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Volume 18, No. 1

January 10, 2013

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NKN school officials ponder Sandy Hook, lessons learned

By Dave Fisher The Citizen

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SNOWY PLOVER PROTECTION Nehalem Bay State Park one of three protected sites Page 5

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The tragedy that happened at Sandy Hook Elementary School in mid-December will be a topic of conversation at the January meeting of the Neah-Kah-Nie School Board.

It will be the first time the board has met since the Dec. 14 shootings in Connecticut that took the lives of 20 school children, ages 5 to 7, and six adults who worked at the school. On the agenda is a look at the preparedness level of the five schools that make up the district and what could be done to improve plans already in place if the unthinkable were to happen.

Hearing the news that day of the events that had transpired some 3,000 miles away, Neah-Kah-Nie Superintenent Paul Erlebach said he, like others, experienced a wide range of emotions, but mostly sadness for the victims and their families.

“You can’t understand it. It’s sickening to think who could kill a child, and the educators who were trying to guide the children out of harm’s way,” Erlebach told the Citizen. “I had a deep sense of sorrow for the families.”

Shortly after the Sandy Hook event, Erlebach posted a message on the NKN District website discussing the tragedy, but, more importantly, assuring parents the school district would review its current emergency response plan to ensure the district is doing In an annual ritual, Nehalem Elementary Principal Kristi Woika greets students on the its best to provide a safe learning environfirst day of school in September. The idea that a senseless act of violence couldn’t hap- ment for students and staff. pen here was shattered by the Sandy Hook Elementary tragedy that happened three months later. Photo by Dave Fisher See SANDY HOOK, page 6

The new visitors’ center and restroom will retain the same look as the historic building on Laneda Ave., once home to Ben Lane’s real estate office.

Manzanita tackles 3rd Street project and new restrooms Two municipal projects set to get underway in a matter of weeks

By Dave Fisher The Citizen

Following a goal-setting workshop held in early December, the Manzanita City Council appears set to move ahead on a couple of its long-standing goals early on in 2013. By the Fourth of July,

See MANZANITA, page 5

Manzanita Polar Plunge keeps getting bigger!

But what economic impact, if any, does the event have on local businesses?

By Dave Fisher The Citizen

MANZANITA – As the Manzanita Polar Plunge continues to grow (some estimate this year’s crowd at 600 with half of those actually taking the “plunge”) the economic impact it has on this small coastal community is hard to gauge. On thing is for sure, business owners are not complaining about the annual New Year’s Day event.

“This year, the plunge was bigger than ever,” said event organizer and founder Janice Gaines.

“Who knew this silly thing I started eight or nine years ago with two other friends would turn into this incredible event.

“As far as economic impact from the plunge, I have not heard anything specific, but I do know that folks have put this on their calendar as the thing to do for New Year’s.

I have also heard many people drive over from Portland for the day just to do the event, so I imagine they

Area causes include Pine Grove, Rinehart Clinic and MBA Page 8

Index Classifieds....................7 Events calendar.........3 NBFR District Log......3 Public Safety Log......3 Golightly Gourmet...8 Letters to the Editor.4

See PLUNGE, page 6 An estimated crowd of 600 people turned out for the 2013 Polar Plunge, half of which actually took the “plunge.”

Inset: Event organizer Janice Gaines and husband Mike Ehlen rev up the Polar Plunge crowd. Photos by Dave Fisher

Tenth anniversary of murder of local woman marks Stalking Awareness Month

January is National Stalking Awareness Month. To underscore the seriousness of the subject, Gayle Ridderbusch, whose daughter was murdered by a stalker ten years ago, consented to sharing her daughter’s story here.

By Kathleen Newton For Tillamook County Women’s Resource Center

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Dion Wilks was a beautiful, 25-year-old professional woman with a bright future when, on the night of Feb. 1, 2003, a former boyfriendturned-stalker shot her three times and left her to die under the wheels of traffic on Interstate 5 near Salem.

Dion had grown up in Tillamook, attended school here and gone on to stellar achievements at Oregon State

you must take it very seriously.

You must move heaven and earth to get them out of it.”

Dion’s story

Dion Wilks University, Oregon Health & Sciences University and Oregon National Guard. She was bright, driven to succeed, physically strong and fit. Yet she was unable to either foresee or prevent the violence that took her life.

The tragic events of that night still haunt her mother, Gayle Ridderbusch of Tillamook. And now, as the tenth anniversary of the murder approaches, she has one powerful admonition: “If you believe your child or loved one is in a potentially violent situation or being stalked,

Growing up in Tillamook County, Dion attended Nehalem School, then East Elementary, Tillamook Junior High School and Tillamook High School, where she also became a Rainbow Girl and lettered in track, swimming and dance.

As a senior at THS, Dion took college-level classes at Tillamook Bay Community College and won scholarships, despite being seriously dyslexic. Gayle said Dion’s goal was to enter the medical field, so she headed off to OSU, where she took a double science major.

After graduating on the Dean’s List, Dion applied to OHSU, and was one of 30 accepted out of 300 applicants.

She earned a degree as a dental hygienist and went to work soon after.

See STALKING, page 6

Dion Wilks, left, with her mother, Gayle Ridderbusch, at Dion’s induction into the Tillamook chapter of Rainbow Girls.

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Community News Briefs In the Spirit of the Season

Support Grant program to local non-profit organizations with projects promoting economic growth and community livability in Tillamook County.

Organizations interested in applying for a grant must complete and submit an application by Feb. 20. Applications are evaluated by the PUD Board of Directors, with final project selection in mid-March. In its evaluation, the board considers the potential for economic development, the project’s outreach into the community, and financial need. The project must be scheduled for completion by the end of calendar year 2013.

Individual grant awards will not exceed $10,000 and will not be awarded to the same entity more than twice in a five-year period. Some examples of past projects receiving grant funds are electrical upgrades to community centers, installation of street lights at a community park and new electrical appliances for a civic facility.

Applications are available from Tillamook PUD or on its website at www.tpud.org.

Hill places first at Jingle Bell Jog

Jeremy Hill, 26, of Manzanita, was timed in 22.27 to win the Lincoln City Community Center’s 5K Jingle Bell Jog held Dec. 22. Kris Asleson, 24, of Albany, was second in 23.46, while Brian Robbins, 37, was Lincoln City’s top finisher, placing third in 26.21. Kelsey Moe, 20, of Salem, was the women’s top finisher in 26.44, fourth overall.

Manza-Whee-Lem Kiwanis Club president David Dillon (left) presents a check for $500 to Phil Bogle of Tillamook County Secret Angels. The club raised the funds through raffles, bingo nights and special events to help the Angels support needy families during the holiday season. Kiwanis photo

Reserve your Manzanita Open tee time

For you golfers, it is almost time to reserve your tee time for the annual Manzanita Open Golf Tournament. Tee times will be allotted on Feb. 1, starting at 8 a.m. This year the cost will be $45 per player. The tournament will be May 17 – 19.

The Manzanita Open is a fundraiser for the Eugene Schmuck Foundation and supports local school programs and many charities. Last year the tournament raised over $90,000. Please support this great local event, but you’ll need to call early on the morning of Feb. 1, as the tee times will be sold out quickly.

Are you feeling like doing some gardening, but the weather is not cooperating?

Please come to the Nehalem Bay Garden Club’s next meeting Tuesday, Jan. 22, at 1:30 p.m., at the Pine Grove Community House in Manzanita.

This month’s topic will be care and repotting for African violets, orchids, and other houseplants. Also on the agenda is garden planning and ordering seeds for springtime.

Please join the conversation.

For more information, call Linda Myers at (503) 789-8595.

Crayola Art Competition for adults begins, offers prizes

It’s time for NCRD’s annual Crayola Art Competition for adults. This is the third annual competition. You must be at least 18 to enter.

Younger children have too great an advantage in familiarity with the medium.

It is a real competition with a gallery show and prizes. Pay your entry fee of $15 and receive your box of 96 Crayola crayons.

You may enter three pieces in the five categories. You may not use heat, mediums or solvents in making the art works, and all works should be matted and framed.

For more information, entry form, requirements, and useful tips for framing,

NBSP looks to fill park manager position With Nehalem Bay State Park Manager Larry Oswald moving to the Willamette Valley to become park manager of Champoeg State Park, the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department is looking for someone to fill the position locally. Oswald transferred to Champoeg in November following a five-year stint on the north Oregon coast as manager of the Nehalem Bay Management Unit that includes several state parks.

