Category: Events

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

Looking to homeschool our just looking for community?
Join us in Astoria for a free mini-conference Sat April 6th 9am -2pm.
Lunch and childcare is provided so please register.
www.firmfoundationhomeschool.com/custom/112606

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THE ELLEN WHYTE SHOW
Oregon Music Hall of Fame inductee and three-time Grammy Award nominated singer, songwriter and guitarist, Ellen Whyte, is well-known throughout the Pacific Northwest. She is one of only a few performers who can sing blues, pop and jazz with the passion, skill and authenticity that keeps fans coming back for more.

Ellen is known for her astonishing vocals as she gracefully moves among genres from blues to jazz. She’ll be joined by bassist Gene Houck, and singer and keyboardist Jean-Pierre Garau — each having their own impressive résumés.

This trio performs in a ‘songwriters-in-the-round’ style, taking turns presenting a variety of R&B, jazz and rock influenced covers and original music — seasonal selections, too — that showcases their musicianship, unique vocals and rich harmonies. This will be their first appearance at NCRD!

Get ready for some “Heart Rockin’ Music” with Ellen Whyte and her band!
Saturday, March 30th, 2024, 7 pm at the NCRD Performing Arts Center in Nehalem.
Tickets are available at tickettomato.com ellenwhyte.com www.ncrd.org

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It’s SPRING BREAK at the library! We’ve got fun FREE planned for all ages, including a Friday night event for adults and a Saturday afternoon Story Time for the littles. Prizes, laughs, free books, goodies. Who knew the library could be so fun? (Hint: we did!)

Friday, March 29 at 7 p.m.: Library Trivia Night. Come flex your literary chops with fellow book lovers during an evening of head-scratching questions, drinks, snacks, and PRIZES! All are welcome, whether playing as individuals or as teams.

Saturday, March 30 at 2 p.m.: Story Time Spring Sing. Volunteers will read bilingual (English/Spanish) stories about spring and there will be songs, rhymes, and movement! Participants will receive a FREE activity book and treats. Best for ages pre-k to 8 years old, but all are welcome. Children must be accompanied by an adult.

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Join SOLVE, Friends of Netarts Bay WEBS (www.netartsbaywebs.org), Oceanside Surf Co./Current Cafe, Netarts Oceanside Fire, and other Tillamook County partners to clean up the areas around Netarts and Oceanside on Saturday, April 20th from 10 AM – 1 PM.
Friends of Netarts Bay WEBS members and their partners have been working with SOLVE to host cleanups in the area from Cape Lookout to Cape Meares to Bay Ocean for over a decade.

Join them this year and help protect marine life and maintain the beauty of our coast. This beach cleanup is family-friendly, dog-friendly, and volunteers of all ages will find the event fun and rewarding.
Remember, ocean shores can be dangerous. Avoid logs in the water. Keep your distance from marine mammals, and never turn your back on the ocean! If you find any hazardous material, please alert the Beach Cleanup Captain. And remember, it’s more fun to work as part of a team. Bring a buddy, stay safe, and have fun!
Advanced registration saves time but is not required. Find the link to register at www.netartsbaywebs.org/events
Check-in for this event at any of the following locations:
Netarts Boat Basin 2065 Netarts Basin Boat Rd, Tillamook, OR 97141
Oceanside Surf Co./ Current Cafe 1505 Pacific Ave, Oceanside, OR 97134
What to Bring: Please wear closed-toed shoes and weather-appropriate clothing, and bring a backpack for hands-free convenience. Feel free to bring tools (recycled trash bags, buckets, etc.) if available and a reusable water bottle to support our sustainability efforts.
What’s Provided: Trash bags and gloves are available to all volunteers at check-in. A small supply of trash grabbers can be loaned. If you have your own, please bring them.
Restrooms: Public restrooms are available at the check-in locations.
Parking: Parking at check-in is limited however people usually move in and out quickly. A day pass will be provided to any volunteer cleaning sections of the beach requiring parking in a fee parking lot.
Transit: There is a nearby bus stop to the check-in location. Please see the NW Connect Oregon website and The Wave for more information: www.nworegontransit.org/routes/

WEBS and partners are hosting this event as part of the Explore Nature series of hikes, walks, paddles and outdoor adventures. Led by a consortium of volunteer community and non-profit organizations, these meaningful nature-based experiences highlight the unique beauty of Tillamook County and the work being done to preserve and conserve the area’s natural resources and natural resource-based economy. Learn more about Explore Nature at www.explorenaturetillamookcoast.com.

