolve this case prior to the new bill’s effective date and give plaintiffs the needed certainty about their rights and obligations.”

Critics of this year’s bill argued during the legislative session that it would be unconstitutional.

“We should not limit people’s ability to speak, period,” Sen. Jeff Brandes, R-St. Petersburg, said.

But supporters drew a distinction with the 2021 law because the contribution limit in the new version would only apply to out-of-state donors.

They said wealthy out-ofstate people and groups should not be able to bankroll efforts to change the Florida Constitution.

“I think the initiative should be made by the citizens of Florida and not by outsiders,” Rep. Bobby Payne, R-Palatka, said during a floor debate.

The 2021 law and this year’s bill were part of years of efforts by Republican leaders to make it harder to pass citizens’ initiatives. Political committees typically have to raise and spend millions of dollars to collect the hundreds of thousands of petition signatures needed to reach the ballot.

The 2021 law and the new measure would limit contributions during the petitiongathering phase of initiatives.

The limit would not apply after initiatives qualify for the ballot.

But Winsor, who was appointed to the bench by former President Donald Trump, said in last year’s preliminary injunction that the limit would improperly curtail political speech.

“First, contributions to political committees that advocate for ballot initiatives are ‘beyond question a very significant form of political expression,’” Winsor wrote, partially quoting from legal precedent.

The state “bears the burden of justifying restrictions on political expression by advancing at least ‘a significantly important interest’

to solicit input on city’s Comp Plan Initial housekeeping changes were approved by the City Council on April 19.

JONATHAN SIMMONS NEWS EDITOR

Plantation Oaks is located between Old Dixie Highway and U.S. 1.

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for families and reducing the overall number of new proposed lots.

Instead of adding 80 lots in phase 1, they asked Mynchenberg for 40, and instead of 86 lots in phase 3, they requested 43. Mynchenberg acquiesced, not wanting the board to table his request and therefore delay his hearing before the City Commission to July. The board voted 5-2 for the phase 1 lot reduction, with board members Tolland and Angeline Shull voting no; the vote for the lot reduction in phase 3 passed 4-3, with board members Tolland, Shull and Al Jorczak voting against.

Additionally, a motion to reduce the 125 proposed lots for the school site to 90 lots failed 4-3. Board members Tolland, Shull, Jorzak and Briley voted against. Mynchen-

berg wasn’t willing to reduce the number further and asked for the board to vote on his original proposal of 125 lots.

This motion died for lack of a second, meaning a recommendation of denial from the Planning Board.

Mynchenberg ’s other requests — lifting the age restriction for phase 3, adding public streets to phase 4 and removing the 33 acres bought by Volusia County for conservation from the development — were all approved unanimously.

He thanked the board for their time considering his requests during the almost four-hour meeting.

“I know this was not an easy decision for some of you,” said Mynchenberg, referring to some of the board member’s hesitation to recommend

amendments to the commission without seeing a new plan. “I think you saw a willingness to compromise. I wish we could have gotten there on the school site, but I’ll make my pitch at City Commission and see how I do.”

At the end of the meeting, Thomas — who served on the Planning Board from the mid-’80s to the mid-’90s and again beginning in 2000 — told his fellow board members that he enjoyed his service on the board. In his closing comments, he announced that he is resigning to take care of his wife. They will celebrate their 50th anniversary in the coming days.

“She’s the most important thing in my life,” he said. “... I have enjoyed being chairman, but there are higher priorities in my life.”

that is ‘closely drawn to avoid unnecessary abridgment of associational freedoms,’” Winsor wrote.

early learning programs.

“Through this funding, more than 7,000 foster parents and caregivers will receive this subsidy for the children that are in their care.

And that’s going to make a big difference. Quite frankly, just from a feasibility perspective, foster parents have to work to put food on the table like anyone else. This will help them in that regard,” the governor said.

The law also will bolster tuition and fee-waiver programs to help foster children attend state colleges, universities and workforce-education programs. The governor signed the bill at Miami Dade College.

Department of Children and Families Secretary Shevaun Harris said the law expands Florida’s “toolbox of resources” to help young adults who are exiting the foster care system.

“For many of the kids in the system, attending and graduating college is defying the odds. Legislation like this helps us stack the deck in their favor,” Harris said.

The number of licensed foster parents in Florida has grown by about 4,000 since 2019, the governor said Tuesday.

defines such abnormalities as “a terminal condition that, in reasonable medical judgment, regardless of the provision of life-saving medical treatment, is incompatible” with life outside the womb.

Flanked by Republican lawmakers, DeSantis signed the bill at Nacion de Fe, a Kissimmee church where former vice president Mike Pence made a 2020 campaign stop to court Latino voters. The governor took the stage as screens displayed the message “Florida protege el derecho la vida,” or “Florida protects the right to life.”

“We are here today to protect life. We are here today to defend those who can’t defend themselves,” DeSantis said.

The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in December about the Mississippi law, a case that could lead to the court’s conservative majority scaling back or overturning the landmark Roe v. Wade abortion decision.

Florida Sen. Kelli Stargel, a Lakeland Republican who sponsored the 15-week limit in the Senate, took aim at Roe v. Wade during the bill-signing event in Kissimmee. Roe v.

Wade generally has allowed women to have abortions until about 24 weeks of pregnancy.

“When I ran for office this was something I never dreamed, that we’d be to a day where … we’re looking to the potential of Roe v. Wade being overturned,” Stargel said, eliciting loud applause from the crowd. “And that we’re protecting the life of every single baby past 15 weeks of gestation.”

Meanwhile, Democrats and abortion-rights groups said the bill is unconstitutional and an affront to women’s rights.

“We’ll see Florida in court,” a tweet from the American Civil Liberties Union said, in part.

Critics also slammed the Legislature for rejecting proposed changes to the bill that would have added an exception to the 15-week abortion limit for victims of rape or incest.

DeSantis signs bill to bolster foster care

Saying that foster children in Florida “deserve an opportunity,” Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday, April 12, signed a bill that will increase payments to caregivers and provide foster parents with money for childcare programs.

The measure (SB 7034) was approved by lawmakers during the legislative session that ended March 14.

In part, the law will increase monthly payments from the state to relatives and nonrelatives who serve as caregivers to foster children, making their payment rates on par with licensed foster parents.

“Placement with relatives, or kinship care, provides permanency for children and helps maintain family connections,” the Florida Senate said in a news release Tuesday, adding that “kinship care” can involve placing children with people such as close family friends or godparents.

Foster care legislation has been a priority of Senate President Wilton Simpson, a Trilby Republican who was adopted. Simpson said that raising payments could be a deciding factor for people who are considering bringing foster children into their homes.

“Improving the level of benefits for family members and foster parents could mean all the difference when these folks are considering whether they can take in a vulnerable child,” Simpson said in a statement.

More than $44 million is earmarked in the proposed state budget for the 20222023 fiscal year to carry out parts of the bill. The Legislature has not formally sent the budget to DeSantis for his approval and vetoes.

DeSantis touted nearly $25 million of the money that is designed to provide $200 monthly subsidies to help cover costs of child care and

DeSantis signs 15-week abortion limit

Florida doctors soon will be barred from performing abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, as Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday, April 14, signed a measure that closely resembles a Mississippi law under review by the U.S. Supreme Court.

The Republican-controlled Legislature passed the bill (HB 5) along almost straight party lines after tense and hours-long debates during this year’s legislative session.

Opponents quickly threatened Thursday to challenge the measure in court.

The law, which will take effect July 1, bans most abortions past the 15-week mark.

An exception would be allowed for instances of a “fatal fetal abnormality.” The law

Palm Coast’s City Council approved minor modifications to the city’s Comprehensive Plan at a meeting on April 19, but a much more intensive review of the Comprehensive Plan is expected to follow, and will include public input.

“The comprehensive plan is a vision of the community,” Palm Coast Senior Planner Jose Papa said at the April 19 City Council meeting. “...

You’ll need the involvement of the community. That’s the first step. We need to engage the community in a conversation.”

Florida law requires that cities, every seven years, determine if they need to review their Comprehensive Plan, and, if so, that they submit proposed amendments on a state-determined timeline.

But other changes can also follow later once that requirement is met.

The changes that the council approved on April 19 — a city staff document refers to them as housekeeping items — include updating the Comprehensive Plan’s references to capital improvements to include the most recent School District Work Plan, updating a list of city recreation facilities in the Comprehensive Plan, and updating a list of shortrange, mid-range and longrange capital improvement park projects.

That completed, a more substantive review in coming months will let residents help address significant questions about the city’s future, Papa said. For instance: What are the city’s infrastructure needs? What aspects of the city should be protected?

What kinds of parks should the city provide, for what kinds of users?

“Those are all part of the challenges, and those are all part of the conversation you need to have,” Papa said. “...

The challenges were always there, because no one thought we were going to stay 35,000 [people].”

The Comprehensive Plan was created in 2004 and underwent a major update in 2010.

Palm Coast Deputy Chief Development Officer Ray Tyner said the planning department is also looking to update the city’s transportation planning out to 2045.

Changes, by law, must be based on data, City Attorney Neysa Borkert said.

The city government has applied for state grant money to host community meetings to solicit resident input, said Palm Coast Chief Development Officer Jason DeLorenzo.

“Our comprehensive plan for the city of Palm Coast is truly the blueprint for — the vision and blueprint for — both the present and the future.”

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Bunnell library design Fines for being loud?

Flagler County’s new law contract approved Commissioner Andy Dance voted against the contact, saying he’d prefer the commission to finish strategic planning before approving such a major expense.

JONATHAN SIMMONS NEWS EDITOR

Flagler County’s planned new public library branch in Bunnell is moving forward: County Commissioners at an April 18 meeting voted 4-1 to approve a $937,853 contract for full design of the library mixed-use facility, which will be built near the Wendy’s restaurant on State Road 100 at Commerce Parkway.

Commissioner Andy Dance voted against the contact with Orlando-based Rhodes & Brito Architects, saying he’d prefer that the commission finish its strategic planning process before approving such a major expense.

“I just want to be the speed bump on this, and continue to look at our total needs before I spend a million dollars on design fees, which could come after we do our strategic planning,” Dance said. “It’s just my personal opinion. I know the rest of the commission has been at this project a lot longer than me, so I understand

“We've put things off long enough. We want to be proactive and not reactive.”

JOE MULLINS, county commisioner

BRIEFS Three arrested on drug charges Deputies closed a drug house and arrested three local habitual offenders April 12 after an undercover operation.

The Flagler County Sheriff’s Office’s Special Investigations Unit, with the assistance of the FCSO SWAT team and Putnam County Sheriff’s Office SWAT team, raided the drug house at 2345 Blueberry Street in Bunnell early in the morning, arresting the suspects and seizing fentanyl, heroin, methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia.

Of the eight adults located inside the residence, deputies arrested 40-year-old James Donaldson, 37-year-old Cheyenne Donaldson and 28-yearold Haley Scott for multiple narcotics charges.

“I’m proud of our team for their efforts investigating this residence,” Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly said. “Here we have three poison peddlers well-known in the Mondex community who thought they could get away with continuing to break the law. This is a reminder to drug dealers that Flagler County is not the place to bring drug or sell drugs. We will not tolerate

their need to proceed.”

County Commissioner Joe Mullins said it was time to move forward.

“We’ve been talking about it for many years, and I know the strategic plan’s important, but I certainly don’t want to see us postpone business and delay things,” Mullins said. “We’ve put things off long enough. We want to be proactive and not reactive to things.”

Dance asked about how the $937,853 figure was calculated.

Flagler County Library Director Holly Albanese said she’d asked the architect that question, and was told that design fees are calculated in accordance with Florida Department of Management Services guidelines, based on estimated construction costs, plus civil engineering and landscape architecture fees.

The library’s construction cost as used in that calculation is approximately $12 million (contingencies and various “soft costs” bring the actual total up to $16 million), which led to a calculated design fee of $840,000, plus an estimated $300,000 for civil engineering and landscape architecture, for a total of approximately $1.1 million, which the firm pushed down to $937,853 by getting subcontractors to reduce costs, Albanese said.

The county also retained Rhodes & Brito Architects last year for preliminary design, spending $42,116 for site investigation and master planning, plus $12,288 for a revised site plan after the county decided to incorporate additional county programs and functions into the planned library facility.

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it, and we will find you and put you behind bars, where you belong.”

The Donaldsons both have a criminal history, dating back to 2011. The three subjects are being held at the county jail.

James Donaldson is facing charges of Possession of Methamphetamine and Possession of Drug Paraphernalia and is being held on a $3,000 bond, while Cheyenne Donaldson is facing charges of Possession of Fentanyl, Possession of Heroin, Possession of Methamphetamine and Possession of Drug Paraphernalia and being held on $8,000 bond. Scott is facing charges of Possession of Methamphetamine and has been released on bond.

Daytona Beach woman arrested in Beach Street double shooting The Daytona Beach Police Department has arrested a 19-year-old Daytona Beach woman for shooting two men at a riverside apartment complex during a fight with another woman.

Jayla Monet Fisher was taken into custody at her Acklins Circle residence around an hour after shots were fired in the parking lot at the Tzadik

The ordinance will affect only unincorporated areas of Flagler County.

JONATHAN SIMMONS NEWS EDITOR

New noise regulations are designed to make the unincorporated areas of Flagler County a bit quieter: The County Commission on April 18 unanimously approved an ordinance that lets law enforcement officers fine people for producing loud noises.

“This was an ordinance requested by the sheriff so that he would have an additional tool to deal with nuisance noise,” County Attorney Al Hadeed told commissioners at the meeting.

Deputies responding to noise complaints will use decibel meters to measure sound levels.

The new ordinance affects only the incorporated areas of Flagler County — local cities already have their own noise ordinances — and allows different sound levels in different zoning designations.

In residential areas, no one will be allowed to create noise exceeding 60 dBA from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m., or 55 dBA from 10 p.m. to 7 a.m., when measured beyond their property lines.

In areas zoned as commercial, office and public lands, the 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. decibel limit is 70 dBA and the 10 p.m. to 7 a.m. limit is 65 dBA, while the limit in agricultural areas it is 75 dBA at all times.

The ordinance contains exceptions for lawn mowers and landscaping machinery during daylight hours; construction equipment operating with standard noise reducing equipment; motor vehicles, aircraft, and trains;

HOW LOUD IS IT? 30 decibels: soft whisper 40 decibels: refrigerator hum 60 decibels: normal conversation, air conditioner 70 decibels: washing machine, dishwasher 89-85 decibels: city traffic, from inside a car; gas-powered lawn mowers and leaf blowers 95 decibels: motorcycle 100 decibels: approaching subway train, car horn at 16 feet Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: https://www. cdc.gov/nceh/hearing_loss/what_noises_ cause_hearing_loss.html

non-amplified human voices; contractors’ vehicles and activities engaged in public service; safety signals, warning devices and emergency response sirens and countysponsored or county-sanctioned events.

Enforcement would start with a written warning and a notice to cure, according to the text of the new ordinance.

A second violation within 180 days would lead to a $250 citation, and a third violation within 180 days would be a misdemeanor with a $500 citation, imprisonment for up to 60 days, or both.

Citations could be issued to the person responsible for the noise or to the property owner who owns the address where the nuisance noise occurred.

Email News Editor Jonathan Simmons at jonathan@palmcoastobserver.com.

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JURY DUTY SCAM 8:18 p.m. — 2400 block of Kimball Drive, Ormond Beach Fraud. A 67-year-old Ormond Beach woman told police she’d received a phone call from the Clay County Sheriff’s Office telling her there was a warrant out for her arrest because she failed to appear for federal jury duty.

She said that she was on the phone for over five hours with a “Major Knox” who was pretending to be with the Sheriff’s Office, which resulted in her being scammed out of $7,600 after “Major Knox” told her to use a cash payment app or gift cards to pay to remove the warrants. She bought gift cards and mailed them.

The woman told police she complied demands because she was scared she would be arrested. She wished to pursue charges.

APRIL 8

A PROBLEM, ANY WAY YOU SLICE IT 11:26 p.m. 100 block of Palm Harbor Parkway, Palm Coast Petit theft. An employee in his first week of work for a local pizzeria made nine deliveries, four of which were paid in cash. He was supposed to return to the pizza shop at about 7 p.m. to turn over the money and pizza delivery bags, but never did. The pizzeria reported the cash and two pizza bags as stolen.

APRIL 10

DOG ON THE LOOSE? 9:31 p.m. — 500 block of South Yonge Street, Ormond Beach Animal complaint. A 36-yearold Ormond Beach man called police and said his Uber Eats driver was attacked by a neighbor’s door.

According to the police report, the driver was delivering the man’s pizza when the dog “potentially” attacked him by knocking him down. The food

was delivered though, and the driver never reported the incident.

The man told police that the neighbor’s dog, described as a “very large Mastiff-type mixed breed,” runs around scaring people. Officers didn’t see the dog in the area.

APRIL 12

NOT QUITE ‘JUST ONE’ 10:06 p.m. 100 block of Flagler Plaza Drive, Palm Coast Disorderly intoxication, disorderly conduct. A woman entered a local store and started yelling at people.

A deputy noted that the woman smelled of alcohol. He asked her how much booze she’d had. She said she’d had one or one and a half drinks.

The deputy searched her and found an empty beer bottle and two empty champagne bottles, plus three more unopened beer bottles.

The deputy arrested her.

APRIL 15

JUST A CIVIL MATTER 9:21 p.m. — First block of Cypress Circle, Ormond Beach Information. Two Ormond Beach neighbors have been in an ongoing dispute over cats.

A police report details that the reporting party, a 51-yearold woman, told police that the dispute began with her 23-year-old triplex neighbor’s cats “running at large” and pulling at her screens at night.

Each person also complained that the other has been putting their stuff in the other’s area, and moving property.

