Afternoon with the Author @ Perry Memorial Library, March 24 2013 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Dr. William “Bill” Price will talk about his book Nathaniel Macon of North Carolina: Three Views of His Character and Creed. Dr. Price will sign copies of his works after his presentation. This program is sponsored by the Friends of the Perry Memorial Library.
Month: March 2013
VGCC nominates student for statewide achievement award
Vance-Granville Community College recently nominated Rebecca Fetterhoff of Creedmoor, a student in the college’s Early Childhood Associate program, for the North Carolina Community College System’s Dallas Herring Achievement Award. That award was established by the system in 2010 to honor the late Dr. Dallas Herring, the longtime State Board of Education chairman and one of the state’s earliest advocates of community colleges. Each year, the award recognizes a current or former community college student who best embodies Herring’s philosophy of …
Let’s Talk About It – Thursday March 21st
Let’s Talk About It @ Perry Memorial Library Thursday March 21st, 2013 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm The Let’s Talk About It series continues on March 21, 2013 at 7 p.m. in the Farm Bureau Room of the Perry Memorial Library. The book for this program is Brothers and Keepers and the speaker will be Willie Nelms. This project is made possible in part by funding from the North Carolina Humanities Council, a statewide nonprofit and an affiliate of the …
VGCC invites middle schoolers to Science Camp
Vance-Granville Community College will hold its third annual Science Camp for middle school students this summer. The Science Camp will be held June 17-21 on the college’s Main Campus in Henderson. Young people preparing to enter grades six through eight are invited to participate in the week-long camp, which will run from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. each day. Sessions will be taught by faculty members from the VGCC Science Department and other college programs. Campers will learn not only …
Senator Hagan Continues Bipartisan Fight to Restore Tuition Assistance for Servicemembers
Last week, the Army, Marine Corps and Air Force announced they would suspend the Tuition Assistance program for servicemembers – a program that 300,000 of our brave men and women in uniform depend upon to advance their educations. While I recognize that sequestration is forcing the Department of Defense to make tough budget decisions, denying educational opportunities to our servicemembers is the wrong way to find savings. We cannot put the burden of addressing our long-term fiscal challenges on the …
Spring Festivals Shine Across North Carolina
RALEIGH, N.C. (March 19, 2013) — Festive new events are blooming among the azaleas, dogwoods and rhododendron that color North Carolina’s spring landscapes. Joining Merlefest, three steeplechases and other perennial favorites are the inaugural NC Beer Month, the first statewide star party and a grand display of historic vehicles at the first Pinehurst Concours d’Elegance. Here are some of the season’s highlights. Find more reasons to visit at www.VisitNC.com. Biltmore Festival of Flowers March 21- May 19 Asheville The gardens at George …
Animal Welfare Section reimburses counties more than $550,000 for low-cost spay/neuter procedures
RALEIGH — The N.C. Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services Animal Welfare Section reimbursed counties more than half a million dollars for spay/neuter procedures for pets belonging to low-income residents in 2012. Overall, 28 counties requested nearly $562,500 in reimbursements for 9,529 surgeries performed. The Animal Welfare Section was able to reimburse $550,235. “The reimbursements are partially funded by fees collected from the Animal Lovers specialty license plate,” said Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler, whose retriever, Kate, is fixed. “Fixing cats …
Governor Pat McCrory’s Newsletter
Governor McCrory Signs Bills Promoting Technology in Public Schools On March 15, Governor Pat McCrory acted on his commitment to transform North Carolina’s education system by signing two bills to help expand digital learning initiatives and promote technology in the classroom. “This legislation will help fundamentally transform the way our children learn in our schools through technology,” said Governor McCrory at Cuthbertson High School in Waxhaw. “I thank the bill sponsors as we continue to work together to empower our …
Vance County Schools Committee Meeting Dates
Vance County Board of Education Committee Meeting Dates: * Community Relations, Thursday, March 21st, 5:30 pm * Personnel Committee, Tuesday, April 2nd, 8:30 am Note: All meetings are held in the Superintendent’s Conference Room.
