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👋 Good morning, Apex! Today is Thursday, April 10, 2025 and this is the 14th 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

⏪️ ICYMI: A few things worth mentioning again, just in case you missed it

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

Intro:

As always, I really appreciate you subscribing to The Peak Weekly and taking a little time out of your day to read through the email.

It’s been an unusually action-packed few weeks here.

I don’t usually include images or photos in these emails. But today you get a brief little photo dump of my last few weeks 📸 (just scroll past it if you’re not interested and want to get straight to the good stuff)

Two weekends ago, we visited my mom down in Charleston, SC. And then last weekend, we spend a few days in Charlotte.

If you’ve been a subscriber for a while, you know that I love bees. In fact, my own personal colony of bees arrives next month!

So, naturally, while in the Charleston area, we made a visit to the 🐝 Bee City Zoo!

Well…they didn’t have any bees lol (they all swarmed due to recent weather) but they did have a bunch of other cool animals. And I got to take this photo in a giant chair (this is a teaser photo for my upcoming picture in a bee suit)…

While in Charlotte, we visited the Sullenberger Aviation Museum. If you’re in to that sort of thing, it was super cool. We got to see the actual “Miracle on the Hudson” plane and a lot of other really cool aircraft. Even got to sit in the cockpit of a few planes and fighter jets. It’s awesome ✈️ 

Photo of me repping the Apex Outfitters tee and pretending to be a pilot:

Shout out to all of my kids who pretended like they also thought it was cool and only made fun of me a little bit for nerding out over the old planes:

Feels good to be back home in Apex, though. There’s no place like The Peak!

This week, my sister and her family are in town visiting from Indy. So we’ve had a lot of fun showing them around town and catching up.

With that said, I’ve been on a little bit of a time crunch getting this week’s email together, but hopefully it doesn’t disappoint.

This week, the big news is of course the Peak City Pig Fest. But also a lot of other cool stuff going on like the Boutique Crawl, The Studio’s Garden Party celebrating their 1-year anniversary (go see them if you haven’t - they are cool people 😎 ), Vinyl Night at Southern Peak which sounds awesome (I’ll be there!) - and a lot more!

And, of course, don’t forget the Farmer’s Market is now on its spring schedule starting at 8am.

We’re headed to Wilmington on Saturday with my sister, brother-in-law, niece and nephew… so I’ll be missing it for the 3rd week in a row. But we’ll be there next Saturday and someone better have a shopping cart ready for me because I need to stock up!

Enjoy your week and please reach out to me if you have any ideas for next week’s newsletter. I sincerely appreciate you 🫶 

Miscellaneous:

🚑️ Adopt, Don’t Shop
The Apex Police Department Communications Center will celebrate National Public Safety Telecommunications Week from April 13 to 19. And you can adopt a dispatcher!

🚯 Spring Litter Sweep
The 2025 Spring Litter Sweep is taking place from April 12-26​.​ Litter Sweep is the N.C. Department of Transportation’s biannual statewide roadside litter removal initiative. Residents throughout the state participate in local efforts to help clean up North Carolina's roadways. 

🤔 Think You Can Volunteer?
There are still spots open for Think Apex Day volunteer activities. Register and learn more about each activity here.

🪴 Apex HS FFA Plant Sale Opens Today
Doors open at 9am today for in-person sales. Hanging baskets, annuals, perennials, vegetables, & house plants. Today through Saturday. See more here.

Things to Do This Week in Apex:

Friday, April 11

🐷 Peak City Pig Fest
5pm - 10pm | Town Hall Campus

🛍️ Boutique Crawl
3pm - 8pm | Downtown Apex

📀 Vinyl Night
5pm - 8pm | Southern Peak Brewery
 

Saturday, April 12

🧑‍🌾 Apex Farmers Market
8am - 12pm | The Depot

💐 Garden Party: The Studio’s 1st Birthday 🎂 
10am - 3pm | The Studio

🐇 Spring Fling
10am - 12pm | Apex High (Parking Lot)

🪨 ROCKin’ Geology Party
10:30am - 2pm | Crowder Park

🐷 Peak City Pig Fest
11am - 9pm | Town Hall Campus

Wednesday, April 16

🎬️ Morning Movie (Mufasa)
10am - 12pm | Halle Cultural Arts

Things to Do This Week Nearby:

April 10 - May 15, 2025
Town of Fuquay-Varina Concert Series
6:30pm - 9:30pm | Centennial Square (Fuquay)

Friday, April 11, 2025
Guided Nature Walk
10am - 12pm | Hemlock Bluffs Nature Preserve (Cary)

Saturday, April 12, 2025
Tacos ‘N Taps Festival
12pm - 5pm | Koka Booth Amphitheatre (Cary)

Local Business: Sweetwater Edition

I reached out to the folks over at Sweetwater to get an update on everything going on there. And thanks to my new friend, Katie, I got the scoop and wanted to share that with you.

