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The lights are up and ready for the Thanksgiving evening opening of the annual Shore Acres Holiday Light display. The gardens will be open and the lights on starting Thanksgiving evening through Dec. 31. Admission is $5.00 per vehicle or the appropriate annual pass. The Gardener’s House was decorated Garden House decorated by Robynn Reed and Chloe Eberlein with help from Mike and Adam Reed.
Holiday Lights ready for Thanksgiving opening LOU SENNICK The World
CHARLESTON — You can tell the holidays have arrived when Shore Acres twinkles. Last year, there were more than 48,000 visitors to the annual Holiday Light show at Shore Acres State Park. Starting in 1987, the Friends of Shore Acres started putting up a few strings of lights in the park to celebrate Christmas.
According to the park’s website, they now have more than 300,000 lights, holiday trees decorated by local groups, lighted sculptures and a few light animations. The Gardener’s House is decorated with Christmas themes in all the rooms. It is also where volunteers pass out cups of hot cider and cookies. It all opens to the public Thanksgiving night and each night through Dec. 31. Hours are 4-9:30 p.m., with a $5 admission charge per vehicle or the appropriate annual pass.
The lights are up and ready for the Thanksgiving evening opening of the annual Shore Acres Holiday Light display. The gardens will be open and the lights on starting Thanksgiving evening through Dec. 31. Admission is $5.00 per vehicle or the appropriate annual pass.
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Bandon couple celebrates 70 years together Steve and Jean Lunt, of Bandon, celebrated their 70th anniversary this month. “When I saw Jean for the first time I knew she was going to be my wife if she accepted me.“ Steve said.
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BANDON — They’ve been through career changes, a world war and the birth of their three children together and now Bandon residents Steve and Jean Lunt have another milestone to mark. It’s their 70th wedding anniversary. The couple, now in their nineties, met very young in their native San Francisco when Steve was just 20 and Jean a tender 17. After living in the Bay Area, Texas, Seattle and Ashland, the two eventually settled in to their Bandon beach property in 2000 where they now call home.
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Steve and Jean Lunt on their wedding day in 1944.
“I think it was true love,” said where he was working nights and first time I knew she was going to Steve, about noticing Jean as she evenings pumping gas while in be my wife if she accepted me.” walked out of the service station college. “When I saw Jean for the See Lunt, A8
C OOS BAY — The Coos Bay Planning Commission has green-lighted O’Reilly Auto Parts to proceed with the next phase of its new proposed store. The company intends to demolish the current building at 1165 Evans Blvd. and replace it with a pre-engineered metal building as part of its plans for the new 8,075-square-foot store. The property was previously the site of Carl’s Jr. and Arby’s restaurants. As part of the approval process, the auto parts store had to agree to an additional set of conditions set forth by the planning commission. The store is required to pave two 12-foot lanes on South Front Street from U.S. Highway 101 to the southern property limits in addition to placing “right-in right-out” signage at the entrance on the highway. Because the new proposed store sits in a floodplain, it is subject to Flood Damage Prevention standards. Earlier this week, the store submitted a commercial floodplain application along with commercial structural, commercial site development, commercial curb cut and right of way use permit applications. While concerns were raised regarding the impact on traffic with regards to deliveries, the store intends to schedule all deliveries after hours to mitigate any potential traffic headaches for motorists and neighboring businesses. With the loading dock located in the southeast section of the building, the commission thought it would be difficult to navigate a truck through such a narrow passage way. However, the auto parts store submitted a truck route to the architects so the drivers will be fully prepared to make deliveries. The new store will join the company’s other existing store at 2031 Newmark Ave. in North Bend. eporter Devan Patel can be R reached at 541-269-1222, ext. 249, or by email at devan. patel@theworldlink.com. Follow him on Twitter: @DevanJPatel.
GOP wisdom shifts on immigration after election success
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— likely presidential candidates among them — described immigration reform as little more than an afterthought. “This issue is probably not in the top 10 of most voters in America,” Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, who is considering a 2016 White House bid, said alongside nodding colleagues at the Republican Governors Association annual conference in Florida. Walker dismissed the Democratic president’s order that
shields as many as five million immigrants from deportation as a trap designed to divert attention “from the real issues in this country.” The comments reflect a dramatic shift among some GOP leaders emboldened by this month’s midterm success just as the next presidential contest gets underway. Having claimed the Senate majority in the lowturnout November campaign, the sense of urgency that dominated
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Less than two years ago, party leaders solemnly declared after an exhaustive study that the GOP “must embrace and champion comprehensive immigration reform.” It was critical for the party’s survival, they said, to address an issue that was STEVE PEOPLES and JILL COLVIN paramount to the nation’s surgAssociated Press ing Hispanic population. But as President Obama issued a sweepBOCA RATON, Fla. — The ing immigration order last week, c onventional wisdom in the some of the Republican Party’s most prominent governors Republican Party is changing.
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Republican Party shifts on immigration with high stakes for 2016
Republican leadership after losing the White House in 2012 has all but disappeared. The evolution presents risks, however, for Republicans comp eting in a 2016 election that w ill draw a much larger and more diverse electorate — especially in a handful of swing states where the Hispanic population is quickly growing. The contrast between the parties has never been clearer. See GOP, A8
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