While the search continues for Oswald’s replacement Mike Stein, manager of OPRD’s North Coast District, is helping out at Nehalem Bay State Park.

“I’m hoping we can fill the position by spring,” Stein told the Citizen.

Register now for the Manzanita Beach Run & Walk

Registration for the Manzanita Beach Walk & Run is now open. Register early and save. Whether it’s the 5k run, 5k walk, or 10k run, you’re sure to have a blast at this year’s event. Register now for one of the most talked about events on the Oregon coast.

This year’s event will be held on July 20 on the picturesque beach of Manzanita, Oregon.

For more information or to register, call the North County Recreation District Fitness Center at (503) 368-4595 or visit ncrdnehalem.org online.

Tillamook PUD Offers Community Grants

Tillamook PUD is offering a Community

ODFW photo contest highlights hunting, fishing

Oregon hunters and anglers with an eye for photography could win one of four $100 gift certificates in a photo contest sponsored by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife.

The contest is designed to showcase the wide range of fishing and hunting opportunities across the state. The photos will become part of the ODFW photo library to be used in its print, web and social media products.

Photos can be submitted through the ODFW Outdoors Facebook page at www. facebook.com/odfwoutdoors?ref=stream.

The winners in each of four categories – youth hunting, youth fishing, family/adult hunting and family/adult fishing – will receive a $100 gift certificate to Cabelas. The contest ends Feb. 1.

All photos will be posted on the ODFW Outdoors FB page and viewers are invited to

vote for their favorites. The winning photos will be those with the largest number of votes. Winners will be announced at the 2013 NW Sportsman Show Feb. 6-10.

Introduction to Grant Writing offered at TBCC on Feb. 5, 12

Introduction to Grant Writing, taught by Ed Armstrong, will be offered on Tuesday, Feb. 5 and 12, at Tillamook Bay Community College, central campus.

This two-session workshop is designed to walk you through both the technical writing and community processes to develop grant and funding proposals. Ed Armstrong has twenty years of experience creating community partnerships and has generated over $47 million dollars of funding for community and school programs. The workshop is designed to demystify the grant process and help the participants to develop their ideas into grant proposals. Come prepared to share and work on your project during the workshop. The instructor has tailored the class to be interactive and flexible to meet the needs of the participants.

Each session will run from 1 to 5 p.m. in Room 215 at TBCC. Admission is free.

Pre-registration is requested. Please call (503) 842-8222, ext. 1420 to sign up.

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Larry Oswald When asked when Oswald officially began his job at Nehalem Bay, Stein didn’t hesitate for a moment. “It was in December 2007, the very day of the big storm,” he said. “In fact, I had called Larry and told him not to come because of the storm, but it was too late. He was already on the road.”

The PUD offers 5-percent, five-year weatherization loans, on approved credit.

Customers must call prior to implementation of the above programs to qualify. All programs must meet Tillamook PUD specifications. For details about our energy-efficiency programs, go to our website and click on Energy Efficiency.

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Now into the cold of winter, the North County Clothing Bank, in Wheeler, is very short of warm clothing. Most needed is baby clothes and blankets, girl’s clothing (all sizes), men’s warm jackets and men’s shoes.

Clothing must be clean and in good repair.

The clothing bank is located down the hall from the North County Food Bank in the Health District building across from the Rinehart Clinic and open on Tuesday.

Nehalem Bay Garden Club to meet Jan. 22

Tillamook SBDC in conjunction with TBCC and Moneywise Contractor Education is expanding the Construction Contractors Board (CCB) classes offered at the Tillamook Bay Community College Central Campus.

A live CCB exam prep class will be taught

by Sue Hines of Moneywise Contractor Education Co. on Friday and Saturday, Feb. 8 and 9, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. This class will present the rules and regulations for operating a construction company and satisfies the CCB education requirement for certification to take the CCB Exam. Cost for this 16-hour class is $350.

Building Exterior Shell Training (BEST), 3 hours, and Building Codes, 2 hours, will be offered for the first time at TBCC. These classes will be taught by Dan Hines of Moneywise Contractor Education Co. on Friday, Feb. 8, from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. All limited, general and specialty residential contractors are mandated by state law to complete 8 to 18 hours of continuing education. These classes qualify as state required core hours. Cost is $110.

Lead Based Paint Renovation and Repair Certifications (LBPR) will also be offered for the first time at TBCC on Saturday, Feb. 9, from

8 a.m. to 5 p.m. All contractors doing major repair or renovation to pre-1978 homes are required to have this training and certification. Cost is $179.

Please register no later than Monday, Feb. 4, by calling (503) 722-2894 or (888) 458-0846.

For additional information on these offerings call Carla at (503) 842-8222, ext. 1420.

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Calendar of Events the magazine sale are most welcome. Next month’s magazine sale will be on Feb. 16.

For further information, contact Gail Young at (503) 368-5248 or gailmyoung@ mac.com.

LNCT present pie-making workshop Jan. 25

Tingstad & Rumbel will perform Jan. 13 in the Don Whitney Auditorium at Tillamook High School, 2605 12th St. in Tillamook.

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Beat the post-holiday blahs Sunday, Jan. 13, at 7:30 p.m. with appearances

by Grammy Award winners Tingstad & Rumbel with an opening performance by pianist David Lanz.

Eric Tingstad Nancy Rumbel have performed, recorded and traveled together since 1985. Their collaboration has resulted in 19 record albums.

Tingstad composes and plays finger style guitar. Rumbel plays oboe, English horn and double ocarina. Their album, “American Acoustic,” was honored as album of the year in 1998. In 2000, they appeared at Carnegie Hall. “Acoustic Garden” received the award for best New Age album at the Grammy Awards in 2003.

Pianist David Lanz’s compositions helped launch the New Age music movement over 20 years ago. His solo recordings include the landmark “Cristorori’s Dream,” “Nightfall,”“Skyline Firedance,”“Return to the Heart,”“Beloved,” and “Sacred Road.”

The performance will be held in the Don Whitney Auditorium at Tillamook High School, 2605 12th St. in Tillamook.

Tickets at the door are priced at $30 for adults and $25 for students.

Pine Grove spaghetti feed fundraiser Jan. 15

Pine Grove will hold its second annual spaghetti feed fundraiser at The Big Wave Café on Tuesday, Jan. 15, from 5 to 7 p.m.

All the spaghetti, bread and salad you can eat will be available for a $10 dollar donation per person to benefit the Pine

Grove Community House. Beverages will be available and bringing a dessert to share would be welcome.

The Big Wave Cafe hosts this event as a way to give back to the community and say “thank you” for your support throughout the year.

Community Talent Showcase returns to Manzanita Jan. 19

The Hoffman Center in Manzanita will host its fourth Community Talent Showcase on Saturday, Jan. 19, at 7 p.m. The event will feature a variety of acts put on by local citizens. Admission is $10.

Auditions will be held Wednesday, Jan. 16, from 5 to 8 p.m., at the Hoffman Center to select 12 to 15 acts for the show. The acts must be suitable for all ages and last no more than five minutes.

Performer registration forms are available at the Hoffman Center’s website – hoffmanblog.org.

Manzanita Library magazine sale to be held on Jan. 19 The Friends of the North Tillamook Library will hold its monthly magazine and paperback book sale on Saturday, Jan. 19, from 11a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Manzanita Library. Jim and Kathy Chandler will host the sale. Magazines cost $.50 each; paperback books are $1 each.

The sale is a fundraiser for the Friends of the North County Library. The library accepts donations of magazines in good condition and no more than one year old. Weekly magazines are not accepted.

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and is limited to 10 participants to provide ample personal attention. Come ready to roll up your sleeves and cook.

Tuition is $25 for members of LNCT and $35 for non-members. Annual membership in the Trust starts at just $15 per year and offers many benefits such as reduced or free admission to Trust events. To sign up for the workshop, become a member of the Trust, or both, call (503) 368-3203.

A reminder from the Lower Nehalem Community Trust to save the date for the popular, delicious “Pie Day/Night” pie auction and all-you-can-eat pie feast, on Saturday, Jan. 26, at 7 p.m., at Nehalem Bay United Methodist Church in Nehalem. Watch for more information in the next issue of the North Coast Citizen.

Have you ever wished you could make the kind of piecrust people rave about?

The Lower Nehalem Community Trust (LNCT) presents a rare opportunity to learn this skill from a professional pastry chef.

The three-hour workshop entitled “Secrets to Making a Great Pie Crust,” will take on Friday, Jan. 25, from 4 to 7 p.m.

