This trail has been a long planned resource to get walkers and bilkers off of our Highways and onto a safe path of travel.
It is a beginning of the 82 mile trail that will stretch from the Tillamook Creamery up the coast to Wheeler, then turn inland to traverse the coast range, connect with the Banks Vernonia Trail, and finally into Banks.
Come join in the fun and frivolity. Family fun and celebration. The event details are as follows:
Where: Wheeler Oregon, Waterfriont Park
When: Saturday, July 12th, 1pm to 5pm
What: Free Family Fun
Music, Scavenger Hunts, History Talks, Prizes, Vendors, Tour a Train Engine, Yard games, and more.
Sponsored by the City of Wheeler and Salmonberry Trail Foundation through generous support by Visit Tillamook Coast.
Neahkahnie Beach
10am Sunday, July 6th
Bring a lawn chair or a blanket and comfortable attire.
Come as you are. No experience necessary. Props provided. Please reach out with any questions.
Cultivate pools of inner tranquility amidst the busy energies of summer for four Sunday evenings in July, and soften your transition to Monday. Restorative yoga is intended to help you rest in the state between being fully awake and asleep with the use of props, suggestions, and your own wisdom for what your body may need in the moment. Use this time to come back to yourself and remember your breath, your body, your agency.
Studio website is here, www.seadreamyoga.com
Link to register is here, seadreamscheduling.as.me/RestorativeSundaysJuly
I’ve practiced yoga for 16 years and taught for the past 6, following a 300-hour training at the Bhakti Yoga Movement Center in Portland, OR. I offer gentle, restorative classes that center breath, presence, and connection—inviting space to listen to what’s needed in each moment.
Paperbacks are $1 or 8 paperbacks for $5. Hardcovers are $2 or 6 hardcover books for $10. CDs and DVDs are $1 or 8 for $5.
All children and young adult books are $1 each.
We are grateful for your support, which helps fund building maintenance. Hope to see you there: Great deals await!
Yes! Our Community Open Music Jam is happening tomorrow, Friday July 4th, 6 PM, here in the Rising Hearts Studio Courtyard. Bring your instruments, your voice, yourself – and let’s have fun playing music together! Hope to see you there, at this FUN FREE event!
Contact Christy for info/questions (503) 800-1092
Rising Hearts Studio
35840 7th St
Hwy 101, downtown Nehalem
(503) 800-1092
Christy@cosmichealingnw.com
We had the first fresh peaches and apricots last week, did you know that they are great on the grill? Also Brown Bottle Farm tells me they will be well stocked with mushrooms for you vegetarian and vegetable loving friends. Lance’s Farm Vittles will not be at market tomorrow, but you can buy their locally raised meat at Wild Grocery in Manzanita, and stock up on ingredients for side dishes at the market.
See you at 635 Manzanita Avenue from 4-7 this Friday!
Bring a lawn chair or a blanket and perhaps a friend.
Contact Ali for more info: 719-486-4731
Paperbacks are $1 or 8 paperbacks for $5. Hardcovers are $2 or 6 hardcover books for $10. CDs and DVDs are $1 or 8 for $5.
All children and young adult books are $1 each.
We are grateful for your support, which helps fund building maintenance. Hope to see you there: Great deals await!
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The Nehalem River Ranch is a multi-species, pasture-based farm that raises grass-fed beef and pastured pork while partnering with other local farmers who raise chickens, grow cut flowers, and other farm products. In 2020, Nehalem River Ranch partnered with the Nehalem Bay Watershed Council to plant over a mile of riparian trees and shrubs and 4 acres of silvopasture. Simultaneously, with support from the Tillamook Soil and Water Conservation District, Nehalem River Ranch also planted pollinator hedge rows between their pastures. Trees were planted and maintained by the Backyard Planting Program at Tillamook Estuaries Partnership.
“I’m very excited to share this project with our community,” says Zac Mallon, Director of the Nehalem Bay Watershed Council. “This is a great example of how managing Japanese knotweed on the banks of the Nehalem River isn’t a lost cause. The conifers planted in this project will push the knotweed out as their canopy develops. The trees are now reaching a size where grazing among the plantings for knotweed suppression is possible too!” He also says that this project will benefit salmon by absorbing nutrients from the fields, shading the river, and managing erosion by developing strong, fibrous root systems in the riverbank as erosion promoting knotweed gets pushed out.
