Ninety-five percent of my votes in the last 50+ years have been cast for the most qualified conservative candidate. This election, for County Commissioner, I am casting my vote for Dave McCall,…
Category: Op-Ed
CALL TO ACTION: North Coast Communities for Watershed Protection Ask for Statewide Halt to Aerial Pesticide Spraying, Prescribed Burning during COVID-19 Public Health Emergency
Please write, email, or call Governor Kate Brown and ask for an immediate statewide halt to aerial pesticide spraying, and also ask her to initiate a statewide ban on prescribed burning. Concurrently…
Suggestion for Reporters at White House Coronavirus Briefings
Dear Editor, The daily White House Coronavirus Task Force press “briefings” rapidly morphed either into two hour plus 1) free political advertisements for Trump or 2) assaults on his critics. These Task…
Adventist Health, The Ford Family Foundation and CARE, Inc. join forces to help local families impacted by the COVID-19 crisis
CARE, Inc. is pleased to announce that $20,000 in funding has been made available to assist Tillamook County individuals and families economically impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Thanks to a community wellness…
WORDS OF WISDOM: Quarantined
Regeneration, rejuvenation, restoration— Yet nature unaffected — Late afternoon quiet One car on the highway, far away The one dog barks twice, then joins the status quo Birds cavorting, swirling, scouting for…
Housing Challenges in Tillamook County during COVID-19: The Invisible Ones
By Laura Swanson The Facebook post on a new group Tillamook County Homelessness Update page from Amber Hall, started like this: “I sent this email to the Tillamook County commissioners office on…
Tillamook County- As Commissioner David McCall Will Provide Leadership in a Time of Change
I ventured out to buy groceries this week, and as I looked around at the vacant streets, I thought, “This is so deserted on a warm sunny day in April. We are…
HUMOR: Social Responsibility in the Age of COVID-19 – The Rules
This is from the Pioneer’s Facebook page – and it was shared over 100 times as well as received lots of rave reviews/comments. We know that many of our readers “don’t do…
An Essential Empath
~ Lynn St. Georges dedicates this essay to all the helpers “in these times” – the grocery store workers, the gas station attendants, the restaurants, the drivers and farmers and laborers. Thank…
The ‘indefinitely’ … entering month two of Shelter-In-Place. A Love Letter.
A Long Love Letter to Our Community ❤ April 13, 2020 By Amanda Cavitt, co-owner Garibaldi Portside Bistro What interesting times we’re in right now. And I say “we” because we are…
