Category: General Interest

Submitted By: k.r.yurka@gmail.com – Click to email about this post

Hello all!
Did you know that you can use your Oregon Trail / SNAP benefits at Farmers Markets? Your SNAP dollars can buy delicious meats, fish, cheeses, baked goods, jams, sauces, tea & coffee, pickles and sweets, all made locally and available at the Manzanita Farmers Market! But wait – there’s more!

With your SNAP purchases, you also get up to $20 in FREE produce coupons! Imagine fresh berries, stone fruit, leafy greens, legumes, herbs, mushrooms and root vegetables [FOR FREE]. You will find them all, picked fresh for you at the Manzanita Farmers Market, Fridays from 4 to 7 at Manzanita Avenue & Division.

Visit www.manzanitafarmersmarket.com for up-to-date information on market vendors and products.
Please see Karen at the Info Booth for details, and to start recelving your FREE produce (up to $20 value) per day!

ASIDE TO NON-SNAP PARTICIPANTS: Please share this info with your family, friends and neighbors who may not be tech-savvy enough to see this message. Help us stamp out food insecurity in our villages. Thank you.

Submitted By: gailmyoung@mac.com – Click to email about this post

FOR LOVE OF FRIENDS

For love of Friends of NCRD, our North County Community has been extraordinarily generous with donations and fundraising this past year (July 2023 – June 2024). With love for our Community’s families, Friends has met its Mission to support NCRD programs and provide scholarships to encourage inclusion for all.

More than $14,000 in scholarships – with over half going to the Youth Department – have been given to NCRD families. Summer months are when our Youth Department and Youth Sports Program have the highest needs, and we expect an increase in scholarship needs in the Fall. With gratitude and appreciation for our many dedicated volunteers, Friends of NCRD is now reaching out to the community in another way.

As we start the new fiscal year, Friends of NCRD is calling on community members to fill Board positions. We need several dedicated Board members to help guide our Mission. For love of NCRD and Friends’ Mission, IS THAT YOU?

If you’d like to be considered for a Board position, please contact Gail:
gailmyoung@mac.com by July 31.

Submitted By: ManzanitaCoffeeCo@gmail.com – Click to email about this post

Manzanita Coffee Co is looking for our next great team members; now hiring Baristas, a Kitchen Assistant, and a Baker.
We are searching for an engaging, enthusiastic, hard worker to greet customers, take orders, prepare fresh baked goods, breakfast, and drinks, keep our shop clean and well stocked, and help ensure compliance with health and safety regulations.
Barista, baking, or cafe experience is preferred but if you’re a positive person and a great team player who is willing to learn in a fast paced, efficient environment we’d like to meet you!
Email us at ManzanitaCoffeeCo@gmail.com

Submitted By: runnawaytrain1@gmx.com – Click to email about this post

African-American activist Dick Gregory brought the Zapruder film to Geraldo in 1975; JFK was shot in 1963.

The film, the only copy, was shot on super 8 by a civilian, and then was hidden from the world by the D.C. spook crowd for 12 years. Only the spooks got to watch the film for 12 years.

How come the spooks didn’t want folks to see the film and kept it hidden for 12 years?

Because in the film you can clearly see JFK being shot in the FRONT of his throat, which he clutches, and then you can clearly sees his head snapping BACKWARDS, and brain debris coming out of the BACK of his head, after the shots were fired from in FRONT of him. And then you can see Jackie climb onto the BACK of the limo to retrieve her dead husband’s brain debris.

Why is all of this important? Why was the film hidden from Americans and the rest of the world by the spooks for 12 years?

Because the spooks told us that Oswald was BEHIND JFK shooting, and the shots clearly, as seen in the film, were fired from in FRONT of JFK.

Watch the film and see for yourself. (Or, just go on a beach walk instead?)

Why the murder of JFK is STILL important, is because it helps us understand current events, like the attempted murder of Trump the other day:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxCH1yhGG3Q

And below is another significant motion-picture of shots being fired at a president.

Two-minutes is plenty of time for the SS to have prevented the shots, in this context, in my view.

Also, consider that the SS has a top view (satellites) and the guy on the roof would have been clearly seen via satellite:

x.com/TheMilkBarTV/status/1812731727053488418

I believe the primary motivation for JFKs murder was to turn the Vietnam situation into a BIG WAR (which JFK didn’t want), and make billions of dollars destroying that country (talk about an environmental disaster!) while killing 2-million of its citizens.

I believe the primary motivation for RFK’s murder was the same, a continuation of the BIG WAR Johnson started days after JFK’s murder.

