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18 UCW DEC. 30, 2009 - JAN. 5, 2010 WWW.UPANDCOMINGWEEKLY.COM O n Jan. 2, restaurants, bars and other businesses that serve food and drink in Cumberland County will become smoke-free, to the delight of health advocates and many local residents who are looking forward to healthier nights out. The Cumberland County Public Health Department is responsible for implementation and promotion of the new state law that bans smoking in enclosed areas of almost all restaurants and bars. It GRHVQRWDSSO\WRFLJDUEDUVDQGQRQSURÀWSULYDWHFOXEVWKDWPHHW certain requirements. Smoking will be allowed in unenclosed areas, GHÀQHGDVDSDWLRZLWKDVROLGURRIEXWQRZDOOV The law bans smoking in lodging establishments if the business prepares and serves food or drink. A lodging establishment may designate 20 percent of its guest rooms as smoking rooms. All restaurants, bar, and lodging establishment managers or owners subject to the new law will be required to post visible no-smoking signs in various locations throughout their facility and to remove indoor ashtrays along with other items used for smoking. Managers or owners are also responsible for directing a person who is smoking to extinguish the cigarette, cigar, or other lighted item. If a smoker refuses to extinguish the lighted product after receiving verbal or written notice from the manager or RZQHUDODZHQIRUFHPHQWRIÀFLDOFDQLVVXHDÀQHRI XSWR,I a manager or owner of a restaurant, bar, or lodging establishment does not comply with the new law, the local health director could LVVXHDÀQHRI XSWR7KHKHDOWKGLUHFWRUZRXOGÀUVWKDYHWR LVVXHWZRZDUQLQJVWRWKHHVWDEOLVKPHQWLQRUGHUWRLVVXHWKH ÀQH If you observe someone violating the law, please notify the establishment's owner or manager. If you observe a restaurant, bar, or lodging establishment that is subject to the law violating the law, please contact your local health director. For more information about the smoke-free law, please visit www.smokefree.nc.gov. New Law Bans Smoking The Fayetteville and Cumberland County Community Development Departments are conducting a survey as part of an analysis of fair housing issues in the county and city. Information FROOHFWHGLVIRUDQDO\VLVSXUSRVHVRQO\DQGLVVWULFWO\FRQÀGHQWLDO The survey will be available through Jan. 11 and will be used to help the Community Development Departments better serve the community and eliminate barriers to fair housing. The survey is posted at http://www.co.cumberland.nc.us/ and http://www. ci.fayetteville.nc.us/. Copies may also be picked up at any public library or town hall. Two H1N1 Flu Clinics Set for Jan. 4-5 The Public Health Department will hold H1N1 Flu clinics for the general public from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 4 at Pine )RUHVW+LJK6FKRRODQG7XHVGD\-DQDW'RXJODV%\UG+LJK 6FKRRO6HDVRQDOÁXYDFFLQHZLOODOVREHDYDLODEOH7KHUHLVQRRXW of-pocket expense for the vaccine. An administrative cost will be billed to insurance providers. Please bring a picture ID. For more LQIRUPDWLRQFDOO A uthor Amanda Lamb, a crime reporter for WRAL, will speak Jan. 12 at Headquarters Library. Lamb will preview "Evil Next Door," her new book to be released in April that focuses on a 2002 Raleigh murder case she covered for WRAL. Lamb tells the gripping story about how a team of detectives tracked down a suspected serial killer and found justice for an innocent young woman more than three years after her death. /DPE·VÀUVWWUXHFULPHERRNZDV´'HDGO\'RVHµ LAMB NO SMOKING -Indoors- G.S. 130A-497 1-800-662-7030 www.smokefree.nc.gov Fair Housing Survey Reporter Amanda Lamb Discusses New True-Crime Book at Library FLORENCE CIVIC CENTER PRESENTS A Photographic Tribute to Soldiers and Marines from the Civil War to the War In Iraq on display now through February 2, 2010. Special thanks to 3300 WEST RADIO DRIVE • FLORENCE, SC • 843-679-9417 • www.fl orenceciviccenter .com Vietnam Veterans of America Day January 9, 2010 • 11 a.m. to honor our Vietnam Veterans and their families. This event is open to all Vietnam Veterans, all US military men and women, as well as the general public. Please join us for this special honoring! Guest speakers will include: Lt. Joseph Marm-Congressional Medal of Honor recipient MG Robert E. Livingston; J5-CCC CENTCOM Entertainment: 282nd Army Band - Fort Jackson, SC Admission is free!

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