ENTREE NOTES.Byline: The Register-Guard Brew fest benefits local foundation The third annual Sasquatch Beer Fest begins Friday with a special dinner that pairs beers from local brew pubs with "haute cuisine haute cuisine n. 1. Elaborate or skillfully prepared food, especially that of France. 2. The characteristic manner or style of preparing such food. ." It continues Saturday with an open-air festival featuring the beers from more than a dozen breweries in the Pacific Northwest. Proceeds from the festival will benefit the Glen Hay Falconer Foundation, a nonprofit organization Nonprofit Organization An association that is given tax-free status. Donations to a non-profit organization are often tax deductible as well. Notes: Examples of non-profit organizations are charities, hospitals and schools. that provides professional brewing scholarships to apprentices with limited means. Falconer, who worked as head brewer at the former Wild Duck Brewery in Eugene, died in 2002. Friday's four-course dinner costs $40 per person and takes place at Mallard mallard: see duck. mallard Abundant “wild duck” (Anas platyrhynchos, family Anatidae) of the Northern Hemisphere, ancestor of most domestic ducks. The mallard is a typical dabbling duck in its general habits and courtship display. Hall, 725 W. First Ave. Reservations are required and can be made online at www.sasquatchbrewfest .org/. Admission to the Saturday event, which runs from noon to midnight on the downtown Eugene Mall at Broadway Plaza Broadway Plaza is the name of various places:
Advance tickets may be purchased through all Safeway TicketsWest outlets or via the brewfest's Web site. For information, call (541) 543-5201. Extension Service offers free classes Low-cost, easy recipes will be the focus of a series of classes offered this month by the OSU/Lane County Extension Service's nutrition education program. The classes will be offered at no charge to families who qualify for free or reduced-price school lunches, who meet federal income guidelines for assistance or who participate in the food stamp program The US Food Stamp Program is a federal assistance program that provides food to low income people living in the United States. Benefits are distributed by the individual states, but the program is administered through the U.S. Department of Agriculture. , the Oregon Health Plan The Oregon Health Plan is the Oregon state healthcare program for low income residents of Oregon. Eligibility Basic eligibility requires that the applicant be a resident of Oregon, as a citizen or otherwise. , WIC WIC - WAN Interface Card , Head Start or other low-income programs. Recipes will be made during the class, and nutritional information will be provided. The classes will take place at the Extension auditorium from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on June 8, 15, 22 and 29. Those who wish to attend must preregister pre·reg·is·ter v. pre·reg·is·tered, pre·reg·is·ter·ing, pre·reg·is·ters v.intr. To take part in preregistration. v.tr. To enroll (a student) during a period of preregistration. by calling the Extension office at 682-4281 or toll free, (800) 872-8980. Registration also may be done online at extension.oregonstate.edu/lane, then click on "nutrition education." Butterflies on display at Elkton festival The butterly gardens and pavilion and native Oregon plant park at the Elkton Community Education Center will be open for a special festival on June 11 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. The event includes a plant sale and "boot fayre," the English version of a flea market See computer flea market. flea market yard sale of used items at low prices. [Pop. Culture: Misc.] See : Inexpensiveness conducted from the trunk of a car - called a "boot" in England - or the back of a pickup truck. A new enterprise, Cracked Pot Herb any plant, the leaves or stems of which are boiled for food, as spinach, lamb's-quarters, purslane, and many others. See also: Pot , will sell herbs and pots as well as an herbal luncheon. Although the festival will be free, there will be a $3 admission fee for those who wish to take an additional tour. The tours include the Bill Town garden near Wells Creek at 1 p.m. and Gillian Sykes' "Wine and Roses" garden at 4 p.m. A bus will be provided for the Bill Town Tour. Vendors who would like to reserve a space in the center's parking lot for the boot fayre should call (541) 584-2509 or (541) 584-2492. Garden clubs THURSDAY Lane County Dahlia dahlia (däl`yə, dăl`–) [for Anders Dahl, 1751–89, Swedish botanist and pupil of Linnaeus], any plant of the genus Dahlia Society - 7:30 p.m., Celeste Celeste is a woman's first name. Celeste may also refer to: in Music
Plant sales SATURDAY AND SUNDAY Healing Harvest Annual Plant Sale - 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. both days, 2035 Valhalla St. Item for sale will include perennials, annuals, bulbs, shrubs, succulents, small trees, vegetable starts, vines, garden art and tools. Healing Harvest promotes therapeutic horticulture and adaptive gardening. (541) 915-0599 or www.healingharvest .org. Wine tasting T0DAY Ambrosia ambrosia (ămbrō`zhə), in Greek mythology, food and drink with which the Olympian gods preserved their immortality. Extraordinarily fragrant, ambrosia was probably conceived of as a purified and idealized form of honey. - 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m., 174 E. Broadway. Featured wines will be from Willakenzie Estates in Yamhill County. Cost is $12 per person. SATURDAY AND SUNDAY The Wine Place - 2 p.m. to 5 p.m., Highway 101 at West Fourth Street, Yachats; park in back. Pinot gris Saturday, "guess-the-grape" Sunday. Free. (541) 547-5275. Workshops SATURDAY Gray's Garden Center - 10 a.m., 777 W. Sixth Ave. Noon, 4441 Main St., Springfield. The topic is how to design and install a drip watering system for garden containers and hanging baskets. Call 345-1569 or 747-2301. SATURDAY City of Eugene - 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., River House, 301 N. Adams St., along the bike path. Free composting workshop. Call 682-5542. Deadlines To be listed in Entree Notes on Wednesday, notices of food-, wine- or garden-related events must reach The Register-Guard by Tuesday of the week preceding publication. Mail notices to Entree Notes, The Register-Guard, P.O. Box 10188, Eugene, OR 97440; send a fax to 683-7631; or send e-mail to rbjornstad@guardnet.com. |
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