This will be a walking tour through an active farm so please wear sturdy walking shoes or boots that can get dirty.
For more information about the tour or about the Nehalem Landowner Engagement Initiative please contact the Nehalem Bay Watershed Council at info@nehalemwatershed.org. More information on the Nehalem Basin Partnership and our outreach initiative can be found at www.nehalembasinpartnership.com/Nehalem-landowner-engagement-initiative . The Nehalem River Ranch website is www.nehalemriverranch.com . The Backyard Planting Program at Tillamook Estuaries Partnership can be found at www.tbnep.org/programs/habitat-restoration/backyard-planting-program/ .
This work is funded by grants from the Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board and the Siletz Tribal Charitable Contribution Fund. We thank them for their support of habitat restoration in the Nehalem Watershed.
Paperbacks are $1 or 8 paperbacks for $5. Hardcovers are $2 or 6 hardcover books for $10. CDs and DVDs are $1 or 8 for $5.
All children and young adult books are $1 each.
We are grateful for your support, which helps fund building maintenance. After you celebrate the Fourth of July, we hope to see you there: Great deals await!
When: Aug 30-31
Where: Old Mill RV Center 210 s 3rd St Garibaldi
Entrance Fee: $0
Sponsored By: My Essential Collection
There will be Vendors, Panel of Vendors to answer your questions centered around Energy Healing. Have you ever been to one of our events? They are amazing! We have such an amazing energy healing community – come see what / who we will have for you. This is JUST FOR YOU! We had such a great time we we’re asked WHEN’S THE NEXT ONE? Mark your calendars we will have returning vendors and some new ones! Come check out what we have just for YOU. CAN’T WAIT TO SEE YOU THERE!
*Saturday, July 12th, 6pm*
Books After Hours with Susan Tate Ankeny and AMERICAN FLY GIRL.
Learn the lost story of Hazel Ying Lee, the first Asian American woman to earn a pilot’s license, join the WASPs, and fly for the United States military during World War 2.
*Saturday, July 19th, 6pm*
Guided chocolate tasting! Details TBD, but it’s going to be delicious.
*Sunday, July 20th, 6pm*
Book-signing after hours with Cat Bohannon: scholar, researcher, and author of EVE: HOW THE FEMALE BODY DROVE 200 MILLION YEARS OF HUMAN EVOLUTION.
Catch Cat in conversation with the Manzanita Writers Program at the Hoffman Center for the Arts on Saturday at 7, then bring your questions and get your book signed Sunday night at the bookstore!
*Saturday, July 26th, 5:30pm*
Books After Hours: Liz Cole Reads Funny Stuff
It’s a Happy Half-Hour tonight, featuring Manzanita’s own Liz Cole reading truly funny poetry. (Cat- and dog-lovers will especially want to be there!)
It’s really just the half-hour, so come by 5:30. Stick around for a glass of wine with Liz and the Cloud & Leaf crew.
CANNON BEACH, OR – The Cannon Beach Arts Association is pleased to announce its upcoming Summer Art Camp for children, scheduled to take place from July 14th to July 18th. This annual camp offers a creative and educational experience for young artists aged 4 – 16 years old.
Participants in the Summer Art Camp will have the opportunity to explore various art forms, including painting, drawing, jewelry making, sculpture, and more, under the guidance of experienced instructors. The camp aims to inspire creativity, encourage self-expression, and foster a love for the arts in a supportive and engaging environment.
We are thrilled to host our Summer Art Camp once again this year! It’s a wonderful opportunity for children to unleash their imagination, develop new skills, and make lasting memories in a fun and interactive setting.
The camp will run from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm daily, with all art supplies provided. Snacks will be offered, but participants are required to bring their lunches. Registration is now open, and early booking is recommended as space is limited.
To REGISTER go to cannonbeacharts.org
For questions or more information about the Cannon Beach Arts Association’s Summer Art Camp, please contact the association at artcamp@cannonbeacharts.org or kim@cannonbeacharts.org
Don’t miss this exciting opportunity for young artists to explore their creative talents and make new friends at the Cannon Beach Arts Association’s Summer Art Camp!
