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Regional Briefs: Bethabara Park Apple Festival canceled because of weather
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Published: September 18, 2009
Organizers have canceled Saturday's Apple Festival because of rainy weather.
Volunteers were unable to put up the tents yesterday because of the wet and muddy conditions at Historic Bethabara Park, said Ellen Kutcher, the park's director. Saturday's forecast calls for more rain.
The festival was scheduled for 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. It would have included apples, wagon rides, food and craft vendors, colonial re-enactors and children's games.
"We are very sad because this is one of our favorite events," Kutcher said.
Perdue names chairman of ABC board
RALEIGH -- The deputy secretary of the N.C. Department of Crime Control and Public Safety is now the head of the states's alcoholic-beverage regulatory board.
Gov. Bev Perdue appointed Jonathon Stuart Williams as the chairman of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission on Wednesday. She also named A.B. "Zander" Guy, the mayor of Surf City, as a commission member to fill the third and final spot on the board.
The commission has a backlog of alcohol-violation cases and other work because there was only one member on the board for four months.
Guy was convicted of fraud in 1990 after he was accused of overcharging clients at his insurance agency and pocketing more than $15,000. Gov. Jim Martin commuted his sentence after Guy served three months in prison. He was later pardoned.
Wilkes college dedicates tech center
WILKESBORO -- Wilkes Community College dedicated its new Applied Technology Center yesterday. The center is an addition to Daniel Hall.
The Applied Technology Center is a support base for existing and new high-tech businesses and advanced technology companies in the region. The center will provide space for research and development of new products and processes.
The Applied Technology Center will house advanced technology equipment for the aerospace, transportation, construction and advanced technology industries.
College officials said that the center's fully automated facility -- with mechatronics; computer numeric-controlled, or CNC, simulators; rapid prototype 3D machines; high-speed CNC machining centers; and additional electro-mechanical equipment -- will be available to provide educational and training opportunities for the region.
Inhaled plastic may have led to symptoms
RALEIGH -- Doctors say that the coughing spells, fatigue and pneumonia spells that plagued a Wilmington man for more than a year were likely caused by a piece of a plastic he sucked into his lung by gulping his soda.
Doctors at Duke University Medical Center pulled an inch-long piece of a plastic eating utensil from John Manley's left lung.
Manley, 50, a home remodeler, guessed that he inhaled it while gulping a drink from a fast-food restaurant.
Dr. Momen Wahidi said that foreign objects in the lungs are much more common in children, but he has extracted false teeth, nails and a peanut from adults.
Wahidi said that adults holding nails or pins in their mouth may suck them into airways and not realize it.
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