You know how you have to shop for your winter coat in August?  Well the same holds true for harvesting veggies in fall and winter – you need to plant now.   To help us do that, the South Coast Community Garden Association and Coos County Master Gardeners are sponsoring a workshop on Fall and Winter [...]

Submitted by Cathy Reiss A huge thank you to all of the volunteers who donated their time to help make the Lakeside Independence Day Celebration possible. Big thanks to Sheli Roe and Mike Gray for Coordination of the information booth, Jonie Reeder for the bake sale and Kathy Wilson for the Street Fair. Met goal [...]

The Independence Day Committee is in need of volunteers to help collect prize donations for their raffle. The volunteers would go around to various businesses to ask for gift certificates or prize donations that can raffled off on July third. Also, if there is anyone in the community that would like to donate items themselves, [...]

Diane O’Bryan, President of LPACG, presented her idea of donating a children bench to Lakeside last year. She had some Lakeside kids put their hand prints on tiles that are embedded in the concrete bench that she made. That really special bench is now a reality.  It resides in front of Mary’s Beauty Shop, on [...]

An After Action Review (AAR) meeting was held at the Lakeside Lion’s Hall, Thursday March 17, at 10 am. The meeting was originally called by North County Citizen Patrol treasurer Sandy Thayer, to be held at her home. Thayer’s stated goal was to find out “what had been done wrong and how to correct ourselves.” [...]

In the ongoing beautification project for Lakeside some of the Parks Advisory/Community Garden volunteers got together over the week-end installing another beautiful bench across the street from Hennick’s. Volunteers from left to right: Front, Elaine Armstrong, Linda Scheryc Back, Mack Eubanks, Hennick’s employee, Mike Armstrong    

It is that time of the year again when gardens are readied for planting season. That holds also holds true for Harmony Garden, Lakeside’s community garden beside city hall in Lakeside. Some members of the Parks Advisory/Community Garden Committee are set up to start on the garden at 9 a.m. on March 5.  Seven plots [...]

Yes, steelhead are in Tenmile Creek and some anglers are catching hot chrome bright Steelies. One angler from Washington state lost a nice bright buck as he tried to land it.  He was using florcesent pink yarn ball suspended under a bobber. Two Reedsport fishermen landed three nice bright fish, one monster weighed seventeen pounds.  [...]

Starting January 15, through March 30, Lakeside Chamber of Commerce will be having a design contest for this years Independence Day T-Shirt. Entry forms can be picked up at many locations around town after January 15.( hopefully city hall, Hennicks, McKays, Ringos, 8th street grill, old stables, and tree acres. Entries should be dropped off [...]

Lakeside Parks Advisory/Community Garden Committee were at it again. Three more trees, “Royal Burgundy” Flowering Cherry Trees, were added to the three planted last year along Eighth Street airport runway. Robert, Diane and Kevin O’Bryan, Linda and Rudy Sherych, along with Michael Armstrong got them in the ground, wrapped fencing around their perimeter to discourage [...]