Water conservation
begins Monday

If you buy your water from the City of Raleigh and use a sprinkler of any kind to water your lawn or plants, you need to change your watering schedule over the weekend or face fines, even termination of your water service.
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Get ready for
a big bang

It’s that time again, time for a big, super-duper Fourth of July fireworks and stadium show, and you probably need to go early to secure a parking space and a seat in the stadium.
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From the chamber
Crash course in sales

The Wake Forest Chamber of Commerce will sponsor a sales workshop, “The Next Level: Selling to Tough Customers,” by Tim Dannelly on Tuesday, July 17.
The cost is $35 for member, $50 for non-members for the short seminar that will be held at Brigs Restaurant on Wake Union Church Road from 8 to 10:30 a.m.
To register or for more information, go to http://www.wakeforestchamber.org or call Darren O’Conner at 556-1519.

Town schedule
for the 4th

All Wake Forest town offices – as well as county, state and federal offices – will be closed Wednesday, July 4, for Independence Day, but all other town services except yard waste operate as usual.
Wake Forest police officers will work regular shifts, and Republic will collect garbage and recycling on the normal schedule.
Yard waste will be collected as usual on Monday and Tuesday. Wednesday’s collections will be made on Thursday, and Thursday’s and Friday’s regular collections will be made on Friday.
Town offices will reopen Thursday, July 5, at 8 a.m.

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.

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.

Road Roundup

(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

Please send information about upcoming events to info@wakeforestnc.com
Send your stories to: Editor: Carol Pelosi CWPelosi@aol.com

Some Falls Lake
considerations

Falls Lake is the sole drinking water source for the 350,000 people in Raleigh, Wake Forest, Rolesville, Zebulon, Knightdale and Wendell, and this spring and summer it is dropping between three and five hundredths of a foot every day.
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The Growth Rate

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.  Click here for the complete story

Enjoy a picnic
at the market

Just in time for the Fourth of July, the vendors at the Wake Forest Farmers’ Market are having a picnic Saturday and inviting you to sample the goodies.
On June 30 from 10 a.m. to noon there will be savory treats at the booths, all made from fresh market ingredients. The vendors will even share their recipes.
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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.

Financial column
Why invest?
By Louis Mullinger, Edward Jones (Financial planning)

We love lists. We want to know the 10 best pizza places in town and the 10 worst-dressed celebrities at the Oscars. We long to find the top 10 movies of the year and the 10 most popular songs of the century.  Click here for the complete story