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 News-Journal/ NIGEL COOK
Wes Stricklen, owner of Audio Excellence by Wes, demonstrates one of the GPS units on display Wednesday in his store in Daytona Beach.
By VALERIE WHITNEY After getting lost one time too many while visiting the nation’s capital, Emory Counts decided it was time to investigate the new crop of navigational systems aimed at the consumer market. Last summer, Counts traveled throughout Washington, D.C. with his Magellan 700 portable global positioning system, also know as a GPS. “I was able to take streets and roads in (Washington, D.C.) that I would have never used,” said Counts, community development director for the city of Daytona Beach. He paid about $800 for his particular unit. He noted prices have come down about $200 since then. |
By MORRIS SULLIVAN Once you know what affects these people, the signs of their obsession are unmistakable: They walk slowly, looking down at a small electronic object in their hands. Perhaps you'll see them hiking back and forth along a line of untamed brush, peering into its shadowy depths, or even staring fixedly at some mundane object — a fence post, street sign or tree trunk. FULL STORY >>> |
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 News-Journal/ JIM TILLER
The Howard Thurman House at 614 Whitehall St., Daytona Beach is where the minister-educator and civil rights leader spent most of his childhood. Efforts to preserve the home are being led by the Rev. Jefferson Rogers, who worked with Thurman in the civil rights movement and chairs a lecture program in his honor at Stetson University.
‘Go do it’ mindset can make the difference EDITORIAL Historic preservation often begins with passion. That is the case for the Rev. Jefferson Rogers and the Howard Thurman house in Daytona Beach. Rogers has invested many hours and his own money into saving the boyhood home of the theologian who had a profound influence on Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement. When he lived here, Thurman was a determined boy with a tenacious appetite for learning who didn't let a segregated school system stop him. FULL STORY >>> |
Teams track down, root out the answers By JENNIFER SURGENT Osceola Elementary School teacher Steve Waterman brought in Wes Foster of Expedition Earth on Monday to celebrate his pupils’ hard work in preparation for the recent FCAT test. FULL STORY >>> |
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By FRANK MATZKE The simple act of walking required Tyler Smith to summon courage at Flagler Palm Coast High School. FULL STORY >>> |
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