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FREE! All ages welcome
10am-Noon

This summer join us in a different neighborhood for games and fun for kids of all ages! You are invited to find a bench or bring a blanket and enjoy some sun and time in our beautiful parks before heading home to work on a cool take-home craft kit.

• 6/28—Lehigh Park
• 7/5—Gibson Hill Park
• 7/12—Deerfield Park
• 7/19—Takena Park
• 7/26—Sunrise Park
• 8/2—Doug Killin Park
• 8/9—Swanson Park

Photo: “Summer at Waverly Lake” by Keith Kendrick

The Li’l Art Show is a gallery display at Linn County Arts Guild including only works of art that are 8×10″ or smaller. Visitors are welcome to come enjoy artwork created by local artists from Linn County.

If you are interested in entering your art, go to the Art Guild’s website for information.

Open Streets returns Sunday, August 20, 2023!
Central Park to Peanut Park, 11 am to 3 pm

Join the community of Corvallis for their 5th annual, free street festival that re-imagines our shared public spaces – streets and parks – as places where people want to walk, bike, and play.

Open Streets features live music, dance, fitness activities, giant-sized games, food and more!

One of the favorite parts of Open Streets is the parade along the route! Local jazz and funk band, DTW, is returning to lead this year’s parade from Central Park to Peanut Park. The parade starts at 11:30 am from Central Park. Anyone can join! We’ll meet at the corner of 8th St and Madison Ave, near the southwest corner of the park, a couple of minutes prior to the start. Look for the parade ambassador!

Photo: “Giving Back” by Casey Quincy

Serving meals every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 4:30pm – 5:30pm, at 170 E Grant St. Lebanon, OR 97355.

For more information call (541) 451-7667

Photo: “Stew Fixin’s” by Oliver J. Anderson

“Celebrating Our Agricultural Heritage” is the theme of the annual History Through Headstones Tour at Albany’s Riverside Cemetery on Wednesday, July 19. It is sponsored by the Albany Regional Museum and the Riverside Cemetery Board of Directors.

This is the 13th year for the free event where light refreshments will be served from 7 pm to dusk. Visitors can park on either side of 7th Ave. west of Albany General Hospital and can begin their tour at either cemetery entrance.

Eleven people associated with the area’s agricultural community will be featured, including six members of the prolific Jenk’s family.

Here is a list of those to be honored along with the names of the docents who will talk about each one: James Benton Jenks (1833-93) and Mary Callaway Jenks (1838-1919), docent and great-granddaughter Mary Jacque Jenks Burck; Enoch Marvin Jenks (1880-1965) and Elizabeth Moser Jenks (1887-1965), docent and great grandson Tim Jenks; Howard Benton Jenks (1893-1963) and Eunice Luper Jenks (1890-1984), docent and grandson Howard Benton Jenks.

Also being honored are Amos Conrad (1925-94), docent and family friend, Pat Hagerty; Cyrill Koos (1863-1943) and Adele Koos (1864-1936), docent and family member Kathryn Koos-Lee; and John Gale Swatzka (1925-09), docent Darrel Tedisch, Riverside Cemetery Board member.

Concluding the featured subjects are Samuel Hill (1804-54), docent Bill Maddy, ARM member; and Mary Pettibone Buchner (1905-2002), docent and family member Kitty Buchner.

Photo credit: “Riverside Cemetary Heart of Linn County Genealogy” by Kimberly Richards

It’s a quick trip to Corvallis to visit the historic Whiteside Theater! The Whiteside hosts a movie every Wednesday at 7 p.m. They also host the Bob Newton Family Movie, a family-friendly 3 p.m. monthly matinee.

Visit the Whiteside Theatre’s movie listings to learn more and buy tickets. $6 in advance through the website, $8 at the door day-of.

July Schedule

• July 5, 7 p.m.: Batman (1989)
• July 12 (no movie, theater closed)
• July 19, 7 p.m.: Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
• (Thursday – bad movie special feature) July 20, 8 p.m.: VelociPastor
• (Saturday) July 22, 3 p.m.: Bob Newton Family Movie: Chips & Dale’s Rescue Rangers (free for kids 12 and under)
• July 26, 7 p.m.: Hook

The Li’l Art Show is a gallery display at Linn County Arts Guild including only works of art that are 8×10″ or smaller. Visitors are welcome to come enjoy artwork created by local artists from Linn County.

If you are interested in entering your art, go to the Art Guild’s website for information.

Shop local and fresh. For information visit Sweet Home Farmers Market

Corvallis Celtic Festival 2023

Thursday, July 20

Festival Kickoff Concert at Common Fields food truck pod in Corvallis

• 5:00- Nathan Wahlgren, Piper
• 5:30-7:00 Fionnghal
• 7:30-9:00 The Nettles

Raffles, and a roaring good time! No cover charge.
Thanks to Common Fields for donating 10% of the proceeds from the day to the festival.

Harrisburg Summer Sounds concert series

Thursday Nights, Food Trucks open at 5:30pm, Music starts at 6:30pm at Riverfront Park in Harrisburg

Free Admission

Bring a chair or blanket

• July 6, Caleb Davis Quartet
• July 13, McKayla Marie
• July 20, Outline Shine and Line Dancing
• July 27, Candy Apple Blue
• August 3, Whiskey Banditos

Photo: “Poppies Near Harrisburg” by Nancy Hunt