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City of Manzanita reaches agreement with Columbia Bank on Laneda project

By Dave Fisher The Citizen

In response to citizens’ concerns to keep the decorative pond in front of Columbia Bank intact for its aesthetic appeal, the City of Manzanita has reached a compromise of sorts in its discussion with bank officials in finalizing its design for improvements to Laneda Ave., from Division St. to US 101. As a result, the sidewalk in front

Manzanita, LNCT move closer to developing park With a final agreement close at hand, a new park will finally begin to take shape Page 2

End of an era for Karla’s Smokehouse Finally retired, Karla Steinhauser concentrates on her artistic abilities Page 4

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Building a gingerbread house from scratch The Golightly Gourmet, Dana Zia, recounts her baking experience Page 8

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Last year’s ‘Polar Plungers’ enjoyed sunny skies as they made a mad dash to the surf for a New Year’s Day dip in the ocean. Photos by Dave Fisher

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Polar Plunge celebrates 10 years New Year’s Day

By Dave Fisher The Citizen

“Every year it gets bigger and this year we are hoping to build a bigger fire pit to accommodate the folks,” says Janice Gaines, founder of the Manzanita Polar Plunge that takes place on New Year’s Day. This year, the event, slated January 1, at 11 a.m. on the beach at Manzanita (Neahkahnie), will celebrate its 10th year.

On New Year’s Day in 2005, eight people participated in the inaugural event.

Last year, one estimate had the number of “plungers” at 300 with that many more on the sidelines watching the spectacle.

As the Polar Plunge continues to grow the economic impact it has on this small coastal community is hard to gauge. New Year’s Day attracts a lot of second home-

owners and visitors to the area anyway.

On thing for sure, business owners are not complaining.

“All the merchants are really supportive for this event as it brings folks down just for the day now,” said Gaines. If it’s a matter of driving down for the day, it might mean a family having a bite to eat at a local eatery, stopping at the grocery store and checking out the shops that line Laneda Ave. Innkeepers have reported people intent on participating in the Polar Plunge reserving rooms in year’s past.

This year, the event gets underway at 11 a.m., but Gaines suggests getting to the beach at Neahkahnie a few minutes early, 10:30 at the earliest.

Why Neahkahnie Beach?

“Because that is where it originated and it is in walking distance to my house,” said Gaines.

The parking area is just around the corner from the intersection of Beulah Reed and Nehalem roads.

The“rules:” 1. Be prepared to strip down to plunge attire. Costumes are cool, wetsuits no.

2. “We plunge together in big group frenzy!” says Gaines.

3. Do not stay in the water for more than a minute or two.

4. Hold hands of children and anyone that looks like they need a hand to hold.

5. Dress warm for before and after, and be sure to hang out afterwards for back slapping and high fives.

“We do not take responsibility for anyone’s crazy behavior,” Gaines added.

“But, if you’ve never done it, you should.

These things are fun, and fun is good.”

For more information, call Gaines at Spa Manzanita, (503) 368-4777.

The Citizen

So, you think 2013 has been a rather dry year? You wouldn’t be wrong in that assumption, as 2013 will, barring a good winter storm or two the last few days of December, go down as the driest year in terms of annual rainfall since 2000 when the city recorded 67.75 inches. It is possible that 2013 might still top 2011, which received 72.49 inches. That was on the heels of 2010, when Manzanita reported a whopping 172.10 of rainfall.

Interestingly, Manzanita got a head start in September on its fall rainfall amounts when

See RAIN, page 5

By Dave Fisher The Citizen

With $10 million in hand, the long-awaited replacement of the aging Lommen Bridge, which spans the Nehalem River on Miami-Foley Road, will get underway in spring of 2015 and be completed by fall of 2016.

Tillamook County Public Works Director Liane Welch in a presentation before the Manzanita City Council said the structurally deficient 382-foot bridge that dates back to 1955 shifted as much as three inches on its foundation during the December 2007 storm when debris carried by the river stacked up against the base of the bridge. The bridge, said Welch at the December meeting of the council, was rated the second worse bridge in the state in terms of safety, one notch behind Portland’s Sellwood Bridge, which is currently being replaced.

During Phase I of construction of the new bridge, the existing bridge, which will be located 40 feet to the west, will remain in place. At least one lane will remain open for travel at all times. The following year, with the completion of the new bridge, the old span will be removed. With surveys completed and the design and permitting process underway, Welch said she expects to go out for bids for the bridge project in March 2015.

The Miami-Foley Road serves as a detour route for US 101, Welch noted, linking north Tillamook County to its neighbors to the south in the event the main coastal highway is closed. “If the existing bridge were to fail, we no longer have this vital link during an emergency,” Welch noted.

Of the $10 million awarded for the project, 90 percent of the amount is federally funded with the remaining a 10 percent a local match. One early estimate has the project coming in at $12.5 million, in which case Welch has contingency funds to cover the added cost. “We’ll see how the bids come in,”

Lommen Bridge over the Nehalem River has the distinction of being the second worse bridge in terms of safety in Oregon.

Photo by Dave Fisher she said. “A lot of times they will come in lower than estimates.”

Incorporated in the plan for the new bridge is a relief bridge approximately 200 feet from the main bridge above the flood plain of the Nehalem River to take pressure off the main structure during high water

and allowing water and woody debris to pass underneath keeping the road from being “washed out.”

While the structural design has been approved, Welch is seeking public input on the “artistic treat-

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Welsh pleads guilty to lesser charges in plea deal

By Joe Wrabek For the Citizen

In an unexpected move, a plea bargain was announced in the year-long court case of Anna Welsh of Nehalem, charged with using a child in a display of sexually explicit conduct.

Welsh’s attorney, John Tuthill, and Tillamook County District Attorney Bill Porter presented the agreement to Tillamook County Circuit Judge Mari Garric Trevino during a hearing Monday afternoon,

Dec. 16.

