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Indoor mask mandate to lift March 11 Zoe Gottlieb

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asking indoors will no longer be a statewide requirement in Oregon as soon as March 11, reflecting a downtrend in COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations, as well as a shift from previous guidance issued by the Oregon Health Authority (OHA).

In Oregon, the OHA rules requiring masks in indoor public places and schools will lift after

11:59 p.m. on March 11. Other state and federal requirements, such as those for health care settings, public transit, and other specialized settings, will remain in place for now, according to the OHA. State Epidemiologist Dr. Dean Sidelinger, Oregon Department of Education (ODE) Director Colt Gill, and OHA Communications Officer Jonathan Modie held a briefing Monday, Feb. 28 to take questions from the media.

The OHA’s announcement

does not rule out the possibility of reimposing mask mandates should a new variant arise.

According to Modie, the permanent rule will remain in place but contains a component allowing the mask mandate to be lifted or reinstated “like an on-off switch.”

“I think as individuals as communities, we need to be prepared to take additional steps as the situation changes, and we face some more variants that cause more severe disease,” Sidelinger

said. “But for the time being, we can move forward with individuals and individual communities making decisions based on the conditions on the ground, the conditions, the risk factors, and those around them as we all step up to protect ourselves (and) our loved ones in our broader communities.”

Sidelinger acknowledged the gains Oregon has made so far in widespread compliance

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Garibaldi Lions Crab Races take their mark March 12-13 Ashley Tike

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he Garibaldi Lions Club is happy to present the Garibaldi Crab Races 2022! The event will be held Saturday, March 12th 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday, March 13th 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Old Mill Marina 210 S 3rd. Garibaldi, OR 97118. Races start at noon. Come one, come all.

Entry fee is $5 for adults, $2 for kids 6-12, kids five and under are free. This is the Garibaldi Lions Club’s fundraiser in support of local sight and hearing requests and Christmas basket program.

Cash, check and card will be accepted at the door for entry fees and merchandise.

Keepsake buttons will be provided which

allow entry for both days of the event. No ATM on site so bring cash for the food, drink, races and raffles! Racing costs range from $1.00 to $10.00, depending on the prize and type of race.

Local merchants have generously donated items and gift certificates for prizes.

The food selection will include fresh crab dinners, crab melts, seafood salads, chowder as well as hot dogs, sausage dogs, homemade desserts, chowder, homemade chicken noodle soup. Drinks include beer and wine, sodas, coffee, tea, hot chocolate and water.

There will be a raffle for a 70” Samsung Smart TV, as well as other items. The famous crab racing hoodies, t-shirts, and crab hats will be for sale to commemorate the event.

Crab racing is for the whole family, children and adults. The Grand Prize winners of the children’s races are a bicycle and helmet for each lucky boy and a girl to finish the sweepstakes. There are trophies for the First, Second, and Third place winners of the adult sweepstakes competition.

First Prize not only gets bragging rights but a crisp $100 bill.

The local crabbing fleet provides the racers and cooked crab. The City of Garibaldi has generously helped with funding this event. It’s not too late to volunteer!

Contact Judy Riggs at 503-317-1533 for more information.

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Tourism Management Network, NCLC Cape Falcon Marine Reserve Program, and Oregon State Parks are kicking off another season of the Trail Ambassador Program to equip North Coast visitors with the information they need for a safe, informed, and positive experience when hiking and visiting the region. The Trail Ambassador 2022 season will

kick-off on Earth Day weekend, April 23rd, and Trailkeepers of Oregon is currently seeking volunteers.

Volunteer Trail Ambassadors are placed at some of the busiest trailheads and beach accesses on the North Oregon Coast. Volunteers will have the opportunity to table at trailheads and hike the trails on weekends during peak

season. Volunteers will engage with the public to answer hiking and destination related questions, promote responsible stewardship ethics, communicate about trail conditions, seasonal beach programming, and alternative hike information, as well as

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eginning Saturday, March 12, students in Oregon will no longer be required to wear masks or quarantine if they come in contact with someone with COVID-19.

The Oregon Department of Education announced updates to its Ready Schools Safe Learners Resiliency Framework on Wednesday, timing its changes with moves the state announced earlier in the week.

The biggest element is the ODE will no longer require students or staff to wear face masks, instead shifting the responsibility to local school boards.

