UNC Chapel Hill student Andrea Pino never thought she’d find herself a rape victim. As a student educator who had taught peers about violence prevention, it couldn’t happen to her, or so she thought. She writes about her situation, and the broader problem of rape on college campus, in an article on the Huffington Post titled “The “R” Word: Why Do Colleges Struggle With Talking About Rape?”

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The Solomon House, which is part of Presbyterian Healthcare, is offering free classes for pregnant and new mothers this month at Gethsemane Baptist Church of Lake Norman, in Davidson. Classes run Thursdays, Feb. 21 to March 28 at the church, 565 Jetton St., Davidson. Read the full story

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The Mecklenburg County Health Department has issued an alert warning people of possible exposure to the Hepatitis A virus at two restaurants earlier this month. The alert is related to a case of Hepatitis identified in an employee who works at both the Hooters in Concord and the Whiskey Warehouse in Charlotte. Read the full story

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Lori Ives-Godwin runs Your Community Connector and founded the alternative expo Shift Charlotte, which is coming up March 1-2 in Cornelius.

By DAVID BORAKS
DavidsonNews.net

Davidson resident Lori Ives-Godwin spent 25 years as a project manager in the corporate world until about five years ago, when she gave it up to start a new business focusing on alternative medicine and spirituality.

Now, she’s someone “who really believes there’s a different way to live on this planet,” she said this week.

Her web-based business, Your Community Connector, is a place for people who share that outlook to find “everything you ever wanted to know about mind-body-spirit events, services and goods found in the Charlotte area.”

Ms. Ives-Godwin also is the founder of Shift Charlotte, a regional annual expo devoted to “health, well-being and a more natural and empowered way of living.” It’s scheduled March 1 and 2 at The Palace, at Kenton Place in Cornelius. Read the full story

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