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Regional Briefs: GMAC cuts 54 positions at two offices
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Published: April 23, 2009
GMAC Insurance said yesterday that it is eliminating 54 jobs in its Personal Lines division, effective immediately, with 27 employees being affected in each of its Winston-Salem and St. Louis offices.
Nigel Alston, a company spokesman for the local office, said that GMAC eliminated the jobs as part of a continuing effort to balance its work force with demands for its services.
Alston declined to identify specific local departments affected by the job cuts. GMAC Financial Services LLC said in March that it had 1,400 employees in North Carolina, including 950 at the Personal Lines division in Winston-Salem and 265 in Charlotte.
In March, the corporation pledged to hire at least 130 people for its Charlotte operations by the end of the year and add at least 200 by the end of 2010 under the terms of the state-incentives deal that could be worth as much as $4.5 million.
New principal named at West Stokes
DANBURY -- Tony George has been named the principal at West Stokes High School, the county's largest high school, with an enrollment of 1,046 students.
George, the principal of Starmount High School in Yadkin County, will take over at West Stokes on July 1.
His job was one of several approved by the Stokes County school board at its work session earlier this month, said Melisa Jessup, the executive director of human resources for the county's school system.
George replaces Charles McAninch, who left in October to become principal at Meadowlark Middle School in Winston-Salem.
Also, David Hicks will be the new principal at Chestnut Grove Middle School. He replaces Todd Martin, who was named the system's director for middle schools. Hicks is the principal at Mount Olive Elementary School. Amy Nail will replace him.
Nichole Rose, an assistant principal at Francisco Elementary, will be the new principal at the school. She will replace Gerald Jones, who will be the assistant principal at West Stokes High School.
Karen Boles will be the new principal at Germanton Elementary School, and Brett Denney was named the new principal at London Elementary School.
WFU professor named to U.N. project
Wake Forest University said yesterday that a clinical law professor, Kate Mewhinney, has been invited by the United Nations to participate in an international program regarding older adults.
The meeting will take place in Bonn, Germany, in early May. The purpose of the meeting is to provide the U.N. General Assembly with independent expert opinions on questions related to the rights of older persons, as well as inputs into -- and recommendations for -- a forthcoming report of the Secretary-General.
Mewhinney directs the law school's Elder Law Clinic. She also developed and taught, for several years, a course on comparative law and aging at Wake Forest's summer program in Venice, Italy.
In 2008, Mewhinney and professor Israel Doron of Haifa University in Israel were co-editors of The Rights of Older Persons: Collection of International Documents.
WXLV-TV to show lottery drawings
People in the Triad who play the N.C. Lottery will be able to watch the lottery drawings live on WXLV-TV (ABC 45), an official with the lottery said yesterday.
Carolina Pick 3, Carolina Pick 4 and Carolina Cash 5 have daily drawings that will be shown at 11:22 p.m. Powerball drawings will be shown at 10:59 p.m. Wednesdays and Saturdays.
The first broadcast will be Monday.
The daytime drawings for Carolina Pick 3 are webcast on the lottery's Web site, www.nc-educationlottery.org.
Stations in Raleigh, Greenville, Charlotte, Wilmington and Western North Carolina already broadcast the lottery drawings.
Residents asked not to burn leaves
The N.C. Division of Forest Resources is asking people across the state to not burn leaves and other yard debris during the next few days as higher temperatures and windy, dry weather move into the state, increasing wildfire danger.
Spring wildfire season typically runs from mid-February to mid-May as vegetation returns. Warm, windy days often dry out leaves and downed trees, which can add fuel to a fire.
Last year, the division responded to 4,361 wildfires that destroyed more than 52,000 acres on state and private land. So far this year, more than 2,100 wildfires have burned more than 9,200 acres.
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