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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...
Forty Eight Graduate from Vance County Early College High School
Vance County Schools For Immediate Release May 31, 2017 A total of 48 students in the Class of 2017 graduated on May 26 from the Vance County Early College High School. Their commencement ceremony was held before a packed crowd in the Civic Center at Vance-Granville Community College near Henderson. Kristen Oakes, shown in the...
SCAM JAM Planned In Person County on June 14
Henderson – A recent survey shows that nearly all North Carolinians 50 years and older worry about being a victim of fraud. On June 14, the Kerr Tar Area Agency on Aging with the Person County Senior Center has scheduled a Scam Jam to help educate seniors to protect themselves from frauds and scams. The...
