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VOLUME 11, NO. 12

Grieving for three: Wilma, Mozella and Kaleigh died in fiery crash

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We’re all in this together First responders pay tribute to AdventHealth Palm Coast workers. PAGE 10

Kaleigh and Mozella loved to dance, and their mother, Wilma Williams, inspired them to succeed in school. PAGE 9 INSIDE SCHOOL BOARD TRANS VOTE

‘Gendery identity’ won’t be added to list of protections in policy.

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SEPARATION AGREEMENT?

Former HR director threatens legal action against city of Palm Coast for reneging.

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COUNTY VS. FLAGLERLIVE

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Beaches open for exercising, not socializing All 18 miles of Flagler’s beaches are now open, on a limited basis, pending public compliance.

FlaglerLive’s criticism of the county’s COVID-19 press release put county officials (including Administrator Jerry Cameron, pictured) on defense. FlaglerLive challenged the county’s numbers, and the county challenged its editors intentions. PAGE 2

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JULIE MURPHY FLAGLER COUNTY PIO

Flagler County issued Emergency Order 2020-06 on April 21 to allow for reopening its beaches on a limited basis to allow residents physical and mental health activities. As with the reopening of some parks with trails, the duration of the temporary reopening will be based on public compliance.

“Our residents have been very compliant with the trails at our parks, and that makes us very confident that this limited beach opening will be successful,” said County Administrator Jerry Cameron.

The limited beach reopening is based on adherence to social distancing measures and access for physical and mental health activities only — exercising not socializing — walking, biking, surfing, fishing, not congregating like during normal times.

Additionally, those fishing will be allowed to carry a small cooler or container for bait and tackle use.

“It was inevitable that we open up the Flagler beaches to our community but only with a public health focus and reflective of a joint decision by city, county, health department and law enforcement leaders,” said Florida Department of HealthFlagler Administrator Bob Snyder. “In my opinion, it is OK to change strategies ... as long as health and safety of our residents are priority.”

City of Flagler Beach will reopen its six-mile segment of the beach 7 to 10 a.m. Access to the beach will be allowed from Third Street North to the northern city limits, and from Ninth Street South to the southern city limits. The dune walkovers on the boardwalk will remain closed. Fishing on the beach and dog walking will only be permitted north of 10th Street North and south of 10th Street South.

All other beach areas will be open 7 -10 a.m. and 6-8 p.m.

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FlaglerLive criticism puts county on defense A county news release on COVID-19, according to FlaglerLive, was misleading. Its numbers were at odds with ones released by the state.

JONATHAN SIMMONS NEWS EDITOR

Flagler County Administrator Jerry Cameron in an April 20 County Commission meeting accused local online news service FlaglerLive.com and its editor, Pierre Tristam, of “misrepresentation” for criticizing a county news release that — misleadingly, according to FlaglerLive — had touted a significant increase in COVID-19 testing without a significant increase in positive cases.

The April 17 county news release was headlined, “Local test increases significantly, number of positive cases does not,” and stated, “Testing has increased by 75% over the past week. The positive number of cases increased from 45 on Monday to 52 on Friday.”

The FlaglerLive story said that the county had “falsely” claimed a significant testing increase. The story called the news release’s headline “misleading at best, and its contents outright false in some regards.”

“What’s inexplicable is why the county would feel compelled to even go down the road of trium-

phal claims like that, which have nothing to do with crisis management and everything to do with inappropriate chest-thumping,” Tristam said in an email to the Observer after the meeting.

“For people to be irresponsible enough to try to destroy trust in the people that are managing this crisis is just unconscionable.”

COVID TESTS, COVID CASES

JERRY CAMERON, Flagler County administrator

There’s often a multi-day lag between when COVID-19 tests are conducted and when the results come back. That means a county might perform a big batch of tests between Monday and Friday of a given week and report only a few more positive cases that week, because the results of that big batch of recent tests haven’t been received yet.

That, the FlaglerLive story noted, appeared to be what happened in Flagler: Over the weekend following the county news release, the number of positive cases rose in Flagler from 52 to 75.

Cameron, speaking during the meeting, didn’t address the increase in positive cases.

He didn’t name FlaglerLive or Tristam, but in response to comments by Commissioner Charlie Ericksen and Emergency Manager Jonathan Lord about the FlaglerLive story, he criticized “pseudomedia outlets, bloggers,” saying that the numbers the county had released were “immediately from the state’s health department website.”

He added, “For people to be irresponsible enough to try to destroy trust in the people that are managing this crisis is just unconscionable.”

“The only person being irresponsible if not slanderous here is Cameron, and the only person to blame for the county’s shoddy credibility—and boy, is it getting shoddier with its latest responses—is Cameron.”

PIERRE TRISTAM, FlaglerLive editor

Commissioner Joe Mullins — who insults FlaglerLive and its editor multiple times a week, and sometimes multiple times a day, on Facebook — said, “When this settles down, we need to probably have some conversation what we consider media or not.”

DIFFERENT NUMBERS

But Cameron’s statement that the county had simply been releasing numbers from the Health Department website didn’t match up with what was stated in the news release, which used figures at odds with the Health Department website’s.

The county’s news release had also confusingly mixed time frames. For the news release, the county had used the time frame of April 13-17 to calculate its increase in positive test results — from 45 to 52, which would be approximately a 16% increase.

But, county Public Information Officer Julie Murphy clarified when asked, the county had used the time frame of April 9-17 to calculate the 75% increase in testing. (On April 9, according to Murphy, the county knew of 36 positive COVID-19 cases — so had the April 9-17 time frame been used for positive test results, the increase in positive cases would have been approximately 44%, not 16%.)

