This is a CALL-TO-ACTION to help our neighbors! SNAP (food stamps) benefits are being cut so families are looking to local food banks and food pantries for more support.
Click the link at the top to read more and learn how you can help.

Click the link at the top to read more and learn how you can help.

Hoffman Wonder Garden Plant Sale
Saturday, 4/26 10-12pm
Inside the Hoffman Center
(or if weather’s good, in WG)
Come June in the WG, everybody wants to know about the tall plant with the long waving arms that wears bold magenta flowers at its branch ends.
The shape of those flowers gives the game away: bottlebrush, which is both its common name and an apt description of its long, enduring blossoms. If you’ve got full sun and you’re looking for a show stopper, you’ll be delighted to know we’ll have a bunch at the sale.
At 6’x6’, whether you call it a big shrub or a small tree, Callistemon pallidus ‘Eleanor’ is a statement. For its size, we find it quite graceful if in an odd cattywampus way. We love that it’s evergreen with lovely light bark, creates THE most intriguing seed capsules and will not fail to please on the coast in the hottest spot you can give it.
Water? A bit through summer, not much.
‘Eleanor’ is one of the two bottlebrush we’re offering. The other wins for Most Outrageous Name: Callistemon ‘Wetlands Challenged Mutant’. No lie.
Our ‘WCM’ is only 2 years old but starting to pick up speed as it heads towards what we’re told will be a pillar of foliage and flower, reaching 7’ high but only 3’ wide. We can’t wait to see it!
For now, it’s a fine-textured and very tidy evergreen plant promising 4-inch long soft yellow flowers. Stop by the WG to check the mutant out, it’s in the middle of the garden by our commissioned metal sculpture from Indio Metal Arts.


SATURDAY, 4/26 10am-12pm
Inside Hoffman Center
(unless it’s gorgeous, then we’ll be in WG!)
Because we don’t have a whole lot of shade in the WG, we don’t get to introduce you to a whole lot of shade-loving plants. Which is a darn shame.
So we’re going to use this year’s sale to do just that, offer you a selection of dappled-shade to part-sun lovers we would grow if we could grow if a woodchuck could chuck…oh, never mind.
When we say the evergreen perennial Wulfenia x schwarzii has violet-blue flowers, we’re not talking pastel. We’re talking an arresting, sumptuous color that starts showing up in early spring and can continue sporadically for months.
Unlike other shade lovers (think hostas), slugs and snails have zero interest in wulfenia, a tough woodland resident that mixes beautifully with other spring bloomers. To have one is to want a whole lot more.
If your tastes run more towards the demure and ethereal, ask our learned sales force to show you
Dicentra formosa ssp. oregana ‘Langtrees’, a form of the native bleeding heart.
‘Langtrees’ was selected for its icy blue foliage and its pendant white flowers. At its most impressive set loose, leave it room (no, it’s not aggressive. You will beg it to spread). If you want to extend its bloom time, keep it from drying out, but in general it’s a very easy to grow woodland denizen.
Finally, if you’re bereft of fab foliage in the shade – particularly in fall, wowza! – look for Mukdenia rossii ‘Karasuba’. You’ll recognize it at the sale by its lovely maple-like bright green leaves. Come autumn,
this mukdenia goes swooningly red before tucking in for the winter. Rich soil & even moisture will buy you a truly lovely and lush groundcover.



Registration (required): www.eventbrite.com/e/death-cafe-north-coast-eol-collective-in-person-tickets-1295169580079?aff=oddtdtcreator
Co-Facilitators: Margo Lalich, MPH, RN, Co-Founder – North Coast EOL Collective, Dardi Troen, and Dell Hambleton
Questions: welcome@northcoasteolcollective.com
Making Visible the Invisible: A Community Conversation about Death and Dying. Applying the values of Acceptance, Belonging, Connection, and Legacy, Death Cafe is a co-generational gathering that aims to create a comfortable and open space for people to gather and discuss topics related to death, dying, and mortality and all that it is to be human navigating the most profound transition of our lives. It provides a platform for individuals to share their thoughts, fears, and experiences surrounding death in a supportive, non-judgmental, and safe environment. Adhering to Death Cafe’s mission, participation is free; however, contributions to the Collective are welcome.


