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Civic Saturday Sermon

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Submitted By: codger817@gmail.com – Click to email about this post
Join us Saturday, October 25 at 10 am for Tillamook County’s version of “Civic Saturdays” with Jim Heffernan hosting. The sermons explore new and better ways to be a citizen. They are aimed at developing “citizenship muscle. We will need “muscle” to bring power back to “We the People”, where it belongs. Each sermon functions as a stand-alone sermon. Don’t worry about missing earlier sessions.
This week’s sermon , number 17 of 19, is “Are We Enough?” and is 37 minutes long. Eric Liu expands on the central point that if we are to heal our politics, we need to do it ourselves with an amalgam of hope, optimism, and love. I found this sermon very inspiring. We can talk about the sermon afterwards, or not.
Sermon was first given on June 2, 2018, but, sadly, little has changed in the last seven years. I think he has to say applies to 2025 maybe more than it did 2018.
Zoom link below
Invite link for Saturday 10 AM
us06web.zoom.us/j/88905106346?pwd=TEaw5qfSN2X5UoxBHgZSF7UsqwMugD.1
Recordings are available for those who are unable to attend the zoom. Contact me at codger817@gmail.com and I’ll e-mail one to you. Recordings also available for earlier sessions.

Accountability Honesty Openness – Meeting

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MEN’S GROUP NORTH COUNTY
What: An inclusive and diverse Men’s Group
Where: 34610 Lodgepole Drive in Pine Ridge neighborhood
When: Second and Fourth Sunday of every month
Next : Sunday, October 26th, 3:00pm
Why: It is beneficial to experience a diverse circle of men – all ages – all walks of life – all points of view – let’s expand the possibilities
How: A few of us have been meeting for over ten years, others are new to the process. Each man adds to the gathering. We all have connection to a vast knowledge. The group intelligence is more expansive than the individual awareness. There is a great release and power in sharing our wisdom and vulnerabilities.
We are confidential.We are inclusive.We are diverse.New men are always welcome in this circle.Bring yourself.Be yourself.Add yourself to the mix – see what happens.
If you need directions or have questions call Michael at 503-616-6538

Liberace and Liza – A Tribute Nov 1st

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Submitted By: pac@ncrdnehalem.org – Click to email about this post
Coming to NCRD November 1st 7:00 p.m. LIBERACE AND LIZA – A TRIBUTE. Wildly improbable, completely irresistible! David Saffert and Jillian Snow re-imagine what might have happened if Liberace and Liza had ever actually shared a stage. Virtuosic piano playing, powerhouse vocals, and improv comedy! Two NCRD Patrons called it “BEST SHOW EVER!”. The SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE called it “SURREAL, YET ODDLY PERFECT!” New York, San Francisco, and now Nehalem. Reserved seating $30, general admission, $25 available at www.tickettomato.com/event/9671
PG-13 A special thanks to Ocean Inn for assisting with lodging for the artists.

Special AUTUMN EVENTS at Sea Dream Yoga in Nehalem!

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Submitted By: seadreamnehalem@gmail.com – Click to email about this post
The forest shimmers with the shades of October, the sunset of summer that moves us toward the crisp dawn of winter.

Tonight, a mile from the sea, I hear the rumbling of big waves against the sand bar. The wild world scurries and flutters in preparation of the ice storms and stillness soon to come. The air drapes us in the thick energy only Autumn can offer.

Our cozy studio space in Nehalem is holding a crystal grid of calm and nourishment for the soul this Autumn and into Winter. We invite you to take part in some of the sweet classes and events coming up this season! Read on…

SUN, OCT 26 | 11am(online only) | $33
ANCESTRAL JOURNEY FOR SAMHAIN with APRIL CLARK

Light your candles and lay back on pillows and blankets, at home/ from anywhere online. Listen and breathe as April drums a relaxing rhythm and guides you in a visualization journey practice, down into the realm of the ancestors. You are invited to create a beautiful connection with your loving ancestral guides.

April learned this offering from grandmothers in Ireland who have kept it alive. It is an ancient shamanic practice that is especially potent during the Autumn season, known as Samhain in Celtic/Irish tradition, as this is believed to be the time when the veil between the worlds is thin.
SUN, OCT 26 | 5pm | $25
SWEET AUTUMN RESTORATIVE LAST SUNDAYS with KATE SKAGGS
Steep in the transformative energies of autumn as you prepare your systems for the calm of winter. Soften into this deep relaxation practice of restorative yoga on the last Sunday evening of each month in Autumn! Yoga Teacher Kate Skaggs will guide you through this very gentle offering of meditation, subtle movement, and supportive poses on the floor or seated, held for many minutes. No prior experience needed!
SATURDAY, NOV 1 | 5pm | $50
9D BREATHWORK with MIKE BURNS
Spend a beautiful evening connected deeply inward, using your breath to move energy in a powerful way, while serenaded by a surround sound music experience. This is a transformative method to rewire your nervous system, under the careful and loving guidance of a practiced bodyworker and healer.
FRIDAY, Nov 7 | 4:30pm | $44

