• Mayoral candidates Alvin Brown and Mike Hogan are scheduled to speak April 27 to the Arlington Council of the Jacksonville Regional Chamber of Commerce. The meeting is 7:30-9 a.m. at the Jacksonville University campus. For more information, visit www.arlingtoncouncil.org.
• It’s not too late to participate in the “Run for Cover 5K” tomorrow hosted by the Young Lawyers Section of The Jacksonville Bar Association. The event begins at 5 p.m. at Riverside Park. The 1-mile fun run starts at 5:30 p.m. and the 5K follows at 6 p.m.
• Some workers at the Jacksonville Anheuser-Busch brewery won’t be making beer tomorrow. Instead they’ll put the finishing touches on a new home through the HabiJax program. Anheuser-Busch also donated $65,000 to the project. The brewery donated the grass at the house, too. It was grown at its local Nutri-Turf farm.
• Duval County Superintendent Ed Pratt-Dannals will present the “State of our Schools” at 12:15 p.m. Monday to the Meninak Club of Jacksonville at the Wyndham Hotel on the Downtown Southbank.
• A proposed amendment to Ethics Bill 2011-167, which will be discussed Monday by the City Council Rules Committee, includes the latest proposed list of people to select members for the City’s Ethics Commission. That list includes: the director of the UNF Ethics Center; the president of the League of Women Voters; the president of The Jacksonville Bar Association; the director of JCCI; the state attorney for the Fourth Judicial Circuit; and the executive director of OneJax.
• It’s less than a week until opening day for the Jacksonville Suns, the Double-A Affiliate of the Florida Marlins. The Suns begin the 2011 regular season at 7:05 p.m. April 7 against the Huntsville Stars. Season tickets, sponsorships and group events are available by calling the Suns front office at 358-2846. The season is presented by EverBank, the official banking partner of the Jacksonville Suns.
• The Jacksonville-based Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation is donating an external defibrillator worth $2,000 to the Clay County Fair next Thursday, kicking off the first Firehouse Subs charity golf tournament awards ceremony and reception at River Bend Golf Links in Green Cove Springs. Since 2005, the foundation has donated more than $85,000 to public safety entities in Northeast Florida.
• The new Stein Mart at University and San Jose boulevards is 30,000 square feet in size. The store it replaced at University Boulevard and St. Augustine Road was the first Stein Mart in Jacksonville. It opened in July 1983.
• Newly sworn in City Council member Doyle Carter has been appointed to the Health and Safety Committee, filling the seat vacated by former council member Daniel Davis, and the Redistricting Committee, replacing council Vice President Stephen Joost.