Do you own a cool telescope that will help us see the planets that are visible this Saturday?
There will be a community labyrinth and sauna happening this Saturday at sunset near the Y junction on Manzanita beach.
If you’re willing to bring down a telescope to help others check out the fainter planets that would be really cool!
Thank you!
Ginger
We’re so excited to announce our next Worship at the Coliseum event—a night dedicated to worship and celebrating God’s goodness!
When: February 2nd at 6 PM
Where: Tillamook Coliseum
This isn’t just a church event—it’s a chance for those who might not come to a church but would come to a movie theater instead.
Our goal:
Encourage believers with powerful worship.
Convict and challenge people through the life-changing love of Jesus.
Start inviting now!
Let’s fill the theater with hearts ready to encounter God.
For more info on Living Water Fellowship the church putting this event on head to livingwatercoast.com
Please come and enjoy a time of reflection and meditation.
Compassion Clinic is a FREE medical and dental clinic February 23rd from 11am to 4pm at the Tillamook County Family YMCA offering medical and dental appointments to anyone in need—no insurance or documentation required!
Here’s what you can expect:
-Hot meals and coffee to enjoy
-Haircuts and foot care services
-Medical and dental appointments
-Access to a wide range of local resources & nonprofits
ALL FOR FREE!
This is more than just an event; it’s an incredible opportunity to receive care, connect with your community, and experience kindness in action. It’s also a chance to give back—volunteers are welcome and needed to make this day amazing!
Appointments are first come, first served and available until our schedule is full for the day. While we cannot guarantee specific services, we’re here to help as many as possible.
For details on clinic services, the resource fair or volunteer opportunities go to: livingwatercoast.com/compassion
Catch the ‘2025 Planetary Parade’ across the sky after sunset!
See you on the beach ( :
Centerpoint Healing Arts
www.centerpointhealingarts.com/field-notes
January 2025
We want to wish all residents, community members, and readers a happy and great start to the new year! We also want to thank all of you who participate in and serve the City in any and all capacities, both formally and informally. Formally, our Planning Commission Chair and Vice Chair were re-elected; we had re-appointments to Planning Commission; and are currently in a selection process for our Budget Committee, appointments to occur at our Regular Session in February. We also had one new appointment to Planning Commission, Brad Berman. He introduced himself at this month’s Planning Commission meeting. You can watch here: ci.manzanita.or.us/pc-meeting-1-13-25.
Brad is a third generation Oregonian, native Portlander, and has been a homeowner in Manzanita for 13 years. Professionally, he’s worked for Nike in global roles, but also in architecture, and commercial real estate development the last seven years, with varying project-types such as mixed use, and a significant amount of housing as of late. He will be a great asset to Planning Commission and the Comprehensive Plan and Housing Ordinance Update project! Welcome, Commissioner Berman!
We also had a Work Session focused on short-term rentals (STRs) during which the STR Committee presented. You can watch here: ci.manzanita.or.us/city-council-work-session-1-15-25/. The City has heard from residents and community members in a variety of ways regarding STRs, such as through the STR Committee, the 2023 Livability survey, and complaints filed with our Code Enforcement Officer.
The City is trying to make a decision about STR policies, to create more livability for those in Manzanita through policies which constrain STR growth and potentially lessen noise and congestion (i.e., parking and traffic) which may arise from renters; while also wanting to provide adequate services to the City, which are funded in large part by our transient lodging tax (TLT) revenue, as opposed to property taxes which many other cities depend on. Due to certain Oregon measures (specifically Measures 5 and 50), Manzanita derives very little from property taxes and, therefore, must fund service-provision through different means.
We would love to receive input from our community members on this issue. Please reach out to our Council members here: citycouncil@ci.manzanita.or.us. There will be additional opportunities for the community to weigh-in on this issue at public hearings when and if any new policies are considered by City Council, so stay tuned.
Thank you so much to everyone who completed our second survey related to the Comprehensive Plan and Housing Ordinance Update. We garnered 76 responses which is huge for a city of our size! We also still have a few 20-mile-per-hour yard signs available for free at City Hall. Come by and pick one up if you would like to show your support for Twenty is Plenty! Lastly, the City has hired a contractor to complete some needed maintenance and repairs to the park. Parts are on order and as soon as we receive them our contractor will begin the repairs. Access to the play structure will remain closed until the repairs are complete. We are moving as quickly as we can to reopen the structure as soon as possible! Thank you for your patience during this time.
