White coffee table (West Elm?), solid
28-1/2″x16″x13″, $40
Please email or text. Thank you.
Jill Thurston
503-812-4346
Plant pots for sale:
Double, 5-1/2″, $20
Brown, 5-3/4″, $15
Green, 4-3/4″, $15
Cup, 5″, $4
Lime, 4-1/4″, $2
Please email or text. Thank you —
Jill Thurston
503-812-4346
SAT, APR 26th
10-12pm
Inside the Hoffman Center for the Arts
We’ll count down the days with a sampling of what’s we’re featuring this spring, a wider diversity of plants than we’ve ever sold (risked?) before!
Yes, we will have manzanitas and native wildflowers. How could we not? But this is our first year offering yummy foliage plants for the shade and a whole bunch of drought-tolerant shrubs and perennials for the sun.
Speaking of sun, you must meet Glacium flavum, the yellow horned poppy, as well as its glowing orange sister, Glacium flavum var. auranticum.
Now that we’ve learned how to grow the darn thing, it’s top on our list of “put me where it’s HOT, mulch me with gravel and lemme be” plants.
Glacium’s curly foliage is an intriguing blue that stays a tidy little rosette through the winter. The flowers are wonderfully poppy-pretty and carry on for months. With sun and neglect, your horned poppy should eventually set seed which is a very, very good thing. More is better!
See you at the WG Plant Sale!
Then mark your calendar for the annual plant sale of the Nehalem Bay Garden Club which will be held as usual on Mother’s Day weekend: Saturday, May 10th from 10-3 and Sunday, May 11th from 10 to noon. Location of the sale is 43080 Northfork Rd, Nehalem at the junction of Hwy 53 and Northfork Rd.
Over 500 tomato plants will be available this year in 8 different varieties.
Moskvitch is an early heirloom with outstanding flavor and 3-4 inch fruit.
Alaska is an heirloom large cherry tomato good in a container.
(image included)
Big Beef is a large beefsteak hybrid that is disease resistant.
Sungold is a tall orange hybrid cherry that needs support.
Beaver Lodge is an heirloom with 1 ½ inch fruit suitable for hanging baskets or containers.
Stupice is a tall heirloom with 2-4 inch fruit that reaches 5-7 feet and needs support.
Super Sweet 100’s is a small hybrid cherry tomato that needs staking. (Image included)
Juliet is a plum/cherry hybrid with 2-3 ½ inch fruit.
Alaska, and Beaver Lodge are determinate which means they are smaller and grow like a bush. They usually grow up to five feet tall, so they are perfect for a small garden or container gardening.
The rest of the varieties are indeterminate which have a more vine-like structure and can grow up to 8-10 feet tall so will need support.
Also available at reasonable prices will be: hanging baskets, planters with colorful flowers, perennials, annuals, vegetables, tomatoes, shrubs, trees, herbs ground cover and houseplants among others.
There will be Mother’s Day gifts and a raffle. Raffle tickets are $5 each or 6 for $20.
While you shop on Saturday only, bring your children so they can create wee succulent gardens as commitments to Planet Earth — and possibly Mothers’ Day gifts. All materials provided.
Also bring your tools on Saturday only for the Sharpenator to give them a new edge.
To help assuage hunger in our communities please bring canned food and/or personal care items to our sale. All will be donated to the North County Food Bank.
We encourage you to pay with cash or check and to round up! Nehalem Bay Garden Club donates proceeds from the sale to local organizations that share the Club’s mission.
Again, please check your posts and let me know if there is any problem.
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Barbara
The farmers market is by and for our community. We aim to:
Provide fresh, local produce directly to North Coast citizens.
Support our farmers, producers, and creators and enhance the local economy.
Grow community and create inclusive social gatherings
www.northcoastbbq.com/2025/04/17/be-part-of-the-manzanita-farmers-market-volunteer/
Nehalem Bay Health District’s
Meeting of the Wheeler Care Center, LLC
Wednesday, April 23, 2025 – 5:30 pm
This meeting is open to the public and those interested can attend via Zoom video conferencing.
For questions, other information or if you require communication assistance or accommodation please contact: info@nehalembayhd.org or call 503-368-5119
Join Zoom Meeting:
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Daniela Naomi Molnar is a poet, artist, and writer who works with color, water, language, and place. She creates paintings using pigments made from plants, bones, stones, rainwater, and glacial melt. Her writing develops alongside this work, with each practice influencing the other to form new ecologies.
