Thursday, August 2, 2012
coffee break
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BANDON WILL embrace the wind that characterizes its summer with the fifth annual Windfest on the boardwalk Aug. 4 and 5. Organized by the Port of Bandon, this year’s festival will include 52 vendors. Naturally, you’ll find kites, flags and windsocks for sale, but vendors also will sell jewelry, clothing, carvings, furniture, pet accessories, indoor and outdoor decor, nautical brass, food and a host of other goods. Everything for sale will be either handmade or made in the U.S.A., said Trudy Spanier, an administrative assistant at the port who pulls the event together. Kids can make kites all day Saturday at a booth provided by Koffee Õn Kites. Old-time band Hudson Ridge will play 1-3 p.m. Saturday, and blues/funkmen charlie freak will play 1-4 p.m. Sunday. This year, those who aren’t up
Senior Center, 9-4, Barn. Dial-a-Ride public transportation, 94, 541-347-4131. Line dancing classes, 9:30 a.m., MarLo Dance Studio, 205 Ohio Ave., S.E. Bandon Historical Society Museum, 10-4, Hwy 101 and Fillmore. Visitor Information Center, 10-5, Old Town. Bandon Welcome Club luncheon, 11:30 a.m., Lord Bennett’s. Senior hot meals, 11:30, Barn. Today’s menu: Creamed chicken over rice, peas, roll, pineapple upside-down cake. Free lunch for children 18 and younger, 11:45-12:30, Bandon School District cafeteria. Today’s menu: Corn dog or burrito, food bar, milk. Bandon Duplicate Bridge Club, 12:30-4, Senior Center, Barn. Art By-The-Sea Gallery and Studio artists’ reception, 4-6 p.m., Continuum Center, Old Town. Washed Ashore free community art workshops, 5-8 p.m., Art 101, 47134 Hwy. 101, 541-250-1140. History of Bandon with historian/archaeologist Reg Pullen, 6 p.m., Port of Bandon picnic shelter on boardwalk. Quilting, Ladies Dew Valley Clubhouse, 6-8 p.m., five miles south on Hwy. 101. Bandon Playhouse business meeting, 7, Sprague Theater, City Park. History of the Bandon Cranberry, talk by Richard and Leslie Clarke, 7 p.m, Bullards Beach amphitheater. AA step meeting, 8 p.m., Holy Trinity Catholic Church.
Today’s Tides: Highs-00:13am, 7.5ft., 1:28pm, 6.4 ft. Lows-7:00am, -1.5 ft., 7:07pm, 1.3 ft.
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Bandon, Oregon to braving the wind will find some vendors in the Old Town Marketplace building. The Farmer’s Market will also be there Friday, Saturday and Sunday. In addition, the Port of Bandon’s series of family events in the boardwalk’s picnic shelter concludes this week. Thursday, 6 p.m.: Historian and archaeologist Reg Pullen will talk about the native village, Nasomah, that originally occupied the Bandon waterfront. Friday, 6 p.m.: NOAA meteorologists Sven Nelaimischkies and Ryan Sandler will explain the La Nina weather phenomenon on the South Coast. FREE: GOOD trail horse. Needs pasture, a winter shelter and good hay. 541-3474183. MISPLACED A leather pouch with two cell phones, possibly at the Farmer’s Market in Bandon. If found, call 541-2618721 or 928-830-8526. $50 reward offered.