Category: General Interest

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NEAH and the Pups at Kelly’s Marina, Brighton, OR.
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Here’s your chance to win a 2 night getaway at the beautiful Nehalem River Inn located alongside the scenic South Fork of the Nehalem River!

Raffle tickets at $5 each or 5 for $20 from now until the winner is drawn on *Feb 8, 2025*.

Chris and Heather, owners of the Inn and White Clover Grange members, have graciously donated this prize for which we are extremely grateful.

Proceeds will be used for maintenance needs of this grand old building that has meant so much to our tri-village community.

Tickets are available at Manzanita Lumber or at various upcoming Grange sponsored events -the next being our Xmas baazar, from 11-3 on Saturday Dec 7th. You may also contact WCG member Gayle Stephens at 503-440-7311 for ticket purchase or information.

*Please note Feb 8, 2025 is the date of our famous ”Pie Day Auction/Feast” so mark the date and come on down to see if you are the lucky winner and to fill up on pie!

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Oregon’s Democratic leaders, including Gov. Tina Kotek, signaled the state will stand ready to oppose Trump administration policies that run counter to values the majority of Oregonians support, as it did during his first term.
“Oregonians have shown they will continue to lead with compassion, courage, and conviction — protecting a place where everyone can be themselves, feel welcome and have equal opportunity to a healthy, prosperous life,” Kotek said Wednesday. “We will continue to march forward and stand together as a shield against any attempt to undermine our fundamental freedoms. Our laws, our policies, and our actions will remain a deterrent to any attacks on our values and our democracy.

My feelings? – so shut up about Trump already – you are protected by a healthy prosperous life. OK?
Inflation will continue.
Oregon schools will still be way behind/ even last!
Emphasis on sex will be primary focus in education.
Parents who object will still be called terrorists.
Parents will have no idea what is happening to their minor kids.
The state still controls your minor kids reproductive organs.
We will continuously pay higher taxes.
Your state election system will continue to have dirty voter roles.
And farms will continue to go under.
So whats to complain about?
A healthy prosperous life lies ahead!

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I have a Sony Bravia TV that won’t turn on. It flashes a red light 3 times when trying to turn it on. Google hasn’t helped. Do you or someone you know ever had to fix something like this. If so, please reach out. We don’t want to replace of we don’t have to. We will pay for a fix.

Thanks,
Paul.

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

JUST WONDERING if YOU OR i are going to be affected by the draconian measures and appointees that trump is proposing.

once again, a “Letter from an American,” by Heather Cox Richardson.”

i have left all her references and research links for anyone’s further reading interest.

om peace namaste

lucy brook
nehalem resident
U.S. citizen

November 18, 2024
HEATHER COX RICHARDSON
NOV 19

On Friday, Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo locked in a $6.6 billion deal with the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company for it to invest $65 billion in three state-of-the-art fabrication plants in Arizona. This will bring thousands of jobs to the state. The money comes from the CHIPS and Science Act, about which Trump told podcaster Joe Rogan on October 25: “That CHIPS deal is so bad.” House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said he would work to repeal the law, although he backed off that statement when Republicans noted the jobs the law has brought to their states.

Also on Friday, a Trump-appointed federal judge struck down a Biden administration rule that would have made 4 million workers eligible for overtime pay. The rule raised the salary level below which an employer has to pay overtime from $35,568 to $43,888 this year and up to $58,656 in 2025. The decision by Texas judge Sean D. Jordan kills the measure nationally.

On Sunday, speaking from the Amazon rainforest in Brazil, President Joe Biden said that it would not be possible to reverse America’s “clean energy revolution,” which has now provided jobs across the country, primarily in Republican-dominated states. Biden noted that the U.S. would spend $11 billion on financing international responses to climate change in 2024, an increase of six times from when he began his term.

But President-elect Trump has called climate change a hoax and has vowed to claw back money from the Inflation Reduction Act appropriated to mitigate it, and to turn the U.S. back to fossil fuels. What Trump will have a harder time disrupting, according to Nicolás Rivero of the Washington Post, is the new efficiency standards the Biden administration put in place for appliances. He can, though, refuse to advance those standards.

Meanwhile Trump and his team are announcing a complete reworking of the American government. They claim a mandate, although as final vote tallies are coming in, it turns out that Trump did not win 50% of the vote, and CNN statistician Harry Enten notes that his margin comes in at 44th out of the 51 elections that have been held since 1824. He also had very short coattails—four Democrats won in states Trump carried—and the Republicans have the smallest House majority since there have been 50 states, despite the help their numbers have had from the extreme gerrymandering in states like North Carolina.

More Americans voted for someone other than Trump than voted for him.

Although Trump ran on lowering the cost of consumer goods, Trump and his sidekick Elon Musk, along with pharmaceutical entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, have vowed to slash the U.S. government, apparently taking their cue from Argentina’s self-described anarcho-capitalist president Javier Milei, who was the first foreign leader to visit Trump after the election. Milei’s “shock therapy” to his country threw the nation into a deep recession, just as Musk says his plans will create “hardship” for Americans before enabling the country to rebuild with security.

Ramaswamy today posted on social media, “A reasonable formula to fix the U.S. government: Milei-style cuts, on steroids.” He has suggested that cuts are easier than people think. The Washington Post’s Philip Bump noted that on a podcast in September, Ramaswamy said as an example: “If your Social Security number ends in an odd number, you’re out. If it ends in an even number, you’re in. There’s a 50 percent cut right there. Of those who remain, if your Social Security number starts in an even number, you’re in, and if it starts with an odd number, you’re out. Boom. That’s a 75 percent reduction done.”

But, as Bump notes, this reveals Ramaswamy’s lack of understanding of how the government actually works. Social Security numbers aren’t random; the first digit refers to where the number was obtained. So this seemingly random system would target certain areas of the country.

