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

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month.  All over the country there are events planned to raise awareness.

So here is a little history, in 1985 AstraZeneca, which manufactures breast cancer drugs, founded the National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The aim of the NBCAM from the start has been to promote mammography as the most effective weapon in the fight against breast cancer.  Most of you have seen the pink ribbons.  That all started in 1991 when the Susan G. Komen Foundation had handed out pink ribbons to participants in its New York City race for breast cancer survivors.

It really took off to a nation wide symbol for awareness when Evelyn Lauder, Senior Corporate Vice President of the Estée Lauder founded The Breast Cancer Research Foundation in 1993 and established the Pink Ribbon as its symbol.  Companies of all sizes have created pink versions of a lot of products.  If you are looking to do some shopping, I suggest you shop pink.

The Race for the Cure is now very popular, celebrating it's 25th year and takes place in cities all over the world.   Chenin, my neighbor and part time dog sitter, has participated in that for years and she even dies her hair pink in October. She and her husband Sean, have decided to bring the pink to Pacific City. Twist, their tasting room for Basket Case, Shy Wines and Reversal will be donating 10% of their total sales in October to breast cancer.

But for 4 hours on Friday, October 17, from 5 - 9 p.m., Twist will be having a pink party.  They will donate 100% of sales to the cause.  During the event, sultry sounds of Scott Siegel strumming his guitar will fill the room.  They will pour their wine and selected brews for your libation.  I'll just have a bowl of water and a few crackers.  If you have any questions, call Twist at 503-965-NUTS.

So come on down for the party, mingle with the locals and visitors to the Oregon Coast.  You can stay with me at The Craftsman B&B, we are walking distance to Twist.  Even if you don't wish to drink wine, you have to see the blazing pink display Chenin put in the window.   It's a head turner for sure.

If you can't make it to Twist, you can see Chenin at the Portland Farmers Market on Saturdays.

To find a place to get an exam near you, click here.

Now, I don't think I have any pink to wear to the party. . .

Oktoberfest

Yesterday I talked bout the scooters coming to Pacific City this weekend.  Today I want to tell you about what is happening next weekend.

Its Oktoberfest!

The first annual Oktoberfest: Root • Beer • Float, A Black Beer and Root Beer Festival, hosted by the Pacific City Association, will be held Saturday, September 20th, from 11:00am to 4:00pm. All are welcome, so come on down.

Here is how the event is going to work. You and your family or group will register at the 4 way stop at Brooten and Pacific in the center of town. You will receive a Treasure Map and ticket to find glass floats. Follow the map and balloons to seek your treasure and tour the downtown. Each business on the Treasure Map will have several glass floats. If your tickets number matches, you get the float.

For kids of all ages, test your taster at the Root Beer Tasting Contest. Can you be the first to identify a store brand root beer? Prize for the winner!

We will have German music and entertainment.

There will be a Root Beer Kindergarten for everyone and Black Beer Garden for adults where you can sample brews from the Oregon Coast and around the World.

Visit me too, I'm german!