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New York town OKs ban on booing at board meetings

RIVERHEAD, N.Y.

Cheers? Yes. Jeers? Not so much.

Officials in the New York town of Riverhead in eastern Long Island have adopted a code of public behavior for town-hall meetings that bans booing.

Newsday reports the Riverhead Town Board voted 4-1 to approve the proposal lastweek.

Councilman James Wooten was the lone dissenter.

The town council deleted a measure that also would have banned applause.

There are no penalties for violators.

Supervisor Sean Walter says the town copied guidelines in other towns.

He says the rules are designed to let meetings run more smoothly.

Polish man taken to hospital with screwdriver in head

WARSAW, Poland

Polish doctors say a 25-year-old man has undergone a three-hour operation to remove a screwdriver lodged about 2 inches into his head.

Dr. Jan Kochanowicz, one of the doctors who treated the man in the Polish city of Bialystok, said the man apparently fell and lost consciousness but does not remember that.

When he regained consciousness, he at first was aware only of pain in a hand before realizing something else was wrong. He walked to his car, looked in a mirror and noticed the screwdriver penetrating his forehead just above his right eye.

Kochanowicz told the station TVN24 the man smoked a cigarette before calling a neighbor who got him to the hospital.

The screwdriver did not damage the man’s eyes or brain.

Fla. company rewards workers with Beer Cart Friday

PORT ORANGE, Fla.

Employees at a Florida health-care company are allowed to drink on the company’s tab, on company time, thanks to a perk known as “Beer Cart Fridays.”

Advance Medical CEO Jennifer Fuicelli told the Daytona Beach News-Journal she’s been rolling out the beer cart for two years as part of an “unorthodox corporate culture” that rewards employees for hard work.

She says the company began in 2005 with four employees and now has 350 workers in two locations — Port Orange, Fla., and Broomfield, Colo.

The company also hosts costume days for Halloween, barbecues on the clock and a birthday “get out of jail free” card, which can be used for a paid day off.

Employees are restricted to one beer, which Fuicelli says is a small price that “pays huge dividends.”

Associated Press