Updated September 11, 2019 Various projects around town Updates based on information from Brendie Vega, Assistant Planning Director, and from other sources. *Abandoned partially built office building on Stadium Road is being torn down. *Tru Hotel on Wake Union Church Road is in the construction drawing phase. *Cube Smart storage space has opened. *Friendship Chapel Road extension. There is a request to extend the deadend road by 500 feet. Vega said it is to “get to the landlocked parcel between Holding Village and Heritage, opening up development opportunities.” Yes, and it also opens questions about how the street will be built through one of the last unbuilt tracts Holding Village owns. And how it will intersect with the extension of Franklin Street to the bypass. And, of course, how future developers will deal with the streams and ravines that cut the 93 acres remaining of the land the Dameron family

Join the Wake Forest Chamber on October 1 at Heritage Golf Club for our annual golf tournament presented by Hartsfield & Nash Insurance Agency. More than 100 golfers will take to the links for this Captain’s Choice tournament. Bring your coworkers, friends and clients and spend a morning golfing and networking. By playing in our tournament you will also help the chamber raise money for its small business programming, a win-win. The cost to play is $175 per golfer. See the chamber website for the player registration package, all the details and the entry form.

Thursday, Nov. 7, the center will mark the day with its annual Veterans Celebration and the senior center’s anniversary. You are encouraged to sign up early. The Northern Wake Senior Center Quilting Group has made a beautiful queen-sized quilt that will be raffled off at the Nov. 7 celebration. Tickets are $1 each or six for $5. Stop by the senior center to purchase tickets or check with our instructors. You do not need to be present to win. * * * * September is National Senior Center Month! Senior Centers are the key to aging well. Join us at the Northern Wake Senior Center for great classes and events and opportunities to advocate for seniors. * * * All Senior Center members receive a detailed calendar of events from Resources for Seniors. Check for changes in the schedules. During the renovation/rebuilding of the Northern Wake Senior Center, activities are

The editor knows there are many readers who do not subscribe to The Wake Forest Gazette and is urging those people to subscribe. There is no charge, but you do get a weekly notice from the editor each Wednesday announcing a weekly update is on line. All you have to do is go to the first page, find the box for subscribe and enter your name and email address. If you have been a subscriber to the Gazette and find you are not receiving weekly notices that the new issue is on line, the problem lies in the software for the paper’s email service, Mailchimp. If a subscriber’s inbasket is full or if there are other reasons why the email would not accept the Gazette notice, it will be listed as bumped. If that condition continues, Mailchimp will list that subscriber as unsubscribed and stop sending notices. To remedy the

Below is a list of groups – and if your group is not included and should be – please send a note with the information to cwpelosi@aol.com. If the information about your group is wrong or out of date, please send a note with the corrections to that same email address. Aren’t we lucky to have so many groups that benefit our town and its resident! *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

*The Wake Forest Farmers Market will be open from 8 a.m. to noon this Saturday, Sept. 14, in the employee parking lot along South Taylor Street behind Wake Forest Town Hall. Local farmers and artisans will have meats, seasonal vegetables, bread, baked good and other local wares for sale. See the market’s Facebook page for information about the vendors and sign up for a weekly notice about the offerings that Saturday. Remember the Wake Forest Farmers Market is unusual in that it is owned by the farmers who sell their wares there. *Monday Night Bingo at The Factory is hosted by the Wake Forest Kiwanis Club in the Mill Room from 7 to 9:30 p.m. every Monday night. All profits support the club’s projects for children. Visit www.wakeforestbingo.com for more information. *Tri-Area Ministry Food Pantry at 149 East Holding Avenue is now open from 9 to 11 a.m. every third