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Right: The Manzanita Marching Band set the tone (pardon the pun) for yet another funfilled Fourth of July parade.
Roads Advisory Committee prioritizes 2015 work Necarney City Road in north Tillamook County one of many roads suggested
Bottom right: Manzanita Citizens of the Year Frank and Dave Stephens Photos by Dave Fisher
By Joe Wrabek For the Citizen
Rinehart Clinic birthday celebration July 28 Family-friendly event includes timber contests and exhibition Page 10
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Business SEE VIDEO AT NORTHCOASTCITIZEN.COM
Wheeler Station Antiques celebrates 20 year anniversary ‘Sticking to what works’ key to success Page 3
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IN SEARCH OF THE INFAMOUS ‘BEESWAX SHIP’ The effort continues and the good news is we might be getting close
See ROADS, Page 10
Testimony at TRT public hearing favors 10/9 tax plan
By Dave Fisher The Citizen
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As part of a “doubleheader” on July 13 and 14, the Nehalem Valley Historical Society once again welcomes Scott Williams, lead investigator of the Beeswax Ship Project, as he updates the community on the latest effort to solve the mystery of the ill-fated sailing ship that dumped it cargo of beeswax off the north Oregon coast. Williams’ presentation takes place on Saturday, beginning at 5:30 p.m., which include a light dinner, while a lecture by Kerry Tymchuck, executive director of the Oregon Historical Society, happens on Sunday at 3 p.m. (See the
Artist Gordon Miller captured on canvas the grounding of a ship similar to the “Beeswax Ship.” You can visit his website at www.gordonmiller.ca. community events calendar for additional detail.) Williams’ team of investigators has been on the trail
of the lost ship for years. According to Tom Mock, president of the historical society and who has been
communicating with Williams and Mitch Marken, See BEESWAX SHIP, Page 10
20 years of great memories
Patient stories from 1920s, 1960s and today: Bev and Rich Luce
This year, The Rinehart Clinic is celebrating 100 years of providing healthcare service in north Tillamook County. The North Coast Citizen is publishing a monthly historical profile or vignette about The Clinic’s founders, history, and stories from past patients and employees. Enjoy exploring the history of The Rinehart Clinic and its many valuable contributions to the community. Former Rinehart employee Virginia Carrell Prowell profiles Rich Luce’s mother, Leta Jenkins, who was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis in the 1960 and subsequently
moved to the area for treatment.
When Bev and Rich Luce moved to Manzanita in 2010, they already had a relationship with The Rinehart Clinic that went back several generations. Bev’s grandmother Laura Price Dougherty, who suffered from osteoarthritis, came to the clinic for gold treatments in the early 1920s. She and her daughter, Dorothy, Bev’s mother, traveled by train from Seattle to Portland, then on to Wheeler to see Dr. Harvey Rinehart for the treatments. Bev’s mother, who was eight or nine years old at the time, remembered those long train rides and the clinic of See RINEHART, Page 11
Bev Luce’s grandmother Laura and Dorothy, Bev’s mother, circa 1920s.
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When the County Roads Advisory Committee met June 1, they reviewed a short (and not yet complete) list of major county roads proposed to be rebuilt in 2015 with money from the 10-year road bond voters approved May 21. Suggested projects by county public works director Liane Welch included Latimer Road, from Sollie Smith Rd. to Highway 101; Long Prairie Road, from Blimp Blvd. to the corner; Olson Road, from Third Street to Highway 6; Brooten Road, from Highway 101 into Pacific City; and Miami River Road, from milepost 8 to milepost 12. (The first eight miles has already been done, Welch said.) Latimer Road is an emergency flood route, a farm-to-market road, and the route that cheese factory trucks use to get to and from Highway 6, according to Welch. “It’s failing because trucks are tearing it apart,” she said. “It will be very expensive to fix.” Portions of the road
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Nehalem and Manzanita mayors voice their support of the revised approach By Sayde Moser For the Citizen
County Commissioners Bill Baertlein and Tim Josi met with members of the public before the Fourth of July holiday, in the first of two public hearings on a pair of transient lodging tax ordinances. The two ordinances, once accepted by commissioners, will be submitted to voters in November. County Chief of Staff Paul Levesque said the current draft ordinances before the commissioners were the third versions. Ordinance 74, which creates the tax, sets the rate for nine percent with a credit up to eight percent for room taxes paid to a city – but the consensus from those testifying was to change the rate to a 10 percent tax with a nine percent credit. “We as a county only have one shot at this for a long time,” said Doug Olson, See TRT, Page 5