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The Local Skinny! Jobs In Vance 07-05-22
The H-V Chamber of Commerce and WIZS, Your Community Voice, present Jobs in Vance for July 5, 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.
Freight Handler/Order Filler
Walmart Distribution Center – Henderson, NC
$17.55 – $23.55 an hour
Full-time
Day shift
Hiring multiple candidates
Fulfill store orders through pulling merchandise through layer using electronic voice control equipment, stacking onto pallets, placing labels in appropriate…
Front Desk Associate/Night Auditor
Divine Hospitality DBA Baymont Inn & Suites
Henderson, NC
$11 – $18 an hour
Full-time
Day shift
Hiring multiple candidates
The ideal candidate will have previous customer service experience and will understand the importance of responding quickly to guests’ needs and complaints.
Store Team Member – Evenings/Overnight
Sheetz
Henderson
$14 an hour
Part-time
Overnight shift
Serve as a hospitality ambassador by greeting customers and providing an excellent experience.
Complete customer transactions accurately and efficiently.
Night Shift Production Technician
Bridgestone Americas
Oxford, NC
$25 an hour
Full-time
8 hour shift
Responsible to communicate to team members, manufacturing team members, department supervisor/manager(s), maintenance, customers, suppliers, etc.
Library Assistant
Vance County, NC
Henderson, NC
$14.99 an hour
Part-time
Work may include creating library accounts, assisting patrons with their accounts, checking out materials, and assisting in locating print and non-print materials
Arby’s Team Member
Henderson, NC
Estimated $23K – $29.2K a year
Team Members must listen to guests, coworkers, and supervisors, in person and over loudspeakers and/or a headset.
Health Care Front Office Assistant
The Optometric Eye Site
Henderson, NC
$12 – $15 an hour
Full-time
Busy Eye Care Practice seeking a new front office assistant and health care technician.
No previous experience and specific education is required, however, some…
Pick-To-Light Selector (Full-Time & Part-Time)
ADUSA Distribution, LLC
Henderson,
From $16 an hour
Full-time
Day shift
Hiring multiple candidates
Able to use a personal computer for data entry and research purposes.
Work in a warehouse environment with varying conditions (i.e. cool temperatures, concrete…
Machine Operator – 1st Shift
IDEAL Fastener Corporation
Henderson, NC
Estimated $28.9K – $36.5K a year
Full-time
Day shift
Hiring multiple candidates
IDEAL Fastener Corporation is NOW HIRING *for full-time Machine Operators!.
> Monday-Thursday, 10 hour shift with 3-day weekends!
Hiring ongoing
Part-Time Store Associate
ALDI
Henderson, NC
$14.50 an hour
Part-time
Meet any state and local requirements for handling and selling alcoholic beverages.
Adheres to cash policies and procedures to minimize losses.
Retail Stocking Associate $16.00/hr
Harbor Freight Tools USA, Inc.
Henderson, NC 27537
$16 an hour
Full-time
Ability to communicate clearly with customers and associates in person and via e-mail and telephone.
Deputy Register of Deeds
Vance County, NC
Henderson, NC
$31,926 a year
Full-time
Indexes vital records; issues marriage license; issues copies of birth, marriage, and death certificates, military discharges, legitimization papers;..
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Mooresville Man In Vance Co. Jail On Burglary, Larceny Charges
A Mooresville man is in the Vance County Detention Center facing a slew of charges in connection with burglary and the theft of a truck full of landscaping equipment.
Henderson Police arrested Herman Ray Terry, Jr., 35, Thursday night about 10 p.m. in the area of Hillside Ave., according to Chief Marcus Barrow.
In a statement to WIZS News, Barrow said Terry was in possession of a 2003 Isuzu commercial vehicle. The truck, valued at more than $45,000, contained in excess of $20,000 dollars of commercial-grade landscaping equipment.
The commercial vehicle belonged to Matrix Lawn Landscaping based in Mooresville.
