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Charlie Rose selected North Carolinian of the Year Place in history strong for Henderson Institute Affiliation with Duke helping hospital patients Farmers Market grows with a new facility Grants are adding up at Vance-Granville CC

Anglers come by thousands to the Nutbush Boat Ramp Industry’s national leader is giving back to community Chamber awards spotlight work of Lark, Optimists Watchful eyes of a child taught him the business

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Rising through the ranks to be new chief in town When they expanded, Vance County was cool fit Teacher Executive Institute links educators, community Assistance to the children remains their main mission

Who’s who in Henderson & Vance County? All of the Chamber’s members are here in the directory in the center of this edition. To find new members, go to www.hendersonvance.org.

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elcome to the 2014 edition of Envision Vance!

Here we present just a sampling of the stories that are a part of our community, one that is growing and thriving.

If you are considering relocating to Henderson and Vance County, or if you have lived here all of your life, we hope you will find something new and exciting in this magazine that will validate ours as “A Community Moving Forward.”

The Henderson-Vance County Chamber of Commerce and its 400-plus members want this community to be an even greater place to live, work and play.

Our greatest attributes are numerous.

Besides our great people, in Henderson and Vance County you’ll find the largest retail center between the Triangle and Richmond. A 50,000-acre lake offers varieties of activities and attracts more than a million people each year. First-class medical facilities, a full-service YMCA, a strong community college, a wealth of housing choices and virtually no congestion – all of this and more is found right here at home in Henderson and Vance County.

Your Chamber of Commerce has proudly served the business interests of the community for more than three-quarters of a century through the support of its members.

With Chamber membership, a business, industry, civic organization or individual sends a strong message that you believe in and care about your com-

munity. Your membership demonstrates a profound recognition that prosperity is achieved through all of us working together in a committed partnership with the shared common goal of growing our economy. Our collective dedication, drive and sense of purpose will create a better quality of life for all of the community.

Through your membership, we can help you market your business in a variety of ways. We offer management and business development opportunities. We can help you with networking with others in the business community.

As our mission statement reads, “The Henderson-Vance County Chamber of Commerce represents the interests of the business community in matters that affect the ability of local businesses to prosper and grow, and the ability of Henderson and Vance County to attract new business.”

Come grow with us!

JOHN BARNES, Henderson-Vance Chamber of Commerce President 3

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harlie Rose’s ability to talk who along with Francis Crick disto people regardless of their covered the structure of DNA; and age or background comes North Carolina native James Taylor. from a surprising source.

And though there are still those When he was young, he worked he’d like to talk with on air, Rose in his father’s general store, Rose Gin said it was often those ignored by and Supply. Since everyone knew history who have the most interestwho he and his parents were, Rose ing things to say. People like Sam had to be sure to act appropriately.

Watkins, a friend who died unexAnd that meant talking to people. pectedly.

“Since I was living in an adult “It’s the Sam Watkinses of the environment, I had to learn to talk world that have an incredible story Charlie Rose, a native of Henderson, learned the art of to adults, and I did that by asking to tell because of their passion and conversation while working in his father’s store. questions,” he said. “And so I would integrity,” Rose said. talk to people about the community “My work is highly visible, so you tion to: “Guests on the show include and about high school football and get a lot of compliments or criticism, major international political figures and about UNC and Duke and some about but it’s highly visible. My admiration a mixture of renowned personalities from politics and certainly about agriculture. for those people who, I think, selflessly, literature, theatre, film, dance, fashion, But I would have to be able to have a selflessly live for something greater than sports, science, medicine, and business.” conversation, and the best way to have a themselves. My father was one of those, I That still might not cover it all. And it conversation is to know something so you think. I think all that I am and the conis a long road from Henderson for the son fidence that I have in part came from my can ask questions. of the late Margaret and Charles Rose.

“I think that, early on, made me mother who showered me with love and His father was a longtime councilman enormously curious about everything, and who made me feel I could compete on and a past president of Rose Gin and I think everything since then has been a any stage in the world, and I believe that. product of that experience or those experi- Supply. He graduated from Henderson “You could drop me in any capital in High in 1960, went to Duke University ences.” the world and say, ‘Go talk to their most originally as pre-med and left with degrees famous politician, their most famous writRose was unanimously selected North in history (1964, bachelor’s) and law Carolinian of the Year by the N.C. Press er or their most famous religious leader, (1968, juris doctor).

Association and honored at its February and have a conversation that is engagRose freelanced for awhile before awards banquet. While there, he talked ing and interesting.’ But it’s the smallest getting a break: Bill Moyers hired him as with journalists young and old, posed for stories of people that don’t get attention, I managing editor and producer of the PBS think, that are most powerful.” cellphone photographs and shared words series “Bill Moyers’ International of wisdom in a keynote speech that was Report” in 1974. more like a conversation at his familiar Little by little, he began round oak table. contributing on-air pieces that “I always know,” Rose said, “when I eventually led him to where he got back to North Carolina, everybody is today: anchor and executive there will tell me the truth and tell me editor of “Charlie Rose” and what matters and help me understand “Charlie Rose: The Week.” He that, wherever I have gone, the roots of it also appears on “CBS This Mornbegan there. Never forget your roots.” ing” and “60 Minutes.”