There were also other inconsistencies. The county had used a starting number of 495 people tested as of April 9, and an ending number of 871 people tested as of April 17, to calculate the testing increase. But the state had reported — in numbers the county had reposted on its official Facebook page — the completion of 495 tests on the morning of April 8.

As of the morning of April 9, the state was reporting that 532 tests had already been performed in Flagler County.

Those details weren’t discussed during the commission meeting.

“The Monday response was pathetic,” Tristam said. “It reasserts their willingness to be deceptive and not correct mistakes.”

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County to sell mold-ridden Sears building JONATHAN SIMMONS NEWS EDITOR

When Flagler County staff in May 2019 found water streaming down the interior walls of a building the county had bought to use as a new branch location for the Sheriff’s Office — which had been displaced from its own Operations Center because of mold there — the county threatened litigation against the real estate agent and the inspector involved in the sale, as well as the building’s former owners.

Now, it’s preparing to sell the building, formerly a Sears location on Palm Coast Parkway, asis for $1 million and indemnify the real estate agent, Margaret Sheehan-Jones, who’d brokered the building’s sale to the county.

The building would be purchased through Sheehan-Jones by Braham Logan Crane, director of the Artists Simply Human dance company. Crane plans to convert the building into another dance studio with his wife, Brie ValentiCrane, who operates the Mia Bella Academy of Dance in Palm Coast.

The sale would still leave Flagler County with about $250,000 in remaining expenses associated with the building, which the county will pursue from the other parties, officials decided at an April 20 County Commission meeting.

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Typically, family visitors brighten the days of residents, and now their interaction is limited to video chats and waves and signs through windows.

Two facilities — Ormond Manor at 495 Sterthaus Drive in Ormond Beach, and Tuscan Gardens at 650 Colbert Lane in Palm Coast — recently shared with the Observer their experiences about how things are different, and how, regardless of the pandemic, things are the same.

NO VISITORS

Families aren’t able to visit assisted living facilities, which house some of the community members who are most vulnerable to COVID-19. They also aren’t able to admit any nonessential vendors.

Families are missed, and staff has worked to compensate as much as possible.

“Our activities program has had to be very creative to keep our residents stimulated and engaged while in their suites,” Tuscan Gardens staff wrote via email in response to the Observer’s questions.

Gall said some family members used to visit daily for meal time or to take parents out for walks. “All

of that has been shut down,” he said. “FaceTime and phone calls have been huge.”

Tuscan Gardens has also increased its communication to families, including a weekly video update. It also encourages “popbys,” where family members hold up a white board or poster with handwritten notes. They can stop by windows or text photos to the residents.

“We encourage families to send creative photos of themselves that we feature on our Tuscan Gardens Channel for a surprise message to the residents,” Tuscan Gardens staff wrote. “We are making every effort to keep our residents connected to their loved ones and vice versa.”

Ormond Manor also uses an app called Sagely that gives real-time notifications when a resident is doing certain activities, such as playing bingo or sitting down to have to lunch.

INCREASED ACTIVITY TIME

Without the option of having family members visit, Ormond Manor has tried other activities.

For example, Gall said, lunch was recently served outdoors on the patio. That took extra effort from staff, but it was worth it.

“It had a significant impact, being able to add that vitamin D, the change of pace,” Gall said.

“For someone living with dementia, where every day is a new day, every hour is a new hour, having that change of scenery can be the difference between a really bad day a really good one.”

Tuscan Gardens has been doing

outside the facility at Ormond Manor. The dining area is closed in Tuscan Gardens, and meals are taken to the residents’ rooms.

“We have a hair stylist who we contract with, and she hasn’t been here since February,” said Andrew Gall, executive director at Ormond Manor.

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BATTLING DEPRESSION AND ANXIETY Ormond Manor is a memory care facility, so every resident has dementia of one form or another.

“Depression and anxiety are things we fight on the best days, and there’s more heightened awareness for our staff now, when those normal interactions, or cognitive anchors, aren’t available in the form of a visit from your wife or a daughter or son,” said Andrew Gall, executive director. “Someone could wake up and have a great morning, and by the end fo the day, that pendulum has really swung.”

STOPPING THE SPREAD At Ormond Manor and Tuscan Gardens, residents are evaluated throughout the day for COVID-19 symptoms, including temperature checks. Hand washing and other disinfectant protocols are also increased. Residents and health care workers alike wear face coverings.

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Ormond Manor and Tuscan Gardens share their successes and challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Jen, Kathy ,Carmelita, Angela, Jasmine, Jennifer, Nathalie, Brittney, Kristina and Debb, at Tuscan Gardens of Palm Coast.

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a variety of activities, including hallway dance parties, treat deliveries, themed days, dress-up days and physical therapy in residents’ rooms.

STAFF SUCCESSES

Both Gall and Tuscan Gardens praised employees for making the most of a difficult situation.

Gall pointed out the performance of his director of nursing, Rebecca Worley.

“She’s been the definition of consistent and compassionate,” Gall said. “In the last six weeks, every day has been a new chapter, and she refuses to compromise on what that looks like.”

Gall also said he was able to hire a new employee who had been laid off from bartending elsewhere in the community, and she has been a strong addition to the staff.

At Tuscan Gardens, associates are showing extra care for residents.

“For one resident’s birthday, an associate brought in a cake and called in other associates to sing Happy Birthday to her,” the staff wrote. “Another associate brought her pet rabbit in on Easter to visit with residents. The list goes on and on based on the needs of our residents each day.”

