The Wake Forest Police Department’s annual Carnival for the Kids got underway Tuesday in the Home Depot parking lot on Retail Drive. The fun event for children and families will run through Sunday, April 11. The money raised is used for DARE program.
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The Wake Forest Farmers’ Market will be open in the depot parking lot on South White Street from 8 a.m. to noon Saturday, April 10. This week’s feature is a workshop at 10 a.m. by the local Master Gardener Volunteers about preparing your garden soil.
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The annual Spring Neuse River Cleanup will be held Saturday, April 10, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., and this year there is a local component because area residents can clean up Smith Creek leading to the Neuse. The event is sponsored annually by the Neuse Riverkeeper Foundation, and the amount and variety of litter volunteers find is amazing. For information about the sites, what you need to bring, the afternoon picnic and to register, go to http://www.neuseriver.org/events/neuserivercleanup.html.
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The Wake Forest Community Council will meet Wednesday, April 14, at noon at The Forks Cafeteria on Brooks Street. Local civic groups, organizations and individuals meet for an hour to exchange information about events.
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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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Great Schools in Wake hosts a neighborhood forum about the future of Wake County schools on Thursday, April 15, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the W.E.B. DuBois Center, 150 North White Street. The event is free and the speakers will answer questions.
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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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HerbFest, Wake Forest’s spring plant sale and everything green event, will run from Friday, April 16, through Sunday, April 25, at Festival Park on South White Street.
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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 30th 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.