Tonight at 9pm, UNC-TV will broadcast a new espisode of North Carolina Weekend. Step back in time at Somerset Place in Creswell. Enjoy a profile of Wadesboro. Explore Cape Lookout National Seashore at Harker’s Island. Lift a glass at Banner Elk Winery in Banner Elk. And spend some time at the Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture in Charlotte. (Please note: listings are subject to change.) Last weeks broadcast can be viewed below – March 22, 2012: …
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Home in Henderson April 1st Celebration & Giveaway
Home in Henderson welcomes the arrival of April on Sunday, April 1st. We will be featuring a very special selection of contributed articles on our website in honor of the coming of April. And to celebrate, we will hold another giveaway! Another $20.00 gift certificate to Greenway’s Authentic Charcoal Grill is up for grabs to a lucky commenter. Here’s the rules. From now, now being the publishing of this post at Thursday 12:01am on March 29th, until Monday night April …
Thursday Open Line
One of the most frightening industrial accidents in the U.S. occurred March 28th in 1979. It was 4 a.m. at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant on the Susquehanna River, south of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. A cascading chain of events started when someone mistakenly cross connected air and water lines in the plant’s number two reactor. Before the crisis was over, the plant reportedly came close to a hydrogen gas explosion and a meltdown of its uranium core, which would …
White House: What was President Obama doing in Korea?
Yesterday, President Obama headed home from South Korea — after a busy three days of diplomatic meetings and discussions of nuclear security. At a talk with students at Hankuk University, the President outlined the reasons why he’s made the issue such a major priority: We’re building an international architecture that can ensure nuclear safety. But we’re under no illusions. We know that nuclear material, enough for many weapons, is still being stored without adequate protection. And we know that terrorists and …
USCIS Seeks Public Comment on Revisions to Employment Eligibility Verification Form I-9
WASHINGTON—U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) today published a notice in the Federal Register inviting public comment on a revised Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification. Employers must complete Form I-9 for all newly-hired employees to verify their identity and authorization to work in the United States. The public is invited to comment on the revisions until May 29, 2012. Key revisions to the form include: Expanded Form I-9 instructions and a revised layout. New, optionaldata fields to collect the employee’s …
‘Hunger Games’ helps shine media spotlight on N.C. destinations
The N.C. Department of Commerce’s Division of Tourism, Film and Sports Development has helped cast a bright spotlight on North Carolina destinations by garnering expansive and valuable media coverage of sites used in the filming of “The Hunger Games.” The Division’s Public Relations team has been proactively pitching the film’s travel angle to print, broadcast and online outlets for several months, and it is paying off in a big way. Already the Division’s placements have reached an audience of 13 …
State Board Of Education To Meet With Local Superintendents For Budget Discussion
Superintendents from across the state will meet in Research Triangle Park on April 3 to share with members of the State Board of Education the impact budget cuts have had on their school districts. For the past three years, schools have struggled with fewer teachers, larger class sizes, reduced course offerings and other limited resources as a result of state budget cuts and State Board members are eager to hear how superintendents have dealt with these and other challenges. The …
Wednesday Open Line
Last night I attended the retirement ceremony for outgoing Henderson Vance County Chamber of Commerce President Bill Edwards. It was a heartfelt celebration, with words spoken by chamber members, elected officials at the local and state level, even a song honoring Mr. Edwards. At the end Bill gave a moving speech as well thanking everyone. I don’t want to say details of who was there or post pictures since it was private event. But I’ll ask the Chamber if I …
FVW Opportunity Recognizes April as Child Abuse Prevention Month With Pinwheel Garden April 4th, 2012
PINWHEELS: A NEW WAY TO LOOK AT CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION Pinwheel Garden Recognizes Efforts to Prevent Child Abuse & Neglect On April 4 at 10am, Franklin-Vance-Warren Opportunity, Inc.’s Family Resource Center and Head Start program will join thousands of child advocacy agencies throughout North Carolina and the nation in recognizing Child Abuse Prevention Month with a pinwheel garden. The pinwheel is the new symbol of child abuse prevention, representing community efforts to provide children with the safe, stable, nurturing relationships …
Tuesday Open Line
Chapel Hill’s town council voted Monday to ban all cellphone use behind the wheel, including hands-free devices. The ban is the first of its kind in the state. Read the full article here With spring here, a device that’s been around since time immemorial is being honored — it’s National Umbrella Month. No one knows who invented the umbrella or exactly when, but it’s estimated that it was being used as much as 4,000 years ago. It’s thought the original …
Richard Brand: So How Come They Can Make Me Do This?