Local resident Kim Miller, a graduate of the Culinary Institute of the Arts and professional pastry chef, will instruct participants in making different kinds of flaky, tender, tasty pie crust pastry.

Get a grasp on Medicare “Cooking is chemistry,” says Miller, Did you know Medicare starts at age “you’ve got to know why you are choosing 65 whether you are still actively employed one ingredient over another and how the or are retired? quantities, temperatures and techniques Many people are now working longer affect the outcome. With pastries of all and choosing not to collect their Social kinds, including pie crust, this is critical to Security benefits until they are over the achieving the results you are looking for.” age of 65. However, Medicare starts at age Miller, a supporter of LNCT’s Pie Day/ 65 regardless of Night when you retire. events It is easy to miss over critical deadlines the and enrollment past periods that will three not be available years, again or will has lead to penalparticities when you pated in do decide to culinary retire. salons The “Get and coma Grasp on petitions Medicare” and has class is also run presented by commerNorthwest cial pastry Senior and shops in the Disability Midwest Services’ Seand the nior Health Pacific Insurance Northwest.

Beneficiary She will offer Assistance ke ta t,” will an in-depth g a Great Pie Crus p.m. (SHIBA) in ak M to ts re ec “S experience Program. n. 25, from 4 to 7 place on Friday, Ja to pie bakers This class looking to on Jan. 25, enhance their from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m., will give you an skills. Workshop members will be able understanding of the basics of Medicare to mix, taste and roll out the different benefits, what deadlines you should varieties and will take home a pie crust consider and what your Medicare coverage or two ready to fill. Miller also promoptions are. You will also learn where you ises a tasty savory snack to enjoy during can go to get assistance if you need it. workshop breaks.

The meeting, which will be held at This hands-on workshop fills fast NorthWest Senior & Disability Services,

5010 E. 3rd Street, in Tillamook, is free.

Seating is limited so registration is required. To register, please call the NorthWest Senior & Disability Services at (503) 815-2062 or toll free at 1-800-584-9712.

Rinehart Clinic 100th Birthday Celebration volunteer gathering

follow to the Mess Hall, previously the Superintendent’s Offices.

The meal, catered by Pacific Restaurant, is $15 per person. A brief meeting will follow the meal, followed by the guest speaker.

Planning on attending? You do not have to be a member of the historical society to attend. Reserve your space by calling Sally Rissel at (503) 965-6973 or Diane Colcord at (503) 815-8477 by Jan. 22.

Join Rinehart Clinic staff members for tea and cookies and find out more about the many events planned for the 100th birthday of The Rinehart Clinic.

Women’s Club of Manzanita It is going to have a fun year! If you to sponsor casino trip Feb. 4 have any stories or photos pertaining to The monthly meeting of the Women’s the last 100 years of the Rinehart Clinic, Club will sponsor a trip to Chinook Winds please Casino in bring Lincoln them to City on this meetMonday ing on morning, Jan. 16, Feb. 4. from 3 to All are 4 p.m., welcome at the to join the North fun: men, County women, RecreRinehart Clinic is members, ation celebr nonlooking for storie ating 100 years and District’s s, photos and vint members for Riverbend age clothing for upco a day of enjoyment ming events.

Room. and gambling at Vintage clothing Chinook Winds. is also being sought for a planned fashion The bus will pick up participants in show. the morning at Pine Grove CommuFor more information, contact Laura nity Center on Laneda Ave. in ManzaSwanson at (503) 368-5182, ext. 176 or nita and return in late afternoon.

Sue Remy at (503) 368-6305.

If interested, please call Donna Joseph at (503) 368-3187. Your Tillamook County Historical response is needed by Jan. 26, for a head count.

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and dinner Jan. 27

This year, the Tillamook County Historical Society annual meeting and dinner will be held at a new time: Sunday, Jan. 27, at 2 p.m., at the Officers Mess Hall at the Port of Tillamook Bay. The theme will be the WWII era.

Gary Albright has agreed to bring the two giant record books from the Museum. These books, assembled in the early 1940s, were intended to recognize every person from Tillamook County who served in WWII. For most there is a photo and a military and a family history. If your loved one is not in this book, it is not too late to be included. Ruby Fry Matson at the Pioneer Museum has the proper forms.

The newly renovated Officers Mess Hall provides plenty of parking and easy access. When you drive onto Blimp Blvd., veer left to Officer’s Row and

Hoffman Center presents Festival of Short Films Jan. 26 The Hoffman Center’s Manzanita Film Series will host a showing of “The Best of the 38th Northwest Film & Video Festival” at 7:30 p.m., on Saturday, Jan. 26. Admission is $7 and refreshments will be available for purchase.

The collection of short films was selected by the Northwest Film Center of Portland from its annual juried film festival.

The Manzanita Film Series is a program of the Hoffman Center in Manzanita. Films are screened monthly throughout the year. The Hoffman Center is located at 594 Laneda Ave. For more information about the Hoffman Center, visit hoffmanblog. org online.

Manzanita Public Safety Log call in Manzanita.

Dec. 17 - Responded to a residential alarm in Manzanita.

Dec. 18 - Assisted TCSO with a disturbance in Bayside Gardens.

Dec. 18 - Assisted TCSO, Tillamook Ambulance and Nehalem Bay Fire & Rescue with a MVA near OWSP. Dec. 19 - Assisted TCSO with a residential alarm in Neahkahnie.

Dec. 19 - Assisted TCSO with a civil issue in Nehalem.

Dec. 19 - Assisted with a repossession in Manzanita.

Dec. 19 - Responded to a suspicious circumstance in Manzanita.

Dec. 20 - Responded to two suspicious circumstances in Manzanita.

Dec. 20 - Responded to a road hazard on Hwy. 101 on Neahkahnie Mountain.

Dec. 21 - Responded to a report of illegal fireworks in Manzanita.

Dec. 21 - Assisted TCSO with a disturbance in Wheeler.

Dec. 22 - Issued a citation for fail to obey traffic control device in Manzanita.

Dec. 22 - Issued a citation for violation of posted speed (48/30 mph) in Nehalem.

Dec. 22 - Assisted TCSO with a disturbance in Wheeler.

Dec. 22 - Responded to a report of hit & run in Manzanita.

Dec. 24 - Assisted Nehalem Bay Fire & Rescue with a medical call near Bayside Gardens.

Dec. 25 - Assisted TCSO with a suspicious

circumstance in Neahkahnie.

Dec. 26 - Responded to a report of a prowler in Neahkahnie.

Dec. 29 - Issued a citation for violation of posted speed (41/25 mph) in Wheeler.

Dec. 29 - Issued a citation for expired plates in Wheeler.

Dec. 29 - Assisted TCSO, Tillamook Ambulance and Nehalem Bay Fire & Rescue with a medical call in Neahkahnie.

Dec. 30 - Issued a citation for violation of posted speed (45/25 mph) in Wheeler.

Dec. 30 - Assisted USCG, Tillamook Ambulance and Nehalem Bay Fire & Rescue with a water rescue near NBSP. Dec. 30 - Assisted Nehalem Bay Fire & Rescue with a medical call in Nehalem.

Dec. 30 - Assisted TCSO with a report of

Betsy Johnson named co-chair of Ways and Means Subcommittee

Betsy Johnson

Co-Chair of the Ways and Means Subcommittee on Transportation and Economic Development for the 2013 Legislative Session.

“Although we continue to face funding challenges, I am thrilled to have the opportunity to put in the hard work listening to Oregonians’ concerns and producing a budget that reflects the right priorities,” said Johnson. “I look forward to discussing plans to get people working again in both rural and urban parts of Oregon.”

As Co-Chair, Johnson will be responsible for overseeing the budget for the Department of Consumer and Business Services, the Economic and Community

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Dec. 30 - Rescue mission at Nehalem Bay State Park, Nehalem.

Dec. 30 - Public assistance rendered on 2nd St., Neahkahnie.

Jan. 1 - Responded to fire alarm on Nehalem Rd., Neahkahnie.

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Dec. 21 - Jan. 6 – Responded to 31 medical calls.

Dec. 25 - Responded to fire alarm on Pacific Heights Ct., Nehalem.

Dec. 28 - Responded to fire alarm on Rowe St., Wheeler.

Dec. 29 - Investigated burn complaint on Hugo St., Nehalem.

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Jan. 2 - Took a report of a prowler in Manzanita.

Jan. 4 - Issued a citation for violation of posted speed (53/25 mph) in Wheeler.

