WIZS Radio Local News Audio 04-20-23 Noon
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The Local Skinny! Diabetes Program To Be Presented
Granville Vance Public Health is sponsoring a program Monday at the Lincoln Heights Apartment Community Room to talk about Type 2 diabetes and how to reduce the risk of getting that life-changing diagnosis.
Wendy Ji, regional coordinator for the Minority Diabetes Prevention Program, was on TownTalk Thursday to share details about the upcoming event, which includes lunch and drawings to win prizes.
“Let’s Talk About Diabetes” is a free program that will be held from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Ji said. It’s just one way state health officials collaborate with local health departments to help individuals understand how a diagnosis of prediabetes can be reversed with simple lifestyle changes.
The MDPP that Ji coordinates serves Vance, Granville, Franklin, Warren and four other nearby counties.
“It’s very difficult to manage Type 2 diabetes,” Ji noted, adding that this program focuses on helping individuals understand what prediabetes is and how to keep it from developing into full-blown disease.
“Over one in three (people) have prediabetes,” Ji said. But only 80 percent of those are aware that they have it. “Being aware you are at risk is important to know so you can get resources and make lifestyle changes,” she said.
Someone with prediabetes has blood sugar levels that are higher than normal, but they haven’t climbed into the level to indicate diabetes.
More classes will be offered in the fall across the service area, Ji said. Individuals can have their A1C levels tested Monday, but there also is a 7-question screener to help participants understand their risk for developing diabetes.
Visit www.preventdiabetesnc.org to learn more.
Contact Ji at 252.492.7195, ext 125.
En español: Llamar a Elizabeth Lugo, 252.492.7195, ext.269.
Lincoln Heights Apartments is located at 257 Lincoln St., Henderson.
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TownTalk: Clearview Church Plans BASS Legacy Night
An upcoming event at Clearview Church has some interesting similarities to some New Testament accounts of Jesus and his disciples being fishers of men. Or should that be fishermen?
Dr. Abidan Shah invites the community to come to Clearview on April 29 at 6 p.m. for BASS Legacy Night to hear a group of professional anglers talk about fishing, as well as offer testimonies.
Curtis Vick, a lay leader at Clearview, also is a co-angler, which is a step shy of being a professional. Vick said on TownTalk Thursday that he hopes others will find ways to strengthen – or establish – their faith as a result of the program.
It begins at 5:30 p.m. with a meal, and the discussion with eight or so other big names in Major League Fishing circles is from 6 p.m. to about 8 p.m.
“We’re using fishing as a platform for the Gospel,” said Ryan Hill, another Clearview member.
In addition to a free meal, participants will have the chance to win prizes throughout the evening. Contact info@clearviewbc.org to learn more.
Registration is appreciated, but not required.
Organizers hope to see 250 people or more attend.
Vick, who was born and raised in Henderson, said he began attending Clearview a few years ago and learned that men should be the spiritual leaders of the household. Since then, he’s taken on that leadership role – with his family and his co-workers.
“I try to lead by example,” he said, admitting that he falls short from time to time, as we all do.
He lives in Boydton, VA, but works in Henderson now, adding that he tries to be a role model for the young people who work with him.
Planning for this event has pushed him outside his comfort zone, but he is reassured by the support he’s gotten from the church staff, its congregation and from the fishing community.
Shah said he is excited about the upcoming event. “It’s going to be phenomenal,” he said. “It’s going back to the roots of the gospel – this is how it all began,” he said.
“We are catching people with the gospel of Jesus Christ.”
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Cooperative Extension With Jamon Glover: Balancing Family And Work, Pt. 3
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SportsTalk: Vance Charter Lacrosse Ties For Conference Championship
First year Vance Charter Lacrosse Head Coach Dan Sandlin is carrying on the family tradition at the school. Sandlin has taken over for his father, Dennis, as the team’s head coach and has taken the defending conference champions to a tie for the conference title with J.F. Webb.
“Lacrosse is growing but, there are not a lot of 1A schools that have lacrosse,” Sandlin said on Wednesday’s SportsTalk. With so few teams at the 1A level fielding a lacrosse team that means Sandlin has to compete against larger schools. “We try to schedule teams we can compete against,” Sandlin said.
The program has been very successful in the four years it has been offered at Vance Charter. Coming off of last year’s conference championship has been a bit challenging as the team lost seven starters to graduation, but the defending champions are in the thick of it again this year with a solid core of players.
While the athletic side is certainly important to Sandlin, the academics are more so. “We really try to help our guys know they are student-athletes with student coming first.”
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TownTalk: Boyd Dealership Victim Of Vehicle Theft
Henderson Police are investigating the theft of three new luxury vehicles from a local car dealership that possibly is related to a spate of similar thefts across the state.
In an interview Wednesday, Police Chief Marcus Barrow told WIZS that the vehicles – a 2023 Cadillac Escalade, a 2023 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 and a 2023 Audi Q5 were driven off the lot of Charles Boyd Chevrolet just before 2 a.m. on Sunday, April 16. The vehicles have an estimated value of $235,000.
