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What’s your top
planning fiasco?
Commissioners have theirs |
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During the brainstorming sessions
the Wake Forest commissioners held this winter
to determine what they want in the new land use
plan, they also told consultant Glenn Harbeck
some of the problems they have seen or areas
they want addressed or questions.
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DuBois update |
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The food bank at
the DuBois Center will resume June 8, interim
center director George C. Jones Sr. said last
week.
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Hoops raises over $12,000,
a new record |
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The 11th Hoops for Wake Forest
set a new fund-raising record Saturday, netting
over $12,000 for seven local charities.
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Volunteers still needed
for the Fourth |
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It is that time of year again,
time to make plans for the Fourth of July, and
in Wake Forest that means being part of the
all-volunteer celebration that has been held
since 1973.
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Pickup truck drivers take
heed |
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The Wake Forest Police
Department’s Traffic Enforcement Unit conducted
its first official roadside seatbelt checkpoint
on May 16 from 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. The
checkpoint was set up in the eastbound lane of
Front Street at Roosevelt Avenue.
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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.)Click here for the complete story |
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events to
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Send your stories to: Editor: Carol Pelosi
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Jones did not pay employees
In his healthcare business |
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One of the controversies about
the split between the DuBois Center and the
W.E.B. DuBois Community Development Corporation
centers on the refusal or the inability of the
center to pay at least 19 mental health
counselors and case managers who worked at the
center in February.
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Business bits
Triangle Y to open wellness
center at The Factory |
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The Y will soon have presence in
Wake Forest.
Jeff Ammons, who is developing The Factory as a
sports-entertainment-retail complex, announced
this week the YMCA of the Triangle has taken a
10-year lease on the 21,000-square-foot space
near the two ice rinks for a wellness center.
Construction will begin this summer, and plans
are for an opening in early 2007.
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Parks and rec news
Holding Pool opens this Saturday |
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The pool in Holding Park at 133
W. Owen Ave. will open Saturday, May 27,
offering open swimming as well as water aerobics
classes, swim lessons, lap swim times and
parent-child swim times.
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News of the arts
‘Oliver!’ continues this weekend
at Franklin Academy |
The musical “Oliver!” will hit
the boards later this week as the first Wake
Forest production by The Road Less Traveled
Theatre.
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Financial column
Help your offspring invest
By Louis Mullinger, Edward
Jones |
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To become a good saver and
investor, you probably had to learn some hard
lessons along the way. Would you like to save
your children or grandchildren those troubles?
You can, by teaching them, early on, about the
basics and benefits of investing.
Here are a few ideas for getting young investors
off to a good start:
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