*The Wake Forest Farmers Market will be held in Renaissance Plaza on Brooks Street Saturday, Oct. 21, from 8 a.m. to noon. 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.
*The 2017 Wake Forest Dementia Awareness Education Series will conclude Thursday, Oct. 19, with a special movie screening of “Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me.” The free meeting at the Renaissance Centre begins with registration at 5 p.m. See article in this issue for all the details.
*Tri-Area Ministry will host a Stop Hunger Feed Hope dinner and auction to raise money to purchase fresh 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 and WFU alum Kathryn Quigg will speak about the book she wrote with Wake Forest native Garland “Pete” Hendicks, To Any Soldier: A Novel of Vietnam Letters.
*The annual Halloween Spooktacular will be held this year on Thursday, Oct. 16, from 4:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Flaherty Park Community Center on North White Street. It is a free, family-oriented festival for children 12 and younger. See more details in the article in this week’s issue.
*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.
*GoTriangle will ask Wake Forest residents what they want for transit in the next few years at a meeting Wednesday, Nov. 4, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. in the Northern Regional Center on East Holding Avenue.
