In September the town’s Design Review Board met and approved a request by Primax Properties for its proposed Rite-Aid it wants to build at 2811 Rogers Road. There was no meeting of the Technical Review Committee where new projects usually surface. The Rite-Aid site is an empty 1.73-acre site owned by Franklin Village and zoned for highway business.
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The Wake Forest Lions Club will hold a Pre-Thanksgiving Food Drive to benefit Tri-Area Ministry on Saturday, Nov. 14, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in front of the Wake Forest Wal-Mart on South Main Street. Non-perishable food items and money (cash or checks) will be accepted. Club members will pass out a list of the most needed items at the ministry, which is on East Holding Avenue.
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A garage sale on Saturday will help build schools for orphans in Haiti and Peru. It is Garage Sale 4 Orphans, Oct. 24 from 7 a.m. to noon at 7429 Matherly Drive off Jenkins Road.
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If you have been reading the Gazette and the Wake Forest Weekly lately, you may have noticed that organization after organization holding events or ongoing projects to benefit Tri-Area Ministry, Backpack Buddies in many local schools and other hunger-fighting groups. Coming up are an event sponsored by the Lions Club and the CROP Walk, which benefits Tri-Area and goes to help relieve hunger around the world. Help all the groups keep the good work going.
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A thought while listening to Jennifer Ralls, the town’s urban forestry coordinator, speak about the plans the Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary has to become one of the first winning Tree Campus USA. It is an ambitious project with a lot of work locally, and it would have made former Wake Forest College President Charles E. Taylor and “Doctor” Tom Jeffreys very proud that others are continuing their work.
Alas, Hurricane Fran in the fall of 1996 was a deadly lumberjack, felling dozens of beautiful trees on the campus, which resembled a sawmill’s holding yard in the days afterward.
A second thought. What ever happened to the swath of daffodils that used to brighten an open sunny patch of grass on the northern end of the campus?
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SING-WF.com, the Senior Information & Networking Group of Wake Forest, will hold its first group meeting Friday, Oct. 30, from 9 to 10 a.m. Wake Forest Town Manager Kip Padgett will talk about the existing and future plans which impact the senior industry and population. The meeting will be at Carillon Assisted Living, 3218 Heritage Trade Drive. To register, which is required, go to info@sing-wf.com or call 919-556-3706.
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The Kaiser Foundation has just published a report which found that the states that have refused to extend Medicaid to all eligible people are now paying more. It is hard to support a General Assembly and governor who will deny much needed medical insurance to 300,000 men, women and children just because they are opposed to President Obama. Maybe if it had been called Romneycare they could accept it.
