CMYK Vets offered van service to VA hospital
Veteran gains recognition for WWII service
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Japan prime minister regrets WWII suffering
Hector Moss, here pictured holding a fish killed by ammo disposal during World War II in Burma, was recently honored for his service as a combat engineer.
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Unity goal as South marks Civil War’s 150th
Jamboree kicks off football season
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Braves win it in 9th over Phillies
Southern Vance’s Darriuan Ragland eludes a Hertford tackler on his way to a TD during a 20-play scrimmage Saturday. Northern Vance and Warren County also took part in the annual SVHS Pigskin Jamboree.
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Vance asked to stop killing cats at shelter By AL WHELESS Daily Dispatch Writer
Activist Margaret Peck asked the Board of Commissioners recently to “move towards stopping the killing” of cats at the Vance County Animal Control facility. She also wanted an immediate moratorium to be placed on the killing of healthy, already spayed/neutered cats by the department. After Peck finished criticizing the County’s treatment of feral and stray cats, she got a
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response from Activist advocates for trap-neuter-return as primary missioners’ Commissioner regular meetmethod for controlling the population of feral cats ing on Aug. Danny Wright. “This is a 3, Peck asked Control Chief Alex Hargrove pretty blatant indictment of the board to incorporate trapand possibly some of his staff Animal Control,” Wright said. neuter-return as the primary members, the advisory com“There are always two sides to method of population control mittee is supposed to come up every story.” used by Animal Control for feral with a response to the Vance The issues were turned over cats. Commissioners’ Public Safety to the Animal Control Advisory Peck also wanted the comCommittee. Committee for investigation missioners to make significant In turn, that panel will be exof some of the complaints and rechanges in the procedures folpected to study the situation and lowed by VCAC. quests Peck had made concerncome up with its own recommening the shelter for dogs and cats “I am here to advocate for the dation to give to the full board. on Vance Academy Road. lives of feral cats and all strayed As soon as she came to the After meeting with County and unclaimed cats and dogs,” speaker’s podium at the comManager Jerry Ayscue, Animal she said.
Citizen complaints of drug activity at a city business have led to the arrest of two men, Henderson Police Chief Keith L. Sidwell said. The department’s Narcotics Unit executed a search warrant on Aug. 14 at Owens Auto Repair, 335 Hamilton St., and found “a substantial amount of crack cocaine” packaged for sale, Sidwell said. The search also turned up drug paraphernalia and cash. Quincy Lamont “Wink”
Early College High named N.C. ‘School of Distinction’ From STAFF REPORTS
He and Zenaida Derry, 54, married in 1983, with Zenaida Derry having come to Maryland from the Philippines at the start of the 1980s. He and Zenaida Derry have been in Oxford since 1991. The two have 25-year-old and 22-year-old sons, as well as a 20-year-old daughter who is a university student. And a sister of
In late July, preliminary measures of Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) for the federal No Child Left Behind program showed that six of 16 Vance County schools had met all their goals for the 2008-09 academic year. But after all the final numbers were reviewed by the State Board of Education and released on Aug. 5, the news was better for the local district. Three more schools made their way above the line and onto the list of those schools in North Carolina that fully met AYP goals. And in North Carolina ABC results, released for the first time this month, one local school — Vance County Early College High — has been named a “North Carolina School of Distinction.” Six others are considered “schools of progress.” In the preliminary federal AYP numbers, Aycock (21 goals), Clark Street (13), New Hope (13), E.O. Young Jr. (13), E.M. Rollins (15) and Zeb Vance (17) elementary schools all met 100 percent of their goals for improvement. But several other Vance schools came almost agonizingly close. Dabney Elementary had met 16 of its 17 goals, Eaton-Johnson Middle School 24 of 25 and Henderson Middle 28 out of 29 goals. While Dabney and HMS were not moved up during the State Board review, EJMS was, and entered the ranks of schools that had met 100 percent of AYP. Two other schools — Western Vance and Early College High, the latter of which is a new program meeting at Vance-Granville Community College — have enrollments that are too low to be measured under the usual state standards, which require the
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Ferals that have been to SNAP or through a trap-neuterrelease program can be identified by the presence of a cropped left ear, Peck explained. “I ask that sites where trapneuter-release is happening be designated as safe sites from Vance County Animal Control.” Peck told the commissioners about Marilyn B., who brought three tame cats she had fed and taken in to the animal shelter not so long ago. Expecting that good homes
Music, food and fellowship were on tap Saturday afternoon in the parking lot at the old Winn Dixie store as WIZS radio sponsored a fund-raiser for Area Christians Together in Service. Jumping and laughing in the Character Antics “sports bounce” were, from left, Josh Smith, 9, Joshua Overby, 10, and Darnele Yancey, 3. Admission price for the event was one canned or non-perishable food item for the ACTS pantry.
Ceremony marks girls’ adoption, citizenship Parents wanted more than just paperwork By WILLIAM F. WEST Daily Dispatch Writer
OXFORD — An Oxford couple, in a ceremony in the Granville County Superior Courtroom, adopted three children from the Philippines. Jeffrey Derry and his Philippine-born wife, Zenaida, had decided they wanted a bit more than something passing over an official’s desk. So, on Friday afternoon, Superior Court Clerk Jo Ann Averette presided from the judicial bench and signed the documents, meaning Yurika Derry, 16, Ainha Derry, 13, and Aivy Derry, 8, are not only now part of the Derry family, but additionally are U.S. citizens. Mayor Pro Tem Howard Herring extended the welcome on behalf of Oxford’s municipal government. City Commissioner Bob Shope gave brief remarks on the meaning of being a U.S. citizen and a minister, Steve Bolton of Oxford Baptist Church, read from scripture.
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Yurika Derry, Ainha Derry and Aivy Derry were adopted by Jeffrey Derry and his wife, Zenaida, in a ceremony at the Granville County Courthouse. Aivy Derry, who is the youngest of the three girls, is at the center front. Behind Aivy Derry and from the left are County Superior Court Clerk Jo Ann Averette, Oxford City Commissioner Bob Shope, Yurika Derry, Zenaida Derry, Ainha Derry and Jeffrey Derry. Jeffrey Derry, in an interview with the Dispatch on Saturday, was asked how he feels. “Great, absolutely great,” he said, with Zenaida Derry expressing the same sentiment. Jeffrey Derry, 55, is from Baltimore and is a nurse practioner at the federal prison at Butner. He was a flight nurse in the Air Force, with his service including having been stationed in England at the time of the first Gulf War.