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To the Editor:

The fight against cancer is being challenged. But it’s a fight that can’t be cancelled, postponed or rescheduled.

Covid-19 has put cancer patients at risk – attacking already weakened immune systems, delaying cancer treatments, and closing many clinical trials. Covid-19 hasn’t stopped cancer but it has affected the fight.

Our corporate sponsors joined the fight once again this year and supported Relay For Life so that we can continue programs like cancer screening, 24/7 navigation, and support, and research for treatment and cures – programs that are critical for cancer patients now and in the future. That is why they were needed more than ever to stand strong and get through this uncertain and unchartered time in our lives and our Bertie County Relay For Life corporate sponsors did….Safety First, Support Always, and Standing Together (even when we are apart)!

Our sponsors for Relay for Life – Bertie County in 2020 were:

Platinum Level: Perdue Farms, Inc. & Lewiston Complex Associates.

Diamond Level: Coastal Medical Transport.

Gold Level: Bertie County Board of Government, Merry Hill Baptist Church, Republic Services – Aulander, Town of Windsor, Dr. & Mrs. Horace Ward, Jr., Roanoke Electric Care Trust, Sandy Branch Baptist Church, Vidant Bertie Hospital, In Memory of CDR Sherwood Rawls, USN and Eunice Dilday.

Silver Level: Aulander First Baptist Church, Aulander Medical Practice, B & E DJ Services, Bertie Ambulance Service, Bertie Ledger, Bertie Rural Health, Bobbie Parker, Carolina Pine & Hardwood, Carol Mizelle, Connaritsa Baptist Church, Dr. Nettie Collins-Hart, Holly Grove Bapt. Church, Mt. Olive Bapt. Church, Narron Lane Farm, Piney Wood Chapel Baptist, Solid Foundation, Southern Bank, Town of Aulander, W. R. White, Inc.

Bronze Level: A-1 Unlimited Bail Bonding, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Anderson, Smith, & Wike, Brandon Foster, Commercial Ready Mix, Eden House Graphics, Glenwood F. Mitchell, HHI, LLC- Virginia Beach, Indian Woods Baptist   Church, Jacqueline Ruffin, Lloyd Parker, Mars Hill Baptist Church, Martha Thompson, Mickey’s Grain, Inc., Netta Lipscomb,   Nucor Steel, Old North State Game Preserve, Orcella T. Jackson, Perrytown Assembly of God Church, Phyllis Sexton, Powellsville Baptist Church, Pritchett & Burch, Roanoke Chowan News Herald, Robertson Equipment Co., Rotary Club – Windsor, Self-Help Credit Union, Sharon Tann, St. Elmo Baptist Church, The Wooten Company, Town of Kelford, Town of Lewiston-Woodville, Town of Roxobel, Woodville Plains Baptist Church, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority – Ahoskie, Alumnae        George W. Lee Elk’s Lodge #756/Excelsior, Temple #692, Nimrod & Lonnie Cherry Family Gathering, Windsor-Bertie Chamber of Commerce, In Honor of Annie Stancil, In Honor of Ernestine H. Jackson, In Memory of Agnes U. Belch, In Memory of Joe, Gracie, & Wendell Lee, In Memory of Freddie Johnson, In Memory of Godwin & Eva Mitchell, In Memory of Ted Sessoms, In Memory of Tempress Ann Williams, In Memory of Bud & Mildred Hoggard/In Honor of Camden Stroud, Powellsville Fire Department Ladies Auxilliary, Cherry’s Funeral Home, Conocanary Baptist Church, #team poppie In Memory of Charles Cullipher.

Support Relay For Life!!

Bobbie Parker