The 51-year-old also said that her neighbor’s children have been walking through her garden and messing it up.

In turn, the neighbor told police that the woman killed weeds in her garden, though she didn’t see her do it. The neighbor suspected the woman to be the culprit because she had spotted weed killer in the woman’s window.

Police told them to contact the landlord for this issue, but one of the women said he is not addressing their dispute.

So the officer then advised them to keep their stuff on their section of property.

Semitruck transporting bags of cocoa on I-95 catches fire near Ormond Beach A semitruck loaded with bags of cocoa caught on fire near mile marker 266 on I-95 around 1 a.m. Monday, April 18, Florida Highway Patrol reported.

Troopers responded to the scene for traffic control. The two adult females traveling in the semitruck were uninjured, according to FHP. The reason for the fire is unknown.

A semitruck carrying cocoa caught on fire Monday, April 18.

Bay Apartments on 1215 S. Beach St. DBPD responded to the scene soon after the call for help came into Volusia County’s emergency dispatch at 8:58 a.m. on April 14.

Detectives are still working on establishing the motive for the argument between Fisher and the other woman. Preliminary investigation shows that the dispute between the women turned physical and that Fisher got a gun during the fight and fired it several times at the other woman, then fled before police arrived. The other woman — a 20-year-old Volusia County resident — was not struck by any of the bullets, but they did

strike two men.

One of the men — a 19-year-old Volusia County resident — was watching the fight, but wasn’t involved. He was shot in the arm and left on his own to get treatment at Halifax Health Medical Center.

The other victim is a 78-year-old man who lives at the apartment complex and was in his home when one of the bullets went through the window and struck him on the side of his upper torso. Paramedics took him fto HHMC for treatment. His condition is not life-threatening.

Fisher is facing two felony charges of aggravated battery and one misdemeanor charge of simple battery.

Sheriff launches Autism Awareness Program With April being Autism Awareness Month, Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly is launching a new program at the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office.

The FCSO has designed a new logo to help notify deputies in a traffic stop or a call to a home, business or other location that a person at that location has autism.

“The logo is a sticker which can be placed on the window of your car, your home or any location where you may have a loved one with autism,” Staly said. “This is a great

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These stickers, along with a brochure sharing details of the Autism Awareness program, will be sent to those who fill out an informational survey.

Residents can find the FCSO Autism Awareness web page at FlaglerSheriff.com.

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Hazel becomes Flagler Schools moves ahead on revised dress code Volusia’s The board also interim school shined a spotlight Future Problem superintendent on Solvers and approved Hazel started working with Volusia County Schools in 1996.

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BRENT WORONOFF STAFF WRITER

The Flagler County School Board approved the advertisement for the new dress code proposal at its monthly meeting April 19.

At the start of the meeting, the board honored the district’s Future Problem Solvers with a spotlight at the beginning of the meeting. The district sent 181 students to the statewide competition March 20-23 in Orlando.

The revised student dress code is scheduled for final board approval in June to take effect next school year.

The board voted 5-0 to allow advertising the new

The School Board honored Flagler's Future Problem Solvers.

tionships and communication through training, coaching and personalized support.

The total cost of the program is $420,900, which would be “one-time nonrecurring dollars investing in our people,” said Bobby Bossardet, the district assistant superintendent of academic services.

The training program would include 650 school leaders and instructional staff represent-

Money pit? Flagler Schools won’t move programs to Belle Terre swim club BRENT WORONOFF STAFF WRITER

The decision of what to do with the Belle Terre Swim & Racquet Club becomes murkier by the day for the Flagler County School Board.

The school district refers to the site at P73 in reference to its address of 73 Patricia Drive.

As cost estimates are adding up at the site, the district is finding homes elsewhere for the programs it had planned to move to the property.

At the April 19 School Board workshop, Paul Peacock, the district’s chief operations officer, said the price to fix the club’s parking lot has swollen from about $150,000 to $420,000 because the base is not sufficient to pave over.

“What is the movie, “Money Pit?” Peacock asked. “That just shows, going forward it will be almost a million now before we put anything there.”

Peacock said the district has found a home for the TRAIL Transition Program at

Rymfire Elementary School’s building 2. And iFlagler Virtual School will share portables with Flagler Technical College at the Central Services Annex.

“It’s a good marriage,” Peacock said, with iFlagler using the portables during the day and FTC using them in the evening.

The Step-Up program will remain at its current location for now, Peacock said.

Board member Colleen Conklin asked Peacock, for the purpose of informing the general public, why iFlagler would need portables.

“It’s an opportunity for teachers to collaborate. You need to have office space,” Peacock said. “It’s not an exorbitant amount of space

that’s needed.”

Peacock and Dave Freeman, the district’s director of plant services, said a study should be complete by the end of next week assessing the life expectancy of the Swim and Racquet Club’s pool and gym equipment.

With local swim teams urging the City Council to approve a new aquatic center, Conklin asked if there were conversations about sharing facilities.

Peacock said there have been ongoing conversations and suggested an interlocal agreement would be the best path forward.

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“What is the movie, ‘Money Pit’? That just shows, going forward it will be almost a million now before we put anything there.”

PAUL PEACOCK, district operations chief

ing all of the district’s schools.

“It will help reconnect and build relationships among workforce, and it will be beneficial not only for staff and students but community and parents as well,” Bossardet said.

The programs include Leadership Solutions and Campus Solutions with training sessions beginning in June and continuing through the 202223 school year.

Photo by Brent Woronoff

Capturing Kids’ Hearts also trains school leaders to be trainers.

The program has produced results in other districts, Bossardet said, including decreasing discipline referrals, increasing student attendance and test scores, increasing teacher attendance, decreasing teacher turnover and increasing parent and community relationships.

ICI offers to buy Flagler Schools property in Plantation Bay The developer would donate the site back if the board decided to build a school within two years.

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Is the Flagler County School Board’s Plantation Bay property unnecessary for education use?

David Haas, a representative of developer ICI Homes, is betting the district will never build a school on the site. Haas appeared before the board during a workshop April 19 offering to buy the school’s 26-acre property as well as the county’s adjacent 30-acre property for the appraised price.

He said the developer would pay cash, and provided an unusual commitment.

“If you decide you need it for a school within the next

two years, we’ll donate it to you free of charge. We don’t think you’re going to build a school there,” he said.

The School Board has owned the land for 37 years.

Patty Bott, the school district’s coordinator of planning and intergovernmental relations, said there are not many students living in the vicinity.

Haas also questioned the wetlands data the district had.

“The wetlands are very deep,” he said. “You would need to dredge the muck and refill. The cost to mitigate would be off the charts.”

Board member Colleen Conklin asked about a trade.

“We need land,” she said.

“We don’t have many sites left.”

Haas said ICI would prefer to buy the land outright.

“We think it will be the neatest cleanest way,” he said.

The board would need to determine the land is unnecessary for education in order to sell.

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On Tuesday, April 12, the Volusia County School Board appointed Rachel Hazel as interim superintendent for the school district. Hazel has agreed to serve in this role as the School Board finalizes its decision regarding the next permanent superintendent.

“My primary role during this time will be to make decisions that must be made immediately and gather as much information as possible to ensure the transition for our next Superintendent is a smooth one,” Hazel said.

Hazel started her career with Volusia County Schools in 1996 as a clerk. Hazel worked as a teacher and later had administrative roles as elementary assistant principal and principal, and has several as executive director of K-12 curriculum, chief academic officer of curriculum, curriculum & school improvement, and until recently, director of human resources.

She is certified in educational leadership and mentally handicapped and earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Central Florida and a master’s from Stetson University. She is working on her doctoral degree at the University of Central Florida.

“I am honored to be appointed Interim Superintendent, and I look forward to continuing to serve the students and families of VCS and guiding the district through this transition period,” Hazel said.

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dress code with an amendment to return to requiring students to wear their school IDs. Board member Cheryl Massaro said she was concerned that if a student was found unconscious and his phone was locked, he might not be identified right away.

Board member Jill Woolbright said while the requirement can be a headache for school deans to enforce, it originally stemmed from the Parkland shooting to identify those who are supposed to be on campus and those who are not.

The Board also approved advertising a more robust vaping and smoking policy.

The new policy would prohibit vaping, smoking and all tobacco use by students, employees and visitors at schools and school-sponsored events.

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“We are nothing but huge fans of pc3 and their leadership. Our hearts are heavy with them, and hoping God will see them through this to other side.”

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house they’re in now — at Palm Coast Parkway and Pine Lakes Parkway. It then secured a loan on better terms from the Florida Baptist Foundation for an amount that is unusually high for the foundation: $5.1 million.

Today, the foundation has loans out to 266 churches, and pc3’s loan is still among the 10 highest dollar amounts.

But based on the attendance at the time, the loan was reasonable, according to Craig Culbreth, who has worked for the foundation for 24 years. He said only about 1% of the foundation’s loans default; they’re meant to help churches succeed.

TRENT SCHAKE, Epic Church paster

PLANTING EPIC

Many things have sidetracked the payments to the foundation.

First, the recession hit the community hard in the next several years after 2005. Trent Schake was on staff at that time, and he recalls members moving out of the area, losing jobs.

The church leadership then decided to plant a new congregation in Palm Coast, with the hopes of reaching even more people “who don’t do church.” That congregation, in September 2009, became Epic Church, led by Schake.

About 25 members of pc3 volunteered to join Epic and help Schake.

Today, Epic continues to meet at Buddy Taylor Middle School, with 700 in attendance each week, plus another 200 online. Epic is planning to build a church on Seminole Woods Parkway in a few years, he said.

I asked Benvenuto if Epic’s success has come at the expense of Palm Coast Community Church, whose congregation has dwindled to about 100 per week, but she doesn’t see it that way.

“That decision was not made in any kind of just, ‘Hope it works out,’” she recalled. “It was with a confidence that this was what God was moving us to do.”

I’m a believer, too, so I get it. Faith, by definition, isn’t always logical.

But what about paying the bills?

Adler responded: “We can look at the small kingdom of Palm Coast Community Church, as far as what God’s plans are, but our view and our eyes are consistently on the bigger kingdom: the kingdom of God.” The calculation to plant a new church, thereby thinning out pc3 but mostly in an effort to reach new members of the community, wasn’t about money, despite the need to raise more money to pay the debt on the building.

“What’s going to benefit the kingdom of God more,” Adler asked, “having one church like pc3, or having one church like pc3 and another like Epic, so that each can reach out into the community in a variety of ways?”

In other words, money is not the most important measurement of success for Adler.

“I think of the thousands of people that we wouldn’t have been able to help had we not planted Epic,” he said. “We would have thousands of people who would not be attending church and would not know Jesus. … So I don’t think anybody would go back and say, ‘Yeah, we shouldn’t have done that.’”

Schake praised the vision of Billy Wight and his wife, Kim Wight, saying that pc3 set the foundation for not only Epic’s success, but others as well.

“They’ve touched thousands of lives,” Schake said. “We are nothing but huge fans of pc3 and their leadership. Our hearts are heavy with them, and hoping God will see them through this to other side.”

Even if pc3 hadn’t planted Epic, there’s no guarantee that the loan would be close to being paid off anyway, Adler added. A high Sunday attendance doesn’t always correlate to a high number of givers. In fact, the emphasis on being a church for nonchurch people is selective for people who aren’t used to giving to a

Photo by Brian McMillan

Lead Pastor Mike Adler, right, with Director of Family Connections Mary Benvenuto. Her husband, Tony, was owner of Benvenuto’s Pizza in the 1980s and 1990s, and is now a teacher at Matanzas High School.

BY THE NUMBERS

2,800

Approximate number of churches in the Florida Baptist Convention

74

Churches were launched in 2021, adding to the Florida Baptist Convention’s numbers

266

Loans held by the Florida Baptist Foundation, funded by donations from churches in the convention, to help other churches acquire buildings.

When those loans are paid off, the money is loaned to other churches.

1%

Loans that default from the Florida Baptist Foundation.

“We have a pretty high success rate,” said Craig Culbreth, of the foundation. Palm Coast Community Church’s likely default would be only the third or fourth in Culbreth’s 24 years of experience.

$5.3 million

Debt owed by Palm Coast Community Church to the Florida Baptist Foundation, which allowed pc3 buy the building at Palm Coast Parkway and Pine Lakes Parkway.

church. And those are precisely the people Adler wants to reach.

“Our community is designed for people who have a lot of questions, have a lot of doubts,” he said.

The goal is that the church is functioning seven days per week. And when a family at the school or the church has a hardship, the atmosphere is one of support and genuine love, with meal trains, and exceptions made to help people through individual circumstances.

Benvenuto added: “We’ve worked hard to decrease barriers. Our welcome mat is so far out in the community.”

EXPANDING THE SCHOOL

In 2012, pc3 started a child care center, referred to as pc4. Over the next few years, it grew to 25 children, then 50, and then it qualified for the state’s voluntary pre-kindergarten.

Benvenuto was involved throughout the process (she jokes that she’s been with the school since 1840).

In 2019, a year after Adler was hired as pastor (his first paid position in any church), the Palm Coast Community School became an elementary school, and today, it serves kindergarten through

seventh grade.

During all these years, the church was making payments to the Florida Baptist Foundation, but it was mostly paying interest, not enough to lower the $5 million debt.

The reason a church adds a school is often motivated, in part, by finances, Adler said. A school enables a church to reach a younger generation, and they may become the “giving” families of the future — the church members whose donations will pay the bills.

Adler characterizes pc3’s approach differently, saying the school was more overtly “a ministry of the church.”

Therefore, Benvenuto said, it was operated differently, with a teacher to student ratio of about 6:1, rather than the state’s requirement of 11:1.

“If someone came through our doors and said, ‘Hey, I’d like to work here, and I love 2-year-olds,’ then we want to set them up to be successful,” Benvenuto said.

The school, it appeared, did not operate with the same financial stress as other schools that have a strict budget to live by. It had more staff than was required.

“So did that prevent the church from being able to have enough money to pay these bills?” I asked.

“If we were money-driven — if the purpose and the goal of that [school] was to generate income, yeah, probably,” Benvenuto said. “But it’s not.”

“It wasn’t a business decision, it was a faith decision,” I suggested.

“We wanted to reach the community,” Benvenuto said. “It was a, ‘The community needs this,’ and I am telling you, the community still needs this.”

The school has 224 students, plus long wait lists: about 160 for infant to VPK enrollment.

Like Benvenuto, Adler also focused on the good the school was doing, rather than whether it was contributing enough to the church’s bottom line.

The community is full of transplants from other states, he said, which means many people have no family, no friends when they arrive.

As a church and school community, “that was something that we could we offer. We said, ‘We’re interested in the student, and we’re interested in the family as well. We want to be unwavering.”

Benvenuto told an example of a student whose father was in an accident.

“So now we kick in gear,” she said.

“We run out, we get a gift bag, we get some gift cards, we get some snacks, we get coloring books, because now we know that this kid — and we know the older siblings — we’re going to get him a package for when they’re in the hospital. … We wanted to be the extended family.”

FACING THE FINANCES

It was moving to hear Adler’s and Benvenuto’s dedication to the families in the church and the school.

They were willing to do anything to help, it seemed. They believed that God was guiding not only their organizational decisions but their day to day ministry with specific families.

In the church I attend, we call it ministering to the one.

And yet, I was in their conference room because the debt was due.

Adler knew about the debt when he was hired, but then the pandemic hit, and he was focused on helping the church members through their

own woes. Fortunately for pc3, the foundation forgave many payments and extended the terms of the loan, as it did for many churches, according to Culbreth. And the deferments worked: In many years, 10 of its 2,800 churches might dissolve; in the pandemic, only six did, despite lower attendance numbers and therefore lower donations. (Seventy-four new churches joined the convention last year; six launched on Easter Sunday 2022).

But after more than two years of extensions and forgiveness for pc3, Culbreth said, the foundation had to call the note due.

“We have to be responsible to other people,” he said, referring to the churches who fund the foundation.

“We have to be good stewards. … We just want [pc3] to pay it back so we can lend it other people.”

He added: “They need to leave in October.”

That means the school dissolves.

The church folds. Adler and the rest of the staff could soon be unemployed.

WHAT IF?

On Saturday, April 23, the community is invited to a fundraiser in the church’s main parking lot, at 1 Pine Lakes Parkway N., Palm Coast.

From 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., there will be a sidewalk sale of furniture, antiques, games, books. There will be a bake sale, bounce houses, games, plus hot dogs and chips and auction items.

I’ve been to one of these pc3/pc4 parties. It was great fun. But it’s not going to make a dent in that $5.1 million debt, which has actually grown to $5.3 million.

“How much does it cost to get into the event?” I asked.

I already knew the answer, though.

“It’s free,” Adler said. He seemed slightly confused by the question.

For him, the main goal of the event was to bring joy to people in the community, not to raise money.

“Do you feel stressed by all this?”

I asked.

He said he did, although he still had a smile on his face. He said this wasn’t going to be the only fundraiser, and in the end, the best hope to pay off the debt is for someone to buy the building. If this buyer is willing to let the church and school operate for a year as a transition period, the ministries could survive intact and move to a new location, possibly a public school, similar to pc3’s first 10 years.

The property is in a good location: at the corner of Palm Coast Parkway and Pine Lakes Parkway. Soon, there will be two hospitals nearby. The city of Palm Coast leadership believes Palm Coast Parkway will eventually extend west of U.S. 1, so the church will feel more and more like the center of town, potentially. But a recent appraisal said the building was worth only $2.7 million, Adler said.

So is it realistic to find a buyer who would pay enough to meet the demends of the debt?

Members of the church are asking, “What if?” It’s become a rallying cry, a campaign, an expression of faith.

What if a miracle happens?

