Category: Announcements

‘MISERY’ OPENS FRIDAY 02/27/29

“I’m your number one fan.”

Paul Sheldon used to write for a living. Now, he’s writing to stay alive. Riverbend Players is proud to bring Stephen King’s white-knuckle thriller, MISERY, to the stage!

Don’t keep Annie Wilkes waiting… tickets won’t last long for this strictly limited run.

-Run: 9 Shows Only! Friday and Saturday nights at 7 pm, Sunday matinees at 2 pm.
-Location: NCRD Performing Arts Center, Nehalem
-Tickets: riverbendplayers.ludus.com/index.php

PLUS: SEASON PASSES STILL AVAILABLE UNTIL 03/15/26.

SAVE 20% ON TICKET PRICES AND RESERVE YOUR FAVORITE SEATS FOR ALL FOUR SHOWS THIS SEASON

riverbendplayers.ludus.com/index.php

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This weekend, we will be celebrating with four days of free events and sales! Products will be 10% off during their sample times.

In addition to demos and sampling, the Sharpenator will be on site from 11-4 on Friday 2/13, and we will have flowers from Neahkahnie Blooms for sale on Saturday 2/14.

Green Coast Market is located at 117 S. Miller Street in Rockaway Beach. Open Thursdays through Mondays 10-5 (closed Tuesday/Wednesday).

Thank you for supporting our family-run small business!

With love,
Julie & Jason Maxfield

CCB #243353

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What: Sculpture live/work residency

Where: A 25-arce homestead/farm in idyllic, rural southwest Washington.

Who: Hosted by working artists John and Robin Gumaelius

You: An up and coming, self-motivated sculptor seeking to hone and focus your craft and build a body of work.

When: Open until filled.

How: learn more and apply at tolovanaartscolony dot org

Room, board and materials will be provided to a qualified, motivated and self-starting artist. This sculpture-forward residency provides access to studio spaces including ceramic, metal/welding and woodwork, as well as a wood-fired kiln.

Learn more and apply at tolovanaartscolony dot org.
If you know a friend who might be interested pass this along. Thanks!

We’ll compete as teams of 6, so grab your friends and neighbors to join you! If you sign up short of 6, we’ll be happy to place you on a team.

Join Chip MacGregor, Tom Mock and Rick Jackson for 3 rounds of 10 questions covering a variety of topics along with a bonus table picture round. The winning team will walk away with bragging rights and a wonderful prize – for everyone else, you’ll gain some fun knowledge and perhaps a new friend or two!

Bring your own snacks to share at your table (along with your own plates and silverware) and a bottle of wine or a soft drink to donate to the bar.

Tickets are $10 per person for this night of elation, frustration, groans and belly laughs.

All are welcome so come and check out the Pine Grove Community House! Space is limited, please purchase your tickets in advance from thepinegrove.org website at this address: thepinegrove.org/Sys/Store/Products/410784

See you there!

If you are interested or have questions, please email Scott Wagner at sdawagner@icloud.com or call Sherry Payne (the current concert manager) at (503) 851-0606, email: sherrypayne308@gmail.com

For more information about the Symphony, visit nocsymphony.org

Need TLC? You are invited to receive a Song Bath
3RD TUESDAYS
@ ST CATHERINE’S CHURCH
NEHALEM, OR

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
→2/17/26
→3/17/26
→4/21/26

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

www.northcoastbbq.com/2026/02/02/support-oregon-hb-4148-excellent-history-and-explantion-of-transient-lodging-tax-by-cyrus-javadi/

And here’s how to contact our legislators

Rep Cyrus Javadi
Capitol Phone: 503-986-1432
Capitol Address: 900 Court St. NE, H-373, Salem, Oregon 97301
Email: Rep.CyrusJavadi@oregonlegislature.gov
Website: www.oregonlegislature.gov/javadi

Senator Suzanne Weber
Capitol Phone: 503-986-1716 Disrict Phone: 503-300-4493
Capitol Address: 900 Court St. NE, S-405, Salem, Oregon 97301
Email: Sen.SuzanneWeber@oregonlegislature.gov
Website: www.oregonlegislature.gov/weber

It’s also a GREAT TIME to put down gravel!

(Also, general landscaping, moving/hauling, odd jobs)

Call Worker Dudes!

