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

Hello, neighbors!
Please share this information with visitors, your friends and family – help us stamp out food insecurity – you never know who might be receiving food benefits!

This is your reminder that Oregon Trail (SNAP) card holders can double their buying power at most farmers markets, including the Manzanita Farmers Market! At the market info booth, swipe your Oregon Trail card for tokens that can be used for all your normal SNAP foods – meats, cheeses, grains, oil & vinegar, honey, pickles, jams, veggies and fruits.

We match up to $20 with coupons for FREE PRODUCE: fresh veggies, beans, fruits, fresh herbs and mushrooms!!!

Please see Karen in the info booth, Fridays from 4 to 7 in the field behind the new City Hall at Manzanita Avenue & Division. All questions answered!

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

Nehalem Bay Community Services is asking for your help in getting our local students a great start to their new school year.

We have placed ‘tickets’ in several locations around the area, each ticket outlines need for school supplies and clothing. Please make your purchases and drop off at the Nehalem Bay United Methodist Church by August 10. Address: 36050 10th Street, Nehalem, OR.

Any questions, please call us at 503.368.5612 or email us at nbumcchild@gmail.com.

Please visit the following locations for Back to School tickets: The Little Apple, Cloud and Leaf, 1st Security Bank, Yolk, Ticor Title, Nehalem Lumber, Dixie’s Vino, North Tillamook Library in Manzanita.

Thank you.

NBCS is an equal opportunity provider.

Submitted By: dixiedarrow@icloud.com – Click to email about this post

I recently posted a small article reporting on Measure 110 (passed in 2020) the drug bill and its replacement HB 4002, which starts Sept 1. I said it was a better bill. It is not! At this time no one goes to jail for possessing illegal drugs. They go right back on the street.
Recently in the primary election, fed up Democrats voted out the incumbent DA in the metro area who refused to prosecute criminals, instead – putting them back on the street. But now Democratic legislators are refusing to lock up those for possessing illegal drugs as per HB 4002 – instead putting them back on the street. They do not get treatment.
There is a rumor that monies from measure 110 for treatment instead went to buy new cars and homes for unknown persons – yep a rumor – No monies went for treatment facilities. This is now 2024!! Where is the money allocated for measure 110???? I would like to know.
New money was allocated for this new bill. Where is that going? where are the treatment facilities? How many years do we have to wait?
Because of the judge problem which I have been writing about – no one is going to look into this. Nope!

No treatment – but now….a deflection center!!
The following article comes from the Portland Tribune:
In a Wednesday press conference, Multnomah County Chair Jessica Vega Pederson and other county leaders addressed plans for a deflection center that continues to incur criticism from the public and fellow commissioners.
The chair’s deflection program will give those caught with hard drugs the choice between serving jail time or receiving treatment for a substance use disorder when House Bill 4002 goes into effect Sept. 1—once again “We must offer people suffering from addiction alternatives to incarceration, or we will be right back where we started,”. “Vega Pederson said. Treatment is the best route to recovery. People’s lives are depending on opening more treatment options, and we are moving swiftly to do so.”
(my comment – How swift is a few years?) However, Multnomah County’s new program could also allow drug users to avoid arrest and possibly walk away without mandated treatment. This outcome is possible for people who get dropped off at the deflection center and go through a screening and assessment with a peer counselor, but are not required to follow a plan for drug treatment.
(And they can go to a deflection center many times – there’s no limit – so they are back on the street! over and over again.
Remember the “hot line” for persons arrested caught with more than allowable amounts of hard drugs under measure 110? The state health authority hired Health Resources in Action, a Boston-based nonprofit focused on public health, for up to $2.7 million to operate the moribund helpline. This was set up for measure 110 in an effort to connect people to substance abuse screening and treatment referral. But there is still no treatment available!!!!!!
Oregon’s Measure 110 drug treatment hotline has served only 577, gets new operator. Updated: Dec. 14, 2023.This is still ongoing although there is no treatment available. (wow – look what happens when you put Democrats in charge of the purse- my comment – wasted wasted money)
My conclusion is Democratic legislators want to see criminals back in the street. What other conclusion can you come to?
In the coming November election – there will be two tax measures to vote on. One will be a tax on your property for public safety. So Oregon Democratic legislators create crime in the street and then tax you for it.
That is what it looks like to me.

Submitted By: diwax54@gmail.com – Click to email about this post

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

Tired of stories that focus on all the bad things that are happening in the world?

Here’s on from: www.goodnewsnetwork.org/saddled-with-backpacks-of-seeds-local-pooches-enlisted-to-help-rewild-urban-nature-reserve/

Picture credit-Railway-Land-Wildlife-Trust-Lewes

Inspired by an innovative Chilean forest restoration effort, the English town of Lewes is enlisting the help of dog walkers to rewild a local nature reserve.

