Latest / The Erica Show / THE ERICA SHOW - 3 Things We Need To Know 8-3-23
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- 0:01Here the three Things on James one oh five. Waite County Animal Shelter now
- 0:07sending out a desperate plea for help from all of you. They say they
- 0:11no longer have any more space for animals and sadly we'll have to start putting
- 0:14animals down, which they do not want to do. They desperately need adopters
- 0:18because more than two hundred dogs and cats were surrendered this week alone. The
- 0:22director said that the shelter has fantastic, potty trained, sweet and cuddly pets
- 0:28that are looking for their forever home, and they're waving those adoption fees.
- 0:31They just are begging for amazing families and individuals to step up and adopt a
- 0:36SAP. The Wait County School District calling it's current school bus driver shortage also
- 0:41a crisis. They're exploring some short term options like pushing the start of school
- 0:45back by an hour so that way drivers have time to get to students and
- 0:49no one has left behind. They are offering forty two hundred dollars and sign
- 0:53on bonuses and attendance bonuses, so if you're looking for a job, they
- 0:57are desperately looking for bus drivers and I'm surprised to hear this, but Downtown
- 1:00Raleigh's recovery from the pandemic has been one of the slowest in the country.
- 1:04Despite the fact that we are one of the fastest growing cities in the country.
- 1:07Foot traffic still down forty and that is because remote work has emptied out
- 1:14a lot of these office buildings. The study that was done did not include
- 1:17Glenwood South in the Warehouse District, which those areas are booming. Downtown Raley
- 1:23Alliance says there's a lot of residential projects that are being built near the Downtown
- 1:26Raleigh entrance that could be bringing in thousands of residents, getting that foot traffic
- 1:30back up. That is the three things we need to know.