Linn-Benton Community College

A variety of history, religion, and writing classes will be held this spring through LBCC Albany Community Education. Classes include History of Linn County; Oregon History; Psalms and Christian History; Church & Synagogue; Memoir Writing; and Life Stories. Classes will start the week of March 31 throughout the Albany area. For a complete description and start dates, see the online schedule at www.linnbenton.edu or call LBCC’s Albany Community Education at 541-917-4840.

Shaindel Beers Author and poet Shaindel Beers will hold classroom readings and discussions at Linn-Benton Community College Friday, May 17 from 10 to 10:50 a.m. in North Santiam Hall, room 110, and from 1 to 1:50 p.m. in North Santiam Hall room 209, 6500 Pacific Blvd. SW, Albany. Beers also will hold a reading and discussion May 18 from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. at the Mennonite Village Lakeside Community Center, 2180 SE 54th, Albany, followed by a Writing Workshop, “All the World’s a Poem: Writing Using ‘Found’ Poetry from the World Around You” from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. in the Albany Public Library meeting room,  2450 14 th Ave SE. Beers’ poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. She is currently an instructor of English at Blue Mountain Community College in Pendleton, Oregon and serves as Poetry Editor of Contrary. A Brief History of Time, Beers’ first full-length poetry collection, was released by Salt...

Learn how to write your family history in the class Your Own Life Stories held at the LBCC Lebanon and Sweet Home Centers winter term. Your life stories and those of your family members are treasures that need to be preserved as carefully as photos. Learn how t recall and recount family history in your own narrative style with enhancement of detail, description and dialogue. Tips on publishing will enable you to submit articles and stories to magazines as fact or fiction. This 10-week class will meet on Wednesdays from 2 p.m. to 3:50 p.m. beginning Jan. 5 at the LBCC Lebanon Center, or on Thursdays from 2 p.m. to 3:50 p.m. at the LBCC Sweet Home Center. Cost for the class is $69. For more information or to register, visit the LBCC online schedule at www.linnbenton.edu/go/sis or call the LBCC Lebanon Center at 541-259-5801 or the Sweet Home Center at 541-367-6901. Seniors age 62 and above are eligible for a 25 percent reduction in tuition.