Meals on Wheels weekly menu
Meals on Wheels offers an on-site lunch at noon Mondays, Tuesdays and Fridays to seniors over 60 at the Sweet Home Community Center.
There is a suggested donation of $3.50 per meal.
Meals are ordered in advance, and are the same meals as delivered to Meals on Wheels participants.
A menu will always be posted in the senior center’s dining room.
The menu on Friday, June 9, is Waikiki chicken or sesame ginger pork, ginger carrots, a garden vegetable salad, squash roll and coconut treasure cake.
The menu on Monday, June 12, is lemon pepper chicken or roast pork with apple chutney, scalloped potatoes, green beans and onions, cracked wheat bread and a chocolate oatmeal bar.
The menu on Tuesday, June 13, is a beef Swiss patty with Swiss sauce or a turkey patty with gravy, garlic whipped potatoes, a capri vegetable blend, potato wheat bread and a lime whip.
For more information, contact Norene at (541) 367-8843.
Foster Lake cleanup Saturday
Interested in helping to clean up Foster Lake this Saturday?
A group will meet at 10:30 a.m. to clean up trash that has been dumped around the lake. A truck has been donated for the effort.
Meet at Shea Point at 10:30 a.m.
For more information, visit http://www.facebook.com/events/ 638309817760340.
Berry fundraiser runs through July 7
Sweet Home P.E.O. Chapter DD is holding its annual Berry Fundraiser through July 7.
Proceeds from the berry sale provide educational scholarships, loans, and grants to women in the Sweet Home community.
The berries are freshly picked Columbia Star blackberries and blueberries, flash frozen in nine-pound plastic pails.
Columbia Star Blackberries, released in 2014, is a vigorous, thornless, trailing blackberry with a superior flavor, large firm berries and is very consistently productive. The flavor is rated as good or better than marionberry, which is 20% of Columbia Star’s parentage.
To purchase berries, email [email protected] or call or text Nancy at (541) 912-6579. Orders will be collected through July 7.
Those purchasing berries will be able to pick them up in Sweet Home from 9 to 9:30 a.m. Saturday, August 19, on Long Street behind the Rio Theater.
Public safety fair coming to SHPD
The Jim Bean Public Safety Fair will be held from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, June 17, at the Sweet Home Police Department, 1950 Main St.
Children should bring bicycles to participate in a rodeo course. Visiting participants may receive helmets, bicycle safety inspections, minor repairs, bike registrations and more.
A hot dog meal will also be available while supplies last, and children can enter a drawing for a chance to win bicycles.
The event will also feature a preview of local children’s summer programs.
Various agencies and organizations – like the Linn County Sheriff’s Office; the Sweet Home Fire and Ambulance District, Public Works, public library and police department; Oregon Health Sciences University’s HERO Kids program, the Boys and Girls Clubs of the Greater Santiam and ABC House – will provide safety-related activities and information.
The event is sponsored by Linn-Co Federal Credit Union, Rio Theater, Gregory Home Team, the Sweet Home Thriftway and Radiator Supply House.
For more information, contact the Sweet Home Police Department at (541) 367-5181.
Community yard sale set June 17
The Sweet Home Chamber of Commerce is holding a series of Saturday Sweet Home community yard sales this spring and summer, scheduled June 17, July 8 and Aug. 5.
The chamber will provide maps of all participating properties, where shoppers may find deals on household items, furniture and more.
Maps will be available a day before the sales at the chamber building, 1575 Main St .; Sweet Home City Hall, 3225 Main St .; or at the garage sale board at 18th Avenue and Long Street.
To participate, contact the chamber at (541) 367-6186 or visit http://www.sweethomechamber.com and click on the “Community Yard Sale Sign Up” button.
Charity car show to roll June 24
Sweet Home will host its annual Sweet Home Sweet Ride Charity Car Show for Kids from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, June 24, at 880 22nd Ave., behind the Sweet High School football stadium.
Some 100 trophies will be awarded in such categories as cars of nearly every decade, pickups, motorcycles, dirt bikes, ATVs, 4x4s, log/semi/dump trucks and vintage trailers.
A burnout pit is part of the schedule, usually in the late morning. Other activities include 50/50 raffles, a food court, a vendors alley, poker walk and music. Admission is free.
For information on entering, visit http://www.sweethomesweetride.com or email [email protected].
Weekly markets continue in SH
Both the Sweet Home Farmers Market and the Saturday Community Market continue through the summer each week in the parking lot at 1141 12th Ave., across from the Sweet Home Library.
The Sweet Home Farmers Market runs Tuesdays through mid-October in the parking lot at 1141 12th Ave., across from the Sweet Home Library.
Market hours are from 2 to 6 p.m. Local farmers and small businesses will offer a variety of fresh-grown produce, plant starts, eggs, meat, honey and other food items. Pets are welcome, but they need to be on a leash.
For more information on how to participate, contact Belinda Bayne at (541) 418-2603.
The Saturday Market 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. each Saturday with the exception of the Oregon Jamboree and Sportsman’s Holiday weekends.
Participation is free for both shoppers and vendors. For details visit http://www.sweethomeor.gov/ced/page/community-market-vendor-registration-now-open.
Museum seeking sale donations
East Linn Museum is gearing up for its annual Yard Sale, to be held July 14-15.
The event is a fundraiser for the museum.
Donations of clean, useable items such as clothing, housewares, sporting goods, kitchen items, etc., are welcome. Large items such as furniture or electronics cannot be accepted.
Drop any donations off at the museum, 746 Long St., between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays.
The yard sale will run from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on July 14-15, during Sportsman’s Holiday Weekend.
Golf tournament to swing into town
Adult and Teen Challenge will hold a Swing for Hope Golf Tournament Friday, June 23, at Mallard Creek Golf Course, 31966 Bellinger Scale Road.
A shotgun start begins at 8 a.m. Cost is $125 per player or $500 for a party of four, which includes green fees, a golf cart and lunch.
Sign up at wvmc-golf.tcpnw.com. Corporate sponsorships are available by contacting Krista Cunningham at [email protected] or calling (503) 302-4512.