• The Monique Burr Foundation for Children Inc. hired Stacy Pendarvis as program manager for North Florida. She will help carry out the organization’s mission to provide safety and child abuse prevention education to all elementary school children in Florida by 2015. She will also manage the Monique Burr Foundation “Speak Up Be Safe! Florida” blog.
• The TealTown Downtown Block Party begins at 6 p.m. Sept. 9, a week from today, along Bay Street, from Liberty to Market streets. It’s presented by the City, PRI Productions and the Jacksonville Jaguars. The street festival will celebrate the first regular season game Sept. 11 against the Tennessee Titans at EverBank Field. Look for interactive games, temporary tattoos and drink specials. Street closures start at 10 a.m.
• Jacksonville-based FIS, which provides banking and payments technology, will present at the Citi Technology Conference Sept. 6 at the Hilton New York Hotel in New York.
• CSX Corp. CFO Oscar Munoz will address the Dahlman Rose & Co. Global Transportation Conference Sept. 7 in New York City.
• The Chamber’s Downtown Council is planning a 20th anniversary gala but the football season is in the way, so it’ll be after the first of the year.
• Timuquana Country Club’s renovations are on schedule and the new clubhouse should open in early December. The golf course reopens Oct. 13.
• Correction: In a Daily Record story Wednesday, Gary Sass was referring to the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 when he spoke about the fire that made Diebold safes famous. He was not referring to Jacksonville’s Great Fire of 1901.
• With a little more than a week before the start of the regular season and still plenty of seats to be sold, the Jacksonville Jaguars announced a “flex pack” deal for fans. Fans purchasing the pack will automatically receive tickets to the home opener against Tennessee Sept. 11 and then are able to choose three more games, including both Monday Night Football games, as part of their remaining three tickets. The packages start at $50 a game.
• TD Bank named Michael Del Rocco the regional vice president in commercial banking for Northeast Florida. Based in Jacksonville, he will oversee commercial banking, small business banking and related products and services in the market. Before joining TD Bank, he was senior vice president and commercial banking manager at BBVA Compass in Jacksonville He started his banking career in 1987 at Barnett Bank.