Friends of Netarts Bay WEBS (Watershed, Estuary, Beach, and Sea) is a non-profit organization dedicated to sustaining the Netarts Bay area through education and stewardship. Stay connected with WEBS via Facebook, Instagram, Eventbrite, and their website at www.netartsbaywebs.org.

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Conscious Aging and Community Connections 
hosts an Oregon Humanities 
Conversation Project
April 8, 2024 2:00PM to 4:00PM Pine Grove Community House, Manzanita

Loneliness and Aging: Making Space for Our Elders
with Pamela Slaughter

Loneliness and isolation are common experiences for older people, especially for those who do not have nearby family members or who are not computer literate.
What do you know about the elders in your life or in your neighborhood?
Are they connected to their families in an enriching way?
Do they belong to a caring community of some kind?
What can you do, or are you currently doing to avoid isolation and loneliness?

This conversation is for older adults and people who live near elders or have older adults in their lives. We’ll explore questions, experiences, and obstacles to showing up for elderly people and to generate ideas for connection.

Facilitator Pamela Slaughter is a lifelong Oregonian with varied interests. She retired from her career as an adult protective service investigator for Multnomah County, where she saw firsthand how devastating loneliness and isolation can be. Pamela is the founder and executive director of People of Color Outdoors, a nonprofit designed to help facilitate the reconnection of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color to the outdoors. 
She is the author of the children’s book Hi! My Name is Robin!, published in 2020, which she hopes will encourage families to bird watch together.

The goal of the Conscious Aging and Community Connections Program is to bring people together, to get to know one another at a deeper level and to encourage one another to live our best possible lives. The Conscious Aging and Community Connections Program is held on the second Monday of each month from 2 to 4 PM.
This program is sponsored by Pine Grove Community House which allows us to keep admission at $5 per session. All money received goes directly to Pine Grove.

for information, contact Mary Ruhl cardoons@nehalemtel.net

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Celebrate Easter on Sunday, March 31

Sunrise Service – at 6:30 am at the Boat Launch in Nehalem Bay State Park hosted by Nehalem Bay United Methodist Church and St. Catherine’s Episcopal Church

Dress warmly and watch the sun rise with others on Easter Morning! This service will include scripture, song, a very brief homily, The Great Thanksgiving, communion, prayer and watching the sun rise as a metaphor for Christ’s resurrection.

Easter Eucharist – 10 am at St. Catherine’s Episcopal Church, 36335 Hwy 101, Nehalem, OR 97131

Worship together, homily and communion on this holy Sunday. Christ is risen, He is risen, Indeed!

Morning Worship – 11 am at Nehalem Bay United Methodist Church

Come, join us to celebrate Christ’s resurrection! This service of sheer joy will include hymns, music from our choir, scripture, a homily, Communion, and the sheer joy of Easter.

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FINDING JOY

We’re in an Eclipse Window with a lot else going on in the sky. I’m finding the energies pretty heavy. How do I counter that? I DANCE.

And since I get to do the playlist this week it will be favorites that are filled with JOY!

So come join me this Thursday March 28 at the White Clover Grange from around 6:15 – 8:15

-Lane

Submitted By: goatherd@nehalemtel.net – Click to email about this post

Join us for a free apple grafting workshop
Sunday April 7th 1-4pm
White Clover Grange 36585 Hwy 53 Nehalem

Lead by David Hendrickson from Carola Wines and Cider, along with Trav Williams and Jim Fanjoy.

