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DMV schedules job fair Rocky Mount HQ has 175 openings PAGE 1B The Enterprise SERVING SOUTHERN NASH COUNTY SINCE 1947 Spring Hope • Bailey • Middlesex Online Daily • Printed Wednesdays | springhopeenterprise.com | Wednesday, February 17, 2021 | $1 Nash school board sets March 1 reeentry By Lindell J. Kay Lank Dunston, Ricky Jenkins, cators can tell students to wear [email protected] Dean Edwards and Chris Bis- masks when adults won’t do it. | 252-265-8117 sette voted to open schools. Superintendent Steve El- Evelyn Bulluck and lis said two students initially NASHVILLE — Public LaShawnda Washington voted refused to wear masks when school students in Nash Coun- to keep classrooms closed. elementary students returned ty will be allowed to return to Roughly half of faculty and to school last year, but they the classroom March 1. staff members will be comfort- agreed to wear their masks With recommendations from able returning to face-to-face after administrators spoke to Gov. Roy Cooper and legisla- instruction, according to a their parents. When schools tion on the near horizon, the teacher and staff survey pre- reopen, students who won’t Nash County Board of Educa- sented by Christine Catalano, wear masks will be returned to tion voted 9-2 to reopen class- executive director of strategic online learning. rooms during a special called planning and engagement for State Sen. Lisa Barnes, R- meeting held Thursday to dis- Nash County Public Schools. Nash, voted in support of leg- cuss in-classroom learning. School board member Ev- islation to direct all schools to Under the state’s Plan B elyn Bullock said teachers provide an in-person learning guidelines, families have the believe they will get vaccinated option. The measure, Senate option of choosing to remain before schools open, but it isn’t Bill 37, passed 29-15 in the on the virtual track or attend- known whether that will occur. Senate and 74-44 in the House. State Sen. Lisa Barnes, left, meets Diana Gause’s kindergarten ing school for face-to-face She said vaccine doses are de- A conference committee has class at Youngsville Academy, a charter school in Franklin County. learning Monday through pendent on the state. been appointed to hammer out Barnes recently voted for legislation to reopen schools for in-person Thursday every other week. “If all our teachers can’t be differences between the ver- instruction while allowing for continued online learning for parents Chairman Franklin Lamm, vaccinated, we need to tell sions adopted in each cham- who want to keep their children at home during the coronavirus Bill Sharpe, Ron Silver, Sha- them up front,” Bullock said. pandemic. Contributed photo ronda Bulluck, Doneva Chavis, Bulluck questioned how edu- See SCHOOLS, Page 4A Grocery delivery service helps hungry Ripe Revival Market partners with nonprofits By Lindell J. Kay [email protected] | 252-265-8117 ROCKY MOUNT — A Nash County business pivoted from making fruit gummies to fa- cilitating the home delivery of grocery boxes during the CO- VID-19 pandemic. “The ugly truth is that up to 40% of crops are lost or left in the field each year because farmers don’t have a home for it or because of odd shape, size or other cosmetic defects,” said Will Kornegay, founder of Ripe Revival Market. Even before COVID-19 changed everything, Kornegay was already poised to make lemonade out of lemons — ac- tually, fruit snacks out of im- perfect produce. Kornegay and his sister, Laura Hearn, started Ripe Re- vival to make high-protein fruit snacks from unsalable fruits and vegetables. The company was ready to start production last March when the pandemic hit and grocery retailers stopped accepting new vendors, Ko- rnegay said. Hearn stepped away from Ripe Revival Market employees pack “tasty but imperfect” produce for the company’s Community-Supported Donation Boxes at the the business to take care of company’s Rocky Mount warehouse on Feb. 1. Contributed photo family and Kornegay said he shifted direction, hatching the directly to customers through- As a way to give back, Ko- of “tasty but imperfect” pro- experiencing food insecurity. Ripe Revival Market. out eastern North Carolina, in- rnegay said he created the duce and a second box is do- “One out of every eight The new company delivers cluding Spring Hope and Wil- Community-Supported Dona- nated to Nash County nonprof- meat, dairy and produce boxes son, and as far as Wilmington. tion Box. Customers buy a box its for distribution to families See HUNGRY, Page 2A They may not look like much on Authorities warn of catalytic converter thefts the outside, but catalytic converters By Lindell J. Kay and Olivia Neeley a matter of minutes, said Wilson contain precious [email protected] | 252-265-8117 County Sheriff Calvin Woodard. metals like platinum, Thieves often steal catalytic con- giving the