Today, both Jacob Bogage, Jeff Stein, and Dan Diamond of the Washington Post and Robert Tait of The Guardian reported that Trump’s economic advisors are talking with Republicans in Congress about cuts to Medicaid, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) formerly known as food stamps, and other welfare programs, in order to cover the enormous costs of extending tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations. Medicaid is the nation’s health insurance for low-income Americans and long-term care. It covers more than 90 million Americans, one in five of us. Rural populations, which tend to vote Republican, use supplemental nutrition programs more than urban dwellers do.

The Washington Post reporters note that Republicans deny that they are trying to reduce benefits for the poor. They are, they say, trying to reduce wasteful and unnecessary spending. “We know there’s tremendous waste,” said House Budget Committee chairman Jodey Arrington (R-TX). “What we don’t seem to have in the hour of action, like when we have the trifecta and unified Republican leadership, is the political courage to do it for the love of country. [Trump] does.”

Those cuts will likely not sit well with the Republicans whose constituents think Trump promised there would be no cuts to the programs on which they depend.

Trump’s planned nominations of unqualified extremists have also run into trouble. Senate Republicans are so far refusing to abandon their constitutional powers in order to act as a rubber stamp to enable Trump’s worst instincts. Former representative Matt Gaetz (R-FL), a Trump bomb thrower, was unqualified to be the nation’s attorney general in any case, but as more information comes out about his alleged participation in drug fueled orgies, including the news that a woman allegedly told the House Ethics Committee that she saw him engage in sex with a minor, those problems have gotten worse.

Legal analyst Marcy Wheeler notes that the lawyers representing the witnesses for the committee are pushing for the release of the ethics committee’s report at least in part out of concern that if he becomes attorney general, Gaetz will retaliate against them.

According to Vanity Fair’s Gabriel Sherman, fear of the MAGA Republican colleagues who are already trying to bully them into becoming Trump loyalists is infecting congress members, too. When asked if Gaetz was qualified for the attorney general post, Representative Mike Simpson (R-ID) answered: “Are you sh*tting me, that you just asked that question? No. But hell, you’ll print that and now I’m going to be investigated.”

The many fringe medical ideas of Trump’s pick for secretary of health and human services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., earned him the right-wing New York Post editorial board’s denigration as “nuts on a lot of fronts.” The board called his views “a head-scratching spaghetti of what we can only call warped conspiracy theories, and not just on vaccines.” Kennedy is a well-known opponent of vaccines—he called Covid-19 vaccines a “crime against humanity”—and has called for the National Institutes of Health to “take a break” of about eight years from studying infectious diseases, insisting that they should focus on chronic diseases instead.

Writing in the New York Times yesterday, Peter Baker noted that Trump “has rolled a giant grenade into the middle of the nation’s capital and watched with mischievous glee to see who runs away and who throws themselves on it.” Mischievous glee is one way to put it; another is that he is trying to destroy the foundations of the American government.

Baker notes that none of Trump’s selections would have been anything but laughable in the pre-Trump era when, for example, Democratic cabinet nominations were sunk for a failure to pay employment taxes for a nanny, or for a donor-provided car. Nor would a president-elect in the past have presumed to tap three of his own defense lawyers for top positions in the Department of Justice, effectively guaranteeing that he will be protected from scrutiny.

A former deputy White House press secretary during Trump’s first term, Sarah Matthews, said Trump is “drunk on power right now because he feels like he was given a mandate by winning the popular vote.”

Today Trump confirmed that he intends to bypass normal legal constraints on his actions by declaring a national emergency on his first day in office in order to launch his mass deportation of undocumented migrants. While the Congressional Budget Office estimates this mass deportation will cost at least $88 billion a year, another cost that is rarely mentioned is that according to Bloomberg, undocumented immigrants currently pay about $100 billion a year in taxes. Losing that income, too, will likely have to be made up with cuts from elsewhere.

Finally, today, CNBC’s economic analyst Carl Quintanilla noted today that average gasoline prices are expected to fall below $3.00 a gallon before the Thanksgiving holiday.

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Notes:

azmirror.com/briefs/biden-locks-in-6-6b-for-huge-tsmc-chip-factories-in-arizona-ensuring-trump-cant-rescind-chips-act-deal/

apnews.com/article/biden-amazon-peru-g20-3cc827382d1e3c32865a14616ddfe467

www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2024/11/18/appliance-efficiency-standards-biden-trump/

news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/overtime-expansion-for-4-million-workers-tossed-by-texas-judge

www.cnbc.com/2024/11/15/trump-elon-musk-javier-milei-government-cuts.html

www.kff.org/medicaid/issue-brief/10-things-to-know-about-medicaid/

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/18/trump-medicaid-food-stamps-welfare

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/11/18/trumps-2024-mandate-isnt-robust-bidens-was-2020/

lexfridman.com/vivek-ramaswamy-transcript/

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/11/18/dream-gutting-government-offered-with-technocratic-veneer/

www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/11/18/gop-targets-medicaid-food-stamps/

www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/woman-told-house-ethics-committee-saw-gaetz-sex-minor-lawyer-says-rcna180435

www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/11/15/congress/robert-f-kennedy-jr-new-york-post-00189800

www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/rfk-jr-comes-home-anti-vaccine-group-commits-break-us-infectious-disea-rcna123551

www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-vaccine-access-hhs/

abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-confirms-plan-declare-national-emergency-military-mass/story?id=115963448

protectdemocracy.org/work/presidential-emergency-powers-explained/

www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-07-30/undocumented-immigrants-in-us-paid-nearly-100-billion-in-taxes

www.huffpost.com/entry/matt-gaetz-attorney-general-republicans-shocked_n_67351edce4b0958bad3e0cb5

www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/us/politics/trump-signals-a-seismic-shift-shocking-the-washington-establishment.html

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VivekGRamaswamy/status/1858559544202502250

gabrielsherman/status/1858150639513002043

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I live in Wheeler and Today there was a Horrible House Fire and I Desired to Thank all The Responders that arrived and Did there Very best for our little Village.I went to make Coffee and CoCoa to Share,
But, my Intentions where Late.Your Job was Done.
Thank you, For your Bravery, Patience and Kindness.
May God Bless You All.
L.

