WHAT’S HAPPENING
Check out what’s going on in your neighborhood and the community.
Editor’s note: Many events are canceled in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. We recommend contacting the event host before attending to check.
Saturday EVENTS
Farmers Market, Chico: 7:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Second and Wall streets. EBT cards accepted to use with redeemable market script for eligible food items. 893-3276. Weekly.
COMMUNITY
Chico library: 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Open. Call for curbside service for holds, pickups. Reserve items in-person, online, 552-5652, ChicoBCLibrary@buttecounty. 1-888-538-7198, Literacy@buttecounty.net. No CFOL donations. 1108 Sherman Ave. Limited computer use. Masks required. E-Resources 24⁄7. buttecounty.net/bclibrary. Tuesday-Saturday. Paradise library: 11-4 p.m. Open. Same services, guidelines, contact information as the Chico library. 5922 Clark Road. ParadiseBCLibrary@buttecounty.net. 5922 Clark Road.
Chico Seed Orchard: 7 a.m.-5 p.m. Pedestrian gate. No visitors after dark. One-mile self-guiding nature trail through botanical area in Edgar Slough. Keep dogs leashed. No water, one restroom. 2741 Cramer Lane.
Gray Lodge Wildlife Area: Sunrise to sunset. 9,100 acres of fields, riparian areas, ponds and waterways. Exhibits, self-guided nature trail, fishing, hunting; shelter for 300+ species of resident and migrant birds, mammals. 3207 Rutherford Road, Gridley. 846-7500. Faith Lutheran Church:
1 p.m. COVID-19 Phone Prayer Group. To join, email billaugros@gmail.com. Chico Art Center: Virtual. “Windows Into the World”; “The Art of Remembrance: El Dio de los Muertos.”
Art and altar exhibition. Member showcase. Open Studios Art Tour: Art and crafts online; learn about creative processes, chicoartcenter.com. ChicoOSAT. com, 895-8726, chicoartcenter@att.net.
Museum of Northern California Art (monca):
Virtual. “Selfie 2020.” Juried exhibition about “self” after the first 10 months of 2020 and
COVID. Live Facebook tour online, www.monca.org/ current-exhibition. Actual virtual tour not yet available. “Unbroken Legacies: Northern California Art Glass” and “Those Who Teach …. Can!” 487-7272. www.monca.org; contact@ monca.org.
Valene L. Smith Museum of Anthropology: Virtual. “Unbroken Traditions: Basket-weavers of the Meadows-Bakers Family in Northern California.” Activities and online learning for families, K-12 learners and college students in the tour. csuchico.edu/anthmuseum/virtual-learning/ virtual-exhibits. 898-5397.
Gateway Science Museum: Free online content for all ages online at www. csuchico.edu/gateway and social media platforms. Everything from astronomy to Zzology. Explore recorded lectures, fun videos, downloadable activity sheets and Chico Science Fair challenges. Hands-on NGSS standards-based science kits available in Lending Library for weekly check out to K-12 teachers, home-schools and families. Kit reservations online (no fee).
Janet Turner Print Museum: Virtual exhibit. Work of Emeritus printmaking professor Marion Epting, first Black faculty member hired at Chico State in a tenure-track position (honored with Turner Prize for Excellence in the Arts 2018⁄2019). Interview with artist; recollections by former students. www. csuchico.edu/turner. 8984476.
Paradise Art Center: New virtual gallery members’ show. paradise-art-center. com.
Vitalant Blood Drive: 8 a.m.-1 p.m. blood donation. 555 Rio Lindo Ave. Call 877-258-4825 or 8935433 to confirm today’s hours.
HEALTH, EMOTIONAL SUPPORT
Catalyst Domestic Violence Services: To talk to a crisis counselor, call the 24-hour crisis/referral line, 1-800-895-8476. catalystdvservices.org. Northern Valley Talk
Line: 11:30 a.m.-9:30 p.m. Provides non-crisis peer to peer telephone service to the community seven days a week. 1-855-5825554. Partnership with Butte County Department of Behavioral Health and Tehama County Health Service Agency.
HIV and Hepatitis C Testing: By appointment Through Stonewall Alliance. Donations accepted. Information, 893-3336, email center@ stonewallchico.org or visit stonewallchico.com.
Open & Alternative Relationships (OARS), Stonewall Alliance: 7 p.m. Join on Zoom, us02web.zoom. us/j.86775009134. Or join Facebook Group, www. facebook.com/groups/ 1172990812855743. Weekly.
Recovery International:
7 and 10 a.m. Focuses on symptoms, not diagnoses, of mental health and nervous disorders. Register: 1-619-383-2084 or email Debbie@recoveryinternational.org. Temporary phone meetings available if community meetings closed. Weekly.
Alcoholics Anonymous: Visit aabutte-glenn.org online for listings of online meetings. Six Zoom meetings today: Some for men, women and both.