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Tax, electric rates
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Tuesday
night Wake Forest Town Manager Mark Williams
recommended the property tax rate remain steady
at 54 cents per $100 valuation with the other
town charges – electric, garbage and recycling
rates – remain the same for the time being.
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The Growth Rate |
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If you
have questions about what is being built where,
please call 556-3409 or send a note to
cwpelosi@aol.com and we will try to answer
it.
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Planners approve
288 apartments |
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Wake
Forest Planning Board members Tuesday night
questioned an increase of traffic on South Main
Street and the construction of Ligon Mill Road
if Alexan at Ligon Mill, a 288-unit apartment
complex, is built along the future Ligon Mill
just south of Caveness Farm Avenue.
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CDC plans large
health fair |
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“We want
it to be the biggest health fair around,”
Brendora King, said this week. “We want people
to know there are resources out there to help
them.”
King and others on staff at the W.E.B. DuBois
Community Development Corporation are planning
the health fair for Saturday, May 19, in the
parking lot at their building on North White
Street behind the new CVS drug store.
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Meet in the Street
will fill downtown |
Saturday
you had better avoid downtown Wake Forest unless
you want to have a really good time, find some
well-made arts and crafts items, be able to
entertain your children and gobble up some fine
food.
South White Street and adjoining streets will be
filled with the fun and excitement of the 27th
annual Met in the Street, sponsored this year by
WakeMed.
Organizers at the Wake Forest Chamber of
Commerce expect in excess of 10,000 people for
the street festival and have filled all the
vendor spaces.
The Children’s Village staffed by counselors
from the Banks Kerr Family YMCA will have art,
games and activities.
The event begins at 10 a.m. and lasts until 4
p.m. Parking is available at Wake Forest Plaza
on Brooks Street, along Brooks and other side
streets, and in the W.E.B. DuBois CED on North
White Street. |
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Farmers’ Market
takes a week off |
Because Meet in the Street will take over the
entire downtown Saturday, May 5, including the
gazebo parking lot, the Wake Forest Farmers’
Market will take the week off to return on May
12 for a grand opening and an uninterrupted
series of market days through the spring and
summer.
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From Bach to folk
at free concert |
The Male
Chorale from Southeastern Baptist Theological
Seminary and the Northeast Piedmont Chorale will
present a free concert ranging from Bach and
Beethoven to folk songs and operetta Friday, May
4, at 8 p.m. in Binkley Chapel on the seminary
campus.
The groups will perform J.S. Bach’s Cantata
Number 106, “Gottes zeit ist die allerbeste zeit,”
(God’s Time is the Best Time) and Ludwig van
Beethoven’s “Hallelujah” from Christ on the
Mount of Olives.
They will also lend their voices to folk songs
such as “Shenandoah” and “Annie Laurie,” to a
number of songs from Gilbert and Sullivan
operetta, to a medley of patriotic pieces by
Irving Berlin and “The Last Words of David” by
Randall Thompson.
They will be accompanied by a professional
orchestra.
There will be a freewill love offering to offset
expenses. |
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From the
library
Used book sale is Saturday |
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You have
two more days to donate books for the Friends of
the Library’s annual used book sale, which will
be held in the former Winn-Dixie on Brooks
Street on Saturday, May 5.
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Holding Park Pool
opens May 26 |
Ah,
summer! When chlorine-scented water and eager
young bodies collide in splashes, yells, some
coordinated swimming and a lot of fun.
Wake Forest’s public pool in Holding Park will
open for the 2007 season on Saturday, May 26.
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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
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Financial column
Smart moves after a layoff
By Louis Mullinger, Edward
Jones (Financial planning) |
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If you are
laid off or downsized, it is unquestionably a
tough break, and it can be stressful in many
ways. However, if you make the right
investment-related moves, the loss of a job does
not necessarily mean you have lost the
opportunity to achieve your important financial
goals.
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How to get a notice |
If you are
reading The Wake Forest Gazette but do not
always remember to find it each week, let Editor
Carol Pelosi send you a notice on Wednesday
evenings that the newest edition is online.
Just send her an e-mail at
cwpelosi@aol.com and she will add your name
and e-mail address to her notification list. The
messages are sent as blind copies to respect
your privacy.
