• It’s that time again. Doll up your denim with diamonds and a black tie at the The Florida Public Relations Association’s Jacksonville chapter’s annual Denim & Diamonds Image Awards . The event will be held April 27 from 7-10 p.m. at the Main Branch Library. Channel 4’s Bruce Hamilton will act as Master of Ceremonies. Cost is $40 for members, $45 for affiliated members, $55 for guests and $30 for students. For more information, call 645-7880.
• Beginning March 31, entries for the William Bartram Art & Essay Contest will be on display at the William’s Walk Clubhouse. The contest required middle and high school students to write an essay on an accomplished writer, artists, botanist, gardener, ethnographer or explorer, while elementary students were encouraged to create art works based on Bartram’s travels. A total of 50 students entered the contest that yielded eight winners from Greenland Pines Elementary, Twin Lakes Academy and Mandarin Middle schools.
• The purpose of a marketing campaign using the slogan “Beware the 26” will be revealed on April 1, according to a local television newscast. The campaign, including TV spots, billboards and a low-tech Website featuring candid photos of young people, has sparked some curiosity in town.
• Attorneys Bill Cooper and George Ridge have relocated from their West Forsyth offices to space in the Bay Street building owned by attorney Howard Coker.
• Correction to a City Note Tuesday. The Design Review Committee meeting is Thursday at the Annex at 2 p.m.
• Recognizing that City Council Chambers are not very handicapped accessible, Council Director Cheryl Brown and Jack Gilrup, the chief of the City’s Disabled Services division, have secured the funding to install an automatic door. Brown originally agreed to split the cost with Gilrup. However, he has found the money to pay for the entire project. The work will begin Friday morning.
• The new superintendent at Jacksonville Beach Golf Course is Dan Rineberg. Former superintendent Gary Meadors has been promoted to director of recreation for Jacksonville Beach.
• The Gator Bowl Association Committee will meet next Thursday at the Omni at 5 p.m. It’ll be the first meeting for new GBA chair Kelly Madden of Wachovia. Also, the Sept. 29 meeting between Florida State and Alabama in the stadium has been dubbed the “River City Showdown.”
• Nemours will break ground on its new home office in Deerwood Park April 16. Part of the ceremony will include a celebration honoring Alfred I. duPont.
“A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. We provide the music, and you provide the silence.”
``– Leopold Stokowski