City Hall Grand Opening! August 2nd 11am

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Manzanita City Hall Grand Opening Ceremony & Open House
August 2nd 2025 – 11am to 1pm
655 Manzanita Ave

Come one come all to the Grand Opening & Open House and see the new city hall from the inside out!

There will be a ceremony at 11:30 and then the doors will be open to see the whole facility!
There will be Police Vehicles and Public Works vehicles demonstrations & displays as well as refreshments and swag!

Poster, map & rough schedule in the images.
If you have questions please e-mail cityhall@ci.manzanita.or.us

Fundraiser for animal rescue organizations

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Please come join us Saturday August 2nd for the annual Day of the Dog Festival at Nehalem Bay Winery from 12-5.
This is a family and dog friendly community fundraiser. Free admission, food, beer and wine to purchase. Silent auction and raffle, live music featuring Jesse Lee Falls Band, Dr Matt Didlake and The Mystery Band!
We are still happily accepting donations of goods, services, gift certificates, artwork or anything else to include in the raffle and silent auction.
Please contact Melissa at Nehalem Bay Winery to arrange pick up of donation items. You are also welcome to drop off donations to the Winery between 10AM-5PM daily.
Nehalem Bay Winery
34965 Highway 53
Nehalem OR 97131
nbwines@hotmail.com
503.368.9463
100% of your donation goes directly to the Day of the Dog fund which supports emergency vet services/medication/treatment
for:
Tillamook Animal Shelter
United Paws
Tillamook K9 rescue and
Animal Haven by the Sea
Thank you in advance for donating and we hope to see you at Day of the Dog 2025!

My Essential Collection Retail Shop Closing

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As some of you know MEC shop is closing and going onto new adventures.
Last weekend will be 8/22-8/25
Stop by to stock on on your RAD Cream, Sleepy Cream, essential oils and blends! or get that unique item we have on CLEARANCE.
We are closing for the season, but will still have private appointment times and of course our online sessions.
The business isn’t closing – just the store in Rockaway Beach, OR
If you are not able to come in person feel free to jump onto our website www.myessentialcollection.com to get that product you are in need of! Or stop by Dragonfly Crystals in the Old Wheeler Hotel or here in Rockaway at Green Coast Market
Stop by 460 Hwy 101 S Rockaway Beach

AUTHOR EVENT Saturday Aug 2

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SATURDAY, AUG. 2, 6 PM, FREE EVENT, MANZANITA

Cloud & Leaf’s “Books After Hours” is offering chocolate, wine, and funky music in our wonderful little bookstore at the beach… and the opportunity to hear Miriam Gershow read from her newest book!

Miriam is the author of Survival Tips: Stories (Propeller Books), an Independent Publisher Book Awards and Pencraft Awards winner. Her debut novel, The Local News (Spiegel & Grau), was hailed as “unusually credible and precise” and “deftly heartbreaking” by The New York Times.

Her novel Closer, from Regal House, has just released to much acclaim and is, sadly, timely. “Set in 2015 during Obama’s presidency and Trump’s early candidacy, the tranquil college town of Horace, Oregon, is disrupted when white students taunt a Black student in the high school library. This incident sparks immediate repercussions that ripple through the community, affecting students, families, and faculty alike. “

On Sale: Redwood for crafting, interior and exterior projects

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For Sale: Redwood for indoor and outdoor projects

I have lots left – reduced price to $3.00 per linear foot

This beautiful redwood is planed and ready for your creative project. Redwood is resistant to shrinking and warping, is very durable and lasts years in our Pacific North West weather.

Redwood is used for decks, pergolas, patio covers, fences and gates. It is a great choice for outdoor furniture – benches, chairs, swings. Inside, it makes beautiful paneling for a full room or accent wall. It has almost limitless uses for crafting smaller items like planter boxes, step stools, elevated pet feeding bowls.

3/4″ x 7 – 7-1/4″ wide available in lengths from 3 ft to 12 ft.

