The Wake Forest Town Board will hold a work session Thursday, March 18, to discuss the draft Capital Improvement Plan (CIP) for 2010-2015. The meeting will begin at 5:30 p.m. in town hall.
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            The Wake Forest Youth Advisory Board will meet Saturday, March 20, at 9 a.m. at the Flaherty Park Community Center.   
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            The last of the monthly Winter Markets will be held Saturday, March 20, from 10 a.m. to noon in the depot parking lot along South White Street. Local farmers and vendors will have meat, eggs, crafts and, just maybe, some early greens. The Wake Forest Farmers’ Market will resume its regular weekly markets the first weekend in April.
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            Explore downtown Wake Forest while you try to win $100 in gift certificates from downtown merchants Saturday, March 20, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The Downtown Revitalization Corporation is sponsoring the Downtown Scavenger Hunt.
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            The Easter Bunny will be busy Saturday, March 20, hiding over 3,000 eggs on the grounds of the J. Carroll Joyner Park the Wake Forest Parks and Recreation Department’s annual Easter Egg Hunt, and eager youngsters will spend the afternoon searching for them. The older children, ages 9 through 12, will begin their hunt at 1:30 p.m.; younger children, ages 5 through 8, will search beginning at 2:15 p.m.; and the very youngest, 4-year-olds and younger, will have their hunt at 3 p.m. There will be several golden eggs with special prizes. In case of rain, the eggs hunts will be held at the Flaherty Park Community Center.
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            The Wake Forest Historical Association’s quarterly meeting on Sunday, March 21, will feature Ches Crow describing the exhibits you will see later this year in the new Wake Forest Birthplace Museum. The meeting is open to everyone and will be held from 3 to 5 p.m. at St. John’s Episcopal Church on Durham Road.
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            The Wake Forest Recreation Advisory Board will meet Monday, March 22, at 7 p.m. in the Flaherty Park Community Center.
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            The Wake Forest Cemetery Advisory Board will meet Wednesday, March 24, at 7 p.m. in town hall.
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            The Wake Forest Human Relations Council will meet Thursday, March 25, at 7 p.m. in the courtroom at the Wake Forest Police Department.
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            Take a hike Friday afternoon, March 26, with the Wake Forest Greenways Advisory Board and learn where Wake Forest will connect its greenway system to Raleigh’s, the state’s and the nation’s. See the article in this week’s edition for all the details.
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            Once again the Wake Forest Police Department will sponsor a spring Carnival for the Kids in the Home Depot parking lot. For more than a week, children and families will enjoy rides and other entertainment. The carnival begins April 6 and runs through April 11.
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            The annual Spring Neuse River Cleanup will be held Saturday, April 10, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. It is sponsored by the Neuse Riverkeeper Foundation. For information about the sites and to register, go to http://www.neuseriver.org/events/neuserivercleanup.html.
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            The tenth annual Steak & Steak Dinner, the fundraising and appreciation event for the Wake Forest Boys & Girls Club, will be held Thursday, April 15, beginning at 6 p.m. Tickets are $15 per person or $25 per couple and available at the door. The speaker will be Charles Johnson, who played for the Pittsburgh Steelers, the Philadelphia Eagles, the New England Patriots and the Buffalo Bills. Go have a good dinner and learn how the club is helping our children.
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            The Wake Forest Fire Department’s annual Fish Fry is set for Friday, April 16, from 11 a.m. “until the food runs out,” Chief Freddie Lynn said. We are pretty sure you will be able to get an $8 plate through dinnertime. Fried flounder filet, cole slaw and potatoes are on the menu again along with all those yummy desserts the woman’s auxiliary and friends bring to sell.
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            The Anthony J. Trentini Scholarship Banquet & Silent Auction will be held Saturday, April 17, at The Forks Cafeteria. Lee Shaffer, who played basketball for UNC and is in the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame, will be the speaker.
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            Mark your calendar for Saturday, May 1, for two events: the 30^th annual Meet in the Street from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. along South White Street and the annual Used Book Sale sponsored by the Friends of the Wake Forest Library, which will be held again in the Northern Wake Senior Center on East Holding Avenue.
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            The second Wake Forest Cemetery Tour will be held Saturday, May 8, with a rain date of May 15. The earliest marked grave site is that of Charles R. Merriam, who died in 1837. He was the brother of Mrs. Samuel Wait. Go to www.wakeforestnc.gov, click on “government” then “advisory boards” and “cemetery advisory board” and you will find on the right side of the page a link to two documents, the guide for the 2009 walking tour with a list of all the burials to that time and an overview with a short history of the cemetery and short biographies of many buried there.