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The Town of Wake Forest has a new logo,
a tree that you will find on the web
site, stationery and town publications.
It is actually a tree in
Wake Forest. You can find it at the
intersection of Front Street and East
North Avenue. If those street names
confuse you, the tree is in front of the
unused seminary dormitory across from
The Corner ice cream store where North
Main Street begins after the seminary
campus. Although we call the entire
street around the east side of the
campus U.S. 1-A, the real names are
Front Street for that portion at the
underpass, and North Avenue and South
Avenue, respectively, north and south of
the campus. The first name for the
street to the west of campus was Back
Street (Front Street, Back Street, makes
sense) but it was later changed to
Wingate.
The tree is a Deodar Cedar (Cedrus
deodara) that is described as the
best true cedar for the South. However,
it is not native, having been imported
in 1831 from its native habitat in the
western Himalayas from Afghanistan to
western Nepal.
Give it a salute as you go
by.
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The town keeps adding ways
it can communicate with residents. There
is the new web site at
http://www.wakeforestnc.gov, the
dedicated Channel 10 for those with Time
Warner cable, and now there is both a
blog and an e-mail.
The blog on the web site has
Town Manager Mark Williams name on it,
but it is really a compilation of newsy
items from various town staff, photos,
tips about winter heating and
weatherization, events like Shop with a
Cop, and Wal-mart’s recent donations to
the police department and the H.O.P.E.
program.
The e-mail program is
voluntary. You can sign up in two
seconds on the web site. After that you
receive periodic e-mails from the town
with information like how to dispose of
your Christmas tree – leave it at the
curb on your regular garbage/recycling
day and town crews will pick it up.
There are also notices of upcoming
meetings, job openings with the town,
information about power outages –
remember there will be a short one early
in the morning of Jan. 5 – surveys to
rate the town and updates about
road/street conditions. |