“This change follows the CDC’s COVID-19 community levels recommendations,” said Colt Gill, the director of the ODE, “and the decision by the governors of Oregon, California and Washinton to shift mask mandates to the local level beginning March 12.”

Gill said the change symbolizes a move to a “new stage of the pandemic” where protective measures are the responsibility of local officials and parents.

“These guidelines will continue to support schools in reaching our goal of providing in person education to students all day, every day,” Gill said. “It includes specific supports for students, staff and families that may be at more risk for COVID-19 than others in the school population.”

In addition to eliminating the mask mandate, the ODE is removing a requirement that those who come in contact with someone who tests positive isolate for five days. In addition, universal contact tracing in schools will no longer take place as the state puts in contact tracing effort on pause.

“The rationale on this is two-fold,” Gill said. “First, the decision to pause contract tracing and quarantine acknowledges that these practices now, unlike earlier in the pandemic, have very limited impact on transmission of COVID-19 in our communities.

COVID-19 has evolved to become one of the most transmissible viruses known, and by the time exposure is identified and contract tracing is performed, transmission has often already occurred.

“Second, following the Omicron surge here in Oregon, and for the first time during the COVID-19 pandemic in Oregon, we have very high levels of vaccine and infection induced immunity. The duration of this immunity is not quite known, but it is believed to provide protection from infection for at least 90 days.”

Gill said instead of contact tracing, schools are urged to provide cohort notification when an exposure occurs. That includes cohorts such as classrooms, school bus populations and lunch groups. Parents could then watch their children for signs of sickness.

Because quarantine is no longer required, testing requirements would change to testing for those of increased likelihood of illness.

If there is a positive test, isolation requirements remain in place.

“When a student tests positive for COVID-19, they should isolate for five days,” Gill said. “Students should continue to wear a well-fitting mask for an additional five days.”

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Registration is Open for Spring Term Classes at TBCC

Registration is now open for spring term classes at Tillamook Bay Community College (TBCC). Spring term begins April 4.

This spring, TBCC is offering classes in person, online, through Zoom and through a combination of different modalities.

“With many of our

classes, you get to choose your experience,” said Dr. Teresa Rivenes, Vice President of Academic and Student Services. “If you prefer to come to campus and learn in person, you can do that. If you have a job or are raising kids and need more flexibility to attend, you have a place here too.

We offer a variety of class formats to suit your specific learning style and needs.

There isn’t just one way to go to college.”

Dr. Rivenes added that along with fully online courses, TBCC also offers several Hy-Flex and Blended classes where students can choose how

they want to participate each week.

“Our blended classes mean that one day a student can be in person, and the next time they can Zoom in from home,” she said.

“It really is the best of both worlds because we know that what works well for a student one week might

change the next week and we want to support those students and still give them an avenue to earn their education.”

Hyflex classes offer even more flexibility for students who want the option to attend in person, via Zoom, or participate online on their own time. These courses

are best for students who have irregular schedules or changing circumstances in their lives that require additional flexibility.

Students who require laptops to accommodate online learning can rent those for free at TBCC.

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Ambassadors provide an invaluable asset to the visitor experience by sharing localized messages and opportunities to visitors. This program supports coastal destinations during a time when agencies are dealing with record numbers of visitors.”

Trail Ambassadors communicate key safety and trail condition information integral to both keeping folks safe and promoting stewardship of our most heavily visited recre-

ation sites. Staying on official trails, packing out waste, being responsible with pets, and knowing about other nearby options if the destination is overcrowded, are important aspects of the program.

“Trail users on the North Coast have realized firsthand the positive results of OPRD’s partnership with TKO over the last several years. Our collaboration began with simple trail maintenance and has expanded to more complex proj-

ects and enhancements. More recently the Trail Ambassador Program blossomed in this area and quickly enhanced how hundreds of thousands of guests perceive and experience our iconic trails. The unified messaging of safety, stewardship and education is becoming standard fare during our busiest recreational season and we couldn’t be more pleased. Welcome back TKO volunteers!” says Ben Cox, Park Manager for the

Nehalem Bay Management Unit.

Program organizers are looking for friendly, professional, outgoing individuals who enjoy informing and helping others and possess knowledge of North Coast trails and beaches. Volunteers are required to take an online training before signing up to volunteer.

For Trail Ambassador Program details and to sign up to volunteer, go to trailkeep-

ersoforegon.org/trailamabassadors.

