SAFE Party can drive Saturday
The Class of 2021 SAFE Party organizing committee will hold a bottle and can drive fundraiser from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, March 13, with drop-off at O’Reilly’s parking lot at the corner of 10th and Main.
Pick-up can also be arranged by contacting Brandi at (541) 401-7167. All proceeds benefit the SAFE event.
Monday deadline for grant requests
The Sweet Home Community Foundation has begun accepting grant applications for its 2021 cycle.
The Foundation’s goal is to provide funding and support to a wide variety of community projects within east Linn County. Special consideration is placed on projects that can provide lasting benefits to our community.
Once again this year there are two grant programs. Applicants may not apply for both grant programs within the same year.
SHCF Community Grants are given in the following broad categories: Children and Families; Education; Community Livability and Arts and Culture. Grants up to $2,500.00 are awarded.
The Alice Blazer Memorial Grant is for up to $10,000. This grant is specifically for projects able to demonstrate tangible long term community benefits; a positive wide reaching impact and have additional financial or in-kind support to achieve success.
Grant applicants must be a 501(c) 3 or other qualified tax-exempt organization or the proposed project may be implemented in partnership or affiliation with such an organization.
The initial application for both grant programs can be submitted online at giveshcf.org/grant2021 through March 15.
Support for the Foundation is provided through the generosity of local individuals and businesses.
Grant award recipients will be announced in April.
Student plays to be streamed by OSU
Oregon State University Theatre will present “Ten Minutes at the Townsend,” an anthology of student plays set in a small-town diner, at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, March 19.
The event will be streamed with the support of KBVR-TV on the KBVR YouTube channel.
The original works by OSU students are all based in the real town of Strawberry, California. The short slice-of-life conversations are set in a small diner in the fictional town of Pine Riverbend during the years of 1980-1989, and all take place in the same diner booth. The filmed project includes six 10-minute plays and a three-minute coda:
“1980: Alex and Charlie” by Libby Brennan;
“1981: Mary and Hazel” by Abby Oliver;
“1983: Leslie and Jordan” by Taylor Stageberg;
“1985: Tom and Linda” by Nikki Richardson;
“1987: Aaron and Jamie” by Abrianna Feinauer;
“1988: Conner and Gwen” by Hannah Schwartz; and
“1989: Coda” by Libby Brennan.
The project, directed by OSU theatre arts instructor Elizabeth Helman, brings together original student writing and performances, in collaboration with a winter quarter theatre arts course in sound design
Helman reached out during fall quarter to interested student playwrights to begin brainstorming ideas, which developed into this collection of loosely related stories about the bonds of family, growing up and small-town life.
Tickets to the virtual event are available for purchase.
Patrons can name their own price to support the work of OSU Theatre. Further support came from KBVR and the OSU campus branch of U.S. Bank.
Elkettes plan local ‘Chairity’ Auction
The Sweet Home Elkettes will hold a “Chairity Auction” from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, April 3.
Chairs will be decorated by contestants, then sold at the auction. Entry fee is $8 per chair. Prizes will go to first-, second- and third-place winners chosen by a panel of judges.
Submit photos to Kimi Nash by Wednesday, March 17. Chairs and fees are due at the Elks Lodge by March 19.
For more information, contact Nash at (541) 401-9844.
Republicans plan family fun day
Linn County Republicans will hold an inaugural Family Day and Fishing Derby at a to-be-disclosed location from 11 a.m. to 5 pm. Sunday, March 21.
The event will include yard games, a barbecue lunch, a raffle, a fishing contest with prizes, Oregon Kettle Corn available for purchase, and old-fashioned ice cream treats from Bontrager’s tractor.
Cost is $5 per person or $20 per family (four or more). Tickets are available at linngop.com.familyday.
Location will be privided at ticket purchase.
Albany Legion to host spring Bazaar
American Legion Auxiliary Albany Unit 10 will hold its Spring Blossoms Bazaar Friday and Saturday, March 26 and 27, at the American Legion Albany Post 10, 1215 SE Pacific Blvd., Albany.
The event will feature local crafters and artisans as well as home-based business representatives showcasing their creations and products for shoppers just in time for Easter and Mother’s Day. Parking in the back of the post hall, (off 7th). Hours of operation are from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, and from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday.
Call to artists who portray agriculture
Art About Agriculture, an annual exhibition of agriculture-themed artwork coordinated by Oregon State University’s College of Agricultural Sciences, is holding an open call for artists to participate in the 2021 exhibition.
This year’s show will be a competitive, juried exhibition. The deadline for submissions is April 4. The show is scheduled to open for viewing with limited occupancy on June 4 at Giustina Gallery in the LaSells Stewart Center on Oregon State’s Corvallis campus. The reception date and details are currently undetermined due to COVID-19 considerations.
The theme for 2021 is simple: Art about agriculture. Artists from the Pacific Northwest are invited to consider the influence and inspiration from agriculture found in their artwork. All visual art styles and approaches are welcome.
Art About Agriculture was established in 1983 at the College of Agricultural Sciences as the region’s first annual agricultural-themed arts competition and touring exhibit. It recognizes professional and emerging Northwest artists; creates a growing, dynamic, permanent collection of fine art based on portraying agriculture and natural resources; and presents the permanent collection and touring exhibits across the state.
Last year, Art About Agriculture hosted its first juried exhibit in a decade, attracting 208 art submissions from across the Pacific Northwest, including 11 acquired by the College of Agricultural Sciences.
The permanent collection contains 379 works of art by 229 artists. Artworks are exhibited on the OSU campus in Corvallis and by loan agreement throughout Oregon and other parts of the Northwest.
Jurors for the 2021 competition and touring exhibition are: Tanmaya Bingham, director of One River School of Art + Design in Lake Oswego and internationally exhibiting artist; Bob Keefer, former arts writer for The Register-Guard newspaper in Eugene and current arts editor for Eugene Weekly, author and artist; Joyce Loper, associate dean for research and professor of botany and plant pathology in the College of Agricultural Sciences at Oregon State University; Debby Sundbaum-Sommers, Philomath-based artist and educator with artwork in numerous public and private collections; and Robyn Williams, executive director of Portland’5 Centers for the Arts and mixed media artist.
Artworks selected for the exhibitions will be eligible for art purchase awards funded by Art About Agriculture’s purchase awards-specific endowments and donations from patrons. Purchased artwork will be added to the Art About Agriculture Permanent Collection.
For more information on the exhibit and details for submitting entries, visit agsci.oregonstate.edu/art/art-about-agriculture.
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, March 12, is chicken divan or vegetarian chili, chuckwagon corn, tossed salad, oatmeal roll and apple rhubarb.
The menu on Monday, March 15, is chicken with paprika sauce or sliced ham with orange glaze, whipped sweet potatoes, spinach, whole wheat bread and peaches.
The menu on Tuesday, March 16, is barbecue smokehouse chop or Salisbury steak with gravy, garlic whipped potatoes, brocccoli, oat bran bread and hermit bar.
For more information, contact Norene at (541) 367-8843.