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Anti-Jewish vandalism in Flagler Three businesses hit with ‘hate tags’ in Flagler Beach. ‘It’s just not right,’ Chief Doughney says.

PAGE 7A INSIDE GRAND JURY

Uncle of 18-month-old Palm Coast shooting victim indicted.

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BIGGER CAPTAIN’S

County agrees to settlement with Captain’s BBQ, will pay up to $800,000 and allow larger restaurant building.

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Palm Coast Planning Board approves apartment complex on Old Kings Road.

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CAREER CHOICES

Turkey solution Middle school hosts first-ever career fair, thanks to Palm Coast chamber of commerce.

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Team Feed Flagler distributes food to churches for over 1,000 Thanksgiving Day meals. PAGE 2B

BACK IN ACTION

Buddy Taylor Middle School agriscience program ready to restart after rat-bite incident, principal says.

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Winn-Dixie Store Manager Bob Storms helps load Team Feed Flagler’s order with a smile on his face.

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GOLFING FOR FSU

HOW SWEET IT IS PAGE 1B Ed Foundation’s Josh Crews gala raises over $50,000.

Matanzas High School golf star Alexandra Gazzoli signs with Florida State University.

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THE OBSERVER | THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2023

CITY WATCH

Palm Coast may OK signs in rights of way

SIERRA WILLIAMS STAFF WRITER

Fantasy Lights Festival begins on Nov. 25

Palm Coast’s 18th annual Fantasy Lights Festival will begin on Nov. 25 and run through Dec. 30.

The free festival will be open nightly from 6:30-9 p.m. at Central Park in Town Center. Opening night will include a food truck event called “Taste of the Holidays,” featuring seasonal treats and a visit from Santa, according to a press release from the city government.

The festival will feature several special events and performances on select nights, including performances by the Belle Terre Elementary Choir, SEAS School Choir, Planet E Studio, the Palm Coast Band, Palm Coast Big Band and others.

Residents can view the full itinerary at flaglerrotary.org/ fantasylights.php.

Fantasy Lights is presented by the Rotary Club of Flagler County. It includes 55 light displays and a Santa’s Village train ride for kids.

Santa will visit Santa’s Village every Sunday before Dec. 24.

Net proceeds from gate donations and sponsorships will go to local charities and support scholarships.

The Palm Coast City Council is considering allowing signs in the city’s rights of way but limiting the days and times on which the signs are allowed.

Restricting the times when signs are allowed could leave the city open to lawsuits if the city doesn’t have reasonable justification, attorney Catherine Reischmann said. Reischman, from the law firm of Garganese, Weiss & D’Agresta, gave a presentation to the council on proposed changes to the city’s sign codes at a Nov. 14 City Council meeting.

The sign code must be updated because a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in the 2015 Reed v. Town of Gilbert case said that city regulations on signage cannot be content-based.

The Supreme Court ruled that the content-based codes had too many distinctions — for instance, between political, ideological or directional signs — that treated signs differently, Resichmann said.

“If a sign code is content-based, its purpose and justification don’t matter,” she said.

The Palm Coast Planning and Land Development Regulation Board reviewed a first draft of proposed new sign regulations at its Oct. 18 meeting. The draft could, depending on the City Council’s direction, allow for signs in rights of way, where current regulations ban them.

Vice Mayor Ed Danko said he’d like to allow signs in the rights of way, but with restrictions. He suggested, as an example, allowing signs in the rights of ways on the weekends between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. The restriction is reasonable, he argued, because city staff works during the weekdays to maintain the rights of way.

“My feeling towards this is I’m very pro-business, any business,” he said. “... I think it’s a pro-business conversation, not a signage conversation.”

The real estate industry would benefit from a change in the rightsof-way policy, allowing directional signs to open houses in the rights of away. Those signs do draw in clients, said council member Cathy Heighter, a real estate agent.

The problem with opening up the

rights of way to any signs is that the policy must allow for all signs — including hate speech, Reischmann said.

“So your rights of way become filled, and it creates not only an aesthetic issue, it creates, really, almost a traffic hazard,” she said.

The rights of way would include the ones in front of residential homes unless the city explicitly excluded them. The city would need to justify excluding those rights of way to do so, Reischmann said.

The rights of way in front of a home, while typically maintained by residents, are city property. Danko said the city should try to find a way to exclude rights of way in front of a home.

“No real estate agent or business person would just stick a sign in front of your house,” Danko said. “But some clown might, with a message, whether you like the message or not.”

There is also the matter of enforcement. Whatever the city decides, Reischmann said, it must enforce the regulations regardless of the nature of the sign.

“You can’t be stricter on one type of sign than another,” she said.

Council member Theresa Carli Pontieri said enforcement will be difficult. Not only is Code Enforcement already overwhelmed, she said, but policing signs would cost taxpayer money in staffing hours for Code Enforcement employees to go out after work hours to pick up signs left behind.

“I just think it is very unreasonable,” she said.

Danko suggested that the employees could pick up the signs early in the morning of the next work shift, and Pontieri pointed out that people placing the signs would know that.

“They [will] know that, oh, Code Enforcement will go pick it up on Monday, so now I have free advertisement at the cost of the beautification of our city until 8 a.m. on Monday,” Pontieri said.

Council member Nick Klufas asked City Attorney Neysa Borkert if it was a conflict of interest for the City Council to vote on the sign proposal when three of the five council

“I think it’s a probusiness conversation, not a signage conversation.”

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members — Danko, Cathy Heighter and Mayor David Alfin, who was absent from the Nov. 14 meeting — are tied to or work in the real estate industry.

Borkert said council members can only not vote on something that would bring them monetary benefit, or a conflict regarding zoning.

Since the policy is not only about real estate signs, Borkert said, she did not see a conflict.

“It’s too tenuous,” she said.

“There’s no benefit there.”

The policy draft would also loosen regulations on how many signs can be placed on a property. If approved, for example, the draft policy would allow for two real estate signs on a for-sale lot, while the current policy only allows one.

Homeowners would be allowed up to six “non-commercial” signs — which would include political signs — no greater than 6 square feet or greater than 6 feet in height.

Danko said limiting the number of signs would be too restrictive, especially considering election cycles.

Pontieri said the council has a duty to keep Palm Coast beautiful.

“That is one of the things that people take pride in our city for,” Pontieri said. “Ms. Reischmann and staff have ... endeavored to strike a very reasonable balance here.”

Ultimately, the council asked Reischmann to return to the council with case law about restricting the times and days when right-of-way signs are allowed.

“I don’t want to delay us in this,” Danko said, “I want to make sure we move forward quickly, but with all of the information we need.”

Planning Board approves 386 Cascades homes The Palm Coast Planning and Land Development Regulation Board approved a 386home subdivision plan for the Cascades development in a 7-0 vote at its Nov. 15 meeting.

The development on the west side of Seminole Woods Boulevard was annexed into Palm Coast from Flagler County on Aug. 15. Originally, the developer, Byrndog PCP, planned to include two apartment complexes and a maximum of 850 residential units across the development’s 375 acres.

The City Council placed a 416-unit cap on the number of residential units the developer could build at the council’s Nov. 7 meeting.

Following that decision, the developer asked to change the zoning to remove any multifamily units and only allow single-family residential units and conservation land on the property.

The 386-unit subdivision will be built on 180 acres within the Cascades development, 39 of which are wetlands, according to meeting documents.

Attorney Michael Chiumento, representing the applicant, said the project will eventually be more than just the 386-home subdivision.

“There’s parcels off to the left and to the right that’ll be developed in the future phases,” Chiumento said.

The subdivision will have sidewalks, and each residential lot will be a minimum of 6,000 square feet. The main entrance will be on Seminole Woods Boulevard, and a secondary entrance will eventually be added to connect to the Grand Landings Phase 5 development on the property’s northern border.

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THE OBSERVER | THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2023

A wing and a prayer Jewish Federation gifts 300 turkeys to families in need.

SIERRA WILLIAMS STAFF WRITER

Monica Smith, a volunteer from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, prepares a basket full of food for the next person in need.

Over 300 turkeys were gifted to families in need during the Jewish Federation of Volusia and Flagler’s annual Thanksgiving food distribution on Nov. 15.

Jewish Federation President Marvin Miller said the staff and volunteers prepared for months to gather enough turkeys and other Thanksgiving Day groceries for people in the community. It took four hours, he said, but all of the turkeys were handed out.

“They came early, and they left late,” he said. “We accommodated them all.”

Miller said the Jewish Federation begins preparing for the Thanksgiving handouts months in advance.

Even for normal food distributions, he said, the Jewish Federation spends between $10,000 and $12,000 a week to buy food from the Second Harvest Food Bank. That’s at a discounted rate, too, Miller said.

Miller said that this year, more than any other year, there were many happy people at the distribution.

“There were plenty of smiles and happy faces,” Miller said. “It really was pleasure, and a lot of families came here and they ... thanked us profusely for giving them the turkeys.”

Now that Thanksgiving’s distributions are complete, the Jewish Federation will begin preparing for “Chistmakkah” — that’s what Miller calls the holiday food distribution event for the Hanukkah and Christmas holidays.

Miller said anyone who wants to donate to help feed families can bring donations to the Jewish Federation

at 470 Andalusia Ave. in Ormond Beach. While the organization does accept other in-kind types of donations, financial contributions help the most, he said.

“Cash is king,” he said. “Same as everybody does in their own home, they shop every week ... Well, we’re doing the same thing here. We have to shop every week, buying groceries, only we’re feeding the whole community.”

Rabbi Rob Lennick, the Jewish Federation executive director, said that over the last several months, more people have come to the federation needing food — the Jewish Federation is now serving around 100 families a week, where it used to serve 70.

“It’s a special place when you can help families have a Thanksgiving dinner with all the trimmings,” he said.

Lennick said the generosity of the community is what made the Thanksgiving Day distribution possible.

“The need is really growing,” he said. “But the generosity of the community is growing, too.”

Multiple local organizations showed up on Nov. 15 to help deliver the Thanksgiving food to families, he said, including missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Miller said there were twice as many volunteers this year as there have ever been before.

“I can’t thank them all enough,” Miller said.

Lennick said the Jewish Federation has always served people from the community, regardless of their faith. Everyone who volunteers with the Jewish Federation knows that “but for the grace of God, this could be any one of us,” he said.

“We don’t just give away food,” Lennick said. “We’re purveyors of empathy.”

Volunteers at the Jewish Federation’s Thanksgiving Day handout: Laura Ashkenazi, Karen Sutton and Cori Croom

Elder Ian Jensen, from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, holds up a turkey with Marvin Miller.

Larry and Carol Sullivan handed out baskets of food without turkeys, for the people who did not register for a turkey in advance, so no one would leave empty-handed.

Photos by Sierra Williams

Volunteer Chester Mark grabs apples to add to a bag.

Volunteers Dennis Manzer and Myrna Peter check baskets and bags full of food for a Thanksgiving Day meal.

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THE OBSERVER | THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Buddy Taylor hosts first career fair FESPA Gobble hands out 70 meals The fair capped a month-long endeavor to help students begin considering careers.

Organizer Lakisha Ayers-White has been named the FEA’s Support Professional of the Year.

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Buddy Taylor Middle School in Palm Coast hosted its first career fair for eighth graders on Wednesday, Nov. 15.

The fair was the culminating event in a month-long endeavor to get the kids to think about their futures, Principal Cara Cronk said. It was held in the gymnasium, and parents were encouraged to attend with their children.

“We’ve been planning this since the summer,” Cronk said. “It takes a lot to get this pulled off.”

The fair featured representatives from a variety of careers: health care, the media, first responders, and city and county government departments. A welding instructor at Daytona State College’s School of Workforce and Continuing Education even brought a virtual practice welding machine for students to try out.

Cronk said it is important to give students a wide range of options and ideas to consider.

While maybe most of the kids will go to college, plenty of students won’t.

“The idea of sitting in a classroom for four more years after high school really does not appeal to them at all,” Cronk said. “So I wanted a whole wide gamut of different career options.”

Cronk said she enlisted Flagler Palm Coast Regional Chamber of Commerce President Greg Blosé to help get businesses to participate.

When Florida Education Association Vice President Carole Gauronskas read through the letters of recommendation to go with Lakisha Ayers-White’s nomination for FEA Support Professional of the Year, she cried.

Ayers-White won the FEA’s honor for 2023 and will be competing with 37 others for the national honor.

“This is huge,” Gauronskas

Photo by Sierra Williams

BTMS student Au’Briana Holmes uses a practice welding machine while Daytona State College coordinator Denny Hinson supervises.

“I really wanted to come here because I wanted to learn about more why I wanted to do in life,” she said. “I feel like I found what I’ve actually wanted to do as a career path.”

Megan Neste said the fair was a good idea because this is the age when kids are starting to think about their futures.

“This was good to kind of give them that guidance and just be more educated on what they want to do in their career paths,” Megan Neste said.

The support from the community businesses was amazing, Cronk said. She hopes the career fair will become an annual event.

“Knowing they took time out of their busy schedules to spend the day with our kids meant a lot,” she said. “I can’t thank them enough.”

She said she was incredibly proud of how engaged the students were throughout the fair.

“They were so engaged, and they came up with such great questions, and they were genuinely interested,” she said.

“So I think it was a positive experience for everybody.”

said. “This is all about what she’s done for the community.”

Ayers-White is a Flagler Schools bus driver and vice president of the Flagler Edu-

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Lakisha Ayers-White, organizer of the FESPA Gobble Event, gets a lift from Flagler Palm Coast Starlets who volunteered to help pack and distribute bags.

Matanzas High Honor Society members Austin Weeks and Stanley Gatzek place Thanksgiving bags into an awaiting vehicle.

cational Support Professional Association. And for the third straight year, she organized the FESPA Gobble Event.

This year, the event handed out supplies for 70 Thanksgiving meals for FESPA families.

Flagler Palm Coast High School Starlets and Matanzas High Honor Society members were among the volunteers who put together and handed out the bags of food and gifts on Friday, Nov. 17, at the Government Services Building.

The bags included a turkey, stuffing, green beans, gravy mix, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, rice, cornbread, pumpkin pie ingredients, drinks, plates, cups and napkins, in addition to paparazzi jewelry and gift cards and coupons for Subway, Chickfil-A and Texas Roadhouse.

Two FESPA recipients were randomly selected to receive televisions donated by The National Teachers Associates Life Insurance Company.

Olive Garden and Super Nails also donated gift cards.

TRIBUTES Lydia Kouracos happy to see me, but by the time I Lydia Kouracos passed away on Monday March 20, 2023 at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida The only child of immigrant Greeks (Peter and Mary Kyriakakes). She was raised mainly by her maternal grandmother as her parents were busy operating their restaurant on Henry Street in Brooklyn. Her grandmother was from a small village, Soha, in Sparta, Greece, and imparted much wisdom and principles into her only grandchild. She taught her many poems and songs in her native Greek.

Lydia was often the entrainment whenever there were family gatherings. That’s when everyone realized she had a powerful voice.

Her first public performance occurred when she was six years old in a NY departments store names Nams, which at the time had a recording booth. She paid a nickel, and recorded her rendition of ‘The St. Louis Blues”. By this time a crowd had gathered and applauded enthusiastically.

In elementary school, her teacher was so impressed with her talent, she arranged to have her sing “Ave Maria” at Carnegie Hall. During this performance, Lydia made a novel change to the arrangements, performing in a lower key where she received a standing ovation.

Her teacher soon introduced Lydia to Lydia Swag, a performer and trainer with Fox Studio’s in Astoria, NY. Through Ms. Swag, she learned breath control, phrasing and producing gestures, within a year of training, Ms. Swag entered her into a contest to be held at the Apollo Theatre in Harlem, NY (1936), When asked years later about the experience, Lydia said “at first glance, I didn’t think the audience was too

finished the song (St. Louis Blues) they gave me a standing ovation and I won the contest”.

There were many events through her teen years where she was asked to sing, often, the National Anthem. Since she had a low range, she would sing “God Bless America” in the style of Kate Smith.

Upon Graduating High School (Bay Ridge High PS 78) she vacationed in Old Orchard Beach, Maine. At this time, a recruiter for the Glen Miller Orchestra noticed her and she was invited to sing with the orchestra several times.

Also during this time period, the Greek Orthodox Archbishop of North and South America (Athenagoras) who later became the Ecumenical Patriarch, often called upon her to sing at the cathedral in NY when there were special events or visiting dignitaries from Greece.

During WWII she worked in the Arms Acquisition Offices of the Department of Defense in Manhattan, New York. She also continued singing, raising money at a number of bond rallies during WWII. In 1946, she met the man who would become the love of her life and husband, Louis G. Kouracos. Louis had just returned from WWII as a 1st Lieutenant after having completed five years service in the United States Army, Persian Gulf Command, and the European Theatre. Following marriage, the young couple went into partnership with a family friend and opened a retail store.

In 1960, that business was sold in preparation for the couples move to Daytona Beach, Florida; where they entered into the retail resort wear business. In Daytona Beach, they owned three locations before retiring, Phillips Sportswear & Gift, The Lydian Shoppe and shirts

& Stuff.

Lydia was very fond of church activities. She was a very active member of St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church and served as advisor to the church youth group, Maids of Athena. Lydia also favored constitutional conservatism and was one of many women Republican activists. She loved organizing coffee’s, meetings and fund raisers for constitutionally conservative candidates seeking elective office. And, along with her husband Louis, they were active in the Masonic organizations. On April 23, 1988, she was installed High Priestess of Khenset Court #52, Ladies Oriental Shrine of North America, in Daytona Beach.

Lydia was pre-deceased by her husband Louis who passed in 1992. Survivors include, one son, Peter Kouracos, Daytona Beach; one daughter & son in law, Dr. Argene and Socrates Danielides, Ormond Beach; one grand-daughter, Lygheri Danielides, Manhattan NY & Ormond Beach; and many cousins and God children.

The family requests that memorial contributions be made to St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church, 129 N. Halifax Ave, Daytona Beach, Florida 32118

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Blosé said the businesses he spoke to were all eager to take part in the career fair. Ultimately, he said, these kids will one day be part of the local workforce.

“It really wasn’t too difficult to get our members to sign on to the idea of like, ‘Hey, you know, come out and donate a half day of your time to help local students,’” he said.

Part of the success of the fair, he said, was due to the school’s strategy of working ahead of time to help the students begin thinking about their future careers.

“This was better than whatever we expected it to be, at least on my side, because of how engaged the students were,” Blosé said.

BTMS eighth grader Malakiyah Neste attended the fair alongside her mother, Megan Neste. Malakiyah Neste said she knows she wants to go into either surgery or anesthesiology, but the fair was a good opportunity to explore her options.

She said she went to the AdventHealth table first, which helped her get more information about the careers she’s considering.

Matanzas High Honor Society members Austin Weeks and Stanley Gatzek place Thanksgiving bags into a vehicle.

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Volusia ESE teachers ‘drowning’ in paperwork triggered by DOJ lawsuit The district is working to streamline documentation and restore a planning day for ESE teachers to complete paperwork.

JARLEENE ALMENAS MANAGING EDITOR

ESE teachers in Volusia County need support.

At the Volusia County School Board meeting on Tuesday, Nov. 14, Volusia United Educators President Elizabeth Albert shared stories of struggling ESE teachers in the district. ESE teachers, she said, are drowning as the Department of Justice has the district in a “chokehold.”

“They’re drowning under the weight of the paperwork that’s required and the unreasonable workload that they’re trying to manage,” Albert said. She also asked the district to reinstate ESE planning days.

In 2021, the DOJ settled a case with Volusia County Schools to address the district’s “systemic and discriminatory practices” that the department said punished students with disabilities for their disability-related behavior and denied them equal access to VCS’ programs and services. The case was a result of a 2018 investigation involving 11 students

with disabilities — nine of whom were autistic — who were subject to “overtly punitive” disciplinary tactics and law enforcement involvement to address behaviors associated with their disabilities. Among the tactics were regularly having parents or guardians pick students up from school, telling parents or guardians to keep students home, suspending students and using the Baker Act to remove students from campus.

The settlement required VCS to review and amend policies and procedures for students with disabilities and create written procedures for reporting and monitoring incidents of restraint and seclusion, provide training on creating reports, and give parents a written notice of the incident on the day it occurred.

“If you want to emerge from this oversight and the constant management from DOJ, you must recognize that your ESE programs are not aligned to the intense needs of the students,” Albert said.

Albert shared a statement on behalf of 29-year veteran ESE teacher Mary Tilford, who works with students with multiple disabilities.

“I’ve been hit, spit on and scratched, but I love my students,” Tilford’s statement said. “I want more for them. The curriculum is not what they need, but I’m told to teach it anyway.”

Albert also shared a statement by

an unnamed ESE teacher who said she felt their backs were up against a wall, “professionally, morally and legally.”

“We show up every day to work in fear of being tasked with another non-negotiable responsibility,” the teacher’s letter said. “We have no idea what we could be walking into — whether it be meeting with an attorney, de-escalating a child in crisis or an accusation that staff are not fully implementing a child’s IEP (individualized education program).”

Pam Westmoreland has taught ESE students for over 28 years. She told the School Board that an average day in her classroom includes her and her paraprofessionals teaching foundational skills, changing diapers, trying to help nonverbal children speak, monitoring behavior, implementing behavioral plans and refereeing disagreements.

“Please know that nowhere during my day is there any time for paperwork,” Westmoreland said.

And while ESE teachers have a planning period, she added, those are often occupied with professional teacher meetings and IEP meetings.

“Amidst all this, I’m supposed to monitor 33-plus IEP goals, on average three per student, and conduct progress monitoring, some of which doesn’t work because I have children that are nonverbal,” Westmoreland said.

School Board member Carl Persis

said he knows the ESE issue is real.

He hears about it at every school he’s visited.

“It’s either ESE kids are out of control and everyone’s afraid to do anything — to touch them, to disciple them, to manage them — and it’s causing a real problem in schools,” Persis said. “... I hear about people getting hurt, hear about children getting hurt, hear about staff members getting hurt. It’s serious, and I don’t know whether it is because of the DOJ issue that we are so scared of doing the wrong thing, that we’re just going way overboard to protect ourselves or protect the teachers or protect the students.”

School Board Chair Jamie Haynes said she has also heard from experienced ESE teachers about the amount of paperwork they’re subjected to.

“I don’t want to see us hit winter holidays and several of them walk out the door and say, ‘I’m finished,’ because it’s just going to harm our children,” Haynes said.