There will be an online information session to answer any questions about the program on March 16 at 6:30pm.

Please register for the info session here.

For additional press questions, please contact Emily Akdedian with Trailkeepers of Oregon at emily.akdedian@trailkeepersoforegon. org or (971) 206-4351.

Continued from Page 1 direct folks to resources such as OregonHikers.org and land manager and partner websites.

Arica Sears, the Deputy Director for the Oregon Coast Visitors Association, has been a supporter of the Ambassador program on the coast. She notes, “The Trail and Beach

n COVID Continued from Page 1 Gill said the changes that will go into effect March 12 will be a significant change for many after two years of COVID protections.

“All of this represents significant change in operations of our schools and the day-to-day experience for students and staff,” Gill said. “This can feel like it’s signaling the end

n Mask Continued from Page 1 with state health directives and stemming the spread of COVID-19.

“I think this is an important step in response to the pandemic that we have in front of us - the virus that we have in front of us. Cases are significantly declining, there are no emerging variants of concern on the horizon, and we continue to see increases

of the pandemic. I want to be clear that’s not the intention here. The shift we’re discussing today is a new stage of the pandemic, and one where for at least the next few months, our state has some immunity.”

Gill said many students, parents and teachers will celebrate the changes, but there will be others who are concerned when things return to more of the pre-pandemic stages.

“After two years, we’ve all

in people being up-to-date with their vaccinations,” he said.

The OHA has twice revised the state’s indoor mask mandate to end on March 31 and again on March 19, following a significant decline in hospitalizations and case counts.

The revisions follow a reduction of more than half in hospitalizations from the Omicron peak of 1,130 on Jan. 27, down to 528 as of Thursday, Feb. 24, according to Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU’s) latest COVID-19 forecast.

learned a lot about COVID-19 and many of us have experienced significant loss,” Gill said. “Now we’re shifting to our local leaders.

The responsibility also falls to us as individuals. When we make a decision to wear a mask in a specific setting, we need to think about more than our personal health. We need to think about those we will come in contact that day or future days.”

State epidemiologist Dr. Dean Sidelinger also discussed the

Oregon Gov. Kate Brown released a statement in response to the changes in OHA guidance.

“Two years ago, today, we identified Oregon’s first case of COVID-19. As has been made clear time and again over the last two years, COVID-19 does not stop at state borders or county lines. On the West Coast, our communities and economies are linked.

“Together, as we continue to recover from the Omicron surge, we will build resiliency and prepare for

changes in school requirements.

“It’s important to remember while the worst of the current surge is behind us, COVID-19 still exists,” Sidelinger said. “We are seeing significantly lower cases.

After March 11, the need to wear masks and take other precautions won’t magically disappear.”

Sidelinger said the decision to make changes is in large part due to Omicron, which infected so many people, it built up immunity levels.

“We now have a significant

the next variant and the next pandemic. As we learn to live with this virus, we must remain vigilant to protect each other and prevent disruption to our schools, businesses, and communities––with a focus on protecting our most vulnerable and the people and communities that have been disproportionately impacted

by COVID-19.”

As Oregon moves to shift masking policies back to local control, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) announced that 70% of U.S. counties no longer face indoor

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portion of the population with vaccination or infection induced immunity,” he said. “ Once the mask requirements are lifted, we will pause contact tracing for the public, including K-12 schools. Testing all individuals in a population with high levels of immunity is no longer feasible or needed.”

Sidelinger said while the risk of COVID had not magically disappeared, it was now safe to return to a more normal life.

mask recommendations.

CDC Director Rochelle Walensky shared the following information in a Feb. 25 press briefing.

“Today, (the) CDC is updating its framework to monitor the level of COVID-19 and communities. We’re in a stronger place today as a nation with more tools to protect ourselves in our communities from COVID 19.

“Now, as the virus continues to circulate in our communities, we must focus our metrics beyond just cases in the community and

direct our efforts toward protecting people at high risk for severe illness and preventing COVID-19 from overwhelming our hospitals and our healthcare systems.

“This new framework moves beyond just looking at cases and test positivity to evaluate factors that reflect the severity of disease, including hospitalizations and hospital capacity, and helps to determine whether the level of COVID-19 and severe disease are low, medium, or high in a community.”

