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DAN’S INSIDE ORMOND BEACH DAYTONA BEACH HOLLY HILL LAND LINES Keeping Andy on the TV keeps getting costlier Page A3 Ormond Beach Dental Group Vol. 8, No. 50 Your Local News and Information Source • www.HometownNewsOL.com Friday, Jan. 3, 2014 Need Community Civic group seeks help in effort Dentures? notes Free Consultations & Second Opinions to identify unoccupied homes Crowns $ Christmas tree collec- 675 • Denture Full Denture Reline $175$ tion in unincorporat- By Tonya West values, it affects the city coffers, the integrity of 495 Now Owned & Operated By ed areas For Hometown News the neighborhood.” Mrs. Press said the city facilitated a work- Kerri Graham D.M.D. A simple walk around a neighborhood in shop recently that they considered to be suc- See ad in this section for more information Christmas trees will be Ormond Beach has turned into an organized ini- cessful. Over a dozen professionals from Best Dentist picked up on regularly tiative by its longtime civic group to identify housing, legal services, code enforcement, 802 Sterthaus 386-944-5002Drive, Suite A • Ormond Beach, FL scheduled yard-waste col- foreclosed and unoccupied homes within the (Across the street from the Imploded Florida Hospital) along with lawyers, bankers and mortgage 780755 lection days in the unincor- city. representatives provided information to porated areas of Volusia Rita Press, president of Citizens for Ormond homeowners who may be facing foreclosure. the County. Beach Inc., took a walk with fellow board mem- “People who are in the predicament of foreclo- Residents are asked to city to have more ber Shannon McLeish in Mrs. McLeish’s neigh- sure,” Mrs. McLeish said, “actually have workshops. Another is to increase reporting remove the tinsel, orna- borhood near City Hall. The pair discovered resources and options available that would keep ments and nails, and place of unoccupied homes and their unkempt state more than two-dozen unoccupied homes and them from being the next round of empty hous- to the city or to the citizens group through its the trees on the curb by 6 later learned the addresses were not on the fore- es in our community. That’s what workshops a.m. website. The group has set up an anonymous closure list. with Community Legal Services of Mid-Florida form for residents to submit information. The The trees will be ground “If you have houses at the heart of the commu- are for.” into mulch with normal next goal is to identify how the homes can be put nity that are sitting there empty, deteriorating Mrs. Press identified the group’s initial goals back on the market to be sold. yard debris. Free mulch is and rotting, it affects the neighborhood,” Mrs. and next steps. One goal is to get help for people available to residents year- McLeish said. “It affects the surrounding home on the brink of foreclosure by formally asking See UNOCCUPIED, A11 round at: •Tomoka Landfill, 1990 Tomoka Farms Road, Port Orange, 7 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Friday Funds allocated for •West Volusia Transfer Old timey fun Station, 3151 E. State Road 44, DeLand, 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday Volusia trail projects For more information, By Erika Webb associated funding. call (386) 943-7889 or visit [email protected] For the trail, from Gob- www.volusia.org/recycle. blers Lodge Road to the Volusia County Council- Maytown Spur in Osteen, Bishop’s Glen woman Pat Northey made construction funds in the Santa’s “nice” list. amount of $5.557 million continues series All segments of the East were allocated and work is Central Florida Regional scheduled to begin in 2015. Bishop’s Glen Retirement Rail Trail from Edgewater Funding in the amount Community will continue to the Spring-to-Spring of $4.085 million was its Learning, Living & Trail are now funded. approved for the segment- Laughing Series with “Doc- Councilwoman Northey from Guise Road to Gob- tors’ Choice — Osteoporo- could hardly contain her- blers Lodge Road in Osteen sis” at 2:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. self. with construction slated 3, at 900 LPGA Blvd., Holly “I am doing the happy for 2019. Hill. The speaker will be dance!” she wrote in an “By getting these two Tim Richards, PTA. email to trail development pieces funded, the portion Bed Pan Band — A Musi- followers with whom she that is in Volusia is going to cal Group will perform at 6 “just had to share this great be completely in exis- p.m. Friday, Jan. 10, at Bish- news.” tence,” Ms. Bollenback said op’s Glen. Volusia Transportation in a phone interview. For more information, Planning Organization “We’re coming at it from call (386) 226-9110. Executive Director Lois both sides so