Palm Coast Observer 02-29-24

CITY WATCH

SIERRA WILLIAMS STAFF WRITER

NCCAA Sports Clinic for youth on March 23

The annual National Christian College Athletic Association Sports Clinic will be held on March 23 at James F. Holland Memorial Park and Palm Harbor Golf Club.

The free clinic will be held between 8:30 am and 10:30 a.m. and will have sessions for soccer, baseball, softball, volleyball, basketball, and golf, a Palm Coast press release said. Professional coaches and collegiate athletes representing the NCCAA will be on hand to provide guidance and support as participants learn and practice fundamental skills.

Registration for the clinic is open can be completed online at ParksandRec.fun, the Parks and Recreation website.

“Events like these are a testament to our commitment to providing residents safe and exciting recreational opportunities for all ages,” Parks and Recreation Director James Hirst said. “We hope everyone comes out to participate.”

Participants must arrive early to register and secure their spot.

Email Sierra Williams at sierra@observerlocalnews. com.

Mixed use includes 204 units in Town Center

The Promenade at Town Center is the newest development planned for the city center and its first multi-use project.

Deputy Chief Development Officer Ray Tyner said the project is the type of development that was originally planned for Town Center, before the 2008 recession. The Promenade is will be located on 17 acres at the southwest corner of Bulldog Drive and Central Avenue, across from the entrance of Central Park at Town Center and south of City Hall.

Tyner said the 2008 recession slowed down the development planned for Town Center. Town Center was always intended to have more commercial development.

“[This] is an exciting project for planning staff,” Tyner said. “We haven’t really seen kind of the vision besides the commercial office building that we currently have.”

PC Town Center Development II LLC owns the property and presented The Promenade’s technical site plan to the Palm Coast Planning and Land Development Regulation board for approval at its Feb. 21 meeting. The board approved the site plan in a 7-0 vote, and the application will next go to the City Council for approval.

The development will have six, four-story buildings that will be connected through walkways on the upper floors. A mix of commercial, retail and institutional spaces available to lease along the first floor and 204 apartment units spanning floors two through four.

The developer plans for 521 parking spaces behind the buildings, in addition to the parking spots already available along Central Avenue and Bulldog Drive, according to meeting documents.

The Promenade will have 67,000 square feet of commercial use; four of those store fronts are planned for restaurants, said Frank Mendola, director of Real Estate Development with Persimmon Capital Group, representing the property owner.

The Promenade will be built with insulated concrete forms, he said, making the building more fireproof,

hurricane resistant, and water and bug proof.

“It’s not something that we’re developing, building and then we’re going to flip it,” Mendola said. “This is something that’s going to stay in the family for decades. So we’re going to build it right and build strong.”

Mendola said the apartments — which will be available for rent, not to own — will have amenities, including a business center, fitness center, pool and pickleball courts. The apartment units will mostly be at market value, Mendola said, but the plan is also to include some units as what he called “attainable” housing.

The attainable units will be affordable for workforce members, he said — like firefighters, police officers and teachers.

The apartment units will have a mix of studio, one-bedroom and two-bedroom apartments. There will be 45 studio apartments (501 square feet each), 59 two-bedrooms that vary in size from 851 to 1,163 square feet, and 100 one-bedroom apartments at either 655 or 813 square feet, according to meeting documents.

William Whitson, represent -

ing Flagler Schools on the Planning Board, said the Flagler County School Board is very interested in having more conversations with the developer about the housing for teachers and school employees.

“I could see a lot of teachers and staff being very interested in this kind of live-work opportunity,” Whitson said. Among the business spaces, Mendola said the developer plans to include medical institutional spaces for the local hospitals and colleges.

“We’ve gotten a lot of feedback from the hospitals in the area and the medical community that wants to have areas that they can train and expand,” he said. Mendola said once the application and permits are fully approved, the project would take around 22 months to build. Vice Chair Sandra Shank said she was excited to see a project like this for Town Center.

“I know it’s been a long time, it was planned [like this] initially for Town Center to have projects like this, so I’m looking forward to seeing it come to fruition,” she said.

Palm Coast recognizes historian, artist for Black History Month

The city of Palm Coast recently recognized the contributions of residents Howard Holley and Bettie Eubanks for their contributions to African American history culture.

Holley is a local resident appointed to the Florida Museum of Black History Task Force by Florida State Rep. Paul Renner. The Task Force is a subset of the Florida Department of State’s Division of Historical Resources, which is responsible for preserving Florida’s historical resources.

Holley’s role in preserving and showcasing African heritage has positioned him as “a beacon of cultural advocacy in the community,” a Palm Coast press release said.

One of Holley’s roles is to provide recommendations for the construction and operation of a Florida Museum of Black History, an initiative aimed at creating a dedicated space to honor and educate the public about the African American experience in Florida.

Local artist Bettie Eubanks is a “highly regarded local artist whose vibrant paintings” are a testament to her commitment to community enrichment, a press release said. Eubanks’ work has featured in prestigious national exhibitions. Locally, she created and donated “Quilty” to the Palm Coast Arts Foundation’s Turtle Trail. The piece was later stolen from Grand Haven’s Creekside Park and has yet to be recovered, the press release said.

A rendering of the The Promenade, planned for the southwest corner of Central Avenue and Bulldog Drive in Town Center. Image from Planning Board meeting documents

SIERRA WILLIAMS STAFF WRITER

Palm Coast’s new Southern Recreation Center, a 11,500-square-foot facility, is officially open for residents.

The Center, located at 1290 Belle Terre Parkway on the corner of Belle Terre Royal Palms Parkway, is an expansion to the city’s tennis center, adding 12 pickleball courts, including six covered courts. The facility itself has locker rooms, event spaces, lobby space, exterior patios and balconies and, beginning March 3, concession services with the restaurant Redefined Food Company.

The city will soon also add five new HydroGrid clay tennis courts, Palm Coast Mayor David Alfin said during the grand opening ceremony on Feb. 23. One court will be a premium stadium court for tournament play.

“But the most important component of this 63-acre facility,” Alfin said, “is that your City Council authorized construction without spending one single penny of your tax dollars.”

The Southern Recreation Center and Lehigh Trailhead projects, which cost over $10 million to build, received $739,000 in grant funding from Flagler County’s Tourist Development Council for the facility, and $1.2 million from the Florida Department of Transportation for the trailhead.

The project was also funded through the State Road 100 Redevelopment Agency and park impact fees, Alfin said.

The new Lehigh Trailhead includes a paved parking lot with over 70 new spaces, community gardens with six ADA plots and 12 standard plots, a

‘A landmark occasion’

Palm Coast’s Southern Recreation Center, new Lehigh Trailhead officially opens to the public.

large and small dog park, and pavilions.

Redefined Foods co-founder Jodee Soltes said the experience at the grand opening was amazing.

“This place is so beautiful,” Soltes said. “We’re really looking forward to being a part of this healthy environment because that’s what our food is: health-based.”

Soltes owns Redefined Foods with her son, Joey. While the menu at the facility will offer some not-sohealthy foods — like Redefined’s gourmet grilled cheese menu — Soltes said everything on their menu is hand made.

Parks and Recreation Director James Hirst said it was great to see the turnout for the grand opening. If there’s one thing residents should

know about the new center, he said, it’s that you don’t have to be a member to use it.

“It’s a community [space] open to the public,” he said.

There is a charge to use some of the amenities — like the pickleball or tennis courts — but others at the Southern Recreation Center are free, he said. Residents can still come to the center to enjoy Redefined Foods, walk the trail, enjoy the community gardens and dog parks or take parts in city-planned programs.

Visit parkandrec.fun for available programs.

“Ultimately we’re providing for the citizens of Palm Coast and anyone that comes,” Hirst said. “So we’re excited to showcase the facility.”

‘It almost sounded like fireworks’: Palm Coast family is displaced after fire

The fire was contained to the kitchen area, but left heavy smoke damage throughout, Palm Coast Fire Department reported.

SIERRA WILLIAMS STAFF WRITER

Toni Lopez said her family had left their home in the L Section for less than an hour before coming home to find their kitchen on fire.

The fire occurred at 10:37 p.m. on Feb. 24 and in the days since then Lopez and her family have been trying to pick up the pieces. Lopez said she had finished cooking the family’s dinner before leaving with their

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two teenaged kids — Sophia, 16, and Clavin, 15 — to pick up her husband from her father-in-law’s home.

“I don’t always take [the kids] with me,” Lopez said. “But I took them with me. Thank God I did.”

Her daughter called 911 as her husband, Orlando Lopez, ran inside with a small fire extinguisher to put out the flames. Unfortunately, the extinguisher ran out before all the flames were contained.

Orlando and Toni Lopez said they could hear glass breaking from outside as the family waited for PCFD.

“It almost sounded like fireworks from outside,” she said. “You could just hear them, one by one just ... exploding and just making a crazy noise.”

The Palm Coast Fire Department arrived quickly to put out the flames.

PCFD Engines 21, 22, 23, Tower and Battalion 24 and Fire Police all showed up to the scene, as well as Flagler County Fire Rescues 21 and 24, according to a PCFD Facebook post.

While the fire was contained to the kitchen, Lopez said there is heavy smoke damage throughout the home. Many of their belongings will need to be replaced.

Lopez said anyone who wants to reach out can email her at tonidoll facederry@gmail.com. A friend of

the family started up a GoFundMe on the the family’s behalf, which has so far raised almost $3,000.

It was after midnight when all the firefighters left. The family waited hours in their car for Red Cross to arrive, only to speak to them the next morning. They were given a card with $640 and some care packages with basic necessities. Some of things can’t be replaced.

“I lost pictures of my mother,” Orlando Lopez said. “My mom passed away two years ago.”

The Lopez family rents their home and do not have renters insurance.

For now, Toni Lopez said, the family is staying with family and friends until they can find a new place to live.

Lopez said she doesn’t even know where to start. Most importantly, she said, her family is homeless until they

can find a new place. And it’s very expensive to move right now, she said, and so much needs to replaced.

“It’s just— it’s a lot,” she said. “I’m super overwhelmed.”

They’re both relieved that no one was injured Orlando Lopez said he’s grateful for people’s generosity with donating to the GoFundMe.

“The response from the people was completely unexpected,” he said. “To see how other people can come together for someone in need— it’s beautiful.”

The Palm Coast City Council and staff, and County Commissioner Andy Dance cut the ribbon for the center’s grand opening. Courtesy of Palm Coast

The Southern Recreation Center features 12 pickleball courts, including six covered courts. Photos by Sierra Williams

The Lopez family’s kitchen after the fire. Courtesy of the PCFD

Co-owners of Redefined Food Co. Jodee Soltes (right) and her son Joey Soltes, with his fiancé Theresa Kopsky and their two children, Cohen, 5, and Roman.

Schools upgrades AEDs, with

inspecting the ones the district have and adopting the AED365 maintenance program that enables monthly scans to check the status of each of the AED’s battery and pads.

“There are stickers on each machine with a QR code that will tell you about the machine,” Ramirez said. “Every month every single AED will get checked and that’s going to happen forever. So now we’ll never have a dead battery or expired pads. Every AED for all of our schools will be ready to rescue all of the time.”

monthly basis to make sure that they’re in full function and compliance.”

Ideally, an AED needs to be no more than a minute and a half away from every activity, so it can be retrieved and utilized within three minutes of an emergency, Ramirez said. The AEDs need to be accessible to anybody in case an event is going on, Bush said.

heart to restore a normal rhythm in cases of sudden cardiac arrest.

About a year ago, Ramirez reached out to the school district to find out how many AEDs were in the schools and who maintains them. She is now partnering with the district in helping them add more AEDs to schools,

Kory Bush, Flagler Schools’ director of Plant Services, said the district has recently purchased 15 AEDs to make sure all of the elementary schools have four on campus, and the middle schools have four, plus a travel AED. The high schools need more to cover their larger campuses and they require more travel AEDs.

“We have been really looking at our AED procedures,” Superintendent LaShakia Moore said, “making sure that we have the proper number across our schools, and making sure that we have great procedures in place that will assess those machines on a

“They’re not behind locked doors,” he said. “We’re trying to keep them in specific areas so that staff know where they are. The cafeteria, outside the nurse’s station, the gym and the fourth one is strategically placed for coverage on the campuses.”

