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9915 Pine Ridge Dr., Nehalem 1 mile from Shell Station
November 23
From 10 AM – 12:30 PM
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Sign up for our comprehensive Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WaSH) class, in which you will obtain the know-how and equipment to get your household prepared to properly manage your WaSH needs during an emergency.
Need a safe place to slow down and be present in the solace of nature? Forest Therapy was Inspired by the Japanese practice of Forest Bathing (or Shinrin-yoku), a mindfulness practice that invites you to immerse yourself in the forest through your senses.
As your dedicated guide, I will lead you on a journey through a beautiful rainforest with a series of “invitations” meant to awaken your senses and help you connect with nature in new ways.
After our walk, we will gather for tea and sharing. Participants emerge feeling lighter, stress-free, and deeply connected to the world around and within them. Join me in this experience where nature becomes your therapy.
There are still a few spots left! To register, click the link below.
www.forestbathingfinder.com/product/autumn-forest-therapy-walk-at-wanderland-rainforest/
Suppose there’s a duck and a great many wabbits. Some wabbits take a liking to the duck and how it quacks. Others are repelled by the quacking and think those who like the duck are confused or crazy. Nature guides complicate the matter by referring to the duck as just another wabbit, and this drives the others nuts. Yet the nature guides keep doing this even after two game wardens identify the quacker as a duck.
Here’s my point: there is nothing inherently evil or stupid about the wabbits who like the duck, and the others might stop twisting their tails in a bunch if the guides could bring themselves to call it a duck.
To push this tortured analogy out a bit further, if the wabbits decide to put the duck in charge it will just fly off and feather it’s own nest.
-Dave
These bold paintings need a large wall or reimagination.
Take them home for free or consider making a donation to Heart of CARTM in Don’s honor. “During his life he produced and exhibited fine and commercial art in the Northwest corner of Oregon; taught art in public, private schools and community colleges, and developed a strong sense of community.” The family stated for an article in Tillamook County Pioneer last year.
Heart of CARTM is happy to serve our community and be a good steward of the earth by reusing, repairing and reimagining, first. I wish we had a way to measure the number of items that we have lovingly re-homed. Thank you for trusting us with your treasured possessions (and your trash) for nearly 30 years!
These Don Osborne paintings are sized 4×4 and 6×4. Come take a look. And, while you are here, peruse the other unique wall art and sculpture by local artists.
Our store in downtown Wheeler is open Thursday – Monday, Noon – 6pm. See you soon!
Riverside Fish n’ Chips is now open 7 days a week! 11:30am-5:30pm
Cod * Halibut * Halibut sandwich * Fish Tacos * Pulled Pork Tacos * Grilled Cheese and Pulled Pork Sandwiches * Hot dog * Fries * Yummy Coleslaw * Great selection of Beer and Drinks!
We’ve got covered seating with heating and a beautiful view of the Nehalem River.
We look forward to seeing you!
Making Visible the Invisible: A Community Conversation about Death and Dying. Applying the values of Acceptance, Belonging, Connection, and Legacy, Death Cafe is a co-generational gathering that aims to create a comfortable and open space for people to gather and discuss topics related to death, dying, and mortality. It provides a platform for individuals to share their thoughts, fears, and experiences surrounding death in a supportive and non-judgmental environment. Adhering to Death Cafe’s mission, participation is free, although contributions to the Collective are appreciated. Death Cafe meets in person AND virtually every month.
To learn more about Death Cafe’s history, paste this URL into your preferred browser: www.northcoasteolcollective.com/deathcafe
this message came to my email this morning from “Project 2025 Take-Down.”
IF YOU HAVE NOT YET VOTED, PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU VOTE.
TRUMP’S HATE-FILLED RALLIES ARE PROJECT 2025 IN A NUTSHELL
The racist, misogynistic, anti-Black, anti-trans rhetoric will be the new normal if Trump Wins.
by TIFFANY TORRES WILLIAMS
NOV 4
I spent an entire dark and lonely weekend in April dedicated to nothing but reading Project 2025. I joke, but it’s not really a joke, that with the help of anti-anxiety meds and lots of long walks, I made it through the dystopian document.