Rose is a popular interviewer. And As a result, the newsman has the A-list answering his questions hardly interviewed many. He counted misses any measuring component, from among the highlights sitting occupations to demographics to relevance down with Syrian President Nominated by his hometown newspaper, Charlie Rose in American society.

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ntegration closed Henderson Institute. But the school that was home to so many young children through the decades of the 20th century is still alive, through story-telling and through an annual reunion in late summer each year.

The reunion, traditionally organized by the class marking 50 years since graduation, celebrates the accomplishments of alumni and the legacy of the school.

Today the school building still stands and preserves its history through the Henderson Institute Historical Museum, housed in the school’s former library science building.

The school was founded in 1887 as a boarding school with the purpose of teaching black educators at a time when there were few black teachers in the classroom. A group of missionaries from the United Presbyterian Church of the North named the school Henderson Normal & Industrial.

It opened in 1891 with a principal and

INTEGRATION MAY HAVE CLOSED HENDERSON INSTITUTE, BUT ITS PLACE IN HISTORY REMAINS STRONG five teachers as the county’s only school for black students.

The first black principal, C.L. Cook, came in 1900 and three years later principal Dr. J.A. Cotton, who served until 1943, changed the name to Henderson Institute.

Edith Carroll, from the Class of 1961 and the museum’s assistant director, said the alumni continue to stay in contact and attend the reunions because there was a strong sense of fellowship and unity among students at the school.

Carroll said the students’ pride in their school’s accomplishments has persisted long after integration closed Henderson Institute in 1970.

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After the Henderson Institute Alumni organization formed in 1976, the group has held annual reunions on the weekend preceding Labor Day. Class of 1957 alumna Edith Burwell said she travels to the reunion every year, even when she lived in New Jersey.

“It is something the founders of the Henderson Institute Alumni did from the very beginning and we have followed suit,” said Burwell, who married her high school classmate, Jamie Burwell.

When the alumni met in 1980, they discussed the restoration of the library science building that was constructed in 1928 and was one of the last two buildings remaining.

The alumni arranged to lease the building from the Vance County Board of Education on the condition that the group become incorporated with a board of directors.

This led to the creation of the Henderson Institute Graduates and Former Student Association on Aug. 24, 1982.

An 11-member board was put in place and the Class of 1934’s Henrietta Clark was chairwoman for more than 13 years.

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about 275 members located across the country, with five regional chapters.

Carroll said the students at Henderson Institute were given opportunities many black adolescents at the time lacked.

College-educated black faculty members worked at the high school and they instilled in students the importance of obtaining education, Carroll said. “They would tell us that we needed to continue, to further our education in order to succeed,� said Burwell, who learned typewriting in school and found employment at a local all-black elementary school as a secretary after graduation.

Burwell said she and her classmates who graduated with her in 1961 were the first secretaries at the local black elementary schools, which did not hire receptionists and relied on teachers to perform clerical duties in the schools.

Edna Scott, museum curator and member of the Class of 1961, said the success of the Henderson Institute was partly due to the classroom management and respect students had toward their teachers and elders. “That’s exactly how we were raised,� said Scott, who was an assistant vice president and bank manager at Chase Bank in New York.

Scott now works on the Warren County campus of Vance-Granville Community College as a coordinator and instructor of adult learning. “The teachers lived in the area, so they knew you and your parents, too, sometimes,� Scott said. “We didn’t face the same educational problems there are today.�

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or nearly 90 years, the people in Henderson and Vance County have had convenient access to quality medical care through Maria Parham Medical Center.

The mission of the region’s largest hospital is to continue to improve the quality and diversity of health care services offered to the people it serves. The Cancer Center at MPMC, a Duke Medicine affiliate, is an excellent example of that commitment to the community. The nationally accredited program continues to expand cancer services for the community and now boasts one of the finest rural cancer facilities in the state, offering both medical and radiation oncology services on site.

The MPMC Cancer Center is an affiliate of Duke Medicine in Oncology.

That relationship between Duke Medicine and the MPMC Cancer Center allows patients at Maria Parham to access the expertise of the Duke Cancer Institute closer to home. The MPMC Cancer Center features board-certified Duke

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cancer care at Maria Parham, including procedures such as PET or CT simulation as they did in the past,” said Catherine Blankenship, the director of the center. “As important as all of these new technologies are, it is their use in the hands of welltrained, experienced and compassionate physicians and staff that makes all the difference.”

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armers and their customers were grateful for the Henderson Family YMCA and the City of Henderson Operations Center.

Both hosted the farmers market, the former on Wednesdays, the latter on Saturdays.

The sites could still be used, but life for all changed when a new 7,500-square foot building off South Beckford Drive was built. Funds to build came from various sources, including but not limited to grants, Vance County and the Farm Bureau.

The new facility provides 18 vendor spaces, and Paul McKenzie of the county extension office said there could be more than 18 vendors if farmers choose to use the open space surrounding the structure.

He hopes the new facility can serve the community in other ways, such as a place for group meetings, family reunions or equipment safety training for farmers.

The structure contains about 1,500 square feet for restrooms, an office, a storage room and small meeting room adjacent to the

main market area.

