Cooperative Extension with Wayne Rowland: Christmas Trees
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Cooperative Extension With Paul McKenzie: What Works in the Garden
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Home And Garden Show
On the Home and Garden Show with Vance Co. Cooperative Ext.
- Compost your leaves this year! DO NOT BURN LEAVES
- Inspect shade trees now that leaves have fallen.
- Select NC Christmas Trees!
- Monitor soil moisture on any fall planted trees/shrubs
- Use greenery from your landscape when decorating this year.
- Include NC products in your holiday celebrations.
- Bring soil samples to Cooperative Extension TODAY
- Consider getting mowers serviced now.
- Consider Gardening books or garden tools for Gardeners on your Gift list.
- Consider how your landscape looks through the winter.
- Keep leaves off newly planted grass
- Check mower height on lawn mowers and replace blades.
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The Local Skinny! Maria Parham Health Receives Medicaid Expansion Funds
Maria Parham Health joins more than 100 hospitals in the state’s 70 rural counties to share close to $2.6 billion federal funds that will be used to provide support as the state rolls out Medicaid expansion.
Friday, Dec. 1 marks the start date for NC DHHS to launch the Medicaid expansion across North Carolina, meaning an estimated 600,000 people will be eligible for full Medicaid coverage. Almost 300,000 people currently with limited Medicaid family planning benefits will automatically be enrolled.
In a statement to WIZS News, MPH Public Information Officer Donna Young said “Maria Parham Health is proud to join hospitals and health systems statewide in celebrating the launch of Medicaid expansion.” The Healthcare Access and Stabilization Program (HASP) funds enable hospitals to pay for the non-federal share costs of Medicaid expansion efforts, and will “strengthen the state’s healthcare delivery network and ensure greater access to healthcare, especially for those residing here in Vance County,” Young stated.
“These payments to hospitals are a lifeline and critical as we work to strengthen rural hospitals and health systems in North Carolina,” said NC HHS Secretary Kody H. Kinsley. “The money will ensure people covered by Medicaid and Medicaid expansion have access to comprehensive physical and behavioral health care services in the communities they live in.”
Gov. Roy Cooper called Medicaid expansion “a monumental achievement that will save lives and provide better health care while sending billions to our economy.” “We’re beginning to see the real-life impacts of this extraordinary win for North Carolinians through these first payments to our rural hospitals that have been struggling for years to keep their doors open,” Cooper stated.
Medicaid expansion and HASP will be financed through new assessments on North Carolina hospitals and will allow the state to draw down more than $8 billion each year from the federal government based on expected ultimate expansion enrollment. This will have a historic impact on individuals across the state, including the more than 4.6 million people living in one of the 70 rural counties across North Carolina.
The HASP payments are calculated based on in-network Medicaid managed care payments to acute care hospitals, critical access hospitals, hospitals owned or controlled by the University of North Carolina Health Care System and ECU Health Medical Center.
To learn more about Medicaid enrollment and eligibility, call the MPH helpline at 252.923.3747 or visit www.mariaparham.com/medicaid.
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Cooperative Extension With Paul McKenzie: What Works in the Garden
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Cooperative Extension with Wayne Rowland: Fall Planted Bulbs
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The Local Skinny! Events At Perry Memorial Library
The Perry Memorial Library has a flurry of events planned between Thanksgiving and Christmas, providing lots of interactive activities for the whole family.
Youth Services Director Melody Peters invites patrons to take the long way in to the library and enjoy reading a story along the sidewalk outside and lingering among the lovely Festival of Trees exhibit in the Gallery between the library entrance and McGregor Hall.
The library will be closed Thursday through Sunday, but come Monday, Nov. 27, activities at the library are going to be heating up.
The StoryWalk, Peters explained, is geared toward those preschool-aged children. Families can join in the fun and get in a little exercise while they read a book, panel by panel, along the sidewalk.
“It’s just a fun activity,” Peters said on Tuesday’s The Local Skinny! “This is a good way to build in exercise…and read a story along the way,” Peters said. The StoryWalk will be up for a month for all to enjoy.
On Tuesday, Dec. 12, at 4 p.m., Durham-based StoryUp! Aerial Theater will perform the classic fable of The Lion and the Mouse. “It’s like going to the circus, but then imagine theater,” Peters said, sort of a mini Cirque de Soleil with aerial artists interpreting the story that’s basically about being kind.
The library is launching another story time beginning Thursday, Dec. 7 for elementary-age children, Peters said. She hopes the 3:30 p.m. time slot will be just right to get children engaged before they head off to tackle homework assignments or Lego Club.
These books will be a little longer than those selected for younger children’s shorter attention spans, she said. The theme for December will focus on different holiday traditions. First up is a book titled “Hershel and the Hannukah Goblins.”
She said she plans to incorporate this new story time offering as a way to encourage children of all ages to enjoy being read to.
Consider embracing your inner crafter on Saturday, Dec. 16 when the library opens up for all ages to join in a variety of crafts for the whole family.
Speaking of crafts, the Mother Goose story time slot is giving way in December to make-and-take craft activities for those kiddos birth to 5 years, Peters noted. “We’ll take a break in December and offer…crafts,” she said. And while they may just seem like fun activities, there’s a lot of learning going on. Stringing cereal on a pipe cleaner involves developing that pincer grasp, as well as sorting by colors. “There’s so much learning happening,” Peters said.
Learn about all the services and programs at Perry Memorial Library at www.perrylibrary.org.
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Cooperative Extension With Paul McKenzie: What Works in the Garden
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The Local Skinny! Franklin County Releases Historic Architecture Book
The much-awaited Franklin County architectural history book has been published and is ready for purchase, just in time for Christmas.
The books are $60 and feature more than 400 photos and list 800 properties of interest throughout the county.
There will be a special book release party at the Louisburg Senior Center, 279 S. Bickett Blvd., on Monday, Dec. 4 from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Books will be on sale at the event, and also will be available for sale at the various library branches in the county, said WIZS’s own Bill Harris, who also serves as chair of the Franklin County Historical Preservation Commission.
The book is the result of a comprehensive survey conducted before the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, which slowed the process of completing the book.
The previous survey undertaken by the state preservation office was completed in the 1970’s, but didn’t result in a book, he said.
Now, half a century later, this most recent survey includes properties that would not have been considered historically significant back in the 1970’s, Harris explained.
There also was an effort to focus on the southern part of Louisburg, which had not been thoroughly considered in the previous survey, he noted.
The book’s main editor is J. Daniel Pizzone, but there were numerous others who contributed to the completion of the book, Harris said. It was published in Oxford by BW&A Books.
Copies of the book are available now at the following locations:
- Central Library, 906 North Main St., Louisburg
- Bunn Branch Library, 610 Main St., Bunn
- Franklinton Branch Library 9 West Mason St., Franklinton
- Youngsville Branch Library, 218 US-1A Hwy. South, Youngsville
- Franklin County Planning & Inspections Department, 127 S. Bickett Blvd., Louisburg
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Cooperative Extension with Wayne Rowland: Clothes Moths
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