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Capital
City Baseball, the outfit operating the
ball fields behind The Factory on South
Main Street, has scheduled more than 40
tournaments in a season that will begin
the weekend of Feb. 11 and end in late
November.
This will be the first full
year for action at the ball fields. Jeff
Maynard, one of the partners, said the
group wants to make sure all the
tournament participants want to return
in future years. They will sell their
facility by having the fields in
superior condition and providing
friendly and courteous staff members,
fair umpires, sparkling restrooms and
top of the line concessions.
But Maynard also wants to
lure participants by tying in local
events and festivities, particularly on
the weekends when Capital City is
competing with similar venues in
Goldsboro, Cary, Greenville and Kinston.
“I need to concentrate on providing and
advertising things in conjunction with
our scheduled tournaments on those
weekends to draw teams searching for
places to play,” Maynard wrote recently
to Bob Johnson, a member of the Wake
Forest Area Chamber of Commerce, the
Downtown Revitalization Corporation and
founder of The Cotton Company.
The weekends that are
critical for Maynard are March 24-25,
March 31-April 1, April 7-9, May 12-14,
May 19-21, Sept. 15-17, Sept. 29-Oct. 1,
Oct. 20-22, Oct. 27-29 and Nov. 10-12.
Johnson has been in touch
with a number of downtown and community
leaders about events on those weekends.
If your group has plans for an event,
you could send him an e-mail at
bobjohnson@medfaxxinc.com.
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Blair Struble has been named
the director of marketing and events at
the Cotton Company, founded by Bob and
Elizabeth Johnson in 2000.
Blair, a Raleigh native, is
a recent graduate from the University of
North Carolina at Wilmington. She will
be concentrating on coordinating events
in the upstairs Event Gallery.
The Cotton Company is a
restored cotton warehouse on South White
Street in historic downtown Wake Forest
with over 50 boutiques selling jewelry,
home furnishings, accessories, fire art,
toys and collectibles. You can find it
at
www.thecottoncompany.net.
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Fast Med, an urgent care
practice, has opened beside the
HealthFirst Pharmacy at the intersection
of South Main Street and Ligon Mill
Road.
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The Cotton Company will host
its fourth Super Shopping Sunday,
Sunday, Jan. 29, from 1 to 6 p.m. with
wine, refreshments and socializing.
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Bruce and Terri Trimble of
Zebulon are the new owners and operators
of a Lawn Doctor franchise to provide
homeowners in the east Raleigh-Wake
Forest-Falls Lake area with beautiful
lawns.
You can reach them at
1-800-452-9637. |
