• You’ll see that the walkways around Independent Square are a bit cleaner. They were pressure washed over the weekend.
• The Jaguars now have two booster clubs. A new club, JagNation.com, has been formed and has a tent set up at the stadium to recruit members, giving out free hot dogs. Why a second club? “The other one got too haughty,” said member Sandy Rose.
• A former writer and editor from Sports Illustrated is in the running for the vacant T-U sports columnist job. He’s Roy Johnson, who left the magazine late last year.
• The breakaway factions of the Episcopal church will be here for their national convention in January. Called the Anglican Mission In America, there will be over a thousand delegates including observers from Africa and Asia.
• Ponte Vedra Beach’s Frank Lickliter had a good chance to win Sunday’s PGA Tour event in Milwaukee until he missed two short putts. It can be assumed that he’s at home this week (he lives on the 9th fairway of the Valley course) working in the putting green in his backyard.
• A lot of citizens have e-mailed suggestions for reducing the murder rate to Mayor John Peyton. Ideas include adding speed bumps in high-crime areas, fingerprinting and DNA sampling of all new and renewed driver’s license applicants, increasing police patrols and establishing 9 p.m. curfews in blighted neighborhoods for anyone under age 21.
• Dr. Edith Perez, director of the Cancer Clinical Study Unit at Mayo Clinic, will be awarded an honorary doctorate at the University of North Florida’s summer commencement Friday. Perez is also a professor of medicine at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and chair of the breast cancer committee for the North Central Cancer Treatment Group. The school will give out 660 bachelor’s degrees and another 180 master’s degrees.
• For men who care about health education, there’s an opportunity to attend the Women, Weight & Why Inc., second anniversary celebration. Though the group does target women, the ceremony is open to all Jacksonville women and men who are dedicated to health education, community awareness and outreach. The event is Aug. 12 at Eagle Harbor Golf Club.
• A college head coach and two former NFL players are getting the NFL coaching experience with the Jacksonville Jaguars. The training camp is part of the Minority Coaching Fellowship Program. The three selected are Rick Comegy, head coach at Jackson State University and former head coach for Tuskegee University; William Bell, running backs coach, recruiting and video coordinator for Edward Waters College and former Washington Redskins running back; and Cheston Blackshear, tight ends coach at Columbia University and former offensive lineman for the University of Florida Gators.