Category: Events

Submitted By: kestrel@buildyournestworkbook.com – Click to email about this post

(FREE)
Build Your Nest Postpartum Planning workshop, December 17th, 12-3pm at the NCRD in Nehalem. www.buildyournestworkbook.com/book-club-pilot-project

Come learn about:
Why the postpartum time is so important.
How to plan for what you want.
How to be prepared for the unexpected challenges.
Everything you need to know about our local and online resources.
Facilitated by Katie Winter and Rechele Plummer

After giving birth we need REST, SUPPORT, and CARE.

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Join us at the Manzanita Visitor Center on Saturday, Dec 23rd for a Holiday Scavenger Hunt around the town of Manzanita! Bring your friends and family for some holiday fun!

This event is FREE but space is limited. Click below to register:

www.eventbrite.com/e/manzanita-holiday-scavenger-hunt-tickets-766618345107?aff=oddtdtcreator

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Friday, December 22nd
At Manzanita Visitor Center

Kids of all ages can attend this free workshop to make a holiday ornament. Give it as a gift or place it on your tree!

Space is limited. Sign up from the link below:
www.eventbrite.com/e/make-your-own-ornament-for-kids-tickets-766619578797?

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Sunny Seadler’s Social Suggestions for
12/15-12/17/2023
If you are like me and wish you knew what was coming up to do, and wish there was someone to do it with, please reach out to me at 443-356-5350. There are lots of things to do this weekend but these are the things I am planning on attending.
Janine ” Sunny” Seadler at janine.seadler@gmail.com
May I suggest:
Friday: Kathryn Claire- Winter Songs
A show inspired by the season with music and poetry to honor the shortest days and longest nights. She will be joined by Sid Ditson on violin/viola and Don Henson on piano. Family friendly event
Dec. 15, 2923 at 5 Pm ( Doors open at 4:30Pm)
White Clover Grange 36585 Route 53 Nehalem, OR
Tickets Adults $20, Children under 12 $10
Pay at the door. Cash or Venmo
Information on the web at ConstantContact Kathryn Claire

Saturday: 
Deb Montgomery Concert
12/16/2023 4 pm. $20 suggested donation that benefits the Tillamook Food Bank
Saint Catherine’s Church 36335 N Hgwy 101, Nehalem, OR 97131

Salty Raven’s Christmas Open House 3-6pm
140 S Hemlock Street, Cannon Beach, OR 97110

Dance the night away with Chelsea and the Salt Shakers
Elk’s Lodge. 324 Avenue A Seaside, OR 97138
Dance Lesson 6:00 pm Dance begins at 7:00 pm $15 cash only BBQ dinner $15

Sunday:
The Final Show: The Christmas Story
NCRD 36115 9th Street. Nehalem, OR 97131
Tickets at riverbendplayers.org Saint Catherine’s Christmas Carolers will be sharing their songs before the 2 pm show.

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Join us at Seaside City Hall for the eighth night of Chanukah- candle lighting ceremony. For more info: mercerly@aol.com. Laurie

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This Thursday 12.14
the dance offering is a fusion between Contemplative Dance Practice and Ecstatic Dance led by Reeva Wortel

At the White Clover Grange on Hwy 53
Doors open at 6:00 PM for warmup/setup
6:30 PM – opening circle/dance set
8:00 PM – closing circle
$10 – $20 cash check or venmo/paypal
(kids are welcome to dance for free)
***If you aren’t able to pay, please be in touch, we have trades for you!
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Contemplative Dance Practice is a meditator’s dance hall or a dancers’ meditation hall, this practice provides opportunities to develop awareness of inner and outer rhythms, deepen mindfulness disciplines, and provide a container for cultivating acceptance of what is arising in the body.
We will arrive together and settle in with music opening and warming up the space.
We will then do a short sitting meditation before entering into Personal Awareness Practice and then Open Space where we encourage kinesthetic delight and a growing curiosity for what is unfolding for ourselves first and then others.
We continue listening deeply to the movements of the breath and consciously trust our own not knowing.
Near the end of our session we will explore spontaneous composition in the Red Square Practice where a thick red rope is laid down on the floor, our gaze rests with the room and the Square. Nothing much is happening. Just waiting. Then something comes. Like a fish leaping from water, we see in our minds eye a glimpse of our self in a still posture in the Square. We rise up, walk into the Square, and inhabit what we see.
We will end with music guiding our way to a warm closure and a short closing circle with each person who wishes to speak expressing what they experienced and what they saw.

We dance every Thursday (and once a month Sunday)…hope to dance with you soon.