Both facilities are hiring. Email ed@ormondmanor.com or visit https://tuscangardens.com/ career-opportunities/.

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City: Please maintain social distancing

Wipes clog city waste pumps City of Palm Coast utility crews spent about 50 hours of overtime on the weekend of April 11-12 clearing wipes out of the city’s wastewater pumps, according to a city news release.

The flushing of wipes, paper towels and other items not intended for toilets has created headaches for city staff for weeks: In late March, almost 150 city wastewater pumps were clogged.

JONATHAN SIMMONS NEWS EDITOR

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COVID-19-related hospitalizations in Flagler County as of April 22

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COVID-19 related deaths in Volusia County as of April 22

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COVID-19-related hospitalizations in Volusia County as of April 22

Mayor announces ‘Rise Up’ initiative

Fire Chief Jerry Forte speaks during an April 21 council meeting.

City officials during an April 21 City Council meeting said the city would take a cautious, evidence-based approach to reopening when the time comes to do so.

Even after the peak of the COVID-19 passes, Fire Chief Jerry Forte said, the virus will still pose a danger.

“Just because we’ve hit our peak doesn’t mean we can stop doing some of these practices,” he said.

Experts are recommending that social distancing continue until health authorities notify officials that they’re ready to move to a containment

strategy, City Manager Matt Morton said. That’s expected to happen around June 1.

“Do not rush this thing,” Councilman Eddie Branquinho said. “My son is a nurse in the hospital, and that’s his first thing when he comes now — ‘I hope they don’t rush this.’”

Mayor Milissa Holland said she’s been pleased with the council’s unity about social distancing.

Addressing the public, she said, “We’re asking you to please continue to be patient. ... Your actions have potentially saved lives — your neighbors’ lives.”

UTILITY MANAGER RETIRES

At the city’s the Virtual Town Hall on April 15, Mayor Milissa Holland announced the Mayor’s Rise Up Palm Coast Initiative, aimed at connecting the community.

“We’re partnering with organizations and representatives throughout Palm Coast to deliver dynamic, engaging virtual content to help you live a healthy, fulfilling life in even the most challenging times,” Holland said in a news release.

“You’ll be able to learn about cooking healthy meals, exercise at home, discover family activities, enjoy arts, performances and more.”

The content is available on Palm Coast Parks & Recreation Facebook page. Community groups and members can provide video content at www. palmcoastconnect.com/s/ parks-and-recreation.

Palm Coast Utility Manager Richard Adams is retiring after 43 years with the city of Palm Coast, City Manager Matt Morton announced during the April 21 meeting.

Adams’ last day of work will be May 1. Once social distancing measures are lifted, Morton said, “We fully intend to invite Mr. Adams back for the celebration and recognition that he deserves.”

“Rich, you’re a gentleman, a scholar, a wealth of knowledge and you’ll be missed,” Branquinho said.

“Just because somebody tells you the Greeks have left and the war is over, don’t open the gates and drag that big horse inside. ... We need to keep in mind that for the foreseeable future, we can all kill each other by coughing on each other, potentially.”

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Former HR director threatens legal action against city of Palm Coast City manager says HR director’s separation agreement was signed without authority. Four days later, he fired her.

BRIAN McMILLAN EXECUTIVE EDITOR

Debbie Streichsbier, the city of Palm Coast’s former Human Resources director, is threatening legal action against the city, accusing City Manager Matt Morton of failing to honor a signed separation agreement.

Four days after Streichsbier signed the agreement, Morton fired her, saying the separation agreement was unauthorized and was only signed by the city’s HR department under coercion. Debbie Streischbier, who worked for the city for five years and was promoted to HR director by Morton in June 2019, said nobody had been “coerced” to sign the agreement.

After she was fired, Streischbier emailed the City Council and said that city staff members are often bullied, and that “morale is at an all-time low,” while “turnover is at an all-time high.”

THE EMAIL RECORD

In mid-March, after months of unhappiness at work, Streichsbier made a verbal agreement with Morton to step down. She was given a draft of a separation agreement, which afforded her 45 days to “execute it,” or, in other words, to sign it and make it official. Morton told the Palm Coast Observer that he felt like he was trying to do the “decent thing” to propose a separation agreement.

Once she decided to accept the terms, she contacted HR two times to try to set up a time to sign

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the document.

“They reached out to the city manager to get a clean copy of the agreement as he wrote ‘draft’ on my copy,” Streichsbier wrote in an email to the Palm Coast Observer.

In response to that request for a clean copy, City Clerk Virginia Smith emailed the agreement to both Morton and Tim Wilsey, who is the city’s benefits and risk management coordinator. In the email, sent at 3:40 p.m. March 20, Smith wrote: “Mr. Morton has requested I send this to you.

Please forward the attached to Ms. Streichsbier for her execu-

tion.” She signed the email, “Virginia on behalf of Mr. Morton.”

Wilsey emailed Streichsbier, at 4:21 p.m. March 20, saying, “I have printed the agreement for you here.” She drove to City Hall and signed it at about 4:30 p.m., she said. The emails prove that no one was coerced, Streichsbier said.

MORTON’S POSITION

Morton, in a phone interview with the Palm Coast Observer, remembered the situation differently. He said the agreement was still intended to be a draft and was never supposed to be executed.

He wasn’t in the office when Streichsbier came in to sign the document, but he said he heard that Streichsbier “came in unannounced” and insisted that the document be signed. Morton said Streichsbier may have put pressure on Wilsey to sign it because she was his former boss.

