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Regional Briefs: Boone names former assistant chief in Beech Mountain as new police chief
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Published: October 3, 2009
BOONE -- Dana Bruce Crawford has been named the new Boone police chief, town officials announced yesterday.
Crawford has been assistant chief for the Beech Mountain Police Department for the past 18 years. He has also served as an investigator and a deputy sheriff during his 20-year law-enforcement career.
He'll begin his duties as Boone police chief on Oct. 12.
Crawford has a bachelor's degree in criminal justice from Lees-McCrae College in Banner Elk. He is also a member of several professional law-enforcement goups in North Carolina.
He replaces former Boone Police Chief Bill Post, who retired Aug. 1 and had been police chief in Boone since 1998.
Northern Hospital bans visitors under 18
MOUNT AIRY -- Northern Hospital of Surry County yesterday became the latest hospital in the Triad to ban visitors under age 18 from its facilities to help prevent the spread of flu. The policy takes effect Monday.
The policy prohibits visits to patients, including siblings, friends or family members. Restrictions apply to hospital lobbies, waiting areas and patient rooms.
Six other Triad hospitals have adopted a similar policy in recent weeks.
The restriction went into place Thursday at Forsyth Medical Center, Medical Park Hospital, Thomasville Medical Center and Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center. It goes into effect Monday at Lexington Memorial Hospital.
Moses Cone Health System adopted its policy to exclude visitors under age 18 on Sept. 22.
Each hospital has said that the policy could be in place for several months until the flu incidence rate has significantly decreased.
A major reason behind the policy change is that "a very high ratio" of the HIN1 flu cases has been in children and young adults up to age 24, the hospitals said.
Arts Council awards $45,500 in grants
The Arts Council of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County has made 19 grants for Regional Artist projects totaling $45,500.
The money will "provide important stepping stones for grantees, enabling them to take advantage of opportunities that will make them more skilled professionals and advance their careers," said Richard Emmett, the council's chief operating officer.
The largest grant, for $5,000, will enable Joe Thrift to attend a violin-making competition in Italy, to purchase special wood there and to serve an apprenticeship in Germany.
The smallest grant, for $525, is for equipment to reproduce images of Peter Driscoll's scrimshaw work.
The other grant recipients are active in a range of fields, including choreography, photography, sculpture, composing, conducting, music recording, filmmaking and stage directing.
More information on the grants is available at the council's Web site at www.into thearts.com/grants.
Autumn at Oz to be held this weekend
BEECH MOUNTAIN -- Autumn at Oz will be held today and Sunday at the former Land of Oz theme park at the top of Beech Mountain.
Visitors may walk the Yellow Brick Road and meet Dorothy, the Tin Man, Scarecrow, Lion, witches and other characters.
Tickets are $15, free for children 2 and younger.
Tour times are 10 a.m. to noon, noon to 2 p.m. and 2 to 4 p.m. today; and 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sunday.
Because of the anticipated crowd, today's admissions are broken down into times that a visitor may get on a shuttle bus or hay wagon to Oz; it doesn't mean that visitors are limited to two hours once there.
For more information, call the Beech Mountain Chamber of Commerce at 800-468-5506.
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