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Agreement about
Birthplace
difficult for town board |
Some town commissioners want to
help fund the annex for the Wake Forest College
Birthplace museum but with restrictions,
Commissioner Margaret Stinnett said she has
“been sitting on the fence on this one since day
one,” Town Manager Mark Williams said donating
money for the Birthplace would mean having less
for some other project and no one was sure
Friday whether the DuBois alumni would pursue
establishing the national Rosenwald school
museum on their campus.
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DRC director resigns |
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Connie Kincaid,
who was hired as the first full-time executive
director for the Wake Forest Downtown
Revitalization Corporation early in May,
resigned this week citing personal issues. She
had never taken up the post on a full-time
basis.
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VFW hosting yard sale
to benefit overseas troops |
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VFW Post 8466 wants all your
slightly used furniture, crock pots, coffee
makers, workout clothes you never quite got to
use, tools, toys and whatever else is cluttering
up your house.
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Board visited many topics
during retreat |
Do you live on a dirt street?
There are several in town, but residents cannot
expect to see a paving truck any time soon.
“There’s no money out there to pave the streets.
It has to come from the town,” Mayor Vivian
Jones said during Friday’s town board retreat.
Her suggestion is that the town follow the
county’s lead if it adopts a recommendation by
the Blue Ribbon Committee
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Raleigh’s ownership blocks
water conservation efforts |
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While they were discussing ways
to conserve water last Friday, the Wake Forest
commissioners kept bumping up against Raleigh’s
ownership of the water and sewer systems. Click here for the complete story |
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Art will be lively downtown
Friday, Aug. 11 |
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The temperature – ah, yes! – but there will be
other sizzling items in downtown Wake Forest for
Art After Hours Friday, Aug. 11.
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Franklin business expo
to be held Tuesday |
The 2006 Business Expo presented
by Wake Electric, hosted by the Franklin County
Chamber of Commerce and the Youngsville Area
Business Association (YABA), and sponsored by
The Wake Weekly, Franklin Regional Medical
Center, Country 102 and Quick Signs will open
its doors next Tuesday afternoon, Aug. 15, in
the gymnasium at Cedar Creek Middle School.
There is free admission to the expo which will
run from 4 to 8 p.m., and one couple will win
hotel reservations and two adult tickets to
Disney World. There will also be door prizes,
free food and refreshments.
You can call the chamber at 496-3056 or YABA at
556-4026 for more information. |
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YAKS beginning new season |
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YAKS
(Youngsville Area Kids Soccer) is about to begin
the 2006-2007 season, and the last day for
regular registration is Sunday, Aug. 13.
They
are planning that over 2,000 people will be at
the soccer complex on opening day for the
season, Sept. 16.
“The
fun begins at 8 a.m. for the 4-year-olds and
runs through 2 p.m. for the 12- and
13-year-olds,” Phil Beckett, the YAKS vice
president, said. “This is a big event for us.”
YAKS
is run entirely by volunteers, and in fact a
family will pay an extra $10 for their child if
one of them is not a coach or volunteer in some
fashion. Referees are paid, and the web site
says refereeing is a good way for middle and
high school soccer players to make some money.
The league schedules games on 15 fields in the
Youngsville area.
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the schedules, including evaluations and picture
day, are on line at
http://www.yakssoccer.com. |
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Food drive Aug. 18 |
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The Wake Forest Civitan Club will
hold its next Food Drive on Friday, Aug. 18, at
Super-Walmart from 4 to 8 p.m. Non-perishable
food items will be collected for Tri-Area
Ministry, and cash donations will also be
welcomed. Please stop by our table and donate to
help us feed the hungry in our area. |
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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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Higher land, construction
costs
hamper street projects |
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The appraised cost of land along
South Main Street is as much as seven times
higher than two years ago, and that escalating
cost may alter the widening plans for South Main
Street to include a concrete median.
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Town hall discussion
again on agenda |
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Wake Forest’s town board will
tackle the tough issue of the site for town hall
and a new police station/public safety building
again Tuesday night.
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DuBois president refuses
to meet with commissioner |
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During Friday’s town board
retreat, Commissioner Velma Boyd-Lawson said she
had arranged to meet with Lawrence Eugene Perry,
president of the National DuBois School Alumni
Association, over the weekend on behalf of the
town board and the Koinonia Foundation, where
she is a board member.
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They are making a list |
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The Wake Forest
commissioners and mayor are making a list,
checking it twice, and preparing to ask several
of you to serve on the steering committee for
the new community or land use plan.
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Murchison hearing
delayed to Sept. 12 |
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At the request of Assistant
District Attorney Susan Spurlin, a probable
cause hearing for Bettie Murchison has been set
back a month from Aug. 9 to Sept. 12.
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Town may stay away
from fire board |
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Liability questions may keep the
town board from having anything but non-voting
representation on the board of directors for the
Wake Forest Fire Department.
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Officials want to ‘brand’
Wake Forest power |
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Will a logo make
the Wake Forest electric department more visible
and give customers confidence in it as a
professionally run company?
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Moose Lodge voters
switched to church |
On Aug. 1 the Wake County Board
of Elections voted to change the polling place
for precinct 19-04 from the Moose Lodge #1318 on
Forestville Road at U.S. 401 to Richland Creek
Community Church at 3229 Burlington Mills Road.
Earlier this summer the board also changed the
polling place for precinct 19-07 from the
Alston-Massenburg Center on Taylor Street to the
Flaherty Park Community Center on North White
Street.
The voters in both precincts will receive new
voter cards with the new polling place and
address before this fall’s election. |
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Hodges named to state post |
Tom Hodges, who chairs the Wake
Forest Parks and Recreation Advisory Board, was
elected last week as the vice-chairman of the
state Parks and Recreation Association’s Citizen
Board Division during the 27th annual citizen
board forum in Greensboro.
Hodges has been an active member of the state
group since 2005 when he attended his first
forum. He was on the planning committee which
organized this year’s forum.
Hodges has been a member of the Wake Forest
recreation board since 2003. |
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Forum Aug. 16
about school bonds |
The Wake Forest Chamber of
Commerce’s governmental affairs committee will
hold a public meeting Wednesday morning, Aug.
16, about this fall’s school bond issue.
The meeting will run from 8:15 to 9 a.m. in town
hall. It will be taped and later broadcast on
Channel 10.
There will be two speakers – one for the bonds
and one against – at the meeting. |
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Financial column
Diversify, diversify
By Louis Mullinger, Edward Jones |
If you have been investing for
even a little while, you have heard that it is a
good idea to diversify your holdings.
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