Dear Neahkahnie Club members:

Happy New Year!  Each January, the Neahkahnie Community Club holds a required “annual meeting” for its members to approve leadership and financial reports and make plans for the coming year.  It’s a short and informal meeting to which all current members are invited.  The annual meeting for the year just ended is Saturday, January 26, 11am-noon.  Location:  the Johnsons’ home at 37395 Second Street.

I hope you were able to attend both our Picnic in the Park at Nehalem Bay State Park in August and our jingle ‘n mingle holiday party at the Pine Grove House in December.  Attendance at both events was great, and your enthusiastic participation tells us that you enjoy the way these two traditional neighborhood gatherings are happening. This year’s Picnic in the Park is set for Saturday, August 10, and the jingle ‘n mingle will happen on Saturday, December 14.  Save those dates on your 2019 calendars. We’ll email you the details when the time is right.

Of course, Club events don’t happen in a vacuum.  They are managed by a cohesive and committed Board.  For our events this year, we all owe thanks to Jacki Hinton (Vice-President), Dave Williams (Secretary), Tony Johnson (Treasurer), Colleen Schwindt, Marilyn and David Flemming (Ad Hoc Members).

It’s a fact of life that as Neahkahnie continues to evolve and grow, some long-time Club members leave the area and new neighbors move here.  Please introduce yourself to those  newcomers, tell them about the Neahkahnie Club (www.neahkahnieclub.org ) and invite them to join us and get to know their new neighbors.

Please do contact me directly if you have comments, concerns or most important of all, if you’d like to help us out this coming year!!!  Please add your voice to ours!

Sarah Johnson, Club President

sarahaveryjohnson@gmail.com

Hello Neahkahnie neighbors!

PLEASE SAVE THIS DATE:  Saturday, August 11, Noon to 3 pm………..

for the Season’s biggest event, the………

PICNIC IN THE PARK
The Neah-Kah-Nie Community Club 2018 Summer Social
Nehalem Bay State Park Meeting Hall

We’ll have the same great neighbors and friends!  And the same club-provided and shared dishes! And the same sunny gathering at the State Park Meeting Hall.
A detailed invitation with all the particulars and RSVP information will be e-mailed to you in July.

It is free for current (2018) members of the Neahkahnie Community Club.  The State Park parking fee, as last year, will be covered. Visitors and guests of current members can attend for $5 per person.

A membership form with mailing directions is linked at the bottomw for your convenience. If you forgot to renew in January, you can use this form to take care of that now. (Let me know if you don’t remember and I’ll get right back to you.)

And if you have new friends or neighbors who aren’t already members why not invite them to join too?

2017 Annual Meeting of the Neahkahnie Community Club

11am, Saturday, January 27, 2018
Home of Tony and Sarah Johnson, 37395 2nd Street, Neahkahnie

The meeting was called to order at 11am by President Sarah Johnson. Those in attendance: Tony and Sarah Johnson, Colleen Schwindt, Ann Morgan, Dianne Bloom, Tori Pickerell, David and Marilyn Flemming. Notified absence: Board
members Dave Williams and Jacki Hinton.

MINUTES OF PRIOR YEAR ANNUAL MEETING The minutes of the 2016 Annual Meeting were distributed and reviewed. It was moved, seconded and passed to approve the 2016 minutes as presented.

REVIEW OF 2017 CLUB ACTIVITIES: Colleen Schwindt reviewed our two social events in 2017. The Summer Picnic was another success, well-attended, and with continued enthusiastic approval of the Nehalem Bay State Park as our venue.
The jingle ‘n mingle Holiday Party was also deemed a success, with kudos for the excellent catering of Julie Barker of Buttercup. Members and guests agreed that the party format encouraged more interaction and conversation among
members.

MEMBERSHIP REPORT: The total paid membership for2017 was 161 members, with an additional honorary member, Carol Povey. Prior year membership numbers: 2012=160 members; 2013 = 158 members; 2014= 187 members; 2015 = 196 members; 2016 = 163. There was some discussion about the importance of raising awareness about the Club with new homeowners. For that purpose, Sarah puts an announcement in the Neahkahnie Water District bills annually.

TREASURER’S REPORT: Tony reported that the Club started 2017 with a cash balance $6,076.06, Dues collection totaled $1,610, holiday party reservations came to $2,156 while $52 was generated from donations and guest payments at the picnic, bringing total revenue to $3,818. Admin and miscellaneous expenses totaled $283.87 while picnic expenses came to $374.52. and holiday party expenses amounted to $2,255.08 leading to total expenses for the year of
$3,841.85. The Club ended the year with a cash balance of $6,052.21.

Ticket cost for the holiday party, Jingle ‘N Mingle, were maintained this year at $28 per person. The event lost $84.08. Controllable expenses have been reduced as far as they can without affecting the party. What can’t be controlled is the
cost of renting Pine Grove ($520, including a $200 refundable damage deposit) and providing liquor and general liability insurance ($255) Action: It was moved, seconded and passed to accept the 2017 Financial Reports.

ELECTION OF 2018 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: The following slate was presented for approval: OFFICERS: President Sarah Johnson; Vice President Jacki Hinton; Secretary David Williams, Treasurer Tony Johnson. AD HOC MEMBERS: Colleen
Schwindt, David and Marilyn Flemming, and also Tori Pickerell, former Club President. Webmaster (Matt Gray) is an appointed position. Action: It was moved, seconded and passed to approve the slate as presented.

