Meals on Wheels weekly menu
Meals on Wheels offers an on-site lunch at noon Mondays, Tuesdays and Fridays to seniors over 60 at the Sweet Home Community Center.
There is a suggested donation of $3.50 per meal. Meals are ordered in advance, and are the same meals as delivered to Meals on Wheels participants.
A menu will always be posted in the senior center’s dining room.
The menu on Friday, April 14, is turkey-apple meatballs with glaze or roast pork with gravy, whipped potatoes, a chef-cut spring vegetable blend, oat bran wheat bread and a lemon blondie.
The menu on Monday, April 17, is a breaded chicken patty with gravy or breaded fish with tartar sauce, scalloped potatoes, a Scandinavian vegetable blend, seven-grain bread and fruited gelatin.
The menu on Tuesday, April 18, is a cheese omelet with sauce or pork-sausage gravy, a San Francisco vegetable blend, garden vegetable salad, a biscuit and apple streusel cake.
For more information, contact Norene at (541) 367-8843.
Arbor Day celebration at Northside Park
Sweet Home’s Arbor Day celebration will take place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, April 15, at Northside Park, 1780 11th Ave.
The free event will include a self-guided park tour, dog parkour, tree plantings and free seedling giveaways, and dog treats (while supplies last) as the city celebrates the opening of its new dog park at Northside.
Blossoms bazaar to bloom in Albany
American Legion Auxiliary Albany Post Unit 10 will hold its annual Spring Blossoms Bazaar Friday and Saturday, April 14 and 15, at its location, 1215 SE Pacific Blvd.
Hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. both days.
The event features crafters, bakers and home-based business representatives.
Students sought for art contest
High school students in Oregon’s Congressional 5th District are invited to submit artwork for the 2023 Congressional Art Competition.
The competition is conducted by members of the U.S. House of Representatives to encourage students to express their artistic talents.
One winner and two runners-up will be announced Monday, May 8.
The winner will receive two round-trip tickets to Washington, D.C., to attend a Congressional reception honoring artwork from across the country.
His or her artwork will also be displayed in the U.S. Capitol for one year. U.S. Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer will display the two other pieces in her district office.
To enter, students should submit no more than two pieces of two-dimensional artwork, along with his or her information and release form, by 5 p.m. Monday, May 1.
Entries can be submitted via email or in-person at Chavez-DeRemer’s Oregon City district office. Email photos of the artwork (as a .jpeg file), along with the student release form, to Rebecca Wright at [email protected].
For more information, email Wright or call (503) 387-8651. Further instructions and rules related to the art piece itself can be found by visiting chavez-deremer.house.gov/services/art-competition.
Old-timers to tell Sodaville stories
Sodaville residents Julie Grunberg and JaDala Doyle will present a program on the city’s history at 3 p.m. Wednesday, May 10, at the Lebanon Public Library, 55 Academy St.
Doyle’s great-grandfather was probably the first white person to taste the mineral water from the town’s famous spring, around which a resort developed. Grunberg became a de facto town historian when she inherited her father’s book of photographs, essays and news clippings.
For more information about this program or about the Lebanon Museum Foundation, call (503) 707-1539 or visit “Lebanon Museum” on Facebook.
Search and Rescue offers program
The Linn County Sheriff Sheriff’s Office is recruiting young men and women ages 14 to 18 to join the Linn County Sheriff’s Office Search and Rescue Team and participate in a 10-day summer training program.
There is an application process that includes oral interviews, a background check and physical aptitude test. Applicants must attend a recruit meeting at the sheriff’s office at 7 p.m. on May 8 to participate.
Applicants will also need to pass the physical aptitude test on either May 13 or May 20.
Accepted applicants will be required to attend the pre-academy meeting on June 12.
For more information about the program contact Emergency Management/SAR Coordinator Ric Lentz at (541) 967-3950 or visit the Linn County Sheriff’s Office website at http://www.linnsheriff.org.