RALEIGH, N.C. — Friday morning, March 30, NBC’s TODAY Show featured a segment about North Carolina film locations used in the blockbuster movie “The Hunger Games.” The 3:44-minute segment featuring North Carolina reached a national audience of 12,206,542, generating $538,268 in advertising equivalency on America’s top-rated morning show program. TODAY correspondent Janet Shamlian opened the segment by reminding viewers that the film was shot entirely in North Carolina. “You know, it didn’t take long, for the fans who can’t get …
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Attonrey General Alert: Don’t Click That Link!
Scammers love email, because it allows them reach many people with the same fraudulent message. Recently Attorney General Roy Cooper and other employees of the North Carolina Department of Justice received an email message purporting to be from the US Postal Service. The message told recipients that their credit card was being charged for address labels. The scammers were hoping the recipients, who had not ordered any labels, would click on one of the four links contained in the message …
Vance County Board of Commissioners Meeting Monday, April 2nd
Download the full agenda packet here: 20120402_vcboc_agenda_packet (229 pages)
Vance County Board of Education Meeting Monday April 2nd
Download the full agenda packet here: 20120402_vcboe_agenda_packet (40 pages)
Vance County Relay For Life Announcements
Whitney’s Hope Relay Team will be having a Yard and Bake Sale, Saturday March 31 at 3002 Oxford Road. It will be right beside Saint James Missionary Baptist Church. 9:00 am until 1:00 pm. “Angels Among Us” Relay Team is having their annual flower sale. Bedding plants, potted plants, hanging baskets and roses are available. Orders must be in by April 6 and picked up will be April 14 at Tractor Supply/Big Lots parking lot from 9:00 am until 1:00 …
Butterfield Applauds First District Schools’ Receipt of School Improvement Grant
WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman G. K. Butterfield (NC-01) today announced that three schools in the First Congressional District will receive a portion of the School Improvement Grants (SIG) awarded by the U.S. Department of Education. Coker-Wimberly Elementary School, Greene Central High School, and Warren County High School, along with other select low-achieving schools throughout the state, will receive a portion of the $14,484,742 grant to help turn them around. “I applaud the Department of Education for investing in our education …
Butterfield Votes Against Republican Budget in an Effort to Protect Social Safety Nets
WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman G. K. Butterfield (NC-01), member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, today issued the following statement on the passage of the Republican budget: “We are recovering from a prolonged recession that has left millions of Americans jobless, in foreclosure, and struggling to provide their families with basic needs. “Solving these problems will require a compromise between Democrats and Republicans that would make investments in areas, such as job training, and help grow the economy while …
Butterfield Urges Transportation Department to Award TIGER IV Grant to Goldsboro
WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman G. K. Butterfield (NC-01) today sent a letter to U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood in support of the City of Goldsboro application for Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) IV grant. The City is requesting support for a $14 million project that would make significant functional and aesthetic improvements to the Center Street Streetscape project and make upgrades to Goldsboro Union Station. In his letter, Congressman Butterfield wrote, “TIGER IV support would enable Goldsboro …
Vance County Committe Meetings April 2nd
Please be informed that the County’s Planning & Environmental Committee is scheduled to meet Monday, April 2 at 4:00 p.m. in the County Manager’s Office. Also, the HR Committee is scheduled to meet that same day at 5:30 p.m. in the County Manager’s Office.
Spring Street Sewermain Replacement Project
The City of Henderson shall, through its utility contractor, begin work to replace an existing sewer main and various manhole rehabilitations within South William Street, Spring Street and Garnett Street and the work will be ongoing for the next two weeks beginning on Monday, April 2, 2012. Spring Street will be closed for through traffic between Garnett Street and South William Street during that time. Please observe all signs and barricades along the area of construction for the safety of …
Eaton-Johnson Middle School students visit VGCC Culinary program
Eighth-grade students in the ambassador program at Eaton-Johnson Middle School in Henderson and their parents recently enjoyed a visit to the Vance-Granville Community College Culinary Arts department, which is located at the Masonic Home for Children in Oxford. Ambassadors are outstanding EJMS students who welcome visitors and dignitaries at special events and complete community service projects. They are selected based on their good character and behavior. The ambassador program advisor is Dr. Priscilla Chavis-Lockley, lead counselor and College/Career Counseling Coordinator …
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 …
‘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 …
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 …
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. …