Sunshine festival days

World Photos by Lou Sennick

People mill about along Central Avenue in downtown Coos Bay Saturday afternoon during the Bay Area Fun Festival.

Guitarist of the future, two-year-old Jerred Hales of Coos Bay took his air-filled guitar on stage Sunday while his grandfather's band "Southern Phat Project" performed at the Bay Area Fun Festival. This stage was set up between Broadway and Bayshore next to Commercial Avenue during the weekend festival.

Two-year-old Cadie Callaway sits on her mother's, Tracy Kidd, shoulders while the parade passes by their location in front of the U.S. Bank building on the corner of South Fourth and Anderson streets Saturday afternoon. They were among the thousands who lined the streets in downtown Coos Bay for the annual Bay Area Fun Festival Parade.

People along the streets of downtown Coos Bay wave back at a float filled with students from Bunker Hill Elementary School Saturday afternoon during the parade.

Jubilation shows in the faces and actions of three runners as they enter the Prefontaine Track at Marshfield High School on Saturday morning. With one lap to go around the track, they were finishing the Prefontaine Memorial Run through Coos Bay.

A few hundred classic cars cruise downtown Coos Bay streets Saturday night during the 19th-annual Cruz the Coos, hosted by the Sunset Classic Chevy Club. World Photo by Susan Chambers

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