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Trash Bash Turns 25! SAVE THE DATE

Submitted By: jessi@heartofcartm.org – Click to email about this post
The Trash Bash Arts Festival is about to turn 25. That’s right! It has been 25 years since the very first celebration of reimagined trash and it’s time to come out again to celebrate the artistry and creativity of our community. Together, let’s reimagine all the things that trash can be:
Can it be a great story and conversation piece? Oh, yes it can.
Can it be beautiful art? Absolutely.
Can it bring us together as a community to sing and dance and find creative ways to keep it out of landfills? You betcha.
And can it be a wearable designer gown, lighting up a runway? Well, why not come out and see for yourself?
Heart of Cartm is inviting every community member to come out to the White Clover Grange in Nehalem, OR, from Thursday, May 16 to Sunday, May 19, 2024, to celebrate the silver jubilee of the Trash Bash Arts Festival. There will be music, food, art, and spoken word. There will be fun. There will be trashion, and there will be . . . a community that is not afraid of facing its trash head-on and gathers to playfully discover all the things that trash can be. Don’t miss out on all this fun!
In fact, why not help us shape the celebration? Don’t just stand on the sidelines; we want you to dive in and get involved. Whether you’d like to volunteer, donate to the cause, submit art, tell a trash tale, or walk the runway, we want you rising from the trashes with us!
This year’s poignant Trash Bash theme is “RISING FROM THE TRASHES”. Jessi Just, Executive Director of Heart of Cartm in Wheeler, OR, points out that the board chose this theme because it rang true for so many of us who are rebuilding, reorganizing, and reimagining our lives after the COVID-19 pandemic. In fact, the image of a phoenix rising from the (tr)ashes even describes Heart of Cartm’s story itself, which had to be reimagined into existence after the contract with the transfer station in Manzanita was not renewed in 2018. Thankfully the board persevered, continued to meet, and reimagined itself as Heart of Cartm, which carries on CARTM’s original mission to lead our community to zero waste. Heart of Cartm opened its new creative reuse store in Wheeler in 2021 and welcomes visitors, patrons, donors, and volunteers Thursday–Monday, noon–6pm.
So, come on out and be part of the fun! Let’s celebrate transformation, community, and creativity (all while keeping our waste out of landfills) as together we Rise from the Trashes!
To become a creative community activist, help us keep trash out of landfills, and have fun while you’re at it, sign up at www.heartofcartm.org/trash-bash-2024#involved and let us know how you’d like to get involved. We can’t wait to see you there!

Save the date and join us! Once again, here are the details:
LOCATION: White Clover Grange, Nehalem, Oregon
DATE: Thursday, May 16 to Sunday, May 19, 2024
MORE INFO: Visit our website to learn more about participating as an artist, designer, storyteller, or volunteer: www.heartofcartm.org/

Oak Tryptic Mirror For Sale

Submitted By: bevgailmg@gmail.com – Click to email about this post
The photo won’t post but will be sent via text or email to interested folks. The center mirror is 53 inches at top of the arch to 28 inches across. The side wings are
37 inches at high point by 12 inches across.
This is a lovely oak trimmed mirror. Asking $50.00
208-899-9414
Cash preferred. You may pick up in Rockaway or we may deliver within the area.

FOR SALE-Heated Massager for Chair or Car

Submitted By: banjo2@nehalemtel.net – Click to email about this post
FOR SALE – Neck and Shoulder Heated Massager

NEW In Box – Two speeds plus reversible massage.
Works both as an AC or car lighter plug in for your car.

Nice enough to give as gift – that’s how I acquired it. These sell for between $70. and $120.
Yours for $35.

It does feel good. I just don’t find myself using it and I’m working on de-cluttering.

Call or Text Lori
503-801-0774
banjo2@nehalemtel.net

(Please email if my photos don’t come through)

Rice & Shine’s Response to the Tweakerville Post

Submitted By: mandy.conley@yahoo.com – Click to email about this post
Hello! Rice & Shine here,

While we greatly appreciate the kind words that were expressed regarding us and our food cart, we do feel the need to express that we have no plans of leaving this town. We have dealt with our fair share of chaos including flooding, theft, crazies, and other things. No town is perfect. With that being said, Wheeler still remains our favorite little town on the coast! We love this town so much and the people in it.

We’re just so stoked to be here! Rest assured we aren’t going anywhere!
That’s all 🙂

<3,
Mandy & Casey
Rice & Shine

Looking To Leave Tweakerville (Wheeler)

Submitted By: andynorris21@yahoo.com – Click to email about this post
Can you please update my post and delete the other if possible?

