The Professional Directory is being prepared and attorneys can get updated photos taken at Bailey Publishing & Communications offices at 10 N. Newnan Street until Friday, June 3 between the times of 9-11 a.m. and 2-4 p.m. No appointment necessary.
• Attorney Don Maciejewski recently found himself stranded in the Phoenix airport when back-to-back planes were grounded for mechanical reasons, but he didn’t pass his time in the airport bar. Maciejewski doesn’t drink when he flies, a policy enacted after an in-flight emergency scare. “They said to prepare for evacuation, and I looked around and I was surrounded by drunks,” he said. “I thought, ‘I’m going to be trampled to death by drunks.”
• Give former Holland & Knight managing partner Bill McBride credit for being one of the more thoughtful political figures in Florida. McBride lost in a bid to unseat Gov. Jeb Bush in 2002. After a 15-minute interview with a Daily Record reporter at the Jacksonville Bar Association’s Law Day Luncheon, McBride scrawled out a hand-written thank you letter to the reporter.
• Incidentally, one of the big financial backers for two of the constitutional amendments that changed the malpractice landscape thinks the debate surrounding their effect is a little premature. Wayne Hogan’s Terrell Hogan law firm was one of the top contributors to the campaign to pass amendments 7 and 8 in the November election. Those amendments crack down on reported incidents of malpractice, but Hogan said it’s too early to predict their effect on the state.
• The Chamber’s Downtown Council meets Friday morning at the River City Brewing Company to hear Matthew Blackwell of the Iluka Corporation.
• The public library system has put out a neat summer activities guide. It includes all the summer reading programs, dates and times at all the branch libraries. Ronald McDonald is scheduled to be at the Main Library on June 22 at 2 p.m.
• Gov. Jeb Bush will be in town on June 10 and it won’t be to hob nob with the local politicos. He’s scheduled to be the guest speaker at the MaliVai Washington Kids Foundation’s announcement of its new Youth Tennis & Education Complex.
• Neat idea from the City’s Parks, Recreation & Entertainment Department and the Jacksonville Suns. On Wednesday, it’ll be “Starter Night at the Ball Park” in which kids from various youth baseball leagues will get to take the field as honorary starters. Each young player will have won a banner contest in their respective athletic association. City Council members have been encouraged to attend and have been given two tickets apiece to the game.
• Correction to a City Note from Thursday. The Episcopal football player that paralyzed last fall and is attending UNF this fall is J. T. Townsend, not Thornton.