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From by personal collection which started 35 years ago. This piece was purchased from Milagros in Seattle 30 years ago. Jesus produces some of the most whimsical and colorful carvings to be found! Interestingly, he actually did not start as a carver. He was an electrician when he became ill with typhoid fever. Being from the traditional carving village of San Martin Tilcajete, Oaxaca, he decided to try his hand at wood carving. One day he was at the doctors office, and started reading the medical journals. He became fascinated with the amoebas that he saw in one publication, and decided to use that as his signature pattern. The pattern takes on a look similar to jelly beans– bright, colorful and full of good cheer!
This dog is masterfully carved from one solid piece of copal wood. The tail and ears are detachable! Measures: 7” tall (highest tip of tail & snout) , 7″ wide (sitting paws to tip of tail) , 2”.75 deep. It is signed and numbered and in excellent condition. Colors are much more vibrant in person. His pieces sell from $120-$300. I am selling for $60.
Signed, Carved iguana reptile by Baltazar from Oaxaca. Beautifully carved and painting with detail from copal wood. From my 35 year collection. $20
I’m no more a fan or supporter of president Trump than I am of President Biden. In my opinion we scraped the bottom of the political barrel and these two came up, which to me is a very sad reflection on the American people but after a long line of poor leaders, both democrat AND republicans, it’s what we should expect. If anyone thinks Biden and his family are less corrupt than Trump’s then they are deluding themselves. Creepy Joe has lied, plagiarized, and defrauded his way to the default position he now finds himself in and has abused women all along the way, just like Trump. The only positive historical note I can attach to Trumps time in office is that he did not start any new wars. Almost all previous presidents back to Eisenhower either started wars, military conflicts or rode at the head of the Military-Industrial-Intelligence-Complex to trumpet and continue bloody exploits. I’ll post again the article explaining why and how America has bled itself to the point where most of the world is watching this media circus and not thinking it is a good day for democracy. It is a distraction like a wrestling match in the mud and the media is blasting it out as a colossal battle of justice over corruption.
The ship of state has been allowed to run itself onto the rocks these past seventy years while everyone from second deck on down has been fighting about how to arrange the deck chairs and what music the bands should play. Instead of striving to be a nation that other nations look up to as wise and prudent, good stewards of our natural resources and making sure the people are fed, housed, healed and educated, we have squandered it on actions of empire building. Almost eight hundred U.S. military bases scattered around our world are not protecting anything but the business of war. Go ahead, cut yourself eight hundred times, small cuts, and a few big ones like Vietnam, Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Ukraine and see how long you stand.
MILITARY SPENDING, AGAIN
www.sott.net/article/478662-Where-the-1-3-trillion-per-year-US-Military-budget-goes
This is a slightly different take on our state of affairs. Regardless of ones opinion of his content, one can read this from a purely literary view and applaud James Howard Kunstler for the master wordsmith he is.
The Manzanita City Council approved a resolution of support at its April 5 meeting. The Wheeler City Council approved a similar statement of support at its March meeting, and the Nehalem City Council is expected to consider formal support for the bond measure later this month.
The Manzanita resolution was introduced by Councilor Brad Mayerle, a retired dentist, who noted that the bond measure will lead to improvements in local health care. “I think it’s important that we recognize this bond measure. The city of Wheeler has already done so,” Mayerle said. “This measure checks a lot of boxes with respect to providing health care services and affordable housing for health care employees.”
The Manzanita resolution states, in part, “the City Council of the City of Manzanita do hereby endorse the Health District bond measure in the May 16, 2023 election and encourage residents to also support the measure and these critical local projects.”
The Health District’s plans for the new, state-of-the-art Nehalem Bay Health Center and Pharmacy that would be constructed in downtown Wheeler include provisions for dental care and other specialty services not now available in the community.
In addition, the bond measure will fund renovation and modernization of the region’s only skilled nursing and rehabilitation facility – the Nehalem Valley Care Center. The Care Center, also located in Wheeler, offers 24-hour nursing care to patients, as well as rehabilitation services.
