If you are concerned about the small increase in property taxes that will occur if the bond for a new health care center passes compare that to the significant increase in property value that will accrue by having a new high quality health care facility in the immediate neighborhood. You will more than make up for the tax increase if you avoid the expense of gas for one or two drives a year to Portland, Astoria or even Tillamook to get care.
President of Moderna (formerly called Mode RNA):
“Yes, there has been an increase in myocarditis for those who have taken the shots”.
The guy in this video is the CEO (not president) and he is now a billionaire thanks to Trump’s and Biden’s trillion-dollar Big Pharma ‘covid’ scam. (Trump started the mandates, the shutdowns, and the vaccine production.) But making a billion-dollars off our suffering wasn’t enough compensation for this criminal, he made an additional 400-million dollars last year.
He got a billion of our taxpayer dollars for a vaccine that did nothing to stop the spread or reduce hospitalizations. Our money paid for the ‘development’ of these mRNA shots as well.
And he got this money despite admitting on Fox Business News that the lab-engineered SARS-CoV-2 virus contained a DNA-sequence PATENTED by Moderna!!!!!
Oh no, this is NOT a conspiracy theory, though many wish it was…
From his own new-billionaire mouth:
at 07:30:
Yup, and an increase in myocarditis (and heart attacks and strokes for the elderly, though not mentioned in this hearing on myocarditis in teen boys) from the shots:
The director of the health district in Wheeler ‘died suddenly’ while working out the other day.
He was in great health before the shots.
Then he began having heart problems his doctor couldn’t figure out.
Then, as I said, he died suddenly at NCRD while working out the other day. Was it from the shots? I don’t know, this isn’t a science experiment. But I know where I would put my money.
Healthy folks dying “suddenly” is a known thing in England and much of Europe.
But, for example, since Anderson Cooper’s show gets 8 million of its 10 million dollars from Pfizer, VAERS stuff (The feds “Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System”) doesn’t get any reporting. Don’t bite the Big Pharma hand that feeds you…
It’s safe and easy to pretend this new technology from Big Farma/Big Tech is just our polio vaccine or whatever. But if you put this junk in your body you might want to think about detoxing, though many think that isn’t possible.
Again, this isn’t science, but I know where I’d put my money. rumble.com/v1h9lat-nothing-to-see-here-mark-steyn-questions-why-young-healthy-people-are-dying.html
Finally, we are all adults on this site. Since I started posting on BBQ after a ten year absence, I have received five pieces of insanely childish hate mail (I won’t out you cowards here) and someone called my boss, North Korea-style to complain I had become a ‘right-winger’.
I am the same true-liberal anti-war, anti-Big Pharma, organic, fierce environmentalist (wild animals way more desirable than humans, as I am clearly reminded after every time I post on BBQ), that I have always been.
What I see however, is most on the ‘left’ have abandoned classical liberalism and have embraced leftist fascism and totalitarian communism. The left has also become over-the-top intolerant, irrational, and childish. I can’t stress that last point enough.
BBQ is a community forum. If you disagree with something someone posts, the proper course of action, so it seems, is not to have a temper tantrum and then send hate mail to those you disagree with. If you have something to share, use your adult words and make your argument on the site, that’s how these community forums are supposed to work.
And unless you admire North Korea, you certainly don’t complain to the boss of someone who posts something you disagree with.
But if you must send hate mail, go ahead.
Your head might be thicker than my skin, but my skin is thick enough, I can take it.
In fact, I will confess, your hate mail has been quite fun…
Featuring Candidates for Tillamook School District #9 Justin Aufdermauer Dr. Danell Boggs Kurt Mizee Matthew Petty Samantha Spratt and Candidate for Tillamook County Transportation District Jim Heffernan and Candidates for Tillamook Bay Community College Board Mary Faith Bell Mary Jones
In response to Erin’s BBQ post of May 7th, regarding the MooVoter/Tillamook Pioneer Candidate Forum, and bringing clarity.
Many of you know I was a Board member, Officer, President of Friends of NCRD from 2008-2021. In 2019 I became President when tunnel vision for the pool project threatened the security of our Scholarship Program. Our newly elected board immediately rewrote our ByLaws to reflect Scholarships would be given priority funding. If you look into the Quarterly disbursements, you will discover the Youth after school program receives the majority of funding.
