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Families Can Sign Up Oct 25 – Nov 8 for Kids to Shop With A Cop

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Henderson Police Department Press Release – October 22, 2021

For the 2021 Holiday Season, the Henderson Police Department and the Vance County Sheriff’s Office have partnered with the Vance County Department of Social Services to assist children and families in the City of Henderson and Vance County during the holiday season through the “Shop with a Cop” program.

Funds raised through the Henderson-Vance Chamber of Commerce “Shop with a Cop” raffle and by generous donors will be used to help underprivileged children and struggling families who otherwise would go without during the holidays. Individuals and families selected will have the opportunity to “Shop with a Cop” with one of Henderson’s and Vance County’s law enforcement officers.

Individuals or families wishing to participate in the “Shop with a Cop” program can pick up and return applications from October 25, 2021, to November 8, 2021, at Sadie’s Coffee Corner located at 324 S. Garnett Street.

Please send any donations to the Henderson Police Department make checks payable to the City of Henderson.

Completing a referral does not guarantee assistance.

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Watch Out for Scam Email, Those Impersonating Others

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Henderson-Vance Chamber of Commerce President Michele Burgess reminded members Friday to ignore potentially spam emails.

Be especially careful at this time due to the fact that the subject line of an email going around right now is misleading about the Chamber itself.

Burgess wrote to members, including WIZS Radio, in a legitimate email and said, “Several of our business members reached out to me yesterday afternoon to report a strange email they received … (The sender) was asking our business owners if they were interested in purchasing our Chamber of Commerce professional contacts for your sales, marketing, and promotional activities.”

Burgess said, “This is a scam!

“The Henderson-Vance County Chamber of Commerce would never sell your business contact information to a third party for any reason. I am working to now to try to track down this person and her company to warn her to stop using our Chamber of Commerce name in her company marketing.”

Delete the email.

Burgess can be reached for additional details or if you have more you can report to her. Call 438-8414 or email michele@hendersonvance.org.

The Local Skinny! WOVEN to Sharpen Your Workplace Skills

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Women Of Vance Empowered Networking

WOVEN is a Henderson-Vance Chamber of Commerce sponsored program to provide networking and professional development opportunities to women in the workplace throughout Vance County and the area.

Guest speaker Cherrelle Lawrence, the Dean of Corporate Learning & Professional Development at Vance Granville Community College and Dean for the Franklin Campus in Louisburg, will help sharpen your skills to advance in the workplace on July 14th at noon.

For $20 per attendee, which includes a box lunch, you can attend at Vance Granville Community College Civic Center.

To register, call 252-438-8414 or email christa@hendersonvance.org.  Seating is limited.

Dean Lawrence earned her Master of Business Administration in 2020 from East Carolina University. Prior to returning to VGCC, Dean Lawrence was the Assistant Director of Employer Relations at Kenan-Flagler Business School at UNC Chapel Hill.

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Local Business Transportation Survey Respondents Needed

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The Oscar Mayer Wienermobile is surely one vehicle that almost no one will ever be afforded the opportunity to drive to work.  There is a special program for that.

All fun aside, there is presently special transportation survey information out from the Henderson-Vance Chamber of Commerce.

According to Chamber President Michele Burgess, the Chamber’s Governmental and Public Affairs Division is seeking responses to the survey to identify local transportation needs.

Burgess said in an email received by WIZS News, The Chamber, “in partnership with the Community Collaborative Council, would appreciate your immediate response to a survey to help identify local transportation needs as it relates to recruiting, hiring, and maintaining employees at your business/industry.”

Follow this link to SurveyMonkey – https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/PPNTW9M

Basically, the survey is trying to determine if transportation limitations are impacting ways people travel to work, how they travel and if recruiting new workers is being affected by means of transportation.

(The Wienermobile visited the Raleigh Road Outdoor Theatre in Henderson on Friday, November 13, 2020. — If you want to read more about that, click here.  If you want to read more about the Wienermobile itself, follow this link – https://www.oscarmayer.com/wienermobile).

 

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TownTalk 03-23-21: H-V Chamber Advances will help with Human Resources

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The newly formed Human Resources Council, a program of the Henderson-Vance Chamber of Commerce, will have its first meeting on Thursday, Mar. 25 at 1 p.m. There’s still time to register to participate in the virtual meeting, according to Chamber President Michele Burgess.

