Your WBFJ Family Station Forecast: Mostly sunny skies. HOT…High 95
Going to an ‘extremely’ good cause! The Creasey family (our Extreme Make Over family from Lexington) is auctioning off ALL of their former things…furniture, etc. (not the new stuff). The auction will take place TONIGHT at 6:30pm at Brick Alley Auctions located at 2020 West Green Street in High Point. A hard hat signed by the designers and stars will be sold to the highest bidder. All proceeds will benefit the American Cancer Society!!
www.auctionzip.com/Listings/906298.html
RECALL: Pottery Barn Kids is recalling over 80,000 drop-side cribs due crib's faulty drop side, which can detach when the hardware breaks or is assembled incorrectly. The Consumer Product Safety Commission is asking consumers to stop using the recalled cribs and contact Pottery Barn Kids to receive a free kit that will convert the drop side to a fixed gate. RECALL info: www.potterybarnkids.com/stylehouse/recall/dropside-cribs.html?cmtype=hplink&cm_re=FallD110-_-SafetyRecall_-DropSideCribs
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission voting in favor of new mandatory standards for baby cribs. The new rules, likely to go into effect next year, would render many existing cribs in the country as ‘not up to code’, regardless of whether the crib style and model was ever considered unsafe. The new standards would eventually ban the manufacture and sale of drop-side cribs. www.cnn.com/2010/US/07/14/crib.standards/index.html?hpt=T2
A North Carolina lighthouse that's been closed for repairs is re-opening TODAY. The Cape Lookout Lighthouse has been closed for more than two years. Crews making nearly half a million dollars worth of repairs…like fixes to the spiral iron staircase and other work.
Directions and details: www.nps.gov/calo/index.htm
No idling law now in effect. A new rule that took effect earlier this week requires heavy-duty truck operators to reduce unnecessary idling of their trucks to help improve air quality in the state and meet new federal air quality standards . The rule applies to on-road gasoline and diesel-powered motor vehicles with a loaded weight greater than 10,000 pounds. Under the rule, operators should not idle their vehicles for more than five consecutive minutes in any 60-minute period (with some exceptions). The rule exempts farm equipment and military trucks.
www.bizjournals.com/triad/stories/2010/07/12/daily15.html
www.truckinginfo.com/news/news-detail.asp?news_id=70997
More than 1 million American households will likely lose their homes due to foreclosure this year. So far, over a half a million homes were taken over by lenders in the first six months of this year. More than 900,000 homes were repossessed in 2009. That’s according to data released by RealtyTrac Inc., a foreclosure listing service. http://apnews.myway.com/article/20100715/D9GV9GLO0.html
A leak in a crucial piece of equipment may stall BP's effort to stop the massive oil gusher in the Gulf of Mexico. The equipment, called a choke line, started leaking yesterday.
The company will need to fix the leak before it can run the vital tests that could show whether the gushing oil well can finally be contained. www.cnn.com/2010/US/07/15/gulf.oil.disaster/index.html?hpt=T1
SPORTS
Hopefully the weather will be better for the start of the British Open at St Andrews, Scotland. www.opengolf.com/
Minor League Baseball:
The Greensboro Grasshoppers losing to the Asheville tourists…4 – 2
Grasshoppers at home through Sunday. www.gsohoppers.com
The Winston-Salem Dash getting shut out by Salem…4 – 0.
The Dash at home tonight. www.wsdash.com
