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The Baptist Men will have their monthly breakfast meeting on Sunday, Jan. 21 at 8:30 am.
Fundraisers for the youth and children's summer missions camps are coming up! A Soup and Sandwich lunch will be held on Sunday, Jan. 28 at Red Oak Baptist Church following the morning worship service. The cost is $5 per person. Also, on Friday, Feb. 9 from 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm they will have a Pancake Supper.

Benvenue Ruritan Club President Fran Bunn, right, is shown recognizing club member Donnie Perry for his 51 years of perfect attendance in the club.

NASH COUNTY -- Recent poor weather has wreaked havoc on the Big East Conference basketball schedule -- forcing makeups and busy weeks heading into the regular season finale on February 16, which will be followed by the annual league tournament.
Here are the schedules for each Big East hoops squad for the rest of the regular season (home games are listed in CAPS):

NASH COUNTY -- The distance from the pole vault runway at Nash Central High School to the one located at the University of Charlotte is over 200 miles.
But the journey seemed much longer for former NCHS vault standout Colin Johnson -- both by time and distance.
Johnson is NC's school record holder in the event, and finished in third place in the Class 3-A State Track and Field Championships as a senior.

NASH COUNTY -- Given her lightning-fast speed, it's no surprise that Jermia Walker is making a quick impact as a freshman for the Guilford College women's basketball team.
Although just 5-0 tall, Walker was the backbone of the Southern Nash girls hoops program since her freshman season. Ill-informed detractors said that Walker wouldn't be a standout on the collegiate level, but she is proving them wrong -- and immediately.

NASH COUNTY -- For Quinton Cooley, it was the opportunity of a lifetime -- the chance to compete in the college football New Year's Day Bowl Game.
That didn't sound like an attainable proposition in the off-season when Cooley entered the transfer portal and moved from Wake Forest University to Liberty University.

CHAPEL HILL - The North Carolina High School Athletic Association will return to Winston-Salem for the 2023-24 men's and women's basketball championships from March 11-16.
For the first time ever, the NCHSAA basketball championships will be contested at Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Winston-Salem.

ROCKY MOUNT -- Not since the Montre Cash Era in the mid-2010s had Nash Central secured a road triumph at rival Rocky Mount -- but that's exactly was happened last Friday night at the RMHS Gymnasium.
In what was easily their biggest moment of the regular season to date, the Bulldogs invaded RM and left with a convincing 85-73 victory over the rebuilding Gryphons.

ROCKY MOUNT -- To the victor comes the spoils. And in the case of the winner of the Class 2-A portion of the Big East Conference girls basketball standings, that would mean an automatic berth in the North Carolina High School Athletic Association State Playoffs.
At the midpoint of the regular season, the Nash Central Lady Bulldogs appear destined to obtain that lofty status under the direction of veteran head coach Terri Cash.

RED OAK -- Many are the challengers to Bunn's throne atop the Big East Conference wrestling standings -- but none of them have been able to break through the Wildats' victory defense since Coach Parker Haake's talented club joined the league in 2021.
Since then, BHS has claimed back-to-back Big East Conference crowns -- and is well on its way to a three-peat.
Bunn added to its Big East resume' last Wednesday as the Wildcats rolled past homestanding Northern Nash by a 63-16 margin at the historic NNHS Gymnasium.

RALEIGH -- North Carolina State University baseball head coach Elliott Avent announced the program's 2024 schedule recently.
The 54-game schedule includes 33 contests at Doak Field at Dail Park, highlighted by 21 home contests in the team's first 28 matchups of the season.
Opening Day for the Wolfpack's 2024 season is set for Feb. 16 when NC State welcomes VCU for a three-game series at The Doak. NC State then makes a lengthy road trip to Hawai'i for the first time since 2017, playing a three-game series against the Rainbow Warriors from Feb. 23-25.

While the Nashville Police Department has been without a Chief since the end of October, the Nashville Town Manager is proposing to create a new Public Safety Director position in charge of both the police and fire departments.
Town Manager Randy Lansing told The Graphic that he will advance the proposal, including the hiring of Fire Chief Chris Joyner, at the Jan. 16 Nashville Town Council meeting.

They live here, usually for ten months out of the year. They work here. Their children go to school here. They're part of the farming force that puts food on your table. And most of the time, they go unnoticed.
Who are they? Seasonal workers, usually called "Migrant Workers," who are hired to do the hard farm labor that no one else will.