Your WBFJ Family Station Forecast: Mostly sunny and less humidity…High 85
Reaching boys and girls for Christ. 'Deep Impact' is offering Christian based ‘Sports Camps’ for rising 2nd graders through rising 6th graders this week. The Sports Camps at various locations in Winston-Salem, Greensboro and Thomasville start on Tuesday morning and run through Friday afternoon. The Deep Impact mission team is using Guilford Baptist Church as their base this week for housing, food and worship.
Contact info: David Parsons @ 399 - 7613 (Tracey Ford 508-1856)
Congratulations to all of our High School graduates in the Triad. Still, a few more Guilford County Schools having graduation ceremonies later today including Page High School. Commencement for Page High School Seniors will be at 8pm this evening at the Greensboro Special Events center.
A group of Page High School students have decided to create a memorial garden so that the classmates they lost this past school year will never be forgotten. The students are currently raising funds to buy items for the memorial garden. The bulk of the work on the garden will be done in July, with hopes of having the memorial garden completed this Fall. Interested? Call Page High School @ 370-8200
http://schoolcenter.gcsnc.com/education/components/scrapbook/default.php?sectionid=6997
Duke Energy: Power is back on in the Welcome and Midway communities of northern Davidson County after outages earlier this morning. Close to 3,000 people were without power between 7am and 8:30am.
The Governor has vetoed the $19.7 billion dollar budget on Sunday, but that budget may not be ‘dead’. The legislature passed its budget with a margin that could override the governor’s veto, if five Democrats in the House still decide to support the spending plan.
www.civitasreview.com/politicians/governor-perdue-vetos-legislative-budget/
Fire investigators are still searching for clues to what caused a massive fire at the Kustom Kitchens building at Vargrave and Waughtown Streets yesterday afternoon. The fire even shut down Highway 52 south of Winston-Salem for about an hour. The Winston-Salem Journal reporting that 40 city firefighters and 9 fire trucks responded to the blaze.
That massive wild fire in eastern Arizona is right at 10% contained. The wildfire, which began raging across the White Mountains on May 29, has destroyed at least 50 structures, including more than 20 homes and more than 430 thousand acres.
A deadly crash in Kernersville involving a fire truck and another vehicle on Sunday afternoon. Fox 8 reporting that a Kernersville fire truck was heading south on Cherry Street with its sirens and lights activated when a car driven by 80-year-old John Hack pulled out of a church parking lot around 12:30pm. The fire truck t-boned Hack's car. Witnesses reported that the Hack failed to yield the right of way to the fire truck. The State Highway Patrol is investigating the crash.
Greensboro based VF Corporation, whose brands include Wrangler, Nautica and North Face, will soon be adding boot and clothing maker Timberland to the VF fold. The deal worth more than $2.2 billion dollars should be complete by the end of summer.
Bariatric weight-loss surgery such as gastric bypass has been shown to decrease weight and diminish diabetes in severely obese people, but may not add years to a man’s life. A study conducted at Veteran Affairs medical centers followed 850 veterans who had bariatric surgery from January 2000 to December 2006. The findings showing that the older, severely obese male patients in the study were not living longer because of the procedure. The study published in JAMA. http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2011/06/12/bariatric-surgery-doesnt-help-obese-live-longer-study-says/?hpt=hp_t2
SPORTS: The Tarheels are going back to the College World Series for the fifth time in 6 years.
