Iredell County

I'm Dan Miller.

On this episode of Ag in NC, we get up with the co-chair of the North Carolina Agriculture and Environment Committee, Iredell County representative Jeffrey McNeely.

Our own Jeff, Jeff Turner, will be along in a moment to talk about the few headlines there are affecting farming here in North Carolina.

And at the end of the program, I'll have commodity prices as they compare to the prior week.

Yeah, absolutely.

No doubt about it.

We need to, uh, cut our time short because we have, uh, Representative McNeely on today from Iredell County.

I, I, I think it's normally a lengthy conversation with-

Correct.

Mecklenburg would lead into Iredell County.

It's the next county over.

Yes.

Right now we are coming up on Sunset Road here, uh, kind of coming out of Charlotte.

Traffic's flowing pretty good on both sides of the interstate.

However, on our way down southbound lane 77 right at the Section through Iredell County line, been an accident in the northbound lane, in the HOV lane, which is causing major delays in traffic as we came down.

Uh, looking at the traffic, it's backed up close to Huntersville Road.

Oh, yeah, definitely.

Even into Iredell County.

Good luck driving on River Highway today.

Oh, my goodness, yes.

Thanks.

So they're adding 423

jobs in Iredell County.

They're going to invest $95 million... to expand its mooresville campus now i don't know if this is that property finally right there on lake davidson because that kind of uh i think that butts

The S&P off by two to 7,805, while the NASDAQ loses 41 to 27,204.

Corvid Technologies, an employee-owned, non-traditional defense contractor, will add 423 jobs in Iredell County.

The company will invest $95 million to expand its Mooresville campus and build an additional advanced manufacturing facility.

The Greater Raleigh Convention and Visitors Bureau naming Lauren Gold as president and CEO to succeed Dennis Edwards, who is retiring at the end of the year.

So, um, people always see me going up and down 77, 'cause I work here in Cornelius and, and live in Troutman.

But, um, my wife, uh, is, uh, an attorney advocate, um, or was an attorney advocate for the state of North Carolina for Iredell and Rowan County.

So she represented kids who were, um, in, in DSS custody and, and trying to find them placement, and she introduced me to Guardians through a court case that she had.

Um, and I, I talked to some of the folks, um, spent some time with them, like I said, about a year, year and a half, kind of supporting the organization unofficially, and then, um, officially decided to join, um, and cleared my background check in 2018.

We support their entire family structure, um, whoever their legal guardian is.

Um, we support our community and lo- local nonprofits that have a like mind.

Um, so we support our local child advocacy agencies, which for Iredell County, where we're based out of, is the Dove House.

Mm-hmm.

And Prysmian doubles, this announcement by Prysmian doubles the tax base of the town of or the city of Claremont, and or will when it's built up.

And so this prosperity that will be recognized by this next five years' worth of investment in that cluster not only will benefit Claremont, but it will benefit Catawba County, and it will benefit Iredell County, and it will benefit Wilkes and Burke and Lincoln and all of these people that are within a reasonable drive time of this facility.

They'll be trained at facilities at Catawba Valley Community College, and they will take advantage of this cluster that we've tried to encourage over the last 20-some years by trying to help people understand what an asset that is here, the supplier base, the training base, the asset base that we have, the proximity to all of North Carolina and the interstates and the Mid-Atlantic seaboard and all of that.

And so these relationships, these ingredients, if you will, to go back to that first comment, those are huge in trying to help communities stay and thrive and figure out where they're gonna be for their next 50 years.

Coming down to the southbound lane, earlier we were at the Lane 3 exit where traffic was really starting to back up, crossing over into Iredell-Mecklenburg County.

So right there at the Iredell County-Mecklenburg line, all the way down to Davidson, and then even on down to the Sanford, uh, Concord, Huntersville exit as well.

So if you're in the southbound lane, I just want you gonna be patient.

Uh, coming up to the 77 north right now, we just passed a disabled car in the HOV lane or the HOV lane shoulder right around mile marker number 14.

A wonderful opportunity to celebrate the history of music throughout the state of North Carolina, and it goes down right there in Mooresville.

H- how did that partnership come about? I mean, because it's, it's really with the Music Hall of Fame, right, which is located in Kannapolis, but the event happens in Mooresville.

I mean, a great example of working with organizations just beyond Mooresville, beyond Iredell County.

Uh, h- how does, how does a relationship like that happen?

If you need help, you can reach out.

Fifth Street Ministries, Statesville, Iredell County, the surrounding counties, all the way

to Washington, D.C. Can you believe it?

What an impact.

It's like, who did this? And I just want to get up there with my saws on.

So it was first thing I looked at is how are the lights lined

up? This project, too, is bringing national, not just local, you know, to the Statesville area and to the Iredell County, but national attention to homeless veterans.

You know, there are veterans who are experiencing homelessness.

... all the materials here that it takes to build a home for a veteran, I mean, that's an amazing thing to see.

It is an amazing thing, and it really shows the power of the community too, right? So it's not just a- I- I'm, I'm always so amazed at Purple Heart Homes being based in the Statesville area and, and Iredell County, and the impact that it's made in that area partnering with Fifth Street Ministries.

They said that, you know, Fifth Street, there's, there's people from Fifth Street that have, veterans from there that have received homes already from Purple Heart.

This is not a new, um, collaboration that they're doing.