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Clarke and E.O. Young Students Receive Nook devices
Vance County Schools For Immediate Release June 2, 2017 Vance County Schools officials distributed Nook electronic reading devices to students at Clarke and E.O. Young elementary schools on June 1, as part of district’s Summer Reading Program. The students can now download books onto the reading devices and read throughout the summer. There were...
“That Long Tobacco Road” Coming to McGregor Hall
HENDERSON, N.C. (June 2, 2017) — Written and directed by regional Playwright Charley-John Smith, That Long Tobacco Road is making its way back to the stage after first being presented by the Louisburg (N.C.) College Players in 2001. Performed by local actors from Vance, Granville, Franklin and Wake counties, the 2017 musical will debut on the stage of McGregor...
Vance Medical Academy Holds Nurse Aide Pinning Ceremony
Vance County Schools For Immediate Release June 2, 2017 The Vance Medical Academy at Southern Vance High School held its annual Nurse Aide Pinning Ceremony on June 1, in the school’s gymnasium. Melodie Kernahan, a registered nurse and the instructor for the Vance Medical Academy students, led the recognitions. A total of 19 nursing aide...
VGCC Golf Tournament sets new record with more than $116,000 raised
Vance-Granville Community College’s 33rd annual Endowment Fund Golf Tournament, presented by Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company, hit a new record total by raising $116,675 to help fund scholarships for deserving students and support the mission of the college. That result surpassed the $104,160 generated in 2016, in what was previously the highest-grossing golf tournament in...
Vance County Schools Signals Support for Project Child Find
Vance County Schools For Immediate Release June 1, 2017 Vance County Schools supports Project Child Find, an effort coordinated by our schools and the Exceptional Children Division of the N.C. Department of Public Instruction. Project Child Find is designed to locate and identify children and youth ages birth through 21 with disabilities who are in...
E.M. Rollins Student Council Raises $3,000 for Rise Against Hunger
Vance County Schools For Immediate Release June 1, 2017 The Student Council of E. M. Rollins Elementary, under the direction of Antoinette Ball, a teacher and Student Council adviser, spearheaded a year-long service project which raised over $3,000. The proceeds were donated to Rise Against Hunger, a non-profit humanitarian relief organization headquartered in Raleigh. The...
ETC fire ruled accidental by officials
On May 30, 2017, personnel from the Henderson Fire Department, North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation, and ATF conducted an origin and cause examination of the fire scene located at 601 Wakefield Ave Henderson NC. Based upon the scene examination and witness interviews, it was determined that the fire originated in the Roll Goods Warehouse...
VGCC graduates 11 cadets in school’s 104th BLET Class
Eleven cadets graduated on May 16 from the Basic Law Enforcement Training (BLET) program at Vance-Granville Community College, in a ceremony held in the Civic Center on Main Campus. After passing the state certification exam, all are authorized to work in any law enforcement agency in North Carolina. Graduates of VGCC’s 104th BLET class included...
VGCC pins Associate Degree Nursing graduates
Vance-Granville Community College recognized 41 students who graduated this spring from the Associate Degree Nursing program with a pinning ceremony in the college’s Civic Center on May 10. Among those honored with distinctive nursing pins at the ceremonies were seven who graduated through the LPN to ADN Transition Program, which helps Licensed Practical Nurses to...
