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Town urges
preparations
for Ernesto |
He does not have one of those
dreaded “F” names – Fran, Floyd – but Ernesto
could provide his own disaster of drenching rain
and flooding Thursday and Friday if he meets the
cold front expected from the north at the same
time. Predictions are for 3 to 6 inches of rain
locally.
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Planning board to decide
fate
of one contested oak |
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There should be
little controversy about the one public hearing
set for Tuesday – review of the proposed
pedestrian plan – but the town’s planners and
the architect for a building in the Heritage
Professional Park are at odds over one oak tree.
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From the chamber
Register now for golf tourney |
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The 14th Annual Chamber Golf
Tournament will be held Tuesday, Sept. 19, at
Heritage Golf Club.
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Artists, sponsors solicited
for Autumn Arts Festival |
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The third Autumn Arts Festival
will be held in Wake Forest this fall on
Saturday, Oct. 14, and the underwriting
organizations, the Downtown Revitalization
Corporation and the Wake Forest Cultural Arts
Association, hope to attract people from
throughout the Triangle as well as from this
area.
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At the library
Twilight Tales return |
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Stories and activities for
children and parents – Twilight Tales at the
Wake Forest Public Library – will return on
Thursday, Sept. 21, with a Back to School Bash.
Participants will enjoy old-fashioned classroom
games, school-theme crafts and stories about
teachers and school. Click here for the complete story |
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Town hall closed Monday |
The Wake Forest Town Hall and all
administrative offices will be closed Monday,
Sept. 4, to observe Labor Day, but there will be
full police services and residents will see
normal trash and recycling service.
All federal and state offices will also be
closed.
Curbside garbage and recycling collection is
only suspended on four days: July Fourth,
Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s Day.
Those collections are made on the following day.
Regular curbside garbage and recycling
collection takes place on all other holidays.
The town hall and administrative offices will
reopen Tuesday, Sept. 5, at 8 a.m. |
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Good Neighbor Day Sept. 17 |
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One of its goals is to promote
neighborliness and bring together the diverse
groups of people who live in Wake Forest. To
that end, each year the Human Relations Council
hosts Good Neighbor Day, and this year it will
be Sunday, Sept. 17, in Holding Park.
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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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We welcome . . . |
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The
Wake Forest Gazette welcomes and encourages
readers to send us letters about local issues
and announcements about local events including,
but certainly not limited to, church bazaars,
fund-raising events by local groups, plays,
sports, or dinners.
The Gazette wants to be where you learn about
what is happening in the Wake Forest community. |
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Financial column
Teach them early
By Louis Mullinger, Edward
Jones |
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Bad habits are hard to break. But
good habits also tend to stick around for a long
time. That is why you will want to teach young
children about the importance of saving and
investing. It is almost never too early to
start, and your efforts can provide a lifetime
of benefits.
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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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Déjà vu all over again;
the tale of town hall |
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You have heard the tune for
months, but we are going to play it again. The
Wake Forest Town Board may decide on a site for
the new town hall Tuesday night.
On the other hand, . . .
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Murchison reinstated
at DuBois CDC |
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The board of the W.E.B. DuBois
Community Development Corporation voted Tuesday
night to reinstate Bettie Murchison as the
executive director. She will be back in her
office on South White Street Thursday, Sept. 31.
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Provide ‘shovel-ready’
sites,
Atkins says |
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If Wake Forest wants to attract
industry, the best route is through the state’s
Certified Site Program with additional
incentives, Ken Atkins, Wake County’s economic
development director, told a chamber committee
last week.
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DuBois alumni meet
this weekend |
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They will
celebrate the organization’s 25th anniversary
when members of the National Alumni Association
of DuBois High School gather over the Labor Day
weekend.
The events begin with a reception Friday
evening, Sept. 1, at the Hampton Inn on Wake
Union Church Road.
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Parks and rec news
Dog obedience classes offered |
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Leslie Carpenter will teach two
dog obedience classes this fall, Basic Manners I
and II, for dogs and their owners older than 12.
The classes will be held from Sept. 12 through
Oct. 3 on Tuesday evenings at the Flaherty Park
ballfield open space, and the fee is $50 for
each class.
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Check your voter
registration |
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With September within our grasp,
it will not be too much time before the cycle
begins for the general election on Nov. 7, and
now is the time to check your voter
registration, apply for an absentee ballot if
you will be out of town, or make plans to use
one of the One-Stop No Excuse voting sites.
Because of a shortage of funds, there will be no
one-stop voting in Wake Forest this year, but
there are eight across the county as well as one
at the Wake County Board of Election’s office on
Salisbury Street in Raleigh.
You can find out if you are properly registered
to vote by going to the elections web site at
http://www.wakegov.com/
elections. The web site also has a form for
absentee ballots you can download, a listing of
all the one-stop voting sites with the times of
operation, a list of candidates and a calendar
of the election process. |
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Chefs still needed
for chili cook-off |
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The first Downtown Wake Forest
Four-Alarm Chili Cook-off will be held Saturday,
Sept. 23, during the farmers’ market in the
gazebo parking lot on South White Street. There
will be a cash prize for the winner based on the
judgment of a five-star panel of judges.
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Gazette resumes
advertising |
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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The editor’s opinion
Could we try for industry? |
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In a few short years, the Wake
Forest area lost the industries that had given
work to hundreds. Burlington, Athey,
Parker-Hannifin and Weavexx are all gone.
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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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