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Santa Claus Is Coming to Town!

Sunday, December 17th
2:00 to 4:00 pm

At: Four Paws at the Beach
144 Laneda Ave.
Manzanita

Bring you Furry or Non-Furry Family
and Your Own Camera or Smart Phone and get a picture with Santa Claus. Mrs. Claus and Elves expected to be there too!

This is a fundraiser for: Animal Haven By the Sea
$10. Donation requested
100% proceeds goes toward local animal spaying, neutering and other emergency pet costs.

Call Meghan or Matt if questions: 503-368-3436

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Last chance in 2023 to secure your emergency supplies. They also make great holiday gifts. Don’t forget about or popular cookbook “Recipes for Disasters”.

Make sure and place your order as the GoBag and WaSH Pop-Up shops will take a break during February and March.

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Sign up for our Yellow Radio course to learn how to communicate in an emergency situation.

You’ll learn important skills to help you communicate when other traditional means, like cell phones and Internet, are not available.

A Yellow Radio is required to enroll in this class and can be purchased on the class registration page (link above). You must be physically located in the Nehalem Bay area during class.

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On December 14th, 2023 the Lower Nehalem Watershed Council will be hosting their regular board meeting.

The LNWC’s Board Meeting will start at 5 pm. The board meeting will include regular council business including reports on fiscal status, organizational health projects, and a discussion of ongoing and upcoming LNWC projects. This meeting will also include discussion of a new Personnel Policy and the 2024 Annual Budget. The public is welcome to join us and learn more about how the Watershed Council operates and what we do.

The Board Meeting will be hosted on Zoom. The zoom link is us02web.zoom.us/j/85257362427.You can also contact the watershed council at info@nehalemwatershed.org

Event Information: This event is FREE and open to the public. Find more information on our speaker series and the links for access on our Facebook page (www.facebook.com/lnwc1).

Time & Agenda:

5-7 PM LNWC Board Meeting

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Join us Wednesday, Dec 13 at 7pm for
a bicultural celebration of
El DÍa de la Virgen
All are invited to join us for this service and potluck
at St Catherine Episcopal Church
in Nehalem

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Come and join us for some holiday fun! The NCRD youth center has tons planned for all the kiddos! Make sure to reserve your ticket here: secure.givelively.org/event/friends-of-ncrd/ncrd-winter-celebration?fbclid=IwAR3r9M_OK803tnCSoLXoC4l2JXg0A-eNRwR_oyursjaJje-H3lqg_dD2wd8#WinterCelebration

Let Angie at the youth center know you plan to take advantage of the free child care during the speaker event at angiet@ncrdnehalem.org

The event starts at 11am with a Holiday Social. There will be free food and drinks and a fun silent auction with 12 very cute baskets! Following the social is the main speaker event starting at 1:30. Each ticket holder will be entered to win one of 3 Tillamook Creamery gift baskets! Winners will be announced during the speaker event.

Hope to see you all there!

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Please join us to re-stoke the hearth of community at a Yule-Tide Potluck on Friday December 22, 6 pm at the Cannon Beach Community Hall (207 N Spruce Street). Hope to see folks there!

Watt Childress

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Manzanita News and Espresso
Corner of 5th and Laneda Ave., Manzanita

Artist of the month of December
Lori Dillon:
Acrylics, Photographs on Canvas, Mixed Media
(agates, mirror), Botanical Pen and Inks.
Dinese Elder:
Found Wood, Driftwood Spinners.

Also at the Coffee Shop: Puzzles, Games, Calendars, Mugs, Jewelry – tons of other gift ideas including Gift Certificates.

Open 7:30 am to 5:00 pm Every Day

Check out the show and grab a nice warm drink and snack!

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New Moon. Tuesday, Dec 12th
5-7pm
North Fork 53

Community Sacred Grief Circle
Somatic Practices & Sound Healing

The holidays can bring up big emotions for many of us and often it can be hard to know how to deal with them.

If you are feeling sad this holiday season-you’re not alone. Please join us in our Community Grief Monthly circle to get support and tools that can help.

In this free 2 hour event we will be offering:

-Community sharing circle (for up to 12 people)
-Two somatic (body based) practices that can help you relate and process grief and other emotions as they move through you.
-Gentle sound healing to relax and integrate the practice

Somatic therapies work directly with your body- where your emotions are held.

You will practice noticing what you’re feeling without judgement, resistance or a desire to change it.

Then you’ll learn an anchoring technique to help you feel big emotions while also finding safety in your body.

