Former soccer player for the Colombian national team Melissa Ortiz grew up with the smell of coffee surrounding her. After retiring from the sport, she decided…
Business Plans
After about eight months and with the system still not working, this Greensboro homeowner decided to call WFMY News 2.
Zac Posens arrival at Gap was a surprise to many, yet the former wunderkind of New York fashion is loving every minute of his new life.
What if you could capture energy from the dance floor? It was an unconventional idea conceived and brought to life by two Scottish business leaders from completely different sectors. The result was Bodyheat, a heating and cooling system which captures the heat produced by patrons at the iconic SWG3 venue in Glasgow, Scotland – and then stores it underground until it needs to be reused.
Spartanburg County officials have broken ground on the county’s new multimillion-dollar pet resource center, which, they say, could help owners keep their pets.Members of Spartanburg County Council and other local leaders were on hand for the event on Thursday. “Spartanburg County has a lot of animal resources. There’s just no one to bring us together, and I think that this resource center is going to be the place,” County Council Member Jessica Coker said. The $24.6 million facility is located along Southport Road near the Spartanburg Downtown Memorial Airport. Officials said it is paid for via American Rescue Plan Act funds and interest earned through county investments.Since 2011, Spartanburg County has been transporting its stray animals to Greenville County as part of a temporary agreement.In 2022 and 2023 combined, Greenville County took in more than 3,100 stray animals from Spartanburg County. “In the past, we’ve really gotten a deal with contracting with Greenville County Animal Care, but it’s time we take care of our own, and so I’m very excited that we are able to do so debt-free,” Coker said. Officials said the pet resource center will have a variety of medical services as well as an adoption center. “For so many years, we taught the public, ‘Bring us all your animals. Bring us all your animals,’ and that was a really terrible idea,” said Kim Sanders, the director of animal welfare services. “There’s no way that one team of 30 to 50 staff members can handle the animals for one county’s population.”Coker hopes the resource center can be another tool to help both humans and animals in the county.”We want to have all kinds of programs in place and ordinances to keep animals with their owners,” she said. “We want to make it hard for people to have animal cruelty.”Coker said the county continues to hire staff who will operate the facility. The center is scheduled to open by the end of next year.
If you ever find yourself needing a better Find Jenks Man Salon experience, our stylists will be happy to optimize your look.
If Donald Trump makes good on his threat to slap 25% tariffs on everything imported from Mexico and Canada, the price increases that could follow will collide with his campaign promise to give American families a break from inflation
Rachel Maddow reports on the return of a bill that would make it possible to punish a non-profit organization by labeling them as being in support of terrorism. While many lawmakers were ok with the idea initially, the return of Donald Trump to the White House is causing second thoughts about how the law could be abused by someone looking to eliminate opposition to their power.
Fossil fuel executive Chris Wright, Donald Trump’s choice for Energy secretary, is a strong supporter of oil and gas development, including fracking, a key pillar of the president-elects quest for U.S. energy dominance in the global market
Winter is on its way to the Treasure Valley and for local tire shops business is ramping up in preparation for the first snowfall of the year.
Lunchables will no longer be on the menu at schools around the United States.Kraft Heinz, the company that produces Lunchables, announced Tuesday that it will remove the meal kits from the National School Lunch Program.The company pulled the product because demand did not reach its targets, but it plans to revisit the idea in the future, according to an emailed statement from Kraft Heinz.The decision comes after Consumer Reports tested the school versions of the grocery store snacks and found high levels of sodium, lead and cadmium.Were pleased that Heinz Kraft has pulled Lunchables from the school lunch program, Brian Ronholm, director of food policy at Consumer Reports, said in a statement. The USDA should maintain stricter eligibility standards for the school lunch programs so that the millions of kids that depend on it get the healthier options they deserve.The National School Lunch Program a federally assisted program that provides low-cost and free nutritionally balanced lunches to students serves nearly 30 million kids, according to the Department of Agricultures Food and Nutrition Service.Sodium levels in the school lunchesTwo types of Lunchables were brought into the school lunch program last year: Turkey & Cheddar Cracker Stackers and Extra Cheesy Pizza.Consumer Reports found that the kits, which were created specifically for the school lunch program, contained even higher levels of sodium than those available in the grocery store.Sodium levels in the store-bought lunch and snack kits it tested ranged from 460 to 740 milligrams per serving, or nearly a quarter to half of a childs daily recommended limit for sodium, Consumer Reports said.The turkey and cheddar school versions of Lunchables contained 930 milligrams of sodium, compared to 740 milligrams in the store-bought version.Last year, US Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack proposed changes to school food guidelines to gradually reduce sodium and added sugar levels. Too much sodium consumption can raise blood pressure and increase the risk of heart attack and stroke, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.The school version of Lunchables did contain higher levels of protein and whole grains than the grocery store counterparts, however, Kraft Heinz previously has said.Last year, we brought two NSLP compliant Lunchables options to schools that had increased protein, the company said in a statement Tuesday. While many school administrators were excited to have these options, the demand did not meet our targets. This happens occasionally across our broad portfolio, especially as we explore new sales channels. Lunchables products are not available in schools this year and we hope to revisit at a future date. The NSLP compliant Lunchables sales last school year were far less than 1% of overall Lunchables sales, so business impact is negligible.Lead and cadmiumAlongside Lunchables, Consumer Reports tested other store-bought meal kits, including those from Armour LunchMakers, Good & Gather, Greenfield Natural Meat Co. and Oscar Mayer.And in addition to higher levels of sodium than other lunch kits, Consumer Reports also found lead, cadmium or both in all of the kits, although none of the kits exceeded any federal limit.Cadmium has been linked to kidney and bone disease and cancer, according to the World Health Organization. As natural elements, heavy metals such as lead and cadmium are in the soil in which crops are grown and thus cant be avoided. Some crop fields and regions, however, contain more toxic levels than others, partly due to the overuse of metal-containing pesticides and ongoing industrial pollution.There is no safe level of lead for children, however, according to the CDC.Lead stays in the body and builds up over time, a process called bioaccumulation. Thats why even extremely low levels of ongoing exposure can become toxic. Infants are particularly vulnerable because a smaller dose of lead can have a larger health effect on them compared with other children and adults.CNNs Sandee LaMotte and Parija Kavilanz contributed to this report.
Expect it to be chilly to kick off the day on Wednesday. It will feel like -7 with the wind chill at 8 a.m.