Welsh, 32, pleaded guilty to two counts of attempting to induce a child to engage in a display of sexually explicit conduct for a person to observe and record in a visual recording. Those are class B felonies, Tuthill noted.

Welsh had been charged in December 2012 with four counts of using a child in a display of sexually explicit conduct for a person to observe and record, which are more severe, class A felonies.

Under the agreement presented by Tuthill and Porter, Welsh will serve two consecutive 20-month prison sentences, plus 24 months of post-prison supervision.

She also will be required to register as a sex offender.

Welsh also will be required to pay $560 in restitution to Crime Victims Compensation. That wasn’t originally in the agreement, Tuthill said, but he and Welsh agreed to “concede the restitution” after a brief discussion.

Welsh was arrested in De-

cember 2012 for sex crimes involving at least three teenage boys, ages 15 to 16.

According to investigators with the Tillamook County Sheriff’s Office, Welsh was accused of engaging in sex acts with at least one of the victims, and sending and requesting pornographic images of the victims via electronic means. At about that time, she resigned as president of New Discoveries Preschool in Nehalem.

Welsh’s formal sentencing is scheduled for 1 p.m. on Jan. 6. The case had been

set for trial the first week in January, Tuthill said.

Welsh has been free on bail since Dec. 14, 2012, under the supervision of her husband and her father-inlaw. During that time, she has been forbidden access to cell phones and computers, and not allowed to go to parks or schools.

Welsh was jailed for a brief time for violating the terms of her release agreement when a random search of her residence in March by sheriff’s detectives found electronic devices with

Anna Welsh access to the Internet, cell phones and unprotected computers.

Manzanita, LNCT move closer to sealing the deal on new park The Citizen

Apparently, the third time was a charm as the City of Manzanita was awarded a grant in July from the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department to acquire the property for an open space park at the eastern edge of the city’s urban growth boundary adjacent to Manzanita Meadows subdivision.

In partnership with the Lower Nehalem Community Trust, the city had twice before – in 2011 and, again, in 2012 – applied for the grant and came out on the short end of the stick.

“Every year we traveled to Bend to make our presentation,” said City Manager Jerry Taylor, who credits former LNCT board member Nancy Chase with doing much of the “leg work” to help secure the grant. This year, with OPRD approving 22 proposed projects, the proposed park came in at number 19 on the list, according to Taylor.

In addition to laying most of the groundwork on the project and

providing the land donations and cash for the City of Manzanita to provide the grant match, the LNCT will organize the development of the park and will provide maintenance for five years. The option to buy the property was obtained by and is being held in the name of LNCT, which will assign its option to the city, with the city then paying for the property through the grant.

Still to be finalized and approved is the option agreement and agreement of purchase and sale between the two entities. The Manzanita City Council at its December meeting got its first look at the documents and still needs to approve the conditions under which the city would receive the option to buy the property, something Taylor says he expects will happen in January.

“Although the city has no plans to do any kind of development of the park other than what was on the grant application, the deed restrictions would apply in perpetuity. Although the park is mostly a natural area, a future council might

A diagram presented to Oregon Parks and Recreation department shows what a new “natural” park adjacent to the Manzanita Meadows subdivision might look like. wish to put structures on the site which complement the park use and the educational purpose of the park,” stated Taylor in a memo to city councilors.

n Project From page 1 of the bank will be narrower – four feet in width as opposed to six feet – preserving the decorative boulders that outline the pond but also protrude into the public right-of-way. A pine tree, however, in the same vicinity as the two boulders in question will be removed, according to Manzanita City Manager Jerry Taylor, as it is deemed to be a nuisance and potential safety issue. The two parking spaces in front of the bank on Laneda will remain.

“Arborists have looked at it (the tree) and have said it has got to go. It will eventually fall over since its root system is under the pond and sidewalk,” said Taylor. “Columbia Bank is in agreement and has seen the tree as a maintenance issue.”

The pond in front of Columbia Bank along Laneda Ave. and how it would be affected by improvements to the street scheduled next year took center stage at a special meeting of the Manzanita City Council in November in which upwards of 40 people were in attendance.

In seeking a balance between

sentially preclude a future council from building any man-made structures on the site. “I don’t think it is in the public’s best interest for the city to bind itself and not have that choice,” said Taylor at the December council meeting.

After further discussions, a compromise position was hammered out allowing for complementary structures in the future but limiting the area of the park in which structures may be built. In addition, the revised proposal contains a mechanism for the City of Manzanita to change the deed restrictions in the future after consultation with the LNCT Board.

Though concerned that the city may be viewed as the “bad guys” as a result of its concerns with the language in the initial draft agreement, Mayor Garry Bullard indicated he was looking forward to finally closing the deal. “This represents an opportunity, in partnership with the Lower Nehalem Community Trust, to save property from development on the cusp of the bay,” he said.

Manzanita City Manager Jerry Taylor inspects an in-ground survey marker along Laneda Ave. An updated survey revealed that several private property-owner improvements intruded on the actual public right-of-way. Photo by Dave Fisher public and private interests, and private interests surfaced the council approved the final with the results of an updated design final design for Laneda survey, which revealed that imAve. as presented by city staff, provements by property owners with the proviso that Columover the years on the north side bia Bank, a property owner of Laneda actually encroached along that portion of Laneda, in the public right-of-way. In be allowed to weigh in on the the case of Columbia Bank final design as it related to the (formerly The Bank of Astodecorative pool in front of its ria), the sidewalk in front of its building. building is three feet into the The need to balance public right-of-way.

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While the city and LNCT were in general agreement about the “natural” aspect of the park, the initial draft of the deed restrictions contained language that would es-

Other property owners along that stretch of Laneda Ave. were affected as well.

West of Columbia Bank, a single car garage protrudes into the right-of-way as does landscaping associated with Coast Cabins. In a trade-off with Coast Cabins, the design allows for a bump-out in front of one of the cabins to allow greater space between it and the street.

Owners of the garage indicated their intent to “cut back” the portion of it that intrudes into the right-of-way and work got underway last week on the project.

