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FILM PREMEIRE: Saturday, Nov 15th in Cannon Beach

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THE GATHERING: A Celebration of Native American Heritage Month presents:

Film Premiere: Kanenon:we – Original Seeds

At 7PM on Saturday, November 15th, award winning director Katsitsionni Fox will premiere her upcoming documentary, “Kanenon:we – Original Seeds,” at the Coaster Theatre Playhouse in Cannon Beach.

The short film follows native women responsible for caretaking of traditional seeds whose existence is threatened by centuries of colonial practices. The film explores food security, environmental disconnection, climate change, land theft and more.

Fox, a Mohawk filmmaker focused on sharing empowering stories of resilient Indigenous women, will also screen “Tentsitewakwe,” another short documentary.

Following the screenings, she will be joined by Cliff Taylor for a Q&A.

WHEN: 7PM on Saturday, November 15th

WHERE: The Coaster Theatre Playhouse (108 N Hemlock St, Cannon Beach, OR 97110)

FREE (Donations encouraged)

For more information and a full weekend schedule of Gathering events, visit: tolovanaartscolony.org

SPECIAL HEARING FOR FEMA OPTIONS IN ROCKAWAY BEACH

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Submitted By: Rhonda.nccwp@gmail.com – Click to email about this post
**TODAY is the last chance to submit your comments via email.**

(Comments can still be made in person or via virtual Zoom call during the meeting)

PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE

WHAT: City of Rockaway Beach Public Hearing on Ordinance 2025-05 Amending Zoning Ordinance Related to Flood Hazard Overlay Zone and Public Hearing on Ordinance 2025-06 Amending Comprehensive Plan Related to Flood Hazard Overlay Zone

WHEN: Wednesday, November 12, 2025 – 6:00 P.M.

WHERE: Rockaway Beach City Hall, 276 Hwy 101 – Civic Facility

WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT?

Per the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), all communities that participate in the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) are required to implement Pre-Implementation Compliance Measures (PICMs). These PICMs provide communities with the authority to regulate/limit/prevent development in Special Floodplain Hazard Areas (SFHAs).

This is a significant opportunity to protect our precious floodplains and wetlands and improve public safety. These measures must assure “no net loss” to one or more key floodplain functions. Three broad options were provided which roughly translate to:

Permit-by-Permit – This is considered to be the least protective of SFHAs
Model Ordinance – Moderately protective of SFHAs
Prohibit Development – Most protective of SFHAs

It is important to note that there are active high-level lawsuits that have delayed final direction from FEMA, but these interim ordinance and comprehensive plan modifications will set the stage for how well a community can protect its SFHAs in the meantime. What the City of Rockaway Beach is proposing to adopt on November 12th, is the least protective option of Permit-by-Permit. In fact, the City stated that: “Adoption of the ordinances will ensure compliance with the minimum standards for participation in the NFIP in Oregon” (emphasis added)

HOW TO PROVIDE PUBLIC COMMENT

• Written Comments may be submitted electronically by sending an email no later than 48 hours prior to the meeting to CityHall@Corb.us
• In Person – sign-up sheet and instructions will be located on the table outside of the meeting room
• Virtually on Zoom – use the “raise hand” feature when the Mayor announces it is time to do so

POTENTIAL TALKING POINTS (questions dick.nccwp@gmail.com)
Request that City does not proceed with the least protective option
Ask the City to consider prohibiting development in the SFHAs which would:
Prevent catastrophic loss to property
Protect our precious wetlands
Protect the groundwater wells that are part of our drinking water system
Protect several species of fish that rely on these areas
Protect other critical species that rely on these ecosystems
Reduce flooding potential
Demonstrating “No Net Loss” to a key floodplain function is extremely difficult to accomplish, regulate, or monitor.
Detailed information on the City’s proposed ordinance and comprehensive plan modifications can be found at Community Development – City of Rockaway Beach

NCCWP wants no more logging and pesticide use in community water sources regardless of who owns the land, and wants an end to pesticide applications near where people live, work, and recreate. Safe drinking water and clean air are part of the public trust that we all are entitled to have. Please help North Coast Communities for Watershed Protection safeguard and restore our drinking watersheds.

www.healthywatershed.org | www.facebook.com/
NCCWATERSHEDPROTECTION
For more information, contact rockawaycitizen.water@gmail.com

Please consider making a tax-deductible donation to NCCWP. You can donate by check or online via debit or credit card by visiting: healthywatershed.org/donate/.