I believe the primary motivation for the attempted murder of Trump was the same, except Trump isn’t trying to stop them (CIA, military-industrial-complex) from destroying Vietnam, he is trying to stop them from expanding the Dems’ Ukraine ‘operation’ (started by Obama in 2014 when he overthrew Ukraine) into World War Three, which is 100% the plan the Dems have going forward. World War! World War! So much suffering! Yay!!!!!!!

Every Dem potential candidate will propel us right into World War Three. And every Repub other than Trump will propel us right into World War Three.

RFK, Jr. won’t get us into World War Three, but the Dem elite (vax-whores, war-pigs), the Obama/Clinton crime families, don’t even want you to hear what RFK, Jr. has to say. I wonder why?

The Dem elite care as much about their voters as Bud Light does Dylan Mulvaney: NOT AT ALL!

The only way to stop World War Three is to elect Donald Trump. Tough medicine, but it might just save your life.

It’s the way of peace and love, Trump is the only anti-war choice. I know, I know, tough medicine to swallow!

But please join me, won’t you?

MAGA!!!!!!!

NO WORLD WAR!!!!!

TRUMP ’24!!!!!!!!

Andy

BONUS!

These Ukrainians don’t want to die for you and Zelensky and Lynsie Graham. I don’t blame them. I, too, would rather drown fleeing then die for you in a senseless war, started by NATO pigs:

www.wsj.com/world/europe/ukrainian-men-desperate-to-escape-war-are-drowning-as-they-flee-9cb6d99d

🙂

Submitted By: badplaceforastump@gmail.com – Click to email about this post

I want to let the workers at the transfer station (I haven’t lived here long enough to call it CARTM) know how much I appreciate them. Though they’ve been hit by illness and weren’t open Thursday, they’ve been open the past two days, which I don’t think has been all that easy. In normal times I really enjoy going there, as they are a fine, fine bunch of folks, but to be able to do a few dump runs when they are not at full strength makes me appreciate them all the more!
Paul

Submitted By: mkuestner10@gmail.com – Click to email about this post

The July issue of Manzanita Today was just released.
www.manzanitatoday.com/

Submitted By: pelksorensen@gmail.com – Click to email about this post

Ginger of Katcandu and Woofgang is the most caring, knowledgeable and experienced pet specialist I know.
Ginger has a special connection with pets, especially cats. My mostly feral cat actually let her pet her having just met her. She speaks “Cat”!! Ginger’s experience with pet behavior is very valuable and she is happy to selflessly share it. She offered me many suggestions and resources with a kitty relationship challenge I have been working on. Many thanks Ginger!!
As an added bonus, Ginger is a talented pet artist. You can find her artwork around town.
Ginger is local and has 30 some years of experience!

Contact info:
Gingerlee58@gmail.com
www.gingerpetsitter.com

Linda S

Submitted By: runnawaytrain1@gmx.com – Click to email about this post

I drove the White House Press Corp in a 15-passenger van during then President Bill Clinton’s motorcade, while he vacationed in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Bill played golf one day with James Wolfenson, who ran the World Bank at the time. Bill stayed at a senator Rockefeller’s (WVA, VA?) house in Jackson during his vacation. Day one, a C-130 (?) flew in the huge amount of survellence gear: truck loads, plane loads. On the golf day, a local Jackson dude was innocently on his roof, a long ways away, watching Clinton golf, with a rifle scope but with no rifle attached. He was far, far away and just wanted to watch. The SS got on his ass real quick, and he wasn’t even trying to shoot Clinton. He was let go, but damn them SS boys and girls are real good…when they want to be. (Most are patriots).
The SS was also very much complicit in the murders of JFK and RFK.
Like the Kennedy boys, Trump isn’t on board with their (CIA, military-industrial-complex, etc.) wars, this one being world war three via Russia. Trump ain’t on bard with a hot war with Russia. AND WE SHOULD ALL THANK HIM FOR THAT!!!!!
Looks to me like the SS let the shots at Trump fire. Trump has his own private security, but they are resourcefully-dwarfed compared tp the SS, who coulda/shoulda seen the guy on the roof – real close! – who shot Trump today, he was WAY closer to Trump than the guy with the scope in Wyoming that day:
x.com/sharpfootball/status/1812265909727396107?t=madgPal51fzNJUSc0nbtVA

Submitted By: runnawaytrain1@gmx.com – Click to email about this post

Fight! Fight! Fight!…the Democrat/globalist tyrants!

Ya’ll can’t kill ideas!

