Granville Chamber to host 3rd annual golf tournament
The Granville County Chamber of Commerce is hosting its 3rd Annual Golf Tournament Thursday, June 9th, at Henderson Country Club, 300 Country Club Drive, Henderson. Registration will begin at 12 noon, with a 1:00 pm shotgun start for the 4-man Captain’s Choice tournament.
Corporate sponsorships of $450 offer a hole sponsorship and a 4-man team. Hole sponsors are $100, and individual players pay $100 to play. All players receive 18 holes of golf w/cart, dinner and concessions. Mulligans and tee busters will be $10 per player.
There will be contests for 50/50 raffle, closest to the pin challenge, longest drive and hole-in-one shootout. Prizes and participant goodie bags are being provided by local Chamber members. Volunteers are needed throughout the afternoon of June 9th, beginning at 12 noon. Time slots are 12 noon ‘til 2:30 pm and 2:30 ‘til 5 pm. Come enjoy the afternoon with golfers, Henderson Country Club staff and other Chamber volunteers for this, the third annual event.
Please contact the Chamber to play in the tournament or to volunteer – Toni Anne at 919.528.4994, tawheeler@granville-chamber.com or Wanda at 919.693.6125, wanda@granville-chamber.com.
Nationwide of Warren Co vs Screen Master
For just shy of 30 years, WIZS Radio has presented Henderson-Vance Recreation and Parks Department Baseball and Softball. Through the years these broadcasts have been presented with various different special features in addition to the play by play call of the game.
To compliment the games being heard on the radio at 1450 AM and online at wizs.com/listennow, this year’s games will also be more available than ever with an archive on our sports page at wizs.com/sports.
Here is a link to our first broadcast of the 2016 regular season between Nationwide Insurance of Warren County and Screen Master.
Later in the year, H-V All-Star games will be broadcast LIVE on 1450 AM, on WIZS.com and archived on our sports page.
Recycling Day, Sat. April 23
The Vance County Appearance Commission is sponsoring another Henderson-Vance Spring Litter Sweep Week, April 18-23, and a Henderson-Vance Recycling Day on Saturday, April 23, from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. in the parking lot of the City Operations Center on Beckford Drive in Henderson.
The Spring Litter Sweep Week is part of the North Carolina Spring Litter Sweep scheduled over the last two weeks of April.
Our Spring Litter Sweep Week efforts will target areas throughout Vance County that need cleaning up. We encourage volunteers from the community, churches, businesses, schools, civic groups, community watch groups, Adopt-A-Highway groups and more to join in these efforts. Volunteers may clean up areas they have identified or can be sent to designated areas in the city and county.
Volunteers may pick up supplies of bags, gloves and safety vests (if cleaning up along streets and roadsides) during the Spring Litter Sweep Week from Terri Hedrick at the Vance County Schools’ administrative offices at 1724 Graham Avenue in Henderson or the City Operations Center at 900 South Beckford Drive in Henderson.
Citizens are encouraged to bring recyclable items to the Recycling Day event from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. on Saturday, April 23, in the front parking lot of the City Operations Center on Beckford Drive in Henderson. Representatives from a variety of vendors will be on hand to take recyclable items free of charge. The Recycling Day event is sponsored jointly with the City of Henderson and Vance County.
Items accepted during the Recycling Day event include:
- Documents for Shredding: accepting important, personal documents for shredding. These documents can include any confidential papers such as financial statements and tax documents.
- Old Televisions and Computer Hardware: accepting televisions of any type, computer monitors, computer CPUs (towers) and any computer mouse
- Household Recyclables: accepting letterhead/forms, photo copy paper, colored paper, drawing paper,
- note pad paper, newspaper, envelopes, brochures, file folders, index cards, invoices, juice boxes, milk cartons, milk jugs, plastic beverage bottles, detergent bottles, cartons and trays from microwaveable meals, aluminum cans, meal cans including those for soups and vegetable, phone books, paperback books, glass bottles and jars, cardboard
- Metal, Aluminum, Junk Car Parts: accepting anything made of metal, aluminum, junk car parts, machinery, lawn and garden equipment, farm equipment, brass, copper, appliances
- Reusable Clothing and Toys: accepting adult and children’s clothing, adult and children’s shoes, gently used toys
- Reusable Building Materials: accepting items that can be used in home repair construction projects and may include building materials, as well as useable appliances, cabinets, sinks, toilets, windows
Safe Kids of Vance County will be conducting automobile child safety seat checks and distributing child safety information to parents during the Recycling Day event.