NEW /OLD BUSINESS:
Calendar: Picnic in the Park: SATURDAY, 8/11/2018; Holiday Jingle ‘n Mingle: SATURDAY 12/8/2018

Adopt-a-Highway Program: Tony has researched the possibility of the Club raising awareness by participation in this program. Unfortunately, at this time, there is no local section of Highway 101 available for adoption. Diane Bloom
offered to research the possibility of sharing some of the local Highway101 currently held by Rinehart Clinic.

There being no further business the meeting was adjourned at 12 noon.

Respectfully submitted,
Sarah Johnson, President (for Secretary Dave Williams)

December’s JINGLE ‘N MINGLE was another big success!  Approximately 70 members enjoyed the company of Neahkahnie neighbors, our usual robust offerings from volunteer bartenders and delicious food from everyone’s favorite Julie Barker and Buttercup.  Once again the center and life of the party was Carol Povey who at 101 years old shut the place down 🙂  Thanks to all who attended and especially our volunteers!

Happy New Year!  A Neahkahnie Community Club membership assures that you can attend our summer PICNIC IN THE PARK and our Holiday jingle ‘n mingle events.   Don’t miss out in 2018!  Please click on the link below to download and print out the membership form, complete the information requested, and send with your check to the address provided.

2018membership

Below is correspondence from Kathie Hightower which summarizes the latest information on the Summit Development.

Dave Williams
Neahkahnie Community Club Secretary
Here is the latest on the Summit development, an ODOT report from Marc Johnson and a summary by Mark Roberts of the latest NWD meeting with the developer and the Hydrogeologist present.

Marc Johnson is working to schedule a public meeting in future on this topic. Stay tuned. Kathie

1. ODOT:

My only contribution is to report that ODOT will be reviewing the
development of the project and formally commenting to Tillamook County
when an application is filed, but the agency has already determined that
the access points to the area are legal – in fact date back to the 1940s –
and that the traffic impacts fall outside their minimums to require any
specific mitigation. The estimated vehicle trips per day for the project,
for example, are 300 – ten trips per day per home – and that falls outside
the minimum needed to maintain a left turn lane for instance. As the ODOT
contact said: the Oregon Legislature some time back made it easier for
developers to peruse this type of project without a lot of ODOT review.

2. Neahkahnie Water District Meeting report:

Marc Johnson and I attended the regularly scheduled Neahkahnie Water District Board meeting Tuesday night.

Two special speakers at the meeting brought the proposed development
surrounding the NWD spring area adjacent to Neahkahnie Mountain up to
date.

The first speaker, Jerry Maris, is the surveyor for the Summit at
Manzanita˛ development.  Jerry shared the status of the Preliminary
Concept Plan˛ with the Board.  Jerry emphasized the Preliminary
Concept˛ aspects of the plan in that fundamental work is continuing:
pausing in large part until the spring zone is better characterized by
the NWD hydrogeologist and that logging necessary to expose the more
eastern part of the parcel is continuing, weather permitting.  One
certainty – the development will NOT exceed 30 housing sites given the
acreage and setbacks in the parcel.  Another near certainty is that the
County/(state?) requirements for Rural˛ development is that
septic/drain fields will be used; not sewer.

The illustration below shows the current concept – two clustered
housing site areas, one west and one east of the Water District spring
area (marked in green lines with a 100 tree zone around it.  Drain
fields are also shown in green though as green rectangles which are
large enough for two households.  Everything subject to change as more
information is acquired.

The second speaker was Bob Long, principal consultant of CwM-H20, the
recently hired expert for the NWD.  His scope of work is to assess both
the springs hydrology (#1 thru #3) as well as their vulnerability to
contamination, including a potential hazardous spill along Hwy 101.

He stated that his total work is about half-completed.  His survey of
the scene has been completed and ‘most of the hydrology done’.  He is
awaiting the 3-D, topographical łfine grain˛ mapping.  (I believe that
this MIGHT be from DOGMI, state of Oregon).  He is mentally testing
ideas around the Hwy 101 scenario.  Will be pulling this all together
in the next weeks.

erry joined in, promoting the test holes are open and available for
study and interpretation.  The holes are 6 feet deep; the County DEQ
staffer, Chris, must still come by and review and pass˛ each site;
always useful for sites to be evaluated by a qualified analyst; organic
soils 4 feet to 6 feet deep are visible; Tom Horning and DEQ people
must each review and evaluate each site ‹ and don’t know their
schedules.

Larry Kiser:  Where and depth of spring zone?

Bob Long: Springs are of a low angle variety; are more considered an
“area” than point source; they create pipes thru a variety of means
over time tending to move horizontally.  AND, delineation of
fracture zones and areas is hard to do.  Can identify areas of
high, medium, and low flow areas around the springs  (Roberts:
Sort of like a heat map yes).

ALSO, there are fracture flow˛ and flow thru basalts˛ in the
underlying geology.  These are not visible from the surface; each test
site actually disturbs the ground, so don’t over do it; ancient
landslides and other events have churned the area.  Interpretation requires experience.

My summary:  So, there you have it – preliminary, on-going work; lots
of moving parts; more stable information will be made available when
its known.  Everybody stating desire to be transparent, provide
visibility.