While Rice started in traditional blues, he’s built upon that foundation with soul, R&B, folk and country to fashion a welcoming front porch where everybody wants to hang out into the wee hours.
The electric and high-energy band features a horn section and a thumping rhythm section to get your body moving. “My goal is to reach people in a way that they need to be reached,” Rice says, “to say things they may not get to say or hear things they may not normally get to hear.”
This free, family friendly concert, in Cannon Beach’s downtown city park, begins at 5:00PM. Attendees are encouraged to bring blankets, low-backed chairs and fully stocked picnic baskets. Dogs, Frisbees, soccer balls and the like are welcome too.
The park is located in downtown Cannon Beach, northeast of the Chamber of Commerce at 2nd & Spruce.
The concert is produced by the Tolovana Arts Colony and made possible by a Community Grant from the City of Cannon Beach.
Friday, August 21, 2026
Time: 9:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m., PT
Format: In person
Audience: K-5th grade educators, formal and nonformal
Materials Provided: Project WILD’s Flying WILD: An Educators’ Guide to Celebrating Birds
RSVP Required. Find the link at tolovanaartscolony.org or copy the link below.
Description:
Join ONREP for an engaging, hands-on professional learning experience exploring coastal birds through the Flying WILD Activity Guide. Using birds as a gateway to understanding ecosystems, this workshop connects wildlife, habitat, and human impact along Oregon’s coast.
Participants will experience a sequence of interactive activities, adapted to highlight coastal and seabird species, that model how to engage learners in observation, inquiry, and systems thinking. Together, we will examine how coastal birds depend on dynamic habitats such as rocky shores and open-ocean systems, and how these relationships can anchor cross-disciplinary learning.
Educators will leave with strategies, resources, and ready-to-use activities that support standards-aligned instruction and foster environmental literacy. Project WILD emphasizes helping students develop awareness, knowledge, and decision-making skills that lead to responsible actions for wildlife and natural resources.
This workshop is designed for formal and nonformal educators interested in integrating outdoor learning, wildlife science, and student-centered inquiry into their teaching, both indoors and outdoors.
TEEN NIGHT at North Coast Pinball is TOMORROW, Friday August 14th, 6-8 PM. FREE PINBALL and Games, Arts/Crafts for ALL TEENS! ALL TEENS WELCOME! (Teens Only) Please spread the word and send in your TEENS for FREE FUN!
Thank you!
Contact Christy for info/questions or to donate or volunteer for this event. (503) 800-1092
Our tent is open at both ends so you can walk straight through and meet the volunteers behind each of our programs:
-CERT. Neighbors trained to respond in the first hours after a disaster.
-Medical Reserve Corps. Medical and non medical volunteers ready to staff emergency care.
-WaSH. Safe water and sanitation when the taps and toilets stop working.
-GoBag. What to pack so you can leave your house in under five minutes.
-Prepare Your Neighborhood. How your street gets organized before anything happens.
-Emergency Communications. Staying in touch with your block when the phones go quiet.
-Shelters. Where people go when they cannot safely stay in their homes.
-Mass Care. The coordination behind all of it. Standing up a site like this one, working alongside our partner agencies and getting the right people and equipment where they need to be. Friday is a working demonstration of exactly that.
The MRC trailer will be open for walk through tours, and we will have Starlink running so you can see how we stay connected when the usual communication lines go down. Our friends at Nehalem Bay Fire and Rescue plan to join us as well.
Come with your questions. What goes in a GoBag. How your neighborhood gets organized. What happens to water after a big quake. Where people go if they cannot stay in their homes. We would rather answer those questions on a sunny Friday afternoon than during an emergency.
Thinking about volunteering? Stop by our table to check out the Volunteer Welcome Packet and fill out a Volunteer Interest Form. EVCNB’s new Volunteer Coordinator will be there to help get you started.
But few weeks later, Israeli planes along with our air force were attacking Iran. WHY? We were done. At the bequest of Israel we went again and bombed again. Main stream media will not say that Israel requested or demanded, but everybody who follows world affairs and gets their information from the internet knew right away. We were done with Iran- we didn’t need to go in again. So WHY?
And look what happened! Pandoras Box! Americans and especially MAGA people who voted for Trump’s “America First “ pledge” are very very angry. Me Too!
Iran is really no threat to this country, but Israel and Iran are enemies. We are the dog, and Israel is the tail, and the tail wags the dog!! And it has for a long time and I have always wondered why. It is because of AIPAC, the Israel lobby, that passes out lots of money to Americans who can do for Israel what Israel wants done. AIPAC is not registered with our government as all other lobbies are required to do. WHY?
The people of Israel do not like their current government and they haven’t liked it for a long time. There is nothing they can do about it.
Israel is a lovely country I hear. My son when he was 18 went over there and lived on a kibbutz and worked there for about a year. He loved it there. He married an Israeli girl.
My grandchildren have gone to Hebrew school, and I have attended the oldest one’s Bot Mitzvah. I am not jewish.
