Greetings and welcome to Friday! Just two weeks until Halloween - are you prepared? Also, what is your favorite trick or treat candy from when you swerve a kid? Paul remembers one of the older neighbors down his street always giving away leftover little bags of stale Kiwanis peanuts - [...]

Greetings and welcome to Friday! Looks like a damp weekend - time for some cozy meals and indoor projects!   Paul and Leslie attended The Ford Family Foundation’s Community Building Summit in Bend last weekend (the first in six years). The conference delivered numerous actionable sessions and some vibrant (and [...]

Greetings and welcome to the first Friday in October! Time to pull out those Halloween decorations and gourds and pour yourself a warm cup of pumpkin spice something-or-another. Here is a hilarious (and profanity-laiden) article from McSweeny’s heralding the arrival of Fall:   https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/its-decorative-gourd-season-motherfuckers   Thanks to all who attended [...]

Greetings and welcome to Friday! First on the docket - it’s finally time to share our “There’s No Wrong Place to Start” video. The professionally created video (created by TZOM Films) was paid for by a small competitive grant we received from Business Oregon’s ROI program. Here’s the link to [...]

Greetings and welcome to Friday! It looks to be a beautiful weekend before the rains kick in later this month - get those grills heated up and ready for action. Remember that Monday is the first day of Fall!   Newport Pride events are this weekend - here’s the link [...]

Greetings and welcome to Friday!    This week’s report is a little shorter - Stacie is on vacation in Montana and Leslie is neck-deep in her work on the Resource Cafe event at the Aquarium (Go Leslie, go!).   Also, if you are in Waldport tomorrow for the Beach, Bike [...]