• Florida Attorney General and Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill McCollum is scheduled to make a keynote speech at 2:25 p.m. today at the Embassy Suites in Baymeadows for the “Strategies for Safe and Sustainable Communities” symposium. The all-day event will review efforts of the Coordinated Community Anti-Crime Initiative pilot program in Tampa.
• Saturday is World Environment Day and Anheuser-Busch’s Jacksonville Brewery will be doing its part. It will hold a water conservation fair today for employees, and volunteers from the brewery will participate in Keep Jacksonville Beautiful’s beaches cleanup on June 20. Brewery employees also plan to participate in a second beaches cleanup in November and the annual St. John’s River Cleanup next spring.
• The Jacksonville Women’s Business Center said June 7 is the registration deadline for its Athena PowerLink Program, which links a woman-owned business with a panel of volunteer advisers who work with her for a year to help meet objectives. The application fee is $75. For information, call Pat Blanchard at 366-6640 or e-mail [email protected]. For more information about the center, visit www.JaxWBC.com.
• The state is picking up the tab for those who want to throw a line in the ocean for a chance to reel in some dinner. Both residents and nonresidents were able to fish for saltwater species around the state without a license during Memorial Day weekend and will be able to do so again June 5-6. Gov. Charlie Crist announced May 28 that he approved two free fishing weekends. The second weekend was meant to give fishermen a chance to reel in some red snapper after the season opened June 1 in the Gulf.
• Correction to a story in Tuesday’s Daily Record. The mound of dirt on the Intracoastal Waterway in Neptune Beach is the result of a Florida Inland Navigation District dredging project, not a St. Johns River Water Management District dredging project, according to JTA chief engineer John Davis. Also, Davis expects to submit the permit applications the middle of this month to remove the mound.