North
Carolina Governor Roy Cooper has lifted some of the stay at home orders
placed on
the state’s businesses and residents in March.
At 5 p.m. Friday, May
8th,
North Carolina will move into Phase One of the Coronavirus reopening which
means state
parks can reopen, churches can hold outside services, individuals can
meet outside
in groups of 10 or less, and retail businesses can reopen provided
they follow
CDC restrictions, and not exceed 50% of their legal capacity.
Restrictions
are still in place on bars, restaurants, nail salons, tattoo and massage
parlors and
beauty shops, movie theaters, bowling alleys, skating rinks and indoor
exercise
studios. Restaurants can continue to
serve take out only. The Governor
says the
quickest they will look at Phase Two reopening will be May 22nd.
Burke County
recorded an additional case of Covid 19 yesterday bringing the
County’s
total to 114 cases. Of that number 63
have recovered to date, and there
have been
ten deaths. Catawba County has recorded
65 cases with 38 recovered.
4
individuals are currently hospitalized with Covid 19 in Catawba County and
there has
been one death. In Caldwell County there
have been 45 cases of Covid
– 19 with 25
recovered to date. McDowell County has recorded 29 cases with
one death.
Burke County
Commission Chairman Johnny Carswell has proclaimed May 7th as
the National
Day of Prayer in Burke County. The
National Day of Prayer is an
annual day
of observance held on the first Thursday in May designated by the U.S.
Congress. The President is required to sign a
proclamation each year encouraging
all
Americans to pray. President Harry
Truman signed a bill proclaiming the National
Day of Prayer
into law in 1952. President Ronald
Reagan amended the law in
1988
designating the date as the first Thursday in May each year.
Sanitation
Division plans to start automated garbage collection on the Monday
route next
week. The remaining routes will be
phased in during the next two
months. Customers can go ahead and start using the
new carts, Residents with a
Monday route
should use the new carts for next week’s garbage collection.
Under the
new sanitation ordinance, residents will get one 95-gallon roll out cart
at no extra
cost. Businesses will get two.
A convicted
North Carolina sex offender has been charged with failing to register
with two
North Carolina Sheriff’s Offices. 26
year old Davidson Bailey Scheu has
been living
in Lincoln County, but moved back to Wayne County. He neither
notified
Lincoln County of his address change or Wayne County. Sheu was placed
on the N.C.
Sex Offender Registry on January 2th of 2019 after being convicted
in
Wayne County
on a charge of sexual battery.
Governor Cooper has proclaimed this week as Correctional Officers
and
Correctional Employees Week in North Carolina, to recognize the
important
public service provided by employees in the state’s prison system.
More than
16,000 correctional officers and employees in the state prison
system supervise
almost 35,000 offenders in more than 50 facilities.
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