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Byline: The Register-Guard

Seafood festival begins at Charleston Marina

CHARLESTON - The 16th annual Seafood Festival will be held Saturday and Sunday at the Charleston Marina from 7 a.m. to dusk each day.

For years, this fishing village has set aside the third weekend in August to enjoy the summer catch and celebrate the season.

Festivities fes·tiv·i·ty  
n. pl. fes·tiv·i·ties
1. A joyous feast, holiday, or celebration; a festival.

2. The pleasure, joy, and gaiety of a festival or celebration.

3.
 begin each morning with a Fishermen's Pancake pancake, thin, flat cake, made of batter and baked on a griddle or fried in a pan. Pancakes, probably the oldest form of bread, are known in different forms throughout the world.  Breakfast from 7 a.m. to 11 a.m. served by the Charleston Fire Department volunteers followed by the Merchants' Association volunteers serving a salmon and Albacore albacore: see tuna.
albacore

Large oceanic tuna (Thunnus alalunga) that is noted for its fine flesh. The streamlined bodies of these voracious predators are adapted to fast and continuous swimming.
 tuna lunch from noon to 3 p.m.

Other activities will include boat tours of the lower bay and ocean bar, an open house at the U.S. Coast Guard Lifeboat Station, outdoor recreation and wildlife displays, live music, and handmade hand·made  
adj.
Made or prepared by hand rather than by machine.


handmade
Adjective

made by hand, not by machine

Adj. 1.
 arts and crafts arts and crafts, term for that general field of applied design in which hand fabrication is dominant. The term was coined in England in the late 19th cent. as a label for the then-current movement directed toward the revivifying of the decorative arts.  from across Oregon.

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