Bring any questions you may have about the City and join Councilors Jerry Spegman and Brad Hart for the June edition of Coffee with the Mayor!
Nibbles and coffee provided!
We look forward to talking with you.
Join us on July 21 for the second concert of Cloud & Leaf’s inaugural season. Hosted by Holly Lorincz and presented in partnership with the North Coast Creative Forum, the evening features Deb Montgomery alongside friends Will Irace (bass), Jesse Clark (drums) and Shannon Steele (violin). Tickets are highly recommended in advance.
If you’re a fan of NPR’s “Tiny Desk” series, you’ll be in for a local treat. “Tiny Stacks” is built around the same spirit: talented musicians performing up close, for a small audience, in a warm and intimate setting. It’s a chance to hear great music in a way that feels personal, relaxed, and rooted in community.
Performances run from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM.
Space is limited for this special event. Tickets can be reserved online at:
You may also use the QR Code listed on the poster for this announcement to reserve tickets.
Come support Deb & Friends, as well as the other artists who are lined up for this world-class music series coming this year. Hope to see you there!
– Kim.
mikieli@nehalemtel.net
THE ODD COUPLE: ONLY FIVE SHOWS REMAINING!
-THURSDAY NIGHT, JUNE 11th at 7:00 PM
-FRIDAY NIGHT, JUNE 12th at 7:00 PM
-SATURDAY MATINEE, JUNE 13th at 2:00 PM (best seats available)
-SATURDAY NIGHT, JUNE 13th at 7:00 PM
-SUNDAY MATINEE, JUNE 14th at 2:00 PM
Cloising Performance with special guest appearances from the 2016 The Odd Couple cast.
GET TICKETS HERE:
riverbendplayers.ludus.com/index.php
THE ODD COUPLE, by Neil Simon, directed by Frank Squillo, is a classic roommate comedy about two divorced friends who try living together, only to discover they’re hilariously incompatible.
Neat-freak Felix can’t stop cleaning; carefree Oscar can’t start. As poker nights, double dates, and domestic disasters pile up, their mismatched habits test the limits of friendship and prove opposites can, mostly, coexist.
Rated PG. Mild adult themes and humor, occasional mild language, references to divorce, smoking/alcohol, and brief innuendo. Suitable for most audiences; recommended ages 10+.
-Dates: Through June 14th, 2026
-Friday and Saturday nights at 7:00 pm
-Sunday matinees at 2:00 pm
-Special THURSDAY NIGHT performance on June 11th
-Special SATURDAY MATINEE on June 13th at 2:00 pm
-Location: NCRD Performing Arts Center
TICKETS ON SALE NOW!
riverbendplayers.ludus.com/index.php
Rated PG. Mild adult themes and humor, occasional mild language, references to divorce, smoking/alcohol, and brief innuendo. Suitable for most audiences; recommended ages 10+.
Photo Credit Willy Paul Photo
Left to right: Gregory Cickavage, Erik Esrael, Joel Shapiro, Louisa Peck, Chris Craft
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call or text Starlight 503-686-9453
2 hours of great entertainment, as you follow a trail of clues, solve puzzles & riddles, uncover hidden objects and complete three separate missions which lead to THE FINAL CHALLENGE! Explore Manzanita on Thursday July 9, from 2:00pm to 4:00pm.
Although we will declare a winner of The Magical Manzanita Scavenger Hunt, the real goal is to simply have fun with people you enjoy and do something a little different during our lovely Oregon Coast Summer.
Everyone who completes the Hunt will be eligible to win prizes donated by our local shops and restaurants!
We have a maximum capacity of 40 teams, and WE WILL SELL OUT – so act quickly by purchasing your tickets at www.thepinegrove.org/pg-activity-rsvp/scavenger-hunt. You may sign up as an individual (or couple – or triple) and we will be happy to place you on a team.
Tickets are $40 per team, or $10 per person. Over 20 volunteers are involved in this challenging afternoon adventure – which includes a few pirates!