The Cannon Beach Arts Association is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting and promoting the arts in the coastal community. Through exhibitions, classes, and events, the association strives to enrich the lives of residents and visitors alike. We are located at 1064 S Hemlock St. Cannon Beach, OR 97110, phone 503-436-0744, email info@cannonbeacharts.org.
Wed. July 2nd From 2-5
Manzanita News and Espresso
500 Laneda
Manzanita, OR
Local artist Willow Rose invites you to sip some serenity with her show ‘Peaceful Visions Unlimited’
The show will be up for the month of July.
Come meet the artist on Wednesday, July 2nd from .2-5.
Let’s find a moment of peace and serenity through our shared creativity. Excited to hear your
vision of peace and learn about your creativity when we meet.
There will be free posters for any children attending the opening.
July 19 | 7:00-9:00pm
Admission $30
Hoffman Center for the Arts | 594 Laneda Avenue | Manzanita
Join us for an evening of science and humor that will include a moderated discussion with Cat Bohannon, who has the capacity to illuminate and surprise her audiences and readers with scientific research mixed with wisdom and wit.
About the Author:
Cat Bohannon is a researcher and author with a Ph.D. from Columbia University in the evolution of narrative and cognition. Her work has appeared in Science, The Atlantic, Scientific American, The Best American Nonrequired Reading, Lapham’s Quarterly, The Georgia Review, and Poets Against the War. Her first book, Eve, is a New York Times bestseller and was named a finalist for the Orwell Prize and longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Non-fiction.
Paperbacks are $1 or 8 paperbacks for $5. Hardcovers are $2 or 6 hardcover books for $10. CDs and DVDs are $1 or 8 for $5.
All children and young adult books are $1 each.
We are grateful for your support, which helps fund building maintenance. Hope to see you there: Great deals await!
“What to say to someone who is dying”
A facilitated community conversation
So, what do you say to someone who is dying? Or to someone who has recently lost a spouse, or a child to cancer? Conversations around death, dying, and grief can be awkward, painful, emotional, and difficult, but they can also lead to bittersweet intimacy and make all the difference.
As we age, more of our family members, friends, and neighbors are seriously ill, dying, or grieving. Whether you are a family member, friend, co-worker, or just an acquaintance, figuring out what to say and do in those situations can feel impossible. Out of discomfort, and “fear you might say the wrong thing”, you may even be tempted to turn away and avoid the conversation altogether. We hope after you attend this session, you won’t turn away. This community conversation is designed to offer support and help you prepare so that your words, and your presence may offer much needed comfort during challenging times. And as we all become better prepared, our community becomes stronger and more resilient.
We are so very fortunate to have an outstanding panel of five compassionate professional women with diverse experience with death, dying, and grieving, to facilitate our conversation.
Everyone is welcome!
Please join us, bring your questions and/or share your insights, and meet our panelists:
Paula Sansum, retired healthcare provider and long-time community member.
Margot Lalich MPH BA RN, co-founder of the North Coast End-of-life Collective
Janine Carranza RN, a hospice nurse and author of the book, “ Bedside Portraits”.
Cami Aufdermauer, Hospice Chaplain for Adventist Health in Tillamook
Morgan Motsinger, entrepreneur, host of the “P.S. we expire” podcast, speaker, writer and student
Paperbacks are $1 or 8 paperbacks for $5. Hardcovers are $2 or 6 hardcover books for $10. CDs and DVDs are $1 or 8 for $5.
All children and young adult books are $1 each.
We are grateful for your support, which helps fund building maintenance. Hope to see you there: Great deals await!
Known as the “Boogie Cat,” Sylvester was inducted into the Oregon Music Hall of Fame in 2011. He’s shared stages with a who’s-who of the blues, including BB King, Buddy Guy, Mavis Staples and more.
The “Boogie Cat” was born in Bonita, Louisiana, where he began singing gospel in church. At the age of 12, the Sylvester family boarded the Union Pacific train for a new life in the Pacific Northwest.
As legend has it, a twenty-something Norman attended a concert of Buddy Guy and talked his way on stage. After Norman’s performance, Guy encouraged him to devote himself to a career in music.