Her work is the subject of a front-page feature in the Los Angeles Times, a PBS Oregon Art Beat profile, an entry in the Oregon Encyclopedia, and a feature in Poetry Daily. Her debut book, CHORUS, won the 2024 Oregon Book Award for Poetry and was selected by Kazim Ali as the winner of Omnidawn Press’ 1st/2nd Book Award.
Forthcoming titles include PROTOCOLS (Ayin Press, 2025), Memory of a Larger Mind (Omnidawn, 2028), and Light / Remains (Bored Wolves Press, 2026). Her work will is also included in Attached to the Living World: A New Ecopoetry Anthology (Trinity University Press, 2025) and in The Glacier is a Being (Sturm & Drang, 2024).
Her artwork has been shown nationally, is in public and private collections internationally, and has been recognized by numerous grants, fellowships, and residencies. She founded the Art + Ecology program at the Pacific Northwest College of Art and helped start and run the backcountry artist residency Signal Fire. She can be found in Portland, Oregon, and exploring global public wildlands. Learn more at danielamolnar.com.
Get up, stand up, stand up for our rights!!!
Hope to see you there.
NOON – 2pm
Snacks, casual browsing, book people—maybe some new favorite authors
Readings start around 6. Here’s what’s on for the rest of April:
-April 19th, we welcome Lynne Spriggs O’Connor & her beautiful, heartful memoir, ELK LOVE.
-April 26th, celebrate National Poetry Month with Sara Sebastian, poet of the heart and its many moods. Her book: WE CALL SO MANY FEELINGS LOVE.
TODAY!! Friday, April 18
10 am to 2 pm
At: City Hall Mid-town parking lot
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We do Weekly, bi-weekly, monthly, or whenever you need cleanings for friends & family visits, for your home or Vacation Rental.
Please call 503-717-2585 to help you with your cleaning needs.
Thank you,
Thank you so much for all your support, everyone!!!!
Donations are gladly accepted.
This is a shred event for residents and businesses from 10 am to 2 pm in the midtown parking lot.
e-Waste Recycling Project
Recology
10 am to 2 pm
Midtown Parking Lot
• Electronic collection – monitors, tv’s stereo equipment etc.
• Household battery collection – A, AA, AAA. D, C and rechargeable hearing aid batteries
Compost giveaway – Bring your 5-gallon bucket and fill it up, one bucket per person until compost is gone
Having listened often to Cheney, the letter sounds nothing like her style. It may have some good suggestions (certainly called out the DNC fund raising right away), but giving credit to Cheney is a disservice to her and hurts the letter’s credibility.
Thanks to a bbq reader for the new knowledge.
here’s a link to the original post.
www.northcoastbbq.com/2025/04/17/important-words-from-liz-cheney/
Barbara
Like her or not, we’re now on the same side and this woman knows what she’s talking about. She suggests actionable steps steps we must take to win our country back from the fascists.
From Liz Cheney
Dear Democratic Party,
I need more from you.
You keep sending emails begging for $15, while we’re watching fascism consolidate power in real time.
This administration is not simply “a different ideology.”
It is a coordinated, authoritarian machine — with the Supreme Court, the House, the Senate, and the executive pen all under its control.
And you?
You’re still asking for decorum and donations.
That won’t save us. I don’t want to hear another polite floor speech.
I want strategy.
I want fire.
I want action so bold it shifts the damn news cycle — not fits inside one.
Every time I see something from the DNC, it’s asking me for funds.
Surprise.
Those of us who donate don’t want to keep sending money just to watch you stand frozen as the Constitution goes up in flames — shaking your heads and saying,
“Well, there’s not much we can do. He has the majority.”
I call bullshit.
If you don’t know how to think outside the box…
If you don’t know how to strategize…
If you don’t know how to fight fire with fire…
what the hell are we giving you money for?
Some of us have two or three advanced degrees.
Some of us have military training.
Some of us know what coordinated resistance looks like — and this ain’t it.
Yes, the tours around the country? Nice.
The speeches? Nice.
The clever congressional clapbacks? Nice.
That was great for giving hope.
Now we need action.
You have to stop acting like this is a normal presidency that will just time out in four years.
We’re not even at Day 90, and look at the chaos.
Look at the disappearances.
Look at the erosion of the judiciary, the press, and our rights.
If you do not stop this, we will not make it 1,460 days.
So here’s what I need from you — right now:
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1. Form an independent, civilian-powered investigative coalition.
I’m talking experts. Veterans. Whistleblowers. Journalists. Watchdog orgs.