car part NASHVILLE — Authorities are urging motor- verters after business hours and on a scrap market ists to take precautions to prevent the theft of weekends. Any car, truck or SUV value of up to $300. catalytic converters from their cars. can be considered a target, Wood- Authorities in Nash The warnings came with the arrest of a Rocky ard said. and Wilson counties Mount man accused of stealing nearly two Lewin Wilson County deputies recently have recently dozen catalytic converters. arrested nine suspects in connec- dealt with accused Part of a motor vehicle’s exhaust system, cat- tion to a rash of stolen catalytic converters. thieves targeting alytic converters reduce burnt engine gases and The Nash County Sheriff’s Office, along with al- the exhaust system pollutants. Thieves use battery-operated recip- most every surrounding jurisdiction, has recently parts. Contributed rocating saws to cut the ends and remove the photo parts from vehicles, which can be done within See THEFTS, Page 2A Weathercast With Albert Thomas Jr. Preview of the week posted Tuesdays. Preview of the weekend posted Saturdays. springhopeenterprise.com Spring Hope Enterprise @NashEnterprise 2A THE ENTERPRISE | springhopeenterprise.com Wednesday, February 17, 2021 Hungry: A rising number of families are experiencing food insecurity continued from page 1A aimed to address three Orange, Pitt, Wake and Choice award in its 2019 pandemic challenges Wayne counties. Ag Innovations Chal- families in the U.S. with his new company: Kornegay, a N.C. State lenge, designed to foster faces food insecurity Consumers want to University alum, has a new generation of and may or may not avoid grocery stores been involved in the local entrepreneurs and show- know where their next and need groceries de- sweet potato market for case business innova- meal may come from,” livered to their homes; years. tions being developed in Kornegay said. “And eastern North Carolina Glean, a company rural parts of the country. that statistic has sig- farmers and local food begun by Kornegay and For more information, nificantly been com- distributors need new his sister, received the visit www.riperevival- pounded by the impacts markets for their goods American Farm Bureau market.com. of COVID-19.” as restaurants, schools Federation’s People’s Participating nonprofits and other institutional include the YMCA, Boys buyers scale back their Ripe Revival Market owner Will Kornegay is pictured in & Girls Club, Redeemer operations; and a rising Ripe Revival Market offerings the company’s Rocky Mount warehouse. The business Church and the Down number of families are offers weekly subscription boxes of meat, dairy and East Partnership for Chil- experiencing food inse- • Community-Supported Produce Box — $22.99; 10-12 produce available for delivery in eastern North Carolina. dren. curity. pounds. Contributed photo Kornegay said he The company’s de- • Produce box — $34.99; 15-20 pounds. livery area includes zip codes in Nash, Edge- • Grocery box — $74.99; 15-20 pounds of produce and 3-7 combe, Wilson, Beaufort, meat, dairy, beverage and snack items. Craven, Cumberland, • Meat boxes — $49.99-$99.99, available in beef, pork and Durham, Greene, Lenoir, poultry. - IN STOCK - New Hanover, Onslow, Our buyers worked extra hard during the holidays making sure we have millions of $$$ of inventory in stock. Thefts: Park in a secure garage continued from page 1A the alarm activates if a Lewin on Thursday in ru- thief tries to saw off the ral Wilson County when Ready fo experienced a rise in cata- converter. deputies responded to PICK UP or DELIVERY lytic converter thefts. • Video surveillance an abandoned service The converters contain around your garage or station at 5845 Holdens several precious met- driveway is useful if you Cross Road east of Wil- als including platinum, have the budget for it. son around 3 a.m. after giving the part a market • Etching a vehicle someone reported seeing value of $200 to $300 identification number a suspicious car, which from a scrap buyer. For or license plate number authorities described as a car owners, replacement on the converter could blue and silver Nissan Al- costs often exceed $2,000 help track it down if it’s tima with a missing front to $3,000, according to a stolen. bumper. recent article in the Min- A car with the same li- nesota Post about the NASH SUSPECT’S ARREST cense plate was captured growing problem. on surveillance video NO WAITING In the most recent con- when a catalytic con- THEFT PREVENTION verter theft case, authori- verter was stolen from ties accuse 39-year-old A Greater Love Chris- 6 Moths! No vehicle makes or Joshua Robert Lewin tian Church in Rocky models are safe from the of stealing 10 catalytic Mount, Medina said in a thieves, but the Toyota converters from the N.C. Thursday news release.

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