Your WBFJ Family Station Forecast: Partly sunny and breezy. Isolated thunderstorms this afternoon. Hot…High 95
Support our Troops by donating blood today (Aug 9)…
The Mobile Blood Unit from Fort Bragg will be collecting blood from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the American Legion Post on Miller Street in Winston-Salem. For more information call: 413-8432 or 408-7280. Walk ins Welcome. http://asbpdrives.blogspot.com/
FREE School Supplies for Teachers in Guildford County! "The Teacher Supply Warehouse" on Yanceyville Street in Greensboro has school supplies for teachers. You can donate items as well. Here is a link to more info: http://www.guilfordeducationalliance.org/support/teacher-warehouse.phps
BTW: Public school teachers in the United States spent more than $1.33 billion dollars (or an average of $500 dollars) a year on school supplies for their own classrooms.
The FBI has issued its first iPhone app called ‘Child ID”. The FREE app gives you a way to electronically store photos and vital information about your kids…so you can quickly provide physical info such as height and weight to local police, if (heaven forbid) your child goes missing. FYI: According to the FBI, a child goes missing every 40 seconds. The app is FREE and will be available for other devises in the ‘near future’.
http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/05/fbi-launches-its-first-mobile-application-the-child-id-iphone-app/
The stock market continued its ‘free fall’. The Dow Jones dropped over 600 points yesterday. Part of the drop was due to Standard and Poor's downgrading the credit ratings for not only the U.S. government but also Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Those agencies control nearly half the nation's home loans.
Interest rates are at all time lows right now. A 30-year mortgage now carries a 4 percent interest rate, while a 15-year has 3.25 percent interest for the most qualified.
Federal Budget vs. Household Budget: How Do They Compare? Dave Ramsey thought it'd be fun to turn the astronomical national debt figures into something we can understand a little better — like a household budget. http://www.daveramsey.com/article/federal-budget-vs-household-budget-how-do-they-compare/lifeandmoney_budgeting
Forsyth County commissioners voted 6 to 1 last night to take a case dealing with sectarian prayer before public meetings to the U.S. Supreme Court. Fox 8 reporting that commissioners have been fighting the ‘prayer’ case since March 2007, when a lawsuit was filed by the ACLU suggesting that prayers referring to a specific deity, such as praying in the name of Jesus, at public meetings are unconstitutional.
The Forsyth County Commission meeting was standing room only Monday as animal advocates showed their support for a law banning tethering (or tying or chaining an animal). The county is writing up a proposed ordinance that could be approved by the end of the month. Any passed ban would not go into effect for at least two years.
Second graders at Peck Elementary and Murphy Traditional Academy in Greensboro will be making a big splash when school starts back. The "Learn to Swim" program begins in mid-September at the new Greensboro Aquatic Center. The kids will be given 10 swimming lessons. Each class will last about 40 minutes. The program is being funded by an anonymous donation. The district hopes to expand the swimming program to all second graders. http://www.myfox8.com/news/wghp-guilford-county-schools-to-give-swimming-lessons-to-second-graders-20110808,0,6542372.story
Sixty-one-year-old American swimmer Diana Nyad was forced to end her non-stop swim from Cuba to Florida. She was about half way into her 60 hours swim when she called off the 103-mile crossing from Cuba to Florida without a shark cage. Diana tried the crossing from Cuba in 1978 at the age of 28, but failed in the face of winds and heavy waves.(CNN)
