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Climate change is dramatic here on the coast By Sayde Moser

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Narcotics squad arrests six in one swoop Patrick Dennis

By Sayde Moser

smoser@countrymedia.net

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The top-three climate change concerns across the Northwest all are coastal issues: • Rising tides • Beach erosion • And an increasingly acidic ocean. “Even though only a small percentage of the counties in the Northwest are on the coast, there are so many acute issues,” said Philip Mote, a professor at Oregon State University. Mote, director of the Oregon Climate Change Research Institute, recently helped edit a 270-page report on climate change in the Northwest. He also helped edit the previous study, released in 1999. Both were part of the U.S. National Climate Assessment. “We’ve had 14 more years to observe what climate change is doing to our region,” Mote said. “Our understanding and ability to predict changes improved dramatically. “And as we got better at predicting, we also got better at understanding how much we don’t understand.” Those issues include changes in hydrology, tree growth and disease in forests, shifts in agriculture productivity – and coastal climates. All of which will directly affect Tillamook County. “Property damage from high water and coastal erosion will be significant” in coastal areas, Mote warned. “As the ocean continues to absorb heat and as ice con-

Although an ongoing investigation kept the Tillamook Narcotics Team from releasing any information until recently, it’s been confirmed that last month six people were arrested locally on drug-related charges. On Oct. 10, the narcotics team, assisted by Tillamook city police officers, arrested Patrick L. Dennis following a

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Krysta Neff

traffic stop. Officers said Dennis, 39, was a transient staying in Tillamook and was arrested on an outstanding warrant for a parole violation in Clatsop County. During the traffic stop, detectives said, the learned of ongoing narcotics activity at 202 Nielsen Road in Tillamook, where Dennis reportedly had been staying. “We kind of get lucky occasionally,” said Det. Troy Jackson.

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Detectives obtained a search warrant and subsequently arrested half a dozen suspects. • John R. Foshee, Jr, 32, Jeffery M. Lawson, 31, and Krysta A. Neff, 25, were arrested for frequenting a place where drugs are used, kept or sold, and for unlawful possession of methamphetamine. • Sky Michael Crawford, 29, of Tillamook was taken into custody on a warrant for

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violating parole, as well as for frequenting and unlawful possession of methamphetamine. • Heather E. Moore, 22, of Tillamook was arrested near the residence for unlawful possession of heroin and unlawful possession of a schedule II controlled substance. “Six people at once is a pretty big deal,” Jackson said. Drug paraphernalia, drug-packaging material, digital scales, and undis-

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Heather Moore closed amounts of heroin and methamphetamine were found in the home, said law enforcement officials. “This residence has been under investigation as an active drug house for some time,” said Jackson, “and has been an ongoing problem and a nuisance for the local community.” Jackson is a sergeant with the Tillamook County Sheriff’s Office.

From the Headlight Herald to covering the LA Lakers By Chelsea Yarnell sports@orcoastnews.com

See CLIMATE, Page A3

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occasion that marked her acceptance into the Oregon Guard. “Here I was, in dress uniform, wondering it the governor was going to fall off the wing. But we made it.” Years earlier, and just out of nursing school, Faith was hoping to see the world. She applied for the Air Force

Sitting in a Houston hotel room working on just an hour of sleep, Bill Oram is chipper. It was Dallas yesterday, Houston tonight, New Bill Oram Orleans in a few days. Oram is a local boy who’s made it to the big time. As the daily Orange County Register’s newly appointed reporter for the Los Angeles Lakers professional basketball team, Oram is a bit sheepish about his success. But there’s no denying that this product of south Tillamook County is in the big leagues now. “I dressed up as a journalist in the sixth grade for career day,” said Oram, who had long dreamed of a newspaper job. “He knew exactly what he wanted to do by the time he was 12,” said Bill’s father, Ed Oram. “We had a cabin in Alaska and he would always write little stories while we were there.

See VET, Page A7

See LAKERS, Page A9

Contributed photos

An avid birder, Faith Dorothy of Wheeler spends many an hour peering through a scope inside her livingroom window, getting a close-up look at a variety of species that frequent her yard and birdfeeders yearround. Pictured at right is Faith in her Air Force uniform, circa the early 1950s.

Wheeler’s Faith Dorothy reflects on breaking ground in the Oregon Air Guard By Dave Fisher

For the Headlight Herald

Faith Dorothy was taken by surprise when she noticed her name in an article that appeared in The Oregonian this summer about the Oregon Army and Air National Guard. It took a moment to sink in – she had been referred to by her maiden name, Faith

Hunsdon. Her claim to fame: In 1958, 1st Lt. Faith Hunsdon became the first woman to join the Oregon Guard. Her military career, as a nurse, actually began a few years earlier, in 1952, when she joined the U.S. Air Force. She served two years of active duty and subsequently becoming a member of the reserve.

Despite relocating to the Portland area, she remained with the Air Force Reserve meeting in Vancouver once a month. But she decided it wasn’t her cup of tea and transferred to the Oregon Air Guard. “There’s a picture of me, in full uniform and high heels, standing on the wing of a jet with Governor Holmes,” said Faith of the

Downtown Tillamook street faces closure By Joe Wrabek

jwrabek@countrymedia.net

Should Tillamook close Second Street downtown between Main and Pacific avenues? That’s what the city’s public works committee is recommending to the City Council. The committee, comprised of three city councilors – Cheryl Davy, Doug Henson and chair Joe Martin – talked two months ago about converting the block of Second Street between Main and Pacific to one-way – “like the rest of Second [Street],” said City Manager Paul Wyntergreen. Main Street is, in effect, U.S. Highway 101 running one-way south through downtown Tillamook. Pacific is the highway’s one-way northern route, a block to the east. Now, the one-way street idea has morphed into closing a block of

Second Street entirely and turning it into a “pedestrian plaza” complete with a fountain and similar amenities, said Wyntergreen. The actual closure decision would be made by the entire City Council. The council will have the public works committee’s recommendation on its agenda for a meeting Nov. 18. “ODOT is in town, gathering data for the [highways] 101-6 project,” Wyntergreen said. There is additional money coming in for “streetscape enhancements,” he added. “We have to know what we’re doing, so we can tell ODOT.” City Councilor Davy and Mayor Suzanne Weber are advocating for the Second Street closure (“It brings in business,” said Weber), while Martin firmly opposes it. “If

See 2ND STREET, Page A6

Photo by Joe Wrabek

Second Street, between Main and Pacific avenues, has been proposed by the Tillamook public works committee to be closed to traffic and turned into a “pedestrian plaza.” The final decision is in the hands of the City Council.


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