The city looks solicit bids on the Laneda project after the first of the year and award the project by the end of January.

“The game plan is that the contractor would begin work by the end of February and be finished by the end of May before the height of the tourist season,” Taylor told the Citizen.

US 101 Project gets underway in 2014

Meanwhile, the Oregon Department of Transportation will begin work on the longawaited Neahkahnie Creek fish passage project, which calls for the replacement of the culvert underneath US 101 near the water treatment plant. During Stage 1 of the project, crews will tunnels underneath the existing roadway, meaning that the two lanes of highway will be open to traffic most of the time.

In 2015, stages 2 and 3

involve completing the new inner lanes of the highway east of the existing roadway to “soften” the curve and make the final connection from 101 to Laneda Ave. New and improved left-hand turnout lanes are planned for Laneda and Manzanita avenues, along with bike lanes in both directions.

Landscaping, which will serve as storm water retention areas, installation of sidewalks and driveways are also included as part of the final design.

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EDC will allocate funds from county’s new lodging tax EDC’s deliberations would be “open and noticed – no deals made in back rooms and the dark of night.” The EDC also wants to see an appeals process. “If people believe a mistake is being made, they ought to have the opportunity to talk about it,” Olson said.

One of the EDC’s tasks as the “contracting entity” in the county’s lodging-tax ordinance is to create an advisory committee consisting, according to the ordinance, “of transient lodging providers, citizens, local government representatives, members of tourism promotion agencies and, if desired, independent consultants from the tourism promotion industry.” The makeup and terms of the committee would be specified in the contract with the EDC. That advisory committee is different from the Transient Lodging Tax Review Committee being created by the county commissioners, county chief of staff Paul Levesque emphasized. The TLT Review Committee, consisting of an attorney, an accountant, a transient lodging tax collector, and two “lay members,” is set up to hear appeals about tax collections, not distribution of the money, Levesque said.

Levesque’s review of the ordinance was mostly of its Section 15, which describes how the contracting entity will go about allocating money from the “tourism side” of Transient Lodging Tax collections. State law requires that 70 percent of lodging taxes be spent on promotion of tourism or

By Joe Wrabek For the Citizen

County commissioners agreed earlier this month to have the Economic Development Council of Tillamook County (EDCTC) handle the allocation of the “tourism side” of money from the county’s new Transient Lodging Tax. Nineteen people, from north, central and south Tillamook County, attended the commissioners’ Dec. 11 workshop, which included presentations by county chief of staff Paul Levesque, Travel Oregon’s Scott West, and EDC vice-chair Doug Olson, who presented EDC’s proposal to handle allocation of the money.

The EDC would do it for no more than three years, Olson told commissioners. “Not everyone on our board agrees we should be doing this long-term.” Rather than creating a new organization – a possibility allowed for in the county’s ordinance -- “the EDC is in place and can develop the structure,” Olson said. “We think we can make it happen.”

“We’re going to go slow,” Tillamook Bay Community College president Connie Green said. (Green is also on the EDC board of directors.)

“If we don’t do some good planning, we won’t get off to the right start.”

Olson asked the county to advance money – up to $100,000 – if the EDC incurred startup expenses. The EDC has no money for this purpose, he told commissioners. Olson promised the

Scott West, strategy officer for Travel Oregon, the state’s tourism agency, discussing possible structures for the “contracting entity” that would allocate funds from Tillamook County’s new lodging tax. Photo by Joe Wrabek construction of “tourist related facilities.” The county has already decided the remaining 30 percent will be spent on county roads. (Any cost of collecting the tax has to come out of the 30 percent, too.)

Scott West, strategy officer for Travel Oregon, the state’s tourism entity, told attendees there are about 100 cities and counties in Oregon that levy a lodging tax. To spend the money, some contract with an independent visitors’ bureau, and some with a chamber of commerce “that embraces tourism as a strategy,” West said; still others keep it “in house,” using a local city or county department. “All work

well when they work well, and poorly when they work poorly,” West said.

Groups that have lodging industry members work better, he suggested.

He urged forecasting long-term; businesses “have to look three to five years into the future,” he said.

“You have strong partners here,” West said. “You’ll have a ton of great ideas.”

Public comment was generally in favor of having the county contract with the EDC – with a few caveats.

“The word on the street is this is a Tillamook and south county game,” Wheeler Mayor Stevie Burden said, that won’t benefit people further north.

Tillamook Deputy DA’s Dec. 6 death ruled suicide

By Joe Wrabek For the Citizen

Deputy Tillamook County District Attorney Lawrence Lee Carter’s sudden death Friday, Dec. 6 has been ruled a suicide.

“It was a surprise to us all,” Sheriff Andy Long said in an interview.

Carter’s body was found at his home in Wheeler by Manzanita Police Friday morning.

“When [Carter] failed to come to work, we requested the on-call Manzanita officer to respond to the house because he [Carter] had been sick,” District Attorney Bill Porter said. “When they got there they could see he’d killed himself.” The cause of death was reportedly a gunshot wound to the Open hearts.

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Tillamook County Sheriff’s Office also responded, Long said, as did DA Porter and medical examiner Dr. Paul Betlinski. “Any unattended death call always includes a call to the DA and medical examiner,” Long noted.

There will be no investigation. “There was no doubt it was a suicide,” Porter said. “I’ve been to suicides before.”

There was only one set of footprints in the snow at Carter’s house, Long said – those of deputy DA Brian Erickson, who had spent the night at Carter’s house and had left for work earlier that morning. Carter apparently killed himself shortly afterwards. Erickson was reportedly the last person to see Carter alive. No suicide

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Carter was 53. He had gone to work for the Tillamook County District Attorney’s office in January 2012, according to an official statement issued by county human resources director Mona Hamblen. Carter had previously been an attorney in private practice, after working as Grant County DA and for the State of Oregon.

“He will be greatly missed,” Hamblen said. “Please keep his friends, co-workers and family in your thoughts this holiday season.”

