Eight file for three
seats on town board

It was a dash to the finish line last week as five candidates filed for the three seats on the Wake Forest Town Board.
Chris Kaeberlein, a planning board member, filed late Wednesday afternoon, and Boyd Crane filed Thursday. Late Friday morning three people went to town hall to file: John Shoemaker, Anne Hines and Peter Thibodeau, another planning board member.
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Lake house
future dims

Last week Gary Roth, the president of Capital Area Preservation, was ebullient because the Wake Forest Town Board had agreed to waive fees and provide the crews and equipment, up to $20,000 worth, to move the Lake house from the Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary campus to a new site on North College Street. Click here for the complete story

Drought covers
most of the state

Almost all of North Carolina is now classified as being in a drought, ranging from extreme to severe in the western counties, moderate for the broad middle of the state out to the coast, with only a few coastal counties rated as extremely dry. Click here for the complete story

New greenway
section to open

Another half-mile section of Wake Forest’s greenway system will be officially opened on Thursday, Aug. 2, and area residents are invited to join town officials in the ribbon-cutting ceremony at 6:30 p.m. at the Olde Mill Stream sales office at 901 Barnford Mill Road just off Harris Road.
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Sharing the
bountiful harvest

The vendors at the Wake Forest Farmers’ Market will celebrate their Summer Harvest Festival this Saturday, sharing their harvest with their valued customers.
“We will have free watermelon slices, spearmint lemonade, strawberry ice cream and roasted corn and squash,” Terri Wilkinson, a market organizer, said.
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Learn to be
a WF leader

One of the ways the Wake Forest Chamber of Commerce helps develop a sense of community as well as tomorrow’s community leaders is through Leadership Wake Forest.
Each year 15 people are selected from the applicants for the program that begins in September and ends at the Wake Forest Community Dinner the first Tuesday in December.
The men and women learn about town history, town government, local business, public services, education, volunteer opportunities and much more. Graduates of the program can be found in leadership positions in town government, local businesses, the chamber and local civic groups, and they form bonds with their fellow participants which will endure for years.
Information is presented through panel discussions, on-site tours, hands-on activities, team discussions and informal question and answer sessions. The time commitment is one or two three-hour sessions each week on Tuesday and Thursday evenings with dinner provided.
If you are interested in participating, please go here  for an application or call the chamber at 556-1519.
To be considered, applications are due Aug. 1.
 

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

What do you want
to ask the candidates?

Three people have responded to our call for help in framing questions for the eight candidates for three seats on the Wake Forest Town Board. It would be wonderful to have more responses and more questions because there are nine weeks in September and October to pose them. (Between vacations and other summer activities, our thought is people will not be concentrating on the election until after Labor Day.)
Please send your concerns and questions either by sending an e-mail to cwpelosi@aol.com or writing a letter and sending it to Carol Pelosi, 1255 S. Main St., Wake Forest, NC 27587.

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

How to register
to vote in November

The candidates for the Wake Forest Town Board have filed, but will you be able to vote? Are you registered?
Wake County has a permanent registration system, meaning after you register once you do not have to re-register although you do have to tell the county Board of Elections if you move, change your name or want to change your party affiliation.
If you have never registered in Wake County, you will find the process easy and convenient. You must be a United States citizen, a Wake County resident and 18 years of age or older. People who are 17 but will be 18 by the election date may also register.
You must register at least 25 days before the general election that is on Nov. 6 this year.
You can register at the Board of Elections in Raleigh, at all Wake County libraries, at the state drivers’ license offices, at public assistance agencies, at public high schools and at the Wake Forest Town Hall.

Take a shot
at it

There is an opportunity to register what you like and dislike about Wake Forest’s downtown.
The Downtown Revitalization Corporation, as part of the Downtown Wake Forest Main Street Program, is providing disposable cameras and asking people to use them to take 12 photographs, six of elements you like and six of those you dislike, such as buildings, signs, streetlights, sidewalks, dumpsters, fences, landscaped and natural areas. People will also be asked to keep a journal with a brief description of each picture.
The photographs and information will be used to identify areas town residents like in the downtown and areas which need work.
The project is tentatively scheduled for the last week in August that begins Aug. 27 and should take no more than two hours.
If you want to participate, send an e-mail here by July 31. The participants will be sent specific directions during August.

Autumn Arts
help needed

Autumn? Already? No, it will be here before you know it and so will this year’s Autumn Arts Festival on Saturday, Oct. 13.
The Downtown Revitalization Corporation needs help of all kinds, from artists to show their wares to sponsors to volunteers to help plan and run the street fair for art.
Applications for the artists are available at http://wakeforestdowntown.com/drc/ and you can call Tina Archer, the DRC executive director, at 441-9551. Her e-mail is tina@wakeforestdowntown.com.

National Night Out
set for Aug. 7

The Wake Forest Police Department and Target are joining forces to sponsor the local National Night Out Tuesday, Aug. 7, and are hosting a National Night Out Parking Lot Party from 5 to 10 p.m. at the Target Superstore at 12000 Retail Drive.  Click here for the complete story

A reader’s opinion
Questions Rep. Avila’s votes

To the Editor:
As the state legislature winds down its work, I've been reviewing some of the votes by 40th district Rep. Marilyn Avila, who has represented me in the state House of Representatives since January. Click here for the complete story

Now linked to

WakeForestTimes.com

The Wake Forest Gazette and the WakeForestTimes.com, a new web-based information source for the Wake Forest area, have agreed to a mutually beneficial association. You will soon find a link to the WakeForestTimes.com site on the Gazette and there is a link to the Gazette on WakeForestTimes.com. Editor Carol Pelosi will be writing for WakeForestTimes.com and in return, in the future, will have support for the Gazette web site. There will also be opportunities for advertising on both.

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
Protect your identity
By Louis Mullinger, Edward Jones (Financial planning)

First, the bad news: There is still plenty of identity theft out there. Now, the better news: There is not as much as in previous years. And now, the best news: You can do a lot to protect yourself from being victimized.  Click here for the complete story