KING TIDES SOUND BATH with JESSE CLARK
Connect with the energy of the river mouth during the King Tide on November 7 through the musical serenade of hand pan and singing bowls, played by long time musician and lover of nature Jesse Clark.
PLEASE CHECK OUT OUR WONDERFUL WEEKLY YOGA, BARRE, PILATES, FREEDOM FLOW and OTHER CLASSES AS WELL — WE ARE ADDING A BUNCH OF NEW ONES IN THE COMING MONTHS (AND A FEW NEW TEACHERS TOO)!!!

Fresh Cranberries!!

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Submitted By: hiway53guy@nehalemtel.net – Click to email about this post
Fresh Cranberries to be had-2 pound bags of fruit straight out of our bogs in Gearhart (Oregon berries are best!!!) – they are the McFarland variety known as “Macs” in the industry. Harvested from one of our home bogs behind the farmhouse, where the vines are the workhorses of our farm, they are over 80 years old and continue to be high yield producers year after year supplying our cranberry kitchen trail and berry mixes.
Come take advantage of this once a year local berry bounty and support our local agriculture artisans too with thier wonderful variety of fruits and vegetables. It’s all happening at the White Clover Grange pop-up farmers market Saturday, October 25 from 11 to 2. See you there!

Facts Matter more than hogwash about Manzanita Classic Street Project

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Submitted By: mkuestner10@gmail.com – Click to email about this post
Mark Kuestner
To learn facts, go to an actual reliable source: The last Manzanita City Council meeting, Oct. 8 update is just that. Our Council and our City Administration is made up our our neighbors, who are honest people and are doing their jobs in full public view. Insulting them, while handy for attempting to manufacture social media outrage is tacky and inaccurate. And coming from an individual who has cost Manzanita tens of thousands of dollars in frivolous legal costs and whose vindictive actions have directly wasted innumerable hours of staff time over the years makes assertions about funding issues even more absurd. The presentation on Classic St. Project was very interesting, and we now have a work-around to the way too-expensive west-side of Classic retaining wall: Relevant audio of that meeting starts about 17 minutes into the City Council meeting. https://youtu.be/DMaatrAquhw For further clarification, the Council invites all of us to send questions to their shared email address: citycouncil@ci.manzanita.or.us

Award-Winning Cartoonist TOM TORO coming to HCA in November

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Submitted By: writing@hoffmanarts.org – Click to email about this post
Join us on Friday, November 7th, at 5:30pm for a multimedia event with Tom Toro as he presents his latest book release of cartoons with political, social and cultural commentary: And To Think We Started as a Book Club… (Andrews McMeel Publishing, October 2025).

Registration & More Information:
hoffmanarts.org/events/author-event-with-tom-toro/

Tom Toro is an acclaimed New Yorker cartoonist and cover artist, and award-winning children’s book author and illustrator.

Registration is open for his “Saturday Morning Cartooning” Writing x Visual Arts workshop on Saturday, November 8th, from 10am-1pm.

Come learn the craft of cartooning from one of The New Yorker’s contemporary stars! Together we’ll come up with cartoon ideas, and take them through the three major steps of conception, composition, and caption. By the end of the workshop, we’ll have enough cartoons to cover a fridge. No prior drawing or writing experience necessary.

Registration & More Information:
hoffmanarts.org/events/tom-toro-workshop/

NCCWP MONTHLY MEETING IN ROCKAWAY BEACH

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Submitted By: Rhonda.nccwp@gmail.com – Click to email about this post
Please consider attending the next general membership meeting at 6 pm on October 28th at the St. Mary by the Sea Parish Hall – 275 S. Pacific Street, Rockaway Beach. We will discuss the following agenda:

1. Prepare for City of Rockaway Beach November 12th Hearing on FEMA Floodplain Requirements.

2. Movie: The People vs Agent Orange. November 8th at the Tillamook Library. Doors open at 12:30 pm, showing at 1 pm. Free Admission. 

3. Nedonna Development Update: Applicant may still appeal to LUBA.

ALL ARE WELCOME.

NCCWP wants no more logging and pesticide use in community water sources regardless of who owns the land, and wants an end to pesticide applications near where people live, work and recreate. Safe drinking water and clean air are part of the public trust that we all are entitled to have. Please help North Coast Communities for Watershed Protection safeguard and restore our drinking watersheds. www.healthywatershed.org | www.facebook.com/
NCCWATERSHEDPROTECTION      
For more information contact: rockawaycitizen.water@gmail.com.
#peoplevsagentorange #stoppesticides #agentorangeawareness #agentorange #healthywatersheds #protectdrinkingwater #nccwp

No Kings and George Soros

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Submitted By: genedieken@yahoo.com – Click to email about this post
Of course, Dixie! It had to be Soros who shelled out the cash that caused seven million people to come to the conclusion that Trump and his Project 2025 hooligans are bad for America and then to show up in 2700 places coast to coast!

