Dart to dead batteries, especially those in smoke alarms. According to Salisbury Fire
Chief Sam Brady, 92 percent of American homes have smoke alarms, but about a third
don’t work because of dead or missing batteries. This is the time to do something about
that. When you turn your clock back to Standard Time in the morning, make the time to put
new batteries in your smoke alarms, too. Avoid making a member of your family become one
of the 1,100 children a year who died in house fires.
This is particularly timely as the
holiday season begins. Nearly every year, the community suffers a tragic holiday fire
involving overloaded circuits, risky heating devices and innocent lives. If you don’t
have smoke alarms, get them. And if you have the alarms, check the batteries. It’s an
inexpensive step toward saving priceless lives.
Laurels to the Rowan-Salisbury
School System for another feather in its cap: three Morehead Scholars named this week to
get a full ride at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
The laurels really go to
studentsRobert Basinger and Derrick Preston of East Rowan High School and Melissa Lassiter
from Salisbury High. They weathered a highly competitive process that culminated early
this week in interviews in Chapel Hill.
Out of the 125 students who went
through those interviews, only 74 received the Morehead. More surprisingly, only 39 of the
recipients are from North Carolina. The other scholarships went to 33 students elsewhere
in the country and two in Great Britain.
So Rowan-Salisbury students
received three of the 39 Morehead scholarships granted in the state, on the heels of
winning two of the scholarships last year. That’s strong evidence that the schools
here — and these students’ supportive families — are doing something very,
very right.
Dart to a couple of eyesores or
problems that readers have called to the Post’s attention lately:
- Weeds are thriving along the edges
of the pavement on Statesville Boulevard, particularly near Innes Street. You’d never
guess it was such a heavily traveled city street.
- Cars parked along the residential
section of North Main Street are a clear hazard. They force traffic to squeeze from two
lanes to one — and catch drivers unfamiliar with the area totally off-guard.
Laurels to the switch to Standard
Time. When we “fall back” on Sunday we’ll gain an hour of daylight in the
morning. In exchange, most of us will drive home in the evening in the dark. So it goes.
At least then it’ll be easier to ignore the mounds of leaves in our yards that we
really don’t want to think about raking.
Gentlemen, start your blowers. |
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