- December 16, 2025
Eight kids took home gold in the Elks Lodge annual soccer shoot-out, PACE Center for Girls gets new leadership; and, firefighters, lifeguards train lifesaving tactics.
BY THE OBSERER STAFF
Young soccer stars compete in Elks shoot-out
The Ormond Beach Elks Lodge 2193 held its annual soccer shoot-out contest Oct. 5, at the Ormond Beach Sports Complex, with about 75 boys and girls, ages 6-12, competing.
Exalted Ruler Jackie Curtis, Soccer Shoot Chairman Pat Hubert and her group of lodge volunteers helped with the scoring and judging of the participants. Trophies were then handed out to eight first-place winners; eight second-place winners and nine third-place winners, two of which were tied.
Pace Center of Volusia-Flagler get new director
Lori Richards, of Jacksonville, has been hired as the new executive director of the PACE Center for Girls Volusia-Flagler, following a nationwide search.
Established in 1996, the school is an alternative to incarceration or institutionalization for adolescent girls. The local center, currently with about 125 students, is one of 18 in Florida.
Before the hiring, Richards spent her entire career with the Girl Scout Council.
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Firefighters train, lifeguards simulate
The Ormond Beach Fire Department took part in Halifax Hospital’s trauma-injury conference Oct. 5, which hosted 210 emergency paramedics from throughout the state.
After training and classroom sessions, firefighters met the families of organ donors who died from trauma, as well as some recipients who received organs.
“It really impacted how I looked at severe calls,” said paramedic Tabitha Wu.
A watercraft-collision scenario was also performed, during which county lifeguards stabilized the “victims” and other local emergency departments simulated their parts in the process.
