Kacey Montoya
Kacey Montoya reports that the South Coast tourism wasn't affected by the high gasoline prices and the road works this summer.
Cheryl Crockett,the manager of the Coos Bay Visitor Center declared to our special reporter Kacey Montoya that the area attracted visitors from Asia,Australia and Europe more than from United States.The foreign tourists occupied the hotels along the coast,most of them having high occupancy rates troughout the summer season.
American tourists also visited the area,but they didn't spent as much as the foreigners.
Kacey Montoya visited the Coos Bay-North Bend Visitor,where she found that the main attractions this summer were the salvaging of the New Carissa,the US Olympic Team trials and the discovery of the shipwrecked U.S.S. George L. Olson.
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Please Help A Needy Clark County Schoolkid
An annual program to help needy Southwest Washington children get back-to-school clothing is having problems with cash this year.
Usual, the "Child Spree" program allows those children to buy in one of several Vancouver-area stores for up to $100 of clothing, close that they otherwise couldn't afford. Also in the past, a donor annually contributed 6,000 to the effort.
This year that donation didn't happen, so the call went out for help.This Monday afternoon, Target stores did announce a donation, but a lot more is needed. The Clark County operation is run out of the Vancouver office of the Division of Children and Family Services. More…
You can help them by calling at 360-993-7869, or send a check of any amount, payable to the Division of Children and Family Services, with "Child Spree" on the memo line. More...