A new grant from International Paper will allow the George Henry White Memorial Health and Education Center to provide a life-enhancing nutrition and fitness program to the people of Bladen and Columbus Counties. "We are calling it Fine Food and Fitness," said Carol Caldwell, programming coordinator for the Center. "In partnership with the NC Cooperative Extension Service, and with the help of various healthcare professionals in our area, we are launching a series of fun and

Bladen and Columbus residents are being trained in Computer Networking through the George Henry White Memorial Health and Education Center, opening career and financial opportunities in the increasingly valued work of IT (Information Technology.) The program is a partnership between CISCO Networking Academy and the George Henry White Center. It is a 20-module program, part of which the students will do on their own, in the "self-paced" system, but with the instruction provid

During his term of office, Congressman George Henry White proposed making lynching a federal crime--but that bill was buried. Finally, more than a century later, that proposal has become law. Read about it here:

The recent "Fall into Health Festival" organized by Dr. Marie Campbell received reports from several news outlets.

Ms. Carolyn Greene, one of the founding pillars of the George Henry White Memorial Health and Education Center, passed away on Saturday, October 1, 2022 at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, NC. When the vacant farmhouse was donated to the Benjamin and Edith Spaulding Descendants Foundation by Dr. Milton Campbell and Ms. Wanda Campbell Clay in 2015, only those with tremendous heart and vision could perceive how that century-old building could be brought back to life. Ms.