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 …
New VGCC scholarship honors Maria Parham Guild Gift Gallery volunteers
The volunteers who operate the Guild Gift Gallery at Maria Parham Medical Center recently endowed their fifth Vance-Granville Community College scholarship, and this one specifically honors the service of all those who have donated their time to work at the gift shop over the years. The new gift continues a tradition of the organization’s support for education. Since 2008, the Guild Gift Gallery has given over $125,000 to the VGCC Endowment Fund to create scholarships that help deserving students who …
VGCC Awards 328 Scholarships To Students
Vance-Granville Community College awarded 328 scholarships to full-time students at an awards ceremony, held Feb. 22 in the college’s Civic Center. In her welcoming remarks, Dr. Stelfanie Williams, the new president of VGCC, congratulated the scholarship recipients and thanked the donors who support the college’s Endowment Fund, many of whom were on hand to present their scholarships in person. “VGCC is strong in large part because of the wonderful combination represented here today: excellent students on one hand, and supportive …
Vance County Schools Student Accepted to 2012 Governors School
Ethan M. Byrom has been accepted to the 2012 Governors School in recognition of Mathematics. This summer, 550 of the most distinguished North Carolina rising high school juniors and seniors will attend the 2012 Governor’s School. This year’s attendees are particularly fortunate as the program’s future was in question after Governor’s School funding was eliminated in the NC General Assembly’s 2011-13 biennial budget. However, thanks to the efforts of the North Carolina Governor’s School Foundation, which raised more than $700,000, …
Tax Time is Also Scammer Time
Scammers like to use recurring events, such as tax season, as a “hook” to catch you with your guard down. One common tax-time scam involves masquerading as an Internal Revenue Service agent. Scammers know that simply saying “I’m with the IRS” will get people’s attention and possibly get them to share personal information. Someone claiming to be with the IRS recently called a North Carolina business seeking to “verify” information about one of the business’s employees. Fortunately the business did …
White House on Petitions: We’re Listening. Seriously.
By Macon Phillips, Special Assistant to the President and Director of the Office of Digital Strategy Back in September when we launched the We the People petitions platform, we really weren’t sure what to expect. This kind of online engagement was brand new for the U.S. Government, but it quickly became clear that there were thousands of Americans across the country who were eager to tell the Obama Administration about the issues they care about most. From the beginning, we promised …
Friday / Weekend Open Line
Tara Servatius, a blogger for the John Locke Foundation, a “free-market think tank” in Raleigh, N.C., resigned on Thursday after posting an offensive cartoon of President Obama on the foundation’s blog earlier in the week. Servatius issued a statement saying she was “genuinely sorry my inclusion of the photo along with my blog post has caused controversy.” But the conservative blogger also defended her inclusion of the photo as an attempt to articulate her position “At the time, I was …
Vance County Animal Shelter Group Meeting This Afternoon
The Vance County Animal Shelter group meeting this afternoon is at 3:30 p.m. This was scheduled during their last meeting. The group will continue discussions on the development of a new animal shelter. Commissioners Brummitt, Wilder, and Wright may be in attendance. The group will meet in the Commissioners’ Meeting Room.
Safe Kids Henderson-Vance Car Seat Check Today
The Safe Kids Henderson-Vance Coalition is sponsoring a Car Seat Check today March 22, 2012 at Wal-Mart 200 North Cooper Drive from 1pm to 5pm. Please Come out and soupport us. Seats will be available for those parents 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 seat checks. We will be assisting parents in correctly installing their …
VGCC Nominates Student for Statewide Award
Vance-Granville Community College recently nominated Adriele Andre 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 …
Henderson PD Shoplifters of the Week
SHOPLIFTERS OF THE WEEK Roberta Davis, 21,839 E Montgomery StreetDate: 3/17/2012Charge: LarcenyLocation: WalmartItems: Nail Polish, Shampoo, Panties, JeansBond: $300.00 Secured Samika Whitfield, 35, 349 Stagecoach Road HendersonDate: 3/17/2012Charge: LarcenyLocation: WalmartItems: Lip Gloss, Cocoa Butter, Lip Stick,ShampooBond: Cited And Released Randy Hawley, 28, 600 W Andrews Ave. HendersonDate: 3/14/2012Charge: Larceny, Communicating ThreatsLocation: WalmartItems: Raid Fogger, Tide, Laptop CartBond: $500.00 Secured Amanda Haines, 26,515 Finch Road HendersonDate: 3/14/2012Charge: Destruction Evidence, Larceny, Larceny Anti Theft DeviceLocation: WalmartItems: JewelryBond: $15,000.00 Secured Candace Gorman, 20, …
North Carolina ranks 18th with a grade of C- and a score of 71 percent from the State Integrity Investigation
North Carolina –a state of 9.7 million residents that will host the Democratic National Convention in September — ranks 18tth with a grade of C- and a score of 71 percent from the State Integrity Investigation, a collaborative project of the Center for Public Integrity, Global Integrity, and Public Radio International. No state received an A, but North Carolina ranked lower than many others on measures of its public access to information, executive accountability, state budget processes, and its procurement. …
New Report Summarizes Economic Impact of Cutting SNAP Benefits
A new report from the Center for American Progress looks at the economic consequences of cutting the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program as the House leadership budget proposed for fiscal year 2013, released by Rep. Paul Ryan on March 20, 2012. According to the new report, in 2009, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program was responsible for lifting the income of 3.6 million Americans over the poverty line, providing an average of less than $300 in monthly food stamps to families in …