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ERIN for NCRD
The NCRD has seen record breaking growth in participation and attendance in the past couple of years. It’s clear this community loves the NCRD just as much as I do and it’s exciting to see such progress! I want to continue to build on that progress and continue to grow the NCRD!
So if you haven’t voted yet, please vote for me Erin Laskey-Wilson.

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Vote YES for quality and access to local health and senior care
Two of the most convenient north county drop box locations are in Manzanita just off Laneda Avenue near Manzanita News and Espresso (in front of the bus stop) and in Rockaway at city hall right on Highway 101. Your ballot must be in the drop box before 8:00 pm on May 16.
Your vote in favor of the Health District ballot measure will allow our community to enter a new era of improved local health and senior care. We have a once in a generation opportunity to improve health care right here at home. Don’t miss the chance to make a difference.
Vote like local health care depends on it – because it does.

Why ME for NCRD
I want this. I have been involved with the NCRD since 2008. I didn’t go to school here, I don’t have children in Programs at the NCRD and I use very few of the offerings of late. Regardless of not having those roots, I have been an out loud, consistent, contribution and promoter of NCRD and I am not willing to be resigned to; ‘you can’t please everyone,’ when actually you can, if service is a priority. The 3 Villages and beyond are customers of the NCRD and if ANYONE experiences not feeling at home, welcomed and supported, then staff needs to be evaluated and possibly changed.
The Board HAS to have Community service/support be the first priority and in the background for EVERY decision. The Board needs to be looking at how revenue is being driven and not allow another 2 years where very little new money comes in.
My name is Constance, around me People and Organizations excel, we get er done! I am asking YOU to vote for ME. Thank you
I Need a Ride, Not another App.
There’s a good community college nearby and I have been able to take a few classes and meet some great people that I’m sure I will know forever. I’m building a life here and it feels correct. A lot of people might not appreciate such a simple idea, but for people like me, people that are on their own and just doing the best they can, it’s a really big deal.
I have attempted to get myself more invested in pursuing the AA, as the path to getting it and moving forward has been made very clear to me. I know it will be a big accomplishment that moves my life in the direction I want. All I have to do is show up.
This is where the problem lies. I don’t drive. So, I either ask a friend or I take the bus. I can get my head around regular bus travel. I kind of like it. The real problem with my plight to attend college is that there is NO BUS at the TIME I need it. I work full time and the only classes that fit my schedule are in the evenings. Those classes end around 9pm. The bus to the college stops running at 7pm. This leaves me stranded about 15 miles from home. So, I don’t go to school right now. I just dream.
I watched the MooVoter candidate forums and was able to hear from the candidates for Transportation Board. I had never heard of any of these people, but in listening to them I knew they weren’t bus riders. Some said everything was fine and that is way off. Others touted technology as a solution. “No!” I shouted at the screen. An app won’t move me from point A to point B.
Despite my shouting at the screen I was also given some hope. The one candidate that stood out was Mary Leverette. Clearly, this person is smart, creative, calm, and although not a bus rider, I felt like she wanted to understand and that she would work hard to do just that.
In watching this forum, my dreams of getting back to aggressively pursuing this degree came alive. I’m voting for Mary Leverette for the Transportation Board. I don’t know if she can fix my particular situation, but I feel like she’s the only candidate that will try. I hope you’ll join me.
PS: The image is kind of how it feels to be me in this situation. I hope it helps sum things up. Please vote!

MooVoter Candidates Forum MidCounty SUPPLEMENTAL
This video was filmed on May 12th, 2023. The opportunity to participate in this recording was open, by personal invitation, to EVERY candidate that was unable to attend the May 6th, 2023 MooVoter Candidates Forum for Mid County.
View at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfSef-k6Q64
To see the May 6th, 2023 MooVoter Candidates Forum, that features many other go to this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gssKWuoMx-A
VOTE BY MAY 16th!

Vote for These Public Education Leaders!
PLEASE VOTE!
And when you cast your ballot for local school board positions, vote for the qualified public education leaders below. The well-being and academic success of ALL students is their highest priority.
More information about each of these candidates can be found on the Tillamook County Retired Educators and Teachers, TREAT, website: www.tillamookretiredteachers.org.