Call or text Scott at 503-440-1871

Zimbabwean Musician coming to Bay City Arts Center! Aug. 4th

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Blessing “Bled” Chimanga is an internationally acclaimed Zimbabwean musician, singer, and songwriter, celebrated for his electrifying stage presence and remarkable talent as a multi-instrumentalist. A virtuoso on the marimba, drums, and vocals, Blessing seamlessly blends Afro-jazz, traditional Zimbabwean sounds, and contemporary rhythms to create music that resonates globally. As a dynamic bandleader of the group Dreams, his performances are vibrant, interactive, and deeply soulful, captivating audiences with his infectious energy and passion. Blessing has toured extensively, gracing stages at major festivals across Africa, Europe, Asia, and America, earning recognition as a true cultural ambassador. His ability to connect with audiences transcends language and borders, making him a perfect fit for festivals seeking an artist who can inspire joy, unity, and celebration. A storyteller and crowd-pleaser, Blessing Chimanga is more than a musician—he is an unforgettable experience.

Check him out at: www.blessingchimanga.com/

Community Open Music Jam this Friday August 1st, 6PM Rising Hearts Studio

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Hello BBQ Community-

Our Community Open Music Jam is this Friday August 1st, 6PM, here in the Rising Hearts Studio Courtyard. Bring your instruments, your voice, yourself- and let’s have fun playing music together. OPEN TO ALL! It’s FUN! Hope to see you there!

Contact Christy for info/questions (503) 800-1092

Rising Hearts Studio
35840 7th St
Hwy 101, Downtown Nehalem
(503) 800-1092
“Lifting the community with education and servies that promote healing on all levels.”

ISO washing machine

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Looking for a washing machine in good working condition. I don’t necessarily need a dryer, but understand they are usually offered in sets and will take a dryer so long as it’s reasonably priced! I’m not interested in front load machines. Other than that, nothing fancy required! Bells and whistles only lead to problems in my experience. Thank you!

Text or call
217 840 9804

Yoga with Veterans and with Janet

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Hey everybody

Come join us for Yoga with veterans and with Janet. It’s fun, healthy and will limber you up. Everyone is welcome, so come on. Janet is an excellent teacher.
Here is the info:

Day – Wednesday
Time – 10:30 PST
Place – NCRD in Nehalem

If you can’t join in person, you can still zoom in via the following link:
us02web.zoom.us/j/82315818270

See you there.

Brian

Free Youth Nature Writing Workshop in Nehalem

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What is your screen time looking like lately? Register for a free, youth writing workshop taking place in Nehalem on Sunday, August 3rd from 1 – 4PM

Take an afternoon to unplug and reconnect with nature during a playful writing workshop. In the company of a cedar grove, facilitators with Hoffman Center for the Arts and the Lower Nehalem Community Trust will lead youth participants through a series of interactive and imaginative writing prompts to generate stories and bring focus to our shared sense of place. All youth ages 10 -15 are welcome, no prior experience necessary.

*Terrain: Workshop will be held outdoors in an area accessed by level ground; gravel, tree-rooted paths, grassy clearings. Chairs provided. We will be in areas of sun and shade.

Please direct any questions about this workshop to writing@hoffmanarts.org

Alligator Alcatraz: reply

Submitted By: bigbeach@gmx.com – Click to email about this post
I think proprietors at public fairs should be able to sell the shirts to anyone stupid and hateful enough to buy them.

That said, my questions to any Drumf supporters who have yet to figure out that he is a criminal Israel-first NYC ‘liberal’ anti-American fascist is this:

1. Are YOU ready to be confined at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ when the next fascist Dem is installed in the white house by Israel and the bankers and the American oligarch’s who run the divide and conquer operation called America?
2. Do you think the deep state tyrants that run the Drumf’s and Biden’s are EVER going to dismantle the gulag they are currently building?
3. Are you aware of the fascism the world experienced during ‘covid’ by the tech/farma/banker/war fascists, masquerading as Democrats AND Republicans?
4. Are you familiar with the Trucker Protests in Canada? In three years Dems will be in power. Do you really want Kamala or Gavin Newsom or Hillary to have this gulag as an option?

Drumf gave 45-billion dollars TO THE PRISON INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX! That’s about as much as Clinton gave his jailer buddies when he and his racist wife started throwing thousands of American blacks into prisons. The gulag-runners could care less about schools and bridges and peace: the criminal humans who have usurped America are evil.

CONSERVATIVES AND CHRISTIANS WILL BE THROWN INTO THESE GULAG’S IN JUST A FEW YEARS! MARK MY WORDS!

