• If you read the Daily Record’s warranty deeds, you may have noticed a familiar name in Monday’s listings. Jaguars quarterback David Garrard has bought a home in Glen Kernan Golf & Country Club for $2.9 million. Jags head coach Jack Del Rio also lives in Glen Kernan.
• When the ACC baseball tournament comes to town May 19, there’s a good chance local baseball fans will get to see some of the best teams in the country. As of today, Florida State, Miami and North Carolina are the three top-ranked teams in the nation.
• The Police Memorial Building is getting a new roof. The price tag will be known after May 21 when the bids are due.
• Speaking of bids, the City’s Procurement Department will begin taking them May 28 for the two blocks in LaVilla originally slated for Jax Casual Dining. The Jacksonville Economic Development Commission is looking to recoup at least the $1.8 million in City incentives given to the original developer.
• Friends of the Jacksonville Public Library will present a $150,000 check to the library Wednesday at noon. The money raised during the recent Great Jacksonville Book Sale. Jackie Nash, president of FJPL, will present the check to Library Board of Trustees Chair and Rogers Towers attorney Bill Scheu and Library Director Barbara Gubbin.
• Several local elected officials will participate in this year’s Miracle on Ashley Street fundraiser for the Clara White Mission. State Sen. Tony Hill, State Reps. Aaron Bean and Audrey Gibson, Sheriff John Rutherford and several City Council members have agreed to be celebrity servers. Overall, about 90 people from attorneys to TV anchors to members of the JEDC will serve lunch. The 14th version of the fundraiser is set for May 16 from 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• It was another record turnout for the final installment of JaxParks’ “Movies in the Park” series on the Southbank, with more than 1,200 people gathering at Treaty Oak to watch “The Goonies,” according to figures from Downtown Vision Inc. The series showed family-friendly movies like “Ghostbusters,” “Madagascar,” and “Hook” and encouraged families to bring picnics to the lawn.
• Shelby’s coffee shop at the Main Library will celebrate its one-year anniversary Tuesday by hosting an appearance by poet and prose writer Hettie Jones. A member of the Greenwich Village bohemian scene in the late 1950s, Jones will share her memories of Beat Poets Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and Frank O’Hara. The event begins at 6 p.m. and is a program of the Jacksonville Public Library.
“Our domestic problems are for the most part economic. We have our enormous debt to pay, and we are paying it. We have the high cost of government to diminish, and we are diminishing it. We have a heavy burden of taxation to reduce, and we are reducing it. But while remarkable progress has been made in these directions, the work is yet far from accomplished.”
– Calvin Coolidge, U.S. president. Message to Congress at the beginning of the second session of the 68th Congress (Dec. 3, 1924)