Carter’s workload for the county will be assumed temporarily by DA Porter himself, Porter advised, until a replacement can be hired.

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Only one person on EDC’s board comes from north of Garibaldi, Burden noted. “How are municipalities going to be represented?”

“It’s county-wide,” Mike Reck countered. (Reck owns the Craftsman Bed and Breakfast in Pacific City.) It shouldn’t matter where the appointees to the advisory committee live, he said. “Cities already have lodging taxes and a paid person to deal with their promotion. They have resources already.”

“There’s a lot of politics in appointing the advisory committee,” Tillamook Chamber of Commerce’s Justin Aufdermauer noted. “What the EDC proposed works,” he conceded, but urged creating a separate organization with a board appointed by the county commissioners.

Eugene Tish, proprietor of the Garibaldi House hotel, was one of several applauding commissioners’ decision to create a county-wide lodging tax. That it passed by a wide margin “is a real testament to the confidence voters have in the three of you,” he told commissioners.

“I think the consensus of the board [of commissioners] is to develop an IGA (intergovernmental agreement) with the EDC,” county commission chair Mark Labhart said at the close of the workshop. The agreement will be prepared by Levesque, and details will be worked out subsequently by Labhart and Levesque for the county, and Olson and EDC executive director Dan Biggs for the EDC.

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Commentary / News End of an era for Karla’s Smokehouse

In years gone by, Karla’s Rockaway Beach.

Smokehouse in Rockaway The good news is she’s Beach would have been the back, feeling well and even scene of a fury of activity gaining back the weight she these past few weeks just be- lost. “My blood is normal, my fore Christmas as proprietor medication is working and I Karla Steinhauser and a few eat three time a day…I was extra hands would assemble lucky to eat once a day when packages of Karla’s covI was in business,” she says. eted smoked fish, While she is oysters and other most appreciative meats for shipping. of her doctors, For many, sharing nurses and close samples of Karla’s friends that took handiwork during care of her and the holidays has visited her in the been as much a hospital in her hour tradition in these of need, it is the Alparts as sending mighty she credits cards and stringing most. Throughout lights on a tree. her life, through her After 49 years ups and downs, her Coastal faith has remained in business, Karla retired earlier this Early on, Currents resolute. year. At 78, and no she asked God for longer physically a second chance Dave capable to keep when the going Fisher up with demand, got rough and it she took down paid off. “He’s her sign from the preserved my life,” location she has been at since she says without hesitation.

1964 and closed her doors for Karla’s in ensuing years good. It didn’t help matters transcended from a business that she was diagnosed with to an institution. Even though cancer and spent four days her sign has disappeared, peoin a Portland hospital in July ple still stop looking to buy a and another couple of months chunk or two of her smoked recuperating at home in salmon and other seafood.

Happy New Year… I would suppose this will be a surprise as you embark on your cruise into the future.

“Some days you just can’t put up a jar of pickles.” That was a favorite statement of a friend from many years ago.

I heard him use it on two continents, so it was well traveled. Finding myself in some trying times, the events

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On occasion, she will smoke some fish for close friends for free, but there is no more

commercial activity.

“I love people, but they can’t talk me into smoking

fish for them anymore,” says Karla, who now is focused on using her drawing talents to produce whimsical greeting cards. In addition, she has written two books sharing tips and techniques she has learned over the years in processing and smoking fish. In the works are two DVDs, one on filleting and smoking fish and the other on shaking meat from crab, due out sometime early next year.

The closure of Karla’s Smokehouse marks the end of

What’s this about pickles?

of today brought me to give that slogan a shout.

It is early in the Christmas season and winter is, indeed, upon us and all those fall flowers have gone to their last rewards – a warm spot in the composting barrel. Last year’s Christmas poinsettia plant finally left the world after hanging around the greenhouse all year. I have

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an era and, all things considered, it’s a remarkable feat that Karla’s lasted nearly half a century. That’s not easy, particularly on the Oregon coast. Most important, she did it her way.

“I’m a ‘mom and pop’ person and always have been.

I have the same attitude today I always have.”

For Karla, it has always been about quality, first and foremost. The fact she ran a successful business, starting out as a “crab shack” in the early going, for nearly 50 years is a testament that she had the right idea all along.

In her most recent book (which is still available) one of her favorite poems by an unknown author appears towards the back. It begins: Wouldn’t this old world be better If the folk we meet would say ‘I know something good about you…’

And then treat us just that way.

Safe to say, for her many friends and those who have enjoyed her smoked delicacies over the years, we know something good about Karla.

She is the genuine article.

to admit that I gave it a everyone they would look little boost with my stompbetter without, shows some ing and grinding with my improvement. heels. Those things are really Did anyone ever look at pretty, but they some of those just last too darn medical comlong. You can see mercials and that my soul was catch themselves teeming with good laughing out loud. will and glee!

I like the one Add all that where the lady to some health on the open-air problems and, bus stands up and even with the sun asks if anyone shining, the world there is anyone doesn’t look all having bowel that good. Just to cramps or extest me to see if treme gas. Maybe The Old I was paying atthe fact they are Geezer tention, my wallet on an open-air made its way into bus should be the Walt the laundry and we first clue. Some Trandum are now spending of them get right laundered money. up and personal My likeness on my in the aisles of driver’s license the super market. and other documents didn’t Just imagine your surprise if change from being cleaned. someone tried to cozy up and If anything, it looks like that asked you if were having dithing under my chin, that arrhea. I guess the first thing some doctor keeps telling would be to check the floor.

Many things that look pretty simple on television would never fly in the real world. For years we have all talked about those new items that work on TV, but not so good when you got them home.

There are never ending commercials for one-day dental overhauls. They show pictures of folks with missing teeth both top and bottom and in one day they are ready for Hollywood! The truth is, that depending on the number of implants, it can take several months for those to grow into place. I can also report that from my personal experience the period of waiting includes a lot of time with no teeth to do much chewing. I turned out to be a pretty good gummer and sometime next year I should be back to where those wonder people on television were on the first day.

