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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2025

Brookings, Oregon

2nd annual Holiday Pop-Up Shop

BY LINDA LEE

Curry Coastal Pilot

The Coos Curry Douglas (CCD) Business Development Corporation, a non-proﬁt organization that helps many types of businesses thrive, will hold its second annual a holiday pop-up shop at the Chetco Brewery, in Brookings, on Monday, December 17th highlighting local women in business. The purpose of the CCD is to provide support, offer resources and networking opportunities, among other services, to entrepreneurs in the region. This event at the brewery focuses on women in business. “We’re the economic development for Coos, Curry and Douglas Counties,” said Kem Todd. “We help them close gaps and over-come obstacles.” CCD holds Please see WIB Page 4

Pithitude: Tamara Bissell (l), said making laughter you can hold in your hand is the best part of her job, besides working with Barbara Sweetland-Bradley (r).

Mushroom Festival draws big crowds

This year’s festival was a world-class event.

There were over 200 varieties of mushrooms. All the mushrooms came from within about 50 to 100-mile radius of Brookings.

by volunteers on the Thursday and Friday prior to the event. “We had nearly ﬁfty volunteers that went out and foraged the local area for mushrooms,” said Kathleen Dickson, committee president of the Wild Rivers Mushroom Club. “They brought them all in on Friday afternoon so that we could get set up for our big event.” Each mushroom on display was identiﬁed and labeled with

BY LINDA LEE

Curry Coastal Pilot

Mushroom enthusiasts from around the region gathered in Brookings for the annual Wild Rivers Mushroom festival held at the Chetco Brewing Company. This year’s festival marked its seventh year for the event. The public was treated to a variety of over two-hundred mushrooms that were gathered

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information about which area of our region it was harvested from and if it was edible. “Most of those that harvested are club members,” said Dickson. “They were instructed to bring different sizes and a bit of the habitat where the mushroom was harvested from.” Besides the hundreds of varieties of mushrooms and several local vendors there were also six different lectures that were of-

fered to the public this year, three on Saturday and three on Sunday, each with its own learning point. The six lectures were given as well as nature hikes to identify mushrooms and their growing locations along trails. The public also had the opportunity to sign up for one of several mushroom identiﬁcation hikes. Hikers dressed in layers with rain gear and water-proof walking shoes as the groups were

out in the weather learning about the bio-diverse nature of where particular mushrooms grow, their life cycle, how to forage mushrooms and which ones are editable. No foraging was allowed during the hikes. In our region, the diverse bioregion for mushroom growth is located in the foggy rain and higher altitude coastal range forPlease see FESTIVAL Page 8

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