NOTE: Ballots must be postmarked by 8pm election day. To be on the safe side at this point, drop your completed ballot in a local drop box. Find locations at sos.oregon.gov/voting/Pages/drop-box-locator.aspx.
Voting is the foundation of our democracy!

Walk your Talk
I would like to commend Deb Simmons, Mayor of Manzanita, for exemplifying the role of city councilor. She is intelligent, respectful, a problem solver , strong in her beliefs, caring and a great listener. She saw a need, ran for office and has been a force to be reckoned with from day one. Her passion for citizen involvement is certain…she listens, researches, collaborates, and listens again. Mayor Simmons most definitely walks her talk.
Deb has been unjustly attacked, again and again, by the same group of unhappy campers, and she just moves on! She has too much too do in her Mayor job to be detoured by naysayers…my biggest kudos for her strength here.
Deb is 100% committed to the healthy growth of Manzanita and its citizens. I look forward to the day when the negative mudslinging stops, and we can all work together for a common goal…our city!
“Democracy belongs to those who exercise it” (B.Moyers)
Thank you all for your volunteer service,
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Manzanita
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Health District Praises Service of Jeff Slamal
its profound sadness over the recent death of Jeff Slamal, the Health District’s chief executive
officer.
Jeff, who had held the administrative position with the District since 2017, died suddenly on May 7.
The board expresses its deepest condolences to Vicki, Jeff’s family and his many, many friends.
Jeff informed the board on March 20 of this year that he intended to retire in June at the end of the
current fiscal year, and he indicated his desire to work closely with his replacement to ensure a
smooth transition.
“Jeff’s decision to retire was accepted with genuine regret, but we certainly recognized and
appreciated his strong desire to spend more time with his wife, family and friends, while continuing
to enjoy his life as a musician and his role as a member of the board of the Riverbend Players,” said
board president Marc C. Johnson. “The tragedy of Jeff’s passing is made even more profound with
the realization that he will not enjoy his well-earned retirement after a lifetime of dedicated work and
public service.”
Johnson said he was speaking for all health District board members in praising Jeff Slamal’s service
to the District and the larger community. Jeff has been a key participant in every aspects of the
District’s work for the last six years from the development and execution of a strategic plan,
including preparation of a general obligation bond measure focused on local health and senior care
to strengthening relationships with the District’s community partners.
“Jeff never met a stranger,” Johnson said. “He was a tremendous ambassador for the District and its
mission. He was a ‘get it done’ kind of guy with a great sense of humor who was also tremendously
caring and very people focused. As a friend and colleague there was none better.”
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Health Care
Detox from ‘covid’ shots?
“Yes, there has been an increase in myocarditis for those who have taken the shots”.
The guy in this video is the CEO (not president) and he is now a billionaire thanks to Trump’s and Biden’s trillion-dollar Big Pharma ‘covid’ scam. (Trump started the mandates, the shutdowns, and the vaccine production.) But making a billion-dollars off our suffering wasn’t enough compensation for this criminal, he made an additional 400-million dollars last year.
He got a billion of our taxpayer dollars for a vaccine that did nothing to stop the spread or reduce hospitalizations. Our money paid for the ‘development’ of these mRNA shots as well.
And he got this money despite admitting on Fox Business News that the lab-engineered SARS-CoV-2 virus contained a DNA-sequence PATENTED by Moderna!!!!!
Oh no, this is NOT a conspiracy theory, though many wish it was…
From his own new-billionaire mouth:
at 07:30:
Yup, and an increase in myocarditis (and heart attacks and strokes for the elderly, though not mentioned in this hearing on myocarditis in teen boys) from the shots:
The director of the health district in Wheeler ‘died suddenly’ while working out the other day.
He was in great health before the shots.
Then he began having heart problems his doctor couldn’t figure out.
Then, as I said, he died suddenly at NCRD while working out the other day. Was it from the shots? I don’t know, this isn’t a science experiment. But I know where I would put my money.
Healthy folks dying “suddenly” is a known thing in England and much of Europe.
But, for example, since Anderson Cooper’s show gets 8 million of its 10 million dollars from Pfizer, VAERS stuff (The feds “Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System”) doesn’t get any reporting. Don’t bite the Big Pharma hand that feeds you…
It’s safe and easy to pretend this new technology from Big Farma/Big Tech is just our polio vaccine or whatever. But if you put this junk in your body you might want to think about detoxing, though many think that isn’t possible.
