CB Elks get grant to help feed hungry kids
The Coos Bay Elks Lodge has $10,000 more to help feed hungry kids. The organization announced today that the Elks National Foundation awarded it a grant to continue to support the South Coast Food Share Snack Pack Program through Oregon Coast Co...
 1.2K - Nov. 3, 2009; scored 193.0 Community Action loses campus site
COQUILLE ” Oregon Coast Community Action is back to square one in looking for a community campus site, and the federal grants to build it, after an Empire property owner refused to sell its land. Now the agency is looking at airport land i...
3.0K - Oct. 8, 2009; scored 193.0 Myrtle Point food pantry appliances disappear
Police are investigating whether someone stole appliances Monday afternoon from the Walter Graham Myrtle Point Food Pantry or where they might have gone. Workers arrived at 3:30 p.m. to find that the stove, dishwasher and three doors were missing, sa...
0.8K - Oct. 2, 2009; scored 775.0 Food banks get tuna supply
Thanks to the Oregon Tuna Classic and a cash donation from Bank of America, some grumbly tummies in Coos and Curry counties are going to be silenced. On Friday, South Coast Food Share, a program of Oregon Coast Community Action, received two tons of ...
1.1K - Aug. 29, 2009; scored 193.0 Community Action gets $1 million
This summer, children in the Great Afternoons program are taking a trip around the world. From their seats in Reedsport, they ve visited nearly every continent during a virtual vacation/stealth learning trip. Keeping children s minds and imagination ...
3.0K - Aug. 5, 2009; scored 1000.0 Helping the hungry by eating out
Every single dollar makes a significant difference, Hallie Winchell of Oregon Coast Community Action said recently. Especially when you re trying to feed the hungry in Coos and Curry counties. We can buy seven pounds of food for every dollar donated...
2.2K - Jul. 1, 2009; scored 193.0 Clean Up Day will keep cupboards full
South Coast Food Share would like to thank all those who participated in City Clean Up Day, a food drive held on April 25 in Coos Bay and North Bend. Thanks to the generosity of community members, and the generous sponsorship by the cities of Coos Ba...
0.9K - May. 4, 2009; scored 193.0 Agency offers power bill help
South Coast Community Action s Energy Services Division is offering help to people needing assistance paying power bills. The agency will host community outreach days in Lakeside, Bandon and Powers next week. ORCCA staff will be available to discuss ...
1.8K - Apr. 15, 2009; scored 775.0 Put Head Start in the right place
One of the two proposed sites for Head Start looks promising. But only one. Oregon Coast Community Action wants a new campus to house Head Start, as well as other programs for local families. It needs room for gardens, kitchens, classrooms and food s...
1.9K - Apr. 9, 2009; scored 193.0 City eyes Verizon site for school
COOS BAY - Local educators may not need to ruffle feathers in an Empire residential neighborhood to get a new Head Start building. The city of Coos Bay has an alternative site where Oregon Coast Community Action could build a new youth education faci...
4.3K - Apr. 8, 2009; scored 1000.0 Search is back on for Head Start site
Oregon Coast Community Action is searching for a new place to build a Head Start building after the site it originally chose proved to be too costly. One alternative location under consideration is a 4.5-acre parcel at the north end of Morrison Stree...
3.8K - Apr. 6, 2009; scored 1000.0 Toy Tales benefit CASA
Oregon Coast Community Action would like to thank everyone involved for making the Toy Tales event a success for children on the South Coast. Toy Tales sold gently used toys at Pony Village Mall in February and raised $586 for the Court Appo...
1.0K - Mar. 27, 2009; scored 193.0 Energy assist deadline nears
Oregon Coast Community Action's Energy Services Division staff is nearing the end of the current waiting list of families needing assistance with utility payments or energy bills, and funds are still available for families in need in our community. E...
1.8K - Mar. 23, 2009; scored 193.0 Homeless population hard to figure
Homeless advocates saw an increase in the number of homeless people counted during their annual one-night count. In 2008, 315 homeless people were interviewed at shelters and places where they gather, like behind Wal-Mart. This year, the preliminary ...
2.0K - Mar. 12, 2009; scored 775.0 Snack Packs will be delivered next week
The Share Bear Snack Pack program will begin delivering food packs to North Bay Elementary school in North Bend on Tuesday, March 10. The program is an effort of Oregon Coast Community Action to ease childhood hunger in five local elementary schools....
1.1K - Mar. 4, 2009; scored 193.0 Food banks pull food
CHICAGO (AP) Food banks nationwide are being forced to toss thousands of pounds of food containing peanut products recalled in the salmonella outbreak a particularly painful process as those same pantries struggle to meet a growing demand in a fl...
5.7K - Feb. 17, 2009; scored 193.0 The young philanthropists
NORTH BEND The notion of philanthropy may be lost on many modern teenagers, beyond the type that streams from their parents wallets into their waiting hands. Not so at North Bend High School, where a group of 17 teens have been charged with the t...
5.3K - Jan. 26, 2009; scored 193.0 Tribe pledges $590,000 in grants
Local food programs, law enforcement and waterfront projects received the bulk of the Coquille Tribal Community Fund s 2008 grants. The Board of Trustees announced Friday afternoon the fund will give out $590,000 to 42 organizations. The lar...
7.5K - Jan. 17, 2009; scored 193.0 Hundreds of residents seek energy assistance
It s probably easier to be penniless in Miami, Southern California or anywhere else warmer than Coos County these past few days. At least the heat s free. South Coast residents having difficulty paying their energy bills aren t so lucky. Phil Handsak...
5.0K - Dec. 20, 2008; scored 306.0 | 