Biden corrupts the border, fully, as planned. Drumf brings in the fascist state to ’solve’ Biden’s ‘problem’. It’s all done on purpose folks, and Israel was very, very active in Mexico funneling folks over the border. Biden’s homeland Security goon Myorkas, is a Cuban-born Israel-first Jewish guy, and he went to Panama and personally oversaw this massive human smuggling operation which was/is designed to enslave or imprison all of us in the years to come. Well, the free-thinkers anyway. The sell-outs will always have the ‘freedom’ of servitude.

This below is from Infowars, which, sadly, has been totally corrupted. I had been a huge fan of Alex Jones. The following is being reported on Infowars as a good thing:

“With the passage of President Trump’s flagship “Big Beautiful Bill,” massive expansion of detention capacity and deportation operations is planned. The Trump administration has now awarded $1.26 billion to build the nation’s largest detention and deportation center, in Texas. The center will be constructed at Fort Bliss, a million-acre site close to El Paso, on the Mexican border, with its own airport. There will be room for 5,000 beds in heated and air-conditioned tents.

An ICE official told Bloomberg that the federal government “is indeed pursuing all available options to expand bedspace capacity. This process does include housing detainees at certain military bases.” A week ago, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth confirmed the Department of Homeland Security will construct new detention facilities on other military bases, in Indiana and New Jersey.

According to a recent report from The Wall Street Journal, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is rushing to expand its detention capacity, after receiving $45 billion in extra funding after the passing of President Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill. The goal is to expand capacity from 40,000 to 100,000 before the end of the year. This will be done, in part, by building a large network of tent camps nationwide.”

FOLKS LIVING HERE ILLEGALLY CAN BE DEPORTED WITHOUT BUILDING A $45 BILLION DOLLAR GULAG

Yet it is being built, sold to us ‘American freedom’.

And right on cue:

An authoritarian’s dream, dystopian license plate readers are ALL OVER OREGON.

And the globalist’s favorite Dem Senator, ranking CIA-committee member Ron ‘lyin’ Wyden is happy about it!

NO MATTER YOUR POLITICS YOUR FREEDOMS ARE BEING TAKEN FROM YOU VERY, VERY RAPIDLY

Below, Wyden pretend to care about your freedom: he does not, at all!

Also, ADMINS CHANGE – reread as necessary. If you think throwing Drumf supporters or J6ers in jail is a good thing, just wait until YOUR on the list.

“First they came for the whomever and I did nothing…blah blah blah, then the Nazis came for me…etc etc.”

THAT IS WHERE WE ARE RIGHT NOW

AND THE DEMS ARE JUST AS BAD AS DRUMF IF NOT WORSE


https://www.koin.com/news/oregon/surveillance-company-to-protect-oregonians-data-from-immigration-abortion-inquiries-wyden/

Didn’t take the bird-flu vax? No driving or you will be arrested and thrown into the gulag! Bird-flu outbreak in your neighborhood? No driving or you will be arrested and thrown into the gulag! Actively woking against Israeli genocide? No driving or you will be arrested and thrown into the gulag! Used up your carbon credits for the month? No driving or you will be arrested and thrown into the gulag! Support trans surgeries for children? No driving or you will be arrested and thrown into the gulag! DON’T support trans surgeries for children? No driving or you will be arrested and thrown into the gulag!

Of course, if you drive a Tesla, Elon will simply turn his cars off. Same for any internet-connected car, most of which are electric or hybrid.

I found this from Nissan in 2-seconds:
www.riverheadnissan.com/2025/03/04/can-police-remotely-turn-off-a-nissan

The globalist tech/farma/banker transhumanist types are evil and insane. We all need to figure out their divide and conquer operation and soon, as the globalists have it out for America, and all nation-states, actually. These tyrants live on jets and on islands and on yachts and to them nations are only a set of laws, a set of encumbrances, that they prefer not to have around, hence all of these totalitarian moves toward global-wide fascism, run by them and their A.I./tech.

So yeah Drumf supporters, buy your Alligator Alcatraz shirts at the fair because you might just end up living there yourselves.

1776 AGAIN!!!!!!

NOW!!!!!!!!!!

Handyman services available

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Call to discuss jobs
Landline:
(971)324-0149

(((Please NO EMAILs)))
CALLS ONLY Please!

Good Morning Nehalem
I’m a local, a father of 3 and trying to pick up some extra (local) work.

Available in Nehalem/ Manzanita/ Wheeler /Miami Foley

If you have any projects needing attention.
Well then, I’m you guy!

