*The Wake Forest Farmers Market will be held in Renaissance Plaza on Brooks Street Saturday, Sept. 23, from 8 a.m. See the market’s Facebook page for vendors for the market.
*Monday Night Bingo at The Factory is hosted by the Wake Forest Kiwanis Club in the Mill Room from 7 to 9:30 p.m. every Monday night. All profits support the club’s projects for children. Visit www.wakeforestbingo.com for more information.
*Tri-Area Ministry Food Pantry at 149 East Holding Avenue is now open from 9 to 11 a.m. every third Saturday along with its regular hours on Mondays and Wednesdays from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. for food distribution. It serves about 700 families in Wake Forest, Youngsville, Rolesville and their surrounding areas. Call 919-556-7144 for information about receiving food, volunteering and donations. You can send donations to Tri-Area at PO Box 1394, Wake Forest NC 27588.
*Hope House Weekly Food Pantry distributes food at 1 p.m. every Thursday. Hope House volunteers pick up the food from the Food Bank of Eastern and Central North Carolina and the house typically has vegetables, fruits, salad packages and breads but sometimes does have meat, eggs, fruit juice and milk. Hope House is at 334 North Allen Road. For more information, call Norma Bennekin at 919-263-1007.
*Music at Midday every Thursday from noon to 1 p.m. in Centennial Plaza in front of the Wake Forest Town Hall continues through Sept. 28. The performer for Sept. 21 has not been announced, but Loos Change will entertain on Sept. 28.
*California Suite by Neil Simon will be presented by the Forest Moon Theater in the Renaissance Centre over two weekends, Sept. 15-17 and Sept. 22-24. Tickets are $15 adult, $13 student/senior in advance; $18 adult and $16 student/senior at the door.
*The Wake Forest Historical Museum on North Main Street will have special museum hours on Saturday, Sept. 23, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., joining Smithsonian magazine’s annual Museum Day Live. Join the fun; enjoy the exhibits and the beautiful grounds.
*The fifth annual Dirty Dogs Pet Extravaganza 2017 will be held on the grounds of CenturyLink – on the west side of Capital Boulevard just over the Franklin County line – on Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 23 and 24. See article in this edition.
*The Irish music festival, Feis in the Forest, will be held Saturday, Sept. 23, from 3 to 10 p.m. along Taylor Street behind the Wake Forest Town Hall. For more information, go to raleighirishfestival.com.
*Wake Forest’s annual CROP Hunger Walk, the 38th, will be held this year on Sunday, Sept. 24, beginning at 2 p.m. Of the money raised b the 1.5-mile walk through the North Main Street Historic District, 25 percent will go to Tri-Area Ministry here and 75 percent will go to provide programs in the United States and around the world to fight poverty and provide disaster relief.
*Wake Forest Dance Festival, the Triangle’s first outdoor dance festival, is planned for Sept. 30, 2017, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. at E. Carroll Joyner Park on Harris Road. Free and family-friendly, the inaugural event will feature national and regional professional dancers, as well as local rising advanced performers.
*A Wake Forest Tree Stewards Workshop will be held Saturday, Sept. 30, from 9 a.m. to noon in the Wake Forest Town Hall on Brooks Street. Please see article in this issue about the workshop.
*The Tri-Creek Greenway Crawl will celebrate the opening of 3.7 miles of new trails in the Wake Forest greenway system on Saturday, Sept. 30, beginning at 1 p.m. at the trailhead near Foundation Drive next to Heritage High School on Forestville Road. The new sections are on the Smith, Sanford and Dunn Creek greenways.
*The 25th annual Golf Outing sponsored by the Wake Forest Area Chamber of Commerce will tee off Monday, Oct. 2, at Hasentree Golf Club. The event is limited to 120 golfers. Call the chamber staff to reserve your foursome.
*Coffee with a Cop on Wednesday, Oct. 4, from 7:30 to 10:30 a.m. at the Wake Forest Starbucks, 2815 Rogers Road will also celebrate National Coffee with a Cop Day. Drop by and get your caffeine while chatting with a cop.
*Tri-Area Ministry will host a Stop Hunger Feed Hope dinner and auction to raise money to purchase free produce for the 700 families who rely on the ministry’s food pantry. The dinner and auction will be Friday, Oct. 20, from 5 to 9 p.m. at Wake Forest Presbyterian Church. See article in this issue for more information.
*The Wake Forest College Birthplace Society will hold its annual meeting Sunday, Oct. 22, from 3 to 5 p.m. at the Wake Forest Historical Museum on North Main Street. Wake Forest resident Kathryn Quigg will speak about the book she wrote with Wake Forest native Garland “Pete” Hendicks, To Any Soldier: A Novel of Vietnam Letters.
*A Candidates Forum sponsored by the Wake Forest Area Chamber of Commerce and presented by Wake Electric Membership Corporation will be held Tuesday, Oct. 24, from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Wake Forest Renaissance Center on Brooks Street.
