Volume 17, No. 25
December 13, 2012
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Wheeler’s Vision Plan gets teeth The input of citizens will not be ignored in future planning decisions
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By Dave Fisher The Citizen
Adopted in 2011, Wheeler’s Vision Plan, a background document of fact as to what Wheeler citizens want their city to look like five to ten years down the road, will have to be reckoned with in future planning decisions. In November, the planning commission and
NEHALEM SELECTS NEW CITY MANAGER City Recorder Dale Shafer gets the nod of approval from Nehalem City Council. Page 2
Food
See WHEELER, page 5
Cylvia Hayes, Oregon’s First Lady, samples canned tuna at the Tillamook Bay Boathouse processing facility on her Dec. 6 tour of the north Oregon coast. Photo by Dave Fisher
Oregon’s First Lady visits north Tillamook County By Dave Fisher The Citizen
Cylvia Hayes, companion of Gov. John Kitzhaber and Oregon’s First Lady, stopped at Garibaldi and
Neah-Kah-Nie High School on a tour of the north Oregon coast on Thursday. Hayes, who expressed her concern about Oregon’s high hunger rates, was on a mission to learn more about the Coho Salmon Project that
just wrapped up its fourth year. Hunger, said Hayes, is “so out of keeping” with what she thinks a progressive state like Oregon should be.
See OREGON’S FIRST LADY, page 5
Mayor Stevie Burden outside Wheeler City Hall is well acquainted with the city’s Vision Plan as she co-chaired the committee that facilitated the process. Photo by Dave Fisher
Is there a ‘Cash Mob’ coming to north Tillamook County?
‘TIS THE SEASON Raine Miller is leading FOR HOLIDAY the effort to help local APPETIZERS businesses with a cash The Golightly Gourmet offers suggestions to make holiday entertaining fun and easy. Page 11
Index Classifieds....................8 Events calendar............6 NBFR District Log.........3 Public Safety Log..........3 Golightly Gourmet.......11 Letters to the Editor......4
infusion
By Dave Fisher The Citizen
Generally, a mob, often associated with a “mob action,” isn’t considered a good thing. Raine Miller is looking to change that perception in north Tillamook County with the creation of a cash mob program. Familiar with a similar effort in Tillamook, Miller decided to proceed with creating a north county version after kicking around ideas with her husband, Jeremy, that centered around doing something locally that would help businesses in Manzanita, Nehalem and Wheeler during the slow winter months. What is a cash mob? “It was born out of the idea of a flash mob,” says Miller. “A cash mob is where a group of people hit a business all at once and spend money, typically $20 per person, to give that business an infusion of cash. It keeps
Garibaldi Marina is one of many businesses that have been “mobbed” by the Tillamook Cash Mob. Courtesy photo money locally.” So far, the north county effort is still in the planning stages, though Miller hopes to inaugurate the program before the Christmas holiday. “Facebook is the perfect place to get people on
board,” said Miller, “but, then I realized, it’s harder than I thought.” Twenty-five mile south, the first cash mob program on the Oregon coast has been in effect since March 2012. Justin Aufdermauer, execu-
tive director of the Tillamook Area Chamber of Commerce, spearheaded the effort after attending a professional development conference where someone brought up their cash mob program. “I started researching it
and found out that Sherwood was doing one and contacted the organizer. There is a lot of information on how to start a cash mob. The key is finding what works in your community and what members of your community are responsive to,” Aufdermauer says. “The biggest challenge is conveying the message of why one should show up and commit to spending $10 to $20 at a local business when they have no idea what they are going to buy. “Our highest attendance at a cash mob was 44, and our highest grossing cash mob was last Friday (Nov. 30) for $622.29. Impressive, when you think that it was $622.29 for a small locally owned business in the matter of 45 minutes.” Miller, who has contacted about 70 people via Facebook, said she would be delighted with a “mob” of at least 20 people; 30 or 40 would be “tremendous.” Already, she has a Manzanita business in mind, one suggested by several people on Facebook. One bit of advice she received from Aufdermauer, who she has been in touch with, is to take the lead
See CASH MOB, page 6
2013 Firefighters Calendar debuts
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Hot off the press and just in time for holiday gift giving is the 2013 Tillamook County Firefighters Calendar featuring photos of firefighters throughout the county. Produced by the Headlight Herald, this first-time project is a fundraiser that benefits Tillamook County fire departments, specifically targeted for countywide training of volunteer firefighters. These attractive 13-month, full-color calendars are available in north Tillamook County at Manzanita City Hall, Manzanita Lumber, Nehalem Bay Fire & Rescue District office, Nehalem Lumber, North County Recreation District, North Coast Citizen newspaper, and Wheeler City Hall for $10 each. All proceeds help support our fire departments.
Nehalem Bay Fire and Rescue District volunteer firefighters Rachel Bozley and Stephe Fox are among those firefighters featured in the 2013 calendar.