Vance County Sheriff's Office

Sheriff Peter White announces the following arrests by the Vance County Sheriffs Office Drug Enforcement Unit

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— press release from Vance County Sheriff Peter White

Latisha Lanay Bobbitt
1011 Long Creek Court
Kittrell, NC 27544

Charges: Possession With Intent to Manufacture Sell Distribute Cocaine
Maintaining a Dwelling
Possession of Drug Paraphernalia
Simple Possession of Marijuana

Bond: $25,000.00
Court Date: 12/18/2017

 

David Lee Washington
1011 Long Creek Court
Kittrell, NC 27544

Charges: Possession With Intent to Manufacture Sell Distribute Cocaine
Maintaining a Dwelling
Possession of Drug Paraphernalia
Simple Possession of Marijuana

Bond: $25,000.00
Court Date: 12/18/2017

On Wednesday November 27, 2017 the Vance County Sheriff’s Office assisted with an operation with the United States Marshalls Service Fugitive Task Force in reference to a suspect named Dominique Brockenbrough that was wanted out of Richmond, Virginia for a double homicide. Marshalls received information that the target was at the location of 1011 Long Creek Court Kittrell, North Carolina staying with a male and a female. Arrest was made pursuant to a search of the residence. Dominique Brockenbrough was taken into custody and was extradited to Virginia.

Officers seized 53.9 grams of an unknown powdered substance, and 21.3 grams of cocaine.

News 12/14/17

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New Start to Help in Vance Co. with Those Coming Out of Incarceration

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Thursday morning at 11:30, WIZS TownTalk will conduct a live interview with Cedrick Swinson of New Start.  He is the Peer Support Leader.  He works with formerly incarcerated people and their families to execute plans for school, housing and the gathering of other resources to successfully re-enter society from prison.  He told WIZS News that the biggest barriers are employment and a place to live.

— information below provided by the South Atlantic Family Resource Center New Start Program

The focus of this initiative is to assist high crime, high poverty communities to address the full range of challenges involved in helping formerly incarcerated adults who have been involved in the adult justice system make successful transitions back to the community. The intent of this initiative is to protect community safety by ensuring that these individuals:

  1. Become productive, responsible and law-abiding members of society;
  2. Are provided with positive opportunities to engage in pro-social activities such as employment and/or education;
  3. Maintain long employment;
  4. Sustain a stable residence; and
  5. Successfully address their substance abuse issues and mental health needs, as applicable, through partnerships with local programs.

Eligibility Requirements

An adult is eligible to participate in a program funded through New Start program if that individual, on the date of enrollment:

  • Is 25 years of age or older;
  • Has never been convicted of a sex crime other than prostitution;
  • Was previously incarcerated and released within 180 days; or
  • Is currently under supervision (i.e. confined in a correctional facility with release date within 6 months, residing in a residential reentry center, on electronic monitoring or home-based monitoring, or enrolled in a jail-based work release center.

Discretion is granted to enroll individuals convicted of violent offenses or assessed as high risk.

Priority of service to veterans and spouses of certain veterans for the receipt of employment, training, and placement services in any job training program funded in whole or part by DOL.

Clearview Church “Stories in the Stars”

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— from Clearview Church

On December 16, Clearview Church will present “Stories in the Stars,” a community Christmas concert at McGregor Hall in Henderson. Doors open at 6:00 PM, and the show starts at 7:00 PM. The show will feature footage shot by Pastor Abidan Shah on location in Greece. Come learn about the false gods of myth who came to Earth to serve themselves and how Jesus Christ, the one true God, came down to Earth not to be served but to serve mankind and to give His life for us. With powerful multimedia presentations and live Christmas music performed by Clearview’s praise team, this is a Christmas concert unlike any you’ve experienced before! Tickets are free and are available at Clearview Church; reserve yours by contacting the church office at 252-438-8433. Don’t miss “Stories in the Stars,” December 16 at McGregor Hall in Henderson.

Davis Chapel Missionary Baptist Church Helping For Christmas

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Davis Chapel Missionary Baptist Church reminds you of their soup kitchen every Tuesday, Thursday and Friday from 11 a.m. until noon.  Davis Chapel is also doing a special Christmas meal where there’ll be free cloths and toys for youngsters.  This takes place Thursday, Dec. 21 at the church from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m.  First come first serve.  Davis Chapel Missionary Baptist Church is located at 742 North Chestnut Street here in Henderson.  Pastor Charles Turrentine, Sr and Evangelist Shirley Turrentine invite you.

News 12/13/17

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$300,000 Gift Will Help Girl Scouts; Camp Graham

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The gift is about a commitment made a long time ago to make the world a better place, and it’s that same commitment that Girl Scouts instilled in Margaret Pickard Sirvis, according to her daughter Barb Sirvis.

Girl Scouts – North Carolina Coastal Pines (GS-NCCP) recently notified WIZS News that a $300,000 gift from the Margaret Pickard Sirvis Fund will go towards revitalizing Camp Graham, just north of Henderson.  Be sure to click here for Camp Graham details.

A lifelong Girl Scout and advocate for women, Margaret Pickard Sirvis, or “Peggy” as she was known by her Girl Scout friends, passed away on April 8, 2017 at 93 years old.  Peggy’s daughter Barb worked with GS–NCCP staff to create a legacy gift to support improvements to Peggy’s beloved Camp Graham.

Information provided by GS–NCCP indicates the $300,000 gift will go towards much needed facilities renovations that will enable Camp Graham to continue providing valuable outdoor leadership opportunities to girls across North Carolina, just as it had for Peggy 80+ years earlier. Renovations will include things like a new HVAC, a full-enclosed bathhouse, updates to cabin units, and much more.

Barb Sirvis told WIZS News in a phone interview that her mother Peggy was very clear she wanted to make sure the Girl Scouts received a generous gift at her death, so the $300,000 came from Peggy’s estate.  Barb said Girl Scouts had always been very important to her mother Peggy, as she was in scouting some 75 years.

“She loved camp,” Bard said.  “She wanted to make sure her gift would continue to provide camp opportunities for Girl Scouts today and into the future.”

When asked how Camp Graham was chosen, Barb said, “My mother was born and raised in Chapel Hill, and she went to camp as a girl at a camp that no longer exists, but she did go to Girl Scout camp as a girl, and she also watched the power of Girl Scouting to shape my life and the camp experience and the life-long friendships that I made at camp.  Then, when she moved back to North Carolina in 2006, a local Girl Scout friend took us to an event with Girl Scouts of North Carolina Coastal Pines, and there (Peggy) had a chance to talk to some of the staff about her interests, and they were doing a new project at Camp Graham building tree houses.  She said she wanted to see them, and she went to camp, and she fell in love with Camp Graham.”

Peggy told her daughter Barb she wanted to spend some money on this council, that she wanted to leave money to make sure the camp stays here for girls in the future.

It turns out that Peggy was very quiet about her ability to leave a gift like this for Girl Scouts, so by all accounts it had a wow effect, just by the amount alone of $300,000 if nothing else.

It’s the personal side that tells the rest of the story.

Barb Sirvis said, “She and my dad met in 1944 and were married in 1945.  They each had a dream.  His dream was to be an entrepreneur, and her dream was to make the world a better place.  They brought those two dreams together.  He eventually started his own business, and she was the home and corporate treasurer.  They managed wisely and lived modestly their whole life.”

As far as how the money will be used, GS–NCCP went to Barb with a proposal with several options in it.  Barb said the renovations and improvements mentioned “were the ones that spoke to me.”  She said these priorities were on the top of their list, and “I thought they would be on the top of my mom’s list.”

Chick-fil-A Henderson

Chick-fil-A Cops on Top Raises Over $3,500 for Special Olympics NC

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On a cold, windy, December, Tuesday afternoon, Chick-fil-A of Henderson, the Henderson Police Department, the Oxford Police Department and the Vance County Sheriff’s office banded together and raised a grand total of $3,522.70 for Special Olympics of North Carolina.

Cops on Top was a 12-hour event held at Chic-fil-A on Dabney Drive from 6 a.m. until 6 p.m. Tuesday.  It was the 11th annual event.

Local Chick-fil-A Marketing Director Susan Rogers said the goal was $3,500 and that not only was the goal met but the event surpassed last year as well.  One behalf of all of the organizers, Rogers gave thanks saying, “Thank you to the citizens of Vance County for supporting Special Olympics of North Carolina.”

T-shirts and hats were available for a monetary donation, and the event included K-9 demonstrations, free face painting, visits from Smokey the Bear, Sparky the Firehouse Dog, the Chick-fil-A Cows and a bounce house courtesy of Character Antics.

 

Home and Garden Show 12/12/17

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Town Talk 12/12/17

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