Community Blood Center to open Belmont Office
Monday, May 5 Grand Opening and ribbon-cutting at 10 a.m. for the Community Blood Center of the Carolinas new Gaston County Donor Center in Belmont.
The location is 1212 Spruce Street in the CaroMont Health Building. This is the CBCC’s first satellite office.
It will collect whole blood and platelets.
CBCC is a nonprofit organization which provides more than 90 percent of the blood used at 14 area hospitals including Gaston Memorial, Piedmont Medical Center and all of the Carolinas HealthCareand Presbyterian hospitals in the Charlotte metro area.
For more details, call 704-972-4700 or visit www.cbcc.us.
Friday Night Live 2008 begins May 16
The Belmont Downtown Merchants Association kicks off the 2008 Friday Night Live! on May 16 with Chairmen of the Board
Other dates are:
May 30, Rough Draft;
June 13, Jimmy Quick & Coastline;
June 27, The Tams; (turn on your speakers)
July 11, SwampDaWamp
July 25, The Band of Gold;
August 8, Band of Oz;
August 22, Coming Up Brass
The CUB video
IT’S ALL GOOD !
Winning $276 million Powerball ticket sold in WVA
Go Figure !
One person, gee, what do you think they will do with the money?
If a winner chooses to take the estimated $275 million in annual payments, the prize would be the equivalent of a salary of about $35,256 a day based upon an average, 40 hour a week job. The cash equivalent, or lump sum payment would be approximately $135,700,000.
One of the tickets sold in West Virginia for the Powerball game Saturday night matched all six numbers drawn, which were:
6, 22, 42, 43 and 47. The Powerball was 16 and the Power Play was two.
The Powerball Web site says nearly 2 million other players won prizes totaling more than $12 million.
Tickets that match the first five numbers, but miss the Powerball, win $200,000 each, and there were twelve of those. They were sold in: Arizona, Colorado, Kentucky(2), Louisiana, Minnesota, North Carolina(2), Pennsylvania(3) and Wisconsin.
There were two Power Play Match 5 winners in the states of: Iowa and North Carolina.
The estimated jackpot for Wednesday is 15 million dollars.
The Belmont Front Porch 