Master Gardener
volunteers sought
Do you visit gardens on vacation? Stop neighbors in their yards to ask about their plants? Give free advice to fellow shoppers at the nursery? Love gardening, want to know more and enjoy giving back to your community?
Consider joining the Oregon State University Extension Linn County Master Gardener program.
People certified as Master Gardener volunteers are required to participate in a class one day a week, for 11 consecutive weeks in January, February and March for a total of 66 hours of classroom instruction. Some previous gardening experience is helpful, but not a requirement. Then there are a required 66 hours of volunteer service—usually just the start of a lifetime of garden-related volunteering, friendship and fun as a member of the Linn County Master Gardener Association.
Applications and more information about the 2016 course is available by visiting http://extension.oregonstate.edu/linn/osu-extension-master-gardener-program-0,
or by contacting: Pami Opfer, 541-730-3471, E-mail: [email protected]
Open mic event to feature local author
The Sweet Home Public Library will host an open-mic event from 6:15 to 7:15 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 22.
Local author Corinna Dominy will read from her book “Matters of the Heart.”
Signups begin at 6 p.m. The first to sign up is the first to read. The total number of readers will be limited by available time. The time limit is seven minutes per reader.
Library officials ask that writers avoid graphic violence, sex or hate speech.
The program is free and open to the public. Those not interested in reading are welcome to come and listen as writers present their work.
For more information, call the library at (541) 367-5007.
Gospel concert at
Nazarene church
A gospel concert featuring the Joyful Noise Quartet and the Wilsons will be held at 6 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 24, at the Church of the Nazarene, 415 Holley Road.
Members of Albany-based Joyful Noise are Tommy Peterson, George LaBrasseur, Christina Linné and Phil Rempel. Their program includes a blend of contemporary gospel, a cappella and southern gospel.
For more information, call (541) 367-3124.
Meals on Wheelsweekly 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, Oct. 23, is hearty turkey stew or western beef goulash, cut green beans, garden vegetable salad, onion roll and chocolate chip bar.
The menu for Monday, Oct. 26 is chicken patty sandwich or sloppy Joe, both on a bun, whole kernel corn, marinated zucchini salad and butterscotch bar.
The menu for Tuesday, Oct. 27, is chicken rice bake or diced prok and penne pasta, country trio vegetables, spinach Romaine salad, oatmeal roll and spiced pears.
For more information, call (541) 367-8843.