Every July, the Coos Kennel Club celebrates the dog days of summer with its annual dog show. More than 450 dogs attend the event, held on Bandon school grounds. The best dogs from all over the Northwest and the country arrive to show off and put their best paw forward. This year, the show will be held July 5 and 6, and the show is free. In addition to w ...

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Try your luck fishing offshore or, if you prefer, onshore at numerous lakes, streams and bays along Oregon's South Coast. Reel in tasty surf perch or striped bass along Bandon's beaches year-round. For the adventurous who are up for a fight, striped bass fishing along the South Jetty is sure to yield fish stories to thrill the folks back home ...

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Schools: The Bandon School District provides public education and school bus service, plus special education. The superintendent is Diane Buche. Grades kindergarten through fourth are at Ocean Crest Elementary School, 5Ð8 at Harbor Lights Middle School, 9Ð12 at Bandon High. Pacific Christian School offers pre-school to eighth. Marcene Rebeck offers a Mo ...

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The art of agate hunting is ancient, going back as far as 4000 B.C. The name itself is said to derive from a river in south Sicily - Achates - where the philosopher Pliny said the first agate was found. Agates are chalcedony rock, a translucent quartz with high silica content often formed in volcanic action. Liquid silica fills gas bubbles, resultin ...

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