The Town of Wake Forest will conclude its 2016 Friday Night on White outdoor concert series with Crush on Friday, Sept. 9. Presented by White Street Brewing Company, Friday Night on White takes place along South White Street in downtown Wake Forest from 6 to 9 p.m. on the second Friday night of each month from April through September. Food and refreshments will be available for purchase at several downtown restaurants. A variety of food and dessert trucks will also be on site in the parking lot of Fidelity Bank, 231 S. White St., and along Owen Avenue. Event organizers urge anyone planning to attend Friday Night on White to be aware of the following: No outside coolers are permitted during Friday Night on White, but beer, wine, soft drinks, and water will be available for purchase. All attendees wishing to purchase beer and wine will be required to present

This Thursday, grab a lunch from home or a local restaurant and go to Centennial Plaza in front of town hall for Music at Midday from noon to 1 p.m. The music will be provided by Eugene Taylor and there will be dessert food trucks, including Kona Ice, parked nearby. The weather should be great too. The free music series is sponsored by the Wake Forest Parks, Recreation & Cultural Resources Department and Wake Forest ARTS and will continue every Thursday through Sept. 29. The concert lineup includes Freddy Green on Sept. 8; Mister Felix on Sept. 15; Hope Marasco and Blake Anderson on Sept. 22; and Lee Holt on Sept. 29. For more information, including the complete dessert truck schedule, visit www.wakeforestnc.gov and search “Music at Midday” or contact PRCR Event Coordinator Lisa Jacobs at 919-556-7063 or ljacobs@wakeforestnc.gov.

Time is running out for teachers to apply for two grant programs sponsored by Wake Electric, the Bright Ideas education grant program and the Classroom Technology grant program. The electric cooperative will give out $50,000 this year in Bright Ideas grants. Educators with creative ideas for hands-on classroom projects must submit their application by Sept. 13. Public school teachers in Durham, Franklin, Granville, Johnston, Nash, Vance and Wake counties are eligible to apply. “Since 1994, the Bright Ideas education grant program has provided more than $10.2 million for 9,800 projects benefitting more than two million students across North Carolina,” Darnell Alford, program administrator for Bright Ideas, said. “We are committed to local communities, and we believe there’s no better way to contribute than by investing in the education of our youth.” Wake Electric and North Carolina’s electric cooperatives across the state collectively have allocated close to $600,000 to give to

Cub Scout Packs all over Wake Forest have resumed their weekly meetings for the 2016-2017 year and inviting parents and boys in the first through fifth grades to join us from 7 to 8 p.m. any of three nights each week: Mondays: * Wake Forest Presbyterian Church; Byron Auten; 704-853-9728; cubmaster.pack5wf@gmail.com * Wake Forest United Methodist Church; Gary Itenson; 919-949-6839; garyitenson@gmail.com Tuesdays: * St. Catherine of Siena Catholic Church; Barbara Shephard; 919-802-7887; barbara.shephard@nc.rr.com * LDS Wake Forest Second Ward; Caryn Winterton; 919-556-1912; wintertonzoo@yahoo.com * New Bethel Baptist Church, Rolesville; Rich Ponzio; 919-752-0014; richponzio@live.com Wednesdays: * LDS Falls Lake Ward/Wake Forest First Ward; Jenni Spencer; 208-861-5652; jennispencer10@gmail.com See www.BeAScout.org for additional information. The goals of Scouting are to provide character development, citizenship training, and personal fitness. This 100+ year old program provides a rich feast of learning in stewardship and outdoor skills as well as opportunities to develop positive leadership and

Commuting by rail is a bright shiny new idea these days, part of the much-needed Wake County transit plan that will help knit the Triangle area together, but for almost 70 years businessmen and shoppers in Franklinton, Youngsville and Wake Forest used the regularly scheduled local trains on the Raleigh & Gaston Railroad, later the Seaboard Air Line Railroad to visit Raleigh during the day, return home in the afternoon or evening. The Gazette editor is looking for information about those local trains, sometimes named the Shoo Fly. She has heard people talk about how their parents used the trains and would like to hear your memories. T.H. Pearce’s book, “Franklin County: 1770-1979,” says that in 1905 the Seaboard Air Line Railroad, which had taken over the state’s first railroad, the Raleigh & Gaston, would run a Shoo Fly from Weldon to Raleigh and back every day. We know that