Randolph Community College Emergency Services Training Center Ribbon-Cutting Set For Dec. 9

Randolph Community College will hold a ribbon-cutting for a classroom addition at its Emergency Services Training Center on Friday, Dec. 9 at 10 a.m. RCC President Robert Shackleford will give a welcome, with remarks by Harold Holmes, chairman of the Randolph County Board of Commissioners, and Mac Sherrill, chair of the Randolph Community College Board of Trustees. Brian Causey, director of the ESTC, will also speak.

The 2,800-square-foot brick addition contains three classrooms that can be converted into one large meeting area, two small offices, and bathrooms. The cost of the project was approximately $460,000, paid for from RCC’s Future Undesignated Construction Fund funded by the Randolph County Commission.

According to Anne Hockett, vice president for instructional services at RCC, the ESTC provides training for 20 fire and rescue departments, Randolph County EMS, the Randolph County Sheriff’s Department, four local municipal police departments, as well as multiple state and federal agencies. “The training needs for these agencies has the facility operating at 98% of its capacity,” she said before the expansion.

The Emergency Services Training Center is located 895 Training Center Drive, Randleman. Take Highway 64 East from Asheboro. Turn left onto East Presnell Street and make an immediate right onto Henley Country Road. Go about 1.3 miles. At the stop sign, take a right onto Old Cedar Falls Road. Go another 1.3 miles and the ESTC will be on the left.