In remarks to the Manzanita Council, Health District board president Marc C. Johnson said the Care Center will become even more important to the region in the future given the steady increase in the north coast’s elderly population. Johnson noted that two senior care facilities closed in Tillamook County in 2022 and that making upgrades to improve quality and safety for seniors, as well as improvements in the working conditions for care staff, would help ensure the facility serves the community into the future.
A third element of the bond measure would fund site preparation of Health District owned property as a necessary step to development of workforce housing for health care and essential workers.
The Yes For Local Health Care campaign has scheduled several town hall meetings before the election, including a “virtual town hall” on April 19 in order to provide information about the bond measure and what it would support.
Visit www.nehalemhealthcare.com for information about events and the growing number of residents who support the plan.
Remember to follow our Facebook page so you’re up to date on the bond measure and upcoming events.
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Michael Moore is a brilliant writer and interviewer, always working for the democratic rights of ordinary Americans like all of us here in Tillamook County.
Lucy Brook
Nehalem resident
From: Michael Moore <michaelmoore@substack.com>
Subject: Dear Criminal Defendant #4913961R
Date: April 5, 2023 at 5:54:29 PM PDT
To: babbles@nehalemtel.net
Dear Criminal Defendant #4913961R:
Thank you for showing up without incident yesterday for your arrest and arraignment. You appeared somewhat bewildered as to why you were there. As this is only the first of a number of criminal charges and arraignments for you that will follow from other prosecutors, I think it’s only fair that I give you the lay of the land as to what’s ahead and why this is happening.
First — and I don’t know why no one has told you this — but your assessment is correct: We ARE out to get you and bring you to Justice. You tried to illegally overturn the election and overthrow the government. You were refusing to give up your seat in the Oval Office and decided to stage a coup. It’s that simple. And now the vast majority of the country wants a legal way to stop you from causing any further destruction. And truthfully, we don’t really care how we get there. As long as it’s honest and legal, we the people are going to throw whatever available book we have at you. Somebody should tell you this. I just did.
Have you read the 34 felony count indictment and its “Statement of Facts” against you? I have. Wow — I mean, it’s stunning in its brilliance and construction. It puts you in a real choke-hold and yet allows the prosecution even more room in the coming months to crush you even further. I’m thinking you must have some sense of this and your impending doom.
The prosecutor you’re up against, Alvin Bragg — the one you call “an animal” and “a criminal” — he’s been a prosecutor for nearly 20 years. He’s helped put hundreds of criminals like you away. I know, I know — he’s Black. Just like those five innocent teenagers in Central Park that you tried to get a jury to send to the electric chair. Just like the thousands of families you and your father refused to rent your apartments to for decades until the federal government stopped you. Yes, that kind of Black! Yes, karma does suck! Yes, that was your father in the KKK parade way back in the day. Now you’ve got three Black prosecutors — the Manhattan D.A., the New York State Attorney General and the Fulton County, GA, prosecutor — all coming after you. Revenge for sins against them and all who look like them? I hope so! But, seriously, Black America has never really made us truly pay for their suffering, either the cruelty meted out to their ancestors by our ancestors, or the hand they themselves have been dealt by a society that still seems comfortable with the average white family in 2023 having a net worth 8 times that of the average Black family.
No, Defendant #4913961R, these Black prosecutors, whom you hurl racist insults at — including the one where you, New York’s leading racist, called them “racists(!)” — they are serious professionals who are just doing the job the majority of voters sent them to do. One of those jobs is to send you finally to prison.
All 34 charges against you are felonies. You conspired with others to silence people who had information the voters might possibly like to know before they cast their vote. You only won because of the 77,000 votes you got in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. How many would have changed their minds if they knew certain things about you? Your hush money payments went to at least three individuals, all with the intent of keeping the public in the dark in order to throw the election your way. And to cover it up, you told your lawyer, Michael Cohen, to take out a “home equity loan” for himself to pay off these individuals so it wouldn’t look like you had anything to do with it! What an idiot!
