I know this is a long shot, but we’ve been looking for over a year so I figured I’d give it a go!
Email works best. Thanks so much.
The Artist Studio Tour is self-guided and begins by picking up your wristband at Hoffman on July 15th, where you will receive a booklet with studio directions and information about each artist. From there, you can visit the studios at your leisure and in whichever order you want. The Hoffman Gallery will also be open that day for you to start your art viewing experience.
Tickets are $30 for adults, and $10 for students (10-18 years). If cost is prohibitive, please reach out, and we will be happy to prorate or waive the fee.
The artists participating this year are:
Allan Olson-Nehalem Bay Pottery: including Kopali Serna, Carl Vandervoort, Kathleen Larson, Janice Gaines-Ehlan, and more
Ben Killen Rosenberg
Cathi Howell
Chuck Winkelman
Deborah DeWit
Laura Ross-Paul
Levering Thomas
Liza Jones & Paul Miller
Lloyd & Judy Lindley: including HiiH Lights
M.J. Anderson
Pam Greene
Rae & Mark Mahaffey
More info and tickets here: hoffmanarts.org/events/artist-studio-tour/
Representative Cyrus Javadi
House District 32
2023 Legislative Session Recap
Local Wins
Part of representing you at the Capitol is advocating for the taxes that we pay to the state actually come back to benefit us. As part of the budget bills that ultimately passed, several line items will benefit our North Coast communities.
• $225,000 for Bay City’s Earthquake Isolation Valves for Water Reservoirs.
• $1,267,000 for Tillamook County Shilo Levee Rehabilitation project
• $570,000 for Clatsop Community Action’s Food Bank Warehouse Renovations and Equipment Upgrades
Policy Wins
While the bad legislation gets the majority of the headlines, I was able to help pass some good bipartisan peices of legislation this session.
• SB 406 – Establishes a housing pilot project in Tillamook County to encourage more affordable housing developments.
• HB 3201 – Allows state and local governments to better leverage Federal money in investments into rural broadband expansion.
• HB 2645 – Gives law enforcement more tools to protect communities from fentanyl.
• HB 3584 – Requires schools to notify parents electronically in the case of a security threat at their child’s school.
• HJR 16 – Refers measure to voters to ask if Oregonians want the Legislature to have the power to impeach statewide elected officials.
• HB 3204 – Increases access to virtual charter schools.
• HB 2725 – Lowers prescription drug costs by limiting the power of pharmacy benefit managers.
ODOT Data Breach
Several weeks ago, a massive data breach occured at the Oregon DMV that included unauthorized access to up to 90% of Oregonian’s data, including driver’s license information. ODOT confirmed that some DMV data had been copied and taken while transferring data through a software vendor. The broad-based attack impacted over 2,000 organizations worldwide.
Individuals with active credentials through the DMV (driver’s license, permit, ID card, etc.) SHOULD ASSUME information related to that credential is part of the breach. To protect yourself, regularly monitor your credit and consider freezing your credit. Here is the contact information for the three major credit monitoring agencies:
• Equifax: equifax.com/personal/credit-report-services or 1-800-685-1111
• Experian: experian.com/help or 1-888-397-23742
• TransUnion: transunion.com/credit-help or 1-888-909-8872
Find more information here.
Other Notable New Laws
2024: Impeachment on the Ballot
In the final days of the Legislative session, on unanimous votes in both the House and Senate, House Joint Resolution 16 passed, which will ask voters in 2024 if they want the legislature to have the power to impeach a sitting statewide elected official. No matter your party, impeachment is an important accountability measure. Oregon is the only state in the nation without an impeachment process.
Pumping Gas: You Can Now Do It Yourself!
Tillamook and Clatsop Counties has some experience with pumping our own gas. For several years now, state law allowed local stations to be open for self-serve between 6pm and 6am.
But soon, even during the day you’ll be able to pump your own gas. HB 2426 passed this session, allowing Oregonians to pump their own gas. In Columbia County, gas stations may open up to 50% of their pumps to self serve, while the rest will be full-sersvice. But in Tillamook and Clatsop Counties, they may have self-serve at all hours.