Good morning,

I am casually looking to get the hell out of Tweakervile (Wheeler) as the crime is getting quite bad.

The first thing I do everyday is look out the window to see if my cars are there, and then I look at the pavement to see if they have drilled my gas tanks. It’s like I’m living in Portland again.

The recent days/months have seen:

My housemate’s gas tank getting drilled, the tweaker/zombie (that’s what he looked like on the video) only took one gallon of gas, and let the rest drain all over the street and into the storm drain and then into the bay. My housemate had to get a tow and pay for the fix, of course, and then he started parking blocks away at a friend’s house and walking home.

The city of Wheeler’s excavator was stolen, three blocks away from me. Yes, the excavator.

Last week, Rice and Shine, a very hard-working young couple’s excellent food cart, had their large propane tank stolen ($300 when empty). One of my cars was parked 30-feet away. I expect Rice and Shine’s food cart will be leaving Tweakerville soon as well. Like me, they probably take a breath of relief when they arrive and see that their food truck is still there. It sucks living like this. (If anybody knows of a spot for them in a town where their stuff won’t get stolen and they can operate their business in peace, maybe give them a shout?)
Tweakers regularly get off the Wave and walk one block up the hill for their drugs to the tweaker-dealer matriarchs sh*t-hole of a house. Everyone knows she’s the biggest dealer around, including law enforcement, but apparently nobody in city government gives enough of a crap to do anything about it. Maybe because there is no money because we spent it all helping Russia destroy Ukraine; woulda been $300,000,000 for each congressional district. Just a small portion of that money would have been enough to get these shameless thieving tweakers into rehab and/or jail, from Astoria to Tillamook.

There is another drug-dealing tweaker apartment complex up the street as well, the city knows about that shooting gallery as well.

My neighbors truck was stolen last year, with his work tools inside. Forgot about that one.

A mile or so away, tweakers sawed their way into the Mohler Co-Op, and stole a generator. Yup, cut a hole in the wall from the outside.

A BIG dump truck that was parked at that transportation facility next to Nehelam Elementary School was stolen, and I hear later recovered at the famed Foss Road tweaker compound.

A while ago, a different BIG dump truck was stolen and driven up the logging roads above Coal Creak and stripped.

One local business owner here in Tweakerville told me they no longer decorate out front because the tweakers steal everything, from hose faucets to potted flowers. So whomever is selling that newly constructed tiny house along HWY 101 in Wheeler, make sure to tell the buyer not to keep anything outside, including faucets and flowers, and make damn sure to lock the door when you leave.

I think the DPO’s decriminalization of the CCP-made fentanyl, cartel-produced meth and cartel-produced liquid heroin, along with Democrats’ refusal to honor our country’s southern border, isn’t so good for Wheeler, or Oregon in general.

Or life in general for that matter.

And wow, I wasn’t even thinking of the fentanyl overdoses when I wrote that above, I was just thinking that the quality of life under Oregon’s Democrat rule is rapidly degrading, as it has been for many years now. Oregon Dems quickly ruined Portland for God’s sake, like real fast; that city was the jewel of the northwest, and the destruction has been quarterbacked by none other than Ted Wheeler, an heir of this town’s namesake, for the past several years.

The DPO will ruin the rest of the state too before they are finished. They are the majority for the foreseeable future in the governance of our state. We are so screwed. Lovely Oregon as it once was is toast.

And Wheeler, of course, isn’t going to get any better any time soon. It’s going to get worse and worse and worse and worse. Mark my words. Remember reading this.

So, as I said, I am casually looking to get out of Wheeler, this Little Town of Methlehem. The amazing mountain views and easy access to the bay for kayaking and fishing isn’t worth the stress of living here. A new car costs more than a salmon tag.

Relocating to tweaker-haven Foss Road would not be an improvement, so not interested in that area.

I am looking for a two-bedroom for me and my honors student teen daughter, somewhere between Bay City and CB, and as far away from thieving tweakers as possible.

Andy

🙂

Cedar Basket Weaving Workshop at the Hoffman Center for the Arts

Submitted By: visualarts@hoffmanarts.org – Click to email about this post
Only a few seats remain!!

On February 10th and 11th, Join Stephanie Craig, a seventh-generation traditional basket weaver, as she leads a two-day workshop sharing her knowledge of traditional lifeways, culture, ecological knowledge, foods, medicines and utilitarian plants. Students will learn how to gather, process and use cedar bark to create a woven basket using multiple traditional weaving techniques.

