Rick Schultze

In an earlier column I wrote about how living in Yachats during the summer is like being in a marathon. The season starts slow then moves along at a brisk pace with lots of visitors in the area and lots of people passing through town. There is action in the air and the energy is…

Well it’s that time of year for graduations. For younger students at their first graduation to the older ones graduating from trade schools, career prep schools, culinary schools, high schools, colleges and the military academy’s, there is excitement in the air. It’s that time to look back at what you’ve done and look forward to…

Cadillac’s There we are, looking like a misfit circus of sorts! Obliviously we had no fashion sense. More than once we’d been frowned at when we entered a regular restaurant filled with fashion sensible families. However, we had our beautiful 1955 Cadillac which was styling and the belle of the car world, so we didn’t…

I had been hearing rumors about a project that was being hatched by two Yachats residents that was going to involve people from up and down the central Oregon coast. Now that is nothing out of the ordinary for people who live in Yachats and Waldport and the surrounding areas, there are many projects going…

With the Oregon State Baseball team advancing to the College World Series it reminds me of the time another baseball team from Oregon made it to a world series! That wasn’t an everyday occurrence around here back then, or now, although The Oregon State Baseball team is the defending Collegiate Champion; but generally when baseball…

Becoming Hip! Getting all the tests and paperwork in order before my hip surgery had taken its toll since I have very little patience when it comes to making phone calls and playing phone tag. However, that turned out to be a blessing in disguise because the night before surgery I was too worn out…

You know the old phrase “the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence”? Well, living where I do and doing what I do, reporting on local events and interviewing people, I get to hear lots of comments on that phrase. Yachats is one of those places that has a wide variety…

How the same two words can mean such different things to people! Sure, “all alone” can mean being lonely or longing to be with others and is a sad feeling of being left alone or it can be “all alone” yeah! Now I can watch the big game in peace and quiet or I can…

I played in a band called Good Dog and to this day we former Dogs still bark at one another whenever we get the chance. It was a great experience being a Dog and I was recently reminded that being a Dog helps! In my case I’m dealing with an arthritic hip that’s seen better…

Invisible Walls “This is way different than getting out the last time. Probably because I’m older and got more to loose I’m halfway afraid to go out. Inside there you can’t just get up and go out, you can see the walls. I don’t see any walls now but I’m nervous.” He says that without…