• With Marketing Director Lyn Briggs leaving for Charlotte, Downtown Vision, Inc. Executive Director Terry Lorince is taking resumes for a new full-time marketing director. Anyone interested should apply by this Friday.
• You should be seeing a little more of Mayor John Peyton on TV soon. On Monday, he shot this year’s hurricane public service announcement.
• Gov. Jeb Bush has sent his regrets and won’t be able to attend the Annual Mayor’s Neighborhood Summit Luncheon next Friday at the Osborn Center.
• The speaker for next week’s military appreciation luncheon at the Hyatt Regency Riverfront has been changed to Vice Admiral Mark Fitzgerald, Commander Second Fleet, Commander Striking Fleet Atlantic. Fitzgerald replaces Adm. John B. Nathan, Commander, U.S. Fleet Forces Command, Commander, U.S. Atlantic Fleet.
• The Chamber of Commerce Area Council’s annual “Night Out with the Jacksonville Suns” is June 30. The Suns host the Carolina Mudcats and things could get interesting. It’s also Thursday Night Throwdown which means Budweisers for $1.
• More fodder for those who think the Skyway is a waste of money. The JTA has a little over $4 million budgeted for the Skyway next fiscal year.
• Jacksonville Fire and Rescue is set to graduate another class of firefighters. The ceremony is Thursday night at the Fire and Rescue Training Academy.
• City Council has drafted a resolution that would honor retiring Jacksonville U. head basketball coach and athletic director Hugh Durham.
• Nice gesture. The City is planning to appropriate $18,462 from the Council reserve funds to replace baseball uniforms and other equipment at Terry Parker High that was destroyed by an arsonist last school year.
• When Holland & Knight Executive Partner George Gabel took over leadership of the Chamber of Commerce’s International Committee, he said he’d like to see some international flights at Jacksonville International Airport. Now a consultant’s report suggests that there may be demand in foreign markets for flights
to Jacksonville. The study by Competitive Strategies Group found potential demand for air service from the United Kingdom and from Germany. Competitive Strategies also recommended starting dialogue with Central American air carriers.
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