Spring Time & Summer Programs

👋 Good morning, Apex! Today is Thursday, March 20, 2025 and this is the eleventh consecutive weekly issue of The Peak Weekly.

Here is what’s inside today:

📝 Intro: Quick thoughts from yours truly

📂 Miscellaneous: Some town-related notes that didn’t fit anywhere else

🗓️ Things to Do This Week: Events and activities this coming week in and around Apex

🏢 Local Business: The latest in local small business news

🏛️ Civil News: The latest from our local government

🐶 Animal(s) of the Week: Featured animals looking for a good home

☀️ Summer Time: A look at programs and activities for the summer

👀 A Look Ahead: A quick peak at things to know beyond this week

Intro

We did it. We survived the winter!

Happy Spring!!

I’ve had a long, busy week with work. Plus, working on my new garden and prepping for my bees…

I usually start working on this newsletter by Monday at the latest. This week…I am starting Wednesday evening 😬 

So, it’s going to be a late night. I’m a little tired. If this week’s newsletter is a little less exciting than usual, or if you find any typos or if I missed anything, please forgive me. But I will do my best!

And then I’ll make up for it next week with some cool new stuff :)

I hope all of you are doing well. I think I owe a few of you a return email and/or some feedback into ideas you have passed my way. I’ll get caught up on all of that this coming week!

Thank you so much for taking the time each week to read this. It’s been a lot of fun and I’m truly grateful for your support.

Oh, one other thing I wanted to mention… I was invited over to Town Hall on Monday to meet with Jimmy and Brianne with the Community Engagement Division. Super nice people and very passionate about their roles in doing exactly that - engaging with us as a community. It was really cool to connect with them and create that partnership to help spread the word on the cool things they are doing.

They have a lot of really neat things going on and if you have a minute, learn more about them here.

Miscellaneous:

💭 Think Apex Day
Registration is now open for Think Apex Day - our town’s annual day of community service. This year, there are eight opportunities to give back to the community.

🏬 The Henley Apartments
Work has began on a 370-unit apartment complex near Beaver Creek. Expected completion by late 2026 and will have one, two, and three-bedroom apartments ranging from $1k-$4k/mo.

🪪 Are You Even Real?
Reminder: you’ll need a REAL ID-compliant driver’s license or ID card to board domestic flights and access certain federal facilities beginning May 7, 2025.

🪖 Military Appreciation Month
House Bill 35 passed the House with a 118-0 vote which would officially recognize November as Military Appreciation Month. The vote is now headed to the state Senate.

🍫 Dubai Chocolate
So, Dubai Chocolate Bars went viral recently. If you’re in to that sort of thing, they have them at Common Grounds. But if I were you, I’d grab the blueberry white chocolate chip cookie from there. I’m not a cookie person but it might be the single greatest thing ever made.

Things to Do This Week in Apex:

Thursday, March 20

🤣 Salem Street Comedy Night
8pm | Oaklyn Springs Apex

Friday, March 21 - Sunday, March 23

🎭️ LITE Theatre
7pm - 9pm | Halle Cultural Arts

Saturday, March 22

🧑‍🌾 Apex Farmers Market
9am - 12pm | The Depot

🚶 Parkinson’s Community Walk
9am | Apex Community Park

🎮️ GameMakers Showcase
12pm - 2:30pm | Apex Senior Center

🍕 Kids Night Out! Blacklight Painting & Pizza
6pm - 9pm | Wine & Design

Things to Do This Week Nearby:

🛍️ Cary Night Market
Friday, 5pm-9pm | Downtown Cary park (Cary)

🛼 Peak Skates Pop-Up Roller Skate Jam
Saturday, 1pm-4pm | Sport HQ (Cary)

Local Business:

👗 Villa19 Relocating to Cary
After seven years in downtown Apex (219 N Salem), the women’s boutique is relocating to Cary, citing cost of rent increases and the parking lot project.

🥧 Fish and Pie
I mentioned last week that Cape Fear Seafood Company is coming to MacGregor Square (technically Cary, but basically Apex - near the Costco). Coming soon to the same area is Paul & Jack Bakery.