This SATURDAY, April 26 from 12-2PM a representative from Durrant Olive Oil will be offering samples of their amazing EVOO. Durrant is the only Olioteca in the Pacific Northwest and we are excited to expand our line up beyond the favorites seen here. You won’t want to miss this! Learn more about them at durantoregon.com/durant-olive-mill.
Green Coast Market is open Thursdays 11-5, Friday and Saturdays 11-6, and Sundays 11-5. We are located at 119 S Miller Street in Rockaway Beach (steps from the Wayside).


Tuesday, May 13, 6-8 PM
Times Theatre & Public House
Over the past few years, tourism partners, accessibility advocates, and coastal communities have worked together to make the Oregon Coast more accessible to visitors and residents alike. Thanks to a grant from Travel Oregon, we partnered with GLP Films to create three short films celebrating this incredible collaborative work.
Join us for the premiere of three short films showcasing the incredible work being done to make the Oregon Coast more accessible for all.
OCVA and the City of Seaside Visitors Convention Bureau are pleased to welcome our industry partners to the Times Theater for this free opportunity to pre-screen these inspiring videos, and network with the people working to make our most a more inclusive place for all.
Learn more and RSVP here: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-accessible-oregon-coast-film-tour-seaside-tickets-1307459820519?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdssh…



We hope you will join us in celebration of the 55th global day of action on behalf of our planet for a family friendly stewardship event. All ages are welcome! Tools & gloves will be provided (or welcome to bring your own) by co-hosts Lower Nehalem Community Trust and Trail Keepers of Oregon.
Directions to Elk Meadows Park: Turn south off of Hwy. 101 onto Bayside Gardens Road. Take the last right turn onto Neptune Way. Park is at the end of Neptune Way on the Left. Please wear sturdy shoes and dress for variable coastal weather. Parking is adjacent to the park and surfaces are gravel, wood chip and grass.


Susan headlines in clubs and theaters across the country. After filling venues with laughter since 1983, SUSAN RICE recently found massive online success with a “Don’t Tell Comedy” special that has garnered over 1 million views in 6 months!
Join some friends and save with a ticket for 4 while they last.
Learn more and watch a video at the ticket link.

Kelli Daffron, a Project Manager at the NCWA, will share the history of how the Ecola Creek Forest Reserve (ECFR) started as a working forest to become the nature preserve we all love today. Past stewardship projects and current restoration efforts will be discussed plus ways folks can get involved in recreating the favorable conditions needed to bring salmon and beaver habitat back to our ECFR!

NCCWP wants no more logging and pesticide use in community water sources across all land ownership, and wants an end to pesticide applications near where people live, work and recreate. Safe drinking water and clean air are part of the public trust that we all are entitled to have. Please help North Coast Communities for Watershed Protection safeguard and restore our drinking watersheds. www.healthywatershed.org | www.facebook.com/NCCWATERSHEDPROTECTION Contact: rockawaycitizen.water@gmail.com

SAT, APR 26th
10-12pm
Inside the Hoffman Center for the Arts
Yesterday, we profiled the horned poppy, which we’ll offer in two delicious colors. Here’s the link if you missed that post ‘cause you do not want to miss out on this plant:
www.northcoastbbq.com/2025/04/19/wonder-garden-plant-sale-the-plant-previews-begin/
Today we’ve got the inside line on a manzanita we’ve never been able to offer before, easily the most unusual manzi selection we grow: Arctostaphylos ‘Diablo’s Blush’.
People often mistake this slow-growing work of art is as a sedum. No lie. I mean, if you know your plants, you’ll know that confusing a manzi and a sedum is TOTALLY NUTS.
And yet, it’s an easy mistake to make! The foliage on this diminutive beauty looks absolutely succulent.
Its new growth is quite blue and its leaves are stacked in an upright manner that defies the rules of any manzi foliage you’ve ever seen. And after at least 5 years in the Wonder Garden (it lives near the big Hollywood Juniper along Laneda), it’s barely 18” tall. A rock garden specimen of a manzanita!
In full sun, mulched in gravel and no water after it’s established, Arctostaphylos ‘Diablo’s Blush’ is a heart throb. We’re smitten.
See you at the WG Plant Sale!

