The Lakeside Chamber of Commerce had a small gathering for their annual tree lighting held just off of Eighth Street, at the four corners. The crowd then walked the short distance over to the Christmas social at the Lakeside Lion’s Hall, on Bowron Road. The hall was decorated in a very festive Christmas fashion. Cookies, [...]

A bench is soon to be placed in front of McKays Market near the sidewalk in downtown Lakeside. It will be set on a small footprint of bricks. The bricks are part of the Cohart IV project through the Ford Leadership class. You may purchase a brick for $50 and you also receive a window [...]

The summer is coming to a close and with that the end of year one of the beautification of downtown Lakeside.  There are so many people to thank I hardly know where to begin. ♥ Thank you to Don Linwood, our wood director, for allowing us to use his shop and for organizing the Saturday [...]

This bench is the first in a series of benches to be placed around town by the Chamber of Commerce beautification committee. Some benches will be donated by various organizations or private individuals and some will be hand made like this one.

The Second Annual Crawdad Festival organizer Mattie Lane, was all smiles at the regular Lakeside Chamber of Commerce meeting held after the Crawdad Festival. The event brought in enough money to schedule the third annual festival, next year. Owner and proprietor of 8th Street Grill, Joe Pepper,  expressed that plans are already in the works [...]

The second annual Lakeside Crawdad Festival was an even bigger success than last year. The 2009 festival boasted a crowd of around 7000, this year was estimated to be over 10,000. More pictures and Festival info to come

Oregon Tourism & Hospitality Exceptional Partnership Award Lakeside Chamber of Commerce President Jonie Reeder, “The whole South Coast Partnership worked together to get this done, I’m proud that we did it and got the award for it. This will help bring tourism to the south coast as well as to Lakeside.” Also, an award was [...]

CRAWDAD FESTIVAL MAY 7, 8, 9 – 2010 NEWEST ON WHAT’S HAPPENING AN UPDATE – Newest on what’s happening at the Lakeside Crawdad Festival We’ve got bands; CRAWDADS fresh from Louisiana; an eating contest; a Cajun cooking contest; crawdad races for the kids; chicken bingo; a street faire (artists and vendors); a car show (including [...]

Traveling south on highway 101 across from the entrance to Tugman Park sits the new Chamber of Commerce Lakeside sign. Several volunteers led by Jim Farmer secured the sign in the ground, no easy task. The sign was designed and painted by Dave Smith. The project will be complete when the ground around the sign [...]

Re-kindling the fire to improve the face of Lakeside, citizen representatives from all the Lakeside organizations have been invited to participate. The Lakeside Chamber of Commerce is very busy; at their regular January meeting Diane O’Bryan presented a sign and theme idea for the new Chamber of Commerce sign. Those members in attendance enthusiastically adopted [...]