I have many skills & wear many hats.
My skills include:

*Yard work (Large Properties and small I have my own equipment)

*Painting (interior/ exterior/ cars/ toys)

*Heavy Equipment Operater

*Gutters

*Skilled Car Mechanic

*Licensed driver

*Transporter

* Errand runner

*Pet Sitter & Walker

and Lots more!
If you have something in mind that’s not listed…
just ask me.

Most likely I’m your man!

Have a wonderful day!
Looking forward to working for you.

Call to discuss jobs
Landline:
(971)324-0149

~~~~ NO EMAILS!~~~~
Im a old OG dad that relays on his daughter’s to help him with emails and BBQ posts
(haha I’m trying to learn but my progress is slow)
so please just give me a call

(971)324-0149

Bobbie and Chuck Farewell

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The event to say “Farewell” to Bobbie and Chuck Mosher is planned as a “CARD SHOWER”.

One of Bobbie’s favorite things is to make and share cards with friends.

When you come to their Farewell party on July 30th 4:00-6:00, bring a card signed with your good wishes and thanks to them for all the great work they’ve accomplished while in our communities.

The party is at Nehalem Bay United Methodist Church on 10th Street. (July 30, 4-6)

Light snacks and lots of hugs and laughter are planned. Possibly a couple of tears, too.

BOOKS AFTER HOURS! August Events @ Cloud & Leaf Bookstore

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*Saturday, August 2nd, 6pm*
Miriam Gershow, CLOSER

*Satuday, August 9th, 6pm*
Logan Garner, THE SIN OF FEEDING WILD BIRDS

*Wednesday, August 13th, 5:30pm* (sharp!)
Liz Cole Reads Funny Stuff—including (but not limited to) poems from I COULD PEE ON THIS (& Other Poems By Cats) and its canine companion, I COULD CHEW ON THIS.

-$15 gets you a ticket and a book. Call us during business hours (10-5) to reserve your spot.

-Stick around for the after party, and have a glass of wine with Liz and the Cloud & Leaf crew.

*Saturday, August 16th, 6pm*
Suzanne Perry, THE COMMUNIST’S SECRET

*Weekend of August 23/24, time TBD*
Molly Gloss, UNFORESEEN

Church Of The Wild

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Church Of The Wild,
a gathering ‘in fellowship with the more than human world’, meets every Sunday at 2pm
in St Catherine’s gardens.
This is not a traditional gathering. There is no ‘sermon’. Instead, we will each be guided to spend 20 minutes listening to/ being present with that which speaks through flower and leaf and wings and roots….
Come join us at the chiminea behind St Cats.
For more information call Ali: 719-486-4731

United Paws’ Kittens of the Week

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United Paws’ Kittens of the Week: Meet Bobby and Peanut

Bobby and Peanut are siblings that were rescued from a life-threatening situation where they were in poor health with no one to care for them. Since coming to United Paws, these sweethearts have been nursed back to health in a loving foster home. Bobby is a handsome little heartbreaker with his tan & dark black stripes and an adorable bobbed tail. Peanut is a beautiful tabby kitten with soft tan & black stripes, white tips on her front toes, and a long tail.
Bobby loves to play with his sister, Peanut, who has two speeds: stop and go. They scramble up and down kitty towers and chase after felt balls or any other toy that tries to escape. A box will entertain them for hours! They both love to snuggle into quiet corners and are learning how to be lap kittens. Together, they will bring hours of fun, excitement, discovery, and much love to a forever family of their own.
To learn more please visit unitedpaws.org, email unitedpawsapps@gmail.com or call 503-842-5663.

Deja vu all over again in Manzanita

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City officials have demonstrated a troubling public process to address important community projects. The steps look something like this: identify the issue, hire consultants who come and convene citizens at one or more public meetings to view proposed design drawings and give feedback in order to establish their project priorities. The City forms its “team” of staff and consultants, develops a budget to achieve the expectations voiced by the public and then starts spending money. Basic to the methodology is a pattern of City officials saying whatever is expedient during the planning phase to move the project forward and counting on citizens to forget what they were told once the project begins.

Take the City Hall project. The City Manager claimed during the planning meetings that hiring Klosh as an “owner’s representative” was necessary and they would be a vital project team member, in essence a consultant to oversee the other project consultants to achieve cost savings. According to the City Manager “the owner’s representative needs to save as much money as you are spending on your owner’s representative through the process… and we will achieve that.”

