Community Calendar

Naturopath physician Mikinzie Smoot will lead adults in strength-building exercises – incorporating weights, weight bars and step platforms.

Book directly with instructor for this one-hour class – offered weekly on Wednesday at 8-9am and Fridays 8:15-9:15am.

For registration and payment: https://www.jvillefitness.com For information call: 541-621-1883 or email: drsmootmedspa@gmail.com

Join us for Weeding Wednesdays with The Crest at Willow-Witt Ranch! This weekly work party teaches participants how to identify and eradicate invasive species. Gather together to learn, explore, and practice conservation in community. All ages welcome!

Bring work gloves, sunscreen, water bottles, and a positive attitude. Please leave dogs at home. Work will be followed by a casual group lunch, so bring your favorite fuel. Willow-Witt will provide a garden salad.

Art About Agriculture encourages artists to investigate the visual resources of the science and practice that sustains human life: agriculture. It strives to develop an understanding and appreciation of food and fiber production, especially among people not traditionally acquainted with agriculture.

Art About Agriculture was established in 1983 as the first annual arts competition and tour exhibit with an agricultural theme. It recognizes professional and emerging Pacific Northwest artists, creates a growing, dynamic, permanent collection of fine art based on, stimulated by, and portraying agriculture, and presents the permanent collection and tour exhibit to rural and urban audiences. The collection is exhibited by loan agreement throughout Oregon and other parts of the Pacific Northwest.

Join Lori Grable for a Beginning Yoga class! This class is open to anyone who is interested in trying out yoga for the first time or wants a refresher yoga class after a layoff. Come with comfortable clothes, a yoga mat and water bottle. New students can arrive at 10:15.

Instructor Bio: Lori began her yoga journey in 2000 as a student at the Santa Barbara Yoga Center. She was drawn to the practice because it helped her to reconnect with her most authentic self while making her stronger and more open, physically and mentally. Her passion for yoga grew stronger as she traveled around the United States during the summer of 2003, practicing at many studios along the way. After settling in Pittsburgh, PA, she completed her teacher training and began teaching in 2006.

Today, Lori is an E-RYT 500 and teaches Vinyasa-based classes. She is influenced by the philosophy and alignment principles of Anusara Yoga. As a triathlete, Lori has an interest in yoga for athletes and has taught many workshops on the topic. She has a passion for the outdoors and has taught yoga in parks, vineyards, and backyards. Lori appreciates the healing and restorative qualities of yoga and has also worked with students who are recovering from illness, rehabilitating injuries, pregnant, or elderly.

Dual-resident painter and San Francisco Art Institute alum Patricia Schaefer- Robbins will debut a concurrent solo exhibitions at Nous Restaurant.

The exhibition brings a unique global perspective to Ashland’s art scene. Splitting time between
studios in Ashland and London, England, Schaefer-Robbins uses oil and acrylic to weave together
botanical themes, still life, pagan traditions, and ancient lore.

At Nous Restaurant, visitors will get an exclusive look at mythical and ritualistic works, including
"Offering," and pieces from an ambitious new series of larger-scale panels exploring goddess
mythology, such as "Court of the Autumn Equinox" and "Song of the Green Woods."

Cultivating Companions: Growing Together Through Plants, 18+ YRS

Join the Jackson County Master Gardeners to learn about indoor plants and develop skills you can take to your outside gardens. Have fun making garden art and meeting new friends in your area! Participants can come to any of the seven classes in this series, or attend them all!

Week 1 (Aug. 7): Houseplant Care
Join the Master Gardeners to learn about basic houseplant care. Get hands on practice potting up a plant to take home and add to your home!

Week 2 (Aug. 14): Plant Propagation
Join the Master Gardeners to learn the ins and outs of propagating your plants by stem and leaf cutting. Practice the techniques with us and take home your plant cuttings!

Week 3 (Aug. 21): Plant Poetry and Floral Design
Let your creative side shine in this class with Master Gardeners. Poetry can be intimidating to try, but we will guide you through a model that is easy for beginners to practice. Learn and practice your floral design skills, building a bud vase design you can take to brighten your home!

Week 4 (Aug. 28): Growing Herbs and Microgreens
Join the Master Gardeners to learn about growing herbs and microgreens indoors for year-round fresh food. Start a container of herbs from seed and a tray of microgreen to take home and add to your kitchen windowsill!

Week 5 (Sep. 4): Pressed Flowers
Let your creative side shine in this class with Master Gardeners. Learn about pressing flowers and get some ideas of what art can be made using pressed flowers. Design and take home a bookmark and clear frame with your flower design!