Heavily degraded by foot traffic, the project co-ops dogs’ tendency to run about in the woods to spread wildflower seed from saddlebags strapped to a harness around the dog’s abdomen.

The idea mimics the function that wolves once played in that part of England, roaming over vast distances getting grass and flower seeds stuck in their coat, only to fall off and germinate somewhere else.

This helter-skelter seed-spreading is actually how many plants evolved to reproduce, and it’s key to maintaining a biodiverse and native ecosystem.

“We’re really interested in rewilding processes, but they often involve reintroducing big herbivores like bison or wild horses,” said manager Dylan Walker from the Railway Land Wildlife Trust who organized the project back in 2019.

“In a smaller urban nature reserve it’s really hard to do those things. So, to replicate the effect that those animals have on the ecosystem we aimed to utilize the vast number of dog walkers that are visiting the nature reserve daily.”

The saddlebags are filled with a variety of perennial plant seeds mixed together with sand. This allows the seed to be spread for longer across larger distances, while also providing a helpful tracking sign to inform the Trust’s employees where dogs are walking.

“I signed up because it sounded like such a good fit. I was asked to place a harness on my chocolate cocker spaniel called Bertie and he ran around spreading seeds like wolves used to do many years ago,” Cressida Murray, a dog walker who regularly uses the nature reserve, told The Guardian.

Wolves were persecuted to extinction in England as early as the reign of Henry VII, who reigned during the latter third of the 15th century.

“A community-based project like this not only helps engage and teach people about the ecological impacts of wildlife but also allows us to make our wildlife and environments richer in the process,” said Walker.

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

Tired of stories that focus on all the bad things that are happening in the world?

Here’s on from: www.goodnewsnetwork.org/saddled-with-backpacks-of-seeds-local-pooches-enlisted-to-help-rewild-urban-nature-reserve/

Picture credit-Railway-Land-Wildlife-Trust-Lewes

Inspired by an innovative Chilean forest restoration effort, the English town of Lewes is enlisting the help of dog walkers to rewild a local nature reserve.

Heavily degraded by foot traffic, the project co-ops dogs’ tendency to run about in the woods to spread wildflower seed from saddlebags strapped to a harness around the dog’s abdomen.

The idea mimics the function that wolves once played in that part of England, roaming over vast distances getting grass and flower seeds stuck in their coat, only to fall off and germinate somewhere else.

This helter-skelter seed-spreading is actually how many plants evolved to reproduce, and it’s key to maintaining a biodiverse and native ecosystem.

“We’re really interested in rewilding processes, but they often involve reintroducing big herbivores like bison or wild horses,” said manager Dylan Walker from the Railway Land Wildlife Trust who organized the project back in 2019.

“In a smaller urban nature reserve it’s really hard to do those things. So, to replicate the effect that those animals have on the ecosystem we aimed to utilize the vast number of dog walkers that are visiting the nature reserve daily.”

The saddlebags are filled with a variety of perennial plant seeds mixed together with sand. This allows the seed to be spread for longer across larger distances, while also providing a helpful tracking sign to inform the Trust’s employees where dogs are walking.

“I signed up because it sounded like such a good fit. I was asked to place a harness on my chocolate cocker spaniel called Bertie and he ran around spreading seeds like wolves used to do many years ago,” Cressida Murray, a dog walker who regularly uses the nature reserve, told The Guardian.

Wolves were persecuted to extinction in England as early as the reign of Henry VII, who reigned during the latter third of the 15th century.

“A community-based project like this not only helps engage and teach people about the ecological impacts of wildlife but also allows us to make our wildlife and environments richer in the process,” said Walker.

Submitted By: wombats_mottos07@icloud.com – Click to email about this post

Have you heard of A Course in Miracles? Been curious about it?

Here’s a link to a free copy, just pay for shipping ($8): theborderlandfoundation.com/book-order-form/

The Course is a psychological & spiritual tool for mind training and inner peace. Through its curriculum of 31 chapters, 365 lessons and a teachers manual, it helps us experientially to shift from the ego’s thought system to Holy Spirit’s and from fear to Love.

– It teaches us about psychology, philosophy, metaphysics, forgiveness, miracles, inner guidance and the power of decision making.
– It teaches us how to pray, ask, listen and trust so that we can heal and be healed.
– It teaches us about relationships and emphasizes the importance of transforming our special relationships into holy ones.
– It helps us to train and change our mind, so we can do our special function together and offer miracles to change the world.

“You are entitled to miracles because of what you are. You will receive miracles because of what God is. And you will offer miracles because you are one with God. Again, how simple is salvation!” (ACIM, W-77.1:1-4)