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.
Friday
PERFORMANCES
Chico Performances: Brings world premiere performance of Manual Cinema’s “Christmas Carol” to the public at home, 7 p.m. via live-stream. Shows performed live in the Manual Cinema’s Chicago studio in a socially distanced manner. Tickets $15 online at Chico Performances website, www.chicoperformances.com or csuchicoboxoffice.secure.force.com/ticket. Also Sunday.
COMMUNITY
YMCA: Closed, but partnering with other Y’s to offer virtual programming to do at home; YMCA 360 (www.ymca360.org/) for ondemand classes and YMCA of the East Bay (www.ymcaeastbay.org/virtualy) for live classes. Still serving meals to children who would go without during school closures. Questions, sbraucks@ymcasuperiorcal.org.
Feather River Recreation & Park District: No indoor fitness/recreation programs. Office and Activity Center closed. Preschool & Childcare Center, 7 a.m.-5:30 p.m. with modifications. Sign up for Winter Wonderland Camp (childcare ages 5-12), newsletters. Rental facilities suspended. Parks, playgrounds, picnic areas open with modifications. Special Community Christmas: Virtual tour. Submit photos of Christmas trees, holiday lights and seasonal decorations for community enjoyment. 533-2011 for assistance. wwwfrrpd.com. Facebook: www.facebook.com/FRRPD.
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.
Public Health Clinic, Oroville: 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Confidential reproductive health services; men, women. Call for information, 538-7341. No in-house appointments.
Oroville Library: 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Open. Limited computer use. May call for curbside service. Reserve items in-person, online, by phone, email. 552
5752. OrovilleBCLibrary@ buttecounty.net. www. buttecounty.net/ bclibrary/ Contact. Literacy Services 1-888-538-7198; Literacy@buttecounty.net. 1820 Mitchell Ave. Weekly. Artists of Rivertown Studio at Brushstrokes Gallery, Oroville: 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Summer hours. Nonprofit operates art venue to support and promote work by local artists. WednesdaysSaturdays or by arrangement. 1967 Montgomery St. 781-3849.
CLUBS/ORGANIZATIONS
Citizens’ Climate Lobby: 6 p.m. Zoom meeting: https:// citizensclimate.zoom. us/j/4391478344 or call 1-669-900-6833.
HEALTH, EMOTIONAL SUPPORT
Mental Health Peer Support: 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Peer support specialists available for video chat, selfhelp support groups and resources. Butte County Department of Behavioral Health. Join by phone, computer or other device. Zoom ID: 809274979. Phone: 720-707-2699 or 346-2487799.
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. 1-855-582-5554. Partnership with Butte County Department of Behavioral Health and Tehama County Health Service Agency.
Friday Nite Grace: 6:30 p.m. Recovery program. Grace Baptist Church,
3646 Oro Dam Boulevard. 12-step Christ- centered designed to help with life’s addictions, abuses and anxieties. Social distancing and masks required. 5331456.
Narcotics Anonymous:: Go online to greaterbuttena.org/meetings for meetings in Oroville, Palermo, Cherokee, Biggs, Paradise, etc. 24-hour hotline, 1-877669-1669. Many meetings offered. Weekly.
Alcoholics Anonymous Fellowship of Butte, Glenn and Southern Tehama counties: Meetings on Zoom temporarily. Visit aabutte-glenn.org or call 342-5756 for more information.
To submit an item for Oroville calendar, email to calendar@orovillemr.com, fax to 342-3617 or mail to Oroville Community Calendar, P.O. Box 9, Chico, CA 95927. Include your name and phone number.