Thursday, November 29, 2007
A BRITISH TEACHER HAS BEEN ARRESTED IN SUDAN FOR ALLOWING HER ELEMENTARY STUDENTS TO NAME A TEDDY BEAR…MOHAMMAD. As part of a class project, the 54-year old woman asked her class of 7 year old students to come up with a name for their classroom teddy bear. The class agreed on ‘Mohammad’. The teacher was later arrested and accused of insulting Muslims. The BBC reports that if she is convicted, the teacher could face a jail sentence and 40 lashes.
The Guilford County Health Department has reported the county’s 21st case of rabies for the year. A stray cat found on the Lindley Park walking Trail in southwest Greensboro tested positive for rabies on Tuesday.
The strike by stagehands in New York City is over. A tentative agreement between producers and striking stagehands was announced late last night. Shows are set to re-open this evening. The strike that lasted 19 days shut down 26 of the 35 theater productions in the city.
THE BOARD OF REGENTS FOR ORAL ROBERTS UNIVERSITY IS IN THE PROCESS OF SELECTING A NEW PRESIDENT. Richard Roberts, the son of founder Oral Roberts, resigned as the university’s President last Friday. School officials are investigating accusations that Roberts misspent school funds to support a lavish lifestyle.
http://www.the-dispatch.com/article/20071129/APA/711290557
North Carolina’s original copy of the Bill of Rights will be on display at the Greensboro Historical Museum this weekend only. The 218-year-old document left the state in 1865. It was bought and sold among collectors, and finally returned to the state two years ago after an elaborate undercover FBI sting in 2003. Admission is free…but limited.
For more information call 373-2043 or go to http://www.greensborohistory.org/.
Greensboro Historical Museum at 130 Summit Avenue Friday through Sunday (10-6pm)
A discussion of the Second Amendment will be held at 2:30 p.m.
on Sunday at the central location of the Greensboro Public Library, 219 N. Church St.
Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona, Alaska and Hawaii will be the final five designs in the popular State Quarters series. The final five designs will be minted and issued in 10-week intervals throughout 2008. The series began in 1999 with a quarter honoring Delaware. Surveys by the Mint have found that nearly half of all Americans are collecting the state quarters.
A Judge in Niagara Falls (New York) is in some hot water for ordering everyone in his courtroom to be put in jail because of a ringing cell phone. The Niagara Gazette saying that the judge ordered all 46 people that were in his courtroom to jail after he was unable to determine the source of what was believed to be a ringing cell phone. Some spent several hours behind bars before being released. The judge has apologized.
OBESITY RATES IN THE UNITED STATES HAVE LEVELED OFF in recent years. The Centers for Disease Control showing that 34% of adults in the US are obese. Also, more women than men are obese but that men are slowly closing that gap.
ACC / Big Ten Challenge: The Tarheels over Ohio State…66-55.
NC State falling to Michigan State…81-58
Wake Forest men’s soccer team advancing after beating Furman 1-0 in the second round of the NCAA Soccer Tournament.
You have until midnight tonight to vote for one of the Top 5 less than spectacular Christmas trees…All part of the WBFJ - Michael W. Smith Christmas Tree Thing.
-The winner will be announced Friday morning at 7:40.
The winner gets a brand new, pre-lit, 7 and a half foot Christmas Tree…
Plus the WBFJ Morning Show will deliver and help decorate your new tree while listening to the latest Christmas CD from Michael W Smith called “It’s a Wonderful Christmas”
Sharing is Caring…Need Knows No Season
Help us fill at least 11,700 stockings by Dec 17…all part of
The Great Stocking Stuff with WBFJ and the Salvation Army
This week’s focus: Girls ages 9-12.
Thanks to Chick-Fil-A of the Triad, participating Christian Bookstores, Wachovia Bank, ABC45 / My48.
To Volunteer at the Salvation Army Toy Shop: Call 245-2076
Need assistance? Call the Salvation Army in Winston-Salem…722-8721
Your WBFJ Family Station Forecast:
Today: Mostly sunny…High 60
Tonight: Clear…Low 32
Friday: Sunny skies…High 55
Sneak Peak to the Weekend:
Saturday: Mostly sunny…High 57
Sunday: Cloudy with a chance of afternoon showers…High 55
The WBFJ Mobile Music Machine will be out and about this weekend:
King Parade and the Winston-Salem Holiday…Saturday
The Kernersville Christmas Parade…Sunday
WBFJ…Chick-Fil-A ‘NUGGET’
CD Three pack from Point of Grace (2 c-mas )
AND food from Chick-Fil-A of the Triad
The North Carolina Shakespeare Festival presents 'A Christmas Carol'
December 2-23 at The High Point Theatre http://www.ncshakes.org/
