By Kitsey Burns Harrison kburns@yadkinripple.com
JONESVILLE The town of Jonesville’s new website was unveiled at its Monday meeting of the town council as well as an architects rendering of future town improvement projects.
Finance Director/Town Clerk Wendy Thompson showed off the new website toward the end of Monday’s meeting. The new address is townofjonesville.com and will feature scrolling photos of the town as well as some of the most requested information area residents and visitors might need.
Troy Luttman gave a presentation to the board via Zoom with architectural renderings of a proposed town square area to be called the “piazza.” The piazza area, also to be called uptown Jonesville is a proposed development project to coincide with creation of a proposed pedestrian bridge connecting Jonesville and Elkin, near the site of the former Chatham bridge.
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London – Veteran Caribbean diplomat Sir Ronald Sanders has been named to a ten-person committee to conduct an inquiry into the future of Commonwealth Studies at the University of London, the educational institution’s Vice-Chancellor Professor Wendy Thompson announced on Monday.
The committee will hold its first meeting on January 21 under the chairmanship of Sir Malcolm Rifkind, a former Defence and Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary of the British Government. It is expected to take evidence from across the Commonwealth and submit its report and recommendations by June 2021.
“I am delighted to serve on this important committee,” said Sir Ronald. “The Commonwealth has been a significant actor in world politics – for instance in ending Apartheid in South Africa. Because of its diverse membership, it has the capacity to help the world negotiate solutions to global problems. Therefore, Commonwealth studies are important to University teaching
UAW Reforms May Face Top-Level Resistance The settlement with the government provides for a vote of UAW members on whether to elect top officers directly. But President Rory Gamble says direct election has long been anathema to members of the UAW’s executive board, who argue union-wide election would allow outsiders to influence union policy and internal politics.
The scandal-scarred United Auto Workers is promising to turn over a new leaf, but the struggle to reform the union may just be just getting started.
The UAW agrees to allow an independent monitor to oversee its finances and internal elections of officers as part of a tentative settlement of corruption charges with the U.S. Department of Justice, which a federal judge is expected to approve early next year.