Ordinance to ban
irrigation hook-ups

Bring us an ordinance banning all in-ground irrigation connections, the Wake Forest Town Board told staff Tuesday night.
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Planners table
Wake Drive request

Mark Hildebrandt had asked for conditional use highway business zoning for his planned garden center on Wake Drive just behind the planned Mellow Mushroom restaurant.
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The Growth Rate

The Wake Forest Coffee Company on South White Street opened this week, owner Albert Barneto is happy to announce.
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Fashion on display
for Art After Hours

The Cotton Company plans a new twist for April’s Art After Hours, a high-style fashion show.
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WF Singers
entertain April 13

You are invited to dream along with the Wake Forest Singers and guest harpist Anita Burroughs-Price Sunday, April 13, at 7 p.m. for their concert at Franklin Academy High School, “Catch the Spirit – Ponder Your Dreams.
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Market to open
with a host of vendors

The Wake Forest Farmers’ Market will open Saturday, April 5, with a crush of vendors selling everything from porch furniture to cheese to rain barrels.
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From the chamber

If you like the looks of the 2008 Nissan Sentra parked in front of the Wake Forest Chamber of Commerce office, it can be yours if you buy a $250 ticket and win the raffle. And you have a one in 80 chance.
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Quilt raffle
to help library

The Friends of the Wake Forest Library will raffle off a beautiful quilt that has been donated by the Wake Forest Quilting Friends at the annual membership meeting.

Summit focuses
on water conservation

The Wake Forest Human Relations Council will host its third annual Community Leadership Summit Wednesday, April 23, from 6 to 9 p.m. in the Community House on West Owen Avenue.
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MLK Committee
needs new members

The Wake Forest Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday Celebration Committee invites everyone interested in joining the committee or learning how to support the annual celebration to its meeting on Monday, April 21, at 7 p.m. at Friendship Chapel Baptist Church on Friendship Chapel Road.
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Steps for Schools
5K race April 26

Steps for School, a new 5K race sponsored by the Key Club students at Wake Forest-Rolesville High School, will benefit vocational school students in the villages of Kaihura, Uganda.
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Business news
Civil Consultants open office

Civil Consultants Inc., a multi-discipline, award-winning civil engineering and land planning firm with its headquarters in Durham has just opened a Wake Forest office in Suite 100 at 3205 Heritage Trade Drive.
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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 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. To begin advertising, call Editor Carol Pelosi at 556-3409 or send her a note at cwpelosi@aol.com.

Board OKs proposed
demolition ordinance

The proposed ordinance follows a law passed by the last General Assembly giving Wake Forest and Cary the authority to control the destruction of historic buildings, and it has been reviewed and edited by the town’s Historic Preservation Commission.
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Board starts
on Traditions

It is a large project, 377 acres where the Ammons family wants to build 632 homes and a continuing care complex. It will involve the construction of a major portion of the Northside Loop and the reconstruction of two existing roads.
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Six Sundays return
with stellar lineup

For the seventeenth year, the lawn at the Wake Forest College Birthplace will be filled with music and families on Sunday afternoons during April and May.
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Hoops for WF
return May 17

The 13^th annual Hoops for Wake Forest, a basketball tournament that provides fun for its participants and funding for local nonprofit groups, will return to Brooks Street in downtown Wake Forest on Saturday, May 17.
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Wolfpack stars
to be on hand

Two of North Carolina State’s all-time all-stars, Lorenzo Charles and Chris Corchiani, will be at the ribbon-cutting for Greg Horne’s third store opening Thursday, April 3.
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DRC wins award
for innovation

The Wake Forest Downtown Revitalization Corporation won a special recognition award for best innovation, its downtown database, during the annual North Carolina Main Street conference in Rocky Mount at the end of January.
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HerbFest helpers
needed

The 2008 HerbFest in downtown Wake Forest will run from April 18 through April 27, and a lot of hands will be needed to make it a success.
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Time to toss
those used books

The annual used book sale organized by the Friends of Wake Forest Library will be held Saturday, May 3, at the old, old Winn-Dixie in what was Wake Forest Plaza at the intersection of Brooks Street and East Elm Avenue. The sale is the same day as Meet in the Street.
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Asthma Coalition
sponsors picnic

The Wake County Asthma Coalition will host a family picnic May 10 to celebrate World Asthma Day and Asthma Awareness Month.
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Love fireworks? Join
the 4^th committee

The Wake Forest Fourth of July Celebration will delight crowds of people again this year as it has done since 1973.
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Neuse Clean-Up
Saturday, April 5

Want to help Mother Earth with some spring cleaning?
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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.

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.