The Wake Forest Parks, Recreation & Cultural Resources Department is seeking sponsors and health and fitness vendors for its third annual “Family Fitness Fair” on Saturday, June 13. The event will take place from 10 a.m. to noon at E. Carroll Joyner Park, 701 Harris Road. The Family Fitness Fair is a fun, family-friendly event offered in conjunction with the National Recreation and Park Association’s “Family Health & Fitness Day” initiative celebrated every year on the second Saturday in June. “This special event promotes the importance of parks and recreation in keeping communities healthy,” parks and rec Director Ruben Wall said. “We support the residents of Wake Forest, and it is our goal to help families become healthier and live a longer life of health, wellness and empowerment by providing opportunities to be more active and make healthier choices.” Free and open to the public, the June 13 Family Fitness

If you love the best in beach music, then don’t miss the Wake Forest Renaissance Centre’s “Summer Beach Music Party” featuring The Chairmen of the Board on Saturday, June 6, at 7:30 p.m. Formed in Detroit, Michigan in the 1960’s, The Chairmen of the Board has been a crowd-pleasing soul and beach music favorite for over 30 years. Best known for such hits as “Give Me Just A Little More Time,” “(You’ve Got me) Dangling on a String,” “Patches,” “Pay to the Piper,” “Carolina Girls,” “Everything is Tuesday,” and “I’d Rather Be in Carolina,” the group was inducted into the North Carolina Music Hall of Fame in 1999.  Advance tickets are on sale for $15 each (plus tax) and going fast. Tickets may be purchased online atwww.wakeforestrencen.org/tickets-events with a Visa, MasterCard, Discover or American Express credit card. Tickets may also be purchased at the Renaissance Centre box office with cash, check or

The Greenways Advisory Board will host a family-friendly 5K race as part of National Trails Day on Saturday, June 6, at E. Carroll Joyner Park, 701 Harris Road. New this year, the day’s festivities will also include a Kids’ 1-Mile Fun Run for ages 12 and under. Online registration for both races is available at http://bit.ly/wfnationaltrailsday. The 5K entry fee is $25 before April 26; $30 before May 24; and $35 through June 6. Everyone who registers before May 24 will receive a race T-shirt. Same-day registrations will be accepted. The Kids’ 1-Mile Fun Run is for children ages 12 and under and the entry fee is $5. All participants who register on or before Sunday, May 10, will receive a 2020 Fun Run medal. The National Trails Day 5K and Fun Run are designed to raise funds to support the maintenance of current greenways and the development of new greenways throughout

Business After Hours in March will be held Thursday, March 19, from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at North State Bank, 14901 Falls of Neuse Road. There will be heavy hors d’ oeuvres by Catering Works, beer, wine and networking with fellow chamber members. * * * * The Wake Forest Area Chamber of Commerce will sponsor the Family Expo for the second year, and it will take place Saturday, March 21, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Richland Creek Community Church. Come and find family-friendly businesses – summer and track-out camps, healthcare and local school options, and extracurricular activities like swim lessons and scouts. Go to the chamber Facebook page for updates. * * * * The Wake Forest Area Chamber Foundation is hosting an old-fashioned CBS Sports Bracket Challenge for the NCAA brackets to raise money for youth leadership development programming. Tickets are $10 each, three for $25,

Get ready to celebrate with the Northern Wake Senior Center when it holds a grand opening on Friday, March 27, from 10 a.m. to noon. There will be speeches, refreshments and tours of the totally new center. Town Manager Kip Padgett approved the donation of the last of the bicentennial history books, about 106 copies of “Connections . . . 100 Years of Wake Forest History,” to the senior center for a fund-raising activity, selling autographed copies of the book for $10 each. They were sold by the town for $20. You can buy the books after the speeches and ribbon-cutting. The proceeds will help the center and Resources for Seniors pay for teachers. You are encouraged to take a class or join a group at the center. There are classes and groups for just about every interest and need, you can join friends at the coffee bar and relax

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

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. Get in touch with Amy Minor at chrisnamy34@hotmail.com or see the website, www.hopelutheranwf.org. *The General James Moore Chapter of the

*The Wake Forest Farmers Market will be open from 10 a.m. to noon this Saturday, March 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 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. every