For more information contact the Hoffman Center for the Arts website (classes) at: www.hoffmanarts.org

Ask about our scholarship programs!!

North coast Veteran for Peace Meeting

Submitted By: briantjmcmahon@gmail.com – Click to email about this post
Hey everybody.

It’s Veterans for Peace time. We’ll be having our next meeting Thursday, February 8th at
10:30 PST at the Offshore Grill in Manzanita. Anybody and everybody is welcome. You need not be a veteran to attend.
If you can’t attend in person, the following is a zoom link that you can use:

Join Zoom Meeting
us06web.zoom.us/j/87151437713?pwd=aG4zT9MK31KkF6ad34cRvicQaCEON7.1

Meeting ID: 871 5143 7713
Passcode: 630217

Brian

FREE Spine Check Day!

Submitted By: gracefulwaves@gmail.com – Click to email about this post
Everyone deserves a healthier nervous system and more flexible and adaptable spine!
This special opportunity includes a personalized Report of your Postural Health, as well as a mini spinal exam and your first gentle spinal adjustment with Dr. Dawn.

Afterwards, if you would like to continue your wellness journey with us, you will have the opportunity to receive a specially discounted and more comprehensive Initial Exam and Introduction to Chiropractic Care.

Due to the limited space available, we request that you book online here: app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule.php?owner=12487570&appointmentType=11409294&fbclid=IwAR2kDTQKUWkADGyM-UgtliCGGHn7oEUzZMb6JMKvOnLF_lGn1jYpxoT5DCQ

This our first Free Spine Check Day of the year— Don’t miss this incredible opportunity to prioritize your health and experience the benefits of a properly functioning spine and nervous system!

If for any reason you find that you cannot attend,
kindly cancel your appointment via your booking confirmation email so that someone else may have the opportunity to benefit from this special event. Thank you!

We look forward to having the honor of serving you and your loved ones!
**For new patients and local community members only**

Where: Graceful waves Wellness Center
206 S Marine Dr
Wheeler, OR 97147

When: Saturday, February 2nd @9am – 1pm

Looking To Leave Tweakerville (Wheeler)

Submitted By: andynorris21@yahoo.com – Click to email about this post
Good morning,
I am casually looking to get the hell out of Tweakervile (Wheeler) as the crime is getting quite bad.

The first thing I do everyday is look out the window to see if my cars are there, and then I look at the pavement to see if they have drilled my gas tanks. It’s like I’m living in Portland again.

The recent days/months have seen:

My housemate’s gas tank getting drilled, the tweaker/zombie (that’s what he looked like on the video) only took one gallon of gas, and let the rest drain all over the street and into the storm drain and then into the bay. My housemate had to get a tow and pay for the fix, of course, and then he started parking blocks away at a friend’s house and walking home.

The city of Wheeler’s excavator was stolen, three blocks away from me. Yes, the excavator.

Last week, Rice and Shine’s (a very hard-working young couple’s excellent food cart) large propane tank ($300 when empty) across the street was stolen. I expect they will be leaving Tweakerville soon as well.

Tweakers regularly get off the Wave and walk one block up the hill for their drugs to the tweaker-dealer matriarchs sh*t-hole of a house. Everyone knows she’s the biggest dealer around, including law enforcement, but apparently nobody in city government gives enough of a crap to do anything about it. Maybe because there is no money because we spent it all helping Russia destroy Ukraine; woulda been $300,000,000 for each congressional district. Just a small portion of that money would have been enough to get these shameless thieving tweakers into rehab and/or jail, from Astoria to Tillamook.

There is another drug-dealing tweaker apartment complex up the street as well, the city knows about that shooting gallery as well.

The Wheeler tweaker-matriarch’s son (a self-described meth head) lives one block away from me.

And his girlfriend (who I assume is also a tweaker) just moved into the unit beneath me. (My very cool landlord didn’t know, she looked good on paper). Within three days she was arrested after waking up the neighborhood with blood-curdling screams after drunkenly smacking up her boyfriend.

So, as I said, I am casually looking to get out of Wheeler. The amazing view and bay access for kayaking/fishing isn’t worth the stress of living here. I also fear for my daughter when she comes home at night.

Relocating to tweaker-haven Foss Road would not be an improvement, so not interested in that area.

I am looking for a two-bedroom for me and my honors student teen daughter, somewhere between Bay City and CB, and as far away from thieving tweakers as possible.

