GOOD MORNING!
Have a great day, subscriber H G Weichert!
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 PERFORMANCES
Northern California Ballet: 2:15 and 7:15 p.m. “The Nutcrackers.” Guest artists, including NCB’s Ballet Master perform the role of Drosselmeier, and returning dancers perform this adapted holiday tradition. Live streamed. Purchase tickets, $40, through Eventbrite online at www.eventbrite. com/e/the-nutcracker-tickets
Chico Performances: 6 p.m. “A Celtic Family Christmas at Home,.Canada’s Celtic music professionals, Natalie MacMaster and Donnell Leahy, invite the world into their home virtually to witness their music, life and family preparation at Christmastime. Streams at 6 p.m. Cost is $15, which viewers may purchase online at www.chicoperformances. com or at homeplay.live/ event?uuid=2abbf74c-1ed94650-a612-98af39e76d3f. Also 1 p.m. Sunday.
COMMUNITY
YMCA Health & Fitness Center: Temporary closure. Partnering with other Y’s for virtual programming: YMCA 360 (www.ymca360. org) for on-demand classes; YMCA of the East Bay (www.ymcaeastbay.org/ virtually) for live classes. Orovile Y will still serve meals to children who would go without during school closures. Ongoing updates www.ymcauperiorcal.org/ welcomeback. Help sustain the Y by maintaining membership dues.To put membership on hold, brinehart@ ymcasuperiorcal.org.
Feather River Recreation & Park District: Rental facilities suspended. Members of same households may visit local trails and parks to hike, walk or bike. Socially distance. wwwfrrpd.com. Facebook: www.facebook. com/FRRPD/. Signup for newsletters.
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.
Artists of Rivertown Studio at Brushstrokes Gallery, Oroville: 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Nonprofit operates this art venue to support and promote work by local artists. Wednesdays-Saturdays or by arrangement. 1967 Montgomery St. 781-3849.
Oroville Library:buttecounty.net. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Open. Limited computer use. Curbside service; call for times/ holds/pickups. Reserve items in-person, online, by phone or email. 552-5752. OrovilleBCLibrary@
www.buttecounty.net/bclibrary/ 552-5652. Literacy Services 1-888538-7198; Literacy@buttecounty.net. 1820 Mitchell Ave.
HEALTH, EMOTIONAL SUPPORT
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 aabutteglenn.org or call 342-5756 for more information.
Northern ValleyTalk 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.
Al Anon — Oroville Sisters in Serenity AFG (women): 9 am. Email alanon.nc.d3@ gmail.com for a Zoom invitation. zoom.us.
Recovery International: 7 and 10 a.m. To register and get Access Code: Call 619383-2084 or email Debbie@ recoveryinternational.org. Also see WebEx, Zoom and Chat meeting schedules.
Sunday PERFORMANCES Chico Performances:
1 p.m. World premiere performances of Manual Cinema’s “Christmas Carol” via live-stream. Performed live in the Manual Cinema’s Chicago studio in a socially distanced manner. Streamed to the Chico Performances audience at home. Tickets $15 online at Chico Performances website, www. chicoperformances.com or csuchicoboxoffice.secure. force.com/ticket.
COMMUNITY
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.
HEALTH, EMOTIONAL SUPPORT
Northern ValleyTalk
Line: 11:30 a.m.-9:30 p.m. Provides non-crisis peer to peer telephone service to the community seven days a week. Toll free number, (855) 582-5554. Works in partnership with Butte County Department of Behavioral Health and Tehama County Health Service Agency.
Al Anon — Oroville
Sisters in Serenity AFG (women): 9 a.m. Zoom ID: 5826236264. zoom.us 334-6734. northerncaliforniaal-anon.org. 334-6734.
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 aabutteglenn.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.