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Local Elections Office Ready To Provide Voter ID Cards For Those Who Need One
UPDATED Aug. 10 – 12:30 p.m.
Registered voters who do not have an acceptable identification for voting in NC can now go to their county board of elections office to get a free photo ID.
Vance County Board of Elections Director Melody Vaughan said Wednesday afternoon that her office is ready to help voters who find they need one of the cards. There is an application that voters must complete before they will be issued an ID, Vaughan stated.
“We can provide this service Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 1 noon and 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.,” Vaughan said in an email to WIZS News, with the exception of Friday, Aug. 11 and Aug. 14 and Aug. 15. Staff will be attending a conference out of town and no ID cards will be processed on those days.
Most voters have a driver’s license, which is an acceptable form of photo ID to present to poll workers in order to cast their votes.
If you have a driver’s license – or other acceptable form of photo ID – you don’t need to get one from the board of elections office.
If however, you need a photo ID, you can come to your county’s board of elections office during business hours to request one. In most cases, the cards can be printed and issued right then and there, according to information from the North Carolina State Board of Elections office. Some counties, however, may need to mail the cards or let voters know when the card is available for pickup.
Find a list of acceptable forms of photo ID here: https://www.ncsbe.gov/voting/voter-id
A voter need only provide his or her name, date of birth and last four digits of their Social Security number to get the ID. With that information, they’ll have a photograph taken and the process is complete.
In addition to the photo, the card will have the voter’s name and registration number. It will expire 10 years from the date of issuance.
County boards of elections can issue cards during regular business hours, except for the period following the last day of early voting through Election Day.
SportsTalk: Volleyball And Soccer Gets Underway At Crossroads Christian
The beginning of the school year is a busy time not only for students and teachers but for athletic departments as well. Just ask Crossroads Christian Athletic Director Scottie Richardson. “We are wide open. We have open house on Monday and school starts on Wednesday,” said Richardson.
Teams are already practicing and preparing for season openers. The school’s three volleyball teams open at home on Thursday, August 17th against Thales-Apex and soccer will start on Friday, August 18th with a home game against Franklinton.
Holden Coghill, soccer coach at Crossroads, took the team to the final four last year and were ranked #1 all season. “The team got caught up in the hype,” Richardson said but he sees a different mentality this year and with most of the team returning he thinks they will be better prepared to handle the success. He said the numbers of students that have turned out this year for athletics has been great.
SportsTalk: Lassiter Preps Louisburg High For Football
A quick look at the Vance County Vipers football schedule will reveal a new conference opponent this year. The Louisburg High School Warriors have been added to the 2A/3A Northern Lakes Conference. “We had no place to go,” Louisburg Head Coach Dante Lassiter said on SportsTalk Wednesday.
The Warriors were 7-3 last year but failed to make the playoffs due to a technicality. The team did not play a full conference schedule last year and found that they did not have a conference this season so they were placed in the Northern Lakes Conference this season.
Lassiter, in his ninth year as head coach at Louisburg, says the Warriors will be young this year but looks at that as a good thing. The team will get some experience with scrimmages before the kick off of their season on August 25th against Southeast Halifax. “We will scrimmage against Warren County this weekend,” Lassiter said. Warren County is coming off a playoff year last season and will take on Vance County in the opening game of the season for both teams on August 18th.
Lassiter says his coaching experience is an advantage to his young team. “They know what to expect,” Lassister said. “I may have coached or played with an older brother or a parent,” Lassiter continued.
The Warriors will play the Vipers in Henderson on Sept. 22nd.
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Home And Garden Show
On the Home and Garden Show with Vance Co. Cooperative Ext.
- Check house plants if they have become root bound and replant them in larger containers.
- If you haven’t checked the oil on your mower lately, do it before the next use.
- Take out vegetables that have slowed production use the space for fall vegetables
- Pull, spray or trim microstegium before it sets seed.
- Prepare for your fall garden.
- Collect seed from coneflower, rudbeckia, marigold, zinnia, sunflowers and other flowers to reduce seed costs next year. Avoid collecting from hybrid varieties and store seed in a cool, dry location.
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TownTalk: Upcoming Events For Louisburg Historic District
Unless you’re a history buff, you may be surprised to learn that cemeteries once were considered like parks are today, where people could come and visit the graves of their dearly departed and then stay and enjoy the outdoor space.
Dorothy Cooper, and her fellow board members on the Louisburg Historic District, have embraced this concept and have planned some events that will take place in Oakwood Cemetery in Louisburg.
Local historian Joe Pearce will present a “Graveside Chat” on Saturday, Sept. 9 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. This is a free event, but participants are asked to register. Pearce will be discussing the Davis / Allen family. Bring a lawn chair, a blanket to spread on the ground and even a cooler to enjoy the afternoon’s program.
“I’ve always had a love and fascination for cemeteries,” Cooper told WIZS co-host Bill Harris on Wednesday’s TownTalk. When she and her family bought an old home on Main Street 17 years ago, she visited Oakwood to learn about the family that had built the home.
“We wanted to know more about the home before we did anything,” she said. Not only did she locate the family plot, but also located descendants of the original owners.
Cemeteries can provide valuable information about the people whose births and deaths are recorded on headstones, which range from simple, flat markers to elaborate works of art carved from marble.
