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Vance County Appearance Commission seeks your help

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The Vance County Appearance Commission is seeking increased participation from residents across the county in efforts to recycle household items and other materials that can be reused.

Local participation in recycling by residents is less than 30 percent across Vance County. Members of the County Appearance Commission want more residents to recycle.

Recycling in Henderson and throughout Vance County is easy. In the city of Henderson, all recyclable items can be placed in the plastic bins provided by the city. Once the bins are placed by the street curb on designated pick-up days, Waste Industries personnel will collect the items for proper recycling. For residents living outside of Henderson and in Vance County, all recyclable items can be taken to one of the eight manned collection sites located throughout the county and placed in the large, recycling bins. They are collected regularly by Waste Industries for proper recycling.

Residents do not have to separate recyclable items in the city or throughout the county. Separation of the items is done during the recycling process.

Items that should be recycled include: any plastic bottles, containers and jugs; all aluminum, steel and tin cans; all mixed paper; all newspapers; all magazines; all milk cartons; all paper or cardboard cartons; all food boxes; all envelopes; all flattened cardboard boxes; all glass jars and bottles of any color; used cooking oil; used motor oil and filters; large appliances including refrigerators, AC units and water heaters; all electronics including televisions, radios, cell phones, computer towers and monitors and keyboards; furniture; and bed mattresses.

In the county, these recyclables items can be taken to the manned collection sites located on: N.C. 39 North of Henderson; Warrenton Road near U.S. 1 Bypass; Gun Club Road; Tungsten Mine Road; old Aycock school site on Vicksboro Road; North Chavis Road off U.S. 1 Business; Manson-Drewry Road; and Brodie Road.

Electronics for recycling are accepted only at the N.C. 39 North and Brodie Road collection sites.

Used tires also are accepted for recycling at the Transfer Station near the N.C. 39 North site. These items must be covered with a tarp for proper transportation to the site.

The collection sites are open Mondays through Saturdays from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Recycling is a good idea and is important because it: saves natural resources; prevents environmental problems that come from landfills; saves energy; prevents pollution; creates jobs; and saves money.

The Vance County Appearance Commission is urging all county residents to do their part to protect our environment for future generations by recycling today and always!

Vance County Cancels School for students on Election Day

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The Vance County Board of Education during its meeting Monday night approved the rescheduling of Tuesday, November 8, which is National Election Day, to a mandatory teacher workday with no school for students. It was originally scheduled as a regular school day.

Five of our schools, New Hope, L.B. Yancey, E.O. Young, Henderson Middle and Northern Vance High, are used as voting sites. It was the opinion of the board and school system administrators that with the expected large turnout for the election the day would be especially disruptive at these five schools, if it would have been a regular school day.

With the board’s action, no students in Vance County Schools will attend school on that day. However, all school system employees will be working.

Search Warrant Leads to Drug Arrest

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Henderson Police Department Press Release

On Sunday, October 9, 2016, members of the Henderson Police Department Special Operations Unit executed a search warrant at 1218 Toppleman Street, Henderson.  During the search, officers located and seized 239 bindles of heroin as well as 2.6 grams of marijuana.hpd-raheem-debnam-100916

Raheem Debnam, 25, 1218 Toppleman Street, Henderson was charged with the following offenses:  Trafficking heroin by manufacture, trafficking heroin by possession, maintaining a dwelling for keeping a controlled substance, simple possession of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia and possession with the intent to manufacture, sell, and deliver heroin.

Debnam was placed in the Vance County Jail after failing to post a 100,000.00 secured bond.  A preliminary hearing has been scheduled for Vance County District Court on October 24, 2016.

Authority: Chief Marcus Barrow

News 10/11/16

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News 10/10/16

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Voluntary Water Conservation

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UPDATE: NOON

Water conservation order has now been lifted per Brian Short, Director of Emergency Operations for Vance County.

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Henderson is the managing partner of The Kerr Lake Regional Water System, which prepares and distributes clean, fresh water to Henderson and areas in Vance County, areas in and around Oxford and Warrenton plus other outside sales to areas like Franklin County.

The water plant lost power at some point as a result of the weather.  Vance County Director of Emergency Management Brian Short said power had been restored but reserve tanks need to refill.

Voluntary water conservation efforts are in effect until further notice.

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News 10/07/16

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VCS State of Schools Luncheon

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End of Grade Tests Better; Vance Has Exited Low Performance Status; Closing Gap to State Averages; Vance Improving Quicker Than Several State Averages

On Wednesday, September 28, 2016, Superintendent Anthony Jackson addressed a crowd of about 70 business and community leaders.  In his opening remarks he said, “I want you to leave with a renewed commitment to the schools and the community.  Put your name on every child you encounter.”vcs-state-of-schools-lunch-2016-jackson

Discussed was student achievement, safe and orderly schools, quality of education, effective and efficient operations and how to be good educators in the 21st century environment.

