House Co-Speaker Richard Morgan joined Gov. Mike Easley Thursday for ceremonies marking the University Health Projects Bond Bill passed by the General Assembly this summer.

The bonds are to provide a cancer facility at UNC Hospitals and a heart and stroke center at Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University.

Ceremonies were held at 11 a.m. in Chapel Hill and at 1 p.m. in Greenville.

The bill authorizes the state to borrow up to $463 million to cover four major construction projects, including those at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill and East Carolina University.

APPOINTMENTS — The Moore County Board of Commissioners made appointments to six boards, committees and other advisory bodies at the Aug. 2 meeting.

Hattie Simonson, Jean Bennett and Beverly Blake were reappointed to the Aging Advisory Council, and Ann Robson of Whispering Pines was appointed to the Regional Aging Council for the Triangle J Area Agency on Aging as the Moore County representative.

The commissioners named Carol Geerdes as an extraterritorial member of the Pinebluff Planning Board of Adjustment.

Max Muse and Bob Hunt were reappointed as extraterritorial members of the town of Carthage Planning Board.

County Planning Director Richard Smith was tapped as the county’s representative on the Airline Task Force committee. This is the group working to attract commercial airline passenger service to the Moore County Airport.

New appointees to the Juvenile Crime Prevention Council are Linda Pearson and Andi Korte. Reappointed to the council were Robert Grooms, Mary Ann Mills, Billy Ransom and Kathy Cooper. One other position remains to be filled.

NCDOT — As part of their consent agenda at the August meeting, the commissioners adopted a resolution calling on the North Carolina Department of Transportation to add Glendale Drive to the state highway maintenance system.

Glendale Drive is in the Glendale Subdivision off Brinkley Road near Carthage.