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What’s in a name?
Just call it ‘sitting art’ |
Is it a bench or is it, as Bob
Johnson calls it, “sitting art?”
By whatever name, it appears downtown Wake
Forest – now being renamed the arts and
entertainment district – will soon have up to a
dozen one-of-a-kind benches made by Joe Dumas of
Alabama from polished stone and metal farm
objects he finds in the Pennsylvania Dutch
country.
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Follow the lure of garlic
to the Farmer’s Market |
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To you is garlic
that rather crusty plastic bottle labeled
“Garlic Salt” you sometimes dig out from the
back of the cupboard?
Isn’t it time you learned about garlic and began
to use the different varieties to enhance your
cooking?
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How should Franklin
Street look? |
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South Franklin Street, that wide,
rather bare link between N.C. 98 Business and
the N.C. 98 bypass as well as a connection to
downtown Wake Forest, is due for a make-over.
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Gazette resumes
advertising |
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Publisher and editor Carol Pelosi
has begun selling advertising for The Wake
Forest Gazette.
Sales had ceased last year when she was ill and
had to suspend publication, and the advertising
banners currently at the top of the page are
left over and out of date.
She is offering two simple affordable plans for
businesses who want to advertise. For more
information, call her at 556-3409 or send a
message to
cwpelosi@aol.com .
The free online newspaper has a monthly average
of 6,379 individual hits, and Pelosi wants to
thank all her readers. |
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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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Please send information about upcoming
events to
info@wakeforestnc.com
Send your stories to: Editor: Carol Pelosi
CWPelosi@aol.com
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County’s regional center,
one subdivision on agenda |
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Tuesday night, Aug. 1, the Wake
Forest planning and town boards will hold a
joint public hearing about rezoning 18.9 acres
along Rogers Road to R-8, residential zoning
requiring at least 8,000-square-foot lots, for a
60- to 65-lot subdivision.
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Join your neighbors
for National Night Out |
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On Tuesday, Aug. 1, folks
throughout Wake Forest are invited to join the
officers of the Wake Forest Police Department,
Target and communities across the country for
the 23rd annual National Night Out.
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Growth means rapid change
in WF’s top 2005 taxpayers |
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With new businesses cropping up,
new shopping centers planned or underway, new
subdivisions around each corner, new names keep
popping into the top ten list of Wake Forest
taxpayers.
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Some notes . . . |
If you are new in North Carolina
and want to know more about the state, one
source I recommend is the monthly magazine
“Wildlife in North Carolina” published by the
North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission and
dedicated to the sound conservation of the
state’s wildlife and its related natural
resources and to the environment we all share.
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Financial column
Your house is not a bank
By Louis Mullinger, Edward
Jones |
To enjoy a comfortable retirement
lifestyle, you will need to build your net worth
before you retire. So you may be interested in
knowing that, between 2001 and 2004, the typical
household's net worth, adjusted for inflation,
grew 1.5 percent, according to a recent Federal
Reserve study.
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