Oktoberfest, Year 2

Its Oktoberfest!

The Pacific City Association (PCA) would like to invite you to our 2^nd annual Oktoberfest: Root • Beer • Float. This is a Black Beer and Root Beer Festival, held Saturday, September19th in Pacific City, Oregon. The title is a play on words, as we will have root beer, black beer and the floats are for glass floats. The trophy for the people’s choice is a large glass float and we will raffle off traditional and modern art glass floats to voters at the Festival. This event promotes Pacific City. Money raised is used to buy advertising and marketing materials to promote the businesses of the PCA. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to local charity, Tillamook County Habitat for Humanity.

Our first year hosting this event, we kept it small, five root beers and nine black beers were available for tasting. This year we are able to expand the Black Beer Garden and our only rule: If it’s clear, it ain’t beer!

A souvenir mug, with tickets, is purchased and the tickets are used for 4 oz tastes and 12 oz pours of the Black Beer and Root Beer. We will also be selling event t-shirts.

The Root Beer Kindergarten is a kid friendly part of the celebration. Kids of all ages can test their taster at the Root Beer Tasting Contest, where they try to identify a national brand root beer. The prize for the winner of each heat is a handful of root beer barrel candy.

We will be having live German music and dancing with the High Fives Band from The Dalles, Oregon and Accordionist Lauri Neumann-Grable from Hillsboro, Oregon.

We will be serving German food. Bratwurst and Sauerkraut is the staple of any Oktoberfest.

It all takes place on Pacific Avenue, just West of the 4-way stop in downtown Pacific City, Oregon.

Please contact me at The Craftsman B&B. 503-965-4574 or at innkeeper@craftsmanbb.com

Mothers Day Fundraiser

I came up with a great idea today. I was watching Mike read a story in our local paper about the local chapter of Habitat for Humanity. They are raising money to build a house in South Tillamook County. So I nudged Mike into raising funds for Tillamook Habitat for Humanity.

The Craftsman B&B thinks you should treat your Mother to a stay at the B&B. Any gift certificate purchase made today through Mothers Day, we will donate 20% of the gift certificate amount to Tillamook Habitat for Humanity. The money raised will be directed toward the building of a house in South Tillamook County.

Mike and Laura know about how construction costs go after restoring this house and feel they will need money more than anything.

The Craftsman B&B suggests you hug your mom, or "mother of your children," as they say in the Soaps, and give her a gift certificate and help them build a strong community. You can purchase online at their secure website page, or call the B&B at 503-965-4574.