• State Sen. Jim King has again asked for Mayor John Peyton’s help in winning his last campaign for the state senate. King asked Peyton in a June 21 letter for campaign strategy advice. “I do not plan to ask for too much of your valuable time, but I certainly need your help,” King said. King previously asked Peyton to advise his campaign finance team.
• The widow of former U.S. Rep. Charlie Bennett told Mayor John Peyton in a June 18 letter that she would “stand against” a 358-acre development planned for the 46,000-acre Timucuan Preserve. Jean Bennett, the former congressman’s wife of 50 years, said her husband would oppose the development if he were alive. Bennett helped secure federal funding to acquire the Timucuan Preserve. His memorial on the Arlington National Cemetery Web site notes his involvement in creating the preserve.
• Correction. In a City Note Monday we said the Jaguars’ kid’s day event Friday started at 9:30. The event featuring the team’s 18 rookies and members the Roar started at 10:30.
• Former Jacksonville Office of General Counsel attorney Anthony Perrone has been named the “City Attorney of the Year” by the Florida League of Cities. Perrone is the city attorney for Crystal River and he’ll be recognized at a meeting here in August.
• Brenda English, communications supervisor for the Duval County Public Schools for the last three-and-a-half years has resigned and her last day on the job will be Thursday. She’s going to Fidelity National Information Systems to become the marketing manager for communications.
• How’s that for timing? Club Paris is scheduled to open Friday night at the Landing while the United American Free Will Baptist Conference will be convening at the Hyatt.
• The lawyers are dominating the ads that come with the new phone books. Personal injury attorney Chris Johns and the law firm of Peek, Cobb & Edwards sponsored magnets. Eddie Farah has his usual space on the spine and Harrell & Harrell is once again on the back — but with a new firm photo.
• One of the many fan-friendly aspects of the new Jacksonville Jam basketball team will be the 11th man concept where a local will get to suit up for each home game and may actually get in the game. At Tuesday’s press conference to announce the team, officials named UNF President John Delaney the first “honorary 11th man” and presented him with a No. 11 jersey. Delaney said, “I don’t know about honorary. I was thinking about trying out.”
• The Marko Group has been selected by the Jacksonville Economic Development Commission to design the JEDC’s 2006 annual report and business development collateral materials.