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Adams asking to
rezone S. Main
house to residential category |
Tuesday night Millridge
Associates will ask the Wake Forest Planning
Board to rezone a South Main house and its acre
lot from neighborhood business to residential
use.
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Harris Road, North Main
designated detour for Stadium |
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Stadium Drive
will be closed to through traffic after 8 a.m.
Monday, April 3, and the state Department of
Transportation has decided to use Harris Road,
North Main and North Avenue as the signed
detour.
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Comprehensive planning
committee
to consider flood control ordinance |
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Last week the Wake Forest
Comprehensive Planning Committee received copies
of the proposed Flood Damage Prevention
Ordinance, but discussion about it was postponed
until the April meeting, which will be Tuesday,
April 18, at 7:30 a.m. at The Forks Cafeteria.
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For more fun – and to raise
funds – you can ‘Tour de Neuse’ |
You never know what those wild
and crazy guys, the Neuse Riverkeepers Dean
Naujoks and Larry Baldwin, will do, but in April
they have a new stunt.
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Friends annual meeting
to be held April 9 |
The annual meeting for members of
the Friends of Wake Forest Public Library will
be held Sunday, April 9, at 2 p.m. in the
courtroom at the Wake Forest Police Station.
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Hoops for WF continues
March madness into May |
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One of Wake Forest’s most
successful fun-raising and fund-raising events,
Hoops for Wake Forest, will hit the streets for
the 11th year on Saturday, May 20.
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Parks and rec news
Arts/crafts workshops, track
and field meets scheduled |
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Two new workshop series are being
offered this spring by the Wake Forest Parks and
Recreation Department – five different times for
a workshop about diabetes (“How to be a
Delightful Diabetic”) and four Thursday
workshops featuring different crafts.
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Recycle those phone books |
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Wake County Solid Waste
Management has begun its annual telephone book
recycling just as residents are receiving
telephone books from six different companies
that operate in the county..Click
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Despite a setback,
‘Oliver!’
will be staged in May |
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This winter the Road Less
Traveled Theatre had just nicely found a
home at the DuBois Center on North Franklin
Street and put together a cast for its first
production, “Oliver!,” when the center’s
executive director resigned and there was
controversy about the center’s direction.
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The editor’s
opinion
It is time we made all
of Wake Forest mobile |
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One of the six topics at last
week’s community leadership summit was
transportation and, unfortunately, the
people randomly chosen for that table were
not very familiar with the town and veered
off to talk about the need for greenways and
sidewalks.
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Financial column
Look abroad for investments
By Louis Mullinger, Edward
Jones |
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On any given day, you could
talk on a Samsung cell phone, watch a Sony
television, take a Bayer aspirin and eat a
Nestle Crunch Bar.
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Please send information about upcoming
events to
info@wakeforestnc.com
Send your stories to: Editor: Carol Pelosi
CWPelosi@aol.com
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Alumni will return,
students will discover campus 50 years later |
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Fifty years ago was a
bittersweet time on the campus of Wake Forest
College.
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Fire damages historic house
HVAC motor smokes middle
school; brush fires still a damger |
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Fire severely
damaged an historic house at 3716 Rogers Road
Sunday afternoon.
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Summit looks for strategies
To solve six WF problems |
Last Thursday evening about 40
people tackled six problems that face Wake
Forest: growth and development, transportation,
community identity, race relations, class
differences and education.
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Neuse River Spring Cleanup
to be held Saturday |
For the fourth year, volunteers
will paddle in and walk along the Neuse River,
picking up the trash and garbage on Saturday.
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Book collection underway
For May 6 used book sale |
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The Friends of the Wake Forest
Public Library need your help in collecting used
and usable books at their collection sites for
the annual used book sale on May 6.
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Wake Forest Singers
to present concert April 2 |
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The Wake Forest Singers will
present a concert, Color Your World with Music,
on Sunday, April 2, at 7 p.m. in the auditorium
at Youngsville Elementary School.
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Initial sermon April 2 |
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Sister Brenda Johnson Crews will deliver her
initial sermon at Evans Grove Baptist Church on
Sunday, April 1, at 4 p.m. Crews is a member of
Evans Grove Baptist Church who has answered the
call of the Lord. The church is at 12700
Creedmoor Road, Wake Forest, 870-8874. |
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From the chamber
Still time to sponsor
events at Meet in the Street |
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WakeMed is joining with the Wake
Forest Chamber of Commerce to sponsor Meet in
the Street on May 6, but there is still
opportunity for local individuals and businesses
to sponsor parts of the arts and crafts
festival.
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Four win this year’s Arbor
Day Green Medal Awards |
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During Wake Forest’s Arbor Day
celebration on March 16, a club, a company and
two people were given Green Medal Awards for
their work in promoting the town’s urban forest.
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News of the arts
Jackie Robinson: A Game Apart |
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Mike Wiley will bring his one-man
show, “Jackie Robinson: A Game Apart” to the
DuBois Center auditorium on Thursday, April 6,
at 6:30 p.m.
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The editor’s opinion
Idle thoughts |
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Tomorrow, Thursday, you can start
buying your scratch-off and other tickets for
the North Carolina Education Lottery, which
ought to be sued for false advertising.
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Road roundup |
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(Road
roundup is a standing feature of the Gazette,
designed to keep people informed about the
progress of the various street and road projects
in town. New projects or updated projects will
appear at the top of each week’s column in
blue.)
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