Officers were initially unable to reach the company or its owner due to the time, but contact was made with Mooresville Police Department. Mooresville Police Department went to the business and found that the business had been burglarized.
The Mooresville Police Department was then able to make contact with the owner of the business, and he verified the vehicle and equipment were stolen and that Herman Ray Terry Jr. had been recently terminated as an employee.
The vehicle and its equipment were brought back to the Henderson Police Department and kept until the company could come and retrieve it.
Terry was originally charged with possession of a stolen motor vehicle and stolen goods. Magistrate Cowan issued a $26,000 secured bond.
Mooresville Police Department then obtained warrants for larceny of a motor vehicle, felony larceny, breaking and entering, possession of stolen goods, and injury to real property. Magistrate Stewart gave Terry an additional $80,000 bond.
“State of the City” Highlights Positive Progress For Henderson’s Future
The Henderson-Vance Chamber of Commerce, partnering with Henderson Vance Rotary, hosted the 2022 “state of the city” address Thursday, highlighting an array of projects underway and others on the horizon but also asking for a unified community approach to tackle issues that detract from the city’s image.
The dining room at Henderson Country Club was filled with about 100 Chamber members and guests for the program. Greg Etheridge, local Rotary president, welcomed the group, after which Mayor Eddie Ellington and City Manager Terrell Blackmon provided updates on the city’s current situation and prospects for future revitalization.
Ellington said he balances celebrating the city’s recent successes with the need to face “hard truths” that cannot be ignored. The City Council passed a $39 million budget with no increase in taxes or fees, and the city’s fun balance is “sturdy,” he said. New jobs are being added through projects like the M.R. Williams expansion and the addition of the cardiac catheterization lab at Maria Parham Health.
But increased gun violence, lack of affordable housing and a low percentage of home ownership in the city are certainly areas of concern, as are numerous open positions within the city administration.
Blackmon used results from the city council’s recent strategic planning retreat to identify several areas of need in his presentation titled “Reshaping Henderson” – which include improving the perception of the city, effective recruitment and retention of city employees and housing redevelopment.
“We have things to fix,” Blackmon said. Whether it’s an ongoing campaign to reduce litter with the city’s neighborhoods or actively promoting existing and new events that take place in downtown Henderson, he said the whole community needs to become more involved.
The police department is down 9 officers, the fire department has 12 vacancies, according to Blackmon, and the city has been with two key department heads for a year – the city needs a lead engineer and someone to oversee the public works departments.
With expected growth in the number of redevelopment projects as revitalization continues, the work of these two departments is critical.
“We have to have that every day leadership to move forward,” he said. It’s tough to compete with larger cities nearby, especially for law enforcement, he added. One step the city took recently is to give a $1/hr. pay increase to front-line workers as a way to retain employees.
The city has allotted $1.5 million in federal COVID-19 relief funds – ARPA – to fund redevelopment activities and other strategic investments in the city, and Blackmon encouraged and challenged others within the community to “leverage that money to help more residents in Henderson and Vance County.”
A self-described “passionate public servant,” Blackmon mentioned the various community assets that bring visitors to the area, where they spend money and contribute to the local economy. In addition to Kerr Lake, Fox Pond Park and McGregor Hall, he pointed out the new skate park near downtown and a new outdoor pavilion in the Embassy Square area that is ready to proceed with construction.
The city rejoined the Main Street program in 2021 as one way to promote downtown revitalization. Blackmon mentioned several grant programs and projects that have come along since that time, and said there’s more to come.
“I think you’re going to be very pleased with some of the progress that’s coming” to downtown, he said.
Moving forward with the West End and Flint Hill urban redevelopment areas is one way the city is hoping to boost safe, affordable housing for Henderson residents.
The median income in Henderson in 2020 was about $31,000, which Blackmon explained would be enough to purchase a home that cost about $168,000. But with a poverty rate of 29.3 percent, home ownership often is out of reach.