Deputize the resistance. Build a real-time archive of corruption, overreach, and executive abuse.
Make it public. Make it unshakable.
Let the people drag the rot into the light.
If you can’t hold formal hearings, hold public ones.
If Congress won’t act, let the country act.
This isn’t about optics — it’s about receipts.
Because at some point, these people will be held accountable.
And when that day comes, we’ll need every name, every signature, every illegal order, every act of silence—documented.
You’re not just preserving truth — you’re preparing evidence for prosecution.
The more they vanish people and weaponize data, the more we need truth in the sunlight.
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2. Join the International Criminal Court.
Yes, I said it. Call their bluff.
You cannot control what the other side does.
But you can control your own integrity.
So prove it. Prove that your party is still grounded in law, human rights, and ethical leadership.
Join.
If you’ve got nothing to hide — join.
Show the world who’s hiding bodies, bribes, and buried bank accounts.
Force the GOP to explain why they’d rather protect a war criminal than sign a treaty.
And while you’re at it, publicly invite ICC observers into U.S. borders.
Make this administration explain — on camera — why they’re terrified of international oversight.
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3. Fund state-level resistance infrastructure.
Don’t just send postcards. Send resources.
Channel DNC funds into rapid-response teams, legal defense coalitions, sanctuary networks, and digital security training.
If the federal government is hijacked, build power underneath it.
If the laws become tools of oppression, help people resist them legally, locally, and boldly.
This is not campaign season — this is an authoritarian purge.
Stop campaigning.
Act like this is the end of democracy, because it is.
We WILL REMEMBER the warriors come primaries.
Fighting this regime should be your marketing strategy.
And let’s be clear:
The reason the other side always seems three steps ahead is because they ARE.
They prepared for this.
They infiltrated school boards, courts, local legislatures, and police unions.
They built a machine while you wrote press releases.
We’re reacting — they’ve been executing a plan for years.
It’s time to shift from panic to blueprint.
You should already be working with strategists and military minds on PROJECT 2029 —
a coordinated, long-term plan to rebuild this country when the smoke clears.
You should be publicly laying out:
• The laws and amendments you’ll pass to ensure this never happens again
• The systems you’ll tear down and the safeguards you’ll enshrine
• The plan to hold perpetrators of human atrocities accountable
• The urgent commitment to immediately bring home those sold into slavery in El Salvador
You say you’re the party of the people?
Then show the people the plan.
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4. Use your platform to educate the public on rights and resistance tactics.
If they’re going to strip us of rights and lie about it — arm the people with truth.
Text campaigns. Mass trainings. Downloadable “Know Your Rights” kits. Multilingual legal guides. Encrypted phone trees.
Give people tools, not soundbites.
We don’t need more slogans.
We need survival manuals.
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5. Leverage international media and watchdogs.
Stop hoping U.S. cable news will wake up.
They’re too busy playing both sides of fascism.
Feed the real stories to BBC, Al Jazeera, The Guardian, Reuters, Der Spiegel — hell, leak them to anonymous dropboxes if you have to.
Make what’s happening in America a global scandal.
And stop relying on platforms that are actively suppressing truth.
Start leveraging Substack. Use Bluesky.
That’s where the resistance is migrating. That’s where censorship hasn’t caught up.
If the mainstream won’t carry the truth — outflank them.
Get creative. Go underground. Go global.
If our democracy is being dismantled in broad daylight, make sure the whole world sees it — and make sure we’re still able to say it.
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6. Create a digital safe haven for whistleblowers and defectors.
Not everyone inside this regime is loyal.
Some are scared. Some want out.
Build the channels.
Encrypted. Anonymous. Protected.
Make it easy for the cracks in the system to become gaping holes.
And while you’re at it?
Stop ostracizing MAGA defectors.
Everyone makes mistakes — even glaring, critical ones.
We are not the bullies.
We are not the ones filled with hate.
And it is not your job to shame people who finally saw the fire and chose to step out of it.
They will have to deal with that internal struggle — the guilt of putting a very dangerous and callous regime in power.
But they’re already outnumbered. Don’t push them back into the crowd.
We don’t need purity.
We need numbers.
We need people willing to burn their red hats and testify against the machine they helped build.
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7. Study the collapse—and the comeback.
You should be learning from South Korea and how they managed their brief rule under dictatorship.
They didn’t waste time chasing the one man with absolute immunity.
They went after the structure.
The aides. The enforcers. The loyalists. The architects.
They knocked out the foundation one pillar at a time —
until the “strongman” had no one left to stand on.
