Reventing Community Part 2
Series: Reinventing Community
From: Northwest News Network (N3)
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The southern coast of Oregon is one of the most isolated parts of the state. But leaders in one coastal town want to turn the seclusion to their advantage. As part of our weeklong series on Northwest communities re-inventing themselves, Correspondent Chris Lehman reports on Coos Bay, a little city with plans for a big port.
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Coos Bay: Little City, Big Port
1112CL_reinvent2.wav 3:31 feature 11/8/07 Chris Lehman/CD natural resources
INTRO: The southern coast of Oregon is one of the most isolated parts of the state. But leaders in one coastal town want to turn the seclusion to their advantage. As part of our weeklong series on Northwest communities re-inventing themselves, Correspondent Chris Lehman reports on Coos Bay, a little city with plans for a big port. (SOQ 3:31)
BACKANNOUNCE: Tomorrow, we travel to the Washington Coast, where a busted-up timber county is going green.
To really understand Coos Bay, you have to know its history. And to understand the history, you have to know the geography.
Donnelly: ?Essentially the story of all human culture here is told in the topography.?
That?s Anne Donnelly, director of the Coos Historical and Maritime Museum.
?There?s a h...
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