• City Council member Reggie Brown will preside over his first Jacksonville Waterways Commission meeting as chair Thursday. The meeting is at 9 a.m. in the Lynwood Roberts Room at City Hall.
• The University of North Florida will kick off its “Power of Transformation” campaign with a big event Oct. 2. The co-chairs of the event are Blanche and Luther Coggin and Ann and David Hicks. The money generated through the campaign will go towards scholarships and other programs.
• Speaking of UNF, the school’s Center for Global Health and Medical Diplomacy will team with Mayo Clinic and others to present a community health fair conference called “Healthcare Disparities in the Age of Obama: Priorities for Northeast Florida.” It’s Sept. 17 at Edward Waters College and gets underway at 7:30 a.m.
• Tom Majdanics has been named the founding executive director of the Knowledge is Power Program for Jacksonville. According to KIPP Chairman, John Baker II, the first Jacksonville KIPP school will open next summer and there will be five by 2017. The first facility is currently being renovated and was donated by Jacksonville Greyhound Racing.
• Lauren Atwell, president of the Utility Contractors Association of North Florida, Inc., is pushing for the passage of legislation that would issue $300 million in Special Revenue Bonds. The money will finance the remaining costs in the Better Jacksonville Plan.
• BlueCross BlueShield of Florida lobbyist Mike Hightower and his wife Sue are hosting a Sept. 2 “Team North Florida” fundraiser for John Thrasher who is running for the Dist. 8 State Senate seat.
• Correction. CSX Assistant Vice President of Diversity Susan Hamilton was incorrectly identified as Barbara Hamilton in an article in Thursday’s Daily Record.
• People attending University of Florida football games this season should leave the cigarettes in the car. In an effort to make UF a smoke-free campus, the university has banned smoking at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium beginning Sept. 5 when UF hosts Charleston Southern. Previously, there were smoking areas near both end zones.
• The Riverside Arts Market has been attracting shoppers to its location underneath the Fuller-Warren Bridge since it opened in April, but it will be celebrating a different kind of customer Aug. 29. It will host a “Dog Day of Summer” to celebrate National Dog Day from 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
• Saturday night’s scrimmage wasn’t the only thing on Jacksonville Jaguars offensive tackle Tony Pashos’ mind that day. He hosted “Pashos’ Pals” after the morning practice. The “Pals” are children involved with the local Guardian ad Litem program, which provides advocates for children who have been removed from their homes.