Host a foreign
exchange student
Families are needed to host international high school exchange students for the next school year.
Foreign Links Around the Globe works closely with host families to place an exchange student who will transition well into a specific family unit. Organizers have 10 years of experience in the Willamette Valley.
For information, contact Cynthia Burgeson, community development coordinator, at (541) 704-0937 or [email protected].
Beautification
volunteers needed
The Sweet Home Beautification Committee is seeking volunteers.
The Beautification Committee, an all-volunteer organization, maintains the median strips throughout town. It also maintains numerous other flowers throughout the city, including the ones at the city entrances.
The committee hosts work parties each month at 8:30 a.m. on the second and fourth Tuesdays. They meet at the intersection of 10th Avenue and Main Street.
For more information, call the city manager’s office at (541) 367-8969.
Make a bouquet for Memorial Day
Samaritan Evergreen Hospice invites the public to create a Memorial Day bouquet from 2 to 6 p.m. Thursday, May 23, at 4600 Evergreen St. SE, Albany.
This is a free event. Stop by, build a bouquet, and share it with a loved one or keep it at home to remember those who are gone.
For more information, visit SamHealth.org/hospice, or call (541) 812-4662.
Strawberry flower show seeks entries
In conjunction with the Lebanon Strawberry Festival, Lebanon Garden Club will present a Flower and Art Show at Santiam Place 139 S. Main in Lebanon.
Floral designers, gardeners and artists of all ages are encouraged to enter horticulture, designs and art. Entries will be accepted from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, May 30, and from 7 to 9 a.m. Friday, May 31.
Schedule books with details can be picked up at Lebanon Public Library, Lebanon Senior Center and Lebanon Chamber of Commerce.
The Lebanon Garden Club’s annual Flower Show is open for public viewing from 1 to 4:30 p.m. Friday, May 31, and from 12 to 4:30 p.m. Saturday, June 1, at Santiam Place, 139 S. Main St., Lebanon.
The flower show is a tradition dating back to the first Strawberry Festival in 1909, and is free to enter and visit.
For more information, contact Trudie Bason at (541) 521-5677, Sarah at (541) 570-9339, or check out the Lebanon Garden Club Facebook page.
Salmon fundraiser at local brewery
Barsideous Brewing will host a fund-raising event for Linn-Benton Salmon Watch from 5 to 9 p.m. on May 23.
The brewery, 644 S. Main St., Lebanon, will donate 10 percent of all food receipts to the educational program.
Salmon Watch is an experiential field trip program that teaches fifth- and sixth-graders about salmon and healthy watersheds. It offers programs that teach salmon biology, water quality, macroinvertebrates and riparian areas.
The Linn Benton Salmon Watch program is coordinated by a committee representing the Calapooia Watershed Council, South Santiam Watershed Council, Benton Soil and Water Conservation District, Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife, Siuslaw National Forest, and two devoted retired teachers.
Organ students to perform recital
The Sweet Home Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints will host an organ recital at 7 p.m. Friday, May 24, at 1155 22nd Ave.
Students Olivia Martineau, Sam Martineau and Mark Wolthuis will perform, along with organ teacher Henry Wolthuis. Selections include “Now Thank We All Our God” and “Fugue in G Minor” by J.S. Bach, “Largo” from “Xerxes” by G.F. Handel, “Procession to Calvary” from “The Crucifixion” by John Stainer, “Shepherd’s Pipes” by Hubbard William Harris and more.
Refreshments will follow in the Cultural Hall. The event is free and the public is welcome.
Memorial Day band concert Monday
The Willamette Valley Concert Band will perform its free annual Memorial Day Concert, “A Day Of Remembrance,” at 7 p.m. Monday, May 27, at the LaSells Stewart Center on the OSU campus, 875 SW 26th St, Corvallis.
The concert is free but donations are gladly accepted. Proceeds will help mid-Valley music students attend summer music camps.
The program will include a wide variety of patriotic and classic jazz and popular band favorites: the national anthem, “Tribute to Harry James,” “An American Elegy,” “Bugler’s Holiday,” “Harry Potter Symphonic Suite,” “Anything Goes,” “Armed Forces Salute” and “Stars and Stripes Forever.”
Program on youth homelessness
Jackson Street Youth Services will present a program on “Preventing Youth Homelessness: What You Can Do” from 7 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, May 28, at Albany Public Library, 2450 14th Ave.
The program will cover issues affecting local youth, youth homelessness in the Mid-Valley, trauma-informed care, prevention strategies and how community members can help. Jackson Street works to prevent youth homelessness, and offers a continuum of services to at-risk youth in Linn and Benton counties.
For more information, visit jsysi.org, or contact Matthew Shumski at (541) 360-0868, or email [email protected].
Forum on Green New Deal May 28
The Linn County Unit of the League of Women Voters of Oregon will host a forum at 7 p.m. Tuesday, May 28, at the Albany Public Library, 2450 14th Ave. SE, to help local residents the issues brought forward by the introduction of the Green New Deal Resolution in Congress.
Professor Nancy Shurtz, an expert on taxation and environmental regulation at the University of Oregon School of Law, will review various options for action under the Green New Deal. These options could include massive investments in alternative energy and major efforts in ecological restoration, public health, education, and political equity. Shurtz will examine all these possibilities and explore in detail the various ways to fund them.
The program is free. All are welcome.
For more information, contact Linda at (503) 707-1539.
Genealogy Society
Bunco Fundraiser
The Sweet Home Genealogical Society will hold a Bunco Fundraiser starting at 5:30 p.m. Saturday, June 1, at the Evangelical Church Gym.
Doors open at 5:30, with bunco starting at 6:30. Cost is $10 per person to play. To participate, contact Teresa Riper at (541)-401-1361 or stop by the Society Library at 1223 Kalmia St. to sign up.
Basic CPR class to be offered at LBCC
Learn basic life support CPR from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Saturday, June 1, at Linn-Benton Community College Health Occupations Center, 300 Mullins Drive, Lebanon.
Those who complete this course earn a non-healthcare CPR certification card valid for two years, good for the workplace and beyond.
Cost is $60. To register, call (541) 917-4840.
For more information, visit http://www.linnbenton.edu/extended-learning/continuing-education/cpr.php.
Meals on Wheels weekly menu
Meals on Wheels 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 menu on Friday, May 24, is a Memorial Day special of herbed chicken sandwich or sloppy Joe, both on a bun, chuckwagon corn, creamy coleslaw and seasonal fresh fruit.
No meal will be served Monday, May 27, due to the Memorial Day holiday.
The menu on Tuesday, May 28, will be a Memorial Day special of barbecued chicken sandwich or kielbasa sausage with sauerkraut on a bun with yellow mustard, baked beans, carrot raisin salad and zucchini brownie.
Volunteers are needed for both kitchen help and meal delivery.
For more information, contact Norene at (541) 367-8843.