Events planned for Veterans Day
Local organizations are planning events Wednesday to honor vets on Veterans Day. Here s a look: Coos Bay At 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, the Eagles Lodge, 568 S. Second St., will provide a free dinner for all veterans and their spouses. The guest speaker wil...
 0.9K - Nov. 10, 2009; scored 153.0 Veteran talks about stress disorder
I didn t have issues. There were just stupid people around me doing stupid things, Eddie Black told about 50 people at Southwestern Oregon Community College on Tuesday night. That s how Black felt when he returned home from serving in Baghdad, Iraq,...
3.0K - Oct. 28, 2009; scored 173.0 Combat vet discusses stress disorder
Southwestern Oregon Community College is hosting a free post-traumatic stress disorder presentation. Eddie Black will be giving the presentation at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 27, in the Oregon Coast Culinary Institute building on the Coos Bay campus. The d...
1.2K - Oct. 22, 2009; scored 187.0 Rescuing Bandar
WASHINGTON (AP) They became good buddies during the war, the young American soldier and his invaluable Iraqi translator, an easygoing guy who could spot dangers in the shadows and calm jittery nerves in the streets. When it was time to go home, Joe...
13.7K - Oct. 13, 2009; scored 287.0 Myrtle Point Hall of Fame capsules
Frank Grove (Coach): Grove graduated in 1944 from Powers High School, where he was a member of the 1944 state champion basketball team, and served in the Navy from 1944 to 1946. He competed in basketball and track and field for two years each at Lew...
8.6K - Oct. 10, 2009; scored 222.0 Staying Connected
BEND (AP) Every Sunday night, just before bedtime, Caitlin and Luke Wulf wave at a computer screen, say good night and close the video chat program that connects them with their father. They head back downstairs, put on their pajamas and go to slee...
6.8K - Oct. 1, 2009; scored 202.0 Oregon military ID's two Oregon soldiers
PORTLAND (AP) The Oregon National Guard has identified two soldiers killed when a convoy they were guarding was attacked in Iraq. Spc. Taylor D. Marks, 19, and a decorated veteran, Sgt. Earl D. Werner, 38, died Friday when the convoy was struck by ...
1.0K - Aug. 30, 2009; scored 206.0 Police seize marijuana plants in raid
WARM SPRINGS (AP) Police have seized 1,630 marijuana plants in a raid on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation, in what tribal authorities call the latest sign of increasing drug cultivation on Indian lands. Friday s action, which didn t result in an...
1.9K - Aug. 17, 2009; scored 167.0 Arrests clear site of protest
REEDSPORT Timber operators are free to return to work on the Umpcoos Ridge No. 2 timber sale on the Elliott State Forest. But 27 demonstrators who disrupted logging this week at the remote site 20 miles from Reedsport are headed to court, charged w...
2.6K - Jul. 10, 2009; scored 179.0 Joseph M. Bennett
Services will be held for Joseph M. Bennett, 87, of Reedsport at 2 p.m. Saturday, July 11, at Dunes Memorial Chapel, 2300 Frontage Road, Reedsport. Visitation will be at 1 p.m. at the chapel. A private burial will be at the Reedsport cemetery. Joseph...
1.6K - Jul. 10, 2009; scored 135.0 Oregon Guardsmen prepare to deploy to Iraq
FORT STEWART, Ga. Artillery cannons flashed and bellowed. Each loud crescendo soared above Fort Stewart s Cottrell Field, where 3,000 Oregon National Guardsman from the 41st Brigade Combat Team stood in formation Friday morning. It rolled like thu...
4.9K - Jul. 4, 2009; scored 248.0 The Mill, Sandfest add jets to Independence Day celebration
The shriek of jets and the sounds of other flying machines will join the traditional hiss and boom of fireworks come Independence Day weekend, when the first air show in years makes its debut in North Bend. Meant to honor veterans and current members...
5.4K - Jun. 17, 2009; scored 277.0 Local soldiers head to Iraq
Soldiers from the Oregon Army National Guard bid farewell to family and friends during a mobilization ceremony in Central Point on Monday. Among them were soldiers from the South Coast. Soldiers from 1st Battalion, 186th Infantry Regiment, 41st Infan...
1.3K - May. 5, 2009; scored 214.0 Movie night help much appreciated
The Friends Inspiring Reading Success Together would like to thank people and businesses for their participation in Family Movie Night at the Egyptian Theatre: Roseburg Forest Products, Myrtle Point Fun Bus, A W, McKay s Markets, Highway Deli, Vickie...
1.3K - May. 1, 2009; scored 173.0 Veteran reaches hall of fame
COOS BAY - Jim Davidson has a scale model of the World War II B-25 bomber Yankee Doodle Dandy hanging in his Coos Bay home. It's the very same plane he was shot down in over Italy in 1945. Being blasted out of the sky by German flak is not a happy...
6.4K - Apr. 4, 2009; scored 179.0 Hard times boost enlistment in Oregon Guard
SALEM (AP) - This year more Oregon Army National Guard solders will head for war than at any time since World War II. And more people are signing up and re-enlisting than ever. The recruiting climate over the past five years had been the worst since ...
3.2K - Mar. 23, 2009; scored 988.0 Doyce Glen Prince
Graveside services will be held for Doyce Glen Prince, 69, of Coos Bay, at 3 p.m. Friday, Feb. 27, at Myrtle Crest Memorial Gardens, 94105 Rink Creek Lane in Coquille. The Rev. John Sheese, of South Coast Hospice, will officiate. A viewing will be fr...
1.7K - Feb. 24, 2009; scored 135.0 Guard tells 433 of possible chemical exposure
PORTLAND The Oregon National Guard has written to 433 of its soldiers to say they may have been exposed to a toxic, carcinogenic chemical at an Iraqi water pumping plant shortly after the war began. Guard spokesman Maj. Mike Braibish said three com...
3.6K - Feb. 12, 2009; scored 336.0 Bill seeks to keep Oregon Guard at home
SALEM, Ore. (AP) On the first day of the Obama administration, local peace activists petitioned the Legislature to provide Gov. Ted Kulongoski with the authority to withhold Oregon Army National Guard soldiers from returning to Iraq. Legislators ha...
2.4K - Feb. 11, 2009; scored 842.0 Oregon Army National Guard unit heads to Iraq
SALEM (AP) The Oregon Army National Guard is deploying more than 110 soldiers to Iraq along with 12 Black Hawk medical evacuation helicopters. The 400-day mission begins this weekend with troops headed to Fort Sill in Oklahoma for training before d...
0.5K - Jan. 31, 2009; scored 582.0 | 