Tax Relief for Farmers: HB 2073 and SB 498
Another set of bills that passed in the last hours of the 2023 session were two bills to help family farms.
HB 2073 will put certain agricultural processors on the same playing field as others for purposes of paying the corporate activities tax (CAT).
SB 498 increases the estate tax credit for generational farms, ranches, fisheries, and forests. The estate tax is an unfair double tax imposed after someone’s death. Over 96 percent of our state’s farms and ranches are family owned and operated. Oregon’s tax law should not punish an industry that feeds Oregon and provides essential jobs. Nor should our estate tax policy be in direct conflict with the desire to preserve and protect our family-owned farms and ranches. While I believe the estate tax is a cruel and unfair tax on everyone, this is what we could get passed this session.
Increase Access to Justice for Sex Abuse Survivors
I proudly supported HB 3632 to increase the statute of limitations for first-degree sex crimes from 12 years to 20 years after the crime. Minors will also benefit from this extended timeline by allowing them to come forward before they are 30.
Capitol Phone: 503-986-1432
Capitol Address: 900 Court St. NE, H-373, Salem, Oregon 97301
Email: Rep.CyrusJavadi@oregonlegislature.gov
Website: https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/javadi
Representative Cyrus Javadi
House District 32
2023 Legislative Session Recap
Local Wins
Part of representing you at the Capitol is advocating for the taxes that we pay to the state actually come back to benefit us. As part of the budget bills that ultimately passed, several line items will benefit our North Coast communities.
• $225,000 for Bay City’s Earthquake Isolation Valves for Water Reservoirs.
• $1,267,000 for Tillamook County Shilo Levee Rehabilitation project
• $570,000 for Clatsop Community Action’s Food Bank Warehouse Renovations and Equipment Upgrades
Policy Wins
While the bad legislation gets the majority of the headlines, I was able to help pass some good bipartisan peices of legislation this session.
• SB 406 – Establishes a housing pilot project in Tillamook County to encourage more affordable housing developments.
• HB 3201 – Allows state and local governments to better leverage Federal money in investments into rural broadband expansion.
• HB 2645 – Gives law enforcement more tools to protect communities from fentanyl.
• HB 3584 – Requires schools to notify parents electronically in the case of a security threat at their child’s school.
• HJR 16 – Refers measure to voters to ask if Oregonians want the Legislature to have the power to impeach statewide elected officials.
• HB 3204 – Increases access to virtual charter schools.
• HB 2725 – Lowers prescription drug costs by limiting the power of pharmacy benefit managers.
ODOT Data Breach
Several weeks ago, a massive data breach occured at the Oregon DMV that included unauthorized access to up to 90% of Oregonian’s data, including driver’s license information. ODOT confirmed that some DMV data had been copied and taken while transferring data through a software vendor. The broad-based attack impacted over 2,000 organizations worldwide.
Individuals with active credentials through the DMV (driver’s license, permit, ID card, etc.) SHOULD ASSUME information related to that credential is part of the breach. To protect yourself, regularly monitor your credit and consider freezing your credit. Here is the contact information for the three major credit monitoring agencies:
• Equifax: equifax.com/personal/credit-report-services or 1-800-685-1111
• Experian: experian.com/help or 1-888-397-23742
• TransUnion: transunion.com/credit-help or 1-888-909-8872
Find more information here.
Other Notable New Laws
2024: Impeachment on the Ballot
In the final days of the Legislative session, on unanimous votes in both the House and Senate, House Joint Resolution 16 passed, which will ask voters in 2024 if they want the legislature to have the power to impeach a sitting statewide elected official. No matter your party, impeachment is an important accountability measure. Oregon is the only state in the nation without an impeachment process.
Pumping Gas: You Can Now Do It Yourself!
Tillamook and Clatsop Counties has some experience with pumping our own gas. For several years now, state law allowed local stations to be open for self-serve between 6pm and 6am.
But soon, even during the day you’ll be able to pump your own gas. HB 2426 passed this session, allowing Oregonians to pump their own gas. In Columbia County, gas stations may open up to 50% of their pumps to self serve, while the rest will be full-sersvice. But in Tillamook and Clatsop Counties, they may have self-serve at all hours.
Tax Relief for Farmers: HB 2073 and SB 498
Another set of bills that passed in the last hours of the 2023 session were two bills to help family farms.
HB 2073 will put certain agricultural processors on the same playing field as others for purposes of paying the corporate activities tax (CAT).
SB 498 increases the estate tax credit for generational farms, ranches, fisheries, and forests. The estate tax is an unfair double tax imposed after someone’s death. Over 96 percent of our state’s farms and ranches are family owned and operated. Oregon’s tax law should not punish an industry that feeds Oregon and provides essential jobs. Nor should our estate tax policy be in direct conflict with the desire to preserve and protect our family-owned farms and ranches. While I believe the estate tax is a cruel and unfair tax on everyone, this is what we could get passed this session.
Increase Access to Justice for Sex Abuse Survivors
I proudly supported HB 3632 to increase the statute of limitations for first-degree sex crimes from 12 years to 20 years after the crime. Minors will also benefit from this extended timeline by allowing them to come forward before they are 30.
Capitol Phone: 503-986-1432
Capitol Address: 900 Court St. NE, H-373, Salem, Oregon 97301
Email: Rep.CyrusJavadi@oregonlegislature.gov
Website: https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/javadi
Part One: Toddler Nation
I once worked as a childcare provider for the doctors and nurses at the VA hospital in the toddler room. I loved it because toddlers are funny little tyrants. They bite and scream and fall to the floor when they don’t get their way. They are the center of the universe. Other people only exist in relationship to them. If they see it, it’s theirs; if they want it, it’s theirs; if you’re touching it, it’s theirs. If you get in the way of what they want, a tantrum is likely.
Every toddler’s two favorite words? NO and MINE. They’d use all caps, if they could type.
The thing is that for actual human toddlers, all those challenging behaviors like screaming at the store when we don’t get a Hot Wheels, we grow out of in time. Eventually, we learn that we aren’t the center of the universe. We learn that other people have feelings. We learn how to cooperate and follow the rules, when we play together; we learn it feels good to share, and hopefully, we learn how to take care of our biggest emotions like anger and grief.
Unless we don’t.
I’ve been thinking about the adults in our world who seem to have never grown out of toddlerhood. Watch the news, read the paper, scroll through your newsfeed, and see adult toddlers throwing tantrums because they didn’t get their way. They didn’t get elected or their candidate lost, they weren’t picked for the committee they wanted to be on, they didn’t get served fast enough or their order was wrong. Things did not go their way and it was someone else’s fault, so they threw a tantrum and retaliated. They’re holding on to a grudge like it’s a life vest. But it’s not.
We call people who persistently act this way entitled or narcissists. To me, they’re adult toddlers and not cute at all. They lack self-awareness and empathy. They use manipulation and gaslighting to gain power and control of the people around them. This is not a stage of development or something situational but a toxic and persistent pattern of behavior in which other people don’t matter, the rules and laws don’t apply to them and everybody else is to blame for everything, always.
According to professionals who study these things—psychologists, sociologists, criminologists—this behavior can’t be therapied away or punished away. They aren’t interested in changing. They don’t think there’s anything wrong. Their behavior works for them. And, if there is something wrong, it’s somebody else’s fault, not theirs.
I’m no stranger to gaslighting. For fifteen years I lived with someone who could’ve given lessons. Come to think of it, he did. To me. It’s why this subject fascinates me. In intimate partner violence, it’s the way an abuser maintains control. It’s common in abusive relationships that the one doing the violence blames the one on the receiving end for the abuse.
Gaslighting and manipulation happen in all types of relationships though. It might be with a friend or neighbor who lies and spreads gossip about you, or with a boss who makes sexist or racist comments and if you object, tells you you’re being too sensitive or emotional. It could be with a colleague who undermines your work, lies to your boss and takes credit for what you’ve done. It could be with an official you helped elect who lies to constituents, divides the community, and dismisses inconvenient rules or laws. It can be a church that refuses to acknowledge the sexual abuse of kids by clergy, or a cult that requires its members to drink the Kool Aid. You can see it play out on the public stage in the media, and in politics both small town and nationwide.
