Author: North Coast BBQ

Drop-in visits (30-minute check-ins for feeding, play time, litter box, etc.):
$35 per visit.

Multi-visit day (3 visits per day):
$85–$125/day depending on services (e.g., multiple pets, walks, meds).

Overnight (house sitting):
$85–$125 per day depending on services (e.g., multiple pets, walks, meds).

Flags are put out by communities and citizens to celebrate this country. Manzanita proudly celebrates this day by honoring the Flag. This is what Manzanita is about, honoring and celebrating this country. Our Manzanita Citizen of the Year, veteran Chuck Bridge, puts those flags out with honor and dignity every year on June 14.

Apparently Richard Masternik, you don’t know what Flag Day honors.

A Manzanita Citizen,
Deb Tinnin

Please join North County Resistance this coming Saturday, June 20, from noon to 2 PM for our weekly Peaceful Protest.

This past week we had about 20 people join us. The heat sent several people home, but we appreciated all who were able to protest with us. We are not seeing those temperatures this coming week. We all probably ought to be more cautious if we run into those hot temperatures again. Let’s talk about it on Saturday.

No one who attends these Peaceful Protests is going to be silenced. Believe me, this is a group of very dedicated protesters. Come and join us!

Best,
Patty Rinehart

www.tillamookcountypioneer.net/take-action-your-government-works-for-you-heres-how-to-remind-them/

If you agree contact your legislators

Here’s the Upper Left Edge article.
www.upperleftedge.com/2026/06/02/reverend-billy-wants-oregon-to-legalize-potlucks/

Facebook post below

Legislator contacts below FB post
Barbara McLaughlin
Nehalem

From Watt
June 10
Facebook

Yesterday Jennifer and I made the 4 hour round trip to Salem to give Governor Kotek a homemade pie. June 9 was National Strawberry Rhubarb Pie Day!
On the way we also dropped one off with Representative Cyrus Javadi in Tillamook, which felt a bit rascally because I’d never left a pie at a dentist office before.
These weren’t just any toothsome treats. They were cosmic delights made by Jennifer Childress and Libby Golden, loving works of art full of fresh rhubarb grown by Marie Scovell plus soulful Oregon strawberries. Mojo mammas baked these beauties as kitchen offerings on behalf of communities who want Oregon’s leaders to legalize potlucks.
Jennifer had visited the state capitol once before, in high school, but I’d never set foot in those massive quarters. As we sent the pie through the metal detector I thought of all those westerns where someone bakes a file into the desert in order to spring an inmate. And indeed we were bringing something inside to help activate freedom.
Folks at the information desk instructed us to go up the second floor and use a “side-door” into the governor’s office. I immediately flashed on a historic sign at Bill’s Tavern in Cannon Beach. “Hippies Use Side Door.”
We did, and felt the glorious groovy sun break through clouded hearts when we were greeted by a living breathing human being named Valerie. It was uplifting to speak with someone after weeks and weeks of fruitless communication, trying to engage with the corporate machinery of government.
We left the pie for her to share with Governor Kotek and her staff, along with information about the need for Oregon to legalize potlucks. Stay tuned, fellow participants in this homemade revolution of kitchen community.

State representatives
David Gomberg District 10
Rep.DavidGomberg@oregonlegislature.gov

Cyrus Javadi District 32
Rep.CyrusJavadi@oregonlegislature.gov

State Senator District 16
Suzanne Weber
Sen​.SuzanneWeber@oregonlegislature.gov

Governor
Tina Kotek
www.oregon.gov/gov/pages/contact-us.aspx

Poetry Out Loud is open to all each first and third Wednesday of the month at 430 in the Manzanita Library…We gather to read or simply enjoy listening to the poetry of others. Not our own. Next Meeting
is this week, June 17, 2026

A Dark Night

On the shore in la barra de Santiago

lightning opens a black horizon.

Under a cloudy tropical moon

she will emerge from a warm sea

and slowly move out through scattered

coconut husks and mango seeds beyond

the reach of even the highest tides.

She will build a nest on what is the shore

of her birth. Sea turtles will navigate

immense distances and often go deep, down

to great depths, where in complete darkness,

timeless minutes pass between heart beats.

Ashore, she will dig her whole body down,

then dig a deeper chamber, a cache to protect

her valued eggs. Seldom do the arriving turtles

pass unnoticed. There are hungry ones here,

some with machetes and bright lights and

they all know how to wait. Sea turtles

are ancient beings that are now approaching

extinction. But on this dark night, she will secure

a continuing future for her kind. Her distinct tracks

will be erased, washed away by a warm rain,

destiny buried deep, safe in the nested sand

and I will wait for her.

Foxy is a shepherd mix. Her DNA test says she’s about 30% Border Collie, Collie, and Australian Cattle Dog, and 52% German Shepherd. To me she looks like an Australian Shepherd or a McNab Shepherd. She weighs about 70 pounds (probably about 15 pounds overweight). She has the brains and the heart that you’d expect from those breeds.

I adopted her 6 months ago from a rescue in Texas. They told me she did not like other dogs.

She has a scar on her nose and a damaged ear. I suspect those might be injuries from a traumatic encounter with another dog when she was young. When she is on leash and she sees another dog, she is so reactive that I cannot manage her. I have tried numerous different leash and collar combinations and contraptions. What it really comes down to is that I am not strong enough.

Foxy is such a sweet and loving companion. She’s very cuddly for a big girl. In the house she’s very responsive, often knowing what I want just from a gesture. She has a crate and she goes into it voluntarily, but I dont close the door. She’d prefer to spend all her time with you, of course, but when I’ve left her alone she’s been fine.

For now she is a “house dog,” living much like a house cat who is not allowed out. Except that we go out to my patio several times a day just to hang out. But I know she’d be much happier if she could go on long rambling walks. Or even just be able to sniff around in a real backyard that gives her enough space to stretch her legs. DNA says she is 10, but until I got that, the rescue, the vet, and I all thought she was about 5. She’s in good health, energetic and nimble, and loves to learn. She might even like to be introduced to a little agility training.

If you think you might be the right person for Foxy and would like to learn more about her, please contact me at paprikapink@gmail.com