Sponsors are needed for the ninth annual Wake Forest Purple Heart Banquet at 5:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 5, at Richland Creek Community Church. Hosted by the Wake Forest Purple Heart Foundation, the banquet invites the public to help honor those wounded in battle. In addition to Purple Heart Medal recipients and their families, the event is open to all veterans, military families, and the public. Last year’s celebration saluted 60 Purple Heart recipients from around the Triangle. This year’s banquet features retired Army Maj. Gen. Douglas Lanier Carver as keynote speaker and includes the Walk of Honor, entertainment, patriotic tributes, and a catered meal. Sponsors make this tribute possible. Sponsorship levels are Premier ($1,000), Blue ($500), White ($250) and Red ($100). For sponsor details, call Marty Coward at 919-792-0316 or email marty.coward@edwardjones.com. Contributions may be made payable to Wake Forest Purple Heart Foundation, P.O. Box 168, Wake Forest, NC, 27588.

In the movies they do, and that is the premise for the movie to be shown Saturday, June 24, in the Joyner Park amphitheater during the free monthly outdoor movie series hosted by the Wake Forest Parks, Recreation and Cultural Resources Department. Children 12 and younger are invited to bring their favorite stuffed animal. Their parents are encouraged to bring a blanket and/or chairs but are cautioned that alcohol, smoking and unleashed pets are banned in the park. There will be food vendors on site selling snacks and refreshments. Presented by Gladwell Orthodontics, Walters Insurance Agency Inc. and Mosquito Joe of Eastern Wake County, the movie series features a variety of family-friendly movie favorites – comedies, dramas and thrillers – projected on a 26-foot inflatable screen.

Tickets are on sale for the Murder Mystery Dinner Theatre “The Write Way to Commit Murder” on Saturday, July 22, at the Wake Forest Renaissance Centre for the Arts on Brooks Street. If you enjoy the theater intertwined with a good murder mystery, then you’ll love “The Write Way to Commit Murder” performed by the Triangle-based theater troupe It’s A Mystery. It’s A Mystery’s interactive comedy mysteries offer fresh, creative and fun entertainment. The group’s original scripts, played out by talented actors, will challenge your brain and tickle your funny bone! “The Write Way to Commit Murder” will be performed by It’s A Mystery’s professional troupe of seven accomplished actors who will bring to life exciting characters with colorful backgrounds and questionable motives. The sophisticated plot that ensues will provide the audience with clues to help you pin down the perpetrator or perpetrators of a dastardly deed. “The Write Way to Commit

Forest Moon Theater will present “The Curious Savage” Friday through Sunday, June, June 23 through 25, at the Wake Forest Renaissance Centre, 405 Brooks Street. The warm comedy is about sanatorium patients who are saner than people in the outside world. Her children have institutionalized in an attempt to get their hands on the family fortune, but Mrs. Savage has the last laugh. Show times are 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday. Advance tickets are $15 plus tax for adults and $13 plus tax for students and seniors. At the door, tickets are $18 plus tax for adults and $16 plus tax for students and seniors. For more information, visit www.wakeforestrencen.org or call the Renaissance Centre Box Office at 919-435-9458.  

From now through the Fourth, people can buy discount tickets online and in local stores for the usually sold out stadium show and fireworks display. The $5 tickets are available at five for $20 at Wake Forest Area Chamber of Commerce, 305 South White Street The Wake Forest Weekly, 229 East Owen Avenue Aloha Tan, 12223 Hampton Way Drive All About Hair & Nails, 12223 Hampton Way Drive Town & Country Hardware at Gateway Commons, 910 Gateway Commons Circle NC General Stores, 150 South White Street For Old Times Sake Antiques, 223 South White Street Wake Forest Renaissance Centre, 405 Brooks Street. Print out the ticket at home and redeem it on Monday, July 3, for a wristband at the red tent near the main gate at Wake Forest High School’s Trentini Stadium, the site for the stadium show and fireworks display. This will be the 44th year a group