Category archive for ‘South Coast’ 
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Bay Area Fun Festival
Remember when in 2010
Coos Bay’s Fun Festival will take place Sept. 17-19 in a new location this year.
Vendors will have a new home in the parking lot behind the Egyptian Theatre.
The city asked the festival to move due to structural concerns with buildings along Central Avenue.
‘We’re hoping everyone will bear with us and it will …
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The legend lives on — Prefontaine
The Steve Prefontaine Memorial Run stirs memories for those who ran with him at Marshfield High School in the late 1960s.
The annual race, now in its 31st year, commemorates the life of hometown track legend Prefontaine, who died in a single-car accident in 1975 at the age of 24.
The years don’t dull Jay Farr’s …
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The gallery
A pair of worn, pale-blue Puma running shoes sits in a glass case at the Coos Art Museum in downtown Coos Bay.
Surrounding the now-iconic shoes — the late Steve Prefontaine wore them while he broke his first American record in the 5,000 meter race in 1971 — are medals, trophies, cups and plaques, all commemorating …
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Lookin’ good in The Cruz
In 1973, the movie American Graffiti revived the dormant hot-rod culture of the ’60s for millions of baby-boomers who fondly recalled cruising Main Street in their souped-up jalopies.
You can relive those days for real as Sunset Classic Chevys hosts Cruz the Coos in downtown Coos Bay and the Shore Acres Show ‘n’ Shine at Shore …
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Poison Oak – Myth or Fact
Myth: Poison oak is contagious.
Fact: The active ingredient in poison oak is an oil called urushiol, which causes the allergic reaction that results in an itchy skin rash. Once the urushiol is absorbed into the skin, it can’t be passed from person to person. If it gets on clothes or other surfaces, however, it can …
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Beach closure?
A few times a year, you’ll open your paper and see something like, ‘Oregon health officials issued a water contact advisory for such-and-such a beach.”
The news account will go on to talk about ‘fecal bacteria.”
Besides losing your appetite, you may lose your desire to go to the beach. But there’s really no need to avoid …
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Swim little fishies
When living around this much water, it just makes good sense to know at least the basics when it comes to swimming.
If you’d like to practice your aquatics, a swimming pool is located on the up-hill side of Mingus Park, 725 N. 10th St., Coos Bay.
Summer hours at the pool vary with camps …
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Crossing the bay
From Glasgow to North Bend the Roosevelt, a steam-powered side-wheeler ferry, shuttled passengers hourly during daylight.
Approximately a dozen automobiles filled the deck of the Coos County-commissioned boat that in March 1928 became the charge of the Oregon State Highway Commission.
Ferry service continued until September 1929 when the Roosevelt was retired to a standby …
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Beach Safety
Beware the sneaker wave
Sneaker waves appear without warning, slamming the beach with deadly force. They carry sand that can saturate your clothes, weighing you down and hindering your escape.
Be Safe: Never turn your back on the ocean.
Watch those logs
The ocean’s power can lift a log and drop it on top of you. Even small logs …
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Fossils:
Find them on Oregon Beaches
Oregon’s sandy beaches are known for their shells, sand dollars, agates, and jaspers, as well as for a wide variety of Miocene-era marine and mammal-bone fossils.
Geologically speaking, Oregon coast fossils are found in three formations: the Astoria Formation, 15- to 20-million-year-old sandstone layers mixed with compressed volcanic ash; Nye mudstone, up …
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