Local art shows
feature 8×8 pieces
Brownsville Art Association is hosting its annual 8 x 8 Community Art Show through March 28 featuring local artists at 255 N. Main St., Brownsville.
All art is 8×8 inches in size and is reasonably priced.
Art Center winter hours are 1 to 4 p.m. Wednesdays, and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursdays through Saturdays.
The annual community show gives community members the chance to display their work.
Art by members of the Brownsville Art Association is also on display and for sale.
Brownsville’s show is running in conjunction with Gallery Calapooia’s 8×8 show at 222 W. 1st Ave. in Albany.
Nature photos on
exhibit at bank
Lebanon photographer Ken Bolf is displaying a series of photographs through March at Umpqua Bank, 777 Park St., Lebanon.
The display is a mixture of new and recent work, including images of sandhill cranes, bald eagles, a blue heron and a great horned owl. Midway through the exhibit Bolf plans to switch out several of the photographs with black and white images from Crook, Lake, and Grant Counties in Oregon.
Bank hours are 10 a.m. through 5 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays and 10 a.m. through 5:30 p.m. Fridays.
More of Bolf’s photographs can be viewed at http://www.kenbolfphotography.com.
Violinist to play Feb. 20 at library
Violinist and fiddler David Greenberg will perform a free program ranging from baroque to folk from 6 to 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 20, at Sweet Home Library, 1101 13th Ave.
Greenberg has performed for three decades as a baroque violinist and Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, fiddler. His fluency and experience in these two genres make him uniquely qualified to interpret the wild music of 18th-century Scotland, which will be on the program, along with modern tunes.
Greenberg will also perform March 19 at Lebanon Public Library, 55 Academy St.
For more information, contact the library at (541) 258-4926.
Trivia Night for families in B’ville
Bring the kids and put your collective brainpower together at Family Trivia Night, hosted by the Brownsville Library at 6 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 20, at 146 Spaulding Ave. Groups must be six members or less and will work together as a team to come up with their answer and to keep score. The only three rules are: 1) follow library rules, 2) don’t cheat, and 3) have fun.
Groups do not have to be related, and questions are for late elementary through adult – but all family-friendly.
For more information call the Brownsville Community Library at 541.466.5454 or email Librarian Sherri at [email protected]. This event is free and open to all ages.
‘Capper’ comedy on stage in Lebanon
Lebanon Association for Theatre Arts will hold its winter comedy play, “Capper Trap,” from 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday to Saturday, Feb. 20 to 22, and a 2 p.m. matinee performance Saturday, at Lebanon High School’s theater, 1700 S. 5th St.
Madcap capers ensue when crafty criminals pit themselves against a blundering wealthy family. Wanda Winthrop thinks she arranged a marriage between her sons and the twin daughters of the wealthy Von Marks family. Her plan is to con the Von Marks girls to marry her boys so she can keep the dowry, but what she doesn’t know is the Von Marks are actually ex-cons trying to steal from her.
Fast entrances, exits and mistaken identities will make this funny farce keep you guessing. What can go wrong next?
Admission is $5 per person. LAFTA will also accept donations for a new cluster speaker system for the high school auditorium.
LAFTA is running a campaign to raise $44,000 for the cluster speaker system. The project resulted after audience members last summer said the sound/speakers made the show difficult to hear.
For more information, contact Terri at (541) 990-1413.
Ladies Night Out
for B&G Club
The Boys & Girls Club will hold a Ladies Night Out fundraiser from 5:30 to 9 p.m. Friday, Feb. 21, at Boulder Falls Event Center, 505 Mullins Drive, Lebanon.
The event will include a champagne welcome, guest speaker Carmen Ohling, a silent purse auction and fashion show by Tin Roof Boutique, and an art exhibit by girls served by the club.
Cost is $40 in advance or $45 at the door. Tickets can be purchased at http://www.powerof the purses.com.
For more information, contact Shyla at (541) 401-7820.
