Friday Night on White, downtown Wake Forest’s popular outdoor music series, continues with Love Tribe on Friday, Aug. 11. Presented by White Street Brewing Co., Friday Night on White takes place along South White Street in downtown Wake Forest from 6-9 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 during every Friday Night on White. 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. Food and dessert trucks scheduled to participate on Aug. 11 include Baton Rouge Cuisine, Bulkogi, Charlie’s Kabob Grill on Wheels, Cousins Maine Lobster, CockledoodleMoo, Dusty Donuts, Gonza, Kona Ice, Lumpy’s Ice Cream, VFW Chuckwagon, and Virgil’s Jamaica. Event organizers urge anyone planning to attend Friday Night on White to know the

The Wake Forest Renaissance Centre will host the 2017 Wake Forest Home & Garden Show on Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 12-13. Presented by Mitchell Heating & Cooling, the Home & Garden Show will feature over 40 local experts showcasing the latest in home improvement products, services, and features. As an added bonus, this year’s event will also include a Shopping Marketplace with local art, handmade decor and various home products available for purchase. In addition to visiting with local home and garden experts, attendees will have the opportunity to attend free seminars throughout the two-day event and enter a number of prize drawings. Admission to the Wake Forest Home & Garden Show is free and open to the public. In lieu of an admission charge, attendees are encouraged to jumpstart their “fall cleaning” by bringing clothing donations for Note in the Pocket. Note in the Pocket is a local non-profit organization that provides

Spend an evening in Wake Forest with family and friends and enjoy some foot-tapping, finger-snapping good times during the 2017 Concerts in the Park at E. Carroll Joyner Park, 701 Harris Road. Diali Cissokho and Austin McCall will perform the first Concert in the Park on Sunday, Aug. 6, while the second will feature The Piney Woods Boys on Sunday, Sept. 3. Free and open to the entire community, both performances are scheduled from 5 to 7 p.m. Diali Keba Cissokho is a renowned kora player and percussionist from the Casamance region of Senegal. Diali moved to the United States after years of performing and teaching in Senegal and in Europe. Born into a rich ancestry of Manding griots (the musician caste), Diali has been playing traditional West African music for as long as he can remember. Diali’s greatest love is the kora, the 21-stringed African harp-lute that is at the

Area residents are invited to the 21st Wake Forest Memorial Flag-Raising Ceremony on Monday, Aug. 7, at 11 a.m. The program will take place in Centennial Plaza, in front of the Wake Forest Town Hall at 301 Brooks Street. The Aug. 7 service will honor Robert King Raymond, who served his nation in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War. Members of Raymond’s family will participate in the ceremony, which will include patriotic songs, special remarks, a memorial wreath laying and the ceremonial flag-raising. Following the raising of the American flag, the U.S. Army service flag will be raised in recognition of the military branch in which Raymond served. Both flags will fly in Centennial Plaza throughout August. Photographs and other remembrances of Raymond will also be displayed in Centennial Plaza during the ceremony, then in the Town Hall lobby through the end of August. Presented by several local veterans’

Tickets are now on sale for the ninth annual Purple Heart Banquet on Saturday, Aug. 5, at 5:30 p.m. 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 at Richland Creek Community Church is open to all veterans, military families, and the public. Tickets are only $20 (free to WWII and Korean War veterans) and may be ordered online at www.WakeForestPurpleHeartFoundation.org, by email at info@WakeForestPurpleHeartFoundation.org, or by calling 919-760-3520. 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 details,