TURNOVER AT CITY HALL Debbie Streichsbier told the Palm Coast Observer that her goal as HR director was to limit yearly turnover to 4% of the city staff of more than 500 employees. That has not happened recently. The year ending Feb. 29, 2020, saw a turnover of 7%-8%, she said, including 10 between January and February.

(Editor’s note: The city did not immediately respond with data to confirm Streichbsier’s numbers.)

She also feels that the executive leadership team’s input on new hires for leadership positions is not being followed like it used to be; instead, people are being hired “for personal reasons.”

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“Debbie coerced him,” Morton said. “That is my position.”

On March 24, Morton sent a termination letter to Streichsbier. He said the separation agreement had been executed “without authority being granted ...

Therefore, the agreement is not enforceable.”

Morton listed reasons for firing her, including “inappropriate display of temper or disrespect.”

Morton declined to comment further for this story because of Streichsbier’s threat of legal action.

A letter sent to the city on April 8 by Streichsbier’s attorney challenges Morton to provide specifics about how Wilsey was “coerced.” The attorney states that Wilsey “certainly had both actual and constructive/apparent authority to enter into the agreement on behalf of the city.”

WORKERS FEEL ‘THREATENED’

Upset with being fired and not having her agreement honored, Streichsbier wrote to the City Council on April 1, saying that city staff members are not valued by management.

“They are threatened daily to, ‘make it happen or find another job,’” Streichsbier said.

She went on to say that “hundreds of employees” have vented to her since she departed City Hall.

“They are NOT happy,” she wrote to the City Council. “ ... We have lost some GREAT employees for what seems to be for no logical reason.”

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MY VIEW

City asks citizens to stay unified ‘Premature lessening of the lifesaving restrictions will prolong the City’s recovery process and can cause a danger to our most vulnerable population.’

By Mayor Milissa Holland, City Manager Matt Morton and Palm Coast Fire Chief Jerry Forte. A version of this message was sent to residents via email.

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he entire staff at the city of Palm Coast and their families would like to sincerely thank the Palm Coast community for their diligence and understanding during this challenging time. Although we are near the peak of the pandemic, there is still so much more to do. Please continue to support the restrictions that are in place for not just the community, but also for the people that are continuing to be on the front line of this pandemic: firefighters, law enforcement, EMS workers and hospital personnel.

As the impact of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic continues to shape our daily lives, affecting how, where, and when we work, getting sick or anxious, or worrying if our families are at risk, it’s easy to

feel like your individual actions may not matter in the grand scheme of things. But every single one of us plays a part in our community’s health.

In Palm Coast, teams of subject matter experts have been working diligently through this disaster to ensure your calls are answered and we are operating effectively.

The best decision we can make is to help our city to not only survive, but also recover from this pandemic. Premature lessening of the lifesaving restrictions will prolong the City’s recovery process and can cause a danger to our most vulnerable population.

Shortages of personal protective equipment, nationwide, can demonstrate how reliant we are on the simplest of needs. When those resources are unavailable, it places firefighters, medical workers, nurses and doctors at risk.

The city has created alternative utilizations for our PPE so more supplies can go to the

ambulances and the hospital.

Extraordinary demand on a system that is already searching for PPE can cause strain on a delicate system.

The measures taken to this point were to ensure the city response is optimized and the health care professionals are ready to serve the community safely. The risk to our population is too great to reopen the city too soon.

Let’s come together as a unified Palm Coast. Our economy will recover. Our way of life will return.

We must remain steadfast in our approach and see this through to the end. While the governor has a responsibility to the entire state of Florida, we have a responsibility and commitment to you, our more than 90,000 local residents.

There is not a one-size-fitsall approach to this pandemic.

We manage that responsibility through the value of our local perspective, knowledge and the specifics that make Palm

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Our residents are incredibly resilient, as we’ve seen through wildfires, hurricanes and now a pandemic. We’re asking for your strength and resolve once more as we face down the next phase of this global crisis.

Our leaders have been meeting and are committed to releasing this week our reopening strategy that will benchmark when and how we are opening. This reopening strategy might need situational adjustments, but it will be thoughtful, timely and on an appropriate schedule to begin our return to normalcy.

Until then, stay safe and please continue to do your part. We are all in this together and we will all get through this together.

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It’s time to start reopening Dear Editor: I fully support President Trump’s plan to reopen America. It is a phased and cautious approach to restoring our country and relieving the economic suffering of COVID-19.

I also support our Flagler County commissioners’ plan to begin limited access to our parks and trails.

This is the first step to returning our lives to normal and restarting our local economy.

There have been hopeful reports of treatments, including new trials of the drug remdesivir, along with promising vaccines down the road, but let’s be clear, we cannot destroy our economy while waiting for an absolute cure.

In Flagler our county commissioners have taken the first steps and are leading the way locally. The city of Palm Coast should join them and quickly reopen city parks and trails to limited public access.

I have no doubt our citizens are responsible and quite capable of following simple social distancing rules while getting a breath of much needed fresh air.

The Palm Coast City Council also needs to present a serious plan this week, one similar to President Trump’s approach, that will return our city to normal.

While individuals who are at extreme risk have the option of sheltering at home longer, many of our businesses and their employees are now out of options.

Let’s never forget that we are America, we are exceptional, and we do not live in fear.

ED DANKO Palm Coast

Editor’s note: Danko is a candidate for Palm Coast City Council.

Don’t forget the other first responders Dear Editor: Lately there has been a lot of

attention and righteous praise to first responders. We tend to think of first responders as police officers, firefighters, paramedics and hospital personnel. I would like for us to keep in mind two other groups of first responders.