McKenzie, who was part of the project since the beginning, said he helped fill out all the grant applications.

“Back in 2009, some folks from Vance County Farm Bureau felt pretty strongly that we as a county needed to do something positive for farmers,” McKenzie said about how the project started. “We

depend on them so much.

“I agreed wholeheartedly and asked how could I help.

The county put together a citizen committee and that’s when we started applying for grants and raising money to make it happen.”

In April of 2012, the county commissioners voted to match a $50,000 offer from the Farm Bureau, an offer that was contingent on a match from the county.

“Vance County is basically spending $50,000 on a project that has a value of not far from $1 million if you add up all those outside contributions,” said McKenzie.

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VGCC: Shaping a bright future I

n 1969, Vance County Technical Institute was established with a single campus in Henderson during a time of economic change, as industrialization and technology required local workers to obtain new skills.

Now, 45 years later, that school is the four-campus, four-county Vance-Granville Community College and, again, the institution is leading the community through new developments in the economy, particularly as manufacturing goes increasingly high-tech.

Major grants awarded to VGCC will enable the college to focus on training for advanced manufacturing, says Dr. Stelfanie Williams, VGCC’s president. The college and community will benefit from a streak of success for the college with more than $2.6 million in grant funding being secured.

These grants come at an opportune moment as VGCC implements a transformative new strategic plan, called the “Vanguard Vision.” Dr. Williams describes the plan as a “road map” that will guide the college through 2019.

“In the true spirit of the word ‘Vanguard,’ Vance-Granville will continue not just to serve, but in fact, to lead the Triangle North region while partnering with our community,” Williams said.

“Not only in advanced manufacturing but also in health care and other career fields, VGCC is offering new opportunities for students to achieve success, which should also spur economic growth.”

The single largest competitive grant

award received in college history, a Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training Grant from the U.S. Department of Labor worth more than $1.75 million, will support a new degree program in Mechatronics Engineering Technology. That program combines mechanical engineering and electronics, with a focus on industrial technology.

A North Carolina Back-to-Work Grant ($120,000) was awarded by the State Board of Community Colleges to help the long-term unemployed obtain the training they need to successfully start new careers. Participants in this program gain skills needed in modern manufacturing.

A Duke Energy Foundation Grant ($245,923) will purchase state-of-the-art equipment for VGCC’s new Advanced Manufacturing Skills Center, which will train workers who can operate, troubleshoot and maintain today’s industrial equipment.

Meanwhile, a grant from the Golden

LEAF Foundation ($460,000) will provide high-tech equipment not only for VGCC but also for the public school systems in the college’s service area, as the educational partners seek to develop a skilled manufacturing workforce.

Other awards include a Project SkillUP Grant ($20,000) from the N.C. Tobacco Trust Fund Commission to help qualified students with customized training programs; the Plus 50 Encore Completion Program Grant ($15,000) from the American Association of Community Colleges to enhance and expand workforce training and support services to students aged 50 and over who are training for jobs in health care, education and social services; a grant from the American Association of University Women ($5,000) for a project that inspires women to continue their education beyond VGCC and complete a bachelor’s degree; and a Minority Male Mentoring Grant ($20,500) from the N.C. Community College System to support academic success among male students.

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hat began as a dream lars. That is significant. That is coming to fruition some of the folks who McGregor Hall rising alongside disarms in 2014. are going to tell you, you are Perry Memorial to form When completed, Breckendreaming and you can’t do ridge Commons will be a one that.”

Breckenridge Commons stop learning center with Perry Chick Young, the former Memorial Library and the new mayor of Henderson, said McGregor Hall performing arts center. numerous groups met and solicited input for the area once Szostak, the same firm that produced the Durham Performconsidered blighted. ing Arts Center, provided designs for the new downtown attrac“The two top choices were we needed a better library with tion. H.G. Reynolds is handling construction. more room, and more technological advances, and we needed The theater will have 21st century conveniences and efficiena place that people could gather, a performing arts center that cies, both noticeable by performers and the audience. would help our school system out,” Young said. “We were trying The project has a $10 million price tag, of which no city or to put something downtown that was attractive, appealing that county taxpayer money is included. Perry Memorial was the first would be very useful for all people of our community.” phase at a cost of $12 million.

“We will have the best library this area can offer, and the best The 1,000-seat venue will be capable with a curtain pull to arts center,” said Mark Hopper, a foundation board member reduce seating and provide a more intimate setting for smaller and one of the leading members of the performing arts commuaudiences. nity. “It gives us reason to be optimistic about the future of our The late Sam Watkins was a major part of the process. town.”

“You’d be hard-put to see a situation where a town this size “It’s always good to have some more cultural activities in without Roses and Harriet & Henderson Yarns did what we’ve Vance County,” said Alice Clark Stallings of the Vance County done,” Watkins said when the construction dates were anArts Council. “The more positive things you have, the less neganounced. “And when you complete this thing, I’ll defy you to tive elements may be floating around.” find another town in America that has a better family center, all Getting it built has been no small accomplishment. made possible by the citizens of Vance County, not tax dolThe first ideas were to turn a blighted area in downtown into ISION ance V

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a municipal facility. The city spent money to fully acquire the block, which once had gas stations, rundown houses, a burned out Winn-Dixie and blacktop parking.

