* Anna Pocher and Jennifer Conner are staying busy during summer vacation. The cousins have created “Fantasy Art” and they’re selling their drawings and magnets at the Ann Teague Bonding Agency at 112 E. Forsyth St, where Conner’s mother works.
• Not long ago, Rotary clubs had zero women. The coed status has been around long enough that we now have one woman Susan Siegmund — who has been president of two area clubs (Ponte Vedra Beach and St. Augustine) — and who’s planning a move to Fernandina Beach, where maybe someday she’ll make it No. 3.
• Billy’s Coop, a fried chicken restaurant in Jacksonville Beach, has closed. Coming on the property: a Ford dealership.
• Wachovia has a personal interest in being a big sponsor of the Sept. 12 Cowford Ball to benefit the cancer society. Bob Helms, the Florida CEO, is a lung cancer survivor and his local president, Winston Wilkinson, lost both parents to the disease.
• The Southside Women’s Club of Jacksonville is fuming over the recent smoking ban. Since the club started enforcing the ban, it seems they’ve been losing bingo business to competing bingo halls that they say permit smoking. The club informed Mayor John Peyton that it planned to file a formal complaint.
• Since its boundaries were redrawn last year, constituents of Dist. 3 have been without an identity. Stretching from St John’s Bluff Road to the Intercostal Waterway, it’s not a part of the beaches anymore and it isn’t technically the Southside. Hoping to put an end to the identity crisis, Council member Jerry Holland has asked those living in the district to send in suggestions before September. A potential front runner: “Intercostal West,” which is what the area has been called informally for years.
• President Bush must have started something: the mayor and other City leaders have been invited by Rear Adm. Jim Stavridis, Mayport’s battle group commander, to land on the USS Enterprise when it conducts offshore exercises in the area in late August/early September, similar to Bush’s derring-do recently off California.
• Moving to the beach: Sid Roberson, who goes from branch manager of the downtown Morgan Stanley office to manage the Ponte Vedra Beach office.
• In an effort to learn the names and faces of the City Council, Michelle Querry, the mayor’s Council liaison, has made her own cheat sheets complete with the Council members’ districts, head shots, party affiliations and family member names.
•The Salvation Army will distribute items collected from its Stuff the Bus school supply donation drive Aug. 1 outside of its East Adams Street headquarters. Also, the organization has two new area commanders. Husband-and-wife team James and Karol Sieler come to Jacksonville from Oklahoma City and are replacing interim commander Frank Gordon.