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Apex emergency
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WF officials to look at plan |
Wake Forest does have and has had
a plan to deal with emergencies, but the
explosions, fire and evacuation in Apex last
week have them looking at the plan anew on
Wednesday morning to see if it needs to be
updated.
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Art, music, theater, food
set for Autumn Arts Festival |
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You will
literally find everything from A to Z Saturday
in downtown Wake Forest for the third Autumn
Arts Festival.
There will be artists from across the region
displaying and selling their artwork: pottery,
jewelry, photography, acrylics, watercolors and
oils.
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CPC to evaluate
new subdivision request |
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The Wake Forest Comprehensive Planning Committee
made up of two town commissioners and two
planning board members will meet Tuesday, Oct.
17, at 7:30 p.m. to hear a request for a water
allocation of 50 homes per year for a new
subdivision, Bishop’s Landing.
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Industrial park, last
Heritage parcel approved |
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Tuesday night, Oct. 3, the Wake
Forest Planning Board unanimously approved a
conditional use rezoning for an industrial
subdivision, the master plan for Heritage
Reserve subdivision and additional parking at
Power Secure.
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Sign up now to enter
the Christmas Parade |
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There are only two months left
before the Wake Forest Christmas Parade, which
will be Saturday, Dec. 9, this year, and the
Downtown Revitalization Corporation has begun
accepting entries.
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Murchison gala planned |
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It will be “Hats Off to Bettie”
night on Oct. 28 when a number of Bettie
Murchison’s supporters are planning a silent
auction and dinner at the Mill Room at The
Factory and inviting everyone in the area.
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WF-R premiering new
play, ‘Esperanza Rising’ |
An adaptation of a popular novel
for young teens, “Esperanza Rising,” is the
fall’s first offering by the Wake Forest-Rolesville
High School Drama Department and will be the
first time the play is presented on the East
Coast.
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Nominations needed |
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The Wake Forest Community Council
is now accepting nominations for the 2006
Organization/Club of the Year, Citizen of the
Year and the Peggy Allen Lifetime Achievement
Award.
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At the library
WF branch sees heavy use |
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Yvonne Allen, the Wake Forest branch manager,
recently told the Friends of Wake Forest Public
Library that 410 new patrons received library
cards at this branch in August and the branch
circulated 43,000 books during August.
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Are you one of 510,000
voters? |
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There are close to 510,000 registered voters in
Wake County, and the Wake County Board of
Elections knows the number will increase as
because of a number of voter registration
drives.
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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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Correction |
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As a sharp-eyed reader pointed
out, it was the Raleigh Public Utilities
Department, not Public Works, which required a
grease trap at The Corner. We regret the error. |
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Cook’s corner
Collards with fruit |
(Cranberries are back in the
stores, and you can always buy collards. This is
a fat-free, fairly fast, nutritious side dish.
(I make cranberry sauce – one cup water, one cup
sugar and one bag of cranberries washed and
picked over. Put all in a small saucepan, bring
to a boil and cook until most of the cranberries
pop. It will keep in the refrigerator for
months. You can substitute part of a can of
whole-berry cranberry sauce. You can add more or
less vinegar and cranberry sauce depending on
the size of the collard bunch
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We welcome . . . |
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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Letters to the editor
Start a Corner fund or furor |
To the editor:
How much does the (expletive deleted) grease
trap really cost? Start a fund raiser. I'll send
a check! Start a public furor and I'll make an
effort. The Corner is one of the neatest things
about Wake Forest, and I stop there every time I
come to town. This kind of outrage was
inevitable when we (if I may) gave a critical
major asset to the selfish monster to our south.
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Mortgages and loans
Should you pay off the mortgage?
By Einar Bohlin, World
Leadership Group (Real estate, mortgages,
financial planning) |
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Our parents told us to pay off that mortgage. As
parents, we most likely told our kids to pay off
that mortgage. Send in extra principal when
you can. Sign up for twice monthly payment
programs. Get a mortgage with as short a term as
your wallet will handle.
