Fishy fun, noon to 6We coastal dwellers enjoy an abundance of briny blessings. The bounty is worth celebrating, especially if the celebration involves a meal. Cheers for Octoberfish, today’s festival of food and fun at the old Charleston School.
Highlighting a horrorCheers for the Zonta Club’s efforts to educate everyone about human trafficking. (Yes, it actually happens around here.) A free event at the Coos Bay Public Library on Tuesday night promises to be an eye opener.
A burning issueA fire department is a godsend when your house is burning. Better still if the blaze busters teach families how to avoid fires in the first place. Cheers for last week’s flock of fire prevention events.
Gulp!An OSU scientist has spent $400,000 in federal funds trying make raw oysters safer to swallow. Jeers for buying a better trap for a mouse that needn’t be captured.
We deserve to knowDemocracy can’t function in fog. Citizens need to know what their government is doing. Cheers to Oregon Attorney General John Kroger for promoting transparency, with a report on flaws in our state’s public records and meetings laws.
No way for PedwayCoos Bay city councilors still can’t decide the fate of the downtown’s forlorn patch of concrete. Jeers for not deep-sixing plans to gussy up a place no one wants to visit.
Misty-takeNorth Bend police only warned a resident for running a fog machine and alarming neighbors, who mistook the mist for smoke. Cheers for going easy on a harmless Halloween activity.
Regarding the jeers to the pedway, if I understand the meaning of deep sixing, the council did just that. There was a motion to approve the plans and the motion was defeated. To my knowledge there is no further discussion planned.