Tag archive for ‘Mingus Park’

  • Get hooked on Mingus Park

    6/25/11 • (0)

    Family Fun Day at Mingus Park is Coos Bay’s traditional Fourth of July event. It’s free, too. On Monday, July 4, things start heating up with the Mayor’s Firecracker Run. Registration begins at 9 a.m. The race starts at 10. So many fun things are happening for kids between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m., there …

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  • Enjoy Garden Gems

    6/25/11 • (0)

    The Bay Area offers some lovely parks for walking, playing or feasting your eyes. Charleston Shore Acres State Park is home to one of the best formal gardens around. The garden’s five acres are maintained to optimize each season’s blooms. The Japanese-style garden showcases a lily pond surrounded by native and imported plant species. The …

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  • Swim little fishies

    8/28/10 • (0)

    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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  • Teed off & lovin’ it

    8/28/10 • (0)

    Frisbees aren’t cheap toys. They’re discs designed for long and short shots. Like in golf you have a Frisbee golf disc for different shots. Winsor Park in North Bend and Mingus Park in Coos Bay feature hanging metal baskets as targets. Each hole is a par three.

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  • Music on the Bay

    8/28/10 • (0)

    Mingus Park Free Concert Series The annual Music on the Bay concert series will kick off Sept. 7 at the Coos Bay Outdoor Amphitheater at Mingus Park. ‘The (series) was formed to bring quality music to the South Coast,” said Oded Shulsinger, its organizer. ‘We have managed to bring people in from all over the …

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  • Benefit of Bluegrass

    7/31/10 • (1)

    Star of Hope’s annual Bluegrass Bash on Aug. 7 will showcase bluegrass, gospel, and old-time bands at Mingus Park in Coos Bay. Local groups Hudson Ridge and The Young Bucs will be joined by two bands from elsewhere in Oregon: Bill Coleman and the Good News Gospel String Band, from Woodburn, and Back Porch Revival, …

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