This year’s Wake Forest Singer’s Concert is all about dance and dancers. It will be held at the Renaissance Centre Sunday, April 12, beginning at 5 p.m., and the featured guests will be dancers from the Broughton High School Dance Company and Dance Ensemble. Tickets are $6 and can be purchased at the door or online at www.wakeforestrencen.org. There is no charge for children 10 and under; there will be a cash concession. Ginger Graves is the director and Susan Moss is the accompanist.

The 35th annual Trentini Foundation banquet will be held Saturday, April 18, at The Forks Cafeteria. The speaker for the evening is Republican state Senator Chad Barefoot, who is in his second term representing parts of Wake and Franklin counties. The winners of the two Trentini Scholarships, one for a graduating senior at Wake Forest High School and the other for a graduating senior at Heritage High School, will be announced at the dinner. All of the six nominees at the two schools will be introduced, and the winner of the technical school/community college scholarship will also be announced. The foundation awards a $30,000 scholarship to the winner at Wake Forest High and gives $1,000 to each of the five nominees who are not selected for the scholarship. Currently the scholarship for the Heritage High winner is $5,000, but the foundation and parents are working to increase the endowment and

The Wake Forest Garden Club is inviting artists to show and sell their works at the annual Mad Hatter’s Art Market, which will take place Saturday, May 9, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on the grounds of the Wake Forest Historical Museum. The art show and sale, along with a plant sale and a display of classic cars, is part of the festivities around the Mad Hatter’s Tea in the museum and the Garden Tour. To apply to show and sell your work, visit www.wfgardenclub.org or email hattersartmarket@gmail.com. You can also call Elizabeth at 919-554-4036 for details. The deadline to apply is April 12.

The CenturyLink Community Relations Team is once again hosting a Community Yard Sale with proceeds benefitting the Franklin County Relay for Life. The event is scheduled from 7 a.m. to 12 noon on Saturday, April 25, in the company parking lot at 14111 Capital Boulevard, just north of Wake Forest. Bobby Shatterly, Area Plant Supervisor and volunteer chairman for the CenturyLink Relay for Life team, is enthusiastic about this annual event. “We encourage people in the community to reserve a spot, and then get busy with their spring cleaning at home. It’s the perfect time to turn unwanted items into cash!” Yard sale spots are sold for $20 each, and 100 percent of the money raised goes to Relay for Life. All the proceeds from selling merchandise belongs to the seller. Anyone interested in reserving a spot needs to contact Stacey Arnold at CenturyLink. She can be reached via email

The Wake Forest Parks, Recreation and Cultural Resources Department will sponsor a free Special Needs Resource Fair Saturday, April 25, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Richland Creek Community Church, 3229 Burlington Mills Road. The event will include many professional vendors which specialize in providing services to children and adults with special needs. The fair will offer local families the opportunity to learn about dozens of programs, services, products and resources in one location. Organizations and businesses that provide those services or resources are invited to apply as a vendor at no cost. For more information, contact Recreation Program Superintendent Monica Lileton at 919-435-9563 or mlileton@wakeforestnc.gov.  

It is time to clean out your bookshelves and share those books you enjoyed to make room for more. It is the annual used book sale sponsored by the Friends of Wake Forest Library. The sale will be held Saturday, May 2, in the Ledford Center at 120 South Wingate Street on the Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary campus. Everyone is invited to shop from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., but Friends members can begin shopping at 8 a.m. Memberships, as low as $5 for an individual, will be available at the door from 8 a.m. and throughout the day. Please no credit cards; cash or checks only for the sale and memberships. The collection bins have been placed in 15 handy collection sites around town. Please donate recently published hardcover and paperback books in good condition as well as CDs and DVDs that are in playable and good condition are

The public is invited to attend the 3rd Wake Forest Memorial Flag-Raising Ceremony on Monday, April 6, at 11 a.m. The service will be held in Centennial Plaza, in front of the Wake Forest Town Hall on Brooks Street to honor Roger “Marvin” Hockaday who served his nation in the U.S. Army during World War I. Members of Hockaday’s family have been invited to participate in the ceremony which will include patriotic songs, special remarks, a memorial wreath laying and the ceremonial flag-raising by members of the Wake Forest High School JROTC. After raising the American flag, the JROTC will raise the U.S. Army service flag in recognition of the military branch in which Hockaday served. Both flags will fly in Centennial Plaza throughout April. Photographs and other remembrances of Hockaday will be displayed in Centennial Plaza during the ceremony, then in the town hall lobby through the end of

The Wake Forest Farmers Market will return to its full four hours – 8 a.m. to noon – on Saturday, April 4, with more vendors, more local produce and a scavenger hunt for kids with prizes. There will also be a drawing at noon for $20 in market bucks, and Eugene Taylor will provide the music. You can find the market in Renaissance Plaza on Brooks Street. In two weeks, on April 18, the market will host the first of three crafts markets planned for this spring, summer and fall. The Spring Solstice Market will have longer hours – from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. — and should have a full sampling of the crafts and crafts people in the area. The market’s vendors offer farm-fresh produce, pasture-raised meats, free-range eggs, local cheese, local honey, delicious baked goods, and assorted crafts items. For a full list of vendors and their

*The Wake Forest Farmers Market will be open in Renaissance Plaza on Brooks Street from 10 a.m. to noon on Saturday, April 4. *Go to South White Street Saturday, April 4, for the second annual Dirt Day. Learn about gardening, landscaping, camping and exercise. Entertainment with music and children’s activities will be on hand from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. *The Third Wake Forest Memorial Flag-Raising Ceremony will be held at 11 a.m. Monday, April 6, in Centennial Plaza in front of town hall on Brooks Street to honor Roger “Marvin” Hockaday. The public is invited to the ceremony. *Carnival for the Kids, sponsored by the Wake Forest Police Department, will again be held in the Home Depot parking lot of Retail Drive from April 7 through 12. The carnival’s proceeds provide money for police projects that benefit area children. *The Wake Forest Singer’s spring concert is all about dance