On June 25 at 5:00 p.m. Rick Goche was sworn in as  Port of Bandon Commissioner. The ceremony was hels at  the picnic shelter on the Bandon boardwalk.  Goche takes over for retiring Ernie Amling who served  as Commissioner from 2001 to 2009.

The Port of Bandon is the port authority for Bandon  Harbor in the city of Bandon. The port has full marina facilities  for boat launching and sport fishing. It also serves as a  waypoint stopover for commercial fishing and recreation  vessels, and has a scenic boardwalk with a nature pathway  and observation areas.

The United States Coast Guard operates  Search and Rescue Detachments for the Coquille River  in Bandon Harbor in the summer and on halibut season  weekend openers in the spring, and is equipped with a 47-  foot motor life boat and crew  The river rises in several forks in the Coastal Range,  formed at Myrtle Point by the confluence of its North and  South Forks. The North Fork rises in northern Coos County  and flows southwest. The East Fork rises in western  Douglas County, approximately 15 miles southwest of  Roseburg, and flows generally west into Coos County,  where it joins the North Fork.

The South Fork rises in southern Coos County, north of  the Wild Rogue Wilderness Area, and flows briefly southwest,  then turns north. It receives the Middle Fork then  joins the North Fork from the south at Myrtle Point. The  combined river flows in zigzag generally west, past  Coquille. It enters the Pacific at Bandon, approximately 20  mi north of Cape Blanco.