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Headlight Herald PIRATES SUFFER LOSS AGAINST GASTON GREYHOUNDS, PAGE A11
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Who will help? Volunteers sought to staff severe-weather warming center By Sayde Moser
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An estimated 400 homeless people live in Tillamook County. And there’s no homeless shelter to accommodate them. “A lot of them are staying with friends,” said CARE executive director Erin Skaar. Of those, Skaar said, about 100 are living under bridges, in tents, in cars or squatting in vacant buildings. For nights both wet and frigid, CARE, helped by local pastor Terry Sprenkel, three years ago began opening a warming center in an unused building at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Tillamook. The warming center is intended for those who have nowhere else to go, Skaar said, but it’s open only when dangerous environmental conditions threatens, such as high winds, flooding or other severe-weather alerts.
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Pelican Brewing opens in Tillamook By Sayde Moser
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Pelican Brewing Co.’s new tasting room at the corner of Stillwell Avenue and First Street in Tillamook held a “soft opening” Oct. 5. Tap room manager Leisha MizeeRiggert said that ever since, there’s been plenty of buzz about Pacific City-based Pelican Brewing’s new location. Now, the official grand opening is set for this Thursday from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m., featuring complimentary beer samples and live music. Food items will be discounted 50 percent. And those who wish can tour the brewing process. Company officials say the redevelopment of the former Stillwell warehouse is expected to create 20 new jobs by 2015 and enable Peli-
can Brewing Co. to offer more of its award-winning ales in 12-ounce bottles, in addition to the 22-ounce servings. The new brewery, which includes a tasting room and viewing area, eventually will produce 11,000 barrels of beer annually, said a company spokesman. Mitzee-Riggert said that having grown up in Tillamook, “It’s a passion of mine to see Tillamook revived to its former glory of what it was when I was a kid and things were really happening downtown.” The Oregon Brewers Guild reports that the beer industry employs 6,400 full- and part-time workers in the state, producing $2.83 billion in total annual economic impact in 2012.
See PELICAN, Page A9
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Pelican Brewing Co. brewers show off awards recently won at the Great American Brew Festival, which included “large brew pub of the year.”
Haunted for fun Photo by Joe Wrabek
Tillamook Franz Bakery store manager Terri Ann Taylor and outlet store coordinator Derek Willis tote gifts for the community to emphasize that the store is staying.
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Ghouls and goblins stand around the “haunted house” at Coast Guard Station Tillamook Bay in Garibaldi, waiting to scare those brave enough to enter. The house is open to visitors Oct. 25 and 26.
Third-annual ‘Haunted Coast Guard Station’ rises in Garibaldi
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By Joe Wrabek
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For the third year in a row, there will be a “Haunted Coast Guard Station” in Garibaldi the weekend before Halloween. The big event takes place Friday and Saturday nights, Oct. 25 and 26. “We debated whether to do it this year, out of respect for the federal shutdown,” said Master Chief Michael
Saindon of Coast Guard Station Tillamook Bay. “But we realize how much the community looks forward to this.” All the haunting is done by volunteers, he said. This year, the Garibaldi Fire Department and the Port of Garibaldi will be the prime sponsors of the “Haunted Coast Guard Station,” held once again in the old Roosevelt-style building at 12th and Garibaldi Avenue. (The building, on the Coast Guard grounds, hasn’t been
used in 10 years.) This year’s food drive is headed up by port employees David Olson and Jessi Coon, Saindon said. “We don’t insist on cans of food for admission,” he said, “but people bring them anyway.” Last year, the “Haunted Coast Guard Station” donated more than 2,000 pounds of food to the Garibaldi Food Pantry.
See HAUNTED, Page A6
Franz Bakery outlet moving ahead By Joe Wrabek
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“We’re staying open.” That was the message delivered to the Headlight Herald (along with a shopping bag full of donuts, bread and cookies) on Oct. 8 by Derek Willis of Franz Bakery. Willis, the outlet store coordinator for Franz Bakery’s Portland division, was in Tillamook to
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Rockaway Beach mayor resigns By Joe Wrabek
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The Rockaway Beach City Council appointed a new member Oct. 9 – then found itself facing yet another vacancy when Mayor Danell Boggs resigned at the end of the meeting. The council had voted unanimously to appoint Mardi Wing to replace former councilor Tom Martine, who resigned Sept. 11. Mayor Boggs waited until the end of that meeting to deliver her resignation. She had been appointed to the position in September 2011 following the recall of former mayor Dennis Porter. Boggs subsequently was elected to a two-year term as mayor in November 2012. She said the difficulties of working full-time plus being a full-time student forced her decision to resign. Wing was sworn in by the City
Council’s president, Rich Riley, who also is Rockaway Beach’s municipal judge pro tem. Wing had served on the council previously. A local realtor, she had been appointed to the City Council in September 2011, replacing Rodney Breazile, who had been recalled. Wing served on the council from Sept. 14, 2011, to August 15, 2012, then again from Oct. 10, 2012, to Dec. 13, 2012. She also had been on the Rockaway Beach Planning Commission. The council is expected to accept Boggs’ resignation when it meets Nov. 13 and decide how to go about appointing a successor. In other business Oct. 9, the Rockaway Beach City Council: • Voted to enact an ordinance raising the city’s transient room tax to 9 percent (it had been 7 percent). • Agreed to have only one council meeting monthly instead of two.
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Rich Riley, left, swears in new Rockaway Beach City Councilor Mardi Wing. Wing is filling a spot left vacant by Tom Martine’s resignation.
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