• The Southeast United States Boat Show comes to Jacksonville this weekend after a “very strong” Tampa show. “People are still playing,” said the event producer Jimmy Hill of the local boating community. “They’re just being responsible.” Hill adds that this year’s show in Jacksonville has actually doubled in the number of vendors from last year to around 75. Gates are open from 10 a.m.–8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are $10 for adults, children 16 and under are free. For more information go to www.southeastusboatshow.com.
• Correction: In Wednesday’s Daily Record, it was reported that the Manhattan Film Festival is on Sept. 25 at the Terry Theatre. The event is actually Sept. 26.
• Monday’s Meninak meeting is a big one. The business person’s club will celebrate its 89th anniversary by announcing this year’s Meninak charity grants. The invite list includes past charity winners, youth leadership scholarship winners and partners of Blueprint for Prosperity.
• If you’d like to try your hand at urban gardening, here’s your chance: The Jacksonville Economic Development Commission, Republic Parking and Downtown Vision, Inc. are sponsoring “Downtown Digs” Oct. 11 from 8-11 a.m. The goal is to beautify more than 100 tree beds on Laura, Ocean, Adams, Forsyth, Julia, Hogan and Monroe streets. Volunteers will remove weeds then install plants and mulch that will be provided. Participants should bring their own small gardening tools and gloves and will be asked to complete two tree beds. The event will begin at the parking garage at 116 N. Pearl St. where coffee, juice, water, doughnuts, latex gloves and trash bags will be available. To register, call 634-0303, ext. 224.
• CSX Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Oscar Munoz may have earned academic degrees from both the University of Southern California and Pepperdine University, but he did entertain offers from other schools before becoming a Trojan. He told the crowd at the First Coast Hispanic Chamber of Commerce 12th Annual Scholarship Breakfast he had a full scholarship offer from Harvard, but an embarrassing experience at a black-tie optional dinner during a campus visit caused him to choose the school closer to his Huntington Beach, Calif. home. “My father and I thought that ‘black tie optional’ meant that we didn’t have to wear it, and I went in jeans and a T-shirt,” said Munoz. “It was a nice T-shirt, though.”