Madness of March starts early for Bay Area business
With the Oregon High School Class 3-A State High School Basketball Championships returning to the Bay Area on March 1st, local businesses are being asked to get ready to impress.
Last year an estimated 1,500 people came to the South Coast specifically to see the Boys and Girls State Playoffs, which are once again hosted by Marshfield and North Bend High Schools.
Katherine Hoppe is the Director of Promotion and Conventions with the Coos Bay-North Bend Visitor and Convention Bureau and she says that making a good impression is very important for business.
"Because the tournament happens in our off-seasons It's a really nice push for folks...the hotels, the restaurants, some of the attractions...and there was also this general, just this great, feeling in our community."
This is the second year in a row for the South Coast to play host to the tournaments and they are trying to promote the Bay Area as a possible permanent home for the event.
Local businesses are being asked to help out in different ways.
Hoppe says folks with a reader board on their business can put up a sign welcoming the 3-A tournament, while folks along Highway 101 or on Virginia Avenue can sponsor a team and decorate their windows in those team's colors.
"If they have coupons, or discounts, or gifts that they'd like us to put in the coaches bag...every coach gets a welcome bag...we'd love to fill that with as many presents as we did last year."
Businesses can drop off those items at the Visitor Center on Highway 101 in Coos Bay before February 27th.
Hoppe also points out that tickets are already on sale for the tournament.
All-tournament passes are $50 for adults and $25 for students, and they are available at the Athletic Department offices at Marshfield and North Bend.
You can also get them online at osaa.org.
Sponsorship donations of $25 can also be purchased at the Athletic Department offices to help pay for a student to attend the tournament that may not otherwise be able to afford to go.
Last year an estimated 1,500 people came to the South Coast specifically to see the Boys and Girls State Playoffs, which are once again hosted by Marshfield and North Bend High Schools.
Katherine Hoppe is the Director of Promotion and Conventions with the Coos Bay-North Bend Visitor and Convention Bureau and she says that making a good impression is very important for business.
"Because the tournament happens in our off-seasons It's a really nice push for folks...the hotels, the restaurants, some of the attractions...and there was also this general, just this great, feeling in our community."
This is the second year in a row for the South Coast to play host to the tournaments and they are trying to promote the Bay Area as a possible permanent home for the event.
Local businesses are being asked to help out in different ways.
Hoppe says folks with a reader board on their business can put up a sign welcoming the 3-A tournament, while folks along Highway 101 or on Virginia Avenue can sponsor a team and decorate their windows in those team's colors.
"If they have coupons, or discounts, or gifts that they'd like us to put in the coaches bag...every coach gets a welcome bag...we'd love to fill that with as many presents as we did last year."
Businesses can drop off those items at the Visitor Center on Highway 101 in Coos Bay before February 27th.
Hoppe also points out that tickets are already on sale for the tournament.
All-tournament passes are $50 for adults and $25 for students, and they are available at the Athletic Department offices at Marshfield and North Bend.
You can also get them online at osaa.org.
Sponsorship donations of $25 can also be purchased at the Athletic Department offices to help pay for a student to attend the tournament that may not otherwise be able to afford to go.
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