#healthywatersheds #peoplevsagentorange #stoppesticides #agentorangeawareness #agentorange #healthywatersheds #protectdrinkingwater #nccwp

Need TLC – Song Bath Ministry by Threshold Choir

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Submitted By: northcoastoregonthresholdchoir@gmail.com – Click to email about this post
2ND TUESDAYS
@ ST CATHERINE’S CHURCH
NEHALEM, OR
Song Bath Receivers need to RSVP oquinnhomestead@gmail.com or text:503-440-7861

• 5:30-6:00 Singers arrive/social/set-up
• 6:00-6:15 Singers warm up while Song Bath Receivers (who have RSVP’d) quietly arrive and be seated on pews

• 6:15-6:45 Singers invite Receivers to sit in the zero-gravity chairs to receive song for whatever needs to be held tenderly

UPCOMING DATES
• 11/11/25
• 12/9/25

To Receive Monthly Text Reminders,
TEXT “Song Bath” to 503-440-7861

North Coast Oregon Threshold Choir (NCOTC)
We gather and sing to heal ourselves and our community…we train to sing for those at the thresholds of life and death.
Whatever level you feel called to participate, we welcome your quiet energy…your resounding spirit…your soothing voice.

For more information:
• Email: NorthCoastOregonThresholdChoir@gmail.com
• Text/call: 503-440-7861
• www.facebook.com/NCO.ThresholdChoir/

Threshold Choir International (TCI):
• www.thresholdchoir.org

Rockaway Beach Public Hearing on Amending Zoning Related to FEMA

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Submitted By: Rhonda.nccwp@gmail.com – Click to email about this post
PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE

WHAT: City of Rockaway Beach Public Hearing on Ordinance 2025-05 Amending Zoning Ordinance Related to Flood Hazard Overlay Zone and Public Hearing on Ordinance 2025-06 Amending Comprehensive Plan Related to Flood Hazard Overlay Zone

WHEN: Wednesday, November 12, 2025 – 6:00 P.M.

WHERE: Rockaway Beach City Hall, 276 Hwy 101 – Civic Facility

WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT
Per the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), all communities that participate in the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) are required to implement Pre-Implementation Compliance Measures (PICMs). These PICMs provide communities with the authority to regulate/limit/prevent development in Special Floodplain Hazard Areas (SFHAs).

This is a significant opportunity to protect our precious floodplains and wetlands and improve public safety. These measures must assure “no net loss” to one or more key floodplain functions. Three broad options were provided which roughly translate to:

Permit-by-Permit – This is considered to be the least protective of SFHAs
Model Ordinance – Moderately protective of SFHAs
Prohibit Development – Most protective of SFHAs

It is important to note that there are active high-level lawsuits that have delayed final direction from FEMA, but these interim ordinance and comprehensive plan modifications will set the stage for how well a community can protect its SFHAs in the meantime. What the City of Rockaway Beach is proposing to adopt on November 12th, is the least protective option of Permit-by-Permit. In fact, the City stated that: “Adoption of the ordinances will ensure compliance with the minimum standards for participation in the NFIP in Oregon” (emphasis added)

HOW TO PROVIDE PUBLIC COMMENT
• Written Comments may be submitted electronically by sending an email no later than 48 hours prior to the meeting to CityHall@Corb.us
• In Person – sign-up sheet and instructions will be located on the table outside of the meeting room
• Virtually on Zoom – use the “raise hand” feature when the Mayor announces it is time to do so
POTENTIAL TALKING POINTS (questions dick.nccwp@gmail.com)
Request that City does not proceed with the least protective option
Ask the City to consider prohibiting development in the SFHAs which would:
Prevent catastrophic loss to property
Protect our precious wetlands
Protect the groundwater wells that are part of our drinking water system
Protect several species of fish that rely on these areas
Protect other critical species that rely on these ecosystems
Reduce flooding potential
Demonstrating “No Net Loss” to a key floodplain function is extremely difficult to accomplish, regulate, or monitor.
Detailed information on the City’s proposed ordinance and comprehensive plan modifications can be found at Community Development – City of Rockaway Beach

