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"Free Food Friday"

Submitted by Tammy Phillips on Friday, November 18th, 2:25 pm

It's "Free Food Friday" at Action News 5. We teamed up with the Midtown Lennys and Curbside Casseroles in east Memphis to raise money for the Mid-South Food Bank.

What will your office do to raise money for the Mid-South Food Bank?

On "Free Food Friday", we ask our staff to join us for a FREE lunch in exhange for a donation to the Mid-South Food Bank. It's the second year for the fundraiser at Action News 5. Staffers were treated to turkey, ham, dressing, green breans, pyramid potatoes, salad, pecan pie, apple pie and much more from Curbside Casseroles. Lennys provided turkey, ham, tuna and even chicken salad sandwiches with all the fixin's, chips, cookies and drinks. The food was delicious!

Curbside Casseroles loaded us up with delicious food.

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New Starbucks open in J.D. Williams Library

Submitted by Jeramia Trotter, WMCTV.com

Tuesday, November 15th, 2011, 12:54pm

New Starbucks open in J.D. Williams Library

Just in time to welcome fall with pumpkin spice lattes and pumpkin scones, a new full-service Starbucks Coffee opened recently in the University of Mississippi’s J.D. Williams Library.

After a semester-long market research project, Ole Miss Dining decided to expand the former Java City location and convert it to a Starbucks.

“Since our market research was the driving force behind our decision to convert the Java City into a Starbucks, I am confident that this will be a positive addition that will better accommodate our growing and changing student population,” said Josh Halliday, marketing programs manager for Ole Miss Dining.The convenient location and extra space have students buzzing.

“I really enjoy having Starbucks on campus and having it conveniently located in the library,” said Brittany Grissett, a senior communicative disorders major from Biloxi. “I think it adds a lot to our university and definitely to my study time.”... Read More

Read all about it at Ole Miss Zing!

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Governor makes important visit to Oxford

Submitted by Tracey Rogers, News Director

Friday, October 14th, 2011, 8:43am

Governor makes important visit to Oxford

Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour paid a visit to Oxford this week to help celebrate the expansion of a local company. Barbour joined officials from Olin Corporation's Winchester Division for a ribbon-cutting ceremony. The event took place at Winchester's new Centerfire Ammunition manufacturing facility. The expansion of the operation is expected to create approximately 1,000 new jobs in Oxford by 2016.

“It is great to be in Oxford celebrating the opening of the Winchester Centerfire operations less than a year after Olin officials announced they were bringing 1,000 jobs to Mississippi,” Gov. Barbour said. “I appreciate the commitment by Olin and the support provided by the Mississippi Development Authority, Lafayette County and the city of Oxford to bring Winchester Centerfire here.”

Winchester broke ground on the 500,000 square-foot Centerfire site in January 2011 as the company began the process of locating its Centerfire operations in Oxford.

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Change coming in Kroger's coupon policy

Submitted by Andy Wise, Chief Consumer Investigator/Andy's Restaurant Scorecard

Wednesday, October 12th, 2011, 11:47am

Kroger's new coupon policy -- to be posted in all stores by Oct. 15 -- earned both a "Yea!" and a "Huh?" from one local coupon enthusiast.

Shana Moland, author of the website and blog My Memphis Mommy, said she's confused about Kroger's policy change on the use of print-at-home Internet coupons.

She said she noticed one of Kroger's stores had already posted the change, which states that Kroger will honor only two Internet coupons per manufacturer per day. The measure is designed to curb coupon counterfeiting.

The Internet coupon portion of the policy, as released to Action News 5, reads as follows:

Internet Coupon Restrictions /PAH Coupons

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Ammo plant could provide 1,000 jobs

Submitted by Jeramia Trotter, WMCTV.com

Tuesday, October 11th, 2011, 4:12pm

An ammunition plant’s expansion could create around 1,000 jobs in Oxford.

Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour will take part in Winchester Ammunition’s ribbon cutting ceremony Wednesday at 11:30 a.m. The company describes its planned Centerfire Ammunition Plant as a “state-of-the-art, 500,000 square-foot facility.”

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Do you own a Facebook Page?

Submitted by Amy Dunbar

Monday, October 3rd, 2011, 9:11am

If so, you have probably heard that SSL certificates will be required for Facebook pages starting tomorrow, October 1.

In the wake of continued concerns about security, Facebook will now require that all Facebook app developers own an SSL (https instead of http) for their pages. SSL (secure sockets layer) encrypts communications processed over the Internet. This protects against eavesdropping and malicious tampering adding security to Facebook users who previously were asked to switch from https to http when an app did not have SSL.

But that mandate raises lots of questions:

Does every Facebook page have to have an SSL certificate?

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Action News 5 hosts job fair

Submitted by Jeramia Trotter, WMCTV.com

Thursday, September 22nd, 2011, 8:40am

Action News 5 is hosting a job fair on Tuesday, September 27 at the Agricenter from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m.

Workers that have heath care experience can talk with recruiters from the VA Medical Center, Saint Jude Children's Research Hospital and Select Specialty Hospital. If you're not looking for work in the health care sector, you'll be able to speak to recruiters from companies like Gold Strike Casinos and Verizon.

For more information, click here.

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