Community Calendar

Chemawa Indian School near Salem, Oregon is the oldest continuously operating off-reservation boarding school for Native children in the United States. Founded in 1880 as the Forest Grove Indian Industrial Training School, the school was moved to its current location in 1885. The school underwent several name changes before officially changing to Chemawa Indian School in 1939 and keeping that name until the present day. The boarding school housed children not only from Oregon’s Sovereign Nations but also from tribal communities throughout the country. Many scholars, both settler and Indigenous, have researched and reported on the history of the boarding school and the consequences of forced assimilation of Native children. This Windows in Time presentation will review some of this research but also describe new research opportunities made available through the online Chemawa American, the school’s weekly newspaper recently digitized for the Oregon Digital Newspaper Program.

Maureen Flanagan Battistella is an affiliate faculty member of the Southern Oregon University College of Natural and Social Sciences. Her research interests include community documentation, oral history and heritage preservation, the work published to the Stories of Southern Oregon on YouTube, the Internet Archives and the Southern Oregon Digital Archives at Southern Oregon University. Battistella currently serves as an Oregon Heritage commissioner and on the Oregon Digital Newspaper Program’s advisory board. She holds a BS and MLS from Rutgers University.

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. Programs are presented in Medford (first Wednesdays, in-person and online) and again in Ashland (second Wednesdays, in-person). Registration is only required to attend the Zoom version of Medford's program. Recordings of Medford presentations are available on the JCLS Beyond YouTube channel.

We have a wide assortment of food available. Bags with staple items are pre-filled, but we will gladly add any special requests if they are available. When you visit, there is always a simple lunch. On the last Wednesday of every month, we serve a pretty darned good hot meal with salad and a huge table filled with pies and desserts. We call it a community lunch. All are welcomed.

Once a month, read and discuss a banned book. Explore what caused these books to be banned, what being banned means, and how this impacts us as a society. We will talk about the who and the why, and if we agree or disagree. Stop by the Medford Reference desk to pick up a copy of the month's current title while supplies last!

December: Beartown by Fredrik Backman

January: Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark: Three Books to Chill Your Bones by Alvin Schwarts

February: Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

Come join us for cribbage. We are part of the American Cribbage Congress (ACC) and play 9 games of competitive cribbage every Wednesday night from September-May. $10 buy in, and we payout on the top scorecards.

Imagine West Texas in 1955. A struggling young widow and her three ranch hands are trying to come up with “Somethin’ Special for Christmas” for her young son with the help of his school teacher, while a nefarious neighbor is plotting how to buy her ranch.
This Generations Theater Company production is also a dinner theater catered by Smokin’ Gingers, a popular local food truck. The play opens in Junction City on November 28 and runs for two week-ends through Dec. 6, with evening and Saturday matinee shows.
ASL interpretation for the Deaf is provided at the Nov. 29 matinee and the Dec. 4 evening show.
Come have dinner, dessert, and show, or just dessert and show, or just show! It’s all fun. For ticket information visit Generations Theater Company’s website: jctheater.com, and click on “Events”.

Nominations are open for the Civic Contribution Award, which will be presented at State of the Community Luncheon this spring. This prestigious award honors a group or individual that has provided exceptional community service or made an important contribution to the Humboldt County community. Nomination DEADLINE is Dec. 5, 2025. Nomination form on League's website: my.lwv.org/california/humboldt-county
For more information contact Maggie Fleming at maggiefleming2018@gmail.com

Enjoy the sights and sounds of holiday trains at the Rogue Valley Mall again this year from the Medford Garden Railroaders. This club from the Medford Railroad Park will showcase its holiday model railroad layout on the first floor of the Rogue Valley Mall, 1600 N. Riverside Ave., Medford, near the Kohl's department store. Trains will operate from Black Friday, Nov. 28, through Dec. 31 during mall hours. Admission is free; donations are appreciated. For more information, see facebook.com/Medfordrailroadpark.

Celebrate the spirit of the season at our annual Candlelight event — an enchanting evening of holiday shopping with unique gifts, beautiful clothing, jewelry, antiques, art and more — all benefiting Southern Oregon Friends of Hospice and end-of-life care at Celia’s House.

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.

Thursdays 6:00 - 7:00 pm
In-person and via Zoom
Calm Abiding Meditation
This meditation is common to many traditions of Buddhism. In this practice, we rest our attention on a simple meditative support, such as the breath. Instead of following thoughts and emotions as we usually do, we release them and maintain our connection to the support.

“From this practice, we can experience a stable and calm mind. We learn to maintain and return to a sense of stillness, no matter what our outer circumstances. The mind is relaxed, alert and aware. The results of this practice are serenity, freedom in the face of circumstances, and ultimately Buddhahood.”

From Meditation for Beginners, by Bokar Rinpoche.

To attend Calm Abiding Meditation via Zoom, email the office at OFFICE@KSCASHLAND.ORG to join the mailing list.