As of Friday, Nov. 17, VCS has 34 ESE teacher vacancies districtwide. District four, which includes Ormond Beach, has 10.

VCS Superintendent Carmen Balgobin said discipline and behavioral problems have escalated nationwide, and that the pandemic contributed significantly. When she became superintendent, she inherited the DOJ issue. The DOJ’s team of law-

yers, Balgobin said, meets with VCS almost every month, and sometimes twice a month.

Though new policies were enacted a year and a half ago, she said, at the beginning of this year, the DOJ conducted a full evaluation of the district’s policies for disabled students.

The DOJ did not accept the implementation of training provided to VCS staff “because of the content, format and also implementation,” Balgobin said.

“So we had to come back to the table and discuss,” she said. “Because when you’re receiving federal dollars for ESE students, that’s where the compliance piece comes into play.”

Some of the meetings that followed lasted hours.

Since then, some progress has been made, she said, and the DOJ is listening to the district’s concerns. The district has implemented a logging tool in about five to six schools, and in about three weeks, will see if it’s been working. If it is, the hope is it would make documentation easier for teachers.

The district also hopes to give ESE teachers a planning day, something that will cost about $500,000.

“I believe in doing what’s right for all children, regardless of their label,” Balgobin said. “That’s something I firmly believe in, but I want all of you to understand that this has not been easy on any of us, so we’re going to walk through this together.”

Buddy Taylor Middle School goes virtual to replace Spanish I teacher program to them and told them what they needed to do and how their grades were going to work. And then if we don’t have a Spanish teacher in place in January, they will move to iFlagler second semester Spanish I, and he will be the teacher as well.

They’ll still do it in class here, but he will come in and work with them.”

Many of the students in the class are planning to go into high school International Baccalaureate or AICE

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programs next year, so they need the credit, Cronk said. “(Reaves) was great. They came up with Edgenuity, so the kids could finish since it was the first quarter, and not a clean semester break.”

Students could continue from the point they left off in the first quarter with the grades they had, she said.

“They didn’t want them having to restart the whole Spanish I course,” Cronk said.

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When Buddy Taylor Middle School’s Spanish teacher retired last month, students enrolled in Spanish I for a high school credit were in danger of having to start over.

“That is not an easy replacement,” BTMS Principal Cara Cronk said of hiring a new Spanish teacher to replace Linda Muir. “When I knew she was retiring, we had posted her position, and we weren’t getting a whole lot of qualified candidates.”

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COPS CORNER NOV. 12

IN THE SLOW LANE 3:48 a.m. — 500 block of North State Street, Bunnell Marijuana possession, carrying a concealed firearm.

An 18-year-old was arrested after a Sheriff’s Office deputy pulled over the teen’s red Buick for going 45 mph in a 60 mph zone.

When the deputy approached the car, she explained why she had stopped the car, then asked the driver and passenger for their licenses and if there were any weapons in the vehicle, according to the 18-year-old’s arrest report. Both men said no, but the deputy noticed the muzzle of a gun poking out from under the passenger seat.

Both men were asked to step out of the car, and the passenger, the 18-year-old, admitted that the gun was his, according to the report.

The deputy placed the suspect in handcuffs and searched him, finding four grams of marijuana in his pocket. The suspect was charged with possession of marijuana and carrying a concealed firearm.

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INSTANT KARMA 5:04 p.m. — Intersection of Palm Coast Parkway and U.S. 1, Palm Coast DUI. A Palm Coast man was pulled over while driving on U.S. 1 after he almost hit several other cars, including a Sheriff’s Office patrol car, according to an arrest report.

A deputy driving north on U.S. 1 noticed a Ram pickup truck merging lanes in front of the deputy without using a turn signal. The truck driver lost control of his truck as he was merging and veered into the grass median. The

driver then overcorrected and almost hit the patrol car and other vehicles, according to the report.

The deputy turned on his lights and sirens, but the pickup did not pull over for a quarter of a mile. When the deputy approached the truck, he immediately smelled alcohol on the driver.

The deputy called in backup for a DUI investigation, and another deputy arrived and conducted a sobriety test.

The suspect blew over double the legal limit and was arrested and charged with driving under the influence.

NOV. 15

WRONG TURN 6:57 p.m. — 100 block of New Britain Avenue, Ormond Beach DUI. Police arrested a 71-yearold Ormond Beach man who, while driving drunk, veered off the road and got his truck stuck on a short wall separating the sidewalk from a parking lot. The man told police that he had been on his way home from the beach and had “made a wrong turn,” according to his arrest report.

Police noted that the man smelled of alcoholic beverages and that his eyes were watery and bloodshot. When the reporting officer asked him for his driver’s license and registration, the man first handed him his debit card.

He was then asked if he had been drinking and replied that he’d had “very little too drink,” but that he had some rum, according to the report.

The officer asked if he would be willing to complete field sobriety exercises. and the man agreed. When asked if he had any physical ailments that could impact the exercises, the man reminded the officer that he was 71 years old.

He then began comparing the instructions given to him for the field sobriety exercises to the way he would complete them instead.

“A lot of it did not make any sense,” the officer wrote in his report.

The man, who failed the exercises, was “verbally insulting and belligerent” through most of the exercises, the officer noted. He was taken to jail.

NOV. 20

GAME ON 2:39 a.m. — 600 block of West Granada Boulevard, Ormond Beach Resisting officer. An 18-yearold Ormond Beach man was arrested after police saw him shove his friend into the middle of Granada Boulevard.

When the reporting officer activated her emergency lights, the man — wearing only pajama pants — ran north towards a local organization’s clubhouse. Several officers responded, and the reporting officer was walking with one of them around the building when they spotted the man, according to his arrest report.

The man asked them who they were. The officers told him they were police, and he then ran to the nearby woods.

Meanwhile, other officers spoke with the victim, a juvenile, who told them he had been at a local gas station convenience store buying food when the man “ran out, going nuts,” the report states.

The teen went to grab the man to pull him out of the roadway, and that’s when the man shoved him.

Police eventually found the man running on Granada Boulevard and arrested him.

He had rolled up his pajama pants to try to trick officers, the report notes.

He was asked why he fought his friend in the middle of the road, and the man said he “fights all of his friends.”

He said he plays man hunt, a type of hide-and-seek, with his friends, and that when he saw the flashing lights, he “assumed he was playing manhunt.” He smelled of alcohol.

Police took him to jail.

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216 apartments OK’d on Old Kings Road Uncle charged with toddler’s death The Planning Board approved the complex in a 5-2 vote.

SIERRA WILLIAMS STAFF WRITER

The Palm Coast Planning Board has approved a site plan for a 216-unit, threestory apartment on Old Kings Road despite some reservations about its potential traffic impact.

The Planning Board approved the site plan in a 5-2 vote, with board members Larry Gross and Sybil Dodson-Lucas dissenting. Gross said his major concern was how traffic on the road would be impacted, saying Old Kings is already a “bottleneck.”

“My major concern is that we’re not looking at the whole picture,” he said. “Old Kings Road hasn’t been widened yet, they’re (the development) going to come in, a storage place is going in. It’s a mess.”

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The location of the apartment complex planned for Old Kings Road in relation to the Town Center Boulevard intersection.

During his presentation on the site plan, city planner Bill Hoover said the apartment complex would not negatively impact the neighboring communities.

Deputy Chief Development Officer Ray Tyner said the city uses traffic studies — which are conducted every two years; the most recent began in late October — to model and predict how traffic patterns will change as the city grows.

“We are going to have times of high growth; we’re going to have times of not too much growth,” Tyner said.

Tyner said the development must pay $423,000 in impact fees to the Old Kings Road Special Assessment District’s transportation fund for the widening of Old Kings Road.

“We sat for so long without growth,” Gross said. “And now we have all this growth coming in, so we’re, you know, saying yes to everything.”

The development — owned

by Kings Business Center, LLC, of Wyoming, according to meeting documents — will consist of nine three-story buildings lining Old Kings.

The property is 29 acres, 10.5 of which are wetlands that applicant representative Christina Evans said will remain untouched.

The apartment complex will include two retention ponds surrounded by trails. Sidewalks throughout the complex will connect to a future walking trail planned for the east side of Old Kings Road.

The apartments include 24 one-bedroom units, 132 twobedroom units and 60 threebedroom units. The onebedrooms will be a minimum of 1,221 square feet, and the three-bedrooms a maximum of 1,855 square feet.

Gross said his other concern was the apartments’ proximity to the Toscana community of

apartment units are planned for the apartment complex.

CJ Nelson Jr. was high on THC while trying to unjam a gun, which then discharged, Sheriff Rick Staly said.

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apartment buildings plus an amenity center will line Old Kings Road.

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Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly held a joint press conference with 7th Judicial District State Attorney R.J. Larizza to announce the arrest.

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acres make up the apartment complex. Just over 10 acres are wetlands that will be entirely preserved, requiring a linear design.

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square feet is the minimum size planned for the one-bedroom apartments. The threebedrooms will be a maximum of 1,855 square feet.

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in transportation impact fees will be paid to the Old Kings Road Special Assessment District, specifically for a fund to pay for the widening of Old Kings.

high-end luxury homes. Board member Sybil Dodson-Lucas said she was surprised to hear that none of the residents of either the Toscana or Hidden Lakes communities showed up to the public hearing.

“It just concerns me when you say that there were no responses from those folks,” Dodson-Lucas said. “I think that at some juncture, there needs to be another outreach to them.”

The site plan will next go to the Palm Coast City Council for a public hearing and vote.

The uncle of an 18-month-old girl who was shot and killed in Palm Coast in September has been charged with manslaughter in connection with her death.

CJ Nelson Jr., of Palm Coast, was arrested on Nov. 15 by the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office. A grand jury has indicted Nelson, Sheriff Rick Staly said. Nelson could face up to 30 years in state prison if convicted.

“These are the most tragic cases that first responders have to handle and investigate,” Staly said.

The FCSO determined that Nelson was high on THC when he tried to unjam the gun, an American Tactical multi-caliber pistol. The gun discharged and the bullet went through a wall into the hallway, hitting 18-monthold Ja’liyah Allen.

The infant’s mother was playing with her when the child was shot, Staly said.

“We found social media posts with CJ Nelson holding the gun that was used to kill this child while trying to be, frankly, a punk gangster,” Staly said.

Nelson, Staly said, has been in FCSO custody since deputies arrested him for violating probation on Sept. 3.

Staly made the announcement in a joint press conference on Nov. 16 with the 7th Judicial District State Attorney, R.J. Larizza. Larizza said that while manslaughter does

not require an intentional shooting, it does require gross or culpable negligence.

“That’s what we believe the facts indicated in this particular case,” he said. “Now that the indictment has been filed, the defendant will go through the process and either enter a plea or have a trial.”

On Sept. 3, the FCSO had received an emergency call to 2 Ranwood Lane at around 11:45 p.m. The caller said a baby had been shot. When deputies arrived, they found people in the front yard, with one person holding a small child who had been shot in the head, Staly said.

Although Flagler County Fire Rescue and the Palm Coast Fire Department administered emergency aid, Allen later died at the hospital.

FCSO Det. Kathryn Gordon led the investigation into Allen’s death, but other members of the household tried to destroy evidence, impeding the investigation, Staly said.

The evidence the FCSO recovered included a blood trail, DNA samples, fingerprints and the firearm.

Nelson’s DNA and fingerprints were found on the firearm the Florida Department of Law Enforcement’s Crime Lab processed it, according to a press release from the FCSO. Everyone in the home gave conflicting statements that

also did not match the evidence at the scene, Staly said.

And while first responders were in the home trying to save Allen, others were inside the home destroying evidence, the FCSO believes.

“They were more interested in, frankly, saving their ass than saving the life of a small innocent child or a holding a killer accountable for his actions,” Staly said.

No one has been charged with tampering with evidence or other chargers at this time, Staly said, but the investigation is ongoing.

“We have a good idea of who was trying to clean up the crime scene,” he said.

Nelson was on parole at the time of the shooting from November 2022 charges of carrying a concealed firearm and marijuana possession.

“Here is a prime example on why marijuana and THC is not harmless,” Staly said. “In this case, it ultimately led to the death of an 18-month-old.”

Larizza urged all gun owners to ensure their weapons are properly secured and to not handle firearms when under the influence of alcohol or drugs.

“Whether it’s alcohol, whether it’s marijuana, or even if you’re on prescription medication,” Larizza said, “guns and alcohol, guns and drugs, do not mix. They make a deadly combination.”

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Flagler Beach businesses vandalized with antisemitic messages The Salty Turtle Gift Shop, the former bank building across from the pier and the Dollar General were tagged with hate messages.

SIERRA WILLIAMS STAFF WRITER

Three Flagler Beach businesses were spray-painted with antisemitic messages over the weekend.

The Salty Turtle Gift Shop, the former Bank of America building across from the pier and the Dollar General on State Road 100 were vandalized between Saturday, Nov. 18,

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42-year-old Palm Coast man killed in crash on U.S. 1 A 42-year-old Palm Coast man was killed on Nov. 17 in a crash on U.S. 1 north of County Road 202.

The man was driving his pickup truck north on U.S. 1 at about 2:20 p.m. when the truck drove into the median, according to a report from the Florida Highway Patrol.

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ism Monday morning.

Oshri, who flies an Israeli flag outside his shop and has family in Israel, said this is the second time he has experienced antisemitism in Flagler Beach.

Last year, he said, a man stood outside the Salty Turtle and yelled “slaughter all the Jews” in Arabic.

Oshri said the police at the time said they could not do much because of free speech. He said the vandalism of his business over the weekend is “a direct impact from what’s going on in Israel right now.”

“Americans need to wake up,” Oshri said. “They will not scare us, and the flag is going to be still flying.

I’m not going to remove the flag.”

both northbound lanes and then hitting a tree, the report said. The man died at the scene. He was the only person in the truck.

FCSO receives $355,000 to combat hate crimes

The Flagler County Sheriff’s Office has received almost $355,000 in grant money to combat hate crimes.

The FCSO is the recipient of the 2023 Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Program Federal Grant through the Department of Justice. Since Sheriff Rick Staly took office in 2017, there have only been four reported hate crime cases in Flagler County, according to a press release from the FCSO. The FCSO will use the grant to expand its Targeted Violence Prevention Program over a four-year period.

Since fiscal year 2020-2021, FCSO has received over $3.7 million in grants to enhance services.

“Flagler County was the last county in Florida to desegregate its schools. Today, there is no room for hate in our community,” Staly said. “With this grant, we will be even more equipped to effectively monitor and prevent hate crimes to protect everyone in Flagler County.”

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Antisemitic slurs were spray-painted onto the former Bank of America building in Flagler Beach, the Salty Turtle Gift Shop and the Dollar General on S.R. 100.

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The money will be awarded to the 12 recipients at the annual Professional Women in of Flagler County “Holly Jolly Gala” at 6 p.m. Dec. 5.

The Portuguese American Cultural Club in Palm Coast will host the gala, according to an email from Diane Araujo Vidal, vice president of PWFC and a senior attorney at Chiumento Law. Vidal wrote that the Professional Women of Flagler is a nonprofit that works to encourage, educate and help women in business through insightful speakers, mentorship and sharing best business practices and networking opportunities.

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Operation Changing Lives is holding its 15th annual toy drive to help low-income families in the area who struggle to give Christmas gifts to their children.

Donations can be dropped off at the Palm Coast Oral & Facial Surgical Associates’ office at 21 Hospital Drive, Suite 180; at the Daytona Beach Oral & Facial Surgical Associates’ office at 549 Health Blvd.; or at Cherise’s Salon in Daytona Beach Shores at 3612 S. Atlantic Ave. until the drive ends on Dec. 9.

Florida Oral & Facial Surgical Associates doctors founded the toy drive, which partners with several schools in Volusia and Flagler Counties to identify children needing holiday happiness.

“No child should be left out of the holiday fun, and it’s our mission to make sure all kids in our community have a very happy holiday season,” Dr. Curtis Schalit said.

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and Sunday, Nov. 19, with the variations of the phrase “Jew child killers.”

Flagler Beach Police Chief Matthew Doughney said police are looking for “a heavyset, possibly white male, wearing a black hoodie.”

“If somebody knows who it is, hopefully they’ll turn them in so that they can be held accountable for what they’re doing, because it’s just not right,” Doughney said.

Doughney said the “hate tags” are related to the Israel-Hamas war.

“Vandalism is not something that happens frequently here,” Doughney said. “But for it to be hate tags is even worse.”

Tomer Oshri, who owns the Salty Turtle Gift Shop on S.R. 100, said his landlord notified him of the vandal-

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The City of Palm Coast brings the fun!

Market Flagler OKs larger Captain’s BBQ in settlement proposed The proposed building for Ormond restaurant would be about the size funeral park double of the current one.

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The operators of the Palm Coast Farmers Market are hoping to start a community market in Ormond Beach.

William Meyer and Kevin Freeland met with the Ormond Beach Site Plan Review Committee on Wednesday, Nov. 8, to discuss opening a community market at local funeral home Volusia Memorial Park, at 550 N. Nova Road.

The market would operate in the rear of the park, where the funeral home has about 13 acres of undeveloped land, and would take place on the second Friday of every month, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. It would host up to 40 tents, and no funeral services would be held during the market’s hours.

Freeland told the SPRC that some of the businesses they are proposing to work with include those that sell fresh produce, meat, art, soap, honey, maple syrup and handmade clothes. They would like to support small business owners who can’t open a brick-and-mortar location, he said.

“Lately with our market — the Palm Coast Farmer’s Market — we’ve been able to have a small business owner with no experience and guide them into a direction to create businesses that are flourishing.” Freeland said. “... So our goal is to really bring that to this community as well.”

Meyer said that he and Freeland took over the Palm Coast Farmer’s Market earlier this year, though both were vendors before that. It was at the market that they met Nicholas DiCristofaro, an employee with Volusia Memorial Park, and started formulating ideas on how to bring something similar to Ormond Beach.

“We want to build value in the community, through economics and through just basically having a great place for people to come,” Meyer said.

Volusia Memorial Park is no stranger to holding community events. DiCristofaro mentioned at the meeting that the park hosts Wreaths Across America, where up to 2,500 wreaths are placed on the graves of veterans every December. It’s an event that usually attracts over 300 people, he said. The park also hosts an annual trunk or treat event every Halloween.

DiCristofaro said community involvement is part of the mission of Dignity Memorial, the company that runs Volusia Memorial Park.

“Events like this help break that mystification and that stigma that these places need to be somber,” he said. “Really what we’re trying to encourage is people to, again, celebrate life and remember those that have passed in dignified and respectful way, and also bringing awareness to our memorial park and all the things that we can do for the community, and all the things that we are already involved in.”

Planning Director Steven Spraker told the applicants that they must go through a special exception process at the city to open the market and request approval from the commission for outdoor activity at the business.

The special exception process would require the applicants go before the Ormond Beach Planning Board and the City Commission for approval.

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Five years of legal wrangling between Captain’s BBQ and the Flagler County government is coming to an end.

The Flagler County Commission on Nov. 20 approved a settlement with the BBQ restaurant at the county-owned Bings Landing Park, agreeing to pay the restaurant up to $800,000 for past and future construction and renovation and let the restaurant build a larger, replacement building that is about double the size of its current one.

Before voting 5-0 to approve the settlement agreement, commissioners expressed concerns that going to trial could cost much more.

“There’s no getting around the fact that we would be at great risk if we go to trial,” County Commissioner Donald O’Brien said. “And I just keep thinking about our responsibilities to the taxpayers in terms of dollars expended and what kind of additional tax dollars we would be putting at risk for an extended trial and/ or a loss. … This is one of those things where there is ... no good solution, and sometimes you have to make a choice out of some of the worst options.

Commissioners Leann Pennington and Andy Dance referred to a recent “shade meeting,” not open to the public, in which commissioners heard from the county’s legal team about the prospect of an upcoming trial.

“I’ve heard what we’ve said in our shade meeting, and I

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government’s executive summary of the agreement.

The county would also reimburse Captain’s BBQ $400,000 for repairs to the current restaurant building, which is 2,274 square feet, according to Property Appraiser’s Office records.

Once it moved into its new building, Captain’s BBQ would lease the property for an initial cost of $3,000 per month, up from the current $980, with an annual escalation based on the Consumer Price Index. The lease would run for 20 years.

Captain’s BBQ would have the right to secure a liquor license and would have the exclusive right to sell bait and to all food and beverage sales in the park (except at countysponsored events).

The new building would include “elements of coastal Old Florida architecture,” according to the news release, and would be constructed in a designated “peninsula” area of the park, near the boat launch.

“I think through thoughtful negotiations and commitment to finding that common ground, that both sides walk away with something that they can be proud of,” County Administrator Heidi Petito said. “There is no clear winner that would emerge, even through protracted litigation, but instead, we’ve put more of an emphasis on achieving an amicable resolution that serves the best interest of all stakeholders, including our public.”

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would not be your agreeing to this [agreement] if I didn’t think that if we were to go through a trial, we would be in a far greater losses,” Pennington said. “I think it’s been very clear to us, what we’ve been told. ... And I do believe that it is in the best interest of the taxpayers to stop the insanity and mediate.”

The commission also directed the county government to complete a management plan for Bings Landing before issuing a certificate of occupancy for the new restaurant building.

The BBQ restaurant, which operates from a countyowned building in Bings Landing, sued the county government in 2018 amid a dispute about how the county should handle purported damage to the existing restaurant building.

The commission voted 3-2 at a November 2018 meeting to approve a lease that would let the restaurant’s owners construct a larger restaurant building. But at the very next commission meeting, after new commissioners were sworn in, the commission voted 4-0 to reconsider its decision. The commission later decided to repair the structure unless repairs would exceed 50% of its value, in which case the county would build a new building.

Captain’s BBQ sued.

The proposed settlement comes in the third round of mediation between the two sides.

It would let Captain’s BBQ build a 5,000-square-foot new restaurant building with up to 150 seats in Bings Landing, with the county government contributing up to $400,000 toward the construction and facilitating owner-direct, sales tax-exempt purchases of construction materials and equipment, according to the county

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Pickleball courts OK’d, skate park renovations considered for Wadsworth Park

MANAGING EDITOR

A tennis court at Wadsworth Park in Flagler Beach will become four pickleball courts, and the Flagler County government is also considering renovating the park’s skate park.

