• The state’s Chief Financial Officer, Alex Sink, is the guest speaker at Jacksonville Area Legal Aid’s annual Equal Justice Awards Reception. The event is Oct. 19 at the River Club from 6-8 p.m. During the reception, the 2007 Equal Justice Award winner will be announced. If you have donated to JALA or performed pro bono work for JALA this year, the invitation will be mailed. For more, call 356-8371, ext. 316 or visit www.jaxlegalaid.org.
• The Florida Council on Economic Education will induct four new members into its Hall of Fame at a luncheon Oct. 4 at the Hyatt. The 2007 class includes A. Hugh Greene, president and CEO of Baptist Health Corp.; Steven Halverson, president and CEO of The Haskell Co.; M.C. “Ceree” Harden, chairman of Harden & Associates; and David Stein, chairman of the board of T.L. Cannon Corp. Proceeds from the event will support economic and free enterprise education and financial literacy programs for students in grades K-12. Sponsorship and ticket information is available by calling 813-289-8489 or e-mail [email protected].
• Community Hospice of Northeast Florida has hired Beverly Pascoe as Chief Compliance Officer and general counsel. Pascoe previously was an associate attorney at Rogers Towers with a specialty practice in health care law. She was also Chief Operating Officer for Mission:Health, an organization that contracted with HMOs to provide health care services to members on a risk basis.
• The Olive Garden’s 13th Annual “Pasta for Pennies” program raised $83,607.83 locally for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, with a record $5.2 million raised nationwide. Students from 48 schools in North Florida participated by dropping coins in a collection jar in their classrooms with the class collecting the most change at each school winning a pasta party delivered by their local Olive Garden. The top schools were Forest High School in Ocala with $6,407 collected followed by Jacksonville’s Potters House Christian Academy ($6,122.48) and Orange Park High School with $5,308.43
“Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.”
– Abraham Lincoln