The Henderson-Vance Chapter of North Carolina Safe Kids will be sponsoring Safe Kids Day at the Aycock Recreation Complex from 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. today.
Category: That’s life
SVHS hosts athletic banquet
The Southern Vance High School Raider Athletic Booster Club will sponsor the annual athletic banquet on Friday evening, May 19 in the school gymnasium.
The Crisis in Black America – Newsweek Health
Here’s a little something that was just brought to our attention by one of our readers. She wrote to us that she happened to be surfing the web when she came across this article The Crisis in Black America – Newsweek Health – MSNBC.com about an AIDS/STD clinic in Henderson that treats 200 folks. Let us know what you think!
Faulkner wins Henderson invitational
Daniel Faulkner won the Henderson Country Club Invitational this weekend for the second year in a row.
Library launches summer reading program
This will be the first program for youth in the new library.
ATV awareness day
ATV training poster The Henderson-Vance Chapter of Safe Kids North Carolina will be making youths and adults aware of the ATV RiderCourse at Wal-Mart on North Cooper Drive in Henderson today from 12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Give the gift of life
Don’t forget the blood drive today from 10:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. in the Auditorium and Classroom of Maria Parham Medical Center.
Pick of the Day: St. Patrick’s Day Downtown
File Photo of Henderson Mayor Clem Seifert and Henderson City Council Member Mary Emma Evans at last year’s St. Patrick’s Day Chili Cook-off. The Henderson Police Department’s Lt. Irvin Robinson stands in the background.
Girl scout cookies still available
The Girl Scout cookie sale is over, but there are troops that still have cookies available. If anyone would like more cookies, please call the Vance County office at (252) 438-8103.
Pick of the day: Daylight Donuts
We’re delighted here at Home in Henderson to be able to once again enjoy our jumbo flavored coffee in the morning. Kudos to Tommy Wheeler, Jr. for resurrecting Daylight Donuts. When we stopped in this morning, we observed a thriving trade and a sumptuous display which, alas, our doctor has forbidden us to touch. We wish Mr. Wheeler every success in turning his business into a profitable enterprise.
Chamber honors Ruth Burt
Recently the Henderson-Vance Chamber of Commerce honored citizen Ruth Burt as their 2005 Citizen of the Year. Here is the text of the speech that was made to celebrate her award:
Home in Henderson tours new library
The central part of the library as seen from the second floor. On January 5, Home in Henderson was given a tour of the new H. Leslie Perry Library, currently under construction between Winder and Breckenridge Streets in the city’s Embassy Square. When completed, the new library will be 40,000 square feet on two floors.
Embassy Wars: Episode X – The Rise of the Jedi
Episode X of Whiskey Tango’s brilliant satirical drama “Embassy Wars” is finally here! We at Home in Henderson are so thrilled that we just had to give it its own headline. Enjoy.
‘Embassy Wars’: The saga grows
Episode 9 of Whiskey Tango’s brilliant satirical drama, “Embassy Wars,” is now in place.
Depp’s the sweetest treat in this ‘Chocolate Factory’
The title of Tim Burton’s latest walk on the weird side of filmmaking, “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” matches the great Roald Dahl novel in putting the focus on heroic, good-hearted child Charlie instead of candy maker Willie Wonka, who replaced Charlie in the title of the first movie version in 1971. But a better title would have been “Johnny Depp and the Chocolate Factory” because actor Depp and the marvels of the candy factory share the best moments on …
‘Harry Potter’: Full-blooded excitement
“Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” by J.K. Rowling: Book 6 in the magical Harry Potter series is in a way a book of broken trust. People start dating and working harder, and an important character is killed by someone we suspected of evil since Day 1.
On the road: Which way is up?
This is the first of an occasional series of articles from the HomeinHenderson.com staff during a summer road trip through the South. Every town has its idiosyncrasies when it comes to getting around, resulting from history, nature and other forces beyond anyone’s control.
Big-city garbage collection
In light of Henderson’s debate over garbage and recycling at the curb, it is interesting to see those operations in action in New Orleans. Garbage and recycling are collected at the curb, recycling in rectangular plastic bins, garbage in ordinary cans that people must carry or drag to the roadside. The pickups are handled by private companies under contract to the city. And this week, when storms have hit daily, both collections are late, leaving the unattractive bins and cans …
All aboard for the Imagination ArtStation
Children who were in elementary school this year still have time to get their tickets for Imagination ArtStation, the Vance County Arts Council’s award-winning weeklong day camp at E.M. Rollins Elementary School.