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As the Holiday Season begins it’s a reminder to preserve and share past celebrations and adventures.
Turn old 8 mm, VHS and DVD videos along with Cassette/CD/Vinyl audio into digital files you can enjoy and share with family and friends. Affordable and local-contact Drew at nehalembayexperience@gmail.com

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

to the BBQ readership,
in response to a particular post on BBQ a few days ago–it was a Heather Cox Richardson “Letter from an American.” HCR is a political historian whose research and analysis i appreciate.
in response, a BBQ subscriber wrote me a particularly loathsome email. i was shocked by his negative, vilifying words.
disagreeing with a person does not make them a narcissist, nor arrogant, nor wrong, nor pathetic, nor a horse’s ass.
no one deserves to be vilified for expressing their political opinion. there is no reason to think that another human being is lesser, or to call them demeaning names, because they have a different political view than you do.
i am not naming him, that would be public shame. if he reads this, perhaps that will be shame enough.
IF YOU CAN’T SAY SOMETHING PUBLICLY, BECAUSE YOU CAN’T DESIST FROM USING DEMEANING, DEGRADING, DISCREDITING WORDS, PLEASE, DON’T SAY IT AT ALL!
om peace namaste
lucy brook

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Registration for the 2025 Tillamook County Master Gardener Association course is open! There’s a world of plants, soils, and other gardeners just waiting for you!
Come one, come all, Master Gardeners come from all walks of life, some know plants, some don’t, some know bugs and plant diseases, some don’t. But…you will learn and find a wonderful niche–plus the potlucks are pretty famous.
There are scholarships available for those who need financial assistance as well.
Classes are held at the Tillamook County Extension Office Building just a stone’s throw from the Tillamook County Fairgrounds.
To Register, visit
beav.es/Gcf
It’s lots of fun.
There are a lot of Master Gardeners in North County, so if you have questions, don’t hesitate to reach out!

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Edmund Stone on his All Classical Portland radio show, The Score, on Sunday, Nov 17, played music from movies he felt illustrated the resilience of humans in the face of great challenges.

“The Best of Us, Part Two,” stories and characters that inspire.
www.thescore.org/the-best-of-us-part-two/

www.allclassical.org

Here are the movies he featured. Popcorn anyone?

Star Wars: A New Hope
Shawshank Redemption
Forest Gump
Wonka (2023)
Harry Potter and Deathly Hallows, Part 1
The Color Purple
Les Miserables (2012)
The Hunger Games
Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King
Casablanca
To Kill a Mockingbird
Life of Pi (2012)

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In deep appreciation of our community celebration of life for Michael McGinnis. Thank you Tela, Gary, Alicia, and all for each of your contributions. In many of our lives the essence of the ocean keeps returning:

Forever Wild

For Michael McGinnis

I am beginning to listen.
Near the horizon of awareness
attuned to distant sounds,
I am listening to the ocean,
as you have listened.
Welcoming the rise and sweep
of this forever wild, I begin
to let go. Soon, there is space
around my breath, fertile, open,
and boundless, enough
to begin to know the freedom
in compassion. Awakening
in this grace, a joy is given
where the first and last words
often soar, rising out of silence
in celebration and praise,
wild and merciful,
a whole-hearted hallelujah!

“There is a lot of love in this room” Michael Hithe

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Is there any local interested Argentine Tango leader who would enjoy starting a weekly Manzanita Tango class with me?

I am an experienced follower, but not able to teach the lead. This is not a business venture. It is a social gathering idea of joy, fun, exercise and sharing!

Cheers, Janine

Submitted By: codger817@gmail.com – Click to email about this post

Trump did not win an “overwhelming victory”. His margin in Tillamook County was 49.03% to 47.69%. His margin in the nation was 50.01% to 48.24%. He lost in Oregon 55.2% to 41.05%.
We are left with a nation deeply divided.
Going forward, we should work through our differences with civility and tolerance.
Painting people who voted differently than did in inflammatory terms will do nothing to bring us together and solve our problems.
Big government can mean taking care of one another. Open borders can mean having enough employees to do the dangerous, dirty, and demeaning jobs we have trouble filling, child mutilation is a “scare word” for free choices, forced experimental shots never happened, and all our wars date from 2014 or earlier.
I sincerely hope I am wrong, but I think the ride we’re embarking on will be one we regret.
Thankfully, elections come around every 2 years. It may not be too late to reverse our course. Let’s temper our future choices with kindness and tolerance.
Respectful discussion is welcome at codger817@gmail.com.
Jim Heffernan

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Filmed 11-15-24 5:10-5:23 a.m. – Nehalem Bay
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Kindness and Love DO matter.

It’s something we all can do and practice.

Here are some possibilities.

