By Peter Starkey, Executive Director, CARE Inc. The sun is finally shining outside my office, the temperature is rising, and I can see the flowers starting to bloom. Spring appears to have…
Category: Commentary
PEACE OUT LOUD: Cemetery Clean Up in Bay City, First Event, More Planned by New Organization Tillamook County Cemetery Conservation
By Romy Carver The Bay City Oddfellows Cemetery is a very special place to me. As a kid, when things got rocky at home, I’d walk to the cemetery to sort my…
An Invitation and Introduction – Join us for Candidate’s Forum Today from NCRD Director Candidate Constance Shimek
Today, April 25th, 2021 The American Association of University Women – Tillamook, in partnership with the Tillamook Headlight Herald and the Tillamook County Pioneer, are hosting a Candidates Forum for several of the contested…
WORDS OF WISDOM: Making The Rounds
EDITOR’S NOTE: Here are some of Neal’s thoughts about ways to make every day Earth Day – plant a tree. A friend mentioned that she was planting a tree this year on…
Manzanita New City Hall and The Music Man
By Will Stone, Manzanita The Music Man was a 1957 Broadway hit play and later movie and TV adaptation, and 2021 revival on Broadway. The plot concerns con man Harold Hill posing…
Geezer Tribe: Geezer-proof packaging
by Linda Shaffer For the most part, I think we oldies are pretty patient about things and if we aren’t, it’s because we get frustrated by that which we can’t do but…
WORDS OF WISDOM: Letting Go
By Neal Lemery I often carry a lot of extra weight, excess baggage that holds me down, emotional “stuff” that prevents me from flying, from achieving my dreams and my full potential…
Geezer Tribe: When gardeners become hoarders
by Linda Shaffer As a couple about to celebrate 40 years of marriage, you can guess that we have some things in common. Not all things because that would be too boring,…
Response to Manzanita Elections Letter
By Randy Kugler I made no request of the Tillamook County Elections Clerk to investigate the registration of any Manzanita voter, made no claim to the Elections Clerk that any voter may…
FAITH: Questions to Ponder as Observation to the Season – Who Killed HIM?
A historical set of questions to ponder, whether Jew or Gentile, as we think back to the recorded events of 2000 years ago. It was a special time in history, and this…