More information can be found on the attached flyer – be sure to get your tickets today and come out and support The Pine Grove Community House!
The washer is a 5-year-old Samsung front loader
The dryer is < 2 years old. Conservator.
Both work perfectly, and both were purchased from All Star Appliances in Tillamook. Both are in really good condition.
$300 each or $500 for both
Wil – wilduncan1@gmail.com
Three deep plates are from Cascadia Stoneware measuring in diameter 10″, 8″, and 8″. A foot ruler shown for scale. Very solid, thick-walled, weighty items. Maker of the two bowls are unknown, measuring in diameter approx 6″ and 6.5″, with 4″ and 5″ depths. I have thoroughly enjoyed them all, employing them for soups, noodle dishes, and freeform meals. No longer quite my thing.
An iPhone 7 camera cannot properly honor these characterful objects, and certainly not for the modest three images permitted here. You are welcome to make me a semi-respectable offer. I can split them up as you wish or release them all together as the moody striking package it is. View and/or pickup in Rockaway Beach on a Monday or Tuesday.
The whole thing is very much worth reading and here are some excerpts.
Thanks, Lane deMoll for sharing.
Believe in LOVE
Barbara McLaughlin
Nehalem
In 2019, Marianne Williamson stood on a Democratic debate stage and said something that should have stopped the country cold. Speaking to Donald Trump, she said, “You have harnessed fear for political purposes, and only love can cast that out… I’m going to harness love for political purposes. I will meet you on that field, and sir, love will win.”
Much of the political-media world laughed.
Cable news smirked. The internet memed. The caricature hardened: orb lady, crystal lady, woo-woo, not serious. The moment became a joke before it could become a question.
But years later, after watching her campaigns, listening to her speak, reading her political books, and seeing how people reacted to her, another possibility becomes harder to ignore:
Maybe Marianne Williamson’s campaigns were not merely failed campaigns.
Maybe they were diagnostic events.
Maybe they revealed something America badly needed to see about itself.
Because the strangest thing about Williamson’s presence in American politics was never that she talked about love. It was how aggressively the political-media system needed to make that love look ridiculous.
The accusation was always some version of the same thing:
She was unserious.
But if you actually read Healing the Soul of America and A Politics of Love, the accusation collapses. These are not vague books. They are not clouds of pleasant spiritual sentiment floating above the real world. They are books about war, poverty, children, trauma, racism, reparations, corporate power, immigration, greed, civic responsibility, moral repair, and the unfinished promise of American democracy.
Real seriousness is not the ability to sound hardened, cynical, or institutionally approved. Real seriousness is the willingness to face what is actually happening and ask what truth, love, and responsibility require.
So the question is not simply: why did people dismiss Marianne Williamson?
The deeper question is:
What kind of society hears a call for atonement, peace-building, child protection, racial repair, economic justice, immigrant dignity, and love as public power — and calls it unserious?
That is where the mirror begins.
The great mistake is thinking love was the soft part of Marianne Williamson’s politics.
It was the hard part.
Love is easy when it means being pleasant to people who already agree with you. It is much harder when it means telling the truth about slavery, genocide, racism, war, poverty, addiction, greed, and democratic failure.
It is harder when it means reparations. Harder when it means forgiving without denying harm. Harder when it means protecting children who are not yours. Harder when it means welcoming the stranger you were taught to fear. Harder when it means telling a nation that its economy is morally disordered. Harder when it means asking citizens to stop spectating and participate. Harder when it means saying peace must be built as seriously as war. Harder when it means giving up contempt. Harder when it means admitting the system is not merely broken, but breaking people.
In Williamson’s framework, love does not mean politeness. It does not mean conflict avoidance. It does not mean pretending injustice does not exist.
Love means telling the truth. Love means repairing harm. Love means protecting children. Love means feeding people. Love means facing history. Love means refusing to scapegoat immigrants. Love means building peace instead of merely funding war. Love means recognizing that democracy is not just a system of rights, but a sacred field of responsibility.
Love, in Williamson’s politics, is not the opposite of seriousness.
