WIZS Noon Local News 06/19/20
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VGCC Small Business Center Presents Free Food & Beverage Industry Webinars
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-Information courtesy the Vance-Granville Community College Small Business Center
The Vance-Granville Community College Small Business Center announces the newest FREE training series of webinars. This 12-week series aims to help those in the food industry navigate the COVID-19 pandemic.
If you’re in the restaurant or food shop business, you know that a normal day is no longer normal. There are a multitude of new tasks, service limitations, sanitizing requirements and customer expectations. This series is designed to help navigate your new normal so that your business can reopen with confidence.
Sessions will be held on Mondays and Wednesdays June 22 through July 29, 2020, from 9 until 10:30 a.m.
Sessions include:
- CDC Guidelines for Reopening Your Food & Beverage Business
- Keeping Your Restaurant Employees and Customers Safe While Dealing With a Pandemic
- Learn How to Step Up Your Customer Service Game in Your Food Business in the Era of COVID-19
- Tips & Tricks to Market Your Food & Beverage Business
- The Magic of Upselling in the Food & Beverage World
- Using Social Media to Promote Your Restaurant or Food Business
- Communicating Effectively to Your Employees – Food & Beverage Business
- Leaders vs. Managers – Food & Beverage Teams
- How to Deal With Difficult People in the Food & Beverage Industry
- Building Your Food & Beverage Business Around Your Community
- Improving the Physical Image, Layout and Presentation of Your Food & Beverage Business
- Angry Food & Beverage Customers Can Actually Become Your Best Friends
Register by 12 p.m. the day before the event at www.vgcc.edu/coned/small-business-center/#schedules
For more information, contact the VGCC Small Business Center at smallbusiness@vgcc.edu
Vance Co. Public Safety’s Fire Reorganization Meeting Rescheduled for June 30
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-Information courtesy Kelly H. Grissom, Clerk to Board/Executive Asst., County of Vance
Please be informed that the Vance County Public Safety Committee meeting scheduled for Tuesday, June 23 has been changed to Tuesday, June 30, 2020.
The meeting will be held at 3 p.m. in the Commissioners’ Conference Room of the Vance County Administration Building located at 122 Young Street in Henderson.
The topic of discussion is fire reorganization.
WIZS Noon Local News 06/18/20
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H-V Rec. & Parks Offering DIY Crafty Kids Kits for Summer Entertainment
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-Information courtesy Tara Goolsby, Henderson-Vance Recreation and Parks Program Superintendent
The Henderson-Vance Recreation and Parks Department presents DIY (Do it Yourself) Crafty Kids. Participants will have the opportunity to purchase craft bags that will include crafts, coloring pages and stickers.
Drive-through pick up will be held on Friday, June 19 and June 26, from 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. at the Aycock Recreation Center located at 307 Carey Chapel Rd. in Henderson.
The cost is $5 per craft bundle and can be purchased online at https://hvrpd.recdesk.com/ or in-person on the day of the event, but you must bring exact cash.
For more information, please contact Lauren Newlin at (252) 438-3160 or (lnewlin@ci.henderson.nc.us).
Local Health Departments to Receive Combined $1+ Million in COVID-19 Funding
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-Press Release, Office of Governor Roy Cooper
The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services is allocating $35 million in federal funding to local health departments to support the COVID-19 response. Per federal guidelines, counties will be able to use these funds to support COVID-19 staffing, infection controls, testing and tracing, IT infrastructure and data sharing and visualization.
“Our local health departments are critical partners with the state as we fight this virus, and this funding will help them continue and expand their important work,” said Governor Roy Cooper.
“Since the start of the pandemic, our local health departments have been working around the clock to protect their communities and slow the spread of the virus. These funds continue to support their ability to address the overwhelming demands they are facing,” said NCDHHS Secretary Mandy Cohen, M.D.
North Carolina’s local health departments are on the frontlines supporting people in getting tested for COVID-19 and knowing if they have been exposed. Testing and contact tracing are core public health activities and key components of North Carolina’s strategy to responsibly ease restrictions while continuing to slow the spread of COVID-19. These responsibilities are in addition to their ongoing work to promote health and prevent disease.
Local health departments will receive a base allocation of $90,000 per county with additional funding based on population size and their cumulative positive COVID-19 caseload. Some local health departments represent multiple counties. CLICK HERE to see how much each health department will receive.
Local health district allocations include:
Granville-Vance (two counties) – $650,568
Franklin – $242,158
Warren – $149,803
This one-time, non-recurring funding is part of NCDHHS’ cooperative agreement with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity (ELC), which awards annual funding to state, local and territorial health departments to support vector-borne disease surveillance and response. The coverage period runs from the beginning of the 2020 calendar year through the end of FY 2021-22.
Visit covid19.ncdhhs.gov to learn more about testing and contact tracing in North Carolina. For more information about the state’s response to COVID-19, go to nc.gov/covid19.
GVPH COVID-19 Update: Outbreak at Pelican Health Nursing Home ‘No Longer Active’
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As of June 17, 2020, there are 709 known COVID-19 cases in Granville County, 433 cases in Vance County, and 46,855 confirmed cases in North Carolina.
There are two outbreaks at congregate living facilities in Granville County at Federal Correctional Complex in Butner, NC and Murdoch Development Center in Butner, NC.
