• The U.S. Commercial Service, Enterprise Florida, the JAX Chamber, the Brazil-Florida Alliance and the Florida District Export Council present “Exporting to Brazil” from 8:30-10:30 a.m. Thursday at the JAX Chamber. Cost is $20. Registration is due by 5 p.m. Wednesday. Information: Call Jorge Arce at 232-1270 or email [email protected] or call Larry Bernaski at 359-9350 or email [email protected]
• Jane and Paul Vance, former Jacksonville Jaguars general counsel and senior vice president of football operations, sold their Epping Forest South home to Keith Landy and Caroline Mitchell for $1.48 million. The deed was recorded April 10. Vance was dismissed from the Jaguars Jan. 9 after serving as general counsel since 1994. His address on the deed is listed in New London, N.H.
• The JAX Chamber board of directors passed a resolution Monday supporting Mayor Alvin Brown’s economic development reform. “We are confident that a Downtown Investment Authority is a crucial step forward in developing a vibrant Downtown,” said chamber President Wally Lee during a news conference. The two pieces of legislation would create the authority and decrease the time it takes for economic deals to pass. City Council President Stephen Joost said during the news conference that he thought the legislation had the necessary votes but that it would not be passed during tonight’s full Council meeting because both bills are still at the committee level.
• In case you missed it, Florida Coastal School of Law professor Nancy Hogshead-Makar was featured in the April 15-21 “AmericanProfile” publication in a report about “Girls and Sports, Forty years after the passage of Title IX.” Hogshead-Makar won three gold medals in swimming at the 1984 Olympics and is senior director of advocacy for the Women’s Sports Foundation.