• The Jacksonville Suns have been using the team’s “Hometown Heroes” promotion to highlight a local celebrity on special nights throughout the season. For those looking for one of the area’s most visible celebrities, Suns President Peter Bragan Jr. told the Meninak Club of Jacksonville he’s working on former University of Florida quarterback Tim Tebow. Bragan said if and when the schedules line up, it could happen, maybe in June.
• On Monday, the City and U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown will host the 18th Annual Job and Resource Fair. The event is 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Osborn Center. More than 60 employers are expected, including the FDIC, the Hyatt, Flight Star Aircraft, The Urban League/Head Start, Gateway Community Services, UPS and North Florida Shipyards. The fair will also present workshops to help applicants sharpen their job-seeking skills. For information, call 354-1652.
• City Council member Art Graham is sponsoring a bill that would expand the boundaries of the North Florida Transportation Planning Organization to include all of Duval, Clay, Nassau and St. Johns counties.
• Council member Michael Corrigan was nominated for reappointment to the Duval County Tourist Development Council for a second term that’ll expire June 30, 2014.
• Speaking of the TDC, its next meeting is 10 a.m. May 20 in Conference Room A at Council offices.
• Gateway Town Center is listed for sale at $23 million by the Marcus & Millichap National Retail Group. The group’s website shows Gateway, just off Interstate 95 along Norwood Avenue, with 560,352 square feet of leasable space on 56 acres. The center, built in 1967 and renovated in 2005, is anchored by Publix, RadioShack and Family Dollar and has the City’s third-largest public transportation center.
• Jacksonville native Marlo Nettles, a two-decade veteran of the banking industry, joined Kuhn Flowers as sales manager. Nettles most recently was assistant vice president and a budget analyst with Wachovia.
• The Jacksonville Waterways Commission meets 9 a.m. Thursday in Council Chambers.
• The Taxation, Revenue and Utilization of Expenditures Commission has drafted a resolution urging the Council Auditor’s Office to conduct an audit of Shands Jacksonville. According to the resolution, the hospital receives nearly $24 million annually from the City and hasn’t been audited in nearly four years.
• According to Debbie Verges, who oversees the Jacksonville Journey initiative, 44 applications were received for the 2010 Summer Camp program. Of those, 36 were recommended for funding.
• Jacksonville Area Legal Aid will reopen its Project House-Hold office at the Ribault Family Resource Center later this month. The ceremony is set for 10:30 a.m. May 27. The program is designed to help those facing foreclosure and will be restarted thanks to funding from the City, the United Way and the Community Foundation of Jacksonville.
• The Sulzbacher Center will open its new behavioral clinic this month. Dr. Richard Christensen, a professor and chief of the Division of Public Psychiatry at the University of Florida, will serve as the center’s director.
• Speaking of the Sulzbacher Center, Butch Toney was recently named Volunteer of the Year. Overall, more than 2,000 volunteers served 29,488 hours at the Center last year. According to Sulzbacher officials, those hours had a value of $602,229.
• The annual Firehouse Subs Men’s Doubles Tennis Tournament will be May 14-16 at the Deerwood Tennis Complex, featuring nationally ranked players. Firehouse Subs and Outback Steakhouse will cater the food. There also will be a silent auction and children’s activities. Proceeds will benefit the Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation. For information, visit www.firehousesubs.com.
• Greenscape of Jacksonville Inc. will hold its annual meeting and luncheon Thursday at Timuquana Country Club. It will also mark the 35th anniversary of Greenscape in Jacksonville. Kim Coder, an environmental author, is the guest speaker.
• If you were at the beaches this past weekend, you might have seen a familiar Burrito Gallery sign. That was for the Burrito Gallery Express, which opened Saturday at 1333 13th Ave. N. and is serving the same fare as the Downtown location.
• Jacksonville University’s School of Nursing was awarded $247,500 to support its Health Information Technology Initiative. The funding, sponsored by U.S. Rep. Ander Crenshaw, is part of a 2010 appropriations bill approved by Congress. Funds will be used to help improve the school’s clinical laboratory with portable and advanced patient simulators, as well as helping to upgrade the school’s new software program that simulates electronic medical records used in hospitals and medical offices across the country.
• Joytel Wireless was founded in an office in the lobby at the Modis building/Independent Square and later moved to the Metropolitan Lofts on Church Street. The staff is packing up to move into the firm’s third leased location. It’s at one of the most secure addresses in Northeast Florida, the Jacksonville Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta along Water Street.