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, between 9-11 a.m. and
2-4 p.m. No appointment necessary.
• The David Stein family has made the largest scholarship endowment gift ever to Florida Community College at Jacksonville. The college won’t give a number except to say that it’s a significant part of the $7 million campaign. The Steins, who recently sold their Burger King interests, will be honored at a Thursday reception at the FCCJ Advanced Technology Center.
• If you’ve been here 15 years or so, you’ll remember T-U columnist Vic Smith, who wrote under the name “Poke McHenry.” He’s now 85 (“Otherwise I’d be dead”) and living on Heckscher Drive with his daughter and her husband. Despite poor vision, he’s working on his third book, this one an autobiography. “If I tell it all, they’ll run me out of town,” he says.
• Are the Jaguars twice as good as last year? The Las Vegas odds now say the team is a 30-1 shot to win the Super Bowl, much better than the 60-1 you could have gotten (and lost on) last season. The favorites are the Indianapolis Colts.
• Finally, the new facing on the CSX building is in place. It was one of those things that was to be finished by the Super Bowl.
• Gubernatorial candidate Tom Gallagher has a big local on his side: insurance exec and Jags co-owner Tom Petway.
• Golf note: Josh McCumber, nephew of PGA Tour player Mark McCumber, recently set a course record at Timuquana with 62.
• Golf note No. 2: Mary Louise Gallagher was playing in a ladies tournament recently at Sawgrass when an alligator popped out of the lake, grabbed her golf ball and slipped back in. How close was she? About a foot away.
• Our city’s Growth Management Task Force meets Thursday and will hear from several top state officials.
• Mayor John Peyton’s literacy campaign is about to get a big financial boost. Peyton and Bank of America boss Jim Gallagher will announce a major gift from the bank this week.
• The national builders’ association had a one-day membership drive last month and the local chapter added 101 to its dues-paying roster. If that sounds like an impressive number, consider how good the homebuilding business is - it was only the ninth-best in the state for that day.
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National League
San Diego 2
Milwaukee 1
American League
Seattle 4
Toronto 3
Oakland 5
Tampa Bay 4
Southern League
Jacksonville 9
Mobile 4