This week is National Law Enforcement Week
The Forsyth County Law Enforcement Foundation is holding its annual Memorial Service for fallen officers…tonight. The service is open to the public. It starts at 7pm at Pinedale Christian Church.
http://www.cityofws.org/Home/Departments/Police/Events/ForsythCountyLawEnforcementMemorialService05-14-2009
Contact the Church Office for more information: (336) 788-7600
Also...5K Fun Run this Saturday at Tanglewood Park (details)
www.co.forsyth.nc.us/tanglewood/?NewsID=2031
Do you have a cool one-of-a-kind photo from a past mission trip? Adventures In Missions is hosting a Missions Photo Contest this summer. The ultimate goal of the photo contest is highlight ‘ministry in action’. The winning photos will be published. Cash prizes will be awarded to the first – fifth place winners. More information is available online at www.adventures.org
Deadline for the contest: June 15th / July 31
http://updates.adventures.org/?filename=missions-photo-contest-enter-and-win
Major smoking ban affecting all restaurants and bars in North Carolina passes the General Assembly. Governor Perdue plans on signing the measure into law. The smoking ban will take effect January 2.
Northern Guilford High School has been striped of its state boys basketball championship…after school officials determined that Northern Guilford had used two ineligible players.
http://www.news-record.com/content/2009/05/13/article/sources_northern_team_to_lose_championship_title
Officials with Arizona State University electing NOT to give President Obama an ‘Honorary Degree’ yesterday…even though the president was the commencement speaker…saying that the President “hadn't accomplished enough yet to earn an honorary degree”.
The university instead renamed a scholarship for the nation's 44th president.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/elections/2009/05/13/obama-welcomed-arizona-state-graduation/
POPE BENEDICT VISITING NAZARETH TODAY OFFERING HIS FULL SUPPORT FOR AN INDEPENDENT PALESTINIAN STATE. The Pope is in the midst of a weeklong tour of the Holy Land that wraps up on Friday.
SPORTS: Rusty LaRue is going back ‘home’ to Wake Forest’ as an assistant basketball coach. LaRue is currently the AD and boys basketball coach at Forsyth Country Day.
ASU Head Football Coach Jerry Moore will be inducted into the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame tonight in Raleigh.
http://www.journalnow.com/content/2009/may/14/asu-coach-to-be-enshrined-in-nc-hall-of-fame/sports/
N-H-L Eastern Conference Finals: Carolina Hurricanes vs the Boston Bruins: Game 7 tonight
Doing a 1-80? President Obama has changed his mind and will oppose a court ruling ordering the release of photos potentially showing detainee abuse at the hands of U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. The president says the images could threaten national security and the security of U.S. forces overseas.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/05/13/obama-employ-legislative-tactics-block-release-detainee-photos/
