You are familiar with potable water – the kind you drink, cook and clean your house with. What you may not know is that there are two kinds of water that are distributed in Raleigh, Zebulon, and Wake Forest. The other kind is reuse water, sometimes called reclaimed water. It is environmentally friendly based non-potable water that can be used for irrigation, cooling tower makeup water, toilet flushing, and process cooling water.  Customers using reuse water from the City of  Raleigh’s reuse distribution system include the Carolina Mudcats’ Five County Stadium and industries in Zebulon, and the Walnut Creek Amphitheater, Walnut Creek Softball Complex, and Wake Med Hospital, all in Raleigh.  Several area golf courses also use reuse water for irrigation. Reuse water is treated thoroughly at wastewater treatment facilities and then distributed for non-drinking purposes. Reuse water will also be made available for residential irrigation as the distribution piping

*The Wake Forest Farmers Market will be open from 8 a.m. to noon Saturday, Sept. 5, in the Renaissance Plaza in front of the Renaissance Centre. Food, music and farm-fresh meats, vegetables and fruit, all raised within 75 miles. *Wake Forest Unplugged, the day to cut yourself free from email and cell phone and spend time with your family and friends at E. Carroll Joyner Park, where most of the town’s nonprofit civic groups will have information and fun activities. It all takes place Sunday, Sept. 6, beginning at 4 p.m. with a variety of activities and a free concert at 5 p.m. by Lakota John & Kin. *A Night to Remember, A Chance to Serve is the theme for September’s Art After Hours in downtown Wake Forest on Friday, Sept. 11. Local civic clubs and community organizations are invited to participate and tell people about their missions and the

Several of the following listings may be out of date; the clubs and organizations may have replaced the contact people.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