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Two different offerings:
Six weeks of Yoga for Bone Strength, Tuesdays at 1-2 PM, May 16-June 20, $50 for NCRD members, $75 for non-members.
or
One two hour restorative yoga session The Big Relax on Sunday, May 21 from 3-5 PM, $25 for NCRD members, $35 for non-members.
Space is limited to 10 students per offering. Call today NCRD (855) 444-6273 to reserve your spot.
First, it is important to know that the Nehalem Bay Health Center (NBHC) is a FQHC (Federally Qualified Health Center).
FQHC clinics are outpatient, low-cost clinics that receive federal grant funding and have specific reimbursement systems under Medicaid and Medicare. For a health center to qualify for federal support, it must meet strict standards:
• Provide services to everyone, regardless of their ability to pay
• Offer a sliding fee program
• Be a public or a non-profit organization
• Be community based
• Have a board of directors composed mainly of their patients
• Serve a medically underserved area
• Deliver comprehensive primary care services
• Have an ongoing quality assurance program
The Nehalem Bay Health Center is also recognized as a National Health Service Corps site. These are sites where newly minted physicians or dentists can seek a position in return for loan forgiveness.
When I came out of residency, I was not in the loan forgiveness program, but I did want to serve an underserved population.
Once clinics and hospitals know that you are looking to work in these areas, they begin to heavily recruit you; each clinic showing off what they can offer in terms of modern equipment, congenial colleagues, housing, etc.
I was lured by Navajo Area Indian Health Service because the recruiter was knowledgeable, responded quickly, and I was attracted to the area – Chinle, Arizona – despite it being remote because wonderful doctors worked there.
I provide this background to underscore that a new, modern health center in north Tillamook County with a seasoned medical staff that can mentors new physicians will attract new doctors and providers to our area. We already have the natural beauty and to be honest, we are not THAT remote or rural.
The Health Center has also done amazing outreach, including distribution of culturally appropriate food boxes to families in need and attendance at health fairs to educate and sign people up – both in Spanish and English – for Affordable Care Act benefits.
The NBHC also started a successful school based health center at Neahkahnie High School for students, teachers and families, and developed a transportation program to help people visit the health center. All of these efforts provide incredibly valuable services to the community, but there can be even more, and we will need more in the future. The bond measure addresses current needs, but also plans long term.
A new facility will improve quality and accessibility for everyone in the community, will attract more medical staff and benefit seniors, families and children.
I really hope the community supports this opportunity.
(Dr. Yvana Iovino is a retired OB/GYN. She practiced with the Indian Health Service in Arizona and with the Yakima Valley Farmworkers clinic in rural Eastern Washington. She lives in Manzanita and serves on the board of the non-profit Nehalem Bay Health Center and Pharmacy.)
For more information on the Bond Measure, please see www.nehalemhealthcare.com/
It’s in excellent condition – we’ve had this in our house while it was a second home but now that we’re here full time it’s a bit too big!
Email, call or text Michelle
503-314-0905
I’m clearing out my house. Almost everything (except a few sentimental things) is for sale, ranging from best offer to fair market price.
I have:
Books (all genres and conditions)
Dishware
Antiques
Chairs galore
Small end tables
Mirrors
Lamps
Clothes
Shoes
Jewelry
It’s all *in my house*, this means that you have to come inside my home to attend. Larger pieces of furniture will need help hauling down stairs.
Email for location, I’m thinking every Sunday until it’s all sold.
Please vote for Constance Shimek for NCRD
Thanks,
Barbara McLaughlin
Best regards,
Melinda Veil
The Manzanita City Council would like to thank all who attended the April Conversations with Council sessions where we discussed city hall. We deem it a great success—not only based on our observations but also on the many of you who attended and took the time to give us your feedback.
Attendees said they felt heard, got answers, and learned more about the process. The council members walked away with fresh ideas and a better understanding of the community’s perspectives—all of which will help us as we move forward.
And speaking of decision-making, May is packed full of council meetings: budget committee meetings, a short-term rental committee meeting, our regular council session, and a council workshop. These sessions will provide us with more information that we will pair with what we heard from you to make more informed decisions.
Given the time and effort we put into preparing for and attending the meetings, we will hold our next Conversations with Council sessions in June. Stay tuned for the topics and dates! Meanwhile, we’d like to hear more from you. Please send us ideas you’d like to discuss, city government procedures you’d like to hear about, preferences for the format, and dates and times you’d like us to host our Conversations with Council.
Loyally,
Manzanita City Council
Linda Kozlowski lkozlowski@ci.manzanita.or.us
Jerry Spegman jspegman@ci.manzanita.or.us
Jenna Edginton jedginton@ci.manzanita.or.us
Brad Mayerle bmayerle@ci.manzanita.or.us
The school shutdowns and mask mandates handed down from the CDC to the OHA to then Governor Brown to the boards of education traumatized a generation of children, drove up suicide rates, drove up drug abuse rates, increased domestic violence (specifically at-home child abuse), and set all of our children back emotionally and academically.
All of this was done ostensibly to prevent children from getting SARS-CoV-2, a disease from which the vast majority of children barely express symptoms.
