Senior center this week

There will be a presentation by the Better Business Bureau on Thursday, April 14, at 10 a.m. about how to give wisely with warning signs for caregivers and family as well as guidelines. Get a blood pressure check on Monday, April 18, at 9:30 a.m. provided by Stay at Home Senior Care, and on Tuesday, April 19, paper your self with Jamberry Nails by Christy Spivey from 10:45 to 12:45. On Tuesday, April 19, Charlotte Mayo from the Wake County Board of Elections will offer Election 101 from 10 to 11 a.m. How do jurisdictions work? What services are available to assist voters? Get a preview of this year’s Presidential Election. Correct forms will be available if you need to register to vote, change your address, or request an absentee ballot. Get involved! Get information on how to become a precinct official for Election Day or at an Early Voting

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Special needs fair April 23

Once again, for the second year, the Wake Forest Parks, Recreation & Cultural Resources (PRCR) Department and Richland Creek Community Church will sponsor a free Special Needs Resource Fair on Saturday, April 23, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. The fair will take place at Richland Creek Community Church at 3229 Burlington Mills Road. The event will include an array of professional vendors that specialize in providing a range of services, including therapeutic, health and wellness, educational, recreational, music, financial and legal, to children and adults with special needs. The fair is designed to offer local families the opportunity to learn about dozens of programs, services, products and resources – all in one location. Organizations and businesses that cater to or provide services to individuals with special needs are invited to apply as a vendor for the resource fair at no cost. “As the needs and demands of residents with

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Calendar

*Wake Forest Fire Department’s Fish Fry will be held from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. at Station #1 on Elm Avenue. Eat in or take out plates at $8 each with drinks provided for eat-in customers. Fried filets, cole slaw, boiled potatoes and hush puppies are all made by firemen and members of the women’s auxiliary for a fine feast. *Shred it on Friday, April 15, when free shredding services will be available at the parking lot for the Renaissance Centre for the Arts parking lot between noon and 7 p.m. or until the truck is full. *The Wake Forest Farmers Market will be open in Renaissance Plaza on Saturday, April 16, with its regular spring, summer and fall hours, 8 a.m. to noon. *The Old Campus Trek, an annual event at the Wake Forest Birthplace (the Calvin Jones House), brings students from the university in Winston-Salem and alumni from

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Club meetings

It is a new year and a good time to check the information about your club or organization. If what you see is incorrect, 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

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Obituaries

Edna Marie Creech Wake Forest Edna Marie Creech, 96, of Wake Forest and formerly of Lawnvale in Harlan, Kentucky, passed away on Monday, April 11, 2016. She was the widow of Hyluard C. Creech who passed away in 1996. She was also proceeded in death by her daughter, Edith Banks, and grandson, Jeffrey Banks. Funeral services will be held at Rest Haven Cemetery, Baxter, Kentucky, at 1 p.m. on Friday, April 15, 2016. Mrs. Creech retired from the Belk Store in Harlan with 38 years of service where she managed the lingerie department for several years. She is survived by her son, Earl Ronald Creech and his wife, Nikki, of Wake Forest; her granddaughter, Stacie Creech of Raleigh, and grandsons, Richard Banks of Greenback, Tennessee, and Robert Creech and his wife, Jennifer, of Glen Burnie, Maryland; two great-grandsons, Matthew and Jonathan Creech of Glen Burnie, Maryland; two sisters, Opal Miracle of

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