Yesterday many people said thanks at their dinner table, and I’d like to share a thank you letter sent to us by a reader thanking Lindsey Davidson, Administrative Secretary for the City’s Public Works Department. As a volunteer for the Find a Grave web site I was looking for information on a few people who are (supposedly) buried in Elmwood Cemetery and was lucky to come across Lindsey Davidson Administrative Secretary for the City of Henderson Public Works Department. I explained …
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Vance-Granville Community Band presents free Holiday Concert
The Vance-Granville Community Band will perform its fourth annual Holiday Concert on Monday, Dec. 12. The program will begin at 7 p.m. in the Civic Center on the college’s main campus in Vance County. Admission is free. Children are encouraged to attend and there will a special time devoted to them. Michael Stephenson, the Vance-Granville Community College music instructor and director of the band, said that the evening’s music will include several of the holiday season’s favorite melodies, including “Sleigh …
Wednesday / Thanksgiving Open Lines
We’d love to hear from all interested today regarding your business specials this shopping weekend. It’s important for our economy to encourage residents to spend money in town, and not out of town this year. I’m disappointed to hear many local business not offering any specials this weekend. We’ll be calling again during the day today to get deal info, but yesterday we only netted 4 businesses interested in sharing any specials this weekend. Please support your local businesses this …
Tuesday Open Lines
Governor Perdue’s Statement Monday: “The Republican budget is full of extreme, short-sighted and unnecessary cuts to education. It’s hard to understand in North Carolina why the General Assembly pitted deaf children against blind children in a fight to keep their school open. North Carolina must find ways to reduce spending, but our future demands that we also make investments in our people. Our constitution guarantees a quality education for all, and that includes deaf and blind children.” That statement is …
Monday Open Lines
This past week, President Obama traveled to Hawaii for the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation conference, visited Australia for meetings with Prime Minister Julia Gillard and an address to Parliament, and Friday in Indonesia for the East Asia Summit. Check out the highlights below: While in Indonesia, President Obama talks about his administration’s work opening up markets to support thousands of American jobs and keep us on track to double American exports by 2014 for this weeks Weekly Address: A special …
Gospel Fest at The Lotus Lounge Saturday
Saturday, Novemember 19th from 6pm to 9pm The Lotus Lounge will be hosting a live gospel music festival featuring music by The Spiritual Entertainers of Oxford, NC, ISP (Inspirational Singers with a Purpose) of Henderson, and also featuring selections from Angela Neal-Williams. Come out and join us for an evening of Gospel music and good food! Tickets are $15.00 with refreshments served. The Lotus Lounge is located at 119 S. Garnett Street, Henderson, NC 27536 Please call 252-492-5197 for more …
Friday / Weekend Open Lines
The big news Thursday saw massive protest in New York City from the Occupy Wall Street group in a call for a national day of action. The protest march was legal, as they did secure a permit for the march, however the sheer number of people proved a tough job for the police force. The day started at 7am in Zuccotti Park, the same park that was closed Tuesday and evicted the protesters camping out. The protest started Thursday morning …
Thursday Open Line
A reminder to all if your business would like to offer a special product or service to advertise for this upcoming shopping season, be sure you send us your article on it and we’ll publish it for free before November 30th. Hit those black Friday shoppers with discounted specials, or offer a discounted rate on your services and offer it as a gift certificate type deal. Email your deals to submit@homeinhenderson.com North Carolina State Representative Kelly Alexander has introduced House …
Safe Kids Henderson – Vance Coalition will be Sponsoring a Free Child Passenger Safety Car Seat Clinic Thursday
Safe Kids Henderson – Vance Coalition will be Sponsoring a Free Child Passenger Safety Car Seat Clinic. This event will be at Roses North Garnett Street. Thursday November 17, 2011 from 1:00 pmto 5:00 pm. Please Come out and support us. Seats will be available for those parents who are in need of a child safety seat today. We are asking a donation of $20.00 for seats. The donations will help buy more seats so we can have more car …
Wednesday Open Line
Next week is of course Thanksgiving. And the day after… ‘black friday’. The day some retail stores last year opened at 4am to sell discounted merchandise in the hopes of turning the company books from in the red to in the black. However, retailers this year are deciding to open even earlier, with Target and Best Buy opening at midnight Thanksgiving evening. Walmart will open at 10pm Thanksgiving, and Toys R Us at 9pm Thanksgiving. Some consumers love these deals, …
