05:10 AM EST Share A night with the Icemen, happy hour at Epping Forest, Jax Bar Dog Day, a Downtown tour and pickleball are on the agenda.
The Jacksonville Bar Association and Jacksonville Women Lawyers Association have an evening of professional ice hockey at VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena scheduled March 17 when the Jacksonville Icemen play the Orlando Solar Bears on St. Patrick’s Day.
JWLA President Cyndy Trimmer, a JBA board member, will host the event.
The first 40 members who register for “Luck of the Icemen” will receive a free ticket and a $10 credit for concessions. A complimentary happy hour begins at 6 p.m. featuring green beer from Wicked Barley Brewing.
The Jacksonville Women Lawyers Association partnered with the Greater Orlando Asian American Bar Association on Jan. 14 for a combined membership meeting.
Presenters of the live stream meeting were JWLA President Cyndy Trimmer and Greater Orlando Asian American Bar Association President Onchantho Am.
Aurora Austriaco, president of the National Conference of Bar Presidents, was the virtual guest speaker.
Trimmer, a partner with the Driver, McAfee, Hawthorne & Diebenow law firm, practices land use and zoning and government relations law.
Am is vice president of quality and chief legal officer for Impower Inc., a nonprofit mental health and child advocacy organization.
The topic for the discussion was gender and minority equity in the legal profession.
Kelco Management and Development still has design work to do before Downtown regulators will allow it to break ground on a proposed Home2 Suites by Hilton in Brooklyn.
The Downtown Development Review Board voted 7-0 on Dec. 10 to award conceptual approval to the project at 600 Park St.
The board expects the extended-stay hotel to have higher quality architectural finishes when it returns for final review.
Several DDRB members said the construction materials presented in the plans and renderings look like a “suburban” product and not something found in the Downtown design overlay.
“This looks like the Home2 budget hotel,” board member Craig Davisson said. “It looks like it’s not up to the standard on what I’ve seen of other Home2 hotels.”