A joint facility by the city and county didn’t materialize.

Community input gave vision for planning.

And time passed. The economy fluctuated.

But the dream of a performing arts theater never wavered.

“It’s had its ups and downs,” Hopper said. “That long journey has been a good one. We’ve been able to air out things that otherwise might have come too quickly without a lot of thought.

“The best thing is through time, we’ve had time to think through every aspect as it came to fruition.

The leadership team has been thorough in seeking a vision, and seeking out the best resources.”

Young thinks the ultimate form of flattery is coming.

“I think it has caught the attention of people outside of Henderson, that if they can do it up there in Henderson, we can do it here, too,” Young said.

“We’ve been used as a model for how to get this thing done.”

Generations to come will reap the benefits.

“I believe the arts make you well-rounded,” Stallings said.

“If you notice, the geniuses in the world are the ones who listen to classical music and become doctors and engineers. Theater is another platform for voice, for acting and singing.

“You have people in this county who may never be a banker or a lawyer or a doctor, but they may have a talent with their voice.”

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err Lake has a long history as was solicited from FLW and other large ANGLERS BY THE one of the top largemouth bass tournament directors early in the vision fishing destinations in the nastages of this facility. Today THOUSANDS COME TO THE creation tion and is typically ranked high in the FLW Everstart (now Ray-o-Vac), BFL top 100. With over 50,000 surface acres BEST FACILITY IN THE AREA (Bass Fishing League) and many other of water and 850 miles of shoreline, the tournaments, including annual charity lake is big enough to handle the largest events, are hosted at Nutbush. bass tournament field.

Whether a professional angler, an After hosting the initial FLW Forest Wood Open in June of everyday fisherman looking for a place to launch a boat, or a 1996 that carried a top prize of $100,000, area tourism officials family heading out for a day of skiing and tubing, the Nutbush were told that drawing Boat Ramp has everything similar tournaments in needed plus most everythe future would require thing ever wanted in a boat adequate tournament launch and tournament facilities. weigh-in facility.

According to Nancy And with total parkWilson with the Vance ing for 140 vehicles and County Tourism Departtrailers (86 paved and 54 ment, the new Nutbush gravel overflow) plus over Boat Ramp at Kerr Lake 30 paved single car spots, has everything needed to it can facilitate large events attract top tier fishing tourand recreational traffic naments to the Henderson concurrently. and Vance County area.

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Growing Art National industry leader gives back to its community

Opened to the public in March of 2012 followed by a grand opening in May, the facility has four wide easy in, easy out boat launch ramps, a dedicated weigh-in stage set up area off to the side, and nice bathroom facilities. It was designed and constructed to meet all Americans with Disabilities Act accessibility requirements and has boardwalks connecting all areas.

Boat ramps were designed for use during periods of high and low water on this flood control lake, from a high elevation of 310 feet down to a low of 291 feet. Solar lighting is used to light the parking lot and courtesy docks.

And on top of all these features, the ramp is close to some of the best bass fishing on the lake.

Tournament directors and others can contact Nancy Wilson at (252) 438-2222 or email her at vctourism@gloryroad.net for information on scheduling events or for assistance with obtaining any required permits. Not only is Nutbush the best ramp for hosting large tournaments on Kerr Lake, there is nothing like it on any body of water within over a hundred miles.

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erry’s Artarama understands there’s more to an industry than buying and selling.

“One of the things we try to stand for here at Jerry’s is that we don’t just try to sell art, we want to grow it,” said Ed Lingg, warehouse operations manager for Jerry’s.

“We want to work with artists as well as being there to supply them with materials.”

While its warehouse ships an average of 1,000 orders a day all across the world, Jerry’s also makes donations in Vance and the surrounding counties. Donations can include anything from a small handful of supplies to pallets of merchandise.

Most of those materials go to schools but the warehouse has also contributed to a half dozen local organizations over the last 12 years.

Rebuilding Hope has been a recipient of Jerry’s art donations on two separate occasions. Randolph Wilson, founder of Rebuilding Hope, described the donations as tractor-trailer loads of materials.

“It overwhelmed people when they came to pick it up,” Wilson said.

Lingg said donations often include merchandize less than newly sellable.

Rebuilding Hope stored and distributed the supplies as needed to various schools.

Art programs are often wanted, but challenged by restrictive budgets.

Henderson Home School Support volunteers Christine Norton and her sister, Carey Ray, used the donated supplies to teach an art class for 20 to 30 students.

“It was a huge blessing,” Norton said.

“It allowed the children to explore their creativity.”

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without the donations.”

Jerry’s Artarama has 16 retail stores and headquarters in Raleigh, it only has one warehouse. And Henderson is its home.

The warehouse is a distribution facility that primarily ships individual mail-order art supplies. It also supplies the retail stores.

“We carry everything an artist might need at the lowest prices,” Lingg said.

The Henderson warehouse has twice doubled in size.

The warehouse has high accuracy rates, low shipping times and an efficient process.

“I think today in the e-commerce world we’re in, customers have gotten very used to speed and efficiency,” Lingg said.

“When they order online, they expect their order right away and in good condition.