These two techniques (noticing/tracking the charge and anchoring) are essential tools for anyone trying to get through the times we live in.

This will be followed by a short sound healing – a beautiful way of letting the body relax and release without having to go through the mind.

I hope you can join us!

Please RSVP to info@northfork53.com if you plan to attend.

We are limited to 12 people for this circle.

Bee well,
xoxo
Ginger Edwards -via the NeahKahNie Grief Collective and Communitea Nonprofit

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

It starts at 11am with a Holiday Social, there will be free food and drinks and a fun silent auction with 12 very cute baskets! Followed by the main speaker event starting at 1:30! Each ticket holder will be entered to win one of 3 Tillamook Creamery gift baskets!

The NCRD youth center will provide have free child care too for parents who’d like to attend the speaker event!

You can reserve tickets by following the QR code on the flyer or by following this link: secure.givelively.org/event/friends-of-ncrd/ncrd-winter-celebration?fbclid=IwAR3r9M_OK803tnCSoLXoC4l2JXg0A-eNRwR_oyursjaJje-H3lqg_dD2wd8#WinterCelebration

Hope to see you there!

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Hey everybody. Happy Holidays

Yoga is good for you, so everyone should take advantage of it. Also it’s free.

First there’s 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

Next there’s Yoga with April.
Day – Tuesday
Time – 10:30 PST
Place – NCRD in Nehalem

If you can’t join in person, you can still zoom in via the following link:
us02web.zoom.us/j/87338175282

Brian

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Come Join in the Holiday Fun

Sunday December 10th
4:30-5:30
Wheeler Train Station

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Hello Community Friends,

The Conscious Aging and Community Connections program will meet Monday, December 11th, 2-4pm at Pine Grove Community House. Door opens at 1:45.

This program meets on the second Monday of each month with the intention to provide a space for people in our area to gather and get to know one another as we address some of the challenges and opportunities we face as aging human beings.

The topic this month is Traversing the Edge Between Doing and Being.

If you have time before Monday please take some time to contemplate the topic and the following quotes:

Our curriculum of conscious aging requires that we get as close as possible to the thing that’s scaring us, in order to reveal our attachments, and to experience the serenity that comes from letting go of them. Ram Dass
It is the mental tendency to cling that creates anxiety, suffering, and fear, and once we’re able to identify what we are attached to — a certain standard of living, say, or a body that does not change — we are able to take the first steps toward freeing ourselves, regardless of the particular difficulty. Ram Dass
We sometimes erroneously project midlife values, activity patterns and expectations onto old age, and then define these values, patterns and expectations as successful aging. Maybe our projections are not just rooted in midlife, but also in western culture and white middle class hopes for success to continue into old age. When you think about it, what makes us think that we will be the same person with the same desires at 80 as we are at 50? And why would we want to be the same? Lars Tornstam
It is important to create opportunities … to build some time into our lives to consider our deepest questions about who we are, where we are, and how it all makes sense. Ram Dass

We’re experimenting with the program format and have decided to try breaking into several smaller groups to allow more in-depth discussions. We also hope this will mitigate the noise level and honor individuals who prefer not to speak in front of a large group. Please note, you are welcome to pass anytime you don’t feel like talking. We are open to feedback about these meetings, so feel free to express your ideas and/or concerns to organizers.

Future events:
January 8: Creating a Compassionate Community. We’ll provide more information about this before the session.

January 29th: 1-5pm Creating Vision Boards. More information about this event will be coming by mid-January. If you are interested in this, please let me know. telaskinner@gmail.com

The Conscious Aging and Community Connections Program is sponsored by Pine Grove Community House which allows us to keep admission at $ 5 per session.

We look forward to seeing you Monday!
The Conscious Aging Team: Tela Skinner, Kathie Hightower, Sue McGrath, Jan Hamilton, Mary Ruhl, Kathleen Moore, Dori Bash and Paula Sansum.

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RESIN ORNAMENTS & HOLIDAY CARD PRINTMAKING
Instructor: Karen Weiss

Time: 10:45 – 12:45PM

Location: Cannon Beach Gallery

1064 S. Hemlock St. Cannon Beach, OR 97145

Cost: $35 Members

$45 Non-Members

*Family Friendly

Tis the season to gather & create one of a kind holiday ornaments & cards!

Come join local artist Karen Weiss to learn about art resins versatility in creating both ocean inspired & traditionally themed ornaments. Create gifts for friends, family, and more.

But that’s not all! Students will also have the opportunity to explore the art of printmaking to design their very own holiday cards.

