Student choirs to
perform Tuesday
Sweet Home’s student choirs will perform at 7 p.m. Tuesday, May 24, in the high school auditorium.
This will be a Farewell Concert for seniors, who will be honored, and of whom several will perform solos.
Admission is free, though donations will be accepted for the Gloria Joya Memorial Fund.
After-Hours event
at Morely Thomas
Sweet Home Chamber of Commerce will hold its monthly After Hours at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 25, at the Morely Thomas Law Firm, 1001 Long St. in Sweet Home.
Members of the public interested in chamber activities are welcome, as are all chamber members.
For more information, call (541) 367-6186.
‘National Treasure’ benefit for museum
The Rio Theater will host a fund-raiser screening of “National Treasure,” as part of the East Linn Museum’s “40 Years of Memories” celebration, at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 26.
Admission is $4 and all ticket sales will go to the museum.
The PG-rated movie tells the story of historian and code-breaker Ben Gates (Nicolas Cage), who has been searching his whole life for a rumored treasure dating back to the creation of the United States. Joining an expedition led by fellow treasure hunter Ian Howe (Sean Bean), Gates finds an ice-locked colonial ship in the Arctic Circle that contains a clue linking the treasure to the Declaration of Independence. But when Howe betrays him, Gates has to race to get to the document ahead of his so-called colleague.
For more information, contact the museum at: [email protected], call (541) 409-0997 or check the museum’s Facebook page.
Art, floral, garden entries sought
Lebanon Garden Club will present its Strawberry Frontier Flower, Quilt and Art Display from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Friday, June 3, and Saturday, June 4, at the IOOF Hall, 20 E. Ash St. in Lebanon.
This is a non-judged event. The public is invited to bring flowers, horticulture and floral designs, along with quilts and art, for display to the IOOF Hall from 5 to 9 p.m. Thursday, June 2, and from 9 to 10 a.m. Friday, June 3. All plant and flower entries need to be in your own containers or vases.
For more information on the Flower Show, contact Elsie Kuenzli at (541) 207-8481 or Linda Boyd at (541) 259-3058; for quilt information, contact Carol McGlauflin at (541) 259-1500; and for art information, call the Linn County Arts Guild at (541) 990-4472.
Trails group invites
parade walkers
Build Lebanon Trails members of the community who enjoy walking to join in the 107th Annual Strawberry Festival Grand Parade Saturday, June 4.
Meet at the staging area at the Wal-Mart parking lot by 10:30 a.m. on the day of the parade, which begins at 11 a.m. Those who have BLT gear (sweatshirts, caps, BLT and event T-shirts, etc.) are asked to wear it to help show support but that is not required. The walk will be about three miles round trip on pavement.
Well-mannered, leashed dogs are welcome, but please make sure to pick up after your animal(s).
‘Find a Grave’ with
Linn genealogists
Historian Karen Wallace Steely will speak on “Find a Grave” to the Linn Genealogical Society at 1:15 p.m. Saturday, June 4, at the Albany Public Library Meeting Room, 2450 14th Ave. SE.
Are you getting everything you can from Find A Grave? Steely will talk about how there is more information available than just burial records. Find A Grave includes biographical information, obituaries, family relationships, and photographs.
She will also discuss contributing to Find A Grave and will demonstrate the additional tools available to contributors and review the guidelines for managing and transferring memorials, and the integration between ancestry.com and Find A Grave.
Steely has 30 years of experience in researching, writing and speaking as a technology project manager, a historian and a genealogist.
She has a bachelor of arts degree in history from the University of Missouri in Kansas City and extensive involvement with local, national and international societies.
The public is welcome to attend.
African Children’s Choir to sing in SH
The African Children’s Choir will perform at 6:30 p.m. Sunday, June 19, at Sweet Home High School.
Their program will feature well-loved children’s songs, traditional spirituals and Gospel favorites.
The choir is organized by Music for Life, which works in seven African countries: Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda, Sudan, Nigeria, Ghana and South Africa.
MFL’s purpose is to help create new leadership for tomorrow’s Africa, by focusing on education. Many of the choir members have lost one or both parents to AIDS and other poverty-related diseases, and all of them are victims of extreme poverty.
The African Children’s Choir has performed before presidents, heads of state and, most recently, Queen Elizabeth II, for her diamond jubilee.
It has also performed with Paul McCartney, Annie Lennox, Keith Urban, Mariah Carry, Michael W. Smith, and others.
Concerts are free and open to all. Donations will be accepted at the performance to support African Children’s Choir programs, such as education, care and relief and development programs.
The choir is being hosted locally by Hillside Fellowship.
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 lunch menu on Friday, May 27, is turkey or tuna salad sandwich half on wheat bread with split pea soup, country coleslaw and pineapple.
No lunch will be served Monday, May 30, due to the Memorial Day holiday.
The menu for Tuesday, May 31, is barbecued chicken sandwich or kielbasa with mustard, both on a bun, baked beans, Mandarin pineapple salad, and banana chocolate chip bar.
For more information, call (541) 367-8843.