Also, there are white linen napkins and vintage crochet table clothes and wool blankets, and oh a quilt.
Sat July 1 & Sun July 2 (9-4 pm)
35660 10th Street
Nehalem OR 97131
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Friends of NCRD welcomes summer with its Summer Cut Flower Sales. Last summer’s Sales, offered daily in the parking lot of the Little Apple, raised a little over $6,000 for Youth scholarships, summer programs and projects at NCRD.
Friends’ Mission is to support NCRD by promoting it and raising funds for scholarships, programs and projects. With scholarships as top priority, Friends are proud to have raised more than $15,000 in the past twelve months for Youth/Sports, Fitness and Aquatics Department scholarships. Of that amount, over $11,000 went to the Youth After-School & Summer Programs and Youth Sports. With its focus on Youth, Friends provided an additional $1,000 for Youth Center/ Sports equipment and the Aquatics “Learn to Swim” program. Special thanks and appreciation to our members, part-time and full-time, whose donations to Youth Center/Youth Sports have enriched and expanded opportunities to all North County families.
Friends of NCRD also promotes and supports the New Pool Project. Individual Friends have made significant donations to the new pool. Friends were among those who gathered and celebrated at the May 9th Groundbreaking Ceremony. Friends continue to promote the New Pool Project by participating in grant applications, to close the gap between funds available and funds needed to complete the Project.
In collaboration with the Fitness Department, Friends of NCRD sponsors “Pop Goes the Heart,” an annual February Fun Fundraiser. In 2022, $6,000 earned from the event, plus an additional $1,600 from Friends, purchased eight spin bikes for the new Spin Class program. Thanks to a generous donor, an additional four bikes were later purchased to accommodate a full class. The February 2023 “Pop Goes the Heart” brought in an amazing $9,000 for Fitness Department equipment, including new benches, exercise bars, mats, storage rack, preacher curl, hyperextension-oblique and water-rowing machines.
The Plastic Bench Project, another Friends of NCRD activity, encourages community recycling of previously non-recyclable plastic. Three attractive outdoor TREX benches, earned by Friends’ participation in the Project, have been gifted to NCRD for community use. Plastic additionally collected is about 100 lbs short of the 500 lbs required to qualify for a fourth bench.
Thank you to Friends’ dedicated volunteers for generously giving of their time to the North County community. Friends of NCRD Board members – President Linda Makohon, Vice President Barb Scott-Brier, Treasurer Carol Mills, Secretary Gail Young, Director Andrea Cortinas, Liaison to NCRD Kiley Konruff, and Flower Chair Patty Rinehart – along with Friends’ volunteers, have worked hard to make Friends’ mission a reality in 2022-2023. Congratulations to All!
Membership in Friends of NCRD is open to everyone connected to the community. Join Friends in its commitment to NCRD and North County families. Volunteer to help with fundraising activities supporting NCRD. Donations can be made online or mailed to: Friends of NCRD, PO Box 511, Nehalem, OR 97131
Friends of NCRD welcomes guests to its meetings, held the third Tuesday of the month.
For more information, check website: friendsofncrd.org or contact gyoung@friendsofncrd.org
My mom is in town until Wednesday, 6/28, and would love to play pickleball in Nehalem! She plays regularly at home. Is there a pickup time she could join? Or could she join your group?
Thank you!
Mahjong
Chess (2 sets)
Backgammon (2 sets)
Scrabble (3 sets)
Double-Nine Dominoes
Classic Rummy
Sorry!
Cribbage
Jenga
Cards (2 decks)
Trivial Pursuit
Jeopardy!
Bananagrams
Yahtzee
The market has lots of local artisans, Jewelry ,clay lots of bright shiny things to dazzle your eyes..
We want you to know that we are SNAP, Ebt ,Oregon trails friendly and we participate in the Double up food bucks, we can stretch your snap dolllors from $20 to $40 just for using your card ar the market. Come by the information booth and have our specialist Karen explain the program to you.. Let’s stretch that dollar.
Bring the whole family and enjoy the joys of belonging to a wonderful Safe community, Listen to live music, have a bite to eat.
We are behind the Underhill Plaza from4-7 every Friday until the middle of September.
Find our Map at. Manzanitafarmersmarket.com
Come the advantage of what most communities on the Coast wish the had.
