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RECALL on ground turkey: 36 million pounds of ground turkey linked to a nationwide salmonella outbreak is being recalled. The tainted turkey has sickened at least 76 people nationwide (including one person in North Carolina) since March. One person died in California.
The recalled ground turkey was distributed by meat giant Car-Gill and sold between Feb. 20 and Aug. 2 under various brand names. All of the recalled packages will include the code "Est. P-963" on the label. Customers can return any opened or unopened packages of ground turkey to the stores where they were bought for a refund.
Cargill’s website www.cargill.com/turkey-recall/
USDA: www.fsis.usda.gov/News_&_Events/Recall_060_2011_Release/index.asp
The North Carolina’s Tax-Free Weekend starts at 12:01am tonight (technically Friday morning) and runs through midnight Sunday. Over the next three days, you won’t have to pay state sales tax on most back to school items including computers, sporting goods and even clothes.
Here's a list of what is tax-free this weekend:
Clothing that is less than a $100 - including bathing suits, shoes, coats, and diapers.
Sports equipment that is less than $50 – including cleats, gloves, bicycle helmets and even ski boots.
Computers that are less than $3,500 - including tablet computers, netbooks and even I-pads.
Computer supplies under $250
School instructional supplies under $300
Complete list of items: http://www.dornc.com/taxes/sales/holiday_exempt.pdf
NC Tax Free Weekend: www.dornc.com/taxes/sales/salestax_holiday.html
The funeral for Officer Russell Willingham will be held at 10am this morning at Wait Chapel on the campus of Wake Forest University. Willingham was the Winston-Salem police officer who died in a single car accident over the weekend. Willingham will be laid to rest at Westminster Cemetery in Greensboro.
Expect traffic delays following Willingham’s service in WS as the funeral procession heads toward Greensboro this afternoon. Traffic will be stopped along…
SB Silas Creek…Business 40 EB…Highway 68 to Bryan Blvd.
http://www.cityofws.org/Home/Departments/MarketingAndCommunications/NewsArchive/News2011/Articles/FuneralArrangementsForPoliceOfficerWillingham
Flags at state facilities are flying at half staff today to honor Officer Russell Willingham who died early Saturday morning in a single-vehicle wreck and another police officer from Greene County who passed away on Monday.
Starting this year, every high school in the Winston-Salem / Forsyth County school district will have its own certified athletic trainer. The school district got the extra trainers through a partnership with Forsyth Medical Center and Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center. Fox 8 reporting that each hospital will pay the salaries of six athletic trainers, as well as the cost of supplies to properly treat the teams. The only cost to the school district is displaying advertising space for the hospitals in their athletic facilities.