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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
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DRC announces new
executive director |
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Two weeks after Wake Forest was
selected to join the state’s Main Street
Program, the Downtown Revitalization Corporation
has named its new executive director, Christina
Archer. Archer began her new job Monday, Oct. 9.
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Holding Village water
allocation on agenda |
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The plans for the 1,200-home
Holding Village may receive the second official
stamp of approval Tuesday night, Oct. 17, when
the Wake Forest Town Board considers its request
for a water allocation.
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There are tree problems,
forestry chairman says |
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The other people reporting on the
town’s advisory boards talked about actions and
accomplishments. Hugh Nourse, the chairman of
the urban forestry board, did that, briefly, but
mostly he told the Wake Forest town
commissioners last Tuesday about the problems
the board is experiencing or sees in the future.
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Traffic Safety Fair Oct. 21 |
The Wake Forest Police
Department’s Traffic Enforcement Division has
tentatively scheduled a Traffic Safety Fair for
Saturday, Oct. 21, in the Wal-Mart parking lot.
To be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., the fair will
stress the importance of wearing seatbelts, the
perils of drinking and driving and other
important traffic-related issues.
Members of the division, which is headed by Lt.
Darren Abbacchi, will also show parents how to
properly install child safety seats. Abbacchi
can be reached at 554-6163. |
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Downtown to be practice
fire burn scene |
The Wake Forest Fire Department
has scheduled two practice burns of houses in
the downtown area.
On Wednesday, Oct. 18, beginning at 6 p.m., the
firefighters will practice in and then burn the
house at 239 E. Jones Ave. that was formerly
John Lyon’s Appraisal House.
On Saturday, Oct. 28, beginning at 7 a.m., the
fire department will repeat the same training
and burn the house at 221 E. Jones Ave. that was
jovi’s Kitchen and Market until recently. |
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Club news
‘Christmas Carol’ tickets on sale |
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The Wake Forest Kiwanis Club is
selling advance tickets to a performance of Ira
David Wood’s “A Christmas Carol” on Thursday,
Dec. 7, at Raleigh Memorial Auditorium.
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Get a head start on
Christmas |
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Christmas? It
still feels like summer some days. Christmas is
three months away.
Ah, yes, but the Work-at-Home Moms of Wake
Forest know just how quickly those days can slip
away. They are ready to give you a head start on
Christmas this year.
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Parks and rec news
Children and parents invited
To Halloween Spooktacular |
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Ghosts and goblins will be welcome as well as
Superman, Supergirl, princesses and cowboys.
The Wake Forest Parks and Recreation Department
will throw open the doors at the Flaherty Park
Community Center Thursday, Oct. 26, for the
Halloween Spooktacular.
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From the chamber
Spanish class begins Monday |
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Need to learn Spanish to properly
serve your customers or to advance in your job?
The Wake Forest Chamber of Commerce is offering
a four-week course held on Mondays from 5 to 7
p.m. in the chamber conference room.
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Correction |
In last week’s issue, the Gazette
incorrectly identified one of the partners in
the Renaissance Investment Group planning a
multi-purpose building on East Jones Avenue. The
third partner with Mike Johnson and Matt Hale is
Charles Grantham, not Charles Grant.
The article concerned the two practice burns the
Wake Forest Fire Department plans later this
month to take down two houses that were formerly
jovi’s Kitchen and Market and The Appraisal
House.
The Gazette apologizes to both men for the
error. |
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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. The rotating
banner costs $75 a month, and the listing in the
business index costs $25 a month. For details,
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 opinions
What are the benefits to the town? |
The Holding Village plan is tripping – nay,
racing – along the fast track to approval by the
town.
Yes, the plan’s concept of the new urbanism,
intensive development in a thoroughly planned
and scaled environment of multiple uses, may be
the best way to use 256 acres. We all knew
somebody, sometime, was going to pluck this
plum, going to use all those acres tucked in
just below the town center. Maybe this is the
right way.
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Financial column
Providing for loved ones
By Louis Mullinger, Edward
Jones (Financial planning) |
You work hard to provide a
comfortable living for your family. But you also
need to think about what might happen to them
after you are gone or if you become
incapacitated. That means you need to start
planning and planning now because the future is
not ours to see.
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