So, Defendant #4913961R, do you now understand why this is happening to you? And why we don’t care whatever the reason is they’ll be sending you to Sing Sing soon?
You attempted to blow up our democracy.
You led a violent uprising in which people died.
You tried to overthrow a presidential election, an election that you brutally lost.
You are on tape privately bullying the Georgia Secretary of State to illegally stuff the ballot box with 11,780 votes for you that did not exist.
Then You got 147 Republican members in Congress to vote to steal the election for you! Is there a greater act of treason in a Democracy than the outright theft of an election and thus the overthrow of the elected government?
You hate this country and what it stands for.
And the vast majority of us know it. That’s why we tossed you to the curb in 2020 and then put you on a garbage barge to Florida. You are correct to assume we and the prosecutors we elect will charge you and arrest you for ANY legal reason we can find.
Last night, in your continuing crusade to incite violence, you and your son posted a photo of the Judge’s daughter online. It was your way of threatening him with violence. You know it will take only one of your psychopathic supporters to commit a heinous act. Do you have any idea what tens of millions of American parents would do to you if you did anything to threaten their child’s life?
You’re upset because you think we’re prosecuting you because of a porn star? HAHAHA!
Look, we’d arrest you for anything we legally could — littering, parking tickets, jaywalking, you name it.
Anything to stop you from staging another coup. Anything that would stop you from endangering the life of that Judge’s daughter. Anything we can legally do to stop you, we will. You remember Al Capone. They could never get him on the murderous crime organization he ran. So they got him for lying on his income taxes. Nobody cared. The public wanted him put away by any legal means necessary. We’re Al Caponing you, Don.
Your crime spree, which began in 1973, is coming to an end.
Deal with it. Pack a toothbrush.
Thursday 4.6
At the White Clover Grange on HWY 53
Doors open at 6:00 PM for warmup/setup
6:30 PM – opening circle/dance set
8:00-closing circle
$10
Dance Etiquette:
*No outside shoes.
*Please limit talking on the dance floor.
*All ages and all bodies are welcome.
*We ask this to be a sober space.
*We are encouraging everyone to be mindful of each other’s safety and health not feeling well, or have been exposed to someone sick. Follow your own judgment on whether to wear a mask or not.
We dance every Thursday…Hope to dance with you soon!
Good Friday, April 7
Tenebrae Service – noon to 1 pm at Nehalem Bay United Methodist Church (36050 10th Street (Off Hwy 101) in Nehalem)
A Service of Tenebrae, or “Shadows,” is based on a twelfth–century service and contemplation of Christ’s final hours. Through music, scripture, candles and silence we’ll follow Christ to the cross in preparation for Sunday.
Easter Sunday, April 9
Sunrise Service – at 6:30 am at the Boat Launch in Nehalem Bay State Park hosted by Nehalem Bay United Methodist Church and St. Catherine’s Episcopal Church
Dress warmly and watch the sun rise with others on Easter Morning! This service will include scripture, song, a very brief homily, The Great Thanksgiving, communion, prayer and watching the sun rise as a metaphor for Christ’s resurrection. Please display your day or yearly park pass.
Morning Worship – 11 am at Nehalem Bay United Methodist Church
Christ is risen, He is risen, Indeed! Come, join us to celebrate Christ’s resurrection! This service of sheer joy will include music from our choir, scripture, a homily, The Great Thanksgiving, and Communion.
Sign up today!
We are launching another door-to-door canvass effort Saturday, April 8, 10am. Meet us at Manzanita News and Espresso, 500 Laneda Ave. We hope you can help us get the word out to local voters about the bond measure for a few hours.
Visit our website (www.nehalemhealthcare.com/) for more information or to make a donation (www.nehalemhealthcare.com/donate) to support our campaign efforts.
Remember to follow our Facebook page so you’re up to date on the bond measure and upcoming events.
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Main need we have is to stay away from wifi 5g towers and routers etc. And to live a healthy natural wired intwrnet to home life and get a landline.
