There will be a special Memorial Day celebration Friday, May 30, at the Northern Wake Senior Center on East Holding Avenue.
At 10 a.m. the Ladies of Valor will present six quilts to three veterans from World War II and three veterans from the Korean War. There will be entertainment and refreshments.
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The Wake Forest Rotary Club is selling tickets to a special benefit concert at 2 p.m. Saturday, June 28, at Wake Forest Baptist Church which will benefit the Tri-Area Ministries Food Pantry. Tickets are $15, $12 for students and seniors.
The concert will feature harpist Jasmine Hogan, an international prize-winning harpist who has won acclaim worldwide as a soloist and performer with orchestras, opera companies and chamber musicians. She was a Rotary Ambassador Scholar to China and won a U.S. Fulbright Award for Chinese music.
See a Wake Forest Rotary Club member for tickets or pay at the door.
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The Wake Forest Parks, Recreation and Cultural Resources Department has sent out a teaser, announcing that there will be a special announcement on Friday, May 30 at 3 p.m. “that is sure to ‘color’ your impression of parks and recreation.”
You can find it on the town’s Facebook page.
Hmm! It is not, surely, that they are adding anything. After all, Director Ruben Wall just added cultural resources – the Renaissance Centre and its staff and programming. Surely that is enough on the plate.
The department already manages 561 acres of parks, open space, natural land and trails that include eight lighted tennis courts, Flaherty Dog Park, the Wake Forest Community House, the Flaherty Park Community Center, Holding Park Pool and more than 50 miles of developed and undeveloped greenway trails.
You cannot overlook all the programs – the ball games for adults and children all year long, the special programs, everything from art to dance to music and story-telling.
We will just have to wait until May 30 to find out.