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AIPAC is the Israel lobby. It is not registered as is required by law! WHY? It is a loose coalition of individuals and organizations working to shape foreign policy in support of the State of Israel. Major groups include the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)and Christians United for Israel, influencing legislative aid, elections, and diplomatic relations.
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) accumulates its SUBSTANTIAL FINANCIAL INFLUENCE through a vast network of dedicated individual donors, wealthy benefactors, and affiliated political action committees (PACs) rather than funding from foreign governments. (The above copied from internet)
The country of IRAN has a very repressive government that sometimes beheads or imprisons their citizens for wanting basic freedoms. The country of Israel has committed genocide and their leader Netanyahu faces active criminal indictments in Israel for corruption and an international arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court (ICC) for alleged war crimes.
By the way. Israel has a nuclear bomb – They are not supposed to have one. How does this happen? A few shekels cross a palm? Maybe!
My guessing where Israel gets the money to hand out large chunks of it to those who do its bidding is pure speculation on my part.
Live music by local Musicians
Local shopping specials
Pinball
Come out, support local and have some fun with us
The Emergency Volunteer Corps of Nehalem Bay (EVCNB), along with the Nehalem Bay Fire District, will be set up in the main City Hall parking lot off Manzanita Avenue to share the good word about emergency preparedness in our community. This means that the City Hall parking lot will be CLOSED to customers and parking will be tighter than usual in the neighborhood. Walking, biking and carpooling are encouraged! Or come later in the day to avoid the largest crowds.
All eight EVCNB programs will be represented under one tent, the MRC trailer will be open for walk through tours, and they will have Starlink running so you can see how they stay connected when the usual lines go down. If you have been thinking about volunteering, find the Volunteer Coordinator table for a Welcome Packet and an Interest Form. No experience needed. Just come say hello.
See you Friday, 4-7, at 635 Manzanita Ave behind City Hall.
One of the ongoing monthly CUP events is the Conscious Aging and Community Connections program. A group of local volunteers create and coordinate this once a month program, designed to bring people in our area together to talk and learn about meaningful and joyful aging.
On Monday, Sept. 14, 2-4PM, the Conscious Aging Program will continue our conversation about Aging in Place. At this gathering we will brainstorm and discuss ways to make aging in place more possible.
Is there something you would like to share with others in our wonderful community? If so, go to www.thepinegrove.org/communityuseprogram to learn more about the CUP program.
The Pine Grove Community House will have a booth at the Manzanita Farmers Market, Friday, August 14. If you have questions or ideas for CUP events, or Pine Grove membership, please stop by.
The darkness is calling…
AUDITIONS ANNOUNCED! SUNDAY, AUGUST 16TH AND MONDAY, AUGUST 17TH
Tickets and audition details at:
www.riverbendplayers.org
Riverbend Players Community Theater invites you to audition for DRACULA: THE RADIO PLAY, a thrilling live recreation of the golden age of radio, where eerie voices, spine-tingling sound effects, and your imagination bring Bram Stoker’s legendary tale to life.
Audition Schedule:
Sunday, August 16, 2026 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Monday, August 17, 2026 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM
NCRD Performing Arts Center in Nehalem
Directed by Tom Cocklin
No memorization required! Auditions will consist of cold readings from the script. Radio theater is all about storytelling through your voice, so actors may be asked to perform multiple characters using different voices, accents, and vocal styles.
You may also have the opportunity to create live sound effects (foley), an essential part of the magic that brings this classic tale to life.
Whether you’re a seasoned performer or have never stepped on stage before, this is a fun, creative, and welcoming way to experience live theater.
Performance Dates: September 25 – October 11, 2026
Come lend your voice to the legend… if you dare.
For more details, visit the audition page of our website: www.riverbendplayers.org
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We are located in downtown Manzanita.
If you are interested please call Angela at 971-710-5889.
We look forward to hearing from you!
The darkness is calling…
AUDITIONS ANNOUNCED! SUNDAY, AUGUST 16TH AND MONDAY, AUGUST 17TH
Tickets and audition details at:
www.riverbendplayers.org
Riverbend Players Community Theater invites you to audition for DRACULA: THE RADIO PLAY, a thrilling live recreation of the golden age of radio, where eerie voices, spine-tingling sound effects, and your imagination bring Bram Stoker’s legendary tale to life.
Audition Schedule:
Sunday, August 16, 2026 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Monday, August 17, 2026 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM
NCRD Performing Arts Center in Nehalem
Directed by Tom Cocklin
No memorization required! Auditions will consist of cold readings from the script. Radio theater is all about storytelling through your voice, so actors may be asked to perform multiple characters using different voices, accents, and vocal styles.
You may also have the opportunity to create live sound effects (foley), an essential part of the magic that brings this classic tale to life.
Whether you’re a seasoned performer or have never stepped on stage before, this is a fun, creative, and welcoming way to experience live theater.
Performance Dates: September 25 – October 11, 2026
Come lend your voice to the legend… if you dare.
For more details, visit the audition page of our website: www.riverbendplayers.org
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