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VGCC Offers 3 BioWork Training Sessions In Fall

July 11, 2002 | by VGCC Staff
Training for employment in one of the fastest-growing and better-paying job fields in North Carolina will be held in three sessions during the fall at Vance-Granville Community College’s Franklin County Campus. The BioWork Process Technician course will be held on Mondays and Wednesdays from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., and another session will be conducted … Read More

VGCC Program Affords Opportunities To Work With Youth, Adults, Seniors

July 9, 2002 | by VGCC Staff
After Anthony Yarborough graduated from Northern Vance High School in 1997, he enrolled in the college transfer program at Vance-Granville Community College. He thought he would get the basics taken care of while staying near home in Henderson. Then he would transfer to a university and get his last two years and go out and … Read More

KLAHBA BEGINS THIRD SCHOLARSHIP

July 7, 2002 | by VGCC Staff
The Kerr Lake Area Home Builders Association has begun establishment of a third Academic Achievement Scholarship at Vance-Granville Community College. Previously, two Academic Achievement scholarships have been completed, named for two charter members of the association, Red Faulkner and John Franklin. When the association completes funding of the third award, it will be the Kerr … Read More

13 Graduate Truck Driver School at VGCC, Receive Warning About Terrorist Attacks

July 3, 2002 | by VGCC Staff
The 18th Truck Driver Training School at Vance-Granville Community College culminated June 27 when 13 new truck operators received the certificates of graduation and Class A. Certified Driver’s Licenses (CDL). Graduates of the 2002 class are Brenda A. Arrington of Franklinton, the lone woman in the class, and Joe L. Bullock Jr., Allen E. Gill, … Read More

VGCC Graduates First Networking Class

July 3, 2002 | by VGCC Staff
A new program at Vance-Granville Community College that provides its participants with even more marketable computer skills graduated its first students in May. Five students completed the first class of Network Administration and Support, a concentration in the Information Systems program. In addition to learning the computer programming and operating skills of the Information Systems … Read More

Franklin County VGCC Nursing Student Attends Statewide Leadership Institute

July 2, 2002 | by VGCC Staff
Peggy H. Spivey is, as she puts it “in my 40s,” but she proves daily she can compete with the younger students in the Associate Degree Nursing program at Vance-Granville Community College. She also proved June 9-14 she has leadership skills that are still being developed as she was one of 30 community college students … Read More

VGCC Pleased With Bids For Construction Of New Classroom Building On Main Campus

July 2, 2002 | by VGCC Staff
Two Durham companies, one from Wilson and one from Oxford are the low bidders for construction of a new 51,921 square-foot classroom building on Vance-Granville Community College’s main campus in Vance County. Bids were opened June 13, and Bordeaux Construction Co. of Durham submitted the lowest of six bids for the general construction contract at … Read More

Eighteen New CNA Graduates

June 25, 2002 | by VGCC Staff
Eighteen new certified nursing assistants graduated from an evening course June 13 at Vance-Granville Community College. On the front row, from left, are: Valerie Hargrove of Henderson, Felicia Jones of Stovall, Mary Hargrove of Kittrell, Pamela Green of Oxford, Lyn Brownell of Stovall, Linda Pulley of Kittrell and Yvonne Anderson of Oxford; second row, from … Read More

EXPO 2002 Early Birds Get The $$$

June 25, 2002 | by VGCC Staff
Members of the Henderson-Vance County Chamber of Commerce and the Granville County Chamber of Commerce can save $20 by signing up early to participate in EXPO 2002. The annual trade show will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 15, at the Vance-Granville Community College Civic Center. It is organized by the … Read More

Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Scholarships

June 18, 2002 | by VGCC Staff
Esther G. Kearney, treasurer of the Oxford-Henderson Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, presents the final payment to Vance-Granville Community College President Robert A. Miller to complete the sorority’s second Academic Achievement Scholarship at the college. Kearney said the chapter plans to begin a third scholarship at Vance-Granville within the next year.