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Mom’s Day is coming up—need a gift? The Nehalem Bay Garden Club has over 30 planters and hanging baskets filled with colorful annuals and fuschias to sell at its upcoming Plant Sale.

The sale starts Saturday, May 10th at 10am and goes to 3pm. On Sunday, May 11th the hours are from 10 to noon. Location of the sale is 43080 Northfork Rd, Nehalem at the junction of Hwy 53 and Northfork Rd, with a horse sculpture in the front yard and real horses in the back yard. (Directions below)

This year we have more quantity than usual of shrubs, annuals and vegetables. We have about 500 tomatoes, lovingly cared for, and trees, herbs, ground cover and houseplants.

There are more Mother’s Day gifts and a raffle. Raffle tickets are $5 each or 6 for $20.

On Saturday only, bring your children and your tools. There will be a hands-on nature related activity for the kids and the Sharpenator will be there to put a new edge on your tools.

Either day, to help assuage hunger in our communities, please bring canned food and/or personal care items when you come. All will be donated to the North County Food Bank.

We encourage you to pay with cash or check and to round up! Nehalem Bay Garden Club donates proceeds from the sale to local organizations that share the Club’s mission.

Past recipients include Food Roots, The Wonder Garden at the Hoffman Center, Alder Creek Farm, Coyote Ridge Community Garden, Nehalem Bay Health Center, Tillamook Early Learning Center, North County Food Bank, Nehalem Bay United Methodist Church for their food programs, Nehalem Elementary Garden Program, and the mural at Nehalem City Park. The Club has awarded a total of $17,800 in grants since 2020.

Directions
Start at the blinking light in Nehalem at 7th Street, which turns into N Fork Rd and go 5 miles to the end of N Fork Road. The sale is on the left. If you are coming from the north, you will turn left at the blinking light; if from the south you will go straight instead of continuing on Highway 101.

Friday, May 2, 1 to 3pm
35385 Tohl Ave
Nehalem, OR 97131

There’s lots of cabinets, sinks, countertops, a few rolls of carpet and flooring, commercial dining tables and chairs, other chairs, desks, bookshelves, 2 folding hospital type beds, and more misc materials and items. Everything is free! Please come only between 1 and 3, it is an active construction site during other hours.

Submissions for the 10th Edition of the NORTH COAST SQUID are being accepted during our open submission window from May 1-31, 2025, for writing and visual art.

hoffmancenterforthearts.submittable.com/submit

The publication will be released in October of 2025 with a special release party celebration to commemorate the 10th Edition.

All submitters must have a connection to the North Coast to submit in the categories of Poetry, Nonfiction/Memoir, Fiction, and Visual Art. You may submit to multiple categories, and the $3 submission fee applies to each submission.

**For Young Writers and Young Artists (ages 18 and under), we have separate categories to accept submissions for writing and art with no submission fee. **

The North Coast Squid, A Journal of Local Writing, was first published in 2012 in collaboration with The North Coast Citizen and is now published by the Hoffman Center for the Arts Writing Program and our dedicated team of volunteers. This full-color literary magazine offers local writers and artists—as well as those who have a strong connection to the north Oregon coast—a way to share their work in print. We publish the North Coast Squid every other year in odd-numbered years, and 2025 marks the 10th Edition.

hoffmanarts.org/submissions/publications/