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Paint Recycling Made Easy Recycle Your Paint There are over 180 PaintCare sites in Oregon where households and businesses can recycle or dispose of unwanted paint, stain, and varnish all year round, including these sites in Tillamook County: True Value 34995 River Ave (503) 965-6295 Manzanita Transfer Station 34995 Necarney City Rd (503) 368-7764

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All PaintCare sites accept up to 5 gallons per visit (some take more). Please call ahead to confirm business hours and ask if they can accept the type and amount of paint you would like to recycle. PaintCare sites do not accept aerosols (spray paint), leaking, unlabeled, or empty containers.

LEARN MORE: VISIT PAINTCARE.ORG OR CALL (855) PAINT09 A lot has changed in the recycling world during the past few years, and it is important that people know exactly what happens with the materials they studiously rinse, clean, separate and collect, and then drop off at one of Tillamook County’s recycling locations.

During the past few decades, more and more communities shifted their collection systems to so-called commingled collection. In order to reduce the increasing costs of collection, the commingled system allows people to mix paper, plastics and metals together in one cart, which are later separated by machines and people in so-called Material Recovery Facilities (MRFs).

Unfortunately, the machines have not been able to keep up with the ever-changing improvements in packaging materials, and levels

of contamination rose. For many MRFs, the easy solution was to export almost-sorted materials to other countries, where poorly paid workers tried to sort materials well enough to be used for production. Several years ago China, the largest importer of such materials in the world, announced that contaminated loads would no longer be accepted. Following a few trial periods, China implemented a near-total ban on most recyclables in 2018, called the Blue Sky program. Since then, recycling markets throughout the world have been in turmoil.

Everyone has been affected by these changes – including those places where people have never hoped to unmix their commingled recycling. When Chinese and other Asian markets closed, the laws of supply-and-demand caused prices offered for recyclable materials

to plummet. Materials that used to be revenue drivers, like cardboard and metal, may only bring in enough revenues to cover the transportation costs, and lowervalue materials, like glass, may not even cover the cost of transportation.

The greatest changes have been noticeable where commingled recycling is practiced. Many cities reduced the types of materials accepted in their recycling mix, others increased trash rates by as much as 15% per year, and a few have done both. Some communities suspended commingled collection altogether. By contrast, in Tillamook County we haven’t increased rates in several years.

Even in times of economic turmoil, proper recycling still makes sense. You can reduce your garbage bill by reducing the amount of trash you generate – maybe

even switching from weekly to monthly collection. We continue to provide a full line of source-segregated recycling opportunities at all Tillamook County transfer stations, free-of-charge.

Preliminary numbers show that our volumes of recyclable materials collected and sent to licensed recycling facilities has grown by over 30% since 2019 – and we hope to continue with that trend.

If you have questions about

what happens to the recyclable materials you drop off at a Tillamook County recycling location, feel free to ask. We strive for transparency, and will provide you with answers. This way you can rest assured that your recycling is truly being recycled, and we’re doing things properly.

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No COVID cases reported in county last week Ashley Tike Staff Writer

According to Oregon Health Authority (OHA) COVID-19 dashboard for Tillamook County numbers from February 28, 2022, there has been no new positive COVID-19 cases and there has been zero COVID-19 related deaths reported during this time. Cumulatively for sTillamook County there has been 3,592 COVID-19 positive cases ever reported, 57 wer of those cases have resulted in death. m.

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having signs and symptoms of COVID-19 and wanting to talk to a nurse about what you’re experiencing, call Tillamook County Community Health Center at (503) 842-3940, Monday – Friday, 8 a.m. – 5 p.m.

COVID-19 Viral Testing (rapid and PCR) is available at: • Tillamook County Community Health Center, appointments are required, call 503-842-3900 to schedule.

• Adventist Health – all medical offices (Estacada, Lincoln City, Manzanita, Pacific City, Sheridan, Tillamook, Vernonia, and

Welches). Call 503-842-5546 to schedule.

The federal site to order free quick (rapid) antigen home COVID-19 test live: https://www.covidtests.gov Every household is eligible for 4 free at-home COVID-19 tests. Contact OHA COVID-19 Support Hotline for help: (866) 917-888.