For several years I worked in a CPS unit. CPS means child protective service. After a complaint of child abuse is received, the child victim must be seen immediately in most cases. The CPS worker must travel to the child’s home, to a school, to a hospital or to any other place where the child can be observed. The CPS worker most also visit the home and evaluate the home environment.

Besides the current COVID crisis, there are many other dangers in visiting the child’s home, not to mention the fear that parents have that the child will be removed from their custody.

The CPS worker is often entering a hostile home environment and, in many cases, will need police assistance.

The number of child abuse

referrals is surely going to increase with people out of work and children at home full time. This is a dangerous recipe for an increase in child abuse referrals.

So, I would ask that we also think of CPS workers as first responders.

Another group of overlooked first responders are people working at the takeout restaurants. In our current situation, many of us visit now on a more regular basis. It is easy for us to show appreciation to these people by tipping them at least 20%.

It is my fervent hope and prayer that all people who are answering the call as first responders are rewarded in every way possible and at the very least remain safe.

JOHN BRADY Palm Coast

Editor’s note: Brady is running for Palm Coast mayor.

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Volunteers step forward in COVID-19 epidemic If you enter the county’s Emergency Operations Center these days, you’ll be greeted by a person with a thermometer who will check you temperature at entry. That person is a likely a volunteer. If you go to one of the county’s food banks or its COVID-19 testing center, many of the the people who help you there are volunteers as well.

They’re the most visible of the 75-100 volunteers with Flagler Volunteer Services during the crisis. They include 21 medical professionals — many of them retired but still licensed — along with people who are making phone calls, stitching masks and checking in on the county’s disabled residents to make sure they’re OK. This crisis is much different from the hurricanes and wildfires the county’s volunteer corps has encountered in the past, Flagler Volunteers Services director Suzy Gamblain said.

“Unlike a hurricane, there is a safety concern with being out in public and dealing with the public — they have to be so much more cautious and careful,” she said. “It’s a whole different world than we’re used to. But volunteers always step up.”

When disasters happen, she said, the first group of volunteers often ends up working the phones — calling for more specialized

A 33-year-old Flagler County man was arrested for child molestation April 17 after admitting to detectives that he’d had sexual contact with a 13-year-old Palm Coast girl, claiming it was a “normal boyfriend/girlfriend relationship,” according to a Flagler County Sheriff’s Office report.

The victim, now 14, had reported to the FCSO that suspect Calib Callard had engaged in a sexual relationship with her from April 2019 to August 2019, and that he’d kissed her and had touched her genitals over her clothes.

The girl “struggled to give details in fear [Callard] would get in trouble,” according to the FCSO report.

Callard, a resident of Acorn Avenue in the Daytona North community in western Flagler County, has a previous arrest history dating back to 2016.

Callard “stated that his drinking problem was a contributing factor,” according to the affidavit.

“This is a child molester that took advantage of a child and needs to be locked up before he can harm this victim or anyone else,” Sheriff Rick Staly said

through COVID-19 and most importantly, after.

assistance.

“Whenever there’s a gap, then we try to fill that with volunteer support,” Gamblain said. “Our job really changes on a day to day basis.”

Typically, Gamblain said, disasters bring a surge of new volunteers. But this one is different — some regular volunteers aren’t able to help in the ways they otherwise would because they’re over 65 and in the high risk category for COVID-19, while many of the regular programs supported by volunteers are now on hold because of social distancing.

It’s necessitated some shuffling around. But new volunteers have still been signing on, including a group of nursing students from Daytona State College who arehelping at the county’s COVID-19 drive-thru testing site.

Although Flagler Volunteer Services has enough volunteers at the moment — there are thousands on the rolls — it might need more soon, Gamblain said.

“Anybody who has a medical background — they could definitely become a very big asset,” she said. (Email suzy@flaglervolunteer.org.)

April is volunteer appreciation month, and Flagler Volunteer Services would typically be holding appreciation events — and now can’t, due to the virus. But, she said, “We do appreciate them more than words can say.”

Callard is charged with lewd or lascivious molestation on a victim 12-16 years old. He is being held at the county jail on a $15,000 bond.

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A group of friends playing golf at the Conservatory Golf Course on Friday evening called 911 after a 74-year-old man, later identified as John Robert Orr, pointed what appeared to be a rifle at them.

The man had previously been yelling at the golfers from his residence telling them that they were violating golf course regulations by driving the golf cart on a wooden bridge meant for walking.

After the verbal altercation, the golfers told deputies that the man went back into his house only to return minutes later holding a firearm and pointing it at the golfers. The golfers told deputies that they were in fear for their lives. The investigation later revealed that the rifle was actually a Winchester Air Rifle, or BB gun.

Orr was arrested and charged with seven counts of Aggravated Assault. He was booked into jail, where he is being held on a $2,500 bond.

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‘Gender identity’ won’t be added to list of protections School Board members said the existing policy covers everyone, though training could be enhanced.

JONATHAN SIMMONS NEWS EDITOR

After a months-long campaign by transgender advocates pushing for greater protections for transgender students in Flagler Schools, the School Board decided in a split vote during its April 21 meeting not to add “gender identity” to the list of protections enumerated in its nondiscrimination policy.

Board member Colleen Conklin was the only one of the five board members to make a case during the meeting in favor of adding “gender identity” to the policy.

It was a change of direction for her: In previous meetings, Conklin had voiced support for transgender students, but also said she believed the existing district policies already covers everyone, and that issues specific to transgender students could be dealt with by changes in procedure and training rather than policy.

She said at the April 22 meeting that she had since done additional research and concluded that the current policies do not necessarily protect transgender students.