SoulCollage® is a creative process for self-discovery and transformation. Participants will create collaged cards using cut images. After the cards are made, we will gather in small groups to give voice to the images. This fun & creative activity often awakens new insights and deep personal meaning.
Space is limited
Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/1332423838569?aff=oddtdtcreator
Or Contact:
Carolyn (Certified SoulCollage Facilitator)
ckgreenwood3339@gmail.com

There will be partner organizations there like Tides of Change, CARE, Nestucca Bay Health Center, and WorkSource showcasing their services available to the county as well.
Hope to see you there on April 26!

Kicking things off is the Trash Art Gallery Opening on Thursday, May 15 from 5–9pm —the original Trash Bash event that brings together trash artists, trash art lovers, and the trash-curious for an evening of inspiration and awe. You’ll get the first look (and opportunity to buy) works of art made entirely from discarded and found materials.
Thursday night heats up with the Trash Art Slam – fast-paced, live art creation entertainment. Think of it like a baking competition—only with power tools and found objects. Watch and learn as local artists race to create brand-new artworks from a huge pile of parts in just two hours. The finished pieces will go straight into the gallery, ready for sale. Thanks to Niblack Events, attendees will be offered an array of delicious appetizers and drinks.
Friday evening, May 16, 5-7pm is Trash Tales – an event where trash becomes a powerful entry point into conversations about memory, meaning, and environmental stewardship. There may be hilarious dumpster diving adventures, sorrowful poems for things lost to time, or sweet songs of found treasures. Storytelling is a vital part of building community—when we share our experiences, we create space for connection, understanding, and new perspectives. Niblack Events will be back with another spread of delightful snacks and a full bar.
Saturday, May 17, is the Trashion Show, a stunning show of Spring Fashions made entirely out of discards. This event challenges the unsustainable systems that flood the world with waste. Trash Fashion turns discards into bold and creative statements. The party starts at 4:00 with local Gnarly’s Taco Truck, a list of local libations, and costume crafting on the lawn! Seating for the runway show begins at 5:00. Stay for the after party with DJ HIHAT, a young local, ready to keep you dancing!
So grab your friends, bring the family, and come experience the creativity bursting from our little corner of the coast. Whether you show up to cheer on a local artist, find the perfect weird-and-wonderful gift, or just enjoy a lively evening out, Trash Bash is the place to be.
All events take place at White Clover Grange in Nehalem, May 15–18. Tickets are available on our website at www.heartofcartm.org.
Trash Bash is about celebrating what we can do when we think creatively together. It’s inspiring, a little wild, and a whole lot of fun!
From The Heart,
Jessi & The Heart of CARTM Team
Come and have a good time. Start it with Yoga! It’s fun, it’s free and it will make you healthy.
Come join us. Everyone is welcome.
First there’s Yoga with Molly.
Day – Monday
Time. – 11:15 PST
Place – Tillamook YMCA
If you can’t join in person, you can still zoom in via the following link:
us06web.zoom.us/j/86577877885?pwd=hubSgvfcmYl6AWclxvsfULTHkeUCXY.1
Next there’s Yoga with Janet.
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
We hope you will join us in celebration of the 55th global day of action on behalf of our planet for a family friendly stewardship event. All ages are welcome! Tools & gloves will be provided (or welcome to bring your own) by co-hosts Lower Nehalem Community Trust and Trail Keepers of Oregon.
Directions to Elk Meadows Park: Turn south off of Hwy. 101 onto Bayside Gardens Road. Take the last right turn onto Neptune Way. Park is at the end of Neptune Way on the Left. Please wear sturdy shoes and dress for variable coastal weather. Parking is adjacent to the park and surfaces are gravel, wood chip and grass.

