Crane pulls out;
seven left in race

Last week Boyd D. Crane withdrew from the race for three seats on the Wake Forest Town Board, leaving seven candidates.
Those candidates are Commissioners Velma Boyd and David Camacho, former commissioner Rob Bridges, Anne Hines, Chris Kaeberlein, John Shoemaker and Peter Thibodeau.
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Neighbors object
to through road

Residents of Wallridge subdivision on Wall Road packed the meeting room at the Wake Forest Town Hall Tuesday night to object to a future connector street through their neighborhood but not, mostly, to the plans for Purnell Place Shopping Center at the intersection of Harris Road and Capital Boulevard.

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Neighbors praise
developers

It has to be in the category of a man bites dog story, but Tuesday night several neighbors to the south of the planned Carriages at Bishop’s Grant praised the developer, Contentnea Creek. Click here for the complete story

Wake Forest’s
growth noted

Wake Forest is number twenty in Forbes magazine’s July 16 list of the fastest growing suburbs across the country.
The magazine took U.S. Census data and compared the growth of suburbs between 2000 and 2006. The suburbs included cities, townships and villages with more than 10,000 people in 2000.
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Town could build
fewer than 800 homes

Builders paid for 60 residential building permits during July – eight townhouses and 52 single-family homes – which brings the year’s total to 396 new dwelling units. If the trend continues, there will be fewer than 800 new homes built in Wake Forest this year.
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Pigskin Kick-Off
Aug. 10 at WF-R High

Football season is here! And Friday night, Aug. 10, Wake Forest-Rolesville’s Trentini Stadium will be the site for the Pigskin Kick-Off with 12 area teams scrimmaging.
Tickets at the door are $5 each although each of the 12 schools may be selling pre-game tickets for their booster clubs.
Segment 1 will feature Bunn versus Green Hope and Louisburg versus Millbrook at 4 p.m. At 5 p.m., there will be Bunn versus Millbrook and Green Hope versus Louisburg.
Segment 2 will see Rocky Mount, Broughton, East Wake and Durham Jordan line up on the field at 6 and 7 p.m.
Segment 3 will have Clayton playing WF-R and Garner playing Northern Durham in the 8 p.m. slot. When they switch opponents at 9 p.m. Garner will line up against WF-R and Clayton will face Northern Durham.
If there is rain Friday night, the games will be played Saturday, Aug. 11, at 8 and 10 a.m. and noon.
Wake Forest-Rolesville will play its first game of the 2007 season on Aug. 17 against Durham Riverside.

Art and music
at Art After Hours

Two artists will bring Europe and the Orient to receptions at local studios Friday, Aug. 10, for Art After Hours.
At Sunflower Studio on East Jones Avenue, Martha King’s show will be A Little Bit of Europe, featuring oils, watercolors, acrylics and prints of her travels. Doug Ross will provide soft rock, and there will be wine, punch and an array of light edibles.
At The Cotton Company on South White Street, resident artist Yuhuei Pierce will be honored with a reception and wine-tasting beginning from 6 to 9 p.m. Pierce’s art, a unique style of abstract oil painting, draws from both the East and West.
Art After Hours is sponsored by the Downtown Revitalization Corporation and the local studios, shops and restaurants who remain open late.

Sponsors needed
for Good Neighbor Day

Good Neighbor Day, a relaxed time when Wake Forest people from different cultures and different backgrounds can meet and enjoy food and entertainment together, will be Sunday, Sept. 16, this year.
In the past it has been an undertaking by the Human Relations Council, but this year another town advisory group, the Greenways Board, will join the council.
Both groups say they need sponsors to help offset the costs of this event, which include food and entertainment.
For information about the event and the sponsorships, call 554-5100 or see the insert in the Wake Forest Chamber of Commerce August newsletter.

From the chamber
Enter now for golf, expo

Planning for this fall’s 15th annual Wake Forest Chamber of Commerce Golf Tournament and the Community Business Expo 2007 are well underway, and people who want to participate in either one or both are urged to act soon.
The golf tournament on Tuesday, Sept. 25, will be played at Heritage Golf Club. There are a variety of sponsorship and volunteer opportunities. Registration and volunteer sheets were included in the August newsletter.
The business expo will be held Thursday, Oct. 25, from 4 to 8 p.m. at The Factory, and the registration form for booths was also in the newsletter. If you have any questions, call Carolyn Furr at 556-1519.
Also, the chamber is soliciting sponsors for the Chamber Chalice Award given to one teacher from a local school at the monthly Business After Hours. The teacher receives $200 donated by the chalice sponsors, and there are two sponsors each month. To become a sponsor, go to info@wakeforestchamber.org or call 556-1519.