The district purchased Zoll AED 3 machines, which have pads that don’t have to be changed out for adults and children.

“They work for infants, children and adults, and they are dummy proof,” Ramirez said. “They are color coordinated, and there is a video on the machine that guides you through. And the pads last for five years.”

When the pads do expire the district will only have to buy one set instead of separate sets for children and adults.

The district is making sure the two high schools have enough travel AEDs, Moore said.

“We want to make sure that when our students travel for athletics, that we don’t have to rely on the other school district being in compliance,” she said. “We’re going to make sure we have an AED with us in the event that an emergency happens.”

Matanzas currently has 11 AEDs. Flagler Palm Coast has seven wall-mounted AEDs inside the school and at other areas of the campus. AdventHealth recently purchased three additional travel units

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We want to make sure that when our students travel for athletics, that we don’t have to rely on the other school district being in compliance. We’re going to make sure we have an AED with us in the event that an emergency happens.”

LASHAKIA MOORE, Flagler Schools superintendent

for the school, athletic trainer Ron Steinwehr said. The Flagler County Education Foundation funded two new AEDs for the school at the beginning of the school year. Steinwehr said he keeps an AED with him as he goes around to the schools’ different athletic venues.

Ramirez has been working with Plant Services zone supervisors Clint Chinn and Ray Jones in deploying the AEDs, Bush said.

“We’re getting them all out and the ones mounted in the boxes and put in the spots that we want to have them in and (Chinn and Jones) oversee the guys making sure that they do their monthly inspections,” Bush said.

“Lauren has done an excellent job helping us roll this out,” Bush said. “She’s done a lot of legwork, working with AED365, so that they put all that information in the system for us. We were using another company, but someone local is always preferable.”

Bush said the district is still in phase one of the upgrade. In July, they plan to purchase 12 to 14 more AEDs to replace older ones.

“This initiative is not just about installing equipment,” Ramirez said. “It’s about creating a safer environment for our children and educational staff. It’s about the peace of mind for parents knowing that the schools their children attend are prepared to handle cardiac emergencies.”

Parking lot work begins March 1 at FPC

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The renovation of the Flagler Palm Coast High School parking lot is scheduled to begin on March 1 with work starting in front of the Fitzgerald Performing Arts Center, at the Flagler Auditorium.

“We’re really excited about it. It’s long overdue,” Flagler Schools Plant Services Director Kory Bush said. “It’s served its purpose, but I’m so glad that we’re finally able to do this.”

The improvements will include better drainage, more parking spaces, an updated traffic pattern and improved lighting.

A new pipe will be installed underground going into the pond west of Transportation Way. That road will be close on March 7-8, Bush said.

“The drainage over there is horrible, and there’s not much drainage in the parking lot,” he said.

Bush said they will eventually add about 15 inlets to the parking lot with water draining below grade to the pipes. The auditorium lot will not be accessible until the project is complete. At the end of the school year, the rest of the parking lot will be closed with the renovation scheduled to be complete by Aug. 1.

“The parking lot is going to be a lot more user friendly,” Bush said. “Right now, you go in there and it’s like a maze to try to get back out. You can only come out one way.”

The new parking lot configuration will allow people to drive down any row toward the exit instead of having to go back around to the school.

Lauren Ramirez has helped the district purchase the devices and adopt a maintenance program.

Flagler Schools Plant Services Director Kory Bush and Zone 1 Supervisor Clint Chinn hold up new AEDs.

Salus Medical Training owner Lauren Ramirez with Flagler Schools Plant Services Zone 2 supervisor Ray Jones. Courtesy photos

‘We are the first, first responders’: Dispatcher helped save 2-year-old

Dispatcher Ashlie Hicks was one of 11 recipients of the Life Saving Award; she guided a caller through CPR on a girl who was found unresponsive in a pool.

SIERRA WILLIAMS STAFF WRITER

Ashlie Hicks has been a 911 dispatcher with the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office for 14 years, but the call she took last October was one of the most memorable of her career, she said.

“Some calls definitely affect you and stay in your mind more than others,” Hicks said. “Kid calls are the worst. They’re the ones that you never want to have to take, a traumatic call involving a child.”

On Oct. 22, a family called 911 when a 2-year-old girl was found unresponsive in the home’s pool. Hicks immediately jumped into action.

“Is the child breathing?” she asked.

“No,” a woman said. In the background of the call, multiple adults could be heard yelling and crying.

“OK, put the phone on speaker phone and I’ll walk you through CPR,” Hicks said. And she did. A man took over the call, and Hicks told him to place the girl on her back. She described how he needed to do the compressions — place his hands in the center of her chest, press down two inches, let the

FCSO AWARD CEREMONY RECIPIENTS

LIFE SAVING AWARD

RECIPIENTS:

Deputy First Class Robert Finn; Cpl. Troy Cavas, Deputy First Clas Nicholas Champion, Master Detective Daniel Malta, Detective Austin Dalrymple, FHP Trooper Darin Harper, Cpl. Andrew Cangialosi, Deputy First Class Jennifer Prevatt, Deputy Sheriff David Lichty and Sgt. Jon Reckenwald.

DISTINGUISHED SERVICE

CERTIFICATE RECIPIENTS:

Cpl. Adam Barkoskie, Deputy Sheriff Jonathan Zalak, Deputy Sheriff

chest go back up completely, repeat — and then counted out 30 compressions.

It took three rounds of compressions before the child began to make crying sounds. In order to make sure she was breathing clearly, Hicks asked for the phone to be placed right next to the girl’s mouth.

“Hearing that baby cry is something that I’ll never forget,” Hicks said.

The call lasted almost eight minutes before a deputy arrived on scene and took over the child’s care.

Hicks’ calm intervention and lifesaving instruction is what earned her the Life Saving Award at the FCSO’s quarterly award ceremony on Feb. 20. Hicks was one of 11 people to receive the Life Saving Award, though she was out of town for the ceremony itself.

Sheriff Rick Staly said dispatchers are the “invisible heroes of the agency.”

“They’re the face that you never see when you call 911,” he said. “They have to be prepared for anything.”

Staly, who has 49 years in law enforcement service, said he started his career as a dispatcher.

Dispatchers and law enforcement

Mark Rexford, Master Deputy Sheriff Marcus Dawson and Chief Roberson Brown Jr.

CERTIFICATE OF APPRECIATION

RECIPIENTS:

Department of Children and Families justice coordinator Todd Raleigh, Sgt. Shane Meehan and Deputy Sheriff Maxwell Dorsey.

EMPLOYEES OF THE MONTH FOR OCTOBER-DECEMBER:

Deputy Sheriff Maxwell Dorsey, Deputy First Class Robert Finn and C.O.P. Chief Roberson Brown Jr.

THE AWARD CEREMONY ALSO

RECOGNIZED THE FOLLOWING

MILESTONE YEARS OF SERVICE: 5 years: Deputy Sheriff Derek

in general have to learn to put the emotion behind them to deal with the situation at hand, Staly said.

“Not everybody can be a dispatcher,” he said. “It really takes a very unique person to do that.”

Dispatchers go through almost a year of training, Staly and Hicks said. Hicks said dispatchers have to get CPR recertification every two years and also learn “an extensive” amount of medical information.

But a lot of dispatchers go unrecognized for their role, and in many states — Florida included — dispatchers are not recognized as first responders. According to NENA, a national 9-1-1 association for emergency communications professionals, only 19 states have reclassified telecommunicators as first responders or safety personnel.

Hicks said dispatchers are first responders, too, and can deal with a lot of mental trauma from the 911 calls. The FCSO is great about recognizing their efforts, she said, but on a national, and even on a state level, dispatchers are classified as “support personnel.”

“We are the first, first responders,” Hicks said. “There’s a lot of history, a lot of dispatchers that suffer from

Logsdon, Deputy Sheriff Avis Morring, Deputy Sheriff Vincent Schrider, Purchasing & Inventory Manager Bill Cook, Evidence Technician Hazel Faircloth

10 years: Master Deputy Daniel LaVerne, Civil Clerk Fiona Ebrill, Deputy Sheriff Frank Barbagallo, Deputy Sheriff Jason Williams, Deputy Sheriff Paula Priester, Classification Specialist Patricia Colson

20 years: Sergeant Michael Breckwoldt, Commander Jason Neat, Deputy Sheriff Howard Underwood

40 years: Chief Mark Strobridge, Commander Mike Lutz both received the Florida Sheriff’s Association Lifetime Achievement Award for providing more than 40 years of dedicated service.

PTSD and all sorts of trauma from these calls that we handle.”

This call hit her pretty hard, she said. As relieved as she was to hear the child cry, Hicks said, she had to take go on a walk and call her fiancé once the call was over. Normally, she said, the call is where her involvement ends — it’s not often a dispatcher gets to know how a situation ends, whether for good or for bad.

But Hicks said she reached out to the deputy and fire personnel who arrived on scene. One of them told Hicks that he’d seen the little girl a few days later, and that the girl had been playing as though nothing had happened.

“I feel like that moment was when I could finally let that call kind of go in my brain,” she said. “That is the best case scenario. Because with a drowning, you just never know. There could be all sorts of residual effects.”

It can be hard to turn the job off, Hicks said.

“All of the bad that we deal with — the good ones take away all the bad, in my opinion,” she said. “To be able to have some hand in saving a life makes all of the hard parts of the job worth it.”

Ashlie Hicks has been a FCSO dispatcher for 14 years. Photo courtesy of the FCSO

Sheriff Rick Staly (right) presents the Life Saving Award to Sgt. Jon Reckenwald (left). Photo courtesy of FCSO

COPS CORNER

FEB. 11

THAT’S SHADY

3:22 p.m. — First block of Putnam Avenue, Ormond Beach

Resisting an officer without violence. Police arrested a 54-year-old man from Texas who claimed he could not see an officer trying to stop him from riding away on his bicycle due to the sun’s glare.

The reporting officer noted in the man’s arrest report that the road they were both on was “heavily shaded.”

Police had responded to a local home after receiving calls about a disturbance. When the reporting officer arrived, he saw the man and a woman speaking loudly with someone inside the home, both unaware of his presence. Then, the man began to ride away on his bike, and the officer loudly called out to him, according to the report. The reporting officer said the man looked back at him and continued to ride away and stated he didn’t know anything.

The officer returned to his patrol vehicle and began to search for the man, spotting him riding west on Greenwood Avenue. After securing the man, the officer discovered he had a felony warrant for his arrest out of Texas. taken to jail.

FEB. 14

9:47 p.m. — 100 block of Williamson Boulevard, Ormond Beach Breach of peace. A 47-yearold Fort Lauderdale man was arrested after he shouted that he would shoot and beat up two elderly men in a local chain restaurant, causing other patrons to leave the establishment.

Police responded to the restaurant and spoke to witnesses who said that they had been eating dinner when a man at the bar became “loud and vulgar,” according to the man’s arrest report.

One of the witnesses said the man became so loud that a waitress had to step in and tell him that he was at a family-friendly restaurant with children present. The man ignored the waitress and became heated at two elderly men, also at the bar, who left due to the scene that was caused.

The man initially refused to identify himself when police spoke with him, but eventually gave them his name, though would not present an ID or inform officers how to spell his name. He was arrested and taken to jail.

FEB. 20

A CRYING SHAME

11:43 p.m. — first block of Wildwood Drive, Palm Coast DUI. A woman caught banging on the windows of a man’s house was later arrested for

The man called the Sheriff’s Office about the banging and told dispatch he believed the woman was drunk. When deputies found her, she was driving her car away from the home,

swerving her car in and out of the lane, an arrest report said.

When asked about the incident earlier, she told the deputy it was none of his business, the report said. The woman was clearly drunk, according to the deputy’s report — not only could he smell the alcohol on her, but she was slurring her words her pants were falling down and she could not stand up with using her sedan, the report said.

The woman said she had not had alcohol for hours, and then “began crying excessively.” The deputy said he attempted to place her under arrest she began screaming, the report said.

The woman was arrested and charged with a DUI.

