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WIZS Radio Local News Audio 08-10-23 Noon
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The Local Skinny! Pop The Hood: Air Filters
— For our sponsor, Advance Auto Parts, as part of a paid radio sponsorship on WIZS.
Air filters play a vital role in preventing dirt, grit and other impurities from fouling vehicle engines. In the old days, the air filter casing was pretty easy to spot: it was round like a donut and sat right up there on top in a housing that resembles a frying pan.
At least that’s how WIZS co-host John Stevenson said he describes it. These days, however, an air filter is likely found in a rectangular housing near the inside of one of the fenders.Stevenson and colleague Bill Harris discussed the finer points of air filters on the Pop the Hood segment of The Local Skinny!
Let the folks at Advance Auto Parts help you figure out the right type for your make and model.
With just a few bits of information – make, model, year and/or the VIN – the staff at Advance Auto can help you determine the exact type of filter you need.
The air filter should be changed annually – more often, though, if you drive along dusty areas like gravel roads or other places that kicks up dirt.
A clogged air filter can affect your vehicle’s overall performance, Stevenson said.
“It can affect your gas mileage and could throw a check engine light,” he said.
And if your vehicle rolled off the assembly line earlier than 1989, don’t go looking for its cabin air filter – they were first introduced in 1989.
The information contained in this post is not advice from Advance Auto Parts or WIZS. Safety First! Always seek proper help. This is presented for its informational value on and is part of a paid advertising sponsorship.
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TownTalk: Way To Grow Festival Is This Saturday
The Way to GROW festival unfolds this weekend in downtown Henderson, putting the crowning touch on a week of activities to promote entrepreneurship in the community.
Heather Joi Kenney, president of Gateway CDC, is expecting more than 50 vendors to set up shop along Garnett Street, as well as along Breckenridge Street, as part of the celebration.
There will be plenty of vendors on site, serving up food and beverages and more. Two DJs are providing music throughout the day and several groups will perform live during the afternoon. Real Entertainment, based in Henderson, takes the stage first, followed by Jim Quick & Coastline and The Queen’s Court of Charlotte, who will entertain the crowd through the afternoon.
Hosting the festival is Vance County native Chanel Scott, herself an entrepreneur who is an author and FOX Soul talk show host.
The event is a way to showcase local businesses, but Kenney said it’s also a way to show off downtown Henderson.
“It draws people in and shines a light on downtown,” she said. The downtown district has plenty of room for future entrepreneurs to open up their business ventures. “Henderson can become an entrepreneurship hub,” Kenney mused.
“At first, it was just going to be a stand-alone festival,” Kenney said on Thursday’s TownTalk. But she took an idea from a local bank representative and created a weeklong series of workshops for new business owners and for others who are interested in learning starting their own business.
About 30 entrepreneurs have attended the workshops over the course of the week, representing a wide range of businesses – from restaurants and boutique clothing to women farmers and medical billing.
Just as with entrepreneurship, planning a street festival requires lots of planning, creativity and support. Kenney said city officials have been helpful during the planning process since the idea for the festival first germinated.
With a grant from NC IDEA to support businesses in underserved, low-income communities, Kenney and fellow organizer Tracy Mosley from Helping All People Succeed, the festival has moved from the planning stage to the moment everyone’s been waiting for: Festival Day.
Kenney emphasizes that Way to GROW is for the entire community.
“This festival is for all members of the community,” she said. “Henderson needs this,” she continued. “We plan to continue it into the future.”
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Cooperative Extension With Jamon Glover: Discipline Theories
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SportsTalk: Volleyball And Soccer Gets Underway At Crossroads Christian
The beginning of the school year is a busy time not only for students and teachers but for athletic departments as well. Just ask Crossroads Christian Athletic Director Scottie Richardson. “We are wide open. We have open house on Monday and school starts on Wednesday,” said Richardson.
Teams are already practicing and preparing for season openers. The school’s three volleyball teams open at home on Thursday, August 17th against Thales-Apex and soccer will start on Friday, August 18th with a home game against Franklinton.
Holden Coghill, soccer coach at Crossroads, took the team to the final four last year and were ranked #1 all season. “The team got caught up in the hype,” Richardson said but he sees a different mentality this year and with most of the team returning he thinks they will be better prepared to handle the success. He said the numbers of students that have turned out this year for athletics has been great.
