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Jim Heffernan
codger817@gmail.com
January 2025
We want to wish all residents, community members, and readers a happy and great start to the new year! We also want to thank all of you who participate in and serve the City in any and all capacities, both formally and informally. Formally, our Planning Commission Chair and Vice Chair were re-elected; we had re-appointments to Planning Commission; and are currently in a selection process for our Budget Committee, appointments to occur at our Regular Session in February. We also had one new appointment to Planning Commission, Brad Berman. He introduced himself at this month’s Planning Commission meeting. You can watch here: ci.manzanita.or.us/pc-meeting-1-13-25.
Brad is a third generation Oregonian, native Portlander, and has been a homeowner in Manzanita for 13 years. Professionally, he’s worked for Nike in global roles, but also in architecture, and commercial real estate development the last seven years, with varying project-types such as mixed use, and a significant amount of housing as of late. He will be a great asset to Planning Commission and the Comprehensive Plan and Housing Ordinance Update project! Welcome, Commissioner Berman!
We also had a Work Session focused on short-term rentals (STRs) during which the STR Committee presented. You can watch here: ci.manzanita.or.us/city-council-work-session-1-15-25/. The City has heard from residents and community members in a variety of ways regarding STRs, such as through the STR Committee, the 2023 Livability survey, and complaints filed with our Code Enforcement Officer.
The City is trying to make a decision about STR policies, to create more livability for those in Manzanita through policies which constrain STR growth and potentially lessen noise and congestion (i.e., parking and traffic) which may arise from renters; while also wanting to provide adequate services to the City, which are funded in large part by our transient lodging tax (TLT) revenue, as opposed to property taxes which many other cities depend on. Due to certain Oregon measures (specifically Measures 5 and 50), Manzanita derives very little from property taxes and, therefore, must fund service-provision through different means.
We would love to receive input from our community members on this issue. Please reach out to our Council members here: citycouncil@ci.manzanita.or.us. There will be additional opportunities for the community to weigh-in on this issue at public hearings when and if any new policies are considered by City Council, so stay tuned.
Thank you so much to everyone who completed our second survey related to the Comprehensive Plan and Housing Ordinance Update. We garnered 76 responses which is huge for a city of our size! We also still have a few 20-mile-per-hour yard signs available for free at City Hall. Come by and pick one up if you would like to show your support for Twenty is Plenty! Lastly, the City has hired a contractor to complete some needed maintenance and repairs to the park. Parts are on order and as soon as we receive them our contractor will begin the repairs. Access to the play structure will remain closed until the repairs are complete. We are moving as quickly as we can to reopen the structure as soon as possible! Thank you for your patience during this time.
We’re off to a great 2025 thanks to all of you who serve and support our City!
High Tide now has openings for your home or vacation rental.
I have been in business here for 10 wonderful years helping with your cleaning needs. I have many years of experience with both private homes and vacation rentals making sure everything is clean and running smoothly.
Please call me at 503-717-2585 if I can help you with cleaning needs, vacation rental or your home.
Thank you,
Shawn
You can watch here: ci.manzanita.or.us/pc-meeting-1-13-25.
Brad is a third generation Oregonian, native Portlander, and has been a homeowner in Manzanita for 13 years. Professionally, he’s worked for Nike in global roles, but also in architecture, and commercial real estate development the last seven years, with varying project-types such as mixed use, and a significant amount of housing as of late. He will be a great asset to Planning Commission and the Comprehensive Plan and Housing Ordinance Update project! Welcome, Commissioner Berman!
We also had a Work Session focused on short-term rentals (STRs) during which the STR Committee presented.
You can watch here: ci.manzanita.or.us/city-council-work-session-1-15-25/.
The City has heard from residents and community members in a variety of ways regarding STRs, such as through the STR Committee, the 2023 Livability survey, and complaints filed with our Code Enforcement Officer.
The City is trying to make a decision about STR policies, to create more livability for those in Manzanita through policies which constrain STR growth and potentially lessen noise and congestion (i.e., parking and traffic) which may arise from renters; while also wanting to provide adequate services to the City, which are funded in large part by our transient lodging tax (TLT) revenue, as opposed to property taxes which many other cities depend on. Due to certain Oregon measures (specifically Measures 5 and 50), Manzanita derives very little from property taxes and, therefore, must fund service-provision through different means.