this is the 10- Bollenback delivered the mile piece that will con- good tidings to Council- nect the two segments Pancake breakfast woman Northey in an already built.” slated email Dec. 16. Part of the Coast to Coast Randy Barber/staff photographer Ms. Bollenback provided Connector — designed as a Hope Lutheran Church Jerry Horton of Ormond Beach looks on as Malia Palka, 8, of Jacksonville tries out a the Florida Department of safe and continuous multi- will host a pancake break- Victorian-style toy during the Winter Holiday Celebration at the Ponce Inlet Light- Transportation’s Tentative use trail from the Gulf of fast from 8 to 11 a.m. Satur- house on Friday Dec. 27. Mr. Horton is the re-enactor coordinator for Lilian Place in Five Year Work Program for Mexico to the Atlantic day, Jan. 4, at Fiscal Years 2014/2015- through Central Florida — 594 N. Williamson Blvd., Daytona Beach. 2018/2019, which included Daytona Beach. upcoming projects and See FUNDS, A10 There will be blueberry and plain pancakes and eggs, sausage, juice and cof- fee. The fee is $5. For more information, Auxiliaries Minister, call (386) 274-7074. medium, FLOW unit in crucial Ormond Jan. 7 for area shares The Florida Licensing On Wheels mobile unit will be at predictions Ormond Beach City Hall hospitals from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tues- day, Jan. 7, at 22 S. Beach St. for 2014 FLOW is a standalone By Richard Mundy mobile office with technolo- For Hometown News gy to provide drivers “I want to be the Direc- By Erika Webb [email protected] See NOTES, A2 tor of First Impressions,” said Rosalie Bernstein, president of the Florida Triskaidekaphobics may ENTERTAINMENT B1 Hospital Memorial Med- now exhale. A new year rep- ical Center Auxiliary in resented by a nice even, Photo by Richard Mundy non-doom-portending Daytona Beach. Linda Trader, first vice president of the Halifax Health Hospital Halifax Auxiliary; COMING HOME “I want to be the person numeral is upon us. they first see when they David Hall, director of Halifax Health Volunteer Services; and W.G. Watts, auxiliary Between the holidays and the cumulative effects Gregg walk in the door — to president are in the newly restored Halifax Medical Center gift shop, which originally of 365 days of living, many Allman make the person feel that opened in 1928. pin a lot of hopes on walk- playing at they’re glad they came in ing through the door of Jan. Peabody that door,” Mrs. Bernstein worst day of their lives. ing. Anytime anybody’s off manpower in nearly every said. And we care for them.” sick I’ll take that shift or area of the hospital except 1. Others fret over the fact David Hall, director of “We have 244 people work in the gift shop. I put medical. Without them, misfortune can multiply education and volunteer that volunteer in the auxil- in about 200 hours a their replacements would and figure, perhaps a little services at Halifax Health iary, and we do just about month.” have to be paid personnel, superstitiously, it’s best to in Daytona Beach, said, everything,” said Bev Each of these hospitals which would raise the cost be grateful for their lumps. “We have almost a million Hunt, president of the Bert has an auxiliary — a group of health care in the com- Things could be worse, people a year that touch Fish Medical Center Auxil- of people who volunteer munity by a significant they quaver. INDEX Halifax hospital in some iary in New Smyrna Beach. their time, providing vital amount. The Rev. Margaret form or fashion. And 90 While she may be 82, she services to patients and Auxiliary volunteers also Schmidt is a highly respect- Calendar XX Out & About XX ed longtime medium, heal- Classified XX Police Report XX percent of them come here says, “Most of my job is not families. More than a fund- Crossword XX Travel XX needing us on possibly the administrative or schedul- raising entity, they provide See AUXILIARIES, A2 See MEDIUM, A4 Horoscopes XX Viewpoint XX Bankruptcy and Foreclosure JAMES SKOW, PA Attorney 780723 139 Executive Circle Suite 103 • Daytona Beach, FL 32114 Phone: 386-310-4894 • Fax: 386-310-4895 • www.Skowlaw.com • [email protected] A2 • Ormond Beach/Daytona Beach/Holly Hill Hometown News Friday, January 3, 2014 a past president) said, “I is a labor of love,” she said. Auxiliaries started in ’91.” “We cover almost every From page A1 Ms. Hunt added, “We have department. We also cover 244 people that volunteer in Oceanside, the cancer cen- serve as goodwill ambassa- the auxiliary and we do just ter, the Pavilion in Port dors for their hospitals as about everything. We have Orange, and we have people well as providing funds for the gift shop and the Pink at the imaging center as well hospital equipment, educa- Door (Thrift Shop).