🚪 pOpshelf Closing
Dollar General, who owns PopShelf, announced it will be closing 141 stores between the two brands nationwide. That includes the PopShelf in Beaver Creek. I heard everything in the store is currently 50% off, but have not confirmed that.

💪 BFT
Body Fit Training, described as ‘Group strength training’, is opening soon at 1451 Richardson Road, Suite 117.

Spotlight:

No theme this week… so just want to shout out an awesome local business that I love.

Rudy’s Pub & Grill
780 W Williams St.
On the other side of Apex Peakway from JD’s Tavern (who I previously highlighted and love) is a fairly similar pub, Rudy’s. Consistently great food and service.

I always get the 🥩 Steak N Fries. I swear most steak houses don’t even cook Medium Rare correctly (always overcooked), but whoever is in that kitchen at Rudy’s nails it every time.

And then you have to get the KBO sauce to dip your fries. It’s a wing sauce but it’s amazing on everything.

Plus, they have all day brunch on the weekends and open at 8:30am. The food is great and the Bloody Mary’s are top notch.

And if that’s not enough - trivia every Tuesday at 8pm, music bingo every Wednesday at 7:30, poker every Thursday & Sunday, karaoke every Saturday. And, the one and only, 🪄 Dan the Magic Man every Thursday from 6-8pm.

Stop in and tell them Adam sent you! They’ll have no idea what that means.

By the way - thank you to all of you that took my recommendation to go see Farmer Ian (McGibney Farms) at the Farmer’s Market a few weeks back, and for telling him that the newsletter sent you. When I spoke with him the following week, he was udderly 🐄 confused. But then I showed him the newsletter and he was very appreciative :)

Civil News:

🍱 Have Lunch with the Town Manager
Today @ 12:00pm | Apex Senior Center
Community members are invited to bring their lunch and join Town Manager, Randy Vosburg, to learn firsthand about his vision for Apex’s future during the Q1 Brown Bags to Building Bridges Series.

🧾 Two-Year Revaluation Cycle
Wake County is the first county in the state to move to a two-year revaluation cycle hoping to reduce ‘property tax sticker shock’.

🗓️ Important Upcoming Dates

Thursday, March 20
Planning Committee Meeting
9am - 11am | Town Hall

Thursday, March 20
Environmental Advisory Board Meeting
6pm | Town Hall

Tuesday, March 25
Regular Town Council Meeting
6pm | Town Hall

Wednesday, March 26
Parks, Recreation, and Cultural Resources Advisory Commission Meeting
6pm | Town Hall

Animal(s) of the Week:

If I told you that it’s my birthday today (it’s not) would you please gift Conway to me?!

Go see all the available dogs at Peak Lab Rescue in Apex.

A Look Ahead:

March 29, 2025
Street Hockey Rinks Grand Opening
TBD | Apex Community Park

April 5, 2025
Farmers Market - Traditional Season Opening Day
(Live music and kids activities!)
8am - Noon | The Depot

April 5, 2025
Holi Celebration 
2pm - 6pm | Salem Middle School

April 5, 2025
Fest in the West
11am - 5pm | Mills Park (Cary)

April 8, 2025
UltiMutt Dog Egg Hunt
6pm & 6:45pm | Apex Nature Park

April 11-12, 2025
Peak City Pig Fest | Town Hall Campus

April 10 - May 15
Town of Fuquay-Varina Concert Series
6:30 - 9:30pm | Centennial Square

Summer Time

This is a new section for The Peak Weekly.

In the coming weeks, I’ll use this part of the newsletter to share information around summer activities, programs, camps, and more.

But for now, the Parks & Rec summer program guides have been released and summer program registration is now open!

View the Summer 2025 Program Guide Here

View the Summer Senior Program Guide Here

A Final Note:

Thank you for taking time out of your day today to read this week’s edition of The Peak Weekly.

If you have any ideas of how to make this better, want to nominate a local business or organization to be featured, or anything else, please respond to this email or email me directly at [email protected]

See you next Thursday. 😘