The Center for Bio-Ethical Reform (CBR), a pro-life advocacy group, has notified the Town of Wake Forest that it will display graphic pictures of aborted children in areas around Wake Forest beginning today through Friday, Oct. 23-25, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. According to a letter to the Town from CBR Southeast Operations Director C. Fletcher Armstrong, the group will display abortion photos in two ways: 1) on the sides and back of a box truck driven by CBR employees and volunteers along the streets of Wake Forest and 2) by approximately 20 volunteers standing and holding signs on the sidewalks and public spaces in the vicinity of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, including the following streets: West North Avenue, West South Avenue, North Wingate Street and South Wingate Street. A non-profit, pro-life advocacy and education organization based in Orange County, California, CBR is in no way related to SEBTS.

Last week the Town of Wake Forest published its first quarter 2019 list of capital improvement projects, including future, ongoing and completed projects. It did not include a description of the source of the funding for each project, but they are paid by property tax and other tax revenue, loans, bond issues, county, state and federal agencies. Wake Forest’s debt is well below that amount allowed by the Local Government Commission and the town gets preferential low interest rates when it sells bonds and seeks loans The completed or nearly completed projects that stand out for this summer and fall are the new Joyner Park Community Center at $11,880,930, the almost completed renovation of the Northern Wake Senior Center at $4,861,300, the Holding Park Pool and Playground at $2,9929,000, the close-to-completion remaking of Stadium Drive into a complete street with sidewalks and trails at $10,643,800, and the South White-Owen streetscape

The Birthplace Society meets Sunday. You’re invited By Jennifer Smart, Assistant Director The Wake Forest Historical Museum The Wake Forest College Birthplace Society will hold this year’s annual meeting on Sunday, October 27th from 3 pm to 5 pm—and the public is invited to attend! This wonderful event serves as an opportunity for members of the Society (and anyone else who’s interested) to gather at the Wake Forest Historical Museum for an update on the museum’s operations, budget, and long-range plans—and there’s always something extra! To make the day memorable, we always schedule a special program for our visitors to enjoy, and this year we have noted scholar, poet, and author Emily Herring Wilson, who will discuss her latest book, a memoir about poet A.R. Ammons (WFU ‘49), titled “When I Go Back to My Home Country”: A Remembrance of Archie Ammons. For those not familiar with Ammons’ work, it’s well

The Wake Forest Police Department will host Operation Medicine Drop Saturday, Oct. 26, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. inside the ground floor meeting room of the Wake Forest Town Hall at 301 South Brooks Street. The room is most easily accessed by Town Hall’s Taylor Street entrance. The Wake Forest Police Department offers Operation Medicine Drop as a prescription and over-the-counter medication take-back initiative that promotes proper medication disposal. By providing a safe and secure way for people to get rid of unwanted pills, tablets and other medications, Operation Medicine Drop helps prevent accidental poisonings and drug abuse, while also protecting local rivers and streams. The service is free, anonymous and no questions will be asked. Participants can help law enforcement officials properly identify and sort the medications by disposing expired, unused or unwanted medicine in its original container with the drug label intact. All the medications collected during