• The Hispanic Bar Association is hosting a “Meet the Judicial Candidates” event Aug. 31 at the Main Library. It’s from 5-7:30 p.m. and there will be food and drink. All 12 judicial candidates have been invited and those attending will have a chance to register to vote.
• Want to see what the Art Walk experience looks like? Downtown Vision Inc. has a three-minute video of the monthly event on their Web site, www.downtownjacksonville.org .
• Speaking of Art Walk, next month’s is on Sept. 6. The theme is “Back to School,” and there will be an improv performance from LaVilla School of the Arts students from 5-8 p.m. at the Jacksonville Museum of Modern Art. “Old school” disc jockeys and break dancers will be around there, too.
• Karen Barnes, promotions director for Downtown Vision, Inc. will be leaving DVI in two weeks to be an independent consultant.
• The Chamber’s Business After Hours is this week from 5:30-7:30 p.m. on Aug. 24 at the Crowne Plaza. It is $10 for Chamber members and $25 for non-members.
• The Downtown Council’s next meeting at the River City Brewing Company will be Sept. 15, not Sept. 1 because of Labor Day weekend.
• PGA Tour Commissioner Tim Finchem has been selected to receive the 2006 Distinguished Citizen Award from the North Florida Council of the Boy Scouts of America. He’ll be honored at a Nov. 9 dinner at the Marriott Sawgrass and the honorary chairmen of the dinner are Jags owner Wayne Weaver and developer Jack Demetree.
• The Aviation Authority held its “concrete breaking” this morning for the next phase of terminal expansion after its monthly board meeting. A previous concrete breaking ceremony was canceled.
• Some good PR for Jacksonville. Adventure magazine, a National Geographic spinoff, lists Jacksonville among its top coastal adventure towns — in the world.
• Jacksonville U. made U.S. News & World Report’s America’s Best Colleges list for the third year in a row. The Arlington school placed among the top 150 schools in the south.
• You may call the foam-rubber character on the Winn-Dixie TV commercials, “The little red check-mark guy” but actually his name is “Better.” That is, unless you’re watching one of his ads in South Florida – down there, he is “Don Major.”
• Rhonda Goodwin, aide to Council member Warren Alvarez, will be installed as president of the Nassau County Humane Society in October. She has served on the organization’s board of directors for two years and is the first woman ever elected to the post.
The new Downtown This Week is out and the cover story is about where to get a great breakfast Downtown. The magazine is free and available all over Downtown.