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We will watch the
rain,
storms, lake levels this summer |
July 2
will bring mandatory permanent year-round
outdoor watering restrictions for residents of
Wake Forest, Raleigh and all eastern Wake County
towns.
In a year when there is already a 3-inch
rainfall deficit locally, when the state
Division of Water Resources says the area is
abnormally dry and may place Wake County in the
moderate drought category next week, and when
the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA) is predicting an active
hurricane season, a lot of eyes will be turned
to the skies and to the level of Falls Lake.
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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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Town hall closed
Monday, May 28 |
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The Wake
Forest Town Hall and other administrative
offices will be closed Monday, May 28, for the
observance of Memorial Day.
There will be no yard waste collection on
Monday, but police, garbage and recycling
services will continue uninterrupted.
Yard waste collection will resume Tuesday at 7
a.m. with crews following the normal collection
schedule beginning with Monday’s route.
Collection for the Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
and Friday routes will be done throughout the
rest of the week until all routes are complete.
Curbside garbage and recycling collection is
only interrupted for the Fourth of July,
Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s Day. The
normal collection schedule is maintained for all
other holidays.
Town offices will reopen Tuesday, May 29, at 8
a.m. |
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Summer food program
begins June 11 |
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The Faith
Tabernacle United Holy Church will sponsor its
second summer food program for school-age
children beginning June 11.
The church, which is at 741 E. Juniper Ave.,
will operate the program for four weeks, from
June 11 through July 6, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
each weekday. Pastor Eula Coleman will be the
site supervisor.
To register their children, parents should call
the church at 556-0322 or 220-1239. The
information they should be prepared to give
includes whether the children attended school in
2006-2007, their Social Security numbers, names
and addresses and whether their children were
approved to receive free or reduced-price meals
from the Wake County Public School System this
school year.
Coleman also said parents are encouraged to
participate in the program if they have the
time.
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California dreaming
led to a flying pig |
A bit of
kismet and serendipity brought Mike Morphy and
Gayle Hoover to their farm near Bunn and the
Wake Forest Farmers’ Market.
They were in California, dreaming of moving to a
farm in North Carolina, a farm where there was a
log cabin on a pond. When pigs fly, friends
said. Morphy and Hoover persisted, came to the
Tar Heel state and found their log cabin, their
pond just as they had dreamed. When they found
some flying pig ornaments in the house, they had
to name their new venture Flying Pig Farm.
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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.
There will be a restricted schedule, weekends
only, through Sunday, June 10. From then through
Aug. 26 the pool will be open every day for
swimming by the general public as well as swim
lessons, lap swim times, parent-child swim
times, and water aerobics.
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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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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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Please send information about upcoming
events to
info@wakeforestnc.com
Send your stories to: Editor: Carol Pelosi
CWPelosi@aol.com
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DuBois to celebrate
‘New Beginnings’ |
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The leaders at the DuBois Center, the historic
hub of the northside community, will truly have
a “New Beginning” Friday, May 25, when they
formally sign a contract with the North Carolina
State Downtown Design Studio.
The studio, part of the School of Design at
State, works with communities and organizations
to redevelop areas in distress. The design team
will work with the DuBois Alumni and with
community members to find uses that will benefit
the community and, at the same time, preserve
the history, cultural significance and beauty of
the campus.
People are invited to attend the signing
ceremony at 11 a.m. at the campus. If you plan
to attend, you are asked to respond by calling
554-1436 or sending e-mail to dubois27587@yahoo.com.
Immediately after everyone can enjoy a
fund-raising fish fry which will run from 11:30
a.m. to 7 p.m. Plates are $7 and include a
drink. There will also be a bake sale and
raffle. You can pre-order plates for delivery –
orders of eight or more only – by using the
above e-mail address. Please note the time and
make sure your address is correct.
The funding partners in the joint venture with
the Downtown Design Studio are the DuBois Alumni
Association, the Ammons family, the Town of Wake
Forest, Embarq, John Rich and Jim Adams. |
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At last! A guide
to Wake Forest |
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If you buy your electricity from the town or
have your garbage collected by the town, you are
about to receive a present, a small booklet,
“Guide to the Town of Wake Forest.”
Bill Crabtree, the town’s communication
specialist who worked on the handbook with
Lottie Donovan, a local graphic designer, says
it is crammed full of information newcomers need
and old-timers never had all in one place
before. The guide will be mailed to all the
electric and sanitation customers in the next
two weeks and will also be available at town
hall.
It will include addresses for town parks and
facilities, telephone numbers for town
departments, a section about the town’s history,
information about local churches, civic clubs,
attractions and entertainment, community events,
and much more.
It will work well in conjunction with the town
map available at the Wake Forest Chamber of
Commerce and the new signs both the town and the
Downtown Revitalization Corporation plan to
erect soon.
Maybe then newcomers will not have to stop
strangers on the street to ask how to get to the
post office. Over the weekend, lost visitors
also needed directions to The Factory ball
fields, Bright Funeral Home, The Old English Tea
Room and The Factory Skate Park. |
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It is the last
concert
for Six Sundays |
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Five
weeks have flown by and we are down to the last
concert for this year’s Six Sundays in Spring.
The featured group Sunday, May 29, will be
Molasses Creek, a band from Ocracoke Island
which has toured nationally and across North
Carolina.
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.
This is the sixteenth year for the popular
series of six outdoor concerts sponsored by the
Wake Forest Cultural Arts Association with the
cooperation of the Wake Forest College
Birthplace and support from the Town of Wake
Forest.
There are no rain dates. If it rains or we have
some kind of inclement weather the concert for
that date is cancelled.
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Lock your cars,
WF police say |
The night
of May 3 a thief or thieves broke into several
unlocked vehicles along Marshall Farm Road and
nearby streets in Heritage. The losses in goods
and cash were over $4,000.
As a result, the Wake Forest Police Department
is once again warning residents throughout the
town that they should lock their vehicles when
they are parked at home or away.
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Kerr Lake Art Show
to be held in June |
The Kerr
Lake Art Society and Vance-Granville Community
College are co-sponsoring the 41st annual Kerr
Lake Art Show June 4 through 15 in Building 7 on
VGCC’s main campus in Vance County.
The competition is open to amateurs and
professionals in media ranging from photography,
drawings and prints to collages. The work must
be original, have been produced in the last 12
months and not been previously exhibited in a
Kerr Lake Art Society show.
For information about entries, please call
coordinator Lilia Brigham at 252-492-5281 or
Donna Dodson at 252-492-2061. |
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How
to get a notice |
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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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Financial column
When do you need a trust?
By Louis Mullinger, Edward
Jones (Financial planning) |
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None of us
can predict the future. If you want to make sure
your family and other heirs receive what you
want them to have, it is not too soon to do your
estate planning. Trusts can be a key part of
those plans. But under what circumstances might
you need to establish a trust?
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