Jan. 4 - Issued a citation for fail to carry proof of insurance in Wheeler.

Jan. 4 - Responded to a report criminal mischief in Manzanita.

Jan. 4 - Assisted TCSO with a disturbance in Bayside Gardens.

Jan. 4 - Responded to an issue concerning a juvenile in Manzanita.

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SALEM – In an announcement Friday from the Senate President’s Office, Senator Betsy Johnson (D-Scappoose) was named

shots fired near NBSP. Dec. 31 - Issued two citations for 11-3 illegal parallel park in Manzanita.

Dec. 31 - Took a report of missing property in Manzanita.

Dec. 31 - Responded to a report of fireworks in Manzanita.

Dec. 31 - Assisted Tillamook Ambulance and Nehalem Bay Fire & Rescue with a medical call in Manzanita.

Jan. 1 - Issued a citation for violation of posted speed (45/25 mph) in Wheeler.

Jan. 1 - Issued a citation for violation of posted speed (41/25 mph) in Wheeler.

Jan. 1 - Issued a citation for driving/ cell phone in Wheeler.

Jan. 1 - Assisted Nehalem Bay Fire & Rescue with a report of a fire in Manzanita.

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Dec. 16 - Issued a citation for driving while suspended in Nehalem.

Dec. 16 - Issued a citation for driving uninsured in Nehalem.

Dec. 16 - Issued a citation for fail to renew registration in Nehalem.

Dec. 16 - Responded to a suspicious circumstance in Manzanita.

Dec. 16 - Responded to two commercial alarms in Manzanita.

Dec. 17 - Responded to a road hazard on Hwy 101 north of Manzanita.

Dec. 17 - Responded to four commercial alarms in Manzanita.

Dec. 17 - Responded to a report of a prowler in Bayside Gardens.

Dec. 17 - Assisted Tillamook Ambulance and Nehalem Bay Fire & Rescue with a medical

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Commentary 2012 Weather: Changes are coming to the Bookend wet spells North Coast Citizen this year sandwich summer drought

By Mark Floyd

Oregon State University

This past year will likely go down as the warmest year on record for the lower 48 states, but it may be remembered just as much for its extreme events – and Oregon was no exception.

Though the state didn’t experience anything like super-storm Sandy or major blizzards that paralyzed communities, it did experience a pronounced summer drought, sandwiched by “atmospheric river events” that drenched Oregonians in January and late November.

Kathie Dello, deputy director of the Oregon Climate Service at Oregon State University, said the impacts from the three phenomena were significant.

“The state was really dry during the July to September period and it really extended into October,” Dello said. “In fact, it was the second driest summer period on record, which made it a big year for wildfires. Oregon (1.26 million acres) was second in the nation to Idaho (1.54 million acres) for most acres burned and many private woodland owners had to close their lands to hunters until mid-October because of fire danger. That doesn’t happen often.”

“The two wet weather events affected western Oregon to a great extent, and caused some fairly serious flooding,” added Dello, who is in OSU’s College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences.

“There were also some rather damaging windstorms.”

One series of storms in January caused major flooding in the Willamette Valley and another series in late November soaked the southwestern portion of the state. These bookend wet spells made the year wetter than normal in western Oregon, though eastern Oregon ended up drier than average. Statewide records go back 118 years.

With a couple of days left in the year, Corvallis is likely to close 2012 with the fourth wettest year on record, with 58.72 inches of precipitation through

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Dec. 27. The average over the past 30 years has been 42.71 inches. Totals of other Oregon cities, with data gathered in part from the National Weather Service in Portland, include: Medford has received 26.67 inches through Dec. 27, well above its average of 18.35 inches. On November 29, the town received its first rainfall of more than two inches since 2005.

Portland has logged 50.43 inches in 2012, fourth highest on record, and well above its average of 36.1 inches.

Salem is in the midst of the seventh wettest year on record with 54.38 inches; its average over the past 30 years is 39.67 inches.

Astoria has received 91.01 inches, eighth most on record, and more than 23 inches above its average of 67.53 inches.

“Almost all of the wet weather records are from 1996, when the state experienced some rather spectacular flooding,” Dello said. “That was a ‘100-year flood event’ and the records back it up.”

Corvallis had 73.21 inches in 1996; Portland was at 63.20, Salem at 66.96, and Medford at 31.41. Astoria was one of the few places that didn’t peak that year. Its record year was 1950, when it got 113.34 inches.

The chaotic weather in 2012 was fitting in a way – this coming winter is the first time since 2003 that the western United States wasn’t affected by either El Niño or a La Niña conditions. El Niños typically result in warmer and drier winter weather; La Niñas are usually wetter, as it was in January, which was on the tail end of last winter’s La Niña.

“We are neither, for the first time in almost a decade,” Dello said. “Officially we are ENSO-neutral, or what some people call ‘La Nada.’”

Weather-lovers can learn more about Oregon weather by following Dello on Twitter at: www.twitter.com/ orclimatesvc. The state is also looking for volunteers to collect precipitation data.

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In a world that is rapidly changing the way it receives news, the North Coast Citizen is changing as well.

We are meeting our readers in new places through new methods. We’ve expanded our offerings at northcoastcitizen.com to give you the news when it happens, not just every other week.

We’ve added video components to stories. We’re offering more information than ever in the limitless digital landscape.

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visits our site.

It’s been years since the North Coast Citizen made an increase to its subscription and sales rates, and as costs to produce the newspaper continue to increase, we are making a change there as well.

Effective Feb. 1, the North Coast Citizen will increase the price of the newspaper. Our in-the-rack price will increase from 75 cents to $1.

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Learn more at thenewsguard.com/e_editions/current_e_edition/ Thank you for partnering with us as we evolve along with the newspaper industry. We are confident that these changes will allow us to continue to serve as the community’s primary news and information source for many years to come.

What time is it? Ask your cells (SCN), located very close Living organisms developed an internal to the optic nerve where it biological clock, called can get information directly the Circadian rhythm, to from the eyes. Circadian help their bodies adapt to rhythms are controlled by the daily cycle of day and “clock genes” that carry the night, light and dark, as the genetic instructions to proEarth rotates once every duce proteins. The levels 24 hours. Our body works of these proteins rise and differently from hour to fall in rhythmic patterns. hour, day to day, These oscillatand year to year. ing biochemical These patterns of signals control change occur in all various functions, living organisms. including when Chronobiology we sleep and rest, studies the bioand when we are logical rhythms; awake and active. ultradian rhythms Circadian rhythms are shorter than a also control body day with a length, temperature, heart from thousandths activity, hormone of a second (like secretion, blood the pulses in neupressure, oxygen rons) or seconds consumption, (like the heartbeat) metabolism and to the rhythm of many other funcJanice about 90 minutes tions.

Gaines in our sleeping Daylight cycle from sleep to resets the internal deep sleep, circadibiological clock an rhythms, which every day so it last about 24 hours and is synchronized with a infradian rhythms, longer 24-hour day. Air travel to a than a day. The most well distant time zone can also known is the female cycle. disrupt normal cycles. Jet Another cycle is the week, lag is a disconnect between it has a biological basis, local time and your body’s while the immune system time. Once you arrive has a weekly rhythm. at your destination, the The biological clock change in daylight hours (a term used long before will reset your internal the clock was created) is a clock, but it will take a few piece of brain made up of days to get rid of the jet two tiny clusters of sevlag. The human circadian eral thousand nerve cells rhythm is not exactly 24 that “tell time” based on hours - it’s actually 10 to external cues, such as light 20 minutes longer. Other and darkness. This region species have circadian of the brain is referred to as rhythms ranging from 22 the suprachiasmatic nucleus to 28 hours. The biological

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clock in living organisms keeps working even when the organism is removed from natural light. Without daylight, the biological clock will eventually start running on its own natural cycle. If you lived in an underground bunker under constant artificial light, you would continue to follow an approximately 24-hour sleep-wake pattern, but your cycles would slowly get out of phase with actual daytime and nighttime.

However, as soon as morning light hits the eyes, the clock will reset to match the earth’s 24-hour day.

Why aren’t organisms’ internal clocks exactly 24 hours long? A theory is the competition for food and other resources is most intense among species with 24-hour cycles. If you eat at the same time as everyone else, you’re less likely to get your share. Our slightly out of sync internal clock may have evolved to help us survive the competition. Biological clocks also play a role in longer cycles such as hibernation, bird migrations and even annual changes in the color of a hamster’s coat. When the animal brain records longer days in the spring and shorter days in the fall, it triggers hormone secretion that influences these events.

