Coffin Butte air permit to be reviewed

ADAIR VILLAGE — The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality has proposed to renew the air quality permit for Power Resources Cooperative, which creates energy from methane gas at the Coffin Butte Landfill.

A copy of the draft permit and review report is available at the Corvallis-Benton County Public Library, 645 N.W. Monroe Ave.

The new proposal would increase the permitted emissions per year for many pollutants. However, the anticipated emissions still are less than what is currently permitted in every category, according to DEQ. The facility has complied with the previous permit conditions.

Written comments on the proposal can be sent to Patty Hamman with the DEQ by fax at (503) 378-4196; by e-mail at hamman.patricia@deq.state.or.us; or by mail to 750 Front St. N.E., Suite 120, Salem, OR 97301-1039.

OSU Folk Club offers scholarships

CORVALLIS — The OSU Folk Club Thrift Shop committee will be accepting scholarship applications from Benton County high school seniors (both male and female) and women over 25 who are planning to attend OSU in the fall.

A number of $1,500 scholarships, totaling about $30,000, will be awarded. Applications are available at the OSU Thrift Shop, 144 N.W. 2nd St.; in area high school counselors' offices; at the OSU financial aid office; and at the OSU Women's Center and college advisers' offices.

The deadline for filing applications is March 18 for high school seniors, and March 25 for older students. For more information, phone Julie Maloney at 752-6468.

Campus art sale for tsunami relief

CORVALLIS — Oregon State University art students are joining the South Asia tsunami relief efforts with an art sale.

Art pieces contributed by faculty and students will be for sale starting Wednesday in the Student Gallery in OSU's Fairbanks Hall, across from the Memorial Union at S.W. 26th Street and Jefferson Way. The sale runs through Feb. 11.

The gallery is open weekdays from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., and an opening day reception is scheduled from 5 to 6:30 p.m. Wednesday.

All pieces will be $40 or less, and notecards featuring original works by students and faculty will also be available. All proceeds will be channeled through the American Red Cross for tsunami relief efforts.

The sale is sponsored by Montage, OSU's student art club.

Family fun day returns to LBCC main campus

ALBANY — The 28th annual Family Fun Raiser will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday in the Activities Center on the Albany campus of Linn-Benton Community College, 6500 Pacific Blvd. S.E.

Children ages 1 to 6 are invited to enjoy activities provided by the LBCC parenting classes, including clay sculpture, bubble blowing, an obstacle course, seed planting, basketball and face painting. Activities cost 25 cents each.

Parents can participate in the used toy and book sale and silent auction. Everyone is invited to the event.

The fund-raiser is coordinated by the Parenting Education Advisory Committee and is the main funding-raising event for the Parent Grant Fund, which pays partial tuition for parents who take LBCC parenting classes.

For more information, call 917-4897.

Lamb and Wool Fair selects 2005 slogan

SCIO — The slogan for this year's Linn County Lamb and Wool Fair, to be held May 20-22, is "70 Years of Lambs and Ewe."

Volunteers are looking for patrons willing to purchase a listing in the program book. Contributions will go toward creating a memorial to the late Carol Bates, who was a big fair supporter and a recorder of Scio history.

The memorial approved by the fair board is a permanent stage on the fairgrounds. Contributions should be $5 or more. Planners also are in need of T-shirt sponsors. To help, call Audie Heikkila, board president, at (503) 394-3389.

Classes, activities offered for adults, teens

ALBANY — The Albany Parks and Recreation Department is offering classes and activities this winter for teens and adults including jewelry making, tie-dye, home decoration, fly tying, dancing, therapeutic exercise, self-defense, snowshoeing and snow camping.

The first class, creative decorative pictures, will be from 7 to 9 p.m. Monday at the Albany Senior Center, 489 Water Ave. N.W.

The class is $10 for city residents or $12 for others. There is also a $10 lab fee.

For more information, visit the city's Web site, www.cityofalbany.net.