Tuesday Open Lines
Monday, Medicago, Inc. celebrated the opening of its U.S.-based, state-of-the-art vaccine facility in Research Triangle Park in a ribbon-cutting ceremony, according to a company press release. Medicago USA officials were joined by guests Governor Bev Perdue, Secretary Keith Crisco, U.S. Senator Richard Burr and Congressman David Price at the event, which included a tour. According to the release, the 97,000-square-foot, Virus-Like Particle (VLP), plant-based vaccine facility includes a fully-automated greenhouse and state-of-the-art extraction and purification unit. The Medicago USA operation …
Monday Open Line
Tonight, the City of Henderson City Council will hold a meeting Monday, 14 November 2011 at 7:00 PM in the City Hall Council Chambers, 134 Rose Ave., Henderson, NC. For the agenda please visit our Friday post about the meeting here. President Obama and the First Lady ended Veterans Day aboard the USS Carl Vinson where they watched the University of North Carolina men’s basketball team defeat Michigan State University in the first-ever Carrier Classic. This was also the ship that …
The Embers Return to Henderson for Special Holiday Concert
Henderson, NC (November 10, 2011) – North Carolina band, The Embers, will play a return engagement in Henderson on Friday, December 2. The family sit-down concert, featuring “Christmas with The Embers,” will take place at the Vance-Granville Community College Civic Center at 7 p.m. The Embers are a North Carolina tradition renowned for their special brand of rhythm and blues and beach music. Since their inception in 1958, the group has been touring and turning out hit songs. A limited …
Friday / Weekend Open Lines
Friday is Veterans Day. On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, an armistice, or temporary cessation of hostilities, was declared between the Allied nations and Germany in the First World War, then known as “the Great War.” Commemorated as Armistice Day beginning the following year, November 11th became a legal federal holiday in the United States in 1938. In the aftermath of World War II and the Korean War, Armistice Day became Veterans …
Thursday Open Line
Last Friday was a busy day for the local police, with 3 residences being searched and bringing out 8 drug abusers. About 123 grams of marijuana, 68 doses of heroin, 2 doses of Suboxon, 1 stolen laptop, 3 handguns, and one assault rifle. These arrests were made directly in repsonse to numerous drug complaints from concerned citizens. If you see suspicious activity, do your duty and report it to the local police department. If you know of someone who is …
Wednesday Open Line
During the Vance County Board of Commissioners meeting Monday night, there appeared a few documents that were not given to us last week. If you downloaded the packet before the meeting, please check back to the post and download the added material that was posted today. It is regarding information from the Public Safety Committee, and information regarding Disposal of Tax Foreclosed County-Owned Property. A few headlines caught my eye Tuesday regarding solar energy. As you know, Semprius is working …
Tuesday Open Line
Articles released Monday on the newswire continue to show poor economic conditions. The wealth gap between younger and older Americans has stretched to the widest on record. The typical U.S. household headed by a person age 65 or older has a net worth 47 times greater than a household headed by someone under 35, according to an analysis of census data released Monday. The median net worth of households headed by someone 65 or older was $170,494. That is 42 …
Monday Open Line
This evening, Henderson hosts two official meetings, one for the Vance County Board of Commissioners, and another for the Vance County Board of Education. As a note, the City of Henderson will hold it’s next meeting next Monday, November 14th. But the City does have a special called meeting on Monday for a closed session regarding an economic matter. The full agenda packet is already up for the BoC meeting, and the BoE packet I will attempt to publish on …
Henderson Native Author Book Signing November 5 Reggie Stacks
This weekend, visit The Lotus Lounge in downtown Henderson, NC to meet the author of the recently published book Ghetto Heaven. Reggie Stacks will be there signing books from noon to 5pm Saturday, November 5th. The Lotus Lounge is located at 119 S Garnett St. Ghetto Heaven is about Curtis, a wealthy business man who leads the life many men would envy… Or would they? Curtis seemingly glamorous life is filled with so many twist and turns it would make …
Friday / Weekend Open Line
This weekend, visit downtown Henderson once again for another event free for all. Oktoberfest 2011, it’s the third year of this festival in Henderson, come visit Breckenridge Street from 11am to 3pm featuring live music from Little German Band and Dancers. There will be food vendors, featuring a wide variety of different foods, arts and crafts vendors, area organizations and businesses will be participating in the festival. Children’s games, including a moonwalk, an obstacle course and a slide, will be …