WIZS Radio Local News Audio 08-09-23 Noon
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Home And Garden Show
On the Home and Garden Show with Vance Co. Cooperative Ext.
- Check house plants if they have become root bound and replant them in larger containers.
- If you haven’t checked the oil on your mower lately, do it before the next use.
- Take out vegetables that have slowed production use the space for fall vegetables
- Pull, spray or trim microstegium before it sets seed.
- Prepare for your fall garden.
- Collect seed from coneflower, rudbeckia, marigold, zinnia, sunflowers and other flowers to reduce seed costs next year. Avoid collecting from hybrid varieties and store seed in a cool, dry location.
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TownTalk: Introducing Philip Weil, Athletic Director At Vance Co. High
The Vance County High School’s new athletic director has been on the job just over a week, but in that short time, Philip Weil has learned a good deal about its coaches, its student athletes and their desire and determination.
Right now, it’s all about football, but Weil has his eyes and ears on volleyball and soccer, cross country and baseball.
If it has to do with sports and Vance County High School, Weil is ready.
Coming from an urban setting like Las Vegas to a rural area may take some getting used to, but Weil has already found one advantage: Vance County has history.
He switched on the lights at the football field on a recent evening and was wowed by what he saw. “It was gorgeous.”
As he gets to know the process of being an AD, understand the school atmosphere and the sports conference, Weil said he wants to get the community more involved.
One thing he’d like to do is have some high school basketball games held in the gym at the middle school campus. After all, it used to be the home of the Northern Vance Vikings.
But right now, it’s football.
“From what I’ve seen so far from Coach Elliott’s team, they are determined and strong,” Weil said. He called their first tackling practice last week “phenomenal,” in fact.
“I think they are determined to get that state championship.”
As a middle-school baseball and football coach from 2013-22, Weil said he was able to develop student athletes’ skills by getting them involved in a strength and conditioning program.
“Scholarships are made in the weight room,” he said. It wasn’t always easy to get those middle schoolers interested in weight training, but he said the student athletes here at VCHS are motivated.
“They just want to get better and stronger and faster,” he said.
The Local Skinny! Summer Success And Fall Events At Perry Memorial Library
Libraries are usually associated with books – words on pages. But if you’re Melody Peters, you also gotta look at the numbers.
The number 8 – that’s how many weeks of summer programming is in the books (no pun intended) at Perry Memorial Library. The number 38 – that’s how many programs were held. And 1,500-plus? That’s how many participants took part.
“We were busy,” Peters, Youth Services Director at the library, told WIZS co-host Bill Harris during Tuesday’s segment of The Local Skinny! “It was a GREAT summer!” she proclaimed.
In addition to all the different programs held at the library, Peters said a lot of new patrons got library cards, and there were other families who returned after a long hiatus, thanks largely to the COVID-19 pandemic.
There were groups of day campers who got to visit the library, too, which Peters said was good for the library AND for the youngsters whose parents work and didn’t have the time to bring them to check out books or enjoy the programming.
There’s a lot of planning that goes in to creating a successful summer program, but as the saying goes, it isn’t work if you love what you do.
And that is true for Peters. “I love what I do,” she said. “I love talking to people and working with kids of all ages.”
When she can help a young person find a book that brings a smile to their face, it’s a gift.
“I think it’s the best gift in the world,” she said.
But she’s not resting on her laurels, just taking a slight breather during August before fall programming cranks back up.
Thanks to input from the community, there will be a few adjustments to the fall schedule, along with some additional programs for young people to enjoy.
The Maker Space is opening up for a gaming and robotics club on Thursdays, she noted.
And the popular Lego Club, Life Hacks, Survival Skills and Kids Connect will continue.
“It’s kind of the same model…then things will expand a little bit,” she said.
One add-on comes from a suggestion Peters got on a sticky note, on which a young person wrote “electricity.”
She contacted Vance Granville Community College, got some ideas and then got a grant for all the materials needed to teach the nuts and bolts of electricity to youngsters.
“That’s what I love,” Peters said, of the responsive collaboration to create new programs.
It’s planned for Oct. 10, which coincidentally is a teacher workday.
She’s got the equipment, the contact and the space, she said, to present the program.
Considering the interest from the summer program, getting the kids to participate shouldn’t be too difficult.
Find out about all the services and programs offered at Perry Memorial Library at https://www.perrylibrary.org/.
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