• Starting Saturday, it will be Dr. Lad Daniels. The City Council member will get an honorary degree from Jones College at the graduation ceremony.
• Retired DOT District 2 Secretary Aage Schroeder didn’t stay retired very long. In June he’ll join Ghyabi & Associates, an engineering and planning firm that does highway design, traffic engineering and several other phases of transportation planning.
• Former Wachovia Vice President Kevin Cannon has joined Prosperity Bank as executive vice president and city president for the Jacksonville area.
• The Atlantic Coast Conference baseball tournament is next week at the Baseball Grounds and there’s a big banquet to kick off the tourney. It’s Monday at 5 p.m. at Metro Park. About 2,000 tickets already have been sold for the tournament, which starts with three games on Tuesday.
• The Jacksonville Bar Association is losing a key worker when Kelley Padgett moves this week to take over the Women’s Health Center.
• Nease High football and baseball standout Tim Tebow is being courted by dozens of schools across the country and new UF head coach Urban Meyer watched him play baseball a couple of weeks ago. However, Tebow may be headed for the West Coast and currently lists Southern California as his top choice. Good reason, too. USC has produced two recent Heisman Trophy winners and is the two-time defending national champion.
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