As Benvenuto, Adler and I left the conference room and headed through the corridors and the cubicle maze, I saw that we weren’t alone in the building anymore: Three women were sitting in a corner, sorting through items that are going to be sold at the fundraiser on April 23. In another hallway, there were totes full of old shoes that can be recycled for money. Children had taped crayon drawings of colorful shoes on the walls, next to signs that asked “What If?” The words “What If” had been stenciled on walls near the sanctuary of the church. It was moving to see their faith despite the long odds.

When we got to the front door, Benvenuto asked if there was anything she could pray for — for me. I believe in the power of prayer, so I did make a personal request. Then I asked if they wanted me to pray for them. I expected them to ask for a buyer, for their “What If?” miracle.

Instead, they asked me to pray for their own children, their own families. They weren’t administrators in that moment. They were people of faith, struggling with life, like everyone else.

“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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YOUR NEIGHBORS YOUR TOWN AWARD-WINNING PLAY ‘PROOF’ TO OPEN AT FLAGLER PLAYHOUSE Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Tony Award for Best Play and Drama Desk for Best Play, “Proof” will be performed at the Flagler Playhouse.

David Auburn’s first play is a play about family, mental health and math. Catherine, a grad student in mathematics, has found a solution to a previously unsolvable proof. At the same time she has been caring for her father, a brilliant mathematician in decline. With the proof as a fulcrum, Catherine must come to terms with her discovery and her father’s legacy.

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HISTORY LECTURE AT THE LIBRARY The next meeting of the Flagler Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution will be 1 p.m. Wednesday, April 20, at the Palm Coast branch of the Flagler County Public Library.

The video lecture will be “The Reward of Loyalty,” by Allen C. Guelzo, of Gettysburg College Department of History. The meeting is open to the public. Call 386-597-3238 if you have any questions. Charlie Hayes is the president of SAR’s Flagler chapter.

AZURE OF PALM COAST TO HOST BLOOD DRIVE The Azure of Palm Coast will host a blood drive from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Friday, April 29. The event, held in conjunction with OneBlood, will take place at the community at 144 Cypress Point Pkwy, Palm Coast, FL 32164. Due to significant decreases in blood donations during the pandemic, blood supplies are currently at critically low levels.

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Katherine Ryan, one of the organizers of the event said, “For this event, we especially want to outreach to the entire community, and we did so, with a turn up of around 70 people compared to last year’s event of 30 people.”

The event had many options to keep the children entertained, with games like giant Jenga, face paint and as well as crafts like creating necklaces. For more on New Way Church, visit https://newwaychurchfl. com/.

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Jean Christensen, a resident of Grand Haven in Palm Coast, died peacefully at home with family on April 7. A memorial service will be held in her honor 3-5 p.m. Sunday, April 24, at Palm Coast’s Seventhday Adventist Church. View the service online at https://www.youtube. com/watch?v=DtmNnZdU-foU.

WOMEN IN RED EVENT: MAY 7, AT HILTON The St. Johns-Putnam-Flagler County Chapter of the Charmettes Inc. invite the community to its annual Women In Red Luncheon from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, May 7, at the Hilton Garden Inn, 55 Town Center Blvd., Palm Coast. The event promotes cancer awareness, with this year’s theme: Women of faith, praying for a cure. The speaker for this year’s Luncheon will be Pearl Roziers, of Jacksonville.

Tickets are $50. Call Roegina Simmons at 386-546-0144.

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Luke Winslow-King’s upcoming new album, “If These Walls These Talk” (due out May 6 on Ghost River Records), showcases his bittersweet sound, and he’ll be performing May 13, at the Golden Lion Cafe, 501 N. Ocean Shore Blvd., Flagler Beach.

Winslow-King’s work combines delta blues, folk music, traditional jazz, and roots rock and roll.

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Former high school coach wins grand prize in pitch competition TV show Larissa Maloney, a Seabreeze alumna, won $50,000 for her online fitness and wellness children’s program, ‘Active Kids 2.0.’

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From educator to business owner.

What began as a way for Larissa Maloney to livestream her workouts to her students at Father Lopez Catholic High School when schools

were closed due to COVID-19, soon became an online fitness and wellness platform serving over 100,000 children ages 3-18. With the help of 10 coaches, Maloney’s program “Active Kids 2.0” now offers families, schools and corporations classes on cardio, strength, karate, yoga,

Larissa Maloney often does a few of Active Kids 2.0 classes with her son, Finn.

boxing, dance and more through its subscription service.

And recently, the Seabreeze High School alumna won the $50,000 grand prize on “2 Minute Drill,” a TV show hosted by entrepreneur David Meltzer, an experience that Maloney said was not only fun, but will have a

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great impact on Active Kids 2.0.

“It’s absolutely going to be huge for Active Kids 2.0 and all the kids and all the teachers that we work with,” she said. “It’s going to allow us to bring in new content ... Fifty-thousand will definitely benefit them in such a great way.”

Maloney, a former professional beach volleyball athlete and former coach at Father Lopez, has been mentoring and coaching children for over 15 years. A mother of three, after she had her son in June 2021, she knew she wanted to prioritize her family. So she made the choice to resign from Father Lopez and make Active Kids 2.0 her full-time job.

She learned about “2 Minute Drill” from a friend, and seeing as she had recently won $10,000 from a previous pitch competition, Maloney decided to give this one a go as well.

Maloney appears on season 3, episode 6 of the show — available on davidmeltzer.tv — and said winning the grand prize validated her feelings toward her program.

“It really just motivates me even more just to get that approval, that sign that somebody else believes in your vision as much as you do, and they want to see you succeed in return and result in seeing kids around the world living happier, healthier lives,” Maloney said.

She said she definitely didn’t see Active Kids 2.0, which began with her uploading workouts for students to YouTube, becoming what it is today. And it all started with Maloney wanting to do the best for her students during the COVID-19 pandemic.

“It was a priority for me, and it really is still shocking and surprising that this has all come from it, but it’s turned into something beautiful and so rewarding as well,” she said.

Her next big goal? Maloney aims to impact up to 3 million children by the end of 2023.

“I’m a big dreamer,” she said. “I dream big and things like this happened because I dream big.”

Season 4 of “2 Minute Drill” begins filming in July. To apply, visit dmeltzer.com.pitch

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With minds on Ukraine, Jewish community prepares for Passover Many of the Palm Coast members of Chabad have deep roots in Ukraine and will be praying for the safety of family and friends.

MARYLYNNE NEWMARK CONTRIBUTING WRITER

As Biblical scholars know, Passover celebrates the liberation of the children of Israel from bondage in Egypt under the leadership of Moses back in the 13th century BCE. This massive Exodus and the giving of law on Mount Sinai was the foundation of binding the Jewish people as a nation forever.

In Palm Coast, communitywide seders were conducted on Friday evening, April 15 (the 14th of Nissan on the Hebrew calendar this year), at both Temple Beth Shalom, an inclusive egalitarian learning community with a female rabbi, as well as at Chabad, a traditionally observant open and loving congregation.

Additional information is available for both online or by calling their offices.

However, preparation began long before the holiday starts. All products that may contain yeast or gluten or anything that enables food to rise when baked (bread, cakes, cookies, etc.) must be finished or disposed of before the holiday. A more modern option is called Shtar Harshaah or Selling of the Chometz (products with leavening). This is done by contract, giving charity to places of worship as a credit to buying back carefully stored food items after the holiday. Another custom is contributing all types of food for those in need.

Homes are scrupulously cleaned up to the last minute before sundown when even corners of the kitchen are searched with a feather by observant Jews for leftover crumbs that may have been missed.

There are more meaningful messages in the Passover story that include freedom, faith, respect, understanding and helping one another to become a people united in Biblical teachings and its deeper meanings.

Rabbi Levi Ezagui of the Chabad Jewish Center of Palm Coast is part of a worldwide Judaic movement that believes in strong community outreach. By word of mouth, Ezagui has been able to identify fellow Jews in Palm Coast who may be in need of food and matzot for the holiday, and his team of volunteers deliver hundreds of boxes of Shmurah matzot directly to their homes.

Many of the Palm Coast members of Chabad have deep roots in Ukraine and will be praying for the safety of family and friends. Ukraine had the largest population of postHolocaust Jews in all of Europe; now, many are in parts unknown. The rab-

FOR 4,000 YEARS

In Exodus 12:18, The Holy One, issued a commandment that Passover be commemorated from the evening of the 14th day of the Hebrew month of Nissan until the 21stday.

This observance begins with blessings and a Seder (Rule of Order) that retells the story of the Exodus, the bitter hardships the people had faced during 400 years under harsh Pharaohs, and the miracles that God had performed “with a strong hand and outstretched arm” that enabled the people to leave.

For more than 4,000 years, Jews around the world have faithfully observed this commandment. Some customs have varied, but the eating of matzah (unleavened bread), the Passover Seder (Order of Service) and reading of the Haggadah (retelling of the story written in Hebrew), remain consistent and is passed down from generation to generation worldwide.

bis of Ukraine have requested that Jews worldwide who are celebrating Passover seders at home set an extra chair at their tables and invite a Jew who otherwise may not have a seder to sit there in place of a Ukrainian Jew who would not be able to celebrate the holiday this year.

The seder at Chabad of Palm Coast as scheduled to be open to all, with reservation.

“This follows in the teaching of our beloved Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson of righteous memory,” Ezagui said. “Judaism is a proud birthright of every Jewish soul regardless of affiliation, and he or she is always welcome.”

Temple Beth Shalom of Palm Coast began the holiday early this past Thursday with Rabbi Rose Eberle presenting a spiritual insight into making matzot for Passover using specially guarded flour, and the different cultural preparations among Jews around the world. This was followed by members of the temple actually preparing and baking the basic flour and water “bread of affliction” for the Seder nights, and then adding seasonings and exotic flavors to enjoy matzot on the other nights.

“Making matzah with our own hands,” Eberle said, “builds a deeper appreciation of our miraculous deliverance from bondage, but the festival of Pesach (Passover) serves to bind us, one to the other, throughout the generations. Preparing, eating and fulfilling this commandment with dedication in our hearts enriches and sustains us as a people in the service of The Holy One, blessed be he.”

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Victory lane FPC track team goes one-two at the Five Star Championship

MICHELE MEYERS

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Bulldogs took over the Five Star Championship track meet, with the boys and girls bringing home first and second place Wednesday, April 13, at Spruce Creek High School.

The FPC boys 4x800 meter relay team kicked off the meet with a win.

Sean Gilliam, Kasey Wheatley, Peyton Woodward and Barak Olago finished in 8 minutes, 20.31 seconds.

Isaiah Joseph, Monte Curry, Veejay Weeden and Dennis Murray wrapped up the meet by coming in second to Atlantic High School in the 4x400 meter relay with a time of 3:21.55.

Weeden ran the third leg in the relay and passed the baton to Murray who was the team’s anchor.

“I feel like we definitely could have done better, maybe closed the gap a little more,” Weeden said. “But for missing two runners, we performed really well and PR’d with two people out. We had PRs across the board.”

The Mainland boys were runnersup to the “Dogs with the girls” team placing fourth.

“We were No. 1 seed in the 4x100, and we gave it up,” head coach Terrence Anthony said. “We got DQ’d.

They all PR’d in the 100 meters and

FPC’s Taylor Spann wins the 100 meter

Photos by Michele Meyers

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Mainland High School Buccaneer Camryn Campbell placed sixth in the javelin throw.

“We really love our team. We are like a family, like a family you’d want to be a part of.”

ARIANA ROY, Seabreeze track athlete

Flagler Palm Coast 4x800 relay won the event.

Seabreeze won the 4x100 meter relay.

Zavier Mincey placed third in the long jump for Mainland.

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Mainland’s Jonathan Williams (right) places first while FPC’s Isaiah Joseph takes second in the 110-meter hurdles.

FPC placed second, third, fourth and sixth in the pole vault at the Five Star Championship.

Flagler Palm Coast Bulldog Kayla Villafane placed second in the long jump.

FPC track team goes one-two at the Five Star Championship CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1B

Aun’Yale Howard placed third in the long jump for the Flagler Palm Coast Bulldogs.

Seabreeze’s Mackenzie Roy takes fourth in the 300 meter hurdles.

they were ready to PR in the 4x100.

It’s a learning experience. Right now, it’s not detrimental.”

Buccaneer sprinters shined, including a first and second for Jonathan Williams in the 110- (15.16) and 300-meter hurdles (41.06) and a second and fourth for Nathanial Davis in the 100- and 200-meter dashes (22.10).

“I like the 100,” Davis said. “I PR’d today with a 10.6 —my personal best since high school. Hopefully, by the time states come, I’ll be running a 10.4 and take the title. I started off the season horrible. I was out of shape, running 11.6. To get back down inside a 10 since last year is amazing.”

Mainland powerhouse thrower Avari Walker took home second place in both the javelin and shot put (10.82) events.

“I am naturally strong, because I don’t lift weights,” she said. “I PR’d last week. My favorite is flag (football), but I do track to stay in shape. I just always loved football since I was little. I played tackle with my brothers then.”

Four Seabreeze boys — Tristan Taylor, Crawford Olsen, Isaac Oliver and Keandre Workman — soundly beat the competition in the 4x100meter relay by placing first with a

43.05. The girls finished third in the 4x800 meter relay with a 10:33.09.

State qualified weightlifter Dante Jones added 10 points to his team’s overall score by grabbing a first in the discus throw. The girls placed sixth and the boys seventh at the meet.

Sandcrab freshman Ariana Roy placed fourth in the 1,600-meter run (5:25.27) while her twin sister, Mackenzie, finished third in the 300-meter hurdles (52.29).

“We really love our team,” Ariana Roy said. “We are like a family, like a family you’d want to be a part of.”

Nathaniel Davis placed fourth in the long jump for Mainland.

Buccaneer Avari Walker takes second place in both shot put and javelin events.

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The Flagler Palm Coast boys lacrosse team has advanced to the state playoffs for the first time since 2012.

The one position Logan Johnson had never played in his four years with Flagler Palm Coast’s boys lacrosse team was goalie. On senior night, he got to check that off his bucket list.

“I got to hop in the cage with the boys,” he said. “It was so much fun.”

The Bulldogs have had a lot of fun this season. They’ve won 11 of 16 games. They’ve scored 19 or more goals five times and held their opponents to five or fewer goals seven times.

And they’ve made the playoffs for the first time in 10 years. They will travel to perennial power Ponte Vedra for a regional quarterfinal on Saturday, April 23.

The team has come a long way since Johnson and his fellow seniors were freshmen.

“We won one game our freshman year,” the middie said. “It’s pretty interesting to go from (1-13-1) to qualify for the playoffs our senior year.”

FPC has already met its preseason goal of reaching the district championship game for the first time since 2012, fourth-year coach Tom Morgello said. The Bulldogs lost to Creekside for the second time in the district final, 18-6. The Knights won 13-5 in the first contest this season, and they are the only team to beat FPC by more than one goal this season.

BOYS LACROSSE PLAYOFFS Region 1-2A quarterfinal (seeds in parentheses) Who: (8) Flagler Palm Coast, 11-5 at (1) Ponte Vedra, 15-3 When: Saturday, April 23, 7 p.m.

But while Creekside is ranked sixth in the state in Class 2A, Ponte Vedra is on another level, the Bulldogs say. The Sharks (15-3) won the state championship in 2019. They are currently ranked second in Class 2A and defeated Creekside 16-6 last month.

“Their culture is different. They breed lacrosse players,” said junior attacker Daniel Zsizsek, who leads the Bulldogs in points (goals plus assists). “They’re a really disciplined team. If they mess up, they’re on the ball right away. If we mess up, they’ll capitalize, so we know it’s really important we don’t make mistakes.”

Some of the Bulldogs, including Johnson, have played club lacrosse with the Ponte Vedra players.

“They’re basically a college team in high school,” said FPC junior defender Kevin Wolfe. “They’re all freak athletes. They’re quite the team. They’re very fast and know what to do.”

Wolfe knows a lot about them

because he plays with the Sharks’ club team every summer.

“I’ve ventured out to other teams, but it’s just not the same,” Wolfe said. “They’re very structured. It’s good to play against the best.”

Last season, the Bulldogs played Ponte Vedra in the regular season and trailed 4-0 at the half before losing 13-1.

“We have to come out with intensity and energy and have the mindset that we can play with them,” Morgello said. “We have to stay out of the penalty box. Against Creekside we went from being behind 4-2 to 7-2 in a matter of minutes when we were a man down.”

Morgello said the players just have to have fun out there and not be overly concerned with not making a mistake.

The Bulldogs will lose five seniors this year. Two of them — Gordon Beck (Savannah College of Art and Design) and Jesse Sustaita (Post University in Connecticut) — will play lacrosse in college. FPC has 14 juniors on the squad.

“The heart of the team is our 2023 class,” Wolfe said.

Whatever happens in the playoffs this year, the Bulldogs expect to be back.

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Gazzoli wins AJGA tourney Alexandra Gazzoli has accomplished a lot in her short golf career. On April 17, she won her biggest event yet.

Gazzoli won an American Junior Golf Association tournament for the first time.

A sophomore on Matanzas High’s golf team, Gazzoli shot 3-under par 210 to win the Sung Hyun Park Junior Championship by eight strokes. She led wire-to-wire.

Gazzoli shot 70-71-69 on the Copperhead Course at Innisbrook Resort & Golf Club in Palm Harbor, home of the PGA Tour’s Valspar Championship. The girls tournament played 6,079 yards. Gazzoli had a clean scorecard over the 54 holes with 10 birdies, one eagle and eight bogeys.

“It’s really exciting, and a huge confidence boost,” she said after the victory.

Gazzoli entered the tournament ranked 111 in the Rolex AJGA rankings, but she will move up considerably with the win.

“It all came together,” her mom, Sheila Gazzoli, said. “She hadn’t played that course in a while. It’s a difficult course.”

