• City Council member Art Shad has a new day job. A longtime vice president at UBS Financial Services in Independent Square, Shad started with Wachovia this month. He now works in the Prudential Building on the Southbank.
• Apologies to two attorneys omitted from our story Monday about local lawyers on the Florida Legal Elite list. Ann Bittinger of The Bittinger Law Firm and Adrian Rust of Rogers Towers were both included in the Up-and-Coming Legal Elite list.
• The City’s Ethics Commission has scheduled its next meeting for July 25 at 4:30 p.m. at City Hall. Among the topics under discussion: Policies in the City Council’s “Green Room” at City Hall. You’ll recall a Times-Union reporter was arrested for trying to gain access there last month, saying it was against the State’s Sunshine Laws to keep the public out.
• La Cena will reopen Wednesday. Owner Jerry Moran closed the restaurant for vacation.
• Former City Councilman and JEDC worker George Banks is indeed married to a Cinderella. Really — wife Carole is Cinderella in the current Alhambra Dinner Theatre play.
• Things are looking good at The Dalton Agency. The full service firm recently expanded its public relations arm, adding three new account executives. Bill Kral, Allison Bozarth and Trista Wallace started earlier this Summer.
• Jacksonville Community Council, Inc. has a new marketing director. Laurie DeWitt recently replaced Scott Sanford. Sanford, who was there only briefly, replaced longtime marketing person Jennifer Parsons.
• Apologies to Mike Sullivan. In a story last Friday we said he was Chairman of the Jacksonville Sports and Entertainment Board. Sullivan is executive director and Harry Schnabel is the chair.
• Mayor John Peyton’s former chief of staff Scott Teagle is back downtown. He’s with a Denver-based financial firm and has a one-man office in Independent Square.
• Magnificat Cafe on the corner of Laura and Monroe no longer serves breakfast.