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Flat Rock Playhouse was awarded a $20,000 grant by the Community Foundation of Henderson County for its Playhouse Jr. initiative.
The Playhouse launched Playhouse Jr. Productions in 2019 with Letterland Alive! The Musical developed in partnership with Letterland, a phonics program for K-3rd-grade students, and writer/composer Ethan Andersen, who most recently wrote Rootabaga Express!, a musical inspired by the works of Carl Sandburg and performed in the summers by Flat Rock Playhouse apprentices at the Carl Sandburg National Historic Site.
The grant will be used to develop a new production centered around North Carolina history inspired by the statewide curriculum for fourth-graders.
Pardee UNC Health Care, in partnership with Blue Ridge Health, will begin vaccinating Henderson County Public Schools employees Wednesday.
School and child care employees qualify for the vaccine under the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services Group 3.
HCPS personnel won t be required to get a vaccine. Those who do want it will be vaccinated quickly, according to a statement from Pardee UNC Health Care spokeswoman Erica Allison.
Groups 1 and 2 (health care workers, long-term care staff and residents and adults 65 years and older) will continue to receive vaccines as well. The Henderson County Health Department will remain focused on vaccinating individuals who are 65 and older.
Around 2 inches of rain fell in southern Henderson and Transylvania counties, with about an inch to an inch-and-a-half recorded in the remaining areas of the counties and almost all of Polk County.
Nominated were Dr. Jan King, Marilyn Yoder and Anne Boyette.
King, an assistant superintendent with the Henderson County Public Schools, has been nominated for the state DKG Founders Award reserved for women who have made outstanding contributions beyond the local and regional levels.
In March King will have spent 28 years serving the students and staff of Henderson County public schools with a wide range of classroom experience and educational leadership. She began her education career with the school system in 1992 as a classroom teacher at Dana Elementary, Apple Valley Middle and West Henderson High schools. She then became a specialist for the Academically and Intellectually Gifted programs at West Henderson High, Hendersonville Middle, Bruce Drysdale Elementary and Edneyville Elementary schools, before serving as an instructional coach for all the county s high schools.