Our new restaurant on Laneda,
The Spin, next to El Trio is open Monday thru Sunday from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m…
With meaningful discounts to locals that will continue…
Open to family…
An open bar…
Wonderful baristas and flavorful coffees…
Imagine their low prices with cloth napkins…
A light filled decor and crafted furnishings…
The menu is surprisingly diverse…
DIFFICULT TO IMAGINE…EASY TO TASTE
Nehalem Bay Health District Board Meeting
3:00 PM, Wednesday, March 18, 2026
Location: Zoom remote video conferencing
These meetings are open to the public.
The Zoom link can also be accessed at the Health District website
Join Zoom Meeting
us02web.zoom.us/j/85404402524
For general questions, to request meeting information
or if you require communication assistance or accommodation please contact: info@nehalembayhd.org or call 503-368-5119
AGENDA
1. Call to Order
2. Consent agenda
a. Minutes of February regular meeting
b. Monthly financials
c. Project report
3. Consideration of board appointment
4. Health Center/Pharmacy Reports
a. Gail Nelson, CEO, Nehalem Bay Health Center and Pharmacy
5. Recommendation and consideration of audit firm engagement
6. Care Center renovation update
7. Staffing process update – Mary Leverette
8. Public comment
9. Items for the good of the order
10. Adjourn
How proud we can all be of our president. Now we can add “War Criminal” to con man, felon, and rapist in his bio.
Trump has launched an illegal war of choice, circumventing congress, with no real defined purpose or proposed outcome. First it was eliminating the nuclear threat, even though he told us that it was already “completely and totally obliterated” in his last set of air strikes in June. Guess not?
Then he said we had to have regime change. But now he’s walking that back after killing the Ayatollah. Of course the regime has now replaced the Ayatollah with his son, an even more hard liner.
But hey! At least we took out that girl’s elementary school. Our Tomahawk missile made quick work of that threat to our national security.
Trump promised he’d stop wars, not start them. He promised he’d put America first.
Between trump, Rubio and Hegseth’s conflicting statements, we have no idea why this war was started or he hopes to achieve.
But it turns out Putin is the real winner in this debacle. Trump announced today he is lifting sanctions against Russia to “ease the oil crisis”. The crisis trump created. Now Putin will be swimming in cash to pay for his war against Ukraine.
The losers of course are us, the American people, who are left with skyrocketing gas prices, an already shaky economy on the rocks, our service men and women put in harm’s way, and overall a less secure world.
Yes indeed, we can all be proud of our president.
Robbie McClaran
Rockaway Beach
This Saturday’s Pruning Lab offered by the Hoffman Wonder Garden offers a few folkjs the chance to spend the day with one of our favorite pruners, Maryann Lewis. Ms Lewis has never met a tangle of branches and limbs she couldn’t transform into an astonishing garden-worthy specimen.
Join a small group of plant lovers for a day of instruction and hands-on supervision that will forever change the way you look at the woody plants in your garden. Their potential will blow you away!
Info and registration:
hoffmanarts.org/events/pruning-lab/?
“One of the finest acoustic guitarists on the international scene.” – Living Blues
Link for new music:
https://soundcloud.com/newfolkrecords/sets/howlin-waters?si=98680158dfe24f8a952059d8208b760e&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
Video (high and low res both):
www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/pkn3z16jsmchx308fxrqk/AIH9rrz1-PDQHS0oAEXrqFo?rlkey=2v9h0470c49uhn3zd5u7e2681&e=1&st=cvbpoixn&dl=0
The Local Show:
Terry Robb Solo
Saturday March 28
North County Recreation District Performing Arts Center
36155 9th St. Nehalem, OR
7:30 PM
Tickets: $15.00/$20.00, www.ncrd.org/performing-arts-center
Pacific Northwest audiences well know Terry Robb from his several decades as a top-tier, multiple award winning local bluesman with an international reputation. The Vancouver-born, Portland-based bluesman took home the Muddy Award for Best Acoustic Guitar so many times that the Cascade Blues Association finally attached his name to the trophy permanently.
Recognition for his artistry doesn’t stop there. The Oregon Music Hall of Famer has been praised by Rolling Stone, Acoustic Guitar, Down Beat, Guitar Player, Vintage Guitar, Living Blues and Oprah’s O Magazine, extolling his talents as a finger-picker, singer, songwriter, arranger and producer. He’s toured the country with Buddy Guy, Steve Miller, Robin Trowrer, and John Fahey, appeared on Late Night With Conan O’Brien, dazzled the crowd at the Rose Garden during Portland Trail Blazers games, and collaborated with the Oregon Symphony. During his multi-decade run in the spotlight – one in which he’s released fifteen acclaimed albums – he’s shown himself to be a master of nearly every blues style and technique imaginable.
