The following events are scheduled on the South Coast.

Tuesday

Lions Club

The North Bend Lions Club will host a talk by Adam Colby on financial matters at its Tuesday meeting.

Colby is a Coos County appraiser, was a securities branch operations manager, mortgage company loan officer, human resources manager and sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corp. He also is a candidate for Coos County assessor. In addition, Morgan May will be sing “Old Dogs, Children and Watermelon Wine.”  

The club will meet at noon at Evergreen Court’s downstairs dining hall, 451 O’Connell, North Bend. For more information about the program or the Lions clubs of Coos County, those interested can call Tom Hibbert at 756-4481.

Food handler class

Coos County Public Health will be sponsoring a food handlers class in Lakeside at 5:45 p.m. on Tuesday at the Lakeside Lions Hall, 890 Bowron Road.

Students can prepare for the class by reading “Food Safety Your Self-Training Manual.” The book is available at a cost of $2 at the Coos County Health Department at the North Bend Annex, or it can be checked out at the North Bend Public Library.

Those who pass the exam and pay the required $10 fee will be issued a food handlers card. Payment may be made in cash or money order made out to Coos County Health Department.

To register and for more information, those interested can call 756-2020 ext. 643.

Thursday

Free HIV tests

There will be free, anonymous HIV testing from 4 to 6 p.m. on Thursday at the Family Resource Center, No. 5 St. John’s Way, Reedsport. There will be no needles, and results will be available in 20 minutes. No appointment is necessary.

Testing is encouraged for people who have had any kind of unprotected sex; shared needles for drugs, tattoos, body piercing or steroids; or had a sexually transmitted disease.

For more information, those interested can call Maggie McFadden at (541) 505-0823.

Healthy Planet talk

Envision a Healthy Planet is presenting the video “Re-localize Now!” with Julian Darley, founder of the Post Carbon Institute, at 7 p.m., Thursday in the Cedar Room of the Coos Bay Public Library, 525 W. Anderson Ave.

Darley’s August 2006 address focuses on the advantages and probable soon-to-be necessity for us to develop a socio-economic system based on increased self-reliance, after decades spent aiming for and reaching the recent time of “Peak Globalization,” dependent on the now-ending era of cheap, abundant fossil fuels, a press release said. This is the final Healthy Planet program of the  2007-08 season of videos addressing the issue of permanently and substantially reducing the global human ecological footprint.

The public is invited to come be educated and share thoughts and feelings in the discussion following the program. For more information, those interested can call 888-8234.

Later this month

Vaccine talk

Dr. Audrey Garrett will speak at 9 a.m. on Saturday, April 26, at the Hales Center for the Performing Arts, at Southwestern Oregon Community College, 1988 Newmark Ave., Coos Bay.

She will be speaking about the human papillomavirus vaccine.  The presentation will be free to the public.

Next month

Rotary gala

The Bay Area Sunrise Rotary will host its second-annual Black & White Benefit Gala, a dinner, dance and auction to benefit Rotary Community Projects, from 6 to 11 p.m. on Saturday, May 10, at the Oregon Coast Culinary Institute, on the Southwestern Oregon Community College Campus, 1988 Newmark Ave., Coos Bay.

Tickets cost $40 and are limited. For more information or to purchase tickets, those interested can call Lynda Kristoffersen at 756-4570, Jan Delimont at 290-1850 or Shirley Bridgham at 756-5401.

Deadline

Brookings art festival

Applications are available for the 15th-annual Festival of the Arts, scheduled for Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 16-17, along the boardwalk at the Port of Brookings-Harbor.

The event is a juried show featuring original work. Previous festivals have included paintings in all mediums, photography, pottery, ceramics, jewelry, fabric art, bead, leather, metal, stained glass and wood. Manufactured, imported, assembled or consumable items will not be accepted. The deadline is May 1.

There are 100 booths available this year for $130, $170 for a corner space. Spaces are 10 feet square. Electricity is $25, if required. Vendors must commit to remaining open during the entire festival.

A free Children’s Art Corner will be provided by the Chetco Community Library during the festival. Admission, parking and shuttle will be free.  

For more information, those interested can call (541) 469-7120, e-mail artfestival@nwtec.com or visit http://artfestcoast.com.