• Next year’s first Atlantic Coast Conference championship game from Alltel Stadium will kick off the Championship Saturday lineup on ABC. The 1 p.m. ACC game will be followed by the Big 12 championship and the SEC championship. Gator Bowl Association president Rick Catlett said national games such as the ACC championship, Gator Bowl and Florida/Georgia represent “clean industry” for Jacksonville. “35 to 40,000 people come into town, spend 12 to 14 million, then they go home,” said Catlett. “What we do is economic development.”
• The New York City Council is looking into Jacksonville’s juvenile curfew to see if a similar system would work in New York. Council Minority Leader James Oddo wrote Mayor John Peyton to ask for his thoughts on the curfew. Oddo, one of the sponsors of a bill that would introduce a curfew, told Peyton that his endorsement could help convince Council skeptics.
• Real estate appraiser Ronald Moody, CEO of Broom, Moody, Johnson and Grainger, Inc., found a pretty reliable source when he was hired by the City to find a market price for the Haydon Burns Library. Burns’ grandson used to work for Moody and helped do research on the building.
• Reminder: the Jacksonville Bankruptcy Bar Association’s Bankruptcy Clerk’s Luncheon is set for Thursday from noon-1:30 p.m. at the Omni.
• There are now three candidates for Jerry Holland’s City Council seat. Former Duval County GOP executive director Mike Hancock last week filed to run. Hancock joins Scott Shine, Holland’s 2003 opponent, and Richard Clark, president of a janitorial service. Holland plans to run for the supervisor of elections job and must resign his Council seat by Dec. 4. The Council has set a Feb. 15 special election date to fill that seat and the supervisor of elections position.
• The Clara White Mission is hosting its Feed The City Thanksgiving dinner and food drive Saturday from 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• The Presser, Lahnen & Edelman accounting firm is holding a shoe drive to benefit homeless people in Jacksonville. The firm will collect shoes at its Southpoint office until Dec. 10. All shoes collected will be donated to the I.M. Sulzbacher Center for the Homeless.
• If you’re looking to do some early Christmas shopping, LaMee The Florist in Independent Square is already getting into the holiday spirit. The store is decorated with Christmas trees and holiday arrangements.
• St. Vincent’s will host its Christmas Tree Blessing and Lighting ceremony in the breezeway between the medical center and the DePaul building Dec. 7 at 6 p.m. The 40-foot red cedar tree will be decorated with 1,000 lights.
• CBS Evening News will feature a story on tonight’s 6:30 broadcast about local attorney Jeff Morrow’s suit against a local nursing home that housed his client with a convicted sex offender.