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Road Roundup

As the Gazette reported in the April 15 issue, the schedule for replacing three bridges in Wake Forest has changed again. A fourth replacement project, the bridge over Horse Creek on Purnell Road, is underway and should be finished in midsummer. The three bridges are those over Sanford Creek on Forestville Road, over Richland Creek on West Oak Avenue/Wall Road, and over Smith Creek on Rogers Road. The Forestville Road replacement project was scheduled to begin this month but has now been pushed back to begin Wednesday, July 1. The work on West Oak Avenue, once planned to begin in July will now begin in late September. The work on Rogers Road, which includes widening the road from its intersection with South Franklin Street to the intersection with Forestville and Heritage Lake roads, is slated to begin in March 2016 and be completed that August. Now that we know Columbia

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Calendar

*The Wake Forest Farmers Market will be open from 8 a.m. to noon in Renaissance Plaza on Brooks Street this Saturday, May 2. *Hometown Teams: How Sports Shape America, a traveling exhibition from the Smithsonian Institution, will be at the Wake Forest Historical Museum on North Main Street from April 17 through May 31. This is one of only six North Carolina museums selected to host the exhibit, which is free and will be open to the public every day except Memorial Day during the exhibit. *The always popular HerbFest will return for the second of its two weekends – April 24-26. Find the largest selection of non-GMO organic herbs, heritage tomatoes, heirloom vegetable plants and local perennials. It will be open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sundays. *Meet in the Street, the town’s popular crafts and arts street festival,

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Club/organization meetings

Several of the following listings may be out of date; the clubs and organizations may have replaced the contact people. Please help in keeping this list current by sending the names and contact information about the new people to the editor at cwpelosi@aol.com. * American Legion Post 187 meets the second Thursday at 7 p.m. in the American Legion Hall at 225 East Holding Avenue. The dinner begins at 6 p.m. and costs $5. For information and membership, call Commander Dave Goetze at 569-0471 or visit www.alpost187.org. * American Heritage Girls (AHG) meets at 6:30 p.m. at Hope Lutheran Church on Rogers Road on the second and fourth Thursdays. Contact Amy Minor at chrisnamy34@hotmail.com or see the website, www.hopelutheranwf.org. * The General James Moore Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution meets the third Tuesday but does not meet in June, July and August. Call 880-1915 for the location

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Obituaries

Christopher E. ‘Chris’ Brown Rolesville Christopher Elliott Brown, 23, of Rolesville unexpectedly passed away Monday morning, April 27, 2015. He was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on June 6, 1991. A mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 12:30 Friday afternoon, May 1, 2015, at Saint Catherine of Siena Catholic Church, 520 West Holding Avenue, Wake Forest. Chris is survived by his parents, Ross and Diane Brown of Rolesville; brother, Gregory Brown of Raleigh; sister, Stephanie Brown of Beijing, China; and numerous aunts, uncles and extended family. Friends may visit with the family from 6 to 9 p.m. Thursday evening, April 30, 2015, at Bright Funeral Home & Cremation Center, 405 South Main Street, Wake Forest.     Helen Joyce Day Haynes Wake Forest                       Helen Joyce Day Haynes, 85, of Wake Forest passed away Sunday evening, April 26, 2015. She was the daughter of Fred Eldridge and Ruby Bryson Day

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