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Senior Citizens Day at the Dixie Classic Fair
Seniors get into the Fair at 9am this morning…Darren and Tami will be broadcasting LIVE from the WBFJ Gazebo this morning starting at 9am.
City Council members in King will hold a public hearing on the Christian Flag debate next Monday evening (Oct. 11) at 6pm at the King Elementary School Gym. At the hearing, the King City Council will present several options on how to deal with the situation. The King City Council voted to remove the Christian Flag on (Sept 16) from the Veterans Memorial after the ACLU threatened a lawsuit . FYI: Rolling Thunder’s mission is to advocate the U.S. government to bring home American POWs and those still missing in action. Rolling Thunder website: www.rollingthunder-nc6.com
A Winston-Salem neighborhood has been named one of the most violent in the US. The area around East 21st Street (in the 27105 ZIP code) in Winston-Salem as the country's 16th most-dangerous neighborhood. The most violent neighborhood in the US can be found in Chicago, Illinois. Four neighborhoods in Atlanta also made the list. http://www.wxii12.com/news/25274624/detail.html
Chile's president said Monday that his government is "very close" to pulling 33 trapped miners to safety sometime between October 15 and the 31st.
If your goal is to lose fat, get enough sleep. According to a new study, cutting back on sleep reduces the benefits of dieting. Research from a new study, showed that when dieters got adequate sleep (less than 8 hours), half of the weight they lost was fat. When they cut back on their sleep, only one-fourth of their weight loss came from fat. When sleep was restricted, dieters also felt hungrier. http://www.news-medical.net/news/20101005/Inadequate-sleep-reduces-benefits-of-dieting.aspx
Organizers in Greensboro are moving ahead with a proposed outdoor ice skating rink in downtown Greensboro. Two final-hour sponsorships covered the last amount needed to get the project moving forward. The temporary 40-by-85-foot outdoor ice skating rink will operate from November 17 to January 21, the day before the start of the 2011 U.S. Figure Skating Championships at the Greensboro Coliseum. Organizers also plan to promote a Piedmont Winterfest, which would include special skate nights and ice hockey.
http://www.news-record.com/content/2010/10/04/article/downtown_ice_skating_rink_is_a_go
The US has issued an apology for government-sponsored experiments that deliberately infected hundreds of people in Guatemala with gonorrhea or syphilis back in the 1940s. U.S. Public Health Service researchers experimented on institutionalized mental patients, giving them gonorrhea and syphilis without their knowledge. About one-third of the patients who became infected never received adequate treatment. (MSNBC)
SPORTS (Monday Night Football): Patriots over the Dolphins…41 - 14
