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On this day in 2022, The News & Observer published in print that Durham County sheriff’s office hosted their second $10,000 gun buyback event over the weekend that drew gun owners from across the Triangle. The event resulted in 295 guns turned in across two locations, Mount Vernon Baptist Church and Duke Memorial Stadium.
The sheriff’s office offered $100 for long guns, $150 for handguns and $250 for assault rifles, although all types of guns were collected including vintage weapons and AR-15s. Funds ran out before the scheduled end time of 1 p.m. and many people waited in line for two to three hours.
“This is a good way… for people who perhaps have more guns than they have safe storage for to get rid of their guns so they’re not in the hands of minors,” JaVaughn Troxler, youth and young adult minister at Mt. Vernon, said.
After visiting rural North Carolina schools, researcher Joanne S. Harrell found that one in 10 children were on the brink of Type II diabetes, a disease the primarily used to pop up in overweight adults. The occurrence caused the professor of nursing at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and other public health officials to call the problem an epidemic from poor diet and inactivity in youth. For patients the diagnosis results in a life sentence of diligence over their health for a condition that has no cure.
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About 50 air traffic controllers picketed in front of the Federal building on New Bern Avenue in Raleigh to protest salary and work conditions after mass firings from the government. Despite their unemployment, morale was still high as many said that they were hopeful to be able to return to their jobs.
In 1926, a North Carolina woman won the congressional race in Kentucky, making her the first women to represent Kentucky in congress. Katherine G. Langley was the wife and daughter of former congressmen.
Her husband’s jurisdiction was the 10th Kentucky district which Langley won against A. J. Kirk in the 1926 election. Mrs. Langley’s father was former congressman V. Lamar Gudger who represented North Carolina’s 11th congressional district in the western part of the state.
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