• Tammy Butler’s Young Lawyers Column in the May 17 Daily Record hit a responsive chord with the staff at Jacksonville Area Legal Aid. “We would really like to thank her for her column,” said Kim Ruotolo, JALA’s development coordinator. “It really captured the essence and the spirit of the Breakfast of Champions. We were all so proud.” Butler, a member of the Young Lawyers Section of the JBA, is an attorney at Driver & McAfee. Nearly 50 local law firms bought tables for the April 28 Breakfast of Champions with all proceeds benefiting JALA’s Campaign to Maintain Justice.
• The veterans memorial between the stadium and the baseball park will be dedicated tonight. Workers rushed last week to finish it in time — it’s a Better Jacksonville Plan project that was promised to be ready today ... and it is.
• Deadlines for registration are approaching for the American Bar Association’s annual meeting in Atlanta. The meeting isn’t until August but the ABA says that hotel space may be limited.
• The Museum of Science and History opens a new exhibit today. It’s “The Universe of Science” and, among other things, you’ll find out why a balloon floats and the earth rotates.
• Whitlow Baker Advertising, based in Virginia Beach, Va., is opening an office here which will be managed by Justin Kuehn, a former account manager with Cox Radio.
• U.S. Rep. Cliff Stearns will be in town June 12 for a town meeting at the Cecil Field Commerce Conference Center. It’s scheduled from 11 a.m.-noon.
• The Fraternal Order of Police will continue its monthly fish fry tradition for politicians and FOP pals. If you’re in either group, they’ll be cooking on June 9.
• One of our best golfers, Mark McCumber, says he really isn’t fired up to play on the Senior PGA Tour, known as the Champions Tour. “It’s more fun to stay home and play golf with (13-year-old son) Tyler,” he said. “I’ll play some events but my interests are at home.” And, he says, he likes his yard so much that he gets other men in the neighborhood in trouble. “I do my own yard (at his Ponte Vedra home) and wives see me,” he said. “Their husbands tell me they go home and say ‘Why can’t you do the yard instead of play golf?’”
• We missed Mike Corrigan’s council district by one last week. He represents District 14, not 13.
• The Jags have another of those “voluntary” camps this week but it’s closed to the public. It’s the third summer camp and we’ve heard nothing but good things from Coach Jack Del Rio about his team.
• The Deerwood home where President Gerald Ford and Eqyptian leader Anwar Sadat met in 1977 has been sold for $1.7 million. It was owned by the late Bill Drennon, who was the Deerwood president, and he renamed the street “Presidential Drive.”