Vehicles of all makes and models – including muscle cars, sports cars, pony cars, classic and antique autos, street rods and trucks – will be on display in downtown Wake Forest from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, June 16, for the 2018 Wake Forest Charity Car Show sponsored by Wake Forest Downtown Inc. with the grand sponsor Auction Direct USA. Proceeds from the show will benefit several area charities. There will be a Take-Apart-T demonstration in which a Model T will be disassembled and reassembled at 12:30 p.m., the Drunk Driving Simulator and the Wake Forest Fire Department’s fire truck and drone demonstration. Admission to the car show is free but people can purchase raffle tickets to win a gift certificate for a new set of tires valued up to $800 courtesy of Ronnie White’s Towing and Tire (includes mounting, balance and disposal fees). Tickets are $5 each

Wake Forest will host The Wall That Heals, a three-quarter replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial for four days in October, Oct. 18 through 21. The exhibit in Joyner Park will be free and open to the public around the clock for those days, and will require a large number of volunteers. Volunteers are critical to the success of the event and needed at a variety of times. Volunteer duties will be general in nature and may include answering questions, helping visitors locate names on The Wall and providing parking direction and assistance. Volunteers must be able to stand and walk and be 18 or older. The exhibit will be open from 8 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 18 through Sunday, Oct. 21, at 2 p.m. Anyone interested in volunteering may sign up online at www.wakeforestnc.gov/the-wall-that-heals.aspx. A volunteer training session will be held at Joyner Park on Wednesday, Oct. 17, at 6 p.m.

On Saturday, June 16, the Norman Lear documentary film, “A House Divided,” will be shown at 1 p.m. at the Living Arts College at 3000 Wakefield Crossing Drive. The free event is hosted by the Chi Rho Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, the Wake Forest-Rolesville Alumni Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity and the Raleigh Fair Housing Hearing Board. A panel discussion featuring members of the Raleigh Fair Housing Board, attorneys and elected officials will take place after the screening. The film is narrated by Lear, who explores the housing divide in New York City where he is confronted by one of the nation’s starkest images of inequality: a record number of homeless people living in the shadows of luxury skyscrapers filled with apartments purposely kept empty. He spoke with tenants, realtors, homeless people, housing activists, landlords and city officials, investigating the Big Apple’s affordability crisis, hedge fund

The Town of Wake Forest owns 80 wooded but largely untouched acres next to four schools, greenway trails, shopping centers and busy streets. Town officials want it to be used for outdoor recreation – but what kind of recreation? The land is already accessible from three stubbed streets: Foundation Drive on the east and two streets in the Homestead at Heritage subdivision, Heritage Branch Road and White Rocks Road. Smith Creek is on the eastern edge of the land and two small Smith Creek tributaries frame the land. The Wake Forest Recreation Advisory Board will host five public meetings over two weeks in June to hear what people in different neighborhoods and sections of town think would be the best use of the land. The effort is called Picture 80 Acres. The first public meeting will be held Monday, June 18, at 6:30 p.m. at the Wake Forest Renaissance Centre

The Northeast Community Coalition will again sponsor the annual Juneteenth Freedom Walk at 11 a.m. Saturday, June 23, that will begin and end at the Alston-Massenburg Center on North Taylor Street after winding along East Juniper Avenue to North Franklin Street and the site of the historic DuBois School and then to North Allen Road and back to East Juniper with history lessons along the way. After the walk at the Alston-Massenburg Center there will be food, activities, music and water spray fun for the children. Juneteenth celebrates the way enslaved people in Texas learned the Civil War had ended and they were free – and is more generally a celebration of all people’s freedom from slavery. Texas was very isolated during the war. The news of General Robert E. Lee’s surrender on April 9 moved slowly, and did not reach Texas until May 1865. The Army of the Trans-Mississippi did not surrender until June