7.28.2011

Thursday, July28, 2011

Hot, Hazy and Humid over the next three days.

Your WBFJ Family Station Forecast:  Sunny skies…High 95


Code Orange Air Quality Alert for the Triad


A missing 13 year old girl from Alamance County has been reunited with her family…after she ran away with an 18 year old guy from West Virginia…whom she met online. Alexandria Cagle was last seen getting into a car with Tyler Cole on Monday. The two were spotted in Spartanburg, South Carolina yesterday afternoon by a tow truck driver traveling on I-85. He called 911 and followed the car until police arrived.  Tyler Cole faces several charges including kidnapping.  www.myfox8.com/news/wghp-story-missing-alamance-teen-found-110727,0,5645476.story

Butch Davis Davis has been fired as the Tarheels head football coach after four seasons at Carolina. Several local news sites saying that the decision to fire Davis was not related to the ongoing NCAA investigation of the football program. A news conference is set for 11am this morning in Chapel Hill.

The Charlotte Observer reporting that the Carolina Panthers will release kicker John Kasay… the last remaining player from the 1995 expansion team. BTW: 38-year-old Olindo Mare, from the Seahawks, will be signed to a four-year deal.


Another way to stream movies online, how about Walmart.com?  The world's largest retailer is now streaming over 20,000 titles after acquiring Vudu.com last year. Streaming movies (via walmart.com) can be viewed on almost any device with Internet access (including computers, gaming systems like Wii and PlayStation to Blu-Ray disc players). In addition to Walmart and Netflix, Hulu.com offers a subscription and a FREE option in exchange for watching advertising. OR…there’s always old school Antenna TV…which is FREE TV. http://www.news-record.com/content/2011/07/26/article/walmart_offers_video_streaming_on_website

Hillsong United has just released its new CD project titled "God Is Able".  The album is the 20th annual recording from Hillsong United and features eleven new songs. Talking about the message of the album "God Is Able", Reuben Morgan says, quote, "God is able to meet us, help us through our personal struggles, our pain, confusion, our fears and our loss carrying us to a place of comfort, peace and security."   Tix are still available to see Hillsong United in Greensboro on August 19th…Details online at http://www.wbfj.fm/

The National Hurricane Center is tracking the latest storm in the Gulf of Mexico.  Tropical storm Don will approach the Texas coast on Friday.   http://www.weather.com/

Just a reminder:  The State’s Sales Tax Holiday is coming up Aug. 5 – 7th.


Pray / Call to Action
Over 10 million people are being affected by ongoing drought which is affecting Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia. Thousands of people are migrating to overcrowded refugee camps in the Horn of Africa…only to find a lack of food and water there, too.  John Woodberry (manager of disaster response) with Mission Aviation Fellowship saying that MAF is adding an additional aircraft to help with humanitarian aid in refugee camps in Ethiopia and Kenya. US aid organizations are slow to help in Somalia because of the threat of terror groups in the south.
The United Nations is calling the situation in East Africa the worst famine in 20 years.


Ways to help:
Mission Network News   http://mnnonline.org/article/16006
Compassion International     www.compassion.com/donate-to-charity.htm
Gain USA    http://gainusa.org/give/famine?Motivation=PZ7050
World Serve   http://ca.worldserve.org/