Love is what seriousness looks like when it remembers life.
But America has been trained to hear the word differently. In a culture ruled by money, love sounds naïve. In a politics ruled by fear, love sounds weak. In a media system ruled by spectacle, love sounds boring. In a nation addicted to conflict, love sounds like withdrawal.
And that may be the point.
PLEASE READ THE WHOLE THING,
Barbara
We again ask for your help to strengthen food security in our area. Seniors, families, and children in our community are going hungry.
Food bank and SNAP assistance have been reduced, and some programs have been cut altogether. We ask for your continued support in strengthening food security.
Cash is the most effective way to help, though food donations also make a real difference. Local organizations such as the North County Food Bank in Wheeler, Nehalem Bay Community Services, and Meals for Seniors in Rockaway Beach can often buy food at a discount and stretch each dollar further.
The North County Food Bank is open Tuesdays, with food donations accepted from noon to 2:00 PM. It is located at 230 Rowe Street, on the hill at the former Nehalem Bay Health Center site. Donations may also be mailed to NCFB, PO Box 162, Wheeler, Oregon 97147. The food bank currently serves more than fifty families each week.
The Nehalem Bay Community Services is operated out of the Methodist Church in Nehalem and is open Monday, Friday, and Saturday from 10-2 and Wednesday from 1-5. This location also has a clothing bank where you can leave clean, gently used clothing for all ages. Mailing address is NBCS, PO Box 232, Nehalem, Oregon 97131.
Meals for Seniors operates out of the dining hall at St. Mary by the Sea Church in Rockaway Beach. They serve and deliver meals every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Meals for Seniors mailing address is Meals for Seniors, PO Box 852, Rockaway Beach, Oregon 97136.
If you are part of a group, church, or other organization that meets regularly, please consider holding a collection for one of these 501(c)(3) nonprofits. If you cannot donate during open hours, call me and I will help get your donation to the organization you choose. Patty: 503-368-6081 (message phone).
Please help support our neighbors during this challenging time.
Thank you so very much for helping others.
Patty Rinehart
White particleboard cabinets — yours for free if you can come get them before this Friday! There are three exactly like the one shown in the photos.
A few things to know before you come:
• They were assembled in place by the previous tenant, so they’ll need to be disassembled on-site before removal — they won’t fit through the door otherwise.
• There are no countertops.
• Bring your own tools.
First come, first served. Send a text message to 971-400-0081 to coordinate a meeting time.
This year when I came down Laneda towards the Hoffman Center I was shocked to see a large Gay Pride flag flying beneath the weathered and smaller Stars and Stripes.
I have good friends, clients, and relatives who are gay, and others who have switched sides. It might not be my “cup of tea”, but everyone these days has their right to choose as they please. I certainly respect that. To blatantly display a brighter, larger flag of any kind under our flag disregards its patriotic meaning, let alone national flag etiquette. The Hoffman Center is a community family center for the arts and as such should be gender neutral. My feeling is that displaying that flag in any form there is wrong. To display it there larger and brighter is unpatriotic and disrespectful.
Tom McCallum
More details about the bike and specs can be found on the Bowflex site or linked here: www.bowflex.com/product/c6-exercise-bike/100894.html
The bike can be used in manually or paired it with an app via your phone — like Peloton of Swift for dynamic, coached rides. Comes with a pair of dumbbells, pedals can be used with SPD clipless or toe cages (for tennis shoes), comes with heart rate monitor.
Comes fully assembled and ready to ride! Can
Email me at terrafaith108@gmail.com or call/text 503-522-1116.
Pick up in Nehalem.
Thank you
Terra
Health District Issues Care Center RFP for Construction Management/General Contractor
(Wheeler) – The Nehalem Bay Health District has issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) for construction management and general contractor services related to the renovation of the region’s only skilled nursing and rehabilitation facility in Wheeler, Oregon.
The successful proposer will join the District’s team working on the renovation of the Nehalem Valley Care Center, a skilled nursing and rehabilitation facility, and the only facility of its kind on the Oregon coast between Astoria and Newport.
