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Home And Garden Show
On the Home and Garden Show with Vance Co. Cooperative Ext. If growing plants in a greenhouse or cold frame when day temps are 70F higher you may need ventilation in your greenhouse or open the cold frame. Fertilize tall fescue, slow release, low P, crabgrass preventer. Repot your house plants if needed Get ready...
The Local Skinny! What’s Happening At Perry Library
Perry Memorial Library has several opportunities for patrons to observe Black History Month as they take part in interactive workshops, take book walks and go on scavenger hunts. Youth Services Director Melody Peters ran down a list of activities that are already underway or will be presented during February. The “pop up” story walk located...
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...
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! CLICK PLAY! WIZS Radio ·...
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...
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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...
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...
The Local Skinny! St. Paul’s Lutheran Food Minsitry
The kickoff event for the “Feeding the 5,000” food ministry is set for this Saturday, and Corey Brooks, pastor of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church near Ridgeway, said volunteers will be ready to serve a hot meal between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. “Come in, sit down, have a hot mealand enjoy a time of fellowship,”...
Home And Garden Show
On the Home and Garden Show with Vance Co. Cooperative Ext. Plant microgreens to enjoy in salads, Ex/ radish,broccoli, arugula. Prepare beds for cool season crops that will be planted in February. Organize your seed, tools, make a system that will enable you to locate what you need when you need it! Be prepared to...
The Local Skinny! Youth Programs Happening Perry Memorial Library
Chocolate fondue. Sewing on a button. Legos. Not necessarily what you’d associate with a library. But Melody Peters, youth services director at Perry Memorial Library says all these things – and more – are available for library patrons. From Mother Goose Story Time on Thursday mornings to Life Hacks sessions, Peters said the library...
