• American Idols Live! will make a stop at Veterans Memorial Arena July 8. The lineup includes 10 of this season’s finalists including local competitor Phil Stacey. Sanjaya Malakar and his hair are also on the bill. Tickets go on sale Saturday at the Arena box office and all Ticketmaster outlets.
• Sheltair Aviation has been named a top-40 Fixed Base Operator in North America in a survey by Aviational International News magazine of 3,440 facilities. FBOs are service centers at large commercial airports and smaller general aviation airports. At Jacksonville International Airport, Sheltair refuels commercial aircraft at the main terminal and serves the passengers and crews of corporate and private aircraft at its own facility. The company is headquartered in Ft. Lauderdale and employs 22 people at JIA.
• Joel B. Toomey, formerly of Peek Cobb & Edwards, has joined the Office of General Counsel as an Assistant General Counsel. Before graduating from Duke Law School in 1982, he was editor-in-chief of the Duke Law Journal. Toomey started at OGC Monday and will work in the General Litigation Department.
• Students who are enrolled in the Jacksonville Zoo & Gardens summer camps have another option to add to their week-long day camps. Every Thursday night during their full-week day camps, campers have the option to spend the night at the Zoo for a behind the scenes and up-close encounter with some of the Zoo’s animals. For more information on the Zoo’s day camps call 757-4463 or visit www.jacksonvillezoo.org.
• A class of around 1,000 undergraduates and graduates picked up their diplomas last Friday from the University of North Florida.
• Speaking of graduation, Florida Coastal School of Law will graduate another class of aspiring attorneys Saturday at UNF. The ceremony starts at 3 p.m.
“Golf is not just exercise; it is an adventure, a romance…. a Shakespeare play in which disaster and comedy are intertwined and you have to live with the consequences of each action.”
– Harold Segall