Indoor paperwhite bulbs have been planted in beautiful vases/containers and are scheduled to bloom just in time for Christmas! Dress up your home or purchase as a holiday gift. These flowering paperwhites add holiday cheer wherever they are. These make perfect gifts for friends, teachers, co-workers, etc.
3 sizes available. $25 Medium, $35 Large, $45 Extra Large
The Small size has sold out, get yours before they’re gone! Go to www.pnwcoastpaddlingclub.com to order.
Although our TideRunners dragon boat team has been paddling on the Nehalem River for many years, we are now raising money to pay for the boats we acquired in this first year of our new nonprofit organization, Pacific Northwest Coast Paddling Club. You can support our growth as well by placing your order for flowering paperwhites today!
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Whether you’re just starting out, going back to school, or changing careers – this scholarship can be for you.
If you’re interested in advancing your healthcare education, reach out to learn about eligibility and how to apply. Your future in healthcare starts here!
Every Second Week of the Month at Rising Hearts Studio we host 3 grief groups…THIS WEEK!
Thursday 5:30 PM is our Animal Loss Grief Support group with Animal Chaplain Rev Christy Kay
Friday 5:30 PM is our Adult Grief Support group with Sam Wall
Saturday 9 AM is our Spiritual Support Group with Rev Christy Kay
Please Join us at one or all three!
All are Welcome to attend, free, though donations are very appreciated and allow us to keep these groups running.
Contact Christy (503) 800-1092 for more info
Rising Hearts Studio
35840 7th St
Hwy 101, Downtown Nehalem
(503) 800-1092
“Lifting the Community with Education and Services that promote healing on all levels.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/09/experts-authoritarian-regimes-trump
Time for our next VFP meeting. Lots to discuss and share. Here is the info:
Place – Manzanita Public Library
Date – Thursday, December 11th
Time. – 10:30 PST
Everyone is welcome. You need not be a vet to attend. Just for peace. Come on in, the water is fine. Looking forward to seeing everybody. If you can’t join in person, you can always zoom in
Veterans for Peace is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Join Zoom Meeting
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Brian
On Friday evening we will be hosting,
Community Art Night: Wrapping Paper Patterns
December 12, 5-8 pm, $15 registration
Get ready for the holidays by printing your own custom kraft wrapping paper with holiday-themed hand-carved stamps. We will have gift wrapping supplies available, so please bring any presents you would like to wrap before the holidays!
Sunday morning we will be offering a free youth workshop,
Hand Sewn Ornaments Workshop
For ages 10+
December 14, 10 am-1 pm, free registration
Come make hand-sewn felt ornaments! This workshop is suitable for all levels of sewing experience. Attendees will learn basic hand-sewing skills and receive guidance in bringing their creative vision to life as they create a felt ornament to gift or keep.
We can’t wait to celebrate with you!
Thanks BBQ!
Join the Oregon Coast Visitors Association and the Columbia Coast TV show for a special community screening of an episode filmed in Manzanita, Nehalem, and Wheeler!
This is a chance to celebrate the passion, creativity, and hard work of the people who make this region so special. Episode 6 features beloved local businesses including Jetty Marina, Alana Kieffer’s Shifting Tides, the Ocean Inn in Manzanita, and Heart of Cartm’s Trash Bash.
PS: If you haven’t checked out Heart of Cartm’s new HeartWorks community studio yet, now is your chance!
Celebrate our community being showcased on national TV, meet the creators of Columbia Coast and the local businesses featured, join in the conversation for a community storytelling Q&A, and enjoy drinks, light refreshments, and networking with your neighbors.
Schedule:
Doors open at 6:30 pm
Screening begins at 7:00 pm.
The episode and discussion will conclude at 7:45, and then we will break for networking.
Thanks BBQ!
Please check it out and give generously–sowing your own seeds of love.
Not every organization can afford a paid profile, which pays for the production. So there is a list of contact information for all in the back.
The Giving Guide and detailed directories of the organizations can be found at www.northcoastbbq.com/local-resources/
Here are descriptions of several of those organizations:
Adventist Health Faith in Action 503-815-2272
1000 Third Street redingmk@ah.org
Tillamook, OR 97141 www.AdventistHealth.org/Tillamook
Mission Statement: Living God’s love by inspiring health, wholeness and hope.
