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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The Local Skinny! Pop The Hood: Warming Your Engine
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Cooperative Extension with Jamon Glover: Supervision And Safety, Pt. 4
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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
- Do a final cleanup of raised vegetable beds. Remove crops and weeds and apply compost.
- Cleanup around your fruit trees.
- Avoid the temptation to purchase fruit trees on impulse.
- Consider constructing a small greenhouse or cold frame
- Observe houseplant response to changing light levels as we move into winter. Adjust light by moving them or adding artificial light.
- November is a great time to collect your Soil Samples when we get some rain. 4 weeks analysis time.
- If you have space, consider planting pecan trees.
- If you have vacant areas in your garden consider planting a cover crop. Ex Crimson clover
- Do not let weeds go to seed!
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The Local Skinny! Commissioners Approve Tax Revaluation Schedule
When Vance County residents get those much-anticipated tax bills early next year, just remember one thing: It’s been eight years since the last revaluation, so any increase – and most certainly there will be an increase – has occurred over eight years, not just one.
That reminder came from Ryan Vincent of Vincent Valuations, the company hired to complete the revaluation process.
Vincent spoke to the Vance County Board of Commissioners at the Nov. 6 meeting to request that the board adopt the scheduled values that were presented.
The commissioners did approve the request, so the next step is to publish the announcement in the local newspaper for four consecutive weeks and then they will be officially adopted.
And soon after that, tax bills will hit mailboxes throughout the county.
Commissioner Dan Brummitt explained in a phone interview after the meeting that there are values associated with different types of homes – brick versus stick-built, custom home versus tract-style – and inspectors assign each property to a level, which ultimately affects the tax value.
This most recent revaluation process involved individual exterior inspections of every residence, and walking the property to measure it.
“That’s typically not done every time,” Brummitt said.
Vincent said the county will work Atlas, a contract and mapping company, to help address disputes that taxpayers may have with the revaluation results.
He noted that there are “fairly substantial increases throughout the county” with this revaluation. The previous revaluation was done in 2016, which resulted in a drop in tax values.
Brummitt said the county encourages residents to speak up with questions they may have when they get their tax bills.
“Nobody’s going to understand it until they get their appraisal,” he said. “Some people will be validated in their complaints.”
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