Of the cases in Granville County, 395 are associated with the prisons and five are associated with Murdoch. Of the 395 cases in the prison system, 89 have been released from isolation and one individual with Murdoch has been released from isolation.
Of the 309 community-based cases in Granville County, 180 have been released from isolation and 10 are hospitalized.
There have been a total of 17 deaths in Granville County, 16 of whom were with the Bureau of Prisons.
There are two active outbreaks at congregate living facilities in Vance County: Kerr Lake Nursing Home in Henderson, NC, and Senior Citizens Home in Henderson, NC. There was also an outbreak at Pelican Health in Henderson, NC that is no longer active.
Of the cases in Vance County, 103 are associated with outbreaks at congregate living facilities including 42 cases associated with Kerr Lake Nursing Home and three associated with Senior Citizens Home. Of the 103 cases in congregate living facilities in Vance County, 42 have been released from isolation.
Of the 330 community-based cases in Vance County, 160 have been released from isolation.
Six individuals in Vance County are hospitalized.
There have been a total of 35 COVID-19 related deaths in Vance County, 14 of whom were associated with Pelican Health and nine of whom were associated with Kerr Lake Nursing Home.
GVPH updates its website daily at approximately 5 p.m. with Vance and Granville COVID-19 statistics. Please visit www.gvph.org/COVID-19/ for the latest information.
GVPH also emails updates about COVID-19 in Granville and Vance counties each evening. You can sign up to receive these emails at www.gvph.org/covid-19.
WIZS Noon Local News 06/17/20
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Maria Parham Health CEO Thanks Community, Encourages Continued Support
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Op-Ed: Thank You Vance and Franklin Counties – Bert Beard CEO, Maria Parham Health
For the past several months, Maria Parham Health (MPH) has been facing the impact of COVID-19 with our community. We have built upon our robust emergency operations plan that we have in place year-round by updating policies, implementing new protocol, educating our staff, and working with our community partners in ways we never have before. But in all this preparation, MPH has never been alone.
Today, I write to share my appreciation for our community. Thank you to the countless individuals and organizations who have generously donated critically important supplies and resources and offered inspiring words of encouragement to our team. In this crisis, the true meaning of community has never been more apparent or appreciated. Patients, board members, staff, community providers, our sister facilities – all segments of the communities we serve and partner with have shown their support during this pandemic
Community members have brought in surgical masks and N95 respirators to add to the resources we are working to preserve. Local restaurants and businesses have sent food to treat our folks as they work. Many people have donated homemade cloth masks to our hospital and local EMS – an incredible labor of love. Posted signage, sidewalk chalk messages and decorated rocks cheer on our heroes and have infused our campuses with pride. And these are just a few of the many examples that exist.
The outpouring of love and encouragement from our community has been overwhelming, and it makes us so proud to call Vance and Franklin Counties our home and to serve the northern triangle. MPH stands ready to serve you – our neighbors, family and friends. Please continue to keep our community safe and prevent further spread of this disease:
- Practice social distancing.
- Wash your hands often.
- If you must go out in public, wear masks to protect those around you.
To learn more about Maria Parham Health’s COVID-19 preparedness and what you can do to help stay well, visit Mariaparham.com.
Vance Commissioners Approve County, Water District Budget
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Vance County Manager Jordan McMillen provided WIZS with the following summary of the Vance County Board of Commissioners’ special called meeting held Monday, June 15, 2020:
County Budget – The total general fund budget is $49,498,430, with $1,310,356 used from fund balance to balance the budget. The overall budget with all funds combined is $60.7 million. The budget includes no increase in the general fund property tax rate (remains at .89 cents), no increase in the fire tax rate (remains 8.9 cents), and a $5 increase in the solid waste household fee. Overall, the budget addresses the Board’s top priorities for the coming year while moving the county forward and maximizing county services with limited revenue growth.
Water District Budget – The total water district budget is $1,250,689, which includes a general fund transfer of $261,885. The budget holds the usage rate at 10.33 per $1,000 gallons. We currently have $1,338 active metered customers on the system and believe it will take 1,600 to 1,650 to break even assuming we do not take on any additional debt for the system.
Maria Parham Incentive – Maria Parham Health is in the process of adding a cardiac cath lab which will increase the tax value over $3.2 million and add over 25 jobs with an average wage of over $60,000. As a result of this, we have been discussing an economic development incentive agreement with Maria Parham for several months. We were unable to hold the necessary public hearings and approve the agreement last night due to restrictions that were previously in place related to COVID-19 and public hearings.
Eaton Johnson – The Board approved financing for the project and awarded the contract for the renovation of the former Eaton Johnson Middle School building to Danco Builders, who was the lowest qualified bidder. We will need approval of the financing from the Local Government Commission which meets on July 7, but after that, we will be finalizing contracts and work will begin for the 10-month project to renovate Eaton Johnson for use by DSS. The construction cost approved was $3,030,856.38 and the total project budget with engineering and other contingencies included is $4,531,662. We are hopeful for an August 1, 2020, start date which would put completion in April or May of next year.
Vance County’s approved budget documents and Capital Improvements Plan (CIP) can be viewed on the County’s Board of Commissioners website (click here).