Smile at people

Give someone a hug

Pay it forward at a coffee shop or restaurant

Give the person talking your full attention

Do something kind for yourself

Hide a happy note for someone to find

Get in touch with an old friend or relative

Let a car in front of you in traffic

Smile and thank someone who serves you

Take a treat to local firefighters

Tell someone you love them

Feed the birds

Keep the leaves in your yard to protect pollinators

Do something unexpected for someone

Reflect on the good things in your life

Take a board game to play at a senior center

Read a book to a child

Make a thank you card for you librarians

Entertain someone with a happy dance

Great a family gratitude jar

Go a full day without complaining

Bake cookies and share with your neighbors

Pick up and recycle trash in your neighborhood

Say Hi to someone who looks sad

Write a happy message with sidewalk chalk

Paint a kindness rock and randomly place it

Share food with someone who is hungry

Sincerely compliment 5 people

Post a positive message on social media

Reflect on kindness you witnesses during the day

Stop the negative chatter in your head

Create your own kind deed

(some of these ideas came from The Great Kindness Challenge Family Edition www.greatkindnesschallenge.org)

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We’re Hiring!
MANZANITA FARMERS MARKET MANAGER POSITION AVAILABLE for 2025 Market Season

The Manzanita Farmers Market is now hiring for the position of Market Manager. See below for a job description and other pertinent information. If you are interested, we would like to hear from you as soon as possible! Please send letter of interest, resume and three references by DECEMBER 2, 2024 to manzanitafarmersmarketboard@gmail.com or mail to Manzanita Farmers Market PO Box 608, Manzanita OR 97130

Manzanita Farmers Market Manager Job Summary
The Market Manager helps develop the farmers market with the MFM Board of Directors. The Market Manager independently plans, operates, and delegates activities to volunteers to fulfill the functions of the weekly farmers market. Must be able to work Fridays during market season, May through late September. The Manager reports to the Manzanita Farmers Market Board. This is a contract position.

General Market Manager Duties, including, but not limited to, the following:
• Recruit and manage farmers and other vendors
• Organize and recruit volunteers at weekly market
• Plan and facilitate annual vendor training
• Maintain market record keeping; maintain and organize files with contact information on all market participants, vendors, entertainers, volunteers, service providers, sponsors, customers
• Manage online vendor platform (Manage my Market), including onboarding and vendor assistance
• Manage and track vendor invoicing and all other MFM expense and income tracking and provide organized information to MFM bookkeeper. Make deposits at bank.
• Implement low income food access administration, for SNAP, DUFB, WIC & FDNP and outreach to vendors and customers, with other related programs such as vouchers from partner organizations
• Assist in the development of cultural accessibility to the market.
• Develop, lead and manage promotional efforts for the market, including print advertising and social media; maintain and update MFM website, maintain MFM Facebook page and draft weekly in season e-newsletters; with support from the board advertising committee, develop an annual advertising and marketing plan.
• Develop, lead and manage fundraising efforts for the market; with support from the board fund development committee, develop and implement an annual fundraising plan.
• Set agenda for and attend monthly board meetings. Give monthly market reports and other reports as applicable.
• Work with the market treasurer to develop annual budget; track payments, income and expenses.
• Create mid-season and end-of-season status reports and submit notes, files and other information to the board as requested.
• Participate in annual personnel review
• Manzanita City Council liaison; Updates on City Hall construction, impacts on 2025 season

Qualifications:
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, as well as a working knowledge of administrative functions and practices
• Must be self-directed and proficient at creative problem solving and organizational development
• Enjoy working with people from different backgrounds
• At least two years experience in community organizing or farmers market management
• General background and strong interest in community development including small business and economic development initiatives
• Interest in healthy eating and improving access to affordable, nutritious foods through direct farm markets
• Must be proficient in basic office equipment
• Must be proficient with Microsoft or Macintosh office software, social media tools, website updates, and general internet navigation

Hours: This is a part-time contract position, and is expected to take approximately 80 hours per month during the “high” season (March through September) and approximately 40 hours per month during “off” season (October through February.)
Annual compensation from $15,000 to $17,000 depending on experience, with potential for performance-based incentives.

For more information or questions, email to manzanitafarmersmarketboard@gmail.com or call 503-753-6327.

Submitted By: legume-outlet-muck@duck.com – Click to email about this post

“Election Results”

Now that the election is over I’d like to remind people that it’s what the overwhelming majority of people voted for. Please respect those that may not have voted the way you did. In the past, I’ve had election results that I didn’t like, but I didn’t attack those who voted for the opposite candidate.
Elections have consequences and I and others are excited at the new direction we are about to embark on. Please refrain from the name calling.

If you like big government, lawfare open borders, censorship of your political enemies, men in woman’s sports, child mutilation, forced experimental shots and new wars to name some, then you probably won’t like the new direction of this country.

If you love this country, enjoy your liberties and freedoms with limited government and equal opportunity for all, then you’ll appreciate where we’re headed. There are many more reasons but this is a start. Enjoy the ride!

Sincerely,

MAGA
MAHA

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

North Tillamook County has several non-profit organizations whose mission is to make sure people in our area have food security. People helping at these organizations are all volunteers who devote hours and hours of their time making lists, creating recipes, cooking, cleaning, ordering, delivering meals, and so on. You cannot put a price on the joy they give and receive. This is the time of year I would like to recognize these organizations and ask that you also recognize them with your support.

Starting in Rockaway Beach we have two organizations who work on food security. Meals for Seniors Inc. (MFS) has been around for over 20 years. “Our mission is to enable the senior citizens of North Tillamook County to continue living independently in their own homes by providing access to nutritious meals and social occasions.” They both serve and deliver meals from the dining hall at St. Mary by the Sea Church, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. MFS is a federally designated non-profit with 501 (c)(3) status, Tax ID # 90-0097197. They are currently serving over 12,000 meals per year. You can help them by supporting their cause. Meals for Seniors, Inc. PO BOX 852, Rockaway Beach, Oregon 97136-Phone-503-317-8967

Also at Rockaway Beach is the Rockaway Beach Lions Club. They provide baskets of food for families and seniors at Thanksgiving and Christmas. Their contact information is: Rockaway Beach Lions, PO Box 611, Rockaway Beach, Oregon 97136.

