*The Wake Forest Farmers Market has moved to the town employees’ parking lot on Taylor Street behind town hall. The market will be open this Saturday, Sept. 22, from 8 a.m. to noon, if the weather permits. Local farmers and artisans will have meats, seasonal vegetables, bread, baked good and other local wares for sale. See the market’s Facebook page for information about the vendors and sign up for a weekly notice about the offerings that Saturday.
*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.
*“Crimes of the Heart,” a play about three sisters waiting to hear of their grandfather’s death, will be presented Thursday through Friday, Sept. 20-23, at the Wake Forest Renaissance Centre at 405 Brooks Street. See article in this issue for more information.
*Good Neighbor Day has been rescheduled to Saturday, Sept. 22, at E. Carroll Joyner Park on Harris Road. Find out all about it in the article in this issue.
*The Wake Forest CROP Walk will step off at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 23, in front of the Wake Forest Historical Museum and Calvin Jones House at 414 North Main Street. See article in this issue for all particulars.
*The next Food Security Summit will be Monday, Sept. 24, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Wake Forest Town Hall at 301 Brooks Street.
*Wake Forest Dance Festival is a day-long event that fills E. Carroll Joyner Park with dancers and audiences. See article in this issue for all the information.
*A Community Health Fair will be held Saturday, Sept. 29, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Friendship Chapel Baptist Church at 237 Friendship Chapel Road. It is sponsored by the Chi Rho Omega chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority. See article in this issue for more information.
*Comic Con (mini) sponsored by Play4Life Comics on South White Street will be held Saturday, Sept. 29, at the Wake Forest Renaissance Centre. More details will be available soon.
*National Night Out will be celebrated in Wake Forest on Monday, Oct. 1, from 5 to 7:30 p.m. in the parking lot at the Renaissance Plaza on Brooks Street with a DJ, food and special prizes. Residents, businesses, neighborhood groups and homeowners association are encouraged to show their support for police-community crime prevention partnerships by attending.
*A Blessing of the Animals ceremony will be held at 4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 7, at St. John’s Episcopal Church. Everyone is invited to bring their pet or pets to be individually blessed. See more details in this issue.
*Explore the Heritage of the Ailey Young House on Sunday, Oct. 7, from 3 to 5 p.m. at the Alston-Massenburg Center on North Taylor Street. See all the details in the article in this issue.
*“Etchings in Stone” will be shown at the Wake Forest Renaissance Centre Sunday, Oct. 14 at 6:20 p.m. There will also be a display of Vietnam War memorabilia in the Renaissance Centre Arts Annex. Find the particulars in the article in this issue.
*The Wall that Heals, a three-quarter scale replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., will be displayed in Wake Forest for four days in October, Oct. 18 through 21, in E. Carroll Joyner Park on Harris Road. The Wake Forest Purple Heart Foundation is the sponsor. The wall and the museum will be open for 24 hours each day for the four days. A welcoming ceremony will be held Thursday, Oct. 18, at 4 p.m.
*The annual meeting of the Wake Forest College Birthplace Society will be held Sunday, Oct. 14, from 3 to 5 p.m. in the Wake Forest Historical Museum. The featured speaker will be Michelle Gillespie, the Presidential Endowed Professor of Southern History at Wake Forest University, who will discuss the link between the old campus and the new campus.
*The Wake Forest Literary Festival will be held Friday and Saturday, Oct. 19 and 20, at the Wake Forest Renaissance Centre on Brooks Street. It is sponsored by Page 158 Books on Brooks Street and the Town of Wake Forest. More details will be available soon.
*Stop Hunger Feed Hope dinner, a fund-raising event for Tri-Area Ministry Food Pantry, will be held Friday, Oct. 19, at Wake Forest Presbyterian Church from 4 to 9 p.m. Tickets cost $25 and include entertainment, a door prize raffle ticket and dinner. Send a check to PO Box 1394, Wake Forest, NC 27588 to purchase tickets.
