Aug. 23 - TryBoro Kids Triathlon The TryBoro Kids Triathlon at Sports*Com (2310 Memorial Blvd.) provides a unique endurance event that includes swimming, biking and running on a safe and closed course. Each child will be professionally timed and will receive a quality shirt and finisher’s medal. Admission is $25 through July 23 and $30 afterwards. For more information, call (615) 895-5040 or visit tryborokidstri.org.

Saturdays
Local Farmers Markets
Rutherford County invites you to its Main Street Saturday Market from 8 a.m.–noon every Saturday at the Public Square next to the Rutherford County Courthouse. For more information, call (615) 895-1887 or visit downtownmurfreesboro.com. Also, enjoy local fresh produce, dairy, and meat Saturdays from 8 a.m.–noon at Smyrna Train Depot (Front St.). For more information, please call (615) 330-0516.

Tuesday Nights
Depression Bipolar Support Alliance
Depression Bipolar Support Alliance of Murfreesboro meets Tuesday nights at 7 p.m. at Woodgate Farm Apartment’s Clubhouse (755 St. Andrews Dr.). DBSA is a peer-led support group for anyone dealing with these issues. The event is free. To find out more, visit dbsalliance.org.

Aug. 1
Main Street’s Friday Night Live Concert Series
Enjoy Main Street’s Friday Night Live Concert Series at Murfreesboro Public Square with food vendors and more. Bring your lawn chair and enjoy Rockslide performing from 6:30–9:30 p.m. Admission is free. For more information, please call (615) 895-1887 or visit downtownmurfreesboro.com.

Aug. 1-3
Clarksville Kennel Club Agility Trial
Come out for the Clarksville Kennel Club Agility Trial at Tennessee Livestock Center (1720 Greenland Dr.). For more information, call (931) 648-9276 or visit clarksvillekennelclub.com.

Through Aug. 7
Classes to Become a Foster Parent
For a child, there’s nothing more important than to have a place to call home, a family to love and parents who believe in them. As a foster parent, you can transform the life of a child simply by becoming the first person to have faith in her, the first person to care where he is, or the first person to believe in what she can become. If you have enough love in your heart for a child who desperately needs it, please help a child find the way home. Classes are at the First Baptist Church (200 E. Main St.) each Tuesday and Thursday from 6–9 p.m. with materials and dinner provided. For more information, call (615) 250-7318.

Ongoing through Oct. 31
Rutherford County Habitat for Humanity Cookin’ to Build
The cost of the Cookin’ to Build ticket this year is $20. For the first time ever, The Pottery Place at The Avenue and The Painted Clay Studio in Smyrna are doing a ticket pre-sale for Cookin’ to Build Nov. 1. When you paint a bowl, you have the opportunity to go ahead and purchase your ticket. In doing so, you will be offered the chance to choose your bowl or another painted bowl the morning of the event. There will be a special entry sale from 10:30–11 a.m. for those who purchase their ticket when painting a bowl. Cost to paint is $5 plus tax. Group paintings and offsite paintings are offered. For more information, contact (615) 890-5877, ext. 106 or megan@rchfh.org.

Aug. 9
A Day in the Life of the Ninth Kentucky Infantry, U.S.
Experience the daily life of a soldier and the life of their loved ones at home as the men of the Ninth Kentucky keep to the schedules in General Orders No. 8 from the papers of their very own Marcus Woodcock at Stones River National Battlefield (1563 N. Thompson Ln.). Admission is free. For more information, call (615) 893-9501 or visit nps.gov/stri.

Aug. 9
Sing, Shout, Raise the Roof Concert
First Baptist Church (738 E. Castle St.) hosts a choir concert from 4–7 p.m. to raise money for Rutherford County Area Habitat for Humanity’s House of Faith. Local churches and praise teams will sing for the community. Admission is free. For more information contact angie@rchfh.org or (615) 890-5877 ext 103.

Aug. 9
Pigskin Pre-Game
Blue Raider football invites you to help support its Alumni Legacy Scholarship at Annalee Acres (11000 Highway 99, Rockvale) from 6:30–9:30 p.m. as it kicks off its season. This is a family-friendly event. Admission is $30 per person; ages 12 and under are free. Ticket includes catered food by the Tennessee Pork Producers and Five Senses restaurant, beverages by Mayday Brewery, Stones River Total Beverages, live entertainment and more! RSVP by visiting mtalumni.com or by calling (615) 898-2922 by Aug. 7. For more information, visit facebook.com/annaleeacres.

Aug. 10
MTSU Blue Raider Fan Day
Meet the 2014 Blue Raider football team and see the unveiling of the new uniforms at the annual Fan Day from 2-4 p.m. on Faulkinberry Drive near Alumni Memorial Gym with a free concert by About a Mile and free hot dogs and drinks. Fish Family Fun Zone will be introduced and will take place prior to each home game. Enjoy autographs, inflatables, photo booth, balloon animals, and other family fun. Pick up 2014 football, soccer and volleyball posters, as well as schedule cards, purchase season tickets and more. Textbook Brokers and other sponsors offer giveaways. For more information, visit goblueraiders.com.