FEB. 23

A LOVER’S QUARREL

11:50 p.m. — 1000 block of West S.R. 100, Bunnell Battery. A woman was arrested and charged with battery after she allegedly punched the woman who slept with her husband.

A police officer was called down to a bar in Bunnell when the victim reported the spat. The victim told the officer that the suspect was the wife of an ex-boyfriend the victim had recently slept with, according to an arrest report.

The victim said the suspect walked up to her in the bar and put her arms around the victim’s neck and shoulder and began telling her to leave the bar. The victim refused and the two walked outside to talk.

The suspect kept telling the victim to leave and when she continued to refuse, the victim said the suspect pushed her to the ground and punched her in the face.

The suspect told the police officer the victim slapped her before she was pushed, but the suspect did not want to press charges, the report said.

Instead, the suspect was arrested and charged with simple battery.

How to deal with nuisance hogs?

Flagler County is looking into using corral traps to capture multiple hogs at once and using drones to track and study them.

SIERRA WILLIAMS STAFF WRITER

Flagler County is looking into new ways to handle a wild hog issue plaguing Flagler County residents.

Public Lands and Natural Resource Manager Michael Lagasse said land management has been trying out two new methods to study and capture nuisance hogs on county lands: drones to track and study the hogs and corral traps to capture multiple at once. The hogs are an invasive species, Lagasse said, with an estimated population size of more than 500,000 in Florida alone.

The issue is how quickly wild hogs can procreate. Female wild hogs are sexually mature at nine months old and have a four-month gestation period when pregnant. Lagasse said a 2016 study calculated that wilds hogs caused almost $6 million in property damage in Florida that year.

“Local residents in HOA

neighborhoods have reported needing to spend thousands of dollars in repeated impacts from homes in recent years just in our county alone,” Lagasse said.

In December 2022, Grand Haven residents were clashing with their homeowners association over hogs tearing up their yards and scaring residents. A year later, Nancy Crouch, an elected representative of Grand Haven and a Community Development District supervisor, said the hogs are causing more damage.

“It got to be so bad that we tried to figure out what measures can we take here,” Crouch said. “So we’ve been trying to hire our own trappers and it’s been hard to find trappers that are licensed and insured.”

One of the new tools Land Management staff has implemented is a corral trap that can capture multiple hogs at once in a humane way.

The traps cost $2,500, not including the posts needed to be installed, or the corn or feed to draw the hogs. Once the trap is set, Lagasse said, it doesn’t need to be moved — it can be reset repeatedly.

The problem, Lagassee said, is then finding the volunteers to come out and dispatch the caught hogs. The county requires hunters and trappers to have a $1 million insurance

policy and a state license to operate on its lands. He said he’s working on an initiative that would allow staff to dispatch the animals.

Lagasse said private residents can implement physical barriers like electric fencing or hog panel fencing or trap or hunt hogs themselves.

Grand Haven does not allow fencing, she said, but is looking into solutions. That’s why she said she was grateful for the workshop meeting hosted by the Flagler County Commission. It shows they’re taking the issue seriously, she said.

Crouch’s biggest concern is resident safety.

“Property damage is one thing,” she said. “But hogs get aggressive, and some hogs have come up to people’s front doors around here.”

For now, Crouch said Grand Haven will continue reporting the hog sightings to the county and educating the residents.

She said the CDD plans to keep following up on how the hogs are managed. It’s going to take a multi-pronged approach, she said.

“I don’t think the problems ever going to go away,” Crouch said. “But we have to be able to figure out a way to manage it, even if we work with other entities to help do that.”

A 2016 study calculated wilds hogs caused almost $6 million in property damage in Florida.

Stock photo

BRIEFS

Flagler County men convicted in federal drug enforcement case

Two men from Palm Coast and Bunnell have been found guilty of conspiracy to distribute controlled substances by a federal jury.

Alfred Lamar Shavers, 49, from Bunnell, and Tyrone James Jones, 56, from Palm Coast, were both charged on Feb. 23, alongside seven coconspirators in a superseding indictment resulting from a joint, multi-state investigation, a press release from Florida’s Middle District’s United States Attorney office said. Their sentencing hearings have been scheduled for May 28, 2024.

The case was part of an Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force operation and is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Michael Sartoian and Special Assistant United States Attorney Matthew Del Mastro.

Both Shavers and Jones were convicted of other charges as well, the press release said. Jones was also convicted of distributing methamphetamine on two separate occasions and Shavers of possessing a firearm as a convicted felon.

According to trial evidence, Shavers and Jones were local drug dealers and part of a drug trafficking organization that imported meth and cocaine from Mexico into California, Arizona and across the U.S., the press release said.

Investigators executed six search warrants in October 2022 in Palm Coast, Bunnell and Daytona Beach, including at Shaver’s home.

Multiple agencies worked together during the investigation.

trict 5 seat against incumbent Cheryl Massaro.

Two School Board seats are up for election in the Aug. 20 primary. Paul Mucciolo is currently running unopposed for the District 3 seat. District 3 incumbent Colleen Conklin announced that she is stepping down after 24 years on the board.

Sullivan is a partner at Chiumento Law and a board member of the Flagler County Education Foundation. A 2008 graduate of Matanzas High School, Sullivan has been actively involved in community service.

He received last year’s Ed Foundation “Make It Happen” award. He recently received one of the inaugural “36 Under 36” awards from the Florida Bar Young Lawyers Division, recognizing lawyers under the age of 36 who exemplify the highest standards of professionalism in their practice.

Sullivan co-founded Chiumento CARES, a philanthropic initiative focused on finding solutions for homeless students through fundraising efforts and benefiting the Flagler Families in Transition program. Sullivan participates in the Law and Justice program at Matanzas High School.

“As a first-generation Matanzas High School graduate, I understand the importance of a strong education system,” Sullivan said in a

press release. “My commitment to Flagler County is personal, and I am eager to contribute to the continued success of our schools.”

Seabreeze celebrates new improvements to home field

The Seabreeze High School baseball team celebrated new upgrades to its home field at the Ormond Beach Sports Complex with a ribbon-cutting on Tuesday, Feb. 27. Joined by city officials and community members, the baseball team and Seabreeze Principal Tucker Harris cut the ribbon prior to the team’s game against the Deltona Wolves. The field improvements — made possible thanks to a grant by the Daytona Beach Racing and Recreational Facilities District, and donations by the Daytona Turkey Run, the Seabreeze Baseball Booster Club, the Katsikos and Sanders families, as well as Newkirk Engineering — include a covered batting cage, a new turf halo

surrounding home plate and windscreens.

Head coach Jeff Lemon thanked the donors for their support.

“Pretty much all the fundraising, everything that we do, ever since we’ve been here, we’ve always said, ‘Anything that we raise is going to go right back to these guys,’” Lemon said. “... It’s truly turned it into a first-class operation.”

City Commissioner Susan Persis said the improved field is “absolutely fabulous.”

“This is what we love,” she said. “We want our kids to have a place to go out and play and enjoy themselves and play sports — whatever it is, baseball, soccer, football. It’s just wonderful.”

35-year-old Palm Coast man killed in crash in west Flagler County

A 35-year-old Palm Coast man was killed on Feb. 21 when his motorcycle collided head on with a pickup truck.

The crash happened 8:35 p.m. at County Road 305 and State Road 100 in unincorporated Flagler County, according to a crash report from the Florida Highway Patrol. The truck was carrying two people and driving west on S.R. 100. The pickup truck made a left turn onto C.R. 305 and the motorcyclist, driving east on S.R. 100, hit the front of the pickup truck. The motorcyclist was pronounced dead at the scene by Flagler County Fire rescue. Neither passenger in the pickup truck was injured, the report said.

One killed, two in serious condition after three-car crash on S.R. 100

A 24-year-old Bunnell woman was killed on Feb. 25 after a sedan sideswiped a pickup truck on State Road 100, a Florida Highway Patrol report said. The woman was one of four passengers in the pickup truck, going west on S.R. 100 near Deen Road at 10:43 a.m. when the crash happened. The sedan was driving east when it crossed over the centerline and hit the pickup, the report said. The pickup’s driver lost control of the truck, crossing the center lane and colliding head-on with a SUV driving east. The pickup rolled over, landed upright and came to a stop in the road, while the SUV went into a ditch, the report said.

Of the pickup truck’s four passengers, all from Bunnell, the 24-year-old woman was killed while the driver, a 49-year-old woman, is in serious condition. The other two passengers — a 29-year-old man and a 14-year-old boy — sustained minor injuries.

The driver of the SUV, from Altamonte Springs, also was seriously injured in the crash. The sedan’s driver, a 59-yearold female, and the 13-yearold passenger, both from Daytona Beach, were uninjured.

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Seabreeze baseball head coach Jeff Lemons speaks during the ribbon-cutting on Feb. 27. Photo by Jarleene Almenas

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FOUNDATION RISK PARTNERS WELCOMES NEW LEADERSHIP

Foundation Risk Partners has promoted Chris Bell to chief administrative officer and Natalie Corbett to chief human resources officer, a press release announced Wednesday, Feb. 21.

The promotions came after Tom Tinsley, who will begin to enjoy semiretirement as he moves to his new role as senior advisor at FRP.

Tinsley, a co-founder of FRP, served as chief administrative officer since 2017.

Bell joined FRP in 2021 and quickly transformed the company’s approach to acquisition integration, according to the press release. He’s led enhancements to FRP’s strategic planning

and reporting processes and has improved enterprise program management efforts. Prior to coming to FRP, Bell worked at Fifth Third Bank for 22 years. Corbett comes to FRP from Global Atlantic Financial Group, where she was head of human resources. Prior to that, she worked as a human resources officer at Cigna Healthcare.

WILD RABBIT BISTRO IN ORMOND BEACH NOW OFFERS DINNER

Wild Rabbit Bistro has a new dinner service.

The restaurant, located at 48 E. Granada Blvd. in the Gaslamp Shoppes, will be open for dinner on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays from 4-8 p.m., according to a news release. Wild Rabbit Bistro, known for its vegan, vegetarian and gluten-free options,

has been open in Ormond Beach since 2017. Restaurant owners Laura and Steve Hannan said in the news release that they are excited about the expansion of their offerings and services. “We have really loved offering organic, wholesome and locally-sourced ingredients to our loyal diners and are thrilled to offer dinner and a ‘Hoppy Hour’ experience, too,” Laura Hannan said. “The fresh and local experience will allow us to offer dinner in a way that Ormond hasn’t previously experienced, and we look forward to welcoming folks for dinner, wines, desserts — as a destination — as well as a stop for the many community ‘nights out’ here in Historic Ormond Beach.”

The dinner service will also offer red-meat dishes, such as new grassfed beef burgers. There will also be Mahi Mahi and salmon dishes and new sides such as a three-cheese mac and cheese.

In addition to the dinner hours, Wild Rabbit Bistro is open Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

COSTCO IS NOW OPEN AT ONE DAYTONA

One Daytona celebrated the opening of Costco with a ribbon-cutting on Thursday, Feb. 22.

Located in the northwest section of One Daytona next to the CMX Daytona Luxury Theatre, the new Costco spans about 150,000 square feet and has a members-only gas station. It is the only Costco location to display a checkered flag pattern on the storefront, paying tribute to its proximity to the Daytona International Speedway.

The ceremony was attended by Costco executives and local representatives, including Daytona Beach Mayor Derrick Henry, who spoke on the city’s partnership with One Daytona. The Costco at One Daytona is forgoing the shopping and entertainment center’s 1% amenity fee, which is added to each purchase at One Daytona to offset development investments.

“We promised when we partnered with One Daytona to bring the best in class to this particular facility,” Henry said. “I want to thank [Lesa] France Kennedy, the folks at One Daytona and the folks at Costco for helping us deliver on that promise, because Costco is serving the best in class.”

Costco is open 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Thursday; 10 a,m. to 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday; and 12-8 p.m. on Sundays.

Ellianos Coffee was founded in 2002 in Lake City by entrepreneurs Scott and Pam Stewart. Courtesy photos

Wild Rabbit Bistro owners Laura and Steve Hannan.

Volusia County’s first Costco opened on Thursday, Feb. 22.