The existing policy states that no one shall be subjected to discrimination in education or employment “on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, age, marital status, sexual orientation, pregnancy, disability, political or religious beliefs, national or ethic origin, or genetic informa-

tion.”

“This really isn’t about politics or religion,” Conklin said. “As a matter of fact, I think politically I’ve been told that this will be my last term on the board if I support a change in this policy, but this is really about protecting students.”

She said her understanding of the term “gender” had previously been simplistic, and she’d since learned that it is different from gender identity — someone’s innate sense of being male or female.

She noted that although gender dysphoria — the distress that arises in some people over a sense of mismatch between their sexed anatomy and their gender identity — is listed as a disorder in the fifth edition of the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, being transgender or gender nonconforming itself is not a disorder.

Students dealing with dysphoria, she said, may or may not determine they’re transgender and decide to transition, but “that’s really not up to you or I; it’s not up to anybody to decide if that’s wrong or right.”

She asked her fellow board members to consider changing the policy.

“It would be sending a strong message that we will not tolerate our students being bullied or harassed based on their gender,” she said.

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The issue of transgender students protections was brought before the board in December, when local father Randy Bertrand told the board that his son, a transgender boy who is transitioning from female to male, had encountered resistance from a teacher at Matanzas High School who did not want to use the boy’s new male name.

The district looked into those allegations. Although it determined that the teacher had resisted using the student’s new name, saying he’d done so because the name was the same as the teacher’s father’s name, but he was willing to use a nickname, it did not censure the teacher.

Bertrand’s son transferred from Matanzas to Flagler Palm Coast High School, seeking a more accepting environment, Bertrand said.

In the meeting after the one in which Bertrand first addressed the board, a pastor, Charlene Cothran, took the podium during the meeting’s public comment period, said she was an ex-lesbian and former “activist in the homosexual lifestyle,”and berated Bertrand’s son, calling him a “confused girl” and saying he was mentally ill.

Bertrand and his family and supporters faced off with Cothran over a series of succeeding meetings, with Bertrand and trans advocates pushing for the policy change.

At the April 21 meeting, the School Board was presented with two possible versions of a policy amendment: One added the word “gender identity,” the other didn’t.

Conklin motioned to approve the policy with the new wording. Her motion died for lack of a second.

After she made her comments, Board memory Andy Dance said that he favored keeping the current language in the policy, without adding gender identity.

“We show compassion in how we act; we show and support our students with our actions, and one place we’ve been deficient is in what Ms. Conklin said — in our procedures and actually putting things in writing,” he said. “I think the next step is having best practices put together.”

Board member Maria Barbosa said that parents who want teachers to call their child by a new name should have a legal name change performed.

“Do not push it to the teachers to call your child their adopted name without you changing it through the state,” she said. “Teachers, they are very busy already; they try to do the best they can. ...

When it comes to protecting all the students, I think the policy does protect all the students.”

But protocols, she said, could be changed “to embrace the changes the world is giving to us.”

Board Chairwoman Janet McDonald said that the initial incident between Bertrand’s son

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and the teacher “was not a disparaging event,” and she was concerned over public criticism of the teacher “without any findings.”

“There has been, and we’ve heard that there have been, very happy accommodations made at FPC even though the ones at Matanzas were rejected,” she said.

Flagler County’s teachers, she said, don’t try to disparage or marginalize students.

She added, “The DSM-V was altered politically; there was a high political push to make language changes in that document … to satisfy an initiative. So it is not always on medical findings that that document gets changed.”

“At the bottom of this, we are here for every student, for each student,” she said.

Conklin said that students are dealing with difficult situations regarding transgender issues, and, she said, “If you think that we don’t have a few (staff members) that need additional training to develop some tolerance and understanding on how to work with all students, I think we’re tone deaf to that.”

McDonald responded, “I think training is a different area than policy; we’re talking about a policy.”

Barbosa made a motion to accept the policy without the addition of gender identity.

It passed 4-1, with Conklin dissenting.

“It does not mean we do not care,” Barbosa said. “We do care.”

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Grieving for a mother and two daughters who died in a fiery crash Kaleigh and Mozella loved to dance, and their mother, Wilma Williams, inspired them to succeed in school.

Kaleigh and Mozella weren’t twins. But the sisters were so inseparable that they didn’t mind it when people called them twins.

Both girls, ages 12 and 13, were killed April 17 in a car crash, as was their mother, Wilma Williams. A fourth person, Thomas Patrick Riley, 62, drove the opposing vehicle and was also killed, the Florida Highway Patrol reported.

crash occurred west of Palm Coast on State Road 100 on their way home.

The fact that their trip was based on schoolwork is indicative of the value of education in the Williams home, according to Williams’ cousin Reesie Holsey, of San Mateo. Both girls were A students — even with schools closed.

They drove to San Mateo because “Wilma wasn’t going to allow a pandemic to keep them from getting their work done,” Holsey said.

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The visit to San Mateo was designed to help Mozella, a seventh grader at Indian Trails Middle School, with a school assignment. Williams had a friend who was a teacher there; the fiery

Williams, who is survived by her husband, Louis, and four older children between them, was the youth group leader at the Second Mount Tabor Missionary Baptist Church in San Mateo, where Mozella and Kaleigh were also praise dancers.

“We called them our TikTok girls,” Holsey said, “because we could be in a room full of family, and they would be in a corner doing a TikTok dance. They loved to dance and praise dance for Christ.”

No plans have been finalized for a memorial fund or service, but the family has requested prayers.

