Contact Mark – mbraverman33@gmail.com
503-349-5778
Manzanita Oregon
Contact Mark at mbraverman33@gmail.com
503-349-5778
Asking $95.00
Manzanita
Buyer takes ALL
(971) 330-7133
We are excited to announce a free educational event (hosted on Zoom) which will feature a talk by Deke Gundersen, Ph.D., a toxicologist and Director of the Environmental Studies Department at Pacific University.
He has consulted with North Coast Communities for Watershed Protection (NCCWP) over the years and has expert insights regarding the impact of pesticide chemicals on health.
At the meeting, we will also update you on our efforts to end clearcut logging and pesticide spraying in our drinking watersheds, regardless of land ownership. We will discuss upcoming volunteer opportunities (including a petition effort in the works) and direct actions you can take to protect our forests, watersheds and the health of our communities.
We look forward to seeing you there! Register at our webpage www.healthywatershed.org.
The health of our communities, as well as the forests and watersheds we depend on, is at stake due to the practices of large, industrial forestry operations. Fortunately, an upswell of momentum continues to build around Oregon’s forests and drinking watersheds right now. It’s the perfect time to get involved and help us work to safeguard and restore our drinking water sources, forests, and air quality.
Regardless of who actually owns the land, by law, all water in Oregon is publicly owned. All watersheds that supply wells, spring boxes, or municipal systems should be legislatively protected. In recognition of the necessity of clean and safe drinking water for all, as a matter of law, there should be no more logging nor pesticide spraying in drinking water sources.
We are advocating for the critical need to prioritize the health of our communities and put DRINKING WATER FIRST!
North Coast Communities for Watershed Protection (formerly Rockaway Beach Citizens for Watershed Protection) is a grassroots group working, through education and advocacy, for better protections of the water we drink, the air we breathe, and the forests that sustain us.
healthywatershed.org www.facebook.com/NCCWATERSHEDPROTECTION
Contact us at: rockawaycitizen.water@gmail.com
(971) 330-7133
Featuring the works of
Laura Ross-Paul and Diana Crain
Read more about the exhibit and view each artists’ bio and work at hoffmanarts.org/events/june-2022-gallery-show-2/
Throughout July fifteen poems written by local poets, all HCA Writing Program participants will be displayed at businesses along Laneda Avenue, at the HCA, and in the Wonder Garden. A walking map will be available to direct locals and visitors to the poems. The framed 18 X 24 poems will be raffled, and winners selected August 1st. In addition, on July 9th featured poets of the Poetry Walk will read their poem, along with a short selection of other work, at locations where their poems have appeared. Click here to the event calendar for all the details of the Manzanita Poetry Walk, the live poetry reading schedule and to learn about purchasing raffle tickets to win an original poem celebrating Manzanita and the Oregon Coast.
Help end $99.8k debt on the current building!
Donors have pledged $40k in order to double every dollar up to $40k you give
Help us reach our goal to pay off the debt by sending a check to PO box 678, Manzanita, Oregon 97130 or by donating on-line. Ending this debt saves $22k in interest over the next five years!
We are truly grateful.
Every dollar you give to the Hoffman Center for the Arts makes a difference. We will announce donors and progress on funding every two weeks. Stay tuned!
Learn more at hoffmanarts.org/poetry-walk-in-july/
As some may know, our neighbor in our little community of Riverside Estates recently suffered a severe stroke. Larry Smieja suffered a massive stroke in his home on May 20 but was not discovered until May 22, 2022. The injury has affected his entire left side and will require extensive rehabilitation. He is currently being cared for by his sister Linda and a team at St. Vincent’s hospital in Portland.
Larry was born in Nehalem, Oregon, in 1955. He has spent his life working outside in the classic coast tradition. Larry started Wildcat Excavation 25 years ago and has worked to spend his days helping neighbors. He is hard-working, carefree, fun-loving, generous and always willing to lend a hand.
While Larry is recovering from this event, he will be unable to work. So it is our turn to help a neighbor make this situation a little less complicated. Any help with medical and living expenses is helpful. A giant thank you to everyone for your support.
Besides the normal good stuff that you are able to find at these sales you’ll discover lots of Christmas items, some are hand made and others are collectible Christmas things that will be great to add to your holiday decorations.
You are welcome to browse, find treasures and pay whatever you think the items are worth. All the proceeds go toward support of local charities, many to help local families with food insecurity.
See you Friday and Saturday in the parking lot of the church at 36050 10th Street in Nehalem.
If you miss Friday, catch us at the Tillamook Market on Saturday morning.
