Posted: Thursday, September 20, 2007 10:00 pm
ALBANY
Liberty students read for Heifer International
Students in third, fourth and fifth grades at Liberty Elementary School have begun a "Read to Feed" fundraiser they hope will bring in enough money to buy livestock for families in need in other countries.
The children are taking pledges for minutes read, pages read, books read or other goals met through Sept. 28. Call the school at 967-4578 to make a pledge.
Proceeds will go to Heifer International, a nonprofit organization that purchases farm animals for poor families in countries around the world. The offspring from these animals are then given to other families in need.
Fifth-graders at Liberty are studying Ecuador and trying to raise money for alpacas to send to families there. Third- and fourth-graders are studying Africa and are raising money for goats to send to families there.
More information on Heifer International can be found at www.heifer.org.
Tech Time will feature Library2Go system
Albany Public Library's September Tech Time will focus on showing patrons how to use Library2Go, a source of audio books and other databases and resources online. Tech Time is at 6 p.m. Thursday at the Main Library, 1390 Waverly Drive S.E.
Library2Go provides access to more than 2,000 audio books that patrons can download to personal computers or MP3 players (except iPods). Many of the books may also be burned to a compact disc.
Databases are also available at the library to help businesses stay in touch with trades and help students with school projects. They include three online encyclopedias with audio and video components, updates of contemporary magazine articles, and more than 10,000 full-text magazine titles and archives. Library databases are available on public-use computers in the library, as well as from home and school computers with an Albany Public Library card.
For more information, contact John Burton, reference librarian, at 917-7580, ext. 4702.
CORVALLIS
OSU seeks entries for Art About Ag show
The Oregon State University College of Agricultural Sciences has opened its 26th annual art competition, Art About Agriculture, for entries. This year's theme is "The Nick of Time."
The annual OSU competition is seeking art submissions that focus on the passage of time - day by day, season by season, or year by year - each inspired by Pacific Northwest agriculture.
The juried competition is open to all fine arts and traditional crafts media. Artists living in Alaska, British Columbia, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington may enter. Student artwork completed while enrolled in an educational curriculum is not eligible.
The Art About Ag Tour 2008 prospectus is available online at http://agsci.oregonstate.edu/art. To get a printed prospectus, send an e-mail to shelley.curtis@oregonstate.edu or mail a postcard request with your name and address to: Art About Agriculture, OSU, 127 Strand Agriculture Hall, Corvallis, OR 97331-2213.
Tickets for OSU comedy show on sale
Tickets are on sale for the Oregon State University Dad's Weekend comedy show, which features four premier Pacific Northwest comedians.
The show will be at 6:30 p.m. and 9 p.m. on Nov. 9 at the LaSells Stewart Center on campus.
Titled "The Best of the Northwest," it will be headlined by Dave Anderson, contributing writer for the "Tonight Show with Jay Leno" and co-host of the "Mark & Dave Show" on KEX radio and AM Northwest on KATU-TV in Portland.
Also scheduled to appear are Kermit Apio, Dwight Slade and Dave Crowe.
The shows are open to the public, but some material may not be appropriate for children.
Tickets are $22 for the balcony and $28 for the main floor. Order tickets at http://osumu.org/events_dad.htm.
Democrat-Herald