Blackmon said 60 percent of housing in Henderson is rental housing, which creates challenges for tenants, for property owners and for the city. It puts a greater burden on businesses and homeowners to “carry the services we provide to the community,” Blackmon said. The city relies heavily on property tax revenues.
Infill housing – new construction in established neighborhoods close to downtown – is something that the city needs, but he added that it is difficult to make the housing affordable. Blackmon hinted at the possibility of several future projects involving subdivisions and infill development.
The much-talked-about water plant expansion should get off the ground by January 2023 and the S-Line Mobility Hub is a hot topic right now for the area. Blackmon said Assistant City Manager Paylor Spruill was in Raleigh Thursday for the unveiling of the first draft of what the railroad station could look like.
The rail project, though chugging closer to fruition, is still in the early stages of development, one transportation-related issue that has long been on the minds of city officials could face a roadblock.
The Dabney Drive widening project could face getting pushed further down on the to-do list by NC DOT.
“Dabney Drive is a critical artery for the city of Henderson,” Blackmon said. “That widening project needs to happen as soon as possible.” He urged those present to talk to their elected state officials to keep the project from moving down the list.
2 Charged With Shooting At Wake Electric Truck
Two arrests were made Thursday in connection with an incident last week during which a Wake Electric Membership Corporation truck was struck by gunfire.
Vance County Sheriff Curtis Brame said his officers executed a search warrant at 240 Island Creek Estates Rd. as part of the investigation of the June 23 incident. According to a press statement, Brame said deputies responded to a shots fired call on Island Creek Estates Rd. about 3 a.m.
Upon the arrival, law enforcement discovered that a Wake Electric Membership Corporation truck had been fired upon.
The company’s truck was struck twice by gunfire. Although occupied at the time, no injuries were reported.
The Vance County Sheriff’s Office Criminal Investigations Division responded to the area and conducted an investigation into the incident, which resulted in the search of the residence. Automatic assault rifles, handguns, magazines and a large quantity of ammunition was discovered.
Arrested were Di’quayveon Hargrove, 24, and Datwain Henderson, Jr., 22.
Each has been charged with discharging a firearm into an occupied vehicle.
Bond was set at $50,000 for each man.
Anyone with information regarding this incident is urged to contact the Vance County Sheriff’s Office.
MPH Welcomes Gastroenterologist Mamun Shahrier To Staff
-information courtesy of Maria Parham Health
Maria Parham Health has announced that Mamun Shahrier, MD, PhD, FACP has joined its staff and will be offering GI services to patients throughout Henderson, Vance County and the surrounding area. Shahrier is a gastroenterologist with more than 30 years of clinical experience.
“Having worked with Dr. Shahrier for more than six years across two markets, I am very excited to welcome him to Maria Parham,” said MPH CEO Bert Beard. “His knowledge of the region and proven track record of delivering high-quality patient care will benefit the communities we serve tremendously.”
Shahrier is board-certified in gastroenterology and most recently worked at Wilson Gastroenterology, where he saw patients and performed GI procedures for more than five years.
He was graduated from Dhaka Medical College, Bangladesh in 1984 and earned his PhD from The Medical College of St. Bartholomew’s Hospital in London in 1993. He served an internal medicine at Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center in Brooklyn, NY in 1999 and completed a fellowship in Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in 2002.
Shahrier is seeing new and established patients at his office at Maria Parham GI Associates. For a referral or to schedule an appointment, please call 252.430.8111.
Guthrie Named Chief Medical Officer At Maria Parham Health
-information courtesy of Maria Parham Health
Maria Parham Health has announced that Dr. Shauna Guthrie has been named the organization’s chief medical officer.
In her new role, Guthrie will set direction for Maria Parham Health’s medical department and provide leadership in collaboration with local health systems, community-based providers and academic institutions. Guthrie also will build upon the hospital’s current clinical and medical care foundation as she adds her expertise to further drive innovation in health care, according to a press statement issued Friday.
