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Regional Briefs: Web site to help goals of new law
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Published: November 9, 2009
Updated: 11/09/2009 12:10 am
RALEIGH -- North Carolina has started a Web site to help the state's bars, restaurants and hotels kick the smoking habit for good.
Beginning Jan. 2, state law requires places that serve food and drink to go smoke-free. To help in the transition, business owners and customers can go to www
.SmokeFree.NC.gov to get information on the new law.
The site was started by the N.C. Division of Public Health in collaboration with the N.C. Association of Local Health Directors.
It also describes the health hazards of secondhand smoke and provides resources to help those smokers who may want to quit.
There are downloadable fact sheets, no-smoking signs and other tools to help make the move to smoke-free air.
One resident dies in fire at Sylva retirement area
SYLVA -- One person died and another was injured in a fire yesterday at a retirement community in Western North Carolina.
Rescue workers received a report at 2:08 a.m. of a fire at Jackson Village, a retirement community in Sylva.
Sylva police chief Jeff Jamison said that a breezeway connecting apartments caught fire, destroying the four apartments it connected. Officials say that Forrest Lee Aiken, 76, lived in one of those apartments and died at the scene.
Another resident was injured after jumping from the second story to escape the flames. Jamison wasn't sure of the nature of the resident's injuries, but said they were not life-threatening. The resident was transported to Mission Hospital for treatment.
Jamison said that the cause of the fire is still under investigation.
Planning department to get input on southern growth
Members of the City-County Planning Department will hold a community meeting Tuesday to gather public opinion on how Winston-Salem's South Suburban Area should grow and develop through 2025.
The meeting will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. in the Family Life Center of Pinedale Christian Church, 3395 Peters Creek Parkway, Winston-Salem.
The South Suburban Area is bounded by Silas Creek Parkway on the north, N.C. 109-Thomasville Road on the east, Ebert Road on the west and the Forsyth County line on the south.
For more information, call City Link at 727-8000.
City work to close road in Lochurst neighborhood
City work crews will close Glenn Moor Drive in the Lochurst neighborhood to through traffic between Balsom Road and Pebble Lake Drive on Wednesday to replace a storm drain.
Work is expected to take 10 days, weather permitting.
A detour will be posted.
For more information, call City Link at 727-8000.
Charlotte police report an accelerating rise in shoplifting
CHARLOTTE -- Police in North Carolina's largest city say that shoplifting has risen more than 20 percent in 2009, and statistics indicate the trend is accelerating.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police said that shoplifting was up almost 40 percent in the third quarter of 2009 compared with the same quarter last year.
A spokesman for Family Dollar Stores, based in Matthews, said that the chain is seeing more frequent shoplifting from different parts of its stores.
Spokesman Joshua Braverman said that instead of targeting items near the cash register, people are taking things from the food aisle.
But some say that bad economic conditions aren't the only reason.
Police Sgt. Steve Huber works off-duty security at several Food Lion stores and says that in all his arrests not one person was stealing for their family.
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