To be clear, I have never said the NCRD doesn’t provide Scholarships, I was a critical part of ensuring the Scholarship program remained strong. I stated the NCRD doesn’t do enough to promote Scholarships for those needing financial assistance. On the NCRD website you will see the statement ‘Scholarship assistance is extended to individuals in need of rehabilitative therapy due to injury or illness’. This statement alone implies Scholarships are exclusive, it says nothing about funding due to financial need. I also stated I would like to see user fees reviewed and the NCRD look into creating a sliding scale, creating Equity.
I hear myself in Erin’s statement of ‘not once did I ever have any feeling of un-welcomeness’. That WAS me and now sounds dismissive and promotive of the status quo. The status quo needs to change. I listen and I have heard many conversations of anger, upset and frustration. I am aware of them, the Board of NCRD is aware of them, the Friends of NCRD is aware of them and the NCRD is aware of them. I AM committed to listening for the NCRD becoming the best it can be, PERIOD! With me on the Board, we will create a safe space which will allow individuals to bring their concerns and have them addressed with honor, respect and completion, inside the context for the NCRD being the best it can be, for ALL.
My name is Constance! I ask you to vote for me, thank you.
I am a third generation North coast resident. My grandparents moved here from Portland in the mid 80’s after retirement. My grandfather built their home and large separate garage on the top of the hill in Wheeler. He called it “Up town Wheeler,” and that’s how he answered the phone since I was a little girl.
My grandfather was an avid fisherman among many other things and deeply intertwined in the community. He was the mayor of Wheeler at one point. My grandmother was a really wonderful lady, an avid gardener and part of the garden club in town. They both were proud Lions club members and loved living out here on the coast. They finished building their home here the year I was born, so I spent my entire childhood traveling back and forth a lot from the Portland area.
My grandfather had many serious health issues over the course of his retirement. He would travel back and forth from Portland, Astoria, Seaside, Tillamook and other bigger cities nearby because of the lack of resources in this area for his medical needs. He had heart problems that lead to a pacemaker and liver disease in his end years. He was life flighted and rushed by ambulance many times throughout his time here as our local health system wasn’t sufficient for his medical needs. Moving away from the coast was never an option as they were deeply involved in the community and wanted to stay in their home they loved and built for themselves.
My grandmother had really ideal health until her late 70s when she developed Alzheimer’s disease. At one point, she was in the Nehalem Bay memory care before my mother pulled her out and brought her home to Grandpa where she belonged. My mother and a few of their siblings took turns caring for my grandmother for the remainder of her time here on earth. It ended up being 5+ years of my grandmother battling the disease before it took her life. During those very difficult years, my mother spent most of her week down here, from her home and family in the Portland area, caring for my grandparents night and day. She would get relief by a few of her siblings for a couple days a week. They traveled from Sandy and Raleigh Hills, OR. They all did whatever it took to make sure my grandparents got to stay together in their home where they wanted to be. This was a major sacrifice and a reality for many in this community. As it turns out, both my grandparents passed away within a few months of each other in the comfort of their home with their kids by their side.
My mother and stepdad had bought a home in Nehalem not long before my mom’s parents both passed away.
My mother then went on to living life for herself again, and it wasn’t long before she herself began an awful battle with cancer. They found when it was late stage 3. She spent the rest of her life traveling for her medical care to Portland and the cancer center in Astoria. This was a really unfortunate situation and something many will deal with as they choose to retire or live here. Lack of specialty care and access to sufficient medical systems and care facilities make this area really challenging for all. These things make it difficult for everyone and it’s important to recognize that we are all in it together. At some point, every person in this community will need health services or specialty care that we may or may not have available here and need to travel for. Our grocery store clerk, gas station attendant, bankers, farmers, and so on. Even if it doesn’t impact you or your family directly, it will inevitably still impact you.
I am now raising the 4th generation here in our community. I moved out here when my mother was diagnosed with cancer and my daughter was only 3 months old. We had a year with my mother before she passed from complications of chemotherapy and the cancer itself. I’ve raised my daughter here and stay with my stepdad where we have grown quite close as we share the grief of missing my mom. I plan to continue living in this community and my daughter is now in the Neahkahnie school district as a preschooler. We spent the first few years of her life traveling to Portland for her primary care and then to Tillamook for a short while. Then we landed at the (then known as) Rinehart clinic where we quickly realized we should have been all along. We are lucky to have such caring and wonderful health care workers right here in our little town. It took a little time and some recommendations from friends in town, before we found the right place for our needs. My daughter has some special needs and is being well taken care of, still needed to travel some for her.
The Nehalem Bay Health Center needs this upgrade we are voting for.
With all that said, our livelihoods are deeply impacted by access to healthcare. Our health care system in this area needs a major upgrade and overhaul to accommodate the needs of our community and aging population, my stepdad included. It is deeply important to me to do whatever I can to make this happen.
As a student of Public Health and future health care worker and more importantly, a mother, daughter and friend. We are the fabric of our community, and we need to care for one another. If there is one important thing I’ve learned in the study of Public Health, it’s that the health of every individual matters and makes a difference. Lack of access to healthcare is a major determinant of health outcomes.
We need this new upgraded facility, and we need to ensure we are all given a fair and equal opportunity to have good health and promote longevity. Traveling for care is both a privilege and a major added challenge, that many will be, and already are, unable to make happen. This means poorer health outcomes for our community and negatively impacts our population health.
We need our community strong, healthy and fully supported. This is why I’m voting “Yes” for local health care.
During times of economic instability, crime goes up – and crime has increased tremendously in Oregon and other big cities in this country, and also in smaller coastal cities and town. Fentanyl is here now! Many of the homeless are settling in our little coastal villages. There are increasing reports of thefts and home break-ins. I think we need more deputies. BUT the County seeks to cut six County Sheriffs Deputy positions already funded in a recent proposed budget. They want to transfer the money to a contingency fund where it could be spent on anything. They want a new city hall! Personnel cuts to the Sheriffs Office were the most financially impacted of all the county departments.
This is what I have to say about that: During times of economic instability, crime goes up – and crime has increased tremendously in Oregon and other big cities in this country, and also in smaller coastal cities and town. Fentanyl is here now! Many of the homeless are settling in our little coastal villages. There are increasing reports of thefts and home break-ins. I think we need six more deputies. My opinion of the county commissioners is not good. They are definitely not small business friendly and they don’t seem to be county friendly either. They want to cut law enforcers in a time of more crime. You can make a statement about this by sending an e-mail to: publiccommens@co.tillamook.or.us
As I’m sure many of you have seen on social media and the City Council Meeting on 5/3, a lot of emails were released from a request to the City of Manzanita for public records. One of those is attached below. The following is a response to that email.
My name is Brad Hart, 53 years old. I’m a full time resident and voter in Manzanita. I’m involved, contributing through volunteerism with the Emergency Volunteer Corps of Nehalem Bay (EVCNB) and other organizations to make our community a better and safer place to live. I was honored and humbled to receive the Volunteer of the Year award from the EVCNB for 2022. I was included in the Harshbarger CERT award along with a group of distinguished EVCNB CERT volunteer colleagues.
The EVCNB is recognized in our local community, Tillamook County and by the State of Oregon as a leader in community education and disaster preparedness. It and its volunteers have received awards and honors from the State’s Medical Reserve Corps, SERV-OR, and other organizations. The organization, as well as the many volunteers that give countless hours of their time, are dedicated to building personal, community and regional resilience, developing programs to ensure readiness, and promoting a culture of emergency preparedness. The EVCNB is recognized as a blueprint for many other communities to help them prepare, be organized and ready to respond in case of a disaster.
Mr. Kugler, Manzanita Mayor Deb Simmons’s “trusted advisor”, makes inexcusable remarks ridiculing the efforts of the founding generation of volunteers such as this excerpt: “their medical needs attended to by 80-year-old EVC volunteers”. I view these individuals as being the foundation of the EVCNB. Having started the organization 15 years ago and leading it to what we have today, it is no less than heroic. These senior members of the organization are personal mentors, role models and leaders in our community. I strive to follow in their footsteps. I for one would be happy to receive help from qualified and trained volunteers, regardless of their age, at Underhill or elsewhere if a disaster strikes.
I’m appalled and find the email to be mocking in nature of all the efforts of the EVCNB organization and the many dedicated volunteers. These volunteers have contributed countless hours of their time to benefit our community. Excerpt: “those tourists that survive will be provided with a complimentary go bag signed by the EVC volunteers to show the City’s gratitude for your visit”. Making a joke that the go-bags being given to tourists as gratitude for a visit during a disaster is reprehensible.
Kugler continues to conflate EVCNB with the City of Manzanita. EVCNB is a nonprofit, nongovernmental organization promoting preparedness throughout the Nehalem Bay area. The City of Manzanita is just one part of the broader community served. The cities and County are responsible for the needs of any people within their jurisdiction after an emergency or disaster. Mocking this responsibility is childish.
There are many volunteers involved in the betterment of our community. Eighty years old, older and younger. I personally choose to focus on efforts to help not only my family, but the greater good of our community. Regardless, if I survive the big one, I’ll be here to help my fellow citizens in any way possible.
If you want to know more about the EVCNB and all the good work we do, please contact me, or visit the www.EVCNB.org website. You can get more involved in your local neighborhood cluster, emergency communication or simply to learn more about being prepared for a disaster. There are many volunteer opportunities. We welcome anyone to help with our mission, no matter your age.
When conversations come up on uses of TLT monies, you might want to become familiar with the statutory language below that is used to consider how those funds can be used. “Tourist” means a person who, for business, pleasure, recreation or participation in events related to the arts, heritage or culture, travels from the community in which that person is a resident to a different community that is separate, distinct from and unrelated to the person’s community of residence, and that trip: (a) Requires the person to travel more than 50 miles from the community of residence; or (b) Includes an overnight stay.
Does the cost of constructing facilities used for the storage of emergency supplies and the purchase of the supplies themselves qualify?
I suppose if Manzanita wants to promote itself as the first disaster destination locale that offers those lucky few visitors who time it just right to take advantage of our next tsunami, it might just work.
Those visitors who travel more than 50 miles or stay overnight when the big one hits can afterwards go up to Underhill, sleep in the open or in tents on cots now that the Q Hut is going away, eat prepackaged meals and have their medical needs attended to by 80 year old EVC volunteers. To complete this unique recreation experience, those tourists that survive will be provided with a complimentary go bag signed by the EVC volunteers to show the City’s gratitude for your visit.
If you can’t laugh about some of the nonsense and uninformed comments that come out of these meetings you’re not going to survive.
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North County is fortunate to have Constance Shimek seeking a position on the North County Recreation District (NCRD) board. I have known and had multiple contacts with her for the last couple of years. During this time, she has been honest, trustworthy, intelligent, and keeps her word. Constance is not afraid to ask hard questions and she actually shows up. I have never heard her speak negatively about anyone. She is a secure problem solver. A vote for Constance is a vote you won’t regret.
Tillamook County Retired Educators and Teachers PAC, TREAT, has endorsed five candidates for re-election to the Tillamook Bay Community College Board of Education.
Mary Jones, Position 1 Andrea Goss, Position 2 (unopposed) Shannon Hoff, Position 4 (unopposed) Betsy McMahon, Position 5 Mary Faith Bell, Position 7
All five candidates deserve and need your vote. These current board members have helped guide the college in its development of strong academic and vocational training that is accessible to everyone in our community.
Go to the TREAT website at www.tillamookretiredteachers.org for more information about each of these candidates. TREAT is also on Facebook at tillamookretiredteachers.
Below are the three TBCC Board candidates who are running opposed. Your vote for them will be a vote for public education and the success of ALL students.
First, I’d like to thank the Tillamook County Pioneer and MooVoter for putting on the event Friday night. I enjoyed participating! There were a couple of topics we discussed in the forum that I would like to revisit and clarify.
One topic that really concerns me is some residents not feeling welcome at the NCRD. I have used the NCRD my entire life, and now almost daily for over 6 years, and not once did I ever have any feeling of un-welcomeness. Perhaps that’s just my experience. However, I’m aware that a few private groups did practice some exclusions during Covid and that this did leave some people with bad feelings. I would like to take a look at policy regarding the use of the NCRD space, keeping in mind that we want all people to feel comfortable, safe and welcome.
Another topic I want to touch on addresses the inclusivity of the NCRD due to scholarships based on financial need. It was mentioned in Friday night’s forum that there are no programs to ensure people with lower incomes can afford to participate at the NCRD. I thought this was odd because I was quite sure there were scholarships available to anyone who asks, but I don’t like speaking about topics unless I have the facts in front of me. I’ve now confirmed that indeed there are scholarships available, based on financial need, for participants in all three NCRD departments (Youth & Sports, Fitness and Aquatics.). In fact, in just the past six months, Friends of NCRD funded $2,737.30 for scholarships in Quarter 1 (Jan-Mar 2023) – and for Quarter 4 (Oct-Dec 2022) Friends funded $2,843.80 in scholarships. Those are sizable quarterly amounts and should not be forgotten or misrepresented. We should take great care in relaying correct information to the community. It’s important for people to know the NCRD is available to ALL residents of North County.
