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The Palm Coast Community Center, located at 305 Palm Coast Parkway, is hosting a disaster preparedness expo from 9 a.m. to noon. Among the speakers and vendors scheduled to attend are Sheriff Rick Staly, Emergency Management Director Jonathan Lord, Flagler Cares Executive Director Carrie Baird, and Amy Carotenuto of the Flagler Humane Society. The public is welcome to attend the free event. You can view the agenda’s lineup here.
At 9 a.m., the Flagler County Commissioner Andy Dance-led Community Traffic Safety Team convenes in the Commissioner Conference Room on the third floor of the Government Services Building, located at 1769 East Moody Boulevard, Bunnell. You can also participate virtually using a computer, a smartphone app, or a room device.To join the meeting, click this link. ID for the meeting: 276 236 998 121 CyEKoW is the passcode. [Get Teams| Sign up online]
At City Hall, the Palm Coast City Council convenes in a workshop at 6 p.m. Click here for meeting agendas, minutes, and audio access. Click here for meeting agendas, audio, and video.
The Palatka headquarters of the St. Johns River Water Management District Governing Board hosts its monthly meeting. The public is welcome to attend and provide in-person feedback on the subjects on the Board’s agenda.Note: The start times of meetings change every month. To confirm the time, go here. The public will also be able to watch the meeting online via a livestream.Room of the Governing Board, 4049 Reid Street, Palatka. To view the live broadcast, click this link. About five minutes before to the scheduled meeting time, the live video broadcast starts. Agendas for meetings can be found online here.
The Flagler County School Board meets in the workshop at 3 p.m. to discuss the agenda for its next meeting, which is in two weeks. The Government Services Building, located at 1769 East Moody Boulevard in Bunnell, has a training room on the third floor where the board meets. Documents from board meetings can be found here.
At the Government Services Building, located at 1769 East Moody Boulevard in Bunnell, the Flagler County Planning Board convenes at 5:30 p.m. Board records, such as agendas and background information, can be found here. View the meeting or previous ones here.
The Flagler Beach Book Club meets in 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.
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Two minor incidents that appear to be momentous when combined are mentioned in the morning paper. Paul Robeson, a black singer, was scheduled to perform in Peoria, but the show was abruptly canceled on the grounds that Robeson is a communist. The authorities maintain that they denied him entry to the hall because he is a communist, not because he is Black. In another place, a humorous episode just ended. A few weeks ago, in the midst of his passengers’ frantic objections, a bus driver with a full bus down an avenue had the brilliant notion to forego all the stops and the terminal and continue out into the highway. Finally, he released them and proceeded calmly to Florida. He cheerfully declared, “That route was too monotonous,” when he was stopped and questioned. Florida has always been on my travel bucket list. Why not travel to Florida? I asked myself one lovely morning. So I went. The public now views this motorist as a hero. Despite being dismissed, he returned to work yesterday to applause. He was photographed a hundred times and questioned, and in every one of the documents, he can be seen laughing through the window of the brand-new bus that he was just given. Maybe only in New York is such a vision possible; friends have told me that, for instance, nothing like that could occur in Chicago. All Americans, however, cherish these unrestrained acts, which they regard as immediate evidence of their love of freedom, even if they are unable to perform them themselves. This driver embodies the independence that America is so proud of; he is a character and an original. Furthermore, he would never have been given his job back in France. It is true that America is far more tolerant of impulsive behavior and whims that do not pose a substantial threat to its authority. [] Our democracy is nothing more than a pseudo democracy, a friend said to me this afternoon, as we were commenting on these incidents. The word “freedom” has no meaning whatsoever. The individual has no more rights; he s at the mercy of arbitrary wills. And indeed, people today invoke two principles successively and together, slipping from one to the other in a way that catches them in a fatal trap: They assert that everyone is free, including coal miners, who are masters of their own homes, and that each person’s interests come before those of others. Yet if a citizen is considered Red, he will be fired from the civil service in the name of the general interest; on the other hand, private employers will refuse to hire him: It s their right; everybody is free. And the citizen also finds himself free, to be Red and to die of hunger. In the name of the first principle, the right to strike is restricted and labor unions are destroyed; in the name of the second, all sorts of private persecutions of racial minorities and political parties are authorized. And the sad truth is that the general interest applies only to a private category of citizens those who profit from the ruling elite and who intend to go on profiting. And the others are free only to the extent that they submit, which is the most abstract of freedoms.
From Simone de Beauvoir sAmerica Day By Day, April 19, 1947 entry.
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