Flagler County approves next stage in Hunter’s Ridge

The development, known as Gardenside, is the first phase of a 29-acre, single-family residential subdivision within the Hunter’s Ridge development.

SIERRA WILLIAMS STAFF WRITER

The Flagler County Commission has universally approved the final step of a 76-lot development in Ormond Station, located within Hunter’s Ridge.

The development, known as Gardenside, is the first phase of a 29-acre, single-family residential subdivisiont.

Located on Airport Road, west of the Hunter’s Ridge Boulevard roundabout and extension, the development is on 29 acres.

The commission approved the change at its Feb. 19 meeting. Commission Chair Andy Dance said the development is already under construction since the preliminary plat was previously approved.

“They’re just bonding a remainder of the finished work so that they can sell their their parcels basically,” he said.

Two other developments are planned for Ormond Station as well, called Woodside and Amberwoods. These development applications were approved by the Flagler County Commission last August.

Amberwoods, on 14 acres, would add 40 single-family homes on Airport Road, just east of Hunter’s Ridge Boulevard.

Woodside is on 21 acres of land on the south side of Airport Road and west of Hunter’s Ridge Boulevard. The developer would build between six to 10 single-family homes per acre for that development, according to Woodside’s site plan.

Flagler County Growth Mannagement Director Adam Mengel said Greenside is wrapping up its utility infrastructure.

Hunter’s Ridge has an agreement with Ormond Beach about using its water for the development, but last October, Ormond Beach threatened to shut off water utilities when it said Hunter’s Ridge violated agreements with the city.

The city has since filed lawsuits against the developer and Flagler County.

Despite the ongoing legal action between Ormond Beach, the Hunter’s Ridge developer and Flagler County, the development is continuing smoothly.

“So this is, best we know, still moving forward still under that vested agreement,” Mengel said.

The commission also approved an application to expand Ormond Station’s proposed Community Development District.

A CDD is a special-purpose government that functions as a way for developers to finance the infrastructure costs of a large residential community.

The expansion adds the Greenside development to the current Ormond Station CDD boundaries, located on the northeast side of the Hunter’s Ridge Boulevard roundabout.

Mengel said the CDD’s boundaries first only included the 38-acre Groveside, which was the first development in the Hunter’s Ridge development.

When phase two of Greenside comes to the County Commission for approval, he said, the board will also see another CDD expansion request.

The land between the two developments is not part of the CDD, but land in the CDD does not have to be contiguous, Mengel said.

Email Sierra Williams at Sierra@ observerlocalnews.com

Teacher runs for Lions Club International director

ALEXIS MILLER CONTRIBUTING WRITER

For over 30 years, Jacquie Tripp has had a love for teaching. This passion has transcended into something more with the Ormond-by-the-Sea Lions Club.

Tripp is running for International Director of Lions Clubs, and in May, during the Lions Multiple District convention in Orlando, she will run against a candidate from Miami to move on to the next level, which involves an interview with an international board member. The candidates will then continue their campaign for international director.

“I’m trying to help the Lions Club get fresh ideas, get fresh members and do a full refresh; kind of like cleaning a closet and rearranging things,” Tripp said.

Tripp grew up in Omaha, Nebraska, where she graduated with her bachelor’s degree in elementary and special education at Kearney State University, and later her master’s degree in counseling and human development from Troy State University. She began teaching in 1984 and moved to Florida seven years later.

Tripp taught at Seabreeze High School for 15 years as a special education reading teacher and a guidance counselor. In 2016, she retired and moved to Cocoa Beach — though she continues to be an associate member of the Ormond-by-the-Sea Lions Club. After taking a few years off, Tripp decided she wasn’t done teaching and got a job at Gulfview Elementary School.

She joined the Lions Club in 1999. Throughout this time, she attended training sessions through Lions Club International and was licensed and certified as an instructor. She taught

at an institute in Florida and surrounding states, and eventually was asked by the current international president to be an instructor for district governors.

“In her 20-plus years of being a member, she has not missed a meeting and has perfect attendance which is remarkable,” said Bobbie Cheh, a fellow Lions Club member. “She’s a very dedicated person, her persona, her attitude, she’s a teacher by trade and she enjoys teaching people, and in Lions that’s what you need to do to help and serve the community. She goes above and beyond, and she is a great person all around.”

The Lions Club was founded in October 1917 and has expanded to 250 countries with over 1.4 million members. The organization’s current goal is to expand their numbers and reach 1.5 million members.

Last year, Tripp went to St. Charles, Illinois, and spent a week training over 750 district governors

from around the world. But while she was an instructor, she was learning too.

“My favorite class in college was cultural geography,” she said. “Learning about the different foods, and different mannerisms was fascinating. When I was teaching in St. Charles, I had several students from India, and I wondered about certain physical behaviors that they were doing that I didn’t understand. So, when I finally got home, I started asking around and researching the different conversational attitude and types, and how the address to each other.”

Tripp is part of the Satellite Beach club in Cocoa Beach as well, which raises money by parking cars at car shows and packaging food during the holidays. Last year, they gave away over 230 boxes of food at Christmas.

Tripp also helps with Family Promise of Brevard, an outreach program in partnership with St. David’s by the Sea Episcopal Church in Cocoa Beach, that aims to prevent families from becoming homeless. She was been part of initiatives that provide food for people in need, diapers and canned food for Mother’s Day and school supplies for Kafeel Elementary School.

The Lions Club International Board is made up of a president, three vice presidents and 34 international directors. To become an international director, one has to have training as well as have previously served as a district governor, which Tripp did in 2015 and 2016.

Past elections used to have a rule that, in order to run for international direction, a candidate had to have 1,250 members in their district, but with member numbers decreasing in the U.S., the international board removed the rule, allowing Tripp a chance to run.

“She takes advantage of every opportunity that she can to learn more about the Lions Club, so she can leave with a new perspective,” said Greg Evan, Lions Club member and restaurant owner of Alfie’s in Ormond-By-the-Sea.

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Jacquie Tripp, who taught at Seabreeze High School for 15 years, is vying for an international position with the Lions Club.

Jacquie Tripp with Alfie at Alfie’s restaurant in Ormond By the Sea. Photo courtesy of Jacquie Tripp

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

I say no to defunding school resource deputies’

Dear Editor:

I am 100% adamantly opposed to any attempt whatsoever by the Flagler County Board of Commissioners to defund our School Resource Deputy program.

Even the mere mention of this by County Administrator Heidi Petito is reckless, shameful and endangers the lives of students, teachers and school staff.

As a journalist, I covered too many horrible school shootings in person, from Paducah, Columbine, Sandy Hook, and countless others in between. I witnessed parents overwhelmed with devastating grief, saw tearful families at candle light vigils, and attended way too many sorrowful funerals.

As vice-mayor of Palm Coast, I stand with, and fully support Sher-

iff Rick Staly, and the brave deputies that protect our schools. Know this: There is no compromise on this issue. We should be increasing, not defunding law enforcement. As your next county commissioner, I will always vote to defend the safety of our children — always!

ED DANKO Palm Coast Editor’s Note: Ed Danko is a candidate for County Commission.

Offer solutions, not just problems

Dear Editor:

In response to Ed Danko’s letter concerning the latest dust up with our county administrator over funding school resource deputies:

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School safety is quite the no-brainer issue, but as usual he has missed the point. Your previous voting record on the Palm Coast City Council reveals your true intentions of giving certain special interests exactly what they are looking for regardless of the consequences to the residents and voting public. Voting no on the raising of water rates is exactly the same as the school resource deputy question. You answer the question without offering a single remedy for the funding issue facing our county and our residents.

Solutions to problems is what our residents deserve. Anybody can just say no.

I, on the other hand, could answer the question of the SRD funding with a reduction of the funding by $400,000 and a reduction of $300,000 for the adult daycare service we provide for the

Who will survive Temptation Table?

Memories of a mean middle school game offer Observer columnist Mike Cavaliere perspective on parenting.

At age 11 — next summer, she’ll be “almost 13,” she’d want you to know — my stepdaughter, Charlotte, is finally old enough to bully her parents.

“Your butt is squishy,” she tells my wife, who tries to take it as a compliment.

Then she gets me in her sights: “Is your forehead so big because you’re losing your hair?”

Her attacks are sometimes sneakier. Last week, she begged us to watch a movie then, once we agreed, she set out on a Napoleonic campaign to ruin said movie by relentlessly repeating “bruh” throughout it, anytime something “weird,” such as dialogue or action,

DEFRANCO WINS GARDEN OF THE MONTH

Laura Defranco of Fordney Place, Palm Coast has been recognized as March 2024 Selection of the Month by The Garden Club at Palm Coast. Defranco found her interest in

in 2013. Defranco

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occurred onscreen.

It was a blitzkrieg of “bruhs.” A bombardment. Our spirits were quickly broken.

But we had this coming. Like death and taxes, the karmic onslaught known as Parenting is one of life’s few certainties. In our youth, we unknowingly sowed nuclear seeds, and now, honest farmers that we are, we reap radioactive fruit, the kind that grows eyes, a mouth and an attitude — all the better to sneer at you with whenever you do something “cringe,” like make a dinner that’s not chicken nuggets.

We were no angels.

Eighth grade, Indian Trails Middle School, 2000: My friends and I weren’t yet farmers. We were terrorists, and we hated grownups most of all: the way they flaunted their freedom — to drive, say “no,” stay up past 8. To hit ’em where it hurts, Will and I once perforated a fresh cantaloup with blow darts in his parents’ living room. Simon and I once pushed a swivel chair down his parents’ staircase, cratering a hole in the drywall at the foot of the

has an eye for color and her garden beds are a way of expressing herself artistically.

She has over 30 different varieties of plants, bushes, and trees, with a century plant as focal point in her front bed. Her favorites are bromeliads, kalanchoes, and especially the coral-colored geraniums that she was given by a former member of the Garden Club, Marian Handshur. Handshur passed away in 2018, but her memory and flowers live on in Defranco’s yard and flower beds, especially these very hardy geraniums, and they seem to bloom almost year-round. Handshur had also given her a crinum lily and cardboard palm.

BUNNELL CITY MANAGER TO BE IN HALL OF FAME

Bunnell City Manager Alvin Jackson Jr. will be inducted into the Lake County Schools Alumni Hall of Fame on March 5.

Jackson graduated Eustis High School in Lake County in 1979, and served as the Director of Human Services in Eustis for several years, a Bunnell press release said. The inductees will be added to the Alumni Hall of Fame at the Education Foundation of Lake County’s Night of Stars event.

steps. But we were equal-opportunity crusaders. If no adults were available, we happily terrorized each other.

“The name of the game is Temptation Table!” I announced to my classmates in the cafeteria. The rules were simple: Every day, write a friend’s name on a piece of paper. You get the most votes, you’re gone. Find a new lunch table, bruh.

We were inspired by “Temptation Island,” a new reality TV program that was part dating show, part “Survivor,” all lust, desperation and rejection — which, coincidentally, are the words I’d use to describe the whole of my childhood.

“You are the weakest link!” we’d happily tell each day’s loser, borrowing from other reality shows as needed to twist the knife. “Goodbye!”

Then this schlub would slink away to sit alone, and the rest of us would laugh and laugh — until the next day, that is, when it was time to vote again, banish another friend again, until just one of us remained — one 13-year-old to rule them all.

None of us saw this as bullying, though. Remember: We were still just radioactive fruit, products of our parents’ mistakes, unaware of

While serving in Human Services in Eustis, Jackson implemented a day in Tallahassee, which later became “Lake County Day in Tallahassee,” where county leaders meet with lawmakers, the press release said.

Jackson is known for his organization and mobilization skills, and his inspirational leadership, the press release said. Jackson has served as Bunnell’s city manager since October 2018.

“It is Dr. Jackson’s creative and innovative thinking which, in our opinion, has put him in a class of his own,” the press release said. “We are lucky to be on the receiving end of his creativity and innovation.”

FOOD TRUCK PALOOZA TO KICK OFF MILLION DOLLAR FOOD-A-THON

The third annual Million Dollar FoodA-Thon kicks off Saturday, March 16, with “Food Truck Palooza.” Over

residents of Flagler County. As for the upgrades for our water system, it should fall solely on those who are bringing the growth, not on those existing residents who haven’t caused said growth. A raise to the impact fees is just as required now as it was the last time we had this conversation just three short years ago. I most definitely wouldn’t offer reducing the road budget by $2 million as you suggested, for that is a priority for the residents and the city alike.

