Your WBFJ Family Station Forecast: Scattered showers and thunderstorms…High 78
Ten days until the world ends? Judgment Day billboards and mobile signs are popping up all over the country…and in the Triad. NBC news reporting that the group behind the message, Family Station Worldwide (headquartered in Oakland, California) is a non-profit organization headed by Harold Camping. Camping and his group say that Judgment Day will happen on Saturday, May 21, 2011. FYI: Camping wrote a book in 1992 predicting that 1994 was the probable date of Christ's return. Now, Camping claims there are new details he hadn't yet uncovered that led to the wrong prediction. Check out their open forum about Judgment day on May 21st (online from 8:30-10pm). Family Radio Worldwide (Oakland, California) www.familyradio.com/index2.html
Most bible teachers hold to the words of Jesus in Matthew 24 while talking with his disciples about signs of the end of the age that we will not know the day or the hour.
‘Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away. No-one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. Be on guard! Be alert! You do not know when that time will come.’
Mark 13:31-33 (see also Matthew 24:35-37)
GASOLINE PRICES ROLLED BACK BY ONE CENT OVERNIGHT. The Triple A says the national average price for a gallon of regular unleaded is three dollars-and-95 cents today. No major reductions in gas prices in the Triad.
The state Senate voting yesterday on a bill that would allow parents to say NO to their kids getting a ‘paddling’ in school as punishment. NCNN reporting that the bill doesn't outlaw corporal punishment, but it does make it a little more difficult to do. Even though North Carolina law allows paddling students, the choice is left to each of the state's 115 local school districts. Fewer than 20 rural districts in the state's southeast and west continue the practice. The measure now goes to the House.
The Winston-Salem / Forsyth County Board of Education approving a plan to cut over $23 million from next year’s budget. The Winston-Salem Journal reporting that some 260 positions would be eliminated, mostly through attrition and part time job cuts.
A new contract post office is open in Winston-Salem inside the Ace Hardware on Cloverdale Avenue. This post office fills in the void when the Ardmore Post Office closed last year. Currently, there are nine such contract post offices locations open across the Triad. The Ace Hardware location will be open until 5pm weekdays.
The swollen Mississippi River continues to slowly roll south. The Memphis area experienced extreme flooding, just a few inches short of a record set. Flooding concerns now move to Mississippi and Louisiana. Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal said as many as 3 million acres could be affected by the flooding. (CNN)