Three suspects, which video footage from the dealership shows were all wearing dark clothing, hoods, masks and gloves, broke a window to gain entry inside the building, located at 250 Ruin Creek Road. The whole thing occurred in just over 10 minutes.
This seems to match up with several other incidents across the state, Barrow said. “Multiple locations across North Carolina have been hit this year,” he explained. And it appears the Charlotte-Mecklenburg County area is a “homebase.”
The Escalade’s OnStar GPS system was used to locate the vehicle later on Sunday morning in Matthews, Barrow said, which is a Charlotte suburb.
“I think it’s a fairly large criminal organization doing it,” Barrow said of the break-in and larceny. His department is working with authorities in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg area, the SBI as well as Homeland Security as the investigation continues.
Many car dealerships have similar setups, with keys in the same area, Barrow noted. It could be that people were watching how people and vehicles enter and exit the building over time, or they could have located particular vehicles at particular dealerships before deciding where to strike.
Barrow said the Boyd family was helpful in contacting other dealerships to figure out where thieves had struck, giving local police information to make calls to law enforcement agencies where previous thefts had occurred.
The break-in occurred at 1:43 a.m. and the vehicles were seen driving off the lot west on US 158 Bypass toward Oxford just 11 minutes later, at 1:54 a.m.
This is an active investigation and Barrow asks anyone with information to contact the Henderson Police Department at 252.438.4141, Crime Stoppers at 252.492.1925 or use the P3 app.
Financial compensation is offered for information leading to the arrest of the
responsible individuals.
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Home And Garden Show
On the Home and Garden Show with Vance Co. Cooperative Ext.
- Use row covers to protect young seedlings from birds Ex sweet corn
- Risk of frost is low. Should be safe to plant tomatoes marigolds, begonias, geraniums, squash, and other warm season plants. Hold off on sweet potatoes and peppers and okra.
- Central piedmont Planting Guide is available from Cooperative Extension
- Vegetables with large seeds are usually very easy to grow as direct seeded crops. This includes beans, corn, squash, melons, and more.
- Continue your fruit spray program
- When purchasing vegetable and flower plants, look for stocky plants with deep green foliage, and a strong root system.
- Always check soil before tilling.
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WIZS Radio Local News Audio 04-19-23 Noon
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The Local Skinny! Programs For Youth And More At Perry Memorial Library
With National Library Week coming up, Perry Memorial Library Youth Services Director Melody Peters took some time to chat with WIZS’s Bill Harris on The Local Skinny! about the important roles libraries play in society.
Sure, they’re a place where you can go and check out books, but Peters said libraries provide so much more. And the Henderson library is ever-evolving to respond to the needs and wants of the community it serves.
“We’re meeting information needs,” Peters said, adding that those needs vary greatly from person to person. She said patrons feel they get “honest, unbiased advice when they come to the library.”
Whether it’s asking for help finding a resource or searching online for a particular document or website, librarians are always at the ready to assist patrons.
“Not everyone can do everything online,” she said. “They still need that guidance” that comes from one-on-one assistance. You know – the old-fashioned way. “You have to constantly evolve and adapt” to respond to the needs of your community, Peters added.
Perry Memorial Library offers a variety of programs for young people, including Life Hacks and Survival Skills, which offers middle- and high-school aged students workshops on everything from sewing a set of mittens to learning how poetry slams work.
And the upcoming Kids Connect session will feature a poetry workshop with Valerie Rodriguez. That program, geared for kids in grades K-5, will be held Tuesday, April 25 at 4:30 p.m.
Stargazers are invited to head out to the community house at Satterwhite Point Saturday evening for a special astronomy program that begins at 7:45 p.m. Weather permitting, there will be telescopes set up and pointed at the skies for participants to learn about constellations.
There will be plenty of activities inside, too, Peters said, just in case the skies are cloudy.
Visit https://www.perrylibrary.org/ to learn more.
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SportsTalk: KVA Baseball Plans Alumni Game
A quick check of the gymnasium at Kerr-Vance Academy will find 20-plus state championship banners hanging there representing a variety of sports the school offers. Six of those banners are for baseball championships. Those six championships began with the 2003 Spartan team. While the ’03 team may have won a state championship perhaps their toughest opponent will come this Saturday when that legendary team will face off against the current KVA squad in an alumni fundraising game.
“It’s been in discussion since before Christmas of last year,” said Mike Joyner, KVA Athletic Director, on Wednesday’s SportsTalk. Joyner was approached by Robert Bowen and Tim Purvis, former members of the ’03 team, about the prospects of having the alumni game. “We have a full array of things planned,” Joyner added.
Bowen, Purvis and Joyner all worked together to bring Saturday’s game to the field at Kerr-Vance and money raised at the game will go back to the baseball program including some field improvements.
The 2003 team is now much older and Joyner said there may be some special rules in place to help the old timers out.
The game will take place at 11:30 a.m. at Kerr Vance Academy and admission is $7 for adults and $5 for children.
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