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Pizza N Progress: A Community Gathering with a Side of Friendly Competition and Free Pizza
Sunday Sept 20
5pm
HOC Studio
395 Nehalem Blvd
Wheeler
Four local pizza makers have elected to be part of something delicious—and something bigger than pizza—a community night where people will gather over free pizza to connect with one another and begin creating a community “Wishing Wall” filled with dreams, hopes, and possibilities.
Marzano’s, Mama Mia’s, Porchlight and Salmonberry are donating 2 large pizzas each so free pizza can be offered to a room full of hungry community members who join together to put their dreams for our community on a weather proof tag. The tags will then be put on the chain link fence at the blinking light in Nehalem, owned by Rocinante LLC.
To add a little spicy competition, attendees will be voting for their favorite pizza! At the end of the night, one restaurant will take home the highly coveted “Best Pie in the North Coast Community” trophy—and, more importantly, every participating pizza maker will be recognized as a local business helping bring this community vision and dreaming to life.
Pizza ‘N Progress is part of a new program of local nonprofit Fulcrum Community Resources called People, Place & Possibility. It’s a community project designed to bring neighbors together to imagine, dream, and share their hopes for the future of our community.
Other component are: the “You May Say I’m a Dreamer” Art Show coming to NCRD in Nehalem in October; Expression Nights where people share their thoughts on certain topics, and a Community Gathering in spring of 2027 where we take the tags on the fence and brainstorm how to put them in action
On Sept 20 it’s good pizza, good people, a little friendly competition, and a chance to be part of something positive happening right here in our community.
Pizza…the fuel for Dreams of tomorrow….Now that’s delicioous…
Summer 2026
New Fulcrum Program: People Place Possibilities
People Place Possibilities is a new program that provides a vehicle for broad expression of community and how we can enhance our lives and the lives of all our neighbors in the Nehalem Bay area.
This program includes a community art show in October and Expression Labs, an ongoing program that uses expression as a means to collectively share and to bring alive our honest internal experience. This can be in any media—conversation, art, writing, music, movement—any way we can express our current reality in order to connect to our vision of a better world.
Folks are invited to contemplate, create, and present their form of expression around a selected topic. This can be a poem, a song, a piece of writing, playing an instrument, cultural or ancestral knowledge etc…
Do you have ideas for an Expression Labs event? Please send an email to barbaraandchuck@nehalemtel.net
You May Say I’m A Dreamer Art Show
Join Us
Creating something new starts with imagination. We invite you
to use yours and your heart felt energy to share your dreams
of what our country/community could look like,
where prosperity, health and happiness for ALL resides.
Submit intention of visual art or spoken word
by Sept 15 to telaskinner@gmail.com
Bring up to 3 ready to hang art pieces to
NCRD Gallery in Nehalem Oct 2 9-1
Art Opening Oct 10 2-5 with music and spoken word
Old News
Expression Night
May 30, 2026
Community readings on the topic of Homeland
What is Homeland to you?
Not what it isn’t or gets in the way of it, but what is your Homeland. How would you express it, connect to it, name it, what’s been handed down, what your experience of knowing it.
Share with us your connection/expression/experience something unique to you.
Rock the Love
March 22, 2026
Paint rocks with your messages to the world and then randomly place them in your community for others to witness. To see growth in the ways we desire, let’s plant the right seeds! Our energy and intentions do matter. May our seeds take root nourished by the soil of community.
Sponsored by Heart of Cartm, a creative reuse nonprofit in Wheeler, Oregon.
Fulcrum Community Resources Hosts New Year’s Eve Celebration & Parade at Midnight
Come celebrate New Year’s Eve with your community at the Pine Grove Community House in Manzanita on Saturday, Dec 31, starting at 7pm. This event is sponsored by Fulcrum Community Resources.
Festivities will include a Gratitude Jar reading, a giving tree, food, music and costume prep for a Parade to the beach and back at midnight. Bring musical instruments and noise makers to herald the New Year during the parade!
To get sparkled and dressed up for the parade, there will be a box of costumes to borrow from. Or go to Heart of Cartm in Wheeler on Saturday, Dec 31, between noon and six. They will have their workshop open and materials available to make fun costumes ala their famous Trashion Show. Donations for use of the space and materials appreciated. Or dress up at home before you come.
Soup and bread will be provided by Wild Grocery and Café in Manzanita. The soup will be vegan and gluten free.
Pick a treasure from the Giving Tree of unwrapped gifts. Bring an unwrapped gift to share.
