11.10.2008

Monday, November 10, 2008

Join us LIVE from 6am-10am Monday morning at the Chick-Fil-A at Stanleyville!
Sharing is Caring…Need Knows No Season: Kicking off the Great Stocking Stuff…with WBFJ and the Salvation Army. Monday (Nov 10) thru Wednesday (Dec 17)
Thanks to Chick-Fil-A of the Triad, Wachovia and select Christian Bookstores
If you would like to Volunteer call (336) 723-6366 http://www.salvationarmyws.org/

President Bush and First Lady Laura Bush will host Senator Barack Obama and his family at the White House today. *Aides close to President-Elect Obama say that on his first day in office, Obama will likely reverse Executive Orders made by President Bush on embryonic stem-cell research and domestic drilling for oil and natural gas.
www.journalnow.com/content/2008/nov/10/obama-ponders-quick-changes/

About 300 Gay Rights Activists protesting outside Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, California yesterday to voice their anger of the church's support of Proposition 8, a constitutional amendment approved by voters last Tuesday that overturned a state Supreme Court decision in May legalizing same-sex unions. www.cnn.com/2008/US/11/10/gay.marriage.protests.ap/index.html

Rescuers in Haiti are slowly transitioning from rescue to recovery mode this morning. Over the weekend, searchers were still looking for signs of life after a school collapsed on Friday killing about 90 students and adults…while severely injuring 150 more. http://apnews.myway.com/article/20081110/D94BV3BG0.html

Hundreds of homes were destroyed along Cuba’s southern coastal area over the weekend by Hurricane Poloma. All watches and warnings have been discontinued.

Maria’s Miracle Fund surpasses $700,000 dollars in donations. Following the tragic death of Maria Sue Chapman last May, Steven Curtis Chapman and his wife Mary Beth set up the Fund through their adoption and orphanage ministry, Shaohannah's Hope.
Learn more: http://members.shaohannahshope.org/site/PageServer?pagename=maria_remembering&JServSessionIdr001=3yt8fmjyn2.app8b
November is National Adoption Awareness Month
BTW: And for the third year now, Shaohannah's Hope is again partnering with Focus on the Family and Family Life Today for the "Cry of the Orphan" national media campaign which begins November 17th .

Read more about a group of New Yorkers fighting to save Tin Pan Alley, the The four-story, 19th-century buildings on Manhattan's West 28th Street where iconic American songs such as "God Bless America" and "Take Me Out To The Ballgame" were born.
Story link: www.cnn.com/2008/US/11/10/tin.pan.alley.ap/index.html

Sports: Jimmie Johnson all but wraps up the Sprint Cup title yesterday with his win at Phoenix International Raceway. ABC switched the end of the race to ESPN2?