• Why didn’t the City Council approve the City’s plan to rehab the old Brewster Hospital? According to Al Battle, the managing director of the Downtown Development Authority, it’s because the Council was swayed by testimony that the City was underestimating the cost. Battle proposed the City supplement the $800,000 it has already prepared to spend with an additional $326,000 from the City’s Historic Preservation Trust Fund.
• Oscar-winning filmmaker and best-selling author Michael Moore is coming to town. He’ll be at Metro Park Friday. The event is free and open to the public, but seats are limited to the first 2,500 people.
• Saturday’s Cowford Ball has been rescheduled to Dec. 11 because of the effects of Hurricane Jeanne.
• Jason Mudd & Associates, a local public relations firm, has moved into its new offices in the Trust Company Building at Newnan and Forsyth streets.
• The Barbara Ann Campbell Memorial Breakfast is scheduled for Oct. 6 at the Osborn Center, beginning at 7:30 a.m. Tiffany Carr, executive director of the Florida Coalition Against Domestic Violence, is the speaker.
• City Council member Reggie Fullwood, who is notoriously tardy to meetings, was among the first to arrive at the Council’s agenda meeting Monday. “I guess you’re practicing for your wedding,” joked Suzanne Jenkins. Fullwood is scheduled to tie the knot Oct. 9. “I’m already taking bets on how late you’ll be for that,” she quipped.
• During his Better Jacksonville Plan update to the City Council Tuesday night, Mayor John Peyton noted that the Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena was pulling in big-name acts like pop star Usher, who performed last weekend. Though Usher is a big name to the MTV crowd, Peyton said he’d never heard of him. “I thought the usher was the person who took you to your seats,” he said.
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