According to the Tillamook County Community Health Center, starting March 1, 2022, the Tillamook fairground Thursday clinic will be closed. Vaccines are available at Tillamook County Community Health Center, Adventist Health, Nehalem

Bay Health Center, and local pharmacies. If you have any questions, feel free to call (503) 842-3900 Making a plan to get vaccinated as soon as possible is the best way to protect against COVID-19, flu, and pneumonia.

Flu and pneumonia vaccines are a covered benefit for many insurance plans, including Medicare and Oregon Health Plan. COVID-19 vaccines are available at no cost. Please bring your insurance card with you. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Age limit varies per vaccine type, visit tillamookchc.

Boosters are recommend for all 18 years old and older • 5 months after completion of the Moderna series.

• 2 month after completion of the single shot Johnson & Johnson.

Boosters are now recommend for all 12 years old and older: • 5 months after completion of the Pfizer series.

Individuals eligible for a booster may receive either the same or a different COVID-19 vaccine as a

booster dose, depending on advice from a health care provider, individual preference, availability or convenience.

Pfizer shot for Youths 5-11 years old • Pediatric doses of the Pfizer #COVID19 vaccine are now approved for use in Oregon for children ages 5 through 11 and Tillamook County has received the doses. Parent/guardian authorization is needed for all youths 5 – 14 years old.

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Long time resident of Pacific City, Peter Byrne, 96, has spent his entire adult life chasing the unidentified primate called big foot.

Indie movie producers Lloyd Morris and Peter Facer are preparing to illustrate the exciting story of Byrne’s life in the form of a documentary or docuseries.

The Los Angeles producers met Byrne while shooting a documentary on big foot in 1994.

“Peter’s life story is fascinating on many levels,” said Morris and Facer “Our goal is to archive his accomplishments and share his explorations with an audience.”

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in 1925, Byrne joined the British Royal Air Force and was based in the Indian Ocean in World War II. After spending five years performing air-sea rescue missions in Northern India, the war ended and Byrne decided to stay. He managed a tea plantation close to Himalaya Mountains. While there Byrne developed a real interest in the stories the Sherpas told about the Yeti. He then spearheaded his project to search for the creature.

According to Morris and Facer, Byrne spent 3 solid years trekking through the Himalaya Mountain area investigating the Yeti. Funded by wealthy investors, this 3-year stretch of exploration is longest recorded search

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Years later, Byrne, who was considered an expert on the topic, was hired to move to the Pacific Northwest and find the alleged “creature” thought to be living in the forests of Oregon. Upon arrival, Peter found that the area was much larger and the forests were much more dense than he even imagined. In an interview with Morris Byrne said he thinks, “There is a real possibility to successfully hide away in these forests.”

Over the years Byrne has written many successful books about his explorations into Big Foot. He has found inexplicable footprints, noises, hair and humanlike shadows appearing on video. He even ran The

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’m feeling very grateful as things are finally coming together for the 35th Annual Crab Races. I’ve met a lot of owners and employees at many businesses around the area who have been willing to support our cause.

I cannot thank you enough.

And when I was worried that there would not going to be enough volunteers, literally my prayers were answered.

In forty minutes, last Wednesday, I received several calls offering to help. Big shout out to Dave Farr from the Rockaway Lions for recruiting eleven volunteers, Debbie Brown for texting help from

four people, and Michelle Bobo and the Tillamook Boy Scout Troop who are sending six volunteers, just to mention a few. I was overwhelmed with gratitude.

Bob Graham left me a voice mail, and when I returned the call, his wife Sonja answered. She said “I don’t know why he wants to volunteer to work in the kitchen…” but I know Val Bailey and the kitchen crew will be well entertained!

Thanks to the City of Garibaldi for giving us a grant that enabled us to purchase our usual hoodies and t-shirts, some local newspaper ads and

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local radio spots! And thanks to Pirate’s Cove who will be donating their delicious chowder again this year.

Bill Beck has graciously offered to be our announcer again this year. Bill has had many, many years in this role and it is great to have him back. I ran into Tim Sutfin in the Garibaldi Bay Market, and he has offered to be the

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Oregon Public Broadcasting is doing a documentary on the crab season this year.

When they found out about our crab races, they decided to include this event in their documentary. And Laura Schmidt from the Port has designed a flyer for us, posting it on several websites including “Keep Portland Weird.”

The Food Pantry at God’s Lighthouse will be open this Friday, March 11th, from 10:00 am until noon. It’s open to all residents from Rockaway to Idaville. I’m unfortunately going to be too busy this week to help, but I know Julie Thelin and Pastor Jeff Coon are wonderful servants and you will be well taken care of.