Our other summer dates:
July 2 – Tillamook – Saturday morning
August 27 – Tillamook – Saturday morning
August 28 – Pacific City – Sunday morning
September 2 – Manzanita – Friday evening
September 21 – Seaside – Wednesday
Cindy: 503-349-1341
Round Two
One of our neighbors, the owner of an oceanfront home who opposes view grading, received a letter from the Manzanita Neah-Kah-Nie Dunes Management Association–the DMA, from now on. She passed it on to me and I’m sharing it here with you.
Some backstory. In November of 2021, a group of 7 property owners had applied to grade the dunes between Horizon and Spindrift to improve their ocean views. Oregon Parks and Recreation Department held a public hearing on February 3, 2022, and in March 2022, OPRD denied the application.
The letter from DMA states that they have been preparing an amendment to the 1995 Manzanita Fore Dune Management Plan to be adopted by the City. The DMA wants to pay for their own set of planners and geologists so they can continue view grading by amending the City’s zoning ordinance. They will present this to the Council at the July 6 workshop at 3pm.
Mark your calendars, kids.
In part the letter from DMA reads: “We need your support to ensure the amendment is adopted by the City and we do not go the way of the City of Cannon Beach’s recent dune management plan update where they were denied the ability to maintain their ocean views. “This would severely impact the quality and value of our beach front homes…”
I’ve added the italics.
Exsqueeze me?! Oregon’s coast is public land. All of it. Including those inconvenient dunes. It doesn’t belong to private citizens or to any private entity for private benefit. However, the president of the association suggests that beachfront property owners have a special right to own the view because it adds value to their private property. Since they seem to believe they own the view, they also believe they should be able to maintain the dunes as they see fit.
It’s deeply troubling to me that the very entity writing this amendment and offering to pay for the process is not neutral and stands to gain financially from view grading.
The November application was to scrape 4+ acres of dunes (10,000 cubic square feet of sand) and spread it near the shoreline about 2 feet deep displacing or killing every living thing that depends on the dunes for habitat and also anything under the sand that would suffocate. After the dunes are gone, they’d replant the same invasive European Beach grass responsible for sand accretion, so they can lather, rinse, and repeat the process every few years, regardless.
The DMA letter brings up Cannon Beach’s recent update to its Fore Dune Management Plan. The reason view grading is no longer allowed in Cannon Beach is because the majority of its residents didn’t want more view grading. Simple as that. The minority of property owners who did want view grading lost the decision.
While the goals of our Comprehensive Plan are aspirational, policies containing mandatory language have the force of law. On page 2 of the City of Manzanita’s Comprehensive Plan, Policies 6 and 7 read:
6. The plan must have the support of the majority of the community.
7. The plan is not to be used for the benefit of a few property owners or special interests, but for the city as a whole.
OPRD’s public hearing in February was a robust showing of opposition to what a handful of property owners wanted to do to public land for their profit. OPRD recognized that and denied the application in part because so many people turned out to oppose it, and in part because the Fore Dune Management Plan is too old and no longer reflects the current science behind climate change, sea level rise, and the kind of severe storms likely to increase in frequency.
Manipulating nature always comes with consequences. Too often when we mess around with natural systems and cycles, Nature bites us. Hard.
While the application mentions safety and access, Oregon law already allows for access grading for safety and habitat restoration grading for Snowy Plovers. But this is not that.
Those who received the letter from the DMA are asked to, “show the powers that be (The City, State Parks, Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development) that the community supports dune management.”
But here’s the deal–the community DID show the “powers that be” that we support access, habitat restoration, and safety but we don’t support view grading for a handful of property owners.
What constitutes a beautiful view is a very subjective thing and also a changeable thing. The world offers itself to us every moment of our lives. Beauty, in a million different forms, is everywhere, if we have the eyes to see it.
To provide comment, email City Council and the City Manager before the workshop on Wednesday, July 6 at 3 pm and let them know what you think.
Mayor Scott mscott@ci.manzanita.or.us
Council President Kozlowski lkozlowski@ci.manzanita.or.us
Councilor Tonjes htonjes@ci.manzanita.or.us
Councilor Nuttall snuttall@ci.manzanita.or.us
Councilor Spegman jspegman@ci.manzanita.or.us
City Manager Aman laman@ci.manzanita.or.us
Kim Rosenberg. loretta.kim.rosenberg@gmail.com
Cindy 503-349-1341
Follow the yellow GARAGE SALE TODAY signs from 101/Bayside Gardens south to Mallard Ave. in Nehalem Bayshore Estates.