Something that goes along with losing your teeth is

learning that just about every single thing you eat has some nuts or lumps that are impossible to eat. Another phenomenon is that many of your friends will bring you wonderful baked goods to cheer you up on your way to recovery and they will all be tough to chew.

In spite of kicking it off with surgery, I am betting that it is going to be a good year. For us old roosters, we don’t have to worry about opening everyone else’s day.

In fact, we don’t have to even crow anymore. Using all that energy to just keep breathing seems to make more sense.

I hope everyone gets what they deserve and shares their love with all those who need us and be thankful that we got to see one more Merry Christmas. Everyone should remember that it is normal to find yourself in situations where you “Just can’t put up a jar of pickles.”

Letters to the Editor Sad to see Extension Study Group dissolve The Nehalem Bay Extension Study Group met for the last time on December

9th at the Pine Grove Community Center. The members enjoyed a Christmas potluck and reflected on the group’s history.

The club has been in the area since the 1960s and

gave women an opportunity to get together and share ideas and learning experiences through programs put together individually or through the Tillamook Extension Office. We are sad

to see the club dissolve, but are thankful for the times together.

Jan Markle Nehalem

Big Wave Café to host fundraiser for Manzanita Library

In its continued tradition of giving back to the community by hosting periodic fundraising dinners, the Big Wave Café will offer an allyou-can-eat spaghetti dinner with proceeds benefiting the North Tillamook Library Friends.

The Library Lovers Dinner, scheduled for Jan. 28, will feature spaghetti, garlic bread, salad and dessert.

“The local library group makes it possible for Nehalem Bay area residents, and anyone who visits the area, for that matter, to be the well-read, literary group of people we are,”said Brian Williams, who owns the Big Wave with his wife Carol Williams. “When we considered which organizations to host benefit dinners for this year, they definitely came to mind immediately.”

In past years, the Big Wave café has hosted dinners on behalf of a number of local nonprofit organizations, including the Pine Grove Community Club, Rinehart Clinic and Manzanita Business Alliance.

The Big Wave is planning another benefit dinner for the North County Food Bank on Feb. 17.

Williams volunteered to host a fundraiser, said North

Brian Williams at work in the kitchen at Big Wave Café. Courtesy photo Tillamook Library Board member Gail Young, who, with Bev Luce, is co-chair of the Friends Communications Committee.

“He’s doing this to support his community’s library.

He approached me - we didn’t even asked him. That’s the amazing thing.”

The North Tillamook Library Friends work with the Tillamook County Library System to operate the Manzanita Branch library.

The nonprofit Friends group owns the land, building and furnishings, and pays for the

cost of utilities and maintenance, while the county library system provides books, periodicals, computers and staff. The Friends raise money to support their part of the arrangement through magazine and book sales.

“There is a unique relationship between the Tillamook County Library and the Manzanita Library,” said Young. “We’re in a publicprivate relationship.”

“Without them, we wouldn’t have a branch in Manzanita,” said Sara Charlton, director of the Tillamook

County Library System.

The Friends formed in 1985 when a number of north Tillamook County residents banded together in hopes of establishing a library branch in their community.

The group morphed into the Friends, creating a board of directors, incorporating as a nonprofit organization, holding fundraising events and obtaining matching grants to purchase land and build the library, which was designed

by Neahkahnie architect Tom Bender. The building was dedicated in 1987.

“The building is in its 26th year, so we’re seeing some pretty big expenses coming up in the next couple of years,” said Young.

“Funds raised from the dinner will help offset costs of replacing gutters and installing a new drainage system in 2014.”

The benefit is scheduled for 5 to 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 28 at the Big Wave Café.

Dinner will be served buffet style. Wine will be available at a no-host bar.

Tickets are $20 per person, with $10 of each ticket tax-deductible. Reservations are required. To make your reservation, contact Young at (503) 368-5248 or at gailmyoung@mac.com.

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Obituaries Frank was born April 19, 1926 in Hillsboro, Ore. (on a lot now occupied by Elmer’s Restaurant), a descendent of early settlers in the Mountaindale area in 1852. He passed away December 9, 2013.

Frank graduated from Hillsboro High School in 1944, served in the Army in the Pacific Theater from 1944 to 1946. He married Margaret Hipple on Oct. 4, 1947. After 60 years of marriage, Margaret predeceased Frank, in 2007. They had five children; Tom (Linda), Nancy Gowen, Richard

n Bridge From page 1 ment” at the north and south ends of the bridge. Though designed to withstand a major earthquake, said Welch, “I really don’t want to build ugly bridges.”

Among the treatments for the ends of the bridge are three options – a pillar with a pole adorned by sculpture of a fish or perhaps a bird; a long gradual upward curve to the pillars; and a vertical slab-like pillar. In addition, Welch is seeking input on four railing options for the reinforced concrete structure.

“You say you’re going to have this finished by 2016… you’ll probably be ahead of us on the 101 project,” said Mayor Garry Bullard following Welch’s presentation. That project, which has been in the making for years, is scheduled to break ground in 2014 and last two years. (See related story begining on page 1.)

(Debra), Jon (Jonna) and Jim. They have three grandsons; JD Wolf, Matte and Kent Gowen, and two granddaughters; Brianna Bauld and Zahra Wolf.

Frank was a 1951 graduate of Pacific University with a major in mathematics and an MAT from Reed College in 1966. In his 38 years in education, he taught and coached at Wallowa High School, Pilot Rock High School, Seaside High School, Grant High School, Franklin High School, and Wilson High School.

Retiring from public schools, he then taught at Catlin Gabel and Oregon

Dec. 8 - Investigated a commercial alarm in Manzanita.

Dec. 8 - Assisted Tillamook Ambulance and Nehalem Bay Fire & Rescue with a fire call in Nehalem.

Dec. 9 - Responded to a request for a welfare check in Manzanita.

Dec. 9 - Investigated an unattended death in Manzanita.

