There is a new video honoring the 2016 Wake Forest High School Cougar Football Team, and it is available to everyone on Wake Forest TV Channel 10 and the Town of Wake Forest website.
The Cougars’ championship appearance marked the fourth time in six seasons the team advanced to the finals as the 4AA eastern regional champions. Its 2016 football state title is the first for a Wake County school since 1987.
Featuring interviews with Coach Reggie Lucas and Mayor Vivian Jones, the video tribute includes championship game highlights from the team’s 29-0 victory over Greensboro Page, along with the May 25 championship ring ceremony and Cougar Walk of Champions in downtown Wake Forest.
Produced by Kino Mountain Productions, the five-minute video is now airing several times daily on Wake Forest TV 10 and is available on the Town’s website at www.wakeforestnc.gov/2016-wfhs-football-team-tribute.aspx.
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Tickets for the 44th Wake Forest Fourth of July Celebration’s stadium show and fireworks display will go on sale in June at several locations as well as online at www.WFJuly4th.com. Those print-at-home tickets will be redeemable the day of the event for a wristband at the red tent next to the main gate. There is a special offer: buy four tickets in advance and get a fifth ticket free.
The stadium show and fireworks will be held Monday, July 3, at the Wake Forest High School Trentini Stadium on Stadium Drive. Gates open at 5:30 p.m. and admission is $5 with children 6 and under admitted free.
The activities on Tuesday, July 4, are all free except for the required energy. The day begins with the Children’s Parade on North Main Street with line-up beginning at 10 a.m. and the parade at 10:30. The parade marches around the seminary campus to Holding Park for Art-in-the-Park and Games-in-the-Park.
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Most of Wake Forest can hear the CSX freight trains on the short line through town, and most of us rarely notice the trains as they chug through northward because of the slope from the Neuse River or hustle along on their way south. CSX tells the town there is one train north about 7 p.m. which returns to Raleigh either that night or in the morning, depending on demand with usually a round trip within 24 hours. Why then did I hear one going south last night at 10 and one this morning heading north at 11. There is a great difference in the speed and sound north and south.
The editor is asking volunteers to join her in noticing and writing down every train they hear or see during the next couple weeks and sending the lists on to her. CSX, she knows from experience, is very secretive – and understandably so – about its trains, their schedules, and their customers but they should not be dissembling when talking with town officials. For years the schedule appeared to be a northbound trail around 9 a.m. and a southbound in the afternoon or evening or even 1 to 2 a.m. And it was an open secret downtown that one engineer parked before crossing the Underpass to run to Hardee’s for breakfast.
CSX (then Seaboard) discontinued passenger service on this rail line in the 1970s – same right-of-way as the Raleigh & Gaston Railroad completed in 1840 – tore up tracks and sold the land in Virginia in the 1980s. The line now ends at Norlina.