NCCWP wants no more logging and pesticide use in community water sources regardless of who owns the land, and wants an end to pesticide applications near where people live, work, and recreate. Safe drinking water and clean air are part of the public trust that we all are entitled to have. Please help North Coast Communities for Watershed Protection safeguard and restore our drinking watersheds.

www.healthywatershed.org | www.facebook.com/
NCCWATERSHEDPROTECTION
For more information, contact rockawaycitizen.water@gmail.com

Please consider making a tax-deductible donation to NCCWP. You can donate by check or online via debit or credit card by visiting: healthywatershed.org/donate/.

2 new Canon Toner Cartridges 126 for laser printer

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Submitted By: markreny@nehalemtel.net – Click to email about this post
I bought these for the North County Food Bank at Staples and was sold the kind for a laser printer which we don’t have and didn’t find out until a week ago which is after their return window…I recycled a bunch of cartridges and got $50 credit off but they still were expensive, $174 for 2, so I don’t know if this is a terrible price for 2 Canon 126 toner cartridges for a laser printer but just seeing if anyone needs these and is familiar with the cost before I try to return them sometime when I get to Portland…the guy had the old used ones in his hand so I kind of feel like it wasn’t completely my fault, but they might not agree and time has passed, so I’m posting for now…call Mark if interested 503-298-7556 and the check would be written to the North County Food Bank…thanks

AUTHOR EVENT Saturday Nov 15

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BOOKS AFTER HOURS
SATURDAY NOV 15
5:30 PM

A CONVERSATION with PNW’s incredibly prolific and highly entertaining NY Times Bestselling Authors LISA JACKSON, NANCY BUSH, AND ROZ NOONAN.

SINISTER
Kensington authors Lisa Jackson, Nancy Bush, and Rosalind Noonan unite their talents in this riveting novel of family secrets, obsession, and murder.

Twenty years ago, a fire ravaged the Dillinger family’s old homestead, killing Judd Dillinger and crippling his girlfriend. Most people blamed a serial arsonist who’d been seen around town. But strange things are happening in Prairie Creek, Wyoming, again.

Ira Dillinger, the family’s wealthy patriarch, has summoned his children home for his upcoming wedding. Eldest son, Colton, and his siblings don’t approve of their father’s gold-digging bride-to-be. But someone is setting fires, just like in the past…and this time there will be no survivors.

THEIR NEWEST INDIVIDUAL TITLES:

IT HAPPENED ON THE LAKE by Lisa Jackson.
Twenty years after tragedy and scandal shattered her life, Harper Reed Prescott returns to her family’s isolated house on Lake Twilight — a place haunted by whispers of death and disappearance. She’s ready to leave the past behind, but someone is watching… and the lake isn’t done with her yet.

THAT MISSING PIECE IS KILLING ME (An Alice Pepper Lonely Hearts and Puzzle Club Mystery Book) by Roz Noonan.
Librarian Alice Pepper always had a natural talent for figuring out people and puzzles in the small Oregon town of West Hazel. But as a mystery permeates the quiet PNW community, murder is a challenge she’s not prepared to solve . . .

THE PSYCHIC by Nancy Bush.
In a chilling, intensely eerie novel of suspense from the New York Times bestselling author of The Camp and The Babysitter, a woman haunted by unreliable psychic visions must decide how far to trust herself when it comes to stopping a killer. Because this new vision is different. This one won’t be ignored.

Senior Lunch served by Nehalem Bay Community Services

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Join Nehalem Bay Community Services for Senior Lunch on Tuesday and Thursday. Served between 11:30 and noon at the Nehalem Methodist Church.

