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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

“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

Family Owned and Operated 1/4 Scale Train Park offering Train Rides for all ages. Take the approximately 10-12 minute summer ride around a privately owned 4-acre park seeing a pond, faux mining camp, tunnel, and so much more.

​Don’t forget to grab a scavenger hunt and search while you ride!

Tennessee Thunder Stand and Railroad is open for Summer Rides on:

July 22nd & 23rd, 1 – 4pm
Aug. 26th & 27th, 1 – 4pm
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Paid Ticket Grants you access to park

​Adult (ages 13 and up): $7.50

Child (ages 2 – 12): $6.50

Infant (1 and under): Free

​*Second Ride is 1/2 Price!

​Cash preferred; Cards accepted with fee

Photo: “Making Tracks in Lebanon” by Nancy Hunt

Family Owned and Operated 1/4 Scale Train Park offering Train Rides for all ages. Take the approximately 10-12 minute summer ride around a privately owned 4-acre park seeing a pond, faux mining camp, tunnel, and so much more.

​Don’t forget to grab a scavenger hunt and search while you ride!

Tennessee Thunder Stand and Railroad is open for Summer Rides on:

July 22nd & 23rd, 1 – 4pm
Aug. 26th & 27th, 1 – 4pm
​

Paid Ticket Grants you access to park

​Adult (ages 13 and up): $7.50

Child (ages 2 – 12): $6.50

Infant (1 and under): Free

​*Second Ride is 1/2 Price!

​Cash preferred; Cards accepted with fee

Photo: “Making Tracks in Lebanon” by Nancy Hunt

Portland, Oregon family friendly music featuring Johnny Clay (The Dimes), Dave Gulick and Nat Johnson (Derby). With stylistic nods to 1970’s era Sesame Street, School House Rock, and “The Point” by Harry Nilsson, Ants Ants Ants recalls the best elements of a fun and fanciful childhood – the thrill of knocking down a tower of blocks; the fun of imagining what your dog is thinking; a make believe world where nocturnal animals meet in the park at night to play games.

Doors open at 2pm, show starts at 3pm

KIDS admission prices: Presale online $5, or at the Door day of $7

ADULTS admission prices: Presale online $10, or at the Door day of $15

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

In May of 1923 the Jefferson Women’s Club appointed a committee to find a suitable place to house a public library. The first library was opened on July 10, 1923, in the Smith and Fontaine General Merchandise Store with club members serving as volunteer librarians.

Join the Jefferson Public Library for their Centennial Open House on Aug. 1 from 10am – 7pm. They’re celebrating the library’s past, present, and future with games, food & fun!

Photo: Santiam at Rest by Dave Maestas

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

Benton County Fair & Rodeo

A county fair wouldn’t be complete without the competition pies, quilts, paintings, flowers, and vegetables. Every year at the Benton County Fair, the community’s gardeners, bakers and artisans of all ages come together to share their talents with our fairgoers.

Join the Albany Carousel for a sensory-friendly ride!

To provide a more accepting and comfortable setting for individuals on the autism spectrum or with sensory sensitivities and their families, we will slow the carousel down to a jog and turn off the organ music.

It’s our hope to provide a fun and inviting space for everyone. So put on your blue and join us!