State employees fill Food Bank shelves

Sept. 13 -- Gov. Bev Perdue and employees of the N.C. Department of Correction presented hundreds of pounds of donated food to the Food Bank of Central and Eastern NC as part of a statewide food drive for the Sept. 11 National Day of Service and Remembrance.
Sec. Alvin Keller had called on all employees statewide to donate 9 to ll items to a food bank during the drive conducted Sept. 10-12. The secretary had also challenged his executive team to each donate a number of food times equal to their age.

Governor Perdue participated as the food bank picked up donations at the DOC headquarters on Monday morning, Sept. 13. A truck from the Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina arrived to transport food donations that had been collected from DOC locations in Wake County.

Employee food drive leaders from the DOC central office, the Division of Prisons, Correction Enterprises, Community Corrections and the Office of Staff Development and Training were present for the governor’s visit.

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Inmates gather tires beached by Hurricane Earl

CARTERET COUNTY - A crew of 40 inmates from Carteret Correctional Center worked Friday to clean up hundreds of tires that Hurricane Earl washed onto the Bogue Banks beaches.   The inmates collected tires from beaches in Emerald Isle, Pine Knoll Shores, Indian Beach and Salter Path in order to clear the sand before beachgoers arrive for the long Labor Day weekend.

Thousands of car and truck tires were sunk offshore in the 1970s to create artificial reefs as a habitat for marine life.  The tires are occasionally stirred up by storms and tossed ashore.

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