• Services for the late Tax Collector Lynwood Roberts will be Thursday at 11 a..m. at the Hillcrest Baptist Church off Blanding Blvd. between Normandy and Cassat. The viewing will be Wednesday evening from 5-8 p.m. at the Hardage-Giddens home on Edgewood. Roberts passed away on Sunday.
• The Chamber introduces its new Government Affairs staffer this morning at the committee’s meeting. Details on her past are slim but we know her name: Amy Tuck Whitman. She replaces Alison Miller, who’s now the aide to Council veep Kevin Hyde.
• The Lenten season starts Wednesday and most downtown churches have Ash Wednesday services, including the Episcopal Cathedral’s noon service that always is a full house.
• Most of the Super Bowl visitors were packing up and heading home Monday, but ESPN’s Dan Patrick stuck around for one more day of his national radio show. Patrick was still broadcasting live from the second floor of the Adam’s Mark hotel, but he was playing to an audience of about four people as opposed to the packed houses he drew last week.
• Building management at the Aetna Building expect some plans soon for building high-rise condominiums on the property’s riverside parking lot. Look for the eventual design to be a bit more scaled back than the renderings that were publicized last year. The condos looked a bit outsized for the property in those drawings and a lot of people were wondering if they could actually fit. Building owner South Shore Group would move the parking lot further east, maybe under the Acosta Bridge to make way for the condos.
• Attorney Bill Andrews said he saw the weekend’s most amazing sight: Jaguars’ co-owners Wayne and Delores Weaver standing in line Saturday afternoon to get ice cream at the Landing. “Any other big shot would have sent his limo driver after it,” said Andrews.
• Spotted downtown Monday: St. Vincent’s CEO John Maher buying t-shirts for the kids. ‘Great deals,” he said, leaving a vendor who was trying to leave town without too much inventory.
• Gov. Jeb Bush will be here most of Monday. He’ll accept checks for a scholarship program and visit some pals.
• The Riverside YMCA leaders must be serious about not moving — they’ve finally repaired the whirlpools in the men’s locker room.
• Yes, that was football star Jerry Rice hanging around the Landing over the weekend. His daughter was singing with a group performing there.
• If you were down at the Landing on Sunday listening to Southern rock band Molly Hatchet, you might have seen a local businessman jamming on stage with the band. Chris Sorensen, co-founder of Firehouse Subs and avid guitar player, played a few songs with the band this weekend during the Super Bowl festivities.
• The escalators at the Landing got so much traffic during Super Bowl weekend that they had to be repaired Monday due to wear and tear.