• The Riverside Arts Market concluded its 2012 season Saturday, bringing an end to its fourth season. The outdoor event held weekly under the Fuller Warren Bridge will return March 2 for its fifth season. The Farmers Riverside Arts Market will continue 10 a.m. 1-p.m. on Saturdays from Jan. 5- Feb. 23.
• 7-Eleven will hold a grand opening ceremony at 10 a.m. today for its 9 W. Union St. store and other locations. The ceremony will not be for just the Downtown store but for the 11 stores that have opened in the Jacksonville area since the chain re-entered the Northeast Florida market this year, according to a news release. Coffee, food and the chain's signature Slurpees will be available as part of a ribbon-cutting ceremony. The company plans to open 80 stores by 2016, according to the release.
• The Community Redevelopment Area subcommittee of the Downtown Investment Authority will meet at 2 p.m. Thursday in the Don Davis Room at City Hall.
• The University of Florida has started a program to treat early metastatic cancer at its Jacksonville and Gainesville locations. Radiation oncologists are able to use medical devises to treat patients with recent diagnoses of metastatic cancer, where the disease has started to spread from one part of the body to another. The device is called a Vero and delivers a certain type of radiotherapy that allows physicians to track and view tumors in real time during treatment and was established as part of the UF Metastatic Cancer program to treat patients. It is housed on the campus of Shands Jacksonville at the University of Florida Proton Therapy Institute at 2015 N. Jefferson St.
• Jacksonville Jaguars owner Shad Khan was named as a board member of the NFL's new charitable organization, the National Football League Foundation. Khan is one of seven board members of the NFL Foundation, which will award more than $23 million in grants next year. The grants will support youth and high-school football programs, health and safety concerns and community health initiatives. Khan will be joined on the board by Michael Bidwell, Arizona Cardinals president; Mary Owens, Buffalo Bills executive vice president of strategic planning; Mike Reinfeldt, Tennessee Titans senior executive vice president and chief operating officer; Arthur Rooney II, Pittsburgh Steeler president; Leonard Wilf, Minnesota Vikings owner and vice chairman; and Charlotte Jones Anderson, Dallas Cowboys executive vice president, vice president of brand management and president of the charity foundation.
• Attorney Neil Henrichsen was elected chair of the Duval County Democratic Party on Friday. Henrichsen, founding member of the Henrichsen Siegel firm, will serve a four-year term and replace outgoing chair Travis Bridges. Also elected were Bobbie Nord as vice chair, Gayle Kendall as state committeewoman, Ray Alfred as state committeeman, James Poindexter as secretary and Radwan Chowhury as treasurer.