Project 2025 is the conservative playbook dreamed up by the Heritage Foundation for the next Republican president. Though Trump has tried to distance himself from Project 2025, it mentions him by name more than 240 times and references his administration more than 300. More than half of Trump’s allies, advisors, and administrators are among its 307 authors.
There is no way around it: Project 2025 is Trump’s plan for presidency if he prevails in tomorrow.
My methodology in reading and researching Project 2025 was simple: I used a notebook. Each page had a title: Women. Families. Workers. Unions. LGBTQ+. Racial Minorities. Educators. Academics. Climate. Every time I would come across one of those categories in the 920-page document, I wrote a quick summary of what it said and the page number where I could find it later to do more research.
I’m not saying all that work was for nigh, but I AM saying Donald Trump’s ties to Project 2025 are obvious — taking center stage at his rallies. Take his Madison Square Garden rally, where speakers disparaged everyone from women to trans Americans to racial minorities.
Trump and his surrogates are not just saying the quiet part out loud. They’re screaming it. Into microphones.
Here’s a sample of groups and American ideals Trump and his speakers are taking aim at that are also targeted in Project 2025:
IMMIGRANTS
Perhaps the most obvious link between Trump and Project 2025 (and Hitler) came from speaker Stephen Miller, who said “America is for Americans and Americans only”. Compare that to remarks made at a 1939 Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden, when a speaker promised to “restore America to the true Americans”.
Miller, who runs America First Legal, contributed to the section of Project 2025 that speaks of weakening the system of checks and balances and rounding up and deporting millions of immigrants.
Trump’s opening act at Madison Square Garden was comedian Tony Hinchcliffe, who continued to repeat Trump’s false claim that Haitian immigrants in Ohio are “eating the dogs, eating the cats, eating the pets.” Schools in Springfield faced more than 30 bomb threats in the aftermath of Trump’s lie.
At every rally he’s hosted, Trump has bragged about “mass deportations at a level never before seen” and Project 2025 validates that terrifying future if he’s elected.
According to the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, “Project 2025 calls for allowing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to use ‘expedited removal’ — a process normally only used near the border, and one that raises significant concerns about due process — against immigrants found anywhere within the country. It would enable raids in sensitive zones like schools, hospitals, and religious institutions.”
Project 2025 dreams of militarizing our border, expanding immigration detention centers, criminalizing sanctuary cities, eliminating protection for dreamers or children whose parents crossed the border illegally who have been living in immigration limbo all of their lives, and forcing local law enforcement to work with federal officials to identify and deport people.
BLACK AMERICANS
Hinchcliffe also took aim at Black Americans, pointing to an audience member whom Hinchcliffe identified as Black and making fun of his hat. Then he pivoted, calling the man “one of [his] buddies. “We carved watermelon together,” he said, referencing a longstanding trope about the food Black Americans supposedly eat.
Project 2025 threatens civil rights gains for Black Americans. It will abolish affirmative action, weaken anti-discrimination laws, and dismantle the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. It would remove health care protections, threatening to repeal the Affordable Care Act, and do away with social programs that benefit Black Americans and increase policing and remove civil protections. Black Americans are already disproportionately incarcerated. It even targets education that informs about the plight of slaves and the historical affect of racism.
LGBTQ+ Rights
During Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally, Tucker Carlson took aim at trans people, claiming that the ability to transition genders was a “lie” perpetuated by Democrats.
Republicans have spent more money attacking trans Americans this election cycle than any other group, which is ironic considering that trans people make up less than 1 percent of the U.S. population. Trump’s campaign alone has spent more than $65 million on anti-trans ads. Not the economy. Not housing. Not lowering crime. Most of the ads end with saying, “Kamala is for they/them, but Trump is for you.”
He’s singling trans people out and endangering them. His presidency will be one where trans people cease to exist peacefully in all corners of the U.S. He is leveraging people’s hate to get more votes.