“God knows we don’t ever have enough pickleball courts,” County Commissioner Donald O’Brien said at a Nov. 20 County Commission workshop. “Plus, you know, if it keeps the seniors off the streets and out playing pickleball, then we’ve got to have it. “ The park contains three tennis courts — a double court and one single court.

The Flagler County government initially planned to build the new pickleball courts in separate areas of the park near the volleyball courts and the park’s entrance, but doing so would have cost more money — $175,000, rather than the currently proposed $100,000 — and would have likely required the county to shift overflow parking areas or the

BIZ BUZZ HALIFAX HEALTH EXPANDS LUNG CANCER SERVICES Halifax Health has expanded its diagnostic and treatment services at the Charles L and Miki N Grant Cancer Center for Hope, in line with the new lung scan recommendations released by the American Cancer Society last week.

Nearly 5 million additional people are recommended to get screened for lung cancer under the updated guideline, which expanded its recommendations to include older adults who smoke or formerly smoked — no

SKATE PARK CHANGES

Wadsworth Park’s 24,000-squarefoot skate park may also see improvements, though perhaps not as many as advocates who’ve organized a Change.org petition pushing for

matter how long ago they quit smoking, according to a press release.

Previously, the American Cancer Society recommended annual lung cancer screening for adults ages 55 to 74 with at least a 30 pack-year smoking history who either currently smoke or quit smoking less than 15 years ago.

In its updated guideline, the American Cancer Society recommends annual lung cancer screening for current or past smokers, ages 50 to 80, with at least a 20 pack-year smoking history.

A pack-year is defined as smoking an average of one pack of cigarettes per day for one year.

“The American Cancer Society’s updated lung scan recommendations are a game-changer in our fight

renovations would prefer.

The ramps at the park were added more than 20 years ago, Petito said, and are made of steel.

“You’re in close proximity to the ocean, so I don’t have to explain what salt does to metal,” Petito said.

“It was recently closed for repairs. It is in need of replacement.”

Replacing all of the damaged equipment with new equipment from American Ramp Company would cost just over $233,000, including installation, Petito said.

But those ramps would also be steel.

County Commissioner Andy Dance asked how much it would cost for the county to install concrete ramps instead.

Petito said she looked into those costs several years ago and found that a Winter Springs-based skate park construction company called Team Pain could build a small concrete skate park for about $350,000, a medium-sized one for $750,000 or a large one capable of hosting regional events for about $1.5 million.

The numbers now are likely about double or triple those amounts, she said, with a regional skate park costing about $3 million to $5 million.

Local advocates said that a larger, concrete park would give the county

a greater return on investment.

“A concrete park ... would be a more longstanding, longterm solution to this rather than continuing to repair, or neglect and then have to repair,” said Carla Cline, a Flagler Beach resident and the owner of Flagler Surf Art & Cool Stuff. “I’m pretty sure skateboards and scooters are something that everybody has had in their lifetime at some point in time with their children or children’s friends. It’s definitely something that the community needs.”

Flagler Beach resident and professional skateboarder Steve McKaig said a larger skate park could attract visitors to Flagler County.

“Having a concrete skate park ... will bring in contests; it could potentially bring other professional skateboarders out of Flagler Beach to have the opportunities that I was able to have growing up,” he said.

“And I just think that would be a positive impact for Flagler Beach, with all the growth we’re having. ...

I just feel like every kid needs that safe place to come to and just potentially have the opportunity that I was able to have.

Jay Wolfington, who organized the Change.org petition — which had

1,239 signatures as of the morning of Nov. 21 — said a larger skate park would draw tourists who would then spend money at local businesses.

“The local businesses will benefit, the local hotels,” he said. “Because these people are traveling, and they have to stay somewhere. They spend money to go to the local shops; they go to local restaurants. Every time somebody pulls a permit for a contest, that’s revenue. I think if you budget for that bigger expense, it will pay off more in the long run.”

O’Brien asked where the nearest regional skate parks are.

Petito said there are skate parks in Lake Butler, Deltona, Port Orange, New Smyrna Beach, Daytona Beach and St. Augustine.

Commissioner Greg Hansen said it seemed like the skate park plan wasn’t developed enough for the commission to make a decision.

Commissioner David Sullivan suggested the county consider approaching the skate park renovation as a tourist development project, possibly in collaboration with the Flagler Beach city government.

against lung cancer,” said Dr. Steve Miles, chief quality officer at Halifax Health. “Early detection can be a lifesaver, and we are dedicated to making this service easily accessible to our community.”

is celebrated this year from Dec. 7 to Dec. 14, and the shop is intended to help supply locals with their Hanukkah needs, Laubenstein said.

“In New York, you can find what you need for Hanukkah anywhere. In a big city, like Boston and Philadelphia,” she said. “But in small towns, you may not find as much in the stores.”

With the pop-up, she said, locals can shop at the Chabad Jewish Center for their needs.

The shop sells menorahs, dreidels, chocolate gelt, drip trays, Hanukkahthemed decor, toys for kids, gift wrap, cards and more.

The pop-up shop is open from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m., Monday to Friday, until Dec. 6 at the Chabad Jewish Center of Palm Coast.

The Chabad Jewish Center is in the shopping center at 160 Cypress Point Parkway, Suite A208, on the second floor.

Laubenstein said the items are priced from 50 cents for a toy dreidel to up to $50 for a silver necklace, though most items are between $5$10.

The proceeds from the shop will help support the Chabad Jewish Center’s community events, services and outreach.

Laubenstein said the shop will be back next year in some capacity, depending on the success of this year.

“We may go bigger next year if we have a nice success here,” she said.

CHABAD OF PALM COAST LAUNCHES HANUKKAH SHOP

The Chabad Jewish Center of Palm Coast has opened its first-ever pop-up shop for Hanukkah.

Chabad Jewish Center office manager Lisa Laubenstein said Rabbi Levi Ezagui and his wife Tzivie were inspired to include the shop after seeing something similar at other synagogues.

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“Both of those locations kind of create a challenge for us, because as you know, Wadsworth Park is heavily used,” County Administrator Heidi Petito said. “So we really are not trying to impact an area that has been historically used for overflow parking.”

County staff members measured use at the three tennis courts and found that the single court was seldom used, Petito said.

“I think we’ve all seen it across the community, where more and more people are leaning towards pickleball rather than tennis,” Petito said. “So it seems to make good use of the space, and it doesn’t seem like it would create an impact as far as taking away parking by utilizing that area.”

The county can use park impact fees — fees levied on developers to pay for the impacts of new growth — to pay for the park renovations. The county’s park impact fee fund contains about $392,000, Petito said.

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Buddy Taylor agriscience program to restart after rat incident BRIEFS Flagler Schools has created a new consent form for students involved in the middle school program.

BRENT WORONOFF ASSOCIATE EDITOR

Buddy Taylor Middle School’s agriscience program could resume when students return from Thanksgiving break next week, Principal Cara Cronk told the Observer.

The outside part of the program, where students tend to the garden and the farm animals, has been shut down since the Flagler County School District investigated a rat-biting incident on Sept.

6.

Cronk said new permission slips with clear safety requirements have been sent home for parents to sign. Students have started growing seedlings inside the classroom, but have not been outside to tend to the plants in the garden or to feed and care for the pigs, chickens, baby steers, rabbits, sheep and goats in the barn area.

Lynette Monahan, the school’s agriscience teacher and Future Farmers of America sponsor, was reprimanded after the investigation into an incident during which at least

one student was bitten by a rat.

There are about 130 students involved in the agriscience program, Cronk said.

“They’ve been doing a lot of stuff inside, but they are ready to go outside, and she’s ready,” Cronk said of Monahan.

Cronk said the previous parent consent form was through the FFA. The new one is specifically geared to Buddy Taylor’s program and spells out the safety regulations.

“I don’t know the exact wording, but they’re not to touch wild animals,” Cronk said.

“Even if the whole class doesn’t have the signed permission slip, the ones that do, we don’t want to hold them back from the experience of being able to go outside,” she said.

Cronk said the school will have an adult available to help with the remaining students who haven’t turned in a permission slip yet.

“I think she had over half (of the students turn in their forms), and so we said, ‘Let’s move forward.’” Cronk said.

“I’m hoping that as soon as we come back from Thanksgiving break that she will be out there.”

The BTMS agriscience program and FFA chapter are very popular, Cronk said.

“They participate in the Flagler County Fair. They go

“Even if the whole class doesn’t have the signed permission slip, the ones that do, we don’t want to hold them back from the experience of being able to go outside.”

CARA CRONK, BTMS principal

to different conferences; they do forestry. And one of her classes is a year-long course where they are also working on their industry certification for agriculture.”

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The investigation began two days after the Sept. 6 incident.

Sept. 6 was a testing day.

The students who were not testing that day were assigned to a teacher. Monahan took students out to the farm, and many were unfamiliar with the program. She said she wanted to expose them to the program.

Monahan explained about farm pests and demonstrated how to flush out rats from three to four holes with a water hose. Two students told investigator Michael Rinaldi, the district’s coordinator of professional standards, that they had been bitten by rats. One student went to the emergency room that night because a bite on his left finger had broken the skin.

The student wrote in a statement and told Rinaldi in an interview that he told Monahan he had been bitten, but, “She was focused on the rats and I did not make it clear to her that I was bit.”

Monahan said the student did not inform her he had been bitten. If he had, she said, she would have sent him to the clinic contacted his parents and informed administration.

Another student said she was bitten about three times but the bites did not break the skin. Monahan said she inspected that student’s hands and fingers and there

were no punctures, marks or scratches. She said she told the student to use hand sanitizer and to also wash her hands with soap and water.

That student said Monahan asked her if she could grab the rats by their tails and put them in buckets, and that’s when she was bitten.

Monahan said she told students not to pick up the rats.

“Baby rats came out and students began to try to catch them,” she said in her statement. “I told them not to, that I only pick them up by the tail. Some students had already grabbed them and I took the rats from them and placed them in a five gallon orange bucket they could not get out of.”

Monahan said she carried five wet baby rats in a bucket and brought them to the classroom, where she placed them into separate tissue containers on a heating pad in a plastic bin. She said she instructed a student to take the bucket of older rats to the fence line and tip it over and leave it there, but not to touch the rats.

Some students asked if they could take a baby rat home, she said. She told them they could with their parents’ permission.

At the end of the day, she did not hear back from any of the parents or students, so she brought the babies back out and put them over the fence.

Public service funds available for nonprofits Volusia County’s Community Assistance Division has remaining funds available from a previous award from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Community Development Block Grant – Coronavirus Program to help local governments and not-for-profit 501(c)(3) agencies respond to the coronavirus pandemic.

The funds – which were authorized by the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act – include $625,000 for eligible public facility improvements and public services, according to a news release.

Funds must be used to serve clients or groups that are presumed to be low- or moderate-income.

Proposed projects must be eligible under CDBG and prevent, prepare for, or respond to the coronavirus pandemic.

All proposed capital projects should be shovel-ready and must be completed by June 30, 2025.

For more information about eligible uses and to receive an application, contact Eva Colee at 386-736-5955, ext. 15593, or ecolee@volusia.org.

Applications will be accepted until 2 p.m. Dec. 1.

School district: Volusia ‘disregarded responsibility’ by denying SRD funding

JARLEENE ALMENAS MANAGING EDITOR

Though the Volusia County Council has opted not to help fund seven new school resource deputies for middle schools, Volusia County Schools is moving forward anyway. But its chief financial officer said the council’s denial disregarded its shared responsibility with the district to fund school safety, as outlined by state statutes.

In a statement released by the school district on Friday, Nov. 17, district CFO Todd Seis wrote that Deputy Superintendent Rachel Hazel’s and Interim Chief Operating Officer Patty Corr’s request at the Nov. 7 County Council meeting was met “with a surprising level of disrespect and disregard by the County Council.”

“Such unprofessional conduct not only undermines our collaborative efforts but is also an affront to the dedicated professionals working tirelessly for the safety of our children,” Seis said.

At the Nov. 7 meeting, the district was asking the council

“Such unprofessional conduct not only undermines our collaborative efforts but is also an affront to the dedicated professionals working tirelessly for the safety of our children.”

TODD SEIS, Volusia County Schools CFO

to support a funding request of $342,905.11 to fund school resource deputies and one supervising school resource sergeant at Creekside Middle School, Deltona Middle School, Galaxy Middle School, Heritage Middle School, Holly Hill School, Silver Sands Middle School and Southwestern Middle School.

The request came after the Volusia County School Board submitted a $762,011.35 request to the Volusia Sheriff’s Office for the deputies.

According to the district’s contract with VSO, the School Board is responsible for 55% of the total costs for school resource deputies, with VSO bearing the remaining 45%.

Per Florida law, VSO can bill the county for services rendered or performed for governmental agencies, which includes the school district.

Seis criticized Volusia County Attorney Mike Dyer in his statement, saying that as Dyer previously served as an attorney for the School Board, he should have been aware of the legal framework surrounding funding law enforcement officers for schools.

“His guidance seemed to be missing from this meeting, but news outlets reported Mr. Dyer stating, ‘The school district is financially responsible for paying for law enforcement officers at schools,’” Seis said. “Although this is a partially true statement, it left off some important information as addressed in Florida Statute 1006.12(2)(d) that states: ‘A district school board may enter into mutual aid agreements with one or more law enforcement agencies as provided in chapter 23.

A school safety officer’s salary may be paid jointly by the district school board and the law enforcement agency, as mutually agreed to.’ I question why this entire language in the statute was not provided to all council members by their attorney? Especially when the safety of our Volusia County children is at stake.”

Seis said in his statement that he will be asking the School Board and School Board attorney to obtain a legal opinion from the Florida Attorney General’s office to resolve the conflict with the county.

Michael Ryan, Volusia

County director of Community Information, said in a statement to the Observer that neither Seis nor VCS Superintendent Carmen Balgobin attended the Nov. 7 meeting.

“The Volusia County Council strongly felt the additional school resource officers should be funded by the school district and voted unanimously to respect the agreements the district has with the cities that agreed to financially contribute to the service,” Ryan said. “Unfortunately, neither Mr. Seis, the school district’s chief financial officer, nor the superintendent chose to attend the County Council meeting and no one representing the school district could adequately answer questions regarding the school district’s financial deficit and funding obligation to account for student safety.”

Seis was attending the Florida School Finance Officers Association conference.

The County Council cited two main reasons for denying funding: First, that the request came too late after the budget process; and second, that VCS, the council argued, had enough money in its budget reserves to cover the cost of additional school resource deputies.

Seis said the safety of Volusia County children “is a continuous priority and cannot be confined within fiscal calendars or organizational boundaries.”

“These additional funding requests after the approval of the annual budget are normal operating procedures for any organization that meticulously plans for contingencies within their budgets while maintaining a reserve fund balance,” Seis said. “I question why Volusia County even bothered budgeting a General Fund Reserve called ‘Address unexpected one-time priority expenditures’ of $3.3 million? So, suggesting that accommodating our request is unfeasible due to timing blatantly ignores the wellestablished fiscal practice of planning for unexpected needs and is without merit.”

He also criticized County Councilman Troy Kent’s suggestion to use state-issued dollars from the Florida Education Finance Programs to

fund the additional school resource deputies.

“His background in educational leadership should have educated him that these funds are strictly for educational purposes,” Seis said. “Such a proposal, no matter how serious, not only undermines his experience but also misrepresents the legal constraints governing school finances.”

In response, Kent told the Observer in a statement that he lives “by the sentiment that actions speak louder than words.”

“The Volusia County School District Chief Financial Officer Todd Seis talks about how important school safety is to him, yet, he nor Superintendent Balgobin were in attendance at the Nov. 7 County

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Council meeting,” Kent said.

“What was more important than the safety of our children? Mr. Seis was attending a conference, one that he attends twice a year.”

He also said that he asked the school district to use unassigned general fund reserves to fund the additional school resource deputies, not to use FEFP funds.

“As the District 4 representative, I have high expectations when anyone comes before the council asking for your hard-earned tax dollars,” he said. “I was disappointed for the school district when I watched their presentation that was riddled with mistakes that the school district and Chief Financial Officer Todd Seis created.”

Kent added that he stands by his and his fellow councilmen’s unanimous decision to deny the funding.

“We all want safe schools, just as we want safe streets and safe neighborhoods,” he said. “The question is, ‘Whose duty is it to pay for this safety?’ In the case of schools, if the state Legislature wanted county government to pay for a certain percentage of school security costs, it very easily could have decided as much.

I hope anyone who reads the statute cited in this statement understands the differences in definition of the words ‘may’ and ‘shall,’ because Chief Financial Officer Todd Seis clearly does not.”

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LETTERS Utility rate hike unfair to current residents Dear Editor: I read in the Observer, Nov. 16, 2023, about the utility study and how we, the residents of Palm Coast, will be charged an (estimated) 18% increase in our utility bills because of all the new development the City Council has approved/ allowed.

Now, does that make sense to anyone? When the Council approved all the new development, did they take into consideration the impact on our current facilities, or did they just think, “The residents will pay for it.”

This article also stated the “average single-family home in Palm Coast has a monthly bill of $71.09.”

I would like to meet that family to ask how they could have such a low bill. I do not know anyone who pays less than $100. I wonder if those families are, in fact, snowbirds and only live in Palm Coast for half a year.

The new proposed “Life Line” tier: “48% of the homes in Palm Coast use less than 2,000 gallons”? I know several single-person homes, and none of them have used less than 2,000 gallons per month.

Couldn’t the city consider raising that amount and take into consideration the number of seniors living on fixed incomes? Perhaps the City Council would prefer we all not

bathe or wash our clothes regularly.

I was glad to read the council members in attendance at this particular meeting “were hesitant to voice approval for the increase,” and I hope they continue to think that way. It is time, past time, for the council to think about what is best for the current residents of Palm Coast, not the ones that may move here in the future.

LINDA HAUANIO Palm Coast

District was right to keep the Bible in schools Dear Editor: As I work in my flower garden, I separate the weeds from the gardenias and geraniums. I’ve noticed the produce manager evaluating fruits and vegetables for sales quality. Because of reliable experience, often we’ve re-purchased a certain brand of vehicle.

Isn’t it wonderful to live in a country that gives us personal choices? Sometimes those choices are made for us.

We also have the personal choice of accepting the Bible as a book of history, as the word of God, or rejecting it as a non-believer. But using the argument to compare it to graphic sexual exploitation and discrimination is beyond the pale.

Many have read the Bible cover to cover and found it to be a message to honor everyone, a story of second, third, and fourth chances

CRIME REPORT Man arrested in road rage incident over tossed coffee A Nov. 18 road rage incident ended with a Palm Coast man arrested on three felony charges.

Flagler County Sheriff’s Office deputies have arrested Donavan Matthews, 36. The incident started when Matthews was arguing with a man and woman in a white pickup truck at the Chick-fil-A on Palm Coast Parkway, according to Matthews’ arrest report.

The woman in the truck threw her cold cup of coffee at Matthews’ SUV. The coffee passed through the open window and hit Matthews. Matthews

followed the truck to Palm Coast Parkway and rammed his SUV into the back of the truck, the report said.

The couple pulled behind a Walgreens to check the damage, and Matthews followed, getting out of his car and trying to punch the woman.

The man and Matthews began to fight and fell to the ground, with Matthews repeatedly the victim in the face. The woman got an unloaded rifle from the truck, and began to kick and punch Matthews.

Matthews has been charged with felony criminal mischief, two felony counts of aggravated battery and misdemeanor assault and battery.

A battery charge is being filed on the woman for throwing the coffee.

in life, a history of humans with human frailties that lived a human life, were tempted and paid the price. But with faith, they were given hope and redemption.

Lessons taught thousands of years ago are as vital today in our schools as they were 57 B.C. Thank goodness for the courage of our school leader to stay the course instead of political correction. In God We Trust.

PHIL YOUTZ Palm Coast

Let’s fix Belle Terre/100 intersection to save a life Dear Editor: I would like to reference the article in last week’s Observer (Nov. 2 I believe) where students of Flagler Palm Coast High School met with Sheriff Rick Staly to discuss the intersection of Belle Terre Parkway and State Road 100.

The senior’s concern was over the danger posed when students attempt to cross the intersection going to and from the high school.

However (I believe) Sheriff Staly stated local authorities have no jurisdiction over traffic concerns; it’s a state issue.

I live in Cypress Knoll and frequently use that intersection. I have seen students and others trying to cross there with great difficulty because cars take a right on red when the walk signal is white.

People cross when the walk signal

STATE NEWS Law would penalize college students who ‘promote’ Hamas Senate and House Republicans on Nov. 15 filed identical bills that could financially penalize state university and college students who back “foreign terrorist” organizations, such as Hamas.

Sen. Blaise Ingoglia, R-Spring Hill, and Rep. John Temple, R-Wildwood, filed the proposals (SB 470 and HB 465) for consideration in the 2024 session, which starts in January.

is white for them, and cars approach the intersection believing their path is clear to take a right on red when actually someone is beginning their crossing on the other side of the street. This is exacerbated when cars at the light stop beyond the white stop lines, limiting the visibility of people crossing from the other side.

Just the other day, I saw a car approach from S.R. 100, traveling west, turning right on Belle Terre, and a student on his bike was legally crossing the intersection on S.R. 100 traveling east. The boy was hurrying across the lanes of traffic to make the white crossing light in time, and the oncoming car proceeded with his right turn when he and the boy almost collided, avoiding a tragedy. And this is not the only time I’ve seen this.

The students have a legitimate concern. A possible solution would be to delay the “green right turn signal” until the white cross light turns red, and include signage stating, “RIGHT TURN ON GREEN ARROW ONLY.” This would prevent any traffic from moving while pedestrians are crossing.

Let’s save a life before it’s too late.

DIANA SALERNO Palm Coast

Send letters of up to 400 words to Managing Editor Jonathan Simmons at jonathan@observerocalnews. com. Editor may alter the letter for length or clarity.

The bills came amid a nationwide debate about support on college campuses for Hamas, which triggered the war by attacking Israel on Oct. 7. The bills would seek to penalize any student who “promotes a foreign terrorist organization.”

For example, the bills call for such students to be required to pay out-of-state tuition rates, which are higher than in-state rates. Also, the bills would prevent the students from being eligible for such things as state grants, financial aid or tuition assistance.

The bills provide a definition for foreign terrorist organizations that, in part, would apply to “Hamas and Palestine Islamic Jihad.” They do not define the word “promotes.”

