Your Town: Rotary Club of Flagler Beach seeks surf volunteers

Also in Your Town: AACHO to hold scholarship luncheon.

By Paige Wilson
| 12:00 p.m. May 30, 2019

Volunteer Dalton Dalecki with a Surf Camp attendee. Photo courtesy of Marketing2Go

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The Rotary Club of Flagler Beach is looking for surfer volunteers to help at-risk and foster youth in our community learn to surf this summer in Flagler Beach, according to a press release.

“Volunteers have an opportunity to change the life of a child at our surf camps,” Roseanne Stocker, the program’s organizer, said in the news release.

Surfer volunteers are needed just two hours per camp that will take place in Flagler Beach at 6th St. South (in front of Tortuga’s) at 9:30-11:30 a.m. on Fridays: June 7, 14, 21, 28; July 12, 19, 26; August 2.

Surfers can volunteer for one camp or as many camps as their schedule allows. Out-of-water volunteers are also needed to help with beachside activities and logistics

The camps are sponsored by Rotary Club of Flagler Beach in partnership with UrbanSurf4Kids. Volunteers can sign up at: https://urbansurf4kids.org/events-calendar/.

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AACHO to hold scholarship luncheon

AACHO President Vivian Richardson, award recipients Wanyea Barbel, Gabrielle Wong, Nia Felton, Leah Simpson and Janiah Civil, and Vice President Wes Powell. Photo courtesy of AACHO

The Afro American Caribbean Heritage Organization Inc. announced its 2019 scholarship awardees, for $1,000 each: Wanyea Barbel, Gabrielle Wong, Nia Felton, Leah Simpson and Janiah Civil.

AACHO will host its annual picnic from 11:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, June 15, at Holland Park, Pavilion No. 1. An invitation has been extended to the five recipients and their families, but members of the public may attend for $5; the picnic is free for AACHO members. There will be music, games, barbecue, Caribbean cuisine and more.

In addition, the AACHO June 18 meeting will be held at the Realty Exchange Meeting Room at 5p.m. Note: July and August are off for summer vacation; meetings resume Sept. 17.

Planting for the Jewish New Year

Rabbi Rose Eberle prepares to plant an esrog tree from Israel at Temple Beth Shalom in honor of Lag B'Omer, Jewish New Year of the trees. Photo courtesy of Marylynne Newmark

A tree planting and holiday barbecue was held Wednesday, May 22, during Lag B'Omer, at Temple Beth Shalom, 40 Wellington Drive. Although considered a minor holiday on the Jewish calendar, Lag B'Omer is a celebration of the abundance the Almighty gives to us, said Marylynne Newmark, of the Temple. Picnics and bonfires are held throughout the Jewish world and trees are planted, all as a symbol of cleansing and new beginnings.

The esrog tree has a religious connection, she said. Grown in Israel, it is a large, unusually shaped citron that is used with four other plant types in blessings during the holiday Succoth in the fall. She hopes that after seasons of nurturing, the little tree planted at the temple will be a strong symbol for the next generation.