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

Come offer your miraculous ordinariness each Wednesday at 6:00 p.m. in St Catherine’s Sanctuary.

We are a buddhist inspired Sangha gathering to share what is possible.

You will be welcomed.

There is never a cost. If you cannot step out of a market economy, give something away to whatever dog-worthy.

In peace.

Submitted By: cava02@centurylink.net – Click to email about this post

Tillamook County Retired Educators and Teachers PAC, TREAT, has endorsed five candidates for re-election to the Tillamook Bay Community College Board of Education.

Mary Jones, Position 1
Andrea Goss, Position 2 (unopposed)
Shannon Hoff, Position 4 (unopposed)
Betsy McMahon, Position 5
Mary Faith Bell, Position 7

All five candidates deserve and need your vote. These current board members have helped guide the college in its development of strong academic and vocational training that is accessible to everyone in our community.

Go to the TREAT website at www.tillamookretiredteachers.org for more information about each of these candidates. TREAT is also on Facebook at tillamookretiredteachers.

Below are the three TBCC Board candidates who are running opposed. Your vote for them will be a vote for public education and the success of ALL students.

Submitted By: elaskey86@gmail.com – Click to email about this post

First, I’d like to thank the Tillamook County Pioneer and MooVoter for putting on the event Friday night. I enjoyed participating!
There were a couple of topics we discussed in the forum that I would like to revisit and clarify.

One topic that really concerns me is some residents not feeling welcome at the NCRD. I have used the NCRD my entire life, and now almost daily for over 6 years, and not once did I ever have any feeling of un-welcomeness. Perhaps that’s just my experience. However, I’m aware that a few private groups did practice some exclusions during Covid and that this did leave some people with bad feelings. I would like to take a look at policy regarding the use of the NCRD space, keeping in mind that we want all people to feel comfortable, safe and welcome.

Another topic I want to touch on addresses the inclusivity of the NCRD due to scholarships based on financial need. It was mentioned in Friday night’s forum that there are no programs to ensure people with lower incomes can afford to participate at the NCRD. I thought this was odd because I was quite sure there were scholarships available to anyone who asks, but I don’t like speaking about topics unless I have the facts in front of me. I’ve now confirmed that indeed there are scholarships available, based on financial need, for participants in all three NCRD departments (Youth & Sports, Fitness and Aquatics.). In fact, in just the past six months, Friends of NCRD funded $2,737.30 for scholarships in Quarter 1 (Jan-Mar 2023) – and for Quarter 4 (Oct-Dec 2022) Friends funded $2,843.80 in scholarships. Those are sizable quarterly amounts and should not be forgotten or misrepresented. We should take great care in relaying correct information to the community. It’s important for people to know the NCRD is available to ALL residents of North County.

We can’t please everyone, and there’s always room for improvement. However, we can compromise and do our best. I spend a lot of time finding middle ground for my clients, and I know it is difficult at times.

If I’m elected as board member know that I will listen and problem solve for you. I will meet any obstacle head on and work to find the best solution. I think the NCRD is a great place and we’re so lucky to have it! Its success is only a refection of our community! So let’s continue to build on it!

Please vote for me, Erin Laskey-Wilson for NCRD board position #2!

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

I admit to getting a bit nostalgic for those days not so long ago when the City proclaimed the Year of Kindness whereby “The City of Manzanita encourages community members to participate in spreading kindness and practicing respect, generosity, patience, and considerations of others at all times”.

Remember the recent admonitions made by some of the very same participants in Wednesday’s Council meeting to honor our citizen volunteers for their service to the community. Little did we know that that respect only applied to those volunteers that they deemed worthy of respect.

The last rites of civility were ably performed with a sermon on the ongoing dangers that I and others pose to the community. The lead officiant at the meeting and author of that day’s BBQ post unveiled a treasure trove of private emails between myself and Council members and public emails with the City going back to 2018 to prove her point. The choir chimed in on cue offering their testimonials with the fervor of a charismatic tent revival meeting.

The BBQ author would have you believe that my sharing informed opinions of how City government operates with our elected officials is a greater community concern than City staff who chose to not answer citizen questions and a City Manager who recommends ignoring and isolating citizens who she determines are making personal attacks on her by even asking questions.

My transgression was pointing out that the latest examples given by the City Manager of City Hall staff efforts to justify Water Fund transfers to the General Fund had failed a simple fact check. This was not worthy of a rebuttal or correction at Wednesday’s meeting because it must be too embarrassing to admit. Equal silence on ignoring and isolating citizens who ask questions must be interpreted that this is now acceptable City policy.

Please do read as much of the 478 pages of documents painstakingly reviewed to produce half a dozen snippets of out of context quotes to make the case that my “clandestine and destructive interference in our city’s affairs” must be stopped.

The warning signs that a cult like mindset is becoming a dominant feature of our local political culture should not be dismissed. The telltale characteristics include: Opposition to critical thinking. Isolating nonconforming community members and punishing them. Loyalty to those in position of authority.

May 3rd should be a wake up call for those that value civil liberties and the right to fully participate as a citizen in our local community decisions. I suspect that the sermons will continue and the choir will continue to rehearse until enough of the silent majority say enough.

Randy Kugler

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

Update

gofund.me/8381fabb

There is also an account at First Security Bank in Manzanita where donations can be made.
Thank you so very much for your support!!

Submitted By: allanmadeline@aol.com – Click to email about this post

I am writing to urge your support for the re-election of Marc C. Johnson to the Nehalem Bay Health District Board. He has provided strong and collaborative leadership since being appointed to the Board by the Tillamook County Commissioners in 2017 and being elected to a full term in I 2019.
During this period the Health District Board has done extensive community outreach and completed a five-year strategic plan. Under Marc’s leadership the District Board has strengthened collaboration with community partners.
With Marc’s strong and visionary leadership, the Health District has gained the support of Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden and obtained $3 million in federal funding to be the foundation of the funding package necessary to build a new larger health center and to renovate and modernize the Nehalem Valley Care Center in Wheeler, the region’s only skilled nursing and rehabilitation facility.
I’ve worked with Marc Johnson on the North Tillamook Library Board both in my position as President and when he was President. He has continued strengthening the Library’s community presence in north Tillamook County and continued the financial planning for the future.
Marc lends his leadership skills and wisdom in communication strategies to the nonprofits in the community that have been fortunate to have him involved as a volunteer. In addition to the North Tillamook Library Friends, these include the Hoffman Center for the Arts, the Emergency Volunteer Corps of Nehalem Bay and the Neahkahnie Water District.
Our community is fortunate to have Marc C. Johnson’s leadership at the Nehalem Bay Health District as this crucial time. I will vote for Marc and for the Nehalem Bay Health District’s general obligation bond measure on May 16, 2023.

Madeline Olson

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

The neo-con war-mongers now running the Democratic Party sent their FBI goons to arrest anti-war blacks.
Sad, sad, the Dems now the War Party.
www.democracynow.org/2022/8/10/black_socialist_chairman_fbi_raid_response

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

When the neo-con war-mongers of the Bush/Cheney/Clinton crowd decided to commit mass-murder in the Middle East, (with their sick war friends/campaign contributors making billions off the death and destruction, just like Russia/Ukraine today) I went to downtown Portland and handed out a hundred copies of Mark Twain’s ‘The War Prayer’.

I am now ‘handing it out’ to the war-mongers in the new, neo-con-run Democrat Party:

americanliterature.com/author/mark-twain/short-story/the-war-prayer