For more information, go to our website NehalemBayCS.org

36050 10th Street
PO Box 232
Nehalem, OR 97131

503-368-4385
admin@nehalembaycs.org

Equal Opportunity Provider

MUsiCAL STORYTIME FOR PRESCHOOLERS AT THE MANZANITA LIBRARY

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Pete the Cat is one cool dude as he strolls around in his new white shoes. Preschoolers and their parents and caregivers can find out more about Pete the Cat’s adventures when attending North Oregon Coast Symphony’s FREE Musical Storytime October 20 at the Manzanita Library at 10:30. Musical Storytime is a hands-on musical activity for preschoolers.
This free outreach program is for children ages 2-5. This month’s story is Pete the Cat, I Love My White Shoes and will be accompanied by flute player Shelley Loring. Pete the Cat is silly, fun, and has brightly colored illustrations. Pete loves his bright white sneakers so much that he sings about them wherever he goes. Children will love singing along to this story. Loring will talk more about her flute after the story is read and demonstrate the various sounds she can produce. Then different wind instruments will be handed out for the children to play.
Similar events are being planned monthly in partnership between North Oregon Coast
Symphony, North Tillamook Library, Seaside Library, and Astoria Library. For more information, visit the symphony’s website at www.nocsymphony.org., or seasidelibrary.org, or
catalog.tillabook.org/Events/Calendar, or www.astoria.gov/dept/Library.

George Stimmel Etching

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“Clearing Snow”, c.1930s, Lithograph.
Edition by George Stimmel. (1880-1964)
Image size 6.5” x 5” inches, framed, signed and numbered 16/40.
A fine impression, on grey wove paper, in excellent condition. Quality gold-finished frame, circa 1910.
Stimmel created urban landscapes of New York City and the surrounding areas from 1915 to 1930; working in watercolor, lithography and etching. His etchings were the subject of a feature article in Print Quarterly, 1928.

Located in Manzanita.

Thanks, BBQ!

North Coast Veterans for Peace Meeting

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Submitted By: briantjmcmahon@gmail.com – Click to email about this post
Everyone

Two things first:

1.) Veterans day celebration at the Air Museum south of Tillamook. Breakfast 8:00 to 10:45 am. Ceremony 11:00 to 12:30 pm. Tuesday, November 11th.

2.). Documentary that examines the universal health crisis of veterans suicide, especially in rural
communities. “Battlegrounds and Backroads” will premiere at 5:00, Tuesday, November 11th at
the Liberty theater in Astoria.

Time for our next VFP meeting. Lots to discuss and share. Here is the info:
Place – Manzanita Public Library
Date – Thursday, November 13th
Time. – 10:30 PST

Everyone is welcome. You need not be a vet to attend. Just for peace. Come on in, everyone is welcome. It you can’t join in person, you can always zoom in

Veterans for Peace is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Join Zoom Meeting

us06web.zoom.us/j/87254740556?pwd=7rvDylDeoWZEIwrmAyp05UnohIGDm8.1

Brian

For Sale 5-Tray VermiHut Plus Worm Compost Bin

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For Sale: 5-Tray VermiHut Plus (The advanced model under the VermiHut™) Worm Compost Bin

The Nehalem Bay Garden Club had this worm bin donated and they are selling it for $100 OBO with ALL of the money going to the North County Food Bank.

For more information contact nibbs1111@gmail.com

From VermiHut website:
The VermiHut Plus worm compost bin is the advanced model under the VermiHut™. It converts the kitchen food waste from your kitchen into organic fertilizer for your garden. The VermiHut Plus is the next generation of the internationally well-known VermiHut worm bin.

It’s easy to use! Just fill a working tray with worm bedding, red worms and food scraps. As the worms finish consuming the food scraps, they will migrate upward into the tray above, leaving rich castings behind. In ideal conditions, 2lbs or 1kg worms can consume 1 lb or 0.5 kg of food scraps per day on average. A 5-tray worm bin can house 10 lbs or 5 kgs of worms. Therefore, it can help to reduce 5 lbs or 2.5 kgs food scraps per day. The VermiHut Plus provides the perfect capacity for household food waste management.
vermitek.com/store/p10/5-Tray_VermiHut_Plus_%28The_advanced_model_under_the_VermiHut%E2%84%A2%29_Worm_Compost_Bin.html

From a local satisfied user:
We have had a worm bin for a little over a year. We use it for our kitchen vegetable and fruit scraps, shredded paper, and some garden cuttings. One of the benefits is the leachate or “liquid gold” that we collect from the bottom of the bin. We use this liquid to fertilize our plants and have had great results. We mix the leachate with water using 10 parts water to 1 part leachate. It’s great source of fertilizer, beneficial for sick plants and keeps our food scraps out of the landfill.