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Guard birthday and “Pat Patterson Day” in my next column as the city moves forward to obtain the US Coast Guard designation for the city headed up now by Councilwoman Laurie Wandell.

Laura Schmidt from the Port has also been a huge asset.

The original US Coast Guard station birthday is March 7th, 1908. Laurie is currently working on a program to include adopt a Coastie to help them settle into the community.

I am grateful to the people of Garibaldi and Tillamook County who are working with the Garibaldi Lions so we may continue our endeavors to provide sight, hearing and food to our community. It truly takes a village.

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We will get some television exposure From Channel 12 on Good Day Oregon. I’m not sure the date the story will air but they are featuring the event ahead of time to get the word out. It was devastating to find out two days before the scheduled 2020 races that Joe V from “On the Go with Joe V” from Channel 12 would be unable to cover this as the event was cancelled due to Governor Brown’s order as Covid was revving up. Now that Joe was promoted to an anchor, he was unable to come out now.

We appreciate all the media coverage in our local Headlight Herald. Thank you, editor Joe Warren and staff writer Ashley Tike, for giving us front page coverage this

We need to support the library levy The North Tillamook Library in Manzanita is a jewel.

The library serves Wheeler, Nehalem, Manzanita, and areas nearby with a vast array of materials and services: books, e-books, magazines, newspapers, computer access, movies, TV shows, music, inter-library loans, research help, programs and always a safe and pleasant place to visit, read, study and enjoy.

County voters will be asked in May to renew a five-year library operating levy that will keep the North Tillamook branch, as well as all the county libraries, open and serving the public. The levy represents absolutely no increase for taxpayers, but it will ensure we continue to enjoy a great library.

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My personal interests most often run to history and biography, but if the latest fiction is your thing or perhaps you’re into science or art or cooking or gardening or literally a thousand other subjects, the libraries in our communities open the door to a vast treasure chest of information and inspiration.

Great libraries like ours in north county truly build communities. The library levy once again represents as valuable a bargain as you can find anywhere. I encourage all voters to support the levy, visit and use the library and continue to help build our community.

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After birth it’s work, work, work! Female honey bees are called workers for a good reason. They really do all the work in the hive except for laying eggs. From birth to death they progress through a

series of jobs which keep the colony alive and on-going.

Because of this, honey bees are called superorganisms. A single honey bee can’t live alone. In fact, a hundred honey bees couldn’t survive or even a thousand. It takes a colony of individual bees doing the job they were born to do at any given point in time – always for the good of the colony, never for themselves.

We could learn some things from the honey bee, don’t you think?

For the first half of their about forty-day life they are called “house bees”. All their jobs are indoors.

Day 1 - 3: There first job is to clean the cell they were

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donor in their family. The Nation’s Registry is how those patients find donors who can save their lives.

Fully funding for FY22 and increasing funding by $5 million for FY23 will help NMDP expand the HLA Today program, which offers HLA typing at the time of diagnosis. This can shorten the time to transplant for patients whose most valuable resource is time. In pilot phases, HLA Today has especially helped ethnically diverse patients, who are historically recommended to transplant at lower rates than white patients.

I want to thank Senator’s Wyden and Merkley for their support of NMDP. This funding plays a major role in helping the NMDP continue matching donors with patients and saving lives.

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t was warm enough for me to open a hive a few weeks ago. I just peaked in and sure enough the queen had a laid a full frame of eggs which were already at the “capped brood” stage. An egg looks like a tiny grain of rice standing up in the bottom of the cell. After three days the egg hatches into a larva for six days. Then the larva gets capped over, i.e. becomes “capped brood” and the metamorphosis happens. That takes twelve more days. It’s a total of 21 days for a worker bee to go from egg to live honey bee.

As an Bone Marrow Transplant Recipient and Advocacy Ambassador for the National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP)/Be The Match, I understand that working with Congress on policy is critical to ensuring that all blood cancer/ disease patients have access to a transplant if needed. In 2012 I was the recipient of an anonymous donor bone marrow transplant. My donor wished me “more” of whatever I might need more of- as a result I want to ensure that every patient who needs “more” has the opportunity to choose.

