*The Wake Forest Farmers Market will NOT be open from 10 a.m. to noon this Saturday, May 4, because of the Meet in the Street festival. It will return on Saturday, May 11, in the employee parking lot along South Taylor Street behind Wake Forest Town Hall.
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. Remember the Wake Forest Farmers Market is unusual in that it is owned by the farmers who sell their wares there.
*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.
*Game Night at the Alston-Massenburg Center offers fun every first Friday through Aug. 2. From 6 to 8 p.m. adults 21 and older are invited to go to the center to play different card games, spades, bid whist and more.
*Six Sundays in Spring is a series of free concerts on six consecutive Sundays, April 28 through June 2, in the amphitheater at E. Carroll Joyner Park. Bring the children, friends, a picnic and a blanket and enjoy music by a great selection of groups from 5 to 7 p.m.
*National Day of Prayer Service will be held Thursday, May 2, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Centennial Plaza at 301 South Brooks Street. Area residents are invited to observe the National Day of Prayer at a ceremony where several local pastors will speak as they join in united prayer for our nation, state and community.
*Meet in the Street will fill Wake Forest’s historic downtown for the 39th year from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, May 4. Sponsored by the Wake Forest Area Chamber of Commerce, it offers a day of live entertainment and children’s activities along booths filled with arts and crafts on three streets. There will be multiple entertainment venues and a beer garden.
*The Wake Forest Civitan Spring Plant Sale will be held on Saturday, May 4, in the parking lot of The Forks Cafeteria, 339 South Brooks Street, beginning at 9 a.m.
*Jazz & Juleps on the Terrace will be hosted by Carillon Assisted Living of Wake Forest, 3218 Heritage Trade Drive, on Saturday, May 4, from 2 to 4 p.m. to raise funds for the Wake Forest Renaissance Centre for the Arts. For more information and to RSVP, call 919-701-6965.
*Music at Midday returns to Centennial Plaza on South Brooks Street on Thursday, May 9 and will be there every Thursday through May 30. Bring a lunch or buy one at a local restaurant and enjoy spring weather and good music.
*Friday Night on White on May 10 will feature Sleeping Booty. Weather permitting, which it did not in April, Friday Night on White takes place along South White Street in downtown Wake Forest from 6 to 9 p.m. each second Friday of each month from April through September.
*The Wake Forest Garden Club’s Mad Hatter’s Tea and Garden Tour will be held at the Wake Forest Historical Museum and grounds on Saturday, May 11. Start picking out your fanciest hat, ladies.
*“Southern Soul” performing artist Rissi Palmer will take to the stage at the Wake Forest Renaissance Centre for the Arts Saturday, May 11, at 7:30 p.m.
*The annual Wake Forest Cemetery Tour will be held on Saturday, May 11, from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. It is a free, self-guided tour through the historic cemetery with docents at several graves ready to talk about the lives of those buried there. Free parking is available nearby. There will be more details later.
*The Town of Wake Forest will host a Comprehensive Transportation Plan public information meeting on Thursday, May 16, from 4 to 7 p.m. at the Wake Forest Renaissance Centre, 405 South Brooks Street.
The meeting will have an informal, open house-style format, so there will not be a formal presentation. Attendees may arrive any time between 4 and 7 p.m. to share comments and ask questions.
*Family Movie Nights at Joyner Park will begin at 8:30 p.m. on Saturday, May 25 with a free monthly outdoor movie showing and continue through August. The movies will be announced later.
*As part of National Trails Day, the Greenways Advisory Board will host a family-friendly 5K race on Saturday, June 1, at E. Carroll Joyner Park, 701 Harris Road. Check-in on the day of the race starts at 7 a.m., and the race begins at 8 a.m. See more information in this issue.
