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Music festivals, Wrestling Con: Here are the events happening this weekend


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Come see Northeast Florida’s first pro-wrestling fan convention as it slams into the Jacksonville Fairgrounds Expo Center on Saturday and Sunday.
The weekend-long event will feature personal appearances by legendary pro-wrestling superstars, exciting live wrestling matches, and an assortment of vendors and exhibitors showcasing a wide variety of hard-to-find pro-wrestling memorabilia from yesterday and today.
This is a family-friendly event. All ages are welcome.
Click here for tickets, vendors and more information.
River City Wrestling Con
Every Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. under the Fuller Warren Bridge.
Produced by Riverside Avondale Preservation, Inc., the Riverside Arts Market is a weekly market hosted on Saturdays rain or shine. ....

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People on the Move: Balli promote at FBI; Talbert appointed to JaxPort board of directors | Jax Daily Record | Jacksonville Daily Record


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Gilberto “Gil” Balli was named assistant special agent in charge of the FBI Jacksonville Resident Agency branch. He will oversee all operations in seven FBI offices in Daytona Beach, Ocala, Gainesville, Tallahassee, Panama City, Fort Walton and Pensacola. 
•​ Orange Park Medical Center, an HCA Healthcare affiliate, named
Pete Long-Innes as chief operating officer of Orange Park Medical Center. He most recently was COO of Frankfort (Kentucky) Regional Medical Center, also an HCA affiliate. He has 12 years of experience within HCA Healthcare.
•​ At-Large Group 1 City Council member
Terrance Freeman joined Read USA as its first full-time CEO. Read USA is a nonprofit that has provided a quarter of a million free books to more than 73,000 children in Duval County since 2011.  ....

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Behind the iconic sculpture in Jacksonville's Riverside neighborhood


Wayne Wood was just 5 or so when he first confronted Charles Adrian Pillars  masterpiece of a sculpture, looming over him at Memorial Park on the Jacksonville riverfront.
Cast in bronze, designed to honor those from Florida who died in the horror of World War I, the sculpture portrays a nude, winged male figure. He s poised on one foot atop a stylized globe, holding an olive branch out to the sky. Below him rise the shapes of partial human figures, women and children, as if struggling to come out of the chaos of the world.
It s called Life.
Visiting his grandmother in Riverside, up from his home in Belle Glade, the young Wood was terrified by the size and scope of the sculpture. He might even have cried. ....

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