• Medical Herbalist and author Daniel Gagnon from Santa Fe is visiting Jacksonville today to speak at Native Sun Natural Food Market on Baymeadows Road at 8 p.m. Allergy season is upon us and he will be speaking about quick and complete allergy relief and his newly formulated Natural Allergy Relief System. The seminar is free and open to the public, but seating is limited.
• The Supervisor of Elections Office has reported that 17,120 Duval County voters cast their ballots during the two-week early voting period that ended March 18 and 15,718 requests for absentee ballots were received by the office. As of March 19, the day before the election, there were 545,022 registered voters in Duval County.
• This is National Poison Prevention Week and you may not realize how common a problem it is. Nationwide, poison control centers receive more than 1 million calls a year as a result of accidental poisoning of children ages five and under. Each year, about 53,000 kids in that age group are treated in emergency rooms for poisoning and about 70 die. Nearly 90 percent of toxic emergencies occur in the home and 60 percent involve non-pharmaceutical products such as cosmetics, cleansers, personal care products, plants, pesticides, art supplies and toys. In the event of accidental poisoning, call 800-222-1222. The number is staffed seven days a week round-the-clock and will connect you to the local poison control center.
• Lace ‘em up and help raise some money: Marke LaBorde, senior vice president of Aetna and corporate chair for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation’s 2007 Walk to Cure Diabetes, along with co-chairs Barbara Miller of CSX Transportation and Melody Hoffman of Hoffman Plumbing, has announced a goal of recruiting 1,500 walkers and raising $380,000 at this year’s event. Registration for the three-mile walk will begin at 9 a.m. April 14 at the Koger Center of Freedom Commerce on Dix Ellis trail in Baymeadows. Nationally, nearly 500,000 people walked to cure diabetes last year and raised more than $80 million. To register or volunteer for the walk, call 739-2101 or visit www.jdrf.org.
“The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.”
– José Ortega Y Gasset, Spanish essayist, philosopher