Gazzoli, a student in Florida Virtual School Full Time, finished second at the Class 2A high school state championship in November.

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Alexandra Gazzoli won the Sung Hyun Park Junior Championship by eight strokes.

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And Demetrius Headley signed with Keiser College in West Palm Beach.

Smith, who is primarily an 800-meter runner, broke his ankle last summer and returned to have a good cross country season, said Tim Kane, the Pirates’ track and cross country coach.

Washington has the Matanzas school record for girls high jump with a 5-foot-1 jump. She is also a 100-meter hurdler.

Headley is a hurdler and runs the 400 meters. A strained hamstring has hampered his senior season.

“It’s really good to see these kids do well,” said Kane.

“All three are really good, positive people that Matanzas High School and the Palm Coast community can be really proud of. They are well liked by their teammates, teachers and coaches.”

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FPC softball remains undefeated in the district with two wins over DeLand Flagler Palm Coast beat DeLand 5-3 at home and 16-0 on the road.

JAKE MONTGOMERY CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Flagler Palm Coast evened its record to 7-7 with a 5-3 home victory over DeLand on April 14 and a 16-0 win at DeLand on April 15.

The Bulldogs improved to 4-0 in the district with the two wins. They were scheduled to host Seabreeze on Monday, April 18, and Atlantic

on April 20. DeLand fell to 5-12 with the losses.

In the home game, FPC jumped out to a 3-0 lead after the first two innings. The host Bulldogs had seven hits in the game. Lexie Laura went 2 for 3 with a run scored. Laura also got the win in the circle, allowing three runs on five hits and four walks while striking out seven batters.

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Matanzas Pirates celebrate senior pair with first ‘home’ beach volleyball match The Pirates won three of five matches against DeLand to improve to 4-10 in their first official season.

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Coach Dawn Moses poses with seniors Brooke Ballschmieder and Ashley Grove.

"Our kids have really grown as beach volleyball players.

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In the past, a “home” match for the Matanzas beach volleyball team meant piling into vans and driving to DME Academy in Daytona Beach.

But on the Pirates’ first-ever senior day on April 13, they finally got to host a match on their own sand.

Flagler County Parks and Recreation Supervisor Craig Lenninger made sure everything was done right for the match against DeLand at Wadsworth Park.

“I couldn’t believe it driving up. It looks so good,” said Brooke Ballschmieder, one of two seniors on the team, who were honored between matches.

Lenninger, who runs pro beach volleyball events, had the two sand courts decked out with EVP Pro Beach Tour nets, lines, ball markers and antennas. He emceed the event, doing play-by-play at one of the two courts, and played music through a sound system.

“It’s the first-ever home sand volleyball match for Flagler County, and it’s senior day, so we wanted to do something nice for them,” Lenninger said.

Seniors Ballschmieder and Ashley Grove teamed up for the first time and won their match in straight sets to help the Pirates defeat DeLand 3-2.

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one road match remaining before the district tournament April 27 at DME. “Our kids have really grown as beach volleyball players,” Coach Moses said. “They’re starting to understand angles and the things they need to do to win.

She said the players are getting efficient with the option play — hitting it over on the first or second touch to catch opposing the pair off guard.

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added. “Spruce Creek, Episcopal, Bishop Kenny — those are all tough teams.”

Ballschmieder and Grove teamed up for the first time this season, but they have played together on the indoor team for four years and know each other well.

“I know how she hits and where the sets are going to be,” Ballschmieder said. “I know she’s fast and good with hops.”

“And Brooke is good on defense,”

Grove said. “If she has to go back and get a ball, she’ll make sure she gets there and pops it up.”

The match was originally scheduled to be played at DME’s sand courts. Coach Moses was grateful that Lenninger and the county made the Wadsworth match possible.

“This is a great way for us to end our high school season,” Grove said.

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Daniel Berenblit

Photos by Brent Woronoff

Daniel Berenblit is headed to the state tennis championships.

The Flagler Palm Coast senior defeated Spruce Creek freshman Zane Ensminger in the No. 1 singles final at the District 2-4A tournament to clinch a spot in the boys individual bracket at the state championships.

While the FPC boys team didn’t advance to the state playoffs, the girls team finished second at the district tournament April 15 at Daytona Beach’s Florida Tennis Center to advance to the regional semifinals.

Berenblit defeated Ensminger 6-3, 7-5 in the district title match to reserve a spot at state for the first time.

A year ago, he lost in a tiebreaker in the district final to eventual overall state champ Sami Ozzor of Spruce Creek.

Berenblit had defeated Ozzor in two sets earlier in the season in the Spruce Creek Invitational final.

Berenblit, who is ranked 13th in the state and 78th nationally by Tennis Recruiting Network, also has a history with Ensminger.

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“The kids just started asking me to hit with them, and it became word of mouth.”

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FPC’s Daniel Berenblit celebrates a point in the the No. 1 singles final at the District 2-4A tennis tournament.

“I train with him almost every day (at the Florida Tennis Center),” Berenblit said. “I beat him 8-2 (in a dual match at FPC on March 2). This was a much tougher match.”

Berenblit, whose older brother, Eric, was also a standout for the Bulldogs, will try to walk on to the tennis

team at Florida State University, where he plans to major in biology.

He wants to be an orthopedic surgeon.

“I always wanted to help people,” said Berenblit, who chose the specialty after his mother, Marina Jarova, arranged an opportunity for

him to shadow a surgeon.

The desire to help people has led Berenblit to start a side business. He gives tennis lessons to about 15 kids, six a week, at Holland Park.

“The kids just started asking me to hit with them, and it became word of mouth,” he said. “It keeps me afloat.”

Berenblit, who lives in Plantation Bay, has a busy schedule. He takes online classes, trains in the mornings and evenings and gives lessons in the afternoons.

Berenblit has one more high school tournament before he graduates. He hopes to become the second consecutive player representing District 2 to win the Class 4A state championship.

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FPC girls advance to state tennis playoffs Tessa Carlisi and Ania Martynuk won singles titles and Martynuk and Anya Subachev won the No. 2 doubles title.

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“I proved to myself that I could be the player I want to be and aspire to be.”

TESSA CARLISI

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Flagler Palm Coast’s Tessa Carlisi had lost to Gainesville Buchholz’s Sophie Stricklin and to Spruce Creek’s Anna Upchurch earlier this season.

She beat them both on the way to the No. 4 singles title at the District 2-4A tennis tournament April 14-15 at the Florida Tennis Center in Daytona Beach.

FPC’s Ania Martynuk won the No. 3 singles title for the Bulldogs and teamed with Anya Subachev to win the No. 2 doubles title.

The Bulldogs finished second to Spruce Creek to advance to the state playoffs. They were scheduled to travel to Nease High School on April 19 to play a regional semifinal match.

Carlisi beat Stricklin 6-0, 6-1 in the semifinals and then beat Upchurch 6-3, 6-1 in the final.

“It was a really good comeback for me,” the junior said. “I proved to myself that I could be the player I want to be and aspire to be.”

DISTRICT 2-4A GIRLS TENNIS TOURNAMENT At Florida Tennis Center TEAM STANDINGS 1. Spruce Creek 16 2. Flagler Palm Coast 14 3. Gainesville Buchholz 9 3. Ocala Forest 9 5. DeLand 1 6. Ocala West Port 0 6. University 0

Ania Martynuk serves in the No. 3 singles final.

Stricklin beat Carlisi 8-1 on March 28 in Gainesville.

Upchurch beat Carlisi in a March 2 match, 8-7 with a 13-11 tiebreaker. Carlisi turned the tables on the freshman in the Five Star Conference final, winning 2-6, 6-3 and 11-9 in the tiebreaker.

But the third match between the two was not close.

“Maybe I just have more motivation,” Carlisi said. “I’m using my head more and finding new strategies.”

Carlisi said she is primarily a defensive player, but against Upchurch in the district final she attacked shots more.

“She’s not letting emotions get away from her,” FPC girls tennis coach Javier Bevacqua said. “She’s learning to settle down on the court.”

Martynuk beat Spruce Creek’s Campbell Bundza in the final, 7-5,

7-6 (7-4). It was the third time this season the Bulldogs’ sophomore beat the Hawks’ freshman. Martynuk also beat Bundza in the dual match and in the Five Star title match, but this one was closer.

“It’s hard to beat the same person three times,” Bevacqua said. “She won to get into the tiebreaker, and then she took a 3-love lead in the tiebreaker and never looked back.”

Martynuk and Subachev, who have lost only one match this season, rolled to a 6-1, 6-1 victory over Bundza and Upchurch in the No. 2 doubles final.

FPC’s No. 5 singles player, Trista Rife, also advanced to the final. The sophomore defeated Ocala Forest’s Chloe Kostowicz 6-2, 6-3 in the semifinals before losing to Buchholz’s Sloane McCaughey 6-0, 6-0 in the final.

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Anya Subachev plays the net in the No. 2 doubles final.

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Senior Classic returns to DSC After a two-year hiatus, seniors from 11 area schools, including Seabreeze, FPC and Matanzas, played in the all-star game.

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“That was wonderful,” Monsanto said. “It was centralized, a bigger field, a college stadium.”

DSC hosted the game for the third time this year.

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The light team won the game 3-1. Seniors from Volusia and Flagler counties and Crescent City made up the teams.

Flagler Palm Coast’s Myles Clymer scored the dark team’s only goal.

Reggy Monsanto started the all-star game seven years ago with Rich Weber when they coached together at Matanzas High School. At the time, the only all-star option was the Florida Athletic Coaches Association’s All-Star Classic, which limited participants and charged $150 per player, plus lodging, Monsanto said.

Monsanto and Weber decided to start a local game for seniors in 2015.

“It was a big hit,” Monsanto said. “It gave more kids a chance to showcase their skills.”

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Tomahawk Tavern: Axe throwing and steaks The owners of the Portugal Wine Bar & Grill felt the area needed an entertainment option and good steakhouse too.

BRENT WORONOFF STAFF WRITER

Jeremy Tombier, Tony Russo and David Kimble already owned one restaurant together — the Portugal Wine Bar & Grill in the Island Walk Shopping Center, in Palm Coast.

They realized there weren’t a lot of entertainment options in the county, and there also weren’t many highend steakhouses.

That’s how the idea for the Tomahawk Tavern originated.

“We wanted to bring the axe throwing concept to town,” Tombier said.

The tavern opened in October at 2535 N. State St., Bunnell, in the building that was most recently the Moose Lodge.

“We took over the lease, updated the kitchen and built out the axe room,” Tombier said.

The sound-proof axe room is 30 feet by 30 feet and has six lanes.

Four people are allowed to share a lane. Each target has a digital display in which customers can select duck hunting, zombie heads, tic-tac-toe, Connect 4 or a normal target.

“A lot of people relate (the digital display) to the Topgolf experience,” Tombier said.

The axes are about 17 inches long and weigh between 1 to 2 pounds, Tombier said.

There are axe throwing coaches, and staff that will show you how to operate the computer.

You must be at least 14 years old to throw axes at the Tomahawk, and anyone under 18 must be accompanied by an adult. All participants must sign a waiver before entering the room. Price options include $10 for 15 minutes of axe throwing, $15 for 30 minutes or $20 for an hour. The 15-minute rate was added recently.

“Axe throwing has been a big hit so far,” Tombier said. “That’s why we added the 15-minute option.”

The tavern has been very popular during the six months it has been open. But the ownership has also experienced some snags.

They recently closed for a few days after firing their head chef because of internal issues, and three cooks left with the chef, Tombier said. They hired new executive chef Matt Kross and also added a new general manager, Joe Russo.

“We had a few hiccups,” Tombier said. “We have new management now. We decided it was better to close down for a few days and get everybody trained up to speed rather than learn on the fly. We paid the staff while we were closed.”

On the Tomahawk Tavern’s Facebook page, one woman commented that she made a reservation for her husband’s surprise birthday party and was never informed that the restaurant would be closed that day.

“We’re reaching out to her,” Tombier said. “We’re going to make it right. (The reservation) fell through the cracks, which is why we’re going through the changes we’re going through.”

The tavern’s building has been

sold, and the tavern owners are now on their second set of landlords. The building needs new roofing. They are waiting on materials, Tombier said.

While the restaurant has a new chef, the menu, which features a variety of burgers and steaks and a peach bourbon glazed pork chop, hasn’t changed.

Burgers and sandwiches start at $14.95. The most expensive entree on the menu is the Tomahawk Tavern Titan (32-ounce) Ribeye with three sides for $79.95.

Tombier said they are looking into adding a lunch menu with some faster and less expensive items.

There are five steak options on the menu including the 32-ounce Tomahawk Tavern Titan Ribeye.

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”Axe throwing has been a big hit so far.”

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The Tomahawk Tavern has an axethrowing room with six lanes

The Tomahawk Tavern has been a popular destination during its first six months in business.

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Jeremiah’s Italian Ice and Affordable Dentures will also occupy Palm Coast Station, planned for the corner of SR 100 and Town Center Boulevard.

Blackton said flooring work valued at an estimated $3.5 million will begin immediately at the 55+ community.

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Site plan work has begun on Palm Coast Station, a retail building at the corner of State Road 100 and Town Center Boulevard, which will become the home of a Tijuana Flats restaurant, Jeremiah’s Italian Ice and Affordable Dentures.

“This is one of the most important intersections in Palm Coast,” said Taraz Darabi, president and CEO of the Lote Group out of Gainesville, which is developing the property.

“We spent a great deal of time and effort refining our plans to ensure a first-class development that would be a fantastic addition to the community.”

The property faces S.R. 100. Its parking lot will connect to Panera Bread to the west and Hilton Garden Inn to the north of the property. The building will contain 7,915 square feet of space. Tijuana Flats will have 2,500 square feet of space with a patio. Jeremiah’s Italian Ice will have about 1,400 square feet of space and Affordable Dentures will have about 4,000 square feet, Darabi said.

“It’s a complementary lineup of uses for the community to enjoy,” he said.

"This is one of the most important intersections in Palm Coast. We spent a great deal of time and effort refining our plans to ensure a first-class development that would be a fantastic addition to the community."

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Site work has begun on the future Palm Coast Station, fronting State Road 100. The buidling will eventually house a Tijuana Flats, a Jeremiah’s Italian Ice and Affordable Dentures.

Darabi said he expects to begin construction soon after final building permits are approved. He hopes to complete construction by July or August with the tenants moving in by the end of the year.

Josh Fogarty will be the franchise owner of the Tijuana Flats and Jeremiah’s Italian Ice. It will be his fifth Tijuana Flats restaurant and his second Jeremiah’s Italian Ice, which serves authentic Italian ice and soft ice cream. Fogarty owns three Tijuana Flats Tex-Mex restaurants in Volusia County, including one in DeLand which will open in the next couple of weeks, he said. He also owns the franchises in Daytona Beach and Orange City.

Both Tijuana Flats and Jeremiah’s Italian Ice value their community connections. Fogarty said his Volusia restaurants have been working with the Flagler Sheriff’s PAL program and the Boys and Girls Club for several years.

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“We felt like this was where we needed our first restaurant in Flagler County to be.”

JOSH FOGARTY, Tijuana Flats franchise owner

neighborhood,” he said. “We’re looking forward to becoming part of the fabric of the community.”

Fogarty said when Tijuana Flats opens a restaurant it builds relationships with the community’s schools, first responders, churches, hospitals, parks and recreation programs and other community groups.

“We don’t do a lot of marketing.

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Fogarty said once Palm Coast Sta-

tion is turned over to its tenants, it will take 12 weeks to open the restaurant. He said during the staff’s training period, Tijuana Flats will deliver free meals to schools, the hospital, first responders and the Boys and Girls Club.

“We’re excited to be on (SR) 100,” he said, noting that he originally wanted to buy the property, but Darabi beat him to it.

“We felt like this was where we needed our first restaurant in Flagler County to be,” he said. “Taraz being the developer is a blessing on top of it. We’re happy to have him as a landlord. He’s a class act.”

The Tijuana Flats will be in close proximity to Chipotle Mexican Grill, but Fogarty said the two restaurants are very different.

Wilkinson Construction LLC will handle construction for the project. Darabi said Kelly Pulignano and Stephanie McCullough of The Shopping Center Group helped identify the lineup of tenants.

Blackton Inc., one of Central Florida’s largest and most active suppliers of roofing and flooring materials to the homebuilding industry, recently received a contract from Minto Communities to supply the Latitude Margaritaville community.

CEO Michael “Micky” Blackton said his company, working out of their new Holly Hill location, will provide flooring for 416 paired cottage homes by the builder-developer.

“The team at our new Holly Hill location led by Manager Michael Walmer will provide the prompt service this community needs to accommodate the season of homebuyers that started this spring and anticipated to escalate throughout the summer.”

Blackton said flooring work valued at an estimated $3.5 million will begin immediately at the 55-and-up community located at 2400 LPGA Blvd., Daytona Beach.

Blackton Inc., headquartered north of downtown Orlando, with branch operations in Holly Hill and Leesburg, is a family-owned operation that has been supplying the homebuilding industry from Jacksonville to Tampa for more than six decades.

Minto Communities, with more than 40 years of experience developing award-winning master-planned communities in Canada and the U.S., has built homes for over 30,000 families.

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Brian Hunter, president and broker at Clare Hunter Realty, said the property is unusual not just because of its historic value, but it’s size — it spans 3.2 acres.

Historic ‘Garden Home’ listed at $1.45 million, in Ormond Beach The two-story home was built in 1910 on land that used to be occupied by orange groves owned by Ormond pioneer Joseph Price.

JARLEENE ALMENAS ASSOCIATE EDITOR

There were once orange groves on the beachside.

The 1910 home located on 3.2 acres of land at 639 and 659 John Anderson Drive is part of that story.

In 1887, Ormond Beach pioneer Joseph Price bought a large plot of land from one of the city’s first settlers, John Andrew Bostrom. He was seeking to plant oranges after the city won gold and silver medals in the South Florida Fair, held in Orlando in February of that year. The land was cleared in 1889, and for almost a decade, an orange grove and a small one-bedroom cottage occupied the land.

But after two frosts — one in 1898 and another in 1906 — Price, who built the Ormond Hotel, abandoned his orange grove business venture and decided to build a house, which he later gave to Dr. Charles Garth and his wife, Clara, “to care and tend to the growing population on the peninsula,” according to a press release.

The two-story home, which now spans 5,589 square feet and has six bedrooms and five baths, is now on the market, listed at $1.45 million.

“It is very unusual to find that type of acreage becoming available in the John Anderson area,” said Brian Hunter, president and broker at Claire Hunter Realty. “Most of the time, it’s much smaller acreage, so that in itself is unique, and to add to its uniqueness, it’s also a home that offers a lot of history and character as well.”

This isn’t first historic home Hunter has had the opportunity to list. As a native of Ormond Beach, he said he enjoys marketing and selling these homes because they have stories to tell. Unlike developer-built homes, the character within the home’s walls makes one feel like one is stepping back in time.

“We love to be able to convey those stories over to prospective buyers and to help our sellers find someone who’s going to love the home just as much as they have,” Hunter said.

The one-bedroom cottage, built in 1889, is still standing in the northeast corner of the property. Over the years, a carriage house was built in what is currently the drive-through garage, and a

The pool is one of the many additions made over the years.

Modern appliances were added by the current owners.

The home spans 5,589 square feet.

The home also boasts original wood floors.

large kitchen was added. In addition, the home features original wood floors, vintage light fixtures, a handful of fireplaces, a pool, a motherin-law suite and a 250-yearold oak tree. The home’s current owners, Kevin and Jean Bergfield, have invested over $200,000 since purchasing the home in 2020 to upgrade the home with new plumbing, electrical, appliances, and water heaters. A new roof was installed in 2019.

Though the real estate market in the state is very competitive for buyers currently,

with low inventory driving up home prices, historic homes tend to cater to a smaller pool of buyers who are actively looking for properties with historical value, said Hunter, and in that pool, the home has been generating good interest.

“It’s a spectacular property,” he said. “... When I’m waiting for prospective buyers to show up for showings, I find myself just getting lost out there in the garden, enjoying the day and taking it in — thinking about 100 years ago, there were people out here on the orange grove.”

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New ice cream shop Neighborhood Scoop opening soon in Ormond Beach Sweet on downtown.

JARLEENE ALMENAS ASSOCIATE EDITOR

Ormond Beach’s downtown district is about to get the scoop: A new ice cream shop is coming soon.

Neighborhood Scoop aims to open at 100 W. Granada Blvd. sometime in May, becoming one of the latest redevelopment projects in the district. The property, which used to be a gas station convenience store and had been left vacant since the mid2000s, is owned by developer Bill Jones, who has transformed various other popular businesses in the district, including 31 Supper Club and Rose Villa Restaurant.

But, the creation of Neighborhood Scoop began with a complaint.

Craig Frick, who owns and operates Neighborhood Shop with his wife, called Jones’ representative, Dorian Burt, about 1 1/2 years ago to express frustration about the slow construction progress of the old gas station project, a result of pandemic shortages, and asked what was going on. Initially, the building at 100 W. Granada Blvd. was to house the new Pumphouse barbecue restaurant, but that project then moved to 124 W. Granada Blvd. when Jones purchased that building.

Once Frick found out there was an opportunity to operate an ice cream shop just a few doors down from his surf boutique, he didn’t hesitate.

“My wife tells me that my hobby is starting businesses,” he joked.

In addition to Neighborhood Shop and soon Neighborhood Scoop, Frick also owns a rep agency.

This won’t be his first time diving into the food service industry.

He previously worked for several Outback Steakhouse restaurants for 14 years, and though he thought he would never get back into the food service industry after that, he is excited to become further ingrained in the community with his new business.

“We want it to be more than just a ‘walk up, get ice cream, eat it and go,’” Frick said. “We want it to be

Craig Frick will open Neighborhood Scoop soon, at 100 W. Granada Blvd., Ormond Beach.

more of an environment where people come and they hang out.”

Frick hopes to be able to host movie nights as well as host programs and fundraisers for the community. The ice cream shop has galvanized steel AC vents, and he is hope to add magnets to them so people can pin dollars during donation events. He already has the first one planned: A fundraiser for Joey Mathias, an Ormond

Beach resident who suffered a stroke after skydiving in August 2021.

A parent of three, he also hopes to collaborate with local schools and give coupons for free ice cream to students who achieve straight A’s or other accomplishments.

The inside of the restaurant was also important to Frick. He didn’t want it to look like the average ice cream parlor; he wanted a more

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trendy, modern interior with accents of royal blue, present beyond the walls on the floor’s patterned penny tiles.

“Bill Jones has a very unique, cool look,” Frick said. “He has a very cool vision on everything he does, and he knows what he likes and what he wants, and luckily has the team that’s able to do it.”

Neighborhood Scoop will offer

24 flavors, to include dairy-free options.

“We’re trying to have a little bit of everything for everyone,” Frick said. “... We’re open to suggestions. We want the community to let us know what flavors they liked and stuff like that, so we’re going to have a little community board.”

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Wexford community expected Proposal delayed for condo to expand from Volusia to Flagler community in Hammock Dunes Home prices in the 81-parcel Wexford Cove subdivision would start at around $400,000.

JONATHAN SIMMONS NEWS EDITOR

A 39-acre parcel of land between Interstate 95 and the Eagle Lakes community to its east is the planned site of 81 single-family homes.

A rezoning required for the proposed Wexford Cove community, a planned unit development that would become the northern counterpart to the existing Wexford Reserve

development in Volusia County, won the approval of Flagler County’s Planning and Land Regulation Board with unanimous vote at an April 12 board meeting.

The land is a former tree farm that has since been cleared as pasture land, said attorney Joey Posey, of the Storch Law Firm, representing the developer.

Lots would be 75 feet wide; density would be two units per acre.

“We’re really talking about a $400,000-and-up type home,” he said. “... It’s a continuation of what’s already going on in Volusia.”

Posey noted that there are already single-family homes to the parcel’s north and

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The Flagler planning board, seeing merit in neighbors’ objections, asked the developer to address concerns.

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“So because of costs, you will be sacrificing an existing community — that’s what I’m hearing,” board member Fernando Melendez said.

But, he added, “You’re not that far apart. ... All they’re asking is for some green space.”

Other board members agreed that they’d like to see the developer address some of the neighbors’ concerns.

“I don’t think that this is in harmony with the rest of the development, the way it has been presented tonight,” Langello said.

He proposed continuing the proposal to a date uncertain, rather than voting up or down on the proposal as it had been presented. Other board members agreed.

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Flagler County’s planning board, skeptical of a new plan for a proposed condo community of 90 units in the Hammock Dunes development, opted not to approve it during a board meeting on April 12.

Instead of voting for or against the developer’s proposal, the planning board instead voted to continue the proposal to an unspecified future date, urging the developer to address neighbors’ objections and then return to the planning board later.

Although the details of the proposal before the board on April 12 were new, the land has long been slated for a condo community.

The county, in 2006, approved a plan for 128 units spread over two buildings that were to be called “Arezzo” and “Murano,” with 64 units per building, on that parcel.

But with the recession, those plans stalled, County Growth Management Director Adam Mengel told Planning and Land Development Board members at the April 12 board meeting.

Now owner WCI Communities wants to build 90 units spread over three four-story buildings, 30 units per building, on the 6.81-acre plot of land instead.

The units would be small — a maximum of 1,400 square feet.

Mengel suggested that the planning board recommend some adjustments to the developer’s proposal, such as requiring that the developer set aside a certain amount of open space on the land, add a beach walkover, and have setbacks of at least 20 feet between buildings.

But locals from the neighboring Tuscany development opposed the condo proposal, saying it’s incompatible with the surrounding neighborhood. Some planning board members agreed.

"We're not against developing this. I very much want to see it developed, but in a manner that's compatible with the character of Hammock Dunes."

“The residents are depending on the county to administer orderly development,” said Steve Davis, representing a group of Tuscany residents.

“And we understand that the county can allow changes to the 2005 final plat and 2006 plat only if it does not adversely affect orderly development. ...

We don’t think you can make that finding.”

Parking that initially was going to be under the condo buildings, Davis said, “is now squirted out all over the lot, and consumed the entire parcel,” while the new proposal has less open space than originally planned, smaller units and no beach access.

“The big problem is that there’s there’s no open space,” Davis said. “ ... The original development had large two-, three- and fourbedroom units. The new development has very small two- and three- bedroom units; 80% of them are twobedroom units. I don’t think this is orderly development.

I think it, in fact, precludes orderly development.”

Mike Bowles, representing the developer, said the developer would be willing to work on the site plan and add a dune walkover.

Board member Mark Langello said the lack of open space concerned him.

“Why did you abandon the original concept and go to this?” he asked.

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“In all respects, it’s really infill,” Posey said.

The developer expects that Volusia County will provide utility services, and the community’s entrance is gated and on a private road in Volusia County.

“There’s no upkeep and maintenance that would be the responsibility of Flagler County with public roads,” Posey said.

The community would have a passive park and a 6-footwide walking trail that would connect with an existing trail in the Wexford Reserve community in Volusia County, he added.

“This seems to me the best of what you could make of the wonkiness of this L-shaped parcel,” Posey said.

The proposed community will also ultimately require a future land use map amendment, county Growth Management Director Adam Mengel said.

The rezoning — from the county’s agriculture zoning district designation to its planned unit development designation — won’t go into effect until after the future land map amendment is approved. It will also require the approval of the Flagler County Commission, Mengel said.

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Mangum Motorsports thrives on referrals, doubling in revenue in a year Mike Mangum started his business as the only mechanic. Now he manages three fulltime mechanics.

BRIAN MCMILLAN EXECUTIVE EDITOR

In just over a year, Mike Mangum has seen his business more than double in revenue, with 60% of his customers coming from referrals.

Mangum Motorsports, at 3240 Steel Rail Drive, west of

U.S. 1 in Bunnell, started with Mangum himself as the only auto mechanic. Today, he has three full-time employees, including his brother.

He began with 900 square feet on Nov. 14, 2020. Then he added an 1,100-square-foot bay on the other side of his office, for a total of 2,000.

When Mangum made that move, the owner of the building asked if he’d ever be interested in expanding even more, if the owner added onto the building. Mangum immediately said, “I’m ready.”

And so, permitting began.

Mangum paid $16,000 for the

coating on the concrete floor, and his auto shop is now in one open building spanning 3,800 square feet, more than four times his original footprint.

His monthly customers have increased from 26 to 63 since December 2020. His monthly sales increased from about $17,000 to $38,000.

Mangum said he is also getting more classic custom work, which is his passion.

“I never, ever thought this is where we’d be in a year,” Mangum said. “It’s great.”

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BIZ BUZZ FLAGLER COUNTY BOASTS LOWEST UNEMPLOYMENT RATE IN OVER A DECADE Flagler County’s unemployment rate plummeted another half-percent in March 2022, declining from 3.4% (February 2022) to 2.9%. This is the second consecutive month Flagler County’s unemployment rate improved by at least of 0.5% from the previous month, according to the latest data release from the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity.

The number of Flagler County residents that are employed (either working in this county or another county) increased from 47,135 workers in February 2022 to 47,657 workers in March 2022, an increase of 522.

The number of unemployed job-seeking residents in Flagler County decreased from 1,683 in February 2022 to 1,447, a decline of 236 residents.

Greg Blosé, president and CEO of the Palm Coast-Flagler Regional Chamber of Commerce, said: “Flagler County is officially at full employment with an unemployment rate of 2.9%. The unemployment rate in Flagler County hasn’t been this low in over 15 years.

This was an incredibly positive report for Flagler County. More than 500 residents found work last month, and 200 fewer residents are receiving unemployment benefits because they have found jobs.”

The Flagler County labor force grew slightly, eclipsing 49,000 residents to 49,104 in March 2022.

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YOUR CBD STORE, CITY MARKETPLACE Your CBD Store held a reopening celebration this month, at 160 Cypress Pointe Parkway, City Marketplace, in Palm Coast.

The store, along with three more, is owned by Christi Radcliffe, who battled back from two strokes at the age of 27 and 34, while heading the sales team at the Jacksonville Symphony.

Had her congenital heart condition been diagnosed earlier and preventative steps taken, she could have prevented stroke, she said.

“The discovery was devastating,” said Radcliffe, who had to drop out of nursing school just

credits shy of her degree to focus on stroke recovery efforts.

Her mantra, “Do good and good things will follow,” helped her through challenging times.

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just how far they’d be prepared to travel to buy a used car. The survey discovered that many Floridians are willing to drive the distance for a good deal: The average person here said they would travel up to 442 miles to purchase a used car – around the equivalent of a road trip to Decataur, Georgia.

When broken down across state lines, those in Alaska were prepared to travel the furthest to pick up their perfect used car: 722 miles.

The soaring prices of the used-car market is in large part the result of a problem that has affected the economy since the pandemic began - a severe shortage of computer chips (fueled by a ramped-up demand for computers and household products which also use these semiconductors). As automakers cut down on production (due to a lack of chips), prices soared for used cars.

And the lack of new cars hitting the market has had a knock-on effect and led to a shortage in used cars also.

SURVEY: FLORIDIANS PREPARED TO TRAVEL FAR TO BUY A USED CAR As many Floridians will be all too aware, the price of used vehicles has skyrocketed (by 37% from December 2020 to December 2021), marking the largest 12-month increase for cars in the history of the consumer price index.

While the market surge has yielded some advantage to the profit margins of many local dealers, potential buyers are finding themselves struggling to find cars within their budget, or even within their state boundaries. One buyer was reported to have travelled 537 miles from Michigan to Hanover, Pennsylvania, to fetch a vehicle.

Quantrell Subaru, a Lexington-based dealer, commissioned a survey of 2,690 buyers across the country to find out

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Oceanfront home tops the sales list in Flagler A

house in Armand Beach was the top real estate transaction for the week of March 10-16 in Flagler County in the Multiple Listing Service. Teena Weiss, individually and as trustee, and Charles Weiss, of Palm Coast, sold 11 Ocean Dune Circle to Hendrix and Melissa Spraggins, of Daytona Beach, for $2.15 million. Built in 2007, the house is a 4/4.5 and has a fireplace, swimming pool, elevator, dune-walk and 4,170 square feet.

WAYNE GRANT REAL ESTATE EDITOR

Condos Matt and Julie Nagorsky, of Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, sold 200 Ocean Crest Drive, Unit 542, to Edward Gilroy, Palm Coast, for $969,000.

Built in 2007, the condo is a 3/3.5 and has 2,246 square feet.

Wayne Klug, as trustee, sold 3580 Ocean Shore Blvd., Unit 209, to Lori Borchardt, of Brooksville, for $325,000.

Built in 1982, the condo is a 2/2 and has 1,358 square feet.

Jose Troche, of Palm Coast,

sold 11 Pine Hurst Place, Unit 11, to Jude Smithson, of Palm Coast, for $164,000. Built in 1980, the condo is a 2/2 and has 1,006 square feet. It sold in 2007 for $100,000.

Armand Beach Frederick Suits, of Palm Coast, sold 10 N. Armand Beach Drive to Michael and Holland McKhann, of St. Augustine, for $650,000.

Built in 2017, the house is a 3/2 and has 1,536 square feet.

Bunnell Development Co. Amaral Custom Homes Inc., of Palm Coast, sold 504 N. Cherry St. to Brittany Bracewell, of Bunnell, for

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MARCH 10 - 16 $285,000. Built in 1985, the house is a 3/3 and has a fireplace and 2,713 square feet.

Cochran Place Peter Schnack, individually and as trustee, sold 805 N. Ocean Shore Blvd. to 805 N. Oceanshore LLC, of Ponte Vedra Beach, for $800,000.

Built in 1990, the house is a 4/2 and has 2,305 square feet.

Cypress Knoll Green Hill Real Estates LLC, of Palm Coast, sold 117 Evans Drive of Jeremy Weiss and Tiera Nell, of Boulder, Colorado, for $505,000. Built in 1999, the house is a 4/2 and has a swimming pool and 1,853 square feet. It sold in 2019 for $210,000.

Gregory Adams and Marilyn Cameron, of Palm Coast, sold 12 Essex Lane to Joshua and Jamie Stumbo, of Palm Coast, for $284,900. Built in 1997, the house is a 3/2 and has 1,216 square feet. It sold in 2017 for $152,900.

Fuquay Kathleen Carl, of Flagler Beach, sold 1815 S. Flagler Ave. to Glynn and Lynn Barnes, of Flagler Beach, for $515,000. Built in 1979, the house is a 3/2 and has a swimming pool and 1,288 square feet. It sold in 2019 for $320,000.

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house in Plantation Bay was the top real estate transaction in Ormond Beach and Ormond-by-the-Sea for the week of March 6-12 in the Multiple Listing Service. Charles Anne Lichtigman, sold 1244 Castlehawk Lane to Christopher Hornbecker, of Ormond Beach, for $1,862,000. Built in 2017, the house is a 4/4 and has a swimming pool and 4,733 square feet. It sold in 2021 for $1,649,000.

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Winston Lightburn sold 901 S. Atlantic Ave., Unit PH-2, to Greg Embry, of Leitchfield, Kentucky, for $600,000.

Built in 1980, the condo is a 3/4.5 and has 2,790 square feet.

Jesus Surfed Apparel Co. LLC sold 62 Sandcastle Lane to Michael and Whittney Lynch, of Ormond Beach, for $598,000. Built in 1985, the house is a 4/4 and has a fireplace and 2,762 square feet.