“We are elated to welcome Dr. Guthrie to our executive team,” said MPH CEO Bert Beard. “Her work serving the community as a provider and medical director for Granville Vance Public Health give her intimate knowledge of the needs of the communities we serve and the broader political structures we will need to navigate to continue to meet those health needs. The fact she will continue in her public health role as well will also further strengthen our coordination of care in the region.”
Guthrie will continue her role as medical director for GVPH, a role she has had for the past seven years. She also has a private practice, Sunflower Direct Primary Care, in April 2021 in downtown Henderson.
Guthrie is a graduate of the New Hampshire Dartmouth Family Medicine Residency in Concord, NH. After graduation, she stayed in New Hampshire to participate in the Dartmouth Hitchcock Leadership Preventive Medicine Residency where she completed a Masters in Public Health with a focus in quality improvement.
With more than a decade of clinical and health care leadership experience to MPH. She is board certified in Family Medicine and Preventive Medicine. Guthrie came to Henderson seeking warmer weather in 2013 where she was in private practice, seeing adult patients and delivering babies at Granville Health System and Maria Parham Health.
She also enjoys giving back to the profession by teaching students and residents. Guthrie currently sits on the executive board of directors for the NC Academy of Family Physicians as the president-elect and will assume the role of president in December 2022.
SportsTalk: Remembering Cotton Clayton
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If you know where the Cotton Clayton Country Club was located, chances are you’re from “around here,” as folks like to say. And it’s just as likely that you were saddened to learn of the passing of Lawrence Howard “Cotton” Clayton, who died Wednesday evening at the age of 82.
Clayton, a native of Vance County, was an outstanding athlete who excelled at the high school, college and professional levels. His North Carolina high school basketball scoring record stood for more than four decades and he played both basketball and baseball at East Carolina University in the late 1950’s and early 1960’s.
“He was one of Vance County’s greatest athletes,” said George Hoyle, who remembered Clayton and his family on Thursday’s SportsTalk. “He was a great athlete, but an even better person.”
He was named an All America in both basketball and baseball between 1959 and 1961; he led the ’61 Pirates baseball team in the NAIA national championship in hitting and played third base and outfielder. That same year on the basketball court, he averaged 14.9 points per game, 9.9 rebounds and shot 61 percent from the field. In 1984, he was inducted into the ECU Sports Hall of Fame.
Clayton spent seven years playing pro baseball in the Baltimore Orioles organization.
Anyone who spent time at his tire shops on Chestnut Street or in Bearpond at the “country club” no doubt heard about sports.
“Those were great times spent with Cotton and Alton, his brother, and the whole Bearpond “crew,” Hoyle said. “Cotton was a wealth of knowledge about sports…if you wanted to know (something), he knew.”
When a high school junior named JamesOn Curry was closing in on Clayton’s long-standing scoring record, Clayton was at the Southern Vance High School gym to witness it.
Not to take anything away from the young man who did break the previous points record, but Hoyle did note that Clayton managed his feat playing in a shorter season and without benefit of a 3-point line.
Wilson Hoyle shared his memories of visiting the Chestnut Street shop when he was home during college breaks. “One of the very first things I did,” he said, was head down to that shop where a group of regulars gathered in the mornings, “smoking cigarettes, hanging out and talking junk,” he said.
Clayton had a huge impact, Wilson said. “The first one that gave me belief that I could do just about anything was Cotton,” he said.
“When you think about community, you think about people and places,” he continued. “Cotton was always there.”
Hoyle said he loved to be able to add to the timeless argument about which player was the best in North Carolina. “I loved when I’d hear a Jordan-David Thompson argument break out,” he recalled. “I’d say, well, who’s the all-time leading scorer in North Carolina high school basketball history, and they’d throw out Jordan and Thompson…Sleepy Floyd and James Worthy. And the answer was ‘no, no, no – it’s Cotton Clayton.”