Again, this isn’t science, but I know where I’d put my money.
rumble.com/v1h9lat-nothing-to-see-here-mark-steyn-questions-why-young-healthy-people-are-dying.html
Finally, we are all adults on this site. Since I started posting on BBQ after a ten year absence, I have received five pieces of insanely childish hate mail (I won’t out you cowards here) and someone called my boss, North Korea-style to complain I had become a ‘right-winger’.
I am the same true-liberal anti-war, anti-Big Pharma, organic, fierce environmentalist (wild animals way more desirable than humans, as I am clearly reminded after every time I post on BBQ), that I have always been.
What I see however, is most on the ‘left’ have abandoned classical liberalism and have embraced leftist fascism and totalitarian communism. The left has also become over-the-top intolerant, irrational, and childish. I can’t stress that last point enough.
BBQ is a community forum. If you disagree with something someone posts, the proper course of action, so it seems, is not to have a temper tantrum and then send hate mail to those you disagree with. If you have something to share, use your adult words and make your argument on the site, that’s how these community forums are supposed to work.
And unless you admire North Korea, you certainly don’t complain to the boss of someone who posts something you disagree with.
But if you must send hate mail, go ahead.
Your head might be thicker than my skin, but my skin is thick enough, I can take it.
In fact, I will confess, your hate mail has been quite fun…
Recording of MooVoter MidCounty Forum Session 1
MooVoter MidCounty Forum Session 1
Moderated by Sayde Walker
Featuring Candidates for Tillamook School District #9
Justin Aufdermauer
Dr. Danell Boggs
Kurt Mizee
Matthew Petty
Samantha Spratt
and
Candidate for Tillamook County Transportation District
Jim Heffernan
and
Candidates for Tillamook Bay Community College Board
Mary Faith Bell
Mary Jones
https://youtu.be/gssKWuoMx-A

Why ME for NCRD response to Erin
Many of you know I was a Board member, Officer, President of Friends of NCRD from 2008-2021. In 2019 I became President when tunnel vision for the pool project threatened the security of our Scholarship Program. Our newly elected board immediately rewrote our ByLaws to reflect Scholarships would be given priority funding. If you look into the Quarterly disbursements, you will discover the Youth after school program receives the majority of funding.
To be clear, I have never said the NCRD doesn’t provide Scholarships, I was a critical part of ensuring the Scholarship program remained strong. I stated the NCRD doesn’t do enough to promote Scholarships for those needing financial assistance. On the NCRD website you will see the statement ‘Scholarship assistance is extended to individuals in need of rehabilitative therapy due to injury or illness’. This statement alone implies Scholarships are exclusive, it says nothing about funding due to financial need. I also stated I would like to see user fees reviewed and the NCRD look into creating a sliding scale, creating Equity.
I hear myself in Erin’s statement of ‘not once did I ever have any feeling of un-welcomeness’. That WAS me and now sounds dismissive and promotive of the status quo. The status quo needs to change. I listen and I have heard many conversations of anger, upset and frustration. I am aware of them, the Board of NCRD is aware of them, the Friends of NCRD is aware of them and the NCRD is aware of them. I AM committed to listening for the NCRD becoming the best it can be, PERIOD! With me on the Board, we will create a safe space which will allow individuals to bring their concerns and have them addressed with honor, respect and completion, inside the context for the NCRD being the best it can be, for ALL.
My name is Constance! I ask you to vote for me, thank you.
Why I’m Voting ‘Yes’ for Local Health Care
By Kelly Seaton
I am a third generation North coast resident. My grandparents moved here from Portland in the mid 80’s after retirement. My grandfather built their home and large separate garage on the top of the hill in Wheeler. He called it “Up town Wheeler,” and that’s how he answered the phone since I was a little girl.
My grandfather was an avid fisherman among many other things and deeply intertwined in the community. He was the mayor of Wheeler at one point. My grandmother was a really wonderful lady, an avid gardener and part of the garden club in town. They both were proud Lions club members and loved living out here on the coast. They finished building their home here the year I was born, so I spent my entire childhood traveling back and forth a lot from the Portland area.