“We know as a family that a lot of people are hurting, and we can’t thank everybody enough for the calls, the texts, the Facebook posts, the love that everyone from Palm Coast to Palatka and San

BRIAN MCMILLAN EXECUTIVE EDITOR

HELP AT SCHOOL Belle Terre Elementary School, where Kaleigh was a student, has a team of mental health counselors available to any student or faculty member who needs to talk with them. Indian Trails Middle School Principal Paul Peacock also sent a voice message to parents to inform them of resources for mental health counseling; Mozella attended ITMS.

“I mourn what she is, was, and could have been.”

ABBEY COOKE, Kaleigh’s teacher

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Wilma Williams with her daughters Kaleigh (top right) and Mozella

Mateo has shown our family,” she said.

COOKE’S MEMORIES

Among the Facebook posts welcomed by the family was one by Abbey Cooke, a teacher at Belle Terre Elementary School. She was Kaleigh’s teacher and supervised Mozella in the Ambassadors program. Her daughter was also close friends with Mozella.

Cooke praised Williams as one

of her best parents of students.

“She loved her girls hard, supported them hard, and expected them to live up to all of their potential,” Cooke wrote. “ …

She expected the best from them because she knew that is what they were capable of.”

She remembered Mozella as someone with “the heart of an angel and a smile that lit up a room.” Mozella and Cooke’s daughter used to talk about how they were “so annoyed at the kids

misbehaving in class. It was like they had some kind of ‘good kid’ club.”

Cooke said she loved Kaleigh’s “quiet silliness, her empathy, her ridiculously funny TikTok dances, her amazing work ethic, her stellar fashion sense, her bravery when she stood on a chair and sang Bruno Mars to the whole class, her artistic ability, and her all out love for life.”

As a teacher, Cooke also said she is concerned about the rest of the students who are grieving for one of their own.

“I hope that from this they learn that life is so very fragile and to never take a single moment for granted,” she wrote, adding that it is particularly hard to deal with the grief considering everyone is isolated due to the pandemic.

“The worst thing about all of this is that I am not able to be with them,” Cooke wrote. “I just want to hug every single one of them and tell them that it is ok and that I am sorry they have to experience this. I want to tell them that I love them and will be here for them when they need me.”

Wilma Williams’ family members shared Cooke’s post and thanked her for sharing her memories. Faith Lyons wrote: “Abbey Cooke, Thank you for this. Me and my dad will need memories like this.”

“We’re just trying to navigate a situation that has really just devastated us,” Holsey said. “We’re trying to navigate it the best that we can.”

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‘You are the backbone of this community’ First responders pay tribute to AdventHealth Palm Coast workers BRIAN McMILLAN EXECUTIVE EDITOR

McDONALD’S: MEALS FOR FIRST RESPONDERS, HEALTH CARE PROS Beginning Wednesday, April 22, through Tuesday, May 5, first responders and health care workers in the U.S. will be able to receive a free “Thank You Meal” day or night, via carry out and drive thru at participating McDonald’s locations by showing a work badge.

Individuals can choose from several popular items.

“You have worked tirelessly for us, and now it is our turn to support you,” the press release states.

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irens and flashing lights of fire trucks and law enforcement vehicles paid tribute to health care workers on Thursday, April 16, at AdventHealth Palm Coast, an expression of support and family spirit for two sectors that could be considered the front lines of the battle against COVID-19: first responders and emergency department nurses.

“It makes you feel good to be appreciated,” said April Frahm, of AdventHealth.

“They’re part of our team,” said Maria Gonzalez, also of AdventHealth. “We work closely together.”

Operating Room Coordinator Nelson Burgos said everyone is working together to make sure health care workers are supported and have the supplies they need.

“The show of support has been amazing,” said Pam Bolter, of the AdventHealth Palm Coast Foundation. “We’re a family.”

The parade was organized in part by Steve Cox, a captain with the Flagler Beach Fire Department. To the crowd of health care

Verdego Garden Center has announced a goal of donating $20,000 to support the Grace Community Food Pantry in Bunnell. All sales from the center from Wednesday, April 22, to Saturday, April 25, will be donated to the pantry.

Verdego staff wears masks and practices social distancing.

Visit 4801 U.S.1, Bunnell, or call 437-3122.

The Grace Community Food Pantry has recently seen a huge need in our community, a Verdego press release stated.

Pre-pandemic, the Food Pantry was giving out 50-60 backpacks to Flagler Schools students and food to about 800 families every weekend. These numbers have exploded to an average of 190 bags to students and to about 1,200 families every weekend.

Reach the pantry at 386-5862653, or visit www.gracecommunityfoodpantry.com. Hours for food pickup are 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Saturdays and 1-4 p.m. Sundays.

workers who were wearing scrubs and face masks, gathered on the sidewalk in front of the Emergency Department, Cox said into a loudspeaker: “We wanted to come out and say thank you. ... You are the backbone of this community.”

Flagler Fire Rescue Deputy Chief Joe King said there is a great connection between the firefighters, law enforcement officers and the hospital staff.

“Our guys have a lot of contact with their staff, especially the ER staff,” King said. “The know each other pretty well.”

“The show of support has been amazing.

We’re a family.”

PAM BOLTER, of the AdventHealth Palm Coast Foundation

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In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, CareerSource Flagler Volusia has launched a new website to assist jobseekers and businesses who have suffered a job loss or have had to temporarily or permanently lay off employees as a result of COVID-19: www.careersourcefv.com/jobseekers/covid-19-response. Also, those seeking unemployment help can call 386-323-7052. Businesses who are hiring or retraining can call 386-323-7079.

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‘Cooking with the Nelsons’ We’re grateful for the virtual connection with friends while we cook.

