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 [...]

Event: Friday, May 8th through Sunday, May 10th If your interest is in cooking, or eating or even both, this is the event for you. Lakeside can boast of being a destination resort area offering a variety of water fun, fishing, and has an ocean only two miles away. But, Lakeside can also boast of [...]

The Lakeside Chamber of Commerce, is sponsoring the first annual Crawdad Festival, working with Joe Pepper of the 8th Street Grill and a cadre of volunteers, to bring our area a very different kind of event. The festival will last three days, starting Friday, May 8, through Sunday May 10, 2009. There will be something [...]

A welcoming sign of the season has been introduced in town, courtesy of the Chamber of Commerce. Read on…

Welcoming in the holidays. Lakeside has boasted some of the finest street decorations for the holidays for many years.

A brief history: Lakeside Women’s Club started in the mid 80’s with…

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  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 [...]

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. [...]

  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 [...]