Community Calendar

Dip into Jacksonville history at your leisure! Want a quick sample? Then check out our daily Facebook and Instagram posts. Want an overview? Watch our new 30 minute video tour of Jacksonville. Want to dig deeper? Check out historic sites at our Walk through History Blog or learn about early settlers at Pioneer Profiles. Posts! Blogs! Video! It's Jacksonville's history at your fingertips right here at www.historicjacksonville.org!

Have a 5th, 6th, 7th, or 8th grader that isn't getting any sexuality education in school this year?  We’ve got you covered with virtual sex ed for 5th-8th graders! We have virtual classrooms that include medically accurate, inclusive sessions covering puberty, birth control, and more! To learn more and register for an upcoming series, visit these links: 5th/6th grade - https://bit.ly/LiveVirtual5th-6th, 7th/8th grade - https://bit.ly/LiveVirtual7th-8th.

Dip into Jacksonville history at your leisure! Want a quick sample? Then check out our daily Facebook and Instagram posts. Want an overview? Watch our new 30 minute video tour of Jacksonville. Want to dig deeper? Check out historic sites at our Walk through History Blog or learn about early settlers at Pioneer Profiles. Posts! Blogs! Video! It's Jacksonville's history at your fingertips right here at www.historicjacksonville.org!

Rebuilding lives, livelihoods, and a sense of personal safety isn’t something anyone needs to do alone. COVID-19 and the 2020 Oregon wildfires have changed our lives. There are resources and supports available for you and the ones you love, and Lines for Life will help connect you to the right ones for you! This FEMA-funded outreach program is designed to connect individuals with compassionate assistance and resources to ease the burden of COVID-19 and the Oregon wildfires, strengthen community networks, and foster resiliency. We help individuals obtain housing/shelter assistance, food assistance, COVID-19 assistance, legal assistance, behavioral health assistance, transportation, small business relief, and more.  These services are free, confidential, and have no eligibility criteria — anyone who needs support gets support! Anyone can be connected with a member of our team by calling 971-420-1028, or for Spanish call 971-420-1018, or by email at FEMAhelp@linesforlife.org.

Jackson County Public Health is offering no-cost HIV testing (regardless of insurance status) on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday for appointments during hours listed. The appointment can be done in as little as 15 minutes and results can be provided at this time. All clients are able to access referrals to support agencies and resources as well as safer sex supplies. During the appointment clients are also provided with education about STI/HIV transmission and safer sex practices.

AARP Tax Aide will offer free tax preparation services this year using a process intended to keep taxpayers and volunteers safe in accordance with COVID-19 guidelines. This service is by appointment only. The process this year is designed to minimize physical contact while allowing AARP volunteers to prepare complete and accurate returns. You will be asked to: Pick up a packet at the Ashland Branch during regular hours. This includes documents that you will need to bring to your appointment (see below) as well as documents to fill out so that volunteers have all of your information for the 2020 tax year. Request an appointment. Once you have all of your information compiled, you will use the AARP site to request an appointment for a brief meeting with one of the tax counselors. Add yourself to the Wait List (instructions inside packet). Meet with a tax counselor. Bring your information packet to the Library for a brief review with a tax counselor, who will then scan your documents and return them to you. At that meeting you will schedule a time to come back and pick up your return. Follow-up appointment for tax return. Your return will be prepared and reviewed by tax counselors working remotely. Then the return will be printed out and reviewed with you by a tax counselor at the library. You must wear a face covering (nose and mouth) and maintain social distancing at all times.

Please join Rev. Diana Johnson every Sunday at 10:00 for Taizé Meditative Service. Taizé intentionally includes the elements of inspirational readings, silence, repetition and sung prayer among other devotions. The doors open at 9:45, and you are asked to enter in silence and join in quiet meditation until 10:00. At the conclusion of the Taizé service, we will share coffee, tea and finger food (pot luck). This quiet and contemplative service is for adults only. You may join us for online services on Zoom. Zoom links are accessed through the Zoom links on the home page.

Travel back in time with Sue DeMarinis, a local Ashland author, to see how the1880s arrival of the railroad to Southern Oregon brought many lifestyle changes and advantages to our small, then isolated communities. Please note, this event will take place remotely via Zoom. Zoom meeting details will be emailed to you when you register at https://jcls.libcal.com/event/7382625. The monthly Windows In Time lunchtime lectures feature well-known writers and historians and bring alive the people, values, and events that shaped our Southern Oregon heritage. Lectures are jointly sponsored by the Southern Oregon Historical Society (SOHS) and Jackson County Library Services.

The 1880s arrival of the railroad to Southern Oregon brought many lifestyle changes and advantages to our small, then isolated communities. However, Sue DeMarinis, a local Ashland author, has dug deeper to expose the scandals that also linked the rails to little known history. Collaborating information from County documents, historic newspapers, and ancestry records, Sue uncovered mostly forgotten historical events and characters that shaped the foundation of our Southern Oregon Valley. Travel back in time with Sue to see vintage photos and hear about how pioneers traveled before the railroad. Learn how the final Golden Spike--which completed the Continental Railroad Loop--was built by railroad workers from around the globe, who brought their culture and conflicts to the Valley. Discover shady railroad land grant dealings, mud-stuck circus animals, a botched train robbery, and mail order brides--some of whom were discarded after arrival--left to become "ladies of the night" in order to survive. All of these events added spark to the gossip and street corner news of yesteryear in the Rogue Valley. The monthly Windows In Time lunchtime lectures feature well-known writers and historians and bring alive the people, values, and events that shaped our Southern Oregon heritage. Lectures are jointly sponsored by the Southern Oregon Historical Society (SOHS) and Jackson County Library Services.

The Jackson County Syringe Exchange Program (SEP) is part of a comprehensive public health approach, that is evidence-based, to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS, hepatitis C, and other bloodborne pathogens among people who use injection drugs, their families, and the larger community. On Friday events, we also offer HIV and Hepatitis-C test for no-cost. Services are anonymous and include: -Exchange used points for new points, 1 for 1 exchange -Safe injection supplies -Wound care supplies -Safer sex supplies -Risk reduction counseling -Referrals to medical care, HIV and STD testing and treatment, naloxone, mental health, alcohol and drug treatment, and medication assisted treatment -Naloxone kits are provided twice a month through HIV Alliance -Fentanyl Test Strips