WASHINGTON – The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) today launched a new web page and blog dedicated to educating small business owners about the Affordable Care Act. The new tools will serve as a gateway for small business owners connecting them with information provided by SBA’s federal partners responsible for implementing the law, including the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. “The Affordable Care Act provides small business owners with access and opportunity to provide affordable health care options …
Month: January 2013
VGCC Radiography Student recognized for Academic Excellence
Vance-Granville Community College has named student Rita Hatzimimis of Wake Forest as its recipient of the North Carolina Community College System’s Academic Excellence Award for 2013. One student from each of the 58 colleges in the state system is honored with the award each year. Hatzimimis will be officially recognized at Commencement in May, when she is also scheduled to graduate with a degree in Radiography. In 1988, Hatzimimis earned her first college degree: a bachelor’s degree from Elon College …
Vance County Schools Upcoming Committee Dates
Please note change in times for the following committee meetings: Vance County Board of Education Committee Meeting Dates: * Finance Committee, Wednesday, January 30th, 5:15 pm * Policy Committee, Wednesday, January 30th, Immediately following Finance Note: All meetings are held in the Superintendent’s Conference Room.
Butterfield to Spend the Afternoon Visiting Duke University Hospital
WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman G. K. Butterfield (NC-01) today will attend a series of meetings concerning healthcare at Duke University Hospital. Among the topics to be discussed are the challenges for hospital administration in the current fiscal climate, and federal funding for medical research. (Editors Note, I assume the afternoon referenced is 1/28/2013 as we received it on that day, at about 2pm.) Butterfield will meet with Duke University Health System President and CEO Dr. Victor Dzau; Executive Vice President …
Tuesday Open Line
A social milestone was reached this date in 1907, when congressman Charles Curtis of Kansas was seated in the U.S. Senate, completing the few weeks remaining in the term of a resigned senator. He was also chosen to serve a full term in that office. Curtis became the first person with Native American blood to serve in the Senate. He remained until March 3, 1929, when he left the Senate to serve as vice president under Herbert Hoover. There are …
Michael Bobbitt: Notes From The Peanut Gallery (VC Water Called Meeting January 28th, 2013)
Last Friday, the County Manager issued an email notice announcing that Chairman Hester had called for a meeting of the County Commissioners and the Water Board for noon today. (Just so everyone understands, the Water Board members are also our County Commissioners so whatever one board approves there is little chance the other board would disapprove.) The purpose of the meeting was to allow the “Adoption of Resolution for Water Bond Anticipation Notes (this allows for extension of BANs for …
Vance County Board of Commissioners / Water Board Meeting January 28th, 2013
The Vance County Board of Commissioners / Water Board voted today to move off paying for bonds associated with the water project until later in the year. Please read the details here: 20130128_vcboc_water_board_called_meeting
Diversity Study Finds Economic Disparities Rising in NC Schools
DURHAM, N.C. — The racial balance in North Carolina’s public schools has remained steady since 2005-06, ending a trend of growing disparity from the previous decade, but students are increasingly separated by income. These are among the findings of a comprehensive report from three Duke University public policy professors who studied whether schools in each of the state’s 100 counties mirror the racial and economic composition of that county as a whole. “Although state-enforced school segregation is now a distant …
Northern Vance High School Sirocco Computer Cleaner
Everybody check out Northern Vance High School’s Engineering Team’s award winning Sirocco video. The Sirocco is entered into NCSU’s Prize for Innovation competition. NVHS is one of the five finalists in the State! Winner is determined by online voting Feb 4 – 11. Visit their Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/SiroccoTheInnovativeComputerCleaner The students at Northern Vance High School wanted to enter a competition at NC State, so, in order to enter this contest, they had to discover a need, and then created an …
Congresswoman Renee Ellmers: No Budget, No Pay
We started this week with the celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s dream of a nation where people were not “judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character” and a Presidential Inauguration. The week is ending with the annual March for Life which marks the 40th anniversary of the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision. This has been a busy week for legislation. The House passed “The No Budget, No Pay Act” to …
