The Jim Allen Group presents the 14th Annual Gobbler’s Run 5K on November 28. With all proceeds benefiting the Wake Forest Boys & Girls Club, this family-friendly Thanksgiving Day event is a great way to bring families together and support the community. The 3.1 mile loop is an easy stroll through downtown and historic Wake Forest. Push your kids or bring your dog – strollers and pets are welcome. You’ll get a race T-shirt and be able to eat more turkey without the guilt! The 5K race will start and finish at the Boys & Girls Club at 325 South Wingate Street in Wake Forest. The course is mostly flat, looping through the historic residential and business districts. There will be one water stop at the half-way point located on North Main Street. You can view a course map on our website. The Gobbler’s Run is capped at 2,300 runners this year.  Register early

Builders pulled permits for 64 new Wake Forest homes in September, 53 single-family houses and 11 townhouses. All those people who have been asking about Planet Fitness will be pleased to know Wake Forest Investments in Raleigh has approved plans to build a shopping center shell on 4.5 acres it owns at the end of Wrigley Drive. To reach it, when it is complete, you will turn into the Harris Crossing shopping center off Harris Road onto Wallridge Drive, keep to the right and Wrigley Drive will be your first left. They are planning a 20,256-square-foot building backing up to Capital Boulevard. The engineers are Bartlett Engineering & Surveying. A second lot of 2.6 acres, a triangle with a curved hypotenuse, will be for future development. The only other commercial building is an amenity center for the Kitchin Farms subdivision on Tubberson Trail although the McDonald’s on Durham Road does

Business After Hours is the Wake Forest Area Chamber of Commerce’s popular monthly event that provides quality networking opportunities for our members and a great marketing opportunity for your business. We are currently seeking hosts and locations for 2020. If you would like to be one of our hosts, download our host application today! The application includes all of the guidelines, FAQs, and the application form. Forms must be submitted by the end of this week. Questions? Contact Carol Fekaris. * * * * The Wake Forest Area Chamber of Commerce’s annual Sporting Clays Tournament and Oyster Roast will be held from noon to 5 p.m. on Nov. 7 at Rose Hill Plantation. Entrance fees are $125 for participants, $30 for spectators. Check with the chamber for more details. * * * * Join some of Wake Forest’s most fabulous women professionals for the Women’s Business Alliance Social on Thursday, November 14, from 5:30

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. * * * * 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 spread across Wake Forest in public buildings and churches. The office is in The Lodge of Wake Forest on South Main Street. * * * * The renovations at the Northern Wake Senior Center at 235

The Wake Forest Gazette has been a reliable source of information about the town of Wake Forest since 2003. The free online weekly newspaper is always available at www.wakeforestgazette.com. The Gazette is the only Wake Forest newspaper consistently offering news about the Wake Forest Board of Commissioners and Planning Board, events in town, calendar, obituaries and a list of community organizations and meeting times. There are also articles about town history, opinion from readers and once in a while we even print recipes. The Gazette currently has 1,500 subscribers and 1,500 people who read it without subscribing, reaching a substantial number of area residents. The advertising rate for the Gazette is $100 per month. There are no charges for obituaries or any news. If you want to advertise, please email or call the editor, Carol W. Pelosi, at cwpelosi@aol.com or 919-556-3409. #

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

*The Wake Forest Farmers Market will be open from 10 a.m. to noon this Saturday, Nov. 9, 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