• Clarification. Mayor John Peyton will not be sworn in for his second term June 28. His ceremony will be July 2 and word is it’ll be modest, likely in Council Chambers.
• The Cummer has sold out Thursday evening’s Vladimir Feltsman concert and reception. Big turnout from the Amelia Island Chamber Festival folks.
• Former Jacksonville Suns’ Manager Dino Ebel lost his job here but he’s doing just fine: he’s a coach for the first-place Los Angeles Angels in the American League West.
• Rotary Club members aspire to become a “Paul Harris Fellow,” which means a $1,000 donation has been made in their name to the international club’s outreach programs, and members of the Downtown branch of the club got a big surprise at Monday’s meeting when it was announced that all are now Harris Fellows. The club has built up credits with Rotary International and added enough cash to enroll everyone. It was a good way to end the reign of outgoing president Jerry Knauer, the ophthamologist who’ll be succeeded by architect Jack Diamond as president.
• Ed Bowe has joined the staff at Amelia Island Plantation as the new director of golf instruction. He is also the director of training for the ESPN Golf Schools and former director of instruction for the Golf Digest Schools national headquarters, where he managed 17 school locations and 22 instructors.
• LongHorn Steakhouse and the Justice Coalition are teaming to host a golf tournament to raise money for the Justice Coalition. It’s July 17 at the Amelia Island Plantation’s Royal Amelia Golf Course and it’s $150 per player. Registration is at 8 a.m. and play starts at 9. For more information, call Matthew Leipau at 725-7660.
• The Museum of Science and History’s Cosmic Concerts this weekend are “Beach Boys” at 8 p.m., “Van Halen” at 9 p.m. and “Eclectic ’80s” at 10:30 p.m. The shows are held on Friday and Saturday nights.
• Gene A. Hurst, Jr. of Wolfson High, Shayan N. Khatibi of Mandarin High and Michael Pierce from Sandalwood High are the winners of this year’s Jim Brady Scholarship. The students, who are all graduates of Duval County’s Exceptional Student Education programs, will be awarded the $2,500 scholarship by Jack Gillrup, chief of the City’s disabled services department, at a presentation Thursday that will be presided over by Council President Michael Corrigan.
• The Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens is hosting “Tiger Lilies and Dandelions: A Native Plant Safari” at the Zoo’s Education Campus. Guest speaker is Leslie Pierpont and the workshop begins at 9:30 a.m. Pierpont will be talking about the benefits of using native plants in landscaping. Admission is $15 for Zoo members and $20 for non-members.
• A portrait unveiling of retired Fourth Judicial Circuit Judge James Harrison is Thursday at 4 p.m. in Courtroom 4 of the County Courthouse.
“Sports are positively essential. It is healthy to engage in sports, they are beautiful and liberal, liberal in the sense that nothing serves quite as well to integrate social classes, etc., than street or public games.”
– Anton Pavlovich Chekhov