We can’t please everyone, and there’s always room for improvement. However, we can compromise and do our best. I spend a lot of time finding middle ground for my clients, and I know it is difficult at times.
If I’m elected as board member know that I will listen and problem solve for you. I will meet any obstacle head on and work to find the best solution. I think the NCRD is a great place and we’re so lucky to have it! Its success is only a refection of our community! So let’s continue to build on it!
Please vote for me, Erin Laskey-Wilson for NCRD board position #2!
I admit to getting a bit nostalgic for those days not so long ago when the City proclaimed the Year of Kindness whereby “The City of Manzanita encourages community members to participate in spreading kindness and practicing respect, generosity, patience, and considerations of others at all times”.
Remember the recent admonitions made by some of the very same participants in Wednesday’s Council meeting to honor our citizen volunteers for their service to the community. Little did we know that that respect only applied to those volunteers that they deemed worthy of respect.
The last rites of civility were ably performed with a sermon on the ongoing dangers that I and others pose to the community. The lead officiant at the meeting and author of that day’s BBQ post unveiled a treasure trove of private emails between myself and Council members and public emails with the City going back to 2018 to prove her point. The choir chimed in on cue offering their testimonials with the fervor of a charismatic tent revival meeting.
The BBQ author would have you believe that my sharing informed opinions of how City government operates with our elected officials is a greater community concern than City staff who chose to not answer citizen questions and a City Manager who recommends ignoring and isolating citizens who she determines are making personal attacks on her by even asking questions.
My transgression was pointing out that the latest examples given by the City Manager of City Hall staff efforts to justify Water Fund transfers to the General Fund had failed a simple fact check. This was not worthy of a rebuttal or correction at Wednesday’s meeting because it must be too embarrassing to admit. Equal silence on ignoring and isolating citizens who ask questions must be interpreted that this is now acceptable City policy.
Please do read as much of the 478 pages of documents painstakingly reviewed to produce half a dozen snippets of out of context quotes to make the case that my “clandestine and destructive interference in our city’s affairs” must be stopped.
The warning signs that a cult like mindset is becoming a dominant feature of our local political culture should not be dismissed. The telltale characteristics include: Opposition to critical thinking. Isolating nonconforming community members and punishing them. Loyalty to those in position of authority.
May 3rd should be a wake up call for those that value civil liberties and the right to fully participate as a citizen in our local community decisions. I suspect that the sermons will continue and the choir will continue to rehearse until enough of the silent majority say enough.
I am writing to urge your support for the re-election of Marc C. Johnson to the Nehalem Bay Health District Board. He has provided strong and collaborative leadership since being appointed to the Board by the Tillamook County Commissioners in 2017 and being elected to a full term in I 2019. During this period the Health District Board has done extensive community outreach and completed a five-year strategic plan. Under Marc’s leadership the District Board has strengthened collaboration with community partners. With Marc’s strong and visionary leadership, the Health District has gained the support of Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden and obtained $3 million in federal funding to be the foundation of the funding package necessary to build a new larger health center and to renovate and modernize the Nehalem Valley Care Center in Wheeler, the region’s only skilled nursing and rehabilitation facility. I’ve worked with Marc Johnson on the North Tillamook Library Board both in my position as President and when he was President. He has continued strengthening the Library’s community presence in north Tillamook County and continued the financial planning for the future. Marc lends his leadership skills and wisdom in communication strategies to the nonprofits in the community that have been fortunate to have him involved as a volunteer. In addition to the North Tillamook Library Friends, these include the Hoffman Center for the Arts, the Emergency Volunteer Corps of Nehalem Bay and the Neahkahnie Water District. Our community is fortunate to have Marc C. Johnson’s leadership at the Nehalem Bay Health District as this crucial time. I will vote for Marc and for the Nehalem Bay Health District’s general obligation bond measure on May 16, 2023.
