1) Gardiner-Reedsport Lions Club Easter Egg Hunt
2) Care to Talk About / Breast Health
3) Ice Cream, Bingo, Prizes & Fun!
4) Reedsport Foursquare Church Launches Shoe Drive
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WHO: Gardiner-Reedsport Lions Club
WHAT: Easter Egg Hunt
WHERE: Barrone Park
WHEN: Easter Sunday, April 20th at 1:30
The Gardiner-Reedsport Lions are again sponsoring an Easter Egg Hunt for local children. The first Lions Easter Egg Hunt was held in 1952, so this is the Sixty-Second Annual Easter-Egg Hunt! The event will be on Sunday, April 20th at 1:30 PM at Barrone Park.
Over 1000 candy and treat-filled eggs will be hidden for the event. Twenty of the eggs will be special golden eggs. There will be separate hunts; one for the children 2 and under; one for children ages 5 and 6; one for children 6 and 7 and one for children 8, 9, and 10. For those children who do not wish to participate in the hunt, the Easter Bunny will be there to hand out candy.
Parents this is great fun for the children and a wonderful photo opportunity!
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Care to Talk About / Breast Health
Tuesday, April 29, 2014 Dr. Philip Keizer and members of the Radiology department will be discussing breast health from 5:00 to 6:00 pm in the main conference room of Lower Umpqua Hospital, lower level entrance by the cafeteria. It's the perfect time to find out about our new digital mammography machine and what that means for you! Light refreshments will be served.
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Media Contact: Deborah Ross
Phone: 541-435-7774
Email: dross@orcca.us
Ice Cream, Bingo, Prizes & Fun!
Join us for the Ice Cream Social and Bingo Night hosted by Great Afternoons from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. on Saturday, May 10th in the Highland Elementary School gymnasium located at 2605 Longwood Drive, Reedsport.
Tickets are $5.00 for adults and $3.50 for children under 12. Family-of-four admission is just $15.00. Tickets can be purchased in advance at Great Afternoons or at the gymnasium door the night of the event. Admission will include one bingo card. Additional bingo cards can be purchased at the door for $2.00/adults and $1.00/children.
This year, the event will feature:
• Bingo
• Ice Cream Sundaes
• Soda, coffee, popcorn and nachos
• Door prize drawings
• Consolation prizes for the kids
Chris Marsh, Great Afternoons Program Director, shares "This is a wonderful opportunity to spend quality time with the family on Mother's Day weekend. Don't miss it!"
Great Afternoons, a program of Oregon Coast Community Action, serves the town of Reedsport and its surrounding communities, providing a wide array of services on a sliding fee scale basis to children ages 6 weeks to 12 years of age.
Oregon Coast Community Action is a non-profit network of programs that help feed, house, warm and educate the communities of the South Coast. For more information, please call (541) 435-7080 or learn more at www.orcca.us.
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Reedsport Foursquare Church Launches Shoe Drive
Everyone is invited to participate in a shoe collection drive April 27th to May 17th.
Reedsport Foursquare is conducting a shoe collection drive April 27th thru May 17th to raise funds for a building project in Honduras, while benefiting microenterprise ventures in developing nations and keeping old shoes out of local landfills. Individuals can help by donating gently worn, used shoes during the week at the Reedsport Les Schwab tire store or on Saturdays, May 3,10,17 at the church from 9-11. Folks can also call the church at 541-271-4414 for pick-up in the Reedsport area.
In the US alone, approximately 630 million pairs of shoes are thrown away per year. The materials used to manufacture a pair of shoes are created from chemical compounds that will create health hazards if left to disintegrate openly or in landfills. By donating your gently worn, used shoes to the El Ayudante building project, your shoes are given a second chance to make a difference. All donated shoes will be redistributed to microenterprise partners through Funds2Orgs and used in developing nations for impoverished people to start, maintain, and grow a unique business opportunity to feed, clothe, and house their families.
"We are very excited to be conducting this shoe drive on the coast" notes Pastor Terry Plotz. "This campaign will raise funds that directly benefit the opening of a medical clinic in Honduras (www.EAHonduras.org). The additional advantages of diverting shoes from the waste stream to create commerce and sustainability in peoples' lives make this a win-win for everyone," said Pastor Plotz. "Our goal is to collect 7500 pairs of shoes. The only way we can do that is if community members step up and help. I am calling on everyone to clean out their unwanted, gently worn, used shoes and donate them to us."
If you, or a local organization, are interested in learning more about this opportunity to help some of the poorest people in the world you may contact Reedsport Foursquare Church at 541-271-4414 or check their website www.ReedsportFoursquare.org.
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www.cityofreedsport.org
www.reedsportcc.org
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