The luncheon event was co-hosted by the Henderson Rotary Club and the Vance County Public School Foundation.

Jackson also discussed aspirations for the 17 local public schools for the current school year and provided those in attendance with a “Strategic Roadmap” for the next five years.

He told those in attendance he wanted young adults “ready for society the Monday after graduation.”  Jackson wants feedback from business and community leaders about how to better prepare students for entry into the local workforce.

And Jackson said a supportive community is key, that the mindset here needs to be one of looking at the improvements and tying them to excellence.

Some of the information shared by Jackson included:

  • an 82 percent graduation rate for Vance County Schools for 2015-2016
  • members of the Class of 2016 graduating with over $7.5 million in scholarships to attend colleges in the fall
  • the Vance County Early College High School completed the 2015-2016 school year as an “A” school based on the N.C. School Performance Grade recognition system
  • Aycock Elementary School and the STEM Early High School were both “B” schools for 2015-2016 for N.C. Performance Grades
  • no local schools were judged as “F” schools for the 2015-2016 school year
  • students in grades 5 and 8 increased their scores overall on the N.C. science end-of-grade test by more than 13 percent last year
  • students in grades 3-5 improved their state end-of-grade scores in reading and math by: an increase of 15 percent in proficiency at New Hope Elementary; an increase of more than 10 percent in proficiency at Clarke Elementary; an increase of 8.4 percent in proficiency at Aycock Elementary; and an increase of 7 percent in proficiency at both Dabney Elementary and Pinkston Street Elementary
  • student proficiency on state end-of-grade testing in reading and math increased by seven percent at the STEM Early High School and almost six percent each at Eaton-Johnson Middle and Henderson Middle last year.

“All of this took a lot of hard work,” Jackson said. “Our teachers and students should be commended for their accomplishments. This doesn’t happen overnight.  We want to continue to increase our student achievements at a greater rate than students are growing across the state. We recognize we have a gap between our achievements and state achievements, but if we can continue to grow as we did last year we can eliminate the gap over the next few years.”

Jackson acknowledged continuing to make substantial student achievements and closing the gap between proficiency by local students and state proficiency will take more hard work. “But, I’m convinced we can get it done,” he said.

Jackson continued to stress the school system’s theme for 2016-2017 of “Excellence . . . Without Excuse!” He also repeated the increasingly popular slogan of “I’m Vance County Proud. Are you?”

(Editor’s Note – WIZS News attended the luncheon.  The article above was written from our notes and includes excerpts written by Vance County Schools Public Information Officer Terri Hedrick as well.  WIZS News encourages you to read the full VCS article written by Hedrick and posted on the VCS Web Page by clicking on the link below.)

Vance County School State of Schools Luncheon Article as written and posted by Terri Hedrick

Midday Thursday Matthew Update Henderson-Vance

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Midday Thursday Matthew Update Henderson-Vance

Brian Short is the Director of Emergency Operations for Vance County.  Short has provided emergency preparedness teams and local media the latest from the National Weather Service on Hurricane Matthew.

Short wrote in an email, “Attached is the latest weather synopsis from the NWS on HurricaneMatthew — click here. As you can see, our wind gusts are expected to be very light with rainfall amounts of approximately 3 inches over the course of the next few days (not in a short period of time).

“While all eyes are fixed on Florida, our attention remains focused closer to home. Though we do not anticipate needing to implement any sort of emergency protective measures, those avenues remain open to us. We have been continually coordinating with our local and state public safety and response partners and are poised to change that posture quickly if it should be required.

“We encourage everyone to remain vigilant and to continue to monitor this system as it approaches our coast. Large hurricanes such as this one are very unpredictable so we should in no way let our guard down. We will continue to keep everyone informed throughout the coming days.”

For more, visit https://www.weather.gov/rah/.

Citizens Needed for “Community Voices” Program

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Citizens Needed for “Community Voices” Program

Thursday, October 13, 2016, at 6 p.m., a public kick off session will be held at the Vance County Regional Farmers Market
located at 210 Southpark Drive in Henderson (off Beckford Drive).  Join in to find out how “Community Voices” can help your community pinpoint issues and problems and move forward.

Concerned citizens, existing community leaders and representatives from all community-based organizations are encouraged to attend.  The goal is to introduce the “Community Voices” program and give residents the chance to define the issues they face, collectively as anc-coop-ext-community-voices-2016-2 community, and to find ways to solve them.

The program is sponsored by Vance County Cooperative Extension, which provided all these details to WIZS News, and the Cooperative Extension Program and N.C. A&T State University.  Register by calling Morris White, County Extension Director, at 252-438-8188 or email morris_white@ncsu.edu and invite your friends.

Full Community Voices Press Release