I’m sure he blew through a wad of cash buying inflatable frog costumes.

And of course! Those who did show up Saturday, in addition to being Soros-paid agitators, were terrorists, Marxists, pro-Hamas and antifa who hate America. House Speaker Mike Johnson and his Whip, the congressman from Lake Woebegon, Tom Emmert, were stalwart in telling us this in front of every camera they could find.

By modern standards, Soros’ wealth is out of scale compared to the tech bros who now embrace Donald Trump and the fascist right. And yes, Soros does spend his money in support of projects many moderate and left-wing people would consider generally appropriate.

George Soros net worth: 7.5 billion. He and his organization have probably given away 30-ish billion over his lifetime. He controls no global media/information platforms.

Elon Musk net worth: 490 billion. He literally bought the 2024 election for Trump, including just handing out cash to voters. He controls X and Grok AI. You can GoogleAI the worth of Musk’s delusional, far-right, eugenicist tech friends for yourself.

Koch family net worth: 150 billion. They fund Heritage Foundation/Project 2025.

Of course let’s be real, these days Those-Clouds-Are-Chemtrails!! is a far more compelling conspiracy theory than Soros-Funds-Everything-I-Don’t-Like.

Gene Dieken

(Usual note: Dixie Darrow is NOT the proprietor of the lovely Dixie’s Vino on Laneda in Manzanita.)

Ecstatic Dance this Sunday, 10/26 from 3:00pm-4:30pm

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Submitted By: neahkahniespiritdance@gmail.com – Click to email about this post
Ecstatic Dance this Sunday, 10/26 from 3:00pm-4:30pm

As we travel the unknown, let us lean into what we know we have: our passions, empathy and love—bring them to community together we will welcome, harness, and follow this fire.

https://open.spotify.com/track/6SdCI7OSOMrDmiqVA74Hbd?si=6ce05dccf2a445da

Elected Officials Let Portland Deteriorate

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Submitted By: dixiedarrow@icloud.com – Click to email about this post
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) building in Portland has been damaged by protestors. In June 2025, protestors broke glass doors and caused other damage, leading to the building being temporarily inoperable for nearly a month. Authorities have since arrested and indicted individuals for acts of vandalism and other crimes, including the damage to security cameras. 
Damage details: During protests in June 2025, protestors broke glass doors at the ICE facility. Other incidents included flammable material being placed against the building and a lit flare being used. One man was indicted for allegedly causing over $1,000 in damage to security cameras.
Impact: The incidents led to the facility being forced to close for nearly a month (from June 13 to July 7).
Law enforcement response: Federal agents have responded with pepper balls and rubber bullets during the demonstrations. The city of Portland police have made arrests, and a federal grand jury has indicted at least one man for damaging government property. 
Many more arrests have taken place this October.
The above info was copied from a page on the internet.

Do you think it is OK to damage property? What should happen to people who violate the law and damage property and buildings? What should happen to persons who block streets so that people going and coming home from work cannot get through? How about protesting from 10 pm to about 3 am in the morning sleep depriving persons who live in the area and have to go to work everyday? All these things are against the law -public nuisance and noise violations – but should be ignored? Sen Ron Wyden who is an Oregon senator even though he doesn’t live here, which is against law -says nothing is happening here – crickets – over reaction from the feds!
There is plenty to see if you watch the up-to-date videos on the internet. Portland used to be a wonderful city – I have lived in Portland from the time I was 13 and then retired here at the coast. I went to Portland State college and spent a lot of time in the park blocks downtown.
There was hardly any crime and no homeless people.

WHAT HAPPENED TO THIS ONCE BEAUTIFUL CITY,
AND WHY?

Manzanita Bait And Switch on Classic Street

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Submitted By: rkinor@gmail.com – Click to email about this post
Ms. Sophorn Cheang
Director of Business Oregon

Ms. Cheang,

The Manzanita Mayor and City Manager in describing to State officials the City’s need for funding the reconstruction of Classic Street specifically highlighted the failing road base and the need for a retaining wall along the west boundary of Classic Street.

Citizens were given the same story including a design for vehicle travel lane widths that complied with the City’s minimum standards for vehicle safety. We’re now getting none of this.

The City will claim that it doesn’t have enough money to pay for the recommended design. That’s a false explanation.

