The Parks Advisory/Community Garden Committee is again working hard to complete the community garden behind City Hall.  It has always been our plan to have a storage shed near the garden for tools and fertilizer.  We have laid the foundation and plan to have the shed up by late August.  We also [...]

How ’bout this: For a skin softening facial that will remove dead cells and restore the acid balance of your skin, try this tomato astringent scrub.  Mix up to 3 tablespoons tomato juice with 1/8 cup of granulated sugar until it has the consistency of frosting.  Pat the mixture onto your face and rub with [...]

  WOW! Was that thunder? No, just the drag boat races at Ten Mile Lake. This last Saturday & Sunday brought the Columbia Drag Boat Assn. to Lakeside for the 22nd annual running of the go fast boats. The pictures show Saturdays qualifying races being enjoyed by the fans under a sunny sky and fair temperatures. Lakesides [...]

  Harmony Garden requests please do not pick produce.  The member gardeners of SCCGA invest love and hardwork in their garden plots to produce food for their families. They pay to use the garden plot.   Picking produce from the garden is stealing.

  Harmony Garden has been experiencing some generosity from an anonymous source, or maybe several generous sources.   First we found a bounty of a variety of herbs, all potted up and ready to plant. Then came some very charming garden gnomes, along with other garden accents.   It didn’t stop there, someone has very [...]

With about two hundred onlookers in attendance August 9, 2008, a beautiful sunny day, the annual Lakeside cardboard boat race was underway. Racer safety provided by the Lakeside volunteer fire department with an assortment of boats created in garages all over Coos county, the race was on. Boats had names such as silver speed, paper or plastic, and pink zebra. [...]

A happening in Lakeside……. What a spectacular event and opportunity to see vintage planes up close and personal……… A big thank you to the Lakeside Lion’s Club for hosting this event.

The drawing for the quilt took place Sunday the 17, at the boat races.  The lucky winner was Sandy Thayer.  Congratulations Sandy….. Paulette Rigsby creates art in fabric, she has received the quilter of the year award from the Coast Quilter’s.  She was recently the featured quilter at the Presbyterian Church in Reedsport.  The Harmony [...]

Aaron Richards demonstrating how worms are the perfect little compost makers,  perfect way to recycle your kitchen scraps and then use the resulting compost in your garden.  This was the second lecture of the summer garden series at the Harmony community garden.  There are two more lectures before summer’s end.  Watch here for the announcement.

  Street Fair Fun!        As a joint effort fund raiser, the Lakeside Chamber of Commerce, the Lakeside Women’s Club and Harmony Garden groups shared a both at the Independence Day Street Fair.  The Chamber provided hand out materials from local businesses, maps, magazines and periodicals to provide visitors with information on activities [...]