Your WBFJ Family Station Forecast: Comfortable summer day. Sunny skies…High 88
URGENT NEED: Second Harvest Food Bank is close to running out of food for the needy. The latest food shipment from the federal government should be gone by Thursday. Second Harvest said it serves about 400 agencies in 18 counties. Drop off locations: Goodwill stores, BB&T branch locations (Forsyth County) and Lowe's Food Store locations in Forsyth County. www.hungernwnc.org/about-us/you-can-too.html
BTW: One in six people in America do NOT have enough food to eat. More than 28% of the food banks in NC have had to turn people away because of the lack of food.
You can voice your opinion about the total ‘make over’ of Business 40 through downtown Winston-Salem at one of two informal meetings TODAY:
4pm and 7pm at First Presbyterian Church (North Cherry Street) in downtown Winston-Salem.
-Business 40 is scheduled to be closed for two years starting in 2018 for a complete 'overhaul' between Peter's Creek Parkway and the Highway 52 interchange.
The details about the project: www.ncdot.org/projects/business40/
Can’t fit in 30 minutes a day of recommended exercise, well, how about 15 minutes?
New research suggesting that even a minimum amount of time spent exercising daily will lead to better health, and even add years to your life. Men and women benefitted equally to time spent exercising.
The phrase "Nice guys finish last" appears to be the case in who gets paid the most. "Agreeable" or nice workers make much less than their ‘mean’ co-workers, with the pay gap wider among men. The study, titled "Do Nice Guys—and Gals—Really Finish Last?" used survey data over 20 years to examine "agreeableness". The findings: men who ‘disagreed’ the nost at work made 18% (or close to $10,000 dollars) - more in salary a year than those who were ‘agreeable’. Same for women (but not as profitable), ‘disagreeable’ females made only 5% (or close to $2,000 dollars) more than those who were in the nice or ‘agree’ category.
The problem: many managers often don't realize that they reward are rewarding ‘bad behavior’ or disagreeableness. The study contained data from over 20 years from three different surveys.
http://www.businessinsider.com/study-mean-people-earn-higher-salaries-2011-8
Back-To-School: "The Teacher Supply Warehouse" on Yanceyville Street in Greensboro has FREE school supplies for Guildford County teachers. You can donate items as well. http://www.guilfordeducationalliance.org/support/teacher-warehouse.phps
Members of the military and Triad teachers can attend the Wyndham Championship for FREE (courtesy of Technology Concepts & Design). The Wyndham Championship runs through Sunday (AUG 21) at the Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro.
www.wyndhamchampionship.com/military-and-teachers/
Giant solar farm will be built in Florida, NOT Guildford County. National Solar Power picked Melbourne, Florida to develop a new $1.5 billion dollar solar farm. The Greensboro News and Record reporting that Guildford County could still be chosen for a future solar farm.
The state has chosen a ‘preferred route’ for widening Highway 109 to four lanes in Davidson and Forsyth counties. "Alternative 6" will run from Friendship-Ledford Road to I-40 near the current Highway 109 interchange. The Winston-Salem Journal reporting that the proposed path would take out 108 homes and 5 businesses. Property owners that could be effected along the ‘preferred route’ are not very happy with the DOT's announcement. They say that having to wait several years to have their land purchased would significantly drop their property values.
At the Box Office: #1 "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" remains at #1 for a second straight week. #2 "The Help" Opening weekend for this drama about maids in Jackson, Mississippi during the civil-rights movement. And, the animated smash "The Smurfs" slipped to #4.
http://www.pluggedin.com/movies.aspx
