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"Winter Sun Helps Clear Snow." One of the local television stations had this headline on their website after a snow and ice storm arrived in our area and wreaked havoc with schools and businesses. Unfortunately, cloudy weather and extremely low temperatures did not help melting to begin right away. Finally on day three, the sun broke through and the melting began.

We at Peachtree Baptist Church and a number of other churches in the area did not attend church for the past two Sundays due to the snow and icy weather. It was such a pleasure to be back at Peachtree this past Sunday.
I would like to apologize for my failure at missing my column deadline in last Sunday's paper.

The Baptist Men enjoyed their monthly breakfast meeting on Sunday, January 30.
The youth and children will have a soup and sandwich lunch on Sunday, February 13 following the morning worship. Cost for lunch is $5 and all proceeds go to support the youth and children attending summer missions camps.

The V Foundation for Cancer Research, alongside presenting sponsor, Braswell Family Farms, has announced the fifth annual Victory Ride to Cure Cancer will take place on May 21, 2022. Since its inception, the Victory Ride has raised over $1 million for cancer research, making it the largest, active Triangle-based ride funding cancer research.

Nash County is finally seeing a decline in new COVID-19 infections and hopes to soon open a mega COVID-19 testing site in Nashville.
Nash County Health Director Bill Hill said over the past week 1,129 new cases were reported which brings the county to 25,674 confirmed cases.
Hill said more deaths have occurred this week. Ten people perished which increases the total number of fatalities to 272.

Northern Nash's Griffin Webb raises the ball in an attempt to avoid the defense of Bunn's Carlee Tart during Tuesday night's Big East Conference girls basketball event.

Northern Nash's Tre Battle prepares to drain a jumper for the Knights during Thursday night's home game against the Bunn Wildcats in Big East Conference boys basketball action.

(L to R) Bunn's LB Bolden and Northern Nash's Demondre Haymon try to gain a rebound during Tuesday nght's Big East Conference boys basketball event in Red Oak.

GREENVILLE -- The East Carolina University baseball program picked up its fourth preseason national ranking of the 2022 season after garnering a No. 15 standing by Baseball America, the publication announced Monday morning.
The Pirates, who were picked as the preseason favorite to win the American Athletic Conference by the leagues head coaches, also have been ranked No. 8 by Collegiate Baseball, No. 12 by D1Baseball and No. 13 by Perfect Game.

RALEIGH -- The North Carolina State University baseball program garnered another national preseason ranking on Monday morning, as it checks in at No. 16 on Baseball America's poll.
This is the third national poll ahead of the 2022 season that the Wolfpack is ranked in the top 20, as it is ranked No. 7 on Perfect Game's and No. 10 on DI Baseball's preseason polls.