The City Council hired Klosh for the project and approved a maximum budget of $133,354 for their services. I recently asked the City for some specific examples of where Klosh saved the project money over the past four years. The City could not identify any cost savings now claiming “Their (Klosh) contributions aren’t measured in specific dollar amounts “. I would imagine that four years ago, citizens understood that the reason, as described by the City Manager for hiring Klosh, would result in the City saving money on the project. We are now to understand that there is no way to evaluate the cost saving promise because no attempt was apparently made to document what if any cost savings were achieved. While City officials attempt to explain this, they should also explain why the total payments to Klosh far exceeded the approved maximum of $133,354 that the Council told us that they would pay for this service.

Remember during the public outreach process when the team presented a combined City Hall and Police station with a foundation that would withstand a major Cascadia event. The design featured dedicated space for an EVC emergency center, south sloping City Hall roof to maximize solar capture, extensive clerestory windows for natural light, cedar shake horizontal siding etc.. It was described as an architectural style with materials that would reflect the unique character of the City that citizens said they wanted, specifically mentioning a City Hall to complement the Library and First Security Bank. We didn’t get any of that. As an adjoining property owner to the project describes it, we ended up with a sheep barn and a loafing shed.

The Classic Street project now underway seems to be following the pattern.

A project Budget is adopted, a modified project bid process that we were told would ” likely result in substantial cost savings and other substantial benefits to the City” was adopted, consultants who we are told are uniquely qualified to do the project are assembled for the team, design drawings are presented to the public and construction timeliness announced. Unfortunately, the project starts unraveling in real time while memories are still fresh.

The City’s proposed project Budget proved to be inadequate, then after spending approximately $450,000 for a design, legal fees, public presentations and bids the City quietly terminated the services of the project engineers. The new bid process then comes into question with potential litigation against the City on the part of one bidder. The City’s mishandling of the project has resulted in funds wasted, a more costly boring of the water line under the existing failing pavement and months of delay ensuring greater total project costs. Expect a scaled down design from what was presented in March with the City having to pay the additional project expenses.

Perhaps the citizen who offered his take on the look of City Hall was on to something. Residents who bear the consequences and foot the bills resulting from our City official’s decisions on these community projects should be even more wary about future projects now that the City has occupied the sheep barn and the fleecing can continue in a new City Hall that as of now, we still have no idea how much more the final total cost will be from what we were originally told.
Randy Kugler

Alligator Alcatraz T-shirts being sold at Lane County Fair

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Please boycott ‘ANY’ county fair that is selling these T-shirts!

Lane County Fair merchandise raises eyebrows and concerns
Jul 25, 2025 Updated 16 hrs ago 34
Alligator Alcatraz T-shirts

EUGENE, Ore. – The Lane County Fair is drawing crowds with its thrilling rides, lively music, and delicious food. However, some fair merchandise is causing controversy among attendees.

Social media is buzzing with disapproval and anger over T-shirts being sold that depict Alligator Alcatraz. This makeshift immigration detention facility was established by the Trump administration in the Florida Everglades and has been criticized by human rights groups as cruel and inhumane.

“Honestly it’s kind of sad,” said Jasper Burchard, a concerned fairgoer. “It’s really sad to see something so messed up just being paraded around like it’s something fun. It’s sad to see something in general but to see someone wearing merch of it.”

Fair officials acknowledged that they are aware of the shirts being sold but did not provide any further comment.

As the Lane County Fair continues, the controversy over these T-shirts remains a topic of discussion among attendees and the wider community.

FYI I have inquired if the Tillamook County Fair will have a booth selling these T-shirts and have not recieved a response. Is anyone aware if they are, please reply here and to me.

Announcement

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Please join friends and family of Larry Kiser who passed away earlier this summer, in a celebration of life memorial service on August 2nd at 2:00 pm.

Larry was a long time member of the Nehalem Bay United Methodist Church and several other organizations in the community.

He was husband, father, grandfather, great grandfather and great great grandfather who lived his life loving the Lord and giving his best to all who knew him.

His wife, Debbie and his children, invite you to Nehalem Bay United Methodist Church sanctuary for the service on Saturday the 2nd at 2:00. A reception will follow in the Fellowship Hall. Come and share remembrances.