Author: North Coast BBQ

Submitted By: pattyrinehart@nehalemtel.net – Click to email about this post

Dear Friends,

PLEASE NOTE: The City of Manzanita is having their City Council Meeting this coming Wednesday, March 4th at 6 PM. This will be at the City Hall on Manzanita Avenue. Under New Business there is a Proclamation: Immigration and Customs Enforcement Activity in Manzanita. Should you wish to say anything or contribute to the cause by just being there North County Resistance encourages you to attend. We are looking for a group of people to support this Proclamation not only in the Meeting Chamber but with strength to fill the lobby and perhaps the parking lot. See you there!

Before the North County Resistance this past Saturday we woke up to the news the United States and Israel had declared war on Iran-President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu had declared war on Iran. The Iran Supreme Leader Ali Khamenie is dead. I am not sure how any of us could have or can trust these 3. It is my opinion the three of them have abused their powers way beyond any humane markers. They are all responsible for tragedies in our world.

I was asking people at the North County Resistance on Saturday about their opinions about what had just happened and how they felt about being at the Protest and below are their replys:

-I express my feelings every Saturday because the real democratic America is so important to me-and to the world.
-Anguish-Enough is enough!
-It is hard to feel like anything makes a difference. But we are. Any progress is good.
-My nieces are Persian. Beautiful people. Ancient people. Deep roots. So many good people on this planet!
-We get more approval from passersby every week.
-On my birthday, February 17th, Secretary Collins of the Veterans Administration passed a resolution to stop some of the VA Benefits to Veterans. After 20,000 Vets protested to Secretary Collins, he rescinded the order. So, it does help to protest.
-Liberty and Justice for All.
-Let us not start more wars from the President who says he has stopped 8 wars.
-America is in Trouble.
-Frustrated. How much worse can it get?
-Please remove the President.
-Trump has no right to start a war with Iran. He needs Congressional approval. He promised he wouldn’t start any new wars.
-This country was founded on the rule of law-not royal decree. Bring back the Constitution. Bring back Congress.
-It is a travesty what is happening in this country. It must stop. (Four people agreed with this.)
-Need to get back to “home of the free and land of the brave”. This is not who we are.
-I am not feeling like we are making a difference in Washington, D.C. In a community this is a way to stand together and feel impowered. I liken it to each person here is a seed of hope. If we don’t stand in solidarity the garden won’t grow.
-All people who are not here-come and join us-silence is death.
-I worry/fear there will not be another election.
-I am afraid the paint is not dry on my “no more war” signs. They will be here next week. It is hard to keep up with the signs.
-Seeing a group protesting encouraged me to join and be out there with them. It made me feel safe to see support for humanity in small coastal towns.
-I keep coming to protests because being with like-minded people raises my hope that we will ultimately get our democracy back.
-Congress do your job! Impeach Trump!
-The damage being done domestically won’t be repaired without a big effort and the passage of time. Not just this administration but also the party in power needs to be resisted everywhere.
-I am so glad to be here to help-love and believe in this.
Perhaps because I think of myself as a gardener, I love the person’s statement that we are all flower seeds in this protest. The more we have the more we will grow. People at North County Resistance Protests believe people are good and we should have liberty and justice for all. President Trump really has no clue about what is going on for most people in this country-the gas he used to go to Mara logo every weekend could probably fuel the tanks of Tillamook County for at least a week. I do not want to be over the top here, but are we having a “next” election? Join North County Resistance next week, Nehalem, noon to 2 PM. Do not forget about the Manzanita City Council Meeting, March 4th, 6 pm.

