• Mayor’s Office spokesperson Susie Wiles is offering her media expertise to other City communications professionals. On July 15, she’s holding an all-day workshop called “How to tell the story: effective ways to get your message out, with or without money.” She’ll focus on PR campaigns, pitching stories to the media, crisis communications and others. City employees that take the class will receive eight hours of training credit.
• The St. Joe Company was recently tagged with a $2,000 fine by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for failing to place a conservation easement over wetlands at a County Road 210 project.
• Florida Coastal School of Law’s Center for Law and Public Policy is having its first annual bench and bar-b-que July 21 at their Riverview campus on Cesery Boulevard.
• Details surrounding next week’s City Council office installation ceremony remain sparse, but we did find out two songs that have made it on the program: “Imagine” by John Lennon and “What a Wonderful World,” as made popular by Louis Armstrong.
• Correction to a Monday story. There has been one triple play in Major League Baseball this year. The St. Louis Cardinals executed one against the San Diego Padres on May 5.
• The Riverside Fine Arts Association has a new executive director. Christopher Heacox took over June 20 and is the former assistant music director and finance director of the St. Johns River City Band.
• The Jacksonville & the Beaches Convention and Visitors Bureau announced the hiring of Clay Buchanan to serve in the newly-created position of Express Meetings Manager, marking an ongoing CVB effort to expand the economic benefit of the meetings business throughout a diverse range of hotel properties and meeting facilities within the region.
• This year’s Clara White Mission fundraiser, “Miracle on Ashley Street — Celebrity Chef and Server” raised over $40,000.
• Downtown Council is having a wine tasting on July 7 at ImprovJacksonville Comedy Theatre. It’s $10 and goes from 5:30-7:30 p.m.
• Apologies to Byron Peacock of Peacock Consulting Group for misspelling his name in a City Note last week.
• The next and final meeting of the Mayor’s Courthouse Advisory Committee is Wednesday at 4 p.m. in the Mayor’s Large Conference Room on the fourth floor of City Hall.