Cooperative Extension With Paul McKenzie: What Works in the Garden
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The Local Skinny! United Way Yard Sale
Whether you’re de-cluttering with a purpose, or whether you are finally taking a moment to clean out the garage or closet, Desiree Brooks says the items you are parting with be a big help to the community.
Bring your gently used furniture, home décor items, electronics, baby and kid items and more to the United Way office this Friday in advance of a yard sale to raise money for nonprofit agencies.
Brooks is president of the local United Way, which supports nonprofits in Vance and Warren counties. This group is 100 percent volunteer organization, and though COVID-19 derailed yard sales for the past couple of years, Brooks told John C. Rose on Monday’s The Local Skinny! that the agency is getting back into the swing of things.
Volunteers will happily accept donations between 8 a.m. and 2 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 16 at the United Way office, located at 715 S. Garnett St.
“All the money stays local,” Brooks said, and encourages the community to make their donations – either with goods for the yard sale or by visiting https://unitedwayvance.org/united and clicking on the Give button. The yard sale itself will be held Saturday, Sept. 24 at the United Way office on Garnett Street.
Previous yard sales have netted a couple of thousand dollars for United Way, which in turn allocates money to area agencies. “We want to be able to allocate more,” Brooks said. “We realize the organizations depend on grants…we want these fundraisers to be as successful as possible.”
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Cooperative Extension with Wayne Rowland: Fire Ants
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The Local Skinny! When Trains Rumbled Along Corbitt Road
Sometimes it’s fun to just listen.
Listen and remember times gone by, through the eyes – and voices – of those who are no longer here.
Thursday’s The Local Skinny! segment is a remembrance of two much-loved subjects around here at the radio station: Trains. And John D. Rose, III.
John C. Rose played a clip for TownTalk guest Tom Burleson about Burleson’s father, Gilliam, as told by John C. Rose’s dad, who was recalling covering a Henderson City Council meeting.
Here’s the gist of the story, but treat yourself and go listen to the audio at wizs.com:
Although the trains were no longer crossing Garnett Street at Corbitt Road, across from the corner lot where the Burleson family lived, “they did have lights, bells and crossing gates across Garnett Street,” Rose recounted in the clip. “Gilliam comes to the city council meeting one night (to say that) due to malfunction, about 3 o’clock one morning, the lights and bells go off at the crossing, which of course wakes Mr. Burleson up,” Rose said, his chuckles escalating to laughter.
“I got to laughing so hard I had to go out of the room for awhile…and Mr. Burleson was up there describing the outrages that he was having to put up with at his residence,” Rose continued. When the police called the railroad’s home office to find out how to disable the offending equipment, came back a written reply that the railroad didn’t know it even had such equipment in Henderson. Long story short, the senior Rose said, “nothing was ever done about it until the railroad company finally took up the railroad tracks and when they did, they took the lights and bells with them.”
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Cooperative Extension with Jamon Glover: Bedtime Problems, Pt. 3
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Home And Garden Show
On the Home and Garden Show with Vance Co. Cooperative Ext.
- Vegetables that can be planted now collards, turnips, beets, snap beans squash broccoli,
- Pull or spray microstegium soon. It will set seed in a couple of weeks which makes the infestation much worse next year.
- Control cabbage loopers, cabbage worms, in cole crops with Dipel or Sevin
- Plant tall fescue NOW.
- Weed your strawberry beds. Every weed you control now will help in weeding your strawberries next spring
- Remove fruiting canes from your blackberry patch.
- Now is great time to take your soil test
- Avoid pruning. Wait until late November at the earliest.
- Provide irrigation soon after planting any fall vegetables if rain is not forecast within 3 days of planting.
- Leaves will be falling before you know it, so go ahead and build a compost bin to hold them.
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The Local Skinny! Jobs In Vance 09-06-22
The H-V Chamber of Commerce and WIZS, Your Community Voice, present Jobs in Vance for September 6, 2022. The Chamber compiles the information, and it is presented here nd on the radio. Contact the Henderson-Vance Chamber of Commerce at 438-8414 or email Michele@hendersonvance.org to be included.
Spectrum is Hiring Field Technicians!
Henderson, NC 27537
Full-time
Weekend availability
Hiring multiple candidates
Travel Ability: Daily travel; valid state driver’s license and safe driving record.
Maintenance Professional
The Pendergraph Companies
Henderson, NC 27536
$16 an hour
Part-time
Day shift
Must have a valid drivers license, reliable transportation and some tools and be able to pass a credit and criminal background check as well as a drug test.