Time: 9AM to 3 PM
Where 161 Edmund Lane (between 3rd St &
Carmel Manzanita
Examples of items available
Rattan Lamp
Flocati Rug
Pfaff sewing machine
Pet stroller/buggy
Baskets
Crystal goblet set for 12
Vases, hand blown
Framed artwork from all over the world
lots of miscellaneous treasures collected
Dale Eugene Stockton passed away peacefully in his home the morning of June 22, 2022. For the last month of his life, he was surrounded daily by friends and family.
Born on August 19, 1930, in Vancouver, Washington to Eugene and Etta Stockton, Dale slowly grew into the spit fire we all know and love. Dale and his family lived in Portland, Oregon where he graduated from Jefferson High School in 1947. Dale went on to obtain his Bachelor of Business at Oregon State University, all the while juggling the ROTC program with his studies. After college, Dale enlisted in the Air Force and was stationed in Hamilton, California for two years. Dale returned to Portland, Oregon to work alongside his father and business partner at the Portland Gravel Company.
On July 5, 1955, Dale met the love of his life, Laura Lomax, standing in line at the Trails End Tavern in Seaside, Oregon. The love was so strong between the two that in September of the same year, they were engaged. On November 26, 1955, the happy couple tied the knot in Seattle, Washington. Dale and Laura settled into their first home overlooking the Colombia River where they welcomed their first child, Michael. From there, Dale, Laura and Michael moved to Butte, Montana where Dale worked for a short while for LeDerle Drug Company as a Pharmaceutical Representative. Montana would also serve as the birthplace of their second child, Lance Stockton. In 1959, Dale’s parents purchased what is now known as Stockton’s Nehalem Lumber Company. Shortly after its purchase, Dale and his family moved to Nehalem, Oregon, where they would settle down and begin a legacy. Dale worked alongside his father and business partner to build the business into a community staple. Dale and Laura welcomed three more children in Nehalem, Oregon, Mark, Kevin and their only daughter, Michelle.
During his life, Dale greatly enjoyed the water. He would travel to Alaska on the Eland as their cook and deckhand, to the Deschutes River to fish with his friends, on the Kerri Lynn with his granddaughter Stacey for their shared birthday, and to the Nehalem River just to gaze at its beauty. Dale was a community legend and could strike up a conversation with anyone around. Dale loved to spend time at his favorite bar, the Bayway Tavern. You could often find him there, surrounded by friends, with Mac on the Rocks in his hand. He was never one to miss the yearly Order of the Antelopes excursion to Heart Mountain or activities thrown by the Tillamook Elks Lodge. When Dale first partnered with his father to operate Stockton’s Nehalem Lumber, he helped found the Nehalem Fire and Ambulance Department and continued to serve for 25 plus years. Beginning in 1965, Dale served on Nehalem City Counsel, having served as both president and mayor. In the 70’s and 80’s Dale was Chairman of the Nehalem Bay Health District. He went on to become one of the founding members of the Tillamook County Economic Development Commission. In 2015, Dale concluded over 30 years of services as the Port of Nehalem Commissioner and Chairperson. Clearly, Dale was a community man.
Dale is survived by his children Lance Stockton of Nehalem, Oregon, Mark and Laurel Stockton of Charleston, South Carolina, Kevin Stockton of Dallas, Texas and Michelle Stockton of Nehalem, Oregon. Dale is also survived by nine loving grandchildren: Stacey and Adam Stockton, Luke and Ava Stockton, Emmaline, Ellie, and Anna Stockton, Madi and Logan Chesnut, and one great grandchild, Hudsynn Stockton. Sisters in Law Gloria Lomax of WA and Joyce Lomax of AZ.
Dale had many people that were important in his life. He is survived by several loving family members: Dee Anne, Patrice, Tony, Ronnie, Lindsey, TJ and his sidekick, Boots the cat.
Dale is preceded in death by his wife, Laura Stockton, his son, Michael Stockton and his brother, Kenneth Stockton. Donations in his honor may be made to the Tillamook Elks Lodge #1437 and Nehalem Hope Chest.
To celebrate his life, his family will be holding a graveside service at Nehalem American Legion Cemetery on Saturday, July 2nd at 11:00 a.m. followed by a potluck gathering at the White Clover Grange in Nehalem, Oregon. All are welcomed to join.
Retail $600. Asking $180 obo
Thanks for your interest
i have a one-year-old black female cat who deserves company of her own kind.
i want another black cat for the sake of only one color of cat hair on my clothes and furniture!
lucy brook
503-368-3733
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