My grandfather had many serious health issues over the course of his retirement. He would travel back and forth from Portland, Astoria, Seaside, Tillamook and other bigger cities nearby because of the lack of resources in this area for his medical needs. He had heart problems that lead to a pacemaker and liver disease in his end years. He was life flighted and rushed by ambulance many times throughout his time here as our local health system wasn’t sufficient for his medical needs. Moving away from the coast was never an option as they were deeply involved in the community and wanted to stay in their home they loved and built for themselves.
My grandmother had really ideal health until her late 70s when she developed Alzheimer’s disease. At one point, she was in the Nehalem Bay memory care before my mother pulled her out and brought her home to Grandpa where she belonged. My mother and a few of their siblings took turns caring for my grandmother for the remainder of her time here on earth. It ended up being 5+ years of my grandmother battling the disease before it took her life. During those very difficult years, my mother spent most of her week down here, from her home and family in the Portland area, caring for my grandparents night and day. She would get relief by a few of her siblings for a couple days a week. They traveled from Sandy and Raleigh Hills, OR. They all did whatever it took to make sure my grandparents got to stay together in their home where they wanted to be. This was a major sacrifice and a reality for many in this community. As it turns out, both my grandparents passed away within a few months of each other in the comfort of their home with their kids by their side.
My mother and stepdad had bought a home in Nehalem not long before my mom’s parents both passed away.
My mother then went on to living life for herself again, and it wasn’t long before she herself began an awful battle with cancer. They found when it was late stage 3. She spent the rest of her life traveling for her medical care to Portland and the cancer center in Astoria. This was a really unfortunate situation and something many will deal with as they choose to retire or live here. Lack of specialty care and access to sufficient medical systems and care facilities make this area really challenging for all. These things make it difficult for everyone and it’s important to recognize that we are all in it together. At some point, every person in this community will need health services or specialty care that we may or may not have available here and need to travel for. Our grocery store clerk, gas station attendant, bankers, farmers, and so on. Even if it doesn’t impact you or your family directly, it will inevitably still impact you.
I am now raising the 4th generation here in our community. I moved out here when my mother was diagnosed with cancer and my daughter was only 3 months old. We had a year with my mother before she passed from complications of chemotherapy and the cancer itself. I’ve raised my daughter here and stay with my stepdad where we have grown quite close as we share the grief of missing my mom. I plan to continue living in this community and my daughter is now in the Neahkahnie school district as a preschooler. We spent the first few years of her life traveling to Portland for her primary care and then to Tillamook for a short while. Then we landed at the (then known as) Rinehart clinic where we quickly realized we should have been all along. We are lucky to have such caring and wonderful health care workers right here in our little town. It took a little time and some recommendations from friends in town, before we found the right place for our needs. My daughter has some special needs and is being well taken care of, still needed to travel some for her.
The Nehalem Bay Health Center needs this upgrade we are voting for.
With all that said, our livelihoods are deeply impacted by access to healthcare. Our health care system in this area needs a major upgrade and overhaul to accommodate the needs of our community and aging population, my stepdad included. It is deeply important to me to do whatever I can to make this happen.
As a student of Public Health and future health care worker and more importantly, a mother, daughter and friend. We are the fabric of our community, and we need to care for one another. If there is one important thing I’ve learned in the study of Public Health, it’s that the health of every individual matters and makes a difference. Lack of access to healthcare is a major determinant of health outcomes.
We need this new upgraded facility, and we need to ensure we are all given a fair and equal opportunity to have good health and promote longevity. Traveling for care is both a privilege and a major added challenge, that many will be, and already are, unable to make happen. This means poorer health outcomes for our community and negatively impacts our population health.
We need our community strong, healthy and fully supported. This is why I’m voting “Yes” for local health care.
Don’t Portland my Tillamook
This is what I have to say about that: During times of economic instability, crime goes up – and crime has increased tremendously in Oregon and other big cities in this country, and also in smaller coastal cities and town. Fentanyl is here now! Many of the homeless are settling in our little coastal villages. There are increasing reports of thefts and home break-ins. I think we need six more deputies. My opinion of the county commissioners is not good. They are definitely not small business friendly and they don’t seem to be county friendly either. They want to cut law enforcers in a time of more crime. You can make a statement about this by sending an e-mail to: publiccommens@co.tillamook.or.us
Wait, I’m Not An 80-Year-Old EVCNB Volunteer!