Light is the main signaling influencing circadian rhythms. The hormone melatonin is most important in the control of the rhythms.

Production of melatonin is in the pineal gland also

referred to as the “third eye” and is directly influenced by light. In mammals it is influenced through the eyes. When it gets dark the gland starts the production of melatonin, when it gets light again it stops. During longer nights more melatonin is produced. Irregularities in melatonin production can cause sleep problems, lethargy and mood disorders.

The neurotransmitter serotonin is believed to influence mood and brain activity. Many antidepressants on the market today are used to help in production of serotonin. Interestingly, melatonin and serotonin cannot be produced at the same time. Serotonin and melatonin work in conjunction with each other. When serotonin levels are high, melatonin levels are held in check – and visa versa.

After the lights are out at night, your melatonin levels rise and your serotonin levels fall. The morning light immediately starts suppressing melatonin levels and allowing the rise in serotonin. Getting outside in the natural light helps this process and allows a full release of serotonin for the day’s use. Many believe that seasonal affective disorder (SAD) is partly caused by high melatonin levels due to the lack of exposure to light which act to suppress serotonin release.

The message here is get out in the light in the morning and turn down the lights at night.

Life experience alters a point of view

After writing articles for several sure it wasn’t much more than a dollar years I am often asked just where do and a half, but my personal pay came you get your ideas. Even though that out of what I brought in. There was a has never been a problem, I decided little old lady living in a small house to give it some thought. Some kind that was kind of down in a hole off of event or happening is what usually the street. When I went to the door to prompts my mind to look for a subject collect, the lady told me that she was that will be interesting for people to having a tough time and didn’t have the read about. money. She told me that if I I have to admit that I have would give her a receipt she an advantage over most of thought she could get what those who are writers. That she needed from a friend. would be my old age and the You probably have fact that I have witnessed a already figured out that I great deal more of life than did give her that little yelthose who are younger. As low piece of paper. You I observe current events, I also know what she told me am able to remember similar when I went to collect at a things that happened before later date. That was my first most people were around. I experience with a bad debt am also blessed with a very write-off . large memory bank. I find The irony of that little The Old myself looking at objects and story is that much later in my Geezer immediately thinking of their life one of my job responsiorigin and who was around bilities was figuring out the Walt when I acquired them. Little amounts and assignments of things that happened and bad debt for a huge corTrandum proved to be guiding experiporation. It was a lot more ences have helped me navicomplicated than my first gate my way through life. experience, but the principle My first business experience was was the same, it came out of earnings. something I never forgot. I had a job Looking at the world and life delivering an afternoon newspaper. I through old eyes is both threatening and think it was a weekday only and there exciting. From your early experiences were not very many subscribers. Along you are comparing similar circumstancwith the delivery I also had to collect es and you know how it all washed out the money each month. I am pretty the other time. You have to bring in the

changes in technology and the present political situation into your thoughts, and the rest is mostly logic. You learn that something that didn’t work the first time will probably crash if tried again.

There was a time in my life when everything I did had to be exactly by the book. There was no room for deviation in the process of being part of the crew on a submarine. The discipline from that experience stayed with me for life. It helped with everyday situations, as well as when facing possible life threatening situations for myself or those I lived and worked with.

A life time of extraordinary experiences that range from washing dishes in a bar in Alaska, to making presentations to the board of directors for a very large company. Responsibilities that included managing human resources along with huge amounts of money. Working to help others with problems that most of us will never experience. Getting to know those people without sight or hearing as they face a life that none of us can ever understand. Working as an advocate for them has been a life of learning and appreciation for our friends and family members.

All of the above comes into play as I create a story that I hope is both entertaining and even inspirational for the readers and their friends. These old eyes have seen a lot and, as life slows down, I enjoy the opportunity to write.

Letter to the Editor Gun control won’t stop bad people I’m sorry, but I disagree with Dave Fisher (editor of the North Coast Citizen) and his comment that “buying more guns and ammunition

isn’t the answer” with regards to the recent shootings.

As a retired police officer I agree with the NRA, “the only thing that will stop a bad person with a gun is a good person with a gun.”

I wish we didn’t have the need for guns but with mass

shootings in schools, movie theaters and shopping malls we can’t ignore the need for “good people to have guns” and with training we will have a safer community.

I remember 20 years ago when a man killed over 20 people in a McDonald’s

restaurant where no one had a gun. Gun control won’t stop bad people but a good person with a gun has the opportunity to stop the killing.

William Spidal Nehalem

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Snowy Plover protections could limit usage of north coast recreation sites Nehalem Bay State Park one of three protected sites

By Anthony Rimel For the Citizen

Changes may be coming to several popular recreation sites on the north Oregon coast where the snowy plover, a threatened species, nests.

The Oregon Parks and Recreation Department has begun a series public of meetings about the snowy plover management plans being developed, and how those plans may affect visitors.

The affected sites include Ft. Stevens (Columbia River east of the South Jetty), Necanicum (South of Gearhart at the mouth of the Necanicum River) and Nehalem Bay State Park (on the north side of the spit at the Nehalem River mouth).

The first public meetings about the management plans was held in Warrenton on Dec. 11. Vanessa Blackstone, a wildlife biologist with Oregon Parks and Recreation Department, said there will be future meetings for Necanicum and Nehalem in 2013. in an email announcing the information session.

“The topic will be focused on changes in recreation access to assist in the recovery of western snowy plover,” she wrote.

At a recent presentation to the Friends of Haystack Rock Laura Todd, a field manager with U.S. Fish and Wildlife, said the snowy plover are recovering in protected areas of the beach on the south coast, and the state and federal agencies working to protect the birds have identified these north coast sites as places where the birds could eventually begin to nest again.

Todd said Oregon Parks and Recreation Department is currently drafting management plans for the

Protection plans for the snowy plover along the north Oregon coast, including Nehalem Bay State Park, will be the subject of an upcoming meeting in 2013. Courtesy photo currently unoccupied sites.

While the sites are unoccupied by the snowy plover the restrictions would be limited to keeping dogs on leashes at all times, a prohibition on vehicles, and education and enforcement efforts by beach rangers.

However, if the snowy plover were to begin to resume nesting in the areas, dogs, kites, and motorized vehicles will be prohibited, and non-motorized vehicles would be restricted from certain areas. The nesting areas will also be roped off and have signs placed to restrict entry.

Todd said their observations show snowy plover, which nest on beach sand, being scared away from their nests by dogs, kites, vehicles and predators, so the protections in their nesting area make it easier for them to successfully care for their offspring.

She said the Gearhart site has a history of dog use, so the public will need to be involved in the rule making process.

Todd said the efforts of the Snowy Plover Working Group for Oregon and Washington, which consists of numerous federal and state agencies, have helped bring Oregon’s population of the birds up from 35 in

1992 to 231 in 2012.

“It’s really a unique situation,” she said. “Oregon is the only place they’ve been improving over the last 20 years.”

Todd presented the Friends of Haystack Rock a map of the bird’s territory that showed that the birds range from Washington into Mexico’s west coast. In addition to receiving federal protections in the U.S. the snowy plover are a protected species in Mexico, and are on Oregon’s own protected species list. Todd said that the species has declined in other areas of its range during the same time that the population has increased in Oregon.

“The bird is pretty close to becoming extinct in Washington,” she said.

According to Todd, many of the birds in Washington are not nesting successfully, and the birds were hatched in Oregon and migrated to the state.

According to Todd, the biggest threat to the snowy plover is habitat lost. Nonnative beach grasses cover much of the area where the birds would traditionally nest. In areas of the coast that are currently occupied by the birds the working group has done some habitat restoration, like removing

beach grass, to give the birds better nesting areas.

“These birds are always going to need management to some degree because beach grass is never going away,” said Todd.

Todd said the group has also done predator management to protect the nests of the snowy plover, such as removing crows and ravens, which will prey on the eggs of the plover. Todd said they will catch and release animals predating on the snowy plover if possible, but they occasionally use methods like fake eggs with poison in them to protect the snowy plover in their nesting sites.

Male snowy plovers care for the baby birds, and Todd said their goal for each breeding season is to have one chick survive to adulthood for every male. Todd showed data indicating that the number of chicks to survive per male went up when they began predator management at nesting sites.

A press release about the events from the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department says that the planning process is necessary to keep beaches open to the public: “Under the Endangered Species Act, if plovers begin nesting in a new area, beach closures could be required to protect plovers wherever the birds nest. Instead of allowing plovers to affect Oregon’s public beaches in this unpredictable way, OPRD took a different approach…

Under the coast-wide plan, if plovers nest in an area outside the designated recovery spots, the individual nest will be protected, but the beach will remain open to the public.”