Miguel and Myriam Cabrera, of Thiells, New York, sold 1 John Anderson Drive, Unit 5040, to Thomas and Cynthia Hamel, of Syracuse, New York, for $584,900. Built in 1996, the condo is a 3/3.5 and has 2,440 square feet.

Richard and Mary Steiner, of Port Orange, sold 410 Idlewood Drive to Lori Thompson and David Valliere, of Ormond Beach, for $505,000.

Built in 1960, the house is a 4/2 and has a fireplace and 2,344 square feet. It sold in 2013 for $272,000.

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MARCH 6 - 12 Karen Bolles, as representative, sold 340 Navajo Ave. to Laurene Patterson, of Ormond Beach, for $364,900. Built in 1968, the house is a 3/2.5 and has a fireplace, boat dock and 1,826 square feet. It sold in 2020 for $256,700.

Magen Young sold 49 Bella Vita Way to Roberto and Margaret Maso, of Ormond Beach, for $279,000. Built in 2019, the house is a 3/2.5 and has 1,736 square feet. It sold in 2019 for $190,000.

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Located on a golf course, the top seller features four bedrooms and a swimming pool.

Grand Haven Matthew and Linda Parisi, of Gillette, New Jersey, sold 93 Front St. to Leonid Blyumin and Tatyana Tsarkovskaya, The house at 82 London Drive sold for $410,000.

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The house at 5 King Phillips Way sold for $685,000.

Broadwater Gregory and Johanna Todd, of Ormond Beach, sold 2 Broadcreek Circle to Dane Lampe, of Ormond Beach, for $1,302,421. Built in 1992, the house is a 5/4/2 and has two fireplaces, a swimming pool and 5,459 square feet. It sold in 2015 for $589,000.

Halifax Plantation Richard Catallozzi Sr., of Palm Coast, sold 3747 Longford Circle to Mark and Bobbie Morris, of Ormond Beach, for $550,000. Built in 1996, the house is a 3/2 and has a fireplace, swimming pool and 2,412 square feet.

Hunter’s Ridge Vicente and Carmen Fernandez sold 72 Abacus Ave. to Sharon and Michael Cunningham, of Ormond Beach, for $475,000. Built in 2011, the house is a 3/2.5 and has 2,715 square feet.

Ormond Lakes Johanna and Robert Latzo, of New Smyrna Beach, sold 5 King Phillips Way to Allen and Corann Harper, of Ormond Beach, for $685,000. Built in 2003, the house is a 3/3 and has a swimming pool and 3,226 square feet. It sold in 2015 for $310,000.

Plantation Bay Offerpad SPE Borrower A LLC, of Chandler, Arizona, sold 1216 Hampstead Lane to Chris and Jolene Bullis, of Ormond Beach, for $469,900. Built in 2003, the house is a 3/2 and has a swimming pool and 1,973 square feet. It sold in 2018 for $300,000.

Mark and Patricia Kitzmiller, of Jacksonville, sold 723 Aldenham Ave. to Jeffery Craddock and Richard Best, of Ormond Beach, for $363,000. Built in 2018, the house is a 2/2 and has 1,510 square feet. It sold in 2018 for $245,600.

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Saddlers Run Greggory and Catherine Smith, of Mason, Ohio, sold 70 Saddlers Run to Martin and Elizabeth Smith, of Ormond Beach, for $387,500.

Built in 2005, the house is a 3/2 and has 1,947 square feet.

It sold in 2021 for $355,000.

Joseph and Celena Zimmerman, of Port Richey, sold 14 Oakview Circle to Rebecca Doss and Teresa Hornsby, of Ormond Beach, for $375,000.

Built in 1960, the house is a 3/2.5 and has 1,520 square feet. It sold in 2018 for $185,000.

The Trails Janice McKay, of Ormond Beach, sold 230 Pine Cone Trail to Patricia Brown, of Waycross, Georgia, for $226,000. Built in 1978, the townhouse is a 2/1.5 and has a fireplace and 1,171 square feet.

Dennis Burke, of Corunna, Michigan, sold 6 Magnolia Circle to Robert and Lorelle Hardt, of Ormond Beach, for $365,000. Built in 1963, the house is a 3/2 and has 1,515 square feet.

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Stephen and Deborah Dickerson sold 116 Ocean Grove Drive to Melanie and Vincent Russo, of Ormond Beach, for $703,500. Built in 2021, the house is a 3/3 and has 2,002 square feet.

Carol Ward, of Waxhaw, North Carolina, sold 33 E. Sea Harbor Drive to Karen Burnett, individually and as trustee, for $500,000. Built in 1982, the house is a 3/2 and has a fireplace, swimming pool and 1,974 square

CCH Biz LLC sold 131 Ocean Grove Drive to Erin and Brian Weiss, of Ormond Beach, for $450,000. Built in 1971, the house is a 3/2 and has 1,229 square feet.

Vincent and Melanie Russo sold 169 Roberta Road to Tammy LaFever, of Ormond Beach, for $353,325. Built in 1955, the house is a 2/1 and has 1,001 square feet. It sold in 2017 for $185,000.

Daniel Gabilondo, of Ormond Beach, sold 34 Ocean Breeze Circle to Sean and Mischa Jones, of Ormond Beach, for $349,900. Built in 1986, the house is a 2/2 and has 1,214 square feet. It sold in 2016 for $192,000.

Maryann Godin, of Ormond Beach, sold 3110 Ocean Shore Blvd., Unit 4130, to James Farley, of Amherst, Ohio, for $322,000. Built in 1991, the condo is a 2/2 and has 873 square feet.

Kathy Quick sold 59 Seaside Drive to Barry and Dawn Krikke, of Jacksonville, for $320,000. Built in 1959, the house is a 2/2 and has 1,204 square feet. It sold in 2017 for $165,000.

The house at 116 Ocean Grove Drive sold for $703,500.

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of Buffalo Grove, Illinois, for $1.15 million. Built in 2003, the house is a 4/3.5 and has a swimming pool, boat dock, boathouse and 2,806 square feet. It sold in 2013 for $700,000.

Azimut Group LLC, of Pensacola, sold 13 Sandpiper Court to Pavel and Natalya Syrov, of Palm Coast, for $520,000. Built in 1997, the house is a 4/3 and has 2,456 square feet. It sold in 2020 for $258,000.

Indian Trails Mark Evalenko, of Brooklyn, New York, sold 5 Burnet Place to John and Ailen Mashke, of Palm Coast, for $365,000. Built in 2004, the house is a 4/2 and has 2,264 square feet. It sold in 2020 for $235,000.

D.R. Horton Inc. Jacksonville, of St. Johns, sold 3 Buttermilk Drive to Frank Harb, of Palm Coast, for $298,990.

Built in 2021, the house is a 4/2 and has 1,862 square feet.

Lehigh Woods Joshua and Candice Joslin, of Rhinelander, Wisconsin, sold 4 Rosedale Place to Angelo Ippolito, of Long Island City, New York, for $550,000.

Built in 2018, the house is a 4/3 and has a swimming pool and 2,273 square feet.

Zhu Li, of Elmhurst, New York, sold 33 Ryarbor Drive to Jason Whitaker, of Palm Coast, for $310,000. Built in 2007, the house is a 3/2 and has 1,836 square feet. It sold in 2008 for $161,000.

Matanzas Woods Ronald and Pam Lagasse, of Lake City, South Carolina, sold 82 London Drive to Jerome O’Sullivan, of Palm

The house at 504 N. Cherry St. sold for $285,000.

The house at 9 Whitcock Lane sold for $300,000.

Coast, for $410,000. Built in 2005, the house is a 4/2 and has 2,418 square feet. It sold in 2016 for $230,000.

the house is a 3/3 and has a swimming pool and 3,066 square feet. It sold in 2012 for $240,000.

Not in Subdivision William Chance and Laiken Kelly sold 257 Ocean Palm Drive to Patrick and Jill Odonoghue, of Southhampton, New York, for $360,000.

Built in 1979, the house is a 2/2 and has 1,361 square feet.

It sold in 2019 for $245,000.

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Palm Harbor Joao and Elisa Rodrigues, of Prospect, Connecticut, sold 4 Fairbank Lane to George and Beatriz Cost, of Tampa, for $539,900. Built in 2010,

sold 96 Fieldstone Lane to Michelle Naupari and Carlos Naupari-Ibanez, of Palm Coast, for $305,115. Built in 2021, the house is a 3/2 and has 1,753 square feet.

Pine Lakes Paulo Oliveira and Jesuina Cuco, of Palm Coast, sold 160 Westhampton Drive to Leonard and Lisa Simone, of Palm Coast, for $414,900.

Built in 1993, the house is a 3/2.5 and has 1,948 square feet. It sold in 2017 for $155,000.

Monica Perez, of Flagler Beach, sold 9 Whitcock Lane to Elena Bernat and Greg Prozument, of Palm Coast, for $300,000. Built in 1992, the house is a 4/2/1 and has 2,371 square feet. It sold in 1992 for $123,000.

Nicholas and Natalie Reyes sold 5 Wood Ash Lane to Laura Needham, of Palm Coast, for $215,000. Built in 1989, the house is a 2/2 and has 936 square feet. It sold in 2006 for $119,900.

The house at 117 Evans Drive sold for $505,000.

Quail Hollow Holiday Builders Inc., of Melbourne, sold 1 Zerington Court to Brenda Sostre, Gabriel Gonzalez and others for $311,490. Built in 2021, the house is a 4/2 and has 2,044 square feet.

Sugar Mill Plantation Gary and Pamela Roberts sold 64 Audubon Lane to Terry Habig and Terry G. Habig, as trustees, for $880,000. Built in 2005, the house is a 4/4.5 and has a fireplace, swimming pool and 3,647 square feet. It sold in 2019 for $575,000.

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NOTICE OF SALE PURSUANT TO CHAPTER 45 IN THE COUNTY COURT OF THE SEVENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT IN AND FOR FLAGLER COUNTY, FLORIDA GENERAL JURISDICTION DIVISION CASE NO. 2021-CC-000731 GRAND HAVEN MASTER ASSOCIATION, INC., A FLORIDA NOT FOR PROFIT CORPORATION, PLAINTIFF, V. LYNN A. TAYLOR, ET AL., DEFENDANTS. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to a Final Judgment of Foreclosure dated April 12, 2022, and entered in Case No. 2021-CC000731 of the COUNTY COURT OF THE SEVENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT in and for Flagler County, Florida, wherein GRAND HAVEN MASTER ASSOCIATION, INC. is Plaintiff, and LYNN A. TAYLOR; SAMUEL MEDJUCK; MARY ELLEN MEDJUCK; MICHAEL A. TAYLOR; UNKNOWN TENANT #1 and UNKNOWN TENANT #2 are Defendants, Tom Bexley, Flagler County Clerk of Court, will sell to the highest and best bidder for cash: 1769 E. Moody Blvd., Bldg 1, Civil Department,, Bunnell, FL 32110 (2nd Floor), the Clerk’s street address for auctions, at 11:00, on the 20th day of May, 2022 the following described property as set forth in said Final Judgment, to wit: LOT 172, GRAND HAVEN NORTH PHASE I, ACCORDING TO THE MAP OR PLAT THEREOF AS RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK 34, PAGE(S) 21, PUBLIC RECORDS OF FLAGLER COUNTY, FLORIDA. A/K/A: 8 N. Village Drive, Palm Coast, FL 32137 A PERSON CLAIMING AN INTEREST IN THE SURPLUS FROM THE SALE, IF ANY, OTHER THAN THE PROPERTY OWNER AS OF THE DATE OF THE LIS PENDENS MUST FILE A CLAIM WITHIN SIXTY (60) DAYS AFTER THE SALE. BECKER & POLIAKOFF, P.A. Attorneys for Plaintiff 111 N. Orange Avenue Suite 1400 Orlando, FL 32801 Phone: (407) 875-0955 Fax: (407) 999-2209 Primary email: cofoservicemail@beckerlawyers.com BY: K. Joy Mattingly Florida Bar #17391 20162291v.1 G23031/406302 JDEROS April 21, 28, 2022 22-00043G

NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR FLAGLER COUNTY, FLORIDA PROBATE DIVISION File No. 2020 CP 154 Division 48 IN RE: ESTATE OF WALTER A. LAWRENCE, JR. Deceased.

The administration of the estate of Walter A. Lawrence, Jr., deceased, whose date of death was January 7, 2022, is pending in the Circuit Court for Flagler County, Florida, Probate Division, the address of which is 1769 E. Moody Blvd., Bunnell, FL 32110.

The names and addresses of the personal representative and the personal representative’s attorney are set forth below.

All creditors of the decedent and other persons having claims or demands against decedent’s estate on whom a copy of this notice is required to be served must file their claims with this court ON OR BEFORE THE LATER OF 3 MONTHS AFTER THE TIME OF THE FIRST PUBLICATION OF THIS NOTICE OR 30 DAYS AFTER THE DATE OF SERVICE OF A COPY OF THIS NOTICE ON THEM. All other creditors of the decedent and other persons having claims or demands against decedent’s estate must file their claims with this court WITHIN 3 MONTHS AFTER THE DATE OF THE FIRST PUBLICATION OF THIS NOTICE. ALL CLAIMS NOT FILED WITHIN THE TIME PERIODS SET FORTH IN FLORIDA STATUTES SECTION 733.702 WILL BE FOREVER BARRED. NOTWITHSTANDING THE TIME PERIODS SET FORTH ABOVE, ANY CLAIM FILED TWO (2) YEARS OR MORE AFTER THE DECEDENT’S DATE OF DEATH IS BARRED. The date of first publication of this notice is April 21, 2022.

Personal Representative: Nathan Lawrence 3 Sandman Court Fleetwood, Pennsylvania 195222 Attorney for Personal Representative: Diane A. Vidal, Attorney Florida Bar Number: 1008324 CHIUMENTO LAW 145 City Place, Suite 301 Palm Coast, FL 32164 Telephone: (386) 445-8900 Fax: (386) 445-6702 E-Mail: dvidal@legalteamforlife.com Secondary E-Mail: proserv@legalteamforlife.com April 21, 28, 2022 22-00045G

NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE SEVENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT IN AND FOR FLAGLER COUNTY, FLORIDA PROBATE DIVISION File No. 2020 CP 000558 IN RE: THE ESTATE OF DALE T. FAULDS JR Deceased.

The administration of the estate of Dale T. Faulds, Jr. deceased, is pending in the Circuit Court for Flagler County, Florida, Probate Division, address 1769 E Moody Blvd, Building #1 - Kim C. Hammond Justice Center, Bunnell, FL 32110, File No. 2020 CP 00058. The personal representative’s and the personal representative’s attorney names and addresses are: Harriett Tilley Faulds, 7 Rockingham Lane, Palm Coast, FL 32164 Daniel R. Lewis, Esq., 208 Sanford Ave, Sanford, FL 32771 All creditors of the decedent and other persons having claims or demands against decedent’s estate on whom a copy of this notice is required to be served must file their claims with this court WITHIN THE LATER OF 3 MONTHS AFTER THE TIME OF THE FIRST PUBLICATION OF THIS NOTICE OR 30 DAYS AFTER THE DATE OF SERVICE OF A COPY OF THIS NOTICE ON THEM. All other creditors of the decedent and other persons having claims or demands against decedent’s estate must file their claims with the court WITHIN 3 MONTHS AFTER THE DATE OF THE FIRST PUBLICATION OF THIS NOTICE. ALL CLAIMS NOT FILLED WITHIN THE TIME PERIODS SET FORTH IN THE FLORIDA STATUTES WILL BE FOREVER BARRED. NOTWITHSTANDING THE TIME PERIODS SET FORTH ABOVE, ANY CLAIM FILED TWO (2) YEARS OR MORE AFTER THE DECEDENT’S DATE OF DEATH IS BARRED. First publication of this notice is April 21, 2022 /s/ Harriett Tilley Faulds 7 Rockingham Lane Palm Coast, FL 32164 /s/ Daniel R. Lewis, Esq. Attorney for Petitioner Attorney for Personal Representative Daniel R. Lewis, Esq. Florida Bar No. 108897 208 Sanford Ave Sanford, Florida 32771 Telephone: 386-237-5408 E-Mail: daniel@danielrlewislaw.com April 21, 28, 2022 22-00046G

NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR SEVENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT IN AND FOR FLAGLER A COUNTY, FLORIDA FILE NO.: 2022 CP 000147 DIVISION: PROBATE IN RE: ESTATE OF CAROL ANN SCHIRO, Deceased.

The administration of the Estate of CAROL ANN SCHIRO, deceased, whose date of death was December 31, 2021, is pending in the Circuit Court for Flagler County, Florida, Probate Division, the address of which is Kim C Hammond Justice Center 1769 E Moody Blvd, Bldg 1. Bunnell, FL 32110.

The names and addresses of the personal representative and the personal representative’s attorney are set forth below.

