Call center looking at Legacy Marketing site; several hundred jobs? Swift & Finch opens tonight. Health: vaccination updates; air quality meeting. Rain today, Saturday; cooler. Big weekend calendar

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Georgia call center reportedly looking at former Legacy Marketing building. Several hundred new jobs by July?

Grand opening this evening for Swift & Finch coffee shop.
-Downtown buzzing about new/old venue at 6th & Broad.

Health department urges infant vaccinations; region best in state for increasing number of immunized children.

State plans air quality forum in Rome April 26. 
Weekend calendar is overflowing:
-Driving Expo, two plant sales, E.C.O. Jubilee, performances pack weekend to-do list.

Rain could disrupt some of those weekend plans.
-Friday: 20-40% rain chance, high of 74, low of 58.
-Saturday: 70% rain chance, high of 73, low of 46.
-Sunday: Mostly sunny, high of 71, low of 43. 
Latest business, community updates:
-DLS Building 95% full... 500 balloons to be release...Big honors for small Cartersville company...

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-We are live at The Partridge today. Please join our guests including Alana Ellenburg, director of the 2012 Rome/Floyd County Safe Driving Expo, and Cassidy Carter with Floyd Healthcare Foundation, on the expo; Robert Smyth from the Exchange Club on Believe in the Blue balloon event set for Saturday; and Mary Hardin Thornton from Keep Rome Floyd Beautiful on E.C.O. Jubilee this Saturday.

 

Today's Sports:   

-Rome Braves skid to seventh straight loss; Asheville wins, 10-6. Braves in Asheville through Sunday, off Monday.
-Mills Fitzner's game photos.

May 4-8: Rome set to host 2012 GSC Baseball Tournament: The NCAA Division II Gulf South Conference brings 2012 Baseball Tournament to State Mutual Stadium.