And his power crumbled beneath him.
You should be independently investigating every author of Project 2025,
every aide who defies court orders,
every communications director repeating lies,
every policy writer enabling cruelty,
every water boy who keeps this engine running.
You can’t stop a regime by asking the king to sit down.
You dismantle the throne he’s standing on — one coward at a time.
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Stop being scared to fight dirty when the other side is fighting to erase the damn Constitution.
They are threatening to disappear AMERICANS.
A M E R I C A N S.
And your biggest move can’t be another strongly worded email.
We don’t want your urgently fundraising subject lines.
We want backbone.
We want action.
We want to know you’ll stand up before we’re all ordered to sit down — permanently.
We are watching.
And I don’t just mean your base.
I mean millions of us who see exactly what’s happening.
I’ve only got 6,000 followers — but the groups I’m in? The networks I touch? Over a quarter million.
Often when I speak, it echoes.
But when we ALL
speak, it ROARS with pressure that will cause change.
We need to be deafening.
You still have a chance to do something historic.
To be remembered for courage, not caution.
To go down as the party that didn’t just watch the fall — but fought the hell back with everything they had.
But the clock is ticking.
And the deportation buses are idling.
Stay Safe Without Running Water
After an earthquake or other event that disrupts our public water and sewer systems, proper equipment and know-how are critical to obtaining safe water and exercising effective sanitation and hygiene.
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Check out our other educational and learning opportunities:
Take Our WaSH Class
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Click the link above and scroll down to the date you would like to register for.
Sign up for our comprehensive Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WaSH) class, in which you will obtain the know-how and equipment to get your household prepared to properly manage your WaSH needs during an emergency.
Multiple class dates offered in 2025:
From 10:00 AM – 12:30 PM
April 26
May 31
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Food Can Tsunami 4
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Mark your calendar for the fourth annual EVCNB Food Can Tsunami for Saturday, April 26, 2025 from 10 am until 1 pm.
North County Food Bank and Nehalem Bay Community Services food pantry need our help more than ever. Food insecurity and customers needing assistance have risen.
This is an Emergency Preparedness Drill and Food Drive sponsored by EVCNB that also benefits the Food Banks in our communities.
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Community Shelter & Emergency Warming Center Exercise
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You are invited to come, participate, and/or observe the full scale Community Shelter & Emergency Warming Center Exercise. The exercise will include multiple goals for processes that are integral for Shelter Operations, including the Medical Reserve Corps for injury/health care.
You could win a fully stocked GoBag or other GoBag supplies.
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GoBag Pop-Up Shop
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Do you need a GoBag or GoBag supplies?
Purchase supplies on the website and pick up items at the Pop-Up Shop.
Pick up Saturday, May 10, 1:00 – 1:30 PM at the Manzanita Police Station
Forest ER
April 19th at 11:30 am & April 20th at 1:30 am
Take a pulse on forest health with us as our resident Tree Doctor performs procedures to uncover illnesses hidden just below the surface. Discover buggy infestations, fungal infections that aren’t so fun, and foreign foliage that make huge impacts on Oregon’s forests. What kind of prescription could cure these problems? Come visit us and find out!
Dances with Dippers
April 19th at 1:30 pm & April 20th at 11:30 am
Have you heard about the latest dance craze called “dipping”? A drab, grey, little bird told us that it’s the best! This sing-songy little swimmer is flying into the center to guide you through the aquatic world of the American Dipper. Join our naturalists to explore the Tillamook’s most unique little songbird.
Also remember the canned food drive to help our North Tillamook County Food Bank. Government funds have affected many local programs. A critical program in our area is the North Tillamook County Food Bank (NTCFB) located in Wheeler. We are asking you to donate what you can to this organization. The location of the NTCFB is 278 Rowe Street-which is across from the Nehalem Bay Health Center. The building is only open when food is distributed and that is at noon on Tuesdays. You can donate in three ways. Go to their website, www.northtillamookcountyfoodbank.org and press the “donate” button to donate online. You can send a check to NTCFB, PO Box 162, Wheeler, Oregon, 97147. Or you can go to the NTCFB on Tuesday to deliver food at that time. A monthly donation they can count on would be a real bonus. The NTCFB has a message phone, 503-368-7724. Thank you for considering adding them to your giving list. We will have collection boxes for canned foods and donations at all our PROTEST locations.
“We must believe in the power and strength of our words. Our words can change the world.” -Malala Yousafzai
You are invited!
May 24-25th, 2025 in Manzanita, Oregon!