When the neo-con war-mongers of the Bush/Cheney/Clinton crowd decided to commit mass-murder in the Middle East, (with their sick war friends/campaign contributors making billions off the death and destruction, just like Russia/Ukraine today) I went to downtown Portland and handed out a hundred copies of Mark Twain’s ‘The War Prayer’.
I am now ‘handing it out’ to the war-mongers in the new, neo-con-run Democrat Party:
** I had a little fun with AI (Artificial Intelligence)…I entered my stump speech and this is ‘the’ response…
It sounds like you have a strong track record of involvement and success in your community. Your dedication and efforts to raise funds for various organizations and causes are impressive. It’s great to see individuals like you who take on a leadership role and work with others to make a difference in their community.
I appreciate that you have shared specific examples of the amounts of money raised through your involvement in various organizations. This shows that you are results-oriented and have a clear understanding of the impact that your actions can have.
Overall, your message conveys a sense of passion and dedication towards your community. I wish you all the best in your endeavors and hope that your efforts continue to inspire others to get involved and make a positive difference.
This is the woman most-responsible for destroying the lives of millions of children while extorting them: she told children to shoot Big Tech’s new junk (that they never needed) so they could go back to school again. (link below)
How utterly shameful.
And she’s a teacher’s union president??? How did a child-abuser end up in that position?
Children barely get symptoms from SARS-CoV-2. I (and many many others) knew this from Day One. And history has already proven me/us correct. The mild, flu-like infection wasn’t the problem for the children.
What was devastating to the children, however, were the shutdowns and the sad-as-hell ‘remote learning’.
In fact, the school shutdowns did NOTHING to stop the spread of SARS or reduce hospitalizations, and likely made the children SICKER and more apt to contract a SARS infection.
“Shoot the vax kiddos, then we’ll let you go back to school.”
Extorting children is evil and shameful.
That the school closures would help children was always a hysterical lie from the ‘vax’ pushing criminals at Mode RNA, Pfizer, WHO, the CDC.
We have several such hysterical minds in our midst, and let’s keep them away from our children, shall we?
Here is one of the biggest child-abusers in American history, Randi Wiengarten. She is currently going around the talk show circuit claiming the horrendous and torturous school shutdowns, and the resultant suicides, drug abuse, and at-home child abuse were NOT her fault!!!!!
You wish honey. But we know what you did, we remember you!
Yes Randi, you are responsible for the massive suffering of millions of children and here is the proof you shameless liar:
https://twitter.com/michaelpsenger/status/1653804555895988224
Tillamook County Retired Educators and Teachers PAC, TREAT, endorses the candidates below for Neah-Kah-Nie School District Board. To learn more about TREAT and why each candidate is endorsed, go to www.tillamookretiredteachers.org/.
TREAT is also on Facebook at tillamookretiredteachers.
The developer of the Manzanita Lofts project went to LUBA February 27th, 2023 (Land Use Board of Appeals) which was created to simplify the appeal process, speed resolution of land use disputes, and provide consistent interpretation of state and local land use laws. The Planning Commission of Manzanita denied his application for a development of a a 34-unit complex between Classic Street and Dorcas Lane. The future hotel is planned to be adjacent to the north-east end of the Manzanita Links golf course. This hotel would face the green of the golf course’s Signature Hole #5.
Below is information from ORCA(Oregon Coast Alliance) concerning the Manzanita Lofts Development. ORCA’s mission is to protect the Oregon coast by working with coastal residents for sustainable communities; protection and restoration of coastal and marine natural resources; providing education and advocacy on land use development; and adaptation to climate change.
“Manzanita is not obligated to approve this project on remand; it is free to strengthen its legal rationale and deny it again for failure to meet city standards. ORCA suggests this is a course of action the city can, and should, take. The developers have not changed anything about the project this second time, except having convinced the city to design the remand hearing around their interpretation of the LUBA opinion. That, of course, biases the remand structure from the outset, and ORCA does not commend the city for allowing it.
“ Manzanita needs to do further work to determine whether, how, and to what extent the current proposal meets the city’s density standards for residences, and traffic and transportation standards. As the applicant does not appear to have changed anything substantial in the application to deal with the city’s concerns, ORCA hopes and trusts Council will continue its far-sighted protection of a vibrant residential area of town, and deny the project again, this time with a more watertight legal rationale to support its findings.”
For anyone who has been engaged in this process please attend in person or by zoom the May 15th 4:00 PM meeting of the Planning Commission.