Dec. 10 - Assisted Manzanita Public Works with a report of a broken water pipe in Manzanita.

Dec. 10 - Assisted Tillamook Ambulance and Nehalem Bay Fire & Rescue with a medical call in Bayside Gardens.

Dec. 11 - Investigated a residential alarm in Manzanita.

Dec. 13 - Assisted TCSO and Nehalem Bay Fire & Rescue with a MVA in Bayside Gardens.

Dec. 14 - Issued a citation for expired plates in Manzanita.

Dec. 14 - Issued a citation for passing in a nopass zone in Nehalem.

Dec. 14 - Assisted Nehalem Bay Fire & Rescue

Dec. 9 - 22 - Responded to 13 medical calls during this period.

Dec. 13 – Responded to motor vehicle accident at Fisher’s Point, Nehalem.

Dec. 13 – Responded to motor vehicle accident at Hwy 101 & Bayside Gardens Rd., Nehalem.

Dec. 13 – Responded to fire alarm on Tohl Ave., Nehalem.

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Dec. 14 - Responded to two reports of a suspicious person in Manzanita.

Dec. 15 - Responded to a report of a vehicle on Manzanita Beach.

Dec. 15 - Assisted TCSO, Tillamook Ambulance and Nehalem Bay Fire & Rescue with a MVA near Nehalem.

Dec. 17 - Investigated a commercial alarm in Manzanita.

Dec. 19 - Assisted OSP, TCSO, and Nehalem Bay Fire & Rescue with a MVA near Wheeler.

Dec. 19 - Assisted Tillamook Ambulance and Nehalem Bay Fire & Rescue with a medical call in Manzanita.

Dec. 20 - Assisted OSP, TCSO, Tillamook Ambulance and Nehalem Bay Fire & Rescue with a MVA in Bayside Gardens.

Dec. 21 - Assisted TCSO with a report of a civil issue near Nehalem.

MVA - Motor Vehicle Accident; TCSO - Tillamook County Sheriff’s Office; RBPD - Rockaway Beach Police Department; OWSP - Oswald West State Park; NBSP - Nehalem Bay State Park

Dec. 14 – Responded to fire alarm on Rowe St., Wheeler.

Dec. 15 – Responded to motor vehicle accident on Foss Rd and Miami Foley Rd., Nehalem.

Dec. 19 – Responded to motor vehicle accident at milepost 46.5 on Hwy 101, Brighton.

Dec. 20 – Extrication and rescue on Hwy 101 & Neahkanie Mt. Dec. 22 – Responded to chimney fire on Hwy 53, Nehalem.

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a wet one finishing with 13.46 inches, three times its average amount, but it wasn’t a harbinger of things to come. October, November and December, three of the wetter months, were all well below normal, receiving, 2.46, 8.55 and just over an inch (through December 23) respectively. Average rainfall for October is 8.73; November, 15.47; and

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Passage of the road bond by voters last year has brought about, and will continue to bring about, improvements to several roads in north Tillamook County by the end of the 2013-14 fiscal year next June. Of $2.2 million budgeted for improvements to roads, over $1 million has been spent on paving projects so far, according to Tillamook County Public Works Director Liane Welch.

Roads selected for improvements were picked because they’re “farm to market, economic development, and emergency routes,” Welch said. The money is being split roughly equally between north, central, and south Tillamook County, she added.

Among the roads up north receiving attention are Beulah Reed Rd., Tideland, Rd., North Fork Rd., Foss Rd., and Front St. in Rockaway Beach. Slated the following fiscal year, 2014-15, are improvements to Miami-Foley Rd. between mileposts 8 and 9, along with another .8 miles of paving to a road yet to be determined in north Tillamook County.

If members of the Manzanita City Council, who weighed-in on the matter during Welch’s presentation at the Dec. 11 meeting of the council, have their way, Necarney City Rd. that leads to Nehalem Bay State Park will be the recipient of that .8 miles of fresh asphalt.

Welch took note of the council’s wishes, but a final decision is months away.

NBFR District Log Dec. 9 - 22

Dan Weitzel of Manzanita’s public works department checks the rain gauge at the city’s water treatment plant once a day. More often than not in recent months, it has been empty. Photo by Dave Fisher

County roads begin to see much needed attention

Manzanita Public Safety Log Dec. 8 - 21

Episcopal School for three years.

Frank and Margaret made their home in Manzanita for the past 24 years. Frank was active in city government serving on the planning commission, city council and other committees. He and Margaret were selected as Manzanita’s Citizens of the Year in 2005.

A family service and committal will be held in the spring.

Donations to the National World War II Memorial Fund.

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two late September storms dumped over 12 inches of rain a matter of ten days, according to Manzanita city employee Dan Weitzel, who checks the rainfall on a daily basis at the water treatment plant.

September was, indeed,

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Manzanita Library magazine sale Dec. 28 First Day Hike set January 1 The Friends of the North Tillamook Library will hold its monthly magazine and paperback book sale on Saturday, Dec. 28, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Manzanita Library. Patty and Burt Went 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. Volunteers who are interested in hosting the magazine sale are most welcome. The next magazine sale will be held on January 18.

For further information, contact Gail Young at (503) 368-5248 or

Signs point to a gravel road on east side of highway. Follow the road approximately 1/4 mile to the trailhead parking area.

This year, the Nehalem Bay Management Unit will be conducting a First Day Hike up Neahkahnie Mountain. Start the new year right with a beautiful hike up the south face of Neahkahnie. Be inspired while you hike through a giant sitka spruce, western red cedar and western hemlock rainforest and be humbled by the breathtaking views on the Mountain. Participants are asked to arrive at the south trailhead by 10 a.m. on January 1.

The hike is moderately difficult, with steep and uneven terrain and mud in places along the trail. Bring water, a snack, wear appropriate shoes and dress for inclement weather.

Directions to south trail head: Look for hiker signs on Hwy 101, just north of Manzanita between mileposts 41 and 42.

