Cooperative Extension With Paul McKenzie: What Works in the Garden
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The Local Skinny! Around Old Granville with Mark Pace
Watch out, Oxford. Your tiny neighbor to the south is gaining on you. It will only take a couple of hundred more people to stake the claim of being the largest town in Granville County.
That, according to local historian Mark Pace, who talked with WIZS’s Bill Harris for the “Around Old Granville” segment of The Local Skinny! Monday.
Butner’s growth today, however, pales in comparison to the early to mid-1940’s when the U.S. government built Camp Butner as it was gearing up for World War II.
Pace said William B. Umstead and his brother John were instrumental in getting the federal government to locate Camp Butner in the southwest corner of the county, close to a big city (Durham), but not “too” close, Pace said.
Construction began in February 1942, on more than 4,000 acres of mostly farmland, much of which had been owned and worked by families for 200 years or more.
“It was amazing how quickly it was built,” Pace said. Within five months, there were numerous structures, including an armory, sports building and a water tower, all of which are standing today.
“They had 15,000 people working 24-7 to build that camp,” Pace said. And because it was a federal project, the state’s segregation laws were superseded by federal jurisdiction, which meant that for the first time, African Americans were hired the same as their White counterparts, he added.
Camp Butner was home for thousands of workers, civilian and military, but also for more than 4,000 German and Italian prisoners of war.
“So many farm people had been called up to serve, POWs would go and work farms,” Pace said. “And they’d get paid a little bit, too.”
After the war ended, much of the property reverted back to the landowners, but the footprint of Camp Butner became what is now considered the town of Butner. But until it was incorporated in 2007, the town was run by the state of North Carolina.
“Go to the town hall,” Pace said. “There’s a marvelous museum in the lobby” chronicling the creation of the town that once was known as Camp Butner.
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Cooperative Extension with Wayne Rowland: Wildlife – Forest Stewardship
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March on Washington Remembered
Martin Luther King Jr.’s now-iconic “I Have a Dream” speech was delivered at The March on Washington.
As we celebrate Black History Month, please enjoy by clicking play below the first in a weekly series here on WIZS as produced by our Steve Lewis of the WIZS Weekday Wake Up!
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Cooperative Extension with Wayne Rowland: Clothes Moths
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Home And Garden Show
On the Home and Garden Show with Vance Co. Cooperative Ext.
- Clean and sanitize your seedling trays
- Buy fertilizer for the mid February application to tall fescue
- Clean and sharpen pruning equipment. Purchase new equipment if needed.
- Begin scouting pastures for buttercups. Treatments need to be applied in late Feb.
- Check spraying equipment. Have one designated sprayer for Roundup.
- Begin pruning grapevines.
- Use landscape cloth for weed control in raised beds.
- Learn more about Spotted Lanternfly so you can keep an eye out for it this spring.
- Add compost to your raised beds.
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The Local Skinny!
The van fleet at Rebuilding Hope, Inc. has doubled, thanks to a recent donation by Island Creek Baptist Church.
Randolph Wilson, coordinator of the non-profit, located in the former Coca-Cola Bottling Co. location, said the 15-passenger van will be especially helpful when it’s time to take volunteers to various project sites during the summertime Servants on Site mission.
West End Baptist Church had made a similar donation earlier, Wilson noted in the group’s monthly newsletter.
RHI relies on volunteers and donations from the community and beyond to help achieve their mission of helping area homeowners repair – free of charge – roofs and install wheelchair ramps, keeping them safe and able to remain in their homes.
Early Bird registration ends tomorrow for the annual Servants on Site project, scheduled for June 19-23. The reduced cost is $125; after tomorrow, the cost is $150.
The fee includes a specially designed t-shirt, as well as all meals and lodging. Scholarships are available. SOS is a weeklong project that includes work, worship and witness – in Vance and surrounding counties. Young people who have completed 6th grade through adults may participate.
To learn more about SOS and other ways to=participate in Rebuilding Hope programsand projects, visit www.rebuildinghopeinc.org.
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Cooperative Extension With Paul McKenzie: What Works in the Garden
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The Local Skinny! Students Learn To Extinguish Fires
They are everywhere – in office buildings and schools, under kitchen sinks and in so many other places where fires could break out. But just because we see fire extinguishers throughout the course of a day doesn’t mean we know how to use them.
Vance County Schools puts a strong emphasis on providing students with experiences and opportunities and high school students in the Public Safety 2 class recently got some hands-on, live training with extinguishing a fire. Students went through training ahead of the actual lab to learn proper techniques and the use of a fire extinguisher. Each student discharged the fire extinguisher to put out a live, controlled fire, with 100 percent success.
Public Safety is one of the many courses offered through the Career and Technical Education program.
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Cooperative Extension with Wayne Rowland: Plants In Containers
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