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, July 22, is beef Spanish rice or chicken pastina, sliced carrots, a garden vegetable salad, an oat wheat roll and carrot cake.
The menu on Monday, July 25, is chicken pomodoro or a stuffed green pepper with beef, a winter vegetable blend, carrot raisin salad, a multigrain roll and peach cobbler.
The menu on Tuesday, July 26, is a shaved turkey or tuna salad half-sandwich, minestrone soup, pickled beets, whole-wheat bread and applesauce.
For more information, contact Norene at (541) 367-8843.
Free lunches available for kids
The Sweet Home School District is offering free summer lunches to children 18 and under at the following locations:
— Through Aug. 19: 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Pleasant Valley Little Promises, 28028 Pleasant Valley Road, Sweet Home (breakfast is served from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m.); 11:45 a.m. to 12:15 p.m., Sweet Home High School, 1641 Long St. (breakfast is served from 8:45 to 9:15 a.m.); 11:45 a.m. to 12:15 p.m., around the back of Foster Elementary School, 5526 Poplar St., Foster; 11:45 a.m. to 12:15 p.m., Oak Heights Elementary School, 610 Elm St., Sweet Home; and noon to 12:30 p.m., Ashbrook Park, 28th Ave. and Juniper St., Sweet Home.
— Through July 22: noon to 12:30 p.m., Sweet Home Junior High School, 880 22nd Ave. (breakfast is served from 8:30 to 9 a.m.).
No meals will be served at any of these sites Aug. 1.
For more information, contact Deshawnda Carver, Sweet Home High School, at (541) 367-7149 or Kathleen Cochran, accounts payable, at (541) 367-7121.
BOC to rock River Rhythms
Perennial classic-rock radio staple Blue Oyster Cult (“Don’t Fear the Reaper,” “Burnin’ for You”) takes the stage Thursday, July 21, as part of the River Rhythms series at Monteith Riverpark, 489 NW Water Ave., Albany.
The series continues weekly through Aug. 11. Future performers include Ruthie Foster (July 28), ABBA tribute act Arrival (Aug. 4) and Eddie Montgomery of Montgomery Gentry (Aug. 11).
Admission is free, but a $1 per person donation is encouraged. Visa and MasterCard are accepted, but cash or a check is preferred. Food is available for purchase from on-site vendors.
For more information, visit https://www.cityofalbany.net/parks/events/river-rhythms.
Bands and brews in Lebanon plaza
Summer Bands and Brews continues from 7 to 9 p.m. Saturdays through the end of August at Strawberry Plaza, 847 S. Main St.
Scheduled performers include Rock n Roll Cowboys (July 23), Fate 55 (July 30), The Brothers Reed (Aug. 6), The Bandulus (Aug. 13), Chasing Ebenezer (Aug. 20) and Gabriel Cox Band (Aug. 27).
Concerts continue at Ralston Park
The Concerts in the Park series continues from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesdays through August at Ralston Park, 925 Park St. Admission is free.
No concert will be held Aug. 2 due to Lebanon’s National Night Out celebration.
Scheduled performers include Bluesmind (July 26), DRTR (Aug. 9), CastleTown (Aug. 16), The Diversified Band (Aug. 23) and Lover of the Year (Aug. 30).
Guitars Under the Stars tickets, camp
Advance tickets remain available for the fifth Guitars Under the Stars, a four-day intensive music camp and two-day festival scheduled Wednesday through Saturday, July 27-30, at Cheadle Lake Park, 37941 Weirich Drive, Lebanon.
The Guitars Under the Stars Music Experience Camp for youth, which features 20 guest counselors – all of whom are professional musicians and producers slated to perform at the festival, overseeing a variety of courses – begins at 3 p.m. Wednesday, July 27, and concludes at 3 p.m. Saturday, July 30.
The all-inclusive camp features food, camping, instruction and activities. Register at https://bit.ly/3QGG8k9. Scholarship applications are available at https://bit.ly/3Nnp2EO.
See a full list of instructors at bit.ly/3OwUjGy.
Gates for the festival open at 3 p.m. Friday, July 29, and at 11 a.m. Saturday, July 30.
The full schedule includes such performers as Mark Mendoza (Twisted Sister), Stu Hamm, Jeff Scott Soto (Yngwie Malmsteen, Journey), Ron Keel (Keel, Steeler and Saber Tiger), Chris Poland (Megadeth), Mark Heylmun (Suicide Silence), Thöm Häzäert, Ernie Iniguez (Quietude, Salimus), Brandon Cook (The Loyal Order, Black N’ Blue), Jason Bieler (Saigon Kick), Chris Martucci (Stone Sour, Black Star Riders). Among the featured bands are Lilac, The Loyal Order, Sweater for an Astronaut and ED to Shred.
A Metal Hall of Fame induction ceremony for producers/engineers Randy Burns (Megadeth, Kreator, Suicidal Tendencies) and Toby Wright (Alice in Chains, Korn, Metallica) will be held Friday, July 29.
Tickets are $120 for an advance two-day VIP pass, $70 for advance two-day festival passes, $35 for Friday and $40 for Saturday. Camping passes are $40 in advance and $150 for RV parking.
Visit guitarsunderthestars.com and aftontickets.com/GuitarsUnderTheStars for more details.
LAFTA presents murder-comedy
Lebanon Association for Theatre Arts presents “Murder Mystery at the Murder Mystery” at 7 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, July 21-23, and at 2 p.m. Saturday in the auditorium at Lebanon High School, 1700 S. Fifth St.
This is LAFTA’s first show since the COVID pandemic, as well as its first nonmusical.
A fun, comic, mystery play-within-a-play, the show opens with players at The Murder Mystery Playhouse rehearsing a new show, “Putting a Little English On It,” a not-so-good attempt at a British murder mystery, complete with cheesy dramatic music and accents. When the lights go out at the final dress rehearsal, a character dies onstage. This death, however, was not in the script. The authorities are quickly called and soon the company finds itself replaying the scene and working together to solve the case.
Admission is $8 general, $5 for children and seniors.
Tickets are available at the door. Credit/debit cards cannot be accepted.
‘Twelfth Night’ to open at OSU
Oregon State University Theatre’s Bard in the Quad will perform William Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” at 7:30 p.m. Aug. 4-7 and 11-14 on the Memorial Union Quad, at the OSU campus in Corvallis.
“Twelfth Night” is a comedy centered on some of the legendary playwright’s favorite plot devices: long-lost twins, a shipwreck and mistaken identity. This year’s production will be staged in a vaguely Victorian era akin to Disney depictions of classic fairy tale love stories.
No seating is provided on the quad, so blankets and lawn chairs are recommended, along with warm clothing. Seating begins at 6:30 p.m. each performance night and picnics are encouraged.
Tickets are $17 for general admission, $12 for students and seniors and $5 for OSU students. To purchase tickets, go to bardinthequad.org or call the Theatre Arts Box Office at (541) 737-2784.“Early Bard” tickets for $15, $10 and $5, respectively, are available online through July 31.
For more information call (541) 737-2853.
Gardening classes offered in Lebanon
Free gardening classes are offered on second Tuesdays through Oct. 11 at the Lebanon Senior Center, 80 Tangent St.
Sessions will be held at 10 a.m., beginning with a question-and-answer period followed by short lectures on gardening topics, as outlined below.
— Aug. 9: “When to Harvest.”
— Sept. 13: “Cover Crops for Your Garden.”
— Oct. 11: “Planting/Harvesting Garlic, Onions and Shallots.”
Register for these classes by emailing [email protected].