There’s a lot of competition.”

For most days, after receiving an order from Jerry’s website or the 500page catalog, the warehouse will then retrieve the item from the available 40,000 stock keeping units.

After individually packaging the order according to its fragility, the warehouse will ship the order to the buyer the same day. The order should be received within one to two business days.

“It’s a constantly rotating door of merchandise,” Lingg said. “An average day here is making sure that we fulfill our obligation to the customer so that no one customer is any less taken care of than the next.”

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r. Marion Lark moment even more special. said he was In presenting Lark, Tucker surprised. For at said, “He truly is a gentleman, least once in his life, few in well-known throughout the room could fully agree Henderson and Vance County with him. for his strong faith in God Lark was named Citizen and who enthusiastically of the Year at the 76th demonstrates his love of annual Henderson-Vance community.”

Chamber of Commerce Tucker said Lark had annual meeting and dedicated his life to the banquet in February. With betterment of Vance County, his wife of 56 years, Jean, transformed the lives of many Dr. Marion Lark, with his wife Jean (left), got a surprise in addition to and provided exceptional by his side, he got another his award when his son Jonathan and wife Reba attended the banquet. leadership in problem solving, surprise when he turned to see son Jonathan and wife always remaining a gentleman Reba on stage behind him. in the most testing of circumstances.

“It’s a humbling experience to be in a place for 38 years, and He said the words “caring, compassionate and committed” people get to know you, from the public standpoint being in a were frequently used to describe Lark. job which is very open to the public, for them to know me pretty “He humbly gives God the glory for the work that has been well personally and publicly and still want to recognize me in this done and is quick to thank others,” Tucker said. way,” Lark said. “It’s indeed a humbling experience to have your Lark is credited with coining the acronym for Area fellow citizens nominate and elect me among many others who Christians Together in Service and is a founding member of are so worthy, and others more worthy than I. the organization. He’s served on numerous boards, including “But I am grateful for the privilege of having this recognition, Henderson’s Downtown Development Commission, Perry and I will do my best to honor it for the rest of my life.”

Memorial Library Foundation and the Henderson Family Jeannie Amos, their daughter, husband John and son Ian sent YMCA. congratulations from their home in Florida.

He was also influential in the planning process and The Henderson Optimist Club was honored with the Shining implementation of Community Care Partners, recognized as a Moment in Education award, which recognizes contributions Community Care of North Carolina program affiliate. of the most outstanding business, “Getting it from Bev, I didn’t organization, church, civic or know of anybody I’d rather accept it community group or individual from than Bev Tucker,” Lark said. supporting Vance County Schools “He is such an inspiration since his in 2013-14. illness was diagnosed, and he has The inaugural Ambassador of been a real trooper. I go by for him the Year award was presented to and take him to the board meetings Clareese Moss. of the YMCA, then go by and get The Citizen of the Year him for Rotary and take him home. selection is made by an anonymous Through his illness over this past committee honoring an individual year , and his keeping on as he has, for volunteer work to make the we’ve become closer than we ever community a better place to live. were. And that was close already.”

Dr. Marion Lark’s quick wit was warmly received by The previous year’s winner, Dr. Others at the event said Lark Gov. Pat McCrory.

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earned the recognition.

“It was a wonderful choice and could not have been more well-deserved,” said Wayne Adcock, who has served with Lark in several roles. “He has contributed so much to this community through his service at the First Baptist Church, but then since his retirement, all Vance County Schools honored the Henderson Optimists with the things he has been the Shining Moment in Education Award. involved in.

“And he’s done so “I love this community,” Lark said told much for us at the Y, with ACTS — he’s the audience. “I’ve been here since 1973, an amazing individual.” and the First Baptist Church has been my And still quick, too. After accepting the home as far as religion is concerned, and award, guest speaker Gov. Pat McCrory I have tried to be not just in that church, injected good-natured humor on his but a part of the larger community. appearance reminding of Dick Van Dyke, And as I have attempted to embrace to which the veteran from the pulpit the community I can honestly say that replied, “I’m just glad it’s not Gomer Pyle.” you as a community, as a business And the governor and the audience, a community, as a religious community and record 500-plus, roared in laughter. in other ways, have embraced my family and me, and indeed I am so grateful for you and for our community.

This is home to us.”

The Henderson Optimists have been a community institution for more than 50 years.

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Engraving memories for a lifetime

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ichael Lassister didn’t know it when he was 8 years old, but he was etching a future in a Henderson business that’s now over 40 years old.

That young age found him learning engraving and other skills from Ron and Grace Bullock, who in 1973 opened Bullock’s of Henderson, a supplier of engraved plaques, trophies, jewelry and other personal items and gifts. The business afforded him a part-time job while he was in high school, a technical training ground, fulltime employment and, finally, ownership.

Ron Bullock passed away in 1994. Lassiter purchased the business in 2007 when

Grace Bullock retired.

Bullock’s is in its third location. The first, in the Henderson Mall, introduced Lassister to the Bullocks.

Lassister’s father managed a Radio Shack and a video arcade in the mall, both near Bullock’s.

After the mall location, the business moved in 1989 to Corbitt Hills Shopping Center on Dabney Drive (now the site of BB&T) and then to Corbitt Depot at 1630 Parham Street in 2006.

