Tuesday, August 17, 12 to 1 p.m. at the Senior Center— Did you know that Bandon has three main parks and multiple future neighborhood park sites? Many of us know City Park as our only park, but we have the potential of creating so much more throughout Bandon’s neighborhoods. That’s why we need you! Get involved in building future parks!

Join the Kick-off Brown Bag Lunch meeting to share your ideas and enthusiasm. We are starting from the ground up to build a vision for Bandon Parks. We want to build a team of Friends who Love our parks. At this meeting we will choose an Executive Committee to lead us in building a Vision for our parks for generations to come. Also, we’ll look at potential park projects that could use our help right away.

If you are new to our community, come meet people who care about nature, our parks and our future. If you are a long-time resident, share your expertise and help us spread the word.

Friends of Bandon Parks has a non-profit status affiliated with Greater Bandon Association. Our Mission is to encourage thriving parks for a healthy community for generations to come. We are creating a strong group of volunteers to create recreational events, spruce up our parks, build new parks and raise funds where needed.

Enter the Bandon Senior Activity Center through the red door at the southeast corner of the Bandon Community Center. For more meeting information, contact info@friendsofbandonparks.org.

Please join us as we introduce new board members, thank those retiring, and hear some of the activities of the Chamber over the past year.

Jeff Griffin, Manager for the Port of Bandon will update us with past and future activities within the port district. Dave Lacey, who serves as the South Coast Destination Coordinator for the Oregon Coast Visitors Association, will share recent activities in local destination development.

Our guest presenter is Bandon City Manager Dan Chandler. His presentation will focus on “An Overview, Two months in, Looking forward: Issues and plans for Bandon city administration.” The Bandon Chamber Board of Directors will review the year- and plans for next year and beyond. There will be time for questions and answers at the end of the presentations. We invite you to join us.

Doors open at 5:15 p.m. We will be “Celebrating the Irish,” a week ahead, with corned beef & cabbage tacos, green chicken burritos and chips with green guacamole, provided by Historic Wilson’s Market. Cost is $15/person. The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. RSVP to the Bandon Chamber at 541-347-9616 no later than March 5.

The Bandon Chamber of Commerce is a nonprofit organization of members working together to promote the economic vitality and the quality of life in our unique coastal community.

Festival dates are Feb. 14 – 16, 2020. Volunteers can choose from a variety of roles. This year’s festival promises to be just as fun as last year – the only thing that could make it better is YOU! 

Volunteers who wish to participate, but cannot attend the registration meeting are welcome to contact festival organizers. Visit GorseBlossomFest.com for details.