PALM COAST

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Scenes of grief and gratitude Vacation-turned-funeral? Life isn’t like the movies. But holidays happen whether your head is in them or not.

MIKE CAVALIERE CONTRIBUTING WRITER

She didn’t even clutch her arm. In the movies, they always clutch their left arm before a heart attack. They paw at their chest. They huff, “I need to sit down.”

These are the warning signs.

A body blurs by: “Call 911!” it screams to another off camera. The sick one — let’s call her “Grandma” — stays awake in time for the ambulance. A gurney slams through double doors, often with a doctor riding atop it on her knees, boogie board-style, yelling, “Don’t you die on me!” Grandma holds on, held together by tubes and extra time. A nurse checks in: “You’re lucky to be

alive.” Everyone breathes a sigh of relief.

This is how it’s supposed to go.

But life isn’t like the movies.

My grandma died on her birthday, two hours after I arrived for a weeklong family reunion we organized in Tennessee to celebrate her life.

Without warning, she went limp in a rocking chair.

“Mom?!” a voice panicked. “Is she dead?!” “Somebody help her!”

Her grandchildren, both frontline workers, started pumping chest compressions. “What’s our address?” her son yelled into the chaos, a phone pressed against his ear. “The address of the cabin!”

This is when the paramedics were supposed to save the day. We drove an hour through empty tourist towns, past digital billboards that cast static toward the stars, to reach the nearest hospital. This is when everything was supposed to be all right.

But life isn’t like the movies — it’s more sloppily scripted, which we learned the next day, when a call

came in that my wife’s grandma died, too, a few states north of the mountains we suddenly felt trapped in.

Narratively, one death is tragic.

Two is just lazy. Any editor will tell you.

Then, like always, it was November. *** I blame Urkel.

Every Thanksgiving, inevitably, someone in my family decides to pretend we’re in a ’90s sitcom.

The food is served and that’s when they strike — insisting that, before we eat, we first allow the food to go ice-cold while we take turns announcing what we’re thankful for.

As you can imagine, this makes for a “very special” holiday episode in the Cavaliere home.

“Ugh, really?” I always complain, ever-embarrassed by this kind of performative sincerity — by PDA in all forms (Public Displays of Authenticity).

“Who, me?” fans of this ritual light up when it’s their turn to speak, transformed before my eyes

into mindfulness masters. “Why, I’m grateful for the very air we breathe, of course! For hydrogen, and while we’re at it, oxygen — two parts’ worth.”

“I’ll be thankful to get this over with,” I say, instead, too cool for gratitude, too bitter, or maybe too sad. “Thankful for this second glass of wine.”

This is a character flaw, I know.

I’ve never been a joiner. If tradition is a team sport, I’ve always preferred to ride the pine, safe in knowing that you can’t be hurt or wrong or fail if you just refuse to take the field.

But holidays happen whether your head is in them or not. The decorations go up and so, at times, do our spirits, even as the heat from traumatic summers lend morbid meaning to the fall foliage.

This is how it’s supposed to go.

“I’m thankful for new beginnings,” I might say when my turn comes around this year. “For memories, because even the worst ones, in moments, if we’re lucky, can be teachers. For each of us, right now, being OK.” But life isn’t like the movies, so I’ll probably just roll my eyes and say something snarky, instead.

Mike Cavaliere is the author of The Humorist: Adventures in Adulting & Horror Movies, available now.

PETS UP FOR ADOPTION The Flagler Humane Society is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at 1 Shelter Drive in Palm Coast.

Adoption fees vary based on the animal, and the shelter has both dogs and cats up for adoption.

Anyone who is interested in adopting or has questions about the process can contact the Flagler Humane Society at 386-445-1814 or apply online at flaglerhumanesociety.org.

Max, 8, is a sweet male. He was rescued from a cruelty case and has been at the shelter since October 2022.

Versace is a 2-year-old female tortoiseshell cat who was found as a stray in June.

Creed, 2, was surrendered Oct. 22.

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 Branch of military: U.S. Navy  Dates of service: 2017-2023  Rank/occupation: etty Officer 3rd Class/Field Medical Service Technician  Hometown: Palm Coast, Florida Bryce Bilyeu is a Flagler Palm Coast High School graduate. After graduation, he entered military service and was trained as a Navy corpsman assigned to 1st Battalion, 8th Marines, United States Marine Corps. He is a combat veteran of the war in Afghanistan and earned the Combat Action Ribbon for his actions on Aug. 17, 2021, when his unit came under enemy attack from a nearby stronghold while he was performing security with his unit at Hamid Karzai International Airport, Kabul, Afghanistan. Bilyeu received small-arms fire within 10-20 meters of his position, and, while in great danger to his own life, maneuvered to maintain a secure perimeter and remained in place to protect noncombatant evacuees and provide medical aid to casualties. Bilyeu was honorably discharged on Nov. 13, 2023, and returned to Flagler County. He was additionally awarded the Afghanistan Campaign Medal, Global War on Terror Expeditionary Medal, Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, Humanitarian Service Medal, Flag Letter of Commendation, Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal, NATO Medal, National Defense Service Medal, and a Presidential Unit Citation.

NEED HELP WITH VETERAN SERVICES? For information about benefits and support organizations for veterans, call 386-313-4014.

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THE OBSERVER | THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2023

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ERAU STEM Outreach poses with Cub Scout Pack 327 and Temple Beth-El in Ormond.

Embry-Riddle clubs help Ormond Cub Scouts learn about STEM The initiative was started in 2022, and the clubs hope to hold an event annually.

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The STEM Outreach at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University hosted a night of learning with Ormond Beach Cub Scouts Pack 327 on Nov. 6.

The STEM night initiative was held for the first time in 2022. Claudia Ehringer Lucas, faculty adviser of STEM Outreach at ERAU, said in a statement to the Observer that the club plans to keep the partnership to do an event every year.

“Education is the foundation of our future,” Ehringer Lucas said.

“We need to grow children’s knowledge, understanding and curiosity using the STEM education. I love to share my enthusiasm for science, technology, engineering and mathematics in both informal and formal educational opportunities to promote what I enjoy and love to do.”

The STEM night featured three stations: balloon cars, a water rocket and one with books about STEM, Boeing plane models and 3D Space Mission puzzles from National Geographic. The materials for the third station were donated to the STEM Outreach club by Gregory Rutbell, an industrial engineer at Boeing Co. The STEM Outreach club aims to mentor local K-12 students through

Bear Cub Daniel Lucas works on a Curiosity Rover 3-D puzzle.

community outreach and instruction in the areas of science, technology, engineering and math, according to its mission statement.

“By participating in STEM activities, our scouts are learning to think

Wolf Cub Jacob Frankel holds a Boeing 777x model.

scientifically and creatively while having fun in the process,” Pack 327 Cubmaster Laurence Namdar said.

“Each scout had the opportunity to walk away with more knowledge as well as scientific handicrafts that they built.”

Though parents and educators thank the club for hosting STEM events, Philomena Gann, president

Photos courtesy of Colin Daily

of STEM Outreach at ERAU, said the real reward lies elsewhere.

“Teaching kids about STEM is about receiving something far more valuable than praise — the immeasurable enrichment that comes from nurturing young minds and witnessing the spark of curiosity light up their world,” Gann said.

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house in Hammock Dunes was the top real estate transaction for Oct. 5-11 in Palm Coast and Flagler County. Stephanie Susetka, as trustee, sold 6 San Gabriel Lane to Michael and Denise Schubiger, of Celebration, for $1,425,000. Built in 2001, the house is a 4/3.5 and has a fireplace, a pool, a hot tub and 3,690 square feet. It sold in 2008 for $880,000.

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Belle Terre Carlos Sousa, Rosa Sousa, David Sousa and Michael Sousa, of Attleboro, Massachusetts, sold 8 Prescott Lane to Yuriersy Aguila Lorenzo, of Palm Coast, for $280,000. Built in 1999, the house is a 3.2 and has 1,192 square feet. It sold in 2022 for $290,000.

Country Club Cove Rebecca Cappetta, of Palm Coast, sold 7 Cooper Court to Michelle Gurrera and Anthony Robert Gurrera, Jr., of West Islip, New York, for $385,000. Built in 1972, the house is a 4/2 and has 1,639 square feet. It sold in 2018 for $180,000.

Cypress Knoll Jeffrey Colten and Kyle Jeanne Colten, of Wilbraham, Massachusetts, sold 33 Ethan Allen Drive to Gavin Paul Brettenny and Beverley Brettenny, of Palm Coast, for $504,900. Built in 2020, the house is a 4/2 and has a pool and 2,045 square feet. It sold in 2020 for $280,000.

Matanzas Lakes Seagate Homes, LLC, of Palm Coast, sold 14 Matanzas Lakes Drive to Thomas and Deborah Seale, of Palm Coast, for $428,300. Built in 2023, the house is a 3/2 and has 2,025 square feet.

Not in a subdivision Caspian Performance Group, LLC, of Orlando, sold 48 Rose Drive to Kevin and Gay Dameron, of Palm Coast, for $364,800. Built in 2023, the house is a 3/2 and has 1,555 square feet.

Palm Harbor Daniel and Carol Rohr, as trustees, sold 80 Cochise Court to Norman and Jennifer Westbrook, of Palm Coast, for $750,000. Built in 1996, the house is a 3/3 and has a pool, a boat house, a boat lift, a dock and 2,335 square feet. It sold in 2004 for $431,000.

Pine Grove Rebecca Wright and Joshua Cummings, of Palm Coast, sold 10 Pine Cottage Lane to Michael and Carolyn Busch, of Orton Ontario, California, for $325,000. Built in 2021,

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OCT. 5 - OCT. 11 the house is a 3/2 and has 1,680 square feet. It sold in 2022 for $332,900.

Holiday Builders, LLC, of Melbourne, sold 11 Pine Cedar Drive to Laurel Clark Jones, of Palm Coast, for $310,000. Built in 2023, the house is a 3/2 and has 1,552 square feet.

Pine Lakes Sally Ann Connelly, of Palm Coast, sold 126 White Hall Drive to Top Chea, of Palm Coast, for $285,000. Built in 1995, the house is a 3/2 and has 2,242 square feet. It sold in 2003 for $180,000.

Sawmill Branch D.R. Horton, Inc., of St. Johns, sold 21 Summerwood Road S. to Kenneth Mucha and Deborah Serafine, of Palm Coast, for $317,000.

Built in 2023, the house is a 4/2 and has 1,862 square feet.

Seminole Woods Ronald Recker, of St. Louis, Missouri, sold 47 Slipper Trail to J’Anne Deana Linsler, of Palm Coast, for $285,000.

Built in 2006, the house is a 4/2 and has 1,400 square feet. It sold in 2006 for $223,200.

Gary Lee McCullough and Shelly McCullough, of Labelle, sold 52 Slocum Path to Steven and Cathy Mangano, of Palm Coast, for $326,000. Built in 1994, the house is a 2/1.5 and has a pool and 1,032 square feet. It sold in 2020 for $174,000.

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

Plantation Pines home tops sales list in Ormond

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house in Plantation Pines was the top real estate transaction for Oct. 8-14 in Ormond Beach and Ormond-by-the-Sea. Jennifer and Kirk Chung, of Daytona Beach, sold 370 Evergreen Lane to Sherri Lynn Pinkerton and Albert Pinkerton, of Ormond Beach, for $744,900. Built in 2004, the house is a 5/3 and has a fireplace, a pool and 3,003 square feet.

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Condos Garath Signorelli, of Ormond Beach, sold 640 North Nova Road, Unit 303, to Michael Fanning, of Ormond Beach, for $145,000. Built in 1976, the condo is a 2/2 and has 932 square feet. It sold in 2016 for $72,000.

Michael Terence Gleaves, of Deland, sold 200 Lemon Tree Lane, Unit B, to Paula Pascoa, of Ormond Beach, for $240,000. Built in 1984, the condo is a 3/3 and has a fireplace and 1,617 square feet. It sold in 2019 for $185,000.

Mary Lenz Fox and Phillip Arthur Fox, of Ormond Beach, sold 1183 Ocean Shore Blvd., Unit 6010, to Lyle and Christine Wollbrink, of Sutter, Illinois, for $460,000. Built in 1995, the condo is a 2/2 and has 1,198 square feet. It sold in 2021 for $390,000.

ORMOND BEACH Chelsea Place Craig Harner and Kathy

Fiscus Harner, of Montgomery, Indiana, sold 425 Chelsea Place Ave. to Thomas and Anne McCarthy, of Ormond Beach, for $519,900. Built in 2017, the house is a 3/2 and has a pool and 1,762 square feet. It sold in 2021 for $428,000.

Halifax Plantation D.R. Horton, Inc., of Orlando, sold 1317 Middle Lake Drive to Cody Alyn Collins and Erin Stewart Crimmins, of Ormond Beach, for $449,500. Built in 2023, the house is a 5/3 and has 2,601 square feet.

D.R. Horton, Inc., of Orlando, sold 1353 Cork Drive to Brian John Rayburn and Dana Reid Prough Rayburn, of Ormond Beach, for $369,000. Built in 2023, the house is a 3/2 and has 1,614 square feet.

Hammock Trace Ryan and Rachel Mosher, of Ormond Beach, sold 106 Roble Lane to Emin Cay, of Ormond Beach, for $525,000.

Built in 1987, the house is a 3/2.5 and has a fireplace, a pool, a hot tub and 2,224

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OCT. 8 - OCT. 14 square feet. It sold in 2011 for $214,000.

Hunters Ridge Ricardo and Lexxie Shelton, of Ormond Beach, sold 48 Pergola Place to Michele Malit, of Debary, for $410,000. Built in 2012, the house is a 3/2.5 and has 2,420 square feet. It sold in 2021 for $289,500.

Saddlers Run Sherri Lynn Pinkerton and Albert Pinkerton, of Ormond Beach, sold 51 Saddlers Run to Kirstan Elizabeth Jones and Jon-Michael Joseph Smith, of Ormond Beach, for $440,000. Built in 2004, the house is a 3/2 and has a pool and 1,956 square feet. It sold in 2004 for $46,100.

ORMOND BY THE SEA River Breeze Estates Barbara Belletini Fields, as trustee, sold 1214 Riverbreeze Blvd. to James and Jolene Irwin, as trustees, for $375,000. Built in 1956, the house is a 2/2 and has 1,276 square feet. It sold in 2005 for $240,000.

Seaside Homes Barry and Dawn Krikke, of Jacksonville, sold 59 Seaside Drive to Karen McDonald and Jolann Simciak, of Ormond Beach, for $355,000. Built in 1959, the house is a 2/2 and has 1,204 square feet. It sold in 2022 for $320,000.

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

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YOUR NEIGHBORS LOCAL EVENTS FRIDAY, NOV. 24

LEGEND 2 LEGEND: THE MUSIC OF BILLY JOEL AND ELTON JOHN When: 7-9:30 p.m.

Where: Flagler Auditorium, 5500 E. Highway 100, Palm Coast Details: Flagler Auditorium is bringing two tribute bands together for one special night.

Turnstiles, a tribute to Billy Joel and Greggie; and the Jets, an Elton John Tribute band; will come face to face, band to band. Tickets start at $54. Visit flaglerauditorium. org.

SUNDAY, NOV. 26

Courtesy photos by Monica Mitry, of MoMo Photography LLC

The Flagler County Education Foundation team: Maryiotti Johnson, Samantha Adams, Stephanie Ellis, Teresa Rizzo and Selina Hernandez — and Carla Cline dressed as a squirrel.

Willy style

SATURDAY, DEC. 2

Stephanie Ellis; Flagler County Commissioner Andy Dance and his wife, Luci Dance; and Lacy Martin.

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hocolate wasn’t exactly in the air, but it was on every table and in a fountain, as the Flagler County Education Foundation hosted the annual Josh Crews Gala on Nov. 17, at Palm Coast’s Town Center, with a Willy Wonka theme.

The event raised more than $50,000 for the Josh Crews Writing Project, which encourages and publishes creative writers in Flagler Schools.

The anthology’s book launch will be April 11.

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‘¡PLEIBOL! IN THE BARRIOS AND THE BIG LEAGUE’ EXHIBITION SOFT OPENING When: 1:30 p.m.

Where: The African American Cultural Center and Museum of Florida, 4422 N. U.S. Highway 1, Palm Coast Details: The history and culture of Latinos and their impact on American culture and society through the lens of baseball will be shared in this new bilingual exhibition by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service.

Though the exhibition will be on display through Feb. 25, a soft opening ceremony with a ribbon-cutting will be held on Nov. 26. Free admission. Visit aacspalmcoast.org.

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COMMUNITY YARD SALE When: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Where: Hidden Trails Park and Community Center, 6108 Mahogany Blvd., Bunnell Details: Hidden Treasures at Hidden Trails is having its seventh event featuring individual participants selling goods, small business vendors and local social agencies. Space costs $5 per vendor, with the exception for social agencies and nonprofits. There will also be food and beverages for sale, as well as live music etc.

Call Pamela Andrews at 386295-0611 to reserve space.

SUNDAY, DEC. 3

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HAPPY WANDERERS PALM COAST When: 12:30-3 p.m.

Where: Palm Coast Publix parking, 250 Palm Coast Parkway NE, Palm Coast Details: The Happy Wanderers are hosting a 5K/10K walk. Meet at the Palm Coast Publix parking area and park at Hobby Lobby. Registration begins at 12:30 p.m., and the walk at 1 p.m. Cost is $3.

Come walk with friends or meet some new friends. Maps will be provided if you’re walking on your own.

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EXERCISES FOR THE MATURING BODY When: 10:30 a.m. Mondays and Thursdays Where: First Baptist Church of Palm Coast, 6050 Palm Coast Parkway, Palm Coast Details: Attend upbeat classes presented by Synergy Senior Fitness and taught by Senior Fitness Specialist Artie Gardella. Classes are ongoing.

Insurances that cover fitness accepted, or a donation for those with no coverage. Visit Synergyseniorfitness.com.

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Flagler County School Board member Christy Chong and her husband, Kirk

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THE OBSERVER | THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Team Feed Flagler with the Winn-Dixie employees who helped ring up and load the Thanksgiving Day groceries.

Photos by Sierra Williams

Team Feed Flagler distributes food for over 1,000 Thanksgiving meals Three local churches host hot, sitdown meals for Thanksgiving.

SIERRA WILLIAMS STAFF WRITER

As Grace Community Food Pantry’s Team Feed Flagler prepared for its annual Thanksgiving Day meal donations, Winn-Dixie surprised the team by donating 170 turkeys to the pantry, Food Pantry Coordinator Dottie Colletta said.

“One hundred and seventy turkeys they just gave us. Gave us,” Colletta said. “It was unbelievable. God was just moving around.”

This is Feed Flagler’s 15th year organizing food for local churches to cook hot Thanksgiving Day meals. This year, the team is working with churches to distribute food for more than 1,000 Thanksgiving meals.

At 8 a.m. on Nov. 17, in the pouring rain, Colletta and volunteers showed up at Winn-Dixie at 1260 Palm Coast Parkway NE to buy the food — dinner rolls, potatoes, gravy, green beans and pies for dessert.

Feed Flagler spent around $2,000 that morning on the food alone, Colletta said, and that was after a discount from Winn-Dixie.

Team Feed Flagler has purchased food for the Thanks-

giving Day meals at WinnDixie since the pandemic in 2020 shut down the pantry’s annual food drive.

Colletta said her team of volunteers begins preparing for the Thanksgiving meals in May, even as, throughout the year, Grace Food Pantry continues to hand out food every weekend to families in need.

“The need never stops,” she said. “This team here — I wouldn’t be able to do it [without them].”

Winn-Dixie store manager Bob Storms said he has been working with the pantry each year since the pandemic to organize the food orders. Normally the store orders the turkey, but this year, Storms said, the company said it wouldn’t be able to fill any large orders because of high demand.

“Then, at the last minute, they were able to get them just in time for [Team Feed Flagler], so we were happy to see that work out,” he said.

Storms said there are a lot of unfortunate people out there on hard times. He said he’s honored to work with a company that sees the need to help the local community.

“Anytime, as a community, we can help each other — it’s just people taking care of people,” he said. “I think that is a great thing we can do.”

The grocery chain also donated $6,500 to Feed Flagler earlier in the year, Colletta said, and helped the pantry arrange gift cards. Colletta has 1,087 $40 gift cards for families to use to buy groceries.

Santa Maria Del Mar Catholic Church and Hammock First Baptist Church each hosted Thanksgiving dinners from 3-6 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 22.

First United Methodist Church in Bunnell will serve Thanksgiving Day meals from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 23. Palm Coast United Methodist Church will serve takeout-only meals at the same time.

Volunteer Deborah Snedeker said that Feed Flagler would like to serve even more people if other churches or nonprofit organizations join in next year.

“The more, the merrier,” Snedeker said. “There’s a lot of people in Flagler County on fixed income, a lot of retired people.”

The sit-down meals at the churches will not just be paper plates, either.

“When we say a sit-down dinner, we mean table clothes, real silverware,” she said. “It’s done very nicely. … [People] feel welcome. They feel like it’s a family thing.”

Larry Dieter helps unload groceries.

Mark Foust (left), with Flagler County Senior Services, helps John Cospito (right) with Santa Maria del Mar Catholic Church, load turkeys into the bed of the truck.

Diane Dieter double checks how much of each food item is going to each of the four churches.

Deborah Snedeker, a volunteer with Team Feed Flagler, double checks how much food will go to each church.

Winn-Dixie employees and Team Feed Flagler volunteers load groceries.

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Center stage: Ormond Ballet students take on prominent roles in ‘The Nutcracker’ Ormond Ballet prides itself as a dance training center.

JARLEENE ALMENAS MANAGING EDITOR

For Dallas Kinsley and Eliza Dent, performing has always been the highlight of spending hours upon hours in the dance studio.

This weekend, the high school seniors will be up front and center at The Coliseum in Daytona Beach for Ormond Ballet’s production of “The Nutcracker,” premiering at 7 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 17. Ormond Ballet, which prides itself as a dance training center, is presenting four performances of the traditional Christmas ballet. “The Nutcracker” tells the story of Clara Stahlbaum, a girl who is just coming of age and receives a nutcracker from her mysterious Uncle Drosselmeyer.

Ormond Ballet is telling the story through both classical and contemporary choreography, including a grand pas de deux featuring the Sugar Plum Fairy and her Cavalier.

