By Gordon McCraw, Tillamook County Emergency Manager & COVID-19 Incident Commander Yesterday, marked the one year anniversary that COVID came to Oregon. It was February 28, 2020 when Oregon had its first…
Category: Guest Column
TILLAMOOK COUNTY WELLNESS: Building a Healthy Relationship with Food
by Katlyn Wolf, Oregon State Dietetic Intern, future Registered Dietitian What does pleasant hunger feel like to you? This can be a hard question to answer! Pleasure and hunger don’t always seem…
TILLAMOOK COUNTY COVID-19 UPDATE: Vaccine Information
By Gordon McCraw, Tillamook County Emergency Manager, COVID-19 Incident Command As you know, the weather across the U.S. last week was, well, not only bad but record setting. Many people were affected…
STATE REPRESENTATIVE DAVID GOMBERG UPDATE: Hearings, Help, and a Positive Note from Salem
By Representative David Gomberg, House District 10 Hello Friends, On Monday evening, wildfire survivors from Lincoln County will have an opportunity to tell their stories to the Legislative Committee on Wildfire Recovery. You can watch…
IN GOOD HEALTH: BOOM BOOM BOOM, Out Went The Lights…UGH!
By Linda Tate, Communications Director, Northwest Osteopathic Medical Foundation This week, we intended to bring you another installment in our series on rare diseases, but Mother Nature had her way and Oh…
TILLAMOOK COUNTY COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS: Tillamook County COVID-19 Summary Feb. 12-18, 2021
⏺Projected to stay “Lower Risk” for next movement week ⏺Next potential risk movement: 2/26/2021 ⏺7 new cases this week (2/12-2/18) ⏺808 vaccines given this week (2/12 – 2/18) Tillamook County COVID-19 Updates…
GEEZER TRIBE: Why it’s so darned hard to toss out food
by Linda Shaffer Last night I decided to use up a packaged sauce mix which had lived in our cupboard for a long, long time. When I opened the package, I could…
FROM OREGON STATE REPRESENTATIVE SUZANNE WEBER: My First Month in Office
Welcome to my first legislative newsletter! I look forward to regularly communicating with you about what is happening in the Oregon Legislature and in House District 32. I also want to hear…
OUTBACK WITH BACKMAN: Sitka Sedge – a wintertime hike well worth doing
By Don Backman Sitka Sedge State Natural Area is a relatively new State day-use area located between Sandlake and Whalen Island to the north, and Tierra Del Mar, Cape Kiwanda, and Pacific…
Geezer Tribe: The trouble with ‘gullfriends’
by Linda Shaffer Winter may not bring much snow to the Oregon Coast but it sure does bring the seagulls. I don’t mean to imply that they go away any time of…