🏬 Businesses Already Open in Sweetwater:

Sweetwater Dental
Fratelli's Delicatessen
Lightbridge Academy
Duke Health
Harris Teeter
5/3 Bank

🌮 Next Business to Open

Mi Cancun - estimated to open within the next 2 weeks

🔜 Opening by Late Spring

Club Pilates
Black Diamond Chiropractic
Mama Bird’s Ice Cream
Bless Your Heart Boutique

☀️ Coming This Summer

Prepaze Academy
Kaara Modern Indian Bistro
Taki Sushi
Royal Nail Bar
Burney’s Sweets & More
Peace, Love & Little Donuts
Al’s Burger Shack
Chun Yang Tea
Greek Kouzina
Danielle Marie Hair Co
Southern Peak Brewery
SoBol
Kim's Yong-In Martial Arts
Aqua Vitae
Papa Johns
The UPS Store

🗞️ Other Sweetwater News

Sweetwater has an Event Coordinator starting next week. Stay tuned for information around fun events coming to the community.

One and two-bedroom apartments are available now for move-in. You can view floorplans and schedule a tour here.

Civil News:

🚰 1.5 Million Gallons of Water
The Town’s 4th water tower is currently under construction. It’s 219 feet tall and holds 1.5M gallons. Random fact because I was curious: the average person drinks 10,000 - 15,000 gallons of water in their lifetime. It would take you 1,000 lifetimes to drink all the water in the new tower. Anyway, check it out here.

🏠️ Tunstall House Update
While the bidding process on the Tunstall House hit a bit of a reset, we still need to figure out just exactly how the Tunstall House can be used. Personally, I think it should be a Peak Weekly office building. See some other ideas and share your ideas here.

🗓️ Important Upcoming Dates

Thursday, April 10
Rules Committee Meeting
9am - 11am | Town Hall

Thursday, April 10
Housing Plan Update - Public Engagement Workshop
5pm - 7pm | Apex Senior Center

Monday, April 14
Planning Board Meeting
4:30pm | Town Hall

Tuesday, April 15
Town Council Work Session - 
FY26 Manager's Recommended Budget Presentation
3:30pm | Town Hall

Tuesday, April 15
Board of Adjustment Meeting
6pm | Town Hall

Wednesday, April 16
Learning Lunch: Earth Day
12pm - 1pm | Apex Senior Center

Animal of the Week:

Look at that face 🥹 Velma is a 3-year-old mixed breed female currently in a foster home with Peak Lab Rescue.

See Velma and other pups looking for their forever home here.

A Look Ahead:

April 22, 2025
Grand Opening - A Huenique Barbershop & Parlour
12pm - 1pm | 100 W. Chatham

April 26, 2025
Apex EarthFest
12pm - 4pm | Town Hall Campus

April 26, 2025
Think Apex Day
Various Times & Locations

April 26, 2025
Seed Swap
2pm - 2:45pm | The Peak Church

May 3, 2025
PeakFest
9am - 5pm | Downtown Apex

In Case You Missed it

🔭 NC Science Festival - All of April
Produced by Morehead Planetarium Science Center, there are a whole bunch of things going on throughout April from Critter Tracks at Jordan Lake to Science in the Spillway at Bond Park, to a Star Party on the Tabacco Trail in Apex and much more. See all of their events taking place within a 10 mile radius of Apex here.

⚽️ Parks & Rec Program Guide
The Parks & Rec summer program guides have been released and summer program registration is now open! View the Guide Here

🍺 Social District Update
The current proposal is for a 7-day-a-week social district from 11am to 10pm. Final adoption is on schedule for May, with implementation in June or July. See the updated draft 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. 😘