Community Calendar

Drop your scraps at the ScienceWorks parking lot. When food waste is dumped in landfills and methane, aka “natural gas”, is created. This service costs $30 for December 2025 through February 2026. If you have any questions, please call Adam Holtey at 541-301-3426. Let’s do our part to keep food scraps out of the garbage!

ACCEPTED ITEMS:
– All non-meat/non-seafood scraps and leftovers
– All fruit and vegetable peelings, pits, and shells
– Pumpkins
– Rice, pasta, bread, cereal, and oats
– Egg and nut shells
– Dairy products
– Coffee grounds and filters, teabags

NOT ACCEPTED:
– Meat of any kind — beef, port, chicken, or seafood.
– Yard debris — leaves, flowers, wreaths, weeds, plants, or soil
– Paper products
– Coal or Charcoal
– Prescription drugs and medications
– “Compostable” plates, cutlery, and bags
– Coconut shells
– Produce labels

THANKS TO: Rogue Produce / Community Compost, Flavia Franco of Southern Oregon Food Solutions, and ScienceWorks

Silent meditation accompanied by hot Cacao!
Expand your heart space, come to a place of peace and well-being.
Fully relax and rejuvenate.

Family trees and pedigree charts provide a simple graphic format for presenting the who, when, and where of our ancestral research. But do you want a simple family tree, a horizontal pedigree chart, a fan chart, or a descendants chart? How many generations should you put on one chart? And what the heck is an ahnentafel chart? Jeanne Hoadley will explore some of the many types of ancestry charts available along with various software packages for producing them. She will also discuss the pros and cons of handwritten charts vs. computer generated ones. The class will take place from 10:30 AM until noon followed by a hands-on help session from 1:00 - 3:00 PM.
Cost: $10 RVGS members, $20 non-members

There is nothing better than a hearty winter stew to make those winter blues fade away. Join local resident and home chef, Jerry Pendzick, as he demonstrates a favorite and flavorful stew recipe that is sure to delight! Added to some crusty French bread and you have a delicious meal. Bring a friend to share in this fun-filled afternoon. Recipes and tasting will be shared with all participants!

Instructor Bio: Upon retirement, Jerry Pendzick discovered his love for cooking. Trying new recipes and sharing them with family and friends has turned this self-taught chef into a “passionate” foodie. Jerry makes food preparation fun, easy and very tasty!

We are a Zen practice community in the Diamond Sangha lineage founded by Robert Aitken Rōshi. We provide zazen(meditation) instruction, weekly zazen, practice talks, Dharma discussions and more.

Thursday January 22nd 7:00 to 8:00 pm

Mark Novak is a writer who works primarily from the San Francisco/Bay Area. He holds an M.A. in Creative Writing and Poetry from San Francisco State University. His work has been featured in the “Monterey Poetry Review,” “Miserere Review,” “Lothlorien Journal of Poetry,” and “Bards West,“ His work, ‘The Vagabond Quothe Shakespeare’ was the 6th place finalist in the Writer’s Digest National Poetry Awards (2017). He is both a voice talent for readings and a contributing writer for the poetry database, Voetica.com. His chapbook, ‘Sonnets For Agnodice’ was recently picked up by Finishing Line Press in their annual 2025 Open Chapbook Contest, and is due to be published by their publishing house in May of 2026.

Barry Vitcov lives in Ashland, Oregon with his wife and exceptionally brilliant standard poodle. His poetry and short stories have appeared in a variety of publications, including: “EAP: The Magazine,” “Literary Yard,” “The Scarlet Review,” “Fiction on the Web,” “Labyrinth,” “Mobius Blvd.,” “Black Sheep,” “Dark Horses,” “Jefferson Review,” and “The Rapids: An Art & Literature Journal of Southern Oregon.” He has had four books published by Finishing Line Press, a collection of poetry, “Where I Live Some of the Time” (2021); a collection of short stories, “The Wilbur Stories & More” (2022); a chapbook collection of poems “Structures” (2024); and a novella “The Boy with Six Fingers” (2025). In addition to his chapbook “Boychik Poems,” FLP will be publishing a collection of short stories “Unknown & Other Stories” in early 2026.

