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The Local Skinny! Vance Eats: Tru Soul

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Breakfast…most of us start off the day with some type of breakfast. It is said that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. If that’s truly the case, then perhaps we should all eat breakfast more often! Breakfast for supper? Sure, why not or, as Trey Snide found out today on The Local Skinny’s Vance Eats segment, breakfast makes for a pretty good lunch as well. Vance County’s Raynard Fitts has opened Tru Soul in Oxford and Creedmoor and his food was featured on today’s show.

The “Multiverse”, as it is called, is perhaps best described as a pancake sandwich. In between the pancakes, the hearty eater will find bacon, eggs and hamburger. This is all topped off with syrup which Trey had high praise for. In fact, he was so pleased with the syrup he added more after a couple of bites.

Tru Soul Food is more than breakfast as they also serve fried chicken, fried fish, hamburger steak and gravy, oxtails, a wide variety of vegetables and much more.

According to Fitts it’s delicious. “I promise you, you will not be disappointed,” he told Trey this morning. Fitts also explained that the business is about to change the name and are in the process of rebranding. Tru Soul is located at 1102 Goshen St. in Oxford and at 1597 NC 56 in Creedmoor. They are open 11am until 8pm seven days a week.

The Local Skinny! on WIZS can be heard at 11:30am Monday – Through Thursday on WIZS 1450am, 100.1fm and at wizs.com.

Home And Garden Show

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On the Home and Garden Show with Vance Co. Cooperative Ext.

  • Use vermicomposting (earthworms) to compost food scraps into compost for your garden
  • Go ahead and start pruning grapevines whenever we get a few mild days. Don’t worry if they exude sap.
  • Keep a good thermometer in your greenhouse and cold frame when growing plants
  • Get ready to fertilize your tall fescue lawn. Pick up a slow release turf fertilizer for application in mid-Feb. It’s fine to use one combined with crabgrass preventer, but I recommending avoiding other combinations.
  • Prepare your pruning equipment because pruning season is fast approaching.
  • Take stock of stored gasoline. Any stored gas that has an ethanol component can cause starting and running problems for lawn and garden equipment.
  • Check seedlings growing indoors, light and moisture are key.
  • Get ready to do a dormant spray on your fruit trees. Also check your stock of chemicals and spray equipment so you’ll be ready to make the necessary treatments that start soon after flowering.

 

Cooperative Extension with Paul McKenzie: What Works in the Garden

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Listen live at 100.1 FM / 1450 AM / or on the live stream at WIZS.com at 11:50 a.m. Mon, Tues & Thurs.

 

The Local Skinny! Around Old Granville: Weldon’s Mill

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It’s been decades since Weldon’s Mill closed, but it remains a local landmark that represents memories of times gone by, when just about every creek or stream had a mill on it.

And although Weldon’s Mill is still standing, it’s not in good condition, but Mark Pace said the foundation of the old mill is probably original. That means it’s been around since the 1700’s, when Granville County included what is now, Vance, Granville, Warren and Franklin counties. Pace joined Bill Harris for the Around Old Granville segment of The Local Skinny! Tuesday and waxed poetic about the legacy of mills in and around the area.

In 1884, there were two dozen mills still in operation in the area. That number dropped to half a dozen by the mid-1950’s. But one of those was Weldon’s Mill, located on Sandy Creek in the southern part of Vance County.

The mill was originally started between 1785 and 1790, Pace estimated, and then had a series of owners before Canadian James Amos bought it in 1874. The Weldon family bought it in the 1930’s and it stayed open until 1964.

There were actually two mills located on opposite sides of the creek, Pace said. The one that still stands today wasn’t the grist mill – that one got washed out in 1917. The mill that stands today had a saw mill on the first floor and a cotton gin on the second floor.

“They took the old mill that was still standing and retrofitted that as a grist mill,” Pace said.

The mills weren’t just a place to get wood sawn, cotton ginned or corn ground, he said. When Vance County was formed in 1881, the Sandy Creek Township was divided into two voting precincts. Depending on which side of the creek you lived on, you voted at one mill or the other.