Hugs and Kisses,

V

x.com/charliekirk11/status/1812251538523643936

Submitted By: Tevisdiii@gmail.com – Click to email about this post

This link gives a general history of Robert Kennedy’s Jr’s background since the mid 80’s:

www.kennedy24.com/about

He has a podcast on Spotify interviewing many people who also reflect where he stands on issues.

His attention and concern for the environment, the Children’s Health Defense Council that he started, His proposal of positive ways to create regenerative agriculture, and his desire to end all the endless WARS and bring back that huge chunk of our tax dollars to our citizens to create a healthier society here feeds optimism to my mind and spirit.

Independent candidates haven’t been taken very seriously in the past in FEAR of taking votes away from the 2 party system. However:

Social media has helped even the playing field, and with the common thread of a strong desire for positive change, this Candidate deserves a consideration.

Submitted By: babbles@nehalemtel.net – Click to email about this post

to all,

i just want to say that i am in 100% agreement about signing opinion posts.

after all, your opinion is worth more, or less, depending on who you are. we each have whatever amount of credibility from living in this north county community, and that makes a difference whether someone is going to listen to you.

if an opinion piece is unsigned, i give it no attention.

just sayin’. putting in my two cents worth!

om peace namaste

lucy brook
nehalem resident

Submitted By: DebMuell503@aol.com – Click to email about this post

Hi! I’m looking to get my deck stained. I’ve recently gotten it power washed in preparation for staining. If you, or someone you know, provides this service, please contact me via text/call at: 503-830-1855 to set up a viewing and give bid, or referral. I’m located in Manzanita and would like to get the project done by early August if time and weather allow. Thank you! Debbie

Submitted By: Tinnindeb@gmail.com – Click to email about this post

We need volunteers to help us make sandwiches and pack up lunch bags for the Nehalem Bay Community Services Munch A Lunch Program. We provide lunches to the NCRD daycare, local kids camps, programs at the high school, and Grab and Go lunch bags for our local kids.

Monday and Wednesday from 8 am to 11 am at the Nehalem Bay United Methodist, located at 36050 10th Street, Nehalem, OR 97131. The program runs through August 21.

NBCS is an equal opportunity provider.

Submitted By: pattyrinehart@nehalemtel.net – Click to email about this post

VOLUNTEERS are needed by Friends of North County Recreation (NCRD) to help with making bouquets which Friends sells to support programs and projects at NCRD. The dates are listed below Friends supports scholarships for Youth, Aquatics, and Fitness Centers. This is one of Friends’ bigger fundraisers and the money is well spent to make our communities shine. The dahlias and other flowers are coming on and we need to find homes for them. The project starts daily at 9 AM in Manzanita. Friends will have water and vases, and flowers, but if you have flowers to contribute, please bring them with you. You’ll want to bring clippers if you have them-we always have extra sets, and many people want to wear gloves. Come on over and help! You do not need any florist skills; the flowers will arrange themselves. Call me, Patty, 503-801-3534 (message phone) and let me know if you can help anytime in July or August. I’ve listed the days we need filled in July. August is completely open so have at it!

Available dates in July would be:
Mondays, 15th, 22nd, and 29th.
Tuesdays, July 9th,16th,23rd, and the 30th.
Wednesdays, July 10th,17th,24th,31st.
Thursdays, July11th, 18th,25th.
Fridays, July 12th.
Saturday, July 13th.

Thanks!

Submitted By: dixiegainer@gmail.com – Click to email about this post

The United States has joined 12 other nations in signing a World Economic Forum (WEF) agreement that seeks to engineer global famine by destroying the agriculture industry.
AND THE USA IS ONE OF THEM!
www.globalresearch.ca/13-nations-sign-agreement-engineer-global-famine/5860390
read the article here:

According to the agreement, which was drawn up by the WEF and the United Nations (UN), food production is causing “global warming” and must be eliminated.
To “save the planet” from “climate change,” globalists insist, farms must be shut down across the world.