The free online newspaper had a monthly average
of 7,645 hits from individual computers for
September through December, 260 a day in
December. The editor thanks all her readers. |
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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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Holding Village
leaps
one hurdle |
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Town Manager Mark Williams and Finance Director
Aileen Staples will give the town commissioners
the proposed 2007-2008 budget Tuesday night
during the work session that begins at 5:30 p.m.
Aside from a review of the agenda for their
regular meeting on May 15, the only other agenda
item is a presentation by Tom Shipman on behalf
of the Greater Wake Forest Athletic Baseball
Commission.
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Lowe’s planned for
Gateway Commons |
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The Wake Forest Planning Board by a seven to one
vote recommended approval of Gateway Commons
shopping center between the N.C. 98 bypass,
Jones Dairy Road, and the future extensions of
Friendship Chapel Road and Heritage Lake Road.
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Maxway closing;
Classic Cars opening |
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Maxway in Wake Forest Plaza on Brooks Street
will close its doors for good on June 16, and
Wake Forest Classic Cars, which has been in the
Chevrolet Building on South White Street for
four years, will open up with a new name in
early July.
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Housing starts
picked up in April |
Builders
applied for 75 housing permits last month in
Wake Forest – 63 single-family homes, eight
condominiums and four townhouses.
The pace is slower than in recent years, but it
will get a shot in the arm if the 288-unit
Alexan at Ligon Mill apartment project and the
1,300-home Holding Village are approved by the
planning and town boards this month. The
developers for those projects envision
construction starts in 2007.
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Carolina Chocolate
Drops
featured Sunday |
A string
band from Durham that has been named one of the
top eight musical groups in the Triangle, the
Carolina Chocolate Drops, will be on the stage
for the third concert of Six Sundays in Spring.
The free, family-friendly concerts on the lawn
at the Wake Forest College Birthplace – the
Calvin Jones House – on North Main Street begin
at 5 and last until 7 p.m. Be sure to bring a
blanket or chairs, a picnic, dogs and Frisbees
and have a grand time. The series in its 16th
year is sponsored by the Wake Forest Cultural
Arts Association.
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Town employees,
officials pick up trash |
In a
demonstration of their commitment to keeping
Wake Forest clean, more than 40 Town of Wake
Forest employees and officials were out bright
and early Saturday, April 28, to pick up trash
along the N.C. 98 bypass.
In just under three hours, they picked up 1,300
pounds of trash that filled 130 bags.
The town is encouraging residents of the town
and the area to take personal responsibility for
the environment by not littering. Thoughtful
people also pick up after others when they can.
Saturday’s outing was part of the North Carolina
Department of Transportation’s Litter Sweep
Roadside Cleanup. |
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Garden
tour
tickets on sale |
The Wake
Forest Garden Club will host its biennial tour
of area gardens – The Secret Life of Gardeners …
Look and Learn – the weekend of May 19 and 20,
and pre-event tickets are now on sale.
The tickets sold before the event are $8 each;
they will be $10 the days of the tour.
Garden club members have tickets, and they are
also for sale at the Wake Forest Chamber of
Commerce, The Purple Poppy, NC Specialty Shops,
Wake Forest Auto Spa, The Lighthouse Candles and
Gifts, all in Wake Forest, and The Ink Spot in
Raleigh.
The ticket is a brochure listing the gardens
that includes a map of how to find them.
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Ranger’s wildathon
starts Friday |
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Beginning
at 5 a.m. Friday, May 4, and lasting until 5
a.m. the following morning, Falls Lake State
Park Ranger Brian Bockhahn will be walking
through the state park area at Falls Lake,
counting birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians,
butterflies, fireflies, dragonflies, damsel
flies, moths, fish and wild flowers.
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Wake EMC
gives out money |
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A lot of
people are apparently not aware that Wake
Electric Membership Corporation, which provides
electric power to 32,000 homes and businesses in
Wake, Franklin, Granville, Durham, Johnston,
Nash and Vance counties, has a grant program to
help nonprofit agencies in those counties.
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How to advertise |
You can
now advertise your business or service in The
Wake Forest Gazette at a reasonable cost.
A rotating banner at the top of each page costs
$75 a month, and a listing in the business index
costs $25 a month. To begin advertising, call
Editor Carol Pelosi at 556-3409 or send her a
note at
cwpelosi@aol.com. |
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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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