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Submitted By: kimmarkc@yahoo.com – Click to email about this post

Tillamook County Retired Educators and Teachers, TREAT, endorses school board candidates who support public education (which is for ALL students), have experience in administration and the field of education, understand state and district curriculum policies and budget issues, and have communication skills that will ensure that the business of the board is conducted in a collaborative and cooperative manner.

For more information about each endorsed candidate, visit the TREAT website at www.tillamookretiredteachers.org.

Your vote matters!

Submitted By: marc@manythingsconsidered.com – Click to email about this post

Marc Johnson here. President of the Nehalem Bay Health District board.

I am pleased to have the opportunity to respond to “Questions for Candidates” from the Tillamook County Pioneer.

Please take a moment to review my responses to questions about Nehalem Bay Health District priorities, including my thoughts on the Health District’s bond measure on the May 16 ballot.

www.tillamookcountypioneer.net/2023-may-special-election-tillamook-county-pioneers-questions-for-the-candidates-nehalem-bay-health-district/

FWIW … I have an opponent in the election who declined to respond to any questions about the Health District.
www.tillamookcountypioneer.net/2023-may-special-election-tillamook-county-pioneers-questions-for-the-candidates-nehalem-bay-health-district/

Submitted By: marc@manythingsconsidered.com – Click to email about this post

I am pleased to have the opportunity to respond to “Questions for Candidates” from the Tillamook County Pioneer.

Please take a moment to review my responses to questions about Nehalem Bay Health District priorities, including my thoughts on the Health District’s bond measure on the May 16 ballot.

FWIW … I have an opponent in the election who declined to respond to any questions about the Health District.

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

We are just beginning Pema Chodron’s book,
When Things Fall Apart. We are a buddhist inspired meditation Sangha that meets every Wednesday at 6 p.m. at St Catherine’s Sanctuary between Manzanita and Nehalem. This is an inclusive group welcoming all faith traditions.
We share a little silence, some focused study, and sharing. Nothing is required, not even the book.
Always open to interested persons. Free to all.

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

I fully endorse Constance Shimek for Position 2 on the North County Recreation District Board of Directors.

Constance really knows how to get things done. She is an enthusiastic supporter of NCRD and has been involved in MANY fund raising projects for them. Constance has been to almost every NCRD Board Meeting in the past 3 years. She will work hard to get our new pool built. She has many good ideas to help move NCRD forward through the years.

I have known Constance since 2007 when she moved here. We have been involved in many Garden Club activities over the years. Great ideas keep flowing from her, with the energy and follow-through required for completion. She has a great sense of humor, knows how to organize, works well with others, is efficient, and cares deeply about NCRD.

Her heart is in this endeavor. She will put her heart and soul into working on the NCRD Board. A vote for Constance Shimek is a vote for moving our community forward!
Thank you, kathleen moore

Submitted By: andynorris21@yahoo.com – Click to email about this post

I wasn’t intending to chime in on this largely functionary position, but I can’t shake an email I received from Constance.

After I pointed out that she was flirting with a violation of election law, she emailed me.

She was very nice, and that makes me feel a little bad writing this. And she thanked me for pointing out the election violation potential.

But then she wrote, in reference to the NCRD requiring SARS-CoV-2 experimental gene-therapy shots from Mode RNA, Astrazenica, J and J or Pfizerv being required for those wishing to enjoy certain NCRD offerings, as ‘water under the bridge.”

I’m sorry, but it is not ‘water under the bridge’. Not in your wildest dreams lady.

The NCRD victimized me.

And everyone else who was smart enough not to shoot Big Pharma’s junk. And we talk about it.

But I won’t be a victim. We won’t be victims.

It is NOT water under the bridge, and I will NEVER use NCRD services or facilities again. EVER.

And because this is the second time Constance has been incredibly blind, I need to chime in.

First, if I were on the board at NCRD I would not want her as a co-board member. She will likely need to be watched over, to make sure the NCRD does not get sued. I am very serious.

She was ready to engage in a ‘pay for votes’ scheme, and she would have done so had I not pointed it out.

This is basic common knowledge: you can’t pay people to vote for you.

And you want her to direct the NCRD?

Get ready to be sued.

Second, as a filmmaker, I wouldn’t hire her as a producer.

She just doesn’t have what it takes. And that job has roughly the same skill-set required as directors of corporate entities.

Finally, I see her yellow signs all over town, we all do.

But that only shows that she can drive around town and ask her friends to put up signs, and that alone does not make one qualified to direct the NCRD. I hope everyone can see through the signs everywhere nonsense.

Alas, this race doesn’t concern me.

But her blind-spot email sure does.

Andy Norris

Wheeler

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

News broke late last week that the Sunset Empire Transportation District, headquartered in Astoria, was suspending all operations on Saturday, April 30, 2023. The Daily Astorian article (April 27, 2023 www.dailyastorian.com/news/local/sunset-empire-transportation-district-to-suspend-operations/article_ac06e038-e55a-11ed-9751-7f2d3c260b1f.html), described the dire financial straits facing the District. How did this situation happen? What happens next? Answers to these questions will come. More importantly to me, is that the article told the human side of this sad story, that of the dozens of citizens who would be left stranded come Monday and be unable to get to needed medical and legal appointments, school or work. This story shines a defining light on the need for public transportation: that public transportation is critically intertwined with necessary medical care, important appointments, school and jobs and can lead to potential isolation when the bus no longer shows up. Especially hard hit will be those who cannot drive and who do not have family or friends on whom to rely.

The Tillamook County Transportation District thankfully is solvent and has buses and drivers. It is my hope that the Tillamook County Transportation District will extend a hand, or buses, to Clatsop County for a short time by offering limited routes, even if these are infrequent, to help citizens in need. We can be a good neighbor and an ongoing support to our Tillamook County residents that have important business beyond our county line.

I am running for a position on the Tillamook County Transportation Board. I understand how important public transportation is to our community, to individuals, our lives and livelihoods. If elected to the Board, I will work tirelessly to ensure that the Tillamook County Transportation District Board remains fiscally sound and responsibly managed. You have my commitment on this.

Mary Leverette
maryleverette.com

Submitted By: andynorris21@yahoo.com – Click to email about this post

Another war in the works.
I’ll make the anti-war signs if you stand on HWY 101.
In my view, Kim has surpassed Amy Goodman (I met her, she was the best for years) as the bravest and most relevant American female journalist.
Biden’s CIA overthrowing Sudan?:

and this:

and this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbEiHnPDUy0