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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">FYI – if you are not signed up for the Oregon Heritage blog, I encourage you to sign up! This year there will be monthly features from our Oregon Main Street
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">oregonheritage posted: "This post is part of a series celebrating Oregon Main Street's ten years of downtown revitalization. Throughout the year we will be highlighting some
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<h2 style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#555555"><a href="https://oregonheritage.wordpress.com/2017/03/31/oregon-main-street-highlight-bandon/"><u><span style="color:#2585B2">Oregon Main
Street Highlight – Bandon</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<em><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#444444">This post is part of a series celebrating Oregon Main Street's ten years of downtown revitalization. Throughout the year we will be highlighting some of our Main Street network
communities and the great work they are doing. You can learn more about Oregon Main Street
<a href="https://www.oregon.gov/oprd/HCD/SHPO/pages/mainstreet.aspx"><u><span style="color:#2585B2">here</span></u></a>. Main Street efforts in Bandon are being carried out by the
<a href="https://greaterbandon.org/"><u><span style="color:#2585B2">Greater Bandon Asscociation</span></u></a> and here is a snapshot into the work they are doing</span></em><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#444444">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#444444"><img border="0" id="_x0000_i1051" src="https://oregonheritage.files.wordpress.com/2017/03/exterior-sign_ge.jpg?w=306" alt="Exterior Sign_GE">Just a few short weekends ago, Bandon’s
gorse plants were in full bloom. Vibrant yellow swaths of this despised, prickly plant cover a huge part of Bandon. Gorse is an invasive, highly flammable, painful and difficult to remove plant. We don’t like it. We might even say we HATE it. But, we decided
to celebrate it. We’re using our lemons, and making REALLY good lemonade.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#444444">It all started when a<a href="https://greaterbandon.org/"><u><span style="color:#2585B2"> Greater Bandon Association</span></u></a> board member had a grand idea for an off-season
festival. It took about two years and a ton of volunteer effort to bring her dreams to reality. The Gorse Blossom Festival celebr(hated) gorse with a historical display of gorse and the fires it has caused (courtesy of the
<a href="http://www.bandonhistoricalmuseum.org/"><u><span style="color:#2585B2">historical museum</span></u></a>), a life-size dart board of Lord Bennett (the founder of Bandon and bringer of gorse), and displays from our local
<a href="http://www.cityofbandon.org/general/page/gorse-action-group"><u><span style="color:#2585B2">Gorse Action Group</span></u></a> and Go Native! project.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#444444">But, the real purpose of this festival was to celebrate seafood, beer, and wine from all over Oregon and bring visitors to our charming coastal town in the dark, wet, cold days
of February. We packed our motels, restaurants and shops, served up some great entertainment, and had a magical three-day festival full of fun!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#444444"><img border="0" id="_x0000_i1052" src="https://oregonheritage.files.wordpress.com/2017/03/glasses_ge.jpg?w=305" alt="Glasses_GE">The event was hosted inside our old fisheries
plant building on the Bayfront. The inside was transformed into a festival paradise with giant remote-controlled fish swimming around the ceiling, twinkle lights draped from end to end, and forty beer, wine, and seafood vendors, all with the backdrop of local
musicians and the South Coast Film Festival. Our nights ended with entertainment. Fire dancers one night, a Presidential pub crawl another, and on Sunday, an early morning Bloody Mary stroll where participants collected 20 garnishes from Old Town businesses
before entering the festival for the final, and most critical, ingredient. We also hosted brewmaker and winemaker dinners in our downtown restaurants in the evenings. We sure had one heck of a good time!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#444444">We’re lucky to live in a place with such a vibrant history, funky culture, and willingness to try new things. Without the innovation of our brilliant board members, this event
would not have succeeded. It was the quirky, “outside the box” thinking that made this event so special and the more bizarre our ideas got, the more popular the event became! The goal was to get visitors to our town and into our businesses during the off-season
and we certainly accomplished that goal in a fun and inventive way. If you want to learn more about the Gorse Blossom Festival, please visit the website at
<a href="http://www.gorseblossomfest.com/"><u><span style="color:#2585B2">www.gorseblossomfest.com</span></u></a>!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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