Over time, however, headstones require maintenance and sometimes repair. And the Louisburg Historic District helps to raise funds for that work.
The city-owned cemetery is in better shape now than in the recent past, Cooper said, adding that an arborist has been called in to assess the health of the trees that dot the cemetery.
Taking care of the landscape is as important as taking care of the grounds, she added.
The group will sponsor a headstone cleaning and monument preservation workshop on Saturday, Sept. 30 from 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
This workshop costs $50 and will be limited to 20 participants, but all supplies and materials will be provided.
“You come away with hands-on experience” in cleaning gravestones. “It’s amazing what water and a soft brush can do,” Cooper said.
The cemetery also will be the site for the second “Sip and Stroll with Souls” on Oct. 29 from 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Docents will be on site, some in period dress, to discuss various noteworthy individuals buried in Oakwood. This event is a fundraiser for the group; proceeds go toward cemetery upkeep.
Visit www.louisburghistoricdistrict.com to learn more or find the group on Facebook.
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One Woman Faces Drug Charges, Outstanding Warrants
One woman faces drug charges and a slew of outstanding warrants from surrounding counties after members of the Narcotics Unit of the Vance County Sheriff’s Office conducted a vehicle search.
According to a press statement issued Monday by Vance County Sheriff Curtis Brame, Jessica Edwards was arrested on or about Aug. 4 at 1650 N. Garnett St.
Edwards was the driver of a vehicle that subsequently was searched by members of the narcotics unit.
Edwards faces charges of heroin possession, felony possession of cocaine and possession of drug paraphernalia.
She also was served warrants on eight outstanding charges from Wake, Orange and Vance counties ranging from misdemeanor larceny to possession of counterfeit instrument/currency/check, possession of heroin and aiding and abetting impaired driving.
Edwards was placed under a $71,000 secured bond.
Fire Service Study Clears Hurdle
It took about a half hour of discussion – some of it contentious at times – as well as various motions and amendments to motions, but the Vance County Board of Commissioners formally approved on Monday the selection of a consulting agency to conduct a fire services study.
And although the board did ultimately accept giving the job to AP Triton as had been recommended by county staff, the board voted 4-3 that the public safety committee and the fire services commission, along with input from Acting County Manager Scott Elliott, would oversee the project.
That decision went against Elliott’s recommendation to the board, however.
The study is expected to take four months to complete and is going to cost more than $48,000. He said he would recommend that the study results come back to the full board for consideration.
Commissioner Dan Brummitt made the original motion that included awarding AP Triton the project “subject to project oversight” by the two groups.
During the ensuing discussion, several board members voiced objections.
Commissioner Tommy Hester said the full board called for the study and it should be the full board making decisions regarding the study.
Commissioner Archie Taylor said the study should provide “a neutral, honest look” at the fire service in the county.
Brummitt maintained that “significant misinformation” surrounding the county fire services had been bandied about in recent months and wants to ensure that the process of the study remain neutral.
Commissioner Leo Kelly said he would prefer to follow Elliott’s recommendation that the full board use its regular work sessions to monitor the study as it is being conducted.
As the discussion among the board members escalated over the course of 15 minutes, Chairwoman Yolanda Feimster declared a five-minute break and then left the commissioners’ conference room. Upon her return, she declared the meeting back in session, with a motion on the floor.
The board then voted to amend Brummitt’s original motion to simply approve awarding the study to AP Triton.
When that motion passed without opposition, Brummitt made a motion, seconded by Commissioner Carolyn Faines, that the public safety committee, fire services commission and the county manager provide project oversight of the study.
During discussion, Taylor again questioned the rationale, and Elliott interjected that in speaking with the AP Triton representatives, he was assured that they would “be making an independent analysis” of county services, and that the study would not be driven by a subgroup of the full board.
The motion passed 4-3.
TownTalk: Introducing Philip Weil, Athletic Director At Vance Co. High
The Vance County High School’s new athletic director has been on the job just over a week, but in that short time, Philip Weil has learned a good deal about its coaches, its student athletes and their desire and determination.
Right now, it’s all about football, but Weil has his eyes and ears on volleyball and soccer, cross country and baseball.
If it has to do with sports and Vance County High School, Weil is ready.
Coming from an urban setting like Las Vegas to a rural area may take some getting used to, but Weil has already found one advantage: Vance County has history.
He switched on the lights at the football field on a recent evening and was wowed by what he saw. “It was gorgeous.”
As he gets to know the process of being an AD, understand the school atmosphere and the sports conference, Weil said he wants to get the community more involved.
One thing he’d like to do is have some high school basketball games held in the gym at the middle school campus. After all, it used to be the home of the Northern Vance Vikings.
But right now, it’s football.
“From what I’ve seen so far from Coach Elliott’s team, they are determined and strong,” Weil said. He called their first tackling practice last week “phenomenal,” in fact.
“I think they are determined to get that state championship.”
As a middle-school baseball and football coach from 2013-22, Weil said he was able to develop student athletes’ skills by getting them involved in a strength and conditioning program.
“Scholarships are made in the weight room,” he said. It wasn’t always easy to get those middle schoolers interested in weight training, but he said the student athletes here at VCHS are motivated.
“They just want to get better and stronger and faster,” he said.