PAUL ANDERSON

Palm Coast

Editor’s Note: Paul Anderson is a candidate for County Commission. Also, at the Feb. 20 City Council meeting, Ed Danko voted to increase the utility impact fees while keeping the residential user fees flat.

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our place in this cosmic cycle.

Around this time, we started launching full Dasani bottles down the length of the cafeteria table. We’d rear back then slide the bottles rocket-fast past our classmates’ Styrofoam lunch trays, or maybe into them, blasting their food into their laps or knocking their milk cartons over to glug-glug onto the tabletop. As we threw each one, we’d howl, “MISS-ILE!” (pronounced: miss-eye-ull), then dreamily crunch into our Dunkaroos, sure that life would always be this simple.

“IsThat … your … finalAn-saw?”

I asked as Regis Philbin when it was my turn to count Temptation Table votes. I peeked at the name scrawled on the first slip of paper: “mIKe,” it read.

I’d survived weeks so far, but Will and Simon were stiff competition. Both were funny and well-liked and had dogs to play with during sleepovers. All I had at home was my collection of Pez dispensers. This did not bode well.

Another slip: another “MIKE.”

Uh oh.

“This game is stupid anyway,” I probably told them then, stopping the count to suggest that sitting together is actually way more fun. And let’s oppose bullying, guys. And let’s be inclusive. Be the change.

40 food trucks, live entertainment, kids fun zone, street vendors and a muscle/collector car show will take over the Flagler Palm Coast High School parking lot on Bulldog Drive. The event is scheduled for 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Southern Chaos and Robert Keele Band will entertain. A parking donation of $5 and a percentage of food truck sales goes directly to Grace Community Food Pantry.

“We’re asking everybody to come out eat some great food, have a good time, enjoy live music and bring the kids,” David Ayres, Flagler Broadcasting’s president and general manager said. Pastor Charles Silano, chairman of Grace Community Food Pantry, said the pantry fed 4,500 families a month last year.

“This year,” he said, “we have over 5,500 families in need.”

Each family registered with the food pantry receives a box filled with a healthy variety of foods that would cost about $150 at a grocery store. Silano has wholesale buying power so he can buy a $150 box of food for about $30.

The Food-A-Thon does more than feed local families in need. The money families don’t have to pay for food can go for car payments, gas, medical expenses, children’s clothing, etc.

VETERAN OF THE WEEK

Robert M. Pendleton

 Branch of military: U.S. Air Force  Dates of service: 1961-1967  Rank/occupation: Airman First Class / Still Photographer  Hometown: Charlotte, North Carolina

Robert Pendleton says his military enlistment was both exciting and rewarding. He was trained as a still photographer and his duties included traveling the world taking photographs of topography. The work was important for military intelligence on the existence of the location and the distance between ground features, such as populated places and routes of travel, and communication. It aided our military forces dispersed throughout the world, with reliable maps that provide information to our combat elements and resolve logistical operations far from our shores. Upon his honorable discharge, Pendleton utilized his military skills to become a civilian cartographer by trade. He worked diligently making maps of the world for the Department of the Interior in the Office of Aviation Services. His job afforded him the opportunity to visit many exotic destinations like Africa, Paris, India and many more. He would earn an associate degree in aviation technology which fostered a love for aviation, and he logged 117 hours as a private pilot. He later would earn a bachelor’s degree in historical writing and research from George Mason University. In 2005, he published his first book titled “Traveller: General Robert E. Lee’s Favorite Greenbrier War Horse.” Pendleton additionally used his research talents to discover and reveal the stories of wounded soldiers who never received their Purple Heart medals, which resulted in many forgotten honors being awarded. Pendleton now enjoys retirement in Palm Coast.

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SIERRA WILLIAMS STAFF WRITER

Bronx House Pizza’s Hammock location on State Road A1A raised $84,000 for the Little Smiles charity in just one day.

Bronx House partnered with musician and rapper Robert Van Winkle, known professionally as Vanilla Ice, to promote the event. The restaurant made almost $50,000 in sales at the Feb. 25 event and donated 100% of it to Little Smiles. The remaining funds were raised through donations.

Little Smiles will be donating the funds to Halifax Health Medical Center’s pediatric unit. Little Smiles senior manager Luke Lostroscio said Little Smiles works with local businesses and community events to

fundraise. The organization focuses on bringing smiles to children facing tough times, from hospital stays to those in abuse shelters.

It was last minute organizing it all, Lostroscio said, but this is what Little Smiles does.

“That’s our specialty is right there,” he said. “It’s working with the kids, working with the families to create those smiles anyway we can.”

Bronx House partner Brad Beam said Little Smiles had already purchased multiple bins of books and toys for the children at Halifax.

Fundraising for charity is a core value at Bronx House, Bronx House co-founder Bruno DiFabio said. The restaurant chain hosts monthly charity fundraising events and regularly works with multiple local charities to give back to the community.

This time, DiFabio said, they decided to commit 100% of their Hammock location’s sales on Feb. 25 to Little Smiles.

“That’s unheard of in Flagler County,” he said. “I don’t think anybody has had the nerve to or has

really put their money where their mouth is to donate 100% of sales.”

DiFabio said during tough times, people don’t often think about charitable donations. Everybody is hurting, he said.

“We want to kind of lead by example, and not a cop out like oh, a 10% of this or that,” DiFabio said. “We wanted it to hurt 100%.”

Co-founder Michael Bennici said even their employees across the different stores were jumping to come help out during the event. And while the team knew to expect a big crowd, Bennici said Hammock location had filled over 1,000 tickets by 4:30 p.m.

“I’m blown away by the show of

support from the community,” he said.

So many people showed up, Beam said, that Bronx House actually opened at 11 a.m., instead of 12 p.m. to start serving food. By the end of the day, Beam said over text, the restaurant had 1,900 ticket sales. DiFabio said he and his partners have decided to make the charity event an annual fundraiser where it donates its sales for one day.

“It’s got to hurt,” DiFabio said. “And we hope that we hope in turn that [others] will follow in our footsteps.” In anticipation for the charity event, Bronx House set up a beer garden outside with a DJ. Van Winkle was in and out during the event, but showed up at 4:30 p.m. to sign autographs alongside a social media influencer called “The Greatness,” known for helping those in need by handing out cash.

Later on, Van Winkle performed in the beer garden, bringing two of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on stage with him.

While Van Winkle signed autographs, the Little Smiles team brought up Jacob Hilliker, 18, to meet Van Winkle. Jacob has duchenne muscular dystrophy, a hereditary and terminal neuromuscular condi-

tion.

In November, Tom Hilliker, Jacob’s father, said Jacob went into pulmonary arrest twice and needed a permanent tracheostomy.

This is the family’s first trip since the hospitalization, Hilliker said, and getting to meet Van Winkle was amazing for Jacob, who loves the celebrity’s music and shows.

“[Jacob] just absolutely adores what he does and big fan,” he said said. “... How many times in a lifetime are you going to meet your idol? And for Jake, Ice is one of his favorites.”

Hilliker said they called Bronx House after seeing Van Winkle’s TikTok promoting the event, hoping to arrange a meet up for Jacob. Bronx House connected them to Van Winkle and Little Smiles, which arranged for the family to come down to Palm Coast for the event, including paying for their stay.

Hilliker said none of them had the slightest idea Little Smiles would also offer to pay for two days at a Disney, with a resort stay. The Greatness also gave Jacob $1,500 to spend at Disney, too, Hilliker said.

“It’s been an episode that we didn’t expect and kind of just coming out from nowhere,” Hilliker said. “So, you know, it is a dream vacation.”

Dena Tognotti, Jim Stedry, Jethro Thirteen and Kathy Fraser at the Bronx House Pizza-Vanilla Ice charity event.

Mikkie Turner brought a cardboard stand-in of Vanilla Ice to Bronx House Pizza for the charity event.

Krewe of the 13 members Kathy Allen, Rachelle Caldwell and Noelle Gault dressed up for the event.

Rapper Vanilla Ice performs “Ice, Ice, Baby” at Bronx House Pizza on Feb. 25.

Photos by Sierra Williams

REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS

House on the Intracoastal sells for over $1.6 million

Ahouse in Harbor Village Marina was the top real estate transaction for Jan. 4-10 in Palm Coast and Flagler County. Jerry Barnette, Jr. and Christina Barnette, of Palm Coast, sold 230 Yacht Harbor Drive to Claire Burke, of Palm Coast, for $1,612,000. Built in 2020, the house is a 3/3.5 and has a pool, a hot tub and 3,381 square feet.

ALEXIS MILLER

CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Condos

John Samarkos and Maria Elena Samarkos, of St. Petersburg, sold 600 Cinnamon Beach Way, Unit 535, to KBJB Holdings, LLC, of Cincinnati, Ohio, for $886,500. Built in 2004, the condo is a 3/3 and has 2,003 square feet. It sold in 2004 for $829,500.

John Benjamin and Shannon Cavazzi, of Flagler Beach, sold 3510 South Ocean Shore Blvd., Unit 109, to Gregory Mohler and Sandra DyeMohler, of Pickerington, Ohio, for $355,000. Built in 1978, the condo is a 2/2 and has 1,107 square feet. It sold in 2017 for $200,000.

Kerry Mihalek and Elizabeth Nader, as trustees, sold 19 Avenue De La Mer, Unit 205, to William Cliett, Jr., of Palm Coast, for $1,200,000. Built in 2005, the condo is a 3/2.5 and has 2,340 square feet. It sold in 2020 for $689,500.

Richard and Karen MacGuire, as trustees, sold 600 Cinnamon beach Way, Unit 543, to Vincent DeGeare and Mary Beth DeGeare, of Louisville, Kentucky, for $699,000. Built in 2004, the condo is a 3/2 and has 1,344 square feet. It sold in 2004 for $529,500.

FLAGLER BEACH

Flagler Beach Polo Club West Hulbert Homes, Inc., of Lakeland, sold 63 Steeplechase Trail to Gregory Parish and Zohra Ghilzai, of Flagler Beach, for $1,450,000. Built in 2023, the house is a 5/5 and has a pool, a casida and 3,575 square feet.

PALM COAST

Belle Terre Seagate homes, LLC, of Palm Coast, sold 240 Parkview Drive to Debra Lewis, of Palm Coast, for $369,000. Built in 2023, the house is a 3/2 and has 1,832 square feet.

Easthampton

Blue Crown Construction, Inc., of Orlando, sold 39 Edgely Lane to Vita and Joseph Kramarenko, of Palm Coast, for $583,000. Built in

2022, the house is a 4/3 and has 2,424 square feet.

Harbor Village Marina

Kimberley Kangos, of Palm Coast, sold 254 Harbor Village Point North to Ian and Suzanne Kaswan, of Palm Coast, for $1,145,000. Built in 2015, the house is a 4/3.5 and has a pool, a hot tub and 2,790 square feet. It sold in 2016 for $522,500.

Lakeside at Matanzas Shores

Michael and Melissa Taliaferro, of Palm Coast, sold 4 San Rafael Court to Florence Susan Morrell and Robert Scott Morrell, of Palm Coast, for $507,000. Built in 1996, the house is a 3/2 and has 1,812 square feet. It sold in 2019 for $294,000.

Palm Harbor Joann Kozik, of Boynton Beach, sold 98 Forest Hill Drive to Brian Scott and Krishna Doucet, of Palm Coast, for $300,000. Built in 1987, the house is a 2/2 and has a pool and 1,368 square feet. It sold in 1987 for $73,800.

Pine Lakes Saritta Roeun, Peng Eng and Chattra Roeun, of Palm Coast, sold 1 Wellside Lane to William Korff, of Palm Coast, for $312,000. Built in 1988, the house is a 3/2 and has 2,215 square feet. It sold in 2012 for $70,500.

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

stars: Tobias Svantesson, Sylvia Whitehouse, Ivan Lendl and Mikael Pernfors.

Legends help celebrate new pickleball courts at resort

Memberships at Hammock Beach are now available.

Hammock Beach Golf Resort & Spa unveiled four new pickleball courts at 106 Yacht Harbor Drive, Palm Coast, with a grand opening Feb. 27, with the help of tennis and pickleball legends.

“Pickleball is the fastest growing sport not only in our country, but probably in the world. It was very much needed to add these courts,” said Brad Hauer, Hammock Beach Club General Manager.

In addition to the new pickleball courts, racket sports, golf and swimming are also offered to club members, as explained by Hauer.

The event began with a ribbon-cutting ceremony, followed by legends of tennis Ivan Lendl, Tobias Svantesson and Mikael Pernfors, as well as legend-

ary pickleball star Sylvia Whitehouse, competing in the court’s first exhibition match.

“We’re hoping to get new memberships from this, and I have a feeling that there will be more pickleball courts in the future,” said Marianne Murphy, Hammock Beach Club Director of Membership.

Whitehouse, who has won the U.S. Pickleball Open eight times, said: “I told Hammock Beach, they should build pickleball courts. So I’m happy.”

SEE FOR YOURSELF

To become a member, visit www.theclubathammockbeach.com

Pool home tops the sales list in Ormond

Beach

Ahouse in Royal Dunes was the top real estate transaction for Jan. 14-20 in Ormond Beach and Ormond-by-the-Sea. Royal Dunes

LLC, of Boca Raton, sold 236 Royal Dunes Circle to Glenn Garritano, of Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, for $605,000. Built in 1963, the 4/3 house has a pool, a fireplace and 2,668 square feet. It sold in 2023 for $175,000.

ALEXIS MILLER

CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Condos

Hector Reyes and Yarissa Ortiz Reyes, of St. Augustine, sold 3170 Ocean Shore Blvd., Unit 202, to Stephen and Diann Gerling, of Whitesboro, New York, for $322,000. Built in 1994, the condo is a 2/2 and has 876 square feet. It sold in 2020 for $251,000.

Double Trinity LLC, of Ormond Beach, sold 3370 Ocean Shore Blvd., Unit 5070, to William and Patricia Elmore, of Athens, Ohio, for $340,000. Built in 1987, the condo is a 2/2 and has 1,275 square feet. It sold in 2023 for $229,000.

ORMOND BEACH

Fair Oaks

James Murvine and Ann Lee, of Daytona Beach, sold 12 Fair Oaks Circle to Darwin Leigh Patterson, of Ormond Beach, for $239,000. Built in 1979, the house is a 3/2.5 and has a fireplace and 1,391 square feet. It sold in 2014 for $79,900.

Forest Hills

Scott and Christopher Maclean, of Melbourne, sold 388 Military Blvd. to Tania and Robert Vo, of Ormond Beach, for $293,000. Built in 1974, the house is a 3/2 and has 1,475 square feet. It sold in 1976 for $36,500.

Halifax Plantation

Kenneth and Colleen Hougham, of Daytona Beach, sold 1475 Hohe Lane to William and Gail Privitar, of Ormond Beach, for $540,000. Built in 2002, the house is a 3/2 and has a pool and 2,160 square feet. It sold in 2002 for $196,900.

Oak Forest Lym and Yen Tran, of Vero Beach, sold 18 Heather Lane to John Stewart, of Ormond Beach, for $398,000. Built in 1986, the house is a 3/2 and has a fireplace and 1,859 square feet. It sold in 1996 for $112,000.

Ocean Village Jana Simmons, San Antonio, Texas, sold 601 Robin Road, Unit A, to Kevin and Christine McLaughlin, of

Collegeville, Pennsylvania, for $232,000. Built in 1947, the house is a 1/1 and has 504 square feet. It sold in 2023 for $215,000.

Pineland Nicholas Erwin Moulton, as trustee, sold 255 Carabelle Court to Lisa Beasor, of Ormond Beach, for $445,000. Built in 2022, the house is a 5/3 and has 2,674 square feet. It sold in 2022 for $434,000.

Pine Trails Dorman and Stacey Parsons, of Sanger, Texas, sold 5 Torrey Pines Court to Cleo Madison Beaulieu, of Ormond Beach, for $352,500. Built in 1992, the house is a 3/2 and has 1,588 square feet. It sold in 2018 for $182,500.

Tomoka Estates

Gregory Goerl and Janine Marie Papavero, as trustees, sold to Anton and Nevianna Poleganov, of Schaumburg, Illinois, for $395,000. Built in 2001, the house is a 3/2 and has 1,730 square feet. It sold in 2001 for $133,900.

Village of Pine Run Scott and Keith Martin, of Kissimmee, sold 127 Oak Lane to Robert and Janet Ecochardt, of Ormond Beach, for $460,000. Built in 1979, the house is a 4/3 and has a fireplace, an in-law suite and 2,460 square feet. It sold in 1989 for $140,000.

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

The court was opened with a match by tennis and pickleball

YOUR NEIGHBORS

POWWOW FACTOR

Flagler County’s Native American Festival returned for its ninth annual celebration at Princess Place Preserve.

The festival took place on Feb. 24-25 and featured a multitude of craft booths, wildlife exhibits, historical and educa-

tional displays and traditional Native dancing. Most of the Native music performed at the festival was played by Medicine Tail Singers, a Native American performance and drum group.

Booths featured Native art and craftmanship spanning from the Canadian Ojibway

tribe to Mexican Aztecs. Local historical groups demonstrated skills used to survive by indigenous across North America. The festival has been hosted at Princess Place Preserve in Flagler County since 2015.

–SIERRA WILLIAMS

Chris Batista, Douglas Seth finish first, second at Race of the Runways 5K

Angelika Grubel won the women’s title in the 13th annual race at the Flagler Executive Airport.

Normally Chris Batista would be timing the Race of the Runways 5K at the Flagler Executive Airport.

But on Saturday, Feb. 24, Batista left the timing in the capable hands of his staff members at 5K Race Director, and ran the race, winning with a time of 16 minutes, 45.8 seconds.

Batista, 42, who is also the founder of Run 4 a Cause Foundation, is training for the 2024 Boston Marathon. He edged 13-year-old Douglas Seth of Palm Coast, a seventh grader at Buddy Taylor Middle School, who placed second with a time of 16:51.95.

Seth is coming off his Florida Middle School Indoor Championship in the 3,000 meters where he ran the fastest time in the nation this year and the fastest time in Florida history with a 9:33.40.

Angelika Grubel, 52, of Ormond Beach, won the women’s title with a time of 22:46.79.

Runners from age 5 to 84 — 421 finished the race — ran in the 13th annual event. Each runner received a finisher medal modeled after the PBY Catalina airplane and ran under the wing of an actual PBY Catalina just past the race starting point. The runners continued on the airport runways before ending back at the start/finish line. The event benefits the Rotary Club of Flagler Beach.

5K and an after-race party. For complete results, visit runsignup.com/Race/Results/5866#result SetId-439005.

BRENT WORONOFF ASSOCIATE EDITOR

“It’s such a unique race being on a runway,” said Rotarian Sheia Pillath, the event organizer. “We’re really fortunate we’re able to do something like this, and all the proceeds go back into the community.”

The race, which previously had been run during sunset and darkness, was moved up a half hour to 6 p.m.

“It improves safety and we have more daylight and an awesome sun-

set,” Pillath said. The event included a Kiddie Dash, a Virtual

Winner Chris Batista, left, gets a hug from second-place finisher Douglas Seth, a seventh-grader at Buddy Taylor Middle School. Photos by Brent Woronoff

Kiddie Dash runners race to the finish.

Kieth Sharphead points to the crowd to encourage more people to join in the dancing.

Medicine Tail Singers performed many of the dances at the Native American Festival.

Jenny Buitron at the Native American Festival.

Safari Todd from Safari Todd’s Treasures with his juvenile alligator at the Native American Festival.

Harry Little Bird dancing at the Native American Festival. Photos by Sierra Williams

Randy Endicott, of the Canadian Ojibway tribe, is an award-winning Native American artist.

Ravyn Trimble attempts to shoot a bow and arrow under the guidance of a 4 Archery Club member.

LOCAL EVENTS

FRIDAY, MARCH 1

YOGA OUTDOORS

When: 10 a.m.

Where: Ormond Beach Environmental Discovery Center, 601 Division Ave., Ormond

Beach Details: The Environmental Discovery Center is hosting a free outdoor beginner level yoga class by Kim Latford. Chairs available. Mats recommended. Space is limited. Call 386-615-7081.

FREE FAMILY ARTS

NIGHT: HATS

When: 5:30-7 p.m.

Where: Ormond Memorial

Art Museum and Gardens, 78 E. Granada Blvd., Ormond

Beach Details: Create a crazy, fun hat with your family, under the direction of art instructor Linda King. Free program. All art supplies provided. All ages welcome.

MOVIES ON THE HALIFAX

When: 6:30 p.m.

Where: Rockefeller Gardens, 26 Riverside Drive, Ormond Beach Details: Bring a chair or blanket and enjoy a showing of “Barbie,” rated PG-13. Movies are weather-sensitive. Call 386-676-3216 for rainout information.

SATURDAY, MARCH 2

BRIDGES UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

PANCAKE BREAKFAST

When: 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Where: Bridges United Methodist Church fellowship hall, 205 N. Pine St., Bunnell Details: Join Bridges United Methodist Church for a pancake breakfast benefitting the Soul Cafe, which hosts

TRIBUTES

Diane Marie Dixon Dunn September 19, 1943 -January 28, 2024

Diane Marie Dunn, 80, of Ormond Beach, died Jan. 28, 2024, at Advent Health, Daytona Beach. Diane was born Sept. 19, 1943, in Panama City, Panama, Canal Zone, to Lee Robert Dixon, an American from Oklahoma, and Ofelia Solera Flores Dixon of Heredia, Costa Rica. Her first 12 years were lived in Costa Rica and Panama where she attended both a Spanish and later an American school. She retained her fluency in Spanish throughout her life. The family moved to St. Petersburg, Fla., in September 1955, where Diane completed her education at St. Petersburg High School in 1960, where she was a member of National Honor Society, The Dean’s List and President of Sancho Panza Spanish Club.

August 18, 1962, Diane married George D. Dunn (Sandy), also of St. Petersburg. The couple moved to Daytona Beach in 1968, where Sandy represented Sentry Insurance Company. At the time, they had two sons, Daniel and Gregory, joined by a sister, Leanne, in 1969. In 1974, Sandy and Diane built a home in Ormond Beach which Diane designed the plans for her “Dream Home”, literally built and furnished to her specifications where they raised their active family and had a working hog farm and later cows and donkeys.

As the children grew, Diane joined Sandy in the insurance business, becoming a licensed agent in property and casualty and later, life and health. In 1979, the couple established Dunn and Associates Insurance, Inc., where they worked side by side until Diane’s passing. Diane was a member of the National Association of Insurance Women and the local Insurance Women of Daytona Beach Association where she served on the board of directors and as president in 1982-1983.

In 1993, she joined Pilot International and the Pilot Club of the Halifax Area, Inc. and served on the Board of Directors and as President of the local club for 2000-2001 and Co-President with her daughter, Leanne, for 2001-2002. She and Leanne made many memorable trips to International Pilot conventions. Diane was especially proud of her role in organizing the Community Homemakers Club, a division of the Extension Service of the University of Florida, in 1972. She went on to be president of the Volusia County Council of Extension Homemakers from 1978 to 1980.

In 1994, Diane was named an Honorary Life Member of the Volusia County Fair, having served on the Fair’s Board of Directors for over 20 years and as Creative Arts Display Superintendent for several years.

free community meals at the church every Wednesday. Breakfast costs $8 per person. For more information, call 386-437-3258.

HISTORIC HILLSIDE CEMETERY TOURS

When: 10 a.m. and 11 a.m.

Where: Hillside Cemetery, 215 Seton Trail, Ormond Beach

Details: Tour the historic Hillside Cemetery with the Ormond Beach Historical Society. Reenactors and guides will share the stories of Ormond’s founders and early settlers buried at the cemetery. Tour costs $20 per person; free for kids 12 and under. Tickets must be purchased in advance. Visit ormondhistory.org/cemeterytour.

