by TRC_Admin | Apr 27, 2023 | Etc.
“Michael Kirwan named President; Melinda B. Powers and Rebecca Williams join the Board.”
Michael Kirwan succeeds Susan Caven, who will continue to serve as an officer and immediate past president. Kirwan is a partner with the international law firm of Foley & Lardner and was recently awarded the firm’s national community impact award, the Lynford Lardner Award, for his community contributions. He has been with Scenic Jacksonville for ten years, leading the Underground Committee and the Great Cities Symposium. Caven was president of Scenic Jacksonville for two different terms spanning over eight years, and has been a longstanding civic advocate for trees, billboard removal, historic preservation, and scenic beauty.
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“Melinda B. Powers is the founder and manager of Intentional Professionals, LLC where she consults and coaches small business owners and corporate professionals. She is a member of the 2023 class of Leadership Jacksonville and has served on local nonprofit boards including the Ascension St. Vincent’s Foundation Shircliff Society, River City Education Organization, Jax Chamber’s Downtown Council and Junior League of Jacksonville. “
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“Rebecca E. Williams is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Fruit of Barren Trees, LLC, a neighborhood revitalization firm. After working for a number of years at Fannie Mae, she is focused on transforming communities through development, revitalization, and investment strategies.
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‘We are very fortunate to have such talented community leaders joining Scenic Jacksonville’s Board,’ said Michael Kirwan. ‘These new directors bring energy and enthusiasm to our already active and passionate board and will help us continue our mission of preserving, protecting and enhancing the scenic character of our city.’
— Scenic Jacksonville
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by TRC_Admin | Dec 7, 2019 | Etc., Placemaking
Photo: Enchant Christmas
“Enchant Christmas, the world’s largest Christmas light maze and market featuring larger-than-life light sculptures is taking over Tropicana Field from Nov. 22 to Dec. 29.
Visitors will glide along the light-adorned ice skating trail, mosey through a Christmas market of more than 40 local artisan vendors, listen as carolers sing favorite holiday tunes, enjoy food and drinks, and visit with Santa at Santa’s Landing. ”
Photo: Enchant Christmas
— D’Ann Lawrence White, Patch Staff
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by TRC_Admin | Oct 3, 2019 | Etc.
Join Scenic America staff, Board of Directors, affiliates from around the country and local stakeholders to learn how scenic beauty supports economic development, livability and tourism.
The symposium is being hosted by our newest affiliate, Scenic Walton. Representatives from many of our 51 state and local affiliates are traveling to Miramar Beach to learn from experts in planning, design and public health about how to better advocate for scenic beauty in their communities. There will also be opportunities to learn about how municipalities and communities from around the region are achieving progress in implementing scenic initiatives.
Click here for more information and to register.
by TRC_Admin | Jul 27, 2019 | Etc., Technology
Photo: IRL Glasses, Wired
“EARLY LAST YEAR, Scott Blew was standing in line at a food truck in Los Angeles when he caught the glare of Fox News on a television out of the corner of his eye. This is ridiculous, he thought. He couldn’t even escape the deluge of the news, or the ubiquity of screens, on a jaunt outdoors to get lunch. You could consciously choose to put your phone away, to step away from your laptop, but then some other screen would pop up elsewhere, whether you liked it or not.
Blew, an entrepreneur and engineer, recalled an article he’d recently read in WIRED about a new kind of film that blocked the light emitted from screens. Plaster it on the glass walls of fishbowl conference rooms and other people could see in—but they couldn’t see what was on someone’s laptop. Blew wondered if the same technology might work on a pair of glasses, to block the screens that seemed to be everywhere.
He contacted Steelcase, the company that made the Casper screen-blocking film, and ordered a sample. Then he popped out the lenses in a pair of cheap sunglasses and replaced them with the film. Amazingly, it worked: Blew could look through the lenses and see everything—except for screens, which turned black.
Blew brought the prototype to his friend Ivan Cash, an artist, who thought the glasses were brilliant. Now, Cash and a small team are turning that concept into a real product. Their IRL Glasses, which launched on Kickstarter this week, block the wavelengths of light that comes from LED and LCD screens. Put them on and the TV in the sports bar seems to switch off; billboards blinking ahead seem to go blank. Within three days of launch, the project had surpassed its funding goal of $25,000. (Like all Kickstarters, this one comes with the usual caveats….)””
— Arielle Pardes, Wired
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