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A Quick Look at Today:
The Palm Coast City Council convenes at City Hall at 6 p.m. Click here for meeting agendas, minutes, and audio access. Click here for meeting agendas, audio, and video.
At the Government Services Building, located at 1769 East Moody Boulevard in Bunnell, the Bunnell Planning, Zoning, and Appeals Board convenes at 6 p.m. Carl Lilavois, the chair, Manuel Madaleno, Nealon Joseph, Gary Masten, and Lyn Lafferty make up the board.
The Planning and Architectural Review Board of Flagler Beach convenes in City Hall, located at 105 S. 2nd Street, at 5:30 p.m. Click here to view agendas and minutes.
The Flagler Beach Writers Club meets at the library, located at 315 South Seventh Street, Flagler Beach, at 5 p.m.
Daytona Beach’s Cinematique Theater, 242 South Beach Street, will host Random Acts of Insanity Standup Comedy at 8 p.m. It costs $8.50 for general entry. The Random Acts of Insanity Comedy Improv Troupe specializes in delivering fast-paced improvised comedy on Tuesdays and the first Saturday of each month.
Notably: Many people spoke at the retirement party for now-former County Attorney Al Hadeed last Thursday at the Government Services Building, but many of them were left out of the article that was produced. I felt it was important to acknowledge the homage given by Flagler Beach Police Chief Matt Doughney. He then asked everyone in the audience to raise their hand if Hadeed had contacted or emailed them and you thought he was in a different time zone. A lot of them did. (I am one of them, although I did not raise mine.) Al would text or phone like he was on Brunei standard time, just like my older brother. “Al did his own time zone,” Doughney went on. That’s what I discovered, and until I met Al Hadeed, I, the leader of Flagler Beach, had never heard of the term easement. Al called me late on a Sunday and said, “Chief, I need your help.” You answered when Al Hadeed called. “What do you need?” I asked. To get people to approve easements, he argues, we must tour your community tomorrow. And I need your assistance. It’s your city. These are your parents. We’re taking someone with us, but you still need to take me around. At the time, Al was on a heroic quest to persuade the dozen or so beachside property owners to sign easements so that the US Army Corps of Engineers could rehabilitate their section of the beach. “Who are we bringing with us?” I asked. “The closer,” he said. I didn’t know who the closer was until I realized it was Suzanne Johnston, our tax collector. The room was filled with laughing. In the end, I went to people’s homes with Suzanne Johnson and Al Hadeed to discuss signing over easements. And I truly felt like a child who was welcomed to the adult table for one of the few times in my life. I always felt special because of you. I appreciate all that you have done for Flagler Beach. Have fun in retirement. You deserved it.
P.T.
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At the same time, I’ve learned from my time here that living for the future is pointless. The victims of a cheap spiritual fad designed to enslave them are guys who toil away their lives in order to retire happy. Living in the future is no more feasible than living in the past. Life is never here if it is not now. It is difficult to predict how things will turn out, and to put off that responsibility is to set yourself up for disappointment. It’s possible that the tomorrow I’m hoping for will be worse than today. Our people’s drive to succeed is incredibly wasteful and damaging. In order to reach Lane’s Landing, which is five miles from my birthplace, I personally went several thousand miles. The important lesson I learned from my journey was that I was born into the same world as everyone else.
From Wendell Berry’s 1969–1990 essays.
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