Candidate Bayouth-Real has a history of social media posts containing hysterical views associated with the pandemic. Many of those posts suggest that the anti-scientific, unhealthy, and devastating restrictions placed on our children were not Draconian enough. She clearly lacks the balance and emotional stability needed to properly care for our children when difficult situations present themselves.
Landon Meyers is steadfast, firm, educated and a proven public servant. Our children need stability right now, they need a rock, they need someone who will fight for them, someone who will let them go to school, someone who will let them be children. Landon Myers is that someone.
Our children deserve a break from the hysterical covid tyrants. Let the kids learn, let the kids be kids.
Landon Meyers for School Board, Zone 2.
Andy Norris
Neahkahnie School District
But let’s take a look at Fauci, the undeserved ‘hero’ of the last several years.
Fauci’s been accused of mass-murder for decades.
First AIDS, now ‘covid’.
Remember AIDS and AZT? I do.
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I’ll be participating in the MooVote online candidate forum May 5th at 6pm and May 12th at 10am. I hope you tune in!
And thank you to everyone that came to my meet and greet today! It was nice to see some new faces. I received a few phone calls today as well, so thanks to you too!
Cheers!
Erin Laskey-Wilson
Thanks!
Kyle
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“ENJOY THE HEAT”
HAVE A GREAT DAY
Today I am announcing that I am suing Senate President Rob Wagner and legislative leadership.
It has become clear that some members of the legislature don’t even know what is in some of their most extreme legislation. There is no greater example of this than the audible gasp that was heard from one sponsor of HB 2002 when they found out in a public hearing that their bill would allow a 10 year old girl to get an abortion without her parents even knowing about it.
It made me wonder; how could someone not know how extreme legislation they put their name to really is? How could they not understand what is in their own legislation.
The reality is that legislation and summaries of legislation are regularly written at a comprehension level of college graduate or higher.
The Senate has a rule against this. It’s a rule that we’ve been violating for a very long time and now, because of some of the most extremist legislation the Oregon Legislature has ever considered, we are reaping the results.
I brought this up on the floor to President Wagner. He ignored me. I objected. He overruled me. He will not ignore me now.
I cannot stand for such disregard of the rules, the law and the constitution.
Dixie Gainer says –
Dear Tillamook County resident, The Democrats, including Governor Kotek, are behind this atrocious rule making abortion and gender change available to ten year olds without parental knowledge. Do you really want a ten year old person getting an abortion or gender changes without parental notification? Really! Our Oregon legislature is totally corrupt as I have been pointing out from time to time – caused by a practically 14 year Democrat majority.
Even though the Oregon constitution says that Oregon voters get to vote for their supreme court justices – every supreme court judge in Oregon has been placed there by Kate Brown. The Democrats, including Governor Kotek, are behind this atrocious rule, making abortion and gender change available to ten year olds. This means that more than likely if the supreme court rules on this – they will rule in favor of the violator of the rules. You can make a lot of money on the side if you are a legislator in Oregon! Recently Shemia Fagan, our Secretary of State tried to do that but was caught!
Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden supported funding requests for dozens of local projects across Oregon last year, however no project receiving Congressionally Directed Funding had more local support or will have more local impact than the Nehalem Bay Health Center and Pharmacy project in north Tillamook County.
The $3 million appropriation, championed by Merkley and supported by Wyden, will be used for the construction of the proposed new health center and was included in one of the last pieces of legislation passed by Congress in late December 2022. The congressional funds contribute to the total cost of the project.
In announcing support for the Oregon projects – the Health District project was among the most significant on the Oregon coast – Merkley said “no one knows the unique needs of communities across Oregon like the folks living and working in them … Community-initiated projects are an incredible example of this, because these local and regional projects were generated at the ground level by folks who are working to make their communities better.” (link to press release: www.merkley.senate.gov/news/press-releases/merkley-wyden-secure-funding-for-critical-projects-across-oregon)
To be considered for federal funding, local sponsors must demonstrate that they are addressing significant community needs and have broad community support. The application from the Nehalem Bay Health District included letters of support from the cities of Wheeler, Nehalem and Manzanita, the Tillamook County Commission, the Neahkahnie School District, Care Tillamook and the Emergency Volunteer Corps of Nehalem Bay.
In a letter of support to Merkley and Wyden last year, for example, Tillamook County Commissioners David Yamamoto, Mary Faith Bell and Erin Skaar wrote: “We are encouraged that the [health] district’s plans are based on a comprehensive strategic plan developed with extensive community input. That plan identified clearly that enhanced primary health care services are a critical need in the community.”
“The community support the Health District received from other units of government and non-profit organizations was critical to securing the federal funding,” said Health District president Marc C. Johnson.
Johnson noted that mayors and city council members in all the communities within the Health District have unanimously endorsed the May 16 bond measure that will provide additional funding, supplementing the $3 million, needed in order to build the new Health Center and Pharmacy.
The Health District is asking voters to support the May 16 bond measure that will support the construction of the new health center, as well as renovation and modernization of the Nehalem Valley Care Center, the skilled nursing and rehabilitation facility in Wheeler which is owned by the Health District, and site preparation for workforce housing for health care and other essential workers in the community.
For more information on the bond measure and as well as to see those supporting this effort visit: www.nehalemhealthcare.com
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