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The H-V Chamber of Commerce and WIZS, Your Community Voice, present Jobs in Vance for November 1, 2022. The Chamber compiles the information, and it is presented here and on the radio. Contact the Henderson-Vance Chamber of Commerce at 438-8414 or email Michele@hendersonvance.org to be included.
Company Name – Whitco Exterminating
Job Title – Hiring for Pest Control Technicians. $20 per hour.
How To Apply – Stop by Whitco Termite and Pest Control, located on 123 East Belle Street in Henderson, across from the Henderson Post Office to apply.
Company Name – Rosemyr Corporation, located at 231 South Garnett Street in Henderson.
Job Title – Immediate openings for Accounting Technician and Office Administrator. For Accounting Technician position, must have a keen eye for detail and the ability to learn quickly, work independently, and complete tasks on time with a high level of accuracy. This position involves making sure timely payments are made and received and posted correctly to vendor and tenant ledgers, monitoring bank activity, reconciling various bank and G/L accounts, and performing general admin duties. Initial responsibilities can be tailored around the individual’s current level of accounting experience, allowing for future growth in the position. Proficiency in MS Excel and basic computer operations is a requirement. A 2-year college degree or higher is preferred but not required. For Office Administrator position, must have proven administrative experience with excellent written and verbal communication skills. Must be proficient in MS Office applications and ability to operate general office equipment (copier, scanner, multi-line phone, etc.) High school diploma or equivalent (Required).
How To Apply – Visit this website address to learn more www.rosemyr.com/contact/jobs/ or apply at www.indeed.com.
Company Name – Chick-fil-A of Henderson.
Job Title – Hiring for all positions. Anyone 16 and older is welcome to apply, they must be legal to work as we do E-Verify.
How To Apply – Holding Open Interviews this week, Wednesday & Thursday (November 2nd and November 3rd). The times for interviews are as follows: Wednesday (11/2): 9:00 am – 11:00 am or Thursday (11/3) 9:00 am – 11:00 am and again at 3:00 pm – 7:00 pm at the Chick-fil-A Restaurant, located at 200 Trade Street, off Dabney Drive in Henderson.
Applicants can also apply anytime by texting “CHICKEN” to (252) 359-3232.
Company Name – Boys and Girls Club of North Central NC
Job Title – Part-time Counselors needed immediately at the Vance County Chapter of the Boys and Girls Club, located at 212 North Clark Street in Henderson. Hours of employment are 2:30 pm – 7:00 pm Monday-Friday. Must have a passion for youth and a love of working with young adults elementary, middle and high school.
How To Apply – Contact Evelyn Taylor, Vance County Center Director at 252-438-5830, ext 105 or email resume to etaylor@bhcncnc.com.
Company Name – Pino’s Italian Restaurant
Job Title – Hiring immediately for all job positions. Part-time and Full-time. Restaurant is located at 987 South Beckford Drive, Henderson (Market Place Shopping Center).
How To Apply – Stop by the restaurant to pick up an application or drop off your resume.
Some of these businesses are present or past advertisers of WIZS. Being an ad client is not a condition of being listed or broadcast. This is not a paid ad.
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Henderson native Eddie Hicks died Monday, Oct. 31.
Hicks gave back to his hometown in many ways, and he was a long-time employee with the Henderson-Vance Recreation and Parks Department. He also partnered with local programs, including Gang Free, Inc., to help young people in the community.
Hicks had said his own life had been influenced by coaches and teachers, as well as his parents. “I couldn’t have been successful (without them). I wouldn’t be who I am right now if it were for (those) folks,” he said in a December 2021 interview with WIZS to talk about having a shelter named in his honor at Fox Pond Park.
The Edward James Hicks Shelter was dedicated in a ceremony on July 29 of this year. “It really means everything to me – it really does,” Hicks said in that 2021 interview. “It brought tears to my eyes,” he said, when he learned that Shelter #1 would be renamed in his honor.
Kendrick Vann, director of the recreation and parks department, spoke with WIZS News Monday and said Hicks was so much more than a parks and rec employee – he was Vann’s godfather.
“He touched so many lives,” Vann said. “He took me on as a godson – that’s how I became a New York Giants fan,” he added, referring to Hicks’s stint with the NFL team.
Hicks was successful, by all accounts. His prowess on the football field as a Vance Senior High Viking got him noticed by college scouts and he earned a scholarship to play at East Carolina University.
He still holds the ECU record for longest rushing yard play – 95 yards. Hicks went on to play professional ball with the New York Giants and he was inducted into the ECU Hall of Fame in 2014.
When his pro career ended, Hicks returned home and picked up at parks and rec, where he had worked as a teenager and as a college student during the summer. His love of community and the desire to give back continued throughout the rest of his life, fueled by the memories of the mentors who had helped him as a youngster.
“Eddie loved the entire community,” said Gang Free, Inc. founder Melissa Elliott. She told WIZS News Monday that Hicks worked “tirelessly to make sure everyone was OK. Eddie was a true hero, leader and the epitome of a servant. Eddie loved God and it showed through his actions,” she said.
Mary Davis Royster Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements, Vann noted. Hicks is survived by his wife, Jackie, daughters Jennifer and Karen, and five grandchildren.
“There were so many people who loved Eddie Hicks back then, Hicks said in that December 2021 interview as he reflected on his early years growing up in Henderson. “And I appreciate it.”
The community will feel the loss and remember the compassion Hicks showed to everyone he interacted with.
There aren’t as many people routinely wearing face masks as there were this time last year, which is one indication that things are improving on the COVID-19 front. Or, perhaps people are just plain tired of wearing masks.
But public health professionals study and analyze the public’s health from a variety of perspectives to make sure people stay as safe as possible from disease. It’s important to know the why’s and wherefore’s, but the bottom line is that fewer cases of COVID-19 places both Vance and Granville counties are in the low community level.
Granville Vance Public Health Director Lisa Harrison and her staff continue to monitor both counties and stay updated on the latest information available.
Both counties, like much of the rest of the state, experienced a real spike in cases in January 2022, but the numbers had begun inching upward by November of 2021. By March 2022, the number of cases had dropped again to about the same levels that were being recorded before the winter surge.
As winter approaches, staying up-to-date on COVID-19 boosters is important, as is getting a flu shot.
Harrison spelled out in her regular COVID-19 update that health professionals must look at indicators other than just numbers of cases.
“Case numbers are not as reliable an indicator as they once were – people can use at-home testing kits and do not report those test results to public health,” she said.
Vaccinations and the all-important boosters also lower the risk of severe illness and death, she said, so looking at trends over time offers a more complete view.
Data indicators that health professionals look at include:
And while it’s good news that both counties are in the low community level, Harrison included the following sobering statistics:
Vance County has had 14,655 COVID-19 cases and Granville County has reported 18,006. As for deaths from COVID -19, Vance County reports 130 and Granville County reports 124.
Vaccinations by the numbers:
Vance County
Granville County
Visit the CDC Data Tracker by County and the NCDHHS COVID-19 Dashboard. Relevant graphs from these dashboards are available on our website at https://gvph.org/covid-19_dashboard/.
Vance County High School’s rival, senior night football game against conference opponent J.F. Webb High School from Oxford was canceled last Friday night.
A social media post Friday threatened a school shooting, according to Vance County Sheriff Curtis Brame.
Brame told WIZS News on Saturday that his office had identified the person responsible. He said, “Due to the responsible party’s age, we can’t release his/her name.”
This week’s game will feature the Vipers in the first round of the state playoffs.
Vance County will compete as a 25 seed and will face eighth seeded West Carteret, which is located in Morehead City.
A total of 64 teams make the state playoffs. Conference champions from each conference are seeded first by their RPI, then any second place automatic qualifiers and all at-large teams are seeded.
A recap of the shooting that took place Friday on Garnett St.
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UDATE 8:10 P.M. —
HPD Press Release:
A short time after 3:00PM this afternoon, Officers heard multiple gunshots in the area of Raleigh Road and S. Garnett Street and rushed to the area as 911 calls came in. Individuals parked in the parking lot of Hayes Brothers Muffler, 1002 S. Garnett Street, were approached and shot at.
The first of two victims were seated in their car when struck by gunfire at close range. We are certain this individual was targeted by the shooter. The victim drove away and was intercepted by emergency personnel a short time later and transported for medical treatment.
The second victim, an elderly female, was struck by a single round in the lower leg while seated in her car a short distance north of the incident scene. She was transported to a local medical facility and is currently in stable condition.
The assailant(s) fled the scene on foot and are believed to have gotten into a vehicle according to information and evidence located at the scene. An unoccupied vehicle and two structures were also struck.
We are diligently working to identify the suspect(s) at this time. The public has been extremely helpful and we hope the information continues to come in. Anyone with information is urged to call the Henderson Police Department at (252) 438-4141, our Crime Stoppers line at (252) 492-1925, or the P3 App on your mobile phone.
The Henderson Police Department is grateful for the assistance of Sheriff Curtis Brame and his Office and all the other responding First Responders. Acts of violence have plagued our Nation, and State and our perseverance will hopefully see us all through this.
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UPDATE 6:20 P.M. —
Friday afternoon about 3:05, a man was shot just west of downtown Henderson and a female was hit by a stray bullet near the post office.
Henderson Police Chief Marcus Barrow told WIZS News it was an “isolated incident.” He said he didn’t know what may stem from it but that at the present time there was no public safety problem.
The suspect or suspects remain at large at this time.
Barrow indicated a male in his twenties was the intended target. He was “shot at point-blank range by the suspect,” Barrow said, in the Hayes Brothers Muffler Shop parking lot.
Chief Barrow continued and said a stray bullet “went up the street and struck an older female in the leg as she was going to the post office.”
The injuries sustained by the female were not believed to be life threatening.
The male shooting victim attempted to drive himself to Maria Parham Health but only made it as far as a fast food restaurant at the corner of Dabney Drive and Graham Avenue. From there, he was transported by ambulance to the hospital about two miles away. Barrow said the victim was “alert and talking upon arrival.”
WIZS News spoke with Vance County Sheriff Curtis Brame. He said the Vance County Courthouse was locked down but only as a precaution.
Vance County Schools postponed the Vance County High School football game. Athletic Director Ray Noel told WIZS.
Whether related or just a coincidence, other sounds believed to be gunshots were heard just north of downtown about 10 to 15 minutes after the original shooting. A person close to WIZS heard the and described it as gun fire. It’s believed to have occurred near the old bus station near the corner of Chestnut Street and West Andrews Avenue.
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One of the reasons the stately old home known as Cedar Walk in Williamsboro fell into disrepair was because of the ghost that inhabited the premises.
And the Neal House in Epsom rode the poltergeist wave right in the early ‘80s, about the time the movie of the same name was popular – you know, objects flying around, dishes flung from their shelves.
And then there’s the legend of “Hatchet Man,” who wanders the general area of Oxford Road near the local country club.
Mark Pace and Bill Harris talked about these phenomena – and more – during Thursday’s tri-weekly history show on TownTalk.
Did prominent physician Hutchins Burton really haunt Cedar Walk? Who knows. But according to the writings of local historian S.T. Peace, Burton was hanged in the house, Pace said. And members of families who later lived in the house reported hearing all kinds of strange noise over the years, and seeing a ghost in the hallway downstairs.
“It got to the point,” Pace said, “that nobody wanted to rent the house.” And, unoccupied, it fell into ruin.
Whether you’re one who believes in the supernatural or chooses to find logical explanations for the seemingly inexplicable, the stories you hear – especially around Halloween – are interesting, to say the least.
The house known as Pleasant Hill in Middleburg, later called Rivenoak, was purchased by a young couple who moved in and set about restoration work, which including wiring it for electricity for the first time.
Joel Holloman Carroll was born in that home and lived his entire life there. He was a real creature of habit, and was known to strike a match against the same door frame near the kitchen each evening to light a lamp before before bedtime.
Carroll died there, and during the restoration, passersby would swear they saw a light shining through his bedroom window. The young couple’s ebullient Golden Retriever refused to cross the area that led to that same bedroom. And the couple’s young child would remark about a man standing nearby when there was nobody there.
And Hatchet Man? The story goes that if you go over to the country club section of town into a particular area that once had been a dead end, dirt road, and cut off your car, Hatchet Man would show up, Pace said.
But what about the poltergeist of Neal House?
“Dishes move, things fly off the table – literally fly-through-the-air kind of stuff,” Pace said. He was a student at ECU when he read a story in the student paper about the home.
“It was really active stuff,” he said, recalling some of the stories being told about that house.
Hear more stories in the full interview at wizs.com
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