WIZS Radio Local News Audio 08-02-22 Noon
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The Local Skinny! Jobs In Vance 08-02-22
The H-V Chamber of Commerce and WIZS, Your Community Voice, present Jobs in Vance for August 2, 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.
Business Name – Henderson Collegiate School
Job Opening – Work at a high performing NC K-12 public charter school serving over 1300 students in Henderson. Offering a $2000 teacher signing bonus. Immediate openings for the following positions: Elementary Lead Teacher, Elementary Teacher Assistant, High School ACT Prep Teacher, High School English Teacher, High School Spanish Teacher, College Counselor, Middle School Art Teacher, Middle School Science Teacher, ESL Teacher, Special Education Teacher, and many other positions.
How To Apply – Contact Kate Liddle, Director of Talent Acquisition by phone 252-820-2070. Email resume to kliddle@hendersoncollegiate.org . Apply online at Careers Page, https://hendersoncollegiate.org
Business Name – Accounts Receivable Clerk
Job Opening – An Accounts Receivable Clerk is needed to research and process unapplied payments, credits, and past due balances following new ERP system implementation. Provide support to the Accounting Department in collecting payments and working with past due accounts. Excellent data entry skills required. Applicants need to have strong written and verbal communication skills, telephone and customer service skills. Acumatica experience preferred. High School Diploma or equivalent required. Associates Degree preferred. Full-Time. Salary is $14-$16 per hour.
How To Apply – Contact Michele Walker at Huff Consulting LLC – Email your resume to michele.walker@huff-consulting.com. Or apply online at their website https://huffgrp.com .
Business Name – Vance-Granville Community College
Job Opening – Senior Accountant Position. The position requires supervisory oversight and responsibility for the financial accounting of accounts payable, payroll, and Foundation operations and activities of the college. Duties are focused on performing detail-orientated accounting work. This position supervises a staff of three employees and reports to the Associate Vice President of Finance.
How To Apply – Apply online at https://www.vgcc.edu, click on top tab jobs@vgcc. Or contact Kevin Tompkins, VGCC Human Resources Department at 252-492-2061 or email resume to tompkinsk@vgcc.edu.
Business Name – Vance County Government
Job Opening – Multiple positions are open with the Vance County Government. These include, but not limited to: Senior Center Program Assistant IV and Social Worker II; Social Services Accounting Specialists I, Social Work Program Administrator II, Processing Assistants; Fire Department part-time firefighters/engineers; and EMS full and part time Paramedics.
How To Apply – Apply online at www.vancecounty.org, or email resume to Argretta Johen, Director of Human Resources at ajohen@vancecounty.org.
Business Name – Maria Parham Health
Job Opening – Lab Phlebotomist Position Open. $500 Sign on bonus for qualified candidates. Various shifts available. Experience is preferred.
How To Apply – Apply online at www.mariaparham.com/careers.
Business Name – NC Works in Vance, Granville, Franklin, Warren, and Person Counties – Job Fair
Job Opening – Multiple job openings will be available from 25+ employers on site at Hix Complex, 313 East Spring Street, Oxford, NC on Wednesday, August 10th from 10 am – 2 pm. This is an excellent opportunity to bring multiple copies of your resume and talk one-on-one with area business and industry who have many job openings. There will be drawings for gift cards and prizes for those attending and registering.
How To Apply – For additional information, contact NC Works at 252-438-6129.
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! Turning Point CDC Sponsors Community Day
The 12th annual Community Day, sponsored by Oasis of Hope Ministries and Turning Point CDC, is shaping up to provide fun, food and free stuff for families across the four-county area.
The free, outdoor event will take place Saturday, Aug. 6 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at their location on Old Norlina Road, just across from Skipper’s Forsyth’s, said Kate Delahanty, director of community engagement for Turning Point CDC.
Thanks to a recent school supply drive, there will be more than 120 backpacks loaded and ready for distribution on a first come, first served basis, Delahanty said on Monday’s segment of The Local Skinny!