The North County Food Bank is in Wheeler. If you go to their website, North County Food Bank Tillamook Oregon, you will find out everything you need to know about the food and clothing bank. They need food, clothing, monetary donations, and volunteers, especially this time of year. You can call them to leave a message at 503-368-7724. Their mailing address is NCFB, PO Box 162, Wheeler, Oregon 97141. There is someone there on Tuesdays to receive both food and clothing.

A momentous change has come about to an organization located in Nehalem. What used to be run under the roof of Nehalem Bay United Methodist Church in Nehalem has been reorganized and is now called Nehalem Bay Community Services. (NBCS) This is the same organization which runs the CHILD Program, Nehalem Senior Lunches, Nehalem Bay Food Pantry, and the summer Munch a Lunch Program for kids. They have their own 501(c)(3) non-profit number, 93-4296849. If you would like to donate to one or more of their services, please note this information in the memo line. Many of you remember the CHILD program provides clothing at back-to-school time. This time of year, CHILD puts out tags in local businesses with requests for toys and new clothing for children at Christmas time. Senior Lunches are both served and delivered from the Nehalem Bay United Methodist Church in Nehalem on Tuesday and Thursday, 11:30-12:30. The Nehalem Bay Food pantry has food and clothing for people and dog and cat food for pets. They are open Monday, Friday, and Saturday from 10-2 and Wednesday from 1-5. The Munch-a-Lunch program works to provide breakfast and lunch meals for when school is out for the summer. Donations to Nehalem Bay Community Services can be sent to NBCS, PO Box 232, Nehalem, Oregon 97131.

The last program I’ve heard about is handled by the Nehalem Elementary School. You may drop off food to the school in Nehalem. For more information you can call 503-355-3639 Monday-Friday.

Please let me know if you need any more information on Food Security here in North Tillamook County. I would be happy to try to provide you with more information. These local organizations can always use your help, with both food and clothing, no matter what time of year it is. Thanks for helping people out.

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

Every Great Dream…

Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.

Harriet Tubman 1820 – 1913

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Here’s a story from elsewhere. Anyone have a local inspiring story to share? Let’s make and share our own giving and kindness stories!

After Hurricane Helene, a North Carolina woman uses the power of social media to reunite families with old photographs lost in the storm

By Caitlin O’Kane
November 12, 2024 / 7:50 PM EST / CBS News
www.cbsnews.com/news/hurricane-helene-asheville-north-carolina-photos-instagram/

We’ve seen the images of destruction, debris and flooding left behind from Hurricane Helene. But other images also came out of the storm: family photos – snapshots of happy memories and important milestones – left behind in the mess.
After the deadly hurricane in October, Taylor Schenker, who lives in Canton, North Carolina, nearby hard-hit Asheville, found herself with about 200 family photos that didn’t belong to her.

It started after the storm. Schenker’s house weathered Helene well, but she said her friend’s entire home was destroyed by flooding from the Swannanoa River. At least 220 people across six states died in the hurricane, including over 40 in Buncombe County, which includes Asheville.

Schenker and her friend went for a walk to check out the home, which was one of the many in Asheville that was destroyed.

“We spent about four hours digging through the mud, looking for any belongings of hers we could find, because her house literally just doesn’t exist anymore,” Schenker told CBS News last month. “And during that process, I found about four of five individual photographs and we laid out the photos – along with some clothes and we found an American flag – along the bank, hoping they would be reunited with people.”

“That’s my dad and I,” Vanessa Graham commented under this family photo shared on the Photos from Helene Instagram page. Graham is one of the people Taylor Schenker has helped reunite with her old photographs after the hurricane.

Schenker said thinking about the photos she left behind kept her up that night. “Just thinking, ‘Here are these little photographs that miraculously made it through all of this and now are sitting here and what if it rains or what if the wind blows and they aren’t able to be reunited with their family,'” she said. “That would be such a shame because they made it through all of this. And I know how special a memory like that can really be for somebody.”

So, Taylor went back the next day to get the photos and ended up finding more. She said it was obvious the photos belonged to multiple families.

“It was [a photo of] a middle school basketball team. It was a photo of a beloved dog. I found a wedding photo of a bride hugging somebody,” she said. “You take photos because you have a moment you want to remember and so, they did all seem just special.”

Realizing how many important family memories she now had in her possession, she started the Photos from Helene Instagram page — a virtual lost-and-found. She hoped people would recognize the photos on her page and word of mouth would help reunite them with their rightful owners.

The Instagram page is filled with school portraits, Christmas cards, images of childhood friends and families on vacation. She even found a photo of Michael Jordan dunking the ball that a local man says his dad snapped years ago.

Schenker took them home, dusted them off and categorized them in folders and bins for safekeeping until they could be returned to their owners.

Schenker said she found about 100 photos herself, but picked up about another 100 from other people who found them, including search and rescue teams. At the time of our interview in late October, she said she had returned about 15% of the photos she has collected. She still adds new photos to Instagram daily.

Each reunion is a heartwarming reminder that what she’s doing is important. “Being able to have that moment where you hand something so special to somebody and then also just give them a hug – because they’ve lost likely their entire home in this situation – it’s such a privilege to have an insight into this moment in their lives through these photographs and be able to give them back to them,” she said.

Schenker mails photos to people who are no longer in the area, but she also hand delivers the ones that belong to families who stayed close by. In one case, a college-aged son found his family’s photos on her Instagram, reached out to Schenker and connected her with his mom.

“We have now found five photos of this one family, of these two sons, and when I met with the mom to reunite the photos, she shared that one of her sons had actually passed,” Schenker said. “And so, when they lost their home, they lost all memory of this child. Which is absolutely devastating in addition to the devastation that has already happened.”

