Blurry but timeless: a young Josh Crews doing what he liked best. He’d have agreed with something the narrator of Richard Flanagan’s “Gould’s Book of Fish” says: “Perhaps reading and writing books is one of the last defences human dignity has left, because in the end they remind us of what God once reminded us before He too evaporated in this age of relentless humiliations–that we are more than ourselves; that we have souls. And more, moreover.” (The photograph was contributed by his friend Joe Rizzo.)
Josh Crews could be quick on the draw with a pen. Take his “Rosalita,” the page-and-a-splash story prefacing this year’s 10th-anniversary annual anthology of student writing that bears his name: in just a few broad strokes, two friends heading for the Bahamas board a boat that appeared to be in distress. It’s a trap. A violent coke-trundling man, his gun and his Rosalita want the two friends to take them to America. Big fight. Rosalita and her man (to whom she
3 hours ago Share Fischer was known throughout the school district as a voice of support for children, staff and teachers.
John Fischer, who served on the Flagler County School Board from 2010 to 2014, has died, Flagler Schools reported on Twitter on May 14. He was a dynamo of positivity, attending events in his suit and tie throughout the district on a daily basis even after he was no longer on the School Board.
During his tenure on the board, he helped institute the school uniform policy, encouraging students to Dress for success. He was also a devout man of faith.
School Board Chairman Trevor Tucker said in a Flagler Schools tweet: You couldn t find a bigger cheerleader for our kids, teachers, staff, and administrators in all of Flagler County.
The weather and the waves were beautiful Saturday for the 11th annual MayDay Memorial Surf Classic in Ponce Inlet.
The surfers rose up and down as the waves rolled under a bright blue sky. A surfer would catch a wave and ride it in with the cooling breeze and the soft rumble from the sea.
“We like to think that the surf angels are looking out for us,” said Haley Watson Stephens.
The event was held in memory of one particular surf angel, Stephens’ mother Dollie Watson, who was an intensive care unit nurse at Halifax Health Medical Center when she died in 2006 at age 46 from heart disease.