🌱 Port Orford's working waterfront stands out in quiet coastal towns roundup

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In today's newsletter:

• Port Orford's working waterfront stands out in quiet coastal towns roundup
• Quake west of Port Orford features in offshore earthquake roundup

Today's riddle: What are the two sides of a circle? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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Weather forecast:

• Wednesday: Pleasant with periods of sun, with a high of 66 and low of 53 degrees.
• Thursday: A bit of rain, temps: high: 64, low: 52.
• Friday: Windy; a little rain, cooler, with a high of 58 and low of 51 degrees.

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📰 News we're reading

• 9 Of The Quietest Pacific Coast Towns (worldatlas.com) — Port Orford earns a spot among nine quiet Pacific Coast towns, with its unusual fishing-boat lifts taking center stage. The travel feature highlights the working waterfront alongside Battle Rock's beach and nearby Cape Blanco and Humbug Mountain, offering a familiar portrait of the area's coastal appeal.
   

• Magnitude 5 Quake Off Cape Mendocino Leads Week of Offshore Shaking along Northern California Plate Boundary (newsbreak.com) — A magnitude 3.1 earthquake struck about 130 miles west of Port Orford on Nov. 5, among several recent quakes along the offshore plate boundary. The largest, a magnitude 5 off Northern California the previous evening, produced light shaking and no tsunami danger, according to federal monitoring agencies.
   

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Port Orford

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★ Featured events ★

Thursday November 26

• Little Learners Social Hour (Port Orford) →
  Port Orford Public Library, 1421 Oregon St, Port Orford
  11:00 am

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🗓 Events Nearby

Wednesday November 11

• Learn By Doing - Beginning Grant Writing Workshop →
  Gold Beach Main Street, 29975 Harbor Way, Gold Beach
  10:00 am

Thursday November 12

• the Wild Hearth Women's Retreat →
  Crook Point, 23368 Arch Rock Place, Gold Beach
• Storytime →
  Curry Public Library, 94341 3rd Street, Gold Beach
  10:00 am
• Walk On! Gold Beach →
  Curry Public Library, 94341 3rd Street, Gold Beach
  10:15 am
• Watercolor Meetup Group →
  Curry Public Library, 94341 3rd Street, Gold Beach
  3:00 pm
• "Paws" to Read →
  Curry Public Library, 94341 3rd Street, Gold Beach
  3:15 pm
• 1000 Days in Antarctica: A Talk by Lyndsey Dixon →
  Curry Public Library, 94341 3rd Street, Gold Beach
  5:30 pm

Saturday November 14

• Soil Building Class at Dragonfly Farm & Nursery →
  Dragonfly Farm & Nursery, 49295 Hwy 101, Langlois
• Soil Building Class at our Langlois Location →
  Dragonfly Farm & Nursery, 49295 Hwy 101, Langlois
  1:00 pm
• Heroes of Curry County’s Children Annual Awards Banquet →
  Event Center on the Beach, 29392 Ellensburg Ave, Gold Beach
  5:00 pm

Tuesday November 17

• Spawning →
  Indian Creek Hatchery, 94680 Jerry's Flat Road, Gold Beach
  9:00 am

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• footprint Solutions posted a job opening for Part Time Merchandiser in Port Orford. Apply here.
• Driveline posted a job opening for Master Merchandiser in Port Orford. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Port Orford here.

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🗞 Nearby News

Bandon

• Is It Safe to Eat Raw Cranberries? (tasteofhome.com)
• The Fate of Pavement (pitchfork.com)
• Lakeview girls cross country races to runner-up finish at state championships (heraldandnews.com)

Coos Bay

• Wright Family Dental opens in La Grande (lagrandeobserver.com)
• ‘Interrogating the Statue': In Conversation with Steve Prefontaine Biographer Brendan O'Meara (newsbreak.com)
• America at 250: Oregon, the Beaver State (antiquetrader.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "What are the two sides of a circle?" — The inside and the outside ! (Thank you James M. for sending it in!)
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