She said she recently went for another so-called photo walk – where she digs through debris to find images – and recognized the woman’s late son in yet another photo.
Becky and Nancy Tate, a mother-daughter duo, also found old family photos through the Instagram page. “It was an extremely strange feeling to just be scrolling on social media and randomly see a picture of me when I was 10 in front of a Christmas tree,” Nancy Tate told CBS News on Instagram. “That’s how I found out about Photos from Helene, a total fluke and scrolling and seeing a picture of me covered in dirt.”
Becky Tate and her daughter both recognized their photos on the Instagram page. Tate’s daughter, Nancy, said in the comments her mom was crying when they discovered it.

“A very surreal feeling to know all of your belongings and photos have been lost, and then to realize that some person you’ve never met is trying to help people locate these pictures, just out of the kindness of their heart,” Nancy said. “That truly sums up the Asheville community.”

Nancy tagged her mom in the Instagram comments, saying her mom cried when she saw it. Becky told CBS News she felt a combination of joy and shock – “a time of high adrenaline and disbelief.”

Schenker said that many families who lived in the same neighborhood before the hurricane have recognized other people’s photos on the Photos from Helene Instagram page and helped connect each other to Schenker.

“The process is definitely fulfilling,” she said. “It’s fun to see the moment that a photograph is reunited and to see the people in the comments tagging each other and saying, ‘Hey, is this you?’ or ‘Oh my gosh, you just reminded me of this moment in my life that I had totally forgotten about.'”

She said she chose her Instagram’s name because most of the photos we’ve seen come out of the hurricane show the devastation left behind – but her photos from Helene are happy memories of Asheville and the lives lived there.

“You still can’t go to the grocery store without seeing piles of debris,” she said. “And I think that has definitely made me and others celebrate these wins even bigger. Because you have to in order to get through the day to day now.”

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to the BBQ readership,

Americans who voted for Trump are soon going to learn how his policies are going to affect their lives negatively.

This is Heather Cox Richardson’s “Letters from an American” posted tonight 11/14/24.

At the end of her letter, I have left all the links to her references as well.

om peace namaste

lucy brook
nehalem resident
U.S. citizen

November 14, 2024
HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

Two snapshots today illustrate the difference between the economic—and therefore the societal—visions of the Biden-Harris administration and of the incoming Trump administration.

The Biden-Harris administration today released numbers revealing that over the past four years, their policies have kick-started a boom in the creation of small businesses across the country. Since the administration took office, entrepreneurs have filed more than 20 million applications for new businesses, the most of any presidential term in history. This averages to more than 440,000 applications a month, a rate more than 90% faster than averages before the pandemic. Black business ownership has doubled, and Hispanic business ownership is up by 40% since before the pandemic.

The administration encouraged that growth with targeted loans, tax credits, federal contracts, and support services. Small businesses are major job creators and employ about 47% of all private sector employees.

President Joe Biden rejected the “neoliberalism” of the previous 40 years that had moved about $50 trillion dollars from the bottom 90% of Americans to the top 1%. Those embracing that theory maintain that the government should let markets operate without regulation, concentrating wealth among a few people who will invest it more efficiently than they can if the government intervenes with regulations or taxes that hamper the ability of investors to amass wealth.

Biden and Harris returned the U.S. to the model that both parties had embraced until 1981: the idea that the government should regulate business, provide a basic social safety net, promote infrastructure, and protect civil rights. That system had reduced extremes of wealth in the U.S. after the Great Depression and given most Americans a path to prosperity.

Biden’s policies worked, enabling the U.S. to recover from the pandemic more quickly than any other country with a modern economy, sending unemployment to historic lows, and raising wages faster than inflation for the bottom 80% of Americans.

It has also had social effects, most notably today with the announcement from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that the U.S. is seeing a historic drop in deaths from the street drug fentanyl. From June 2023 to June 2024, deaths dropped by roughly 14.5%, translating into more than 16,000 lives saved. Experts say the drop is due to better addiction healthcare, the widespread availability of the opioid reversal drug naloxone, and lower potency of street fentanyl.

If the record of the extraordinary growth of small businesses in the past four years is one snapshot, the other is a social media post from yesterday, in which former pharmaceutical executive Vivek Ramaswamy noted that the government spends $516 billion a year on “programs which Congress has allowed to expire.” “We can & should save hundreds of billions each year by defunding government programs that Congress no longer authorizes,” he wrote.

Bobby Kogan, who worked in President Joe Biden’s Office of Management and Budget and on the Senate Budget Committee, explained that Congress often authorizes spending as “temporary” in order “to encourage Congress to revisit it to update various parts of the bill, such as eligibility, benefits, etc.” But Congress can still fund the programs in appropriations bills.

Kogan noted that the largest program currently operating under expired authorization is veterans’ medical care.

Trump and his advisors embrace the neo-liberalism Biden rejected. Rather than invest in the economy to create opportunities for middle-class Americans and those just starting out, they want to slash the existing government to free up more capital for investors.

Trump has tapped the world’s richest man, Elon Musk, who invested at least $132 million in cash in Trump’s campaign as well as the in-kind gift of the support of X, and former pharmaceutical executive Vivek Ramaswamy to run a “Department of Government Efficiency,” or DOGE, named for Musk’s favorite cryptocurrency.

According to the Washington Post’s Jeff Stein, Elizabeth Dwoskin, Cat Zakrzewski, and Jacob Bogage, people around Musk say the group is intended to “apply slash-and-burn business ideologies to the U.S. government.” Musk has vowed to slash “at least” $2 trillion from the federal budget and has warned it will create “hardship.”