The young Lassiter spent a lot of time playing in the couple’s shop in the mall and was about 8 years old when Ron Bullock

started teaching him the art of engraving. “He watched everything we did,� Grace Lassister, who still helps out at the shop, said after the sale in 2007. “That was how he learned to engrave. We let him do some easy jobs, and he did a lot of practicing, too.�

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Vance High School, said his “apprenticeship under Mr. Bullock” taught him not to cut too deeply into the material, how to space properly and the importance of proofreading.

“He was self-taught,” Lassister said. “He was a smart guy.”

Mainstays of the business — trophies and plaques — haven’t changed over the years, Lassister said. However, he’s now engraving on different materials, like acrylics, plastic, crystal and glass, and “the computer technology is better,” he said.

Mainstays among customers are churches, schools, corporations and sports teams.

“Personalization is something anybody can use,” Lassister said.

While most jobs are handled on the shop’s rotary and laser engravers, Lassister, who has an associate degree in business administration from Vance-Granville Community College, said jewelry and other personal one-of-a-kind items and some gifts are hand-engraved, something he does after business hours to eliminate distractions. Engraving on a shotgun, a laptop computer, a wheelchair and a bugle are among the items.

Back in 2007, Lassister said, his purchase wasn’t a matter of inheriting Bullock’s extensive list of customers who have been coming back to the store for years.

“I’ve been here so long, a lot of them have seen me grow up,” Lassister said.

Even now, he said, “Lots remember me from the mall. A lot of our customers feel like friends and family. They’re a part of my life.”

As for engraving names and dates and milestones, Lassiter said, “I enjoy being involved in people’s memories.”

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New chief in town Barrow rises through the ranks, embraces challenges

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In the past year, he was selected as its newest chief. And he doesn’t take long to answer the biggest difference with the job title.

“The buck stops with me. That’s as simple as it gets,” he said.

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“There’s no reservations or regrets,” said the Zebulon native. “It is rewarding especially to see things come to fruition, to see the reaction and acceptance from the community. Those are the rewarding moments, to go in and talk to someone from the community and see a smile on their face instead of a stern look of, ‘What are you doing?’”

Barrow learned intently under former Chief Keith Sidwell.

“I had the interim position for seven months,” Barrow said. “I thought I had a good grasp of what is going on, and didn’t think it would be that big of a change. But it is a different hat.

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tive and get my style of law enforcement across.”

It is a style akin to Sidwell’s. He wants to be tough on crime, but he also wants to be in the community and talking to people.

“It has never been my style to sit behind a desk,” Barrow said. “I’ll sit behind it to get paperwork done, but I like being out in the community.”

Barrow said his earliest formations are credited to his late father. He noted the guidance of chiefs Glenn Allen and Sidwell and he was especially complimentary of the members of the department.

“You surround yourself with good people, capable people, both externally and internally, they make you better,” Barrow said.

Barrow has been with the department since December of 1998.

He was hired as an officer, and progressed as a detective, sergeant, lieutenant and captain. He has served in both the operations and services divisions, including as a lieutenant and captain in each.

He earned an associate’s degree in criminal justice technology from VanceGranville Community College.

Sidwell called Barrow an excellent communicator. He said Barrow ‘s father taught him to leave things in a better way than he found them, starting when they visited parks when he was young and he picked up trash before leaving.

“He cares so much about the citizens of Henderson, and he has shown that through his dedication, his loyalty and his integrity,” Sidwell said. “Marcus only knows one way, and that is far above what most people expect.”

“He was a big part of my life,” Barrow said of his father. “He was always there for me, very supportive of everything I did. He passed away a month after he pinned my captain’s badge on my chest. I hate he’s not there in person and body, but I know he’s watching.”

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he Thermo King logo jutting 100 feet in the air just off Satterwhite Point Road is a welcomed sign for truckers traveling Interstate 85. And since 2012, a welcomed expansion of a business owned by Jeanette and Roger Cornett.

“We wanted a presence on 85,” said Jeanette Cornett, whose firm, Temperature Control Solutions (TCS), sells and services Thermo King refrigeration units for trucks and buses.

The couple in 2004 bought their employer’s business with locations in Wilson and Raleigh. In 2012, they built the branch off I-85 in Vance County. Last year, they grew again, in Fayetteville.

All locations are along interstate highways.

Growing the company was “mainly a decision to be more convenient to our customers,” Cornett said. “With today’s hours of

service laws and cost of operations, we need to help our customers save money.”

The TCS service area ranges from the North Carolina border to South Carolina and from the coast to Greensboro.

Cornett, who is president of TCS, said the pair searched from Oxford to the Virginia line for property before finding five acres with the help of a local real estate agent.

“The Henderson-Vance Chamber of Commerce has been extremely helpful to us,” Cornett said, noting that former president Bill Edwards helped them work with Department of Transportation and other government agencies and officials to complete a road to their facility.

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The Vance County location is home to an 8,500-square foot building with three truck bays, a drivers’ lounge, parts department and offices — and room to grow.

“A driver knows that TK,” the Thermo King logo, Cornett said. “It’s like leaving a light on for them.”