Burgess said the council, which falls under the chamber’s business growth and development division, will bring together human resources professionals from a variety of businesses and industry to network, problem-solve and share ideas. The council will meet monthly, she said, and will feature guest speakers.

The purpose of the council is “to help our members grow and to help them solve problems that they’re losing sleep over at night,” Burgess told John C. Rose on Tuesday’s Town Talk. Until the group can gather in person again – which Burgess hopes it will be able to do by the fall – virtual meetings can help connect area human resources professionals to one another. And this, she said, will build relationships as well as a network for sharing ideas and helping solve HR problems.

One of the challenges that businesses, both large and small, face in the Vance County area is finding employees to fill job openings, Burgess said. These days, besides asking for information about COVID-19 related loans and grants, the Chamber fields calls from companies wondering how and where to find good employees. “That’s really how the whole human resources council came to be,” she said. “It really started even before COVID,” she said, adding that she hopes through strengthening relationships with the public school system and VGCC, the talent pool and workforce development can improve for area business and industry.

Thursday’s speaker is Cherrelle Lawrence, dean of corporate learning and professional development at Vance-Granville Community College. The topic is “Investing in Talent.” Lawrence, who also serves as dean of VGCC’s Franklin campus, will kick off the council gathering with an overview of topics related to human resources. “I’m excited for my business members to hear her,” Burgess said. “She is really dynamic and full of energy!”

TownTalk Podcast with Michele Burgess.

The HR Council will serve to inform human resource officers and managers in local businesses about innovative programs including specific training, apprenticeships and internships offered in the community, she said. “We like being involved,” Burgess said of the Chamber, “but we also like to share with our other partners like VGCC’s Small Business Center, local economic development commission and other entities that attract new business.

“We feel like the workforce issue is very important at this particular time,” Burgess continued. “We want to keep our local businesses here and operating (and) workforce pool is key to that,” she said. “We realize (at the Chamber) that we can’t do everything. But getting people employed and helping our industry” is a top priority.

The Chamber’s business growth and development division is co-chaired Chamber members by Brian Williams, account manager at Temperature Control Solutions, and Stephanie Hoyle, broker associate with Century 21 Country Knolls Realty.

To learn more or to register for the Thursday meeting, email michele@hendersonvance.org or call 252.438.8414.

A Chamber That Binds

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It’s not easy to bring people together.  To bind them together is still more difficult.

It takes energy, and sometimes it takes a “new generation of business leadership.”  That’s the phrase used to describe Tyler Brewer at Thursday night’s Henderson-Vance Chamber of Commerce Meeting and Banquet.  Brewer is the incoming, 2020 Chamber Board Chair.

Tyler Brewer, 2020 Chamber Board Chair

The 2019 Chamber Board Chair, Nancy Wykle, described Brewer just that way.  Brewer followed by saying to a packed Vance-Granville Community College Civic Center crowd of 400 plus, “Let us all help each other grow.”  Economic growth, like will be discussed at the upcoming Economic Development Summit sponsored in part by the Chamber in February.  And the continued growth of downtown Henderson, Henderson at large and the County already started in 2019 as described by Wykle.

Wykle said, in 2019, the Chamber performed 17 ribbon cuttings, five business after hour events, four lunch and learn sessions, hosted and sponsored a hometown debate on healthcare that was broadcast statewide on Spectrum News, continued community outreach programs like with “Shop With A Cop” and put on a successful golf tournament plus adjusted its budget to achieve solvency.

For just the third time in the history of the Chamber’s Citizen of the Year Award, a couple was selected for the 2019 Citizen of the Year Award.  Tommy and Carolyn Farmer were introduced by 2018 Citizen of the Year Thomas C. Church.

Tommy and Carolyn Farmer, 2019 Citizens of the Year for the H-V Chamber of Commerce

The Farmers have been a binding force in the community too, at church, at school, at places all around where they volunteer.  As Mr. Church built the anticipation in the room as he worked up to naming Mr. and Mrs. Farmer, he described the “dynamic duo” with some of the words found on the nomination forms: “Genuine.  Dedicated.  Faithful.”  The Farmers were described as servants.  And Church said, “They have planted seeds and the fruits of their labor can be seen in their students.”

It even turns out that Brewer himself was a former soccer player under Mr. Farmer.  And the two socialized together at the end of the night.  A fitting end to an evening that started with a social hour of hor dourves, coffee and hot chocolate and live music.

