• The Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department will host a grand opening ceremony Thursday at 10:30 a.m. to dedicate Fire Station 37 on Busch Drive. The new $1.8 million station is the prototype for the next eight stations being built around the city. Following the ceremony, there will be an open house and apparatus display.
• Several new physicians have joined the staff at Community Hospice. They are Gary Decker, who will serve as medical director for long-term care facilities in Clay and St. Johns counties; Sherry A. King, who will be the medical director for the Earl B. Hadlow Center for Caring of Community Hospice; Walter E. Morris Jr., medical director for admissions, and Donald B. Twiggs, medical director in Nassau County.
• Jane Lanier, vice president and executive director of St. Vincent’s Foundation, was recently named national secretary to the Ascension Health Council on Philanthropy Board of Directors.
• The Jacksonville Bankruptcy Bar Association will host its next monthly luncheon June 27 at noon at the Radisson. It’s free for members, $15 for non-members. To RSVP, call Marsha Brown at 358-6465, Ext. 226 by June 24.
• Over 50 boats will be on display at the North Hampton Nautical Show Saturday and Sunday at the North Hampton residential development, which is located five miles east of I-95, just south of A1A on Amelia Concourse. The show is free and open to the public.