BRIEFLY COMMUNITY.Byline: The Register-Guard Weekend Extension sale all about sewing A Quilters, Crafters and Seamstresses Sale will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at the Lane County Extension Service, 950 W. 13th Ave. The cash-only sale will feature hundreds of books, magazines and sewing items, as well as a raffle for a new sewing machine sewing machine, device that stitches cloth and other materials. An attempt at mechanical sewing was made in England (1790) with a machine having a forked, automatic needle that made a single-thread chain. In 1830, B. . The sale will benefit the Extension Service's Homemakers Study Group Program. Yule Log yule log log burned at Christmas. [Western Tradition: NCE, 552] See : Christmas calendar to be published Sunday The Register-Guard's annual Yule Log calendar will be published Sunday in the Oregon Life section. The deadline for submitting items for the calendar has passed. The holiday listing includes music, dance and theatrical performances, art shows and sales, open houses and special events that will be held through Jan. 3. Used Mystery Novel Sale planned at library The Friends of Eugene Public Library's Used Mystery Novel Sale will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at the downtown library. Browsers can choose from thousands of popular, gently used detective stories and spy thrillers priced at $1 each. All proceeds go to library programs. Admission is free. For more information, call 682-5450 or visit www.eugene-or.gov/library. Volunteers sought for parks restoration The city of Eugene's Volunteers in Parks program is seeking volunteers to assist in restoration projects in the Whilamut Natural Area from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday. Volunteers will be removing invasive species
Invasive species is a phrase with many definitions. The first definition expresses the phrase in terms of non-indigenous species (e.g. and planting native shrubs. Volunteers will meet in parking lot No. 9 behind Autzen Stadium at 9 a.m. and carpool car·pool n. also car pool 1. An arrangement whereby several participants or their children travel together in one vehicle, the participants sharing the costs and often taking turns as the driver. 2. to the site. Tools, gloves, instructions and snacks will be provided. For more information or to RSVP (ReSerVation Protocol) A communications protocol that signals a router to reserve bandwidth for real time transmission. RSVP is designed to clear a path for audio and video traffic, eliminating annoying skips and hesitations. , contact Lorna Baldwin at 682-4845, 912-2142, or lorna.j.baldwin@ci.eugene.or.us. Vigil to support closing of combat school A vigil will be held at the Free Speech Plaza at Eighth Avenue and Oak Street in downtown Eugene from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday to support the closing of the School of Americas, a combat training school in Fort Benning, Ga., that has trained more than 60,000 Latin American soldiers. The annual gathering is sponsored by the Latin America Solidarity Committee. The vigil will include music and information, and will run concurrent with a similar vigil at Fort Benning. For more information, call 485-8633 or visit www.efn.org/~ciscap. Master Recycler training course set JUNCTION CITY - Training in how to reduce solid waste and conserve natural resources will be held in the next Master Recycler training in Junction City. The next course will be held from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Tuesdays, Jan. 12 through March 9, in the new community center across from the Junction City library. Completed applications will be accepted on a first-come, first-served basis. Visit www.lanecounty.org/PW_WMD WMD white muscle disease. _Recycle/MasterRecycler.htm or call 682-2059 for more information. |
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