A TRUE FARMERS MARKET!!
The City Council’s decision to take out a loan for our City Hall is a gamble that could have negative financial consequences for decades into the future. While TLT revenue is indeed the single largest revenue source for the General Fund, after paying the General Fund’s two largest expenses of City Administration and Police Department services, there is little left to pay for other services or transfer of money for street, water and storm drain projects let alone take on new debt service costs.
Has this Council considered that taking out a $4 million dollar loan at this time may not be wise because:
TLT revenue for the first quarter of this year was down 23% from the same period last year.
TLT revenue will continue on an annual downward trend from the artificial COVID era highs.
City General Fund operation costs are expanding at an annual rate that exceeds the ability of revenue to keep pace.
Falling real estate prices from their historic highs are an indicator of a softening in the economy with a majority of economists forecasting a recession of some degree in 2024.
We are told that visitors substantially through short term rental (STR) revenue from the General Fund are going to pay for this loan. As STR General Fund revenue declines and citizens want to further reduce dependence on STRs to improve livability, how can STRs be counted on to pay this debt into the future?
How are we going to pay for needed water, street and storm drain construction projects?
The building boom is over. Fewer future building permits means reduced System Development Charge revenue from developers will be available for years to fund these needed projects. What little funding the General Fund currently provides for these projects will now no longer be available because it is now needed to pay this new loan debt.
Bonds have always been the preferred financing choice of Oregon cities for large, expensive and long lived capital projects and just makes more sense to fund our City Hall project because:
It is a stable revenue source that is not affected by external economic conditions.
Allows the City to successfully start the process to break our dependence on STR revenue.
Everyone, full time residents, part time residents, businesses and STR owners all pay their share.
More General Fund revenue is now available for water, street and storm projects instead of loan debt.
A vote does not slow down the project design process or demolition of the old school.
Mr. Mastenik is engaging in his First Amendment right to petition our local government and is collecting names of Manzanita voters at the Post Office with a petition to be submitted to the Council in July asking for the opportunity to vote on this critical community decision.
The long term financial risks are real. The best financing choice for this project is obvious.
Why doesn’t this Council trust its citizens to make this decision?
Randy Kugler
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Bills removing parental rights are being passed in several states now – that indicates that this is part of the globalists agenda. We have a representative government, right? So your Oregon legislature is supposed to pass bills representing its citizens needs and wants. Do you think that there is a group of Oregon parents desperate to rid themselves of parental responsibility so they contacted their representatives and asked for a bill to be written that does this? I don’t think so. This bill is being written for the globalists and there is no doubt in my mind that there are incentives that go along with the passing of such legislation.
HEY! You Democrats, you have kids in school. What did you do to stop this piece of legislation?
To All the Daddies in the World
I’m a daddy’s girl. Fifth of five girls, my dad wasn’t expecting a boy by the time I arrived, and according to my mom, his first question each time one of us came into the world, wasn’t about our gender but our health and hers.
I didn’t go to day care or have a babysitter because Daddy was the bar manager at Portland Golf Club working 3pm to closing and my mom was a nurse working at Good Sam 7-3. They fit in sleeping somehow but just barely. My big sisters babysat me in the gaps but mostly it was my dad who took care of me when I was little.
Daddy taught me to read and make change and change a tire and read a tape measure and build a fire. He taught me to refinish old furniture and that the best sandwich is grilled peanut butter and Tillamook sharp cheddar. He taught me to love old movies and gardens. He taught me to love and respect wild places and wild things.
He died too soon, but when are we ever ready to lose a parent? He died suddenly and unexpectedly when my life was a big, bag of stinky crap. He didn’t get to see me change my life. He didn’t get to see me pull on my big girl boots and leave the relationship he knew was hurting me, he didn’t get to see me finish school or marry a good man but he lives on, as does my mom, in my memories and in every cell of my body.
I’ve been lucky to have more than one daddy–men solid and true and good.
My brother-in-law, who I’ve known my whole life, stepped in to help me during those dangerous days following my separation. He saw me through my return to school all the way to graduation with support both emotional and financial. He always has time to listen to me, even now, and I treasure his wisdom.