I recently participated in NMDP’s virtual fly-in and met with Senator’s Wyden and Merkley to advocate for increased funding for the C. W. Bill Young Cell Transplantation Program. Every three minutes, someone in the U.S. is diagnosed with blood cancer, and 70% of patients don’t have a fully matched

born in to get it ready for the queen to lay another egg.

Then they are busy polishing cells.

Day 4 - 6: It’s on to feeding pollen and honey to older larvae. The queen is laying 1500 eggs a day. There’s always a lot of feeding to be done. Studies showed each larva is fed about every 43 seconds, a total of over 10,000 feedings in its six days!

Day 6 -10: The worker becomes the super important job of “nurse bee”. Very young larva can’t eat pollen and honey. Only nurse bees have the ability to make

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A proposal to invest $100 million in rural Oregon is moving through the Oregon Legislature, and Speaker Dan Rayfield said he expects the package to be approved.

During a press conference Monday, Rayfield said announcements about several big packages were expected this week, as the Legislature rushes to get bills approved in the short session.

“We will start to release a few of our packages that will hit some of those issues we’ve been talking about,” Rayfield said.

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Rayfield said the package for rural Oregon will benefit communities represented mostly by Republicans, and the Republicans in the Legislature led the effort to write the bill.

“We allowed Republicans to lead the charge because they know their communities best,” Rayfield said. “That was an exciting, fun thing.”

Rayfield said as speaker and leader of the Democratic Caucus he often has disagreements with his Republican colleagues, but he said looking out for all the state is the right thing for the Legislature to do.

“It’s value driven from the get go,” he said. “It’s about looking at the entire state.

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While the Democrats leading the Legislature have complained about Republicans repeatedly forcing bills to be read fully before votes, Rayfield said proposing money for rural Oregon was not a way to stop the GOP protests. He said if the roles were reversed, he expects the Democrats would find ways to protest, too.

“There’s absolutely no strings attached,” Rayfield said. “This is about making meaningful changes across the state. I think our philosophy is to allow Republicans to protest by reading bills. What I want to do is be able to respect them.”

Rayfield said in the 35-day session, there is a rush to get bills done. He explained some bills take eight days just to get out of a single committee, so there is a time crunch. But, he added, there will be time to read every bill if needed and still get the work done.

He also said he expects many of the packages to have bipartisan support, at least in specific elements.

Rayfield said as a weekend of violence in Portland showed, there is a great need for an investment in community safety.

n Bees Continued from Page 4 royal or worker jelly. All larvae are fed royal jelly for their first three days which makes up a large part of those 10,000 feedings. A queen will only lay as many eggs as she has nurse bees to take care of them. When a colony dwindles in size it has little chance to survive unless we add young bees from another colony.

Day 11 – 15: Honey bees produce wax through slits in their abdomens. They and other bees chew on the wax to soften it and turn it into those perfect hexagons. Did you know that a hexagon is the perfect shape to hold the most nectar with the least amount of wax? Not only that, somehow the bees know how to put the right slant in the cell so the nectar doesn’t just drip out when they put it in! Amazing.

Day 15 – 20: They have generalized jobs. Some are busy keeping the brood at 95 degrees no matter what the weather. Other bees are at the entrance ready to accept nectar from the foraging bees, passing it on to one another, then putting it in a cell. Some of the workers are flapping wings to get the water in the nectar to evaporate. Some are filling cracks with propolis, a tree resin. Others are acting as housekeepers and undertakers, removing debris and any bees that may happen to die inside the colony. Then there’s the guard bees. They are trying to keep robber bees and yellow jackets out.

Work! Work! Work!

Day 20 to 40: The second half of their life is spent as “forager bees”. They leave the colony when temperatures are at least 50 and fly up to three miles to bring back nectar, pollen, water and propolis. When they find a great patch of flowers they actually do a “waggle dance” inside the dark hive which tells other foragers exactly what direction and how far to fly to find it! Amazing! That’s only my second “amazing” for today but I could have used more, don’t you think?

Bees make dozens of trips a day and fly until their wings wear out. Hopefully as you learn about honey bees you too will feel the awe! Until next time, eat honey!

For additional interesting information about honey bees check out the Tillamook Beekeepers Association website: www.tillamookbeekeepers.org. Prior articles can be found in the section titled “About Bees”. Claire Moody is education director for the association and can be reached at clairemoody503@ gmail.com. Come see us at the Home and Garden Show!