• Volunteers in Medicine on East Duval Street is losing a doc. Dr. Peter McCraine has been with VIM since it opened, but is leaving to spend more time as the head of the Women’s Health Center at the Jacksonville VA Outpatient Clinic where he sees troops returning from Iraq and other military personnel.
• Jacksonville Community Council Inc.’s annual meeting is next Friday from 9-10 a.m. at the River Club. Author Paul Epstein is the guest speaker.
• The price of a shoe shine at Gus & Co. has gone up from $2 to $3.
• Correction to a story from last Tuesday. PRI Productions took supplies to Hurricane Katrina victims in Lafitte, La. not Lafayette, La. Lafayette was relatively unaffected by the storm.
• Ready for your first look at the multi-million dollar renovations in the Park and King shopping district in Riverside? A special dedication ceremony has been scheduled for next Friday at 10:30 a.m. Mayor John Peyton and others from the City are expected to say a few words.
• Word is the new Gold’s Gym on West Forsyth will open in mid-October.
• The next meeting of the Mayor’s Hispanic American Advisory Board has been scheduled for Friday, Oct. 7 from 11:30 a.m. until 1:30 p.m. at the Hyatt Regency Hotel. Hector Flores, president of
the League of United Latin American Citizens, is the confirmed keynote speaker.
• Some changes at the mayor’s office. Trey Byrd has left and policy director Kerri Stewart has been placed on special assignment to the department of Administration and Finance where she will work in the Management Analysis Office overseeing Mayor John Peyton’s citywide review of organizational effectiveness. Stewart will start the new job when she gets back from her honeymoon.