All creditors of the decedent and other persons having claims or demands against decedent’s estate on whom a copy of this notice is required to be served must file their claims with this court ON OR BEFORE THE LATER OF 3 MONTHS AFTER THE TIME OF THE FIRST PUBLICATION OF THIS NOTICE OR 30 DAYS AFTER THE DATE OF SERVICE OF A COPY OF THIS NOTICE ON THEM. All other creditors of the decedent and other persons having claims or demands against decedent’s estate must file their claims with this court WITHIN 3 MONTHS AFTER THE DATE OF THE FIRST PUBLICATION OF THIS NOTICE. ALL CLAIMS NOT FILED WITHIN THE TIME PERIODS SET FORTH IN FLORIDA STATUTES SECTION 733.702 WILL BE FOREVER BARRED. NOTWITHSTANDING THE TIME PERIOD SET FORTH ABOVE, ANY CLAIM FILED TWO (2) YEARS OR MORE AFTER THE DECEDENT’S DATE OF DEATH IS BARRED. The date of first publication of this notice is April 21, 2022 Personal Representative: Mark Schiro 33 White Hall Dr. Palm Coast, FL 32164 Attorney for Personal Representative: Elan R. Kaney Elan.Kaney@KaneyLaw.com Florida Bar No. 0538302 Elan R. Kaney, PLLC 523 North Halifax Ave. Daytona Beach, FL 32118 Telephone: (386) 281-5777 April 21, 28, 2022 22-00044G

STATE OF FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION NOTICE OF INTENT TO ISSUE PERMIT The Department of Environmental Protection gives notice of its intent to issue a permit revision to Florida Governmental Utility Authority, for operation and modification of Plantation Bay Wastewater Treatment Facility. This permit revision authorizes the permittee to modify the construction improvements which have been approved in the previous projects.

The modification will consist of a dual-train extended aeration secondary wastewater treatment system with filtration and high-level disinfection to meet the requirements for the public access reuse requirements. The proposed two treatment trains will be operated in parallel and the total capacity of the modified system will be increase from 0.475 MGD to 0.490 MGD annual average daily flow. The final treated effluent will be primarily reused via public access irrigation system. The effluent also applies on percolation/infiltration pond as secondary disposal method. The facility is located at latitude 29° 24’ 5.13” N, longitude 81° 10’ 17.61” W, on 1600 South Old Dixie Highway, Florida 32110 in Flagler County. The Department has assigned permit file number FLA011597-020-DW2P to the proposed project.

The intent to issue and application file are available for public inspection during normal business hours, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, except legal holidays, at the Department’s Northeast District Office, 8800 Baymeadows Way West, Suite 100, Jacksonville, Florida 322567577, at phone number (904)256-1700.

NOTICE OF RIGHTS The Department will issue the permit unless a petition for an administrative hearing is timely filed under Sections 120.569 and 120.57, F.S., before the deadline for filing a petition.

On the filing of a timely and sufficient petition, this action will not be final and effective until further order of the Department. Because the administrative hearing process is designed to formulate final agency action, the hearing process may result in a modification of the agency action or even denial of the application.

Petition for Administrative Hearing A person whose substantial interests are affected by the Department’s action may petition for an administrative proceeding (hearing) under Sections 120.569 and 120.57, F.S. Pursuant to Rules 28-106.201 and 28-106.301, F.A.C., a petition for an administrative hearing must contain the following information: (a) The name and address of each agency affected and each agency’s file or identification number, if known; (b) The name, address, any e-mail address, any facsimile number, and telephone number of the petitioner, if the petitioner is not represented by an attorney or a qualified representative; the name, address, and telephone number of the petitioner’s representative, if any, which shall be the address for service purposes during the course of the proceeding; and an explanation of how the petitioner’s substantial interests will be affected by the agency determination; (c) A statement of when and how the petitioner received notice of the Department’s agency decision; (d) A statement of all disputed issues of material fact. If there are none, the petition must so indicate; (e) A concise statement of the ultimate facts alleged, including the specific facts that the petitioner contends warrant reversal or modification of the agency’s proposed action; (f ) A statement of the specific rules or statutes the petitioner contends require reversal or modification of the agency’s proposed action, including an explanation of how the alleged facts relate to the specific rules or statutes; and (g) A statement of the relief sought by the petitioner, stating precisely the action that the petitioner wishes the agency to take with respect to the agency’s proposed action.

The petition must be filed (received by the Clerk) in the Office of General Counsel of the Department at 3900 Commonwealth Boulevard, Mail Station 35, Tallahassee, Florida 323993000, or via electronic correspondence at Agency_Clerk@FloridaDEP.gov. Also, a copy of the petition shall be mailed to the applicant at the address indicated above at the time of filing.

Time Period for Filing a Petition Petitions filed by any persons other than the applicant, and other than those entitled to written notice under Section 120.60(3), F.S., must be filed within 14 days of publication of the notice or within 14 days of receipt of the written notice, whichever occurs first.

The failure to file a petition within the appropriate time period shall constitute a waiver of that person’s right to request an administrative determination (hearing) under Sections 120.569 and 120.57, F.S., or to intervene in this proceeding and participate as a party to it. Any subsequent intervention (in a proceeding initiated by another party) will be only at the discretion of the presiding officer upon the filing of a motion in compliance with Rule 28-106.205, F.A.C. Extension of Time Under Rule 62-110.106(4), F.A.C., a person whose substantial interests are affected by the Department’s action may also request an extension of time to file a petition for an administrative hearing. The Department may, for good cause shown, grant the request for an extension of time. Requests for extension of time must be filed with the Office of General Counsel of the Department at 3900 Commonwealth Boulevard, Mail Station 35, Tallahassee, Florida 323993000, or via electronic correspondence at Agency_Clerk@FloridaDEP. gov, before the deadline for filing a petition for an administrative hearing. A timely request for extension of time shall toll the running of the time period for filing a petition until the request is acted upon.

Mediation Mediation is not available in this proceeding.

FIRST INSERTION Notice is hereby given that the following vehicles will be sold at public auction pursuant to F.S. 713.585 on the sale dates at the locations below at 9:00 a.m. to satisfy labor and storage charges.

1987 AMER 2BCCV8119HB533254 Total Lien: $5698.30 Sale Date:05/23/2022 Location: BATTS & PEREZ ENTERPRISES LLC. DBA: FLY BY NIGHT AUTOMOTIVE 6020 E HIGHWAY 100 FLAGLER BEACH, FL 32136 (954)817-4522 Pursuant to F.S. 713.585 the cash amount per vehicle would be sufficient to redeem that vehicle from the lienor. Any interested party has a right to a hearing prior to the sale by filing a demand for the hearing with the Clerk of the Circuit Court in Flagler and mailing copies of the same to all owners and lienors. The owner/lienholder has a right to recover possession of the vehicle by posting bond pursuant to F.S. 559.917 and if sold any proceeds remaining from the sale will be deposited with the Clerk of Circuit Court for disposition.

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FIRST INSERTION NOTICE OF DISPOSAL OF FOUND PROPERTY BY FLAGLER BEACH POLICE DEPARTMENT Florida State Statue Chapter 705 requires law enforcement agencies to publish notice of the intended disposition of found property. The following property was submitted to the Flagler Beach Police Department on April 10, 2022. Any person wishing to claim said property must contact the police department prior to July 10, 2022. Unclaimed property will be retained by the police department, transferred to charities, sold at public auction, turned over to the finder, or destroyed. Persons inquiring about lost or found property may call FBPD Property & Evidence Section at 386-517-2020, Monday thru Friday between 8:00 am and 4:00 pm. US Currency, case # 2022-6717 April 21, 28, 2022

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FIRST INSERTION Notice Under Fictitious Name Law According to Florida Statute Number 865.09 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned, desiring to engage in business under the Fictitious Name of faithbasenailtech located at 390 County Road 200, in the City of Bunnell, Flagler County, FL 32110 intends to register the said name with the Division of Corporations of the Department of State, Tallahassee, Florida.

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FIRST INSERTION Notice Under Fictitious Name Law According to Florida Statute Number 865.09 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned, desiring to engage in business under the Fictitious Name of Campanellie’s Fine Art located at 43 Sea Front Trl, in the City of Palm Coast, Flagler County, FL 32164 intends to register the said name with the Division of Corporations of the Department of State, Tallahassee, Florida.

Dated this 11th day of April, 2022.

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SUBSEQUENT INSERTIONS SECOND INSERTION AMENDED NOTICE OF SALE PURSUANT TO CHAPTER 45 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 7TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT IN AND FOR FLAGLER COUNTY, FLORIDA CASE NO.: 2021 CA 000360 DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY, AS TRUSTEE FOR AMERIQUEST MORTGAGE SECURITIES INC., ASSET-BACKED PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2005-R11, Plaintiff, vs.

KAREN E. BRUCE A/K/A KAREN BRUCE; UNKNOWN SPOUSE OF KAREN E. BRUCE A/K/A KAREN BRUCE, Defendant(s).

NOTICE OF SALE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to the order of Summary Final Judgment of Foreclosure dated April 8, 2022, and entered in Case No. 2021 CA 000360 of the Circuit Court of the 7TH Judicial Circuit in and for Flagler County, Florida, wherein DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY, AS TRUSTEE FOR AMERIQUEST MORTGAGE SECURITIES INC., ASSET-BACKED PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2005-R11, is Plaintiff and KAREN E. BRUCE A/K/A KAREN BRUCE; UNKNOWN SPOUSE OF KAREN E. BRUCE A/K/A KAREN BRUCE, are Defendants, the Office of the Clerk, Flagler County Clerk of the Court will sell to the highest bidder or bidders for cash in the Civil/Criminal Department, 2nd Floor of the Kim C. Hammond Justice Center, located at 1769 E. Moody Boulevard, Building 1, Bunnell, FL 32110 at 11:00 a.m. on the 27th day of May, 2022, the following described property as set forth in said Summary Final Judgment, to

wit: LOT 3, BLOCK 27, PALM COAST, MAP OF BELLE TERRE, SECTION 35, A SUBDIVISION ACCORDING TO THE PLAT OR MAP THEREOF DESCRIBED IN PLAT BOOK 11, AT PAGE(S) 9, OF THE PUBLIC RECORDS OF FLAGLER COUNTY, FLORIDA. Property Address: 128 Burroughs Drive, Palm Coast, Florida 32137 and all fixtures and personal property located therein or thereon, which are included as security in Plaintiff ’s mortgage.

Any person claiming an interest in the surplus funds from the sale, if any, other than the property owner as of the date of the lis pendens must file a claim before the clerk reports the surplus as unclaimed.

If you are a person with a disability who needs any accommodation in order to participate in this proceeding, you are entitled, at no cost to you, to the provision of certain assistance. Please contact Court Administration, 125 E. Orange Ave., Ste. 300, Daytona Beach, FL 32114, (386) 257-6096 at least 7 days before your scheduled court appearance, or immediately upon receiving this notification if the time before the scheduled appearance is less than 7 days; if you are hearing or voice impaired, call 711.

Dated: 04/11/2022 McCabe, Weisberg & Conway, LLC By: /s/ Robert A. McLain Robert McLain, Esq. Fl Bar No. 195121 McCabe, Weisberg & Conway, LLC 3222 Commerce Place, Suite A West Palm Beach, Florida, 33407 Telephone: (561) 713-1400 Email: FLpleadings@mwc-law.com File No: 21-400102 April 14, 21, 2022 22-00041G

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SECOND INSERTION NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE SEVENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT IN AND FOR FLAGLER COUNTY, FLORIDA CASE NO. 2020 CA 000466 ATHENE ANNUITY & LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, Plaintiff, vs.

VITO MATTIOLI AND MARIA MATTIOLI, et al.

Defendant(s).

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to a Final Judgment of Foreclosure dated February 21, 2022 , and entered in 2020 CA 000466 of the Circuit Court of the SEVENTH Judicial Circuit in and for Flagler County, Florida, wherein ATHENE ANNUITY & LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY is the Plaintiff and VITO MATTIOLI and MARIA MATTIOLI are the Defendant(s). TOM W. BEXLEY as the Clerk of the Circuit Court will sell to the highest and best bidder for cash at 2nd Floor, Civil Dept., Kim C. Hammond Justice Center 1769 E. Moody Blvd. BLDG. 1, Bunnell, FL 32110, at 11:00 AM, on May 13, 2022, the following described property as set forth in said Final Judgment, to wit: LOT 57, BLOCK 24, OF PALM COAST, MAP OF FLORIDA PARK, SECTION 10, A SUBDIVISION ACCORDING TO THE PLAT OR MAP THEREOF DESCRIBED IN MAP BOOK 6, PAGE 52, OF THE PUBLIC RECORDS OF FLAGLER COUNTY, FLORIDA, AS AMENDED BY INSTRUMENT RECORDED IN OFFICIAL RECORDS BOOK 35, AT PAGE 528, OF THE PUBLIC RECORDS OF FLAGLER

COUNTY, FLORIDA. Property Address: 78 FELWOOD LANE, PALM COAST, FL 32137 Any person claiming an interest in the surplus from the sale, if any, other than the property owner as of the date of the lis pendens must file a claim in accordance with Florida Statutes, Section 45.031.

IMPORTANT AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT. If you are a person with a disability who needs an accommodation in order to access court facilities or participate in a court proceeding, you are entitled, at no cost to you, to the provision of certain assistance. To request such an accommodation, please contact Court Administration in advance of the date the service is needed: Court Administration, 101 N. Alabama Ave., Ste D-305, Deland, FL 32724, (386) 257-6096. Hearing or voice impaired, please call 711.

Dated this 11 day of April, 2022.

ROBERTSON, ANSCHUTZ, SCHNEID, CRANE & PARTNERS, PLLC Attorney for Plaintiff 6409 Congress Ave., Suite 100 Boca Raton, FL 33487 Telephone: 561-241-6901 Facsimile: 561-997-6909 Service Email: flmail@raslg.com By: \S\Ashley Bruneus Ashley Bruneus, Esquire Florida Bar No. 1017216 Communication Email: ashbruneus@raslg.com 19-379260 - CaB April 14, 21, 2022 22-00042G

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE SEVENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COURT, IN AND FOR FLAGLER COUNTY, FLORIDA PROBATE DIVISION File No. 2022-CP-0219 Division 48 IN RE: ESTATE OF MARIANNE REED, Deceased.

The administration of the estate of MARIANNE REED, deceased, whose date of death was March 15, 2022, is pending in the Circuit Court for Flagler County, Florida, Probate Division, the address of which is Kim C. Hammond Justice Center, Flagler. The names and addresses of the personal representative and the personal representative’s attorney are set forth below.

All creditors of the decedent and other persons having claims or demands against decedent’s estate on whom a copy of this notice is required to be served must file their claims with this court ON OR BEFORE THE LATER OF 3 MONTHS AFTER THE TIME OF THE FIRST PUBLICATION OF THIS NOTICE OR 30 DAYS AFTER THE DATE OF SERVICE OF A COPY OF THIS NOTICE ON THEM. All other creditors of the decedent and other persons having claims or demands against decedent’s estate must file their claims with this court WITHIN 3 MONTHS AFTER THE DATE OF THE FIRST PUBLICATION OF THIS NOTICE. ALL CLAIMS NOT FILED WITHIN THE TIME PERIODS SET FORTH IN FLORIDA STATUTES SECTION 733.702 WILL BE FOREVER BARRED. NOTWITHSTANDING THE TIME PERIOD SET FORTH ABOVE, ANY CLAIM FILED TWO (2) YEARS OR MORE AFTER THE DECEDENT’S DATE OF DEATH IS BARRED. The date of first publication of this notice is April 14, 2022.

Personal Representative: JEFFREY L REED 46 Sandy Beach Way Palm Coast, FL 32137 Attorney for Personal Representative: Heather S. Maltby HEATHER@EPPGLAW.COM Florida Bar No. 116571 E.P.P.G. Law of St. Johns, PLLC 200 Malaga Street, Suite 2 St. Augustine, FL 32084 Telephone: 904-875-3774 April 14, 21, 2022 22-00040G

NOTICE OF ACTION FOR DISSOLUTION OF MARRIAGE (NO CHILD OR FINANCIAL SUPPORT) IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 7TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR FLAGLER COUNTY, FLORIDA Case No.: 2022 DR 000295 Division: 47 Michele Eileen Martin Petitioner, and Phillip Jackson Martin, Respondent, TO: Phillip Jackson Martin 2129 N. US Hwy 1 Bunnell, FL 32110 YOU ARE NOTIFIED that an action for Adoption has been filed against you and that you are required to serve a copy of your written defenses, if any, to it on Michele Eileen Martin whose address is 48 Ridley Lane, Palm Coast, FL 32164 on or before May 8, 2022, and file the original with the clerk of this Court at 1769 E Moody Blvd, Buneell, FL 32110 before service on Petitioner or immediately thereafter. If you fail to do so, a default may be entered against you for the relief demanded in the petition.

The action is asking the court to decide how the following real or personal property should be divided: _____ Copies of all court documents in this case, including orders, are available at the Clerk of the Circuit Court’s office. You may review these documents upon request.

You must keep the Clerk of the Circuit Court’s office notified of your current address. (You may file Notice of Current Address, Florida Supreme Court Approved Family Law Form 12.915.) Future papers in this lawsuit will be mailed to the address on record at the clerk’s office.

WARNING: Rule 12.285, Florida Family Law Rules of Procedure, requires certain automatic disclosure of documents and information. Failure to comply can result in sanctions, including dismissal or striking of pleadings.

Dated: 3/28/2022 CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT (SEAL) By: /s/ Deputy Clerk March 31; April 7, 14, 21, 2022 22-00035G

SEMINOLE PALMS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT NOTICE OF THE DISTRICT’S INTENT TO USE THE UNIFORM METHOD OF COLLECTION OF NON-AD VALOREM ASSESSMENTS Notice is hereby given that the Seminole Palms Community Development District (“District”) intends to use the uniform method of collecting non-ad valorem assessments to be levied by the District pursuant to Section 197.3632, Florida Statutes. The Board of Supervisors of the District will conduct a public hearing on Monday, April 25, 2022, at 11:00 a.m. at Hilton Garden Inn, 55 Town Center Blvd., Palm Coast, FL 32164.

The purpose of the public hearing is to consider the adoption of a resolution authorizing the District to use the uniform method of collecting non-ad valorem assessments to be levied by the District on properties located on land included in, or to be added to, the District.

The District may levy non-ad valorem assessments for the purpose of financing, acquiring, maintaining and/or operating community development facilities, services and improvements within and without the boundaries of the District, to consist of, among other things, water management and control, water supply, sewer and wastewater management, roads, parks and recreational facilities, landscape/hardscape/irrigation, offsite roadway improvements, offsite utility extensions, and any other lawful projects or services of the District.