Contact our Bayside Commons management team at (971) 324-5001 or baysidecommons@cascade-management.com for updates or to apply and hear about updates about Bayside Commons.
Interested? Visit our website for more information about Bayside Commons and submit your online application.
www.cascade-management.com/property/bayside-commons-apartments/details
Contact our Alder Creek Commons management team at (971) 324-5020 or aldercreek@cascade-management.com for updates or to apply.
Interested? Visit our website for more information about Alder Creek Commons and submit your online application.
www.cascade-management.com/property/alder-creek-commons/details
The seniors are selling Krispy Kreme doughnuts to help fund their Senior Safe Party, and you can help while enjoying a sweet treat.
Support the NeahKahNie Senior Class of 2026 Senior Safe Party by ordering your Krispy Kreme doughnuts.
Orders close Saturday at noon!
Order here:
www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/krispy-kreme-doughnut-sale-2
Can’t eat doughnuts but still want to help? Donations are welcome here:
www.zeffy.com/en-US/peer-to-peer/2026-nkn-senior-safe-party
Pickup: March 20, 12–2 PM at the high school
Go Pirates!
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These enclosures were installed over a decade ago to protect young trees and shrubs from foraging deer, elk and other neighbors. Now we need your help to remove them! The tiny forests within them have now grown enough to be exposed to wildlife and opened to the larger ecosystem.
Before the concert begins there will be an instrumental “petting zoo”, an opportunity for children and their adults to play some of the orchestral instruments.
The program also features the rousing 1812 Overture by Tchaikovsky, Holst’s Jupiter from The Planets, Grieg’s In the Hall of the Mountain King, and Glière’s Russian Sailor’s Dance. Cookies and refreshments will be available at both concerts during intermission.
The first concert will take place on Saturday, March 14 at the Nehalem Elementary School Gym (36300 8th St., Nehalem, OR) beginning at 3:00 pm.
The second concert will be on Sunday, March 15, at the Bob Chisholm Community Center (1225 Avenue A, Seaside, OR) at 3:00 pm.
Admission for both concerts will be: $10 Adults, ages 18 and under FREE (children 12 and under with adult supervision).
Tickets will be available at the door only for these concerts.
This non-profit orchestra, under the direction of conductor Cory Pederson, brings together musicians from the north Oregon and south Washington coast to perform classical music for local audiences. For more information, please visit the NOCS website: nocsymphony.org.
The Lost Elder
How we share our gift of time,
mother, father, daughter, and son,
a coherent celebration of what is
and how things are, a transmission
and bond of generations, is in danger.
As we witness endless war, rupturing
technology, and a violent injustice,
assured by the protected privilege
of wealthy elites, their architects
of historical revision are compelled
to offer us empty, scripted promises.
This pedagogy is nothing but artifice,
an instrument of privilege. Unless we
return to honor teaching, support
generous voices and life-giving stories,
from love scale joy’s full measure,
how will our children learn to be free,
able to honor their needed elders?
Song Bath Receivers need to RSVP to NorthCoastOregonThresholdChoir@gmail.com
• 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
• 6:15-7:00 Singers invite Receivers to sit in the zero-gravity chairs to receive song for whatever needs to be held tenderly.
UPCOMING DATES
→3/17/26
→4/21/26
→5/19/26
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
• www.facebook.com/NCO.ThresholdChoir/
Threshold Choir International (TCI):
• www.thresholdchoir.org
Jesse, a lifelong musician and lover of nature, will serenade you with melodies on his hang drum, crystal singing bowls and other soothing instruments.
Relax on yoga mats and cushions, with plenty of blankets available for warmth and connect to this special moment in time.
Sign up/ learn more: www.SeaDreamYoga.com
Our volunteer events are a great way to connect with others in the community and contribute to preserving and promoting native plants that are vital to local ecosystems. At these events, we will be thinning newly germinated seedlings as well as transplanting year-old plants into larger pots.
Happening every Friday from 10-1 until May 15. Make sure to register at tbnep.org/events
Your participation helps us make a lasting impact on the health and diversity of our local environment. We can’t wait to work together!
Price for this chair is $600.
Call or text 971-238-6140
Thank you
Lucy Wild
Call or text 913-424-2993
