• Attorney Michael Tanner of Tanner Bishop received the 2010 “Justice Harry Lee Anstead Award for The Florida Bar Board Certified Lawyer of the Year.” The award recognizes “exemplary professionalism and excellence in the practice of law and character and commitment to The Florida Bar’s certification program.” Tanner is the second Jacksonville attorney to win the award. John “Jake” Schickel was the first.
• Don’t arm-wrestle new St. Vincent’s CEO Moody Chisholm. He’s a weightlifter.
• The annual Realtor-Builder trade show will be Oct. 21 and the theme will be “Vive La Renaissance.” The event is a joint project of the Northeast Florida Builders Association and the Northeast Florida Association of Realtors. The show will be 9 a.m.-3 p.m. at UNF’s University Center. To register online, visit www.tinyurl.com/rbtradeshow1021.
• Retired Adm. Robert Natter often states that the United States has 1,455,000 men and women on active military duty. “That’s one-third of 1 percent of the nation’s population.”
• To keep track of the U.S. population, check www.census.gov and watch the nation and world population clocks tick up. The country’s population is nearing 310 million and the world has more than 6.8 billion people.