My name is Brad Hart, 53 years old. I’m a full time resident and voter in Manzanita. I’m involved, contributing through volunteerism with the Emergency Volunteer Corps of Nehalem Bay (EVCNB) and other organizations to make our community a better and safer place to live. I was honored and humbled to receive the Volunteer of the Year award from the EVCNB for 2022. I was included in the Harshbarger CERT award along with a group of distinguished EVCNB CERT volunteer colleagues.
The EVCNB is recognized in our local community, Tillamook County and by the State of Oregon as a leader in community education and disaster preparedness. It and its volunteers have received awards and honors from the State’s Medical Reserve Corps, SERV-OR, and other organizations. The organization, as well as the many volunteers that give countless hours of their time, are dedicated to building personal, community and regional resilience, developing programs to ensure readiness, and promoting a culture of emergency preparedness. The EVCNB is recognized as a blueprint for many other communities to help them prepare, be organized and ready to respond in case of a disaster.
Mr. Kugler, Manzanita Mayor Deb Simmons’s “trusted advisor”, makes inexcusable remarks ridiculing the efforts of the founding generation of volunteers such as this excerpt: “their medical needs attended to by 80-year-old EVC volunteers”. I view these individuals as being the foundation of the EVCNB. Having started the organization 15 years ago and leading it to what we have today, it is no less than heroic. These senior members of the organization are personal mentors, role models and leaders in our community. I strive to follow in their footsteps. I for one would be happy to receive help from qualified and trained volunteers, regardless of their age, at Underhill or elsewhere if a disaster strikes.
I’m appalled and find the email to be mocking in nature of all the efforts of the EVCNB organization and the many dedicated volunteers. These volunteers have contributed countless hours of their time to benefit our community. Excerpt: “those tourists that survive will be provided with a complimentary go bag signed by the EVC volunteers to show the City’s gratitude for your visit”. Making a joke that the go-bags being given to tourists as gratitude for a visit during a disaster is reprehensible.
Kugler continues to conflate EVCNB with the City of Manzanita. EVCNB is a nonprofit, nongovernmental organization promoting preparedness throughout the Nehalem Bay area. The City of Manzanita is just one part of the broader community served. The cities and County are responsible for the needs of any people within their jurisdiction after an emergency or disaster. Mocking this responsibility is childish.
There are many volunteers involved in the betterment of our community. Eighty years old, older and younger. I personally choose to focus on efforts to help not only my family, but the greater good of our community. Regardless, if I survive the big one, I’ll be here to help my fellow citizens in any way possible.
If you want to know more about the EVCNB and all the good work we do, please contact me, or visit the www.EVCNB.org website. You can get more involved in your local neighborhood cluster, emergency communication or simply to learn more about being prepared for a disaster. There are many volunteer opportunities. We welcome anyone to help with our mission, no matter your age.
Email referenced below:
From: Randy Kugler <rkinor@gmail.com>
Subject: Use of TLT funds
Date: February 16, 2023 at 2:39:38 PM PST
To: Jerry Spegman <jerryspegman@gmail.com>, Brad Mayerle
<Brad@mayerletydeman.com>, Debra Simmons <daslunas@icloud.com>
When conversations come up on uses of TLT monies, you might want to become familiar with the statutory language below that is used to consider how those funds can be used. “Tourist” means a person who, for business, pleasure, recreation or participation in events related to the arts, heritage or culture, travels from the community in which that person is a resident to a different community that is separate, distinct from and unrelated to the person’s community of residence, and that trip:
(a)
Requires the person to travel more than 50 miles from the community of residence; or
(b)
Includes an overnight stay.
Does the cost of constructing facilities used for the storage of emergency supplies and the purchase of the supplies themselves qualify?
I suppose if Manzanita wants to promote itself as the first disaster destination locale that offers those lucky few visitors who time it just right to take advantage of our next tsunami, it might just work.
Those visitors who travel more than 50 miles or stay overnight when the big one hits can afterwards go up to Underhill, sleep in the open or in tents on cots now that the Q Hut is going away, eat prepackaged meals and have their medical needs attended to by 80 year old EVC volunteers. To complete this unique recreation experience, those tourists that survive will be provided with a complimentary go bag signed by the EVC volunteers to show the City’s gratitude for your visit.
If you can’t laugh about some of the nonsense and uninformed comments that come out of these meetings you’re not going to survive.
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