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Smoke, fire shuts
down
deli for weeks |
Early Friday evening, when
shoppers should have been stepping from gallery
to shop to restaurant, South White Street was
lined with fire trucks and clotted with
firefighters dealing with a smoky fire at Over
the Falls Deli.
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Board approves TNDs
and HerbFest |
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The developers of Holding Village
can proceed with their plans for a 1,290-home
traditional neighborhood development on the old
Holding farm property now that the Wake Forest
commissioners unanimously approved changes in
the zoning ordinance.
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Advisory board
members appointed |
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Tuesday night the Wake Forest commissioners,
using secret ballots, appointed and re-appointed
people to the town’s advisory boards. Although
there were fewer applicants than in the past,
only one vacant seat, on the urban forestry
board, remains.
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A bright idea
for the centennial |
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Wake Forest Town Clerk Joyce
Wilson MMC had a bright idea – literally – the
other day, and it was enthusiastically accepted
by the mayor and commissioners during their
annual planning retreat Friday.
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MLK celebration
Jan. 18 at Friendship |
The
theme for this year’s Martin Luther King Jr.
Holiday Celebration is Living the Dream, and
students from local schools will be recognized
for their prize-winning essays, poetry and art
on that theme.
The celebration will be held Thursday, Jan. 18,
at Friendship Chapel Baptist Church with a
reception at 6 p.m. and the program at 7. |
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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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Commissioners discussed
most town issues |
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In the eight years they have held
January planning retreats, the Wake Forest
commissioners have moved from long discussions
about their roles in relationship to each other
and to the town staff to an easy camaraderie
which allows them to almost use shorthand in
discussing issues even when they do not agree.
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Put in a bid
for a colorful mural |
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The Wake Forest Cultural Arts
Association is auctioning off two murals that
were painted by children with the Boy's and
Girl's Club of Wake Forest during the October
Autumn Arts Festival.
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Second Northeast
meeting Jan. 29 |
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The second meeting for the Northeast
Neighborhood Plan will be held Monday, Jan. 29,
at 7 p.m. in the gym at the DuBois Center.
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Boys & Girls Club
news
Hockey sign-ups end Friday |
Street hockey is great fun, and
the best place to play it is at the Wake Forest
Boys & Girls Club.
To join the fun, you need to sign up on or
before Friday, Jan. 19. You do not have to be a
member of the club to play in the street hockey
games. The cost is $8.
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From the chamber
BAH this Thursday |
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January’s Business After Hours will be held
Thursday, Jan. 18, beginning at 5:30 p.m. at
Anytime Fitness and WJ’s Toy Shop, both at 14460
New Falls of Neuse Road in Wakefield.
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Veterans’ Memorial
seeking support |
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Donnie Hight, president of
the Veterans’ Memorial of Wake Forest Inc.,
sent out a letter last week soliciting funds
to maintain and expand the memorial near the
golf club in Heritage.
It was dedicated on Nov. 11, 2001 and is the
impressive backdrop for a number of
ceremonies each year.
It is dedicated to the men and women from
the Wake Forest area who have given their
lives in America’s conflicts.
“Our plans for the future include a
permanent endowment fund, supporting
disabled veterans and youth education
programs,” Hight wrote.
You can find more about the memorial and the
organization at
http://www.wfveterans
memorial.org. The organization is
nonprofit. You can send donations to the
organization at PO Box 1834, Wake Forest,
N.C. 27587. |
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Put in a bid
for a colorful mural |
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The Wake Forest Cultural Arts
Association is auctioning off two murals
that were painted by children with the Boy's
and Girl's Club of Wake Forest during the
October Autumn Arts Festival.
Click here for the complete story |
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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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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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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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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
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WF board to study
adding fire department |
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Friday the Wake Forest Town Board
agreed to study the costs of converting the
independent nonprofit Wake Forest Fire
Department to a town department.
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West-side fire station
has been delayed |
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In March of last year the Wake
Forest commissioners agreed with then-Fire Chief
David Williams Jr.’s proposal for a third fire
station on the west side of town, a station he
planned to open in January of 2008.
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Board splits vote
on fire impact fees |
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As anticipated during Friday’s
town board retreat, the Wake Forest
commissioners split three to two Tuesday night
about a study about impact fees on new
development for fire station construction and
capital purchases.
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South Main’s $1 million
may go to Ligon Mill |
The $1 million in the May 2005
bond issue earmarked to widen South Main Street
from Rogers Road to Forbes Road may be spent to
widen the existing portion of Ligon Mill Road
west of South Main.