The Farmers were selected because they saw the “value of helping children…and education…and they have done (their) work quietly and tirelessly.”  The United Way, the local Men’s Shelter, Civic clubs and duties, community service, tutoring and working with children and families, church leaders and volunteers.  The love of sport and soccer and athletics and even transporting other children, along with their own, to sports and church.  The Farmers have helped bring together and bind together their community.

A short video presentation showed an active, supportive membership which is engaged with it’s Chamber.  Sort of a “you should join the Chamber because” type video to affirm a mission and energize for the future.

And to go along with it, the Chamber Banquet was fun.  It worked.  Great food.  Music.  Time to socialize.  And geared for a

L to R: Nancy Wykle, Publisher of The Daily Dispatch, along with Desiree Boyd Brooks, 2019 Chamber Ambassador of the Year and advertising director at The Daily Dispatch.

diverse group of ages, backgrounds and beliefs.  The banquet was timely and business-like.  It radiated an energy, if you will, that can bind its members and community.

Also named at the banquet was the 2019 Ambassador of the Year, Desiree Boyd Brooks.  She was recognized for being an ambassador for several years now, because she works with members to add value to their membership and because of her passion.  Hal Muetzel introduced Brooks as “well connected…a walking testimonial for the Chamber…and a busy mom.”

Shout Out to the Vance County High School Chorus!! Fantastic, awesome and great job and performance tonight at the Henderson-Vance Chamber of Commerce banquet. Just as our Chamber binds businesses, citizens, volunteers and leaders together, your performance of “Pray for Peace” demonstrated to all the binds of prayer. Beautiful job chorus and soloists…”Pray for Peace…Pray for mother…father…children…Pray for leaders…Pray for forgiveness…Pray for brother…sister…me…Pray for wisdom…Pray for others…Pray for Peace!”

Vance County High School Chorus

Local Chambers Present Administrative Professionals Day Luncheon 4-25-18

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— NEWS RELEASE FROM GRANVILLE COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

AREA CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE HOSTING
ADMINISTRATIVE PROFESSIONALS DAY LUNCHEON
Allison S. Capps, Assistant District Attorney, 9th Prosecutorial District, Guest Presenter

The Granville County Chamber of Commerce, together with Franklin, Warren and Vance Chambers, are, once again, sponsoring the annual Administrative Professionals Luncheon.

This year’s event is being held Wednesday, April 25 at noon, at Thorndale Oaks, 105 West Quail Ridge Road in Oxford. Business owners and administrators are encouraged to treat their administrative professionals to lunch, networking and a very interesting presentation by Allison S. Capps, Assistant District Attorney/9th Prosecutorial District, in observance of Administrative Professionals’ Day. The luncheon is an open invitation.

Allison Siler Capps grew up in Belmont, NC. She attended Peace College, receiving her B.A. in Psychology. Following Peace, she attended the Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law at Campbell University, from which she received her law degree.

She began her career as an Assistant District Attorney in the 2nd Prosecutorial District, working for just over a year. She returned to the 9th District, (Granville, Vance, Franklin and Warren counties) where she had interned while in law school.

“As a member of the DA’s office, she has tried over 20 jury trials, ranging from DWIs to First Degree Murders and everything in between.” She has received numerous awards from Crime Stoppers, NC Gang Investigators Assoc., etc.

Mrs. Capps is an active member of Delrayno Baptist Church, President of the Board of Directors for the Granville Education Foundation, participates in Girls on the Run Program and in the NC Law Enforcement Torch Run for Special Olympics. She resides in Oxford with her husband, Jason, and their son, Luke.

Lunch reservations are required ~ $20/person by April 19th to either of the Chamber’s offices – 919.693.6125, wanda@granville-chamber.com or 919.528.4994, tawheeler@granville-chamber.com

VGCC schedules tax seminar for small businesses

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

February 28, 2018

 

VGCC schedules tax seminar for small businesses

The Vance-Granville Community College Small Business Center, in partnership with Woodforest National Bank and the Henderson-Vance Chamber of Commerce, is offering a “Lunch Break to Educate” seminar on “Tax Planning & Reporting for a Small Business” on Wednesday, March 7, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

The seminar, which is free of charge, will be held at the Chamber of Commerce office at 414 South Garnett Street in Henderson.

After completing this seminar, attendees will be able to identify the federal, state and local tax reporting requirements of a small business and its owner, and to establish a plan to account and pay for those taxes. They will also learn how to identify methods for researching the local, municipal, and county reporting/licensing requirements for a small business.

