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WESTERN WORLD Thursday, April 10, 2014
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SCH is closer to building clinic By Amy Moss Strong Bandon Western World
Photo courtesy of Dennis Bowman
Remember Langlois cheese? Advertising material for Langlois Blue Vein Cheese is part of an exhibition “Celebrating Cheese” at the Bandon Historical Society Museum. The Langlois cheese plant burned down in 1957.
Celebrating cheese Plant was a busy place
Special exhibit at the Bandon Historical Society Museum in April and May
Seldom seen photographs of the Langlois cheese operation are on display at the Bandon Historical Society Museum as part of its “Celebrating Cheese” exhibit during April and May.
By Jim Proehl Contributing writer
BANDON — The Bandon Historical Society Museum will be “Celebrating Cheese” with a special exhibit during the months of April and May and a history talk May 3. Two recently uncovered collections of photographs and artifacts will be at the heart of the cheese exhibition. Langlois Blue Cheese will be one focus of the cheese celebration. Dennis Bowman, owner of the site of the former Langlois Cheese operation, recently came into possession of a collection of photographs and artifacts which he has shared with the museum. Bandon Mayor Mary Schamehorn, a long-time reporter for the Western World, has preserved and recently digitized a collection of
Photos courtesy of Dennis Bowman
■ See Cheese, A6
BANDON — Southern Coos Hospital is one step closer to providing additional providers and services by installing a new 7,392-square-foot Outpatient Specialty Clinic on the hospital campus. The Southern Coos Health District Board met Tuesday to review bids for the new manufactured building, which will provide double the space of the existing rented quarters of the current Outpatient Specialty Clinic. As part of phase one of the expansion, the clinic will be located in an area adjacent to the current Southern Coos Health Foundation building on June Avenue, south of 11th Street, where the Foundation and hospital’s overflow parking is now located. The property comprises six lots for a combined square footage of approximately 42,253 feet. The Foundation building will be relocated in phase two of the expansion. The property was purchased with the intent to expand the existing hospital facilities with the vision of having a single campus, including continuous parking, landscaping and consistent design. The district has applied for and received a conditional use permit from the city of Bandon to locate the clinic, with an additional 20,100-square-feet for parking. The Planning Commission tacked a few conditions on the approval, but the Health District is moving forward while addressing those conditions, according to Brandie Wood, director of operations. Conditions included a wetland delineation approval by the Oregon Division of State Lands prior to receiving approval by the Planning Commission. Once that approval letter is received, site preparation will begin for the new building. The new clinic will be designed to
■ See Clinic, A6
Promoting awareness of bullying
New bathrooms at Bandon High By Amy Moss Strong
By Amy Moss Strong Bandon Western World
BANDON — Disney’s Thumper had it right: If you can’t say nuffin’ nice, don’t say nuffin’ at all. That’s the attitude that Ocean Crest Elementary School fourth-grader MacKenzie Williams is promoting with an anti-bullying free concert, beginning at 2 p.m. Saturday, May 3, at Washed Ashore in the Harbortown Events Center. Organizers are calling it “MacKenzie’s Cause.” MacKenzie said she has been teased and bullied at school and on the bus since first grade and so have her friends. Older family members remember similar treatment — being called fat, stupid and other choice words, and being excluded from certain groups or activities. “I was on the bus and sitting by a girl and she said she wished the bus would stop fast and that I’d go flying out the window and get run over,” MacKenzie said.
■ See Concert, A6
Contributed photo
New stalls Senior Hailey Iverson won the honor of cutting the ribbon for the newly remodeled BHS bathrooms, which feature tiles in the school’s colors.
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BANDON — Bandon High School students are excited to be using completely remodeled bathrooms with the completion of one of the district’s facilities improvement bond projects last month. Senior Hailey Iverson was the student who cut the ribbon to open the new bathrooms as part of a student raffle. The $1.5 million bond, approved by voters in May 2011, must be spent or allocated by June. BHS isn’t the only facility to get new bathrooms. Contractors are currently remodeling two bathrooms at Harbor Lights Middle School, then will remodel two at the BHS gym and possibly the HLMS gym,
according to Superintendent Diane Buche. Other projects to be completed in the next couple of months include new intercom systems at each school; additional cameras for school security systems; and the replacement of two storage trailers located near the track. In addition, a storage building and possible update or replacement of the Quonset Hut is planned, which will include a front commemorating the school and students and staff who attended there. Bond money also will fund rebuilding of the wooden structure of Castle Crest at Ocean Crest Elementary School that was removed
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