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NCRD Moves Ahead with New Swimming Pool Construction
On Tuesday, March 28, North County Recreation District awarded the contract for construction of a new swimming pool, to be located adjacent to its existing facility in Nehalem. The Notice to Proceed was issued to Par-Tech Construction Inc. the following day. This award follows an open bidding process in which three bids were received. Par-Tech’s bid at $10.9 million was the lowest received for the base scope.
Par-Tech is a family-owned construction company based in Oregon City, with extensive experience in commercial building under government contracting regulations. Their subcontractors will include a mix of Oregon-coast based companies. Preliminary work on-site is planned for mid-April, subject to receipt of the County building permit. The contract calls for completion of Phase 1 by August 10, 2024.
This award is a major milestone in a long-planned development. NCRD’s existing swimming pool was built in 1930. It is not energy efficient and has been outgrown in capacity. Our experienced pool architect, Carl Sherwood of Robertson Sherwood Architects PC was engaged in 2012 to study alternatives, including the potential to upgrade the existing pool. However, changes in pool regulations and the need to expand capacity ruled this out. Fundraising continued from that time, and in 2020 a bond measure to fund the new pool was approved by voters. However, fundraising efforts were always battling the 5-7% annual construction cost inflation that significantly worsened in recent years with the impacts of COVID.
As a result, the project will be undertaken on a phased basis, as there remains much left to accomplish. Phase 1 will include the building and exterior site-works, including additional parking. Phases 2 and 3 will include the interior finishes for a 6-lane main pool and a large therapy pool. We will need to raise an additional $1.6 million before these phases can be completed. To assist in fundraising, NCRD has engaged a local consultant, Fiorelli Consulting. NCRD Board Chairman Jack Bloom stated, “I want to be clear. North County taxpayers have provided more than enough support for this new facility through the 2020 Bond Measure. The new pool will be a significant attraction for new residents and tourists in Tillamook County. It is time for other donors to step up and join the good citizens of North County to help us in recognition of the benefits the new Aquatic Center will bring to the entire County!”
When completed, the new facility will have a six-lane main pool and separate therapy pool, housed in a 15,000 sq. ft. building including showers and changing rooms. New parking spaces will be shared with NCRD’s Performing Arts Center and the existing Recreation Center.
Barbara McCann, NCRD Executive Director, said, “Our small rural community has achieved a monumental goal! For the last 90 years our local children have learned how to swim in a pool that previous generations had the foresight to build in 1930 during the Great Depression. Since then, every child in our community learns how to swim as part of their basic education. Now we can carry on that vital service for future generations.”
Thank you,
Melinda Veil
mlnd_vaughn@yahoo.com
Sunday, April 9
Gabe and Marisol invite you to come enjoy Easter with them at the Bunkhouse.
Check out the flyer for more details.
Qualifications
• Is a detail-oriented, customer service focused, ‘can-do’ self-starter who takes great pride in the quality of their work.
• Read, understand, and comply with product labels and safety, policy, and procedure manuals.
• Check stocking levels of all supplies and replace when appropriate
• Adhere strictly to rules regarding health and safety and be aware of any company-related practices
• Customer-oriented and friendly
• Prioritization and time management skills
• Knowledge and ability to speak the English language
• Must be able to lift 20-40 lbs
• Must be knowledgeable and skilled in the safe use and maintenance of cleaning fluids and tools
Job Duties would include:
Vacuuming floors and furnishings
Sweeping, Mopping hard floor surfaces
Cleaning, dusting, wiping down all surfaces and furniture
Cleaning, disinfecting, sanitizing all kitchen and bathroom areas including cabinets, toilets, sinks, appliances and bathing areas
Doing dishes / Emptying dishwasher
Emptying and sanitizing all waste baskets
Stripping all linens off beds, towels from bathroom, and laundering back to like new
Making all beds, resetting towels, restocking amenities (dish soap, hand soap, laundry detergent, shampoo/conditioner, etc.)
