• Former City Council member Lad Daniels and attorney Charles McBurney have gotten an opponent in their bid for the Dist. 16 seat in the State Legislature. Jacksonville businessman Leonard Curry announced his intention to run at Monday’s Duval County Republican Executive Committee meeting. Curry is the CEO and managing director ICX Group, a professional services company based in Jacksonville with an office in Tampa.
• Speaking of the election, candidate petitions for the special election must be filed at the Duval Elections Office by July 23 for the Aug. 28 primary. The special general election ballot will be held Sept. 18 for the seat that has been vacated by Mark Mahon, who was appointed to a judgeship in the Fourth Judicial Circuit.
• HBO will be in town in October to shoot scenes from “The Recount” — a movie based on the 2000 presidential election. Supervisor of Elections Jerry Holland said HBO will set up in his Monroe Street office and that Jacksonville was chosen over an elections office in Miami. Kevin Spacey stars in the movie.
• Three area hospitals are hosting voter registration drives later this month. Representatives from the elections office will be at Memorial Hospital Thursday from 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.; Mayo Clinic July 25 from 10 a.m.-2 p.m.; and St. Luke’s July 26 from 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
• Senior Account Executive J. Brooks Terry is leaving The McCormick Agency for Florida Coastal School of Law where he’ll be the assistant director of communications and marketing. His last day at the agency is Friday and he starts at Florida Coastal Aug. 1. Terry is a former Daily Record reporter.
• Former Northeast Florida Builder’s Association Executive Director Arnold Tritt was recently elected to the Florida Housing Hall of Fame. Tritt, who’s a consultant to NEBFA, will be inducted Oct. 6 at Amelia Island.
• The City’s Office of Special Events has put out this year’s Florida-Georgia game guide and there’s plenty of the usual. Both teams’ pep rallies are on game day — Oct. 27 — with the Gators at the Fairgrounds and the Bulldogs at Metro Park. Requests for boat slips at Metro Park starts Sept. 4 and there’s a three-day minimum. RV City opens Oct. 24 at 6 a.m. and, according to the brochure, “police and attendants” will determine who gets in. There is no first-come, first-served and saving spaces won’t be allowed.
• The Jacksonville Waterways Commission meeting scheduled for Aug. 2 has been moved to Aug. 9. It’s at 9 a.m. in Council chambers,
• Speaking of the Waterways Commission, Council member Bill Bishop is the new chair. He replaces former Council member Lynette Self.
“Our age is pre-eminently the age of sympathy, as the eighteenth century was the age of reason. Our ideal men and women are they, whose sympathies have had the widest culture, whose aims do not end with self, whose philanthropy, though centrifugal, reaches around the globe.”
– Frances E. Willard