Cooperative Extension With Paul McKenzie: What Works in the Garden
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Cooperative Extension with Wayne Rowland: Native Plants
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The Local Skinny! Rebuilding Hope Initiates Project ‘Roll On’
Rebuilding Hope volunteers spend a lot of time each year helping people make essential repairs to their homes, mostly fixing roofs and constructing handicap ramps. But the nonprofit’s founder Randolph Wilson said the group needs to turn its attention to some repairs at their own home – namely, the driveway and parking lot.
Project “ROLL ON” is underway to raise $100,000 to complete the repaving project, Wilson said.
And he’s asking for help from the community to make it happen.
“Please consider any gift to project ‘ROLL ON’ when you begin considering this year’s donations, or perhaps budgeting a contribution for early next year. Our desire is to be able to begin these repairs to the worst areas next spring and continue until completion,” Wilson said.
They kicked off the fundraiser campaign on Sept. 29 with an announcement in the monthly newsletter and an insert placed in the chicken plates that were sold on that day.
In a letter to volunteers and to other supporters, Wilson said he hopes to “gain support in acquiring much needed funds to repair the damaged pavement around our building. The parking lot and driveways are in real need of resurfacing to prevent damage to vehicles and also (to) allow proper drainage away from the building,” he stated.
Rebuilding Hope, Wilson said, has always been funded solely from individuals, churches, and business entities. “We must ask our faithful community once again to help us continue this good work. These are very difficult times for many people simply trying to afford housing, food and basic needs. We need to secure this ministry’s ability to respond to people with hope, by repairing this damage.”
The Rebuilding Hope ministry was founded in 2006 following a deployment to help victims of Hurricane Katrina.
“I knew then, as I know now, that one of the most basic physical needs people have is a place to shelter, to call home. My wife Gail and I, along with our patrons and volunteers, believe that their most important need is spiritual, and that coming alongside to offer help and hope in a time of need gives us opportunities to witness to them about Christ. It has truly been amazing over these past 17 years to see how God has moved through this construction ministry and the lives that have been touched,” Wilson said.
There are a variety of ways to make donations to Project ‘ROLL ON’:
Visit the website rebuildinghopeinc.org and select Donate to make an online contribution, mail donations to 414 Raleigh Rd., Henderson, NC 27536 or drop donations off in person at the office Monday through Friday between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m.
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Cooperative Extension With Jamon Glover: Supervision And Safety, Pt. 3
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Home And Garden Show
On the Home and Garden Show with Vance Co. Cooperative Ext.
- Drain water out of any sprayers or pumps.
- Spend some time on equipment maintenance.
- Harvest any mature fruits or vegetables today
- Continue planting.
- Bring indoors any plants that might freeze.
- Check houseplants for repotting.
- November is a great time to collect your Soil Samples when we get some rain. 2 week analysis time.
- Research fruit crops.
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The Local Skinny! Events At Perry Memorial Library
The “mitten tree” at Perry Memorial Library will be up soon, providing some holiday cheer as a wintertime decoration as well as a resource for those in need of mittens and hats during the cold months ahead.
Last year’s tree was a success, but it was also funded with a “Kindness” grant, said Melody Peters, Youth Services director at the library. “We gave away over 200 items,” she said on Tuesday’s The Local Skinny!
“This is the first year we’ve asked for donations,” Peters added. Patrons are invited to drop of new or even gently used mittens, gloves and hats at any of the desks in the library.
If you’re shopping for yourself, consider grabbing an extra pair to donate, she said.
Peters said she’ll enlist the help of local knitters to whip up a few pairs as well when they’re at the library for their regular club gathering.
And who knows, maybe the newly formed Crochet group will help, too. The group of a dozen or more tweens and teens who are learning how to create with hook and yarn will meet again on Nov. 21 at 4 p.m. as part of the Survival Skills series.
“We have room for extras,” Peters said. “We have room to grow…we can open the doors to the Makerspace…(and we) can spill out into the teen area.” The library provides the crochet hooks and the yarn that the participants can take home to practice with.
Another program for youth is the Life Hacks series. The Nov. 14 program is titled “Fun With Finance,” and Peters said a local bank representative will be on hand to share some practical information that teens should know about money. The program, designed for high school students, begins at 4 p.m.
Not everything can be done with a swipe or a tap on your phone, Peters said, and she wants young people to know about things like rent, mortgages, checking accounts and more.
This program helps get them started on the path to financial literacy by “just getting them to understand the basics,” she said.
Learn more about Perry Memorial Library and its programs and services at https://www.perrylibrary.org/
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Cooperative Extension With Paul McKenzie: What Works in the Garden
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The Local Skinny! Henderson Christmas Parade Is Coming
It may be hard to believe, but the Henderson Christmas parade is less than one month away.
The parade will be held on Saturday, Dec. 2 beginning at 2 p.m., according to parade organizers. And groups that want to be in the parade have until Nov. 24 – the day after Thanksgiving – to submit an entry form.
The entry form can be found at www.hendersonncdowntown.org.
Entries will line up on Raleigh Road near the light at Burger King, and then will proceed down Raleigh Road before turning right onto Garnett Street. The parade route continues down Garnett Street and concludes at Rose Avenue, near First United Methodist Church and Sunrise Biscuit.
The parade is sponsored by the Henderson-Vance Downtown Development Commission and the Vance County Arts Council.
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The Local Skinny! Grace Ministries Plans 7th Annual Thanksgiving Meal
The 7th annual Grace Ministries Thanksgiving meal giveaway is taking shape and organizer Bobby West said the plan is to provide 3,000 meals to folks in the community on Saturday, Nov. 18.
In addition to the Grace Ministries location at 215 Crozier St., West said there are a number of locations where individuals across Vance, Granville and Warren counties can go to pick up to-go plates, filled with pork loin, vegetables, stuffing and a dessert.
The event gets underway at 11 a.m., but there’s a lot of preparation that goes in to making that happen, West said on Monday’s The Local Skinny!
He said he expects to feed 1,000 at the Crozier Street location – folks can dine there or pick up a takeout plate.
All the other locations are takeout only, and West said they could use some volunteers to help, beginning at 8:30 on the morning of Nov. 18. “We’re going to need 2,000 plates ready to go by 11 o’clock,” he said.
It’ll probably take 100 or so volunteers that morning, West said, adding that there will be six or seven lines set up to pack all the plates. “We’ll pack them up fast, get them out the door and to the locations,” he said.
It’s their biggest outreach effort of the year, and West said he’s grateful to the churches in the area that help out each year. “We couldn’t without support of the community and other churches,” he said. “God has been so good to us…we just do it as an act of kindness – the world can use some more kindness.”
And cakes. They need cakes – 160, truth be told, West said, for each of those 3,000 plates. If you can help out, give him a call at 252.432.7124.
Monetary donations may be sent to Grace Ministries, P.O. Box 316, Henderson, NC 27536.
Following is the list of satellite locations that will have plates ready for distribution:
- Grace Baptist Church near fairgrounds;
- South Henderson Church of God set up last year at Rose’s on Dabney Drive;
- Room At The Cross, 235 Booth Ave.;
- Rushing Waters Outreach in Oxford;
- Norlina Baptist Church, Norlina;
- Old Aycock gym, Vicksboro Road, by New Sandy Creek Baptist Church;
- West End Baptist Church, Dabney Drive;
- Location across from standpipe on Andrews Avenue.
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Cooperative Extension with Wayne Rowland: Thinning Pine Stands
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