Deep Cleaning
Check for marks on walls and clean as necessary
Exterior sweeping and cleaning of outdoor furnishings.
Report any damage, hazards, repairs as found immediately
Perform other duties as assigned
Please contact RJ at 503-368-6754 or email manzanita@nehalemtel.net
I don’t know how many of you out there have heard of Heather Cox Richardson. She is a political historian who writes a daily free publication “Letters from an American.” Anyone can sign up for a free subscription to these daily newsletters.
i have copied and pasted the 4/4/23 letter below. This is an historic day for democracy in America and across the world. Here are the highlights from todays Letter, partly in my words and partly exerpted from the letter.
1) Finland has officially joined the United Nations.
2) Wisconsin voters elected into office a Wisconsin supreme into office who is against heavy gerrymandering, who supports abortion rights, and who supports fair voting rules. This is a huge win for democracy in a state where right-wing hegemony has been using its power to rip away the rights of the people, where elections have been rigged at a state level making it impossible to have free and fair elections. Wisconsin citizens are rising up against abortion bans, climate denial, gun idolatry, anti-democratic behavior and extremism.
3) We often read of people marching for whatever cause is important to them. We pay lesser or greater attention to these marches. This particular march in Tennessee strikes deep into my heart and soul. In the aftermath of yet another school shooting, 7000 Tennessee schoolchildren marched to the state capitol to demand gun safety legislation. That children should organize themselves into marching because they are afraid for their lives is a telling demonstration of the need to limit high-powered assault weapons.
4) Yesterday former president Donald Trump was arraigned in Manhattan, New York, on 34 (thirty-four) felony counts of falsifying business records. How disgraceful that a man who held the highest office in America is in reality, behind-the-scenes, no better than a common crook. Actually, in my mind he is lower, more debased, than a common crook, because he has perpetrated schemes against democracy across America and against the well-being of millions of American citizens.
The people of the United States are rising up and fighting back against the surge of right-wing extremism that has been sweeping across our country, not with weaponry and violence, but rather with the power of democratic principles and the power of our constitutional rights.
Lucy Brook
Nehalem resident
Begin forwarded message:
From: Heather Cox Richardson from Letters from an American <heathercoxrichardson@substack.com>
Subject: April 4, 2023 (Tuesday)
To: babbles@nehalemtel.net
Reply-To: Heather Cox Richardson from Letters from an American
April 4, 2023 (Tuesday)
HEATHER COX RICHARDSON
There are two huge stories afield tonight. First, Finland has officially joined the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Finland opted for neutrality after the organization of NATO in 1949 to stand against the expansion of the Soviet Union, but Russia’s invasion of non-NATO country Ukraine last year sparked concern in a country that shares an 832-mile border with Russia. NATO members share an ironclad security guarantee among them, agreeing to come to each other’s aid if any of them is attacked.
“The era of nonalignment in our history has come to an end—a new era begins,” Finland’s president Sauli Niinistö said.
The second huge story is domestic. Today, Wisconsin voters elected Janet Protasiewicz to the Wisconsin Supreme Court by a ten-point margin. Her opponent, Dan Kelly, supported the heavily gerrymandered district maps in the state and was supported by antiabortion groups. Protasiewicz has called those maps, which make it virtually impossible for Democrats to win control of the assembly, “rigged” and supports abortion rights. Her election switches the political orientation of the court for the first time in 15 years.
This court will likely take up cases relating to the state’s abortion ban, its extreme gerrymandering, and its voting rules for the 2024 presidential election. Far-right activist Ali Alexander, who was deeply involved in the attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election, tweeted: “We just lost the Wisconsin Supreme Court. I do not see a path to 270 in 2024.”
Wisconsin Democratic chair Ben Wikler tweeted: “This isn’t a prediction. It isn’t a hint. It’s just a note. And my note is, this election was a release valve for twelve years of Democratic rage in Wisconsin about Republicans rigging our state and smashing our democracy—and then using that power to rip away our rights.”
