Exhibit will honor veterans' service
The Bandon Historical Society Museum will offer veteran talks Saturday and an exhibit in honor of Veterans Day. The event will run from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, at the museum, 270 Fillmore and U.S. Highway 101 (by the downtown streetlight). Several...
 0.9K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 263.0 Museum will host Veterans Day program
The Bandon Historical Society Museum will offer veteran talks and an exhibit in honor of Veterans Day. The event will run from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the museum, 270 Fillmore and U.S. Highway 101 (by the downtown streetlight). Several veterans will tal...
1.4K - Nov. 5, 2009; scored 263.0 Johnson 50th Anniversary
Gary and Betsy (Spear) Johnson, of Bandon, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary Oct. 29. Gary was a North Bend boy, the son of Melvin and Ruth Johnson. Betsy was a Coos Bay girl, the daughter of Charlie and Elizabeth Spear. Growing up, they knew...
1.7K - Nov. 2, 2009; scored 189.0 Sailing home
NEW YORK The new U.S. Navy assault ship USS New York, built with World Trade Center steel, arrived in its namesake city today with a 21-gun salute near the site of the 2001 terrorist attack. First responders, families of Sept. 11 victims and the pu...
3.4K - Nov. 2, 2009; scored 242.0 Columbia signs U.S. military base pact
BOGOTA In a private, low-key ceremony, the U.S. ambassador and three Colombian ministers today signed a pact to expand Washington s military s presence, a deal that Venezuela s Hugo Chavez has called a threat to the region s security. U.S. Ambassad...
2.6K - Oct. 30, 2009; scored 374.0 Search resumes for Navy plane, two pilots off Texas
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) The U.S. Coast Guard has resumed its search for two missing Navy pilots and their plane along the central Texas coast. The search had to be suspended Thursday night because of stormy weather. Petty Officer Charles Reaves ...
0.8K - Oct. 30, 2009; scored 189.0 China's military buildup concerns U.S. Navy leader
HONG KONG (AP) A U.S. Navy admiral expressed new concern today over China s military buildup and urged Beijing to be clearer about its intentions. With China s military growing at an unprecedented rate, the U.S. wants to ensure that expansion doe...
1.9K - Oct. 30, 2009; scored 851.0 Plane, copter collide
LOS ANGELES (AP) The U.S. Coast Guard and Navy were searching early today for as many as nine people off the Southern California coast following a collision between a Coast Guard plane and a Marine Corps helicopter, officials said. The crash was re...
2.4K - Oct. 30, 2009; scored 219.0 Dave Callender
Memorial services will be held for L. David Callender Jr., 70, of North Bend, formally of Winston, at a later date. Dave was born Nov. 19, 1938, in Urania, La., the son of Luther Callender Sr. and Fairleen (Kinney) Callender. He died Oct. 17, 2009, i...
0.9K - Oct. 28, 2009; scored 146.0 LeRoy V. Geroux
Due to a family illness, a memorial service is pending for LeRoy V. Geroux, 84, of Reedsport at the Powers Cemetery. LeRoy was born on July 15, 1925, in Roseau, Minn. He died Oct. 22, 2009, at the Life Care Center in Coos Bay. He was a veteran of Wor...
1.3K - Oct. 28, 2009; scored 146.0 8 US troops die; Oct. Afghan war's deadliest month
KABUL (AP) Eight American troops were killed in multiple bomb attacks Tuesday in southern Afghanistan, making October the deadliest month of the war for U.S. forces since it began in 2001. The eight deaths occurred during multiple, complex bomb s...
2.4K - Oct. 27, 2009; scored 327.0 Coast Guard awards lifesavers
CHARLESTON Eight months after rescuing an elderly man near the Coos Bay jetties, two U.S. Coast Guard deputies have emerged from the ranks to receive achievement medals. They call us guardians, because we protect the public, Capt. Scott Kitchen sa...
2.3K - Oct. 18, 2009; scored 146.0 Dangeorus Hurricane Rick grows off Mexico
MEXICO CITY (AP) Hurricane Rick quickly strengthened into an extremely dangerous Category 4 storm off Mexico s Pacific coast on Saturday and forecasters said it could strike the Baja California Peninsula in about five days. The storm had sustaine...
1.7K - Oct. 17, 2009; scored 146.0 Coast Guard awards lifesavers
CHARLESTON Eight months after rescuing an elderly man near the Coos Bay jetties, two U.S. Coast Guard deputies have emerged from the ranks to receive achievement medals. They call us guardians, because we protect the public, Capt. Scott Kitchen sa...
2.3K - Oct. 17, 2009; scored 146.0 'Mighty Mo' goes in for preservation
HONOLULU Mike Weidenbach has walked across the historic teakwood decks and through the metal hallways of the USS Missouri countless times in the past decade. But he recently realized how massive the aging battleship is from a new perspective unde...
4.4K - Oct. 16, 2009; scored 189.0 Earl LeRoy Taylor
Funeral services will be held for Earl LeRoy Taylor, 81, of Coquille, 11 a.m., Saturday, Oct. 17, at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 2405 Shelly Road in Coquille. Interment will follow at Myrtle Crest Memorial Gardens, 94105 Rink Cre...
2.5K - Oct. 16, 2009; scored 219.0 William Bill Douglas Morgan Jr.
William Bill Douglas Morgan Jr., 68, of Wellton, Ariz., was born Sept. 8, 1941, in La Grande, the eldest child of Doug and Betty Morgan. He died Oct. 1, 2009, in Beaver, Utah. He was raised in Enterprise, along with his nine siblings, where he grad...
1.9K - Oct. 15, 2009; scored 146.0 Mary F. Shely
At her request, no services will be held for Mary F. Shely, 68, of Prineville. Mary was born March 30, 1941, in Morgan County, Mo., to Andrew Jackson and Dolly Frances (Johnson) Wood. She died Oct. 11, 2009. Mary s family moved to the Coquille-Myrtle...
1.5K - Oct. 15, 2009; scored 146.0 Vets visit 'war mom'
GREENACRES When the plane touched down in North Bend, the stewardess made an announcement over the loud-speaker. Instead of asking everyone to stay seated, she pointed out five soldiers on board and recognized them for their service, asking that th...
3.5K - Oct. 14, 2009; scored 189.0 Buddy Ray 'Bud' Buckles Sr.
A celebration of life will be held at a later date for Bud Buckles, 79, of North Bend. Cremation rites were held under the direction of North Bend Chapel. Inurnment was held at Sunset Memorial Cemetery Mausoleum. Bud was born July 16, 1930, in Red Cl...
2.9K - Oct. 12, 2009; scored 219.0 |
