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The Local Skinny! Vance County Schools Receives Awards
For the third year in a row, Vance County Schools has brought home top honors for excellence in school communications, presented to school districts by the N.C. School Public Relations Association. VCS earned a total of 16 Blue Ribbon awards for outstanding and effective school public relations, according to information from Aarika Sandlin, VCS director of...
The Local Skinny! Dogs Deserve Better To Hold Quarter Auction
“Dogs Deserve Better Piedmont” is sponsoring its 3rd annual “Puppy Love” Quarter Auction later this month at The Barn at Vino in Stem. This chapter of the nonprofit organization is based in Granville County, and it serves neighboring counties including Vance, Person, Wake and Franklin. Lucy Poynton joined WIZS’s Bill Harris Monday to launch a...
The Local Skinny! Vance Co. Arts Council Celebrates Black History Month
The Vance County Arts Council, in conjunction with McGregor Hall, invites the community to come out for an evening of musical entertainment to learn about the history of gospel music. The show is free to the public and begins at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 21 at McGregor Hall, and Vance County Arts Council Executive...
The Local Skinny! Black History Profiles Garrett Morgan
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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...
