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As the COVID-19 global pandemic affects the globe, it's currently snaking through North Carolina. Community health care facilities and medical practices are turning to new and innovative solutions to care for their patients while coronavirus continues to spread throughout the population.
The question facing primary care and specialty care physicians is how to keep non-COVID19 patients safe, while meeting the needs of patients with acute respiratory illnesses - and possibly COVID19. For many practices, the answer is telehealth.

Census Day was April 1 but there is still time to take part in the 2020 Census.
Responses are more important than ever, said Nash County Manager Zee Lamb.
"It does mean dollars to Nash County," Lamb said. "The more people we have the more federal and state dollars we get."

Nashville's Town Council is holding off on relocating the seating area for the board in council chambers.
The item was discussed on March 30 during the board's agenda meeting.
The project has been a wish list item for some board members for a while. Currently, the board's seating area restricts the full board from being able to see the full area where the audience sits.

NOW is a good time to bring a new family member into your home. If you are one of the "non-essential" workers and having to stay at home, it will give you more time to bond. The Shelter is open weekdays by appointment. So, if you want to adopt, reclaim or have found a lost pet that you cannot keep while trying to find the owner, then call them for an appointment. Saving pets is essential too. You won't regret it.

Club members and volunteers made masks and presented them to Spring Arbor Senior Living. Pictured are Megan Garciga, Rosie Strickland of Spring Arbor Senior Living and Phoebe Young. Not pictured in the photo but also helped is Madison Hill. Others that helped with the project are Marlene Strufe, Sarah Williams, Sherry Hull, Brenda Wind, Jane Tyson and Cheryl Glover, all volunteers. Approximately 130 masks were donated to Joann Fabrics to give to local hospitals.

Nash County Emergency Services is celebrating telecommunicators this week for the critical role they play.
Public safety agencies nationwide recognize the week of April 12 through 18 as National Telecommunicators Week. Telecommunicators are the true first responders and one of the most critical contacts citizens have with emergency services.

It was business not quite as usual at the regular monthly meeting of the town board of Castalia last Tuesday evening.
Social distancing measures were following with board members distanced and many chairs where the public would normally sit had been removed. Everyone present wore a mask, and hand sanitizer was offered upon entering the town hall.

A felony larceny was reported on 4/6/20 at 10427 Camp Charles Road, Bailey A possession of heroin was reported on 4/11/20 at 10696 E NC 97, Rocky Mount
A damage to personal property was reported on 4/6/20 at 11439 Cedar Lake Drive, Middlesex
A missing persons was reported on 4/6/20 at 11898 Sims Road, Wilson

Incidents
An assault on a female was reported on 2/21/20 at 121 N Wheeless Drive
A larceny was reported on 3/12/20 at 1205 Eastern Avenue

Building Permit
(Commercial)
Seth Ballance; 800 Cooke Road; new construction; $850,000

North Carolina's egg prices were lower on all sizes when compared to last week. Supplies of extra large were light, large fairly light, while medium were heavy to meet a moderate demand. The North Carolina weighted average price quoted Wednesday, April 08, for small lot sales of delivered, cartoned, grade "A" eggs was 277.74 for Extra Large, 273.48 for Large, 157.76 for Medium, and 87.00 for Small eggs.

Braswell Family Farms, a producer of premium and specialty eggs and feed on the East Coast, hosted a Build-A-Bed event on January 25 to support Sleep in Heavenly Peace, a nonprofit dedicated to building, assembling and delivering top-notch bunk beds to children and families in need. A group of Braswell Family Farms employees and their families built 20 beds that were delivered to families in need.

Governor Roy Cooper took additional measures this week to help stop the spread of COVID-19 by issuing another Executive Order Number 131.
Three key areas are addressed in the order.
The first requires retail stores that are still operating to implement new social distancing policies to make shopping safer for customers and employees.