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Historic Deeds + Inter-Faith Food Outreach + Untimely Passings
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Happy National Salami Day,
If you're reading this today, hopefully that means you had a safe Labor Day weekend. There's far more news today than yesterday, so buckle in. Below you're going to find news about an outreach to bring food to the needy, an attempt to dig deeper into history, and some unfortunate events that occurred this holiday weekend. Read all about it as well as events and more below.
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Today's weather, 9/7: Partly cloudy throughout the day. High: 89 Low: 73.
Here are the top stories today in Raleigh:
- Two power poles fell victim to a hit-and-run on Monday morning. The crash shut down part of New Bern Avenue between Idlewild Avenue and Tarboro Street. The driver crashed their vehicle, bringing the two power poles down with broken wood, power lines, a transformer, and a street light lying in the street. According to police the driver fled the scene on foot after the accident. There is still no word as to what caused the crash. (WRAL, CBS17)
- The Inter-Faith Food Shuttle has hit the road serving hundreds of families with its mobile food markets. September is Hunger Action Month, and Feeding America projects the food insecurity rate for NC to increase from 14% to 17.6%. The Inter-Faith team is hosting mobile markets twice a week to give free boxes of food to be loaded straight into the recipient's trunk. (CBS17) The Inter-Faith Food Shuttle has also launched its state of the art food truck, The Spinning Plate to give free hot meals directly to communities facing hunger across central NC. (CBS17)
- The Wake County Register of Deeds office, Shaw University, and other professional and volunteer historians are working to decipher more than 30 deed books that have been digitized and put online. The team hopes to be able to get insights on history that would be lost if not for property deeds. Tammy Brunner, Wake County's Register of Deeds says that the hardest part of the work is learning to read the cursive of handwritten documents and deciphering antiquated language. The Enslaved Persons Project is building upon other research that is being done across the state. (USNews)
- Raleigh police officers are mourning the unexpected death of K9 officer Knox over the weekend. Officer M. Lyman shared via Facebook that K9 Knox began throwing up and seemed lethargic on Saturday and was taken to the emergency vet. Knox was taken into surgery for bloat, but shortly after the surgery began the vet found that Knox's stomach was turned beyond repair. Knox was only 2-years-old and had been with the department since June of 2020. (WRAL)
- Two individuals passed away this weekend. One man was killed while walking along I-440 Eastbound by Six Forks. Police have not released information about who hit the man whose vehicle was found a distance away. (CBS17) The second death, marks the fourth drowning at Falls Lake this year. Kenneth Jerome Harris, who does not know how to swim, was at the lake with his friends when he submerged and never came back up. After a search that went well into the night and continued Sunday morning, Harris' body was recovered. (abc11)
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Today in Raleigh:
- Music Bingo at Bond Bros Eastside, Cary. Prizes up to $25 gift cards. Hosted by Top Shelf Trivia. (7:30 pm-9:30 pm)
- Inside @ The Library: School Aged (4:00 pm-4:15 pm), Young Child (10:30 am-10:45 am)
- Mindful Museum: Tai Chi in the Park with NC Museum of Art (6:00 pm)
- Latin and Swing at the Promenade with A Step to Gold International Ballroom (6:30 pm-8:30 pm)
- Open Mic Night at Mac's Tavern Cary, hosted by Mike Sedito (5:00 pm-8:00 pm)
Raleigh Patch Notebook
- For National Salami Day, check out one of the top rated butchers in Raleigh, The Butcher's Market.
- The 'Carolina Squat' modifications to pickup trucks, is officially banned in North Carolina (abc8)
- RDU will be restarting some of it's expansion projects that were slowed down due to the pandemic. (CBS17)
- If you're headed down Salisbury Street in downtown Raleigh, you might just stumble upon a modern-day speakeasy hidden behind a secret door. (WRAL)
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Righto friends. (Yes I Googled more ways to say ok because I felt redundant) This marks the end of our round up. I hope you feel well informed and ready to take on the rest of your week. If this is the start of your work week, just be grateful that it's not a Monday.
— CJ Fullford
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