• Bank of America Vice President and School Board member Martha Barrett is the recipient of this year’s Davis Award for Lifetime Achievement. She’ll be recognized during an Oct. 19 dinner at the Omni. Mayor John Peyton is the honorary chair of the event.
• The Election Advisory Panel will meet Thursday at 10 a.m. at the elections center on Norwood Avenue. The panel will observe a post-election audit of the Sept. 5 primary and help iron out any wrinkles before the Nov. 7 general election.
• Our state’s legal elite will be in town Friday when The Florida Bar’s Board of Governor’s gathers at the Ponte Vedra Inn & Club.
• The security at airports these days depends on the airport. Last week, a Daily Record reporter was able to take two lighters aboard a northbound plane. But the two lighters were later confiscated in Richmond, Va. on the return trip.
• Susan Simcox DeVino recently joined Addison Commercial Real Estate, Inc., as a broker associate. Prior to joining Addison, DeVino spent four years as an asset manager and was also employed with the Trammell Crow Company as a senior leasing associate.
• Tired of paying for 411? National and local businesses now sponsor the service and callers can receive free directory information by using 1-800-373-3411. After calling and requesting a listing, you receive the number that a prerecorded message plays. You can connect to the sponsoring company, but there is no obligation to do so. More info is also available online at free411.com.
• Classic rockers Peter Frampton and REO Speedwagon are coming to the Florida Theatre on separate gigs soon. See www.floridatheatre.com for details.
• Downtown Vision, Inc. is having its annual meeting Oct. 5 at 5:30 at the Hyatt with a reception at Plaza III following the meeting. This year’s speaker is Steve Moore, president of the Washington, D.C. Economic Partnership. Moore previously spent 15 years with former Landing owner the Rouse Corporation where he headed their strategic planning, marketing and communications.
• Howard Coker, attorney, former Florida Bar president and subject of this week’s Workspace, didn’t always know he would be a successful attorney. “I was a journalism major,” he said. “I didn’t know if I could afford to go to law school, so I majored in public relations.”
• Grossology, the latest exhibit at the Museum of Science and History, opens this Sunday and runs through the end of the year. The exhibit uses animatronics and hands-on stations to teach the science behind runny noses, body odor and other generally detested bodily functions.
• The price of gas is pretty uniform across town these days, even at the beach where unleaded is now in the high $2.20s.