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Friday
Bowling for hunger
The Bay Area Sunrise Rotary club has joined together with Oregon Coast Community Action and its South Coast Food Share program to host Bowl Down Hunger, an event to help feed the hungry in our region. The event will be held from 6 to 9 p.m. on Friday at North Bend Lanes. Local businesses can sponsor a bowling team of three to six employees.
Bowling teams are required, with one lane assigned for each team. While the event will include lots of bowling, those without much bowling expertise also are encouraged to participate. Bumpers are available, in addition to food, beverages and prizes.
The proceeds from the bowling party will be donated to South Coast Food Share, which provides food to 32 local pantries and meal sites throughout Coos and Curry counties. South Coast Food Share, the regional food bank for this area through the statewide Oregon Food Bank network, can distribute and provide 7 pounds of food for $1.
For more information on signing up a business or school to sponsor a bowling team, those interested can call 756-4570 or 290-1850.
Saturday-Sunday
Tomato-Rama plant sale
The Coos County Master Gardener Association will hold the fifth-annual Tomato-Rama Plant Sale from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday and from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sunday at the Pony Village Mall, 1611 Virginia Ave., North Bend.
The sale will feature many different varieties of tomatoes that do well in the area. There also will be vegetables, berries, annuals, perennials, herbs, shrubs and more. From noon to 3 p.m. on Saturday, there will be a table where kids can make and decorate garden hats. The Master Gardeners also will have a plant clinic to answer gardening questions. The sale is a fundraiser to support Master Gardener educational programs.
Saturday
SOLV at Tenmile Lakes
As part of SOLV’s watershed program Down by the Riverside, a Tenmile Lakes clean up will be held from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday at Tenmile Lakes in Lakeside. Participants should meet at the county docks. Parking is available there. Volunteers should bring something to pick up litter with, drinking water and friends. Boats are also needed. A large Dumpster will be donated by Lakeside Disposal.
For more information and to register, those interested can call Janis Tramel at 759-3312 or e-mail janistramel@charter.net, or visit http://www.solv.org.
SOLV at Pony Slough
A series of SOLV work days are planned in coming weeks. Choose to battle scotch broom at Pony Slough, remove garbage and build swallow nest boxes at Hallmark Creek or become an ivy-removal pirate at Mingus Park. Tools, gloves, equipment, water and refreshments will be available at each site. This project is designed to improve the water quality and wildlife habitat of these areas. Students can earn volunteer service hours and can request written documentation of the number of hours served.
Scheduled events include:
* Pony Slough, “Down by the Riverside,” from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, May 17. Participants should meet at the North Bend High School lower tennis courts. The clean up is sponsored by the Cape Arago Audubon Society. For more information those interested can call Eric Clough at 266-7382 or e-mail eclough@verizon.net.
*Hallmark Creek, “Invasives Invasion,” from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday, May 31.
* Mingus Park, “Ivy-Pirates,” from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday, June 7.
To register for any of these events, those interested can visit http://www.SOLV.org.
No Lazy Kates meet
No Lazy Kates, a handspinning group, will meet at 1 p.m. on Saturday, at the Wool Company, 990 Highway 101, Bandon. For more information, those interested can call 347-3115.
Beekeepers meeting
The next Coos County Beekeepers Association meeting will be held at 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, at the Oregon State University Extension Office, the Ohlsen-Baxter Building, 631 Alder St., Myrtle Point.
Guest speaker will be Charles Williams, a commercial beekeeper with more than 50 years of beekeeping experience in Africa, Canada, Mexico and the United States. He will address the new honeybee afflictions, the importance of honeybee pollination and how it affects our lives, beekeeping practices, and more.
As early as February, the worker bees will be out foraging while the the queen is back in the hive laying eggs. Honeybees are important to our food industry because almonds and cranberries rely almost entirely on honeybees for pollination and some plants such as pumpkin and cantaloupe can only be pollinated by insects.
Honeybees used to take care of themselves, but introduced diseases and parasites are killing bee colonies across Oregon and the rest of the United States. Honeybee populations have been reduced to critical levels.
The event is free. For more information, those interested can call 290-8847.
The South Coast Folk Society will host a South Coast Community Barn Dance from 7 to 10 p.m. on Saturday at the Greenacres Grange Hall, 93393 Greenacres Lane, south of Coos Bay. The evening will feature live music by the band Seagrass Country, with guest caller Woody Lane from Roseburg,
The band includes fiddlers Allen Todd and Bob Schaffer, as well as guitar, bass, piano and mandolin performers. Dancers of all ages and abilities are welcome. Lane will teach a variety of easy-to-learn dances.
The event is open to singles, couples and families.
Admission is $5; students and seniors pay $4; and children under 6 will get in for free. Doors will open at 6:45 p.m., and light refreshments will be available. This is an alcohol-, tobacco- and fragrance-free event.
For more information, those interested can call Stacy at 756-4701 or Paul at 572-5370.
