Santa to visit North Bend’s annual tree lighting
NORTH BEND — Santa Claus is com-
ing to town on Dec. 10. He will be arriv-
ing at the North Bend Community Center
in the famous old fire truck full of colored
lights, bells and a siren to let everyone
know that he has arrived.
It is a North Bend tradition and Santa
will land merry and bright at 6 p.m. to
deliver holiday cheer. It all happens just in
time to help Mayor Wetherell with the tree
lighting ceremony. There are always
songs and cheerful giving when Santa
arrives.
Along with a candy cane from Santa,
this will be the second year that every
child will receive a stocking filled with
girl or boy items and a toothbrush. This
new tradition was the result of a young
boy’s wishes while visiting Santa and now
a wonderful addition to the celebration.
The stockings will be sewn and gra-
ciously donated by the women at Holy
Redeemer Church for a second year.
K-Dock Radio Station, Teen Idol con-
testants and Skyline Children’s Choir will
all be part of the entertainment singing
Christmas songs and doing their part to
make this a festive and jovial occasion.
One of the many highlights to enjoy
will be the Portland Bagel Co. bringing
L ITTLE D ICKENS
FLORENCE — Backstreet Gallery is
honored to announce Mary Colgan-
Bennetts as the juror for the Little
Dickens miniature show held annually in
December.
Artists from the community are invited
to create their small works in 2D and 3D
that will be submitted this month.
A long-time resident of Florence,
Colgan-Bennetts is also a strong advocate
of the arts. She has worked at the Siuslaw
Library since 1997 as the Circulation
Manager. She outlined the library’s
involvement the art community as a pre-
senter at the 2015 Oregon Library
Association conference.
Colgan-Bennetts has conceived of and
implemented such programs as demArts
that took place last month. She is also the
liaison to the Art Committee. Each month
a different display of community art lin-
ing the lobby walls of the library.
November is “Hang It All” the show
their tasty morsels for the community to
sample.
Decorations, music, and food — cook-
ies, cider and treats — it;s an evening of
Christmas magic for big and small alike.
You may be the winner of a sparkling
new bicycle as North Bend Sanitation has
donated one girl bike and one boy bike.
Don’t forget to wear your helmets — all
donated by a generous community.
Santa’s helpers will be collecting ticket
stubs for all the children ages 12 and
under to enter the give-away.
Your child will also have the opportuni-
ty to participate in the Boys and Girls
Club, Arts and Crafts tables with fun
activities available for an unforgettable
evening.
North Bend Community Center
• 5:45 p.m. — Doors open
• 6 p.m. — Santa arrives
6 to 7 p.m. — Activity table, cookies,
coffee and warm cider, bicycle and helmet
drawing (Children must be present to
win).
Nothing says Christmas time like the
lighting of the North Bend Christmas tree.
The smell of the pine, the twinkling of
the lightts — let the magic of Christmas
begin!
MINIATURE SHOW ANNOUNCES JUROR
COURTESY PHOTO
Florence artist Mary Colgan-Bennetts will juror the annual Little Dickens
miniature show at Backstreet Gallery.
that hangs behind her in the photograph.
She has assisted in over 200 art hangings.
Colgan-Bennetts says as far back as
early childhood, when she lay on the
grass with her mother watching the clouds
drift overhead, she has been interested in
the design aspect of nature. She went on
to win her first art award at age seven.
Some of her early crafting began with her
grandmother who created “upside down
dolls” and assemblages before they
became popular.
She studied watercolor under the tute-
lage of Ruth Armitage in Portland. She
went on to become a photographer, water-
colorist, paper artist and digital artist.
She has also worked in pottery, display
and collage. After retirement she plans to
explore new mediums.
Backstreet Gallery, 1421 Bay St., is
open daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The Little Dickens winners will be
awarded a show at the gallery in April.
Craig and Terry ‘singing loggers’ release long-awaited CD
MAPLETON — Logging music
favorites Craig and Terry have released a
long-awaited set of CDs, the duo’s first
three albums recorded between 1988 and
1992 and digitally remastered.
With cassette copies of Craig and
Terry’s albums long worn out, and after
countless requests for CDs of their music,
fans will be exited to hear just how fresh
these digitally remastered versions sound.
1 6 • C OAST
Craig and Terry’s music put them at the
forefront as trailblazers for songs about
the logging industry, old and new.
As logging experienced big changes in
the 80s and 90s, their roles as musician
and storyteller cemented their place in his-
tory.
Their first recording, “The Snag
Faller’s Ball,” is a collection of songs
about logging in Oregon and Alaska, and
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was originally released in 1988.
Craig and Terry returned to the studio
with “Endangered Species,” which was
released less than one year later in 1989.
After many requests for an album of their
gospel, they recorded “You Hold Me
Still” in 1992.
The recordings were digitally remas-
tered at Don Ross Productions in Eugene.
The three CDs are designed as a set but
will be sold individually.
They can be purchased by calling 541-
268-6910 or by emailing ctmusicoregon
@gmail.com.
Craig Jenkins and Terry McKinnis,
aka Craig and Terry, have been enter-
taining family, friends and audiences
from the Oregon coast range to the
Rockies, and as far north as Alaska, for
nearly 40 years.