- November 16, 2024
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The newly formed Flagler Baseball League will accept registrations from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 12 at the ball fields on County Road 13.
“We are very excited about this partnership,” said Heidi Petito, general services director. “It’s a great opportunity for the kids in Flagler County to play baseball.
The Flagler Baseball League is open to children between the ages of 4 and 15 years old. The teams follow the Cal Ripken and Babe Ruth League rules and regulations with divisions for T-ball, Rookie, Minor, Major and Dale Long.
The cost is $50, with a $5 discount for additional siblings. Those who register will receive a meal from the concession stand on opening day, Saturday, Oct. 3, and a Flagler Baseball sticker.
Registration is available in person through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Flagler County Parks and Recreation Office, 1769 E. Moody Blvd., Building 5, and at the ball field on Saturday, Sept. 12. For more information, visit www.flaglerbaseball.com.
Businesses need to be prepared for disaster not only to reduce their own recovery time, but to help bring the community back to normalcy.
“Emergency management is the sum of all its parts,” said Public Safety Emergency Manager Kevin Guthrie. “We are all part of emergency management.”
Guthrie was the keynote speaker Flagler County Department of Economic Opportunity and the Flagler County Chamber of Commerce “Think Flagler First” luncheon. Helga van Eckert, Economic Development director, introduced him.
“We hear everything about the storms when they are coming,” van Eckert said. “What we don’t hear about is what happens after something happens.”
The goal is to meet the basic needs of residents in the short-term and to return the affected area back to normalcy as quickly as possible.
“In Joplin, Missouri, they kept their economic engines running,” Guthrie said of the May 22, 2011 catastrophic tornado that caused $2.8 billion in damage. “You need to know what you need to have for social restoration on a day-to-day basis.”
Depending on the size of the event and the amount of damage, social restoration could take six to 10 years to complete.
“We want to keep the money here, generate it from within,” Guthrie said. “Responders need to be fed and Sally’s (Ice Cream in Flagler Beach) needs to get back to business. Can we move Sally’s temporarily into a strip mall business so that business can continue by making hot dogs and such for our responders.”
The bulk of business in Flagler County – upwards of 80 percent – is small business.
“I’d be willing to bet that most of these small businesses already provide some sort of service that we could use during an emergency,” Guthrie said. “We’ll need things like businesses to clean and disinfect schools from top to bottom.”
Realtors can help with short-term leases of vacant houses to families who have been displaced from their homes.
“Community makes a difference,” Guthrie said. “It behooves all of us to keep people here in Flagler County.”
The Palm Coast Parks & Recreation Department will kick off its fall 2015 Lunch n’ Lecture series at 11 a.m., Wednesday, Sept. 16, with board-certified family physician Dr. Chiamaka Iheme of Florida Hospital Flagler Health Care Partners. His topic will be health and wellness for seniors.
The Lunch n’ Lecture will be from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Palm Coast Community Center, 305 Palm Coast Parkway NE. The event is free and includes lunch but pre-registration is required and must be received by 11 a.m. Monday, Sept.14. Limited spaces are available To sign up go to www.palmcoastgov.com/register, or call, 986-2323.
