Park and let someone else do the driving. PART (or Piedmont Authority for Regional Transportation) is now offering three new routes in the Triad available for commuters. Fares on PART’s commuter buses cost $2 dollars each way or $50 dollars a month.
http://beta.news-record.com/content/2008/07/01/article/three_new_routes_cranking
Are the tomatoes tainted or not? The FDA is expanding its investigation to include food items normally served with tomatoes. The number of people sickened in the nationwide salmonella outbreak now at 869. www.healthday.com/Article.asp?AID=617115
Starbucks will close 600 of its stores. In February, Starbucks fired 600 employees and conducted a in-store retraining program to try and revive the Starbuck Experience. http://dailybriefing.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2008/07/01/starbucks-has-a-bitter-plan/
Deadly accident in Greensboro yesterday. Police said that the driver (from Morganton) wasn't wearing a seat belt when the tractor trailer he was driving overturned at I-840 ramp at Business 40 -85. www.wxii12.com/news/16761852/detail.html
For the third year in a row, Sioux Falls, South Dakota has the safest drivers in America. Researchers with Allstate Insurance analyzed two years of data…finding that drivers in Sioux Falls, S.D., on average have an accident once every 14.5 years. www.wsoctv.com/automotive/16757474/detail.html
A group of 15 dolphins who have taken up residence in a river near the Jersey Shore will be allowed to stay where they are through the July Fourth weekend.
Authorities had expressed concern that fireworks, boaters and dolphins probably shouldn't be mixed together. http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080702/D91LLE800.html
"Kit Kittredge: An American Girl" based on the popular line of American Girl dolls officially opens in theaters today (July 2). "Kit Kittredge: An American Girl" stars Abigail Breslin as a 9-year-old aspiring newspaper reporter during the Great Depression. www.americangirl.com/movie/
Locate a theater showing "Kit Kittredge"
www.hellowinston-salem.com/shared/movies/Kit_Kittredge_An_American_Girl.cfm?theaterid=AATCE
BOUNCE-U is collecting food items for Second Harvest Food Bank. The kids will get one hour of FREE bounce time for the donation of non-perishable food item at either Triad location of Bounce-U on Thursday or Friday of this week. (Greensboro News /Record)
http://www.bounceu.com/
Free Bounce times: Thursday 11-2pm and Friday 9-noon.
Greensboro: 615 Dolley Madison Road
Winston-Salem: 5086 Styers-Ferry Road
The 3rd Annual Jackie Johnson - Red Cross Blood Drive
Calvary Baptist Church in Winston-Salem (at the church gym)
Tuesday, July 15, 2008 (9am to 8pm) Help us make our goal of 600 pints!
To schedule an appointment call (336) 413-0337 (Robin)
SPORTS:
(Venus and Serena) The Williams Sisters win their quarterfinal matches at Wimbledon
Local Baseball Action
WS Warthogs at home tonight (Wed) through the weekend http://www.warthogs.com/
Greensboro Grasshoppers at home Thursday – the weekend www.gsohoppers.com/
