Cooperative Extension With Jamon Glover: Communication, Pt. 4
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Home And Garden Show
On the Home and Garden Show with Vance Co. Cooperative Ext.
- When your garden receives heavy rainfall open rows to let excess water drain out.
- Be cautious using herbicides with long-term control.
- Keep hydrated when working in the garden. Drink water and take rest breaks!
- Begin making plans for fall landscape projects, especially tree and shrub plantings.
- Continue your fruit spray program. Be mindful of the harvest interval before you spray especially if you think you will harvest fruit soon.
- Keep an eye out for yellow jacket nests, especially when mowing.
- Use trash bags to help keep deer out of your garden, electric fence is best.
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Cooperative Extension with Paul McKenzie: What Works in the Garden
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The Local Skinny! Jobs In Vance 07-26-22
The H-V Chamber of Commerce and WIZS, Your Community Voice, present Jobs in Vance for July 26, 2022. The Chamber compiles the information, and it is presented here and on the radio. Contact the Henderson-Vance Chamber of Commerce at 438-8414 or email michele@hendersonvance.org to be included.
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Business Name – PNC Bank
Job Opening – Full-Time Bank Teller needed at the PNC Bank – Main Retail Branch on Chestnut Street in Henderson. Applicant will provide exceptional customer service, accurately perform high volume customer banking transactions, educate customers on new technology and develop banking product referral opportunities through strong customer relationship skills. In lieu of a degree, a comparable combination of education and experience (including military service) may be considered.
How To Apply – Apply online at https://careers.pnc.com/global/en/job/R108573/Teller
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Business Name – The Hair Loft
Job Opening – Currently searching for a Salon Assistant and for an experienced licensed Stylist. Great opportunity for a current cosmetology student or recent cosmetology grad to get hands-on experience as a Salon Assistant. An experienced, licensed Stylist who may be looking for a career change, a more convenient location, or who wants to grow her skills would be an excellent candidate. The Hair Loft is located at 116 East Dabney Drive in Henderson.
How To Apply – Apply online at http://www.thehairlofthenderson.com.
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Business Name – Huff Consulting. LLC
Job Opening – This employment consulting company is searching to fill a vacancy for their client – Assistant Plant Manager in Henderson. Applicants will need 3+ years of manufacturing supervision experience. Previous machine operator experience is a plus. Must work well with a team-oriented environment. Ability to establish quality control programs. This is a salaried, full-time position. $60,000-$65,000, depending on experience and qualifications. Monday-Friday. Day Shift.
How To Apply – Apply online at https://huffgrp.com. Click Job Seeker Tab and scroll down to click on Assistant Plant Manager-Henderson.
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Business Name – Variety Wholesalers, Inc/Roses Stores
Job Opening – Immediate opening for a full-time Merchandise Planner. The Planner is responsible for meeting and improving financial objectives. The Planner will be responsible for creating top-down and bottom-up financial plans and in season forecasting for multiple departments. The ideal candidate will identify business risks and opportunities to maximize sales, profitability and inventory turn objectives. BA/BS degree required plus 2-4 year experience in a similar position. Must be proficient in Microsoft Excel.
How To Apply – Apply online at https://www.rosesdiscountstores.com and click on Careers. Or apply online at www.indeed.com.
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Business Name – Franklin-Vance-Warren Opportunities, Inc
Job Opening – Currently accepting applications for Energy Auditors/QCI Inspectors. Energy Auditors are responsible for conducting comprehensive and precise residential home energy assessments for Weatherization and HARRP Programs in accordance with program standards and uploading all information into the required computer programs.
How To Apply – Apply in person at the FVW Opportunities office, located at 180 South Beckford Drive or email your resume to tjefferson@fvwopp.com or apply online at www.fvwopp.com/job-openings.
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Business Name – Vance County High School
Job Opening – Hiring now for instructors for Culinary Arts, Agriculture, Special Education Teachers, and Computer Technician and others. Offering a $5,000 signing bonus.
How To Apply – Apply online at https://northcarolina.teach.org/organizations/vance-county-schools. Or Contact Principal Rey Horner at 252-430-6000.
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Business Name – Vance County Schools
Job Opening – Looking to make a difference in the lives of students every day? Vance County Public School System has immediate openings for 7 full-time and 4 part-time Cafeteria Assistants. Experience in commercial or institutional food service, school setting preferred; High school diploma or equivalent; vocational training; OR a combination of education and experience; Cashier skills required; ServSafe® Certificate or NC Safe Plates Certificate preferred.
How To Apply – Apply for the Child Nutrition positions (as well as others) online at https://vcsnc.tedk12.com/hire/index.aspx.
