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October 3, 2013
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Fall 2013 special edition of Pirate Pride Catch up on the Neah-Kah-Nie High Pirates and fall sports in this special insert inside this issue
Calendar
Alder Creek Harvest Festival slated this Saturday The Lower Nehalem Community Trust hosts the annual event from noon to 4 p.m. at Alder Creek Farm Page 3
Irish singer, Colleen Raney, visits Manzanita The Hoffman Center presents the singer in concert on Sunday, Oct. 13, at 3 p.m. Page 5
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By Dave Fisher The Citizen
As area residents dry off after a wet ‘n wild three days of inclement weather, a couple of nagging questions linger. What does this winter hold? Was the early fall storm an anomaly or is it a harbinger of things yet to come? Time will tell. As storms go, the leftovers from a typhoon on the other side of the Pacific, coupled with a low-pressure system that dropped down from the Gulf of Alaska on Sunday, the activity didn’t match the intensity of the December 2007 storm with its hurricane-force winds or the February 1996 “Pineapple Express” soaker, which produced significant flooding on the coast and inland. However, those storms were winter storms. My gosh, it’s only the end of September. Manzanita received six inches of rain, as did Bay City, according to Gordon
Aina Tonjes, owner of T-Spot Yarns, Gifts & Chocolates in Manzanita, points out the type of items that were taken from her store by a shoplifter recently. Photo by Dave Fisher
Manzanita shopkeepers keep sharp eye on shoplifters
Manzanita Public Works employee Ben Paul and Manzanita police officer Mike Sims cut up a tree which fell across Laneda Ave. during the wind storm that hit the coast Saturday, Sept. 28. Photo by Dave Dillon
By Dave Fisher The Citizen
It doesn’t really matter if you’re a shopkeeper in the laid back coastal community of Manzanita, you’re not immune to the big city crime of shoplifting and business owners up
McCraw, director of Tillamook County Emergency
See STORMS, page 6
See SHOPLIFTING, page 9
Mudd Nicks continue to evolve and grow By Dave Fisher The Citizen
What started out as a golf tournament, an opportunity for a few old college buddies to get together once a year in Manzanita and enjoy each other’s company, has evolved into one of the premier fundraising events in north Tillamook County. On Sept. 20 and 21, the Mudd Nick Foundation once again hosted its annual golf tournament, which started 25 years ago, and charity auction and banquet attended by over 170 people, and that’s not counting the over 60 volunteers who pitched in to ensure that everythi9ng ran smoothly.
“It gets better every year, “ said Donna Miller, program coordinator for the foundation, who was most appreciative of the volunteer force. “They did everything, including the dishes, and that’s not counting the Neah-Kah-Nie choir or band members that helped set up the chairs.” Among the helpers were Neah-Kah-Nie and NCRD staff members along with a few parents of students. Jim Mudd, one of the foundation’s original founders, said the nature of the event has changed in recent years. Not only is the number of attendees growing, but more Manzanita area residents are part
See MUDD NICKS, page 6
It’s 1913 and the Citizen is there! Editor’s note: Okay, admittedly, it’s a bit of a stretch, but we thought it might be fun if the North Coast Citizen reported the story as it happened in 1913 on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Glenesslin shipwreck at Neah-Kah-Nie. Sorry it took 100 years to make the paper. Special thanks to historian Mark Beach for the photographs and his efforts in keeping the story in proper historical context. Enjoy. The accompanying article is reprinted from a previous edition of the Citizen.
The Glenesslin lies stranded on rocks at the base of Neahkahnie Mountain. Fortunately, photographer Ward Meyer was in his Wheeler studio and could rush to the scene in time to take this photo for the Citizen.
SHIPWRECKED! British ship Glenesslin runs aground at base of Neahkahnie Mountain – No lives lost
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Mrs. Samuel Reed could hardly believe what she was seeing. Shortly after 2 p.m.
on October first the clipper Glenesslin ran aground on the rocky base of Neahkahnie Mountain. The vessel was four months out of Santos, Brazil, bound for Portland for a load of grain. From her vantage point at the Neahkahnie Tavern, Mrs. Reed has seen many ships off the coast, but never one as close as the Glenesslin, which, she said, sailed
straight onto the rocks. “A slight haze covered the ocean,” she said, “but not enough to hide the ship as it approached land.” Mr. Reed witnessed the event from high above where he was surveying a new road around the front of the mountain. From that vantage point he recognized
See SHIPWRECKED, page 6
One hundred years later, Glenesslin story still fascinates Nagging questions still linger about the sailing vessel’s last hours at sea
Doug Nicholson (right) congratulates his parents, Owen and Ann Nicholson, recipients of the Mudd Nick Foundation’s Persons of the Year Award. Photo by Dave Fisher
By Dave Fisher The Citizen
By most accounts, Oct. 1, 1913 was a
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beautiful fall day in Neahkahnie. Skies were generally clear dotted with a few white clouds, and the ocean was calm. Offshore that afternoon, a ship in full sail was making its way north. To the astute observer, it might have appeared unusually close to the shoreline of Nehalem spit shore. Sailing ships off the coast were
See GLENESSLIN, page 7