In addition to children’s activities, there will be numerous vendors and agencies present to share educational resources and provide information to families.
“Each year, it’s just gotten bigger and bigger,” Delahanty said of the Community Day. COVID-19 cancelled the 2020 event, and Delahanty said the group was excited to return in 2021 to bring communities together and have a day of celebration. The Community Day is “a way to engage the communities we serve,” she said.
Attendees who come hungry have their choice of several different food trucks, including Chewly Delicious Jamaican, Soul bachi – a fusion of Soul Food and Hibachi-style Japanese food and Dessert Lewis Express ice cream.
Comedian Annie Perry will perform standup at 10:30 a.m. and then Michelle Ragland Wright will get folks moving with a Zumba class at 12:30 p.m. DJ Reese will provide music throughout the day, Delahanty said, as children and adults alike enjoy lawn games and a fun new scavenger hunt. Guests will visit various vendors to get answers to questions on the scavenger hunt card and then turn in the cards for prizes.
“We’re always thinking of new ideas for the next event,” Delahanty said. She offered special thanks to the 2022 sponsors, PNC and WellCare.
Visit https://www.turningpointcdc.org/ to learn more or follow the group on Facebook.
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TownTalk: Perry Library Plans Community Read Program
The idea of a “community read” is pretty basic: Invite the community to read the same book and then come together to discuss it.
That’s exactly what is happening now at Perry Memorial Library, and Assistant Director Christy Bondy said the library has the chosen book – “The Best of Enemies” – in a variety of formats to accommodate readers’ preferences.
The book is based on a true story that took place in Durham, Bondy told Bill Harris Monday on Town Talk. The title refers to a friendship between a Black woman and a Ku Klux Klan member who found common ground against the backdrop of the Civil Rights Movement.
Published in 2007, the Osha Gray Davidson book was made into a movie that came out in 2019. Bondy said all are invited to read the book now and then come to the library on Aug. 23 at 5 p.m. for a discussion and then settle in to watch the movie, which stars Taraji P. Henson and Sam Rockwell.
Bondy has read the book and seen the movie, and said although she gives the movie a “thumbs up,” she will usually prefer reading a book to watching the movie. But that’s just her bias showing – she’s been around books since she was 5 or 6 years old, helping her mother behind the circulation desk of her hometown public library. She parlayed her lifelong passion for books into a career, joining the Perry Memorial Library staff in November 2020.
The role of libraries continues to evolve, Bondy said, but she predicts that the traditional book checkout will never go out of fashion.
She said the library has a great digital collection available for patrons. The community read book, for example, is available in ebook and audio formats – in addition to the 25 physical copies at the library. She said 7 or 8 have been checked out so far, and she can access other copies from a consortium of libraries that loan books to one another.
“Most people see libraries as a warehouse for books,” she said. While patrons can certainly still come in and choose a physical book from a physical shelf, there’s access to a digital collection of materials, too.
“We will continue to have the traditional format and the digital format” for book checkouts, but there’s so much more to consider than just books.
Bondy said patrons can check out board games, sensory kits and other hands-on interactive materials – even ukuleles.
“Libraries are really transforming,” she said, adding that staff has been doing some strategic planning to be able to provide even more services, such as a podcast studio and a learning garden.
There’s a lot of grant funding to support libraries, and Bondy said grant money was used for the the community read project. Look for more community read projects in the future; Bondy said she hopes to gather feedback and information to develop a series for mid-winter to spring, including intergenerational programming that takes a common theme and chooses titles for different ages of readers.
Learn more at https://www.perrylibrary.org/ or phone 252.438.3316.
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MHC Homecoming Oct. 7-9 Offers Something For Everyone – Music, Food, Fellowship
The Masonic Home for Children in Oxford is gearing up for its Homecoming festival in early October – there’s a golf tourney, barbecue contest a parade and plenty of live music sure to provide plenty of entertainment for all in attendance.