In other words – to save the planet we have to die of starvation- which is happening in many parts of the world now. The hype of bird flu is just one of the weapons used to accomplish this.
So why would people want to save the planet if most of us will die of starvation? Just who are we saving the planet for?
Cut the water – get rid of the farmer – watch for this in your Oregon legislature – already being tried in Idaho and elsewhere.
(www.idahopress.com/emmett/news/update-water-curtailment-order-lifted-for-east-idaho-farmers/article_786d0b88-2e8f-11ef-a904-d300ba8f593e.html#:~:text=)

Submitted By: judysugg@gmail.com – Click to email about this post

Given the posts about Club Manzanita, I was curious about the guidelines for joining. This is what I discovered:
• You have to care about Manzanita and our area.
• You must be willing to be thoughtful about the issues affecting the city.
• When a decision is made, be willing to move forward.
• You have to consider the city ours, not mine, and not yours.
• You have to be willing to focus on the future and not the past.
• Change will happen and when you don’t like it, that’s fine, but talk respectfully to others.
• Feel free to run for office, and if you don’t win, be gracious, not resentful.
• Respect the many hundreds of volunteers at the city and area’s organizations. In fact, celebrate them for their problem-solving skills, patience, grace in communication, and diligence. Wow, they do a lot of work.
• Enjoy the fantastic place we live in and work to make it a better, kinder, more inclusive place.

Submitted By: k.r.yurka@gmail.com – Click to email about this post

Did you know that you can use your Oregon Trail / SNAP benefits at Farmers Markets? When you spend your SNAP dollars on locally grown and crafted foods at a participating farmers market, you also get up to $20 in FREE produce coupons!

Imagine fresh berries, stone fruit, leafy greens, legumes, herbs, mushrooms and root vegetables [for FREE]. You will find them all, picked fresh for you at the Manzanita Farmers Market, Fridays from 4 to 7 at Manzanita Avenue & Division.

Your SNAP dollars can buy delicious meats, fish, cheeses, baked goods, jams, sauces, tea & coffee, pickles and sweets, all made locally and available at the Manzanita Farmers Market!

Visit www.manzanitafarmersmarket.com for up-to-date information on market vendors and products.

Please see Karen at the Info Booth for details, and to start receiving your FREE produce (up to $20 value) per day!

Submitted By: cpossibility1023@gmail.com – Click to email about this post

TillCoDems will be participating in the Manzanita Fourth of July parade. All are welcome to join us and show our pride in being Democrats and having confidence in all of our candidates, our President and the sanctity of Democracy.

We will have a beautiful 1993 grey decorated Ford truck and two of us will be carrying a TillCoDems banner in front of the truck. It would be great to have you and your’s join us to walk, wave, maybe pass out candy or voter registration forms.There will be room for a couple of folding chairs in the back of the truck, so let us know if your mobility is limited and we will try to accommodate. There will also be some small flags participants can use and hopefully hand out a few.

We will gather at the corner of Division and Manzanita (right off of highway 101). Those of you willing to help decorate the truck should be there at 10:30 a.m. Those who are walking, waving, and smiling with us can be there at 12:00. The parade starts at 1:00.

Look for Angel or Dave!

Submitted By: ben.killen.rosenberg@gmail.com – Click to email about this post

Where’s Club Manzanita and Who’s a Member?

Posting on behalf of Kim Rosenberg loretta.kim.rosenberg@gmail.com

Since we moved here I’ve heard different stories about this “Club Manzanita”.

I worry more about the exclusionary language and the hateful rhetoric this creates than I worry about our water bill or city hall.

Some people call for civility but only extend that civility to the people who agree with them, not to the people who work here or volunteer for Council or are city staff or play golf or once worked at Nike or own a vacation home or live here full time and have a different opinion. There are so many ways to be excluded.

Civility doesn’t mean being quiet about the things we don’t agree on. Civility means remembering that the people with whom you disagree are…people and deserve the same respect we all want. Exclusionary rhetoric that splits communities into US and THEM doesn’t belong here. It doesn’t belong anywhere and it’s a tool used by angry people who didn’t get what they wanted but can’t let it go. That’s where we are in Manzanita and where we are in the United States.

When a public figure—a politician, a community leader—uses the rhetoric of US and THEM to divide a community they aren’t acting in the interest of the community. They’re acting to divide. They’re acting to sow fear, hate and division and it’s a tool used by people with grudges who are angry about the past. And when someone in a position of power or public trust abuses that trust and breaks the rules, I believe that the public has a right and an obligation to know the facts.

We don’t live in the past. The past is over. The address of life is the present moment, and we create our future in the now. Every time we gossip about things we don’t know are true, we create our future. Every time we lie, we create our future.

You can be civil and stand up for what you believe in—think the late greats John Lewis and Ruth Bader Ginzburg.

If Manzanita is a club, who are the members?

If you pick up trash on the beach and around town, are you a member?

If you deliver Meals on Wheels in the community, are you a member?

Are you a member if you make sandwiches for kids in the community during the summer break?

Are you a member if you sit on a board or volunteer at the Pine Grove, the Hoffman or EVCNB?