Besides performing regularly, Sylvester and his band teaches blues history in local schools and mentors young artists.
This free, family friendly concert begins at 5:00PM. Attendees are encouraged to bring blankets, low-backed chairs and fully stocked picnic baskets.
The park is located in downtown Cannon Beach, northeast of the Chamber of Commerce at 2nd & Spruce.
The concert is produced by the Tolovana Arts Colony and made possible by a Community Grant from the City of Cannon Beach.
For more information, visit tolovanaartscolony.org, email tolovanaartscolony@gmail.com, or call 541-215-4445.
REGISTER HERE: www.jiujitsu101oregoncoast.com/event-details-registration/free-womens-self-defense-clinic-4
YES! Music on the Porch- Community Open Music Jam at Rising Hearts Studio is this Friday, July 4th, 6 PM- bring your instruments, your voice, yourself- and let’s have fun playing together. All are WELCOME. Hope to see you there!
Contact Christy (503) 800-1092, Christy@cosmichealingnw.com for info/questions
Rising Hearts Studio
35840 7th ST
Hwy 101, Downtown Nehalem
(503) 800-1092
“Lifting the community with education and services that promote healing on all levels.”
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A few people have been asking, and market will take place as usual on July 4. The parade will begin at 1, and we’ll take over the field from 4-7. Come stock up for your guests, or to stay home and hide for the rest of the weekend!
Planning a barbecue, or just some summer grilling? Lance’s Farm Vittles sells beef, lamb, pork, and chicken raised alongside their family’s organic dairy near Garibaldi. For something a little spicier, I’ve been enjoying Nehalem River Ranch’s chorizo sold by Sunbeam Farm. And for the vegetarians and vegetable lovers, Brown Bottle Farm has a gorgeous array of fresh mushrooms, including blue and golden oysters, lion’s mane, and more. I can’t wait to grill Kingfisher’s fresh onions, some baby zucchini from Moon River, and serve it with a fresh salad from Laughing Rabbit. And for dessert, how about A&B’s fresh berries or grilled apricots from Fulton Farms?
This is the time of year where new produce is arriving every week. So come down, get your face painted, eat some tacos, and enjoy the best of the summer season!
Friday, 4-7, 635 Manzanita Ave behind the new city hall
Sugar +Air Gourmet Cotton Candy opened their store front the first week of June in Tillamook,OR on 2nd Street.
The GRAND OPENING is this weekend!!
Check out the new space and get yourself a little sweet treat, Fresh Squeezed Lemonade & enjoy some special offers this weekend.
Friday–10-6
Saturday—10-6
Ribbon Cutting @ 3:00 pm
Sunday—10-4
Face Painting 12-2 —Prize Drawing starts at 2
By purchasing a ticket to Saturday’s benefit concert featuring the Willie Waldman Project you can help combat hunger in our community.
Tickets can be purchased at:
tickettomato.com/event/9446
Please take a minute to read this NY Times article discussing the crisis food banks are facing.
June 22, 2025
Dressed in heels to run errands, or surrounded by tasteful art in her chicly decorated apartment, Delcina Williams maintains a public facade that defies her reality. She is by many measures destitute, reliant on food stamps and an $1,100 monthly Social Security check that she said leaves her with only a handful of dollars a day for food after rent, utilities and caring for her twin sister, who has Alzheimer’s.
Ms. Williams, 75, said she was once an editor for a fashion magazine and a doo-wop singer. She and her twin, Doreena Davidson, are breast cancer survivors. But now Ms. Williams spends her days going from food bank to food bank, seeking navy beans and split peas for soup — a meal that can stretch after she inevitably runs out of money each month.
It is, she said, a demoralizing experience. And recent moves in Washington to cut federal funding for food benefits have filled many New Yorkers like Ms. Williams with mounting panic.
“It’s tearing me up already,” Ms. Williams said as she carted home 16 ounces of frozen ground beef, four cans of tuna fish, scallions and oranges from the Food Bank for NYC Community Kitchen and Pantry on West 116th Street in Harlem.
A new bill championed by President Trump calls for cutting $295 billion in federal spending over the next decade from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, better known as SNAP or food stamps, according to the Congressional Budget Office. “What are we supposed to do?” Ms. Williams said. “I know he doesn’t need it, but the rest of us do.”
