Your WBFJ Family Station Forecast: Partly sunny and breezy. Warm…High 82. Scattered thunderstorms possible Wednesday afternoon.
Dress to impress and bring your resume: Goodwill Industries is hosting a Job Fair at the Joel Coliseum Annex in Winston-Salem today from 10 to 4pm. Over 35 employers will be on hand. Call 724-3621 for more information.
Fast food giant McDonald's will hire 50,000 new workers nationwide today. The new job positions will include crew and management positions, part-time and full-time. The average pay for the jobs is $8.30 an hour. www.mcdonalds.com/us/en/home.html
Forsyth Tech is looking for instructors to train the 400 workers that will run Caterpillar's Winston-Salem facility once it's completed. Up to 10 full- and part-time instructors will be hired. http://www.forsythtech.edu/contact-us The first job announcements from Caterpillar should be posted in late June or early July. Jobs will be posted at http://www.jointeamcaterpillar.com/
Donate a ‘pillow pet’ for a good cause. 12 year old Anna Wilcox has collected over 140 Pillow Pets for kids at Brenner’s Children’s Hospital in Winston-Salem. Actually, Anna will deliver here first pillow pets this Wednesday afternoon. If you would like to participate, you can drop off donations or ‘pillow pets’ at Ardmore Baptist Church located at 501 Miller Street in Winston-Salem. Phone: 725-8767 www.ardmorebaptist.org/contact.cfm
Pickles and hot dogs has made Winston-Salem proud in the May editionof Reader's Digest, all part of their "Best of America” poll. The poll lists the School of the Arts' mascot "the Fighting Pickle" as the second-most-lovable college mascot. FYI: The Fighting Pickle has one of the easier jobs in the college mascot world because UNC-SA has no sports teams. J.S. Pulliam Barbeque won for ‘best hot dog’ in the South. FYI: The restaurant celebrated its 100th anniversary last year. www.journalnow.com/news/2011/apr/18/winston-salem-journal-ar-958881/
Storm updates...
Flags will be placed at ‘half-staff’ for the remainder of the work week to remember the 21 people who died during Saturday’s deadly tornadoes in the state. http://triad.news14.com/content/top_stories/639765/flags-lowered-at-nc-buildings-following-tornadoes
Officials with the National Weather Service have confirmed that an EF-1 tornado touched down in Rowan County on Saturday. That storm moved north and caused damage in parts of Davie County. An EF-1 tornado touched down in Alamance and Caswell counties on Saturday, as well. http://www.journalnow.com/ Down east…thousands have been displaced, with hundreds of residents still living in shelters after severe storms touched off numerous tornadoes Saturday afternoon. Over 130 homes were totally destroyed and another 800 homes severely damaged
Several organizations are responding. You can help by going to http://www.wbfj.fm/
Local connection to three people killed in massive tornado in Bertie County. Roy and Barbara Lafferty and Barbara's mother, Helen White, died Saturday in Bertie County in a tornado that obliterated the Laffertys' house, leaving nothing behind but the outline of the foundation. Their bodies were found together in the woods behind the house. White had two other siblings, and both live in Forsyth County: Lisa Barfield of Clemmons and Keith Travis of Winston-Salem.
Read more: http://www.journalnow.com/news/2011/apr/18/3/forsyth-county-women-lose-mother-sister-and-brothe-ar-959047/
After Saturday's tornado outbreak, many people have asked why the Piedmont does not have tornado sirens. Fox 8 talked with Guilford County Emergency Services Director Alan Perdue. He said that research was conducted several years ago and concluded that the lay of the land here in the Piedmont would make it a waste of taxpayer money. Officials say that the best way to keep on top of severe weather: a weather radio. http://www.myfox8.com/news/wghp-story-tornado-sirens-110418,0,1990285.story
Former TV anchor Tolly Carr will be a guest speaker at Davidson County Community College conference center today (April 19) reflecting on his tragic story of drinking and driving as part of Alcohol Awareness Month. Carr will speak from 12:30 – 1:30pm today at the DCCC conference center. The event is Free and open to the public. www.davidsonccc.edu/
