• Sheriff John Rutherford is the honoree at this year’s Police Athletic League Roast 2009. The event is Nov. 10 at the Omni and starts at 6 p.m. with a reception and silent auction followed by dinner and the roast. John Falconetti and Bruce Barcelo will serve as co-chairs, Mike Hightower and Steve Halverson are honorary co-chairs and John Keane and Circuit Court Judge Lance Day are the host committee chairs.
• The Memorial Wall at the Sports Complex will be under repair for the next few weeks as the City replaces the cauldron and works on the natural gas infrastructure for the flame. The repairs will be finished prior to Veterans Day. Later in the year there will be further repairs necessitated by skateboard damage and weathering of the grout and marble.
• As part of Hispanic Heritage Month, the Jacksonville Public Library will present Gustavo Pérez-Firmat at the first “Notable Author Series” event Saturday at 11 a.m. at the University Park Branch. Jorge Febles, chair of the World Languages Department at the University of North Florida, will moderate a question and answer session with award-winning Cuban-American poet, fiction writer and scholar Pérez-Firmat about his literature and life experiences. The event is free and open to the public.
• The Mitchel Musso concert originally scheduled for Friday at the Baseball Grounds of Jacksonville has been rescheduled to Nov. 14 at the Moran Theater at the Times-Union Center for Performing Arts. Existing tickets for the concert will be honored for the new event, however people who have already purchased tickets need to exchange their Oct. 16 ticket for a Nov. 14 Times-Union Center ticket. Ticket-holders can exchange in advance or at the box office the night of the show. Musso is best known for his role as Oliver “Smokin” Oken in the Emmy Award-nominated Disney Channel sitcom “Hannah Montana” and as Jeremy Johnson in “Phineas and Ferb.”
• The original graduating class of Florida Coastal School of Law, as well as the class of 2004, will be honored at the school’s Alumni Weekend celebration Oct. 23-24. The two days will feature CLE classes, a trip to the Jacksonville Zoo and Gala Reception Dinner at the Sawgrass Marriott Golf Resort and Spa. For more information go to http://alumni.fcsl.edu.
• Deadline to file for judicial applications for a vacancy in the Fourth Judicial Circuit Court must be received before 5 p.m. on October 19, 2009. An original and nine copies must be submitted to: c/o Ava Parker, Lawrence & Parker PA, 101 East Union Street, Suite 200, Jacksonville, FL 32202-6002.
• The City Council Courthouse Oversight Special Committee will meet Tuesday at 4:00 p.m. in committee room B at City Hall. The purpose of the meeting is to review issues regarding construction of the new courthouse. For more information contact Allison Miller, 630-1398.