A technician is on call 24 hours a day, and a Thermo King dealer is required to have no more than a two-hour response time, Cornett said. TCS also has 12 mobile service trucks that travel to truck yards.

Beyond the company’s refrigeration unit sales and service mission, TCS offers a fleet of 100 refrigerated rental trailers, Cornett said. Businesses like florists, pharmaceutical and caterers rely on them.

“We do a lot with fast food restaurants when a cooler goes down,” she said.

Eight employees man the Vance location, which is a service area for the Raleigh location, Cornett said. Combined, the four locations employ about 50 workers.

The Cornetts had worked since 1977 in the business they bought. Roger, the TCS vice president, was a general manager and Jeanette, the corporate controller.

More than ownership has changed over the years, Cornett said.

A business depending on “wrenches and screwdrivers is a thing of the past,” she said.

“Now it’s about technology and sophisticated diagnostic. Our Trac King system will allow a customer to sit at his computer in Henderson and monitor the temperature and safety of his product on his trailer in California.”

From its computer, TCS can help a customer troubleshoot a problem anywhere in the country. Mechanical aptitude and backgrounds in refrigeration, electrical and diesel are required of employees.

TCS is something of a family affair now. The Cornetts’ son, Mike, is vice president of sales. And they’re all North Carolinians.

Jeanette is from Wilson County, and Roger comes from Blowing Rock. The couple lives in Zebulon.

Their success was recognized by Thermo King Corp. as they were named the Eastern Region Dealer of the Year in 2013. The award was presented at the national dealer meeting in January.

“After 34 years, it is still fun,” Cornett said. “We feel we are doing our part to insure food products and pharmaceuticals get to their final destinations safe for all of us to consume or protect our health and well-being. Thermo King takes food products from the farm to the fork. Everybody can’t say that.

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For two decades, teachers have she notes, “a chance, an exposure, been coming out of the classroom to IT IS THE JOB OF OUR EDUCATORS and most importantly an opportugather with their fellow educators for nity for exposure and knowledge in TO PREPARE THEIR STUDENTS an area that I was lacking. powerful seminars and tours through the Vance County Teacher Executive “To learn about this new FOR THE WORLD BEYOND HIGH Institute. community — what our parents SCHOOL GRADUATION They return to their schools as are facing at work, and what our mentors with a stronger understandstudents will someday face in their ing of the local area and students they jobs — was why I had to be a part of 1997, I was thrilled with my new job at serve and a greater appreciation of the of TEI.�

Pinkston Street Elementary School, teachpartnership between the education and Each year TEI brings together a ing third grade,� recalls Garrison. business communities. teacher from each of the public schools “I realized I had a lot to learn about my Anne Garrison, principal of Zeb Vance in Vance County as well as the previous new school, town, county and state. I had Elementary School since 2004, is one of year’s Teacher of the Year from the Vance to make it my mission to become involved more than 250 teachers who have underCounty Schools. Teachers are selected for and active in anything and everything that taken the annual adventure organized by their leadership abilities by their principals. was going on, so I could understand my the Henderson-Vance County Chamber of ‘clients’ and their experiences.�

The educators gather for four sessions Commerce and the Vance County Public spread between October and March: Discovering TEI brought excitement School Foundation. team building, professional development for Garrison. “After relocating to Vance County “TEI was exactly what I needed to make See TEI on Page 23 from the suburbs of Pittsburgh in the fall the ends meet in my new career and life,�

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school graduation and TEI provides an extremely valuable look into the business world that our educators need.” strategies, workforce opportunities and a At the TEI orientation each year, Garriseries of tours focusing on the community’s son encourages new participants to use evpast, present and future. ery chance they have to be a positive force, TEI was one of the first programs of the “making good by everything that comes VCPSF, recalls Bill Edwards, former presiyour way, and accepting and challenging dent of the Henderson-Vance Champerspective and opportunity for ber who was working with Sprint yourself and those around you.” when his company joined Harriet & She says that’s how she has WORKING TOGETHER, Henderson Yarns, Coca-Cola Botreached this point in her life as a LEARNING FROM ONE ANOTHER, tling of Henderson, Carolina Power principal and educator. Teacher & Light, Nationsbank and others in of the Year herself in 1998-99 FOCUSED ON A COMMON GOAL forming the non-profit foundation. and then Principal of the Year “TEI was organized in 1993 and in 2009-10, Garrison describes was in place for the 1994-95 school year,” indispensible, says VCS Public Information herself as a “happy advocate” for both TEI Edwards said. “Technology changes were Officer Terri Hedrick. and Vance County. taking place and the skill set needed for “Educators go back to their classrooms “When we work together and learn employment was changing. We wanted to and apply the strategies they have learned from each other, no matter where we came provide teachers with up-to-date business through the program. They also share from, we are all family, working toward a principles so they could better understand with their colleagues. The discussions the goal,” Garrison says. “If we don’t see that, the needs of business.” educators have with local business leaders it is time to become a part of the solution The program has existed since then give them valuable information they can’t so that we can all be successful.” on funding by private grants and donaget by staying in their classrooms,” Hedrick There are another 250-plus teachers tions. The only expense to the schools says. who would agree — thanks to the Teacher has been the cost of substitute teach“It is the job of our educators to prepare Executive Institute. ers for the days when the participating their students for the world beyond high Continued from Page 22

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Among those original businesses, Duke Energy Progress (formerly CP&L) and CenturyLink (then Sprint) still support TEI, joining today some 20 other businesses, industries, civic organizations and individuals.