Week 6 (Sep. 11): Plant Pests
Join the Master Gardeners to learn about those pesky pests that can attack our plants. Learn some tips to identify and manage common pests.

Week 7 (Sep. 18): Dried Herbs and Tea Party
Fall is the season to harvest all your herbs and preserve them for seasonings. Join the Master Gardeners to learn ways to dry and store your herbs and enjoy a warm cup of tea. Take home some herbs to dry at home and your tea mug

This display of “Art in the Park” is an example of the largest and most complex Tibetan Buddhist Sand Mandalas in traditional Tibetan Monastic practices. The Kalachakra Mandala is often referred to as "The Wheel of Time". It is easy to say that this is a ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ opportunity for most people. It is so special that it required the Dalai Lama’s permission to create it. The 2700 year-old design has been taught in the monasteries and passed down form monk-to-monk. This display is created by Master Artist Lama Losang Samten. Open to the public every day from 12:30-5pm until Sunday September 20th.

Presented in cooperation with the
Mount Shasta Parks and Recreation District and Jefferson Friends of Tibetan Culture

Sons of the American Legion Grants Pass Squadron 28 is hosting a Dinner on Friday Sept 11th
206 NW F St Grants Pass, 541-474-6400
9/11 25th Anniversary Remembrance Day
First Responders (Fire, Police, EMT, SAR, etc.) and Military Veterans are invited to join us on this special day in appreciation of their service for a free meal from 2pm-6pm. Our regular menu features Hamburgers, Hot Dogs, Tacos, Chicken Wings, Crispy Chicken Salad and more. Please wear your uniform or bring ID cards. Coffee, Ice Tea, or Water is included, other Beverages are available for sale. Sponsored by the Sons of The American Legion Grants Pass Squadron 28.

Proceeds benefit the Sons Programs

Part of the JCC Community-in-Action Series – This second session of the Doi Family story highlights a remarkable journey of resilience and service as the presenters share how their parents ultimately left the incarceration camp. Learn how their father and three dozen other men from Tule Lake became the first to enlist in the U.S. Army from their camp, attending a highly classified Military Intelligence Language School (MILS) near Minneapolis to prepare for vital service in the South Pacific. This presentation weaves together their father’s secret wartime contributions and their mother’s path to freedom through a marriage proposal, offering a unique perspective on courage and survival and inspiration for questions facing people of conscience today. No need to have attended the first presentation. Funded in part by a grant from Oregon Humanities.

Instructor Bios:

Peggy Doi:
Peggy is the oldest of Bill and Peggie Doi’s five children. She was born and grew up in Minneapolis and received a BS degree in Medical Technology from the University of Minnesota. She worked primarily in pharmaceutical research and public health. She retired and moved back to the Twin Cities in 2009 to care for her parents. Currently she is very active with the Minnesota Nikkei Project, a non-profit service group to aging Japanese in the Twin Cities area; a group spearheaded by her father in 1978. She is a member of the Twin Cities Japanese American Citizen League Education Committee and through this group gives presentations on the Japanese in America, based on her family’s stories. She is also a member of her parish Social Justice committee and is a member of the RASP (Roseville Area Senior Program) Advisory Council, and She is also one of the volunteer directors for a non-profit gift shop at the Aŋpétu Téča (awn-BET-doo TEH-cha) Education Center.

Dave Doi:
David Doi has a degree from the University of Minnesota in American History with a concentration in civil rights and civil liberties and a minor in Political Science. He spent his entire career working in the non-profit sector doing community organizing whether in South Minneapolis with a neighborhood association or organizing law enforcement across the country to prevent gun violence with Jim and Sarah Brady. He served as the executive director of the Minneapolis Community Crime Prevention Program and the National Coalition for Juvenile Justice. He moved to Washington DC and spent 20 years doing advocacy there. After retiring to Jacksonville, he served as the volunteer executive director of Rebuilding Together Rogue Valley for 2-1/2 years during COVID. He has served as the Secretary of the Jacksonville Community Center since 2017 and was awarded AARP’s Oregon volunteer of the year award in 2020. He has a son and daughter, four grandchildren, and is celebrating his 50th wedding anniversary this year with his wife, Sue Miler.

All are welcome to experience the joy of folk dancing, and enjoy wonderful live music Friday, March 13, and every second Friday throughout the year, in North Bend. The North Bend Public Library invites everyone to join the fun starting at 6:00 Friday evening in their newly remodeled Activity Room. This is a special series of free public dances. Folk Dance Night at the Library will be a regular monthly gathering every second Friday at 6:00. New dancers are always welcome. Call 541-404-8267.