All volunteers for the Spring Litter Sweep Week and Recycling Day are invited to a free lunch at the City Operations Center beginning at 12 p.m. on Saturday, April 23. The lunch is being sponsored by the Wisdom for Life Foundation of Jason Brown and the Fruit of the Spirit community group.
Litter Sweep Week volunteers who attend the free luncheon will qualify to win cash prizes. Volunteers should take photos of the number of trash bags they fill, the number of people in their group and the most unique item they find during their cleanup. They should present the photos to officials at the luncheon to be included in consideration for the cash awards.
To register to volunteer for the Spring Litter Sweep Week and be assigned a clean-up area or to get more information on these events, interested persons may contact Terri Hedrick by phone at 252-915-9420 or by email at thedrick@vcs.k12.nc.us.
(Press Release supplied to WIZS News by Terri Hedrick)
Carolyn Paylor, FGV Smart Start Executive Director, Passed Away
The executive director of Franklin Granville Vance Smart Start, Inc., Carolyn Paylor, passed away on Saturday, April 16th.
Garry Daeke, development coordinator, told WIZS that his Facebook post on Franklin Granville Vance Smart Start Inc.’s page were feelings expressed directly from the staff.
He wrote, “It is with a heavy heart that we inform you that our Executive Director Carolyn Malone Paylor passed on Saturday, April 16, 2016. Carolyn was such a kindhearted and caring person. She was truly loved by her family, community, and staff and will be sorely missed. No words will ever be able to express how much we will all miss her. Having her here supporting the staff and the community meant a great deal to us and not having her around will be an arduous task to handle.
“As Carolyn would have wanted, Franklin Granville Vance Smart Start, Inc. will continue working for our families and community. Please know that we are still as dedicated as ever in meeting the needs of our community and doing what must be done to keep this agency as great as Carolyn has built it to be. In the days to come, please keep her family and staff in your thoughts and prayers. It was a privilege and honor to work with such a woman. We will all dearly miss her presence.”
Mrs. Paylor is survived by her husband, Ricky Paylor. He indicated to WIZS News that the healing process had begun.
Heath Haithcock, a former co-worker of Carolyn’s at FGV, said on his personal Facebook page, “…I learned (Monday) that my former boss at FGV Smart Start died unexpectedly this past Saturday. Carolyn Malone Paylor was a good, Godly woman who worked hard on behalf of pre-k children everywhere. I am blessed to have known and worked with her. My thoughts and prayers go out to her family and the extended FGVSS family. I am proud to know you all.”
Daeke said he worked directly with Paylor for 18 years. He said, “We were just so overcome with grief. It was so sudden. I truly lost a very good friend and an incredible supervisor and leader in the community. She really loved Smart Start and what we were doing. We will figure out how to continue, but it won’t be quite the same.”
Carolyn Malone Paylor’s Funeral Arrangements have been entrusted to the care of Davis-Royster Funeral Services, 926 S. Garnett Street, Henderson, NC 27536. There is an online tribute wall.
The funeral service will be Friday, April 22, 2016 at 12:00 Noon at Concord Missionary Baptist Church, 810 Walter Grissom Road, Kittrell, NC 27544.
Flowers should be sent directly to the funeral home. Cards and other items in memoriam may be sent to the home of her parents or the office:
Mr. & Mrs. Aaron & Mary Malone, 7 Malone Way, Kittrell, NC 27544.
FGV Smart Start, 125 Charles Rollins Rd, PO Box 142, Henderson, NC 27536.
(Quotes used from Facebook were used with permission.)