Embezzlemment hurts business
WLOSer Terrie Foster went out to Jackson County to tell us about a Whittier company, Clearwood LLC, that had to lay off 15 employees because a former employee embezzled $200,000 from 2004 to 2006. So here’s the obvious question – why is this story leading the news at 6 in September of 2007???
Anyway, the woman wrote herself checks, but recorded them differently in the computer. The business owner said she was making her house payment and cable payment with the extra money. Foster said the company, which apparently makes paneling (we’re judging by the video, because Foster never said), has seen a downturn in business, too. So were the layoffs really due to the embezzlement, or the business slowdown? O, here’s the news – the woman goes on trial in October.
Rosman man arrested
The 23-year-old was arrested for “manipulating teen girls” to have sex with him, according to WLOSers. The dude would meet young girls at high school football games, bowling alleys, other places.
News from the fair
Well, we saw Tammy Watford eat ice cream. We saw Pat Simon eat a candied apple. We saw Pat eat a turkey leg. We saw Tammy hold a dog. And we saw Mike Cuevas watching the weather over by the Ferris wheel. That was the news from the fair. O, and Russ Bowen told us that vegetable oil used to fry up goodies at the fair will be recycled into biofuel and used to power equipment at agricultural research stations around the state. Also, there are sand sculptors at the fair, sculpting 32 tons of sand into something.
Do you like your milk raw?
Kassandra Pride told us in a roundabout way that unpasturized milk sold as pet food must now be dyed a charcoal gray color and labeled as not for human consumption under new rules approved Friday by the state board of agriculture.
Kassandra got some muddle reaction from people. But she missed the real crux of the matter. There’s a movement of raw milk drinkers (there’s a N.C. Natural Milk Campaign) that believe the milk is good and that the move to discolor the water is to discourage raw milk drinkers. The state ag board says it’s a health issue, that there are lots of diseases that can be carried in raw milk and they don’t want people drinking it.
In other news…
There are fake irises, tulips and daises stuck in the ground along Biltmore Avenue next to Mission Hospitals to raise awareness of mental health issues… State Ag Commissioner Steve Troxler announced that the state will use $5 million in taxpayers’ money to build a permanent arts and crafts center on the grounds at the WNC Agricultural Center… There were two stabbings in Henderson County… A man charged with shooting Dr. Brian Ling to death will go on trial starting Monday in Asheville… And a man will plead guilty as part of an ongoing investigation into illegal gambling in WNC.
In still other news…
Hundreds honored former Roberson High School quarterback Cameron Underwood before the Roberson-Reynolds football game Friday night… Michele Hicks, the principal chief of the Cherokee Indians, was re-elected chief… RiverLink has bought more property along the French Broad River and will make it parkland. The former B&H sheet metal business is there now, but tenants will be ousted and the building will be demolished by December, according to RiverLink’s Karen Cragnolin. RiverLink paid $500,000 for the land… The state is changing the number of ispections required for businesses. Instead of the standard four inspections per year, some places will get more inspections and others will get fewer.
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uh…raw milk is what lead to the anthrax problems we had before pastuerization.
I understand the whole back to natural aspect, but still…it can kill you.
The fact that someone had to invent a way to keep raw milk from killing you should probably tip off most sane people that drinking raw milk is more risk than reward.