Mayor Vivian Jones will deliver her 2014 State of the Town address during a dinner on Monday, Feb. 17, in the new Wake Forest Renaissance Center in Renaissance Plaza in downtown Wake Forest. The dinner is sponsored by the Wake Forest Rotary Club and will begin at 6 p.m. Jones will highlight the town’s accomplishments in 2013 and describe the goals she and the town commissioners and staff will strive for this year. All area residents are invited to attend this event. Tickets are $15 per person in advance and $20 at the door. Tickets can be purchased online with a Visa, MasterCard, American Express or Discover credit card at www.wakeforestnc.gov/ticket-events.aspx. They are also available at the Parks and Recreation Department window in the Wake Forest Town Hall lobby. Cash, checks and credit cards will be accepted there, and a $2.95 processing fee will be added to credit card purchases. The

Neighbors spoke against both projects on the Wake Forest Planning Board’s agenda Tuesday night but at the end of the evening the board members voted to recommend the Regency at Heritage subdivision on Forestville Road and the Wake Forest Charter Academy planned for Friendship Chapel Road behind the Gateway Commons shopping center. People both for and against the charter school and people opposed to the subdivision pretty well filled the second-floor meeting chamber. Planning board member Ed Gary was allowed to recuse himself from deliberating and voting on the school because his wife, Salina, is on its board of directors. Lois Nielsen, who lives on Fanning Drive across the street from the charter school site, represented neighbors on her street and from other Heritage neighborhoods. She began her PowerPoint presentation and prepared statement by saying, “We all welcome that school. We feel they would make good neighbors.” After referencing applicable

With the backing of about 40 Caveness Farm residents who were in the Wake Forest Town Hall second-floor meeting room, Michael Janos laid out the case for a traffic signal where Caveness Farm Avenue meets Capital Boulevard (U.S.1). Janos began his PowerPoint presentation to the mayor and town commissioners by describing a recent incident where a woman with three children in her minivan finally tired of waiting to make the left turn and started to cross the two northbound traffic lanes. “I jumped out of the car,” Janos said, because he was sure there would be a collision. “I don’t know why there wasn’t an accident.” Janos said the plan originally had been for a traffic signal, “but that got put on the back burner. There is money [for the light] Eighty percent of the people who live there know they need a light.” By pushing to have the light