• The Jacksonville Economic Development Commission lost a member this week when Auchter Co. President Brad Glass resigned.
• The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office may be in for a nice grant from the feds. The U. S. Department of Justice’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services has gotten $90 million in discretionary funds and JSO is eligible for a nice chunk of it.
• City Council member Art Graham has been asked to serve as Council liaison for Military Affairs and Veterans Services.
• Former Jags defensive end Tony Brackens has sold his Glen Kernan Golf & Country Club home. The 5,000-plus square foot home went for close to $1.4 million.
• A familiar face was in the Mayor’s Office Wednesday. Former John Delaney advisor Pam Paul was in to see Mayor John Peyton. She said she’s “just causing trouble from the outside” these days.
• The big going away party for Cindy Warner, the Council’s communications chief who is moving to similar position in the elections office, was Wednesday. Lots of food and gifts.
• The Council leadership will get a little confusing next week. Council prez Elaine Brown is heading to Germany with a contingent from the City. From May 1-4, Council VP Kevin Hyde will run the show and Pat Lockett-Felder (as chair of the Rules Committee) will act as president April 28-30 and again from May 5-8 because Hyde will be gone.
• If you like hash browns, try breakfast at the Southern Grill on the Southbank. They use the potato skin, too.
• The Navy is having a memorial ceremony for the USS Stark on May 17 at 10:30 at the Mayport naval base. The Stark was attacked in 1987 in the Persian Gulf by an Iraqi jet and 37 Midshipmen were killed.
• The latest Jacksonville Community Council’s Quality of Life Progress Report is out. It’s the 20th report from JCCI and focuses on everything from literacy rates to job growth.
• The president of the American Medical Association will speak at the Rotary Club of Jacksonville meeting this Monday. He’s Dr. John Nelson, an Ob-Gyn from Utah.
• The convention bureau has its annual awards luncheon coming up May 11. They’ll honor “the area’s top hospitality personnel and volunteers.”
• The Symphony Showhouse starts Friday night with the Sponsor/Patrons Party at the big VillaRiva condo building on Riverside Ave., with the public tours starting next week. Let’s hope there isn’t a reprise of an event earlier this week: a body washed up at the building.
• No Downtown Council meeting on Friday morning - they meet on the first and third Fridays of each month, and this is the fifth one.
• The Riverside YMCA is going to spend a considerable amount renovating the men’s main locker room with new plumbing and tiles. It will close next week and won’t reopen until sometime in June, so the boys will be using the original locker room that is adjacent to the swimming pool. It also means no steam room, sauna or whirlpools.
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