*The Wake Forest Farmers Market will be open from 8 a.m. to noon this Saturday, May 25, 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.
*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.
*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.
*Juneteenth will be celebrated in Wake Forest with a Freedom March that begins at 12:15 at the Gazebo Area of the Alston-Massenburg Center on Saturday, June 22, followed by a celebration from 1 to 4:30 p.m. Please see article in this issue for more details.
