On Monday, December 21 at 4 p.m., Vance County’s properties committee met, and part of that meeting was to address a couple of courthouse repairs.
The full committee consists of commissioners Dan Brummitt, Archie Taylor and Gordon Wilder. Commissioner Wilder told WIZS News, “We have had it repaired…(including) the caulking joints in the side of the building and around the windows.”
County Manager Jordan McMillen told WIZS, “We recently finished up a project to apply a coating to the courthouse roof that will extend its life. After 20 years the courthouse roof and other areas are showing maintenance needs and this was an attempt to extend the life of the roof.
“While we were completing this project we noticed a need for resealing the masonry control joints in the side of the building and around the windows, so we asked the existing contractor to provide a change order to our existing contract. The properties committee is recommending to the full board that we proceed with the change order, which adds the control joints work, price and time allowance, to our existing roof project scope of work.”
The county manager basically added that all involved want to keep up the maintenance to the facility.
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With the number of active cases of Covid-19 in Vance County approaching 1,000, the total percentage of the county’s population having tested positive for coronavirus is now just above 5.75 percent.
For the latest Vance County covid data, see the table below.
For the latest on vaccine availability, visit the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services online at https://covid19.ncdhhs.gov/vaccines
Vance County Case Counts late evening December 27, 2020 courtesy Granville Vance Public Health
LOCATION
TOTAL COUNT
ACTIVE CASES
DEATHS
INPATIENT
OFF ISOLATION
COMMUNITY
2312
968
26
25
1318
PELICAN NURSE
58
0
14
0
44
KERR LAKE NURSE
61
10
12
0
39
SENIOR CITIZENS
73
4
15
0
54
ALLIANCE
1
0
0
0
1
TOTAL
2505
982
67
25
1456
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The first food giveaway, round one if you will, on December 26 being a success, Mt. Moriah A.M.E. Zion Church now moves on to round two. Round two will happen Wednesday, December 30th starting at 9 a.m. at the church located at 5448 Highway 158 Business, Henderson, NC 27537.
Mt. Moriah A.M.E. Zion Church is partnering with Livingstone College and the NC Department of Health and Human Services Office of Minority Health to fight food insecurities in Henderson, Vance County, NC and surrounding areas.
In a scheduled event Dec 26, Rev. Linda T. Bristow, assistant to the pastor, told WIZS News the church and its partners were able give away more than 150 food boxes to try to make a dent in the fight against food insecurities in our area. She said, “People were in line at 8:30 a.m. and continued steadily throughout the morning. Unfortunately, people were still coming after we had given out all our supplies.
“Our next food giveaway will be Wednesday, December 30 beginning at 9 a.m. We’ll be giving away three hundred (300), forty (40) pound cases of fresh chicken, drumsticks, bone-in thighs and boneless breasts, she said.”
The event is free and open to anyone experiencing food insecurities. Additional giveaways are being planned.
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Vaccine is here. Maria Parham Health is administering within guidelines.
Last week Maria Parham Health CEO, in talking about Covid-19, said, “It’s been an amazing journey and amazing to watch our healthcare providers in our teams step up over the last year in spite of everything that’s gone on. So I would definitely use exciting or ecstatic to describe just the hope that it gives to receive that vaccine (Tuesday).”
On Tuesday, Dec 22, 2020 the hospital received the Moderna vaccine, and begin administering it Wednesday morning to “front line healthcare workers under the state guidelines of phase 1A.”
On Wednesday MPH administered, Beard said, “from 80 to 90 vaccines and then we will break for the holiday because people need to be off and they need to recharge their battery, and we’ll begin again next week vaccinating our teams within the state guidelines and moving through that progression of the four phases as they allow us and release more vaccine to us.”
He said, “It’s mixed among people whether they’re going to get it and how effective it’s going to be. All indications and research that our company and health system has done indicates there’s a 95% effectiveness. So we’re encouraging folks to do it; we’re not mandating it, but we are posting on social media, our physicians, our leaders, some of our nurse leaders to show that it is safe and that we are adopting it to get things back to normal in 2021.”
Beard said the hospital teams are looking forward to being able to vaccinate more and more people as the state releases healthcare workers to do so.
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— courtesy Rev. Linda T. Bristow, Assistant to the Pastor at Mt. Moriah AME Zion Church
Mt. Moriah is partnering with Livingstone College and the NC Department of Health and Human Services Office of Minority Health to fight food insecurities in Henderson, Vance County, NC and surrounding areas. Two community outreach initiatives are scheduled, the first on December 26, 2020 beginning at 10:00 AM. We will be giving away free groceries (fresh produce, dry goods, and canned goods). Then, on December 30, 2020 starting at 9:00 AM, we will be giving away cases of fresh chicken (up to 40 lbs). Both events are free and open to anyone experiencing food insecurities and will be held at Mt. Moriah A. M. E. Zion Church, located at 5448 Highway 158 Business, Henderson, NC 27537. We’ll be announcing more giveaways soon!
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(For full details, be sure to visit the link trianglemlk.com. Vance, Granville, Franklin residents should apply.)
The Triangle Martin Luther King, Jr. Committee is accepting nominations for a special award to recognize a young person making a positive impact in his or her community through social justice activities. The John Lewis Student Activist Award will be a one-time award given in 2021 and honors the life and legacy of the late U.S. Congressman and Civil Rights leader John Lewis, who died in 2020. The winner will be announced in the annual MLK, Jr. Interfaith breakfast, held virtually on Jan. 18, 2021.
This student award is in addition to the annual King Leader Grant Award, given to the leader of an organization for work in the community, according to information released by the committee. The counties eligible to submit nominations include Franklin, Granville and Vance counties in the WIZS listening area. The deadline to submit nominations for both awards is Jan. 5, 2021.