Kinsley, 18, is playing Uncle Drosselmeyer, and Dent, 17, is playing the role of the Sugar Plum Fairy. Both are ready to step into their roles. They have each been dancing since they were 3 years old.

“Acting is a very fun thing for me,” said Kinsley, a homeschooled student. “It’s always been great to become a character and really use your movement to tell a story.”

You can bring out any kind of emotion through dance, Dent added, which she said is fun to do for audiences.

“I think being able to step into a whole new persona, it really is entirely separate from anything you could be doing already,” said Dent, who attends Seabreeze High School.

“Once the moment starts, you’re set to be your character.”

Ormond Ballet Artistic Director Michelle Boutros said Kinsley and Dent are both “extremely hard workers” and have been since she first met them when they were around 12 years

old at another ballet studio.

“They’re really some of the best students I’ve ever taught,” Boutros said. “They’re very receptive.

They’re easy to correct. They absorb everything that I give them.”

Teaching students like Kinsley and Dent is not only a pleasure, Boutros said, but it inspires her as a teacher too.

Kinsley said Boutros tells them things like that a lot to help keep them motivated, and it feels good.

“I’ve struggled with hearing that kind of stuff, never believed in myself, but it’s definitely helping,” Kinsley said.

Boutros said she aims to focus a lot on her students’ mental health. They have a group chat called “Mindfulness Self-Care Queens” where she sends them motivational quotes, jokes and dance techniques. It’s important to her that her dancers feel like they’re in a safe space even as they’re pushed to improve their dancing.

When it came to “The Nutcracker,” Boutros knew that she wanted to cast Kinsley in a unique role. Drosselmeyer is typically played by a man, but Kinsley is one of the studio’s best dancers, and as a senior this year, Boutros wanted to feature her.

Dent playing the Sugar Plum Fairy was a natural fit.

“I’m sure everyone was like, ‘Oh Eliza is going to be Sugar Plum Fairy,’” Boutros said. “I don’t think that was a big surprise.”

“We all knew,” Kinsley said with a smile.

Dent said one of the challenges of playing an iconic ballet character is the pressure to make that part stand out for audiences.

“They have more expectations for the more well-known parts,” she said.

Two years ago Ormond Ballet presented a contemporary piece called “The Gathering,” an original work

by Boutros. The artistic director said it was a mature piece, and watching Dent dance in it made an impression.

“That was one of the first times I was like, ‘Oh, she’s going somewhere,’” she said.

After graduating high school, both

Photo by Jarleene Almenas

Dallas Kinsley and Eliza Dent starred as Drosselmeyer and the Sugar Plum Fairy in Ormond Ballet’s “The Nutcracker.”

girls hope to dance professionally — Dent with a ballet company, and Kinsley with a contemporary dance company.

Both Kinsley and Dent “are in it to win it,” Boutros said. Ormond Ballet is in its third season now, and one

day, Boutros hopes to start a ballet company under the name.

With 65 students, one of Boutros’ goals is that beyond dance, they are a “leadership academy.”

“I really love the change in the students,” she said. “When you have

that consistent training, and not just technical training but the expectations of your teachers and your directors — when it’s consistent ... it creates that safe space that I mentioned,” Boutros said. “So then they improve so much faster.”

Don’t let hearing loss ruin your holidays!

Every year around this time, the phone in our hearing center starts to ring with people calling. Sometimes it’s a frustrated patient, who has been sitting at the Thanksgiving table missing everything their grandchild has said or missed the punchline and said the wrong thing in front of their in-laws.

Sometimes, it’s the adult child, who lives in another state and has come home for the festivities and suddenly notices their mother isn’t responding when they call her from

across the room. The holidays are a time full of love, special moments... and lots and lots of noisy social situations! Noisy environments are

one of the most difficult situations to hear in, even if you have normal hearing. The holidays mean we are out and about more, going to parties, shopping at bustling stores, and interacting with people we don’t see very often. All of those situations can bring to light a hearing loss that may have previously gone undetected, and also bring home the emotional toll of not being able to communicate with the special people in our lives. At best, hearing loss will cause some uncomfortable moments and at worst, it will alienate you from your family. You aren’t alone! Thirty to thirty-five percent of adults between the ages of 65 and 75 years of age suffer from hearing loss, and forty to fifty percent of adults 75 and older suffer from hearing loss. People with untreated hearing loss (those with hearing loss who do not wear hearing aids) experience a decreased quality of life. Untreated hearing loss has been linked to issues such as sadness, depression, anxiety, paranoia, cognitive decline, and poor social relationships. One way of treating age-related hearing loss is with hearing aids. Today’s hearing aids are digital microcomputers that can automatically adjust to sound thousands of times per second, making speech comfortable and natural sounding. Hearing aids can improve communication with family, friends, and co-workers, which can help maintain a high quality of life.

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THE FINE ARTS

MATANZAS INLET Palm Coast artist Ray Brilli is one of over 100 fine artists and crafters who will participate in the Holiday Arts on the Halifax River juried art festival, to be held on Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 9 and 10, at Sunrise Park in Holly Hill.

Produced by Dr. Pam Fieldus and Pat Masotti-

Abernathy, the founders of Helping Hands Thru Arts, the festival will raise money to benefit the Holly Hill School and UBIC Academy and the Rossmeyer Family Holly Hill Boys and Girls Club.

Brilli also created the branding image for the festival.

His artwork, such as the piece pictured here, often depicts local landmarks through his impressionistic style.

Visit HollyHillArtsFestival.com to learn more about the festival.

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SPORTS

Dream come true Matanzas golfer Alexandra Gazzoli signs with Florida State University.

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Alexandra Gazzoli had time to kill on Nov. 8 before the start of her second round in the Class 2A state high school golf championships, so she signed her letter of intent to play golf at Florida State University.

Matanzas High School held a signing ceremony for Gazzoli on Nov. 15 in the gym lobby. Her family, teammates and coaches celebrated the culmination of Gazzoli’s lifelong dream.

“It’s something she’s wanted for years and years and years,” said her father, Robert Gazzoli.

Alexandra’s father and her brothers, Christian and Blaine, all graduated from Florida State.

“I remember the first (FSU) football game I went to, I was like 8 or something,” Alexandra said. “So, I’ve been a fan my whole life, and I’ve always been around people who are fans. So, I pretty much always wanted to go there.”

FSU women’s golf coach Amy Bond said in a signing day story on the school’s athletic website that she was excited to sign Gazzoli.

“This is one of the most special recruiting moments of my career, as Florida State was Alexandra’s dream school,” Bond said. “She is the whole package; we cannot wait to have her on campus. She is extremely tal-

ented, and we are looking forward to watching her succeed. Not only will she be great on the golf course, but she will be an exceptional Seminole ambassador.”

Alexandra was not quite 8 when she began playing competitive golf and when Robert and Sheila Gazzoli hired Anne Cain, a master instructor with the PGA Tour Golf Academy at World Golf Village, to be their daughter’s swing coach. Cain has been working with her ever since as Gazzoli has moved up the junior golf ranks.

At 12, she qualified for the Drive, Chip and Putt National Finals at Augusta National. In high school, she has finished among the top four at the Class 2A state championships four years in a row. She won the state championship as a junior in 2022.

She won her first American Junior Golf Association tournament earlier that year. And this past summer, she won the Florida Women’s Amateur Stroke Play Championship.

“I kind of surprised myself when I won,” she said of the women’s amateur championship at TPC Treviso Bay in Naples. “I knew I was playing really well, but it was just kind of a great week. There was really just ups, there was no ups and downs.There were no negatives to that week.”

Gazzoli, whose home course is Hammock Dunes, has been playing golf since she was 2 years old.

“It was a family thing,” her mother, Sheila, said. “She was there and she just took to it,” Robert, who played golf at Flagler Palm Coast High School, started working with her and has continued

to practice with her ever since.

“Early on, we said, ‘She has some natural ability, and she likes to practice,’” Robert said. “Some days when she was young, we’d be out there six to eight hours.”

“My dad has always helped me,” Alexandra said. “Sometimes it goes by fast, sometimes not so much, but I enjoy practicing. I think it’s a lot of fun. I guess now I have more quality over quantity, so I think my practice schedule is getting a lot better over the years.”

She has always been a great ball striker and a strong competitor, Robert said.

Alexandra is a student at Florida Virtual School. She joined the Matanzas golf team partly for the social aspect, to be part of a team.

Matanzas girls golf coach Brandie Alred said Gazzoli could have easily just showed up for matches and practiced on her own, but she attended practices and became the team’s leader.

“I’ve gotten to see Alexandra grow as a person,” Alred said. “Just watching from her freshman year coming in, she was very shy, not really talking to anybody. And by the end, she was the absolute leader on this team.

Just to say, ‘You know what, I’m going to come play with people that may have just started playing golf, and I’m going to share my talent and do it in a humble way.’”

Gazzoli committed to Florida State a year ago. She took visits to other schools to keep an open mind, Robert said.

“It solidified her decision,” Sheila said, “that ultimately she wanted to

“I’m really happy with the decision I made. And I’m really grateful to be going there.”

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be in Tallahassee and play for Florida State.”

The Seminoles are one of four teams that have advanced to each of the last seven NCAA Women’s Championship Finals, finishing fifth the last two years.

“I’m really happy with the decision I made,” Gazzoli said. “And I’m really grateful to be going there. The facilities are amazing. The coaches and the rest of the team are really great, and overall they just always had a great program, making it to the national championship. And I would like to be able to be a part of that one day.”

Alexandra Gazzoli’s Matanzas High teammates and coach, Brandie Alred, celebrate her signing a letter of intent.

Former Pirate wrestlers join Matanzas coaching staff Josh and Caleb Bower bring college experience to the Pirates’ wrestling room.

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Josh and Caleb Bower never really left the Matanzas High School wrestling room.

The identical twins graduated from Matanzas in 2019 and went on to wrestle at Simpson College in Indianola, Iowa.

That summer, they were back in their high school wrestling room helping out.

“We always knew, whether it was Christmas or summer break, that Josh and Caleb would be in the room,” Matanzas wrestling coach T.J. Gillin said. “When they weren’t on their college campus, they were on our campus.”

Now, the Bower brothers are fulltime teachers and assistant wrestling coaches at their high school alma mater.

“Coming back here, we just drilled and coached and worked with all the kids,” Caleb said. “We kept in contact with T.J. through all four years of college. It just made sense that this was the next thing to do.”

Caleb teaches Algebra II. Josh is an ESE support facilitator. Neither of them majored in education.

Caleb majored in business and

minored in health and exercise science. Josh majored in both business management and health and exercise science.

They took tests the past two summers to acquire their teaching certifications.

“I enjoy coaching,” Josh said. “It’s actually a blast. “I thought it would be like a different adjustment, going from being the athlete to the coach, but I’ve enjoyed it a lot.”

Caleb and Josh are two additional coaches in the room with college wrestling experience.

At Simpson, they wrestled for coach Dylan Peters, who was a twotime All-American at the University of Northern Iowa.

They wrestled in the toughest Division III conference in the country.

“Iowa is a really dense wrestling state,” Caleb said. “I have a lot of experience wrestling all across Iowa.”

The brothers wrestled one weight class apart throughout their college careers.

Their freshman year, Caleb wrestled at 133, while Josh wrestled at 141.

Caleb eventually moved up to 149.

“One of us throughout the course of a season would be heavier or lighter,” Caleb said. “I would be bulking up or he’d be slimming down. We would just make it work, because it’s rough to go to a tournament and wrestle your brother.”

The Matanzas wrestling program has grown quite a bit since Josh and

“It’s night and day. When we were wrestling here it was hard to go to states. Our goal was to qualify for states. No one was really expecting to win or make the finals. But T.J. (Gillin) and (Mike) Fries have created an environment where they’re expecting kids to win states.”

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Josh and Caleb Bower pose in front of posters of the three Matanzas High state wrestling champs.

Caleb were in high school. Josh qualified twice for the state championships; Caleb qualified once.

When they were freshmen, the Pirates’ first female wrestler, Makayla Wilder, joined the program.

Last season, Matanzas won the girls state championship, and the girls squad enters the 2023-24 season nationally ranked.

Over the past two years, Matanzas

has had four girls and two boys finish among the top two in their weight class at state. Tiana Fries (2022) and Kendall Bibla (2023) won state titles.

“It’s night and day,” Josh said.

“When we were wrestling here it was hard to go to states. Our goal was to qualify for states. No one was really expecting to win or make the finals, because it was just so hard to do. But T.J. and (coach Mike) Fries

have created an environment where they’re expecting kids to win states.

They want a championship team.

They want to keep growing the program and really develop it. And part of that was bringing us on, because they’ve already had three or four college coaches in here, being able to wrestle with the kids and give them a college feel, preparing them for the next level.”

The boys and girls have separate teams, but they wrestle together.

Josh and Caleb drill with both.

The girls are more intense, they say.

“Our freshman year, it was hard for Mikayla to adjust because she was the only girl in the program,” Caleb said. “You come in now as a freshman girl, you’ll be welcomed with open arms and you’ll have the one of the best coaching staffs in the entire state.”

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ALRED TAKES OVER GIRLS LACROSSE TEAM

With her daughter on the team last year, Brandie Alred volunteered to be an assistant coach for the Matanzas girls lacrosse team. Having never coached or played lacrosse before, it was a learning experience for Alred.

She’ll find out this spring if she learned enough to be the head coach. Alred, who is also the girls golf coach, replaces Jeff Goren on the lacrosse sidelines. Goren stepped down.

She told athletic director Jordan Butler that she would take the job unless someone else came along.

No one did. But Alred got lucky in finding two assistant coaches with experience: former Matanzas lacrosse player Taylor Janse, and Matanzas teacher Gianna Burke who also played lacrosse in high school.

Alred said she is committing long term to the position, just as she had when she took over the golf team nine years ago.

“I had never coached golf before either,” she said. “I don’t want to coach lacrosse just (to have a team). I think we’ll be able to build the program.”

FPC runner finishes 11th in state finals Flagler Palm Coast junior Braedyn Wormeck placed 11th overall and was the second non-senior to cross the finish line in the Class 4A state boys cross country championship on Friday Nov. 18.

A week after running a personalrecord 15:46.9 at the regional meet, Wormeck ran a 15:48.4 at the state championship course at Apalachee Regional Park in Tallahassee.

“His 15:48 was a lot more impressive than the 15:46 on the regional course (at New World Sports Complex in Jacksonville), which is a flat course,” FPC coach David Halliday said. “His four best races were his last four races. We say you need to do it when it matters, and Braedyn takes that to heart. He was ninth in the region and 11th at state.”

Wormeck led FPC to a 15th-place finish in the Class 4A boys race at the state championships.

Matanzas placed 17th in the Class 3A girls race with senior Sierra Howard finishing 49th with her best time of the year at 20:13.7.

The first nine runners to finish the Class 4A boys race were seniors.

Sophomore Gino Palazzolo of Gainesville Buchholz was 10th with a time of 15:45.1 with Wormeck finishing next.

As one of the top 15 finishers, the FPC junior received first-team All-State honors. Wormeck actually received the 10th-place medal

File photo by Brent Woronoff

Sierra Howard paced Matanzas with a time of 20:13.7 in the Class 3A girls race.

SUPER DEBUT FOR FRESHMEN The high school basketball season hadn’t even started yet and Matanzas High School freshman Henry Robinson Jr. was already setting records.

The 6-foot-7 Robinson scored a school-record 54 points in a preseason game against Yulee on Nov. 17.

Rya’Sir Jefferson added 17 points in the Pirates’ 90-65 win. Robinson had 31 points at halftime. Matanzas opened its season on Monday, Nov. 20 at Jacksonville Mandarin.

BULLDOGS HEAD TO SUPER BOWL

FPC cross country runner Braedyn Wormeck.

because the sixth-place finisher was ineligible for individual awards because he had not run in the district race.

Hayden Herndon was the Bulldogs’ second finisher in 87th place with a time of 16:52.2, almost 14 seconds better than his regional time.

Justin Gilliam was 91st in 16:56.5.

Evan Willians was 125th in 17:14.1, and Jack Gilvary was 132nd in 17:18.5, one second off his personal record.

Five of the Bulldogs’ seven runners, including Herndon, Gilliam, Williams, Gilvary and Kamron Davis, were seniors competing in their final high school cross country meet.

“It was a bittersweet day for the seniors,” Halliday said. “Their freshman year was in the middle of COVID. But they finished with to back-to-back state meets and back-to-back Five Star (Conference) championships.”

Senior Nina Rodriguez finished second among the Matanzas runners

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with a time of 21:08.6 for 86th place.

Senior Chloe Irving ran 22:00.2 for 125th place. Freshman Noemi Malikowski was 141st in 22:13.18.

Junior Maria Phillips was 155th in 22:32.8.

Matanzas senior Christian Norfolk qualified individually for the Class 3A boys race and ran 17:21.4 for 89th place.

Senior Chris Murdock of First Baptist Christian in Bunnell and junior Matt Gazzoli of Father Lopez each qualified individually in the Class 1A boys race.

Murdock ran a personal record 17:04.2 to finish 39th, Gazzoli ran 17:08.2 to finish 41st.

Former Seabreeze runners Mackenzie and Arianna Roy placed fourth and fifth, respectively, in the Class 4A girls race. Mackenzie Roy finished in 18:42.3, while Arianna crossed in 18:45.2. The twins, who are now with Spruce Creek, qualified as individuals.

The Flagler Bulldogs Youth Organization will send two tackle football teams to the Mid-Florida Football and Cheer Conference Super Bowl on Sunday, Nov. 26, at Daytona Stadium.

The 8U and 10U teams both defeated the St. Pete Lil Devils on Nov. 19 in Winter Haven to advance to the championship. The 10U team won 32-7, while the 8U team won 19-13. Both teams have been together playing flag and tackle football for the past four years, each winning a championship.

The Bulldogs’ 6U, 12U and 14U teams also advanced to the playoffs.

BASKETBALL SKILLS CLINIC Legend Athletics Wrestling Club is partnering with Matanzas High School boys basketball coaches to present a basketball skills clinic for boys and girls in grades K-8 from 9 a.m. to noon on Dec. 9 at the Matanzas gym.

Coaches will include Matanzas head coach Henry Robinson and his son, freshman Henry Robinson Jr. All participants must hold an active AAU membership. Visit lengendathletics.org.

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FIRST INSERTION CITY OF PALM COAST NOTICE OF PROPOSED CITY COUNCIL PUBLIC HEARING The City Council will consider Ordinance No. 2023-XX Entitled: AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF PALM COAST, FLORIDA, AMENDING THE BOUNDARIES OF THE LANDINGS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT PURSUANT TO CHAPTER 190, FLORIDA STATUTES; PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY; PROVIDING FOR CONFLICTS; AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE. This is an application requesting an ordinance to amend the boundaries of the Landings Community Development District. Landings is a 204.68 +/- acre residential community located on the south side of Citation Boulevard and east of Belle Terre Boulevard and is to be amended to add approximately 356.18 acres to the District. All lands are located as depicted in the Location Map provided below.

The City Council will hold two (2) public hearings on the proposed ordinance on December 5th, 2023 at 6:00 p.m., and December 19th, 2023, at 9:00 a.m., or as soon thereafter as possible, in the Council Chambers at the Community Wing of City Hall located at 160 Lake Avenue, Palm Coast, Florida.

A copy of this notice and the file relating to the public hearing are available by contacting the City Clerk at 386-986-3713. The public is encouraged to participate in the processes and procedures of the City.

Members of the public who wish to submit comments, exhibits, or other documents for consideration at the Public Hearing may submit them to the following: CityClerk@palmcoastgov. com. The e-mail should indicate that they are intended for public participation and may be submitted up until 5 pm the day before the meeting. The City reserves the right to redact or reject Documentary Evidence containing obscene material or material that is confidential pursuant to state law.

If a person decides to appeal any decision made with respect to any matter considered at the above referenced hearing, he/ she will need a record of the proceedings. For such purposes, it may be necessary to ensure that a verbatim record of the proceedings is made, which record includes the testimony and evidence upon which the appeal is to be based.

In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, persons needing assistance to participate in any of these proceedings should contact the City Clerk’s Office at 386-986-3713 at least 48 hours prior to the meeting.

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN That the undersigned intends to sell the personal property described below to enforce a lien imposed on said property under The Florida Self Storage Facility Act statues (Section 83.801-83.809).

The undersigned will sell at public sale by competitive bidding on: TUESDAY DECEMBER 19, 2023, at 12PM on LOCKERFOX.COM IStorage Bunnell 2303 N. State St Bunnell, FL 32110 Where said property is stored at: Charles Blunk A172 Boxes, Furniture Ivy Bentz C027 Boxes, Furniture Purchases must be paid for at the time of purchase by CASH ONLY. All purchased items are sold as-is, where-is, and must be removed at the time of sale. Sale is subject to cancellation if settlement between the owner and obligated party is settled Bunnell iStorage 2303 N State St Bunnell, FL 32110 November 23, 30, 2023 23-00302F

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NOTICE OF FORFEITURE $19,500.00 USD was seized via search warrant by the Flagler County Sheriff ’s Office on October 26, 2023, from Golden State Warehousing Service LLC in reference to criminal case #2023-36682. The funds originated from a victim located in Flagler County which were taken via a social engineering scam between April 20-21, 2022.

This notice is provided consistent with §812.091, Florida Statutes.

NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT, SEVENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR FLAGLER COUNTY, FLORIDA PROBATE DIVISION FILE NO.: 2023-CP-000638 DIVISION: 48 IN RE: ESTATE OF SEAN MICHAEL DELANEY Deceased.

The administration of the estate of SEAN MICHAEL DELANEY, deceased, whose date of death was April 27, 2023, is pending in the Circuit Court for Flagler County, Florida, Probate Division, the address of which is 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 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 November 23, 2023.

Personal Representative: /s/ Rose Mary Delaney ROSE MARY DELANEY 1008 4th Avenue Welaka, FL 32193 Attorney for Personal Representative: /s/ Robert W. Pickens, III ROBERT W. PICKENS, III Attorney for Petitioner Florida Bar Number: 1003349 Holmes & Young, P.A. 222 N. 3rd Street Palatka, Florida 32177 Telephone: (386) 328-1111 Fax: (386) 328-3003 E-Mail: bobby@holmesandyoung.com Secondary E-Mail: pleadings@holmesandyoung.com November 23, 30, 2023 23-00197G

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FIRST INSERTION NOTICE OF FORFEITURE $18,895.00 USD was seized for forfeiture by the Flagler County Sheriff ’s Office on October 24, 2023.