Wednesday Open Line
Ask many Americans where their food comes from, and they’ll answer the supermarket, while clothing comes from the mall. That’s why this is National Agriculture Week — an annual program focused on students across the nation, the consumers of tomorrow. They’ll learn that from pizzas to cosmetics, from clothing to orange juice, agriculture gives us what we eat each day, and much of what we wear and use. In 1920, there were nearly 6.5 million farms in the U.S., and …
VGCC volunteers contribute to success of UNC-TV fundraiser
Vance-Granville Community College recently sent a group of 35 volunteers to Research Triangle Park to continue the college’s tradition of helping UNC-TV with the public broadcasting network’s on-air “Festival 2013” fundraiser. This was the ninth consecutive year that the college participated in the Festival. Students, faculty and staff members traveled to the UNC-TV studio on March 2. They manned the phones and performed other tasks for several hours, all the while proudly wearing VGCC Vanguard apparel. One of the participants, …
Attorney General Roy Cooper: This “Operation” Saves Lives
Attorney General Roy Cooper is encouraging all North Carolinians to scour their medicine cabinets and take their unneeded medications to an Operation Medicine Drop location. More than 250 of these prescription drug take-back events are scheduled across the state this week. Disposing of old medications this way keeps them out of the hands of young people who might be tempted to abuse them, and it also helps to keep our rivers and groundwater cleaner. Last year, more than 15 million …
VGCC Photography class in April
Vance Granville is currently registering for an Audio, Video & Picture Editing class to be taught on the Henderson campus. Please call 252.738.3417 for additional information or to register this course. Mike Leonard, Computer Service Technician in the VGCC Information Technology Department, is the instructor of this hands-on course. Students will learn how to edit video, audio and image files using FREE software available from the Internet. Topics covered will be: converting file formats; cutting, joining and enhancing a file …
Six NC stores fined for price-scanning errors
RALEIGH — The N.C. Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services’ Standards Division has collected fines from stores in Charlotte, Delco, Elkin, Smithfield, Vanceboro and Winston-Salem for excessive price-scanning errors. The NCDA&CS Standards Division conducts periodic, unannounced inspections of a business’ price-scanner system to check for accuracy between the prices advertised and the prices that ring up at the register. If a store has more than a 2 percent error rate on overcharges, inspectors discuss the findings with the store manager …
White House: Previewing President Obama’s Trip to Israel
In the first foreign trip of his second term in office, President Obama will visit Israel, the West Bank and Jordan. The trip is an important opportunity to meet with the new Israeli government and speak to the Israeli people, as well as meet with the Palestinian leadership and the King of Jordan. We asked Ben Rhodes, Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications, to preview the upcoming trip and some of the issues the President would be discussing in …
Tuesday Open Line
Banks had operated in America for about a half century before someone tried to make an unauthorized withdrawal. On this date in 1831, Edward Smith committed the first bank robbery in the U.S. — hitting the City Bank on New York’s Wall Street. He entered the bank after it closed, using a duplicate set of keys, and got away with $245,000 — a huge sum at the time. But he was caught, convicted and spent five years in New York’s …
Henderson-Vance Spring Litter Sweep Week April 15-20
The Vance County Appearance Commission and the Henderson Community Appearance Commission are asking the local community to get involved in the fifth annual Henderson-Vance Spring Litter Sweep during the week of April 15-20, 2013. The appearance commissions are sponsoring the week-long activities designed to get community residents involved in improving the appearance of Henderson and all of Vance County. The local effort this year is once again part of the North Carolina Spring Litter Sweep, which is scheduled for April …
Congresswoman Renee Ellmers: The SKILLS Act
This week, the House passed the H.R. 803 the “Supporting Knowledge and Investing in Lifelong Skills (SKILLS) Act to cut red tape and help more Americans get back to work. I discussed the SKILLS Act on several local radio shows this week and spoke in favor of the bill on the floor of the House. Below you will find a link to my speech and to additional information about the bill. In Energy & Commerce subcommittee hearings this week, we …
N.C. Pesticide Board announces March case settlements
RALEIGH — The N.C. Pesticide Board recently approved the following settlement agreements for respondents in Beaufort, Bladen, Brunswick, Craven, Edgecombe, Nash, Northampton, Onslow, Pitt, Robeson, Stanly, Wake and Wayne counties. Keith Lee Adcox of Lumberton agreed to pay $1,000 for applying herbicides Gramoxone Inteon and Envive in a manner inconsistent with the labeling to a wheat field in Lumberton. The herbicides damaged crops in an adjacent field, and the labels state not to apply under conditions favoring drift. Willis J. …
Senator Richard Burr Newsletter
While some in Washington seek to encroach on the Second Amendment rights of law-biding Americans, I will continue to fight to ensure these rights are honored and protected. Yesterday, I introduced legislation that would end the arbitrary process through which the government strips veterans and other Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) beneficiaries of their Second Amendment rights. This legislation would protect the rights of veterans and their families by ensuring that only a proper judicial authority is able to determine who …