One paragraph about your organization’s history/work:
Wellspring, a ministry of Faith in Action, is an adult respite day care center operated 4 Tuesdays per month, where our licensed nurse and volunteers provide companionship to chronically ill, disabled, frail, elderly and those with cognitive challenges, while allowing a ‘day away’ for the caregiver. Daily activities include simple games, chair exercises, crafts, music and more. There is a nominal daily fee of $30, with financial assistance available. Lunch and snacks are provided. Pre-registration is required.
Infection prevention protocols are in place. Please call Mollie at 503-815-2272 for pre-registration or more information.
American Association of University Women, Tillamook 503-801-7866
5470 High Street aauwtillamook.cvp@gmail.com
Bay City, OR 97107 www.Tillamook-Or.AAUW.Net
Mission Statement: AAUW advances gender equity through research, education and advocacy.
Vision Statement: Equity for All
One paragraph about your organization’s history/work:
AAUW endeavors to advance gender equity for all, on a national, state, and local level. Our Tillamook branch was started in 1938. We sponsor several scholarships each year, enabling young women to study at Tillamook Bay Community College (TBCC) or 4-year colleges/universities throughout the country. We also sponsor a STEAM camp for junior high school students, and STEAM recognition awards in each high school in Tillamook County. AAUW also facilitates non-partisan candidate forums for local and state offices. Our regular monthly meetings often include interesting speakers from our local community who inspire women to achieve their goals. We also organize several book clubs for our members.
Animal Haven by the Sea Rescue 503-368-7719
PO Box 371 care@animalhavenbythesea.org
Manzanita, OR 97130 www.AnimalHavenbytheSea.org
Anyway Foundation 503-368-9463
34965 Highway 53 nbwines@hotmail.com
Nehalem, OR 97131 www.anywayfoundation.org
$400
RAFFLE BENEFITTING THE NORTH COUNTY FOOD BANK AND NEHALEM BAY COMMUNITY SERVICES FOOD PANTRY
When you attend one of our shows this holiday season, don’t forget we are selling raffle tickets to help battle food insecurity in our area. Our goal is to raise $3,000!
Raffle tickets are $5.00 each.
GRAND PRIZES:
-Golden Ticket for the 2026 Season. Front Row SEASON PASS to all four shows. (8 tickets/$200 value)
-A Reserved Seat Season Pass to see all four shows in the upcoming year. (8 Tickets/$160 value)
-The Grinch Outdoor Christmas Light Decoration ($250 value, as seen in the window of the Performing Arts Center and on stage).
Grand Prize Drawing 12/22/25
DAILY PRIZES:
Daily drawings during intermission of each show include tickets to all four shows in the 2026 Season, including MISERY, THE ODD COUPLE, DRACULA: THE RADIO PLAY, and WINTER WONDERETTES (our first holiday musical).
For tickets to the remaining shows for THE HOLIDAY CHANNEL CHRISTMAS MOVIE WONDERTHON, CLICK HERE:
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December 12th | White Clover Grange | Nehalem, OR
5pm (doors at 4:30pm)
$20 (adult) $10 (kids)
An intimate concert of light, warmth, and community through song.
As winter settles in and the days grow short, Kathryn Claire invites audiences to gather for Winter Songs — an evening of music that honors the season and celebrates the beauty found in darkness.
Drawing inspiration from winter’s stillness and renewal, Winter Songs weaves together original compositions, traditional melodies, and select covers. With shimmering strings, lush harmonies, and stirring instrumentals, the music reminds us that even in the darkest nights, there is the promise of returning light.
Winter Songs features the radiant trio of Kathryn Claire (vocals, guitar, violin), Don Henson (piano, percussion), and Sid Ditson (violin, viola). Their chemistry on stage is joyful and deeply felt. They seamlessly blend classical finesse, folk roots, and cinematic soundscapes into a heartfelt tapestry of sound.