Lunch will be provided by Woodforest National Bank to the first 20 participants who register.

The seminar is part of a series, called “Preparing for a Healthy Business in 2018,” being offered by the VGCC Small Business Center periodically throughout the year.

Registration can be completed online at www.vgcc.edu/schedules/small-business-center. The deadline to register is March 2.

For more information, contact Tanya Weary at smallbusiness@vgcc.edu or (252) 738-3240.

–VGCC–

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Highlights from the 80th Annual Henderson-Vance Chamber of Commerce Banquet

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The 80th annual Henderson-Vance County Chamber of Commerce banquet, presented by Duke Energy, was held Thursday, February 1 in the Civic Center of Vance-Granville Community College. Highlights included:

  • Kristen Boyd of Aycock Elementary School was recognized as Vance County Schools Principal of the Year.
  • Jacqueline Batchelor-Crosson of Pinkston Street and L.B. Yancey elementary schools was recognized as Assistant Principal of the Year.
  • Estelle Mang-gum of L.B. Yancey Elementary was recognized as Beginning Teacher of the Year.
  • Kedecia Stewart of Pinkston Street Elementary School was recognized as Vance County Schools’ Teacher of the Year.
  • Anthony Jackson, superintendent of Vance County Schools was recognized for being the recipient of the 2017 “Friday” Medal. This medal was awarded by the Friday Institute at N.C. State University for Educational Innovation in the North Carolina public school systems.
  • Stelfanie Williams, president of Vance-Granville Community College was recognized for being named the 2018 President of the Year by the North Carolina State Board of Community Colleges. She is the first VGCC president to receive this honor.

  • Pastor Abidan Shah and family and other church-family members

    This year’s Shining Moment Award recipient was Clearview Baptist Church. This award recognizes the most outstanding business, organization, church, civic or community group for the support of Vance County schools. Pastor Abidan Shah accepted the award on behalf of the church.

  • Past chairs, past presidents, elected Board of Directors, Ex-Officio Board of Directors, board officers, outgoing board members and chamber ambassadors stood and were recognized for their contributions.
  • Pam Norwood, of Magnolia Management, was presented with the 2017 Chamber Ambassador of the year award.
  • Duke Energy was recognized as the presenting sponsor. The gold, silver, bronze, contributing and advocate sponsors were also recognized.
  • Members of the Chamber Pinnacle Program, past citizens of the year, past Leadership Vance participants, chamber staff and special guests were recognized.
  • Henderson and Vance County first responders and veterans were recognized.

    Mel Manning and Susan Rogers

  • 2018 Board Chair Mel Manning presented 2017 Board Chair Susan Rogers with a plaque in recognition for her service to the community and shared his vision for the chamber for 2018.
  • Joe Dittmar, a survivor of the World Trade Center collapse on September 11, 2001, was introduced by Chamber President John Barnes as the keynote speaker. Dittmar spoke on his experiences that day and on the importance of sound decision-making skills.
  • Pete O’Geary, the 2016 Citizen of the Year, presented the 2017 Citizen of the Year award to Thomas “Tommy” Hester, Jr. Tommy’s various achievements and contributions to Henderson and Vance County were announced and his family joined him on stage to receive his honor.
  • Door prizes donated by Franklin Brothers Nursery and Greenhouses, MARS Petcare, Lowe’s Home Improvement Warehouse, Schewels Furniture Company and W.W. Properties were awarded to lucky recipients.

 

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H-V Chamber Banquet Feb. 1, 2018

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Henderson-Vance County Chamber of Commerce Annual Membership Meeting and Banquet
February 1, 2018

Speaker: Joseph Dittmar, Sr
World Trade Center Survivor/Always Remember Initiative

Vance-Granville Community College Civic Center
Dinner will begin promptly at 6:30 p.m.

Tickets:
$35 per person; Reserved Tables of 10 are $320

Contact Melanie Mann for information or to purchase tickets info@henderesonvance.org

Presenting Sponsor: Duke Energy

Silver Sponsors: BB&T, MARS Petcare, Wake Electric Membership Cooperation, Walmart DC #6091

Bronze Sponsors: Express Employment Professionals, J.M. White Funeral Service

Contributing Sponsor: Vance County Economic Development Commission

If you are interested in being a sponsor, contact Jay Andrews, Director of Membership at jay@hendersonvance.org