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Pasta and pizza will be part of the 26th annual Festa Italiana, scheduled for 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 1, 2and noon to 6 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 2, at the Italian American Club of Jacksonville at 2838 Westberry Road.
The 65-year-old club and city jointly observe October as Italian-American Heritage Month with the two-day celebration of all things Italian, including the sale of authentic Italian food like pizza, meatball and sausage subs and homemade desserts. Free events include children’s bounce houses and live music.

The Jacksonville Aviation Authority elected Patrick Kilbane as chairman of the board of directors Monday.
Kilbane’s 2016-2017 tenure begins Oct. 1. He’s been on the JAA board since 2014 when he was appointed by Gov. Rick Scott, a news release said.
Kilbane will succeed Ray Alfred as chairman. Alfred will remain an active member of the JAA board.
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Richard “Lance” Snyder, MD joined Memorial Hospital and Memorial Orthopedic Surgery.
Snyder is board certified in orthopedic surgery and fellowship-trained in sports medicine.
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The Jacksonville Public Education Fund added Ronnie King, Coley Jones, Marsha Oliver, Hugh Greene, Lisa Page and Kay Park as new members of its Board of Directors.
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On a brilliant, end-of-summer day, sunshine illuminated the foliage obscuring 82-year-old Jim Kern’s waterfront St. Augustine property. The modest house peeked through the trees, less a noticeable landmark and more a strange hiccup of white breaking through emerald splashes of palm leaves at the elbow of a narrow dirt road.
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Richard “Lance” Snyder, MD joined Memorial Hospital and Memorial Orthopedic Surgery.
Snyder is board certified in orthopedic surgery and fellowship-trained in sports medicine.
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The Jacksonville Public Education Fund added Ronnie King, Coley Jones, Marsha Oliver, Hugh Greene, Lisa Page and Kay Park as new members of its Board of Directors.
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There’s a deal in place for Global Ministries Foundation to unload Eureka Garden and the other federally-subsidized housing complexes it owns in Jacksonville to a for-profit firm based in Cleveland.
The agreement marks the latest purchase by Millennia Housing Management Ltd., which is rated as an industry leader in the acquisition and rehabilitation of affordable housing properties by trade magazine Affordable Housing Finance.

Jaguars owner Shad Khan met over the weekend with London’s mayor in a meeting the mayor’s press office said involved discussions of “bringing more NFL games to London.”
Sadiq Khan tweeted after the Saturday morning meeting in Chicago: “Great to meet Shahid Khan today to talk about my drive to bring an @nfl franchise to London.”
Great to meet Shahid Khan today to talk about my drive to bring an @nfl franchise to London.

State Rep. Reggie Fullwood’s fraud trial will go ahead as planned next month, a federal judge ruled Monday.
U.S. District Judge Marcia Morales Howard denied a motion by the Democratic lawmaker to dismiss 10 counts of wire fraud and let him simply address four charges of failing to file tax returns.
“The simple answer is the motion has to be denied,” Howard told attorneys who mapped out plans to launch the trial Oct. 11 and finish by Oct. 21, if not sooner.

The death of a 44-year-old U.S. Navy commander in Orange Park remained a mystery for months as police refused to discuss anything about the investigation into his death.
But 31 months after the body of Alphonso Mortimer Doss was found at the Astoria Hotel, prosecutors will finally start spelling out the case of one of the men charged in his death Tuesday morning.
Anthony Delane Washington, 31, is the first of three people scheduled to go on trial in Doss’s death.

There’s a deal in place for Global Ministries Foundation to unload Eureka Garden and the other federally-subsidized housing complexes it owns in Jacksonville to a for-profit firm based in Cleveland.
The agreement marks the latest purchase by Millennia Housing Management Ltd., which is rated as an industry leader in the acquisition and rehabilitation of affordable housing properties by trade magazine Affordable Housing Finance.