At least one congressman representing the area would have meetings there, too. “Edward W. Pugh would come there and hold his political rallies there” at the mill.

While the foundation probably dates back to the 1700’s, Pace is skeptical that the rest of the building also is original. “A curious thing about the mill,” he said, is that there is mortise and tenon and peg construction, “the actual boards have been cut with a circular saw,” indicating that the boards may have been salvaged from previous structures.

The Local Skinny! Jobs In Vance

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The H-V Chamber of Commerce and WIZS, Your Community Voice, present Jobs in Vance for February 1, 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 christa@hendersonvance.org to be included.

JOB OPENINGS IN VANCE COUNTY – Week of February 01, 2022

 

Name of the Company:   Boys and Girls Club of NC

Jobs Available: Director of Facilities and Safety – is responsible for the planning organizing, managing and directing various technical responsibilities associated with the maintenance of facilities, vehicles, grounds and equipment

Method of Contact:  For more information call 919-690-0036

 

Name of the Company: Boys and Girls Club of NC

Jobs Available:  Resource Development Coordinator – is responsible for providing administrative support for the generating of fundraising income through campaigns targeting local businesses, churches, civic groups and individual donors within the community

Method of Contact: For more information call 919-690-0036

 

Name of the Company:  Vance County Department of Social Services

Jobs Available:   Child Support Agent II, Income Maintenance Caseworker III, Social Worker II

Method of Contact:  For more information call or go by your local NC Works Office

 

Name of the Company:  Vance County Department Sheriff’s Detention Center

Jobs Available:  Sr. Maintenance Specialist, Kitchen Worker

Method of Contact:  For more information call or go by your local NC Works Office

  

Name of the Company: Eckerd Kids

Jobs Available: JJ Case Manager

Method of Contact: For more information call or go by your local NC Works Office

  

Name of the Company:  Hollander Sleep Products

Jobs Available:  Truck Driver and Lead Distribution

Method of Contact: For more information call or go by your local NC Works Office

  

Name of the Company:   Boys and Girls Club of NC

Jobs Available: Youth Development Professional – Creates an environment that facilitates the achievement of Positive Youth Development Outcomes and provides guidance and role modeling for members while promoting and stimulating daily learning. This is a part time position

Method of Contact:  Interested applicants may send resume to SLAVETT@BGCNCNC.COM

 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.

 

Cooperative Extension with Wayne Rowland: Pine Thinning

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If you have a stand of pine trees on your property and plan to harvest them you may want to consider thinning out the stand to increase growth and profit.  Wayne Rowland, of the Vance County Extension Service, explained the reasons for this on Monday’s Local Skinny. “Cutting and removal of trees is used to accomplish management objectives,” Rowland said. While thinning obviously reduces the number of trees it does help in the distribution of quality trees. Sometimes, depending on the trees that are thinned, they can be marketable enabling the property owner to sell the trees.

According to Rowland, the number of trees per acre can affect yield and growth. Size and vigor of trees can be increased by thinning your stand. Trees will go poorly if there are too many or too few trees per acre. Rowland says there are a number of benefits to thinning a stand of pine trees. Trees will be able to grow quicker meaning they can be harvested and sent to market in a shorter period of time.  It also allows trees to grow larger and larger trees bring higher prices. Thinning trees also increases health of the forest. For more information on thinning pine tree stands contact Rowland at 252-438-8188. The Vance Co. Extension Report can be heard Monday, Tuesday and Thursday at 11:50am as part of the Local Skinny on WIZS 1450am, 100.1fm and at wizs.com.

 

Listen live at 100.1 FM / 1450 AM / or on the live stream at WIZS.com at 11:50 a.m. Mon, Tues & Thurs.

 

The Local Skinny! Register Now To Attend Feb. 1 Expungement Clinics In Henderson, Oxford

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Learn how to get your criminal records expunged tomorrow (Tuesday, Feb. 1) at two free informational clinics – one in Henderson and one in Oxford.

