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North Carolina To Open New State Veterans Home

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U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

North Carolina will open its newest full-service State Veterans Home Thursday in Kinston.  Residents there can have on-site registered nurses, therapists and service officers to assist with VA benefits to deal with their physical injuries.  They will also be either next to, or a short drive from, a local hospital should they need more intensive medical care. 

Tim Wipperman is the state's director of veterans affairs.  He says each former military man or woman must qualify to stay in these homes. "The veteran must have served in the active armed forces of the United States for other than training purposes," Wipperman says. 

"They have to have been discharged under honorable conditions, must be disabled by age, disease or other conditions as determined by a physician, and they must have resided in the state of North Carolina for two years immediately prior to their date of application."

There are three other state veterans homes located in Fayetteville, Salisbury and Black Mountain.  Wipperman says they are looking at possibilities for additional facilities but nothing is planned right now.

Gurnal Scott joined North Carolina Public Radio in March 2012 after several stops in radio and television. After graduating from the College of Charleston in his South Carolina hometown, he began his career in radio there. He started as a sports reporter at News/Talk Radio WTMA and won five Sportscaster of the Year awards. In 1997, Gurnal moved on to television as general assignment reporter and weekend anchor for WCSC-TV in Charleston. He anchored the market's top-rated weekend newscasts until leaving Charleston for Memphis, TN in 2002. Gurnal worked at WPTY-TV for two years before returning to his roots in radio. He joined the staff of Memphis' NewsRadio 600 WREC in 2004 eventually rising to News Director. In 2006, Raleigh news radio station WPTF came calling and he became the station's chief correspondent. Gurnal’s reporting has been honored by the South Carolina Broadcasters Association, the North Carolina Associated Press, and the Radio Television Digital News Association of the Carolinas.
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