Seasonal Retail Associate
Bath & Body Works
Henderson, NC 27536
Seasonal
Weekend availability
Build a highly satisfied and loyal customer base through engagement, uncovering needs, making product recommendations, and capturing customer information.
Pizza Hut Delivery Driver – Henderson
Henderson, NC
$14 – $18 an hour
Full-time
Have you had your driver’s license for at least one year?
Our drivers earn a competitive hourly rate PLUS tips and driver expense reimbursement
Hiring ongoing
Arby’s Team Member
Henderson, NC 27536
Team Members must listen to guests, coworkers, and supervisors, in person and over loudspeakers and/or a headset.
We hire 15-, 16- and 17-year-old workers!
Front Desk Associate
AAA Gas & Appliance Co.
Henderson, NC 27536
$10 – $12 an hour
Part-time
Keying payments on the computer.
Assisting customers (both in person and over the phone).
TEACHER ASSISTANT (Virtual)
Vance County Schools
Henderson, NC 27537
Estimated $23.3K – $29.5K a year
Full-time
Performs various clerical duties as needed, maintains records of student progress; develops and files incident reports; grades student papers and scores tests;…
Orderfiller
new
Walmart
Henderson, NC 27537
Acknowledge and greet customers with a smile.
Online orderfillers and delivery associates get to do just that every day.
Warehouse Worker
Wise Snacks
Henderson, NC 27536
Estimated $28.8K – $36.4K a year
Full-time
Under direct supervision, maintains the integrity of the organizations warehouses, receives, stores, picks, loads and distributes products and POS materials…
Crew Member
Biscuitville
Henderson, NC 27536
$11 – $13 an hour
Part-time
Evening shift
Flexible hours – enjoy life after 2 pm.
School Nutrition Cafeteria Assistant
Vance County Schools
Henderson, NC 27537
Estimated $21.3K – $26.9K a year
Full-time
Use cash register to process financial transactions.
Be accountable for accurate reimbursable meals, financial transactions and cash collection procedures.
Assistant Principal
Vance County Schools
Henderson, NC 27536
$50,000 – $65,000 a year
Full-time
Apply at: https://vcsnc.tedk12.com/hire/ViewJob.aspx?JobID=178 Job Type: Full-time Pay: $50,000.00 – $65,000.00 per year.
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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Cooperative Extension With Paul McKenzie: What Works in the Garden
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The Local Skinny! Around Old Granville: History Of Cedar Walk
Think about it for a minute: Is is easier to remember what you ate for breakfast this morning or to visualize in your mind the house where you grew up? Many historians rely on people’s long-term memories to piece together the past, and that is exactly what Mark Pace did to try to learn more about Cedar Walk, a home in Williamsboro that was torn down in 1967.
He and WIZS’s Bill Harris talked about the origins of the home, which was called Blooming Hope when it was a school for girls during its early days. During the Depression era, it was the oldest house standing in Vance County, Pace said during the Around Old Granville segment of Thursday’s The Local Skinny!
Pace, North Carolina Room Specialist at the Richard Thornton Library in Oxford, said he was able to talk to some folks who’d lived in the house in the 1940’s and ‘50s who were able to describe the interior floor plan. The Library of Congress has photographs of the home taken in the 1930’s that show a fairly plain, two-story frame home with a covered front porch.
“It’s a shame it’s not here – it’s associated with so many important people,” Pace said. Revolutionary War leaders, a former governor and the minister who helped establish the Presbyterian Church in the state have ties to Cedar Walk, so named because of the lane of cedar trees that lined the walk up to the home.
By most accounts, the home probably was built around 1780, Pace said, based on the style and size of the structure. If the structure were still standing, the wood could be aged using tree-ring dating, he added, but most likely it would have been a contemporary of St. John’s Episcopal Church, which was built in 1773.
It was later purchased by Col. Robert Burton, who had fought in the Revolutionary War.
Burton was a businessman and UNC has a ledger in which he recorded some of his business dealings, Pace said. One notable entry is the sale of a horse to a fellow named Daniel Boone.
One of Burton’s nephews came to live at Cedar Walk. His parents died and Hutchins Burton came to live at Cedar Walk. He became North Carolina’s 22nd governor, serving from 1824-1827.
When the Bullock family bought the home in 1828, they made an addition to the home, which Pace described as “one of the great old plantation houses in Vance County.” Although the house no longer stands, the land remains in the Bullock family.
The house fell into disrepair, probably for a couple of reasons, Pace noted. One reason was the lack of electricity, which would have been a costly endeavor. But the second reason, he said, is because people said the house was haunted.
Visit the Library of Congress website and search “Cedar Walk” to see photographs.
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Cooperative Extension With Jamon Glover: Bedtime Problems 2
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