• Just in time for the Florida-Georgia football game crowd: The way you can pay to leave your vehicle in the parking lot adjacent to the Landing has changed. Workers have installed new automated equipment that accepts credit and debit cards. In a few weeks, merchants at the Landing will be able to validate receipts so customers who come to dine or shop can park in the lot free or at a reduced rate.
• Mental health will be the topic when Dr. Pamela Chally, dean of the University of North Florida’s Brooks College of Health, is the guest speaker for the Jewish Community Alliance’s Nov. 5 “Conversations with ...” program. The program is free for JCA members and $5 for non-members. The event will be held at 8505 San Jose Blvd. and starts at 10:30 a.m. For reservations or more information, call 730-2100, ext 321.
• Waste Management of Jacksonville presented a $500 check to Susan G. Komen North Florida Affiliate to sponsor the team “M and M Bootcamp Crazy.” The Race for the Cure North Florida is Saturday at Metropolitan Park.
• The 2nd Annual Jacksonville Beach Fall Art Festival is this weekend at Latham Plaza, across from City Hall and the Seawalk Pavilion. The festival runs from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. both days.
• Things must be going well for Bourbon Bayou at the Landing. The first-floor restaurant is expanding into the space formerly occupied by the Cingular store.
• Good omen for the Jaguars as they head into Monday night’s game against Indianapolis. Quarterback David Garrard was a guest on the Jim Rome Show on AM-930 Monday. Rome’s show is called “The Jungle” and athletes that appear on the show are famous for getting a little “Jungle Karma” within the near future.
• Jill Johnson is the new media relations and external communications supervisor for the Duval County School System. Johnson, who was previously with the Florida Department of Environmental Protection in a similar capacity, started about a month ago.
• Recently-elected State Rep. Charles McBurney has tendered his resignation from the Southeast Citizens Planning Advisory Committee which includes the San Jose-Forest area. McBurney cited a “demanding and often uncertain schedule” as the Dist. 16 representative.
“The smallest patch of green to arrest the monotony of asphalt and concrete is as important to the value of real estate as streets, sewers and convenient shopping.”
– James Felt, former chairman, New York City Planning Commission