Link to OPB Article December 2024 – Tiny Oregon community works to protect wildlife and water along Cape Meares — the ‘land that walks’
Visit our Watershed Conservancy Project page for more project history and details.
Category Archives: News
Aging with Grace
The CMCA Aging with Grace working group (formally the Aging in Place and Preparing for End of Life) has compiled helpful resource links and information on the dedicated Aging with Grace webpage.
Durable Medical Equipment Available
If you need durable medical equipment from walkers to wheelchairs they are available for free by calling Linda Hanratty at 503-812-8889. The equipment is stored behind the church at 701 Marolf Rd. The storage facility is open Wednesdays, 1-2:30. Your other alternative is to post your request on MeWe.
Aging in Place & Preparing for End of Life
Visit the dedicated Cape Meares project page to see the North Coast EOL presentation and the results from the October 2024 community discussion and rankings of potential projects.
CMCA Board Adopts Aging in Place and Preparing for End of Life Project
This project will offer the community information about these topics, create places to discuss issues and concerns and consider what kinds of things we can do to support each other as we age. This a very relevant topic for our community as the median age is 75.
Please join your neighbors on October 26, 10 – noon for a Community Meeting and a community conversation led by Margo Lalich, founder of the North Coast End of Life Collective. We will update you on the work of the CMCA Board. Then Margo will facilitate a discussion about aging and end of life issues. At the end of the session participants will be able to indicate which issues they would like to learn more about in the future. This is the first in a series of presentations for our recently adopted Aging in Place and Preparing for End of Life project.
For more details and updates visit the Aging in Place and Preparing for End of Life page
Great Oregon Shake Out-Cape Meares
Cape Meares will participate in the Great Oregon Shake Out again this year. Get ready to practice your emergency skills with your family and neighbors. First, at 10:17 am on October 17th, you will practice the mantra of “drop, cover, and hold”. Then, grab your go bag and walk to your assembly site. The sites are located on 9th, 3rd,7th, and 5th streets and at the water tower. There will be someone there to collect participation data and communicate site participation using GMRS radios.
It is important to practice community emergency plans so that all participants can direct their energy toward survival rather than panic.
Don’t be scared. Be prepared.
Short Term Rental & FEMA Biological Opinion
October 17, 3 – 5 pm
Short Term Rental & FEMA Biological Opinion
* Discussion with Sarah Absher, Director of Tillamook County Community Development
Tillamook County and many other counties/cities across the state are now being required to update local floodplain development regulations resulting from a lawsuit filed in Oregon against FEMA for violation of the Endangered Species Act. Development code changes for development within FEMA mapped Areas of Special Flood Hazard will impact areas of Cape Meares located within these special flood hazard zones.
Protecting Salmon Smolt – by Scott Gordon
Waste, Water, Watershed
View the Waste, Water, Watershed presentation by Simone Goldfeder
SPECIAL PRESENTATION ON SATURDAY!
On September 14, 10 – noon there will be two educational presentations. Please come!
- The first will be about protection from wildfires including representatives of Tillamook Fire and the State Fire Marshall’s Office. Thanks to Dave Audet for organizing.
- The second will be about Septic Systems and Our Watershed by Simone Goldfeder.
Tillamook County Emergency Preparedness Summit
Held September 13, 2024
On September 13, 2024 Miriam Fultz and Charles Ansorge attended the Tillamook County Emergency Preparedness Summit held at Tillamook Bay Community College at which time the new name and logo for our group that focuses on emergency preparedness was unveiled. Our group of “preppers” is now known as Cape Meares Emergency Volunteer Corps (CMEVC). Miriam shared information regarding a history of the work that our group has completed since 2010.
