If you show up in lederhosen clutching a beer stein, it means you probably didn’t read the announcement very carefully. OktoberPest is a yearly series of pest management workshops held every October at the North Willamette Research and Extension Center in Aurora, Ore, and the agenda (PDF) for 2009 is now available. The dates are Oct. 2, Oct. 8, Oct. 15, and Oct. 22, with the final workshop to be conducted in Spanish on Oct. 29. (All of these are Thursdays, except Oct. 2, which is a Friday). The workshops cost $45 each. All will be at NWREC, 15210 N.E. Miley Road, Aurora. Register using the form (PDF).