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Regional Briefs: Restaurants in fundraiser for education
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Published: July 4, 2009
KERNERSVILLE -- The Kernersville Chamber of Commerce will sponsor a fundraising effort in which 14 restaurants will donate up to 10 percent of their sales on the second Wednesdays in July, August and September to the chamber's education-grant program.
The campaign, Eating for Education, will take place on Wednesdays, July 8, Aug. 12 and Sept. 9, said Bruce Boyer, the chamber's president and chief executive officer.
In September, the chamber will award $500 education grants to teachers in 11 public schools in Kernersville. Teachers will use the money for student projects.
The chamber is undertaking this effort because fundraising may be difficult amid the recession, and it wants to encourage people to eat at restaurants, Boyer said.
The participating restaurants are Bojangles', Wendy's, The Kerner House Restaurant and Cafeteria, Sagebrush Restaurant, Terry's Deli, Chick-fil-A, three locations of Subway, Domino's Pizza, Fitz on Main, CiCi's Pizza, The Loop Pizza Grill and Outwest Steak House and Saddleroom.
UNC plans to cut about 10 percent from its budget, or about $60 million
CHAPEL HILL -- The chancellor at UNC Chapel Hill says that budget cuts at the school should total about 10 percent.
The Raleigh News & Observer reported that the university is planning to lose about $60 million from its budget.
University officials say that the cuts won't be across the board. Instead they will target programs that have a surplus of money or are underperforming.
Chancellor Holden Thorp wrote in a letter to staff and faculty members and students that the budget remains bleak and that significant cuts will be necessary for all state agencies.
At UNC Greensboro and N.C. A&T, administrators, faculty and staff members are waiting to learn how the budget cuts will hit.
"We're not sure yet how bad the cuts will ultimately be, but we know the impact is going to be great and deep," said Patricia Stewart , UNCG's vice chancellor for university advancement. "No division is going to be unaffected, and ultimately we're going to be losing some of the staff that have gotten us to this point."
In May, UNCG Chancellor Linda Brady instructed her executive staff to prepare for a systemwide cut of up to 15 percent, which is a figure greater than the entire budgets of the UNC system's eight smallest campuses.
In a letter to the faculty, staff and students Brady said she thinks that the final cut will be less than 15 percent, and that UNC President Erskine Bowles will be working with the General Assembly to avoid such a steep cut.
Cases of swine flu in Randolph County lead to closing of summer camp
ASHEBORO -- Two cases of swine flu have been confirmed in Randolph County as the virus has caused at least two summer camps to close in North Carolina.
The Courier-Tribune of Asheboro reported that Randolph County Health Director MiMi Cooper confirmed the cases Thursday.
North Carolina has confirmed 179 cases of the swine flu, with two patients dying. Cases have been found in 39 of the state's 100 counties.
Camp Caraway in Randolph County canceled its boys' camp planned for next week because two campers tested positive for the virus.
Camp Dixie, a Bladen County summer camp, temporarily closed after dozens of people became ill. It will reopen next week.
Brunswick inmate with tuberculosis is isolated; others at jail are infected
WILMINGTON -- A Brunswick County Jail inmate has been transferred to a medically secure cell in Raleigh after getting a diagnosis of tuberculosis.
County officials told the Star-News of Wilmington that the inmate had been in the jail for eight months before he was moved.
Authorities said that 33 others at the jail, including two workers, have also had positive skin tests for the infectious disease.
Health Director Don Yousey of Brunswick County said that doctors haven't determined if the disease has moved into the lungs of any of those people, making them contagious.
Tuberculosis is a potentially fatal disease that is spread when an infected person coughs and sneezes. The standard treatment is a six-month regimen of medications.
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