May 5th at 3am there was a black bear trying to get to our bird feeder (small seeds and sunflower in the shell). The bear was maybe 300 lbs, probably a female, and roaming the golf course area near the 3rd tee. Looks similar to one near the 8th green in a picture I saw back in the fall. Last year was terrible for berries the bears depend on so this one may have adjusted to living in the area to take advantage of garbage cans and bird feeders (and maybe the occasional pic-a-nic basket 😉
One of the saddest moments of my life was pulling into Neahkahnie Middle School to pick-up my daughter and seeing dozens and dozens of sad, masked children, outside, standing six-feet apart, not talking, staring at their phones and feet.
The school shutdowns and mask mandates handed down from the CDC to the OHA to then Governor Brown to the boards of education traumatized a generation of children, drove up suicide rates, drove up drug abuse rates, increased domestic violence (specifically at-home child abuse), and set all of our children back emotionally and academically.
All of this was done ostensibly to prevent children from getting SARS-CoV-2, a disease from which the vast majority of children barely express symptoms.
Candidate Bayouth-Real has a history of social media posts containing hysterical views associated with the pandemic. Many of those posts suggest that the anti-scientific, unhealthy, and devastating restrictions placed on our children were not Draconian enough. She clearly lacks the balance and emotional stability needed to properly care for our children when difficult situations present themselves.
Landon Meyers is steadfast, firm, educated and a proven public servant. Our children need stability right now, they need a rock, they need someone who will fight for them, someone who will let them go to school, someone who will let them be children. Landon Myers is that someone.
Our children deserve a break from the hysterical covid tyrants. Let the kids learn, let the kids be kids.
This is the story of one man’s relentless “war” with Manzanita’s City Council and City Manager as disclosed in a review of public records. We, the undersigned Manzanita voters, describe this story below in the interest of full transparency and in the hope that Mayor Deb Simmons will step up and stop this clandestine and destructive interference in our city’s affairs.
For the past five years, Randy Kugler, who was a city manager here 30 years ago, has persistently pushed his personal agenda on the Council and city administration because of what he calls “inept” public officials and a “complacent citizenry.” In 2018 and 2019, he pestered city staff to advance his budget and city hall proposals. Though unappointed and unelected, he pressured the Hoffman Center for the Arts Board to sell its property as part of an unauthorized city hall scheme. He issued imperious demands to the city manager if his requests were not answered quickly enough. Even now he continues a campaign of harassment of the current city manager. Mr. Kugler’s contempt for our entire community is best illustrated by his dismissal of “80-year-old EVC volunteers” as participants in a scheme to promote Manzanita as a “disaster destination.”
When he came in dead last in his 2020 bid for election to the Council, Mr. Kugler settled the next year on a new tactic—what he termed the “Simmons project.” As part of that project, Mr. Kugler joined forces with Bill Simmons, a similarly disgruntled resident. They chose Deb Simmons, Bill’s wife, as someone with the necessary “star power” to be the spokesperson for their positions on local issues. Mayor Mike Scott’s unexpected withdrawal from the 2022 mayoral race on June 2 presented the opportunity to put Deb forward as a candidate for mayor, which she announced three days after Scott withdrew.
After her uncontested election, Mr. Kugler began coaching Mayor Simmons for the role of mayor and dispensed advice to her and Councilors Brad Mayerle and Jerry Spegman as a self-appointed “trusted advisor.” He also prepped Mayor Simmons before Council meetings. Describing their campaign of disruption as a “war” in a March 9 email to Ms. Simmons, Mr. Kugler congratulated her on getting “Lelia [sic] to say some dumb things that I will further investigate.” He urged Mayor Simmons to be content with winning some “skirmishes” before moving on to “a battle here and there.” He encouraged her by saying, “You are getting better with each meeting. We’ll do some practice for next month.”
Did Manzanita voters elect Mr. Kugler as Mayor? Or did we elect Ms. Simmons? It appears from these public records that Mr. Kugler is pulling the strings behind the curtain. We do not object to the Mayor seeking advice from a trusted advisor, but Mr. Kugler has been an obsessive faultfinder for many years. He has consistently shown disdain for any opinions other than his own—on a new city hall, allocation of overhead costs, and short-term rentals. We urge Mayor Simmons to sever her relationship with a man who has harassed our city managers and sought to tear this city apart rather than to bring people together as the Mayor has said she wants to do. We also urge the City Council to support the City’s employees and protect them from harassment.