At the Bunkhouse
Do t miss it!!!

12 Days of Earth Day Street Fair
11 am to 1 pm
2nd St between Hemlock and Spruce
Join us as we learn more about the efforts of local non-profits and community organizations who are bringing positive change to our community while discovering creative ways to lessen your own Eco-footprint. Exhibitors include
• Ecola Creek Awareness Program
• Haystack Rock Awareness Program
• North Coast Watershed Association
• CB Friends of the Trees
• Seaside Aquarium
• Wildlife Rescue Center of the North Coast (Birds)
• North Coast Land Conservancy / Cape Falcon Marine Reserve
• Friends of Haystack Rock
• Pacific Power
• Cannon Beach Garden Club
• ReWild Landscape Native Plant Nursery
• Cannon Beach History Museum
• Recology
• Cannon Beach Academy Eco-Kids
Composting- Worms Eat my Garbage – Decomposers rule!
Flutterbye Butterflies and their Pollinator Friends!
Fairies, Elves, and Gnomes Unite!
Calling all Friends of Beaver and Salmon! • Cannon Beach Garden Club- Master Gardener to answer gardening questions.
• ReWild Landscape Native Plant Nursery- We encourage folks to invite nature into their yards by adding native plants that make yards more pollinator and bird-friendly. We will have demonstration plants as well as plants for sale.
• Pacific Power has partnered with Dennis’ 7 Dee’s Garden Center to provide vouchers for trees as part of their commitment to Earth Day! Plant a tree for the planet! Trees will be given away to help expand our tree canopy and cool Mother Earth.
• We will be demonstrating how to create both a worm composting bin and a hot composting pile that provides food for our Mighty Decomposers! Don’t let your green ‘waste’ and food ‘waste’ go to waste – turn it into Garden Gold!
• We will dive into the wonderful world of pollinators and teach you how to make seed balls so you can make your yard a pollinator friendly space.
• Create a Nature Crown and let the world know you are a “Friend of Nature”- Make your own Nature Crown using flower petals, leaves, twigs and more. Kids can wear them all day!
• We will share ways you can help us bring back the salmon and beaver to our watershed in Cannon Beach and why watersheds are so important to our ecosystem.
Turning Trash into Treasure: SOLVE Beach Cleanup & Marine Debris Sorting Training
Heart of CARDM
10 am to 1 pm
Check-in is at the City Hall Lower Parking Lot on Gower St.
Heart of CARDM will be onsite as folks check-in for the SOLVE Beach Cleanup! Join us for a quick, hands-on training before our beach cleanup! Learn best practices for sorting marine debris as you collect it, helping to identify materials for creative reuse in upcoming community art projects.
SOLVE Beach Cleanup
10 am to 1 pm
Check-in is at the City Hall Lower Parking Lot on Gower St.
Join SOLVE, the City of Cannon Beach, and Pacific Alarm Systems for a beach cleanup! Help us protect marine life and maintain the beauty of our coast.
Disposal services donated by Wayfarer Restaurant.
Register at SOLVE | Cannon Beach Cleanup
This beach cleanup is family-friendly, and volunteers of all ages will find the event fun and rewarding. Remember our ocean shores can be dangerous. Avoid logs in the water. Keep your distance from marine mammals and never turn your back on the ocean! If you find any hazardous material, please alert your Beach Captain. And remember, it’s more fun to work as part of a team. Bring a buddy, stay safe and have fun!
Intertidal Habitat Restoration
NCLC /HRAP/Seven Capes Bird Alliance
1:30 pm to 2:30 pm
Cannon Beach Chamber Hall
Rocky intertidal areas, including tidepools, are home to abundant and diverse biological communities where sea stars, anemones, crabs, and colorful algae offer people opportunities to connect with marine life up close. Oregon’s rocky habitats comprise 41% of Oregon’s coastline and support a wealth of marine life from colonial nesting seabirds, marine mammals, fish, and invertebrates.
Local naturalist presenters include: Angela Whitlock, North Coast Land Conservancy; Kelli Ennis, Haystack Rock Awareness Program; and Kent Doughty, Seven Capes Bird Alliance.
Join us to learn about the wonders of Oregon’s rocky habitats, including the unique areas in Cannon Beach. This presentation will explore the amazing diversity of life in tidepools; rocky habitat management that is meant to balance protection, access, and enjoyment; and current legislation that will bolster the management of rocky habitats.