The item(s) were seized at or near US Highway 1 South, Bunnell FL. The Flagler County Sheriff is holding the property for purposes of a current forfeiture action 2023 CA 000973 in the 7th Circuit Court.

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FIRST INSERTION NOTICE BY FLAGLER COUNTY BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF INTENT TO USE THE UNIFORM AD VALOREM METHOD OF COLLECTION OF A NON-AD VALOREM ASSESSMENT Notice is hereby given to all owners of lands located within the boundaries of the Dunes CDD Stormwater Drainage District that Flagler County intends to use the uniform ad valorem method for collecting the non-ad valorem assessments levied by Flagler County as set forth in Section 197.3632, F.S., and that the Flagler County Board of County Commissioners will hold a public hearing on December 18, 2023, at 5:30 p.m., or as soon thereafter as possible, at the Flagler County Government Services Building – Board Chambers, 1769 E. Moody Blvd., Bldg. 2, 1st Floor, Bunnell, FL 32110.

The purpose of the public hearing is to consider the adoption of a Resolution authorizing the Flagler County Board of County Commisioners to use the uniform ad valorem method of collecting non-ad valorem assessments levied by the Flagler County Board of County Commissioners as provided in Section 197.3632, F.S. The Flagler County Board of County Commissioners is considering adopting a non-ad valorem assessment for 2024-2025 fiscal year, and continuing from year to year thereafter, for the the collection and conveyance of stormwater and the maintenance of stormwater drainage facilities within the Dunes CDD Stormwater Drainage District within unincorporated Flagler County, which is bounded on the north by 16th Road, bounded on the east by Hammock Dunes Parkway, bounded on the south by Jungle Hut Road, and bounded on the west by State Road A1A. This non-ad valorem assessment is being levied for the first time.

Interested parties may appear at the public hearing to be heard regarding the use of the uniform ad valorem method of collecting such non-ad valorem assessments.

If any person decides to appeal any decision made with respect to any matter considered at this public hearing such person will need a record of proceedings and for such purpose such person may need to ensure that a verbatim record of the proceedings is made at their own expense and which record includes the testimony and evidence on which the appeal is based.

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SUBSEQUENT INSERTIONS FIRST INSERTION NOTICE OF FORFEITURE A green Chevrolet S10 with VIN# 1GCCS19W728154780 was seized for forfeiture by the Flagler County Sheriff ’s Office on October 1, 2023.

The item(s) were seized at or near Moody Blvd, Flagler Beach FL. The Flagler County Sheriff is holding the property for purposes of a current forfeiture action 2023 CA 000974 in the 7th Circuit Court.

November 23, 30, 2023

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SECOND INSERTION NOTICE OF ACTION IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE SEVENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT IN AND FOR FLAGLER COUNTY, FLORIDA Case No.: 2023 CA 000850 Division: 49 ALEXANDRA THEODORE Plaintiff, v.

NOROY THEODORE Defendant TO: NOROY THEODORE, Defendant, and to all parties claiming interest by, through, under or against Defendant, and all parties having or claiming to have any right, title or interest in the property herein described.

YOU ARE NOTIFIED that you have been designated as defendant in a legal proceeding filed against you for partition action. The action involves real property in FLAGLER County, Florida, more fully described as follows: PALM COAST SEC 32 BL 33 LT 17 OR 553 PG 1539 OR 638 PG 1769 OR 642 PG 1428 OR 801 PG 1494 OR 2312/582DC The action was instituted in the Seventh Judicial Circuit Court, FLAGLER County, Florida, and is styled ALEXANDRA THEODORE vs. NOROY THEODORE. You are required to serve a copy of your written defenses, if any, to the action on Erica Johnson, Plaintiff ’s attorney, whose address is 840 Harrington Street, DAYTONA BEACH, FL 32114, on or before 30 days of the date of publication, and file the original with the clerk of this court either before service on Erica Johnson or immediately after service; otherwise, a default will be entered against you for the relief demanded in the complaint or petition.

The Court has authority in this suit to enter a judgment or decree in the Plaintiff ’s interest which will be binding upon you.

DATED: 11/7/2023 Tom Bexley Clerk of the Seventh Judicial Circuit Court FLAGLER County, Florida (SEAL) By /s/ Margarita Ruiz Deputy Clerk Nov. 16, 23, 30; Dec. 7, 2023 23-00195G

SECOND INSERTION AMENDED NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR FLAGLER COUNTY, FLORIDA PROBATE DIVISION File No. 2023-CP-241 Division: 48 IN RE: ESTATE OF GLORIA ESTHER ACOSTA, Deceased.

The administration of the estate of GLORIA ESTHER ACOSTA, deceased, whose date of death was August 19, 2022, is pending in the Circuit Court for Flagler County Florida, Probate Division, the address of which is 1769 East Moody Boulevard, Building #1 - Kim C. Hammond Justice Center, Bunnell, Florida 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 November 16, 2023 Personal Representative: FAUSTO F. ACOSTA 18-B Lloleeta Path Palm Coast, Florida 32164 Attorney for Personal Representative: NORBERTO S. KATZ Florida Bar No. 399086 VELIZ KATZ LAW 630 North Wymore Road, Suite 330 Maitland, Florida 32751 (407) 849-7072 Florida Bar No. 399086 Primary: velizkatzlaw@velizkatzlaw.com Secondary: tmaldonado@velizkatzlaw.com Attorney for Personal Representative November 16, 23, 2023 23-00193G

SECOND INSERTION NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR FLAGLER COUNTY, FLORIDA PROBATE DIVISION File No. 2023 CP 663 Division 48 IN RE: ESTATE OF KAREN MARIE JONES Deceased.

The administration of the estate of KAREN MARIE JONES, deceased, whose date of death was August 6, 2023, 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. Personal Representative: Sharon Gramuglia 33840 Willow Creek Court Columbia Station, Ohio 44028 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 November 16, 23, 2023 23-00194G

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FIRST INSERTION NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE SEVENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT FOR FLAGLER COUNTY, FLORIDA PROBATE DIVISION: 48 FILE NO.: 2023-CP-000697 IN RE: ESTATE OF ELAINE HISAE ARON a/k/a ELAINE H. ARON, Deceased.

The administration of the estate of ELAINE HISAE ARON a/k/a ELAINE H. ARON, deceased, whose date of death was October 9, 2022, is pending in the Circuit Court for Flagler County, Florida, Probate Division, the address of which is 1769 East Moody Blvd., Bldg. 1, Probate Division, Bunnell, FL 32110. The names and addresses of the Co-Personal Representatives and the Personal Representatives’ 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 November 23, 2023. /s/TODD ANDREW ARON Personal Representative 10203 Bessmer Lane Fairfax, VA 22032 /s/SCOTT NATHAN ARON Personal Representative 10203 Bessmer Lane Fairfax, VA 22032 /s/ STACY L. BURGETT, ESQUIRE WATSON SOILEAU DeLEO & BURGETT, P.A. 3490 North U.S. Highway 1 Cocoa, Florida 32926 SBurgett@BrevardLawGroup.com (321) 631-1550; fax (321) 631-1567 Florida Bar No.: 0365742 Attorney for Personal Representative November 23, 30, 2023 23-00196G

FIRST INSERTION NOTICE OF ACTION IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 7th JUDICAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR FLAGLER, FLORIDA. CASE No. 2023 CA 000738 CARRINGTON MORTGAGE SERVICES LLC, Plaintiff vs.

SALLY A.VANDEGRIFT, et al., Defendants TO: SALLY A. VANDEGRIFT 19 ROYAL OAK DR, FLAGLER, FL 32164 30700 SW GRAHAMS FERRY RD, WILSONVILLE, OR 97070 UNKNOWN SPOUSE OF SALLY A. VANDERGRIFT 19 ROYAL OAK DR, FLAGLER, FL 32164 30700 SW GRAHAMS FERRY RD, WILSONVILLE, OR 97070 UNKNOWN TENANT #1 19 ROYAL OAK DR, FLAGLER, FL 32164 UNKNOWN TENANT #2 19 ROYAL OAK DR, FLAGLER, FL 32164 AND TO: All persons claiming an interest by, through, under, or against the aforesaid Defendant(s).

YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that an action to foreclose a mortgage on the following described property located in Flagler County, Florida: LOT 19, BLOCK 24, PALM COAST, MAP OF ROYAL PALMS, SECTION 32, A SUBDIVISION ACCORDING TO THE PLAT OR MAP THEREOF DESCRIBED IN MAP BOOK 10, PAGE 57, OF THE PUBLIC RECORDS OF FLAGLER COUNTY, FLORIDA. has been filed against you, and you are required to serve a copy of your written defenses, if any, to this action, on

Greenspoon Marder, LLP, Default Department, Attorneys for Plaintiff, whose address is Trade Centre South, Suite 700, 100 West Cypress Creek Road, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33309, and file the original with the Clerk within 30 days after the first publication of this notice in Business Observer, on or before 30 days from the first publication, 2023; otherwise a default and a judgment may be entered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

IMPORTANT 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.

WITNESS MY HAND AND SEAL OF SAID COURT on this day of 11/14/2023.

Tom Bexley As Clerk of said Court (SEAL) By: /s/ Amy Perez As Deputy Clerk Greenspoon Marder, LLP Default Department Attorneys for Plaintiff Trade Centre South, Suite 700 100 West Cypress Creek Road Fort Lauderdale, FL 33309 (23-000721-01) November 23, 30, 2023 23-00198G

FIRST INSERTION NOTICE BY FLAGLER COUNTY BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF INTENT TO USE THE UNIFORM AD VALOREM METHOD OF COLLECTION OF A NON-AD VALOREM ASSESSMENT WITHIN UNINCORPORATED FLAGLER COUNTY FOR NUISANCE ABATEMENT Notice is hereby given to all owners of lands located within unincorporated Flagler County that Flagler County intends to use the uniform ad valorem method for collecting the non-ad valorem assessments levied by Flagler County as set forth in Section 197.3632, F.S., and that the Flagler County Board of County Commissioners will hold a public hearing on December 18, 2023, at 5:30 p.m., or as soon thereafter as possible, at the Flagler County Government Services Building – Board Chambers, 1769 E. Moody Blvd., Bldg. 2, 1st Floor, Bunnell, FL 32110.

The purpose of the public hearing is to consider the adoption of a Resolution authorizing the Flagler County Board of County Commisioners to use the uniform ad valorem method of collecting non-ad valorem assessments levied by the Flagler County Board of County Commissioners as provided in Section 197.3632, F.S. The Flagler County Board of County Commissioners is considering adopting a non-ad valorem assessment for 2024-2025 fiscal year, and continuing from year to year thereafter, for the abatement of nuisance properties within unincorporated Flagler County.

This non-ad valorem assessment is being levied for the first time.

Interested parties may appear at the public hearing to be heard regarding the use of the uniform ad valorem method of collecting such non-ad valorem assessments.

If any person decides to appeal any decision made with respect to any matter considered at this public hearing such person will need a record of proceedings and for such purpose such person may need to ensure that a verbatim record of the proceedings is made at their own expense and which record includes the testimony and evidence on which the appeal is based.

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NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE SEVENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT IN AND FOR VOLUSIA COUNTY, FLORIDA GENERAL JURISDICTION DIVISION CASE NO. 2023 31850 CICI U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, Plaintiff, vs.

KATHRYN VIGLIOTTI, et al.

Defendant(s).

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to a Final Judgment of Foreclosure dated September 13, 2023, and entered in 2023 31850 CICI of the Circuit Court of the SEVENTH Judicial Circuit in and for Volusia County, Florida, wherein U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION is the Plaintiff and KATHRYN VIGLIOTTI are the Defendant(s). Laura E. Roth as the Clerk of the Circuit Court will sell to the highest and best bidder for cash at www.volusia. realforeclose.com, at 11:00 AM, on December 13, 2023, the following described property as set forth in said Final Judgment, to wit: LOT 123, HIDDEN LAKE PHASE IV-B, ACCORDING TO THE MAP OR PLAT THEREOF, AS RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK 41, PAGE(S) 55, OF THE PUBLIC RECORDS OF VOLUSIA COUNTY, FLORIDA. Property Address: 1505 LEONE LN, PORT ORANGE, FL 32129 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 16 day of November, 2023.

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\Danielle Salem Danielle Salem, Esquire Florida Bar No. 0058248 Communication Email: dsalem@raslg.com 23-108375 - MaM November 23, 30, 2023 23-00341I

FIRST INSERTION NOTICE OF ACTION CONSTRUCTIVE SERVICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE SEVENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT IN AND FOR VOLUSIA COUNTY, FLORIDA GENERAL JURISDICTION DIVISION CASE NO. 2022 31212 CICI SPECIALIZED LOAN SERVICING LLC, Plaintiff, vs.

THE UNKNOWN HEIRS, BENEFICIARIES, DEVISEES, GRANTEES, ASSIGNEES, LIENORS, CREDITORS, TRUSTEES AND ALL OTHERS WHO MAY CLAIM AN INTEREST IN THE ESTATE OF GENEVA WYNTER A/K/A GENEVA MICHELLE WYNTER A/K/A GENEVA M. WYNTER A/K/A GENEVA BRADLEY, DECEASED, et. al.

Defendant(s), TO: THEODORE BRADLEY, whose residence is unknown and all parties having or claiming to have any right, title or interest in the property described in the mortgage being foreclosed herein.

YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that an action to foreclose a mortgage on the following property: LOT 33, SLEEPY HOLLOW SUBDIVISION, UNIT I, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF, RECORDED IN MAP BOOK 34, PAGE(S) 130, OF THE PUBLIC RECORDS OF VOLUSIA COUNTY, FLORIDA. has been filed against you and you are required to serve a copy of your written defenses, if any, to it on counsel for Plaintiff, whose address is 6409 Congress Avenue, Suite 100, Boca Raton, Florida 33487 on or before Jan 2, 2024/(30 days from Date of First Publication of this Notice) and file the original with the clerk of this court either before service on Plaintiff ’s attorney or immediately thereafter; otherwise a default will be entered against you for the relief demanded in the complaint or petition filed herein.

THIS NOTICE SHALL BE PUBLISHED ONCE A WEEK FOR TWO (2) CONSECUTIVE WEEKS. WITNESS my hand and the seal of this Court at County, Florida, this 15th day of Nov, 2023.

LAURA E ROTH CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT (SEAL) BY: /s/ Shawnee S. Smith DEPUTY CLERK Robertson, Anschutz, Schneid, Crane & Partners, PLLC 6409 Congress Ave., Suite 100 Boca Raton, FL 33487 PRIMARY EMAIL: flmail@raslg.com 22-015719 November 23, 30, 2023 23-00340I

FIRST INSERTION NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR VOLUSIA COUNTY, FLORIDA PROBATE DIVISION File No. 2023 12744 PRDL IN RE: ESTATE OF FREDERICK CHARLES MORELLO, Deceased.

The administration of the estate of FREDERICK CHARLES MORELLO, deceased, whose date of death was October 7, 2023, is pending in the Circuit Court for Volusia County, Florida, Probate Division, the address of which is PO Box 6043, DeLand, FL 32721-6043. The names and addresses of the Curator and the Curator’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: November 23, 2023.

ROBERT D. HINES Curator 1312 W. Fletcher Avenue, Suite B. Tampa, FL 33612 Robert D. Hines, Esq. Attorney for Curator Florida Bar No. 0413550 Hines Norman Hines, P.L. 1312 W. Fletcher Avenue, Suite B Tampa, FL 33612 Telephone: 813-265-0100 Email: rhines@hnh-law.com Secondary Email: jrivera@hnh-law.com November 23, 30, 2023 23-00343I

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS (Summary Administration) IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR VOLUSIA COUNTY, FLORIDA PROBATE DIVISION File No. 2023 12699 PRDL Division 10 IN RE: ESTATE OF WERNER ROGGENBUCK Deceased.

TO ALL PERSONS HAVING CLAIMS OR DEMANDS AGAINST THE ABOVE ESTATE: You are hereby notified that an Order of Summary Administration has been entered in the estate of Werner Roggenbuck, deceased, File Number 2023 12699 PRDL, by the Circuit Court for Volusia County, Florida, Probate Division, the address of which is Post Office Box 6043, DeLand, FL 32721; that the decedent’s date of death was June 1, 2023; that the total value of the estate is $6917.63 and that the names and addresses of those to whom it has been assigned by such order are: Name Estate of Helga E. Roggenbuck Address c/o Legacy Law Associates, P.L. 313 S. Palmetto Ave. Daytona Beach, FL 32114 ALL INTERESTED PERSONS ARE NOTIFIED THAT: All creditors of the estate of the decedent and persons having claims or demands against the estate of the decedent other than those for whom provision for full payment was made in the Order of Summary Administration must file their claims with this court WITHIN THE TIME PERIODS SET FORTH IN FLORIDA STATUTES SECTION 733.702. ALL CLAIMS AND DEMANDS NOT SO FILED WILL BE FOREVER BARRED. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER APPLICABLE TIME PERIOD, 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 November 23, 2023.

Person Giving Notice: Wolfgang Werner Roggenbuck c/o Legacy Law Associates, P.L. 313 S. Palmetto Ave. Daytona Beach, FL 32114 Attorney for Person Giving Notice Robert M. Holland, Attorney Florida Bar Number: 938998 Legacy Law Associates, P.L. 313 S. Palmetto Ave. Daytona Beach, FL 32114 Telephone: (386) 252-2531 Fax: (386) 258-0392 E-Mail: holland@legacylaw313.com Secondary E-Mail: linda@legacylaw313.com November 23, 30, 2023 23-00337I

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 Broader Vision Group located at 1000 Walker St #366, in the City of Holly Hill, Volusia County, FL 32117 intends to register the said name with the Division of Corporations of the Department of State, Tallahassee, Florida.

Dated this 17th day of November, 2023 James Speicher November 23, 2023 23-00167V

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NOTICE OF ACTION IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE SEVENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT IN AND FOR VOLUSIA COUNTY, FLORIDA CIRCUIT CIVIL DIVISION CASE NO.: 2023 12319 CIDL HOUSING GROUP FUND 401K PENSION PLAN, Plaintiff, v.

JENNIE T. MEEHAN AKA JENNIE MEEHAN-CALCATERRA, et al., Defendants.

TO: DEBORAH A. KUBICA Last Known Address: 1783 Meadowlark Drive, Deltona, FL 32725 YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that an action to foreclosure a mortgage on the following property located in Volusia County, Florida: LOT 24, BLOCK 312, DELTONA LAKES UNIT 7, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF AS RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK 25, PAGE 149, PUBLIC RECORDS OF VOLUSIA COUNTY, FLORIDA. including the buildings, appurtenances, and fixture located thereon.

Property Address: 1483 Meadowlark Drive Deltona, FL 32725 (the “Property”). filed against you and you are required to serve a copy of your written defenses, if any, to it on HARRIS S. HOWARD, ESQ., of HOWARD LAW, Plaintiff ’s attorney, whose address is 4755 Technology Way, Suite 104 Boca Raton, FL 33431 on or before Jan 2, 2023 (no later than 30 days from the date of the first publication of this Notice of Action) and file the original with the Clerk of this Court either before service on Plaintiff ’s attorney or immediately thereafter; otherwise a default will be entered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint or petition filed herein.

WITNESS my hand and seal of this Court at Volusia, Florida on this 15th day of NOV, 2023.

LAURA E. ROTH VOLUSIA COUNTY CLERK OF COURT By: /s/ Shawnee S. Smith Deputy Clerk HARRIS S. HOWARD, ESQ. HOWARD LAW Plaintiff ’s attorney 4755 Technology Way, Suite 104 Boca Raton, FL 33431 November 23, 30, 2023 23-00342I

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WALKERS GREEN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING Notice is hereby given that the Board of Supervisors (“Board”) of the Walkers Green Community Development District (the “District”) will hold a regular meeting on Tuesday, December 5, 2023, at 10:00 a.m. at 908 Taylor Rd, Port Orange, FL 32127. 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.

NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 7th JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR VOLUSIA COUNTY, FLORIDA PROBATE DIVISION Case No. 2023CP012596 IN RE: ESTATE OF SAUNDRA MIXON, Deceased.

The administration of the estate of Saundra Mixon, deceased, whose date of death was April 8, 2023, is pending in the Circuit Court for Volusia County, Florida, Probate Division, the address of which is Volusia County Courthouse, 101 N. Alabama Avenue, Deland, FL 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 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.

Jane Gaarlandt District Manager November 23, 2023

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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 SECTION 733.702 OF THE FLORIDA PROBATE CODE 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 November 23, 2023. /s / Charniqua Mixon Personal Representative By : s/ Patrick Jean-Gilles, Esq. Attorney for Personal Representative Florida Bar Number: 85067 20900 NE 30th Ave, Suite 800 Aventura, Florida 33180 Telephone: (305) 432-4673 Facsimile: (786) 319-9717 Email: PatrickJG@live.com 23-00339I November 23, 30, 2023

FIRST INSERTION NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR VOLUSIA COUNTY, FLORIDA PROBATE DIVISION File No. 2023 12825 PRDL Division: 10 IN RE: ESTATE OF RICHARD L. SHAFFER, Deceased.

The Trust administration of the estate of RICHARD L. SHAFFER, deceased, whose date of death was October 2nd, 2023, is pending in the Circuit Court for Volusia County, Florida, Probate Division, the address of which is 101 N. Alabama Ave, DeLand, FL 32724. The names and addresses of the Trustee and the Trustee’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: November 23, 2023.

Signed on this day of, 11/17/2023.

SANDRA LEE SHAFFER Trustee of The Richard L. Shaffer Revocable Trust Heidi S. Webb Attorney for Trustee Florida Bar No. 73958 Law Office of Heidi S. Webb 210 South Beach Street, Suite 202 Daytona Beach, Florida 32114 Telephone: (386) 257-3332 Email: heidi@heidiwebb.com November 23, 30, 2023 23-00338I

SUBSEQUENT INSERTIONS SECOND INSERTION NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR VOLUSIA COUNTY, FLORIDA PROBATE DIVISION File No. 2023-12714-PRDL Division 10 IN RE: ESTATE OF JULIE H. LEE a/k/a JULIE HO-MEI LEE Deceased.