Dr. Anthony Jackson, Superintendent of Vance County Public Schools, is helping the Triangle MLK, Jr. Committee spread the word locally. The student award “is for students who have really lifted their voice to speak out – we have some great kids in our community, so I’m challenging us to identify those student leaders and identify those organization leaders…we’ve never had a winner from this area,” Jackson added.
Congressman Lewis described his activism as “good trouble,” which began when he was young. The Triangle MLK, Jr. Committee established the award to honor Lewis’s legacy of leadership that began in his youth; nominees must be between the ages of 18 and 22. According to information provided by the committee, the purpose of the award is “to recognize and uplift the work of a modern-day, passionate young leader that is making significant strides and impact in social justice activism as the civil rights movement marches on.”
In addition to the student award, the King Leader Award is given to the leader of an organization that has made or continues to have a positive impact in a community in the areas of social justice, community empowerment, equity and/or inclusivity or has been a catalyst in relationship building in the community. Review the application for additional eligibility requirements. This is the third year the King Leader Award has been given.
The John Lewis Award winner will receive a $500 honorarium; The King Leader Award will receive $5,000 for the organization he or she leads.
For more information about the Triangle Martin Luther King, Jr. Committee and to download the applications, visit trianglemlk.com.
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— information courtesy of a press release from Sheriff Curtis Brame
On Wednesday, December 23, 2020 at approximately 11:18 a.m., the Vance County Sheriff’s Office Patrol Division assisted the Henderson Police Department Patrol Division. They were chasing a 2011 Honda Accord with a North Carolina registration in the area of Willowood Drive inside the city limits of Henderson. During the chase, deputies ascertained that Paul Z. Pearce, a white male age 29, had felony drug charges pending out of Wake County and to approach with caution.
The suspect Pearce wrecked the vehicle he was driving on Cypress Drive and stole another vehicle in the neighborhood and then wrecked the second vehicle on Edgewood at Cedarwood Drive, striking a patrol vehicle, flipping the stolen vehicle several times.
Pearce exited the stolen vehicle after wrecking and ran on foot through the woods onto Willowood Drive where he attempted to carjack another vehicle occupied by two women.
Deputies were chasing the suspect on foot when one deputy gave the suspect multiple commands to stop. The deputy then fired a service weapon missing the suspect Pearce.
No one was injured as a result of the weapon being discharged.
The suspect, Pearce, was apprehended and taken to Maria Parham Health in Henderson and air lifted to Duke Medical Center, where it was confirmed that he was not shot during the incident.
The Vance County Sheriff’s Office, North Carolina Highway Patrol and Henderson Police Department are conducting the investigation, and charges are pending regarding this incident.
The investigation is continuing.
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While the strongest, most wide-spread weather is expected along and east of the I-95 corridor as of this posting (at 9:30pm Wednesday), the fact remains the severe threat has shifted closer to our area in the last 24 hours. Does it shift closer, stay the same or move more to the east? Those facts and the timing will be revealed Thursday as the frontal boundary approaches.
The big questions are how warm and unstable it becomes in Vance County on Thursday, how far down the strongest winds aloft can reach towards the surface and if the greatest instability and “supercell” thunderstorms stay more to the east.
Thursday: Showers, with thunderstorms also possible after 1pm. High near 64. South wind 10 to 18 mph, with gusts as high as 36 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New rainfall amounts between a half and three quarters of an inch possible.
Thursday Night: Showers and possibly a thunderstorm before 1am, then a chance of showers. Low around 31. South wind 14 to 18 mph becoming west after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 36 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New rainfall amounts between three quarters and one inch possible.
Christmas Day: Mostly sunny, with a high near 35. West wind 11 to 14 mph, with gusts as high as 23 mph.
Friday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 18. West wind 6 to 9 mph.
Saturday: Sunny, with a high near 40.
Saturday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 24.
Sunday: Sunny, with a high near 50.
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Vance County Schools developed and last week adopted a plan for the return to face-to-face learning. But when?
The plan itself calls for two days of face-to-face instruction and a staggered entry. The entry would begin with PreK then K and 6 grades followed by grades 1 and 2 and finally grades 3-5. Self-contained EC students in grades PreK-12 begin re-entry as well, and remote options remain available.
Superintendent Dr. Anthony Jackson told WIZS TownTalk, “One of the reasons we wanted to go ahead and get the plan approved was so parents would understand the format and understand, if you look at it closely, it really looks at the ramp up. So, each group would be brought in for a period of time, maybe a week, to get it stable, so it would take us about three to four weeks to completely implement the full plan and get all the students back in on that full schedule.” (To hear the interview with Dr. Jackson click here or the TownTalk logo to the right.)
The total format and all the safety protocols, so the teachers and students have a chance to understand, is important as well. It can’t happen all at once.
As to the remote learning participation so far, Dr. Jackson said 91 to 92 percent of students are engaged every single day. In terms of grades, he said, “We had some students do better than they would in the classroom, but we’ve also had some students who have struggled in this environment that we are going to have to do some work to help recapture and recoup the time lost and instruction they’ve missed.”
He said overall students are doing well.
The Vance County School board has operated with caution. Jackson said he believed that when all the data indicated its safe for kids and adults as well, and when the board is told it’s safe for both kids and adults, that it will be the signal the board needs to implement the plans for face-to-face learning.
Part of the puzzle is not only keeping folks healthy but also knowing there are enough healthy teachers and staff so the schools can operate effectively. Vance County has avoided flip flopping between open and closed and being forced to stop again after in-person learning resumes.
When asked about requiring teachers and staff to be vaccinated for covid, he said, “We follow state statute that governs our local policies, and once that’s cleared up, we will act accordingly. The truth is, we can’t get schools back open until people have a comfort level that we are safe.”
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