The release also said that in 2013 park staff at Ft. Stevens will “ask” visitors to keep dogs on leashes. In 2014, the leash requirement will become mandatory.

Anthony Rimel is the editor of the Cannon Beach Gazette, a sister publication of the North Coast Citizen.

n Manzanita From page 1 if all goes according to plan, the city will have built a new visitors center complete with public restrooms on the west end of Laneda Ave., close to the beach, and will be putting the finishing touches on a new storm drainage line on E. Third Street.

The Third St. project has been high on the priority list the past several years and in November the council gave city staff the green light to proceed with the bidding process for the installation of a new storm drainage line, along with replacing water lines and resurfacing the street. While city officials would like to see the project completed by summer that may or may not happen, depending on what work crews encounter. Complicating matters, according to City Manager Jerry Taylor, is an unusually high water table in the area even during the drier months.

Acknowledging Third St. is “going to be a mess” for a few months, council members were in agreement with Mayor Garry Bullard, who said, “We need to get on with it and get it finished.”

The fear is the line, which has been the subject of numerous patchwork repairs in recent years, could experience a major break and flood adjacent properties.

During the course of construction, Taylor assures property owners along the affected area that they will have access to their homes, though through traffic will be limited.

Estimated cost of the project is $465,000 making it the most expensive street project in Manzanita since the Laneda Ave. project in 2003, of which 35 percent will come from the city’s water fund with the remainder coming from its road fund.

With the acquisition of the former Kent Price Coldwell-Banker Realty building at the corner of First St. and Laneda Ave. last fall, the city looks to make good on a promise to provide public restrooms closer to the beach and create space for

a visitors’ center. While the initial intent was to renovate the existing structure built in the 1930s and home to the real estate office of Ben Lane, an inspection of the building revealed considerable dry rot, mold and signs of rodent infestation.

“It’s now a teardown instead of a repair,” said Taylor, “there’s just too much gone. There are not enough bones in the building to withstand a remodel.”

Furthermore, the building doesn’t sit on a foundation.

Currently up against the sidewalk, the new structure will be moved back five feet but retain the same roofline and shingle siding. The idea, noted Taylor, is to keep the same look as the historic structure that will be torn down.

Undaunted at the prospect of having to essentially start over, the city plans to move full steam and have the new restrooms and visitors’ center ready by July 4, just in time for Manzanita’s annual celebration.

At a projected cost of $560,000, which includes the purchase price of the land, Taylor is working with Wedbush Bank, which specializes in helping cities finance municipal projects, to acquire a three percent full faith credit note to pay for the project. Though the city will incur a penalty for early payment of the property as outlined in its agreement with owner Dave Price, Taylor noted the city will be money ahead as a result of financing the entire project at the lower interest rate. In the meantime, Taylor is putting together a supplemental budget to facilitate the project with funding made possible with an increase in Manzanita’s transient lodging tax in 2012, 70 percent of which must be used for tourism promotion or tourism related facilities.

Taylor sees the project moving ahead fairly quickly as the replicated building is simple in design with public restrooms on one side and the visitors’ center on the other side.

Once bids are accepted, the building should be completed in as little as three to four months.

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n Sandy Hook From page 1

n Stalking From page 1 As a student at OSU, Dion had entered the Oregon National Guard, rising to the rank of sergeant.

“It helped pay for her schooling and Dion loved the challenge,” Gayle recalled.

Dion’s unit was not deployed. Instead, she worked with other medical staff to prepare troop units for deployment, giving them vaccinations and taking care of their dental health.

“She really loved it,” Gayle said. “Once or twice a year she would help 500 soldiers get ready to go.”

Always athletic, Dion also was a body builder.

“She was so petite, they called her Mini Rambo,” Gayle said.

The stalker

It was at her gym in Salem that Dion met another bodybuilder, Manuel Tovar, 31, a sanitation worker and former Marion County Sheriffs reserve deputy. They started dating in September of 2002. They had not been dating long when Dion told her mother that her new boyfriend was coming on too strong.

“She said he was just moving too fast. He would shower her with attention and gifts.

He immediately wanted to marry her and he had started to become real controlling,” Gayle recalled.

n Plunge From page 1 have lunch and maybe shop.”

New Year’s Day is typically a busy time for Manzanita as second homeowners and other visitors make their way to the coast to enjoy the holiday, and the weather does make a difference as far as how many people make the drive from far away to be here.

“It’s always busy on New Year’s,” said Judy Lee, who, along with her husband, Chung, owns Manzanita Grocery and Deli on Laneda Ave., the town’s main street. “This year it was really nice…the weather does make a difference. People are more inclined to stay close to home if the weather is bad.”

Asked if the Polar Plunge helped their business, Lee said she and her husband were wondering the same thing. “It doesn’t hurt,” she concluded.

A couple of blocks down the street Miranda Sundell, general manager at the Inn of

Neah-Kah-Nie School Superintendent Paul Erlebach looks to take a proactive stance in examining the district’s emergency plans in the wake of the tragedy at Sandy Hook and implementing changes as needed. Photo by Dave Fisher you do comes with a price tag.”

In helping to maintain strong relationships with police/fire, and other local emergency management officials, Erlebach, in wake of Sandy Hook, has asked school principals to contact their local law enforcement agency to visit their school and make recommendations as to what could be done to improve security.

So Dion tried to break it off, but Tovar kept pursuing.

“He would stay at her door all night long,” Gayle said. “One day, she called me from work and told me he was watching her through her office window.

And she said she believed he was following her to and from work.

For a time, Dion relented and began seeing him again before finally breaking it off for good.

That’s when things turned from bad to worse.

Gayle said Tovar began beating on Dion’s doors and windows for hours at a time. He would break into her apartment while she was at work and leave gifts – flowers, jewelry, even an engagement ring. So Dion got the locks changed, but Tovar continued. He bombarded her with hundreds of emails and voice mail messages.

“She never told me she was afraid,” Gayle said. “I offered to stay with her in Salem, but she was sure she could take care of this herself.”

The last night

On Saturday evening, Feb. 1, 2003, Dion was in her apartment with one of her National Guard colleagues watching a movie.

“She and a few friends from her unit had just come back from a meeting and they all headed over to Dion’s apartment,” Gayle explained. Two of them went to get some beer and a third young man stayed behind with her to wait for them.

Manzanita, said she has noticed a positive impact.

“I think it definitely does help. Last year, I specifically remember guests talking about the plunge and we arranged for late checkouts so they could participate,” said Sundell, who has managed the 14-room inn the last 15 months.

Kay Covert, a real estate worker and president of the Manzanita Business Alliance, isn’t sure what direct impact the Polar Plunge may have on local business, but believes the event, along with others, has a cumulative benefit overall.

“Honestly, because the Polar Plunge falls on a holiday, it is hard to tell what impact it has,” said Covert. “All the fun things that happen in Manzanita benefit businesses in the long run. These kind of things (Polar Plunge, Muttzanita, Manzanita Beach Run, etc.) don’t happen in Portland.”

On New Year’s Day, Dan Nichols, owner of Four Paws on the Beach, said he noticed a steady stream of cars heading down Laneda Ave. on their way to the beach the morning

“It’s important that we have an outside set of eyes looking at what we’re doing and make recommendations for the district’s consideration,” he said. Ultimately, it would be up to the school board to implement programs and modifications to buildings.

Asked about the National Rifle Association’s stated position of having an armed security guard in all schools throughout the land, Erlebach doesn’t see that as the solution. Interestingly, the still relatively new superintendent came from a school district that did have two armed police officers through its School Resource Officers program.

“My initial reaction to the NRA proposal was ‘Yeah, right…’ but we did have two such officers in the Ontario School District throughout my 12-year career there, one at the middle school and another at the high school, and they were always busy.”

However, Erlebach noted, there are major differences between the Ontario School District with a student population of 2,200 and the Neah-KahNie School District, which has 720 students.

“It was a different situation there with an unemployment rate among the highest in the nation and there is a state prison located in Ontario. It’s just a different clientele.”

Erlebach estimates it would cost

Signs of a stalker From the National Center for Victims of Crime Stalking is a dangerous crime that affects 6.6 million U.S. adults each year. It is a series of actions that make you feel afraid or in danger. It is often violent, and can escalate over time.

A stalker can be someone you know well or not at all. Most have dated or been involved with the people they stalk.