The City’s General Fund which is substantially funded by visitor Transient Lodging Tax revenue contains approximately $3.7 million dollars in unappropriated revenue in the current Budget. The purpose of these funds is to ensure that the City has adequate operating revenue from the start of the fiscal year on July 1st until property taxes are distributed from the County in November.

For Manzanita, the General Fund is not as dependent on property taxes as most other cities. A generous unappropriated ending fund balance to meet this contingency would be $500,000 thus leaving $3.2 million that City officials would be hard pressed to explain why these funds are not being used for City infrastructure improvements like Classic Street. There is nothing to prevent the City from spending these funds after completing a supplemental Budget process

City officials tell us that visitors pay for most of the City’s infrastructure and then refuse to allocate a single dollar of the available TLT revenue from the General Fund for this project. The hypocrisy of City officials is on full display.

20 years ago City officials were responsible for the initial poor design and construction of Classic Street that has given rise to the present unsafe conditions. Given a second opportunity, will they repeat their blunder based on false claims of an inability to find funding?

Ms. Chaeng, as I see it, Businesses Oregon has two options. Require the City to comply with the construction of the retaining wall and street design that was a part of the City grant funding request from your department. Businesses Oregon then becomes a partner in resolving a public safety issue and providing a long term stable Classic Street that provides safe transportation to both residents and the thousands of visitors who are coming to Manzanita and traveling on City streets.

Or, Businesses Oregon ignores the City’s stated objectives that were the basis of its funding request, fails to question the City’s false claim that it lacks funding to construct the project as recommended by its consultants, shrugs at the construction of a major street project that fails to meet minimum standards for public safety and is content to be a partner in a project that does nothing but put another band aid on Classic Street.

Ms. Cheang, Manzanita citizens are entitled to an explanation as to how your agency plans to address the status of this project going forward given the above facts.

Respectfully, Randy Kugler

Restore Native Plant Habitat with LNCT

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Submitted By: maijahecht@nehalemtrust.org – Click to email about this post
This Stewardship Friday, help native plants grow near Neptune Way! From 10am – 12pm we will be removing non-native competitors from Lower Nehalem Community Trust bayside habitat. You won’t need to be able to ID plants on your own, we can show you!

TIME: 10:00 – 12:00 FRIDAY the 24th
PARK: at the end of Bayside Gardens Rd.
MEET: walk back to Neptune Way.

Sometimes this spot can be mucky so plant to bring a pair of rubber boots. Tools and gloves are provided.

Celebrate a Conservation Milestone with Us!

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Submitted By: maijahecht@nehalemtrust.org – Click to email about this post
The Lower Nehalem Community Trust is proud to announce the official protection of 19.6 acres of forested tidal wetland habitat on the north edge of Nehalem Bay!

The project fulfills a vision first imagined more than twenty years ago, when LNCT launched the Protect the Edge campaign to safeguard and connect vital habitat from Alder Creek to Nehalem Bay State Park. These edge lands nurture wildlife, buffer neighboring communities from winter storms, filter water entering the bay, and provide access to connect with nature.

On Tuesday, October 28th from 3pm – 5pm we will gather at Alder Creek Farm to celebrate. Light refreshments will be served, followed by a short program and optional walking tour to the property (roughly a half mile walk on damp natural and gravel surfaces, or van shuttle available). We recommend water resistant footwear. All are welcome!

Halloween/Dia De Los Muertos Story Time and Crafts

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Submitted By: info@cannonbeachlibrary.org – Click to email about this post
Join us for bilingual story time at 1 p.m. on Saturday October 25th. We’ll read spooky (and not so spooky) stories in both English and Spanish, followed by crafting scratch-art animal eye masks for Dia De Los Muertos. Best for ages 0-8, but all ages and older siblings are always welcome. FREE Halloween books and treats while supplies last!

The Sharpenator at Green Coast Market on Saturday 10/25

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The Sharpenator returns to Green Coast Market this Saturday, October 25 from 10:30AM – 4PM. Bring your knives, scissors, axes, yard tools and pumpkin carving accessories!

Green Coast Market is proud to offer goods from over 85 other small Oregon entrepreneurs, with an emphasis on the North Coast products. If shopping local is important to you, check out these two reward opportunities:
tillamookchamber.org/shopsmall2025
www.rockawaybeach.net/shop-small

Green Coast Market is located at 117 South Miller Street in downtown Rockaway Beach, just south of the wayside parking lot. Open 10AM – 5PM Thursdays through Mondays (closed Tuesdays and Wednesdays). www.greencoastmarket.com

Manzanita Connections

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Submitted By: angelahatfield@icloud.com – Click to email about this post
Manzanita Connections is a free biweekly newsletter sent to your email box. It includes news and updates about local events, businesses, people, nonprofits, restaurants, etc., in the Nehalem Bay area. You can read this week’s and past weeks’ editions, as well as subscribe here:

manzanitaconnections.substack.com/