US Postal service saying that TODAY is the deadline to use Express Mail to get your package to its destination by Christmas Day.
www.usps.com/communications/newsroom/2008/holiday/hpr.htm?from=home_newsandannounce&page=2008holidaypressroom
Christmas Recall: Three Christmas cocoa products are being recalled because they may contain the industrial chemical melamine. The cocoa products are sold nationwide at Shopko and Big Lots. The products were voluntarily recalled by the Canadian company Dorsey Marketing Inc. You can return the products to the store where they bought them for a refund. www.wsbtv.com/health/18341530/detail.html
What do you do with over a 1,000 Fraser fir trees? You give them away. Kersey Valley in High Point, better known for corn maizes and Halloween fright-nights, is giving away Christmas trees to anyone who needs one. Just show up at Kersey Valley between 10am – 9pm today (Tuesday) and 10am to 5pm (on Christmas Eve). http://www.kerseyvalleychristmas.com/
Wanna get into the Christmas spirit? Go to wbfj.fm for a complete listing of Christmas happenings, Moravian Lovefeasts even light displays. http://www.wbfj.fm/
University of North Carolina President Emeritus William Friday is recovering after suffering a minor heart attack last week. Friday, 88, attributed the episode to eating too much salt and too much fat, and he said he has adjusted his diet. www.wral.com/news/news_briefs/story/4186754/
No sponsor…no racing? Team owner Bill Davis has sold majority ownership of his race team and his engine company. Davis was having trouble finding a sponsor for 2009. Bill Davis Racing is based in High Point. Davis, who has been in NASCAR for more than 20 years.
www.wxii12.com/news/18337042/detail.html
ARCHAEOLOGISTS HAVE UNEARTHED MORE THAN 250 ANCIENT GOLD COINS IN JERUSALEM NATIONAL PARK. The Israel Antiquities Authority says it is one of the largest and most impressive coin finds ever discovered in Jerusalem. The coins are believed to be about 13-hundred years old. They were found in an excavation being conducted in a car park, in the City of David, in the walls around Jerusalem National Park.
Slow Down and Don’t Drink and Drive: The state Highway Patrol will be out in force between now and New Year Day. BTW: 27 people were killed (over 1,100 injured) last year between Christmas and New Year's Day. Speeding was blamed for many of the accidents.
Crossroads Community Church, a mega church in Cincinnati, is grieving the loss of one of its members who was killed during a Christmas service. 23-year old Keri Shryock fell 25 feet to her death during a Christmas presentation last week. Keri was suspended in a harness high off the floor when she fell.Police have reportedly determined the incident was an accident caused by equipment failure. The church is helping its members process the loss. www.wtop.com/?nid=104&sid=1553277
SPORTS:
Monday Night Football: Bears rally to beat the Packers 20-17 in OT
College Basketball:
#6 Wake Forest all over ECU…95-54
NC State loses a close one to Marquette…68-65
College Bowl game: Boise State vs TCU in the Poinsettia Bowl (tonight 8pm ESPN)
No White Christmas in the Triad...:(
Your WBFJ Family Station 'Christmas' Forecast:
Christmas Eve (Wed): Cloudy and windy…High 55
Christmas Eve Night: Showers likely. Gusty winds…Low 45
Christmas Day (Thurs): More clouds than sun…High 55