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Some of these businesses are present or past advertisers of WIZS. Being an ad client is not a condition of being listed or broadcast. This is not a paid ad.
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The Local Skinny! Duck Derby Is Just Around The Corner
The 13th annual Ducky Derby is set for Garnett Street in mid-September and Garry Daeke said that after a couple of years of making adjustments because of COVID, the Derby is returning with a full complement of associated festivities.
“This year, we are back to doing a full street fair and festival,” Daeke told John C. Rose during Monday’s The Local Skinny! segment. There will be food trucks, music and more along Garnett Street beginning at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 17. The race commences at 2 p.m.
The Derby is an annual fundraiser for Franklin Granville Vance Smart Start, and as FGV Partnership Development Coordinator, Daeke said it’s become a fun time for families and others in the community as well.
FGV staff and board members have tickets for sale – $5 a duck, or purchase a Quack Pack to get 5 ducks for $20. Spend $100 for a “flock” of 25 tickets, Daeke said.
Daeke offered appreciation for the fire department, for their help in turning Garnett Street into a “river” on which the rubber ducks float to the finish line, and to Greystone Concrete Products for their assistance in “releasing” the ducks – from the back of one of their cement mixer trucks.
First prize is $1,000, second prize is 52 weeks of Chick Fil-A, third prize is a $250 gas card and the prize for the last duck to cross the finish line is $100.
In addition to purchase of rubber duck contestants, FGV is accepting sponsors for the event. Sponsorship levels are:
$500 – Super Duck
$250 – Feathered Friend
$100 – Quacker Backer
Buy your ducks today! — https://my.cheddarup.com/c/fgv-smart-start-2022-duckyderby or scan QR code below
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Cooperative Extension with Wayne Rowland: Incentives For Forest Management
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The Local Skinny! Around Old Granville: Place Names In Warren And Franklin Counties
In a continuing discussion of local communities with odd names or curious origins, Bill Harris and Mark Pace Thursday again shone the spotlight on Franklin and Warren counties in the Around Old Granville segment of The Local Skinny!
Harris had been studying a 1911 map that Rand McNally had published and tested Pace’s knowledge about communities, some of which would no longer make the cut to be included in current maps of the area.
There’s Union Hill, for one, which was in the vicinity of Rocky Ford down in Franklin County. It had a post office from around 1834-38, Pace said.
Then there’s Brookston, named for the Brooks family, which originally was in Warren County but got redrawn at some point into what is now Vance County.
Jack, in Warren County near Littleton, was named for Jack Johnson, postmaster for the short-lived post office there. It’s just one of numerous areas that sported the first names of prominent or affluent people of the day, Pace said.
He mentioned others, including Margaret, Catesville and Drewry.
Have you ever heard of Lumdsen, an area between the Tar River bridge and Kittrell in Vance County? Pace said his research has turned up no family with that surname in Census records, but he said the name could have come from someone who worked for the railroad that came through the area.
In cases where there were no stations for the trains to stop, “people would literally tie a white handkerchief to a tree” to indicate that the conductor needed to stop and pick up passengers. The area known as Lumsden could have been named to honor a rail official, he added.
Shocco Springs in Warren County had a post office from the early 1830’s to 1866. This area became known as Lickskillet, an amusing name for an area that, before the Civil War, counted among its residents some of the most prominent and affluent families around.
Communities sometimes got named by wealthy landowners that lived nearby, like Odell in Warren County – named by the Alston family as an homage to the family castle in England.
But oftentimes, it was a post office in a particular area that helped communities get their names.
One spot in Warren County was Mountain View, Pace said. Situated between Macon and Vaughan, the Riggan family provided a half dozen or so of Mountain View’s postmasters between 1879 and 1929.
At one time, there were 32 post offices sprinkled throughout Warren County. This would have been before the introduction of rural free delivery, when people had to go to a central spot to pick up their mail. Often, that local spot was inside a country store, he added.
Franklinton has one the oldest, continually used post offices in the area, Pace noted.
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Cooperative Extension With Jamon Glover: Communication, Pt. 3
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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.
- Keep your garden journal up to date
- If you plan to renovate your lawn, start making preparations for this now! Ex Soil test, seed.
- Keep hydrated when working in the garden. Drink water and take rest breaks!
- Check your garden twice a week for insects and disease. If you need ID of garden problems Call Cooperative Extension 252-438-8188
- Continue your fruit spray program. Be mindful of the harvest interval before you spray iespecially if you think you will harvest fruit soon.
- If you are canning or freezing your vegetables Cooperative Extension has recommendations to help you preserve your fruits and vegetables
- Use trash bags to help keep deer out of your garden, electric fence is best.
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