More than 65 percent of food pantry users are employed, according to the Poverty Tracker by Robin Hood, an anti-poverty group, and Columbia University. Experts say that is a reflection of the city’s affordability crisis. Average monthly visits to pantries and soup kitchens have shot up 85 percent since 2019, according to an analysis of FeedNYC data by City Harvest, a food rescue nonprofit. Almost three million New Yorkers struggle to put food on the table, according to data from Feeding America, a philanthropic organization.
On top of surging demand, food banks also anticipate increased prices because of tariffs on steel that have raised the cost of canned food.
But even as the need has skyrocketed, the banks’ ability to meet it has abruptly fallen. In March, the Department of Government Efficiency took aim at Biden-era initiatives that had provided over $1 billion in grants to states to buy local food. Trump administration-backed cuts of the Emergency Food Assistance Program hacked away millions of pounds of deliveries to food banks.
“I have honestly never been as concerned as I am now,” said Randi Dresner, the president and chief executive of Island Harvest Food Bank, which serves Long Island.
The $2 million grant program Island Harvest used to buy products from Long Island farmers, the Local Food Purchase Assistance Cooperative Agreement Program, will end this summer instead of next as originally planned. No new grants will be issued after current funding expires. And the Trump administration’s 2026 budget proposal would eliminate the Department of Agriculture’s Commodity Supplemental Food Program, and the more than $1 million the food bank uses to supply monthly food boxes to about 6,000 older people. Another $1.7 million that the organization was supposed to receive from the program this year was also frozen.
“There is a broad-brush cutting across all social services,” Ms. Dresner said. “That concerns me for our neighbors that are most vulnerable.”
Some of the proposed federal cuts would cost New York-area food banks millions of meals.
The results of Trump administration policies have already been dramatic for food banks like the Regional Food Bank of Northeastern New York, which serves about 48 million meals a year — 20 million more than before the pandemic — according to Thomas A. Nardacci, the chief executive officer.
Every year, the Regional Food Bank receives 400 tractor-trailers of food from the U.S.D.A.’s emergency assistance program — strawberries from California, citrus from Florida and meat from the Midwest. But cuts to the program will slice the number of trucks in half, costing about 5.8 million meals. This year, 27 trailers, equal to about 750,000 meals, have already been canceled.
“The whole charitable food system, we are all living in fear right now,” Mr. Nardacci said. “Because the need is as high as ever”
The potential cuts to food stamps are also a major concern. New rules would further restrict who is eligible and expand the group of recipients who are required to have jobs to qualify. The version of the bill approved by the House of Representatives also proposes to divert some of the costs of the program to the states.
Under the scheme, New York would have to bear about a quarter of the cost. “The idea that we would be punished by the federal government with a 25 percent cost share, which would cost us $1.8 billion, is really an existential threat to the idea of SNAP being a safety net,” said Nicole Hunt, the director of public policy and advocacy for Food Bank for NYC.
Food banks say they are scrambling.
People stand on line along a sidewalk. Some have shopping carts with them.
“Which issue do you fight first?” said David G. Greenfield, the chief executive officer and executive director of Met Council, which provides kosher and halal food to over 600 distribution sites. “You are going to fight SNAP cuts that is going to reduce millions of meals around the country? Or do you fight the actual food cuts? Or do you fight the tariff challenges?
“It is like dealing with water from a fire hose.”
Many food bank leaders have been frantically lobbying Washington, they say, with little to show for their efforts. Recently, at a summit in Albany that was supposed to be about food procurement, anxiety about the proposed cuts dominated the conversation, Ms. Hunt said.
Zac Hall, the senior vice president of Food Bank for NYC’s programs, said, “The amount of void that will be created by these SNAP cuts is insurmountable.”
For people already on the edge, there is little room to absorb further cuts. Ms. Williams, who lives in public housing in Harlem with her twin sister, is trying to figure out how to survive.
As she stirred the black bean soup that she hoped would last them the week, Ms. Williams said she felt helpless. But there was something she could do: From her food pantry haul she removed a few loaves of French bread and some greens and hung the bag of produce on her neighbor’s door.
They need the help too.
