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Christmas Lights

  • Start date: 12/02/2014

  • Start time: 12:00 AM

  • End date: 12/02/2014

  • End time: 11:59 PM

Description:

River Forks Park near Roseburg features a wonderful Christmas lights display that grows more spectacular each year. We will leave Shopko parking lot at 3:45, arriving at Applebees Restaurant in Roseburg for a nice dinner (cost included). After a brief tour of the Roseburg city lights, including a sweep past the Douglas County Courthouse, we will drive through the light display at the park and return home by 9:00 pm.
Cost: Members $57 Non-Members $59 Due Nov. 20
RESERVATIONS AND CHECKS TO: Liz Reanier (541) 687-1925
853 Ascot, Eugene, OR 97401

  • Event Leader: Kocken Verna

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  • Event category: Bus Trips

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  • Departure Location: See Trip Description

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  • Season: 2014

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  • Event Status: Passed

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  • Member Fees: 57

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  • Non-Member Fees: 59

  • Committee: Bus Trips

  • Junior member fees: —

Trip Report


On Tuesday, December 2, 2014, a group of 26 Obsidians and guests left the Shopko parking lot in the afternoon and arrived at Applebee’s Restaurant in Roseburg at 5:20 pm for dinner. We used up all their available tables and tied up the kitchen for about the next hour. Then we took a driving tour down Northeast Stephens, past the library and the beautifully decorated Douglas County Court house. From there we went out Harvard Ave, Stewart Parkway, and out of town on Garden Valley Road to River Forks Park where the North and South Umpqua Rivers join and become the Umpqua. The light show there is spearheaded by the Rotary Club and sponsored by a variety of local businesses and organizations. Spectacular additions appear each year. The newest arrival is a 41 ft. tall nutcracker sculptured with chainsaws from a variety of felled trees. The working apparatus has enough force to crack coconuts (though we did not try it out!) The weather held for the trip through the light show, but the rain came hard and fast on the way home, stopping just short of Eugene for long enough for us to get to our cars.

Members & Guests signed-up & waitlisted

No. Status Full name Phone Transportation Needed? Trip Fee # Can Take?
1 Signed-Up Kocken, Verna 541-513-3501 N 57
2 Signed-Up Adamcyk, Thomas 541-302-8160 N 57
3 Signed-Up Allen, Ethel 541-736-0692 N 59
4 Signed-Up Arthur, Bill 541-844-5156 N 59
5 Signed-Up Beard, Barbara 541-994-2337 N 57
6 Signed-Up Beard, Paul 541-994-2337 N 57
7 Signed-Up Beard, Paula 541-968-0013 N 57
8 Signed-Up Cutsforth, Sharon 541-735-4703 N 57
9 Signed-Up Emlen, Clara 541-746-2181 N 57
10 Signed-Up Flanders, Dennis 541-747-9803 N 59
11 Signed-Up McManigal, John 541-345-2036 N 59
12 Signed-Up McManigal, Lenore 541-345-2036 N 59
13 Signed-Up Phelps, Judy 541-726-0118 N 59
14 Signed-Up Payne, Barbara 541-746-1964 N 59
15 Signed-Up Payne, Don 541-452-3617 N 57
16 Signed-Up Reanier, Liz 541-687-1925 N 59
17 Signed-Up Speelman, Janet 541-344-3019 N 59
18 Signed-Up Speelman, Richard 541-344-3019 N 59
19 Signed-Up Molitor, Craig 541-521-6773 N 57
20 Signed-Up Prentice, Margaret 541-556-6596 N 57
21 Signed-Up Carpenter, Karen 541-736-1944 N 59
22 Signed-Up Claypool, Marcia 541-736-3896 N 57
23 Signed-Up Dougherty, Dawne 541-995-6120 N 59
24 Signed-Up Molitor, Joanna 541-517-5592 N 59
25 Signed-Up Pattee, Edith 541-344-1453 N 59
26 Signed-Up Sears, Jan 541-747-9303 N 59