Some things stalkers do: • Repeatedly call you, including hang-ups.

• Follow you and show up wherever you are.

• Send unwanted gifts, letters, cards, or e-mails.

• Damage your home, car, or other property.

• Monitor your phone calls or computer use.

• Use technology, like hidden cameras or global positioning systems (GPS), to track where you go.

• Drive by or hang out at your home, school, or work.

• Threaten to hurt you, your family, friends, or pets.

• Find out about you by using public records or on-line search services, hiring investigators, going through your garbage, or contacting friends, family, neighbors, or co-workers.

• Other actions that control, track, or frighten you.

• Stalking is unpredictable and dangerous. No two stalking situations are alike. There are no guarantees that what works for one person will work for another, yet you can take steps to increase your safety.

• If you are in immediate danger, call 911.

Talking to children about traumatic events When violence, disaster or major accidents are in the news, it’s often difficult to know what to say to your children. To follow are some general tips to guide you in helping your children through whatever may be frightening them — and you.

If your kids are discussing it, you need to discuss it. If you don’t, you send the message that it is too horrible to discuss, and that is terrifying to children. What kids imagine is worse than the facts.

• Stick to the facts. After an event, there may be lots of rumors and unfounded information.

Stick to what is known and say “We don’t know” for the questions that don’t have answers.

• Emphasize that this is a big deal because it is unusual. Kids don’t have the perspective we do as adults that what makes the news is the rare, not the common.

• Everyone deals with fear and related feel-

upwards of $300,000 annually if NeahKah-Nie were to place an armed officer at each of its schools. It’s money the district doesn’t have, nor does he think it’s the answer.

“What we can do to honor the victims of Sandy Hook and other schools is review our current practices and act upon those recommendations that need to be in place. I still think education

While Dion and her colleague were in the living room, Tovar broke into the south Salem apartment through Dion’s bedroom window. He had with him the service revolver he had carried as a Sheriff’s Department reservist.

Tovar made his way to the living room, where he brutally kicked Dion’s friend in the head until he was unconscious.

Then he forced Dion outside and into her Toyota Corolla.

He made her drive while, it is believed, he held the gun to her ribs. They headed for Interstate 5.

After the car entered the freeway, however, it went into the ditch near the Ankeny Hill exit.

“I believe that Dion purposefully wrecked the car in an effort to get away from him,” Gayle explained.

What came next was horrific, Gayle said.

Reports at the time said police were not sure of the exact order of events. But they do know that sometime before or after the crash, Tovar shot Dion in the ribs. Then, as she was trying to escape from the car, he shot twice more. One

shot hit her in the shoulder. The third hit her in the head and brought her down. As she fell, she was struck by a passing big-rig truck.

Her tragic struggle was over.

The following Thursday, Tovar’s body floated to the surface in a pond just 300 yards from where Dion had died. He had ended his own life with a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Gayle would later learn that Tovar had a history of stalking and terrorizing other women he had known.

of the event.

“It’s typically a busy day, but I do believe more people get down to the beach because of the Polar Plunge,” he noted.

“I saw where a similar event in New York attracted only 50 participants. I guess people here are just tougher.”

Gaines, who has taken the plunge every New Year’s Day since the event’s inception, even when the weather isn’t as cooperative as it was this year, said she saw many more locals this year.

“That is wonderful for community bonding. I love that more then the economic aspect.

This event is one the few opportunities in life where people come together to do something that crosses all barriers. It shows how joy and humor is the key to all of us getting along. No agenda, just pure fun,” Gaines said.

One thing Gaines doesn’t want to see is the event becoming a fundraiser.

“I am adamant that the money stays out of this,” she said. “I do not want the monetary thing to come into play in any way shape or form. If the community has an economic impact because people are here and go out and spend money in

town that is great, but the Polar Plunge is a ‘fun-raiser.’”

Perhaps the Manzanita business impacted the most is the San Dune Pub, where manager Jeffie Mersereau is a big fan of the annual event.

“We’re definitely getting more people coming in after the plunge and more people are participating as they learn about it from others. A lot of locals come in and warm themselves by the fire, sit around and laugh and enjoy a warm drink,” Mersereau noted, which just goes to show, economics aside, there’s nothing like a warm fire and a hot tottie on a winter’s day following a dip in the ocean on the north Oregon coast.

The Tillamook County Women’s Resource Center is a nonprofit organization whose goal is to provide assistance to women and families in our community who have experienced domestic or sexual violence in their lives. TCWRC offers support and assistance to those who believe they are being stalked. All client information is strictly confidential and there are no fees for their services.

For help, contact the center at (503) 842-9486 or go to the website at www.tcwrc.net.

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Now, nearly a decade later, Gayle still relives the horror of the event.

“When I saw the officers at my front door that night, I instantly knew what had happened. They didn’t need to tell me. I looked at them and said, ‘Manny killed my daughter.’”

Gayle said she knows now how important it is to take stalking seriously.

“What I would tell any parent now is that, no matter what the cost or difficulty, get your loved one out of that situation as fast as you can.

“If I had known then what I know now, I would have found a way to move her out of state somehow. But it all happened so fast, we really didn’t have time to evaluate the threat.”

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is the solution with caring adults, like the educators at Sandy Hook, in our schools.”

This month, security issues at public schools takes center stage and Neah-Kah-Nie school officials join the discussion as they look at the protective measures that must be taken to ensure that the tragedy in Connecticut never happens here.

• Trust your instincts. Don’t downplay the danger. If you feel you are unsafe, you probably are.

• Take threats seriously. Danger generally is higher when the stalker talks about suicide or murder, or when a victim tries to leave or end the relationship.

• Contact the Women’s Resource Center. We can help you devise a safety plan, give you information about Oregon law, refer you to other services, and weigh options.

• Develop a safety plan, including things like changing your routine, arranging a place to stay, and having a friend or relative go places with you. Also, decide in advance what to do if the stalker shows up at your home, work, school, or somewhere else. Tell people how they can help you.

• Don’t communicate with the stalker or respond to attempts to contact you.

• Keep evidence of the stalking. When the stalker follows you or contacts you, write down the time, date, and place.

Keep e-mails, phone messages, letters or notes. Photograph anything of yours the stalker damages and any injuries the stalker causes.

• Ask witnesses to write down what they saw.

• Contact the police. Oregon has an anti-stalking law. The stalker may also have broken other laws by doing things like assaulting you or stealing or destroying your property.

• Consider getting a court restraining order.

• Tell family, friends, roommates and co-workers about the stalking and seek their support. Tell security staff at your job or school. Ask them to help watch out for your safety.

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ings in their own way. Some kids don’t want to talk about it. Some kids do. Some seem “inappropriate” in what they say. Respond to the feelings and not the content — a kid who says, “That was so cool!” shouldn’t be reprimanded. Just say, “I’m sure those people were really scared” or “I was scared when I heard about it.” They need you to model that it’s ok to talk about the feelings.

• Don’t dwell on it. When the main facts and feelings have come out, it’s time to get on with your regular routine. Make sure kids know you’re available to talk later if they want.

• Short term normal reactions include changes in appetite and sleep. It may also turn up in children’s artwork and in conversations about other frightening or sad things they have experienced. All of these things should fade as time goes on. If they don’t, you may wish to consult your pediatrician or someone in the mental health field.

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“Safety of staff and students,” stated Erlebach, “will continue to be our priority.”

While the Neah-Kah-Nie School District has a detailed emergency procedure plan for its schools and drills regularly for emergency responses for lockdowns, earthquakes, tsunamis, and fire, Erlebach laments that if a crazed individual is so inclined to shoot people there’s not a lot district staff can do to ward off the initial onslaught. In the case of Sandy Hook Elementary, the exterior doors to the building were locked, but the gunman merely shot out the window of the door and let himself in. Children outside at play and sports venues make security that much harder.

Still, the distict’s goal is to help preserve the innocence of its students by creating a secure environment with plans in place in an emergency situation.

“The tragedy at Sandy Hook and other schools makes you want to be proactive so it doesn’t happen again, review procedures already in place and analyze those things you may not have looked at,” said Erlebach. “You cannot do nothing and, of course, whatever

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January is soup for the soul month

“Soup of the evening, beautiful soup!”

– Lewis Carol

when humanity finally figured out how to make pottery, about 5000 B.C., soup was born.

Our ancestors had only dried I wait all year long for meats, tough roots and grains this month to have unbridled in the winter that were much license to create soup tastier boiled into pot after soup pot a broth. Soup also full of nutritious and warms you up from soul warming soup. the inside out, pretty January is also “get important stuff when healthy” month and it is dark by 4:40 p.m.