The administration of the estate of Julie H. Lee, deceased, whose date of death was December 8, 2022, 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

SECOND INSERTION NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 7TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT IN AND FOR VOLUSIA COUNTY, FLORIDA CASE NO.: 2023 11131 CIDL BANKUNITED N.A., Plaintiff, v.

KELLY RIGGINS, JR.; UNKNOWN SPOUSE OF KELLY RIGGINS, JR.; ALL UNKNOWN PARTIES CLAIMING INTERESTS BY, THROUGH, UNDER OR AGAINST A NAMED DEFENDANT TO THIS ACTION, OR HAVING OR CLAIMING TO HAVE ANY RIGHT, TITLE OR INTEREST IN THE PROPERTY HEREIN DESCRIBED; UNKNOWN TENANT #1; UNKNOWN TENANT #2, Defendant(s), NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to an Order dated November 2, 2023 entered in Civil Case No. 2023 11131 CIDL in the

SECOND INSERTION NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE SEVENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT IN AND FOR VOLUSIA COUNTY, FLORIDA PROBATE DIVISION FILE NO.: 2023 12341 PRDL DIVISION: 10 IN RE: ESTATE OF ADAM ROBERT ACEVEDO, Deceased.

The administration of the Estate of Adam Robert Acevedo, deceased, whose date of death was April 1, 2023, is pending in the Circuit Court for Volusia County, Florida, Probate Division, the address of which is 101 N. Alabama Ave, DeLand, FL 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 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 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 SECTION 733.702 OF THE FLORIDA PROBATE CODE 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 November 16, 2023.

Personal Representative: Vanessa Acevedo c/o: Bennett Jacobs & Adams, P.A. Post Office Box 3300 Tampa, Florida 33601 Attorney for Personal Representative: Linda Muralt, Esquire Florida Bar No.: 0031129 Bennett Jacobs & Adams, P.A. Post Office Box 3300 Tampa, Florida 33601 Telephone: (813) 272-1400 Facsimile: (866) 844-4703 E-mail: LMuralt@bja-law.com November 16, 23, 2023 23-00326I

SECOND INSERTION NOTICE OF CLERK’S SALE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT, SEVENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR VOLUSIA COUNTY, FLORIDA CASE NO.: 2023-12059-CIDL CHARLES D. WILLIS, Plaintiff, -Vs.- CODY A. SEIBERT, ALEXIS N. WALKER, & ANY AND ALL UNKNOWN TENANTS IN POSSESSION, Defendants.

YOU ARE NOTIFIED that pursuant to the Summary Final Judgment of Foreclosure dated the 2nd day of November, 2023, Case Number 2023-12059-CIDL in the Circuit Court, Seventh Judicial Circuit in and for Volusia County, Florida, in which CHARLES D. WILLIS is the Plaintiff, and CODY A. SEIBERT, ALEXIS N. WALKER & ANY AND ALL UNKNOWN TENANTS

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 November 16, 2023.

Personal Representative: John Lee 120 Muscovy Court Daytona Beach, Florida 32119 Attorney for Personal Representative: Thomas J. Upchurch, Esquire Florida Bar No. 0015821 Upchurch Law 1616 Concierge Blvd., Suite 101 Daytona Beach, Florida 32117 Telephone: (386) 492-3871 Email: service@upchurchlaw.com 2nd Email: clutes@upchurchlaw.com November 16, 23, 2023 23-00336I

Circuit Court of the 7th Judicial Circuit in and for Volusia County, Florida, wherein BANKUNITED N.A., Plaintiff and KELLY RIGGINS, JR., are defendants, Laura E. Roth, Clerk of Court, will sell the property at public sale at www.volusia.realforeclose. com beginning at 11:00 AM on January 4, 2024 the following described property as set forth in said Final Judgment, to-wit:.

THE FOLLOWING DESCRIBED LAND SITUATE, LYING AND BEING IN THE COUNTY OF VOLUSIA STATE OF FLORIDA TO WIT: LOT 2, BLOCK 955, DELTONA LAKES UNIT THIRTY-SIX, ACCORDING TO THE MAP OR PLAT THEREOF, RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK 27, PAGE (S) 164 THROUGH 170, PUBLIC RECORDS OF VOLUSIA COUNTY, FLORIDA. Property Address: 3364 Newmark Dr, Deltona, FL 32738 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. THE COURT, IN ITS DISCRETION, MAY ENLARGE THE TIME OF THE SALE. NOTICE OF THE CHANGED TIME OF SALE SHALL BE PUBLISHED AS PROVIDED HEREIN. Submitted By: Jordan Shealy: Kelley Kronenberg 10360 West State Road 84 Fort Lauderdale, FL 33324 Phone: (954) 370-9970 Fax: (954) 252-4571 Service E-mail: ftlrealprop@kelleykronenberg.com /s/ Jordan Shealy Jordan Shealy, Esq. FBN: 1039538 File No: CRF22138-JMV November 16, 23, 2023 23-00335I

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR VOLUSIA COUNTY, FLORIDA PROBATE DIVISION File No. 2023 12266 PRDL Division 10 IN RE: ESTATE OF BOBBY EUGENE MILLER Deceased.

The administration of the estate of Bobby Eugene Miller, deceased, whose date of death was June 7, 2023, is pending in the Circuit Court for Volusia County, Florida, Probate Division, the address of which is 101 North Alabama Avenue, DeLand, FL32724. 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 November 16, 2023.

Personal Representative: Jonathan Miller 470 Tom Wood Road Lexington, North Carolina 27295 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 November 16, 23, 2023 23-00324I

NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR VOLUSIA COUNTY, FLORIDA PROBATE DIVISION File No. 2023-12627-PRDL IN RE: ESTATE OF JOAN MARCIA FINKELSTEIN, Deceased.

The Administration of the Estate of Joan Marcia Finkelstein, deceased, whose date of death was February 24, 2023, is pending in the Circuit Court for Volusia County, Florida, Probate Division, the address of which is Volusia County 101 N. 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 November 16, 2023.

Personal Representative: Bonnie Ellen Gaynor 68 Adams Road Bloomfield, Connecticut 06002 Attorney for Personal Representative: Cyrus Malhotra Florida Bar No. 0022751 THE MALHOTRA LAW FIRM P.A. Attorneys for Petitioner 3903 Northdale Blvd., Suite 100E Tampa, FL 33624 Telephone: (813) 902-2119 Fax Number: (727)290-4044 Email: filings@FLprobatesolutions.com Secondary: sandra@FLprobatesolutions.com November 16, 23, 2023 23-00327I

IN POSSESSION are the Defendants; I will sell to the highest and best bidder for cash at Volusia.RealForeclose.com, on the 14th day of December, 2023 at 11:00 a.m. the following described property as set forth in said Summary Final Judgment of Foreclosure: Lot 3, Block 1, D.P. Smith’s Subdivision, according to the map or plat thereof, as recorded in Plat Book 1, page 111, of the Public Records of Volusia County, Florida.

The physical street address of said property is: 309 Rush Street, New Smyrna Beach, FL 32168 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 within 60 days after the sale.

ATTENTION PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES In accordance with the American with Disabilities Act, persons with disabilities

needing a special accommodation to participate in this proceeding, you are entitled, at no cost to you, to the provision of certain assistance. Please contact Court Administrator at Suite 300, Courthouse Annex, 125 E. Orange Ave., Daytona Beach, FL 32114; Tel.: 386-257-6096 within two (2) working days of your receipt of the NOTICE OF SALE; if you are hearing impaired, call 1-800-955-8771; if you are voice impaired, call 1-800-955-8770.

THIS IS NOT A COURT INFORMATION LINE. DATED this 9th day of November, 2023. /s/ ROBERT ROBINS, ESQUIRE P.O. BOX 1649 DAYTONA BEACH, FL 32115 (386) 252-5212 (386) 252-5713 (FAX) FLORIDA BAR NO.: 356026 RobertRobinsLaw@hotmail.com ATTORNEY FOR: PLAINTIFF November 16, 23, 2023 23-00331I

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR VOLUSIA COUNTY, FLORIDA PROBATE DIVISION File No. 2023-12716-PRDL IN RE: ESTATE OF Carol M. Carpenter Deceased.

The administration of the estate of Carol M. Carpenter, deceased, whose date of death was July 28, 2023, is pending in the Circuit Court for VOLUSIA County, Florida, Probate Division, the address of which is 101 N. 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 November 16, 2023. /s/ Roger Carpenter P.O. Address: 387 Harrison Street Manchester, New Hampshire 03104 SHUMAKER, LOOP & KENDRICK, LLP Attorneys for Personal Representative P.O. BOX 49948 SARASOTA, FLORIDA 34230-6948 Telephone: (941) 366-6660 By: /s/ Cheryl L. Gordon, Esquire Florida Bar No. 0284483 Email Addresses: cgordon@shumaker.com mward@shumaker.com November 16, 23, 2023 23-00325I

NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR VOLUSIA COUNTY, FLORIDA PROBATE DIVISION File No. 2023-12462 PRDL Division 10 IN RE: ESTATE OF WENDY LEE HERSEY AKA WENDY HERSEY AKA WENDY L. HERSEY, Deceased.

The administration of the estate of WENDY LEE HERSEY AKA WENDY HERSEY AKA WENDY L. HERSEY, deceased, whose date of death was July 9, 2023; File Number 2023-12462 PRDL, is pending in the Circuit Court for Volusia County, Florida, Probate Division, the address of which is P. O. Box 6043, DeLand, FL 32721-6043.

The names and addresses of the personal representatives and the personal representatives’ 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: November 16, 2023.

Signed on this 13th day of November, 2023. /s/ DANIELLE CHRISTINA PAYNE Personal Representative 1592 Valencia Avenue Daytona Beach, FL 32117 /s/ SAMANTHA MCGARY Personal Representative 2248 Kenilworth Avenue South Daytona, FL 32119 /s/ ROBERT KIT KOREY, ESQUIRE Attorney for Personal Representatives Florida Bar No. 147787 ROBERT KIT KOREY, P. A. 595 W. Granada Blvd., Suite A Ormond Beach, FL 32174 Telephone: (386) 677-3431 Email: Kit@koreylawpa.com Secondary Email: Michele@koreylawpa.com November 16, 23, 2023 23-00328I

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HOLLY HILL, FL 32117 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 9 day of November, 2023.

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\Danielle Salem Danielle Salem, Esquire Florida Bar No. 0058248 Communication Email: dsalem@raslg.com 19-406954 - MiM 23-00330I November 16, 23, 2023

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 7TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR VOLUSIA COUNTY, FLORIDA CIVIL DIVISION CASE NO. 2023 30185 CICI CARRINGTON MORTGAGE SERVICES LLC, Plaintiff, vs.

CATHERINE R. CROSBY; UNKNOWN SPOUSE OF CATHERINE R. CROSBY; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, ACTING ON BEHALF OF THE SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT; UNKNOWN PERSON(S) IN POSSESSION OF THE SUBJECT PROPERTY, Defendant(s) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to a Final Judgment of Foreclosure filed August 9, 2023 and entered in Case No. 2023 30185 CICI, of the Circuit Court of the 7th Judicial Circuit in and for VOLUSIA County, Florida, wherein CARRINGTON MORTGAGE SERVICES LLC is Plaintiff and CATHERINE R. CROSBY; UNKNOWN SPOUSE OF CATHERINE R. CROSBY; UNKNOWN PERSON(S) IN POSSESSION OF THE SUBJECT PROPERTY; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, ACTING ON BEHALF OF THE SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT; are defendants. LAURA E. ROTH, the Clerk of the Circuit Court, will sell to the highest and best bidder for cash BY ELECTRONIC SALE AT: WWW. VOLUSIA.REALFORECLOSE.COM at 11:00 A.M., on December 13, 2023, the following described property as set forth in said Final Judgment, to wit: LOT 66, CEDAR HIGHLAND UNIT NO. 2, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF AS RECORDED IN MAP BOOK 29, PAGE(S) 57, OF THE PUBLIC RECORDS OF VOLUSIA COUNTY, FLORIDA. 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.

This notice is provided pursuant to Administrative Order No.2.065. In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, 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 provisions of certain assistance. Please contact the Court Administrator at Suite 300, Courthouse Annex, 125 E. Orange Ave., Daytona Beach, FL 32114; call (386)257-6096 within two (2) working days of your receipt of this notice or pleading; if you are hearing impaired, call 1-800955-8771 (TDD); THIS IS NOT A COURT INFORMATION LINE; if you are voice impaired, call 1-800-995-8770 (V) (Via Florida Relay Services).

Dated this 14th day of November 2023.

Marc Granger, Esq. Bar. No.: 146870 Kahane & Associates, P.A. 1619 NW 136th Avenue, Suite D-220 Sunrise, Florida 33323 Telephone: (954) 382-3486 Telefacsimile: (954) 382-5380 Designated service email: notice@kahaneandassociates.com File No.: 23-00045 CLNK November 16, 23, 2023 23-00334I

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE SEVENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT IN AND FOR VOLUSIA COUNTY, FLORIDA GENERAL JURISDICTION DIVISION CASE NO. 2020 30055 CICI NEWREZ LLC D/B/A SHELLPOINT MORTGAGE SERVICING, Plaintiff, vs.

WALTER WOLFE II, et al.

Defendant(s).

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to a Final Judgment of Foreclosure dated June 26, 2023, and entered in 2020 30055 CICI of the Circuit Court of the SEVENTH Judicial Circuit in and for Volusia County, Florida, wherein WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, AS TRUSTEE OF STANWICH MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST I is the Plaintiff and WALTER WOLFE II; UNKNOWN SPOUSE OF WALTER WOLFE II are the Defendant(s). Laura E. Roth as the Clerk of the Circuit Court will sell to the highest and best bidder for cash at www.volusia.realforeclose.com, at 11:00 AM, on December 08, 2023, the following described property as set forth in said Final Judgment, to wit: THE EASTERLY 145 FEET OF LOT 1, BLOCK 2, SHORE ACRES, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF, RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK 6, PAGE(S) 50, OF THE PUBLIC RECORDS OF VOLUSIA COUNTY, FLORIDA. Property Address: 344 RIVERSIDE DR,

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THIRD INSERTION NOTICE OF ACTION (Formal Notice by Publication) IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR VOLUSIA COUNTY, FLORIDA PROBATE DIVISION File No. 2023-11999-PRDL Division 10 IN RE: ESTATE OF PATRICIA E. BERGER a/k/a PATRICIA BERGER Deceased.

TO: Jake Jamal Rogers, 35 Kenilworth Avenue, Ormond Beach, Florida 32174 Jake Jamal Rogers, 931 Cordova Avenue, Ormond Beach, Florida 32174 YOU ARE NOTIFIED that a Notice of Administration has been filed in this court.

You are required to serve a copy of your written defenses, if any, on petitioner’s attorney, whose name and address are: Thomas J. Upchurch, Esquire Upchurch Law 1616 Concierge Blvd., Suite 10031 Daytona Beach, Florida 32117 within thirty (30) days from the date of first publication of this notice, and to file the original of the written defenses with the clerk of this court, whose address is 101 North Alabama Avenue, DeLand Florida 32724, either before service or immediately thereafter. Failure to serve and file written defenses as required may result in a judgment or order for relief demanded, without further notice.

The date of first publication of this notice is November 9, 2023.

Signed on this 1st day of November, 2023.

Thomas J. Upchurch, Esquire Florida Bar No. 0015821 Upchurch Law 1616 Concierge Blvd., Suite 10031 Daytona Beach, Florida 32117 Telephone: (386) 492-3871 Email: service@upchurchlaw.com 2nd Email: clutes@upchurchlaw.com Nov. 9, 16, 23, 30, 2023 23-00312I

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SUBSEQUENT INSERTIONS SECOND INSERTION NOTICE OF ACTION IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE SEVENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR VOLUSIA COUNTY, FLORIDA CASE NO. 2023 11128 CIDL LAKEVIEW LOAN SERVICING, LLC, Plaintiff, vs.

UKNOWN HEIRS OF CRYSTALROSE M. FALES, ET AL. Defendants To the following Defendant(s): ROXANNE FALES (UNABLE TO SERVE AT ADDRESS) Last Known Address: 120 MANOR AVENUE, ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, FL 32714 ROBERT FALES (UNABLE TO SERVE AT ADDRESS) Last Known Address: 120 MANOR AVENUE, ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, FL 32714 YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that an action for Foreclosure of Mortgage on the following described property: LOT 12, BLOCK 8, TOWN OF LAKE MARIE ESTATES, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF, RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK 23, PAGE(S) 149 THROUGH 150, OF THE PUBLIC RECORDS OF VOLUSIA COUNTY, FLORIDA. A/K/A 44 NARCISSUS DRIVE, DEBARY FL 32713 has been filed against you and you are required to serve a copy of your written defenses, if any, to J. Anthony Van Ness, Esq. at VAN NESS LAW FIRM, PLC, Attorney for the Plaintiff, whose address is 1239 E. NEWPORT CENTER DRIVE, SUITE #110, DEERFIELD BEACH, FL 33442 on or before DEC 22 2023 and file the original with the Clerk of this Court either before service on Plaintiff ’s attorney or immediately thereafter; otherwise a default will be entered against you for the relief demanded in the complaint.

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, 125 E. Orange Ave., Ste. 300, Daytona Beach, FL 32114, (386) 257-6096.

Hearing or voice impaired, please call 711.

REQUESTS FOR ACCOMMODATIONS BY 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., 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 appearance is less than 7 days; if you are hearing or voice impaired, call 711.

THESE ARE NOT COURT INFORMATION NUMBERS SOLICITUD DE ADAPTACIONES PARA PERSONAS CON DISCAPACIDADES Si usted es una person con discapacidad que necesita una adaptación para poder participar en este procedimiento, usted tiene el derecho a que se le proporcione cierta asistencia, sin incurrir en gastos. Comuníquese con la Oficina de Administración Judicial (Court Administration), 125 E. Orange Ave., Ste. 300, Daytona Beach, FL 32114, (386) 257-6096, con no menos de 7 dias de antelación de su cita de comparecencia ante el juez, o de inmediato al recibir esta notificación si la cita de comparecencia está dentro de un plazo menos de 7 días ; si usted tiene una discapacidad del habla o del oído, llame al 711.

ESTOS NUMEROS TELEFONICOS NO SON PARA OBTENER INFORMACION JUDICIAL WITNESS my hand and the seal of this Court this 7 day of November, 2023.

Laura E. Roth VOLUSIA COUNTY CLERK OF COURT By /s/ Jennifer M. Hamilton As Deputy Clerk J. Anthony Van Ness, Esq. VAN NESS LAW FIRM, PLC Attorney for the Plaintiff 1239 E. NEWPORT CENTER DRIVE, SUITE #110 DEERFIELD BEACH, FL 33442 NS17306-22BF/cam 23-00333I November 16, 23, 2023

SECOND INSERTION SECOND INSERTION NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE SEVENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR VOLUSIA COUNTY, FLORIDA CASE NO. 2022 11270 CIDL WELLS FARGO BANK N.A., AS TRUSTEE, FOR CARRINGTON MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST, SERIES 2006-NC4 ASSET-BACKED PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, Plaintiff, vs.

MARIA CASTRO Defendants NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to a Final Judgment in Mortgage Foreclosure dated October 5, 2023, and entered in Case No. 2022 11270 CIDL, of the Circuit Court of the Seventh Judicial Circuit in and for VOLUSIA County, Florida. WELLS FARGO BANK N.A., AS TRUSTEE, FOR CARRINGTON MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST, SERIES 2006-NC4 ASSET-BACKED PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES (hereafter “Plaintiff ”), is Plaintiff and MARIA CASTRO, are defendants. Laura E. Roth, Clerk of the Circuit Court for VOLUSIA, County Florida will sell to the highest and best bidder for cash via the Internet at www.volusia.realforeclose.com at 11:00 a.m., on the 7TH day of DECEMBER, 2023, the following described property as set forth in said Final Judgment, to wit: LOT 7, BLOCK 207, DELTONA LAKES UNIT FIVE, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF, RECORDED IN MAP BOOK 25, PAGES 127 THROUGH 138, INCLUSIVE, PUBLIC RECORDS OF VOLUSIA COUNTY, FLORIDA. 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.

“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 Anne Pierce, Court Administration, 101 N. Alabama Avenue, Suite D-305, Deland, Florida 32724

Phone no. 386-626-6561 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.”

“Si usted es una persona minusválida que necesita algún acomodamiento para poder participar en este procedimiento, usted tiene derecho, sin tener gastos propios, a que se le provea cierta ayuda. Tenga la amabilidad de ponerse en contacto con Anne Pierce, Court Administration, 101 N. Alabama Avenue, Suite D-305, Deland, Florida 32724 Phone no. 386-626-6561 por lo menos 7 días antes de la cita fijada para su comparecencia en los tribunales, o inmediatamente después de recibir esta notificación si el tiempo antes de la comparecencia que se ha programado es menos de 7 días; si usted tiene discapacitación del oído o de la voz, llame al 711.”

“Si ou se yon moun ki andikape ou enfim ki bezwen akomodasyon pou w ka patisipe nan pwosedi sa, ou kalifye san ou pa gen okenn lajan pou w peye, gen pwovizyon pou jwen kèk èd. Tanpri kontakte Anne Pierce, Court Administration, 101 N. Alabama Avenue, Suite D-305, Deland, Florida 32724 Phone no.

386-626-6561 nan 7 jou anvan dat ou gen randevou pou parèt nan tribinal la, oubyen imedyatman apre ou fin resevwa konvokasyon an si lè ou gen pou w parèt nan tribinal la mwens ke 7 jou; si ou gen pwoblèm pou w tande oubyen pale, rele 711.”

VAN NESS LAW FIRM, PLC 1239 E. Newport Center Drive, Suite 110 Deerfield Beach, Florida 33442 Ph: (954) 571-2031 PRIMARY EMAIL: Pleadings@vanlawfl.com s / J. Anthony Van Ness J. Anthony Van Ness, Esq. Bar Number: 391832 Email: TVanness@vanlawfl.com CR17463-22/sap 23-00332I November 16, 23, 2023

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 7TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR VOLUSIA COUNTY, FLORIDA CIVIL DIVISION CASE NO. 2022 11769 CIDL FINANCE OF AMERICA REVERSE LLC, Plaintiff, vs.

