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Vance County Food Giveway Thursday, Nov 10
NEWS RELEASE – For Immediate Release - Monday, November 7, 2016 TIME SENSITIVE
From: Morris White, County Extension Director
Topic: Vance County Food Giveaway!
Community agencies and the faith-based community have joined forces to help feed Vance County! On Thursday, November 10, 2016 the NC Central/Eastern Food Bank will be distributing bags of food to community members who are in need of food at the Vance County Regional Farmers Market. The distribution will begin at 10 a.m. with volunteers from various agencies from across the county. Citizens will receive disbursements using a drive through method, as bags will be bought to individual cars when citizens arrive at the site.
This project is being sponsored locally by St. James Missionary Baptist Church, Vance County Department of Social Services, Vance County Cooperative Extension Center, and the Vance County USDA Farm Service Agency and Rural Development.
Express Employment Celebrates 15 Years
The HVCC Board and staff along with the Granville Chamber celebrated Express Employment Professionals 15 years serving the Local Community With a Ribbon Cutting on Thursday, September 22nd at 10:00 AM. The Oxford Express Employment Professionals office celebrated its 15 years in business-year anniversary on August, 6 2016 said Hal Muetzel, franchisee of the Express office.
“The people and businesses of Oxford have made these last 15 years great ones,” said Muetzel. “We have enjoyed helping area businesses and job seekers with all their staffing needs, and we look forward to many more successful years.”
The Oxford Express Employment Professionals franchise began operation in August 6, 2001 at 219 Granville Corners in the former Walmart Shopping Center and relocated downtown to Main Street in Oxford in 2011. The office serves the Granville, Vance, Person Warren, and Alamance Counties in North Carolina and the South Hill, VA area with temporary help and direct hire employees in a variety of fields, including administrative, commercial, data processing, medical, technical, sales, marketing and more. The Oxford office, located at 124 Main Street is currently accepting applications.
Express is on a mission to put a million people to work annually. With offices in the U.S., Canada and South Africa, Express put a record 500,002 people to work in 2015. For more information, call (919)693-1730 or visit ExpressPros.com/oxfordnc.
Vance Charter School Celebrates New Location
On Thursday, November 3rd, the Henderson-Vance Chamber of Commerce held a ribbon cutting for Vance Charter School to celebrate the official opening of their brand-new building, located at 2090 Ross Mill Road in Henderson. Students & parents, faculty and Board members, local dignitary and other supporters were in attendance.
This new facility is now home to over 645 students in grades K-9. Once a dream shared by many, several years in the planning, then construction and now a facility that feels like home and will be around for decades to come.
First day of class for students in the new location will be on Monday, November 7. For more information about Vance Charter School, please contact them at 252-431-0440 or check them out on the web at www.vancecharter.org.
So-ul Delicious Celebrates Reopening with Ribbon Cutting
A ribbon cutting was held on Wednesday, November 2 for So-ul Delicious to celebrate the restaurant’s re-opening and membership with the Chamber. They were joined by the Chamber staff, friends, and family to celebrate their opening. All guests were treated to a tasteful treat and beverage after the ribbon cutting.
At So-ul Delicious you will find on the menu some classics like fried fish, Chit’lins, pig’s feet, turnip greens, and cabbage to name only a few items topped off with some homemade sweets for dessert (apple or peach cobbler and banana pudding). Their menu is relatively inexpensive.
Owner, Rosa Perry, the heart of So-ul Delicious would tell you it is the food you get when you cook with your whole heart and soul. Her dishes are the comfort foods she learned to make over the years, the very ones she raised her family on and served in her restaurant and catering business. Perry said, “When you taste our food, you taste the love and devotion that makes So-ul Delicious.”
Yes its down-home cooking down at So-ul Delicious and you can find them at their location of 1502 Raleigh Road in Henderson. You can also contact them at 252-598-0557 for more information.
VGCC Radiography students collect supplies for Hurricane Matthew victims
Students in the Radiography program at Vance-Granville Community College recently answered a call to help those who were devastated by Hurricane Matthew, collecting a massive amount of supplies for the victims in North and South Carolina.
VGCC Radiography clinical coordinator/instructor Stacey Soles arranged a partnership with Black’s Tire & Auto Service, which has 38 locations from Raleigh to Florence, South Carolina, and was founded in her home county of Columbus. The company was encouraging residents of its service area to collect supplies, which its employees would then pick up and deliver directly to those in need. Among the items being sought were diapers, children’s toys, bottled water, cleaning supplies, toiletries, non-perishable food, new t-shirts, socks and undergarments.
Students set up drop-off points on all four of the college’s campuses, in Vance, Granville, Franklin and Warren counties. Then, on Oct. 20, Black’s Tire & Auto Service picked up the donations at the South Campus, where the Radiography program is located. Students and faculty members loaded the supplies onto the truck sent by the company, which was quickly filled, and a second truck was called. Even that truck could not hold all of the donations, so Soles took some in her own vehicle to the company’s Raleigh location.
Black’s Tire & Auto Service later delivered the items to people in Fair Bluff, N.C., and Nichols, S.C., both of which experienced extensive flooding from the hurricane.
“The Radiography students and program faculty would like to extend our thanks to everyone who helped make the hurricane relief drive a success,” Soles said. “We were overwhelmed with the generous outpouring of support from our fellow faculty, staff, students and members of the community, including several businesses around our South Campus.”
Based at VGCC’s South Campus between Creedmoor and Butner, the two-year Radiography degree program prepares graduates to be radiographers, skilled health care professionals who use radiation to produce images of the human body. For more information on Radiography, contact Dean of Health Sciences Angela Thomas at (252) 738-3397.
Upcoming City of Henderson Meetings
The Henderson City Council’s Land Planning Committee will meet on Wednesday, November 2, 2016, at 3:00 p.m. in the Large Conference Room at City Hall, 134 Rose Avenue. The purpose of this meeting is to discuss property issues.
The Henderson City Council’s Housing Advisory Committee will meet in Council Chambers, 134 Rose Avenue, on Thursday, November 3, 2016 at 6:00 p.m. The purpose of this meeting is to continue review/discussion regarding housing issues. It is possible a quorum of City Council members may attend; however, no action by Council will be taken during this meeting.