Learn the art of grafting scion wood onto root stock to preserve our local heritage apple tree treasures.
For more information and to reserve your spot
Call 503-368-5886 or 541-554-6213.
Or email goatherd@nehalemtel.net

Thanks to the Tillamook County Cultural Coalition for funding this workshop

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Join us at the Grange for Garden Fest 2024 – a weekend of gardening fun with information and merchandise to get your year off to a good start

Saturday April 6 from 11-3
Farm and Garden items for sale and free gardening tips from our experts
• Spring plant starts from Teresa Retzlaff of North 45 Farm, and Britt & Kyle of Moss Creek Farm (come early supply will be limited)
• Autum and Zach’s dahlia bulbs
• Cindy Erickson’s glass garden art
• Karla Allbritton’s garden décor
• David Hendrickson’s cider
• Kelly White’s Communitea
• Jared and Josh’s compost samples
• Lance and Tammi’s farm vittles
• Share seeds at the seed exchange table with Barbara McLaughlin
• Hope Stanton’s native plants
• Gary Lewis’s wrought iron garden art
• The sharpenator – bring your tools!
• Jose Camerena’s spring collection
• Ron van Dongen’s rare and wonderful succulents

Ask an Expert. We will have many tables hosted by locals that know lots about farming and gardening
• Native Plants
• Grass Farming
• Compost on the garden
• Dry farming
• Apples
• Tea
• Worm Composting
• Growing Dahlias
• Seeds
• Living Soil

Art for kids
In the Grange Kitchen from 11-1 with Bonnie and Roger Neugebauer

Gardening Presentations at 1 in the Grange dining room
• Teresa Retzlaff from North 45 Farm will discuss strategies for having a successful dry garden
• Joe Meyer, Soils instructor at TBCC will discuss living soil

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RISING FROM THE TRASHES
25 YEARS OF TRASHY FUN – TRASH BASH IS SOON
WHERE? White Clover Grange #784, Nehalem, Oregon
WHEN? Thursday, May 16 to Sunday, May 19, 2024
SUBMIT INTEREST BY: May 1st
www.heartofcartm.org

From Thursday, May 16 to Sunday, May 19, 2024, we will gather in Nehalem, OR, at the White Clover Grange for an unforgettable extravaganza of the senses as the Trash Bash celebrates its 25th anniversary with a Trash, Boom, BANG!
Under the banner of “Rising from the Trashes” storytellers, visual artists, community activists, musicians, and runway trashion models will show off their creativity and passion for the natural beauty that surrounds us and the environment we’re passionate about preserving by turning trash into art! Should you be there? Absolutely!
Each artist puts their own unique spin on the experience and “you walk away with a sense of common purpose with a community of people” says Jennifer Nightingale, an Astoria-based novelist and storyteller who has returned to the Trash Bash to tell trash-inspired tales again and again. “When I come to the Trash Bash, I feel understood . . . I’ve never participated in any group where I felt so instantly welcomed.”
What do all of the participants have in common? “They take great delight in our natural world and,” as Nightingale stresses, “if you don’t fight for it, it won’t be here. The interesting thing about the trash bash is,” she goes on, “that there are moments of humor, pathos . . . the experience really runs the gamut of emotions—but in the end, it’s fun. The feeling that runs throughout is JOY.”
A writer and storyteller from Astoria, OR, Nightingale and her husband adopted a stretch of river beach eight years ago that they clean up several days a week. This experience and the trash she has collected by doing so over the years inspired her most recent Trash Bash tale. But participation is not limited to storytellers alone! Visual artists, fashion models, musicians, passionate volunteers, and community activists are all encouraged to get involved: “Just bring whatever gifts you have.”
“By participating,” Nightingale reflects, “it changes your response to trash. It heightens your empathy, your careful skills of observation. It helps you value trash and see all of its potential. It helps you walk away with a new perspective: Can you find the story inside the trash? Can it be repurposed somehow? Each item of trash tells a story. You’ll learn to see in new ways, beyond the item’s initial purpose.”
Why should you participate? Nightingale doesn’t hesitate, “It’s very meaningful. No matter what [which art form] you do, you’re telling a story. We all have to step up and do a little piece.” Maybe best of all, by participating and submitting your work of art/story/trashion, it’s a way to love the Coast back: “I love it here,” Nightingale gushes. “I love the power of the Coast. The rivers and estuaries. To be with a community of people who care for the well-being of this community is just AWESOME!”
If that’s you too, we would love to see your trash craft or hear your trashy story!

