• Now that’s refreshing! “Dreamette, Ice Cream,” one of Murray Hill’s oldest and most well-known ice cream shops that’s been open for business since 1948, has brought back their famous butterscotch ice cream and “Baby Banana Splits” just in time for summer. The small parlor is located at Post Street and Edgewood Avenue.
• Three noteworthy up for City Council-approved appointments. Attorney Ava Parker is up for appointment for her first full term to the JTA board. Also, former Jacksonville Aviation Authority Chairman Ron Townsend and BlueCross BlueShield of Florida lobbyist Mike Hightower are both up for appointments to the JEA’s board or directors.
• At Greenscape’s annual meeting on Friday, the invocation was a little different than usual. Three men including Jeff Bryan, Greenscape’s new president of the Board of Directors, sang “The Johnny Appleseed Song.”
• City Council member Warren Alvarez is down to just a handful of Council meetings and Tuesday’s agenda is loaded with development bills he’s sponsoring. In all, there are 11 resolutions that total a little over 420 acres of development.
• A record of 282 people competed in the 4th annual Jacksonville Kayak Fishing Classic on May 14. They raised more than $22,000 for daniel. The tournament is the largest of its kind and organized by www.jaxkayakfishing.com. First place went to Todd Derringer of St. Augustine who caught a 63.4” redfish-trout-flounder.
“City areas with flourishing diversity sprout strange and unpredictable uses and peculiar scenes. But this is not a drawback of diversity. This is the point of it.”
– Jane Jacobs, urban analyst