Thanks for reading, Patty

Submitted By: tim4surf@yahoo.com – Click to email about this post

TRUMPS DICTATORIAL DISASTER:
It was another date that would live in infamy. But whereas Franklin Roosevelt declared war in sombre tones to a joint session of Congress, Donald Trump did it his way.
The US president wore a white “USA” cap, dark jacket and white shirt open at the collar. He stood at a blue lectern bearing the US presidential seal and a black microphone, with the Stars and Stripes behind him, presumably at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida. He released a video on his own social media network, Truth Social, at 2.30am on Saturday – a time when most Americans are asleep but Trump is often found rage-tweeting into the night.
In the space of eight minutes, Trump proceeded to upend half a century of US foreign policy, renege on his campaign promise to avoid the risk of forever wars and leave the Fifa boss, Gianni Infantino, with some explaining to do about why he gave Trump a made-up peace prize.
“There is also a beautiful medal for you that you can wear everywhere you want to go,” the oleaginous Infantino told Trump last December. Trump was not wearing that medal on Saturday. Instead, he delivered a performance that would have had soccer fans chanting: “Are you George Bush in disguise?”
Bush dragged the US into a tragic war in Iraq in 2003 that costs hundreds of thousands of lives and trillions of dollars and was recently crowned by the Council on Foreign Relations thinktank as the worst foreign policy decision in history. The avaricious Trump seems determined to seize that title for himself with another act of Middle Eastern regime change.
At least Bush tried to make a case to justify his invasion – mendacious as it was – and tried to convince the UN of its merits. Trump did not even bother. He amassed a huge “armada” in the Middle East with little explanation to Congress or the public. He did not mention Iran until more than an hour into this week’s State of the Union address.
Finally, when the bombs were already falling, he tried to offer a rationale in his social media video. The Iranian regime, he said, are “a vicious group of very hard, terrible people” whose menacing activities “directly endanger” the US and its allies. Trump ran through the history of the Iran hostage crisis, the Marine barracks bombing, the attack on the USS Cole and Iran’s hand in killing and maiming US troops in Iraq.
“It’s been mass terror, and we’re not going to put up with it any longer,” he said. But none of that answered a simple question: why now?
Trump went on to reference Iranian proxy groups “that have soaked the earth with blood and guts” and cite Hamas’s 7 October attacks on Israel, saying: “Iran is the world’s No 1 state sponsor of terror and just recently killed tens of thousands of its own citizens on the street as they protested.”
Trump underlined the US policy that Iran can never have a nuclear weapon and glided past his own past claim that last June’s attack had “obliterated” its programme, contending that the US wanted to make a deal but Tehran refused. “They rejected every opportunity to renounce their nuclear ambitions, and we can’t take it anymore,” he said.
The president said the US had undertaken “a massive and ongoing operation to prevent this very wicked, radical dictatorship from threatening America and our core national security interests” – an ominous sign that Washington could be in for the long haul. The chair-for-life of the new Board of Peace promised to “raze their missile industry to the ground” and “annihilate their navy”.
Then came an unexpected admission: “The lives of courageous American heroes may be lost, and we may have casualties. That often happens in war, but we’re doing this not for now. We’re doing this for the future, and it is a noble mission.”
Here was Trump, the reality TV president, understanding how desperate it will look if American service members return home in body bags, their lives sacrificed for a cause that the public little understands and still less believes in.

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Introducing Goodfella, United Paws’ Cat of the Week. You don’t get the name “Goodfella” unless you are, well, a good fella. This black beauty with eyes that shine either yellow or green, has earned his name and the hearts of his rescue team at United Paws. 

When Goodfella came into the headquarters, he was unrecognizable. He was skin and bones, infested with fleas, had almost no fur, and was covered with angry sores and scabs. His rescuer called him a “hot mess.” After many weeks of treatment, nutritious food and loving care, this beautiful soul began to shine once again. Now Goodfella is healthy, frisky, with soft fur coming back in, thick and black. 

Now that his health concerns are behind him, Goodfella is ready for life in an active home where he can be a part of the action. He loves to check out new places and the people in them. He yearns for human attention and loves to be pet from his head, down his back, to his tail. He loves to climb, play and chase. His current favorite toy is a kitty-sized body pillow that he can grab, tackle and roll with (see video!).  He also loves to chase anything connected to a string. And don’t get him started with a laser toy…he will play and run and play and chase and play…entertaining all around. 

This spirited and good-natured boy has been through a lot. He hasn’t had much practice sharing human attention so it is believed Goodfella will do best in an active household where he can get lots of attention and is the only cat. A slow and thoughtful introduction to a gentle dog in the family may be successful over time. This Goodfella is one of a kind and is looking for his safe, loving, and forever home.  Ready to adopt? Visit unitedpaws.org or email unitedpawshelp@gmail.com.

Submitted By: barbaraandchuck@nehalemtel.net – Click to email about this post

This Pledge is about your own vow to treat others with respect, even and especially with those with whom you disagree. It is about the right to our truth and to be who we are and the responsibility to allow others to have their truth as well. It says it is ok to disagree and that it is not ok to judge others harshly in our thoughts, words or actions because they are different than us.

It encourages us to strive for understanding, love and tolerance. Let us strive to keep the pledge from this day forward, though challenging it may be.

Rights and Non-rights of Civility

We believe we have the right to disagree with others.

We believe we do not have the right to use hateful, rude, angry and slanderous words and actions towards those with whom we disagree.

We believe we have the right to be angry or upset at situations we find distressing.

We believe we do not have the right to take our feelings out on others in destructive ways.

We believe we have the right to express our opinion.

We believe we do not have the right to use our opinions as weapons against those we perceive as our enemy because they don’t share our opinion.

We believe we have the right to be who we are.

We believe we do not have the right to judge others harshly in our thoughts, words or actions because they are different than us.

Civility Pledge

We pledge to:
• Speak and act with kindness and thoughtfulness.
• Seek understanding.
• Deal with our feelings in healthy ways.
• Speak our truth using “I statements”. (I feel…..,; this is how I see it…..; My experience tells me…..; this is what is true for me…..)
• Recognize there can be more than one truth in any situation.
• Listen to another with open ears and hearts.
• Seek solutions with consideration and collaboration.
• Walk away when the situation is too much to handle.
• Seek to understand someone who is different and try to see things from their point of view.
• Agree to disagree and leave it at that.

PLEASE SHARE; Feel free to print and display the Civility Pledge.

Written by Barbara McLaughlin for MLK Day 2020

Submitted By: barbaraandchuck@nehalemtel.net – Click to email about this post

The theme this year’s Tillamook County Giving Guide is “Sowing Seeds of Love”.