Escape the doldrums of January with SOCB in and eclectic program of music ranging from Festive Yuletide pieces, to looking back on New York City in the 1920s with Warren Barker’s New York: 1927, a “tone picture” 1920s, flappers, ragtime, speakeasies and hustle and bustle of the city. Disney’s Fantasia 2000 animates our imaginations through classical tunes including Beethoven’s 5th, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, and Firebird Suite. Our reveries include dreaming of faraway places with Fantasy on a Gaelic Hymnsong and Irish Tune from County Derry.

Drop your scraps at the ScienceWorks parking lot. When food waste is dumped in landfills and methane, aka “natural gas”, is created. This service costs $30 for December 2025 through February 2026. If you have any questions, please call Adam Holtey at 541-301-3426. Let’s do our part to keep food scraps out of the garbage!

ACCEPTED ITEMS:
– All non-meat/non-seafood scraps and leftovers
– All fruit and vegetable peelings, pits, and shells
– Pumpkins
– Rice, pasta, bread, cereal, and oats
– Egg and nut shells
– Dairy products
– Coffee grounds and filters, teabags

NOT ACCEPTED:
– Meat of any kind — beef, port, chicken, or seafood.
– Yard debris — leaves, flowers, wreaths, weeds, plants, or soil
– Paper products
– Coal or Charcoal
– Prescription drugs and medications
– “Compostable” plates, cutlery, and bags
– Coconut shells
– Produce labels

THANKS TO: Rogue Produce / Community Compost, Flavia Franco of Southern Oregon Food Solutions, and ScienceWorks

Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) is as easy as 1,2,3! Our brains are wired to rank. All day long we rank our choices...Which coffee to get? Which ice cream to choose? Which shirt to buy?

For a voter, Ranked Choice Voting (RCV)works exactly like that. You order your choice of candidates from most preferred to least and cast your vote.

That's all there is to it.

Friday January 23rd 6:30 to 8:00 pm

Rick Fröberg was an accomplished artist and musician born in Southern California who spent most of his early creative years in San Diego before moving to New York, and then back to San Diego toward the end of his life. While juggling both of his creative outlets, he established a meaningful, urgent, vital, and powerful platform. Plenty for All: The Art of Rick Fröberg represents the many chapters and layers of his visual art practice. All of the different bodies of work he made are examined in detail–presenting the viewer with a well-rounded survey of his life’s work, mostly in chronological order.

One of the most compelling and fascinating aspects of this volume is the physical progression of Fröberg’s line work and brushstroke, and his eventual adaptation to digital means. His artwork was often featured on the record covers of his own bands, as well as other groups he met on the road, and much of his early work also appeared on posters, flyers, ads, skateboard graphics, logos, and T-shirt designs, before eventually progressing to illustrations in magazines, books, and newspapers. Fröberg’s paintings, drawings, etchings, and prints were also shown at art exhibitions throughout his career.

Plenty for All is the first look at his visual artwork in book form. It will be of great interest across the globe to his many fans (he played in a range of popular bands, including Pitchfork, Drive like Jehu, Hot Snakes, and Obits). Fröberg’s work has become very influential, and an inspiration to quite a large group of people in both the art and music worlds. He is sadly missed and mourned, but this volume will no doubt further his creative legacy. It includes short essays by curator Rich Jacobs and musician/artist Sohrab Habibion.

At this event there will be a panel discussion followed by a short musical set. Featuring:
Sohrab Habibion (Obits, Savak)
Johnny Temple (Girls Against Boys)
Alexis Fleisig (Girls Against Boys)
Bobby Arellano (Bonnie Prince Billy)
Jodie Jean Marston
Craig Wright