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While we can discuss the impact of such things as temperature and salinity on river life, the most critical component is oxygen. It is the one essential element that must be available for almost all living things to exist. And it is the link between nutrients, particularly excess nutrients, and the availability of oxygen that has the greatest impact on both plants and animals living in the river.
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Dear Call Box: I live in the Waterleaf subdivision, which is on Kernan Boulevard between Atlantic Boulevard and McCormick Road. It’s my understanding that the last phase of the widening of Kernan between Atlantic and McCormick is supposed to be starting, and I’m wondering if you can find out when that will be. The infrastructure there is so awkward that there could be some accidents, especially on the turn near Atlantic and Kernan, so I’m anxious for it to begin.
F.L., East Arlington

Dear Call Box: I live in the Waterleaf subdivision, which is on Kernan Boulevard between Atlantic Boulevard and McCormick Road. It’s my understanding that the last phase of the widening of Kernan between Atlantic and McCormick is supposed to be starting, and I’m wondering if you can find out when that will be. The infrastructure there is so awkward that there could be some accidents, especially on the turn near Atlantic and Kernan, so I’m anxious for it to begin.
F.L., East Arlington

While we can discuss the impact of such things as temperature and salinity on river life, the most critical component is oxygen. It is the one essential element that must be available for almost all living things to exist. And it is the link between nutrients, particularly excess nutrients, and the availability of oxygen that has the greatest impact on both plants and animals living in the river.
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A Saturday Safari of White Oak’s 12,000-acre nature preserve is set for 2 p.m. Sept. 10 at the conservation facilities at 581705 White Oak Road in Yulee.
The facility off U.S. 17 offers an in-depth tour to show families the work being done to preserve the endangered species that live there, including a new baby giraffe born there Aug. 1 to a young female also born the same date in 2012.
For more information about this and other White Oak events, call (904) 904-225-3396 or go to whiteoakwildlife.org.

Keisha Mosley wears a T-shirt featuring a drawing of a baby with angel wings.
“Still born. Still loved,” it reads.
Her son Noah was stillborn on March 19, 2014, 32 weeks into her pregnancy. The loss itself was crushing, but what followed — feeling isolated, wanting to somehow honor his existence but not sure how, other people not knowing what to say and deciding to not mention him at all — compounded her devastation.

Is the proposed half-cent sales tax for eliminating Jacksonville’s pension debt “the progressive solution” for moving Jacksonville forward?
Is the sales tax a “conservative plan for our conservative Jacksonville?”
The answer to those questions is yes and yes, according to Yes for Jacksonville, the political committee that uses the terms “progressive” and “conservative” in different campaign mailers about the plan.

Arthur Milam, whose leadership helped save what is now the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville, died early Wednesday. He was 89.
“MOCA would not be in downtown Jacksonville if it weren’t for Arthur Milam,” said Alan Howard, a long time friend and law partner of Milam. “MOCA probably wouldn’t exist if it weren’t for Arthur Milam.”
Milam was chairman of museum’s board when it sold its long-time home in the Koger Center in 1999 and began seeking a downtown location.

An increase in mosquito-borne disease activity in parts of Duval County forced the Florida Department of Health’s local office to issue a new advisory on Thursday, after a human case of West Nile illness was confirmed in the area.
The advisory was filed due to a concern that more residents will become ill, while the risk of further transmission to humans exists, according to the health department.
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The fourth annual River Ruckus comes to the Riverside Arts Market from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at 715 Riverside Ave., under the Fuller Warren Bridge.
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