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

Last chance
for questions

A number of people have responded with thoughtful and pertinent questions for the seven remaining town board candidates, and the editor is very appreciative.
The Gazette will stop accepting more questions at 11:59 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 12, and will begin compiling them in some sort of rational fashion. The first questions will go to the candidates Aug. 20, giving them plenty of time for the first responses to be published in the Sept. 5 issue. There will be questions every week through September and October.
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

Lake shrinking
under hot sun

We are sweating under August’s hot sun, losing water, and so is Falls Lake. Without extended rain soon, much of Wake County could face stricter water-use regulations.
Surface evaporation and a lack of inflow from the streams that usually feed the lake are combining to shrink the lake each day.
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Three-part fire
talks planned

Tuesday evening two Wake County fire officials agreed to participate with the Town of Wake Forest and the Wake Forest Fire Department to plan and coordinate how to meet future fire-fighting and protection needs in and around the town. Click here for the complete story

Theatre Maniacs
set to perform

Joe O’Keefe and his gang of merry pranksters will introduce live theater in Wake Forest this fall, and they want you to be a part of it, either as part of the performance or as the audience. Click here for the complete story

Flags to fly
Friday night

Friday, Aug. 10, at 6 p.m. the United States and the North Carolina flags will again fly from the flagpole in front of what was the town’s first post office built for that purpose.
The renovation of the abandoned flagpole in front of what is now Dr. Jack Gorlesky’s office building has been entirely a volunteer effort, and it has been speedy.
Come salute the flags Friday night.

Last year more than 400 people of all ages went to the Wake Forest Boys & Girls Club one Saturday and packaged over 63,000 meals to send to the starving people throughout the world.
This year the Wake Forest Rotary Club and Stop Hunger Now want to do the same thing, but they need the money to buy the rice and other dry ingredients for the nutritious meals.
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The Wake Forest Farmers’ Market vendors will have lots of summer produce for sale Saturday, Aug. 11, but you can avoid some of the August heat – whew! – and have the best choice if you go early. The market is open from 8 a.m. to noon in the gazebo parking lot on South White Street. Click here for the complete story

The deadline to apply for the Wake Forest Chamber of Commerce’s Leadership Wake Forest program has been extended to Aug. 15.
The program is one of the ways the Wake Forest Chamber helps develop a sense of community as well as tomorrow’s community leaders.
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.
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Family night
at the movies

Make it a family night Friday, Aug. 10, and go to see “Night at the Museum” on an outdoor screen.
Wake Forest Baptist Church is providing the movie, the drinks and the popcorn at this free event, one of several the church is sponsoring this summer. Just bring a blanket or lawn chairs.
The moving begins at 8 p.m.
The “theater” is the site for the Stephenson Center on Wake Union Church Road. Take N.C. 98 (Durham Road) west. After you pass under Capital Boulevard (U.S. 1) and go past the Shell station and Jiffy Lube, turn right onto Wake Union Church Road at the animal hospital. The site is just ahead on your right.

There will be a blood drive at the Wake Forest Town Hall Monday, Aug. 13, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. You are asked to give the gift of life.
To make an appointment, call Tricia Lanning at 554-6181.

Youngsters run right through soccer equipment as they grow, and those cleats, socks, shin guards and balls cost a lot of money.
Soccer parent Patty Tuggle had an idea: Have an exchange.
Parents can take gently used and clean equipment to Wake Forest Town Hall on East Elm Avenue and put them in the labeled barrels.
Saturday, Aug. 11, parents and children who need new sizes and equipment can go to town hall to find what they need for this season.
Any leftover items will be sent to a program that ships equipment to needy children in other countries.
For more information, call 569-2161.

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.

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.

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.

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
Are you ready to help parents?
By Louis Mullinger, Edward Jones (Financial planning)

If you have your parents during much of your adult life, consider yourself fortunate. As they age, however, you will need to become increasingly aware of added responsibilities you may have to assume. And by planning ahead, you can help make everyone's lives easier.    Click here for the complete story