🗞️ Market for All Seasons will help families in Kernersville, North Carolina

🗞️ Local church burns $1.68 million of medical debt

🗞️ It's back to baggage claim to meet your arriving loved ones

🗞️ Your Tuesday in Kernersville: absentee ballot deadline, a sunny 73 and chili tomorrow

☀️ Sunny and warm | High: 73°F | Low: 46°F

Another beautiful fall day is on the way. We're looking at sunshine from start to finish with a high near 73 and a light north breeze of 5 to 10 mph. Tonight stays clear and comfortable with a low around 46. Wednesday keeps the sunshine going, just a touch cooler with a high near 69.

Looking for a head start on holiday decorating? First Presbyterian Church in Kernersville hosts its annual Market for All Seasons on Saturday, Oct. 24, with handmade arts, crafts and baked goods for every holiday on the calendar, from Halloween and Thanksgiving to Christmas, Valentine's Day and Easter.

Everything for sale is made by church members, their friends and extended family. One of the big draws this year is a raffle for an elaborate, homemade Christmas-themed quilt.

Every dollar raised goes right back out the door to help families at Christmas. "Last year we helped 11 families and a total of 52 people, which was the most we were ever able to help. It is based on how much we sell," event coordinator Delia Barham told the Kernersville News. Last year's market sold more than $5,000 in arts, crafts and baked goods.

This year the proceeds will support students and families at the Appalachian State University Academy at Middle Fork, a free public K-5 lab school in nearby Walkertown. Barham said a church member's daughter who works for WS/FCS pointed them to the school. "She said this school is kind of left out. They can't raise the funds like some of the elementary schools in Kernersville," Barham said. "So we help them."

Church members have already helped with backpacks and back-to-school supplies. At Christmas, they will choose families, shop for them and add gift cards for food and other needs, with something for the parents, too.

If you go: Saturday, Oct. 24, at First Presbyterian Church, 611 Oakhurst St. The start time wasn't listed, so check with the church before heading over.

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Trinity Moravian Church in Winston-Salem held a "debt burning" during Sunday's service, and this one was worth celebrating: $1,681,638.30 in past-due medical debt, wiped out for 1,432 households in Forsyth, Davie and Guilford counties, FOX8 reports.

The congregation raised $16,228.94 this summer to make it happen. Working with the nonprofit Undue Medical Debt, the church buys bundles of old medical debt for pennies on the dollar, then forgives it instead of collecting. The average debt erased was $1,174.33.

The church started its Debt Jubilee Project in 2022, naming it after the biblical Year of Jubilee. "So we did our first campaign, raised $5,000, and to everybody's astonishment, including my own, we were able to purchase $1.1 million of debt owed by people in Forsyth County," said pastor John Jackman. All told, the project has now abolished more than $27.6 million in medical debt in Forsyth and surrounding counties.

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Sorry, romantics. If you were planning a movie-style reunion at the gate at Piedmont Triad International Airport, it's back to the luggage carousel. TSA has temporarily suspended its expanded Gateside by TSA PreCheck program, which had only recently arrived at PTI, ABC45 reports.

The program let eligible PreCheck members without a plane ticket go past security to walk departing passengers to the gate, greet arriving travelers or visit the airport's restaurants and shops. TSA has scaled it back to the original 13 airports while it reviews participation and operations, and it hasn't said when the program might come back.

"We were pleased to be included in the expansion of this program and hope it will return to PTI in the future," said Kevin Baker, executive director of the Piedmont Triad Airport Authority. Ticketed passengers still go through the normal security line, and visitors can still meet arriving passengers in public areas like baggage claim.

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Here's what's worth knowing today.

Another gorgeous fall day. Expect sunshine from start to finish with a high near 73 and a light north breeze. Tonight stays clear with a low around 46, and Wednesday is sunny with a high near 69.

Want to vote by mail? Today is the deadline to ask. Forsyth County voters have until 5 p.m. to request an absentee ballot for the Nov. 3 election, the WS Chronicle reports. You can request one through the state's NC Absentee Ballot Portal or with the official paper form. Paper requests must reach the county elections office by 5 p.m., so mailing one today won't make it in time. The office is in the Government Center, 201 N. Chestnut St. in Winston-Salem, and questions go to (336) 703-2800.

Or vote in person. Early voting continues from 8 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. at the Kernersville Recreation and Event Center, Paddison Memorial Branch Library and the Walkertown Branch Library through Oct. 31.

Chili tomorrow, a busy Saturday ahead. Wednesday's ACE-HTI Chili Cookoff runs from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at 1460 Hampton Plaza Dr. and benefits the Salvation Army. Saturday is packed with the Market for All Seasons, the Bunker Hill stew sale and the VFW Fall Fest. See the events calendar above for details.