Notice of the availability of the RFP was advertised in the Daily Journal of Commerce on June 5, the standard Oregon site for solicitations of construction services. The RFP is also posted on the District’s website.
The current renovation plan included major upgrades to mechanical, electric and plumbing infrastructure at the Care Center, new flooring, lighting, additions of shower and hygiene rooms, painting and more. The design work for the project is being done by Scott Edwards Architects, the Portland firm that designed the new Nehalem Bay Health Center and Pharmacy. Subject to available funding a second phase of renovation may follow.
“The renovation is designed to extend the useful life of the facility far into the future,” said Health District president Marc C. Johnson, “as well as enhance the care and living experience for residents and the working environment for staff.”
The Health District has made a priority of improving local health and senior care on the north coast and has received extensive support from the community, from the Oregon congressional and Tillamook County legislative delegations, from Oregon foundations and many individual contributors.
The Nehalem Valley Care Center was built in the early 1980’s and remains a vital community asset. The building was constructed with all private rooms, a highly desirable feature in such facilities, but has long needed upgrades and improvements.
Over the last 18 months the Care Center laundry room was updated with new equipment and flooring, and new water heaters were installed in the building. Foundation settling in an area of the south wing of the building was stabilized and leveled preparing this area to be renovated in a second phase of the project.
Phase one of the Care Center renovation, estimated at approximately $3 million, will be financed by local general obligation bond funding that was overwhelmingly approved by District voters in 2023, as well as by funding from the Oregon legislature, private foundations and other donations.
Under the current timeline planning for the renovation, including permitting from Tillamook County and the state of Oregon, will continue through the summer and fall with construction commencing very early in 2027.
If you have questions about the renovation or wish to participate in some way, including contributing to various aspect of the project please let the District now by email at: info@nehalembayhd.org
Indivisible Tillamook Coast Action
Don Backman/Romy Carver
indivisibletillamookcoast@gmail.com
www.facebook.com/indivisibletillamookcoastaction
Indivisible Tillamook Coast Action announces:
Take the Flag Back!
Flag Day
Sunday, June 14, 2026 1-2 pm
Corner of First and Main
Downtown, Tillamook, OR
Flag Day Rally and Community Gathering
Celebrating Democracy, Freedom, and Community Commitment
TILLAMOOK, Ore. — Indivisible Tillamook Coast Action invites community members from across Tillamook County – who oppose the current regime, corruption, violations of constitutional rights and oppose the state of affairs – to join the “Take the Flag Back!” Flag Day rally on Sunday, June 14, from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. at the corner of First and Main in downtown Tillamook.
Also, held in honor of Flag Day, the event will celebrate the ongoing struggle to protect democratic values, freedoms, and civic traditions that unite Americans.
“It is OUR FLAG! The American flag belongs to ALL OF US! It stands for Our Democracy and the Constitution!” said Don Backman, spokesperson for Indivisible Tillamook Coast Action. “This event is an opportunity for neighbors to come together, demonstrate their commitment to democracy, and celebrate the freedoms and opportunities that make our country strong.”
Organizers say the rally is designed to bring people together through patriotism, civic engagement, and community spirit. Participants are encouraged to bring American flags, wear red, white, and blue, and stand proudly in support of democratic principles and active citizenship.
The event is open to all who believe in the importance of community involvement, democratic participation, and the shared values represented by the American flag.
Media Contact Information:
Romy Carver, Co-Lead
Don Backman, Spokesperson
Indivisible Tillamook Coast Action (ITCA)
*A core principle behind all Indivisible Tillamook Coastal Action events is a commitment to nonviolent action. We expect all participants to seek to de-escalate any potential confrontation with those who disagree with our values. Weapons of any kind, including those legally permitted, should not be brought to events.
About ITCA
ITCA is a nonpartisan group that takes action to protect women’s rights, defend civil liberties, and maintain a society based on human dignity and the rule of law. An attack on one of us is an attack on all.
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