The Hope House Back to School event will be held Saturday, August 12, 2023, from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at 334 North Allen Road. Along with the Bookbag and School Supplies Giveaway, there will be a food giveaway, vision screening for children and adults and a giveaway of adult readers glasses and sunglasses. ###
The Wake Forest Optimist Club will present the third annual Kars for Kids Charity Car Show on Saturday, September 16, 2023, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at The Market of Wake Forest shopping center located at Business 98 and Capitol Boulevard. This is a fun family friendly event and admission is free to spectators. Cars displayed and judged must pay a $20 registration fee. Antique, Pony, Trucks, Muscle, Rods, and Custom cars and trucks will be on display. Everything from mild to wild – vintage to modern. The Grand Sponsor of Kars for Kids is Ted Wilder Agency State Farm Insurance. Mr. Wilder is also an avid antique car enthusiast and collector. Gold Sponsors are Zapolski Real Estate Property Management Company, Johnson Hyundai of Wake Forest, Charlie’s Kabobs, Wake Forest Dental Arts, Sam’s Xpress Car Wash, Carolina Comfort Air, McCorkle Sign & Awning, LPL Financial/Brooks Andrews, Wake Forest Chick-fil-A.
Below is a list of groups – and if your group is not included and should be – please send a note with the information to cwpelosi@aol.com. If the information about your group is wrong or out of date, please send a note with the corrections to that same email address. Aren’t we lucky to have so many groups that benefit our town and its resident! Last updated on July 1, 2023. *American Legion Post 187 meets the second Thursday at 7 p.m. in the American Legion Hall at 225 East Holding Avenue. The dinner begins at 6 p.m. and costs $5. For information and membership, call Commander Doug Doster at 1-603-660-6948. *American Heritage Girls (AHG) meets at 6:30 p.m. at Hope Lutheran Church on Rogers Road on the second and fourth Thursdays. Get in touch with Amy Minor at chrisnamy34@hotmail.com or see the website, www.hopelutheranwf.org. *The General James Moore
The Town of Wake Forest is engaged in a study of a stormwater utility and is launching a study of its historic downtown that will be concluded a little more than a year from now. During its work session Tuesday evening, they heard about both. Trey Shanks with Freese and Nichols, the firm contracted to work on setting up and operating a stormwater utility, gave an overview of the progress halfway through the study. The firm is using an advisory group for feedback and guidance which meets once a month and has monthly tasks which acquaint the members with different aspects of a utility. The group consists of Mike Almquist, a town planning board member; Nicole Clift, a property manager at Traditions and other sites; Andi Curtis, large business, WakeMed; Juan Montes, McAdams engineer and TCC board member; Nathan Robb, large business, Merritt Properties; Norman Bell, member of Villas HOA
In the spring of last year a man was clearing land south of Nashville, Tennessee for his new house when he unearthed a grave marker – a “ledger” that covered the entire burial – that was inscribed with the name of Dr. Calvin Jones and included his various titles and occupations while a resident of Raleigh, North Carolina – medical doctor, city mayor, general during the War of 1812, newspaper publisher. Curious, the man researched the name and soon was calling Ed Morris, the director of the Wake Forest Historical Museum with its separate Dr. Calvin Jones House, also a museum. It was later learned that around 1950 local descendants saw that the grave was sinking and the original ledger was cracking. They had an identical one created and placed on the grave; the original, all three parts, was dumped in a field. Morris called Jill, a museum board member,
The Town of Wake Forest is pleased to announce that Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Aileen Staples has been promoted to Assistant Town Manager/CFO effective July 1, 2023. As Assistant Town Manager/CFO, Staples will assist Town Manager Kip Padgett with a variety of Town priorities, organizational initiatives, and special projects. She will also oversee the following departments: Finance, Budget, Risk Management, Information Technology, Organizational Performance, and Wake Forest Power. A native of Woodland, NC, Staples served as Wake Forest’s Finance Director from 1991 to 1999, and again from 2001 to 2017 when she was named CFO. During her tenure, Wake Forest has earned AAA bond ratings from all three national credit rating agencies, including Moody’s Investors Service, Standard & Poor’s (S&P), and Fitch Ratings Services. The Town has also received multiple awards for excellence in financial reporting and budgeting. Staples earned a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Meredith College. She is
The Town of Wake Forest and several local veterans’ organizations will continue their monthly flag-raising ceremonies Monday, Aug. 7, at 11 a.m., in Town Hall’s Centennial Plaza, 301 S. Brooks St. The 49th Wake Forest Memorial Flag-Raising Ceremony will honor George W. Nichols-Pulley and his son, George W. Nichols, Jr., both of whom served our nation in the U.S. Army. Members of the Nichols’ family have been invited to participate in the ceremony, which will include patriotic songs, special remarks, a memorial wreath laying, and the ceremonial flag-raising. During the service, the Wake Forest Fire Department Honor Guard will raise the American flag and the U.S. Army service flag in recognition of the military branch in which the Nichols served. Both flags will fly in Centennial Plaza throughout August. Photographs and other remembrances of the Nichols will also be displayed in Centennial Plaza during the ceremony, then in the Town
The Wake Forest Parks, Recreation & Cultural Resources (PRCR) Department will host the fourth and final event in this year’s series of Family Movie Nights at Joyner Park Saturday, Aug. 5, at 8:30 p.m. The featured film will be “Spider-Man: No Way Home.” Free and open to the public, Family Movie Nights feature a variety of family-friendly film favorites and genres, including comedies, dramas, and thrillers, all projected on a 26-foot inflatable movie screen in the park’s amphitheater. Each also includes a movie-related pre-show activity for kids beginning at 7:30 p.m. Food and dessert trucks will also be onsite. Attendees are encouraged to bring a blanket and/or chairs but are reminded that alcohol, smoking, and unleashed pets are prohibited. In the event of rain, Family Movie Night may be canceled. Updates will be posted on the Town website, Nextdoor site, and Facebook page. Smart phone users who have downloaded the
The 14th annual Wake Forest Purple Heart Dinner will be held Saturday evening, August 5, 2023 at Richland Creek Community Church, 3229 Burlington Mills Road, beginning at 5:30 p.m. This year’s guest speaker will be Jessica Dawn Lynch, a teacher and a private in the United States Army who was seriously injured and later captured by Iraqi soldiers during the battle for Nasiriyah on March 23, 2003. She was rescued by United States special operations forces on April 1, the first successful rescue of an American prisoner of war since World War II and the first of a woman soldier. Since the banquet was first held in 2009 in the Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary gymnasium, formerly Gore Gym, the Purple Heart Foundation has honored all the area Purple Heart recipients it can find. Tickets for the banquet are $30 and are available from the Purple Heart board members or at
The Wake Forest Parks, Recreation & Cultural Resources (PRCR) Department will begin accepting 2024 facility rental reservations online Monday, Aug. 7, according to the following rental procedure: 1. Call the facility you wish to rent to confirm availability. 2. Following confirmation, complete the online rental agreement at www.cognitoforms.com/TownOfWakeForestNC1/FacilityRentalAgreement; 3. Once the agreement has been submitted, reviewed, and accepted, you will receive confirmation via email or telephone, followed by an invoice for the rental deposit or full rental fee. 4. Pay rental deposit or full fee via RecDesk. If you do not already have a RecDesk account, set up an account at https://wakeforestnc.recdesk.com/Community/Home; Please Note: Submitting a rental request does not guarantee approval or reserve a date. All requests are considered “tentative” until the entire process has been completed, including payment of the rental deposit or full rental fee. You may also call to check availability and schedule an in-person meeting
