Meals on Wheels weekly menu
Meals on Wheels offers take-out 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.
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. 11, is chicken pastina or vegetable romanoff, green peas and carrots, garden vegetable salad, an oat bran wheat roll and carrot cake.
The menu for Monday, Feb. 14, is a Valentine’s Day special with roasted turkey or meat loaf with gravy, garlic whipped potatoes, San Francisco-blend vegetables, sunflower seed bread and chocolate cake.
The menu on Tuesday, Feb. 15, is chicken pomodoro or spinach strata, an Italian vegetable blend, tossed salad, cornbread and gelatin with whipped topping.
For more information, contact Norene at (541) 367-8843.
‘Fly Babies’ opens at Albany Civic
Albany Civic Theater will stage Rusty Harding’s “Fly Babies” Feb. 11-26 at 111 W. First Ave., Albany.
Showtimes are 7:30 p.m. Feb. 11-12, 17-19 and 24-26; and 2:30 and 7:30 p.m. Feb. 13 and 20.
“Fly Babies” follows the World War II-era story of five diverse American women, all qualified pilots, lending their skills to the newly-created Women Airforce Service Pilots, or WASPs.
Tickets are $14 general, $11 for patrons 18 and under, 60 and older, U.S. military veterans and Oregon Trail Card holders. A $1 processing fee will be added for online purchases.
The box office opens 45 minutes before each performance. For groups sales, email the box office at [email protected].
For more information, visit albanycivic.org.
Knights group hosts breakfast
The Knights of Columbus will host a special breakfast beginning at 10 a.m. Sunday, Feb. 13, in the hall at St. Helen Catholic Church, 600 Sixth Ave., Sweet Home.
Cinnamon French toast and sausage patties will be served.
Event proceeds help support scholarship programs and more.
Science Pub to look at smoke, wine
The Oregon Science Pub will explore the impact of wildfire smoke on wine and grapes in its next session, scheduled for 6 p.m. Monday, Feb. 14, via YouTube Live.
The virtual event, a joint effort of Oregon State University in Corvallis and OSU-Cascades in Bend, features OSU postdoctoral scholar Cole Cerrato and his presentation, “Clearing the Haze Around Wildfire Smoke’s Impact on Wine: The Chemistry of Smoke-Affected Wine.”
Wine vintners along the West Coast, including in Oregon’s Willamette Valley, have increasingly had to consider potential impacts to wine quality due to wildfire smoke. OSU researchers, Cerrato among them, have been investigating which chemicals in smoke have the greatest impact.
During his presentation, Cerrato will provide some background on wine chemistry, give a demonstration on how to drink wine to best sense flavor and aroma characteristics, and describe his research with OSU professor of enology Elizabeth Tomasino on smoke-affected wine.
Registration for the event is required and can be completed at beav.es/wik.
Blood drive set at high school
A Red Cross blood drive will be held from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 16, in the activity gym at Sweet Home High School, 1641 Long St.
Enter at the gym door by the pool entrance.
Sign up at redcrossblood.org.
Chamber seeking award nominees
Nominations for the Sweet Home Chamber of Commerce awards banquet are due March 1.
The event will be held Saturday, April 2, with more details to come.
Awards and criteria are:
— Distinguished Service Award: Must be 55 years of age or older with a minimum of five years community service in recent or previous years. Areas of consideration include participation in clubs and organizations, community service, youth involvement and church activities.
— First Citizen: Must be more than 40 years of age and have served the community for five years or more. Areas to be judged include participation in clubs, organizations, community service, youth involvement and church.
— Patti Woods Woman of the Year: Judged in areas of club activities, community service youth activities (such as scouting) and church work. Both present and past work is acceptable.
— Organization of the Year: Selected based on local organization’s ability to have significant community impact, which may include organizational success (based on mission statement) and measurable community impact as a result of services and community involvement. Organization must have been active in the community for a minimum of five years.
— Business of the Year: Selection is based on active business success, employment/staff opportunity, long-term community impact and community involvement. Business must have been active in the community for a minimum of five years.
— Curb Appeal Award: Recognition is based on exterior appearance. Criteria is not restricted to Main or Long Streets.
Nomination forms are available at the Sweet Home Chamber of Commerce, City Hall and the Sweet Home Public Library, or at http://www.sweethomechamber.com/events.
All aboard for a Ladies Night Out
The Boys & Girls Club of the Greater Santiam, in conjunction with the Santiam Excursion Train, is sponsoring a Ladies Night Out from 6:30 to 9 p.m. Friday, March 4.
Plans for the evening include shopping, silent purse auction, drinks, dinner and music, all aboard the Santiam Excursion Train. The event is a fundraiser for girls served by the club.
Tickets are $50 per person. For more information or to book the trip, visit bit.ly/3nkWn9Y.