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Stricter water
rules
start Tuesday |
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Beginning
Tuesday, Aug. 28, lawns and shrubs will get
drier as the City of Raleigh tries to maintain
the area’s water supply in Falls Lake.
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Board starts work
on Northeast Plan |
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During
their mid-year retreat Friday, the Wake Forest
Town Board came up with a list of actions to
implement some of the Northeast Neighborhood
Plan as soon as possible.
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Some South Main
relief possible |
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There are several choke points on South Main
Street where traffic backs up, and Friday the
town’s deputy manager said it is possible to
ease the situation.
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Bridges hires Jalot |
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Rob
Bridges, one of seven candidates for three seats
on the Wake Forest Town Board, has hired Tresa
Jalot, the former deputy director at the Wake
Forest Chamber of Commerce as his campaign
director.
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Purnell Place OK’d
in routine meeting |
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The Wake
Forest commissioners voted unanimously Tuesday
night to approve the special use permit request
by Regency Center to build a shopping center,
Purnell Place, in the northeast corner where
Harris Road and Capital Boulevard meet.
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Town receives
a gift |
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“Most
people who come up here are wanting something,”
Hope Newsom said as she stood before the Wake
Forest Town Board Tuesday night. “I’m going to
give you something.”
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Bike plan
meeting Aug. 27 |
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The Town
of Wake Forest will unveil the draft of its
Bicycle Plan Monday, Aug. 27, at the Flaherty
Park Community Center.
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Theatre Maniacs
set to perform |
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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.
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Watch the Iron
Chefs grill |
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Two
masters of the grill will battle Saturday in the
Grill Iron Chef Competition at the Wake Forest
Farmers’ Market in downtown Wake Forest.
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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. |
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Community Team
yard sale update |
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The
Community Response Team – local people you can
count on to help when there is a crisis or
emergency – will hold a yard sale to raise money
for their efforts on Saturday, Sept. 29, from 7
to 11 a.m. in the vacant lot in southwest corner
of South White Street and East Elm Avenue.
The team says they will schedule two dates in
September to drop off items at the old
Winn-Dixie in Wake Forest Plaza on East Elm.
Dates and times will be announced later. They
will accept food items for the sale on Sept. 28.
The Community Response Team board of directors
wants everyone to know they are sincerely
grateful for the support of local clubs and
individuals. |
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How to advertise |
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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 . . . |
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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.)
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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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Lake house
to move, live |
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If you are
in the market for an historic comfortable house
with new plumbing and wiring in the historic
area of Wake Forest for about $200,000, it will
be available in a few months.
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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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Stinnett questions
why costs increasing |
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Commissioner Margaret Stinnett spent a large
part of the morning at the town board’s Friday
retreat insistently questioning why the cost of
the top three road and street projects in the
2005 bond issue keeps rising and when they will
be done.
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Candidate forum
on Oct. 9 |
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There was
an inexcusable error in the Gazette last week
giving the wrong date for the candidates’ forum
sponsored by the Wake Forest Chamber of
Commerce.
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Town board
rejects
150-lot subdivision |
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After
three of the five Wake Forest commissioners
indicated they were opposed to rezoning 34 acres
for an extension of the Bishop’s Grant
subdivision, they then voted four to one to deny
the associated annexation request.
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Raleigh using
WF as wedge
over Neuse water |
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The City
of Raleigh is attempting to use an agreement
between Wake Forest and Youngsville as a wedge
to force Franklin County to give up its hope of
tapping the Neuse River for water.
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More commercial
growth planned |
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Developers have all sorts of plans for buildings
where Wake Forest area people can buy goods,
have fun and meet.
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Meetings set for
North Regional plans |
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Ross
Yeager, the executive director of Wake County’s
North Regional Center, wants to talk with folks
in the north Wake area.
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Studio Tour set
for two weekends |
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There is
already a crowded schedule for September in Wake
Forest, so be sure now to mark your calendar for
the two weekends of the Wake Forest Area
Artists’ Studio Tour, Sept. 15 and 16 and 22 and
23.
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Million Meals
needs money now |
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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.
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Homecoming for
Ruby Reid Sept. 8 |
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There will
be a joint homecoming and fundraiser Saturday,
Sept. 8, at the Ruby Reid Child Development
Center, a nonprofit Christian childcare center.
There will be a silent auction and activities
for children of all ages. The money raised will
add toys and equipment for the classrooms.
There will also be food. The barbecue plates
will be $8, hot dog plates $4.
The event begins at 11 a.m. and will run to 3
p.m. Ruby Reid is at 222 Capcom Ave. off South
Main Street (U.S. 1-A) in Wake Forest. |
From the
library
Fall gardening program Sept. 20 |
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The
Friends of the Wake Forest Public Library will
sponsor a free fall gardening program Thursday,
Sept. 20, beginning at 6:30 p.m.
Maggie Terry, the owner of 4 Seasons Garden
Center and VisionScapes, will be the featured
speaker. Terry is a professional interior and
landscape designer, is a Master Gardener and a
North Carolina Certified Plantsman.
She will talk about fall gardening projects and
deer-resistant gardening.
The library is at 400 East Holding Avenue. Space
is limited so people are urged to arrive early.
For questions, send an e-mail to
friendswflibrary@yahoo.com or call Melanie
Murphy (556-2100) or Mary Petretich (761-1130). |
Autumn Arts
help needed |
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Autumn?
Already? No, it will be here before you know it
and so will this year’s Autumn Arts Festival on
Saturday, Oct. 13.
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Now linked to
WakeForestTimes.com |
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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. |
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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
Save early for college
By Louis Mullinger, Edward Jones (Financial
planning) |
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It's that
time of year when college students across the
country reach for their backpacks and head back
to campus while their parents reach for their
checkbooks and head for the Tylenol. If your
children are still quite young, though, you can
take steps now to reduce the headaches that may
come from those big college bills.
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