Bay City Arts Center hosts John Stowell On January 4, the Bay City Arts Center hosts renowned guitarist John Stowell for an afternoon of jazz guitar instruction and an evening of musical performance. Community members are invited to join us for food, music and fun. All ages are welcome to participate; interested individuals should contact the Bay City Arts Center to reserve space at the workshop.

Stowell will instruct students in the art of jazz guitar phrasing and melodies beginning at 1 p.m. The two-hour workshop registration fee is $20. Stowell combines his many years of experience with instruction that everyone, beginner to advanced, can learn from in order to

cultivate new jazz techniques and skills to pursue their musical passion. Stowell has taught internationally for 30 years; his clinics are informal, hands-on and informative.

At 5:30 the community is invited to join the BCAC for a pay-what-you-will donation dinner. BCAC board members and volunteers will prepare a light community dinner that will be followed by a jazz guitar performance by Stowell at 7 p.m. Admission to the concert is $8 at the door. Attend the workshop and concert and receive a discount – pay only $25 for both!

Please contact the Bay City Arts Center for more information about the workshop, or to reserve your space. The Bay City Arts Center is a non-profit organization made up of committed individuals from all walks of life, volunteering to support creativity throughout Tillamook County. For more information regarding events and programs offered by the BCAC, please contact us at (503) 377-9620, visit www.baycityartscenter.org online or check it out on Facebook.

Live Exam Prep Course offered in February at TBCC Reserve your spot NOW in the Construction Contractor’s Board (CCB) Live Exam Prep course coming up February 24 and 25, at Tillamook Bay Community College Central Campus.

This live CCB exam prep class will be taught by Maria Van Fleet of Clackamas Community College and will provide the information and forms you need to open your own construction business in Oregon. In addition, the class will present the rules and regulations for operating a construction company and satisfy the CCB education requirement for certification to take the CCB Exam.

The class includes 16 hours classroom time, CCB manual, chapter compliments, study guide, course CD, and certification

required to take the CCB exam (State or U.S. Government issued ID is required).

Cost for this live CCB exam prep class is $350. For more information or to reserve your spot in class please call (503) 842-8222, ext. 1420 or email lyman@tillamookbay.cc no later than Friday, Feb. 14.

Polar Plunge set New Year’s Day Mark your calendar, the 2014 ever-popular Manzanita Polar Plunge is slated, once again, on New Year’s Day on the beach at Manzanita and Neahkahnie beginning at 11 a.m. Kick off 2014 with a refreshing dip in the ocean with friends and family.

Participants are urged to arrive a few minutes early on the beach near the intersection of Nehalem Rd. and Ocean Rd. in Manzanita.

Community News Briefs For the tenth year in a row, the students at Nehalem Elementary School have turned the tables on the Kiwanis Club of Manza-Whee-Lem by donating $171.17 they collected during December to the club.

Since 2003, the Nehalem Elementary students have conducted food, toy and fund drives in the days leading up to their Christmas break. To date, they have given the local Kiwanis club a total of $2,946.00.

Kiwanians raise funds throughout the year with raffles, bingo nights and home tours. They use those funds to support children’s programs in North Tillamook County.

“This contribution from the kids will be donated to an appropriate local, child-related program,” said Kiwanis club president David Dillon. “We thank the students, their families and the school staff for making this program such a success.”

Tillamook County Cultural Coalition awards $7,375 The Tillamook County Cultural Coalition awarded $7,375 to five local organizations to assist in the funding of cultural projects in Tillamook County.

Grant applications accepted for awards: • The Community Arts Project was awarded $2,000 to assist in the Art Literacy Program for Garibaldi Grade School and Nestucca Valley Elementary School children.

• The Nehalem Valley Historical Society received $550 to assist in the development of the Oral History of Nehalem Valley.

• The Tillamook County Master Gardener Association was awarded $1,325 to help create a new entrance to the Learning Garden at the Tillamook County Fairgrounds.

• $1,500 was awarded to Tillamook County Quilt Trail Coalition to help facilitate the 3rd Bi-annual Quilt and Fiber Festival.

• Bay City Arts Center received $2,000 to fund The DaVinci project, an art and design project for 5th graders at East Elementary School.

Grant awards are made possible with funds from The Oregon Cultural Trust. The Tillamook County Cultural Coalition is one of 45 county and tribal coalitions made up of a volunteer board which funds local arts education, history, public art and other cultural projects that meet the TCCC’s established criteria.

More information can be found at tcpm. com. Click on Cultural Coalition tab.

in partnership with TRMC are being offered.

For a complete listing of all Community Education Classes refer to the TBCC Schedule of Classes that you received in the mail or pick one up at any Tillamook County Branch Library or College offices.

The listing is also available online at www.tillamookbay.cc, click on the main page where the Winter Term Schedule is displayed and advance to page 39.

Class times and dates as well as tuition and fee pricing is listed in the schedule of classes.

Registration is now open for all classes. If you need assistance, contact the TBCC Student Services office at (503) 842-8222, ext. 1100.

TBCC will be closed for furlough days and holidays through January 2, however you can still register by mail or online.

Winter term registration at TBCC Register now for winter term classes at Tillamook Bay Community College. If you are a returning student you can register online at TillamookBay.cc or at the Student Services office at the college. Registration can be completed online through Sunday, Jan. 5.

If you are planning on attending TBCC for the first time, you can complete an Admissions Application online at TillamookBay.cc or at Student Services Office at the main college campus. New students must complete the Admissions Application, take a college skill level placement test, or provide previous college transcripts, and take a student orientation session scheduled for December 18 or January 2 before registering for classes.

Tillamook Bay Community College’s offices will be closed through January 1 as the staff takes furlough days. TBCC offices will re-open on January 2. Winter term classes start on January 6.

Food Roots launches fundraising campaign Food Roots is pleased to announce the launch of a crowd funding campaign to raise the final $7,000 in matching funds needed to implement North Coast Grown, a new, $240,000 project to support current and future farmers here on

the North Coast of Oregon. Food Roots has already secured the vast majority of funding for North Coast Grown via multiple local and national sources and is asking for North Coast citizens, businesses, and local food supporters across the nation to help contribute the final $7,000 needed to launch the North Coast Grown project.

