The weekly demonstrators are giving Flagler Beach a black eye. (© FlaglerLive via Facebook)
Flagler Beach commissioners have taken to calling them “Saturday gatherings,” the now weekly displays of pro-Trump zealots who routinely unzip large signs betraying curiously libidinous desires for Joe Biden, who flip the bird at passing cars, who bellow and at times make it difficult for other pedestrians to navigate the maniacal gauntlet. Commissioners are worried about the disrepute it’s bringing to the heart of the city and the hub of its busy beach.
“This is a number one topic that I received phone calls on within the city right now,” Mayor Suzie Johnston said Thursday evening. “Lots of residents think that we’re doing nothing. This is a very difficult subject and it’s happening across multiple cities across America, and we are trying, but we’re trying to do it safely so we don’t find ourselves in a lawsuit. Just so everyone knows.”
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Even deshingled and disheveled, the A-frame at the Pier could not hide its iconic letters spelling out the town’s name, as if tattooed on the structure for all eternity. (© FlaglerLive)
Every city great and small has its iconic signature: Seattle’s Needle, Rome’s Coliseum, Alliance’s Carhenge, Paris’s Eiffel and Palm Coast’s water tower (give it a break, it’s a city in progress). For Flagler Beach, it’s the Pier and its sharply angled A-frame, its two sides’ 12 white letters spelling out the town’s name to horizons north and south.
Flagler Beach almost lost its identity in late March. The letters were gone, the shingles were gone, though like a tattoo to eternity the eye could still discern the letters’ imprint on the wood frame. The structure is getting its first re-shingling in 24 years, a $9,360 job carried out by Florida’s Best Roofing Inc., the Bunnell company.
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Flagler Beach Commission Chairman Eric Cooley and Police Chief Matt Doughney presenting ex-Mayor Linda Provencher with the taser she’s longed for over the years. (© FlaglerLive)
Linda Provencher, Flagler Beach’s longest-serving mayor in the city’s near-century-long history, became the ex-mayor around 5:30 this afternoon, and finally got her wish, after hounding Police Chief Matt Doughney for it for years: she got her taser gun as a parting gift, albeit a decommissioned one, fixed to a plaque. It was a far better gift from Doughney and Commissioner Eric Cooley than a Big Mouth Billy Bass, though it stole the show: Mayor Suzie Johnston was sworn in, and freshly re-elected Cooley won his second election in nine days, to the commission chairmanship, by one vote.
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