Drug, Firearm Charges with Large Bond for Local Suspect
HPD Press Release: 06/30/2022
Wednesday evening at approximately 5:30PM, while investigating a complaint of a stolen firearm, Investigators of the Henderson Police Department observed Jammee Duchea Terry (30) leaving the residence of 167 Lincoln Street with a firearm visible on his person. With the knowledge of Jammee D. Terry being a convicted felon and his active federal probation status, a traffic stop was conducted.
During the traffic stop, Terry was found in possession of approximately 29 grams of cocaine, 243 dosage units of heroin, drug manufacturing equipment, 1 semi-automatic handgun, and $3,685.00 in US currency.
In continuation of this investigation, a search warrant was obtained and served for the residence of 167 Lincoln Street. During the search, 1,620 dosage units of heroin, drug packaging material, and 1 semi-automatic rifle were located and seized.
Terry was charged with five counts of Trafficking Heroin, two counts of Trafficking Cocaine, one count of Manufacture Cocaine, one count of Possession with Intent to Manufacture/Sell/Deliver Cocaine, one count of Possession with Intent to Manufacture/ Sell/Deliver Heroin, two counts of Maintaining a Vehicle/Dwelling for a Controlled Substance, one count of Possession of Drug Paraphernalia, and two counts of Possession of a Firearm by Felon.
Jammee D. Terry is currently under a $580,500.00 secured bond and a Federal Detainer. Terry was remanded to the Vance County Detention Facility.
Authority Chief Marcus W. Barrow
TownTalk: Police Chief Barrow Discusses Gun Violence Resolution
The increase in gun violence plaguing the country is something that Henderson Police Chief Marcus Barrow thinks a lot about, but he said he and his officers often are frustrated by the process to get offenders off the streets and successfully processed through the judicial system.
It’s illegal to discharge a firearm within the city limits, but that hasn’t done much to curtail the use of guns and shootings.
On Tuesday, the City Council adopted a resolution declaring gun violence a public health issue. One of the upsides of having this resolution in place, he said during Thursday’s TownTalk, is increased access to grant funding to combat a wide-ranging list of underlying issues that contribute to gun violence.
“We have a crisis and it’s a health crisis,” Barrow said. A mental health crisis, to be precise. He cited as an example that in a 12-month period, his officers were involved in 538 involuntary commitments. And that’s just for the city of Henderson – it doesn’t include numbers from the sheriff’s department.
Other underlying societal issues feed the problem, he said, from socio-economic issues to substance abuse. According to CDC statistics, men account for 87 percent of firearm deaths in the U.S. Firearm deaths are the leading cause of premature death, he said.
Councilwomen Melissa Elliott, founder of Gang Free, Inc. and Sara Coffey initiated the resolution, and Barrow said the audience present in Council Chambers on Tuesday applauded when the resolution passed.
“She did a great job with it,” Barrow said of Elliott’s work crafting the resolution. “She sees a problem and tries to address it.
Now it’s time for the community to address the problem, he said. “We need to get motivated behind this thing,” he said. “We’ve got to get out of the mindset that we’re going to arrest our way out of this.”
His department has secured various grant funding to help tackle the problem, and Barrow discussed one program that was able to go live in January 2022. The process took almost two years, but now his officers can enter data about shell casings into the database and within 24 to 48 hours, get results on whether the gun has been used in other crimes.
This is a great improvement on the six months’ to a year that it could take to get results from the SBI, Barrow said.
“I think we do a really good job here at the police department,” Barrow said. Currently, there are more than 1,800 firearms in the police evidence room. Federal indictments are on the increase in the past five years, but the backlog of cases in the court system means sometimes lengthy waits for convictions.
“We’re trying to do our part,” Barrow said, “keeping our finger stuck in the dam.”
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