The 10th annual festival, cancelled in 2021 because of COVID-19, is set for Saturday, Oct. 8, according to information from MHCO. The free event is open to the public and includes campus tours, food trucks and a kid zone as well as alumni and homecoming activities.
The barbecue contest teams assemble and set up on Friday afternoon, followed by DJ Reese’s music and then an evening performance by the band East Coast Rhythm and Blues.
The parade begins at 11 a.m. Saturday, beginning at the fire department and continuing down College Street to the MHCO campus, 600 College St.
This year’s Grand Marshal is Don “Big Weather” Schwenneker, meteorologist for ABC11 Eyewitness News.
The Saturday schedule is jam-packed with activities, including an afternoon concert by the band Too Much Sylvia.
The 24th annual Chip Shots for Children charity golf tournament will take place on Friday, Oct. 7 at South Granville Country Club & Golf Course. Contact Eddie Dickerson at 919.441.3003 to learn more about registering for this event.
A light breakfast will be provided at registration, which begins at 7:30 a.m., with a 9 a.m. shotgun start. Registration fee is $75. Since its inception, the tournament has raised more than $700,000 for the Masonic Home for Children.
Teams of up to 5 people can register for the barbecue contest. Registration is $100 per team and contest details, as well as the complete schedule of events, can be found at https://mhc-oxford.org/masonic-homecoming-festival/
WIZS Radio Local News Audio 08-01-22 Noon
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Cooperative Extension with Wayne Rowland: Forest Boundaries
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Henderson Gets $5.4 Million For Water, Wastewater Projects
An additional $5.4 million is set to flow into the City of Henderson to target drinking water and wastewater projects, most of which will go to fund the Sandy Creek Basin Sewer Rehab project.
The money comes from the American Rescue Plan Act and the state Water Infrastructure Authority approved funding for the local projects, according to information from the office of Rep. Terry Garrison, who serves District 32 – Vance, Granville and Warren counties.
In addition to $5 million designated for the Sandy Creek project, two allotments of $200,000 each were awarded to the city to conduct asset inventories and assessment planning for both water and wastewater.
“I am happy to see this critical funding come from the Department of Environmental Quality to Henderson,” Rep. Terry Garrison said. “Clean water is essential for every North Carolinian. This money is going to help Henderson ensure that everyone has access to clean, safe water.”
City Manager Terrell Blackmon told WIZS News Friday that this money will be used to address excess water that flows into sewer pipes from groundwater and stormwater, known as “infiltration and overflow.”
The $5 million is added to $2.5 million, zero interest loan the city got last year from the N.C. Department of Environmental Quality, Blackmon said.
“The other $400,000 will be used to perform a water study centered around inspecting our water lines…(to) help us better map our system,” he added.
Granville and Warren counties also received chunks of money for improvements to their water systems, Garrison’s office noted.
The City of Oxford got more than $9.5 million to fund sewer system improvements and the South Granville Water and Sewer Authority was awarded $150,000.
Warren County got money for three projects totaling $745,000. The breakdown includes two planning grants: a $189,500 planning grant for a regional elevated storage tank and a $400,000 pre-construction planning grant for the Eatons Ferry sewer extension and $155,500 for the Pleasant Hill pump station replacement.
Granville Welcomes New Interim Manager, Bids Farewell To Felts
Granville County welcomes Doug Logan as interim county manager during a swearing-in ceremony Friday afternoon, just moments before a reception honoring outgoing manager Mike Felts begins.
Logan returns to county service, having retired in 2020 from the position of emergency services director and fire marshal, a job he had held since 1994.
Felts was appointed county manager in July 2013. He tendered his resignation to the board of county commissioners in May 2022 after accepting a position with the N.C. Association of County Commissioners Risk Management Pools.
Logan will be sworn in at 2:45 p.m. and the reception for Felts is from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Both events will take place at the Granville Expo Center, 4185 Hwy. 15 South.