I will take a wild and Jack Frost is runbet that no less than ning amuck.

60 percent of you I think one of the are thinking about things I love about cookies but are eating soup so much is how carrots right now. I creative it is. Each The know I am. But with I make takes on Golightly soup a warm cup of soup its own personality Gourmet and qualities. I never in my hands, the fragrance swirling know what is going to Dana Zia up to fill my senses, happen when I start to I’m okay without the make soup. One soup cookies. Really, I am. that I have been making for It seems the love for soup years, since my first encounter and its prowess as a healthy with it, is pozole. I’ll never food has been around forever. forget that first bite, the flavors Well, maybe not forever, but exploded in my mouth and I

had an epiphany. It was something like, “WOW!” That’s all.

I don’t think I was at the stage yet when I broke down flavors or cultures in my mouth, but I

knew I had to make it.

Pozole is an ancient stew that dates back to the precontact Mexico. The common ingredient in pozole is “nixta-

malized” corn, also known as hominy, which is corn soaked in lye water. I know it sounds weird but it is actually a very beneficial process as it makes

the corn easier to digest and dramatically improves the availability of B vitamins, minerals and amino acids in the corn. Without this process, ancient societies that were reliant on corn as a major food experienced malnutrition. Nixtamalized corn is thought to have been done for over 3500 years. Those ancients knew more than just calendars!

Pozole is a very social dish in Mexico where it is served with many condiments at festive gatherings. It is usually made with pork, but I like to make it with turkey or chicken.

After the holidays, I usually have a freezer full of delicious homemade turkey broth that is just begging to be used and this is a great way of doing it.

If you do not have homemade broth, try to use organic low sodium broth in its place.

Here’s to a new year filled with warmth and health. (Instead of cookies.)

Turkey or Chicken Pozole Rojo with an Avocado Relish Chipotle chili powder and smoked paprika are available at Mother Nature’s in the bulk spice section. If you don’t have them, substitute regular chili powder and bump it up to 3 teaspoons. This soups serves 4-6 people as a main dish, more if a starter dish.

Perfect Spice mix

1.5 teaspoons of chipotle chili powder 1 teaspoon of smoked paprika 2 teaspoons of ground cumin 1.5 teaspoons of ground coriander 1 teaspoon of dried oregano 1 teaspoons of cracked black pepper Half teaspoon of sea salt Prepare the spice blend by mixing all the spices together in a small bowl. (Double it for a great spice mix to use on anything you please.)

Soup

Salt and pepper to taste

1-2 tablespoon of olive or coconut oil 1.5 lbs. of chopped raw chicken or turkey thighs or 2-3 cups of cooked and shredded turkey or chicken meat 2 onions, coarsely chopped 2-6 garlic cloves, finely minced 2 bell peppers, coarsely chopped 4-5 fat carrots, sliced into 1/4 rounds 1 - 30 oz. can of hominy drained or 2 cups of frozen sweet corn 1 - 32 oz. container of low sodium organic chicken broth or 1 quart of homemade chicken or turkey broth 1 - 28 oz. can of organic low sodium crushed tomatoes, un-drained 1 - 4.5 oz. can of mild diced green chilies 1 small can of organic tomato paste The juice of 1 to 2 limes 1 to 2 teaspoons of honey

Get out your favorite soup pot, everyone has one, and sauté the chicken or turkey meat in the oil over medium high heat. While it is cooking sprinkle half the spice mix over it and mix in. Cook for 8 to 10 minutes stirring continuously. (If using pre-cooked meat, just barely heat it up then proceed.) Add the onions and garlic, and sauté a bit more till fragrant, about five minutes. Toss in the chopped carrots and bell peppers and sprinkle the rest of the spice mix over the mix while doing the cha cha. Sauté a bit longer then, pour in the hominy, broth, tomatoes, green chilies and paste and mix them in well.

Reduce heat to medium low and simmer for 20 to 35 minutes until the carrots are just starting to get tender and the house smells like goodness. Taste and add the

honey and the lime juice, a little bit at a time until you have the right flavor. Add any salt and pepper it might need and serve with the avocado relish and warm corn tortillas. Ole!

Relish

1/2 cup of chopped cilantro 1/3 cup of chopped green onions 1 diced and peeled avocado Grated lime zest of one lime and juice 3 oz. of cotija cheese, crumbled (optional) A pinch of salt When the soup is almost ready to serve, dice the avocado up and squeeze a little lime juice over it and sprinkle with the lime zest. Add the cilantro, green onions and cheese and then mix gently until barely mixed. Serve on the soup.

Big Wave Café to host benefits for area causes Including Rinehart Clinic, Pine Grove Community House, Manzanita Business Alliance

Following the success of last year´s dinner that raised several thousand dollars for a local handicapped access ramp, Brian and Carol Williams plan to use their Big Wave Café to drum up more support for area causes.

The Williams are kicking off their local giving with two fundraising dinners - the first, scheduled for Jan. 15 will benefit the Pine Grove Community House. Last year, the Williams hosted a benefit for the local nonprofit organization, raising $2,400 toward the $15,000 needed to build a new handicapped access ramp at the downtown Manzanita venue. ¨We’re so lucky to have that facility,” said Brian. ¨Everyone uses it.¨ Pine Grove Community Club Board Treasurer Tom Mock couldn’t agree more. ¨The Pine Grove is the heart and soul of Manzanita,” he said, adding that he and fellow board members are looking at making another improvement to the property this year. ¨We plan to landscape the (building´s) backyard and make it an outdoor venue when the weather is right. We want to add a deck and plants.

You could barbecue out there.¨ The Pine Grove fundraiser, an all-you-can-eat spaghetti dinner, is scheduled from 5 to 7 p.m., Jan. 15 and will cost $10 per plate. Those who attend are invited to bring a dessert to share.

At 6 p.m. on Feb. 4, the Big Wave Cafe will host a low-cholesterol, low-sodium, low-fat meal in conjunction with American Heart Month, with proceeds benefitting the Rinehart Clinic.

Tickets will cost $20 each, and will be good for a

The Big Wave Café’s Brian Williams is gearing up for three benefit events. Courtesy photo complete heart-healthy, multicourse served dinner with predinner heart-healthy appetizers and post-dinner heart-healthy desserts. Tickets will be available at Manzanita Lumber and the Rinehart Clinic. There will be 70 tickets available for one seating. ¨This is sort of a Valentine to the community with Brian´s help,” said Leila Salmon, a member of the Rinehart Clinic Board of Directors.

Rinehart Clinic Board President John Sorenson said that this dinner, with its focus on health, is ¨just the right event to kick off the clinic’s year-long centennial celebration,¨ and added that he is grateful to the Williams for donating the entire cost of this dinner at the start of American Heart Month. ¨The Rinehart Clinic has played a pivotal role in healthcare in this area for almost 100 years,¨ said Brian. ¨We are very fortunate to have such a valuable asset in our region.¨ Lindsey Putnam, who works at the Big Wave, has agreed to design a commemorative menu, which will double as an event poster, for the dinner. ¨Brian and his family at the Big Wave exemplify the com-

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munity spirit which makes the area so special in supporting the time-honored medical care provided to North County for the past 100 years,” said clinic CEO Ellen Boggs.

The Williams will round out their series of local fundraising events with the Manzanita Business Alliance March Open House, at a time and date to be announced prior to that month. The free event will serve as an opportunity for area business owners to find out more about the MBA and sign up as members, said Brian, who serves as vice president of the organization.

The open house will feature beer and wine along with fresh seafood appetizers, and be open to all business owners in Manzanita, Nehalem, and Wheeler. ¨The MBA plays a key role in the greater Manzanita area, benefitting many stakeholders,” said Brian. ¨Membership gives you a voice in future strategic and event planning as well as an opportunity to network with other business owners.”

He added that he believes locals will rise to the occasion to support the organizations he plans to feature at the restaurant. ¨That´s one of the things I love about this community everybody rallies.”

The Williams moved to north Tillamook County from Chicago to purchase the Big Wave Cafe in September 2011. Brian left his position as senior vice president at Career Education Corporation for Le Cordon Bleu to return to Oregon, where he and Carol

grew up.

Carol, who makes the Big Wave´s desserts, is a graduate

of Le Cordon Bleu Portland and studied with renowned French pastry chef, Pascal

Tisseur at Petite Provence, an upscale French bakery in Portland.