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Harnett County and Central Carolina Community College celebrated the opening of the college’s new West Harnett Center with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and open house on Nov. 23. Taking part in the ribbon cutting were (from left) the Rev. George Walton, pastor of Olivia Presbyterian Church, who gave the invocation; Harnett County Commissioner Dan Andrews; Dr. Bud Marchant, president of CCCC; Teddy Byrd (behind Marchant), chairman of the Harnett Board of Commissioners; Commissioners Beatrice Bailey Hill and Tim McNeill; Bobby Powell, chairman of the college’s board of trustees; and Bill Tyson, the college’s Harnett County provost. The Center, located in the Western Harnett Industrial Park, off Highway 87, south of Sanford, is the college’s first permanent facility in western Harnett. The $1.9 million, 8,500-square-foot building houses the college’s barbering program, a welding shop, 24-station computer lab, classrooms, and an industrial training lab for workforce development. 

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Harnett County and Central Carolina Community College celebrated the opening of the college’s new West Harnett Center with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and open house on Nov. 23. The Center, located in the Western Harnett Industrial Park, off Highway 87, south of Sanford, is the college’s first permanent facility in western Harnett. The $1.9 million, 8,500-square-foot building houses the college’s barbering program, a welding shop, 24-station computer lab, classrooms, and an industrial training lab for workforce development. 

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Old friends Walter Cotton (left) and Wesley Dupree greet each other in the barbershop at Central Carolina Community College’s new West Harnett Center during the Nov. 23 ribbon-cutting ceremony and open house for the Center. Dupree helped establish the college’s barbering program back in 2003 in temporary buildings off Highway 27; Cotton is the current Barbering Department chairman and the program has been relocated to the new Center. The Center, located in the West Harnett Industrial Park, off Highway 87, south of Sanford, is the college’s first permanent facility in western Harnett. The $1.9 million, 8,500-square-foot building houses not only the barbering program, but also a welding shop, 24-station computer lab, classrooms, and an industrial training lab for workforce development. 

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Harnett County and Central Carolina Community College celebrated the opening of the college’s new West Harnett Center with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and open house on Nov. 23. Harnett County Commissioner Tim McNeill (at podium) addressed the gathering. Also speaking at the event were (from left) Dr. Bud Marchant, college president; Bobby Powell, chairman of the college’s board of trustees; and Bill Tyson, the college’s Harnett County provost. The Rev. George Walton (far right) gave the invocation. The Center, located in the West Harnett Industrial Park, off Highway 87, south of Sanford, is the college’s first permanent facility in western Harnett. The $1.9 million, 8,500-square-foot building houses the college’s barbering program, a welding shop, 24-station computer lab, classrooms, and an industrial training lab for workforce development. 

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Harnett County and Central Carolina Community College celebrated the opening of the college’s new West Harnett Center with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and open house on Nov. 23. The Center, located in the Western Harnett Industrial Park, off Highway 87, south of Sanford, is the college’s first permanent facility in western Harnett. The $1.9 million, 8,500-square-foot building houses the college’s barbering program, a welding shop, 24-station computer lab (pictured), classrooms, and an industrial training lab for workforce development.