We would love to receive input from our community members on this issue. Please reach out to our Council members here: citycouncil@ci.manzanita.or.us.
There will be additional opportunities for the community to weigh-in on this issue at public hearings when and if any new policies are considered by City Council, so stay tuned.
Thank you so much to everyone who completed our second survey related to the Comprehensive Plan and Housing Ordinance Update. We garnered 76 responses which is huge for a city of our size!
We also still have a few 20-mile-per-hour yard signs available for free at City Hall. Come by and pick one up if you would like to show your support for Twenty is Plenty!
Lastly, the City has hired a contractor to complete some needed maintenance and repairs to the park. Parts are on order and as soon as we receive them our contractor will begin the repairs. Access to the play structure will remain closed until the repairs are complete. We are moving as quickly as we can to reopen the structure as soon as possible! Thank you for your patience during this time.
We’re off to a great 2025 thanks to all of you who serve and support our City!
Just a friendly reminder that our Winter Gear Drive continues at Rising Hearts Studio. Please bring in your new/gently used tents, tarps, blankets, sleeping bags, rain gear and rain boots, coats and hats in to the Studio and along with our community partners we will distribute to those most in need within our community.
Big THANK YOU to All whom have already dropped these items – you have made a HUGE difference in the lives of MANY – YOU ROCK! But we’re not done yet-winter has just started- there is still need. We especially need tarps and blankets! Thank you
Hope to see you soon!
Blessings- CK
Rising Hearts Studio
35840 7th St
Hwy 101, Downtown Nehalem
(503) 800-1092
Christy@cosmichealingnw.com
“Lifting the community with education and services that promote healing on all levels.”
Here are some quotes I think we all can live by.
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only Light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only Love can do that.” Martin Luther King
“Love is all we need.” The Beatles
“Only Love can conquer hate.” Marvin Gaye
“When the Power of Love overcomes the love of power we will have peace.” Jimi Hendrix
So ANY WAY that all of us can add our bit of love to the world is to me a radical and powerful act. Let’s all be kind and do what we can to help each other. Keep the faith, stay strong and don’t let the haters win by giving up or reacting to them with hate.
Some specific ideas:
Regularly check on a neighbor who lives alone.
Help a struggling parent in line at the grocery store.
Give someone an authentic complement.
Hold your judgmental thoughts about someone.
Call a friend you haven’t talked with lately.
Reach out an olive branch to someone you have had conflict with.
Walk a friend or neighbor’s dog.
Host an informal get together with your neighbors to get to know each other better.
If you encounter hate speech from someone on line comment that you are sending them love.
Pay it forward.
Make someone laugh.
Take a walk in nature and send thanks for the beauty around us.
Pray in whatever forms calls to you. I pray that Love and Democracy will prevail and I imagine a hedge of angels surrounding Donald Trump preventing him from doing harm and giving him a “love transfusion”.
From Lane deMoll: Back in November after the election Brene Brown said somewhere that we all need to be taking micro-doses of hope. I realized that I could make an Essence of Hope. So I went out (as Pluto moved into Aquarius) and collected all the flowers that were blooming in my garden at the time, let them blend in spring water in the sun, and then added it to the last of my pear brandy. Now here it is – available in small bottles free or by donation. Or maybe it will help you keep moving forward that you just know it exists. Hang in there! lane@lanedemoll.com
All of us carry burdens—of daily life, of old hurts and pains. Do whatever you can do to lighten someone’s load. And accept help to lighten yours.
There are lots of organizations out there fighting for justice. Here is a link to an Indivisible.org article I received today.
indivisibleteam.medium.com/courage-is-contagious-its-time-to-fight-back-2610a18f94fc
Here are some ways to help locally.
Last November, everyone in Tillamook County received a copy of the 2024-25 Tillamook County Giving Guide. It’s not too late to use that as a resource for how to help local organizations doing good in our community.
Check out the link at the Tillamook County Pioneer
www.tillamookcountypioneer.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Giving-Guide-2024-25-Final-for-Web.pdf
It’s also on the bbq website Local Resources page. Also on that page are links to Tillamook County Organizations Directories—both alphabetized and categorized that give descriptions of most of the organizations listed.
www.northcoastbbq.com/local-resources/
Little Coasties is a daycare program for 2 and 3 year olds in North County. They have an opportunity to open a second location but need financial help getting into the property. Check out their story in the Pioneer.
www.tillamookcountypioneer.net/little-coasties-school-fills-need-for-child-care-in-nehalem-opportunity-to-open-second-location-with-community-support/
Another Pioneer article noted the opening of a Tillamook office for Consejo Hispano
www.tillamookcountypioneer.net/consejo-hispano-dear-community-tillamook-office-now-open/
Rainy Day Village helps people who are aging stay in their homes.
www.rainydayvillage.org/
These are just a few of the many resources we have in our community. Give where you can and what makes sense to you! Small acts of love and kindness add up. What if the hundredth monkey tale is true that a new behavior or idea can spread rapidly through a population once a critical number of people adopt it? Maybe your act of kindness or love is the critical one!
“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it–always.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
People show you who they are by their actions and by the words they choose. Pretend someone doesn’t mean what they say or what they do and live to find out otherwise. As long as the words and actions are pointed at other people, you’ll be fine. Pretend that the handful of millionaires and billionaires who are in power aren’t using their power to benefit themselves while maintaining control of the world’s resources. They accrue their wealth by standing on the backs of those who are without wealth, without power and without a voice. And we let them do it because we bought the lie they sold us—that our differences are something to be feared and hated.
Sometimes we ignore the differences between us because we’re afraid of saying the wrong thing. We are fearful and suspicious of differences when we don’t know people who aren’t like us. We allow those differences to separate us from each other and we lose a powerful force for change. Community.
As William Stafford wrote in his poem, A Ritual to Read to Each Other:
“If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and I don’t know the kind of person you are
a pattern that others made may prevail in the world
and following the wrong god home we may miss our star….
For it is important that awake people be awake,
or a breaking line may discourage them back to sleep;
the signals we give — yes or no, or maybe —
should be clear: the darkness around us is deep.”
On this MLK day I want to paraphrase director David Lynch, let’s keep our eyes on the donut, kids not on the hole.
Posting on behalf of Kim Rosenberg
loretta.kim.rosenberg@gmail.com
Day one executive order today! BOOM!
He even spoke about the whales and birds (again) at one of his rally’s. Is Oregon really paying people $3,000 to kill one owl to save another? Have you heard of this craziness?
Here is part of Heather Cox Richardson’s post of Jan 16. You can listen to the whole podcast here.
substack.com/@heathercoxrichardson/p-155033845
From Heather Cox Richardson:
In his final address to the nation last night, President Joe Biden issued a warning that “an oligarchy is taking shape in America of extreme wealth, power, and influence that literally threatens our entire democracy, our basic rights and freedoms, and a fair shot for everyone to get ahead.”
It is not exactly news that there is dramatic economic inequality in the United States. Economists call the period from 1933 to 1981 the “Great Compression,” for it marked a time when business regulation, progressive taxation, strong unions, and a basic social safety net compressed both wealth and income levels in the United States. Every income group in the U.S. improved its economic standing.
That period ended in 1981, when the U.S. entered a period economists have dubbed the “Great Divergence.” Between 1981 and 2021, deregulation, tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations, the offshoring of manufacturing, and the weakening of unions moved $50 trillion from the bottom 90% of Americans to the top 1%.
Biden tried to address this growing inequality by bringing back manufacturing, fostering competition, increasing oversight of business, and shoring up the safety net by getting Congress to pass a law—the Inflation Reduction Act—that enabled Medicare to negotiate drug prices for seniors with the pharmaceutical industry, capping insulin at $35 for seniors, for example. His policies worked, primarily by creating full employment which enabled those at the bottom of the economy to move to higher-paying jobs. During Biden’s term, the gap between the 90th income percentile and the 10th income percentile fell by 25%.
But Donald Trump convinced voters hurt by the inflation that stalked the country after the coronavirus pandemic shutdown that he would bring prices down and protect ordinary Americans from the Democratic “elite” that he said didn’t care about them. Then, as soon as he was elected, he turned for advice and support to one of the richest men in the world, Elon Musk, who had invested more than $250 million in Trump’s campaign.
Musk’s investment has paid off: Faiz Siddiqui and Trisha Thadani of the Washington Post reported that he made more than $170 billion in the weeks between the election and December 15.
Musk promptly became the face of the incoming administration, appearing everywhere with Trump, who put him and pharmaceutical entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy in charge of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, where Musk vowed to cut $2 trillion out of the U.S. budget even if it inflicted “hardship” on the American people.
News broke earlier this week that Musk, who holds government contracts worth billions of dollars, is expected to have an office in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building adjacent to the White House. And the world’s two other richest men will be with Musk on the dais at Trump’s inauguration. Musk, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, and Meta chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg, who together are worth almost a trillion dollars, will be joined by other tech moguls, including the CEO of OpenAI, Sam Altman; the CEO of the social media platform TikTok, Shou Zi Chew; and the CEO of Google, Sundar Pichai.
At his confirmation hearing before the Senate Committee on Finance today, Trump’s nominee for Treasury Secretary, billionaire Scott Bessent, said that extending the 2017 Trump tax cuts was “the single most important economic issue of the day.” But he said he did not support raising the federal minimum wage, which has been $7.25 since 2009 although 30 states and dozens of cities have raised the minimum wage in their jurisdictions.
There have been signs lately that the American people are unhappy about the increasing inequality in the U.S. On December 4, 2024, a young man shot the chief executive officer of the health insurance company UnitedHealthcare, which has been sued for turning its claims department over to an artificial intelligence program with an error rate of 90% and which a Federal Trade Commission report earlier this week found overcharged cancer patients by more than 1,000% for life-saving drugs. Americans championed the alleged killer.
It is a truism in American history that those interested in garnering wealth and power use culture wars to obscure class struggles. But in key moments, Americans recognized that the rise of a small group of people—usually men—who were commandeering the United States government was a perversion of democracy.
(The balance of her post gives historical evidence of some of those key moments.)
Barbara
My response I WON’T
forget how badly he/many others treated Pres Obama for 8 years. Lies of legitimacy/hatred for his principles/his attempts to work within the system.
Won’t “work together” to privatize Medicare, cut Social Security/ Medicaid.
Wont” work together” to subvert the Constitution by illegitimately pushing unfit Cabinet nominees thru recess appointments without advice/consent of Senate.
Won’t “work together” to build a wall.
Won’t “work together” to persecute Muslims.
Won’t “work together” to shutout refugees from other countries.
Won’t “work together” to lower taxes on the 1% to increase taxes on middle class/poor.
Won’t “work together” to help him use the Presidency to line pockets those of his family/ cronies.
Won’t “work together” to weaken/demolish environmental protection.
Won’t “work together” to sell US lands, or Nat Parks, to companies which then despoil those lands.
Won’t “work together” to enable killing of whole species of animals because they’re predators/inconvenient for a few, to get thrills kills.
Won’t “work together” to remove civil rights from anyone.
Won’t “work together” to alienate countries, our allies as long as I’ve been alive.
Won’t “work together” to slash funding for education.
Won’t “work together” to take basic assistance from people at bottom of socioeconomic ladder.
Won’t “work together” to get rid of common sense regulations on guns.
Won’t “work together” to eliminate minimum wage.
Won’t “work together” to support so-called “Right To Work” laws/ undermine/weaken Unions.
Won’t “work together” to suppress scientific research on climate change, fracking or any issue where majority of scientists are wrong on facts.
Won’t “work together” to criminalize abortion/restrict health care for women.
Won’t “work together” to put “big money” into politics.
Won’t “work together” to violate Geneva Convention.
Won’t “work together” to give KKK, Nazi Party and white supremacists seats at table to normalize hatred.
Won’t “work together” to deny healthcare to anyone.
Won’t “work together” to deny medical coverage to people on basis of “pre-existing condition.”
Wont “work together” to increase voter suppression.
Won’t “work together” to eliminate/reduce ethical oversight at any level of government.
Won’t sexual harassment, abuse or rape.
Won’t target LGBTQIA+ as abnormal/ having fewer rights.
Won’t normalize J6 insurrection as “patriotism.”
Won’t support pipeline to transport oil on Sacred Ground for Native Americans to run under the Missouri River, the drinking water for millions.
Won’t “work together” to legitimize racism, sexism or authoritarianism.
THIS IS MY LINE, AND I’M DRAWING IT.
WILL stand for honesty, love, and respect for all living beings.
WILL use my voice/hands, to reach out to uninformed that “winning”, “being great again”, “rich” or “beautiful” is nothing when others are sacrificed to glorify its existence.
High Tide now has openings for your home or vacation rental.
I have been in business here for 10 wonderful years helping with your cleaning needs. I have many years of experience with both private homes and vacation rentals making sure everything is clean and running smoothly.
Please call me at 503-717-2585 if I can help you with cleaning needs, vacation rental or your home.
Thank you,
Shawn
I won’t be asking anyone to join anything, I’m just inviting you to listen.
If you have any questions, contact me at codger817@gmail.com
Everyone is welcome!
Whether you’re a seasoned artist, a beginner, or simply looking to connect with others who share your passion for creativity.
Bring your latest project (or the one gathering dust in your closet) and let’s share ideas, skills, and inspiration. You might even leave with a new friend!
Community Giving:
An optional donation each week will go to the White Clover Grange fund for building upkeep. We’ll also collect canned food donations for the local food bank.
We will meet at the White Clover Grange on Thursdays from 1:00 P.M. – 4:00 P.M. and once a month on Saturday, if there is enough interest and if the Grange is available. The first meeting is scheduled for Thursday January 30th. Please come 15 minutes early to get set up.
We will host teachers of all genres who are willing to share their skills and expertise with the community, starting with Dori Bash teaching Quilt Making for Beginners, and Glenna Gray teaching Needle Felting (there will be a fee for this class for materials) with a possible Wet Felting class to follow. Are you passionate about something you’d like to teach? We’d love to have you!
For more information and for a list of equipment and materials needed for the quilting class, please email Cindy at cindy.obtd@gmail.com
I’ve been teaching writing for 35 years, first at community colleges and lastly at the University of Washington, where I directed the English Dept. Writing Center.
Since 2012, I’ve been working one-to-one with clients, teaching them to write better with a foundation in the dynamics of clear, efficient style. For the first lesson, we meet in-person, then continue meeting weekly over video.
I also edit academic writing, mainly dissertations and research publications.
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I like the color purple in regard to American politics – It means a balance between left and right. I feel this is needed for a government that serves ALL the people.
But we are continuously coached into divisiveness by mainstream media, to our great loss.
California is turning slightly purple in the counties, simply out of survival. California, a deep blue state, is a trashed state. And Oregon is next in line, and the state of Washington too! Who wants us trashed?
The 1%!! And they have the money and the power to do it! A handful of billionaires, a handful of giant corporations and banks, have a plan for this planet!! They do! A one world order where they decide on the number of us that will be allowed to live on it. They will control the population numbers! They will strictly control the individual, even better than China does!!
The World Economic Forum – known as the WEF – put on a series, which you could watch on you tube. It is over now but you probably can still watch it. This series told you what the new world is going to be like, and what they propose for humans in the future.
Build Back Better – Biden’s slogan! What the Build, Back Better people don’t tell you, is that to build back better, everything has to be torn down first, and that is happening now.
Promoting criminal behavior In Oregon, A SILENT WEAPON IN A QUIET WAR: I recently saw George Soros on a news program – He donated billions to the election of district attorneys all over this country who promised not to prosecute criminal behavior. That is why crime has burgeoned in many states, including Oregon, and that is why the citizens in Portland and surrounding areas who were very angry at the increase in crime, finally voted in a DA that promised to prosecute criminals.
Another Adage: civilization cannot exist without a system of law and order, because laws provide the framework for social structure, protect individuals from harm, and enable a society to function cohesively and peacefully, essentially defining the very concept of civilization.
Whose idea was it to defund the police? Probably the 1%!
WASHINGTON — House Republicans today released the draft fiscal year 2025 Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies funding bill, which will be considered in subcommittee tomorrow. The legislation DEFUNDS LAW ENFORCE –
MENT, makes us less safe, and hurts our economy.
For 2025, the bill provides $80.5 billion for law enforcement, a decrease of $1.3 billion – 2 percent – below 2024.
Yes, the one percent has plenty of money to pass around to everyone, both blue and red, who can help them with their QUIET WAR. You need to be able to recognize these SILENT WEAPONS and take action.
I just followed someone from Arch Cape to the Laneda Drive turn in manzanita. They were driving an older black SUV whose top speed was 42 miles an hour slowing to below 35 in the curves.
Weather isn’t bad, no cars in front, 15 cars following.
This is dangerous. Impatient drivers will pass when they shouldn’t, cars stacked up like this are a hazard and against the law.
It’s unsafe and rude.
Please work on situational awareness while driving.
If this doesn’t apply to you, then keep you’re blood pressure down and chill!