20 years in the Manzanita/Nehalem/Rockaway area with excellent references!

971-488-0279
503-277-0447

We offer full exclusion from your Home, Buisness and Yard.
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Call or Message for a Estimate.

We are Tillamook county Locals!

Riverbend Players’ production of MISERY needs a full-size mattress, box springs, and frame (54″ x 75″). We can’t use anything bigger.

If you have something you can donate or lend us, please let us know ASAP so we can incorporate it into our ongoing rehearsals.

We will provide you with complimentary tickets to one of the nine upcoming shows.

Email us at: admin@riverbendplayers.org or call us at 503-298-5467.

Thank you!

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Deadline to apply is this Friday, February 6th.
Application found on the City Homepage: ci.manzanita.or.us

We are collecting *clean and dry* flexible plastic films, including: bread bags, ziplock bags, bubble wrap, bubble lined plastic mailers, grocery bags, dry cleaning bags, etc. Bring your stash anytime during our open hours: Thursday through Monday, 10am-5pm (closed Tue/Wed).

The plastic we collect will go directly to Trex, an outdoor decking and furniture manufacturer. When the community recycles enough pounds of plastics, Trex will provide an outdoor bench in return. Win win!

Green Coast Market is located at 117 S. Miller Street in downtown Rockaway Beach. We are a local foods store proudly featuring over 100 small farmers and food producers from Oregon (and nearby WA). SNAP/EBT happily accepted.

Also, mark your calendars for our one-year anniversary festivities! We opened on February 14 last year, and we’ll be celebrating all weekend long with demos, tastings, free samples and more.

SATURDAY
FEBRUARY 7TH 57PM
INCLUDES: WHOLE CRAB, COLESLAW, BAKED BEANS, GARLIC BREAD, PROCEEDS HELP MANY VETERAN CAUSES & OUR LOCAL HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP FUND.
LIMITED NUMBER OF TICKETS AVAILABLE AT THE BAR!

“Breadcrumbs,” Aaron’s cumulative work from 2024, invites us to “share our experience of simply being present and alive with what we know at any given moment. The works express a sensation within our bodies, a slice of a moment that we may relate to and how we create connection through experiencing ourselves in the world. A simple expression of belonging to something even when we don’t quite know what that is. When we take a moment to pause we notice something within ourselves that leads us towards something new. The quiet curiosity when listening to what our bodies are telling us, resilience through trusting the felt sense within ourselves despite a world of distraction.”
For inquiries and purchases please contact Aaron: seabeansandrice@gmail.com

The Artist states, “It was intentional in the work to show layers. Often tinting the supports in bright colors, painting over the high chroma in muted tones. Purposefully leaving behind small glimpses of the under painting. Others were glazed with higher chromatic colors over the earthy underpainting. Something we notice, something that pulls us, something that we don’t know exactly what it is but we can’t ignore. At times it beholds us swiftly and others it’s barely noticeable but lingering and builds eventually becoming part of us, if we listen.”

And sometimes it’s just like breadcrumbs we can only follow what our eyes can see at the moment, and each following builds a bit of trust in ourselves.
– Mara Cuya

Please consider bringing donations to the Rockaway Hope Chest Shop (Wednesday Saturday 10:00-4:00, Sunday 1:00-4:00) while we are closed. Call 503-355-3333 to confirm they have space prior to dropping off donations as they may be overwhelmed during our closure.

Nehalem store hours Wednesday – Saturday 12:00 – 4:00. We ask that you drop off donations prior to 3:00 so volunteer’s have time to process them prior to closing.

The Nehalem shop offers additional parking at St. Catherine’s Episcopal Church next door with a path through the chain link fence by the donation garage.

Check out our new website for store info at www.hopechestthriftshop.org/

First Sunday Labyrinth Walk
Sunday, February 1, 2026, 2:00-4:00
St. Catherine’s Community Labyrinth
36335 Hwy 101, Nehalem, OR, 97131

Join us on March 16th from 3:30-5:00pm to tour our campus, meet our teachers, and ask questions about our program.

We enroll students age 4-11 and offer two small, mixed-age classrooms.

We are accepting inquiries from families who may be interested in 2027/28 and 2028/29 school years as well.

We hope to see you there!
For more information email us at firemountainschool@gmail.com
or check out our website www.firemountainschool.org