Bridal show at
Santiam Place hall
Santiam Place Event Hall will host the Lebanon Bridal Show from noon to 5 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 23, at 139 Main St. in Lebanon.
Area professionals will be available to assist with wedding planning and the event will feature Dala’s Blue Angels, a Lebanon nonproft that raises funds for child support services and the prevention of child abuse.
Admission is $5, and proceeds will benefit Dala’s Blue Angels.
Organic gardening
class starts Feb. 26
A free backyard organic gardening class, “The Food Garden,” will be offered in Lebanon and Albany starting Feb. 26.
The six-class series will be taught by Sheryl Casteen, a Master Gardener and retired garlic farmer who manages both Lebanon’s Porter Park Community Garden and the Oregon Veterans Home garden in Lebanon.
All the classes are from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Participants will learn how to grow their own food, why plants don’t grow, soil amendments, plant diseases, pests, predators and nutritional deficiencies. Free seeds will be distributed.
Lebanon classes will be held on Wednesdays, Feb. 26, March 4, 11, 18, 25, and Tuesday, March 31 at Edward C. Allworth Veterans Home, 600 N. 5th St.
Albany classes will be held Thursdays, March 5 through April 9, at Immanuel Lutheran Church, 154 SE Madison St.
Classes include both lecture and hands-on training. To reserve a spot, email [email protected]. A confirmation email will be sent.
NZ cattle expert
to speak at OSU
Dr. Thomas Maxwell from Lincoln University, New Zealand, will present a free program on New Zealand Pasture Systems from 11 a.m. to noon Wednesday, Feb. 26, at at Oldfield Animal Teaching Facility Room 106, 3521 SW Campus Way (corner of 35th Street) in Corvallis.
Maxwell’s research interests are ecology, production and management of pasture, grassland and rangeland systems, with a lens on the sustainable function of grazing lands.
His research work includes hill country pasture production ecology, sown pasture persistence, forage species for reduced nitrate leaching, pasture and forage functional diversity, nutritional ecology of grazing animals, grazing for dual purposes of livestock production and ecosystem function, and testing precision agriculture tools (thermal camera imaging and remote-sensing technology) for pasture yield assessment and management. He will discuss New Zealand pasture system function, current challenges and research.
For information, contact Shelby at (541) 236-3016.
Livestock group dinner, meeting
Linn County Livestock Association will hold its annual meeting and dinner from 5:30 to 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 28, at Brownsville Baptist Church, 27910 Seven Mile Lane, Brownsville.
Dinner costs $10 for adults, $5 for children. Annual dues are $20.
The program includes presentations on and discussion of:
n Predator issues and reports – cameras, cougars, coyotes, eagles (presentation on requirements and forms will be available for FSA reimbursement for eagle losses);
n Wool – market requirements, available buyers, options; and
n New spring forages.
For information and reservations, contact Lynden Brown at (541) 258-8263 or by email at [email protected]. Leave a message if no answer.
Meals on Wheels weekly menu
Meals on Wheels offers lunch at the Sweet Home Community Center to seniors over 60 at noon on Mondays, Tuesdays and Fridays.
The Senior Center serves a separate lunch on Wednesdays.
First-time diners are invited to come in and have a free lunch to give it a try.
Suggested donation is $3.50. All meals are served with milk, coffee or tea upon request and diabetic desserts are available on request.
The menu on Friday, Feb. 21, is white bean chicken chili or vegetable lasagna, tossed salad, herbed carrots, seven grain roll and snickerdoodle bar.
The menu on Monday, Feb. 24, is teriyaki meatballs or garlic chicken, Delmonico potatoes, broccoli, herb bread and hermit bar.
The menu on Tuesday, Oct. 29, is a Mardi Gras special meal of chicken/sausage jambalaya or red beans and rice, succotash, marinated zucchini salad, cracked wheat roll and bread pudding with raisins.
Volunteers are needed for both kitchen help and meal delivery.
For more information, contact Norene at (541) 367-8843.