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Dana M. Bright joined High Point University as disability support specialist and testing coordinator in the Office of Academic Development. Bright is responsible for counseling students with disabilities.
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The Guilford County Health Department stops vaccine appointments.
Guilford H1N1 supplies run out BY DAVID NIVENS ENTERPRISE STAFF WRITER
GUILFORD COUNTY – The Guilford County Department of Public Health has no more H1N1 vaccine and has stopped taking appointments for vaccinations, health officials said Tuesday. Dr. Ward Robinson, county medical director, told the Guilford County Board of Health on Monday that vaccine shipments have been short of what was expected. The agency said it might have more H1N1 vaccine next week. The agency gets a share of each shipment. Doses also go to private health care providers. Overall, the agency may receive no more than 80,000 doses by December. Supplies of the H1N1 vaccine are arriving slower than anticipated because the vaccine is difficult to make, Robinson said. Robinson had planned five vaccine clinics in the schools and other public venues this fall. Health officials received 4,000 calls Monday about swine flu shots, Robinson said. “We had hoped for a full course of vaccine so we could vaccinate everyone at the same time,” Robinson said Monday. “That won’t be possible now.” Although medical laboratories stopped production of seasonal flu vaccine to start H1N1 vaccine production early, health officials expect to have enough doses for children. Vaccination is the first line of defense against swine flu, Robinson said, especially for children. “This is an unusual year,” Robinson said. “I don’t remember seeing flu in August or October before. Swine flu is about all that is out there now.” dnivens@hpe.com | 888-3626
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Seasonal vaccines: The health department still has seasonal flu shots available for children ages 6 months to 18 years old. Information: Call 6415563 in Greensboro or 845-7655 in High Point.
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The Oak Hollow Mall Dillard’s will receive merchandise from other locations in the area.
Clearance center Dillard’s converts store at Oak Hollow Mall BY PAUL B. JOHNSON ENTERPRISE STAFF WRITER
HIGH POINT – Dillard’s Inc. has converted its 14-year-old location at Oak Hollow Mall to a clearance center store, meaning the store will concentrate on discounted merchandise. The Oak Hollow Mall Dillard’s is one of 11 clearance center stores for the Little Rock, Ark.-based department store chain with 314 locations, said Julie Bull, director of investor relations with Dillard’s. The Oak Hollow Mall Dillard’s will receive merchandise from other locations in the area. “A clearance center works
somewhat like a traditional outlet store,” she said. “The merchandise that it receives is generally marked down 50 to 75 percent off. It will no longer, after a certain point and time, be receiving full-priced merchandise. It will be fed from other Dillard’s locations with clearance merchandise,” she said. Bull said this week that Dillard’s isn’t closing the Oak Hollow Mall location, which is one of the mall’s anchor stores. Dillard’s was one of the original anchor stores when the mall opened in 1995. “We haven’t announced plans to close the location. Our announcement and confirmation is that it
will be a clearance center,” Bull said. Oak Hollow Mall General Manager Vickee Armstrong referred comment on the change at Dillard’s to the company, saying that Dillard’s should comment “on any changes to their store or their merchandising mix.” Bull said Dillard’s periodically converts locations to clearance centers. With $7 billion in annual sales, the company founded in 1938 has stores across the South and Midwest, according to the business research service Hoover’s.
Showrooms want equal treatment in Market Overlay BY PAM HAYNES ENTERPRISE STAFF WRITER
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City officials said the purpose of the plan is to allow other businesses to thrive in the downtown area rather than only showrooms, which drive up surrounding property values. “We tried to get the vast majority of existing showroom square footage inside this district,” said Andy Piper, senior planner with
the city’s planning and development department. “Our intention is not to drive down property values. It is to make the market area more dense and walkable and compact, and to make areas outside of the district available to other businesses that benefit the
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Cathy Hinson, building manager of Union Square, is unhappy showroom won’t be included in district’s boundaries.
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HIGH POINT – As marketgoers wrap up their business today and tomorrow, this could prove to be the last High Point Market before a Market Overlay District is put into place by the city. And industry professionals like Cathy Hinson, building manager of Union Square, aren’t too fond of that idea. “We are just a few blocks away from the district boundaries,” she said. “It doesn’t make sense to cut us out.” Hinson is one of several operators of long-standing showrooms not included within the district’s boundaries. The proposed boundary encompasses areas that include the largest concentration of existing showrooms. Those that are outside of the district will be grandfathered in, but the buildings could not expand in the future without the city’s permission. No new showrooms could be built outside of the boundaries.
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