Andy

🙂

Join Us TOMORROW! for Into the Muck, an Esutuary talk @ NCRD

Submitted By: emilyakdedian@nehalemtrust.org – Click to email about this post
INTO THE MUCK: Estuary Management, Monitoring and Restoration on the Nehalem

Join the Lower Nehalem Community Trust, Oregon Shores Conservation Coalition, Tillamook Estuaries Partnership, and the Nehalem Bay Watershed Council for an evening gathering and presentation on the importance of our estuaries and the management, monitoring and restoration of our Nehalem Bay.

Speakers: Annie Merrill (Oregon Shores), Zac Mallon (NBWC), Flynn DeLany and Colin Jones (TEP)

WHEN: Tuesday, February 6th. Doors open at 5:30 for refreshments, presentation to begin at 6pm.

WHERE: NCRD Kitchen and Gallery, 36155 9th Street, Nehalem, OR 97131 (or option to join virtually)

REGISTER: www.nehalemtrust.org

We hope to see you there!

‘CRIMES OF THE HEART’ OPENS MARCH 1st. TICKETS ON SALE NOW!

Submitted By: admin@riverbendplayers.org – Click to email about this post
– Opening March first! Tickets On Sale Now at RiverbendPlayers.org
This darkly comedic play by Beth Henley delves into the messy lives of the Magrath women, each grappling with their own “crimes of the heart.”
Under a searing Mississippi sun, the Magrath sisters’ fragile lives shatter when Babe, the youngest, shoots her philandering husband.
Summoned home, the eldest, Lenny, wrestles with small-town stagnation and dreams of escape.
Meg, the middle sister, a washed-up singer, drowns her past in whiskey, returning with secrets clinging to her like Spanish moss.
As Babe’s legal storm brews, the kitchen of their childhood home becomes a pressure cooker of buried memories and blistering truths.
Past resentments erupt, revealing the scars of their mother’s suicide and their father’s desertion.
Their eccentric cousin Chick stirs the pot, while their flamboyant lawyer Barnette offers shaky legal support and a dash of unexpected romance.
This Pulitzer Prize-winning play paints a bittersweet portrait of Southern women struggling to rise above their “crimes of the heart” and embrace the promise of a brighter future.
Tickets on sale now at RiverbendPlayers.org –

Two dance events this week : Thursday 6:30pm and 2nd Sunday Sweat your Prayers 11:00

Submitted By: neahkahniespiritdance@gmail.com – Click to email about this post
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Thursday 2.8
6:30-8pm (doors open at 6 for warm up/set up)
Hosted by Reeva

Our Second Thursdays are a bit more guided.
We will begin with an Ecstatic Dance playlist entitled:
Where I Am is What I Need.

In the middle we will jump into Deep Play practice exploring improvisational movement scores and prompts. This contemplative movement journey will encourage you to follow your curiosity, imagination, and kinesthetic delight!
We will end with a moving meditation practice to tap into body-mind awareness and locate ourselves and our fellow movers together in presence, sound, and stillness.
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Sunday 2.11
11:00-12:30 pm
(doors open at 10:30)
Sweat your Prayers: Ecstatic Dance
Hosted by Fae

This is a free-flowing dance and movement experience where you are encouraged to dance and enjoy the experience however you’d like with an intention of connecting deeper to yourself and exploring movement without words.

It’s an open space to play, celebrate life and community, practice embodiment modalities, enjoy world rhythmic music, process emotions, connect with others, and ultimately be nourished by the experience on a physical, emotional, energetic, and spiritual level. No dance experience necessary

Both events at the White Clove Grange, HWY 53 Nehalem
$10 or sliding scale of $5 if you need, $15 if you can.
Work trades are available, be in touch.

Hope to see you on the dance floor!

Self Care Community Wellness Event- February 16th, 6:30 PM at Rising Hearts Studio

Submitted By: Christy@cosmichealingnw.com – Click to email about this post
Hello BBQ Community-

Community Acupuncture- Singing Bowls – Grounding Tea

Please join Megan Lucas LAc and Certified Sound Healer Christy Kay for a special February Self Care/Self Love Community Wellness Event at Rising Hearts Studio, Friday February 16th, 6:30 PM – enjoy community acupuncture, while bathing in the sounds of healing singing bowls, with grounding tea offering to follow.
$50/person
Space limited- registration required app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule.php?owner=20787704&appointmentType=58532489

Meet your practitioners:
Megan Lucas, LAc, MAOM. NADA certified.
A licensed acupuncturist, Megan feels grateful to live on the north coast with her family. As a practitioner, she aims to help patients to improve their lives through deepening their relationship to their health through encouraging lifestyle changes. She offers acupuncture, bodywork, shiatsu, breathwork and recommendations on diet, movement, and herbal medicine. Her treatments focus on
the goals of the patient and the connection to their healing journey. As someone who has gone through intense illness and trauma, she understands the challenges people may face in their healing
journey.
She enjoys hiking, foraging, hunting, fly-fishing, writing, floating the river or collecting wild herbs for salves and tinctures, often alone and often with her family. She continues to work toward being a
beacon of light for others so they may more easily navigate the storm of life, and is looking for new opportunities to reach the community to offer services.

