• Attorney Cameron Story has formed his own law firm. His office is on Prudential Drive and his firm will focus on mediating commercial, lending, real estate, construction and corporate disputes.
• Correction to a date: The Tritt & Franson Third Annual Groundhog Day Extravaganza is Feb. 7.
• Florida’s Chief Financial Officer, Alex Sink, will join Jacksonville Area Legal Aid today at 3 p.m. to lead a roundtable discussion about the foreclosure crisis on the First Coast. Local, state and federal officials will attend the roundtable at JALA’s Downtown office, 126 W. Adams St.
• Jacksonville Community Council Inc. will publicly release its 2007 “Quality of Life” progress report Wednesday at the Main Library from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Mayor John Peyton is scheduled to attend. Ron Autrey, chairman of the Jacksonville Regional Chamber of Commerce, will present the report.
• The Bank of America Office Park on Southside Boulevard will be visited Friday by U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso Jackson. He will tour the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) Center, address Bank of America associates and have lunch with bank executives including Floyd Robinson, president of the Consumer Real Estate division.
• The American Heart Association is asking everyone on the First Coast to wear red Friday to show their support of “Go Red For Women,” a nationwide movement that celebrates the energy, passion and power women have to work together and wipe out heart disease. Wear red and jeans to work, and donations of $5 or more are also encouraged. Over 10,000 companies are expected to participate in Wear Red Day.
• The Museum of Science and History is hosting a “Free Day” Saturday from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. The Free Day includes the “Water Education Festival” in collaboration with the City of Jacksonville’s Environmental Protection Board and the St. Johns River Water Management District.
“The total collapse of the public opinion polls shows that this country is in good health. A country that developed an airtight system of finding out in advance what was in people’s minds would be uninhabitable.”
– E.B White, U.S. author, editor.