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Club Family Night Thursday

The

Sweet Home Boys and Girls Club will host a Family Night Out at the

Club on Thursday, Sept. 5 from 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at 890 18th Ave.

Everyone

is welcome. No membership required and event is free. There will be

games, a bounce house, dance-off, spaghetti dinner and more.

SHHS

reunion this Saturday night

Sweet

Home High School Class of 1958 will host a multi-class reunion dinner

at 7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 7, at the Sweet Home Elks Lodge.

Social

hour will begin at 6 p.m. A picnic will follow at noon on Sunday,

Sept. 8 at Roberts Park, 41041 Port Drive, Sweet Home.

Please

call Darlene Vavrosky at (541) 367-3618 or email [email protected] to

RSVP to the dinner or to ask questions.

Well

screenings for nitrate Saturday

Oregon

State University Extension Service is offering free well water

nitrate screenings for well owners on Sept. 7 in Brownsville.

A

portion of the Southern Willamette Valley has been designated as a

Groundwater Management Area by the Department of Environmental

Quality due to elevated nitrate levels in well water. It is

especially important for households with pregnant women or newborns

to test for nitrate due to a rare type of blue-baby syndrome.

For

a free nitrate screening, bring a half cup of untreated well water in

a clean, water-tight container. The test takes 5-10 minutes.

Tests

will be conducted from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 7, at the

Brownsville Farmers Market, at the corner of Main and Park,

Brownsville.

For

other nitrate screening events visit the OSU Extension Service

website at http://extension.oregonstate.edu/benton and for more

information, call (541) 766-3556.

Singing

Christmas Tree

starts Sept. 10

Rehearsals

for the 2013 Sweet Home Singing Christmas Tree choir will begin at 7

p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 10, in the choir room at Sweet Home High School.

Rehearsals

are held from 7 to 9 p.m. The lower age limit for the adult choir is

12 years of age, preferably in the seventh grade. Older students and

adults of all ages are welcome and encouraged to join the community

choir under the musical direction of Paul Rowton, retired Sweet Home

High School choir teacher. There are no vocal auditions.

The

children’s choir will hold its first rehearsal at 5 p.m. Tuesday,

Sept. 17, also in the choir room at the high school. Molly Laycock

will direct the children. Flyers will be being sent home with

students in the first through sixth grades at all Sweet Home

schools, including East Linn Christian Academy and the Sweet Home

Charter School. Home-schooled children are also invited to

participate.

The

Singing Christmas Tree will present its 32nd annual performance in

early December.

Information

packets, including rehearsal, other activity and performance

schedules, will be available at the first rehearsal. For more

information, call (541) 367-4639.

Christian

women to

meet in Lebanon

All

working ladies, college students and moms are invited to “A Time

for Us” get-together on Tuesday, Sept. 10, from 6:30. to 8 p.m. at

Kings Coffee House, 651 Main St., Lebanon.

The

event is sponsored by the Lebanon Christian Women’s Coalition.

Cost is $7 inclusive. There will be give-aways, music, food and a

guest speaker, Candy Weatherly, a workshop leader and farm owner who

loves to volunteer.

For

reservations, call Norma at (541) 259-5872 or Bonnie at (541)

258-3024.

Cow

Pasture Golf Tournament

St.

Helen’s Knights of Columbus will hold their annual Cow Pasture Golf

Tournament Saturday, Sept. 14 with a shotgun start at 10 a.m.

Deadline

to register is Friday, Sept. 6 , at the parish office.

Golf

fees are $50 per person or $180 for a team of four. T-shirts are

available at $10 each.

Tickets

for the barbecue dinner are $10 per person, with children under 5

free.

For

more information, call (541) 570-5711.

Organ

students to perform Sept. 12

An

organ concert will be held Thursday, Sept. 12 at 7 p.m. at the Church

of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 1155 22nd Ave., Sweet Home.

The

public is invited. Admission is free. Refreshments will follow.

Dr.

Henry B. Wolthuis and students Nick Tolman, Tatiana Tolman and Sean

Wolthuis will perform.

Dam

Run 5K, walk,kids run Sept. 14

The

city’s Youth Advisory Council will hold its fifth annual 5K Dam

Run/Walk with an optional 2K Walk and a Kids 1/2 Mile Fun Run on

Sept. 14 at the parking lot at the intersection of Poplar Street and

Foster Dam Road.

Registration

is available online at GetMeRegistered.com or registration forms are

available at City Hall or at http://www.ci.sweet-home.or.us

Proceeds

from this year will benefit the Sweet Home Walk for the Cause Group,

a partner of Soroptimist of Albany, supporting programs and services

focusing on prevention, detection and treatment of breast cancer in

Linn County.

This

event will also take the place of this year’s Sweet Home Satellite

Walk for the Cause event that is usually held at the Sweet Home

Harvest Festival in October.

Symphony

concert Sept. 21-22

The

Willamette Valley Symphony presents music by Johann Baptist Vanhal,

Kerry Mammone, Christina Larson and Felix Medelssohn on Saturday,

Sept. 21 and Sunday, Sept. 22.

For

complete information on the 2013-14 season, visit

http://www.willamettevalleysymphony.org.

Help

lake clean-up

effort

Sept. 28

A

National Public Lands Day event will be held from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Saturday, Sept. 28, at Foster Lake.

Lunch

and drinks will be provided. Meet at Sunnyside County Park at 9 a.m.

Sign

up ahead of time by calling (541) 942-5631 by Sept. 20.

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, Sept. 6, is shaved turkey or turkey pastrami

sandwich half on wheat bread, lentil soup, marinated zucchini salad

and chocolate chip bar.

The

menu for Monday, Sept. 9, is Bavarian stew or macaroni and cheese,

green beans, pickled beets, oatmeal roll and golden fruit cup.

The

menu for Tuesday, Sept. 10, is shoyu chicken or BBQ smokehouse chop,

Delmonico potatoes, broccoli cuts, sunflower seed bread and apple

streusel cake.

For

more information, call (541) 367-8843.

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