• Tickets are on sale for the 17th annual Jacksonville Food Fight to be held June 7 at the Crown Royal Touchdown Club in the Jacksonville Municipal Stadium. More than 40 local restaurants and beverage wholesalers will come together for the event to raise money for the Lutheran Social Services Second Harvest Food Bank. Last year the event raised about $46,000. For more information or to purchase tickets call 448-5995.
• The “2007 Art in the Jail Exhibit” is now on display at the Main Library. The exhibit is a collection of artwork created by juveniles incarcerated at the Duval County Jail. The exhibit will be on display through May 30 on the library’s second floor mezzanine level. “Art in the Jail” began in 1998 as a multi-disciplinary arts program. The Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville partnered with the Jacksonville Public Library to make this exhibit possible.
• Next week is National Nurses’ Week and Baptist Health is hosting a week-long event to honor its nurses and recognize their commitment. Events will be held all week at all Baptist Health centers. For a full list of events please visit www.e-baptisthealth.com.
• Speaking of National Nurses’ Week ... did you know that the week always coincides with the May 12 birthday of Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing?
• Now that the NFL draft is over, Jaguar fans are anxious to get a look at the team’s rookies and returning players. Fans are invited to attend mini-camp on May 12 at the practice fields at Jacksonville Municipal Stadium. The Saturday practice sessions will be open to the public for the fourth straight year. Practices are scheduled to begin at 10:30 a.m. and 4:15 p.m. Free parking is available in Lot P on the west side of the stadium.
• City Council member Lynette Self has asked that legislation changing the proposed Kernan/Atlantic Boulevard overpass to a median-grade U-turn be withdrawn.
“Ships are but boards, sailors but men; there be land-rats and water-rats, water-thieves and land-thieves, I mean pirates, and then there is the peril of waters, winds, and rocks.”
— William Shakespeare