Posted: Sunday, January 20, 2008 10:00 pm
News & Notes
Pizza Hut adds WingStreet: Pizza Hut at 2215 14th Ave. S.E., will soon become the 14th Pizza Hut WingStreet out of 195 restaurants owned by the Pizza Hut of Southeast Kansas franchise. They have restaurants in 10 states.
The restaurant will feature a bar and flat screen televisions and a variety of new menu items including chicken wings in eight flavors and three varieties. The menu will also maintain traditional Pizza Hut favorites, but add taters, fried cheese sticks and cinnamon apple pies.
Items will be available for dine-in, delivery or carryout. Call 926-1643 for more information.
Scrapbooking retreat: Judy's Magic Memories, a scrapbooking retreat, has opened at 590 Hemlock in Corvallis. There is room for 10 overnight guests at a time. While there, guests have 24-hour access to a cropping room complete with a table for each guest, a natural light lamp and tools such as a die cutting machine and computer to aid their scrapbooking projects.
Single day or weekend cropping retreats are available. Design classes for beginners, intermediates and experienced scrappers are offered. Homecooked meals are served in the dining room.
For more information, call 619-7472 or visit www.judysmagicmemories@yahoo
.com.
Getting fit: Fitness Experience, which has been doing business locally as Gold's Gym since 1990, is now operating as Fitness Experience, Inc. Open 7 days a week, with more than 1,000 members, the gym has been owned since 1987 by Corkie LeBlanc and Sherry Blackman.
The gym is sponsoring a Change Your Body Challenge. Entrants pay $50 by Jan. 31. The winner will take the pot.
The facility has 17,000 square feet of fitness equipment and offers more than 20 group fitness classes. Fitness director Deana Wyland has a Master's Degree in Exercise Science/Injury Prevention and is a Certified Performance Enhancement Specialist. She is in her 10th year with the gym.
For more information, call 917-3488 or
Super volunteers: Umpqua Bank, a subsidiary of Umpqua Holdings Corporation, contributed 22,125 associate volunteer hours through its Connect Volunteer Network in 2007. The Connect Volunteer Network provides each full-time associate with 40 hours of paid time off per year to serve organizations and schools committed to youth and community development in Oregon, Washington and Northern and Central California.
During the past year, 1,200 Umpqua associates volunteered in their community representing a 31 percent increase in associate participation and a 48 percent increase in the program's total volunteer hours from 2006.
Continuing Education
Restaurant seminars: The Small Business Development Center at Linn-Benton Community College will offer two-hour restaurant seminars at its Corvallis center, 757 N.W. Polk, behind Borders. The next seminar will be Controlling Food Costs on Jan. 30 from 2 to 4 p.m. Cost: $25.
Marketing Your Restaurant will be held from 2-4 p.m. on Feb. 13. Cost: $25. Call 917-4923 to reserve space. Bob Bernhard is the instructor. Visit the websites at www.biz
center.org and www.linnbenton.edu/go/sbdc.
Business Calendar
Jan. 22: Oregon Women for Agriculture will hold a leadership symposium from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Comfort Suites, 630 Hawthorne Ave. S.E., Salem. Cost: $25 members, $35 nonmembers. Space is limited to 50. Registration: Jennifer McCarthy, 503-373-3051, or visit www.owaonline.org.
Jan. 24: Willamette Valley Wheat Growers winter workshop, 2 to 4 p.m., Linn County Fair and Expo Center, 2700 Knox Butte Road, Albany. Several topics including "Your Future on the Farm", and a review of agronomic practices to maximize wheat yields. Free. RSVP by calling 541-276-7330.
Jan. 24: The third Drug-Free Workplace Seminar sponsored by the Albany Area Chamber of Commerce will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The program will be at the Central Willamette Community Credit Union administrative offices, 7101 Supra Drive S.W. Register no later than Jan. 18 at the chamber, or call 926-7064.
Jan. 25: Drugs in the Workplace will be the topic of the Lebanon Chamber of Commerce forum from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Samaritan Lebanon Community Hospital. Guest speakers will include Dr. Richard Evans of Samaritan Health Services, Gary Barnes of Reliant Behavioral Health, Sgt. Kevin Greene of the Linn County Sheriff's Office, and Jo Ann McQueary, Linn County Sheriff's Office. $10 per person.
Jan. 30: Albany chamber of commerce luncheon, 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., Linn County Fair and Expo Center. Guest speaker: State Climatologist George Taylor. Cost: $13 to $18.
Jan. 31: The Albany Area Chamber of Commerce will present a workshop, "Generations at Work," from 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Phoenix Inn Suites, 3410 Spicer Drive, S.E., Albany. Cost: $20 members, $25 non-members. Registration: 926-1517.
Feb. 9: The Willamette Valley Tree Fruit Growers will meet at 9:40 a.m. at Roth's IGA in West Salem. The topic will be pesticide use. Call 541-769-8965 to register.
Feb. 12: The seventh annual Eggs and Issues ag appreciation breakfast, sponsored by the Albany chamber of commerce. 7 a.m. at the Linn County Fair and Expo Center. Guest speaker: Pat Wray, humorist and outdoorsman.
Feb. 16: The Linn County chapter of the Oregon Small Woodlands Association tree sale will be held from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. (or until supplies run out) at the Linn County Fair and Expo Center. Prices for conifers range from 75 cents to $1.50. For more information, or to pre-order, call Fay or Sherm Sallee at 541-451-5322 or e-mail: sksallee@proaxis.com.
Feb. 21-23: The 2008 Oregon Logging Conference, Logging, Construction, Trucking and Heavy Equipment Expo, will take place from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Feb. 21; 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Feb. 22 and 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Feb. 23, at the Lane County Fairgrounds and Convention Center in Eugene. Cost: $85. Registration: 800-595-9191, 541-686-9191, www.oregonloggingconference.com.