As I was researching the subject, I found dozens of books and scholarly articles published in the last 5 years about gaslighting by narcissists in the workplace, in social relationships, in the media, and in our public and political life. So, I guess it’s a thing, and it helps to know some of the persistent characteristics of people who behave this way.
They’re charming and nice if you’re not a threat and don’t cross them. If you do, they retaliate. Maybe they use lies and gossip to discredit you. Maybe they use threats or hate mail. Maybe they use the legal system to threaten you like the woman who called the police on a Black birdwatcher in Central Park.
If you call their behavior out, they ask you to prove it, regardless of the evidence. They say that you overreacted or are too emotional. They never accept responsibility for their actions.
They can’t let go of a grudge and man, do they have a list of grudges from years ago to now and a long list of people they believe wronged them. They don’t cooperate or compromise. They’re the finger pointing ‘mansplainers, even if they’re women. They’re always right. They lie and misrepresent inconvenient facts to make their argument.
They spread rumors, half-truths, and lies to divide people and communities. They’re two-faced—nice in public but not so much in private. They’re the screamers at Walmart, at public meetings and whenever the server at the cafe gets their order wrong. They’re the women you see turning to whoever they think is in charge when things don’t go their way. They want to speak to the manager or call the police.
They treat people they think of as less than them—service workers, people with less education or status, people of any marginalized group—like something they stepped in.
They blame their behavior on other people and never take responsibility for their actions. Since other people are always to blame, they play the victim like pro sports.
If they apologize, which is rare, it’s a performance loaded with excuses like I’m sorry but… or lacking awareness of other people like My apologies… followed by all the reasons they aren’t sorry and it’s somebody else’s fault.
The main grab for people with these character traits is always about power and control of other people. In Gaslighting: Recognize Emotionally Abusive People, Dr. Stephanie Sarkis calls their true believers, the “Flying Monkeys”. Flying Monkeys, just like the ones in the Wizard of Oz, help maintain social control by targeting anyone perceived as a threat with stuff like hate mail, threats or acts of physical violence, posting lies and gossip on social media or in the physical or virtual community where you live or work.
In a relationship with someone like this, you’re going to need some firm boundaries and a whole lot of distance because you can’t change, contain, or control them. It’s not your job and they aren’t interested anyway because other people don’t matter, the rules and laws don’t apply to them and everybody else is to blame for everything, always.
In a personal relationship or a work relationship you always have the choice to leave or limit your contact (and in a work relationship you better document everything) but what about in politics or on social media? And what you can do if you’ve been the victim of gaslighting.
Stay tuned for Part Two.
Kim Rosenberg loretta.kim.rosenberg@gmail.com
This transition is being done worldwide with the creation of CBDCs, Central Bank Digital Currencies. (Apologies to those who know this, I’m not trying to be a smart ass, but many are unaware that this is occurring.)
As the CBDCs go active, there will likely be major suffering (distractions) from WAR and PANDEMIC #2, and most will likely welcome the transition. Like we welcomed the ‘vax’. Like we welcomed war with Russia. Folks will be grateful for CBDCs when they arrive: they will be grateful to have food and medicine again, etc., as the chaos from a hacked internet makes the basics of life unreachable for most. Many will die. Many will suffer. The WEF goons know the suffering will be tremendous: they don’t care. These people are sociopaths.
Klaus Schwab, who has ‘penetrated cabinets across zee globe’: Justin Trudeau, Jay Inslee, Jacinda Williams, Gavin Newsom, and many many more communist/fascist types throughout the globe.
Klaus warned us: “A comprehensive zyber attack will make zee covid crisis look like a valk in zee park”.
And folks are gonna be pissed! (Who took the money?)
One thing the WEF/BIG TECH/BIG BANKS/BIG PHARMA/BIG WAR folks will be able to control is our ability to buy…ANYTHING!
Here is a WEF goon, a whore to the billionaires, smiling as he talks about they will soon be able to ban us from buying ammo: (you simply don’t allow the transaction to occur on the app):
https://twitter.com/DrewHLive/status/1676953720343646213
Using the ‘vax app’ (which will become the CBDC ‘everything app’) is how Noam Chomsky would accomplish his objective of banning folks like me (who have not and will not EVER put experimental mRNA-technology from the creepy Silicon Vally Tech Bros. into our bodies) from grocery stores:
smartfish.substack.com/p/letter-to-noam-chomsky
Of course, none of this might happen at all.