NC Cooperative Extension Updates
FRUIT TREE PRUNING WORKSHOP Once again, we will hold our annual Fruit Tree Pruning Workshop at a home orchard near the Vance/Warren county line. This is scheduled for Feb 5th, 10:30 am to noon. You MUST register, at which time directions will be provided. In the event of inclement weather, we will have an indoor seminar at the Warren County Extension Center. BEE/CHICKEN CLASSES AT VGCC These look interesting! http://www.vgcc.edu/News/newsarticle.cfm?recNo=3171 WHAT TO DO IN THE GARDEN THIS WEEK (from the …
White House Weekly Address: Two Nominees Who Will Fight for the American People
President Obama discusses his nomination of Mary Jo White to lead the Securities and Exchange Commission and Richard Cordray to continue as Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. This week, Washington D.C. was transformed into an historic stage, with an estimated one million people on hand to witness the President and Vice President take the Oath of Office at the United States Capitol. Through it all, West Wing Week was there, from the terrace of the Capitol to backstage …
Monday Open Line
As the Great Depression approached its worst, Wisconsin made the nation’s first governmental direct relief effort for the unemployed. On this date in 1932, it enacted unemployment insurance. Wisconsin was soon followed by a half-dozen other states before the Social Security Act in middecade moved all states to adopt such programs by 1937. Wisconsin’s program issued it’s first unemployment check in August, in the amount of $15. By 2010, states and local governments took in over $75 billion from the …
Vance County Public Schools Announce 2 Hour Delay for January 28th, 2013
Vance County Schools will operate on a two-hour delay for Monday, January 28, for all students and school system staff members.
Vehicle Runs off Roadway, Pedestrians Hit, Toddler Killed
On January 27, 2013 around 1:15 PM officers with the Henderson Police Department responded to the 600 Block of East Montgomery Street, Henderson in reference to a motor vehicle collision involving two pedestrians. Upon arrival, officers found a five year-old male and the child’s father, Richard Thomas Stokes, 22, of Henderson with extensive injuries from where the vehicle collided with them. From the investigation, it appears that the child and his father were walking west on East Montgomery Street when …
Called Meeting of Vance County Board of Commissioners and Vance County Water District Board
Chairman Tommy Hester has called a special meeting of the Vance County Board of Commissioners and the Vance County Water District Board for Monday, January 28, at 12:00 noon, in the Commissioners Meeting Room, County Administrative Building, 122 Young Street, Henderson, NC, 27536. The purpose of the meeting is as follows: Vance County Board of Commissioners – Items as needed Vance County Water District Board – Adoption of Resolution for Water Bond Anticipation Notes (this allows for extension …
Intruder, Solomon Williams, Shot During Breaking and Entering
On January 25, 2013 around 2:28 PM officers with the Henderson Police Department responded to 801 Wakefield Ave Ext. Henderson, NC in reference to a breaking and entering in progress in which the suspect was shot. Upon arrival, officers located Solomon Williams, 26, of 602 E. Winder Street, Henderson with a gunshot wound. The person, who confronted and shot the suspect, Solomon Williams, was a 73 year-old male. Another suspect fled on foot into a wooded area and was unable …
Henderson City Council Short Regular Meeting and Work Session Monday, January 28th, 2013 6:00pm
The Henderson City Council will hold its Short Regular Meeting, and a work session afterwards on Monday January 28th, 2013 at 6:00pm in the city hall building on 134 Rose Avenue. The full agenda packet is here: 20130128_coh_agenda_packet Below are the agenda notes for the meeting and work session: ADJUSTMENTS TO AND/OR APPROVAL OF THE AGENDA V. APPROVAL OF MINUTES a) 14 January 2013 Regular Meeting [See Notebook Tab 1] VI. PUBLIC COMMENT ON AGENDA ITEMS Citizens may only speak …
Vance County Schools Athletic Events Canceled
There will be no athletic events for Vance County Schools’ teams today, tonight or any time Saturday due to the inclement weather expected in the area. Rescheduling of events will be announced later.
VGCC Computer classes scheduled at Main Campus in February
Vance-Granville Community College is currently registering students for two popular computer continuing education courses starting in February on the college’s Main Campus in Vance County. An evening course on the Microsoft Word and Excel 2010 software is scheduled for Tuesdays from 6 until 10 p.m., Feb. 19 through March 26. Students will familiarize themselves with the popular word processing and spreadsheet programs, which were significantly updated in their most recent versions. Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel are two of the …