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, June 24, is a buffalo chicken sandwich or sloppy joe on a hamburger bun, whole kernel corn, apple cranberry coleslaw and hot spiced apples.
The menu on Monday, June 27, is a beef mushroom patty or roast pork with gravy, garlic whipped potatoes, glazed carrots, French bread and pineapple tidbits.
The menu on Tuesday, June 28, is a tuna salad or chicken salad half-sandwich, corn chowder, confetti coleslaw, whole wheat bread and a mandarin orange.
For more information, contact Norene at (541) 367-8843.
Tent gathering set for June 24-26
The Reigning Glory Ministry Center of Sweet Home will hold a “Way of Hope” tent gathering Friday to Sunday, June 24-26, next to the Turning Point Church of Lebanon, 30337 Fairview Road.
Hours are 6 p.m. Friday, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday.
For more information, call (541) 405-1950.
Marteeny to speak at forum lunch
Linn County District Attorney Doug Marteeny will be the featured speaker at the Lebanon Chamber of Commerce’s Forum Lunch at 11:15 a.m. Friday, June 24, at Santiam Place Event Center, 139 Main St.
Marteeny will speak on “Changing Crime Statistics and Trends in Linn County.”
Reservations are required. Cost for lunch is $18.
RSVP/info: (541) 258-7164.
Sweet Ride event rolls in June 25
The Sweet Home Sweet Ride charity car show for children will run from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, June 25, on the track and field at Sweet Home Junior High School, 880 22nd Ave.
The event will feature cars, pickups, motorcycles, 4-by-4s, semis, log trucks and vintage trailers, Activities include a burn-out pit, 50/50, vendor alley, a poker walk, music and more than 100 trophies. A food court will also be available.
Entries for the burn-out pit are $10 per vehicle for a first pass and $2 for each additional pass. Veterans’ vehicles with insignias are admitted free.
For more information, visit https://sweethomesweetride.com/ or email [email protected].
Museum seeks donations for sale
The East Linn Museum seeks donations for its annual fundraising yard sale, scheduled to run from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, July 9, at the museum, 746 Long St.
Household items, clothing, books, tools, sporting goods and more will be accepted. Please bring these donations to the museum between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays.
Volunteers are also needed to help set up the sale and to assist throughout the day.
For more information or to schedule other times, call (541) 367-2953 or (541) 401-7673.
Free lunches to be available to kids
The Sweet Home School District is offering free summer lunches to children 18 and under at the following locations:
— June 27 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.
— June 27 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 July 4 or 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.
Blood drive set June 29
The American Red Cross will hold a blood drive from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday, June 29, at the former Wells Fargo building, 1266 15th Ave.
For more information or to schedule an appointment, visit https://www.redcrossblood.org/.
Lebanon concerts to begin in July
Summer music fires up in early July with Lebanon’s Concerts in the Park on Tuesdays and Summer Bands and Brews on Saturdays.
Summer Bands and Brews starts Saturday, July 2, at Strawberry Plaza, 847 S. Main St., with Briana Renea performing.
Jobe Woosley will headline on July 9, followed by Inner Limits on July 16.
The Concerts in the Park series kicks off Tuesday, July 12, at Ralston Park, 925 Park Street, Lebanon.
Concerts begin at 6 p.m.
James F. Wright will perform on July 12. Hank and Bill Shreve are on stage July 19.
WVCB to perform in Monmouth
The Willamette Valley Concert Band will celebrate Independence Day with a two-hour free concert Sunday, July 3, at the Main Street Park in Monmouth, at 120 Main St. E.
The Independence Day program will include a wide variety of marches, music by famous popular composers and by jazz great Duke Ellington.
Led by John Russell, the band will play marches by John Philip Sousa and Henry Fillmore, popular pieces from Broadway, songs by Henry Mancini and film score composer John Williams and even a medley of songs by jazz great Duke Ellington.
Admission is free.
Tickets available for county fair
Reserved seating tickets are available for main stage entertainment at the Linn County Fair, scheduled for Thursday through Saturday, July 14-16, at the Linn County Expo Center, 3700 Knox Butte Road E, Albany.
Fair hours are 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Thursday through Sunday.
This year’s headliners include Sara Evans on July 14, Five for Fighting on July 15 and Sawyer Brown on July 16. All performances begin at 8:30 p.m.
General seating is free with daily admission ($7 general, $5 seniors over 60 and free for children 12 and under), but reserved seats are $22-$30. Daily parking is $5. (Admission for Thursday, July 14, will be free for active military members and seniors.)
Three-day passes are $21 general, $15 for seniors and FFA/4-H members and $15 for parking. A family fun pack for the carnival is $120, which is good for any single day of the fair and includes four general admission tickets and four all-day carnival wristbands. A Pick-Your-Day Fun Pack, which includes one of each item, is available for $35. An all-day carnival wristband is available for $32 by Sunday, July 10.
For more information, visit https://www.linncountyfair.com.
SH Class of 1977 schedules reunion
Sweet Home High School’s Class of 1977 is celebrating its 45-year reunion Saturday and Sunday, July 16-17, with a series of events at various locations.
A walk will begin, weather permitting, at 12:30 p.m. Saturday in the upper parking lot at McDowell Creek Falls County Park, 43170 McDowell Creek Drive, Lebanon. A meet and greet follows at 2 p.m. at Pineway Golf Course, 30949 Pineway Road, Lebanon, with conversations to catch up and discuss the “Kids Don’t Float” fundraiser life jacket loaner locations at Foster Lake and Camp Attitude. A buffet dinner will be served at 5 p.m. The cost for the latter is $25 per person. Umpqua Bank has an account for the deposit of the dinner cost and fundraiser donations.
Sunday features an 11 a.m. worship invitation, followed by a 12:30 classmate potluck and sandwich lunch at Freedom Hill Church, 2470 Main St., Sweet Home.
For more information, contact Lois Miller Carper at (541) 760-1529 or via Facebook or classmates.com.
Guitars Under the Stars tickets
Advance tickets remain available for the fifth annual Guitars Under the Stars, scheduled for Friday and Saturday, July 29-30, at Cheadle Lake Park, 37941 Weirich Drive, Lebanon.
Gates open at 3 p.m. Friday and at 11 a.m. Saturday.
The full slate 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.
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.