Vaccine alert!
If you are eligible and interested in getting the vaccine, Randolph County Public Health is scheduling appointments for next week. To schedule an appointment, call the vaccine appointment line at 336-365-6110. The appointment line is open Monday – Friday, 8:30am – 4:00pm when appointments are available.
At this time, vaccine appointments are available as follows:
1st dose – Wednesday, March 17 – appointment times between 5:00pm – 7:00pm; return for 2nd dose Tuesday, April 13 - appointment times between 5:00pm – 7:00pm
1st dose – Thursday, March 18 – appointment times between 8:30am – 4:30pm; return for 2nd dose Monday, April 12 – appointment times between 8:30am – 4:30pm
1st dose – Friday, March 19 – appointment times between 8:30am – 4:30pm; return for 2nd dose Wednesday, April 14 – appointment times between 8:30am – 4:30pm
Furniture World News By Nic Ledoux on 3/2/2021 First place winners Anna Bibikova (left) and Mengying Qi (Right) and their projects for the Bienenstock Furniture Libraryâs Annual Design Competition for furniture and interior design.
Bienenstock Furniture Library names the 2021 winners of its annual student design competitions for furniture and interior design, including cash awards of $5,000 for the top performers.
For this year’s furniture challenge, students submitted an original design for a chair that is suitable for marketing to either or both residential and contract trade industry segments. The competition criteria states that designs should be aesthetically pleasing and also suitable for manufacturing within the financial and technical constraints of mass production.
Randolph County reported 13,064 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 199 deaths as of Thursday, according to the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services.
This is a cycle that most officers witness when encountering people with substance use disorder or SUD.
Randolph County Sheriff Seabolt has seen numerous instances of families breaking up due to drugs and believes that they can cause harm to the children and the partner they left behind. I am passionate about creating a difference because some of these families are broken, with mothers often playing both parental roles.
Even before his law enforcement career began, Seabolt witnessed this cycle firsthand while living with family members who battled with drugs. The experience has taught him the importance of facilitating treatment.
Maybe you want to launch a global business.
Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more.
Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world.
Whatever it is, this customizable program will help you learn the basics of starting your own business and connect you with a network of successful owners and mentors.”
These are the enticing words on the signup page of Asheboro’s soon-to-be-launched black business accelerator. The effort will be a collaboration between VentureAsheboro, Rotary International, and Small Business Center.
“The idea stemmed from a conversation in our Midstate Rotary Group. I belong to a rotary group that, during the midst of the Black Lives Matter movement, we wanted to do something meaningful and people had a variety of ideas,” VentureAsheboro Founder and Rotary International member Jonathan Thill explains, “What we ended up landing on was trying to address the generational wealth gap through business ownership.”