My thesis advisor, who I met as an undergrad student in my late thirties, championed my writing and mentored me as a teacher. When I thought I couldn’t continue, he said I could. He taught me to make sourdough bread and to think of all the hard things I’d experienced as the compost necessary to make an artful life.
My sweet and funny father-in-law welcomed me as part of the family right away. He shared with me his love of Shakespeare and foreign movies and all kinds of soup. A former camp director and social worker, he could create and organize community anywhere he went. He played accordion and loved the Marx Brothers and his family.
Daddies are the men who show up in our lives with that strong, good love energy to support and encourage our best. They are the defenders and protectors of the weakest among us. They stand with us when things get tough and they care about us regardless of how we mess up. Daddies stand with children, the elderly, the powerless and the dispossessed. Daddies teach us to be better people by their example.
The Daddies of the world might not always be biological fathers but that doesn’t matter. We need their good, strong Daddy energy now more than ever.
So, here’s a shout out to all the Daddies. Thank you!
Kim Rosenberg
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The increased density will bring with it increases in both vehicle and pedestrian traffic. My wife and I counted 210 cars in just 2 hours on Classic Street only! (Dorcas was under construction) And that was in mid-May, neither a holiday nor a peak summer weekend.
The hotel entrance/exit will be immediately next to a 4-way intersection renowned for drivers dangerously ignoring traffic regulations. Imagine the effect the increased density of vehicles from the hotel will have on traffic and pedestrians.
The increased density of a hotel and community center will also increase the number of pedestrians walking/jogging/bicycling on Classic and Dorcas. This is doubly dangerous with increased vehicle traffic and neither street has sidewalks.
To build this huge complex the developer intends to cut down 25 or more towering evergreens on the plot. The trees form a natural barrier between the golf course and the proposed hotel. Their removal and the increased density of a 34-unit hotel could create liability to the city from potentially deadly errant golf balls striking hotel guests, and pedestrians using the hotel public trail.
A petition opposing the hotel has been signed by 135 folks of Manzanita!
I and many others in our community have submitted letters and emails to Manzanita’s City Council and Planning Commission opposing this project.
A consensus is a hotel just doesn’t belong in this location – – there are 32 residences on Dorcas Lane. A 34-unit hotel will more than double that density!
I and a number of others testified AGAINST the project at the Planning Commission meeting on May 30, 2023. No one, well, except for the applicant, testified FOR it!
Just yesterday, pointing to the wooded plot next to the Signature 5th hole, I asked a passer-by walking along Dorcas if she knew a hotel was proposed for that location. Her reply “Yes, that gives meaning to the word RIDICULOUS!”
Don’t the voluminous well-researched letters, emails, eloquent testimonies and the petition LOUDLY say the Manzanita community opposes this project?
Take a look at the photos, the serenity of the site and Signature 5th hole; then imagine adding a 34-unit hotel and community center.
I borrow a line from an iconic pop song – – you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone…
Paul A, Hughes
Other than the Mayor who attempted to give us the opportunity to vote on this important project, the remaining four Council members had no interest in considering a new construction modular option that would have cost millions of dollars less nor putting the financing matter before voters. While resident voters were the losers on this night, the project team consultants breathed easier knowing that checks for more than $430,000 would again resume for their efforts to get us to ribbon cutting day.
So why does this Council loan decision matter? For the past almost 20 years, the City has not been able to adequately maintain our water, street and storm drain infrastructure. Increased water rates, new utility fees, and possible proposed property tax Bond measures to remedy these problems will fill upcoming Council Agendas. So when these funding solution discussions come up, the City will no doubt attempt to convince us that money saved on a less costly City Hall build could not have instead been used to address this past neglect and mitigate the need to make these new revenue requests.
The City Manager in her City Hall Project Update released to citizens on March 27th claimed that visitors currently pay for pretty much of all of our infrastructure. The percentage of Transient Lodging Tax revenue in the proposed Budget that gets transferred to support our infrastructure projects is the following: water – 0% Street – 7.6% Storm Drain – 2% . Contrary to these published declarations, visitors through TLT revenue are not obviously paying for any significant support of our infrastructure needs.
The newly approved loan to pay the debt for our City Hall insures that even less funding will now be available through TLT revenue in the General Fund to finance City infrastructure projects.
