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News September 27, 2012

Planned academic building runs into resident opposition

By Tiffanie Reynolds | gargoyle@flagler.edu

Residents like Robert Hall want Flagler College to build more learning space on campus, but they don’t want students looking into the bed and breakfast across the street.

“It’s the commercial versus the residents,” said Hall, a resident of downtown St. Augustine and a retired Flagler College Art Department chair, “and the people who are living there are generally in favor of the smaller building.”

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News September 25, 2012

Flagler College Heart Walk takes place Sept. 29

The Flagler College Heart Walk will take place Sept. 29 at the St. Augustine Beach Pier. All proceeds will benefit the American Heart Association.

Registration begins at 8 a.m. and the 3-mile walk from the pier begins at 9 a.m.

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News, Photography September 25, 2012

Through the lens: Hastings human peace sign

By Sarah Williamson | gargoyle@flagler.edu
Photos by Sarah Williamson and Walter Coker

About 114 people joined hands to form a human peace sign at W.E. Harris Community Center Field in Hastings, this past Friday in celebration of International Day of Peace. The organizer Malea Guiriba, 55, said, “it’s a cool thing, seeing everyone out here in a rural town [like this] … just spreading peace.”

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News September 20, 2012

From Their Perspective: Flager College Commuinty Lecture Series going digital

By Tiffanie Reynolds | gargoyle@flagler.edu

Holly Hill, the director of the Flagler College Community Lecture Series and Will Jackson, Director of Web and New Media at Flagler College discuss the changes they’ve made to move the Flalger College Lecture Series to a wider audience. Since Spring 2012, they have been integrating live streaming of lectures and taking questions of online viewers during the lecture. This Fall, they are launching and promoting the Community Lecture Series website, in hopes of reaching an audience farther than Flagler campus and the St. Augustine community.

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News September 20, 2012

The green thumb of St. Augustine Beach

By Sarah Williamson | gargoyle@flagler.edu Photo by Sarah Williamson

A man screamed, arms waving frantically as a woman added two plants to her garden plot. The gardeners at the St. Augustine Beach Community Garden have been protested for weeks by neighbors in opposition.

Nana Royer, 68, sat watching, wearing a bright green shirt complementing the many garden beds. She is the president of the St. Augustine Beach Community Garden Association. Her vision is simple: to create a place where organic gardeners can share knowledge and “enhance their sense of community.” Instead, neighbors view it as a “private club” and a smelly nuisance.

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News September 7, 2012

“Before and After 1565” exhibit brings Native American history to life

Lost in the vast history of the nations oldest city, the Native American history is just as present here as the Spanish colonization and the legacy of Henry Flagler.

“Before and After 1565” is a participatory exhibit that explores St. Augustine’s Native American history. Contemporary artist Harrell Fletcher, Crisp-Ellert director Julie Dickover, local archeologists and Flagler College students joined together to create an interactive exhibit to bring this history to the public.

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News September 7, 2012

My week at the RNC

By Joshua Santos | gargoyle@flagler.edu

With the DNC under a spotlight, it’s easy to forget that just last week Tampa, FL hosted the safest national convention in the history of America.