Events

Jacksonville Jaguar's Maurice Jones Drew to Sign Autographs Today at PNC Bank's Cypress Point Branch

PNC Bank will welcome Jacksonville Jaguars running back Maurice Jones Drew, who will sign free autographs.

Other activities include: free refreshments, strolling magician, free giveaways and a chance to win the ultimate tailgating package.

When:

Tuesday, Oct. 26

6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Where:

175 Cypress Point Branch (across the street from Wal-Mart)

Palm Coast, Fla

(386) 246-3480

 

City of Palm Coast's Seafood Festival Nov. 6 & 7

Come to the City of Palm Coast’s new Seafood Festival on Saturday/Sunday, November 6 & 7 – you’ll cheer on hourly National Hermit Crab Races performed by the National Crab Race Association. Brightly painted crabs race across green wooden race tracks, scooting side-by-side to the finish line. Each shelled crab is numbered for identification purposes and each race participant picks a hermit crab from an aquarium and gives the crab a name.  All the fun is scheduled every hour, on the hour.

Aside from the crab races, visitors will enjoy two days of great eating, kids carnival with popular midway rides, Frisbee K-9 Dog performances, antique and new car show, radio controlled boat racing, art show, food demo with Hell’s Kitchen’s champion Danny Veltri and lots of fabulous music. The Saturday Night Decades of Rockin’ Oldies concert begins at

8:00 p.m. Admission is only $3 for the entire day, with kids under 12 and parking free of charge.

The Civil War in Jacksonville Living History Weekend at Fort Caroline National Memorial

November 20-21, 2010 Jacksonville, Florida

The Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve will present a special event entitled “The Civil War in Jacksonville.”  This living history weekend will be held at Fort Caroline National Memorial and will highlight how the Civil War affected Jacksonville and Northeast Florida.  The event will be open and free to the public 10:00 am to 4:00 pm Saturday and 10:00 am to 2:00 pm Sunday.

The Civil War was fought in all southern states, including Florida, yet few people are aware of the battles and naval engagements that occurred in Jacksonville.  The Union Navy blockaded the St. Johns River and Union gunboats patrolled as far south as Green Cove Springs.

UNF Alumni Association Hosts Denim & Diamonds Fundraiser, RSVP by Nov. 8th

Come out for an evening of glitz and denim as the University of North Florida Alumni Association hosts its annual Denim & Diamonds fund-raising event from 7 to 11 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 13, at the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville, a cultural resource of UNF, located at 333 North Laura Street. Proceeds will go towards student study-abroad scholarships.

The cost is $40 per person, or $75 per couple, and includes an open bar, appetizers, a raffle ticket, music, dancing and participation in a silent auction. To R.S.V.P. for this event, contact the UNF Office of Alumni Services at (904) 620-4723 or by e-mail at unf-alum@unf.edu by Monday, Nov. 8.

Tea Party Network Get Out The Vote Rally, Oct. 30th

The Tea Party Network is sponsoring a Get Out The Vote Rally on Saturday, October 30, 2010 beginning at 12:00 PM. The Network, an association of 24 Florida Tea Party communities from around the State has organized an event aimed at expressing the very critical message that ll of us need to get out and vote in this critical election.

The event will start as a series of motorcade from the surrounding counties, making their way to a field in Clay County Florida located at 648 County Road 217, Middleburg Fl. 32234.

Flagler College Senior Wins 2010 St. Augustine Amateur in Comeback Fashion

Chris Bray, a senior at Flagler College, won the 2010 St. Augustine Amateur at St. Johns Golf Club with a final round 68 for a total of 206. Bray started the final round in 2nd place, 2 shots behind 36-hole leader Chris Kennedy.  Kennedy stretched his lead to four strokes before Bray turned the tide with birdies on #13 and #15 on his way to a back-nine 33.

Alligator Farm to Recycle Cell Phones at Holloween

As part of its popular annual Creatures of the Night Halloween festivities, The St. Augustine Alligator Farm Zoological Park will host a cell phone recycling program designed to help the planet and raise funds for education. The Alligator Farm will partner with Eco-Cell, a recycling company that focuses on raising funds to save gorilla habitats and to help other ecological non-profits. During the Alligator Farm’s Creatures of the Night events on October 29, 30 and 31, Eco-Cell will collect used cell phones and will donate 10% of the value of each phone collected back to The Alligator Farm for conservation and education programs. Eco-Cell will also distribute free press-on tattoos to all children who bring in phones.