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Veterans’ Memorial
seeking support |
Donnie Hight, president of the
Veterans’ Memorial of Wake Forest Inc., sent out
a letter last week soliciting funds to maintain
and expand the memorial near the golf club in
Heritage.
It was dedicated on Nov. 11, 2001 and is the
impressive backdrop for a number of ceremonies
each year.
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Change school board
election?
Make members more accountable by county-wide
vote |
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Friday the Wake Forest
commissioners said they wanted to think over
whether to support a move to have voters across
the county vote for each member of the Wake
County Board of Education instead of the current
system of district voting.
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Ludases buy WF history,
not just the Corner |
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The Ludases, Marty and Debbie,
are nice people, but they have been
disappointing some others since they bought the
building which used to house The Corner ice
cream store.
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Time to donate
for Koinonia auctions |
There are only three weeks left
until the 2007 Koinonia Foundation dinner, and
the board members are soliciting donations for
the silent and live auctions.
They will need a heap of items and services
because the goal for this year is $55,000.
Each year, the foundation spreads the money
raised by the auctions throughout the community,
giving to an array of worthwhile organizations
and to a number of individuals.
Jay Hoy will be the auctioneer for the live
auction after the dinner at The Forks Cafeteria
on Saturday night, Jan. 27.
Tickets for the dinner, $30 each, are now
available from Koinonia board members and by
calling 556-5418 and speaking to Donna Marshall.
Heather Holding is the chairman, having taken
over from Beverly Whisnant, who had to step down
because of health reasons but is still on the
board. Some of the other board members are Mark
Fleming, the secretary, Kenille Baumgardner,
Mike Johnson, Velma Boyd-Lawson and Todd
Warrick. |
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Basketball free throw
contest Feb. 17 |
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The annual Knights of Columbus
free throw competition will be held Saturday,
Feb. 17 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Grand Slam
Sports Center at The Factory on South Main
Street.
All boys and girls between 10 and 14 are
eligible. You must bring proof of age, and age
will be determined as of Jan. 1, 2007.
Trophies will be awarded to the top finishers,
and winners in each age group will advance to
the district competition on March 3, also at
Grand Slam Sports Center.
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From the library
History program Jan. 18
Book clubs continue to meet |
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Wake Forest native John Rich and
his wife, Melanie Murphy, will relate the
history of Wake Forest, condensed version,
Thursday, Jan. 18, beginning at 6:30 p.m. in the
Wake Forest Library on East Holding Avenue.
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A history
Allen Young’s legacy
gone like Rev. Latta’s |
(This was prompted by the fire
at the Latta House in Raleigh, but it is fitting
to remember Allen Young and the Rev. Morgan
Latta in the week we celebrate the Martin Luther
King Jr. holiday. Those two local men were just
two of the educators and leaders who laid the
foundations for Dr. King’s crusades. Most of the
information for the following if from an article
in the March 28, 1956, issue of The Student
written by Yulan Washburn, who interviewed
Young.)
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Fourth committee
meets Jan. 24 |
The first meeting to plan the
Wake Forest Fourth of July celebration will be
Wednesday, Jan. 24, at 6:30 p.m. in the
courtroom at the Wake Forest Police Department,
chairman Rhonda Alderman said.
She hopes to attract a crowd of volunteers. “If
anyone is interested in helping but cannot
attend the meeting, they are welcome to contact
me via e-mail at
fireworklady@aol.com or call me at 556-4436.
The Wake Forest celebration, a two-day affair,
includes a nighttime fireworks show in Trentini
Stadium at Wake Forest-Rolesville High School,
complete with hometown and paid entertainment.
The second day is the increasingly popular
children’s parade in the morning followed by Art
in the Park and Games in the Park in the early
afternoon.
It is completely volunteer project, and it has
been sustained since 1973, when that first
children’s parade was along South White Street –
too hot, so it was moved to shady North Main
Street. The budget for the first fireworks show
was $400. The effect was more spectacular than
planned because one of the first shells fell
back and set off 40 rockets at once. |
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Financial column
Plan to be self-employed
By Louis Mullinger, Edward
Jones (Financial planning) |
Are you thinking of striking out
on your own and joining the growing ranks of the
self-employed? It is an exciting prospect and
possibly a little scary. But you can remove some
of the fear by doing whatever you can to prepare
yourself financially for life as an
entrepreneur.
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