Courtesy video/SoNapa. SoNapa Wine Co. owners Adam Barringer and Mike Kosmas make their first podcast for their fine-wine restaurant, SoNapa, 761 Third Ave.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Who needs a marketing firm when you can make your own video podcast and broadcast it on YouTube. Better yet, why not promote it on NSBNEWS.net?
DAYTONA BEACH -- A 24-year-old Port Orange motorist was killed early Saturday when she veered off Interstate 95 while northbound near the U.S. 92 interchange and struck several pine trees, the Florida Highway Patrol said.
Having a business here and multiple investment properties I decided I needed to look at a firm "zero-based" budgeting process in my own house. Car insurance went from $4,200 a year to $1,700, after I called the insurance company and started questioning the rates. AT&T for my business, I cut by $80 a month by going to a cheaper plan.
NSBNEWS.net photos by Henry Frederick and NSBNEWS.net video by Sera Frederick.
At left, Jeanette Humphrey, an organizer of the annual Slovenian National Benefit Society Polka Festival, shows homemade Klobase (sausage). In the video, people enjoy dancing to the polka music. More than a thousand people were expected by day's end Sunday over the course of the three-day event in Samsula at the SNPJ Lodge. Below, Kara Maruszak, 17, of Cleveland, International Miss SNBJ, was at the festival.
SAMSULA -- Kara Maruszak is the international face of the Slovenian National Benefit Society. The 17-year-old Cleveland girl lit up the dance hall at the annual Polka Festival celebrating the Slovenian heritage with food, music, dancing and great conversation.
Hundreds turned out Saturday at the SNBJ Lodge, 421 North Samsula Road, for the three-day festival that ends Sunday afternoon. Admission is $10 per person and food platters are as low as $6, including sausage and chicken salad sandwiches, salad, sliced fruit and desserts, all homemade.
But the real attraction for the predominantly Slovenian gathering, of course, is the Polka music and the dancing. With banjos, accordions, percussion and vocals, the temptation to get on the floor and dance is overwhelming.
And why not?
EDGEWATER -- The Edgewater Public Library will host a two-part genealogy program for beginners in February and March. The program is for people who want to learn how to research their family roots.
Far left photo courtesy Tim Dillon/USA Today. Rob and Becky Haley attend a marriage education class taught by Ed Koplin at the Grace Fellowship Church in Timonium, Md. Koplin and his wife, Mary Beth (near photo), are holding a similar workshop here in New Smyrna Beach March 19-20 at the First Baptist Church of New Smyrna Beach.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Ed and Mary Beth want to help married couples stem the rising tide of divorce with a special workshop March 19 and 20.
An exciting grass-roots movement has taken root, providing hope and skills to married couples, the Koplins say. Fed up with the rising tide of divorce, the Koplins drew a line in the sand eight years years ago, when they saw the negative impact of divorce on teens while serving in a youth ministry. Then they decided to work with married couples in the community.
DELAND -- The Volusia County Council will have a workshop at 2 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 25, to consider alternatives to the economic development system in the county. The proposed Metro Daytona Volusia Economic Development Corp. will make a presentation.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- bThe New Smyrna Beach Regional Library’s "Live in the Library" series
will focus on literature with presentations by Florida authors at 2 p.m. every Sunday in March.
DEBARY -- Joseph Marcial will discuss historic architecture at 2 p.m. Saturday, at DeBary Hall Historic Site, 210 Sunrise Blvd.
DELTONA -- The victim who died in Thursday's three-vehicle crash at the intersection of Saxon Boulevard and Alladin Drive is 76-year-old Joseph Freed, Jr. of 1129 Madura Drive, a Volusia County Sheriff's spokesman said.
