• Downtown residents will soon be able to have their dinner delivered by the Southern Grill and they have Southbank developers to thank for it. A pair of new luxury developments being built just up the block from the Flagler Avenue restaurant convinced owner Joey Farah that it was time to stay open for dinner and offer delivery service. Starting in September, delivery will be available to San Marco and downtown and Riverside may be added later. “After nothing but pizza and Chinese food, I think the people living downtown will appreciate some meatloaf and mashed potatoes,” said Farah.
• The I.M. Sulzbacher Center’s annual holiday card sale will be a little different this year. In celebration of the center’s 10th anniversary, 10 paintings by children guests were selected in the recent art week to be made into cards and will be sold in a boxed set for $25. The cards will be available after Transformations, the center’s annual showcase of guest success stories, in late September. This year’s event will include a 10-year anniversary celebration of the center. For more on the Sulzbacher Center, see page 3.
• What do your judges do in their spare time? Applicants for the opening on the County Court’s judiciary listed a range of hobbies from Bible study to fishing to woodwork. One particularly busy applicant fills his free time with cooking, photography, graphic design and layout, woodworking, guitar, violin, camping fishing, reading and playing with his children.
• An e-mail from a firefighter at Station 19 advertising a motorcycle for sale was circulated to the entire City of Jacksonville’s e-mail system Tuesday morning and it has caused a few problems. At one point replies to the e-mail were being sent to everyone in the City’s system, which caused several computers to crash. According to the mayor’s office, an e-mail cannot be sent city wide unless they are produced by or authorized by the mayor’s office. The City actually has an internal e-mail address for those wanting to sell something or post a garage sale.
• Cecil Field may be closer to reopening as a Navy base than you think. According to Dan McCarthy, the City’s director of military affairs, now that Oceana Naval Air Station is in Virginia Beach is on the BRAC Commission’s possible closure list, it would only take what he call a “simple majority” (five votes) of the commission’s nine members to close Oceana and pave the way for Cecil to reopen.