Today Harris Teeter launched a donation card campaign to support both the United Service Organizations (USO) and Wounded Warrior Project® (WWP), two organizations committed to supporting our troops and their families.

During the month of May, Harris Teeter customers at every Harris Teeter location will be able to make $1, $3, or $5 donations to Support Our Troops at checkout.  Similar community-based donation card campaigns hosted by Harris Teeter have raised more than $500,000 in a given month; the first annual Support Our Troops campaign raised over $445,000.  Harris Teeter is proud to support both the USO and WWP during this May campaign and is thankful for both the involvement of its associates and its customers as well as the good works of both nonprofit partners.

CHARLOTTE, NC (WBTV)- Charlotte – Mecklenburg schools (CMS) students are tackling bullying in their schools. About 100 CMS students participated in the third annual Engage Summit.

The purpose of the summit is to have students come up with strategies to curb bullying.  Organizers say the summit is needed to help students succeed in school.

"Anything that is going to get in the way of a child's ability to learn," CMS representative John Concelman said. "To have the safe environment to learn is something we need to be sitting down at the table altogether."
  
Students from about 30 different schools shared with their peers about what is working at their schools.  At Northwest school of the Arts, students created a mentoring program to help their classmates who are dealing with bullying.

RALEIGH, NC (WBTV)- The measles outbreak reported earlier this month in North Carolina is spreading, according to the latest numbers from state health officials.

North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services public health officials and staff from local health departments are now investigating 19 cases of measles in Stokes, Orange and Polk counties as part of an outbreak that was first reported in mid-April, according to a news release from the NC Department of Health and Human Services. 

Since the outbreak began, state and local public health authorities have notified more than 1,000 people in Stokes, Forsyth, Guilford, Orange, Polk and Chatham counties who may have been exposed to the disease.