ALL UNKNOWN HEIRS, CREDITORS, DEVISEES, BENEFICIARIES, GRANTEES, ASSIGNEES, LIENORS, TRUSTEES AND ALL OTHER PARTIES CLAIMING AN INTEREST BY, THROUGH, UNDER OR AGAINST THE ESTATE OF WILLIE D. DUDLEY, DECEASED; DERRICK WOODARD; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, ACTING ON BEHALF OF THE SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT; STATE OF FLORIDA; CLERK OF THE COURT OF VOLUSIA COUNTY, FLORIDA; ACCIDENT CLEANERS & RESTORATION, LLC; UNKNOWN PERSON(S) IN POSSESSION OF THE SUBJECT PROPERTY; FELECIA ANN ADAMS, Defendant(s) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to a Final Judgment of Foreclosure filed November 2, 2023 and entered in Case No. 2022 11769 CIDL, of the Circuit Court of the 7th Judicial Circuit in and for VOLUSIA County, Florida, wherein FINANCE OF AMERICA REVERSE LLC is Plaintiff and ALL UNKNOWN HEIRS, CREDITORS, DEVISEES, BENEFICIARIES, GRANTEES, ASSIGNEES, LIENORS, TRUSTEES AND ALL OTHER PARTIES CLAIMING AN INTEREST BY, THROUGH, UNDER OR AGAINST THE ESTATE OF WILLIE D. DUDLEY, DECEASED; DERRICK WOODARD; UNKNOWN PERSON(S) IN POSSESSION OF THE SUBJECT PROPERTY; FELECIA ANN ADAMS; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, ACTING ON BEHALF OF THE SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT; STATE OF FLORIDA; CLERK OF THE

COURT OF VOLUSIA COUNTY, FLORIDA; ACCIDENT CLEANERS & RESTORATION, LLC; are defendants. LAURA E. ROTH, the Clerk of the Circuit Court, will sell to the highest and best bidder for cash BY ELECTRONIC SALE AT: WWW. VOLUSIA.REALFORECLOSE.COM at 11:00 A.M., on December 7, 2023, the following described property as set forth in said Final Judgment, to wit: THE WEST 25 FEET OF LOT 6 AND ALL OF LOT 7, BLOCK 4, REPLAT OF THE E.K. LOWD SUBDIVISION, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF AS RECORDED IN MAP BOOK 6, PAGE 45, OF THE PUBLIC RECORDS OF VOLUSIA COUNTY, FLORIDA. 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.

This notice is provided pursuant to Administrative Order No.2.065.

In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, 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 provisions of certain assistance. Please contact the Court Administrator at Suite 300, Courthouse Annex, 125 E. Orange Ave., Daytona Beach, FL 32114; call (386)257-6096 within two (2) working days of your receipt of this notice or pleading; if you are hearing impaired, call 1-800-955-8771 (TDD); THIS IS NOT A COURT INFORMATION LINE; if you are voice impaired, call 1-800995-8770 (V) (Via Florida Relay Services).

Dated this 13th day of November 2023. /s/ Marc Granger, Esq. Bar. No.: 146870 Kahane & Associates, P.A. 1619 NW 136th Avenue, Suite D-220 Sunrise, Florida 33323 Telephone: (954) 382-3486 Telefacsimile: (954) 382-5380 Designated service email: notice@kahaneandassociates.com November 16, 23, 2023 23-00329I

Jacksonville, FL 32241 108/19 $3,111.92 with a per diem amount of $1.53 from May 2, 2023 Elaine Mutter 208 Elmore Avenue Woonsocket, RI 02895 204/15 $1,964.69 with a per diem amount of $0.97 from May 2, 2023 Albert Nelson and Linda Nelson 4015 Ramsey Oxford, MI 48371 218/08 $3,718.80 with a per diem amount of $1.83 from May 2, 2023 Paula Nelson 1011 Washington Avenue, Apt 807 Bronx, NY 10456 310/41 $10,642.51 with a per diem amount of $5.25 from May 2, 2023 Donald M Nyholm and Florence Nyholm 628 Ellen Drive Winter Park, FL 32789 7 Susan Circle 204/46 $6,491.63 with a per diem amount of $3.20 from May 2, 2023 John Parnell and Nancy Parnell 194 Riverside Drive Mount Clemens, MI 48043 403/51 $9,722.83 with a per diem amount of $4.79 from May 2, 2023 Wesley Patton and Mary Patton 135 Plaza Drive, Apt 1213 Kerrville, TX 78028 309/48 $9,706.13 with a per diem amount of $4.79 from May 2, 2023 412/49 $9,678.83 with a per diem amount of $4.77 from May 2, 2023 Chandra Rich 27 S Line Avenue Amelia, OH 45102 208/17 $5,017.70 with a per diem amount of $2.47 from May 2, 2023 Maria Rieke 7 Susan Circle Milford, OH 45150 402/29 $10,208.92 with a per diem amount of $5.03 from May 2, 2023 Chandler Robertson P.O. Box 537 Sanford, FL 32772 102/28 $3,111.92 with a per diem amount of $1.53 from May 2, 2023 Howard Robertson and Lisa Robertson 6811 N South Reserve Road, Apt K2 Stone Lake, WI 54876 211/35 $4,169.58 with a per diem amount of $2.08 from May 2, 2023 Eugene Rojas 23 King Street Hartford, CT 06114 402/08 $5,585.22 with a per diem amount of $2.75 from May 2, 2023 Michael Rooney and Linda Rooney P.O. Box 981 Clarkston, MS 48347 102/15 $7,296.08 with a per diem amount of $3.60 from May 2, 2023 Henry Salvas and Betty Salvas 2917 Nancy Street Orlando, FL 32806 211/14 $2,371.55 with a per diem amount of $1.17 from May 2, 2023 Rozanne Satariano 2718 Parkland Drive Winter Park, FL 32789 217/29 $1,492.77 with a per diem amount of $0.74 from May 2, 2023 Joseph Seefried and Shirley Seefried 22714 Audrey Avenue Warren, MI 48091 404/08 $6,510.47 with a per diem amount of $3.21 from May 2, 2023 Alvin Silverman and Margaret Silverman 6956 185th Street Fresh Meadow, NY 11362 314/48 $10,881.43 with a per diem amount of $5.37 from May 2, 2023 Kenneth Swift and Donna Swift 4996 Cass Elizabeth Road Waterford, MI 48327 417/47 $6,491.63 with a per diem amount of $3.20 from May 2, 2023 Darin Taylor 3667 Oakworth Court Orange Park, FL 32065 409/26 $4,343.01 with a per diem amount of

$2.14 from May 2, 2023 Roger Teasdale P.O. Box 128 Sterling Heights, MI 48311 214/02 $10,587.77 with a per diem amount of $5.22 from May 2, 2023 Mary Thomas and David Thomas 1900 E Watch Avenue Springfield, IL 62702 106/21 $3,691.52 with a per diem amount of $1.82 from May 2, 2023 Steve Thompson and Kelley Thompson 624 S Ocean Avenue Cayucos, CA 93430 216/03 $10,881.43 with a per diem amount of $.37 from May 2, 2023 Carol Upton 5425 Inverrary Lane Commerce Township, MI 48382 414/09 $5,684.79 with a per diem amount of $2.80 from May 2, 2023 Brice Walker and Cindy Hyde 332 Calvington Place Waterloo, ONT N2T 1R1 Canada 316/08 $1,467.40 with a per diem amount of $0.72 from May 2, 2023 316/09 $1,467.40 with a per diem amount of $0.72 from May 2, 2023 Charlotte Warner 5341 Chateau Thierry White Lake, MI 48383 202/34 $6,518.91 with a per diem amount of $3.21 from May 2, 2023 Linda Williams 67 Raintree Drive Port Orange, FL 32127 106/26 $2,517.70 with a per diem amount of $1.24 from May 2, 2023 Melinda Williams 2103 Shadybrook Lane Dothan, AL 36303 311/25 $4,343.01 with a per diem amount of $2.14 from May 2, 2023 James Winegar 11300 Suncreek Place Temple Terrace, FL 33617 108/11 $1,492.77 with a per diem amount of $0.74 from May 2, 2023 Terrence Wiseman and Dorlene Wiseman 79718 Parkway Esplanade N La Quinta, CA 92253 210/48 $9,491.63 with a per diem amount of $4.68 from May 2, 2023 James Zakos and Elisabeth Zakos 616 Fleet Street Kingston, ON K7M 5A2 Canada 102/09 $7,986.38 with a per diem amount of $3.94 from May 2, 2023 John Zoul and Margaret Zoul 12330 Quit Hollow Court Fairfax, VA 22033 206/51 $9,646.27 with a per diem amount of $4.76 from May 2, 2023 The assessment lien created by the Claims of Lien was properly created and authorized pursuant to the timeshare instrument and applicable law, and the amounts secured by said liens are as set above. You may cure the default at any time prior to the public auction by paying the amount due, as set forth in this notice, to the undersigned Trustee at the address set forth below.

THIS NOTICE OF PUBLIC AUCTION/SALE is dated this 6th day of NOVEMBER, 2023.

I HEREBY CERTIFY that a true and correct copy of this NOTICE OF PUBLIC AUCTION/SALE FOR NONJUDICIAL TIMESHARE FORECLOSURE has been furnished by regular First Class U.S. Mail to each of the obligors at the above listed addresses on this 6th day of NOVEMBER, 2023.

THOMAS L AVRUTIS THOMAS L AVRUTIS, ESQUIRE TRUSTEE FOR OUTRIGGER BEACH CLUB CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION, INC 201 Fletcher Avenue, Second Floor Sarasota, FL 34237 Telephone (941) 955-7300 Facsimile (941) 953-7625 November 16, 23, 2023 23-00323I

SECOND INSERTION Prepared by: Thomas L Avrutis, Esquire Return to: John Cunningham Asset Recovery Services 3671 Webber Street, #36 Sarasota, FL 34232 RE: OUTRIGGER BEACH CLUB CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION, INC. VOLUSIA County, Florida Non-Judicial Timeshare foreclosure process NOTICE OF PUBLIC AUCTION/ SALE FOR NON-JUDICIAL TIMESHARE FORECLOSURE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, pursuant to an action for non-judicial foreclosure of timeshare units described in the Claim of Lien which is dated May 1, 2023 and recorded on May 22, 2023 in the Public Records of Volusia County, Florida at Official Records Book 8410, page 242 as Instrument Number 2023104628, I will sell, to the highest and best bidder for cash, at OUTRIGGER BEACH CLUB Manager’s Office, 215 South Atlantic Avenue, Ormond Beach, FL 32176 on the 17th day of November, 2023, at 11:30 a.m., the following described real property located in Volusia County, Florida, to-wit: Unit Numbers and Week Numbers (as set forth below) in OUTRIGGER BEACH CLUB, a Condominium, and all appurtenances thereto, according, and subject to the Declaration of Condominium thereof, as recorded in Official Records Book 2324, Page 228, of the Public Records of Volusia County, Florida, and all amendments and exhibits thereto.

Unit Number: Week Number: 102 07, 09, 11, 15, 28, 41 105 32 108 11, 12, 19 203 10 206 22, 29, 51 208 17 211 13, 14, 28, 35 216 03, 06, 10, 21, 24 218 08, 18, 34, 51 303 21 307 06, 27 309 48 311 20, 23, 25 316 08, 09, 10, 18, 40, 41 403 51 405 47 408 15, 17 410 19, 27 412 17, 49 417 47 Unit Number: Week Number: 104 04, 32 106 21, 26 202 11, 34 204 07, 08, 15, 29, 46, 47 207 24, 28 210 26, 41, 48 214 02, 41 217 07, 29 302 12, 15, 28, 29, 52 304 13 308 21, 34 310 11, 41 314 48 402 08, 17, 28, 29, 41 404 08, 09, 13, 15, 18, 51 406 28 409 26 411 07, 09 414 08, 09 TO: Owner(s) Address Unit/Week Amount Due Dolores Allen 5753 Highway 85N, 1259 Crestview, FL 32536 408/15 $1,964.69 with a per diem amount of $0.97 from May 2, 2023 408/17 $1,964.69 with a per diem amount of $0.97 from May 2, 2023 Gabriel Barsanti P.O. Box 126 Corea, ME 04624 402/17 $3,718.80 with a per diem amount of $1.83 from May 2, 2023 Arsian Bekrija and Qibaret Bekrija 5686 Kaufman Street Dearborn Heights, MI 48125 412/17 $7,986.38 with a per diem amount of $3.94 from May 2, 2023 204/47 $7,986.38 with a per diem amount of $3.94 from May 2, 2023 405/47 $7,986.38 with a per diem amount of $3.94 from May 2, 2023 Selwin Bodden and Mary Davis 13566 S Cumberland Drive Belleville, MI 48111 414/08 $5,754.73 with a per diem amount of $2.83 from May 2, 2023

Eugene Bomar and Fannie Bomar 3219 40th Way S, Unit B St Petersburg, FL 33711 404/13 $6,518.91 with a per diem amount of $3.21 from May 2, 2023 George W Bonta and Linda B Bonta 972 Scandia Lane Orlando, FL 32825 105/32 $1,964.69 with a per diem amount of $0.97 from May 2, 2023 Leo Brandana 11504 Elm Street Taylor, MI 48180 216/10 $3,718.80 with a per diem amount of $1.83 from May 2, 2023 Wilfred Brown and Shirley Brown 3108 Inishmore Drive Ormond Beach, FL 32174 202/11 $5,017.70 with a per diem amount of $2.47 from May 2, 2023 Crystal Brownlee and Brian Wallace 27353 Baldwin Avenue Warren, MI 48092 404/15 $3,111.92 with a per diem amount of $1.53 from May 2, 2023 Donald Carrigg 5946 Westwood Road N Maxville, FL 32234 207/24 $5,773.01 with a per diem amount of $2.85 from May 2, 2023 Dudley Cason and Barbara Cason 5021 6th Street East Bradenton, FL 34203 302/12 $1,467.40 with a per diem amount of $0.72 from May 2, 2023 Childers Family Trust, LLC 123 West 1st Street, Suite 675 Casper, WY 82601 402/28 $6,491.63 with a per diem amount of $3.20 from May 2, 2023 Alvin Cohen and Etta Cohen 1787 Litchi Court Orange Park, FL 32073 310/11 $1,964.69 with a per diem amount of $0.97 from Ma .

Michael Collins and Lori Collins 102 Cambridge Drive Port Orange, FL 32127 302/28 $4,990.42 with a per diem amount of $2.46 from May 2, 2023 302/29 $5,017.70 with a per diem amount of $2.47 from May 2, 2023 Manolito Crisolo and Violeta Crisolo 19974 Calvert Street Woodland Hills, CA 91367 411/07 $1,467.40 with a per diem amount of $0.72 from May 2, 2023 Linda Crowther and Michael Cushing 1174 Glenbrook Drive Franklin, TN 37064 206/29 $3,718.80 with a per diem amount of $1.83 from May 2, 2023 Beverly Dahistrom 214 Torrey Pines Point Naples, FL 34113 307/06 $1,991.97 with a per diem amount of $0.98 from May 2, 2023 Charles R Daugherty 54020 Mound Road Shelby Township, MI 48316 104/32 $1,964.69 with a per diem amount of $0.97 from May 2, 2023 Jay Davis and Michelle Hanes 5171 Thomas Stable Road Sanford, FL 32773 308/34 $10,722.04 with a per diem amount of $5.29 from May 2, 2023 Robert Dean and Barbara Dean 2520 Mount Juliet Road Mount Juliet, TN 37122 316/l8 $4,343.01 with a per diem amount of $2.14 from May 2, 2023 Americo Declantis and Linda Declantis 31517 Madison Avenue Madison Heights, MI 58071 404/18 $8,708.21 with a per diem amount of $4.29 from May 2, 2023 Ronald Dressel and Claudia Dressel 3060 Decamp Road Youngstown, OH 44511 203/10 $1,964.69 with a per diem amount of $0.97 from May 2, 2023 Tanya Duffy f/k/a Tanya Twiraga 10 West Street Foxborough, MA 02035 217/07 $1,991.92 with a per diem amount of

$0.98 from May 2, 2023 Denise Duncan 1124 Palisades Drive Jacksonville, FL 32221 406/28 $1,991.97 with a per diem amount of $0.98 from May 2, 2023 Patricia Faulkner 9326 Garden Overlook Lane Jacksonville, FL 32219 210/41 $9,580.29 with a per diem amount of $4.72 from May 2, 2023 Marissa Fields P.O. Box 955 Newport, TN 37822 211/13 $7,249.06 with a per diem amount of $3.57 from May 2, 2023 Willie Ford 1902 SW Yellowtail Avenue Port Saint Lucie, FL 34953 210/26 $4,315.73 with a per diem amount of $2.13 from May 2, 2023 John J Fulayter and Kimberly A Maddalena 22415 Martin Road St Claire Shore, MI 48081 404/09 $1,964.69 with a per diem amount of $0.97 from May 2, 2023 Gerry Geauvreau and Robert Geauvreau 2557 Elm Brook Court Rochester, MI 48309 218/34 $4,343.01 with a per diem amount of $2.14 from May 2, 2023 Jesus Gomez and Maria Gomez 361 Briar Bay Circle Orlando, FL 32825 316/41 $8,810.30 with a per diem amount of $4.34 from May 2, 2023 Richard Goshen 713 Council Hill Road East Dundee, Il 60118 216/06 $5,017.70 with a per diem amount of $2.47 from May 2, 2023 Grace Giving Alliance, Inc 2911 Meadow Glen Drive McKinney, TX 75070 307/27 $4,940.12 with a per diem amount of $2.44 from May 2, 2023 Nick Gugliuzza and Lori Gugliuzza P.O. Box 129 Buffalo, NY 14225 202/41 $10,881.43 with a per diem amount of $5.37 from May 2, 2023 Cornelius Gwinn and Alice Gwinn P.O. Box 441 Lake Hamilton, FL 33851 311/20 $6,496.61 with a per diem amount of $3.20 from May 2, 2023 Charles Hampton and Diane Tuttle 1440 S Harbor Drive Merritt Island, FL 32952 302/52 $10,364.30 with a per diem amount of $5.11 from May 2, 2023 Gerald Harms 205 River Hills Jacksonville, FL 32216 104/04 $9,646.25 with a per diem amount of $4.76 from May 2, 2023 Donald Haverly and Mary Haverly 280 E Church Avenue Longwood, FL 32751 308/21 $7,296.08 with a per diem amount of $3.60 from May 2, 2023 Haynes Family Holdings, LLC 123 West 1st Street Casper, WY 82601 102/41 $6,518.91 with a per diem amount of $3.21 from May 2, 2023 Donald Hemme 6896 S Blackberry Point Homosassa, FL 34446 411/09 $8,810.30 with a per diem amount of $4.34 from May 2, 2023 Alice Henke 533 W Rams Brook Street Meridian, ID 83646 108/12 $3,691.52 with a per diem amount of $1.82 from May 2, 2023 Marlene Hopough 1395 E Pameter Road Ionia, MI 48846 214/41 $7,943.11 with a per diem amount of $3.92 from May 2, 2023 Robert Hubert and Violet Hubert 17265 SE 64th Terrace Summerfield , FL 34491 211/28 $3,111.92 with a per diem amount of $1.53 from May 2, 2023

Paul Hutchins and Jane Hutchins 202 Johnston Place Sidney, OH 45365 204/29 $1,467.40 with a per diem amount of $0.72 from May 2, 2023 Jeremy Illegas ande Deedee Illegas 1333 Rossman Drive Apopka, FL 32712 206/22 $7,296.08 with a per diem amount of $3.60 from May 2, 2023 Tonya Jackson 940 Village Trail, Unit #206 Port Orange, FL 32127 311/23 $3,718.80 with a per diem amount of $1.83 from May 2, 2023 Kenneth Karp and Linda Karp 1694 Glenshire Drive Canton, MI 48188 410/19 $6,518.91 with a per diem amount of $3.21 from May 2, 2023 James Kelley 6376 Winstead Lisle, IL 60532 204/07 $7,986.40 with a per diem amount of $3.94 from May 2, 2023 John Kelly and Myra Kelly 60 Wenham Lane Sharpsburg, GA 30277 207/28 $1,467.40 with a per diem amount of $0.72 from May 2, 2023 Corey Lamb 1314 Avenue K Haines City, FL 33844 303/21 $3,499.43 with a per diem amount of $1.73 from May 2, 2023 Thomas Lane and Roberta Lane 4201 SE Highway 42 Summerfield, FL 34491 204/08 $1, 467.40 with a per diem amount of $0.72 from May 2, 2023 David Leduc and Vinzanna Leduc 3108 Martell Avenue Rochester Hills, MI 48309 410/27 $5,773.01 with a per diem amount of $2.85 from May 2, 2023 Muriel Lemon P.O. Box 154 Osteen, FL 32764 102/07 $9,394.15 with a per diem amount of $4.613 from May 2, 2023 Harvey Lester and Mydella Lester 5600 Mockingbird Lane, Apt D-102 Greendale, WI 53129 304/13 $6,518.91 with a per diem amount of $3.21 from May 2, 2023 Terrence Lewis and Lisa Lewis 617 Tamiami Trail N, Unit 117 Venice, FL 34285 218/18 $5,773.01 with a per diem amount of $2.85 from May 2, 2023 Terrence Lewis 5055 Sherwin Avenue Portage, IN 46368 316/40 $10,854.15 with a per diem amount of $5.35 from May 2, 2023 Kathleen Mahaffey 84 Monsey Blvd Airmont, NY 10952 216/21 $3,926.53 with a per diem amount of $1.94 from May 2, 2023 John Mar 52049 Southdown Shelby Township, MI 48316 216/24 $3,718.80 with a per diem amount of $1.83 from May 2, 2023 Robert Marshall and Alma Marshall 3368 Breezewood Court Ortonville, MI 48462 404/51 $9,646.27 with a per diem amount of $4.76 from May 2, 2023 Ryan Christopher McNeil 3036 Yorkshire Drive Deltona, FL 32730 102/11 $6,810.30 with a per diem amount of $4.34 from May 2, 2023 Robert Meeks, Sr 331 Myers Town Road Beersheba Springs, TN 37305 218/51 $4,343.01 with a per diem amount of $2.14 from May 2, 2023 Jessica Miller 41 Scenic Court #17 Branson, MO 65616 302/15 $3,111.92 with a per diem amount of $1.53 from May 2, 2023 John Mullen and Corazon Mullen P.O. Box 56096

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