To leave your creative mark on this year’s Trash Bash, go to www.heartofcartm.org/trash-bash-2024

Together we are Rising from the Trashes, to leave our hearts a little more full and our landfills a little more empty.

Photo by Broken Banjo Photography. Jennifer Nightingale at Trash Tales 2023.

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Hey everybody.
Yoga! It’s fun, it’s free and it will make you healthier. Molly is back.

Yoga with Molly.
Day – Monday
Time. – 11:15 PST
Place – Tillamook YMCA

If you can’t join in person, you can still zoom in via the following link:
us06web.zoom.us/j/84115365249?pwd=Y1ZETEp1ZEtoS1JDTG9Sdmg3cGoyQT09

No Yoga with Janet. It’s the end of the term, Wednesday, April 3rd will be the next one.

Come join us. Everyone is welcome.

Brian

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Author Talk:
Author and Oregon State Master Gardener, Carla Albright, will be at the Pine Grove in Manzanita on April 2nd at 1 p.m. to discuss gardening in the Northwest.

Her book ‘Four Seasons in the Pacific Northwest Coastal Garden’ is very popular and she hosts a blog ‘Gardening Matters Tillamook’. She lectures throughout Washington and Oregon coasts.

This talk is free and open to the public
Hosted by North Tillamook Women’s Association

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Hi BBQ Community –

Save the Date ( :

World Labyrinth Day 2024
Saturday May 4th
6pm to Sunset

Free community gathering on the beach for a sand spiral Labyrinth Walk. Be part of this global celebration to send a rolling wave of peace around the world.

Neahkahnie Beach at Ocean Rd. & Nehalem Rd. (0.5 mile/5+ minute walk on the beach north of Laneda Ave. /Manzanita Visitor’s Center)

See you on the beach on May 4th!
‘may the fourth be with you’

– Za from Centerpoint Healing Arts
www.centerpointhealingarts.com/field-notes

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THE ELLEN WHYTE SHOW
Oregon Music Hall of Fame inductee and three-time Grammy Award nominated singer, songwriter and guitarist, Ellen Whyte, is well-known throughout the Pacific Northwest. She is one of only a few performers who can sing blues, pop and jazz with the passion, skill and authenticity that keeps fans coming back for more. She is known for her astonishing vocals as she gracefully moves among genres from blues to jazz. She’ll be joined by bassist Gene Houck, and singer and keyboardist Jean-Pierre Garau — each having their own impressive résumés. This trio performs in a ‘songwriters-in-the-round’ style, taking turns presenting a variety of R&B, jazz and rock influenced covers that showcase their musicianship, unique vocals and rich harmonies. This will be their first appearance at NCRD!

Get ready for some “Heart Rockin’ Music” with Ellen Whyte and her band!
Saturday, March 30th, 2024, 7 pm at the NCRD Performing Arts Center in Nehalem.
Tickets are available at tickettomato.com ellenwhyte.com www.ncrd.org

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evcnb.org/events-and-training/cert-spring2024
If you’re interested in becoming a new Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) member, click the link to learn more about the program, register for the training and certification. Classes are via zoom, online and in person on various dates in April 2024.

Using the training learned in the classroom and during CERT exercises, members can assist their community or workplace following an emergency event when professional responders are not immediately available to help.

Submitted By: andrea@myessentialcollection.com – Click to email about this post

Come join us for our Energy Healing Event.
When: May 25th-26th
Where: Old Mill RV Center in Garibaldi
Entrance Fee: $0
Sponsored By: My Essential Collection

There will be Vendors, Classes & Ceremonies centered around energy healing. Have you ever been to one of our events? They are amazing! We have such an amazing energy healing community – come see what / who we will have for you. This is JUST FOR YOU! We had such a great time we we’re asked WHEN’S THE NEXT ONE? Mark your calendars we will have returning vendors and some new ones! Come check out the Speakers – a schedule will soon be posted on our event page on Facebook or go check out our little shop in Rockaway Beach, for times and information on each vendor. CAN’T WAIT TO SEE YOU THERE!

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The City of Manzanita would like to invite everyone to the City Hall Project Groundbreaking Ceremony. Saturday April 6th, at 11am, on the Grounds where construction will begin: 655 Manzanita Ave, Manzanita Oregon. There will be music and refreshments and would love to see everyone.

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Please join us for a short presentation and discussion about Ranked Choice Voting on April 13, at the NCRD in Nehalem, from 2 to 4 pm.

RCV is deceptively complicated but is actually how we make almost all of our everyday decisions. We will break it down and answer all of your questions about how it can be used in our electoral process at the local and state level.

If you cannot attend please email me any questions you have, or if you want to join our group and get involved in taking local action.

Once again, this is a non-partisan issue and does not benefit any particular party or cause.

-Hank Tallman
hatallman@gmail.com

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The City of Manzanita would like to invite everyone to the City Hall Project Groundbreaking Ceremony. Saturday April 6th, at 11am, on the Grounds where construction will begin: 655 Manzanita Ave, Manzanita Oregon.

There will be music and refreshments and would love to see everyone.

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Please join us tonight to hear writers read short stories and poems on the theme, “Beach Noir.” The program is at the Cannon Beach Library, 131 N. Hemlock St., Cannon Beach.
It’s also available online by going to the library’s website, www.cannonbeachlibrary.org. Click on the banner at the top of the website.
We hope to see you there!

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Hope Inspired School in Garibaldi is having a rummage sale/ bake sale fundraiser!

Friday 3/22 & Saturday 3/23
9am-3pm
God’s Lighthouse
103 8th St.
Garibaldi

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Come to the Cannon Beach Library for a weekend of amazing writing events! It all starts Friday evening with our 6th annual Writers Read Celebration. Join us March 22nd at 7 p.m. Talented writers will gather to share their works on this year’s theme: “Beach Noir.” From the melancholy to the humorous, hear stories about a ghostly bartender, crustaceans to die for, slovenly detectives, and more – as we celebrate writing, reading, and noir mystery!

Then, come back on Saturday March 23rd, when we will cohost an informal playwriting workshop with the Coaster Theatre Playhouse. Playwright Rob Urbinati will lead the workshop from 3 to 5 p.m. Rob will discuss the craft of playwriting, with a focus on developing ideas for plays, adapting for the stage from other sources, and getting started by writing a 10-minute play. This workshop is open to anyone interested in beginning or furthering their aspirations as a playwright. This is a FREE event being held at the library. No registration is required; show up early to save your spot.

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Join us for a Shamanic Breathwork Journey for Renewal

With Lynda “Chickpea” Chick, RN
Certified Shamanic Breathwork Facilitator

Saturday, March 23, 2024
2-6pm
Soma Vitality
Warrenton, OR

Registration required
forms.gle/WWEyb4ghv36JXEfE6

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Join us Friday, March 22nd for a community potluck at the Cannon Beach Community Hall (aka Chamber of Commerce).

We’ll celebrate spring, the coming equinox, and World Water Day along with neighbors from the Necanicum Watershed Council. After dinner, Rachel L. Cushman, Chair of the Watershed Council, will give a brief talk regarding water in our region. Bring a dish to share!