MEGAN FARRELL CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Brady and I love to entertain!

At our first home, we would have people over for meals often and to spend the day outside by the pool. After having Elijah, priorities shifted, and we weren’t having guests over as often. We recently bought a new home, and a deciding factor was the space available to entertain. Fast forward to March 2020: We’re stuck in our home — alone.

Once the restaurants closed, we began meal prepping. Brady is a phenomenal cook, and it’s something he is truly passionate about. After a few days of cooking on our own, we decided to share his passion virtually and “Cooking with the Nelsons” was born!

It’s been a lot of fun creating this “show” with my husband.

We have been getting creative and eating a lot more plantbased dishes, which has been one of our goals for 2020. I usually stay out of the kitchen during meal times, so it’s been fun to “help” Brady cook.

Believe it or not, there is a lot of work that goes into something like this. I am treating it like it’s a daily appointment, which has allowed me to feel positive and productive — an added bonus during this tricky time.

So what does this “show” consist of? Brady and I hanging out in our kitchen, with Elijah, making dinner each night shared through Zoom on Facebook Live. Our conversation topics range from the restaurants we can’t wait to visit again, to new music we’re listening to, to the 1998 Chicago Bulls, and pretty much everything in between.

It’s been such a joy to grow our relationships with friends and family using technology. We have had people join in from all over the country, friends from high school, and our family members. This weekend, we are going to be hosting our first ever virtual dinner party, and I cannot wait!

Remember, if you do watch, we are not professionals! But we are grateful for the connection we get!

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Hammock Dunes home sells for $1.3 million BRIAN MCMILLAN

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house in Hammock Dunes was the top sale in Flagler County for the week of March 12-18 in the Multiple Listing Service. John and Ruby Sanchez, of Minneapolis, Minnesota, sold the home at 103 Island Estates Parkway for $1,279,000 to Dale Baldwin, of Huntington Beach, California. Built in 2017, the home has 3,706 square feet. Following is a partial list of other transactions for the week.

St. Mark by the Sea Lutheran Church Due to the COVID-19 outbreak and the advisement by the State of Florida and the ELCA, all worship services, meetings and outside organizations are cancelled.

The St. Mark Christian Day School is also closed until further notice.

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The top-selling home has 3,706 square feet of living area.

William Sr. and Gail Anderson, individually and as trustees, sold the home at 2 Village View Way to Edward Bruce Avena and Sandra Ann Avena, of Palm Coast, for $365,000. Built in 2004, it has 2,159 square feet.

It previous sold in 2018 for $350,00.

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ing, of Kingston, Tennesee, for $466,000. Built in 2006, the home has 2,066 square feet of living area.

Grand Haven John F. and Marylee Giordano, of Palm Coast, sold the home at 48 Osprey Circle to Craig Chalmers and Terri L. Newman, of Palm Coast, for $535,000.

Built in 2005, the home has 3,556 square feet.

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Grand Landings D.R. Horton Inc. sold the home at 140 S. Hummingbird Place to Lisa Schall, of Palm Coast, for $264,990. Built in 2018, the home has four bedrooms, two

bathrooms and 1,913 square feet.

Palm Harbor Arnaldo Coehlo Pereira Jr. and Carla Lunua de Miranda, of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, sold the home at 3 Cedar Hollow Court to Joachim and Mariola Kania, of Palos Hills, Illinois, for $405,000. Built in 2017, it has 2,044 square feet. It previously sold in 2017 for $315,400.

Lehigh Woods Seagate Homes LLC sold the home at 78 Roxboro Drive to Maria T. Rodriguez, of St. Augustine, for $239,600. Built in 2019, the home has 1,859 square feet.

Plantation Bay Volusia Residential Construction LLC sold the home at 814 Creekwood Drive to Charles H. DuToit Jr. and Mercedes McCallen, of Ormond Beach, for $360,000. Built in 2019, it has 1,762 square feet of living area.

Matanzas Woods Seagate Homes LLC sold the home at 10 Lindberg Place to Joseph M. and Kristen L. Buccini, of Palm Coast, for $342,300.

Built in 2019, the home has five bedrooms, four bathrooms and 3,154 square feet of living area.

Thomas B. Fenton, of Ormond Beach, sold the home at 622 Elk River Drive to Ann N. and William D. Sullivan Jr., of Ormond Beach, for $323,000. Built in 2018, it has 1,815 square feet.

It previously sold in 2018 for $361,000.

Ocean Hammock James Reynolds Cannon and Daina Dee Cannon sold the home at 22 Sandpiper Lane to Rhonda K. and Darrin S. Moss-

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2 Generations Family Owned & Operated

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THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 2020

We’re STARS in PALM COAST

Call Sandra Today!

386-302-2383

Ask for an E-brochure, or more information.

Now Accepting Residents!

Assisted Living & Memory Care Community RN’s & LPN’s on Staff 24 Hours/Day • Building Rated for Category 4 Hurricane Generator on Site • Offering Respite Care

We Stayed in Place, Where Will You Be for the Next Storm?

When a change needs to take place whether its short term or long term and you want a place to call home, one that you can be proud of, one that you’d like to invite your friends and family too, consider us. . . SABAL PALMS. We are continuing to work with Hospitals and Rehabilitation Centers during these challenging times.

Should you have a discharge forthcoming from rehab or the hospital . . .

Assisted Living may be an option or Respite short term stay (based upon availability).

(386) 225-4070

Lic # 13103

Please Call For More Information 386-225-4070 | SabalPalmsSeniorLiving.com LIC# 13103

2125 Palm Harbor Pkwy, Palm Coast, FL 32137

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