Sunday Briefly
By News-Argus Staff
Published in News on September 12, 2004 2:04 AM
Vendors needed
The Feast in the East Barbecue Festival is accepting applications for arts and craft vendors.
Vendor fees are $25 for nonprofit vendors and $50 for for-profit vendors for a 10-foot-by-10-foot booth space.
The festival will be held Oct. 29-30 at the Wayne County Fairgrounds.
For vendor applications and more information, go to www.feastintheeast.org or call Marlise Taylor at 734-2245 or Patty Graham at 734-2234.
Jones sponsors bill
U.S. Rep. Walter Jones is co-sponsoring a bill to increase the military death gratuity benefit, a one-time payment to surviving family members of servicemen and women who die in battle.
The bill, introduced by Rep. Dennis Moore of Kansas, has 57 co-sponsors from both parties. Jones is a Republican whose district includes Wayne County.
The present death gratuity benefit is $12,000. The bill calls for raising it to $50,000. It would be applied retroactively to all servicemen and women who have died since Sept. 11, 2001.