• Don’t get excited about the price of gas at the Racetrac on Arlington Expressway. While it may look like the station is selling gas for around $1 a gallon, the station is either being remodeled or demolished.
• Art After Dark isn’t until March 28, but the deadline to submit work is Dec. 14. For more information, contact Toni Chadwell at The Florida Theatre, 355-5661.
• Tuesday, St. Vincent’s HealthCare and the City of Jacksonville will honor community leader Robert Shircliff when a portion of Barrs Street in Riverside is renamed Shircliff Way. Shircliff is a long-time supporter of St. Vincent’s and served as Board chairman and chaired the St. Vincent’s Healthcare Foundation for many years. A celebration and unveiling of the new street sign is at 4:30 p.m. at St. Vincent’s Medical Center’s Daughters of Charity Park.
• Leadership Jacksonville has announced key dates for its next class of both LJ and the Collegiate Leadership Experience class. Nominations for the next LJ class are due Jan. 11 and Jan. 15 for CLE. At the end of April, the 2008 CLE class will be announced and in mid-May, the 2008 LJ class will be announced. Leadership Jacksonville alumni have been sent letters seeking nominations for the next class. For more, call 396-6263.
• Springfield’s 21st Annual Holiday Home Tour is Dec. 7 and 8. The first tour begins at 6 p.m. at the Barnett Mansion, now the Solomon Lodge on E. 1st St, and the last tour begins at 9 p.m. Tickets will be on sale at the Dec. 5 Art Walk in the Jacksonville Bank Building. Tickets are $13.50 in advance or $15 the day of the tours.
• The Estate Planning Council of Northeast Florida recently elected new officers. They include President Jean Coker (who also served as president from 1984-85), attorney, Vice President Robert Laberge Jr. of National Financial Resources, Secretary Jay Rolfe of Wachovia Trust and Treasurer Terri Venters of Uible Family Office. The council is organized to provide a forum for attorneys, certified financial planners, certified public accountants, chartered life insurance underwriters and trust officers in Northeast Florida to promote a mutual exchange of information and experience concerning estate planning and related areas.
• Correction. In Tuesday’s Workspace we said Ch. 47 anchor Celine McArthur worked in Dallas. She worked in Austin, Texas and won her investigative awards for stories done in Jacksonville.
• Next Thursday’s meeting of the Jacksonville Waterways Commission has been canceled. The Commission will reconvene next year, Jan. 10, in City Council Chambers.
“A country survives its legislation. That truth should not comfort the conservative nor depress the radical. For it means that public policy can enlarge its scope and increase its audacity, can try big experiments without trembling too much over the result. This nation could enter upon the most radical experiments and could afford to fail in them.”
– Walter Lippmann, U.S. journalist.