• City Council President Richard Clark has called a special meeting of the Duval County Tourist Development Council for Thursday at 10 a.m. in Conference Room A in the Council offices. The TDC, which Clark chairs, will consider an application for TDC funding for the Senior Bowl. The game, which is played in Mobile, Ala., has a date — Jan. 30 — but not a site.
• Patricia Hannan has resigned from the City’s Environmental Protection Board. In her resignation letter to Mayor John Peyton, Hannan cited her position as chair of the Jacksonville Community Council Inc. implementation task force for the “Our Money, Our City: Financing Jacksonville’s Future” study. She says the two-year commitment will be too time-consuming to also serve on the EPB.
• Due to the influx of the H1N1 virus in Northeast Florida, Baptist Health has decided to limit visitations in all five of its hospitals, including Wolfson Children’s Hospital, to only immediate family members. They are also discouraging large groups.
• Remember the Blockbuster at the corner of Atlantic Boulevard and St. Johns Bluff Road? The space is being remodeled and it’ll become an Auto Body Speed Shop.
• The donations are still coming in, but so far the recent Florida State College at Jacksonville roast for State Sen. Steve Wise has generated about $56,700 for the school’s Pathways Academy.
• The next meeting of the Northeast Florida Human Trafficking Task Force is today at 2 p.m. at the law office of Brennan Manna & Diamond at 800 W. Monroe St. Contact Crystal Freed at 262-2193.
• Gov. Charlie Crist announced appointments to the Medicaid Pharmaceutical and Therapeutics Committee Tuesday: Timothy Sternberg, 56, of Jacksonville, director of the Center for Pain Management with Shands Jacksonville, and George Schroeder, 49, of Orange Park, self-employed emergency physician. Both terms run through June 30, 2011.
• Jacksonville will host the first North American touring production of “The Color Purple” Nov. 17-22 at the Times-Union Center. Local actress Angela Robinson will play the role of Shug Avery on the tour, following her stint in the same role in the Broadway production of the musical. Tickets range in price from $26.50-$71.50. For reservations call the Artist Series box office at 632-3373 or visit www.artistseriesjax.org.