Across the state, Republican numbers slumped. Political commentator Brian Tyler Cohen noted: “Republicans are losing across the country, even in historically red areas—Georgia, Arizona, Michigan, Wisconsin. The abortion bans, climate denial, gun idolatry, anti-democratic behavior and extremism has lost them entire generations of Americans.”
That disaffection was on display in Tennessee, where 7,000 schoolchildren marched to the Capitol yesterday to demand gun safety legislation after a school shooting killed six people last week. Republican lawmakers have taken steps to expel three Democratic representatives who used a bullhorn on the floor of the House to help lead the protest.
Representatives Gloria Johnson, Justin Jones, and Justin Pearson led chants from the House floor. Their Democratic colleagues support them, but their Republican colleagues have stripped them of their committee assignments and filed resolutions declaring that the three Democrats engaged in “disorderly behavior” and “knowingly and intentionally” brought “dishonor to the House of Representatives.” The House will vote on the resolutions Thursday. Kimberlee Kruesi of the Associated Press reports that only two House members have been expelled since the Civil War.
In other news today, the former president, Donald Trump, was arraigned in Manhattan on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. In order to quash damaging stories before the 2016 election, the charges allege, he paid a doorman who claimed to know about an out-of-wedlock child (a story apparently proved incorrect) and two women to keep them quiet about affairs. The payments were structured to hide them. This violated both election law and falsified business records, as well as mischaracterizing the payments for tax purposes.
There were far more Trump opponents than supporters in the crowd outside the courthouse, and while Trump-allied representatives Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and George Santos (R-NY) were there, other Republican lawmakers steered clear.
While Trump seemed subdued and angry in the courtroom, where he pleaded not guilty, his tone had changed markedly by tonight. Back at Mar-a-Lago and surrounded by supporters, he launched into a half-hour speech tonight rehashing his favorite complaints.
Last week, as he waited for indictment, Trump circulated on social media a picture of himself with a baseball bat next to a picture of Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg. This morning, his son, Don Jr., posted on social media a picture of the daughter of the judge presiding over the case. In court today Judge Juan Merchan asked the former president to “refrain from making comments or engaging in conduct that has the potential to incite violence, create civil unrest, or jeopardize the safety or well-being of any individuals” and suggested that, having made that warning, if he had to revisit it he would “take a closer look at it.” Nonetheless, tonight Trump went after those prosecutors pursuing cases against him.
Mark Barabak of the Los Angeles Times noted the “stark contrast between the humbled Trump facing justice Tuesday and the swaggering Trump—all toughness, cunning and hyper-masculinity—that he prefers to project.”
Also today, a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., ruled that several of Trump’s top aides must testify before the grand jury investigating the attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
In his statement welcoming Finland to NATO today, President Joe Biden noted that the United States and 11 other nations came together to sign the original NATO declaration 74 years ago today: April 4, 1949. On that day, President Harry S. Truman said, “If there is anything inevitable in the future, it is the will of the people of the world for freedom and for peace.”
At the end of the night, the Wisconsin Democratic Party released a statement congratulating Justice-elect Protasiewicz on her victory. “The resurrection of democracy and freedom in Wisconsin has begun,” it read.
“On paper, this campaign may have lasted only a few months. But tonight’s victory is the result of years of unglamorous work by volunteers, activists, union members, and organizers across our state who knocked doors, made phone calls, chipped in, and never lost the faith that a better future was possible—even when hope seemed all but lost. Tonight is a testament to the power of never giving up. And it’s a testament to the whirlwind that the foes of democracy—in Wisconsin, and in America—can expect to reap.
“While we may have won tonight, we know that the threat posed to our freedoms and our democracy by MAGA extremism continues. And that’s why we will never stop organizing. We will use this moment as a springboard into the long work ahead—to build a multiracial democracy in which all of us, no matter our gender or gender identity, our generation or the geography in which we live, has a voice, has dignity, and has the power that is supposed to be the birthright of all American citizens.”
