• Pastor George Harvey Jr. of Mt. Charity Missionary Baptist Church disagrees with Mayor John Peyton’s decision to levy a flat garbage fee and has proposed a progressive fee instead. According to Harvey, “This would, for example, allow residents in the elaborate Deerwood neighborhood to pay a higher Garbage Fee while those in poorer sections (i.e. Old Eastside neighborhoods) would pay a lower Garbage Collection Fee.”
• Mel Martinez, the state’s other U.S. Senator, is currently looking for interns for his Jacksonville office. Interested university, college or community college students call apply to Adele Griffin at [email protected].
• The Women of Color Cultural Foundation, Inc. and Community Partners will host the Eighth Annual Health Symposium for People of All Nations July 28 from 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m. at the Osborn Center. The event offers free health and wellness education, screenings and referrals for a variety of medical disorders and services. This year’s keynote speaker is Dr. Stephanie B. Coursey Bailey, chief of the Office of Health Practice at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. For information, call 356-0047 or visit www.woccf.org.
• Michael Oberg has been named President & CEO of the Museum of Science & History. He has served in a variety of capacities at the museum for 12 years including director of Finance & Operations and in 1999 was appointed vice president and CFO/COO. Oberg is credited with transforming MOSH from an institution that had operated with a deficit for years into one of the most financially stable cultural institutions in Florida and his appointment as the new president was unanimously approved by the board of directors.
• Northwest Jacksonville Community Development Corporation (CDC) will unveil its five newest models at an open house for phase three of Golfair Estates on July 29 from 1 p.m.-5 p.m. The CDC, a non-profit organization, attempts to revitalize and restore the communities around Moncrief Road, Myrtle Avenue and Golfair Boulevard through affordable housing. For more information on the event, call 904-764-1805 or visit www.northwestjaxcdc.org.
• The Jacksonville Port Authority and the South Atlantic Caribbean Ports Association, in partnership with the University of Florida, are offering a $3,000 annual scholarship to a student majoring in Transportation and Logistics at Uuniversity of North Florida’s Coggin College of Business. For more information and an online application, visit the UNF Coggin College of Business’s Web site at www.unf.edu/coggin/scholarships/index.htm.
“The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most. The power which the sea requires in the sailor makes a man of him very fast, and the change of shores and population clears his head of much nonsense of his wigwam.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson