If you are interested in community and how we can make things better right here I recommend you check this out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMd_xlvTKIw
Barbara
Ricky is a social butterfly, friendly and outgoing with every cat and person he meets. Ricky loves to sit in your lap for pets, perch on top of your paperwork while you work, or perhaps even stretch across your warm keyboard. He simply loves to hang out with you, but when the mood strikes, Ricky plays like a ninja fighter! His favorite toys include the spring and wand toy, and since he loves to play with other cats, he would do best in a home with a playmate or two.
Ricky was found as a tiny kitten living alone in a neighborhood. He needed a lot of TLC, but he is now a healthy, happy, energetic kitten who thrives on human interaction! You can view Ricky in action at his YouTube playlist via his QR code.
Perhaps you need a kitten to come into your life and take charge. Molly is an independent boss lady and she keeps her litter mates in line. She is also very playful and loves the attention of her people. Molly is curious and enjoys exploring new things, and though she can come off shy at first, she warms up with wonderful snuggles and is quick to purr. Molly currently resides in a loving foster home that includes other kittens, dogs and children. Watch Molly doing her thing on her YouTube Playlist via her QR code.
You can learn more about these kittens and others available for adoption at unitedpaws.wordress.com. Please complete an adoption application and get pre-approved. Once pre-approved, you can schedule a “Meet & Greet.” Please email unitedpawsapps@gmail.com or call United Paws at 503-842-5663 for more information.
At the Manzanita Council meeting when the indirect cost methodology was adopted in 2023, no citizens offered testimony in favor, four citizens asked questions that went unanswered and the Council without a single comment or discussion passed the motion on a four to one vote. The City could not answer simple questions when it adopted this methodology and has no interest in allowing any further opportunity for citizens to question the false and contradictory explanations that have resulted since its adoption.
In Manzanita, once Water Operating Fund indirect costs are calculated and transferred to the General Fund and becomes General Fund revenue, the City spends it on whatever it wants including things that have no connection to the water utility. Councilor Campbell confirmed to me that this is indeed true and that the City has been doing this for years. The purchase of new street signage was offered as a specific example of how Water Operating Fund revenue designated as reimbursement costs for City Hall staff is being spent. Perhaps citizens would like the opportunity to ask the Council for clarification on how the purchase of street signage is in any way connected with the operation of our water system and hear their explanation.
In an email from Councilor Hart, he assured me that these transferred indirect cost revenues were reimbursements to City Hall staff for administrative support and as such it was not possible for them to again be spent on anything else. Since these two explanations directly contradict each other, perhaps these Councilors should get together with an explanation that they can both agree on.
When I asked Councilor Campbell about the false statement made by the City Manager that “about 50% of all city invoices originate with the water utility”, he declined to give an explanation. This should be of interest to both Councilors and citizens.This claim is meant to convince us that processing invoices for Water Operating Fund materials and services is much more complex and time consuming than similar payment requests made to other City Fund or departments and thus requires greater staff reimbursement costs and subsequent transfers to the General Fund.
Three years ago the City abandoned the FCS overhead methodology because it had trouble explaining it. It would appear that the City is again having difficulty providing consistent common sense explanations of just how the current methodology actually works.
I asked Councilor Campbell if he would ask some specific questions of City staff so that we both might better understand how these staff reimbursements actually work. No, he was not interested in doing this. He did claim that what the City is now doing “clearly was the practice that you employed” as City Manager. This is completely false. I never budgeted any indirect cost charges to the Water Operating Fund nor did I transfer any water funds back to the General Fund where they disappear and now force the City to offer nonsensical and conflicting explanations as to how they are spent. A review of City Budgets during this time period will confirm this fact.
It’s unfortunate that our Council is reluctant to provide citizens the opportunity to ask their questions and receive answers on this matter. It’s equally concerning that one Councilor prefers making false accusations about the use of Water Funds during my tenure as City Manager rather than asking staff relevant questions to better understand how hundreds of thousands of dollars of water revenue is being spent on things that have nothing to do with the operation of our water utility.
Randy Kugler
Please think of signing up for this year’s classes, you’ll learn lots about plants, bugs, diseases, landscapes and more!
And you’ll meet great plant-loving people.
There are scholarships available.
extension.oregonstate.edu/mg/tillamook/announcements/2025-master-gardener-training-open-registration
The speed and width of this data wave has overrun what is the equivalent of ergonomics; designs scaled to fit a human body. Accepted ideas often had to earn their place, giving humans and all their constructs time to assimilate them. Not now. To consider, research, and embrace even one new concept can be tricky to say the least. We need internal tools to help us not just cut a bowline but rather slip it to another cleat, lest we find ourselves adrift.
Presented in these two short videos is an idea that has been hovering in the wings of earth science for decades but is taking flight because the gadgets and explorations have yielded enough facts to bubble up through the conventional view. In the spirit of expanding ones perspective and consciousness, enjoy these short presentations on the ” Expanding Planet Earth”. Oh yeah, it’s controversial, but then, Galileo would have something to say about controversial concepts, right?
Quick note: Neal Adams, (first short), is a renowned artist, responsible for the early genesis of Marvel and other comics. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neal_Adams
Expanding Earth- 10 min.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HDb9Ijynfo
20 min.
The Expanding Earth- an observational documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HDb9Ijynfo
So I went forth, and finding the Hand of God, trod gladly into the night. And He led me towards the hills and the breaking of day in the lone East.
So heart be still:
What need our little life
,Our human life to know,
If God hath comprehension?
In all the dizzy strife
Of things both high and low,
God hideth His intention.
God knows. His will Is best. The stretch of years Which wind ahead, so dim To our imperfect vision, Are clear to God. Our fears Are premature; In Him, All time hath full provision.
Then rest: until
God moves to lift the veil
From our impatient eyes,
When, as the sweeter features
Of Life’s stern face we hail,
Fair beyond all surmise
God’s thought around His creatures,
Our mind shall fill
Minnnie Louise Haskins
The Nehalem Bay Health District is the recipient of a remarkable $250,000 gift
This is the story of the kind and generous man who made it possible
Fred Cornforth led an amazing, impactful life. Fred, who lived in Boise, Idaho until his untimely death earlier this year at 64, also had a home for some time on the north coast. Fred, his wife and family loved the area as so many of us do.
Over the course of his working life Fred built a hugely successful non-profit company that he formed in the 1990’s to build affordable housing projects in nearly 20 states. And he gave back – in a very big way, funding food banks, dental clinics, homeless shelters and orphanages.
When Fred learned about the Nehalem Bay Health District’s plans to upgrade health and senior care and address workforce housing here on the north coast he immediately wanted to help, and he certainly did.
Late in 2023, through his non-profit company, Fred committed $250,000 to the Health District to use to advance its projects, as Fred said, “in any way that will do the most good.”
Fred’s pledge included donating half of his remarkable gift during 2024 with the remainder in 2025.
Every dollar from an individual gift or a foundation grant directed toward the Health District’s priorities makes a huge difference, ensuring that projects to improve local health and senior care and develop workforce housing are fully funded and will be successful over the long term.
The impact of Fred’s generosity is extraordinarily valuable to the Health District’s projects because the unrestricted nature of his gift allows the District to stretch local bond funding even farther.
Sadly, Fred Cornforth died in March 2024 after a courageous, inspiring battle with glioblastoma, a particularly awful form of brain cancer. His family and legion of friends continue to have the heartfelt condolences of all of us associated with the Nehalem Bay Health District, as well as our enduring thanks.
True to his word and totally in keeping with his compassionate generosity, the first half of Fred’s pledge – a check for $125,000 – arrived right around Thanksgiving.
Karine Jean-Pierre, White House Press Secretary refused to answer the drone question and said she would not get into hypotheticals.…but said that President Biden has been wrestling and wrestling and wrestling with this question and has decided to preemptively pardon all further questions during his presidency!
But I know what the drones are:
Santa was notified by the Climate Change Committee that he can no longer use reindeer because their poop causes climate change. Drones were suggested. Santa felt they should stick with the original story of Christmas and phase in “the new drone delivery system” little by little, or kids would be even more upset then they are now, as many of them have just realized that the things they told Santa they wanted for Christmas were no longer appropriate for their new gender identities.
There was a big legal challenge (secretly) and finally Santa, realizing the enormous threat of climate disasters, and considering the millions of compensation in dollars offered to him, (which would come from diverting that big shipment of 988 millions of dollars for military equipment supposed to go to the Ukraine.) agreed to deliver presents by drones this year.
This money was diverted to Santa for new drone equipment, under the “Drones for Santa act” that was passed quickly and quietly in congress. What are over our skies now, are drones being flown by undocumented immigrants with serious criminal records, some in child trafficking who have been promised pardons by Biden, who also promised them American citizenship if they take these drone flying jobs and can deliver all presents on time by Christmas. They are practice flying these drones now.
This story was just published in the New Pork Times
You can learn more about cats and kittens available for adoption at unitedpaws.wordress.com, where you can also complete an adoption application and get pre-approved. Once pre-approved, you can schedule a “Meet & Greet.” You can also email unitedpawsapps@gmail.com or call United Paws at 503-842-5663 for more info.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/02/trump-protest-fatigue
And there’s a section labeled “Managing anxiety around political news” in an even earlier article:
I hope this is helpful, and if so please pass it along,
-Dave
Magic
In a stand of pines there was a cabin
with a sloping back porch. If we were quiet,
we could listen to the wind in the dry
Ponderosa and the sounds of a green river
descending. We were days on the road,
traveling together to grandmother’s house,
a family journey. Decades later, searching
for that river memory along old US 395,
I stopped. Walking down to the river,
I began to breathe, opening a way back.
Swirling roots still bind those rocky banks,
where ankle deep in luminous water
we had learned to hold the flat, far-tumbled
stones, glistening on a quiet granite run.
Rising with the incantation of the skipping
stones, magic arrived long ago in the emerald
light.
So essentially DOGE is two billionaire private citizens operating with no oversight at the behest of another billionaire, the President. All three have some very strange, non-mainstream views. What could go wrong? We are all about to find out.
Fun fact: DOGE is named after Elon Musk’s preferred cryptocurrency, Dogecoin.
Woody, about 14 weeks old, loves to play with other cats and dogs, and will gladly interact with everyone and everything. When playtime is over, Woody will climb up behind you and wrap himself around your neck, providing very comforting purr-therapy!
Hank is comfortable with dogs, cats, and even rabbits. About 16 weeks old, he considers his fosters’ dogs to be his friends, regularly head-butting, grooming, and playing with them. Hank loves to climb tall cat trees and sees himself as a mighty hunter, spending much of his time playing with wands, balls, and anything he can chase! Hank has learned to love a lap, so after playtime you may find him curled up in yours. To view videos of Hank in action, check out his YouTube playlist here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLe3xY_E-Uj2ZBL2wmbWPdfyCHO_B_YD9H
If you are looking for a snuggly, mellow, loving kitty, Joni is your girl. She is about 11 weeks, and has a relaxed, laid-back personality. She’ll play for short periods of time, but then is ready a warm lap and a nap.
Molly, on the other hand, is independent and on the go, leading the play activities. About 16 weeks old, Molly is curious and likes to explore new things. She can play hard, but she also loves to snuggle and is quick to purr.
You can learn more about these kittens and others available for adoption at unitedpaws.wordress.com. You can also complete an adoption application and get pre-approved. Once pre-approved, you can schedule a “Meet & Greet.” You can also email unitedpawsapps@gmail.com or call United Paws at 503-842-5663 for more info.
Senator John Kennedy Rep, from Louisiana reveals massive fraud in Social Security.
1.3 billion dollars has been sent to dead people, and THOSE CHECKS ARE BEING CASHED.
2.9 trillion dollars was the value of improper payments from social security since 2004
6.5 million is the number of 112 year-olds on social security
Here in this video, Senator John Kennedy Rep from Louisiana
explains how trillions of dollars have been stolen from the social security administration. There are many retirees living here in the area including me. We all need to know this.
Kennedy Reveals Shocking ‘Fraud’ That’s Seen ‘Dead People’ Receive Money From The Federal Government
15 minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xx3uSzlnLk
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