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. 8933276. 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. Paradise library: 11-4 p.m. Open. Same services, guidelines, contact information as the Chico library. ParadiseBCLibrary@buttecounty.net. 5922 Clark Road.
Chico Seed Orchard: 7 a.m.-3:30 p.m. 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. Features Members Showcase. “Windows Into the World.” Open Studios Art Tour: Art and crafts online; learn about creative processes, chicoartcenter.com. ChicoOSAT.com, 8958726, chicoartcenter@att. net.
Museum of Northern California Art (monca): Virtual.Pop-Up museum tour, “Selfie 2020.” Juried exhibition about “self” after the first 10 months of 2020 and COVID. Exhibition features over 40 unique works of art that reflect artists answers to a set of questions about their life and work. Tour at Website, www.monca. org/current-exhibition, and monca’s YouTube channel, www.youtube.com/ watch?v=OwRkt QUFel. 487-7272.; contact@ monca.org. Pre-register for Artists Conversation for “Selfie 2020” to be held 3 p.m. tomorrow via Zoom. Email contact@monca.org to be added to the guest list. Prior to the event, guests will receive an email on how to access the Zoom Panel Discussion, or visit the Webpage and click on Join Zoom Meeting. The meeting ID is: 822 1210 5778. Passcode: 840812. 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:
Virtual tours.
Online content for all ages at www.csuchico.edu/ gateway and social media platforms, from astronomy to zoology. Explore recorded lectures, fun videos, downloadable activity sheets. Hands-on NGSS standardsbased science kits available in the 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.
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. Noncrisis peer to peer telephone service to the community seven days a week. 1-855582-5554. 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. For more information, call 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. Narcotics Anonymous: Remote meetings. Visit Greater Butte Area Narcotics Anonymous online for meetings in Butte County. 24-hour hotline 1-877669-1669. Mail: 916 North A.S.C., PO Box 8556, Chico CA 95927.
Al-Anon: 6:30-8 p.m. p.m. Families and friends of alcoholics. Email alanon. nc.d3@gmail.com for a Zoom invitation. zoom.us. Alateens welcome.