Refresh for the New Year Workshop  Friday, January 17 at 10-12 PM  Join us for an engaging workshop focused on building resilience. You will learn helpful techniques and strategies to better handle challenges that may arise this year. At the end of the workshop you will make a unique keepsake that will help you on your journey toward creating a resilient mind.  For ages 16+   Registration requested: bit.ly/WakeForestLibraryEvents   Finding Your Customers in Wake County – Wake Tech Small Business Center  Wednesday, January 22 @ 6:30 – 8 PM  Learn techniques and tools to help identify and find the lifeblood of your small business. Owners and entrepreneurs need to grow or start- either way!  Limited seating. Registration requested: bit.ly/wakebiz   Wake Transit Plan Update  Saturday, January 25 @ 1:30 – 2:30 pm  Wake County is in the process of updating the 2035 Wake Transit Plan, the region’s investment strategy to improve and

There was little development activity in December. The Inspections Department issued permits for 15 single-family homes and seven townhouses. The department also performed pre-occupancy inspections for the following businesses: American Laundromat LLC at 12213 Capital Boulevard Navadhaanya LLC at 12223 Hampton Way Drive, Suite 100 St. John Properties at 1725 Heritage Center Drive, Suite 201 Visible Motorsports LLC at 745 Merritt Capital Drive, Suite 120 ###

Based on the November 2024 Monthly Development Report, WF Planning Updated December 17, 2024  The town keeps a running tally of approved projects with counts of those completed. The best inspections current estimate is that between seven and eight people move to town each day, moving into newly-built houses, townhouses or apartments and a few existing houses that were for sale. Projects under review 1. 418 Jones Dairy Road SP-23-11 is a request by David Williams Sr. to rezone 5.61 acres on the south side of Jones Dairy Road from RH rural holding and LI light industrial to NB-CD conditional neighborhood business to allow construction of two 24,502 square foot buildings side by side, one restaurant and one an office. The plans call for space for a public art statue and seven handicapped parking spaces. The Town Board voted unanimously to approve at their October 15, 2024 meeting. 2. Hawthorne

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 If the information about your group is wrong or out of date, please send a note with the corrections to that same email address.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 residents? *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 Doug Doster at 1-603-660-6948. *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 Daughters of the

Thomas (Tom) Harry Omohundro Greensboro Thomas (Tom) Harry Omohundro passed away peacefully on Sunday, January 12, 2025, at his home in Greensboro, NC. Tom was born in Greensboro on December 21, 1941, to Harry Monroe Omohundro and Inez Hines Omohundro. Tom is preceded in death by his parents. He is survived by his sons Thomas Lyon Omohundro of Sausalito, CA, and Christopher Hines Omohundro (Jennifer) of Greensboro; his three grandchildren Jackie, Ellie, and Oliver; his sister Sue Omohundro Osborne, and her husband Frederick E. Osborne, Jr. of Wake Forest, NC; and eight nieces and nephews who adored their Uncle Tom. Tom graduated from Greensboro Senior High in 1961, then attended East Carolina College just long enough to develop a lifelong love of his Pirates football team. Recognizing that academics were better suited for others, Tom volunteered to serve his country by joining the US Navy. He managed to exit the