All those pleas to permit golf carts on some town streets certainly brought a response. Mayor Vivian Jones asked the N.C. League of Municipalities to give them a list of towns, not resort towns, with cart ordinances and she then called the town mayors.
Tuesday night she raised the subject during the board’s work session and, after a short discussion about how to determine public opinion, Town Manager Kip Padgett would start an online poll Wednesday morning. The board agreed to have the poll results and discuss an ordinance at their May meeting. See? Speaking up politely to your local officials could make change possible.
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Forget Music at Midday in Miller. Because of problems with handicapped accessibility at the park behind town hall, the event had to be moved to Centennial Plaza on Brooks Street in front of town hall. It is now Music at Midday every Thursday through June for an hour beginning at 12:15 p.m. The first Music at Midday will be on May 12 with Drybread Road as the featured musicians, and there will be several food trucks selling lunch and refreshments. The events are sponsored by the Wake Forest Parks, Recreation & Cultural Resources Department and Wake Forest ARTS.
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July 31 will be Wake Forest Night at the Carolina Mudcats stadium near Zebulon. Mayor Vivian Jones said Tuesday night that tickets for Wake Forest residents that night are $7, the game begins at 6 p.m. and “Yes, I do get to throw out the first pitch.”
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The Clancy-Wheeler Funeral Home and Cremation Service on Durham Road in the historic Crenshaw Hall will be opening for business this week.
The owners are Thomas J. Clancy, Jerry Strickland and Andy Wheeler. Clancy and Strickland own Strickland Funeral Home in Louisburg, and Wheeler was formerly with Bright Funeral Home in Wake Forest.
The three announced in September 2015 that they had purchased Crenshaw Hall, the historic home where the Crenshaw-Williams-Jones family lived for 100 years. Most recently it had been an event venue operated by a family member.
See the Sept. 2, 2015 issue of the Gazette or search for Clancy-Wheeler to read the entire article and an earlier article about the history of the house and its owners.
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If you were some of the drivers who were caught the last couple weeks in the backups on South Main Street caused by the Rite-Aid contractor choking off the left-turn lane at Rogers Road, give out a hallelujah to Town Manager Kip Padgett. After Wake Forest police officers told him about the major traffic tie-ups, he spoke to the contractor. “We have asked them to do any further lane closings at night or on the weekend.”
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It appears the Trattatoria Italiano by Bruno at 1248 South Main Street – it used to be The Fig – is about to open but no one has returned phone calls so the opening date and the hours of operation are not known. More later.