Owners of the properties to be assessed and other interested parties may appear at the public hearing and be heard regarding the use of the uniform method of collecting such non-ad valorem assessments. This hearing is open to the public and will be conducted in accordance with the provisions of Florida law for community development districts. The public hearing may be continued to a date, time and location to be specified on the record at the hearing. There may be occasions when Supervisors or staff may participate by speaker telephone.

Pursuant to provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act, any person requiring special accommodations to participate in the hearing and/or meeting is asked to contact DPFG (321) 263-0132 (“District Manager’s Office”), at least 48 hours before the hearing and/or meeting. If you are hearing or speech impaired, please contact the Florida Relay Service at (800) 955-8770, who can aid you in contacting the District Manager’s Office.

Each person who decides to appeal any decision made by the Board with respect to any matter considered at the hearing is advised that person will need a record of the proceedings and that accordingly, the person may need to ensure that a verbatim record of the proceedings is made, including the testimony and evidence upon which such appeal is to be based.

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SECOND INSERTION NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT, SEVENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR FLAGLER COUNTY, FLORIDA CASE NO.: 2022-CP-235 DIVISION: Probate IN RE: ESTATE OF CAROL ANNE FINLEY, Deceased If you have been served with a copy of this notice and you have any claim or demand against the decedent’s estate, even if that claim is unmatured, contingent, or unliquidated, you must file your claim with the court ON OR BEFORE THE LATER OF A DATE THAT IS 3 MONTHS AFTER THE FIRST PUBLICATION OF THIS NOTICE OR 30 DAYS AFTER YOU RECEIVE A COPY OF THIS NOTICE. All other creditors of the decedent and other persons who have claims or demands against the decedent’s estate, including unmatured, contingent, or unliquidated claims, must file their claims with the court ON OR BEFORE THE DATE THAT IS 3 MONTHS AFTER THE FIRST PUBLICATION OF THIS NOTICE. ALL CLAIMS NOT FILED WITHIN THE PERIODS SET FORTH IN SECTION 733.302, FLORIDA STATUTES, WILL BE FOREVER BARRED. EVEN IF A CLAIM IS NOT BARRED

BY THE LIMITATIONS DESCRIBED ABOVE, ALL CLAIMS THAT HAVE NOT BEEN FILED WILL BE BARRED TWO YEARS AFTER DECEDENT’S DEATH. The address of the court where this probate is pending is: 1769 E. Moody Blvd., Building #1 – Kim C. Hammond Justice Center, Bunnell, FL 32110.

The date of death of the decedent is: February 25, 2022.

The date of first publication of this notice is: April 14, 2022.

Personal Representative Taylor Anne Tapia c/o Law Offices of Mark F. Moss, PLLC 301 W. Bay Street, Suite 1457 Jacksonville, FL 32202 Attorneys for Personal Representative MARK F. MOSS, ESQ. Florida Bar Number: 119573 Law Offices of Mark F. Moss, PLLC 301 W. Bay Street, Suite 1457 Jacksonville, FL 32202 Telephone: (904) 329-7242 E-Mail 1: Service@markmosslaw.com E-Mail 2: mark@markmosslaw.com April 14, 21, 2022 22-00039G

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VOLUSIA COUNTY LEGAL NOTICES FIRST INSERTION

WEBSITES: FLAGLER COUNTY flaglerclerk.com VOLUSIA COUNTY clerk.org

NORTH 89 DEGREES 25 MINUTES 45 SECONDS EAST, A DISTANCE OF 323.63 FEET; THENCE SOUTH 00 DEGREES 33 MINUTES 33 SECONDS WEST A DISTANCE OF 673.00 FEET; THENCE SOUTH 89 DEGREES 25 MINUTES 45 SECONDS WEST A DISTANCE OF 323.63 FEET; THENCE NORTH 00 DEGREES 33 MINUTES 33 SECONDS EAST; A DISTANCE OF 673.00 FEET, TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING, ALONG WITH THE RIGHTS TO AND BEING SUBJECT TO THOSE EASEMENTS DESCRIBED IN OFFICIAL RECORDS BOOK 2808, PAGES 982 TO 987, PUBLIC RECORDS OF VOLUSIA COUNTY, FLORIDA. A/K/A 1330 NIATROSS STREET, ASTOR, FL 32102 Any person claiming an interest in the surplus from the sale, if any, other than the property owner as of the date of the Lis Pendens must file a claim before the Clerk reports the surplus as unclaimed.

ATTENTION PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES: If you are a person with a disability who needs an accommodation in order to participate in this proceeding, you are entitled, at no cost to you, to the provision of certain assistance. Please contact Court Administration, 125 E. Orange Ave., St. 300, Daytona Beach, FL 32114, 386-257-6096, within 2 days of your receipt of this notice. If you are hearing impaired, call 1-800-955-8771; if you are voice impaired, call 1-800-9558770.

THIS IS NOT A COURT INFORMATION LINE. To file response please contact Volusia County Clerk of Court, 101 N. Alabama Ave., DeLand, Fl 32724, Tel: (386) 736-5907.

Dated this 12 day of April, 2022.

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Notice is hereby given that the Board of Supervisors (“Board”) of the Walkers Green Community Development District (the “District”) will hold a regular meeting of the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, May 3, 2022 at 10:00 a.m. at Cobb Cole Center 149 Ridgewood Avenue Daytona Beach, Florida 32114. The meeting is open to the public and will be conducted in accordance with the provisions of Florida law. The meeting may be continued to a date, time, and place to be specified on the record at the meeting. There may be occasions when Board Supervisors or District Staff may participate by speaker telephone.

A copy of the agenda for the meeting may be obtained at the offices of the District Manager, PFM Group Consulting LLC located at 3501 Quadrangle Boulevard, Suite 270, Orlando, Florida 32817 or by phone at (407) 723-5900 (“District Manager’s Office”), during normal business hours, or from the District’s website at https://walkersgreencdd.com/.

Any person requiring special accommodations at the meeting because of a disability or physical impairment should contact the District Manager’s Office at least forty-eight (48) hours prior to the meeting. If you are hearing or speech impaired, please contact the Florida Relay Service by dialing 7-1-1, or 1-800-955-8771 (TTY) / 1-800-955-8770 (Voice), for aid in contacting the District Manager’s Office.

Any person who decides to appeal any decision made by the Board with respect to any matter considered at the meeting is advised that this same person will need a record of the proceedings and that accordingly, the person may need to ensure that a verbatim record of the proceedings is made, including the testimony and evidence upon which such appeal is to be based.

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NOTICE OF RESCHEDULED SALE PURSUANT TO CHAPTER 45 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE SEVENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT IN AND FOR VOLUSIA COUNTY, FLORIDA CIVIL ACTION CASE NO.: 2018 12037 CIDL DIVISION: 01 FBC MORTGAGE, LLC, Plaintiff, vs.

ELIJAH VON DEBARON A/K/A ELIJAH J. VON DEBARON, et al, Defendant(s).

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN Pursuant to an Order Rescheduling Foreclosure Sale dated March 29, 2022, and entered in Case No. 2018 12037 CIDL of the Circuit Court of the Seventh Judicial Circuit in and for Volusia County, Florida in which FBC Mortgage, LLC, is the Plaintiff and Elijah Von Debaron a/k/a Elijah J. Von Debaron, Vanessa Burke, National Collegiate Student Loan Trust 2006-3, National Collegiate Student Loan Trust 2006-2, are defendants, the Volusia County Clerk of the Circuit Court will sell to the highest and best bidder for cash in/on online at electronically/online at http://www.volusia. realforeclose.com, Volusia County, Florida at 11:00AM EST on the May 19, 2022 the following described property as set forth in said Final Judgment of Foreclosure: LOT 10, OF REVEILLE FARMS, UNRECORDED PLAT NO. 1507 BEING MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: COMMENCING AT THE SOUTH WEST CORNER OF THE NORTH WEST 1/4 OF SECTION 28, TOWNSHIP 15 SOUTH, RANGE 28 EAST, VOLUSIA COUNTY, FLORIDA, RUN THENCE NORTH 89 DEGREES 41 MINUTES 21 SECONDS EAST, ALONG THE SOUTH LINE OF SAID NORTH WEST 1/4, A DISTANCE OF 687.62 FEET; THENCE NORTH 00 DEGREES 34 MINUTES 46 SECONDS EAST, A DISTANCE OF 401.99 FEET; THENCE NORTH 89 DEGREES 25 MINUTES 45 SECONDS EAST, PARALLEL TO STATE ROAD NO. 40, AS NOW OCCUPIED AND ESTABLISHED, A DISTANCE OF 323.63 FEET, TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING; THENCE CONTINUE

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR VOLUSIA COUNTY, FLORIDA PROBATE DIVISION File No. 2022-10753-PRDL Division 10 IN RE: ESTATE OF ANGEL GAIL ARMSTRONG Deceased.

The administration of the estate of Angel Gail Armstrong, deceased, whose date of death was November 21, 2021, is pending in the Circuit Court for Volusia County, Florida, Probate Division, the address of which is 101 North Alabama Avenue, DeLand, Florida 32724. The names and addresses of the personal representative and the personal representative’s attorney are set forth below.

All creditors of the decedent and other persons having claims or demands against decedent’s estate on whom a copy of this notice is required to be served must file their claims with this court ON OR BEFORE THE LATER OF 3 MONTHS AFTER THE TIME OF THE FIRST PUBLICATION OF THIS NOTICE OR 30 DAYS AFTER THE DATE OF SERVICE OF A COPY OF THIS NOTICE ON THEM. All other creditors of the decedent and other persons having claims or demands against decedent’s estate must file their claims with this court WITHIN 3 MONTHS AFTER THE DATE OF THE FIRST PUBLICATION OF THIS NOTICE. ALL CLAIMS NOT FILED WITHIN THE TIME PERIODS SET FORTH IN FLORIDA STATUTES SECTION 733.702 WILL BE FOREVER BARRED. NOTWITHSTANDING THE TIME PERIODS SET FORTH ABOVE, ANY CLAIM FILED TWO (2) YEARS OR MORE AFTER THE DECEDENT’S DATE OF DEATH IS BARRED. The date of first publication of this notice is April 21, 2022.

Personal Representative: Jordan Michael Gaines 2 Rollingwood Trail DeLand, Florida 32724 Attorney for Personal Representative: Thomas J. Upchurch, Esquire Florida Bar No. 0015821 Upchurch Law 1616 Concierge Blvd., Suite 101 Daytona Beach, FL 32117 Telephone: (386) 492-3871 Email: service@upchurchlaw.com 2nd Email: clutes@upchurchlaw.com April 21, 28, 2022 22-00025I

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LARGE DOG crate, 24Hx23Wx35L, 2 doors and divider, like new $10 386-302-9271 RATTAN LIVING room furniture, sofa, chair, cocktail & end tables $175 for all 386-338-3363

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16’ CANOE, $99 386-682-9609

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(2) 2 drawer metal file cabinets $25 each, 6 drawer maple chest all hardware attached $50 386-313-1224 leave msg

RCA REFRIGERATOR W/FREEZER, 14 cu ft. cold, clean, off white $200 386-264-2177

(5) FRESHWATER rods, (2) tackle boxes with plastic worms, etc.

(2) bait buckets, $75.00 for all 386-562-2540

RUBBERMAID COMMERCIAL cleaning bucket w/mop $25, Brother Sewing Machine $25 814-574-6387

Cleaning

ELIZABETH JONES TIRED OF COMING HOME TO A MESSY HOUSE? NEED YOUR ROOMS/CLOSETS ORGANIZED?

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CLEANING SERVICES SINCE 2003

Small to Large - ANY Detailed Job is Available!

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Residential/Commercial Licensed

References available

Call: 386-569-6151

378654

Free Estimates All Supplies Furnished 10% OFF 1st Cleaning

MULTI FAMILY Yard Sale Plantation Oaks Old Kings Road Saturday April 23, 9:00 AM-1:00 PM 1 Plantation Oaks Blvd, Flagler Beach, FL. Something for everyone

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LARGE ALL wood dresser w/cabinet, drawers and lg. mirror $100, wheelchair great condition $100 386-445-6198

40&43 BALLENGER Lane, 4/22 & 4/23 8am-1pm, rugs, craft items, puzzles, childrens books, shoes, clothing sizes small-extra large, stuffed toys, sheets, kitchenware, microwave and much more!

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CAREGIVER - HOUSEKEEPER, MATURE reliable woman, references/driver’s license, own transportation, 2 days per week including Sunday, non-smoker 386-439-6999.

NOW HIRING 3-4 newspaper delivery carriers for Ormond Beach and/or Palm Coast.

Wednesday Night and/or Thursday day routes available.

Address specific delivery. Must have reliable car, valid driver’s license, and current car insurance.

Help Wanted

Homes for Rent LIDIYA KOLESNIK Realty, Inc. offers 4 bedroom, 2 bath, 2 car garage house located in the R Section, $2100/month. No application fee, first/last/security payment required. Call 386-793-1661

Call 386-338-5080 for interview

WORSHIP DIRECTOR We have an immediate need for a SONG/CHOIR LEADER. Position is part-time, 10-15 hours per week. $200-$300 per week based upon experience

CHURCH PIANIST/Choir Director needed on Sundays only.

Call 386-276-2676

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Hammock Community Church is a non-denominational church in Palm Coast. For details please email hammockchurch@gmail.com or call 386-446-3343

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Palm Coast Masonry Construction looking for experienced masons.

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386-586-8863.

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Room for Rent PALM COAST, R Section, furnished room $125 weekly plus security, kitchen, laundry, wi-fi and utilities included 386-263-2316

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Concrete

Landscaping/ Lawn Services LAWN CARE Service. Flagler and Volusia Counties Let us take care of all your lawn care needs.

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Barber

Phone 386-439-9254 www.aciaonline.com Phone 386-439-9254

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MINT Magazine ISSUE DATE:

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Auto • HomeInsurance • Condo • Motorcycle • Flood • Renters All Counties Agency All Counties Insurance Agency • Boat • Commercial &RVTraffic School Auto • Property 99 Old Kings Rd. S.100 Suite 3 & Traffic Winn-Dixie Shopping School Plaza - Route

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Quality Work at Affordable Prices S & D Construction and Maintenance, Inc.

Concrete • Pavers • Travertine • Fire Pits • and More

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NEW CONCRETE OR CONCRETE REPAIR

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2011

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2011

ON SELECT SIGNATURE & ES SERIES *Offer not valid with CALL any other offers. Offer good at FOR DETAILS! time of initial estimate only. Offer good at participat*Offer not valid with any other offers. Offer good at time of initial ing franchises only.

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2012

Health

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2012

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RIGHT ON TARGET ON SELECT SIGNATURE & ES SERIES

YARD MASTERS LLD

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Backyard Clean Up • Hedge Trimming • Weed Maintenance Palm Tree Trimming • Mulch/Rock Installation Clean Outs • Gardening • Pressure Washing

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Retail

WE PAINT HOUSES, POOL DECKS, DRIVEWAYS & DOCKS

378664

Visa/MC/Amex/Discover

386-445-6198 Serving Flagler County Since 1987

Roofing

Rick's Power Washing

Roof Leaking?

Houses · Driveways · Pool Enclosures Siding · Concrete Licensed/Insured & Reliable

“Specialist In Hard to Find Leaks” Shingle | Tile | Metal | Flat | Re-Roof Structural Repair | Skylights

386-585-5160

380587

Call Rick

Remodeling/Home Improvement

380096

TERRY’S PLUMBING

Licensed • Insured Master Plumber CFC1426001

Of Flagler County

HOME REPAIRS • HANDYMAN SERVICES TRIM CARPENTRY • REMODELING

Any Job, Big and Small We do them all

561-302-1546

2 Generations Family Owned & Operated

Neighborhood heroes found here.

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386-328-5359

Residential Roofing Specialist • New Roofs • Replacements • Repairs • FREE Estimates • FREE Roof Inspections & Minor Repairs

380098

Serving Flagler County for over 30 years

379495

Fast, Reliable Service

CBC ROOFING COMPANY

EZ Roofing Inc.

380499

439-3191 386-445-3305

State Licensed | Insured CCC1328252 | CBC1254280

Building Customers For Life!

For All Your Plumbing Needs

386-

386.677.9265 380588

Plumbing

380097

380502

Free Estimates Licensed & Insured

Insurance Inspections Available Reliable Prompt Service LIC#CCC1331086

State Certified License CCC1325974

• TILE • SHINGLE • METAL • FLAT ROOFS • RE-ROOFS • NEW ROOFS • ROOF REPAIRS • 10-YEAR LABOR WARRANTY • NO DEPOSIT • NO PRE-PAYMENTS • 5 STAR BBB-RATING

378666 364204

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PUBLIC NOTICE IMMEDIATE DISPOSAL SALE OF 500 BANK VEHICLES

PAY ONLY ONE DOLLAR DOWN And Take Over Payments From

THE BANK!

THIS WEEKEND ONLY

Palm Coast Ford has over 500 vehicles on their lot to dispose of immediately! All you have to do is pay one dollar down (to make it legal) and take over the payments directly from the bank. These are Brand New Ford vehicles plus over 300 Pre-Owned vehicles, brought here courtesy of the bank that Palm Coast Ford has been contracted with to sell immediately.

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!

All prices on new or pre-owned vehicles are plus tax, tag and $899 dealer fee.

Palm Coast Ford 1150 Palm Coast Pkwy, SW Palm Coast, FL 32137 - (386) 447-3380

Visit Us Online at: PalmCoastFord.com

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IS THE EXCLUSIVE DEALER IN THE COUNTY FOR THIS EVENT! 379979-1

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