Fun Fact: Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the U.S. Treasury...so far!
Today is Global Food Crisis Awareness Day Sponsored by Compassion International While most of us here in America will commit to cutting coupons to offset costs, the poor around the world will cut meals. You can still help: http://www.compassion.com/
Thanks to everyone who sponsored a child during our ‘WBFJ Days of Compassion’.
For every child sponsored, WBFJ donated $25 dollars (or over $3,300) to help fight hunger around the world on Global Food Crisis Awareness Day.
The Guilford County school board voting 8-3 in favor of keeping snow makeup days at end of the school year. That, after a warning from the state Department of Public Instruction this week informing the school system if it held classes after June 10 it would not be in compliance with state law. Scheduled make-up days for students in Guilford will be June 11, 12 and 15.
www.news-record.com/content/2009/03/10/article/state_takes_issue_with_school_make_up_days
The Winston-Salem/Forsyth County school board voting to merge two elementary schools. Students at Diggs Elementary will move to the Latham Elementary campus. The new combined school is scheduled to open in the fall of 2010. www.news-record.com/content/2009/03/11/article/two_forsyth_county_schools_to_merge
A deadly shooting spree in two southern Alabama towns on yesterday afternoon. Police say a lone gunman took the lives of ten people before turning the gun on himself. www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/03/11/germany.school.shooting/index.html
A 17-year-old former student, dressed in military gear, killing at least 10 people at a middle school in southwest Germany earlier this morning. Police are still looking for the teen. www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/03/11/germany.school.shooting/index.html
The ‘green light’ has been given for the launch of Space Shuttle Discovery this evening. Discovery will lift-off from Florida's Kennedy Space Center at 9:20pm tonight. The launch was delayed by about a month because of a problem with three fuel control valves.
Nickelodeon says it has no plans to remove pop singer Chris Brown as a nominee for its annual Kids' Choice Awards…despite the singer's felony charges for allegedly beating up his girlfriend Rihanna last month. The awards are scheduled for March 28. http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090310/D96R95RO4.html
www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/03/10/campbell.brown.chris.brown/index.html
The City of San Diego has reportedly ‘abandoned’ a proposed policy that would have prevented local ministries from serving the homeless in the city’s Mission Bay Park. The Alliance Defense Fund says the proposed policy would have forced ministries to move their work from the park to a fenced-in area three miles away. www.alliancedefensefund.org/news/pressrelease.aspx?cid=4856
(New York) Seven-year-old Heather McNamara was heading home Tuesday, a month after surgery that temporarily removed organs from her digestive tract to allow removal of a tennis ball-size tumor. Read more… www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/03/10/multiple.organ.removal.tumor/index.html?iref=hpmostpop
HISTORY EXPERTS IN TEXAS SAY THAT HURRICANE IKE MAY HAVE UNCOVERED A CIVIL WAR-ERA SHIPWRECK. Contractors who were hired to survey the floor of the Gulf of Mexico for debris from Hurricane Ike picked up a sonar image that could be that of the ‘Carolina’…a southern merchant ship that ran aground in 1864 after they attempted to break through a federal blockade.
Digestive Health Specialists (DHS) are providing 50 FREE colonoscopies this Saturday (March 14) during Colon Cancer Awareness month. You can sign up for the FREE screening on line at http://www.digestivehealth.ws/ or by calling (336) 768-6211. Doctors urge people 50 and over to get screened regularly. Colon Cancer is one of the most preventable cancers if detected early. Colon Cancer is the third leading cause of cancer death.
SPORTS: Ty Lawson has been named ACC Player of the Year
Men’s ACC Tournament starts Thursday
www.theacc.com/sports/m-baskbl/acc-m-baskbl-body.html
MEAC Tournament through Saturday at the Joel Coliseum
#4 A&T men’s game Thursday… A&T women’s game today
State High School Basketball Finals this Saturday (Area teams still playing)
BOYS: Mt Tabor, Northern Guilford and Bishop McGuinness
GIRLS: Salisbury, Dudley and Bishop McGuinness