We’re off to a great 2025 thanks to all of you who serve and support our City!
High Tide now has openings for your home or vacation rental.
I have been in business here for 10 wonderful years helping with your cleaning needs. I have many years of experience with both private homes and vacation rentals making sure everything is clean and running smoothly.
Please call me at 503-717-2585 if I can help you with cleaning needs, vacation rental or your home.
Thank you,
Shawn
You can watch here: ci.manzanita.or.us/pc-meeting-1-13-25.
Brad is a third generation Oregonian, native Portlander, and has been a homeowner in Manzanita for 13 years. Professionally, he’s worked for Nike in global roles, but also in architecture, and commercial real estate development the last seven years, with varying project-types such as mixed use, and a significant amount of housing as of late. He will be a great asset to Planning Commission and the Comprehensive Plan and Housing Ordinance Update project! Welcome, Commissioner Berman!
We also had a Work Session focused on short-term rentals (STRs) during which the STR Committee presented.
You can watch here: ci.manzanita.or.us/city-council-work-session-1-15-25/.
The City has heard from residents and community members in a variety of ways regarding STRs, such as through the STR Committee, the 2023 Livability survey, and complaints filed with our Code Enforcement Officer.
The City is trying to make a decision about STR policies, to create more livability for those in Manzanita through policies which constrain STR growth and potentially lessen noise and congestion (i.e., parking and traffic) which may arise from renters; while also wanting to provide adequate services to the City, which are funded in large part by our transient lodging tax (TLT) revenue, as opposed to property taxes which many other cities depend on. Due to certain Oregon measures (specifically Measures 5 and 50), Manzanita derives very little from property taxes and, therefore, must fund service-provision through different means.
We would love to receive input from our community members on this issue. Please reach out to our Council members here: citycouncil@ci.manzanita.or.us.
There will be additional opportunities for the community to weigh-in on this issue at public hearings when and if any new policies are considered by City Council, so stay tuned.
Thank you so much to everyone who completed our second survey related to the Comprehensive Plan and Housing Ordinance Update. We garnered 76 responses which is huge for a city of our size!
We also still have a few 20-mile-per-hour yard signs available for free at City Hall. Come by and pick one up if you would like to show your support for Twenty is Plenty!
Lastly, the City has hired a contractor to complete some needed maintenance and repairs to the park. Parts are on order and as soon as we receive them our contractor will begin the repairs. Access to the play structure will remain closed until the repairs are complete. We are moving as quickly as we can to reopen the structure as soon as possible! Thank you for your patience during this time.
We’re off to a great 2025 thanks to all of you who serve and support our City!
1 bedroom/with great views
$1,200.00 monthly
Washer/dryer hook upstairs
Next to post office
Quiet neighborhood
Remodeled bathroom
Sponsored by the American Pie Council (yes, that’s a real thing!), National Pie Day reminds us to enjoy one of our favorite desserts–after all, we’re celebrating a national holiday! And while officially this day happens every year on January 23, locally, we’re celebrating this way:
15th Annual Pie Day Auction and Feast
Saturday February 8,
3pm (doors open at 2:30)
$15 entry cost ($5 for kids 10 and under).
White Clover Grange
36585 Highway 53
outside of Nehalem, one mile north of Mohler
This Grange event honors the very American tradition of pie baking with a lively auction and feast, and invites our community to sample the cooking talents of 50 local bakers and restaurants. Pies will cover the gamut of flavors—berry, apple, meringue, cream, chocolate, meat pies and other savory creations, plus vegan and gluten free offerings. There is something for every taste in the auction line up as well as on the feast table where everyone gets to sample pie and ice cream after the final bid!
For more information, check out www.whiteclovergrange.org and our facebook and instagram pages.
Questions? info@whiteclovergrange.org.
Just a friendly reminder that our Winter Gear Drive continues at Rising Hearts Studio. Please bring in your new/gently used tents, tarps, blankets, sleeping bags, rain gear and rain boots, coats and hats in to the Studio and along with our community partners we will distribute to those most in need within our community.
Big THANK YOU to All whom have already dropped these items – you have made a HUGE difference in the lives of MANY – YOU ROCK! But we’re not done yet-winter has just started- there is still need. We especially need tarps and blankets! Thank you
Hope to see you soon!
