By Victoria Stoppiello I’ve had three heroes in my life — people who through their dedication, whether to quality education for low-income kids, starting the first curb-side recycling collection operation in Oregon,…
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Tillamook Bay Watershed Council Feb. 26th Speaker, Fish Use of Southern Flow Corridor
The Tillamook Bay Watershed Council is pleased to announce that we have re-scheduled Stan van de Wetering as our February speaker. Since the completion of Tillamook’s landmark Southern Flow Corridor project in…
KITCHEN MAVEN: It’s Mmmm Mmmm GOOD!!!
By Judith Yamada, Kitchen Maven Just because one has been seriously cooking and baking for 40 some years doesn’t mean they stop learning or trying new flavors, techniques or even recipes. When…
PERILS OF THE SEA: SHIP EMILY REED WRECKED; SURVIVORS’ THRILLING EXPERIENCES TOLD IN NEWS REPORTS
Story from the Barrier Miner – April 6, 1908 (Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia article and found that they got the story from the “Daily Telegraph”) Writing from Los Angeles (U.S.A.)…
TILLAMOOK COUNTY PIONEER MUSEUM SPEAKER PRESENTATION CANCELLED FOR FEB. 16TH; Museum Closed for Maintenance Feb. 18-March 4th
The speaker presentation at the Tillamook County Pioneer Museum for tomorrow, February 16th has been cancelled. Our speaker, Adam Davis, is sick. Please note: February 18th to March 4th for maintenance and…
Everything you wanted to know about chocolate but were too busy eating it to ask
By Dana Zia, The Golightly Gourmet “You can deprive the body, but the soul needs chocolate” – Frederick Shilling Oh chocolate, how I love thee! And it seems I am not alone,…
Feb. 14, 1908: A Three Masted square rigged schooner the Emily Reed has shipwrecked on the Oregon Coast
(From newspaper reports … compiled by Don R. Best, Rockaway Beach, OR) TODAY, February 14th, at 1:30 am, one hundred and eleven years ago, “Three Masted square rigged schooner, The Emily Reed…
OP-ED: How I Celebrated My Birthday
By Commissioner Bill Baertlein This year I celebrated my birthday by volunteering at the Homeless Connect. This is an event to count the homeless in our community for a national census of…
Thoughts On Creativity
By Neal Lemery (February 13, 2019) “Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they…
POETRY: THE INCREDIBLE PATH OF LOVE
– Virginia Prowell (2-12-2019) Love has it’s beginning at childbirth As a miracle of life is delivered to earth The Mother’s love is immediate and profound A love that will last and…