The Council President described the City’s outreach process since the 2019 Bond failure and expressed complete confidence they had gotten it right this time and were delivering what a majority of citizens wanted. What went unsaid was we made the same claims in 2019 and we are not going to have a repeat of that outcome this time.
In the months ahead as costs for our City Hall become clearer, the big question is just how much will this project end up costing. No final information on the details of the loan that is being requested has been presented to the public yet so that debt cost is unknown. The City Manager also indicated that including a solar option is still possible and will be presented in upcoming designs.
Most cities that achieve a number one ranking are eager to let their citizens know of the effort that it took to attain such recognition. Any other citizens out there ready to start the celebration?
Oregon is a state of small cities. 317 of these cities are like Manzanita and have a population of 5,000 or less. The June 7th City Council decision insures our place of recognition as having the most expensive City Hall construction project for a City within this category that I am confident will never be broken.
Randy Kugler
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The garden tour is being hosted by the Village at the Falls and supports a ‘sister’ village to our own Rainy Day Village (Who you going to call’?). This is a once in a lifetime opportunity, don’t miss it !
2023 GARDEN & ART TOUR, synopsis of the gardens
1. This garden features lots of color and trees in a rural area which looks natural with rolling grassy areas, walkways, and many shrubs, as well as various eating areas and water features. If you would like to bring a picnic, a few tables set up, and their daughter will have snacks out to share. – is also an artist and her garden art and mosaics will be for sale, as will those crafted by other local artists. The Oregon City Garden Club will have some plants for sale.
2. This small farm features a barn (with artists inside), a permaculture vegetable garden, and many flowers and trees as well as a beautiful fruit tree in the front which will have tables and chairs for picnickers. Their daughter is a caterer and will be selling charcuterie cups (think meat, cheeses & veggies in a paper cone cup).
3.For pure fantasy you can’t beat B’s garden! Can you even imagine walking through a garden of Bowling Ball Trees, fairy houses, and even a Sasquatch family? This garden is complete with three water features, hostas and ferns, all on one acre. There will be plenty of artists here, too.
4. – – and her partner own one of the historic homes in older Oregon City. From the curbside the entire neighborhood admires her brightly flowered front entrance area, as well as the Heritage Sycamore Tree which dominates the front yard. The back yard has a great arbor and many plantings and shrubs, but what catches your eye are the two CATIOS that they have placed there for their cats to enjoy the back yard with them!
5. In the front stands a huge 120+ year old cedar tree which is lighted day and night now. As you proceed to the back you will see the makings of a basic English garden with with many perennials combined with colorful annuals. A large pergola and interesting fence will give you some ideas on how to take a small area and make it into a great backyard outdoor space to share with neighbors and friends.
6. As we talked with – – about his home being on the Garden Tour we kept looking next door and seeing a brand new garden emerging from bare ground. It was so fascinating to see new plantings every week that we thought there may be people looking for new ideas on how to just “start” their garden and get it looking very nice in less than a year. Be sure to talk with A and R to get some ideas on what might work for you, and maybe even what NOT to do. There will be hot dogs and chips for sale at this garden, as well as artists and crafters doing their thing.
7. At this house you can’t help but think you have walked into a secret rain forest with all of the huge ferns growing right out of sheer basalt rock. R and her husband spent 33 years turning a beautiful but inhospitable pile of boulders into the most beautiful garden imaginable. Artist Ben Dye contributed sculptures and a wonderful fence made of recycled steel. Artist Jean Chapin’s ceramic art populates the garden, and Kate Simmons’ metal mesh piece, “The Ripped Bodice” grace the the back of the house. Mirena Oberg and her whimsical ceramics will be the featured artist at this location, along with Tanith Yates. Parking is limited, so please see shuttle information below.
8. S’s garden overlooks Willamette Falls and is a miracle to behold! She and her husband carved over 30 different garden rooms out of the sides of the cliff that was previously her back yard, carrying dirt and rocks by wheelbarrows up steep paths themselves over the years. Each garden room is uniquely different and this is a garden to see once in your lifetime. Much of the area has steep pathways, so probably not a good choice for those who are physically impaired, although there is much to see in the flatter area near the house. Parking for this garden is limited, so shuttles are provided from the parking lot on the corner of Center and S 2nd Avenue, the old location of the Oregon City Public Works Offices.
