Thanks to everyone who participated in the Great Oregon Shakeout. This year’s exercise was coordinated across Tillamook County. The results of the exercise are included in the article.

The Prepare Your Neighborhood (PYN) Program organizes homes and neighborhoods to raise the level of readiness in the Nehalem Bay region.

PYN Leader leads the PYN Strategic Planning Team

If Passed, the Measure Would Upgrade the Emergency Response System for Tillamook County

EVCNB donated 10 GoBags for the Nehalem Bay United Methodist Church Homeless Connect Event on Monday, September 23rd

Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB) produced a couple of articles, a video and a radio broadcast of our "Top Chef" cooking contest.

Mark your calendar for the third annual EVCNB Food Can Tsunami for Saturday, April 27, 2024 from 10 am until 1 pm. 

As reported by Rockaway Beach Fire & Rescue:

Today (February 24, 2024) members of Rockaway Beach CERT participated in a mass casualty incident drill as part of their final task for becoming official CERT members.

Lee Hiltenbrand has been a volunteer for EVCNB for many years, sharing his extensive technical and mechanical skills for the good of the organization and the community. He now serves as the lead for our Mass Care group and the Public Works Augmentation Team (PWAT).

Winter is a quiet season for our Clusters but Cluster leaders are working hard behind the scenes, planning social & educational events for their neighborhoods and tending emergency supplies — but some social events happened too…

Tillamook County now boasts 12 new licensed Ham Radio Technician class radio operators thanks to EVCNB and a group of dedicated ham radio instructors.

The “Top Chef” Cooking Contest was a HUGE success.

At its January meeting, the EVCNB Board of Directors announced the retirement of President Margaret Steele, M.D. and named Trish Johnson its new President. Brad Hart has been named Vice President.

Pastor Celeste Deveney and longtime volunteer Bobbi Mosher of Nehalem Bay United Methodist Church were on hand to receive a donation of 10 Go-Bags from EVCNB.

EVCNB volunteers Kris Campbell, Karen Sarnaker, and Trish Johnson (l to r) presented five stocked Go-Bags with Spanish language instructions to Pastor George Lufkin at St. Catherine’s Episcopal Church in Nehalem in December 2023.

The National Weather Service (NWS) has issued a Winter Storm Watch for our area. In a weather briefing today, the NWS-Portland stated that the coast and coast range have a good probability of light snow and freezing rain. Freezing rain is a very dangerous condition where utility and emergency response is delayed and extremely dangerous to our responders.

EVCNB says a sad but grateful goodbye to Paul Knight as he and his wife Betsy move away from our area. For some time, Paul has been a key leader for emergency preparedness in Wheeler and he was the leader of the Wheeler Emergency Team for many years. Paul has represented Wheeler as the cluster leader for the Prepare Your Neighborhood program at EVCNB and he was a key person on the GoBag team for EVCNB, as well as Emergency Communications. Paul has been an effective advocate for the specific needs of Wheeler in terms of its topography, aging population, lower income citizens, and the presence of the Nehalem Bay Health Center.