Aug. 10
The Ninth Kentucky Infantry, U.S. at Stones River
The Ninth Kentucky Infantry, made up of Unionists from Kentucky and Middle Tennessee, found themselves embroiled in some of the most important moments of the Battle of Stones River. Listen to their story as told by one of their own, Marcus Woodcock, and watch the soldiers demonstrate the fighting skills they used on the battlefield more than 151 years ago at Stones River National Battlefield (1563 N. Thompson Ln.). Admission is free. For more information, call (615) 893-9501.

Aug. 12
Pastoral Counseling Center Luncheon
The 25-year-old Pastoral Counseling Center in First Baptist Church is supported by most downtown churches and some of the larger suburban churches. This fundraiser lunch and silent auction at First Methodist Church, Aug. 12 from 11:30 a.m.–1 p.m., provides funds for support of low cost counseling. All therapists are licensed counselors and counseling in Spanish is offered. For more information, call (615) 796-3366.

Aug. 14
Reception Benefits “YES on 1” Cause
A group of Murfreesboro couples and families have joined forces to encourage voters to vote “Yes” on Amendment 1 this Nov. 4, when Tennesseans will have the opportunity to decide if they would like to insert language into the state’s constitution stating the right to an abortion, and funding for an abortion, are not necessarily protected and provided. The local Yes on 1 event, an informative dessert reception, will be held from 6-7:15 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 14, at The Messick Shed, 4707 Lascassas Pike, Lascassas. Yes on 1 supporters call Tennessee an abortion destination state (“In September of 2000 our State Supreme Court took the power from us to enact reasonable regulations on abortion, except by constitutional amendment, leaving Tennessee with the fewest abortion restrictions of any state in the Southeast. Since that day 14 years ago citizens of our state and our legislators have been working toward the opportunity to amend the Tennessee State Constitution to allow reasonable restrictions,” the event invitation reads). For more information on the group and its efforts, e-mail rutherfordcounty.yeson1@gmail.com or call (615) 496-8837.

Aug. 15—Historic Quilt Trail Tour

Aug. 15
Historic Quilt Trail Tour
The Rutherford County Quilt Trail Tour departs from Lane Agri-Park Community Center at 9 a.m. (315 John R. Rice Blvd.) and visits several historic farms and locations where “barn blocks” (painted quilt patterns) have been hung for all to see by Riverdale High School Art Department students and local artist Billie Jean Summers. Shopping stops include Ferrell Hollow, Readyville Mill and Brown Family Fiber and Iron Works. Cripple Creek Presbyterian Church caters lunch followed by a tour of the historic cemetery. Admission is $25. To find out more information, call (615) 898-7710 or visit rutherford.tennessee.edu.

Aug. 15
Music at the Mill
Top Tier performs at 6:30 p.m. with free music, food vendors and inflatables at Gregory Mill Park (390 Enon Springs Rd.). Admission is free. For more information, call (615) 459-9773 or visit townofsmyrna.org.

Aug. 15
Cannonsburgh Concert Series
Ryan Bizarri performs at Cannonsburgh Village (312 S. Front St.) from 7-9 p.m. Admission is free. For more information, call (615) 890-0355.

Aug. 19–Sept. 5
MTSU Art Alumni Exhibit
MTSU Art Alumni Exhibit is open to all MTSU Department of Art Alumni with current work (produced within the past three years) in graphic design or studio art: ceramics, painting, printmaking and sculpture. Drawing, book arts, letterpress, illustration, animation, video and mixed media that incorporates some aspect of the above categories with new media are also welcome. Open to all alums including art education and art history majors, especially those who graduated 1985-2008. An Alumni Reception will be held from 5-7 p.m. on Aug. 27. For more information, contact (615) 898-5653 or eric.snyder@mtsu.edu.

Aug. 23
TryBoro Kids Triathlon
The TryBoro Kids Triathlon at Sports*Com (2310 Memorial Blvd.) provides a unique endurance event that includes swimming, biking and running on a safe and closed course. Each child will be professionally timed and will receive a quality shirt and finisher’s medal. Admission is $25 through July 23 and $30 afterwards. For more information, call (615) 895-5040 or visit tryborokidstri.org.

Aug. 24
Family Day: Health and Medicine
The Historic Sam Davis Home and Plantation (1399 Sam Davis Road) welcomes you to a Family Day on Aug. 24 from 1-4 p.m. Learn about the many medical advances brought on by the Civil War injuries and its influence on the many inventions and discoveries in health care. Students can explore surgical procedures through reproduction artifacts and bits of herbal lore. Activities include learning how to wrap bandages and more. Historic interpreters also discuss the experiences of Civil War nurses, surgeons, and soldiers. For more information, contact education@samdavishome.org or (615) 459-2341.

Aug. 29–Sept. 1
TN State Cowboy Mounted Shooting Finals
Tennessee State Cowboy Mounted Shooting Finals are at Tennessee Miller Coliseum (304-B W. Thompson Ln.). Admission is free. For more information, call (615) 494-8961 or visit mtsu.edu/tmc.

Aug. 30
First MTSU Home Football Game (MTSU vs. Savannah St.)
Tailgating is a sport in and of itself. No matter where you gather on Gameday, you’ll find the Middle Tennessee campus and our mild Midstate autumns to make for a perfect weekend getaway. Bring the food, games and lawn chairs and let your friends and family keep you entertained until kickoff at Floyd Stadium. For tickets, visit goblueraiders.com or call (888) YES-MTSU.