Daniela Naomi Molnar is a poet, artist, and writer who works with color, water, language, and place. She creates paintings using pigments made from plants, bones, stones, rainwater, and glacial melt. Her writing develops alongside this work, with each practice influencing the other to form new ecologies.
Her work is the subject of a front-page feature in the Los Angeles Times, a PBS Oregon Art Beat profile, an entry in the Oregon Encyclopedia, and a feature in Poetry Daily. Her debut book, CHORUS, won the 2024 Oregon Book Award for Poetry and was selected by Kazim Ali as the winner of Omnidawn Press’ 1st/2nd Book Award.
Forthcoming titles include PROTOCOLS (Ayin Press, 2025), Memory of a Larger Mind (Omnidawn, 2028), and Light / Remains (Bored Wolves Press, 2026). Her work will is also included in Attached to the Living World: A New Ecopoetry Anthology (Trinity University Press, 2025) and in The Glacier is a Being (Sturm & Drang, 2024).
Her artwork has been shown nationally, is in public and private collections internationally, and has been recognized by numerous grants, fellowships, and residencies. She founded the Art + Ecology program at the Pacific Northwest College of Art and helped start and run the backcountry artist residency Signal Fire. She can be found in Portland, Oregon, and exploring global public wildlands. Learn more at danielamolnar.com.

Get up, stand up, stand up for our rights!!!
Hope to see you there.
NOON – 2pm

Snacks, casual browsing, book people—maybe some new favorite authors
Readings start around 6. Here’s what’s on for the rest of April:
-April 19th, we welcome Lynne Spriggs O’Connor & her beautiful, heartful memoir, ELK LOVE.
-April 26th, celebrate National Poetry Month with Sara Sebastian, poet of the heart and its many moods. Her book: WE CALL SO MANY FEELINGS LOVE.



TODAY!! Friday, April 18
10 am to 2 pm
At: City Hall Mid-town parking lot

Donations are gladly accepted.
This is a shred event for residents and businesses from 10 am to 2 pm in the midtown parking lot.
e-Waste Recycling Project
Recology
10 am to 2 pm
Midtown Parking Lot
• Electronic collection – monitors, tv’s stereo equipment etc.
• Household battery collection – A, AA, AAA. D, C and rechargeable hearing aid batteries
Compost giveaway – Bring your 5-gallon bucket and fill it up, one bucket per person until compost is gone

Forest ER
April 19th at 11:30 am & April 20th at 1:30 am
Take a pulse on forest health with us as our resident Tree Doctor performs procedures to uncover illnesses hidden just below the surface. Discover buggy infestations, fungal infections that aren’t so fun, and foreign foliage that make huge impacts on Oregon’s forests. What kind of prescription could cure these problems? Come visit us and find out!
Dances with Dippers
April 19th at 1:30 pm & April 20th at 11:30 am
Have you heard about the latest dance craze called “dipping”? A drab, grey, little bird told us that it’s the best! This sing-songy little swimmer is flying into the center to guide you through the aquatic world of the American Dipper. Join our naturalists to explore the Tillamook’s most unique little songbird.


You are invited!
May 24-25th, 2025 in Manzanita, Oregon!