Please check it out and give generously–sowing your own seeds of love.

The Giving Guide and detailed directories of the organizations can be found at www.northcoastbbq.com/local-resources/

The Giving Guide can also be found here:
www.northcoastbbq.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Giving-Guide-2025-26_Final_Spreads3.pdf

Not every organization can afford a paid profile, which pays for the production. So there is a list of contact information for all in the back of the Guide.

Here are descriptions of several of those organizations:

Hope Chest Thrift Shops
HUGGS (Helping Us Give/Get Support)
Kiawanda Community Center
Kiwanis Club of Tillamook Foundation

Hope Chest Thrift Shops
36345 Highway 101 N
Nehalem, Oregon 97131
503-368-4461 for Nehalem
126 Hwy 101N
Rockaway, OR 97136
503-355-3333 for Rockaway

Judy Mammano, Vice President jmammano39@gmail.com
Terry Walhood terryw@embarqmail.com

Mission Statement: This Corporation’s primary purpose shall be to support Charities in Tillamook County.

One paragraph about your organization’s history/work:
Our charity began in 1998 in one room of a building in Wheeler and they were able to donate in 1999 $1,000.00. Since then we have donated $1,800,000 to North Tillamook County Charities. In 2004 we expanded and added another store in Rockaway Beach named Hope Chest Too Thrift Shop. The Too showing we were an addition to the first one. In around 2008 the Wheeler store experienced their third flooding, which the landlord would not correct, so a house in Nehalem was rented and it has proved to be a wonderful decision. We have 60 volunteers and are always looking for more as each store needs 24 volunteers a week to cover our shifts, which are approximately 3 ½ hours each. Some of our volunteers go south for the winter and others travel a lot sometimes for a month at a time. They are all wonderful to work with. All in all, we are very fortunate and appreciative to receive so many nice donations from the community. We get many complements on the cleanliness of our stores and merchandise.

HUGGS (Helping Us Give/Get Support)
c/o Fulcrum Community Resources
PO Box 136
Nehalem, OR 97131
503-939-5416
huggsinfo@gmail.com

Laura Swanson & Vivi Tallman, co-facilitators 503-939-5416
laura@nehalemtel.net
vivi@nehalemtel.net

Mission statement: Finding ways to heal together, changing cultural norms to share conversations about suicide prevention, overdose deaths, and grief support to build a healthy, resilient community

One paragraph about your organization’s history/work: The HUGGS group began meeting in late spring 2022 as the selected recipient of the Duane Stephens Memorial Fund, in response to recent suicides and overdose deaths in the north county. We have two main areas of focus: to raise awareness of services in Tillamook County related to suicide prevention and drug use, and to increase the availability of safe community spaces for teen activities in our county. HUGGS has participated in Overdose Awareness activities, and supports the QFC training about suicide prevention available through Tillamook Family Counseling. With community support, HUGGS has helped establish a monthly teen pinball night with free games and pizza at North Coast Pinball in Nehalem. Currently in the works for teens are a monthly after school craft event at the Heart of CARTM in Wheeler, and plans for monthly movie nights as well as a teen zine club; a community grief support group/network, and memorial benches in local parks with suicide prevention messaging. HUGGS is here to identify needed services – how can we help you give or get support?

Kiawanda Community Center
PO Box 1111
Pacific City, OR 97135
503-965-7900
Kiawandacc@gmail.com
kiawanda.com/

KCC Board of Directors kiawandacc@gmail.com

Mission Statement: The mission of Kiawanda Community Center is to create a safe and welcoming environment that embraces the local heritage by promoting community participation through intergenerational activities and culturally diverse programs that enrich the lives and values of citizens and visitors of South Tillamook County.

One paragraph about your organization’s history/work:
KCC is a community-centered, self-supporting, not-for-profit organization with activities that appeal to all ages. KCC is also a premier event venue for every occasion. In addition to providing a premier venue rental facility, KCC serves as the center of the Pacific City community. We offer ongoing healthy living programs, weekly bingo, and serve as a gathering place for our Stitchers group, and a painting group. Local organizations, such as the Chamber of Commerce, the Doryman’s Association, Nesko Women’s Club, and our local schools, use our facility for meetings, gatherings, and local fundraising events. Please visit the local events page for a full listing of what is happening at our facility.

Kiwanis Club of Tillamook Foundation
PO Box 941
Tillamook, OR 97141
503-801-2077
tillamookkiwanis@gmail.com
See us on Facebook at Kiwanis Club of Tillamook

One paragraph about your organization’s history/work:
Vision Statement: Vision Statement: The Kiwanis Club of Tillamook Foundation will assist the children of Tillamook County through initiatives that promote better health, activities and access to education. History: The club was chartered on December 15, 1922 and has been a force for community improvement for over 100 years. We wish to empower and encourage our community to “Serve the Children of Tillamook County.” We welcome new members and guests to our noon meetings to hear about what is going on in the community and share the bonds of friendship and community service. Meetings are at noon on Wednesdays at The Rendezvous Restaurant. For information contact Patsy Weber, Kiwanis Secretary at the email address listed above or by phone at 503-801-2077.

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