• Summer isn’t officially here but the mayor’s office is already thinking about Christmas. Director of Written Communications Susan Pelter has asked her staff to start considering who will design this year’s Christmas card.
• Fourty-four and counting. The Otis Smith Kids Foundation is six Big Cats sculptures away from its goal of 50 and a total sponsorship goal of $240,000. Two years ago, the organization’s Sea Cows for Kids project brought in $219,000. The effort will continue through July after which the sculptures will be placed in various locations all over town.
• The Jaguars will be featured on the new edition of BellSouth’s Yellow Pages. Players John Henderson, Paul Spicer and Rob Meier grace the front.
• New location for the law offices of Lippes and Bryan. They’ve moved to 800 W. Monroe.
• The Jacksonville Economic Development Commission meets June 8 at the City Hall Annex and getting a quorum may be tricky. Commissioners Joe Barrow and Charles Appleby have already excused themselves. Also, the JEDC will be down one at the end of the month when Gov. Jeb Bush signs a J-Bill that will officially repeal the existence of the Downtown Development Authority, thus ending DDA Chairman Dave Auchter’s term on the JEDC. Auchter has been asked by the mayor’s office to stay on until his replacement is found, but he’s moving to St. Johns County later this year, a move that will make him ineligible to serve on the JEDC. Auchter plans to address the City Council Rules Committee about the residential requirements of sitting on the JEDC.
• Yes, that was Jaguar mascot Jaxson De Ville’s van parked down by the Landing last week. And yes, that was a parking ticket. He thought it was a free space.
• There’s a lawyer in State Rep. Dick Kravitz’s family: son Hirsch recently graduated from the Syracuse U. law school.
• Disco cover band Boogie Freaks will be at the Twisted Martini Friday from 8-11 p.m., faux afros and all.
• Big lunch set for June 22 at the University Club to honor outgoing City Council President Kevin Hyde. It’s $20 and sponsorships are available.