EDITOR’S NOTE: Thank you Donald Roddy for a great reminder about handwashing and a way for a win-win. Make it a moment of meditation, deep calming breathes … we all need this…
Category: Commentary
A Hopeful Call for Understanding : My Experience As A Black Man in the U.S.
By Jules Arthur Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind – James Baldwin In the last three weeks, the U.S has been terribly shaken up by blows of…
A Message from Tillamook’s CEO: Taking Action
June 3, 2020 The past few weeks have saddened me deeply. The senseless deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and too many others have brought needed focus to the fact…
An Oregonian’s Experience with Race
EDITOR’S NOTE: Pioneer contributor Neal Lemery shares his “words of wisdom” with readers, and often will send commentary from other writers that is relevant to current happenings. Several days ago, he sent…
To everyone who cares about the viability of businesses in north Tillamook County:
By Lucy Brook, Fulcrum Community Resources Fulcrum Community Resources, a non-profit organization registered with the state of Oregon, has partnered with the Manzanita Visitors Center to create a North Tillamook County Business…
COVID-19 Dress Code and Other Rules
By Kay Stoltz You don’t think there’s a dress code for COVID-19? My dear, there’s a dress code for everything. As a little girl, I remember my grandmothers making sure I knew…
Support for Erin Skaar and David McCall for County Commissioner Positions: Connecting Our Community
By Miel Macassey In this time of seclusion, the internet is more important than ever. We use it to order groceries, monitor health bulletins and educate our children. Most of us depend…
Words of Wisdom: What’s to Become of the Handshake?
By Neal Lemery Social change can come slowly or astonishingly fast. In the blink of an eye, we now have “personal distancing”, quarantine, and the closing down most of our social interactions….
OP/ED: To Wear A Mask, or Not to Wear A Mask? There Shouldn’t be a Question …
EDITOR’S NOTE: There has been a great deal of discussion about face masks – to wear one or not? And this recent post by my friend Romy Carver hit a bullseye. Stop…
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…
