ALBANY

Pool taking signups for youth lessons

The Albany Community Pool is registering for fall youth lessons. There are two sessions to choose from: Oct. 9-Nov. 1 and Nov. 6-29

Classes are Tuesdays and Thursdays and run between 6 and 8:05 p.m. The cost is $30.50 for eight

half-hour classes. (The second sessions only meets seven times, as there is no class Nov. 22).

For specific class times, call the office at 967-4521.

Workshop will feature recycling in gardens

The Benton County Master Gardeners will hold a recycling in the garden workshop at 2 p.m. Saturday at the demonstration garden at the Linn County Fair & Expo Center.

Bonnie White will teach participants how to transform a tire, used plastic garbage bags and coffee sack burlap into an Eco planter.

They will learn to turn a straw bale into a fall-and-winter garden. A variety of creative mulches will be demonstrated such as coffee husk, tea grounds, hazelnut shell and wood chips. The garden has a complete composting site with a variety of bins and any kind of composting can be demonstrated.

For more information, contact Bonnie White at

704-0439 or compostqueen4@comcast.net.

LEBANON

School district searching for business director

The Lebanon Community School District has begun a search for a new director of business.

Donna Chastain's last day will be Oct. 16. She has accepted a position at Oregon State University as a manager in the employee benefits office.

The Lebanon School Board on Monday thanked Chastain for her years of service since joining the Lebanon district in January 2004.

Trail group seeks volunteers for work party

Build Lebanon Trails, the group that wants to develop a 50-mile path system throughout the city, seeks volunteers this Saturday to help install a 3,600-foot fence along a trail segment called Marks Slough.

Work begins at 9 a.m. and continues until 4 p.m. BLT crews leading the project will assign work and guide volunteers. Bring gloves, pliers and a sack lunch.

To RSVP or for more information, contact Nancy Kirks at 451-6425 or Rod Sell at 258-4283.

Marks Slough trail is located off Tennessee Road north of Lebanon. To get there, head east on Wheeler Street as it turns into Tennessee Road S.E. Turn left onto the gravel road at Beaton Lane and look for parking.

BLT's long-term plan is to connect path segments already present around town. Each proposed trail is inside Lebanon's urban growth boundary with planned trail heads close to neighborhoods, schools, business centers, public buildings and parks, the hospital and senior center.

MID-VALLEY

Teen writers invited to apply for Young Voices

High school students in the mid-valley who are interested in writing or photography are invited to apply for the Democrat-Herald's Young Voices program.

Young Voices gives students the opportunity to learn about newspaper work and a variety of other topics as they produce stories and pictures for a weekly Young Voices page.

Students can contribute as much or as little work as their schedules permit but must be willing to follow through on whatever work they commit to. They'll receive a $25 stipend for every story the paper publishes.

Any student interested in the program should send an e-mail to Associate Editor Steve Lundeberg, the Young Voices adviser, at steve.lundeberg@lee.net. The e-mail should include a 200-word autobiography and a few general story topics the writer is interested in pursuing.

For more information, call 812-6110.

Democrat-Herald