• Jonathan Lever, chief executive officer of the Nonprofit Center of Northeast Florida, has been recruited to help lead a new national initiative of the national YMCA and will leave the Nonprofit Center at the end of February.
• Scheduling is tough with all the stuff going on and some City Council members were miffed Thursday when the notice for the Northbank Riverwalk extension’s formal opening came out just a few hours before the event. “It would be nice to receive a little more notice,” Council member Lynette Self wrote the mayor’s publicist. “As I am very involved in the waterfront ... I would have liked to be present at this opening. However, I already have plans that I cannot change.”
• The featured speaker at next month’s Cornerstone Luncheon will be Mark Grier, vice chairman of Prudential Financial. It’s Feb. 24 at the Adams Mark.
• Not that it isn’t obvious, but might as well be sure: the official visitor’s guide to the Super Bowl warns people not to try and take explosives into the stadium.
The Super Bowl activities will be all over the area and this week’s Downtown This Week magazine takes a look at what’s happening on the Southbank.