But if Trump gets his way, LGBTQ+ people will be threatened by more than Trump’s harmful rhetoric.
It would destroy non-traditional families like single-parent or same-sex households and prioritize families “comprised of a married mother, father, and their children.” It takes aim at federal policies that promote LGBTQ equality or that assist single parents. It wants to gut hard-fought protections for gay couples and eliminate the anti-discrimination laws that allow them to live in peace.
Trans people would be kicked out of the military, and calls trans human beings “ideology.” It also wants to criminalize pornography, and the document states that the federal government will define that however it wants. This is devastating not only for LGBTQ+ Americans, but also for teachers, librarians, school administrators, authors, artists, publishers, and parents.
The Media
Trump used a rally in Pennsylvania to wish it was members of the media who were shot instead of him.
“To get me, somebody would have to shoot through the fake news and I don’t mind that so much,” he said, adding the press were “seriously corrupt people.”
Trump has always taken aim at reporters. Remember this moment this moment from a 2016 rally when he mocked a disabled reporter?
If members of the press weren’t in danger before, they certainly will be if Trump wins on Tuesday. Project 2025 argues that a new Trump Department of Justice should surveil journalists’ phones and emails to keep government officials from leaking information to the press. This happened during the last Trump administration when DOJ officials secretly seized the phone and email records of multiple journalists as they attempted to discredit the Russia investigation. Project 2025 wants the practice, which was banned under the Biden administration, to be even more vigorous the next time around.
The document even muses that reporters shouldn’t be allowed in the White House, complaining about the longstanding relationship between the president and the fourth branch.
“No legal entitlement exists for the provision of permanent space for media on the White House campus, and the next Administration should reexamine the balance between media demands and space constraints on the White House premises.”
Project 2025 also calls for defunding public broadcasting and ending publicly supported educational media like Sesame Street.
WOMEN
Perhaps some of the most vile rhetoric at Trump’s rallies have been aimed at Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris calling her “the devil,” “the anti-Christ,” and claiming the person vying to become the first female president had begun her career as a prostitute.
But Trump’s threats have been toward women at-large in equal measure. He has said he will “protect women whether they like it or not.” I wrote for the Huffington Post about how the word “protector” is often used in evangelical culture to soften the patriarchal oppression that exists there.
As if we would EVER believe that the predator who infamously boasted to Billy Bush on “Access Hollywood” about forcefully groping and kissing unwilling women will protect us. Trump bragged to Howard Stern about strolling into Miss Teen USA dressing rooms to get a glimpse of the half-naked underage contestants. A jury found Trump liable for sexually abusing E. Jean Carroll, and another jury heard the testimony of Stormy Daniels, who said Trump cheated on his wife, Melania Trump, with her before covering up their affair with a $130,000 hush money payment.
We’ve seen enough of Trump’s history to know that he is no protector. And if it comes to pass, Project 2025 will mimic the sexism and discrimination that have marked Trump’s relationships with women.
Project 2025 will remove anti-discrimination laws that have helped women advance in the workplace. In fact, the document frequently demonstrates nostalgia for the halcyon days when women were barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen before the existence of no-fault divorce.
More dangerous still, the document states that Trump should force the FDA to declare abortion pills are unsafe. Medication abortion has been used safely for two decades and have been legal throughout Republican and Democratic presidencies. Medication abortion is the only way for many rural Americans to end a pregnancy.
Project 2025 will abolish abortion in the military for any reason, meaning women who are raped by male service members will have to give birth to their rapists’ babies.
Reproductive rights are under attack throughout Project 2025, which promises on page 6 that “the Dobbs decision was just the beginning.” So much for letting the states decide.
Fortunately, women are responding with the largest gender gap in voting history (or at least the last 100 years since women have had the right to vote). If recent polling in Iowa showing Harris with a 3-point lead over Trump is any indication, women will save this country from the devastation Project 2025 will cause.