Christy Kay is a Vibrational Medicine Practitioner who lives on the North Oregon Coast. She has been studying health and wellness most of her life, in an effort to overcome chronic illness, including several autoimmune diagnoses. After a serious car accident over 10 years ago, she found herself with a traumatic brain injury, a broken back, and PTSD. With training and certifications in over a dozen healing modalities, she found the greatest relief through Energy Medicine. Sometimes it is hard to become unstuck. Using an array of energetic practices, her passion and gifts lie in facilitating healing on a deep energetic level for clients who want deeper peace, health, and wellness in their lives. When energetic flow is brought back into balance, we are more able to move forward and step into our Divine Self. Christy knows that healing the whole person, in all realms, will create more happy, vibrant souls who will create a better, more peaceful world. She has a private healing practice, Cosmic Healing NW, working one on one with clients since 2017. She opened Rising Hearts Studio in 2020 to be able to offer healing arts events to her community.
Christy is a Reiki Master/Teacher, Certified Sound Healer, Certified Crystal Therapy Practitioner, Registered Holistic Health Practitioner, and Registered Metaphysician who blends a large array of healing modalities together to help you truly heal!
Visit www.cosmichealingnw.com for more info on Christy Kay

Please join us for this Healing Community Event!

What Good Democrats Say About Corruption

Submitted By: dixiegainer@gmail.com – Click to email about this post
ABOUT CORRUPTION
( I ex’d their names out to prevent retaliation.) because we need all the good Democrats we can get and we need more Republicans in our legislature for a balance – I am for a balanced legislature.
In the past few months, a handful of Democrat office holders have gone public with their protest against their own political party for what they see as the abuses of one party rule in Oregon.
This week, Democrat Oregon state Representative XXXXXXXX has left the Democrat House Caucus because of how the caucus was hiding things from the public and how decision making power was made behind closed doors. XXXXX explains in a very bold and eye-popping letter in the Oregonian :
He said his Party overrode the duty of the people:
“I could not continue to participate in a caucus that had stopped acting democratically. We had failed to set a positive example of transparency and engagement and stopped supporting laws that returned power to the people we represent. Instead, we let our partisan desire to maintain power override our duty to the people….”
They kept the public in the dark:
“Since I joined the caucus in 2019 as a freshman legislator, it has become less and less democratic. My fellow Democratic lawmakers and I met privately each day during the legislative session. We debated proposals like the Student Success Act and public pension reform, and we did not even inform the public about the topics of our discussions and preemptive decisions.”
It was extreme partisanship:
“Over time, we even stopped debating the issues, as caucuses became a forum for leadership to give orders to ensure the Democratic agenda prevailed over the Republicans’ agenda, regardless of whether it was in the public interest.”
Driven by a few people in secret:
“…worst of all, leadership positions were filled based on success in fundraising, not merit or expertise. The House Democratic leaders even stopped telling the caucus members about their discussions. In effect, the content and direction of legislation for all of Oregon was decided by a group of 10 or fewer people picked by their ability to raise money, in secret.”
this Democrat was not alone.
Oregon State Representative XXXXXXX broke with his Democrat caucus when it came time for the hyper-partisan redistricting vote. Redistricting is where politicians get to set the boundaries of their political districts.  The recent 2021 redistricting plan was sharply criticized by local and national media for being too partisan where it made it easier for one political party to seek re-election but hindered the other.
A third Democrat lawmaker, Betsy Johnson recently announced that she is leaving the Democrat Party and is switching her registration to Independent in order to make a run for Governor.  Like Rep. XXXX, she too explains that modern lawmaking has become too partisan, too one-sided and too remote from the people.
 
This article was taken from Oregon taxpayers association and it is a few years old – but this remains true

I Xxd out the names to prevent retaliation

EUROS RECEIVED !!

Submitted By: helidoni@nehalemtel.net – Click to email about this post
The community has many travelers. Thanks so much to everyone who responded to my request for Euros. And big thanks to Chuck and Barbara for maintaining the BBQ for so many years!
It would be great if the beneficiaries of the BBQ would contribute something to one of their favorite causes. It would be meaningful.
Thanks again!