2024 FREE SPEAKER SERIES

When: 10 a.m. to noon

Where: Palm Coast Community Center, 305 Palm Coast Parkway, Palm Coast

Details: The Palm Coast Historical Society is presenting this program on the women who grew and shaped the state. Free program.

SPRINGFEST

When: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Where: Central Park at Town Center, 975 Central Ave., Palm

Diane was a generous soul, an engaging personality who made friends everywhere she went and will always be remembered by her contagious and beautiful smile and her adventurous spirit. She enjoyed creative crafts, cooking, baking, antiquing and traveling. She and Sandy made numerous trips throughout the United States including Alaska and Hawaii, as well as Central America and Europe over the years. They also delighted in treating their five grandchildren to weekend trips to Disney World when they were young. One of Diane’s favorite destinations was Costa Rica where she made many trips to visit members of her mother’s wonderful family. Over the years, she saw to it that all her children and grandchildren got the opportunity to visit her homeland.

In addition to her parents, Diane is predeceased by her brother, Robert L. Dixon and sister in law Connie Purvis. Survivors include her husband and best friend of 62 years, George (Sandy) Dunn; sons Daniel Dunn, Gregory Dunn (Michelle); daughter Leanne Hansard (Wayne); grandchildren, Joshua Hansard (Cait), Austin Hansard (Abby), Brittany Dunn, Ashleigh Dunn and Courtney Payne; great-grandchildren, Cami, Jacob, Aria, Leona and Bennett, Uncle Danilo Solera, Mexico City, Mexico (Isabel Lilia), Multiple Cousins in US, Costa Rica and Mexico, Brother in Law Jerry Purvis, nieces Cindy and Chris, and Angela Rector (Chris).

All 4-H donations in memory of Diane Dunn need to be mailed to: St. Johns County Extension Office 3125 Agricultural Center Drive St. Augustine, FL 32259 Attn: SJC 4-H Program Please make checks payable to the SJC 4-H Association

Pilot International https://www.pilotinternational.org/donate St. Jude https://bit.ly/49v1QAI Shriners https://bit.ly/3UPmsPh

Coast Details: Formerly known as the Flagler County Small Business Expo, SpringFest 2024 is a grant-funded event designed to help connect small businesses with residents. Free. Hosted by the Palm Coast-Flagler Regional Chamber of Commerce.

NORTH ATLANTIC RIGHT

WHALES: HOW YOU CAN HELP!

When: 1 p.m.

Where: Gamble Rogers

Memorial State Recreational Area, 3100 S Oceanshore Blvd., Flagler Beach

Details: Join Sara Ellis and Jim Hain, lead scientists with the Marineland Right Whale Project, for a 45-minute program about the endangered North Atlantic right whale. All ages are welcome, minors must be accompanied by an adult. Park entry costs $5 per vehicle.

ORMOND ART WALK

When: 3-7 p.m.

Where: Ormond Beach

MainStreet Arts District, 128 W. Granada Blvd., Ormond

Beach

Details: Join Ocean Art Gallery, Frame of Mind, Art Spotlight, The Studio by Artist Angel Lowden, the Ormond Memorial Art Museum and more on the first Saturday of each month for art openings and art events.

ERNIE HAASE AND SIGNATURE SOUND

When: 7 p.m.

Where: Ormond Beach Performing Arts Center, 399 N. U.S. 1, Ormond Beach

Details: Ernie Haase and Signature Sound bring their Southern gospel quartet to Ormond Beach. Tickets start at $20. Visit ormondbeachperformingartscenter.csstix. com.

SUNDAY, MARCH 3

KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS PANCAKE BREAKFAST AND BLOOD DRIVE

When: 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Where: St. Brendan Catholic Church, 1000 Ocean Shore Blvd., Ormond Beach

Details: The Father Eamonn Gill Council 13018 Knights of Columbus will serve a pancake breakfast at the Social Hall and the OneBlood Big Red Bus will be onsite to accept blood donations. All donors will receive a free pass to the pancake breakfast, as well as a free gift, $20 eGift card and a complimentary wellness checkup from OneBlood.The breakfast includes all the pancakes you can eat, scrambled eggs, sausage, orange juice and coffee. The breakfast for non-donors costs $6 for adults, and children under 12 eat free. All are welcome.

START SPREADING THE NEWS WITH LIZA AND FRANK

When: 2:30 p.m.

Where: Ormond Beach Performing Arts Center, 399 N. U.S. 1, Ormond Beach

Details: Join Tony Sands as Frank Sinatra and Whitney Grace as Liza Minelli as they share some of the legendary

singers greatest hits. Tickets cost $34. Visit ormondbeachperformingartscenter.csstix. com.

MONDAY, MARCH 4

PALM COAST ASTRONOMY CLUB

When: 5:30-6:30 p.m.

Where: Flagler County Public Library, 2500 Palm Coast Parkway Northwest, Palm

Coast Details: Join the Palm Coast Astronomy Club for its next meeting, themed “Will Astronauts ever live in or explore outer space.” Anyone interested in astronomy is invited to attend.

THURSDAY, MARCH 7

OMAM ROOFTOP DANCE

SOCIAL

When: 6-8 p.m.

Where: Ormond Memorial Art Museum and Gardens, 78 E. Granada Blvd., Ormond Beach

Details: The Arthur Murray Dance Studio will lead a partnered dance social on the rooftop terrace. Cocktail hour will start at 6 p.m. with dancing from 7-8 p.m. Tickets cost $25 per couple for museum members; $35 per couple for non-members. Visit ormondartmuseum.org/calendarevents.

FRIDAY, MARCH 8

YOGA OUTDOORS

When: 10 a.m.

Where: Ormond Beach Environmental Discovery Center, 601 Division Ave., Ormond

Beach

Details: The Environmental Discovery Center is hosting a free outdoor beginner level yoga class by Kim Latford. Chairs available. Mats recommended. Space is limited. Call 386-615-7081.

SATURDAY, MARCH 9

INDIGENOUS FORT

CAROLINE: THE MOCAMA SIDE OF THE STORY

When: 9:30-11 a.m.

Where: Anderson-Price Memorial Building, 42 N. Beach St., Ormond Beach

Details: Denise Bossy, a history professor at the University of North Florida, will present this program on the Mocama side of the story during the 1565 battle between the French and Spanish to control Florida. This is a free program sponsored by the Florida Humanities Speakers Bureau and hosted by the Ormond Beach Historical Society.

SEVENTH ANNUAL STRAWBERRY FEST

When: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Saturday and Sunday, March

9-10

Where: Central Park at Town Center, 975 Central Ave., Palm

Coast

Details: Enjoy strawberries, family festivi-

ties, arts and crafts, beer and wine, vendors, live music and more. Admission costs $7.

ONGOING

ART LEAGUE OF DAYTONA

BEACH’S PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS EXHIBIT

When: 1-4 p.m. Tuesday to Sunday, through March 16

Where: Art League of Daytona Beach,433 S. Palmetto Ave., Daytona Beach

Details: See this exhibit featuring photography by the members of the Art League of Daytona Beach. The exhibit will run through March 16. Visit artleague.org.

WOMEN’S BOOK CLUB

When: 12:30-2 p.m. every Tuesday, beginning Jan. 9

Where: Central Baptist Church, 152 Fairview Ave., Daytona Beach

Details: Join this book club, which will study “Love Stories of the Bible Speak” by Shannon Bream. The book club will meet in the Marchman Building, room 117. Contact Sylvia Meincke at 386-451-5223.

MOMS OF PRE SCHOOLERS

When: 9:30-11:30 a.m. on the second and fourth Friday of the month

Where: Central Baptist Church, 152 Fairview Ave., Daytona Beach

Details: Moms of Pre Schoolers is a free faith-based program for moms, moms-tobe and their preschoolers for support and encouragement. Breakfast is provided, as well as a video with discussion and crafts. Playtime offered for children, with adult supervision. Call 386-255-2588.

EXERCISES FOR THE MATURING BODY

When: 9:30 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.

MOAS EXHIBITIONS

When: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday; 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday

Where: Museum of Arts and Sciences, 352 S. Nova Road, Daytona Beach

Details: Want to spend a day looking at fine art? The Museum of Arts and Sciences has the following shows on display: “The Lure of Florida Fishing” and “Megalodon: Largest Shark that Ever Lived.”

Ron Howell reenacts John Andrew Bostrom during a 2018 Hillside Cemetery tour. File photo by Jarleene Almenas

LACROSSE TOWN RIVALRY

Matanzas outlasts FPC 8-5 for its first win over the Bulldogs in five years.

BRENT WORONOFF ASSOCIATE EDITOR

Over two years ago, when it looked like Matanzas might not field a boys lacrosse team for the 2022 season, Anthony Tavolacci’s older brother, Dominic, transferred to Flagler Palm Coast.

This year, Anthony, a freshman, is a starting defender on the Matanzas lacrosse team. On Thursday, Feb. 22, he helped the Pirates beat the Bulldogs for the first time in five years.

“This is probably the biggest game of the year,” he said after the Pirates’ 8-5 victory on their home field broke FPC’s four-game winning streak against them. “This is the game I’ve been envisioning in my mind.”

The lead changed hands five times before Vincent Ferrugiaro put Matanzas up for good at 6-5 with 7:58 left in the game. The Pirates added two more goals in the final 2 minutes, 19 seconds.

“I think we wore them down,” Matanzas coach Adam Frys said. “We’re very balanced, very deep and we tend to play better in the second half.”

Matanzas improved to 3-2, while FPC was playing its first game of the season. Bulldogs coach Matt Massey was hired just six weeks ago. He inherited a young team that graduated 14 seniors, including Dominic Tavolacci.

“We don’t have a lot of depth, but we do have a lot of fight,” Massey said. “We’re going through our growing pains.”

Frys understands their circumstances. At his first practice two years ago, he was greeted by a total of seven players.

“Matt came into the same situation I came into two years ago,” Frys said. “We’ve got a lot of overlapping story.”

Massey moved here with his family in April. He grew up in Maryland, a lacrosse hotbed, played college lacrosse at Coastal Carolina, and coached at a high school and a couple of travel teams in Georgia. Frys played college lacrosse at Hartwick College and was an assistant high school coach near Binghamton — both in the lacrosse hotbed of Central New York State.

When Massey was hired at FPC, he and Frys got together to discuss how they can advance lacrosse in Flagler County.

“It’s just us here,” Frys said. “We have to work together. We had some FPC kids playing with us in our summer program. Their goalie (sophomore Aiden Commendatore) ran

with us all summer.”

Commendatore had 17 saves in the game as the Pirates pummeled the Bulldogs’ goal with 25 shots.

“Our goalie’s phenomenal,” Massey said.

Senior midfielder Jordan Gales weaved through traffic to score four of FPC’s five goals. He also assisted on a goal by James Payne that tied the score for the final time at 5-5 with 10:23 left in the fourth quarter.

“We put a lot on Jordan’s shoulders,” Massey said.

“That kid’s incredible,” Frys said of Gales.

Jonathan Santiago scored four goals for Matanzas. Ferrugiaro and Mason Bertolini added two goals apiece for the Pirates. Senior midfielder Zach Furey had three assists.

Frys said that after losing to the Bulldogs by 11 or more goals in three

“Even if you don’t think it’s a big deal, in Flagler County it’s a big deal. Our players are going to enjoy this one for sure.”

ADAM FRYS, Matanzas boys lacrosse coach

games over the past two seasons, winning got “the boogeyman off my back.

“It kind of hovers over you,” he said of the rivalry. “Even if you don’t think it’s a big deal, in Flagler County it’s a big deal. Our players are going to enjoy this one for sure.”

Massey told his players not to hang their heads, because it was only their

first game. He left the field encouraged.

“I love the rivalry,” he said. “It was fun.”

Both teams played home games on Tuesday, Feb. 27. Matanzas defeated St. Johns Beachside 17-5, while FPC defeated Tocoi Creek 6-5. Gales, Grant Winkler and Dominick King each scored two goals.

FPC’s Trenton Ellis (8) carries the ball.

Matanzas attackman Mason Bertolini (13) carries the ball as Flagler Palm Coast defender

James Payne comes in to challenge.