Our class size is limited to 10 people, ensuring an intimate and cheerful atmosphere that is brimming with holiday joy. Don’t miss out on this wonderful opportunity to unleash your creativity and spread holiday cheer through art!

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January Ceramics Class Just Announced

Whether you want to learn to throw on the wheel or learn the techniques of hand building and glazing, the Hoffman Clay Program has a workshop for you in January! Start 2024 right with skill-building and fun!

More information and registration: hoffmanarts.org/classes/all-classes/

These workshops fill quickly so sign up today.

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Merry Christmas!
I will be at Cloud & Leaf Bookstore Saturday Dec. 9th from 5-8 pm signing my thriller novel ‘A Desperate Place’, which was #8 on Amazon!
Happy to chat about the book or writing.
Hope to see you there!
Jennifer Greer

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Special Olympics Oregon (SOOR) offers individuals with intellectual disabilities the same access to sports and competition that most people have. It also allows them to experience greater independence, physical fitness, and improved quality of life. We have grown to serve 14,000 participants per year through our life-changing programs, including local sports training and state-wide competition, athlete leadership training, and health and wellness education.

Our Local Program in Tillamook County, which is completely volunteer driven, is proud to be part of this amazing organization. Through these initiatives our athletes learn tools for daily living, develop confidence, make life-long friendships, and become active members of our community.

We are excited to be hosting an Open House for our Special Olympics Oregon – Tillamook County to bring in some new faces to join this amazing community of Athletes, Volunteers, and Coaches. Have you been wanting to do more, or do you know someone who might want to get involved with our community, but just aren’t sure where to start? Then this is the place to be! We welcome you and your friends & family, to join us to learn about our program and become part of an amazing fun filled environment that fulfills your aspirations of helping others.

Open House

Saturday, December 16

1:00 PM

Tillamook County Library

1716 3rd St, Tillamook

Special Olympics Oregon – Tillamook County
www.soor.org/tillamook
Tillamook@soor.org
503.248.0600 ext 119

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

Hey everybody.

Yoga is good for you, so everyone should take advantage of it. Also it’s free.

First there’s 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

Next there’s Yoga with April.
Day – Tuesday
Time – 10:30 PST
Place – NCRD in Nehalem

If you can’t join in person, you can still zoom in via the following link:
us02web.zoom.us/j/87338175282

Brian

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Coming right up–the fun and festive
White Clover Grange Holiday Bazaar!
Saturday December 9th, 11am-3pm

Homemade sweet treats, craft items and jewelry,
locally grown teas, flowers, fresh vegetables, meats,
Christmas trees and wreaths.

Vendors include Lance’s Farm Vittles, Moon River Farm, Sugar Plus Air, River City Flower Farm, Little Wing Kinetics, Sam’s Soothing CBD, Lone Wolf Forge, North Fork 53 Communitea, Kanobi Candle Co, Aloha Hippie, Color Street Nail Art, Blooming H(eARTh), Poppy Jewelry and Art, LJ’s Goodies, and more.

Upstairs and down, vendors are selling a delightful array of locally grown and crafted goods including vegetables, meats, teas, wool, body care products, soap, bouquets, dried flowers, copper wind sculptures, pottery and figurines, handmade Christmas textiles, vintage décor, knitted items, CBD products, jewelry, hand forged metal art, post partum workbooks, baby gear, gratitude journals, beads and buttons, art work, more jewelry, cookies, jams and jellies, candles, fingernail art, solar lamps, honey and more.

Grange bakers will be selling their delicious cookies and treats, plus there will be cinnamon rolls from Handy Creek Bakery, Annie’s famous caramel corn, and Sugar and Air’s cotton candy and popcorn. Unfortunately, Health Department regulations no longer allow us to serve our traditional holiday lunch.

Christmas trees and hand made wreaths by Jose will be available outside, near the shed.

Kid’s crafting: In the Grange kitchen area, for a nominal donation, kids are invited to craft holiday ornaments and decorations with our creative Grange volunteers.
Also downstairs: a photo booth to capture the day!

Buy a chance to win a leg of lamb—raffle tickets are $2 each or 6 for $10.
Donated by Lance’s Farm Vittles

Win a pink sapphire ring in a 14k gold setting from the 1920’s—raffle tickets $5 each or 5 for $20. This ring, found by Pacific Northwest Dirt Fishing in the grange back field, and brought back to its original luster, is valued at $800.

White Clover Grange Holiday Bazaar
Saturday December 9, 11am-3pm!
36585 Hwy 53, about 2 miles east of Hwy 101.
Look for Daisy the Cow!