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Know
in a wink:
If you are one of the many motorists driving in or through
Before you drive, wink and view
live images from
wink is our way of addressing
your traffic concerns, and it’s the name to remember for
Part of Cary’s Advanced Traffic
Management System, wink TV allows you to plan ahead and choose the best
route by providing views from 21 traffic cameras located at key intersections
throughout Cary, with images from two more cameras added later this fall. wink
is also connected to the NC Department of Transportation’s traffic center.
In the coming months, we will launch wink
Web, an interactive Web site that will provide reliable, real-time traffic
information 24 hours a day, including camera images, travel alerts and traffic
flow conditions on the routes you select. While you’re on the road, dynamic
message signs allow us to provide you with on the spot alerts and information
about detours and delays.
Visit the Traffic
Signals section of our Web site at www.townofcary.org
to learn more about wink and our efforts to monitor traffic and keep you
informed.
Citizens
First:
Each day, Town of
Providing our citizens with the best
quality of life has always been at the heart of what we do, and it’s also at
the heart of our newly revamped mission statement.
A diverse group of Town employees from
every department recently worked to revise our Mission
Statement and Statement of Values. Led by Town Manager Bill Coleman, the
group updated the documents drawn up in 1988 to make them more clear, concise,
relevant and memorable.
Our Mission Statement and Statement of
Values serve as the foundation for how we serve our community. We hope you’ll
find our values reflected in everything we do: providing customer service that
is always polite, friendly and responsive and treating everyone with dignity,
respect and fairness.
You can read these documents at www.townofcary.org.
Halloween is (always) on Oct. 31. The Town of
We do invite you to celebrate
Halloween by attending one, or all, of our special-themed programs.
Our annual Safe-N-Sane
celebration, held at Cary Towne Center Mall from
Other Halloween activities include the
Town of Cary’s first annual Haunted House, which will be open on Saturday,
Oct. 28 from 5-9 p.m. at Old Cary Elementary, and a “tricks only” Halloween
Skate Contest from noon to 8 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 29
at Sk8-Cary skate park.
For details on these and other events,
visit www.townofcary.org
or call (919) 469-4061.
Beginning Oct. 31, we will collect loose
leaves twice before Christmas at no charge. Place loose leaves at the curb
by
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Apply now to serve on the Town’s boards and commissions. Applications are being accepted through Dec. 1. For more information, call (919) 319-5408 or visit the Boards and Commissions page at www.townofcary.org.
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Sign up for RDU Update,
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Donate Oct. 26-27; Shop Oct. 28
The
Friends of Hemlock Bluffs will hold its annual yard sale-style fundraiser on
Saturday, Oct. 28 from
Each
year citizens donate household items like toys, small appliances and furniture
for the event. Donate goods on Oct. 26 or Oct. 27 from
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Dancing Under the Stars: Nov. 4
Cary Ballet will host their annual
dinner and fundraiser on Nov. 4 from
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Veteran’s Day: Nov. 10 (observed)
Town offices will close on Friday,
Nov. 10 in observance of Veteran’s Day. Everyone’s trash will be collected
one day earlier that week.
Town offices will close on Thursday,
Nov. 23 and Friday, Nov. 24 in observance of Thanksgiving. Customers who are
picked up on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday will have their trash collected a
day early. Friday customers will be unaffected by the change.
During the week of Nov. 27, yard waste
will not be collected. Instead, Town crews will provide excess garbage
collection.
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Once on this
Applause! Cary Youth Theatre presents Once
on This Island Jr., a Caribbean-flavored musical based on the novel,
“My Love, My Love,” by Rosa Guy. Performances are Nov. 17-18 at
A
Small Change with Big Rewards
Want to cut your risk of dying in a
home fire nearly in half? Make sure your home has a working smoke alarm.
A good practice to follow is to change
the batteries in your smoke alarms when you change your clock back to Standard
Time. This simple act will make sure your smoke alarm is working when you need
it, providing you and your family with the extra seconds necessary to escape
from a fire.
Did
you know the majority of home fires occur between
Don’t
count on it. Smoke can dull your senses, cause loss of consciousness and even
death.
Smoke
alarms are designed to wake you in the event of a fire, but they can only
protect you if they are working. For more on fire
prevention, call (919) 469-4056 or visit www.townofcary.org.
Hang
an Ornament on
Join us as we create the first-ever Town of
We’re inviting schools, businesses,
churches, non-profit organizations and clubs to create an ornament that reflects
the purpose of their organization.
All the ornaments will be hung on the
tree during the official Tree Lighting ceremony on Dec. 2.
For more information, call (919)
469-4061.
If you have an automatic irrigation system, now is the time to winterize
it.
First drain water from your system to
prevent frozen water from cracking the lines and heads. Then either remove or
insulate the backflow preventer and other exposed pipes.
Find out more in the Water
Conservation section at www.townofcary.org
or call (919) 469-4090.
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Friends of the Page-Walker Hotel Historic Preservation Program Series, Oct. 24,
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Gaelic Myths & Mayhem - A Celebration of Halloween through the Ages, Oct. 28,
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Marvelous Music Series: Hunt Family Fiddlers, Nov. 4,
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Applause! Cary Youth Theatre presents Improv Comedy Night, Nov. 4,
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Friends of the Page-Walker Fall Concert Series: Baile Daire, Nov. 5,
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Genealogy Forum, Nov. 9,
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Concert Singers of
Exhibits
Tricia McKellar: Textile and
Digital Collages. Textiles, Oct. 26-Nov. 27, Jordan Hall Arts Center
Gallery. Free. Artist’s reception, Oct. 27,
Fine Arts League of
Joyce Young: Structural and Natural
Studies. Photography. Nov. 1-30,