The war the Biden Administration and NATO picked with Russia is ramping up to nuclear heights. Nope, mentally-compromised Trump didn’t bring us to the precipice of nuclear war. It is happening RIGHT NOW because of the war pigs running NATO and the Biden Admin:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tL-9VmNTSg
And
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaDK7-oMP1E
Looks like the war machine has a surplus of these hellish devices, banned for use by most nations. Not a good look for us Americans.
www.sott.net/article/482099-US-confirms-decision-to-provide-cluster-munitions-to-Ukraine
On a more hopeful front, here is an older technology that has come back, in more forward looking nations:
Thorium Molten Salt Power generation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oK6Rs6yFsM&t=3646s
And for the home owners energy needs, something like this. When it comes to energy development, there is a whole new world over and under the MSN.
The machinists out there will enjoy the fabrication expertise but for others, do some of the intro and go to the end to see it perform.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnAE0hqgH6Y
www.sott.net/article/481968-Why-the-US-should-stop-sending-money-to-Zelensky
I walked into the TV room, saw the towers burning, towers I had gone into as a kid, and said to her, ‘Bush did it.’
Once you learn how the billionaire war pigs operate, whether it’s Lyin’ Biden, Slick Willy, Barry Obama, Dubya or Dick, it’s easy to recognize their murderous operandi.
I watched mainstream news shows ALL DAY LONG that day.
Around 5:30 pm, Dan Rather looked perplexed, and said ‘We’re now going to cut to Building 7, which has a fire on the 37th floor…’
He continued to look perplexed as I watched, over Dan’s shoulder, WTC Building 7, with a SMALL fire on the 37th floor, blow-up and collapse into it own footprint on LIVE TV. And guess what? Ever since then I ask folks how many buildings fell on 9/11, and 99% of them answer ‘two’.
Think about that. A 57-foot tall steel building in mid-town Man-fukn-hatten blew up on live tv at 530 pm on a Monday and nobody remembers!!!!!
No wonder the same billionaire crowd then had the hubris to engineer and release a virus (a dirty Chinese person ate a bat!), then shutdown the global economy (save the farma/tech bros. who made BILLIONS) and then made a trillion more dollars off a ‘vax’ that did NOTHING to stop the flu-like illness whatsoever.
And when you don’t take the time to figure out things like the murder of JFK and RFK and the mass-murder that was 9/11, you get Covid1984. And you also will be getting whatever they cook up next, because they know enough of you will never take the time to figure out their war-pig tricks..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ytx6kQYV44Y
Covid1984 is far more disturbing and has had/is having a much greater, much more murderous reach for the fascists than 9/11 ever did, when the Bush Crime Family flew planes into then blew up the WTC towers.
I have also watched the intel agencies scrub footage of the demolition of WTC building 7 off the internet (try and find it, used to be everywhere), so I put a shot of the demolition in my anti-war film (dvds) Targeting Iran.
Andy Morris
🙂
rumble.com/v2wx3w0-bombshell-one-in-three-pfizer-vaccine-shots-may-have-been-a-placebo.html
Kim is Vietnamese:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzU5DH5NJPU
…and since we are still at war with Russia, a war the Democrats started, a war whose origins can be traced to the murder of JFK:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-5r0rDzynw
My place in PDX is super clean, upstairs on a very quiet residential street near Wallace Park. About 800 sq foot, 1 BR with classic 1940s touches. Super clean and ready for someone to occupy. Cats or a very mellow dog would be OK.
Active veggie gardening on front porch with private downstairs entrance. Apt is like a birds nest up in the trees, with 17 windows and total privacy. Active, super fast internet. Great place to be quiet and chill, 15 walk to Macleay Park and Forest Park. It’s a delight!
Place newly redone for flow – very feng shui. Outfitted kitchen. If you have a place in/near Manzanita, Nehalem, Netarts, Oceanside up through Cannon Beach, and might be interested, let’s chat and share pics!
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
loretta.kim.rosenberg@gmail.com
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