Kathryn has been performing seasonal winter shows since 2013, evolving Winter Songs into a beloved tradition. In 2022, the trio released an EP featuring Kathryn’s original music written for the show, along with the single “Dark of December.”
“Winter Songs is my way of embracing the darkness and finding beauty within it,” says Claire. “It’s a time to slow down, gather together, and remember that the light always returns.”
Join Kathryn, Don, and Sid for an evening of music at the White Clover Grange that welcomes winter with open arms, and creates a space to pause, reflect, and celebrate the turning of the season.
We’re turning our 5-star Airbnb cabin into a long-term rental and wanted you to be the first to know in case there’s anyone in your orbit looking for a beautiful one-bedroom place on Neahkahnie Mountain. Full kitchen, private deck with hot tub, acreage. $2150 everything included. Ideal for nature-loving single or couple and one sweet critter. Thanks for spreading the word!
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Fast-forward to now. CARTM has been through some twists (understatement), changed names, lost capacity, but—still scrappy—is fighting its way back into itself as Heart of Cartm.
But the truth is simpler than the legend. The magic of old CARTM was never just the dump or the trash or the punk-rock trashion shows (though we’re happy to continue hosting them each May). The magic was that it turned a place everyone had to go anyway into a civic commons. CARTM was that one locale in North County where people of every age, income, politics, and walks of life crossed paths, worked alongside each other, traded knowledge, swapped stories, and recognized themselves as part of the same community. The location mattered only because it created a social equalizer; the story that unfolded was the wonder of community itself.
When that disappeared in 2018, what the region lost wasn’t a quirky reuse site—it was a communal space where belonging, creativity, and resourcefulness were practiced in the open. A microcosm of rural life. One where a 75-year-old in a bubble-wrap gown, a high-school kid in duct tape armor, the local coffee shop owner, retirees dropping recycling, working families hauling junk, artists with repurposed treasures, and weekend visitors all existed side-by-side in the same story.
Heart of Cartm exists because that function mattered. And still does. We’re not trying to recreate the dump or cosplay nostalgia. We’re rebuilding what the dump made possible: the civic infrastructure that helps a rural community stay connected, resilient, and imaginative. A place where people learn practical skills, care for materials and each other, and find common ground despite everything that might divide them.
So what is Heart of Cartm now?
Today, HoC doesn’t live at the dump, and it doesn’t look like old CARTM—because the community needs something different now. What we are is the continuation of the part that mattered most: the commons.
Right now, Heart of Cartm is:
– a reuse store where materials find new life instead of going to waste
– a hands-on place to learn—to repair something, make something, figure something out
– a workshop space where people create, teach each other, and share practical skills
– a place to gather, whether you’re dropping off fabric, volunteering, or just wandering in
– a connector between neighbors, artists, teachers, makers, environmental groups, land trusts, schools, and local businesses
– a tiny nonprofit trying to hold onto (and rebuild) one of the few shared community spaces we have left
In other words, Heart of Cartm is the same kind of commons CARTM used to be—in a new form. People still come here to find something useful, learn something practical, bump into neighbors, swap stories, solve problems, and make things together. The magic didn’t disappear; it just moved from the dump to a storefront in Downtown Wheeler.
Our work now responds directly to rural realities of economic precarity, climate pressure, and the shrinking number of shared spaces where community can actually happen beyond our screens. What we’re rebuilding isn’t the past—it’s the capacity that made the past powerful. It’s the practical and cultural infrastructure that keeps an organization like ours connected.
And in a moment like this, when the work feels fragile and the stakes feel high, it helps to return to a truth steadier than any circumstance, expressed in Margaret Mead’s simple directive:
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
It was true in CARTM’s early days.
It’s true now.
And Heart of Cartm is what happens when that commitment takes root again, rebuilt not through myth or memory, but through the people who still show up, care, create, and carry the story forward.
The hard part is this: we’re rebuilding quickly, and it’s working—but we’re doing it on an extremely lean budget. We’ve secured grants, rebuilt programs, and even have federal funding on the horizon, but we need to survive the next few months to reach that stability. If you believe in what Heart of Cartm is becoming again, this is the moment to help. Give what you can. Pass the word along if you can’t. The commons only works when the community carries it together.