Blessings- CK
Rising Hearts Studio
35840 7th St
Hwy 101, Downtown Nehalem
(503) 800-1092
Christy@cosmichealingnw.com
“Lifting the community with education and services that promote healing on all levels.”
These vital roles are perfect for anyone passionate about theater and eager to play a key part behind the scenes.
As a stage manager, you’ll help coordinate the show and keep everything running smoothly.
As a stagehand, you’ll assist with set changes, props, and other backstage tasks that bring the production to life.
Whether you’re experienced or new to theater, we’ll provide the support you need.
Join us and be part of the magic!
Please email us at admin@riverbendplayers.org.
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$600 each or $ 1,000 for both
They are electrified…. ready for hook up.
If purchase both, an extra globe will be thrown in.
The globes are hard plastic and not the originals.
Can be found at:
Washed Ashore Arts, Crafts, & More
320 S Hwy 101 in Rockaway Beach
If you can tell me the type of case on the phone, we can coordinate to get it back to you. I live locally.
Thanks,
Dawn
Here are some quotes I think we all can live by.
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only Light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only Love can do that.” Martin Luther King
“Love is all we need.” The Beatles
“Only Love can conquer hate.” Marvin Gaye
“When the Power of Love overcomes the love of power we will have peace.” Jimi Hendrix
So ANY WAY that all of us can add our bit of love to the world is to me a radical and powerful act. Let’s all be kind and do what we can to help each other. Keep the faith, stay strong and don’t let the haters win by giving up or reacting to them with hate.
Some specific ideas:
Regularly check on a neighbor who lives alone.
Help a struggling parent in line at the grocery store.
Give someone an authentic complement.
Hold your judgmental thoughts about someone.
Call a friend you haven’t talked with lately.
Reach out an olive branch to someone you have had conflict with.
Walk a friend or neighbor’s dog.
Host an informal get together with your neighbors to get to know each other better.
If you encounter hate speech from someone on line comment that you are sending them love.
Pay it forward.
Make someone laugh.
Take a walk in nature and send thanks for the beauty around us.
Pray in whatever forms calls to you. I pray that Love and Democracy will prevail and I imagine a hedge of angels surrounding Donald Trump preventing him from doing harm and giving him a “love transfusion”.
From Lane deMoll: Back in November after the election Brene Brown said somewhere that we all need to be taking micro-doses of hope. I realized that I could make an Essence of Hope. So I went out (as Pluto moved into Aquarius) and collected all the flowers that were blooming in my garden at the time, let them blend in spring water in the sun, and then added it to the last of my pear brandy. Now here it is – available in small bottles free or by donation. Or maybe it will help you keep moving forward that you just know it exists. Hang in there! lane@lanedemoll.com
All of us carry burdens—of daily life, of old hurts and pains. Do whatever you can do to lighten someone’s load. And accept help to lighten yours.
There are lots of organizations out there fighting for justice. Here is a link to an Indivisible.org article I received today.
indivisibleteam.medium.com/courage-is-contagious-its-time-to-fight-back-2610a18f94fc
Here are some ways to help locally.
Last November, everyone in Tillamook County received a copy of the 2024-25 Tillamook County Giving Guide. It’s not too late to use that as a resource for how to help local organizations doing good in our community.
Check out the link at the Tillamook County Pioneer
www.tillamookcountypioneer.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Giving-Guide-2024-25-Final-for-Web.pdf
It’s also on the bbq website Local Resources page. Also on that page are links to Tillamook County Organizations Directories—both alphabetized and categorized that give descriptions of most of the organizations listed.
www.northcoastbbq.com/local-resources/
Little Coasties is a daycare program for 2 and 3 year olds in North County. They have an opportunity to open a second location but need financial help getting into the property. Check out their story in the Pioneer.
www.tillamookcountypioneer.net/little-coasties-school-fills-need-for-child-care-in-nehalem-opportunity-to-open-second-location-with-community-support/
Another Pioneer article noted the opening of a Tillamook office for Consejo Hispano
www.tillamookcountypioneer.net/consejo-hispano-dear-community-tillamook-office-now-open/
Rainy Day Village helps people who are aging stay in their homes.
www.rainydayvillage.org/
These are just a few of the many resources we have in our community. Give where you can and what makes sense to you! Small acts of love and kindness add up. What if the hundredth monkey tale is true that a new behavior or idea can spread rapidly through a population once a critical number of people adopt it? Maybe your act of kindness or love is the critical one!
