LOCAL CALENDAR

Saturday Sunday Feb. 17-18

To have your event included, please submit information in writing at least one week in advance by email to recorder@portervillerecorder.com, Attn: Community Calendar, or by fax to 784-1689. For information, call 784-5000, Ext. 1048.

CLUBS

SATURDAY Tulare Kings Writers Club meets in Visalia at 10 a.m. on the third Saturday of each month. A networking session follows the monthly program. For information on the meeting location and topic, call 280-9774.

CLASSES

SATURDAY Scrapbook-making sessions are held on the second Saturday of each month in the First Christian Church, 1020 N. Prospect St., Porterville. The sessions run from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Bring a current project or start a new one. For more information, call Minnie Castaneda at 920-0569.

ENTERTAINMENT

SATURDAY tthe Friends of the Library

will hold book sales on the first Saturday of each month from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. behind the gas company building at 301 N. Hockett St. in Porterville. The sales feature classics, fiction, nonfiction, travel, humor, history, Western, reference, mystery, large-print, cook, travel and text books. Computer manuals, DVDS, music, old records and videos will also be sold. All proceeds benefit the Porterville City Library and the Porterville Library Literacy Program.

SUPPORT

SATURDAY A 12-Step Workshop meets from 8 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. each Saturday at Porterville 12-Step Recovery Club at 186 N. D St. at the corner of D and Walnut. It is open to all 12-Step groups. For more information, call 539-3814. Take Off Pounds Sensibly meets from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. Saturdays in the Fashion Center at the Porterville Developmental Center. Weigh-in is from 9 to 9:45 a.m. For more information, call 784-9539 or 799-4291, or visit www. TOPS.ORG. SUNDAY Tulare-kings PFLAG — Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays — meets from 3 p.m. to 5:15 p.m. the third Sunday of each month at the Educational and Cultural Center at Congregation B’nai David, 1039 S. Chinowth St., Visalia. Visit www. pflag-tulare-kings.org for more information. Pills Anonymous, a support group for people who have been using pills addictively, meets each Sunday from 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. at The Recovery Club at 186 S. D St. in Porterville. For more information, contact Carolyn at 920-1382.

ONGOING

the Porterville Historical Museum, located at 257 N. D St., is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursdays through Saturdays. Admission is $5 for adults and $1 for students. Children age 6 and under are free. Friends of the Museum and sponsors are also free. For more information call 784-2053, go to www.portervillemuseum.org ,or visit the museum’s Facebook page.

the Zalud House Museum is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursdays through Saturdays. Admission is $2 for adults and 50 cents for children. The garden is available for special events. For more information, call 782-7548 or the Heritage Center at 791-7695.

the Porterville Art Association gallery is located at 151 N. Main St. Hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesdays through Saturdays and admission is free. Art work is changed every two months. The gift shop features items hand-crafted by members. The PAA gallery is located at 151 N. Main St. Hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday and admission is free. For more information, call 784-4323.

THRU FEB.18

tthe Barn Theater will be producing “Jam Jar Sonnets” Feb. 16, 17 and 18. It will run at 7:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday. Sunday matinee on Feb. 18 will begin at 2:30 p.m. For reservations and prices, call 310-7046. A Sonnet, a poem in which one thought is developed in a single stanza. That single thought is presented by comedy, music and drama during the new play at the Porterville Barn Theater. Charles, played by Gordy Plaisted , has outgrown his panic attacks and inability to speak after the death of his father. He is still haunted by the memory of Amanda, played by Wendy Plaisted, the childhood friend who helped him conquer his insecurities as children. The two formed an intimate bond through poetry and Charles still regrets losing touch with her after she moved away. When Charles, now a revered professor of psychology finds one of Amanda’s poems on the back of a jam jar (hence the title Jam Jar Sonnets) he is determined to overcome his personal barriers in an effort to find the girl who always understood him. Other actors finishing out the drama are Crissy Bunch, Daniel Penoloza, A mbree Bough, Gennifer Garay, Omar Ortiz, Ava Garay, Charles Cuevos, Erica Arcos, Aaron Nucum, Kalliysta Tyler, Donna Serra, and John Olmos. The play is directed by Charles Hickin-