Clubs are exclusive and you have to be a member. Teams are inclusive and anyone can join. I say we create a TEAM Manzanita and a new future together.

Kim Rosenberg loretta.kim.rosenberg@gmail.com

Submitted By: rkinor@gmail.com – Click to email about this post

When the City reduced our base water allotment last year from 4,000 gallons to 2,000 gallons per month we were told that this was necessary to bring into alignment water production costs with revenue and to encourage conservation. In order to accomplish these goals, households that exceeded their monthly base allotment would pay a surcharge each and every month because you were now considered a “heavy user”.
City staff claimed that they analyzed residential household water usage to get winter and summer averages. They took out those homes that were Short Term Rentals because of the high water usage associated with visitors using those homes and came up with the remaining residential usage averages for the “general homeowner” of 3,900 gallons of water per month in the summer and 1,600 gallons in the winter months.
Almost as an aside, City staff in explaining who these remaining “general homeowners” were and how they arrived at these averages stated ” I will clarify that it is people that live here full time and second homeowners, I don’t have a way in our water system to distinguish between the two”.
There are approximately three second homeowners for every one full time household in Manzanita. If you take the water usage of a full time resident household and combine it with the household water usage of three part time homeowners whose homes are largely empty for weeks or months at a time during the year, you will undoubtedly get the skewed residential averages that the City has presented. The result is large numbers of full time resident households now paying monthly surcharges for exceeding 2,000 gallons per month.
Numerous public organizations track community domestic water usage including the US Environmental Protection Agency and estimate full time household usage at 60 -100 gallons per person per day. In order to avoid paying a water surcharge every month, each member of a two person household in Manzanita would have to use less than 35 gallons of water each day or about half of the low end of the EPA estimate. Instead of considering this readily available information to establish a realistic base allotment, the City conducts a flawed analysis that includes the admission that it lacks the ability to evaluate the actual water usage of full time Manzanita water customers.
If water revenue needs to be increased to cover production costs especially in the summer when visitors create the need for more water production, have those visitors pay for their usage. We are constantly reminded of the benefits of turning our community into a visitor destination and that residents should be grateful for the financial largesse that comes from this transformation. The City claims that visitors, through their Transient Lodging Tax (TLT) contributions fund the majority of City services including infrastructure funding. Our water system is our most important community infrastructure yet the City has never allowed a single dollar of visitor generated TLT revenue to be transferred from the General Fund to the Water Operating Fund to assist in the operation and maintenance of the system. An additional benefit of visitors contributing to the operation of our water system is that we would receive a reasonable base allotment of water and a stream of revenue that would keep downward pressure on future water rate increases for full time homeowners.
Be prepared to hear that the Water Utility Fund as an Enterprise Fund, should establish rates from its users to cover all of its costs of operation and maintenance. Manzanita has a large class of water users in the form of visitors who are creating these service demands. The City has the ability to use revenue collected from these visitors for the water demand that they create but it chooses not to and once again visitors are at the root of a community livability issue. In light of this fact, creation of an equitable allotment of water and rates for full time residents requires a more creative policy solution by our Council.
There is nothing prohibiting the Council from transferring a portion of the estimated $1.3 million in Transient Lodging Tax in their FY 24-25 Budget back to the Water Utility Fund as recognition of the increasing water demand of these visitors and paying their share of that increased production cost. After many years of Council neglect to keep water rates at adequate levels and failing to keep System Development Charges updated so developers paid for their share of water infrastructure improvements for their new developments, the Council seems to have found a way for full time residents to now bear the cost burden of this past neglect.
Fortunately for residents, a consequence of the November referendum is that the City has the opportunity to answer questions raised in its initial study and adopt new funding policies that require visitors to contribute to the operation and maintenance of our water system.
The Council is currently developing new water rates including appropriate base allotments and tier surcharges per quarter should citizens vote to retain quarterly billing at the November election. They have asked citizens to contact them with questions and concerns at citycouncil@ci.manzanita.or.us
Consider sharing what you would have them do as a full time resident.
1. Restore a reasonable residential household base water allotment of 12,000 gallons per quarter consistent with recognized national studies.
2. Do not increase the base residential water charge to more than $142.68 per quarter.
3. Require visitors to pay their share of any additional needed Water Utility Fund revenue for costs for the operation and production of our water through transfers of TLT revenue to the Water Utility Fund.
How the Council responds in this matter will go a long way to confirm just whose interests they are prioritizing.
To receive these updates directly, send your email address to rkinor@gmail.com.
Randy Kugler

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