• According to its storefront sign, Edible Arrangements, a company that specializes in creating centerpieces using fresh strawberries, pineapple, grapes, oranges, cantaloupe and honeydew, will soon open its newest Jacksonville location in Avondale.
• With as many as 17 tropical storms predicted this season by the National Weather Service, Anheuser-Busch has been working overtime to prepare for possible disaster relief. The brewer has pre-staged canned drinking water that would enable relief agencies to deliver water immediately if a hurricane strikes. The water – 12,850 cases of it – has been delivered to local wholesalers in hurricane-prone areas including North Florida Sales here in Jacksonville. Since 1988, Anheuser-Busch has donated more than 59 million cans of drinking water following natural disasters.
• The Jacksonville Children’s Commission (JCC), United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Florida Department of Education will partner to provide nutritious snacks and lunches to Jacksonville children starting this week and running through Aug. 17. Any Duval County child under the age of 18 can receive a lunch by visiting one of the Summer Lunch sites across the city where a “Free Lunch Served Here” banner is posted. A complete list of Summer Lunch Program sites is available at www.jaxkids.org. For more information, call 630-6400.
• This evening at the Main Library, the Jacksonville Historic Preservation Commission will honor 17 projects or services that promote historic preservation. Among them are AmSouth’s rehabilitation of its Riverside branch on Margaret Street, the restoration of the Mary Dillon Fountain in Henry J. Klutho Park in Springfield and a new book of historic Jacksonville photos by UNF Professor Carolyn Williams.
• Zurich Insurance Chairman and CEO Tom Petway has moved his Zurich office to Atlantic Beach in the new Prudential Network Realty building. Petway is a partner in Prudential.
• The installation of new City Council President Daniel Davis and Council VP Ronnie Fussell is set for June 28 at 6 p.m. in the Jacoby Symphony Hall at the T-U Center. A reception in the Terrace Suite at Jacksonville Municipal Stadium will immediately follow the installation.
• Dr. Andrea Behrman, interim director for the Brooks Center for Rehabilitative Studies, is the guest speaker at the June 20 2nd Quarterly trustee meeting of the Jacksonville Regional Chamber of Commerce at the University Club. Behrman is also an associate professor for the University of Florida’s department of Physical Therapy.
“Living each day as a preparation for the next is an exciting way to live. Looking forward to something is much more fun than looking back at something—and much more constructive. If we can prepare ourselves so that we never have to think, “Oh, if I had only known, if I had only been ready,” our lives can really be the great adventure we so passionately want them to be.”
– Hortense Odlum