The polling in Iowa looks good, but we don’t have a single laurel to rest on. This election is close enough to be decided by a few hundred votes. If you know someone in a swing state who is still undecided, please call them and warn them about the danger Project 2025 is to all of us.
Let’s wake up to a new dawn of U.S. democracy, one where we know that we brushed up against authoritarianism, and we prevailed.
Onward, Democracy Defenders!
6:00 We will begin with a brief meditation and movement/stretch warm-up.
6:30 Dance begins: Weave together the movement of your mind with the movement of your body to a playlist that will offer gentleness, rest, flow, joy, and rejuvenation. Come as you are. Bring it all to the dance floor and dance about it.
$10 suggested donation
See you on the dance floor!
FYI!
Rising Hearts Studio is a drop off site for all winter gear donations! As the seasons change, and the rainy season returns, many of our neighbors could use some extra support! Please come drop off new (or very gently used) TENTS, TARPS, BLANKETS, SLEEPING BAGS, RAIN GEAR and RAIN BOOTS– ANYTIME until the end of the year. We are working with our community partners to make sure it will be distributed to those most in need within OUR community.
Thanks for your help!!!
Contact Christy for any questions/concerns – or to schedule a special drop off time – (503) 800-1092, Christy@cosmichealingnw.com
Rising Hearts Studio
35840 7th ST
Hwy 101, Downtown Nehalem
“Lifting the community with education and services that promote healing on all levels…”
www.newsweek.com/its-time-stop-calling-donald-trump-fascist-opinion-1975888
The value in recognizing his rhetoric as fascist is in understanding what he and many of his activist supporters are saying, rather than just passing it off as crazy talk. That perception has driven us nuts questioning the sanity of his broad support. That’s clearly wrong and divides us.
So while this is an excellent opinion piece and nails his character, I think it’s a distinction without a difference.
-Dave
Join us at Fort George’s Lovell Showroom in Astoria, OR Wednesday November 6th at 5pm for a community event to discuss forest issues on the North Coast.
The event is sponsored by Wild Salmon Center, North Coast Communities for Watershed Protection, and Coast Range Association. Featured speakers include Michael Lang, senior policy manager at Wild Salmon Center; Chuck Willer, executive director of Coast Range Association; and Nancy Webster, president of North Coast Communities for Watershed Protection. Following the presentations, the three speakers will participate in a Q&A panel.
Doors open at 5pm for a social hour, program is from 6pm – 8pm at the Fort George Lovell Room in Astoria.
Wild Salmon Center is hosting the first round of beverages (Beer, wine, N.A.) for the first 50 attendees!
The mission of Wild Salmon Center is to promote the conservation and sustainable use of wild salmon ecosystems across the Pacific Rim. Working across the entire range of Pacific salmon, from California to the Western Pacific, we lead the protection of strongholds, the North Pacific’s last, best salmon rivers. Over 30 years, we have worked alongside local partners to protect nearly eight million acres around salmon stronghold rivers and prioritize 89 of those rivers for wild fish. More at wildsalmoncenter.org
North Coast Communities for Watershed Protection is a grassroots group that advocates for the protection of drinking water on the Oregon Coast. The non-profit aims to end logging and pesticide spray within and surrounding forested drinking watersheds in the state, regardless of land ownership. The group started in 2012 by Nancy Webster, a Rockaway citizen concerned about the clearcutting of forestland and aerial pesticide spraying in the Jetty Creek Watershed—the sole source of her community’s drinking water. More at healthywatershed.org
Coast Range Association is a 501c(3) nonprofit that has been working since 1991 to find just protections for Western Oregon’s forests while supporting a vibrant rural economy. The CRA’s work looks to address the underlying causes of social and environmental problems and seeks to instill common understanding, foster social unity, and provide practical solutions. We make every effort to speak directly to the connecting interests of people, communities and long-term sustainability. More at coastrange.org
Event Address: 1483 Duane St, Astoria, OR 97103
Contact Avi for more information: agoldshmidt@wildsalmoncenter.org