That the people embracing this plan see a world in which a few elites run things showed in today’s social media post by the “DOGE.” The post called for “super high-IQ small-government revolutionaries willing to work 80+ hours per week on unglamorous cost-cutting. If that’s you, DM this account…. Elon & Vivek will review the top 1% of applicants.”

Such cuts would be enormously unpopular, and in the Washington Post yesterday, Stein, Dwoskin, Zakrzewski, and Bogage reported that Trump’s aides are exploring ways to enact dramatic cuts to the government without congressional approval. Key among those is simply refusing to release the money Congress appropriates for programs Musk and Trump want to cut. This is known as “impoundment,” and Congress made it illegal in 1974 after President Richard Nixon tried to shape the government to his wishes by refusing to fund congressional programs he opposed.

Trump tried to do this quietly in 2019 by refusing to release the money Congress had appropriated for Ukraine to fund its fight against Russian incursions until Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky smeared Biden. When the threat came to light, the House of Representatives impeached Trump. Although the Senate ultimately acquitted Trump, according to Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) all the Republican senators agreed he had done as the House charged.

Now Trump’s team apparently hopes that a pliant Supreme Court will declare the 1974 Impoundment Control Act unconstitutional, permitting Trump—or Vice President J.D. Vance, should Trump not be able to fulfill his term—to shape the government without consulting Congress.

Because of the 2024 presidential election, Trump will soon be able to return the country to the neoliberal vision of the 40 years before Biden, supercharging it with the help of unelected billionaire Elon Musk, who recently claimed the title of being the “George Soros of the right,” a reference to the liberal philanthropist who has been the bogeyman of right-wing pundits.

But it’s not at all clear that Americans actually want that supercharged neoliberalism. As vote counts are continuing, it has become clear that Trump’s victory was slim indeed. New numbers from Nate Silver suggest he will not clear 50% of voters.

At the same time, a new study out today from Data for Progress showed that people who paid “a great deal” of attention to political news voted for Vice President Kamala Harris +6, while those who paid “none at all” went +19 for Trump.

Many of those voters got their information from social media or right-wing websites, but one of those today underwent a historic change. The satirical news outlet The Onion bought right-wing radio host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’s InfoWars at auction. Jones’s property was up for sale because juries found him guilty of defamation and awarded his victims about $1.5 billion in damages. After the 2012 shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut that killed 26 students and teachers, Jones insisted the event was a hoax designed to provide an excuse for gun safety regulations. He and his supporters harassed the victims’ families for years.

Jones appeared to be trying to keep control of InfoWars by having a company associated with him buy it up under the terms of the bankruptcy and restore it to him. But Sandy Hook families worked with The Onion to keep it from returning to Jones’s hands. Jones is screaming that the sale that took it away from him was a conspiracy. The company associated with him, First United American Companies, is already protesting the sale in court.

Jones rose to prominence in 1993, when he dropped out of community college to start a talk radio show that warned the government was making war on Americans. His shtick echoed the anti-communist grifters of the post–World War II years that promised small donors that their contributions could stop the creeping communism in the United States. Jones became popular enough that he went on to found InfoWars, which made him rich from the sale of nutritional supplements. The theme of InfoWars was that “There’s a war on for your mind!” and that only people like him could deliver the truth.

But his lies cost him a billion dollars. And now, noting that “InfoWars has shown an unswerving commitment to manufacturing anger and radicalizing the most vulnerable members of society,” The Onion has bought his website, which it plans to relaunch in January as a parody of Jones and a site that promotes gun safety legislation.

The chief executive officer of The Onion, Ben Collins, told Kim Bellware of the Washington Post: “It’s not just Jones, it’s the people on Instagram trying to get you to drink raw milk; it’s the multilevel marketing people trying to get you to join a scam…. Those people have outsize impact in our completely bifurcated and balkanized media environment.”

fyi: “bifurcate” definition: divide into two branches or forks

fyi: “balkanize” definition: to divide (a region or body) into smaller mutually HOSTILE states or groups. Note the word I capitalized.
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Notes:

www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/11/14/statement-from-president-joe-biden-on-a-record-20-million-new-business-applications/

www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/11/14/fact-sheet-a-record-20-million-new-business-applications/

www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/11/14/statement-from-vice-president-kamala-harris-on-a-record-20-million-new-business-applications/

advocacy.sba.gov/2023/03/07/frequently-asked-questions-about-small-business-2023/

apnews.com/article/onion-buys-infowars-alex-jones-6496f198d141c991087dcd937b3588e9

www.thedailybeast.com/george-soros-of-the-right-thatll-be-me-says-elon-musk/

www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/economy-if-trump-wins-second-term-could-mean-hardship-for-americans-rcna177807

democrats-budget.house.gov/resources/reports/impoundment-control-act-1974-what-it-why-does-it-matter

www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/11/13/elon-musk-government-efficiency-congress-budget-law/

www.dataforprogress.org/insights/2024/11/14/what-political-news-engagement-tells-us-about-donald-trumps-victory

x.com/NateSilver538/status/1856967496462446603

www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/drug-overdose-data.htm

www.npr.org/2024/11/14/nx-s1-5191743/overdose-deaths-drop-fentanyl-opioid-crisis

www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/11/14/infowars-auction-alex-jones-sandy-hook-the-onion/

theonion.com/heres-why-i-decided-to-buy-infowars/

Joe Conason, The Longest Con: How Grifters, Swindlers, and Frauds Hijacked American Conservatism (St. Martin’s Press, 2024).

www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2024-10-28/elon-musk-we-can-cut-2-trillion-from-us-budget-video

Igor Bobic, “’We Are F**CKED’: New Book Reveals How GOP Senators Bailed Out Trump During 1st Impeachment Trial, HuffPost, October 7, 2022 at www.yahoo.com/news/f-ked-book-reveals-gop-110011623.html.

