Music concerts in new locations
Due to construction in the Sweet Home High School Auditorium, spring music concerts are being held elsewhere.
The district bands will perform at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, May 18, in The Commons, between the main high school building and the Main Gym at 1641 Long St.
The sixth-grade, junior high and high school bands will play, including a joint performance.
If weather is not conducive to an outside concert, the performance will take place in the Activities Gym.
The junior high and high school choirs will perform at 7 p.m. Tuesday, May 23, at The Rio Theatre.
The concerts are free and the public is welcome.
Follow Indians’
footsteps on hike
Sweet Home Ranger District will host a two-mile hike to the Cascadia Cave beginning at 9 a.m. Friday, May 19.
Participants will follow the historic footsteps of the Kalapuya Indians along the lower floodplains of the South Santiam River. The trail may be muddy. Come prepared with lunch water, appropriate clothes etc.
The hike leaves promptly from the Ranger District office at 9 a.m.
Lacemakers invite
new participants
Oregon Trail Lacemakers will meet from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, May 20, at Willamette Oaks Retirement Living, 455 Alexander Loop, Eugene.
Oregon Trail Lacemakers is open to lacemakers and those wanting to learn to make bobbin lace, tatting and needlelace.
For more information, email oregontraillacemakers.weebly.com or call (541) 343-4252.
Car show this
Saturday at LBCC
Linn-Benton Community College will host a multi-class car show from 8 to 2 p.m. on Saturday, May 20 at the Linn-Benton Community College, 6500 Pacific Blvd. S.W., Albany.
Hosted by LBCC Industrial Technical Society, the car show will feature food vendors, industrial shop tours and a trophy award ceremony.
Cost is $20 per vehicle for advanced registration, or $25 per vehicle at the door. No limit. Gates open at 8 a.m., registration ends at 10 a.m. and the show closes at 2 p.m.
The show is free and open the public.
To register a car for the show, contact Marc Rose at [email protected] or (541) 917-4581. For more information, go to http://www.linnbenton.edu/car-show.
Free Medicare
class May 23
A free Medicare class will be held from 10 a.m. to noon, Tuesday, May 23, at Oregon Cascades West Council of Governments, 1400 Queen Avenue SE.
The class will benefit anyone who is eligible for Medicare within a few months or is new to Medicare, current beneficiaries who would like to better understand Medicare benefits and options and spouses and other relatives of Medicare eligible clients.
Reservations are required. Call (541) 812-0849 to make your reservation.
Extension Harvest
Management class
Oregon State University Extension Service will offer a Harvest Management workshop from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 24 and 10 a.m. to noon Thursday, May 25.
The workshop is part of a five-part Forage Management Series.
Cost is $30 per evening session per individual or ranch group, which includes materials and refreshments.
Pre-registration is required. Visit http://extension.oregonstate.edu/linn/ or call (541) 248-1088.
Ranger District
wildflowers hike
The Sweet Home Ranger Station will host a guided hike exploring lichens, mosses and early wildflowers at 9 a.m. Friday, May 26.
The easy, two-mile hike will be led by Alice Smith. Participants will meet at the Ranger Station, 4431 Hwy 20, at 9 a.m.
Participants will be charged a fee. For more information, email [email protected].
Hero Half races
Saturday, May 27
The Hero Half Marathon will be held Saturday, May 27, at the Community Chapel, 42250 Ames Creek Road.
Running events and start times are a 1.3-mile fun run/walk at 10:15 a.m., an 8K run at 10 a.m. and the Half Marathon, also at 10.
Proceeds benefit the Vietnam Veterans of American Chapter 585 and Keaton Coffey Memorial Scholarship.
Register at GetMeRegistered.com or visit HeroHalf.org or Facebook.
Master’s Men to
perform in SH
The Sweet Home Pregnancy Care Center will hold a Benefit Concert performed by the Master’s Men at 6 p.m. Sunday, May 28, at Sweet Home Evangelical Church, 1347 Long St.
An offering will be taken to support the Pregnancy Care Center.
Meals on Wheels
weekly menu
Meals on Wheels, also known as Your Table or Ours, 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, May 19, is shoyu chicken or country meatballs, Lyonnaise potatoes, steamed spinach, oat rye bread and apple crisp.
The menu on Monday, May 22, is chicken rice bake or macaroni and cheese, broccoli cuts, garden vegetable salad, potato wheat roll and cookies and cream pudding.
The menu on Tuesday, May 23, is sweet and sour chicken and rice or spaghetti with meat sauce, green peas, Romaine iceberg salad, garlic roll and chocolate cake with chocolate frosting.
For more information, contact Norene at (541) 367-8843.