• Bank of America recognized five area students as part of Bank of America’s Student Leaders Program. They are Kimberly Trinh, a rising senior at Englewood High School; Obioma Ezinwa, a recent graduate of Stanton College Preparatory High School, and Whitney Pietrykowski, a rising senior at Stanton; Crisellyson Soliman, a rising senior at Paxon School for Advanced Studies High School; and Michelle Tsoutsos, a rising senior at Terry Parker High School. They were awarded paid, eight-week summer internships at local nonprofits, including Communities In Schools of Jacksonville. The students also are attending Bank of America’s Student Leadership Summit this week in Washington D.C. They are among the 230 high school students nationwide chosen for the program.
• Recently selected for rear admiral, former NAS Jacksonville base commander Jack Scorby will return to Jacksonville and assume command of Navy Region Southeast this fall, according to a July 5 announcement by the secretary of the Navy and chief of Naval Operations. Scorby serves as executive assistant to the assistant secretary of the Navy for energy, installations and environment in Washington, D.C. He will relieve Rear Adm. Tim Alexander, who is slated to take command of Navy Region Mid-Atlantic.
• Unprepared for a hurricane? Agencies plan to help you make preparations. From 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday at the Legends Center, four agencies and City Council member Reggie Brown will host the “Be Prepared Hurricane Safety Event” at the center, 5130 Soutel Drive. Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Urban Search and Rescue, Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office response teams, Duval County Emergency Management and American Red Cross officials will join Brown at the event.
• The new Fresenius Medical Care Jacksonville dialysis clinic, which serves patients with chronic kidney disease, opened at 1944 Atlantic Blvd. Dr. Nilay Nahar, with the Clinic for Kidney Disease in Jacksonville, provides medical director oversight at Fresenius. For information, call 460-3202.
• Wells Fargo has completed its conversion of Wachovia offices. More than 300 Wachovia banking locations across South Florida became Wells Fargo stores the past weekend after stores in the rest of the state were converted in June. The state now has almost 700 Wells Fargo stores and more than 900 ATMs in the latest phase of the largest bank merger in U.S. history. The company contributed $400,000 statewide to nonprofits during the conversion. Wells Fargo said it has added more than 1,500 new jobs across the state. Wachovia Corp. merged with Wells Fargo & Co. effective Dec. 31, 2008. Continuing through 2011, the company will convert Wachovia operations in Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, and Washington, D.C.
• Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northeast Florida announced three hires. Nyree Bowen is area manager for Clay County and Angline “Rainey” Crawford is area manager for Nassau County. They will coordinate efforts in the counties to recruit, train and match children into the programs. Ansley Alfano was named community match support specialist and will assume responsibilities in the “Bigs in School” program and will coordinate the “Big Picture” program.
• Jacksonville-based Fidelity National Financial Inc. said Wednesday it has agreed to sell its flood insurance business to WRM America Holdings LLC. WRM America will acquire 100 percent of the equity interests of Fidelity National Indemnity Insurance Co. and Fidelity National Insurance Services for about $210 million, consisting of $122.5 million in cash, $75 million in a seller note and a $12.5 million cash dividend. The deal is expected to close in the fourth quarter.
• The CSX Corp. board on Wednesday authorized an increase in the 2011 capital investment for certain purchases, primarily railcars to meet the growing demand for export coal. The Jacksonville-based company now expects to make 2011 capital investments of $2.2 billion, up from the previously announced $2 billion.
The increase is consistent with CSX’s previously announced intention to reinvest an average of 18 percent of its revenues back into its business through 2015.
• The Main Street America Group was named to the 2011 Ward’s 50 group of top-performing property-casualty insurance companies in the United States. The ranking puts the Jacksonville-based company among the top 2 percent of all U.S. property-casualty carriers. Main Street America is the only Florida-based company to be cited. Since 1991, the Cincinnati-based Ward Group has annually analyzed the performance of more than 3,000 property-casualty insurance companies and 800 life-health insurance companies based in the United States.