Deb Tinnin Judy Sugg Doug Sparks Kim Rosenberg Ben Rosenberg Connie Burton Bruce Burton Linda Kuestner Mark Kuestner Cindy Kenne Jack Kenne Paula Peek William Peek Brad Hart Christopher Mullins Lee Hamilton Laura Bailey Jenny Greenleaf Mary Marken Toni Greening Richard Neuman Thomas Aschenbrener Trevor Eastman
Public records request link This link provides access to 478 pages of records dating back to 2018 provided by the City of Manzanita in response to a public records request.
Here’s the full link: drive.google.com/drive/folders/1zynKMPsX09z5Q6sTIg9DWRuMdHUW8JTR
Sources for this document Paragraph 2: February 13, 2018, Kugler email to Alamillo and Scott; August 26, 2019, Kugler email to Alamillo; August 2, 2021, Kugler email to Aman; February 16, 2023, Kugler email to Simmons, Spegman, and Mayerle; April 29, 2023, Tillamook County Pioneer op-ed Paragraph 3: August 28, 2021, Spegman email to Kugler; November 11, 2021, Kugler email to Spegman; June 6, 2022, BBQ post Paragraph 4: Kugler emails dated January 4, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 13, 22, 23, 25, 2023; February 16, 19, 2023; March 6, 9, 14, 21, 2023; February 26 and March 9, 2023, Simmons emails to Kugler)
Today I am announcing that I am suing Senate President Rob Wagner and legislative leadership. It has become clear that some members of the legislature don’t even know what is in some of their most extreme legislation. There is no greater example of this than the audible gasp that was heard from one sponsor of HB 2002 when they found out in a public hearing that their bill would allow a 10 year old girl to get an abortion without her parents even knowing about it. It made me wonder; how could someone not know how extreme legislation they put their name to really is? How could they not understand what is in their own legislation. The reality is that legislation and summaries of legislation are regularly written at a comprehension level of college graduate or higher. The Senate has a rule against this. It’s a rule that we’ve been violating for a very long time and now, because of some of the most extremist legislation the Oregon Legislature has ever considered, we are reaping the results. I brought this up on the floor to President Wagner. He ignored me. I objected. He overruled me. He will not ignore me now. I cannot stand for such disregard of the rules, the law and the constitution.
Dixie Gainer says – Dear Tillamook County resident, The Democrats, including Governor Kotek, are behind this atrocious rule making abortion and gender change available to ten year olds without parental knowledge. Do you really want a ten year old person getting an abortion or gender changes without parental notification? Really! Our Oregon legislature is totally corrupt as I have been pointing out from time to time – caused by a practically 14 year Democrat majority. Even though the Oregon constitution says that Oregon voters get to vote for their supreme court justices – every supreme court judge in Oregon has been placed there by Kate Brown. The Democrats, including Governor Kotek, are behind this atrocious rule, making abortion and gender change available to ten year olds. This means that more than likely if the supreme court rules on this – they will rule in favor of the violator of the rules. You can make a lot of money on the side if you are a legislator in Oregon! Recently Shemia Fagan, our Secretary of State tried to do that but was caught!
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Today I stopped in at the Handy Creek Bakery in Wheeler to pick up some tasty treats and meet Erin Laskey. Erin impressed me as a kind, enthusiastic young mother with some wonderful ideas regarding the future of NCRD. After chatting for about 20 minutes, I felt like she would make an excellent representative reflecting the family values that I and most of my friends hold with high regard. My friends tend to be people that work in the construction trades, Dairy Farmers, work at the bank, deliver your rock or concrete, our first responders or work at the lumber yard – you know, the folks that work hard and get things done around here. Erin struck me as someone who would do a great job representing those of us that don’t have a lot of time to get involved but appreciate what NCRD offers them and their families. I offered to put one of her yard signs up for her. In the past, I have put up yard signs for candidates in my friends pasture at the corner of Hwy. 53 and Northfork rd., only to have them stolen within 24 hours. During the 23 years I have been part of this community, I believe this is only the second post I have ever sent to the BBQ. So my ask is, if you are planning on voting for the person that is running against Erin, don’t steal Erin’s sign. Don’t try to silence the opposition. Our community is too great to lower to such intolerant tactics.
-Dan Carroll