Bowling for hunger
The Bay Area Sunrise Rotary club has joined together with Oregon Coast Community Action and its South Coast Food Share program to host Bowl Down Hunger, an event to help feed the hungry in our region. The event will be held from 6 to 9 p.m. on Friday at North Bend Lanes. Local businesses can sponsor a bowling team of three to six employees.
Bowling teams are required, with one lane assigned for each team. While the event will include lots of bowling, those without much bowling expertise also are encouraged to participate. Bumpers are available, in addition to food, beverages and prizes.
The proceeds from the bowling party will be donated to South Coast Food Share, which provides food to 32 local pantries and meal sites throughout Coos and Curry counties. South Coast Food Share, the regional food bank for this area through the statewide Oregon Food Bank network, can distribute and provide 7 pounds of food for $1.
For more information on signing up a business or school to sponsor a bowling team, those interested can call 756-4570 or 290-1850.
Saturday-Sunday
Tomato-Rama plant sale
The Coos County Master Gardener Association will hold the fifth-annual Tomato-Rama Plant Sale from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday and from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sunday at the Pony Village Mall, 1611 Virginia Ave., North Bend.
The sale will feature many different varieties of tomatoes that do well in the area. There also will be vegetables, berries, annuals, perennials, herbs, shrubs and more. From noon to 3 p.m. on Saturday, there will be a table where kids can make and decorate garden hats. The Master Gardeners also will have a plant clinic to answer gardening questions. The sale is a fundraiser to support Master Gardener educational programs.
Saturday
SOLV at Tenmile Lakes
As part of SOLV’s watershed program Down by the Riverside, a Tenmile Lakes clean up will be held from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday at Tenmile Lakes in Lakeside. Participants should meet at the county docks. Parking is available there. Volunteers should bring something to pick up litter with, drinking water and friends. Boats are also needed. A large Dumpster will be donated by Lakeside Disposal.
For more information and to register, those interested can call Janis Tramel at 759-3312 or e-mail janistramel@charter.net, or visit http://www.solv.org.
SOLV at Pony Slough
A series of SOLV work days are planned in coming weeks. Choose to battle scotch broom at Pony Slough, remove garbage and build swallow nest boxes at Hallmark Creek or become an ivy-removal pirate at Mingus Park. Tools, gloves, equipment, water and refreshments will be available at each site. This project is designed to improve the water quality and wildlife habitat of these areas. Students can earn volunteer service hours and can request written documentation of the number of hours served.
Scheduled events include:
* Pony Slough, “Down by the Riverside,” from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, May 17. Participants should meet at the North Bend High School lower tennis courts. The clean up is sponsored by the Cape Arago Audubon Society. For more information those interested can call Eric Clough at 266-7382 or e-mail eclough@verizon.net.
*Hallmark Creek, “Invasives Invasion,” from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday, May 31.
* Mingus Park, “Ivy-Pirates,” from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday, June 7.
To register for any of these events, those interested can visit http://www.SOLV.org.
No Lazy Kates meet
No Lazy Kates, a handspinning group, will meet at 1 p.m. on Saturday, at the Wool Company, 990 Highway 101, Bandon. For more information, those interested can call 347-3115.
Beekeepers meeting
The next Coos County Beekeepers Association meeting will be held at 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, at the Oregon State University Extension Office, the Ohlsen-Baxter Building, 631 Alder St., Myrtle Point.
Guest speaker will be Charles Williams, a commercial beekeeper with more than 50 years of beekeeping experience in Africa, Canada, Mexico and the United States. He will address the new honeybee afflictions, the importance of honeybee pollination and how it affects our lives, beekeeping practices, and more.
As early as February, the worker bees will be out foraging while the the queen is back in the hive laying eggs. Honeybees are important to our food industry because almonds and cranberries rely almost entirely on honeybees for pollination and some plants such as pumpkin and cantaloupe can only be pollinated by insects.
Honeybees used to take care of themselves, but introduced diseases and parasites are killing bee colonies across Oregon and the rest of the United States. Honeybee populations have been reduced to critical levels.
The event is free. For more information, those interested can call 290-8847.
Barn dance at Grange
The South Coast Folk Society will host a South Coast Community Barn Dance from 7 to 10 p.m. on Saturday at the Greenacres Grange Hall, 93393 Greenacres Lane, south of Coos Bay. The evening will feature live music by the band Seagrass Country, with guest caller Woody Lane from Roseburg,
The band includes fiddlers Allen Todd and Bob Schaffer, as well as guitar, bass, piano and mandolin performers. Dancers of all ages and abilities are welcome. Lane will teach a variety of easy-to-learn dances.
The event is open to singles, couples and families.
Admission is $5; students and seniors pay $4; and children under 6 will get in for free. Doors will open at 6:45 p.m., and light refreshments will be available. This is an alcohol-, tobacco- and fragrance-free event.
For more information, those interested can call Stacy at 756-4701 or Paul at 572-5370.
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