• Dr. Stephen Lucie, an orthopedic surgeon, will be installed as the new president of the Duval County Medical Society during the organization’s annual meeting Jan. 15 at the Touchdown Club West at the stadium. Dr. Glenn Knox is the current president.
• The State Chief Financial Officer, Alex Sink, will be at Jacksonville University next month as a guest speaker at the Davis College of Business’ “Davis Thought Leaders Speaker Series.” It’s also Jan. 15.
• One more from Jan. 15. The Jacksonville Waterways Commission meets for the first time in 2009 and one of the agenda items in an update from Jason Teal of the Office General Counsel on the City’s landscape irrigation legislation.
• Fans of the rock band U2 will be happy to know the band’s new album will be out in March. According to the band’s Web site, “No Line on the Horizon” will hit stores March 2. It’s the band’s first studio album since 2004.
• Clarification to a Tuesday City Note about the Landing and its New Year’s Eve policy. The Landing is open to all ages until 9 p.m. After that, you must be at least 21 years old to stay until it closes at 2 a.m.
• Andrew Fogerty has resigned from the Jacksonville Port Authority’s board of directors. In his resignation to Mayor John Peyton, Fogerty didn’t cite a specific reason. Fogerty is the strategic counselor to CSX Chairman, President and CEO Michael Ward. He was appointed to the board in 2007 to a four-year term.
• The Office of the Director for the City’s Department of Central Operations has relocated to the seventh floor of the Ed Ball Building.
• Local and visiting Nebraska Cornhusker fans have enlisted Ham’s Restaurant as their stronghold for Gator Bowl Week. Ham’s will host a Husker-themed New Year’s Eve party and will have specials after the game. For more info contact the Northern Florida Nebraskans at www.huskers.nu or Ham’s Restaurant at 904-381-6767.
• Clemson fans can welcome in the new year at Maverick’s at the Landing. The Jax Clemson Club will host the party at the Downtown “Rock N’ Honky Tonk” on New Year’s Eve. Contact Shannon Smith, Jax Clemson Club president at 535-7571 or via e-mail at [email protected].
• Two key Jacksonville Community Council Inc. upcoming dates: Jan. 9, the organization will release its “Race Relations Progress Report” findings at the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Breakfast at the Osborn Center. The organization’s annual “Quality of Life” study will be released at a ceremony Jan. 28 at the Main Library.
• The City Council Finance Committee doesn’t meet again until Jan. 5 and it may be one of the lightest agendas in recent memory. It’s 11 pages and there are only 14 new items.
• Speaking of the City, its Procurement Department is taking bids on a couple of Downtown projects. One is the Bay Street Town Center streetscape phase II while the other is renovations to the first and third floors of the Ed Ball Building.
• Effective Jan. 5, the “Pete Prisco Show” on AM-930 is moving to the 4-7 p.m. time slot.
• Oceanside Bank, in partnership with Florida’s First Coast Civitan Club, sent more than 50 holiday boxes to military personnel deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan. Employees and customers collected magazines, books and other requested items. The boxes also included small stuffed animals to be given to children living in war zones.
• Tickets go on sale today at 10 a.m. for five-time Grammy Award-winning soul artist John Legend with special guest Estelle Feb. 2 at the Florida Theatre. Also on sale Friday, tickets for comedian Sinbad’s show March 20. Tickets are available at the box office and all Ticketmaster outlets.