The Kerr-Tar Reentry Roundtable is partnering with Legal Aid of North Carolina to host the events, during which Legal Aid staff will walk participants through the process of getting previous records expunged, or cleared, which could have a positive impact when applying for jobs or housing.

The clinics will be held from 2:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. at Perry Memorial Library, 205 Breckenridge St., Henderson and at the Oxford Housing Authority, 101 Hillside Dr., Oxford, according to KTCOG strategic initiatives coordinator Kisha High.

High told John C. Rose on Monday’s The Local Skinny! that the clinics are informational only; those who attend and qualify for record expungement will be notified to attend an April 12 clinic at Hix Gym in Oxford to complete the expungement process.

“This is our very first expungement event,” High said. Monthly information sessions are planned and she said most likely the expungement clinics would be held quarterly.

The Second Chance Law that went into effect in June 2020 provides information about which offenses can be expunged from a criminal record, and changes that took effect on Dec. 1, 2021 give more hope to those who wish to have records cleared.

Legal Aid staff will be ready Tuesday to clarify which charges and what type of offenses can be removed, she said.

Maybe it was a DWI or some other activity that happened earlier in a person’s life that is affecting their adult life now, High said. Even if a person’s criminal record is not able to be expunged, High said a “certificate of release” can be issued by a judge that indicates the prior record should not be held against the person.

Interested in participating? Contact Kisha High at 252. 436.2040, ext. 2008 no later than noon on Tuesday, Feb. 1.

The Local Skinny! Cell Phone Tower Is A Win – Win

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The shiny new cell tower that was erected on city property by the police training grounds should be operational in the next few months, and Assistant City Manager Paylor Spruill said it’s a win-win for the city and for the cell service provider that owns the tower.

U.S. Cellular “found that location to be a good fit for their network,” Paylor told WIZS News Thursday. The tower that had been there was old and needed some maintenance, but the city and the cell provider reached a deal that suited both sides.

“They took the old tower down and put up the new one,” he said. And the city has “the very top of that tower for their communication.” US Cellular owns the tower and has agreed to maintain it, and for the next seven years or so, won’t be paying any rent. When that period ends, rent payments will begin.

“They gave us prime real estate for the ability to put their own tower there,” Spruill said.

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The Local Skinny! Vance Eats: Ribeyes Of Henderson

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When you go to a steakhouse, the usual recommendation is to order the beef. But fearless Trey Snide of WIZS Radio, always looking for a gastronomic adventure, took a different track when he visited Ribeyes in Henderson Thursday.

He ordered the pork chop.

And he was not disappointed.

On Thursday’s Vance Eats segment of The Local Skinny! his pronouncement after tasting the first bite said it all: “I am a happy man.”

The thick slab of pork is specially brined to create a mouth-watering dish, sure to delight the senses. And Trey said there was absolutely no need to add a sauce. The chop took center stage.

No doubt he made Bill Harris’s mouth water back in the studio as well, because before the segment was over, Trey promised to bring his co-worker his own chops back to the radio station.

(This is not a paid ad. Vance Eats on WIZS is a food review.)

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Home And Garden Show

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On the Home and Garden Show with Vance Co. Cooperative Ext.

  • If you have brushy areas you can clean that brush out now because you can see what you are cutting.
  • Be very cautious about using bulk manure or hay as a mulch or amendment in your garden due to the risk of herbicide carryover.
  • Check house plants for insects and rotate your plants around your table to maintain their shape.
  • Get ready to fertilize your tall fescue lawn. Pick up a slow release turf fertilizer for application in mid-Feb. It’s fine to use one combined with crabgrass preventer, but I recommending avoiding other combinations.
  • Prepare your pruning equipment because pruning season is fast approaching.
  • You may want to go ahead and make sure any power equipment you will need this spring starts easily and runs well. If not, you still have time to service it before spring.
  • Check seedlings growing indoors, light and moisture are key.
  • If you have fruit trees, do some research on proper pruning techniques. Call us for reference materials, or check the internet for instructional videos.
  • Plan on growing a new vegetable this year that you haven’t grown before.