FPC’s Grant Winkler tries to get past Matanzas defender Anthony Tavolacci (21).

FPC’s Jace Zecca (7) tries to cut off Matanzas’ Brady Putis (3). Photos by Brent Woronoff

Matanzas’ Jordan Mills hopes to end wrestling career with a state title

Five Flagler Palm Coast wrestlers, including region champs Toryion Stallings and Ethan Laupepa, will join Mills at the boys state championships.

BRENT WORONOFF

ASSOCIATE EDITOR

Jordan Mills is just four wrestling wins away from achieving a lifelong dream.

“Winning state is a big deal to me,” the Matanzas wrestler said. “It’s been a goal of mine since I started wrestling.”

Mills comes from a wrestling family. Two years ago, Jordan and older brother Tyson both earned runnerup titles at the state championships. At this year’s state meet, Feb. 29 to March 2 at the Silver Spurs Arena in Kissimmee, Jordan and his sister Mariah are both expected to be in the hunt for a state title.

Jordan Mills’ junior season was cut short due to a shoulder injury that required surgery. This year he moved up to 190 pounds and has not lost a match, compiling a 49-0 record. He defeated Tennessee state champ Lucas Szymborski in the finals of the Knockout Christmas Classic in Kissimmee and beat Class 3A topranked Chris Sanchez of South Dade in the final at the Cradle Cancer Invitational in Jensen Beach.

Mills defeated New Smyrna Beach’s Sawyer VanRider (41-6) for the third time, 11-5 in the finals at the Region 1-2A championships Feb. 24 at Clay High School. Ranked No. 1, he is projected to win the state title, but he’s not looking past his first match.

“I don’t want to look ahead,” he said. “In my sophomore year I just looked at who I had next. All year, my coaches have said, ‘Don’t play the bracket game. Just win the next match.’

Mills had hoped to win a state title last year. This weekend, he hopes to take care of unfinished business.

“I’m ready,” he said. “I’ve wrestled some tough matches, and I’ve had some good workout partners.”

Mills is one of three Flagler County wrestlers who won regional titles last weekend. Flagler Palm Coast seniors Toryion Stallings and Ethan Laupepa won championships at the Region 1-3A tournament in DeLand on Feb. 24.

Stallings won the 132-pound title to improve to 42-2 on the season. Laupepa won at 215 pounds to improve to 39-2. They’ll be joined at state by teammates Trey Twilley, who placed third at 126 pounds; Carson Baert, who was fourth at 144 pounds; and Kelton Howard, who placed second at 165 pounds. Howard (38-4) lost a 3-0 decision to Creekside’s Colton

Leavell (40-5) in the final.

FPC placed third at region behind Orlando Timber Creek and Oviedo Hagerty.

“I don’t think we wrestled well at district, but I think we bounced back (at region),” FPC coach David Bossardet said. “To finish third in a district and then turn around and finish third in a region, obviously you wrestled better. That gives you reassurance.”

Bossardet said all five of the Bulldogs’ state qualifiers are wrestling the best they have all year.

“That’s what you want — the best version of yourself on the mat at the state tournament,” he said.

Six Matanzas wrestlers and five FPC wrestlers will be competing

in the girls championships at state.

The Pirates’ Tiana Fries and Mariah Mills and the Bulldogs’ Christina Borgmann, Ana Vilar and Alexa Calidonio won regional titles on Feb. 17. Matanzas’ Kendall Bibla, Jazzy Golder, Autumn Jarvis and Ani Brown and FPC’s Joslyn Johnson also qualified for state.

The Pirates will be trying to defend their 2023 girls state championship. Bibla is a defending state champ, while Fries won a state title in 2022 and placed fifth last year. Mariah Mills placed third each of the past two years.

Borgmann was a state runner-up last year, while Vilar placed sixth at state.

MARIAH MILLS PINS NATIONAL CHAMP

On the way to an exhibition match at Lake Highland Prep on Feb. 10, Mariah Mills said she didn’t expect to beat her opponent, Mary Manis, who had won a national championship last summer at Fargo, North Dakota.

Mills wound up pinning Manis.

“She made one mistake and I got her on her back, and once I got her there, I knew I couldn’t let her off,” she said in a video on her family’s “Sunshine Mafia” Youtube channel. “She was a Fargo champ. I didn’t even place at Fargo.” Lake Highland’s boys were wrestling Valiant College Preparatory from Phoenix, Arizona, and they were looking for some exhibition matches for their top girls wrestlers. Mills wore her Legend Athletics singlet.

“We were Mariah’s only fans in the gym,” her mother, Rachel Mills, said.

Mills, a junior, who is 33-1 this season not counting the exhibition win, will try to win a state title at 110 pounds this weekend.

STATE QUALIFIERS

BOYS

FPC (Class 3A): 126: Trey Twilley; 132: Toryion Stallings; 144: Carson Baert; 165: Kelton Howard; 215: Ethan Laupepa.

Matanzas (Class 2A): 190: Jordan Mills

GIRLS

FPC: 100: Joslyn Johnson; 125: Christina Borgmann; 130: Ana Vilar; 170: Alexa Calidonia. Matanzas: 105: Jazzy Golder; 110: Mariah Mills; 120: Autumn Jarvis; 140: Tiana Fries; 145: Kendall Bibla; 190: Ani Brown.

Mainland: 235: Cheyenne Wigley.

STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS

When: Feb. 29-March 2

Where: Silver Spurs Arena, Kissimmee.

Jordan Mills with Matanzas coach T.J. Gillin pose after Mills won the Region 1-2A title at 190 pounds. Mills is undefeated heading into the state championships. Courtesy photo by Rachel and Abe Mills.

Jordan Mills defeated New Smyrna Beach’s Sawyer VanRider in the Region 1-2A, 190-pound championship match.

Toryion Stallings will try to win a Class 3A state title at 132 pounds. File photo by Brent Woronoff

FPC senior

Ethan Laupepa (right) heads into the state championships with a regional title. File photo by Brent Woronoff

PIRATES END 6-YEAR SKID

When Matanzas’ girls lacrosse team defeated Flagler Palm Coast 8-6 on Feb. 20, the Pirates not only ended a fivegame losing streak against the Bulldogs, they recorded their first victory in six seasons.

But the Pirates weren’t done. They followed that win with another the next night at Jacksonville Sandalwood.

Zoe Alred (five goals) and Mia Apfelbach (four goals) combined for nine goals in the 13-4 victory. Apfelbach scored four goals and Alred three against FPC. Alana Throne led the Bulldogs with four goals.

Brandie Alred is in her first season coaching Matanzas. The Pirates (2-2) bounced back from two lopsided losses to begin the season to Tocoi Creek and Menendez, who have a combined 8-1 record.

LOPEZ’S BALITON WINS STATE TITLE

Father Lopez’s Bergyn Baliton won a state championship at the Class 1A girls weightlifting meet. Baliton won the 110-pound traditonal title with a 270-pound total. She also placed second in the Olympic competition with 255 pounds.

Track alumni return to FPC for event’s 20th anniversary

Rain and wind affected some of the events at the East Coast Classic on Feb. 23, but the weather didn’t dampen the festivities at the 20th anniversary of Flagler Palm Coast’s season-opening track and field meet.

About 30 FPC track and field alumni returned to the school to celebrate 20 years of the elite meet, which David Halliday launched in his first year as the Bulldogs’ coach.

With four events left at the meet, Halliday was surprised by his administrators and staff as they presented him with a golden hurdle inscribed in five places with, “The Halliday Way — Since 2004.”

“They flipped the script on me,” Halliday said. “It was very special and a big surprise.”

FPC jumps coach Alez Giorgianni, who is an FPC track and field alumnus, planned the golden gift for Halliday. Giorgianni, the school’s entrepreneurship facilitator, also had his DECA class produce East Coast Classic 20th anniversary T-shirts for the alumni. Kim Halliday, David Halliday’s wife, presented track hip numbers to the alumni with the numbers corresponding to the years they graduated from FPC.

And while some events were contested in the rain, records were still broken. FPC junior Colby Cronk set a new school record in the shot put with a distance of 16.54 meters (54 feet, 3.25 inches), breaking the old record of 16.24 meters set in 2019 by Nelson Paul. Cronk won the event by more than four feet.

“The circle was wet and Colby is learning how to spin. That was just him doing the glide,” Halliday said.

Cronk also broke the meet record. Cronk, who also placed fifth in discus, currently has the second best shot put in the state.

Atlantic’s Preston Kuznof also broke a meet record in the javelin with a throw of 65.50 meters (214 feet, 11 inches). The throw is ranked No. 1 in the state. Defending Class 4A state champ Aidan Broussard finished second with the second best throw in the state so far, 62.18 meters (204 feet).

FPC’s Olivia Gaines won both the girls long jump (17 feet, 4 inches) and

triple jump (36 feet, 2.25 inches) and helped the Bulldogs place second in the 4x100 relay with Jada Dotson, Aun’Yale Howard and Summer Barnes with a time of 49.45 seconds, the 16th best time in the state this season. Barnes won the 100 meters with a personal-record time of 12.44 seconds. FPC’s Maya Tyson placed third in girls shot put (34 feet, 5 inches). Haley McLeer and Leilany Rosa placed third and fourth in the pole vault.

Matanzas’ Jordan Youngman won the girls 400 hurdles in 1:07.53, the eighth fastest time statewide. Youngman also finished second in the 100 hurdles (15.73 seconds) and was fourth in the high jump (4 feet, 9.75 inches).

The Pirates got another first-place finish from Evanne Miller, who won the 400-meter run with a time of 1:00.00. Matanzas’ 4x400 relay team of Sierra Howard, Youngman, Miller and Gabrielle Duncan placed second in 4:07.89.

Mainland athletes won a couple of events. Emmanuel Yisrael won the 110 hurdles in 15.07 seconds, which is the 12th-fastest time in the state

this season.

Mainland’s boys 4x400 team of Ezaiah Shine, Dennis Murray, Khalil Wimore and Kajuan Curry place first with a time of 3:27.50, the ninth fastest time in the state. Murray placed third in the 400 meters in 52.37 seconds.

The FPC girls (Cassidy De Young, Arianna Slaughter, Madison Lagarde and Isabella Tarsitano) placed third in the 4x800 (10:16.47), while the FPC boys 4x800 team (Tyler JonesBock, Ayden Peterson, Evan Williams, Hayden Herndon) placed second in 8:28.71, just ahead of Mainland (Seth Rose, Wimore, Jack Mathis and Curry) in third place in 8:28.87.

FPC placed third in the girls team standings with 79 points. Niceville was first with 104 points. Ponte Vedra was the runner-up with 97 points. Matanzas was sixth (50 points) and Mainland was 14th (9 points).

Fleming Island won the boys title with 132 points, with reigning Class 4A state champ Niceville second with 126 points. Mainland was sixth (43 points), FPC was seventh (37 points) and Matanzas was 15th (8 points).

Celebrity

HALLIDAY FINALIST FOR COACH OF THE YEAR

Flagler Palm Coast track and field coach David Halliday has been selected as one of eight finalists for the National Boys Track and Field Coach of the Year award, selected by the National High School Athletic Coaches Association.

Halliday, who was also selected as a finalist in 2018, will attend the NHSACA national convention June 24-27 in Bismarck, North Dakota, where the winner will be announced.

Halliday led the the Bulldogs to boys track championships in 2007 and 2009 and a runner-up finish in 2019. The Seabreeze alumnus has been FPC’s track and cross country coach since 2004. He was inducted into the Florida Track and Field Hall of Fame in 2017. He was also inducted into the Florida Athletic Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 2014.

MICAYLA CRONK WINS FIVE MEDALS

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Micayla Cronk won three golf medals and two silver medals at the Southeastern Conference championships, which ended Sunday, Feb. 25, at Auburn University.

Cronk, an FPC graduate, swam on three first-place relay teams — the 200, 400 and 800 freestyle relays — and placed second individually in the 50 and 100 freestyle events. The Gators’ 800 relay broke the SEC record with a time of 6:49.65. The Gators swept the men’s and women’s titles at the SEC championships for the second year in a row.

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