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North Carolina’s Community Health Worker Initiative will expand as part of the CDC’s National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion's Community Health Workers for COVID Response and Resilient Communities (CCR) initiative. The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services was awarded a total of $9 million with $3 million per year distributed over the next three years.
Governor Roy Cooper has declared it North Carolina Manufacturing Week. With the largest workforce in the Southeast, manufacturing remains essential to the success of every sector of our state’s economy as manufacturing operations continue amid the global pandemic.
The Duke Energy Foundation today distributed $750,000 in grants to help local businesses across North Carolina – from restaurants to retailers – adapt to the unprecedented challenges caused by the pandemic.
Various federal and state officials joined U.S. Department of Agriculture North Carolina Rural Development at a fire truck arrival ceremony at the Trenton Volunteer Fire Department today.
To strengthen and extend protections against severe illness, North Carolinians at high risk for serious illness or exposure, and who have been fully vaccinated with the Pfizer-BioNTech (COMINARTY) vaccine for six months or more, can now receive a COVID-19 booster shot.
North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper issued Executive Order 234 extending, but not waiving, proof-of-immunization and health assessment documentation deadlines for school and child-care facilities. To ensure children are not excluded from school because of increased demands on health care providers amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the order will give students and families more time to complete their required vaccines and health assessments. Vaccinations and health assessments are essential to protecting public health and should not be skipped or ignored.
On Saturday, over $9,500 in scholarships and other gifts were given to the Distinguished Young Women of Lenoir County Class of 2022. The Distinguished Young Woman of Lenoir County program is part of a nationwide effort to recognize, reward, and encourage excellence and education among all young people. Four senior girls competed for the scholarships.
Due to an unforeseen change by the railroad, work on Queen Street will not be completed today. The work has been rescheduled for Friday.
Union Bank of Kinston is the Putting Contest Sponsor of this year’s 20th annual Lenoir Community College Golf Classic on Thursday, Oct. 7 at the Kinston Country Club. This event has raised more than $600,000 toward student scholarships at LCC since its inception, and Union Bank has been a consistent supporter for the past several years. Nearly 130 golfers played in the tournament last year, and the Foundation is expecting an even better attendance this year.
The following inspections were conducted by the Lenoir County Health Department:
Mr./Ms. Lenoir County resident, your county government wants to hear from you.
Seriously.
Adam Short, the assistant to the county manager and planning director for Lenoir County government, is asking residents to participate in a short survey that will help shape our county for years to come.
Debbie Chused, member of the Philanthropic Educational Organization (P.E.O.), presented Lenoir Community College first-year Associate Degree Nursing student Yvonne Mae Dolinta with the Mina Dail Miller Scholarship.
The following land transfers were filed with the Lenoir County Register of Deeds:
Kinston Native Jake Sutton will open for Nelly at the MumFest in Downtown New Bern.
The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services today announced households enrolled in the Food and Nutrition Services program will see their benefits increase by 25% beginning Oct. 1, 2021, as part of a national re-evaluation of benefit amounts by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. More than 1.6 million people are enrolled in FNS in North Carolina
Ms. Charmaine Hansel, a senior nursing student at LCC is the 2021 recipient of both the Stackhouse Memorial Nursing Scholarship and the Cindy A. Jones Nursing Memorial Scholarship through the Lenoir Hospital Foundation. Both scholarships provide financial assistance to individuals actively enrolled in a nursing program and who have completed an application and then presented for review and selection by the UNC Lenoir nursing selection committee.
The Bird scooters can be found throughout downtown Kinston. The Neuse News crew found them outside of Sugar Hill Pizzeria and parked them at the Art 105 studio on Blount Street. The easy-to-use Bird app allows users to rent electric scooters in and around the downtown area.
The Down East Wood Ducks announced Tuesday, their plans to host the second annual Kinston Cornhole Classic at Grainger Stadium, presented by Poole Realty on Saturday, November 6th. The event will use the American Cornhole League Rounders Format which is a Progressive Round Robin tournament where all teams will be placed into a pool and six or more rounds will be played by each team.
As an integral part of the North Carolina Judicial System, the Guardian ad Litem program was established in 1983 by the General Assembly to be a voice for the children in the community. Volunteers for the Guardian ad Litem program speak up for abused and neglected children in court. The term “guardian ad litem” comes from Latin, and means “guardian for the case.”