Today there is supposed to be a great debate in the Supreme Court of the U.S. over the Affordable Health Care Act. As the debate keeps being reported in the news the major issue is whether or not it is legal for the government to require all citizens to have some form of health care. The energy behind this debate is the opposition to government telling people what they have to do. Most of us do not like to be …
FIRST® Robotics TermiRaiders from Southern Vance 4-H Robotics Team Will Compete in Regional Tournament Event in Raleigh
The FIRSTRobotics Competition (FRC) is an annual competition that challenges high-school students – working alongside professional Mentors – to design and build a robot of their own, and compete in a ‘ Sport for the Mind™’ that measures the effectiveness of each robot, the power of teamwork and collaboration, and Gracious Professionalism™. Students build and program their own robots against a field of competitors and experience the excitement of science, engineering, technology and innovation. At the 2012 tournament, teams …
VGCC Board Holds Meeting, Accepts $25,000 Grant
The Vance-Granville Community College (VGCC) Board of Trustees held its bimonthly meeting on Monday, March 19 at the college’s Henderson campus. At that meeting, North Carolina Tobacco Trust Fund Commission board member Pete Burgess of Henderson presented the college with a symbolic check for $25,000 representing the recent Project Skill-UP grant awarded to VGCC. Project Skill-UP grants were developed by the Trust Fund Commission in collaboration with the N.C. Community College System to help individuals in rural counties of North …
VGCC honors students collect books for Franklin Campus Day Care
The Vance-Granville Community College chapter of Phi Theta Kappa recently conducted a children’s book drive to support the Child Care Center at VGCC’s Franklin County Campus. The day care’s facilities and materials suffered major water damage late last year, ruining some of the center’s supplies, particularly books. In response, students in the Alpha Sigma Chi chapter of PTK, the international honor society for two-year colleges, collected approximately 135 new and gently-used books to replenish the supplies for the preschoolers’ use. …
Terrell Lane Middle School Band visits VGCC
Students in the band program at Terrell Lane Middle School in Louisburg (including the seventh-grade band, pictured here), under the direction of Tracie Winstead, presented a concert in the Civic Center at Vance-Granville Community College’s Main Campus on March 19, as part of an afternoon during which the students learned more about the college. Band members heard from VGCC music instructor Michael Stephenson about the college’s various music programs. College faculty also discussed other college opportunities, including the upcoming summer …
The Garden Path April 2012
The Garden Path, a publication of Kerr Lake Master Gardners has released their April newsletter. Including the Plant of the Month, Checklist for April gardening, and some activities they provided to Vance County Schools. Download and read here Also, Paul McKenzie from the Agricultural Extenion Office will be holding a Beginning Vegetable Gardening Class on Monday, 3/26, 6:30 pm at the Vance County Extension Center (305 Young St., Henderson). He will cover the basics of soil preparation, planting, irrigation, etc. …
Monday Open Line
Weekly Address: President Obama Says House Must Pass Bipartisan Transportation Bil. President Obama is calling on the House of Representatives to pass a bipartisan transportation bill that would repair crumbling roads and bridges and support construction jobs in communities all across America. According to a new report, 90 percent of these construction jobs are middle class jobs. The Senate passed the bill with the support of Democrats and Republicans because if the bill stalls in Congress then constructions sites will …
City of Henderson City Council Meeting Monday March 26th, 2012
The Henderson City Council will hold a Short Regular Meeting on Monday, 26 March 2012 at 6:00 PM with a Work Session to immediately follow. The meeting will be held in the City Hall Council Chambers, at 134 Rose Ave., Henderson, NC 27536 Download the full packet here: 20120326_coh_regular_meeting_packet (74 pages) PUBLIC HEARING a) Consideration of Approval of Ordinance 12-06, An Ordinance Providing for the Zoning of Solar Farms, Wind Turbines and Other Tall Utilities. PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD ON AGENDA …
Vance County Schools – Beef In Schools Contain No Ammonium Hydroxide
With recent reports of consumer concerns over ammonium hydroxide used to process lean finely textured beef, referred to as “pink slime,” Vance County Schools wants parents, students and the local community to know that the school system does not purchase beef products processed with this chemical. Vance County Schools has been ordering fully cooked commercial beef products, mostly in beef patties, since at least the year 2000. The beef product is not ammonia treated ground beef filler that has been …
VGCC StudentRrecognized for Academic Excellence
Vance-Granville Community College has named student Sharon M. Lark of Bunn as its recipient of the North Carolina Community College System’s Academic Excellence Award for 2012. One student from each of the 58 colleges in the state system will be honored at the N.C. Community Colleges Excellence Event, called “The Great Within the 58,” on April 19 in Raleigh. Lark is currently working toward completing two degrees, an Associate in Arts (College Transfer) and an Associate in Applied Science degree …