North Coast Grown is a farmer incubation project that will increase specialty crop production by providing local farmers and farm workers with education and training opportunities, as well as important resources and networking.

The project will ultimately provide education and training for farmers and farm workers in production, marketing, and business practices, along with other benefits.

In order to launch North Coast Grown, Food Roots needs to secure a final $7,000 in matching funds. Eager to reach out to local citizens and businesses in new and exciting ways, Food Roots has decided to raise this money via a crowd funding campaign on the website Indiegogo. Anyone can easily make a contribution toward North Coast Grown on the campaign’s web page, can track the progress of donations, share the campaign with friends and family on social networking sites and via email, and can choose to receive a “perk” with their contribution.

The campaign will run until January 31, 2014 and can be viewed and contributed to at http://www.indiegogo. com/projects/northcoastgrownafarmersupportprogram/ Food Roots’ mission is to cultivate a healthy food system for our North Coast Communities. Food Roots supports local food production and consumption of good food. For more information about Food Roots’ programs, please visit www. foodrootsnw.org.

Manza-Whee-Lem Kiwanis Club members Mary Brophy, Larry Kiser, Jerry Taylor and Paula Peek presented a check for $900 to Phil Bogle (center) Dec. 11 to support the Tillamook County Secret Angels. The club raised the funds through raffles, bingo nights and special events. (Kiwanis photo)

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Thing One and Thing Two’s gingerbread house The rain was pounding They let the down; the wind was battering gingerbread at the house. The day was look- cool overnight ing mighty dismal and boring. and then the Suddenly, the door flew open next day, they and Thing One and Thing Two, were at it again. arrived to stir things up. (Thing T-minus twelve One and Thing Two are my hours till lift daughter and her buddy.) off. Thing One They blew into the house and Thing and announced, “Let’s make a Two mixed the gingerbread house and Christmortar. Now mas stockings!” I, in a stormthe mortar or induced stupor, said, “Did you as some would bring a gingerbread house kit?” call the icing, Thing One, (my daughter) truly could be replied very matter-of-factly, used to fix your “Oh no, we are going to make brick fireplace. it from scratch.” Well all righty This stuff is then! Things were beginning to amazing! It is a look up. simple recipe of Off to the glorious and ever egg whites and fulfilling Internet to search for powder sugar recipes and blueprints for Thing but it works One and Two’s gingerbread great to glue house. After a bit of search, we things together. found just the blueprint and recQuick as ipe that made their toes twinkle a wink, they and their hair giggle. There was glued the walls together. Off one draw back, it to watch a Christsaid it would take mas movie with 2 -3 days to make, hot chocolate and they had 24 hours. cookies. Back, later, The gauntlet (or to glue the roof on. should I say ChristThen, off to the mas stocking) was sewing machine down. to make ChristWe turned on the mas stockings, oven and fired up which were made the mighty Kitchen in monster motifs Aid mixer. With (just like you would flour puffing in the imagine). We had air, the dough was flour, candy, fabric, The mixed and the patbuttons and fake fur terns cut out. Their everywhere. Things Golightly first try in making a were really getting Gourmet fun as the storm wall was a failure as the dough was too continued to rage Dana Zia soft but Thing Two outside. mixed up a new Next came the recipe. The second pebble stone courtcuttings of the walls and roof yard for the gingerbread chapel, went perfect. as it had become. Then the

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pathways, the bell tower and the pond. The roof singles were applied and the chapel coated with candy bling. It was ready for the tissue paper window installments. Cat-in-the-Hat (Granny) got into the action by gluing in the windows carefully. The gingerbread cathedral was complete! In much less time than recommended. (Even though I don’t suggest it.)

Thing One and Thing Two scurried about and finished up the monster socks, swept the floor and left in a flurry. As they drove off, you could almost hear “Merry Christmas to all

In a large saucepan, heat the butter in the buttermilk over medium heat until it is just melted, then remove. Add the brown sugar and molasses and beat in the egg. Whisk the spices, salt and baking soda together with one cup of flour.

Add this to the wet mixture and mix until incorporated.

Add flour, one cup at a time, until you have a smooth, stiff dough. It should be stiff enough to hold its form, but not crumbly or sticky. Divide the dough in half, wrap it in and to all a good day!” The place quieted down and the rain softened. Everything looked pretty much the same except for the shiny gingerbread chapel left behind, a glow with wonder.

Here is Thing One and Thing Two’s gingerbread house recipe that we found to work. I suggest going to my blog at http://danazia.

plastic and flatten it out before chilling in the refrigerator for at least an hour.

If you have an embossed plaque for a gingerbread house, you can use it to bake your pieces. If you want to make a design of your own, you can print the templates from the Internet and use them as a starting point. Or you can print out the pages and attach them to some rigid cardboard. Use a utility knife or scissors to cut out templates. These can be placed on the dough and used as a guide to cut out the shapes for your pieces.

Take one of your bags of dough out of the refrigerator, and preheat the oven to 350°F. Divide the dough into two pieces. Put one of the pieces back in the refrigerator while you work with the other half.

If you have a cookie sheet with no sides, you can roll

your dough out directly on it. If your cookie sheets have edges on them, turn them over and roll out the dough on the back. You can also roll out the dough on a piece of parchment paper, and use the paper to transfer the dough to your baking sheet.

Take the reserved piece of dough out of the refrigerator and roll it out. Cut into the shapes you need, two roof panels and four walls. Cut out the windows now.

Bake the gingerbread pieces at 350°F for 15–18 minutes, until the edges just begin to brown. Remove them from the oven and place the pan on a cooling rack. After 10 minutes, run a spatula under the pieces to free them up from the baking sheets. Allow the pieces to finish cooling on the cookie sheets completely before building your masterpiece.

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