Rachael Bade and Karoun Demirjian, Unchecked: The Untold Story Behind Congress’s Botched Impeachments of Donald Trump (New York: William Morrow, 2022).

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FROM MICHAEL MOORE 11/13/24

Here are my suggestions of things for each of us to do, in our own personal time, to recharge, reboot, and revitalize our spirit

ONE. Kindness. The first step in our daily lives is to be kind. To live by the ancient code of Philo: “Be kind, for everyone you encounter is quietly carrying a great burden.” And to paraphrase something Jesse Jackson once explained to me: Ignorance and prejudice create a paralyzing and irrational, out-of-control Fear. Fear of “the Other.” Fear of the Different. Fear of the New. And Fear leads to Hate. And Hate leads to Violence. Therefore, in order not to end up with violence, ignorance and stupidity must be the first to go.
So, perform at least one act of kindness each day. You will instantly make a small piece of this world a better place.
Listen. Especially listen to women. (I ESPECIALLY LIKE THAT ONE!)
Read. Books.

TWO. Join something. Anything. Being in community is a radical act. Those in power know that one of the key components of staying in power is to divide people because when the people get together, well, it never seems to turn out well for those in power. So right away, simply deciding to join with others — for any reason — is one of the purest acts of Democracy. And I’m serious, join anything. A knitting circle. A darts team. Your local HRC, ACLU, BLM, or any one of a number of social justice groups. Neighborhood clean-up. Food bank. Community theater. Over-50 hockey. Regardless of which state of grief any of us are in, nothing beats being with other humans. And by coming together — even if it’s just to make a quilt — it is during gatherings like these that somebody randomly comes up with an idea, and two other people pile on with their ideas, and before you know it, you have the beginnings of a new First People’s Cultural Center in town.

THREE. Take care of yourself. We need strength to fight. It’s really that simple. And for us to win, really win, this will require 100% of our body, mind and soul. So… Drink tea. Listen to music. Go snowshoeing. Eat ice cream. Rest, on a shoulder. Randomly just start singing The Beatles’ “Let It Be” — right now. Don’t wait, just sing. “When I find myself in times of trouble…” Practice gratitude. Get a pedicure. Notice birds. Do standing push-ups against a closet door. Cross the river into Canada — with no clue as to why you’re there. (Pro Tip: Call home and announce you’ve left the country.)
FOUR. Get some real news. Go outside the mainstream media. There’s all kinds of journalism these days — dangerous muckrakers, investigative humorists, fearless instigators, unbought and unrepentant writers — find them. Embrace it. Read it. Watch it. Listen to it: ProPublica. The Guardian. Ha’aretz. CBC nightly news “The National.” Labor Notes. John Oliver. Current Affairs. BBC NewsNight. The Chris Hedges Report on Substack. Ayman on MSNBC. Drop Site News. A Closer Look on Seth Meyers. The Lever. Hammer & Hope. More Perfect Union. The Katie Halper Show. Night School with Marc Lamont Hill. “Citations Needed”. Jewish Currents. Al-Jazeera English.
Start there.

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Lazy afternoon on the Nehalem Bay. www.youtube.com/channel/UCtDisMjv9_ezqqTav8qUrdg

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Thanksgiving and Christmas Holidays will be here soon. Holidays like these can affect us in so many ways. I am hoping the information below will provide you with some ideas for helping others and that doing so will bring you great joy.

Thanksgiving and Christmas Holidays mean school will be out and therefore breakfast and lunch for kids will not be there. Several kids are in the backpack program which sends food home for them over the weekend. This will help at Thanksgiving. The Christmas break will be for two weeks. The Nehalem Grade school is also collecting food to send home with the children. You can donate food at the following drop-off places, Mohler Co-Op, RTI Nehalem, North County Recreation District, Wild in Manzanita, Nehalem Food Mart, and Nehalem Elementary. The name of this Food Drive is called “Let’s Share & Care”. This program is currently running and will continue until December 18th. Among the items needed are cereal, bread, pasta, rice, healthy snacks, flour, sugar, peanut butter, jelly, tuna, beans, canned tomatoes, soups, corn, baked beans, macaroni and cheese, chicken, and vegetable broth. You can buy one of each item or just one item to donate and you are going to know you made a difference. Contacts for this program, which is run by the Family Resource Center at the Nehalem Grade School Coordinator, heavenh@nknsd.org. You can call and talk with someone at 503-355-3639. Checks can be mailed to Nehalem Elementary, PO Box 190, Nehalem, Oregon, 97131.

In another message let me get back to you with the local programs in our area who need extra help this time of year. Thank you for helping!

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Aileen ‘Bobbie’ Recio used to own the River Sea Inn in Wheeler in the ’70’s and ’80’s. It was right there by the Wheeler City Boat ramp and later became Heron Rock, The Sea Shack, Salmonberry among other names.

She and her husband Nick employed many people, they had Dinner Theaters upstairs so lots of locals were involved in that.

I remember they had dogs including Pharaoh Hounds, which are a (nearly) hairless dog.
When Bobbie retired, she and Nick moved to Willits, CA where she made many friends and a ‘splash,’ literally in that community. (See obituary)

Having not heard from her, I finally found a mutual friend who shared that she passed away in April of 2023 at the age of 93 (Nick passed in 2015). You Go Bobbie! What a good long life.

Attached is her Obituary which conveys her spirit-
She is survived by a niece and a nephew, but of course many friends.

I would love to hear some memories of her if you’d like to share? Maybe eventually I can get a collection of these memories to her family. I can still hear her voice, kind of raspy and always enthusiastic.

Sincerely,
Lori Dillon
Please email to: banjo2@nehalemtel.net

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The latest issue of Manzanita Today is out today. Enjoy
www.manzanitatoday.com/