- April 25, 2024
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David Green was named Senior Entertainer of the Year, Kayla Byrne was Junior Entertainer of the Year and Cayla Skeete was Elementary Entertainer of the Year at the 2013 Flagler County Spotlight on Youth Talent Show.
Green, winner for grades 9-12, is home-schooled and performed a modern dance. First runner-up in the senior division was Ashley Savage, of Matanzas High School, singing “Georgia Peaches.” Second runner-up was Max Wolf, also of Matanzas, singing “Bella Luna.”
Byrne, an Indian Trails Middle School student, sang the song, “Beautiful.” First runner-up was Eric Dangerfield, of Belle Terre Elementary School, singing “I’m Yours” and second runner-up was Shay Morelli, of Indian Trails, singing “Roll In The Deep.”
Skeete, a Bunnell Elementary School student, won the elementary division with a jazz dance to “L.O.V.E.” First runner-up was Ashley Lou, of Bunnell Elementary, playing “Fur Elise” on classical piano; and second runner-up was the Flagler County Youth Orchestra Junior Quartet; Aniah Roots, Rymfire Elementary, Emma Soto, home-schooled, Michelle Taing, Old Kings Elementary School andLuka Tristam, home-schooled.
Former Adult Ed teacher publishes AIDS memoir
Nancy Bevilaqua, former Flagler County Adult and Community Education teacher, recently published a book, “Holding Breath: A Memoir of AIDS' Wildfire Days.”
The book is an account of her relationships with one of her clients when she was a caseworker for people with AIDS in New York City in the late 1980s.
The memoir approaches the subject from a somewhat different perspective, offering a glimpse into what the disease was like at the time for people who had acquired it through intravenous drug use, as well as for people in the front lines of AIDS care. The book also deals with the subject of disenfranchised grief, which is often suffered by people who lose loved ones but feel they need to hide their grief.
Bevilaqua is a freelance writer whose articles have appeared in “National Geographic Traveler,” “Coastal Living,” the “South Florida Sun-Sentinel,” and several inflight magazines.
The book is available on Amazon.com in paperback and Kindle versions.
Around town...
Gary Potter, of Palm Coast, and Bobby Wu, of Palm Coast, made the Academic Achievement List at Siena Heights University.
