• Mayor John Peyton and wife Kathryn became parents for the first time Tuesday when John Connor Peyton was born at 1:38 p.m. Little John weighed 6 lbs., 14 oz. and he is believed to be the first child born to a mayor while he’s in office.
• Landmar CEO Ed Burr will be the guest speaker at October’s Sales and Marketing Council meeting at the University of North Florida. Burr is also the president-elect of the Jacksonville Regional Chamber of Commerce.
• One of The Haskell Company’s trademarks has been efficiency of design. That apparently extends to its company logo as well. The design/build firm unveiled Monday a new logo bearing only the name Haskell. The firm updated the design in celebration of 40 years in business, but left its motto, “America’s Design-Build Leader,” alone.
• The University of North Florida Wind Ensemble and the Mayo Clinic are teaming up to fight cancer with music at an Oct. 9 concert. An Upbeat Pink is described as a musical tribute to breast cancer survivors and will be hosted by Ch. 12/25 anchor and breast cancer survivor Donna Hicken. The event will also feature one of the Clinic’s top cancer researchers, Dr. Edith Perez. The event is free and open to all. To reserve a seat call 620-2878.
• The mayor’s annual senior citizen’s holiday party at the Osborn Center is Dec. 3. It’s an all-day affair.
• Halloween is over a month away and the water temperature in the Atlantic Ocean is still about 80 degrees, but Christmas is already in the air. The K-Mart in Neptune Beach has artificial trees, lights and other stuff out.
• The wait in the City’s zoning offices in the Annex may take a while, but that wait is made a little more pleasant thanks to a flat-screen TV that’s tuned to CNN.
• Several members of the Jacksonville Jaguars served lunch to the homeless at the Clara White Mission Tuesday. For more, see page 4.
• Congratulations to the mayor’s office. The staff’s participation over the weekend as part of the American Heart Association’s Heart Walk raised more than $24,000 for charity. That’s more than three times what was raised last year.
• Another issue facing residents near Cecil Field, which the City wants to convert into a Navy master jet base, is the potential dumping of jet fuel. According to Dan McCarthy, the City’s director of military affairs, jet fuel is dumped at 6,000 feet because that’s the altitude at which it vaporizes.