An informational town hall meeting about the six constitutional amendments on the Nov. 6 ballot will be held Thursday, Oct. 4, from 6 to 8 p.m. at Friendship Chapel Baptist Church on Friendship Chapel Road. Among those six proposed amendments is one that will require voter ID. Others will weaken the current and future governors, taking away or curtailing their appointment powers.
The town hall meeting is sponsored by the Wake County Voter Education Coalition and the Raleigh Wake Citizens Association.
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Also on Thursday, Oct. 4, is a forum for candidates for Districts 1 and 3 on the Wake County Board of Education. Sponsored by WakeUP Wake County, the forum will be held at Malaby’s Crossroads Missionary Baptist Church at 911 Old Knight Road in Knightdale from 7 to 9 p.m.
Wake Forest is in District 1 and the candidates, none of them an incumbent, are Donald Mial of Raleigh, Heather Scott of Raleigh and Jim Thompson of Wake Forest. The District 3 candidates are Shaun Pollenz of Raleigh and Roxie Cash of Wake Forest. District 3 is south of Wake Forest.
WakeUp Wake County will sponsor only one forum for the candidates for the Wake County Board of Commissioners, and it will be in Raleigh on Tuesday, Oct. 16, from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Raleigh at 3313 Wade Avenue.
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During Tuesday night’s work session, the Wake Forest Town Board approved the new design for the band shelter in the amphitheater at E. Carroll Joyner Park. It is a solid roof supported by four metal columns which stand on rock foundations. The interior of the roof will have a dark blue ceiling with a design reminiscent of a dandelion or fireworks, a design that can be projected onto the floor and participants, a golden glow for some events and bursting fireworks for musical shows.
“I like it. I like it very much,” Mayor Vivian Jones said.
“I was skeptical,” Commissioner Liz Simpers said, but “this is a piece of art that fits in that space. Well done.”
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One of the ways Wake Forest people have for decades tried to help stop hunger locally and worldwide is through the annual CROP Hunger Walk. The results are just in.
There were 202 walkers. The organizers had a goal of raising $10,000 – and the final figure will be a little over $10,000.
