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Friday, May 29th, 2009

No Place Like Home

Bobbie McCormick
Coosbay, Oregon

by Bobbie McCormick
Coos Bay, OR
I am a 49 year old mother of 2 and grandmother of 5, I have been clear across the United States and I have lived in many places. The one place I come back to is the Oregon Coast. Its beauty is one that you can only see in fairy tales.
It [...]



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Tuesday, May 12th, 2009

Sharing the Southern Oregon Coast

Jay Noggle
Coos Bay

by Jay Noggle
Coos Bay, OR
As a native to the state, showing off what we have here is important to me. It seems that as I get older, home becomes more important. Since so many people across the country have never had the opportunity to visit our area, I created a website to show them our [...]



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Friday, May 1st, 2009

The Oregon Coast

Tya Widmer
Oregon Coast

by Tya Widmer
Oregon City, OR
My head fell angrily against the glass window as we pulled out of my driveway in Ohio for the last time. Tears fell messily from my eyes and my face curled into a pout. We drove for three days without stopping except to eat, get gas, or use a restroom. Finally [...]



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Thursday, April 30th, 2009

Beach Trip

Sam Harthun
Agate Beach, Oregon Coast

by Sam Harthun
Oregon City, OR
Sitting on the bus…waiting, waiting, waiting. We were on our way to Agate Beach, Oregon. We had headed to the beach as a school field trip in eighth grade. It took a total of about three hours to get there with lots of “educational” stops in between. I’m pretty sure it [...]



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Thursday, April 30th, 2009

Outdoor School

Lizzie Poetzsch
Camp Westwind

by Lizzie Poetzsch
Oregon City, OR
Girls! Get up! My counselor yelled. I remember thinking that it couldn’t be time to get up already I had just fallen asleep. Sure enough, it was time to get up and go down to breakfast. Then it would be time for our daily learning experience. Yesterday we had gone [...]



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Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

Chilly Warm Memories

Kaitlyn
Coast of Oregon Beaches

by Kaitlyn Bristol
Oregon City, OR
To me there is nothing more beautiful than a warm honey glazed sun set against the cool calm waters of the Pacific Ocean. I think of these memories tenderly. This is my happy place, the bonding place of my mother and I.
Pictures galore, of my [...]



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Monday, April 27th, 2009

Crabbing at Newport

Ryan Bjork
Newport

by Ryan Bjork
Oregon City, OR
My favorite place in Oregon is Newport because it’s a fun place to get away for your problems and a place just to have fun with family and friends.
I usually go there two times a year with my older brother, mom, and my cousin Ricky so we can go crabbing. If [...]



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Friday, April 24th, 2009

my oregon story

nick parker
Oregon Coast

by Nick Parker
Oregon City, OR
On spring break my family and I went on a trip to California. And my family and I started it off by going to Lincoln City. Then we went shopping at the outlet stores. Then we started driving down to the coast to [...]



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Sunday, April 19th, 2009

The Majesty of Cape Lookout

Freya Scherlie
Cape Lookout

by Freya Scherlie
Beavercreek, OR
I know a place on the coast where the winds blow strong and the trees grow tall. The waves crash against the rocks and roar, never ceasing. It is a place of beauty and danger, a place where I feel a deep belonging. This place is Cape Lookout, a natural wonder of [...]



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Friday, April 17th, 2009

Katie’s Stay

Travis Blunt
Pacific City

by Travis Blunt
Oregon City, OR
Last summer, while my parents were in Europe, my cousin and her boyfriend flew in from Minnesota. My cousin had stayed with us once before, after a family reunion in Washington, while my parents were on a so called “business trip” in Las Vegas.
A couple days into her stay, we [...]



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Friday, April 17th, 2009

Lost in the Tides

Taylor Richards
Cannon Beach, OR

by Taylor Richards
Oregon City, OR
In the middle of summer, the blue and cloudless sky overhead and the roaring ocean before me, I stood on Cannon Beach with the tides coming in to numb my feet further. My black skim board stabbed into the wet sand to keep [...]



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