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NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- A “Culinary Art Walk,” will be held from 10 a.m.-5 pm. March 28, with area chefs presenting demonstrations in addition to the variety of interesting
and unique art works displayed by resident and visiting artists on Flagler Avenue.

The event is held in the five blocks between the Indian River and the ocean; and also includes entertainment, demonstrations, and a free prize drawing. Art Walk on Flagler is held the fourth Saturday of each month.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Could you be the next Tiger Woods? You can find out by playong in Saturday's golf outing at the Hidden Lakes Golf Course to benefit New Smyrna Beach High School's Project Graduation,.a drug- and alcohol-free event for graduating seniors.

Here are the plannrd events:

8 a.m.-noon, 4 Person Best Ball Scramble Shotgun Start (all ages welcome)
$60 Per Person;
$200 Per Foursome;
$100 Hole Sponsor;
Cart, Green Fees, Range Balls, 50/50, Mulligans, Coffee & Doughnuts,
BBQ lunch provided by Duke Daniels BBQ.

Editor's Note: The following was written by the staff of Congresswoman Susanne Kosmas, D-New Smyrna Beach.

(Washington, DC) - Congresswoman Suzanne Kosmas (FL-24) commented on the announcement by President Obama and the U.S. Department of Energy that Florida will receive more than $300 million for energy efficiency grants and weatherization as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

Courtesy photo. Here is a surveillance video photo of the man who robbed the CVS pharmacy in DeLand of pills on Sunday.

DELAND -- A man armed with a pistol robbed the CVS pharmacy,2497 South Woodland Blvd., on Sunday, of prescription pills, including the addictive painkiller Oxycodone, DeLand police said.

ORMOND BEACH -- Florida Hospital Ormond Memorial is changing its name in July to Florida Hospital Memorial Medical Center, officials there announced.

The change will go into effect in July when the hospital moves to its new multimillion dollar facility.

Officials said the name change is to honor the community that founded the hospital, which has served the community for more than 42 years. The new facility ill be built within the Daytona Beach city limits.

FLAGLER BEACH - The Flagler Pier, this small beach town's biggest draw from Volusia County, was closed indefinitely Tuesday becausw of the loss of pilings and croos beams that may have compromised its safety.

The 806-foot pier, built in 1925, became a risk over the weekend when some loose pilings and cross beams washed away.

City officials have not provided a timetable for its reopening.

DELAND - A 28-year-old Holly Hill man was indicted Tuesday on a charge of first-degree murder in the bludgeoning of his father, in what Holly Hill police termed a "crime of rage."

A Volusia grand jury handed up the indictment at the Volusia County Courthouse against Juan Luther Reid, charging him with pre-meditated murder of 73-year-old James Leroy Reid, whose body was found March 2 in the family's home on Jarecki Avenue.

DAYTONA BEACH -- A man got off the bus near his home and made a startling discovery while walking by the Pinewood Cemetery -- a human skull was lying upside down on top of a grave.

"Well, I thought it was a dead skull. Was it really a human?" nearby resident Calvin Williams asked when interviewed by WFTV Channel 9, which first reported the story.

The TV station said cops searched the cemetery to see if a grave had been dug up and none had been nor was there any vandalism.

Police said the skull. was, indeed, that of a human.