• The Chamber of Commerce will recognize its Small Business Leader of the Year and install new board members at its 120th annual meeting Dec. 9 at the Osborn Center. Cocktail hour begins at 6 p.m. followed by the meeting at 7 p.m. For ticket information, call 366-6600.
• The Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra has a gift suggestion for music lovers: a JSO gift certificate. They’re available at the JSO box office. Call 354-5547 for details.
• The Vintage Lawyers quarterly luncheon is scheduled for Dec. 17 at the Piccadilly Cafeteria at Regency Square Mall. RSVP to Homer Humphries at 721-4161 by Dec. 16 to reserve your seat.
• Another manatee statue was set up this week, this one at the airport. It’s decorated as a Florida tourist.
• We still have to make it through the winter, but television commercials for The Players Championship next March are already making the airwaves.
• The Jacksonville Transportation Authority says no incentives were necessary to attract a private developer interested in building a supermarket next to the Kings Avenue Parking Garage. Spokesperson Mike Miller said the deal, which is still being negotiated, will charge rents around the Southbank market rate for a 24,000 square-foot grocery store and 40,000 square feet of office space.
• The timeline on the JEDC’s master plan for LaVilla calls for construction to start on a transportation center as soon as three years from now, but Downtown Development Authority board member David Auchter said that might be wishful thinking. “I think all of us know it’s going to be four or five years,” said Auchter.