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From its lodge on Brodie Road, the Henderson Shrine Club organizes events that benefit the Shriners Hospitals for Children and support its local activities.

“You can’t find a better cause to work for,” said Donald Seifert, the club’s treasurer and a former president.

Shriners International founded the hospitals — now numbering 22 — in 1922. Children from birth to age 18 receive medical care, regardless of the families’ ability to pay. The hospitals focus on four specialized areas of care: orthopedic, burn, spinal cord injury and cleft lip and palate.

While the Shriners are most visible wearing their red fezzes and delighting crowds with their units in parades, other activities likely are less noticed.

One involves the club’s Roadrunners: Ronald Earp, Harvey Tyson, Butch Spain, Steve McMillen and Larry Parker. They transport patients and their families to the Shriners hospital in Greenville, S.C., the location closest to Vance County, to airports for flights to other Shriners hospitals and to private medical facilities. The local Roadrunners serve about 27 area patients, five of whom live in Vance County.

“Most of the trips are for outpatient care,” said Tyson, a Shriner since 1994. The Greenville trip takes about five hours one way. Because of increases in airfares, Shriners are likely to begin driving patients to the Cincinnati hospital, which specializes in burn care, and to Philadelphia where the hospital specializes in spinal cord injuries, he said.

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Expenses, including meals and overnight accommodations, are paid from the club’s transportation fund.

The 36-member Henderson club is one of more than a dozen under the jurisdiction of the Amran Temple in Raleigh, Tyson said, and together, the corps of Roadrunners last year made 196 trips to Greenville.

Tyson said his experience with Shriners began 48 years ago when his son was born with crippling and other birth defects.

His insurance didn’t cover the newborn. A coworker was a Shriner and helped arrange private, cost-free orthopedic care.

Shriners “stepped in, sent him to a clinic and paid for it all,” said Tyson, whose son lived only three months, succumbing to other complications.

“I’m not a rich man, but I can give my service,” he said. “I can see an adult suffer, but I can’t stand to see a child suffer.”

The hospital staff is a “special breed,” Tyson said. In all his trips to the facility, “I never saw a child who didn’t have a smile on their face.”

“Often people who go to a hospital will become Shriners,” said Randy Newman, the current president.

The Henderson Shrine Club, once part of the Sudan Temple, went under the jurisdiction of the Amran Temple in 1975.

“I had family members who were Shriners,” Newman said, and he was influenced by coworkers who were Shriners.

Seifert’s father and uncle were Shriners. “I grew up on oyster roasts and fish fries,” he said.

Membership is a “chance to associate with and work with fellow Shriners and Masons,” Seifert said. “There’s a strong feeling of brotherhood. You feel a lot of satisfaction when you’re part of something that’s bigger than you are.”

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Envision Vance is an annual publication of the Henderson-Vance Chamber of Commerce and The Daily Dispatch, distributed throughout Vance County and to interested parties outside the area.

Triangle North Healthcare Foundation’s Board of Directors took historic action in 2013, launching the Foundation’s position as a regional grantmaker, and approved funding for ten projects that will impact the health and wellness of individuals in Vance, Warren, Granville, and Franklin counties. Over $160,000 in grants was approved by the Foundation Board for a variety of projects that meet the current funding priorities.

Those funding priorities are: Chronic Disease Prevention Reproductive Health Nutrition and Physical Fitness Mental Health and Substance Abuse Success in School as it relates to Health and Wellness

Congratulations to our First Grant Recipients: Alliance Rehabilitative Care: Life Skills Enhancement for Chronically Mentally Ill

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Andrew Beal, Allie Rae Bentley, Don Dulin, James Edwards, David Irvine, Sarah Mansur Vanessa Shortley & Alan Wooten Writers Mark Dolejs Photographer Henderson-Vance Chamber of Commerce Marketing Committee and Staff Contributors Christopher Burwell & James Edwards Section Designers Melanie Mann Membership Directory Lisa Adcock, Stephanie Ranes, Stacey Reams, Diane Robbins & Deborah Tuck Advertising sales and design Classic Graphics Printer

Family Resources for K-12 Students with Diabetes

Granville-Vance District Health Department:

Awareness and Prevention of Chlamydia in Vance Co.

Halifax-Warren Smart Start:

Healthy Habits, Healthy Kids: Outdoor Learning Environments to enhance physical activity and obesity prevention for Warren County pre-schoolers.

Henderson Collegiate:

Healthy Bodies, Healthy Minds: Student team athletics program for health and fitness.

Henderson Family YMCA:

Girls on the Run: promotes healthy lifestyles and self esteem.

Save our Kids: Water safety and drowning prevention for Vance Co. second graders.

Kerr-Tar COG Council on Aging:

Living Healthy with Chronic Conditions: Leadership development and training for seniors with chronic diseases.

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Provides medications and support for low income and uninsured individuals in the Triangle North region.

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