As the culmination of the North Carolina Rising project, UNC-TV invites you to participate in a topical town hall meeting from the campus of The University of North Carolina at Pembroke. This meeting will be held Oct. 13, at 8 p.m. at UNC Pembroke’s University Center Annex. Please arrive at the Annex no later than 7:30 p.m., on October 13 to attend this event, which will be taped and then broadcast on UNC-TV the following evening, Wednesday, October 14, at 8 p.m. Seating is limited and attendees must register to join the live, town hall audience or to submit a question to our panelists: www.unctv.org/ncrising/townhalls.html. Moderated by UNC-TV’s Director of Production, Shannon Vickery, the event will feature an interactive, multimedia dialogue with expert panelists, representing local leadership in education, policy and industry and viewers like you. Topics for discussion will include the region’s role in agriculture, food processing, biotechnology, distribution and the military.
“UNC-TV is excited about conducting these regional town hall meetings,” Vickery said.”For more than a year, UNC-TV has focused on the challenges and opportunities rural communities are experiencing as the state's economy continues to change.
“In this final part of the North Carolina Rising project, we are looking forward to hearing from state and community leaders and North Carolina residents about the economic trends they are seeing first hand in communities across the state,” she said. “I invite all North Carolinians to get involved in this very important conversation.”
UNC-TV also encourages others to join the statewide conversation online. Visit the North Carolina Rising Web site (www.unctv.org/ncrising) to share your comments, questions and details about your own economic development projects. Or join our community on Facebook, (www.facebook.unctv) and Twitter (www.twitter.com/unctv) to post your thoughts, inquiries and opinions on the state of North Carolina Rising.
UNC-TV’s North Carolina Rising project is funded by the Golden LEAF Foundation, a nonprofit corporation created in 1999 to receive one-half of the funds coming to North Carolina from a master settlement agreement with cigarette manufacturers. In turn, the Foundation is helping North Carolinians make the transition from a tobacco-dependent economy through grants and investments that will positively affect the long-term economic advancement of the state. Golden LEAF gives priority in its grantmaking to tobacco-dependent and economically distressed counties.
For more information about these shows and other programming on UNC-TV’s family of stations, visit www.unctv.org. A unique partnership of public investment and private support makes UNC-TV’s programming possible. As North Carolina’s only statewide television network, UNC-TV remains committed to producing and broadcasting programs for and about North Carolina, making it the state’s most important source of information about North Carolina.
To attend submit your request online at: www.unctv.org/ncrising/townhalls.html.
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