All gratitude submissions from the 4th Annual North Coast Community Gratitude Jar project will be read aloud and stored in a community archive. What happens to your gratitude? It ripples out and supports community spirit. To participate, visit one of our local Gratitude Jar hosts, and write who/what you are grateful for on the provided slips of paper, and place in the jar. Or submit to our virtual jar online at www.communitygratitudejar.com through December 30th. This is free for all ages to participate. Hosts are Wild Grocery and Café and Cloud and Leaf Bookstore in Manzanita, Stockton’s Lumber and North Coast Pinball in Nehalem and Heart of Cartm in Wheeler.
!!! Come join us to ring in the New Year !!!
Reminders:
Bring your gratitude.
Bring your instrument/noise maker for the parade.
Bring an unwrapped gift.
Bring your community spirit and positive vibes for a New Year filled with love and peace!
Donations welcome to cover costs.
November 30, 2025 9th Annual Giving Guide has hit the streets!
The 9th Annual Tillamook County Giving Guide, produced in partnership between Fulcrum Community Resources and the Tillamook County Pioneer has been mailed to all Tillamook county residents. Featured inside these pages are some of the many Tillamook County nonprofits and service organizations and includes a contact list of most of the organizations in the county at the back of the Guide.
The goal of this Guide is to give you information and encouragement to support with your dollars and your time, those who give so much to support us. Your generosity is needed! Thank you to all those who have donated, discovered and volunteered in past years!
We are all gardeners in this thing called life, and we leave the “harvest” of our words, actions and demeanor in our wake, wherever we go. So, let’s all Sow the Seeds of Love! In whatever way calls to you, be it kind words, a hand up or out, a smile, a meditation, speaking up for someone who can’t, or any random act of kindness, let’s care for each other. Close your eyes for a moment, if you will, and imagine what the power of love can do. As often as possible present with love.
link to the 2025-2026 Tillamook County Giving Guide: https://www.northcoastbbq.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Giving-Guide-2025-26_Final_Spreads3.pdf
April 30, 2021 North County Business Relief Campaign ends
After a year of accepting and distributing donations to small businesses and individuals in Manzanita, Nehalem and Wheeler, Fulcrum Community Resources is wrapping up its business relief campaign. Launched in April 2020, at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the campaign was a joint effort between Fulcrum and the Manzanita Visitors Center. It was designed to offer financial aid to area small businesses at a time of extreme uncertainty.
The small business relief committee consisted of Fulcrum president Barb McLaughlin, Fulcrum board members Tom Campbell and Lucy Brook, Breanna Stephens of Manzanita Lumber Co., and Dan Haag of the Manzanita Visitors Center. The committee met regularly to review a steady stream of applications and distribute the received donations.
While a similar effort met with success in the wake of the 2016 Manzanita tornado, there was some concern that this campaign would not be able to attract the needed donations. The tornado was an isolated local incident, while the pandemic’s effects were being felt on a global scale.
Happily, that concern was unwarranted: over the course of the last year, the campaign received over $106,000 in generous donations and grants and distributed those funds to 67 local businesses and independent contractors. The outpouring of kindness was heartening and it came from full and part-time residents alike. It was a testament to the depth of love people have for our small businesses and just how important they are within the fabric of our communities.
It was not lost on the many recipients just how vital these funds were to them, especially as they waited for the federal government to design and launch various aid packages.
The committee received many heartfelt thank you’s like this one: “The money did so much more than buy supplies. It gave me hope that I could feed my family and have a roof over my head. From the bottom of my heart, thank you for having a program for us little guys who are living simply here in our beautiful community and trying to stay afloat.”
The campaign’s efforts caught the notice of Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley, who thanked the committee at a Tillamook County town hall and awarded them with a flag that once flew over the state capital in Salem. Also, Visit Tillamook Coast singled out the campaign in their annual Tourism Heroes press release.
Even though this campaign has wrapped up, the effort to support small businesses continues. Everyone is encouraged to make the daily effort to shop small. Spending dollars locally is the best way to ensure small businesses come out of this pandemic and flourish.
April 19, 2021 Directory of Tillamook County Organizations added
Check out local nonprofits in Alphabetized and Categorized Directories of Tillamook County organizations.
Nonprofit directory alphabetized
Nonprofit directory categorized
February 15, 2021
LIMITED EDITION POSTER of 2020-21 Tillamook County Giving Guide Cover “Community Quilts” Available
High-quality Poster – 24″ x 18″ – $25.00 
Limited quantity available.
Available at WILD COAST GOODS, 35870 7th St. (Hwy. 101) Downtown Nehalem,
open Thurs – Sun. 11 am to 4 pm
$35.00 – shipped
Email orders to Laura Swansoneditor@tillamookcountypioneer.net
This image was created using over 300 images from the dozens of community quilts that have been made and gifted throughout our community.
Laura Swanson, Editor/Partner, Tillamook County Pioneer, 503-939-5416 www.tillamookcountypioneer.net