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The town that disappeared Photo by Dave Fisher
Manzanita Public Works crews remove a downed tree blown over in the storm.
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Right, Perry Reed, who grew up in Bayocean, stands next to a sign he and his daughter helped placed on Bayocean Spit. The sign is located on a street corner where Perry used to catch the bus.
By Sayde Moser
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September in Tillamook County likely ended with a record rainfall for the month, thanks to the tail end of a Japanese typhoon that rolled through here last weekend. That’s the prediction of Tillamook County emergency management director Gordon McCraw, who acknowledged, “It’s fairly early in the season to have this sort of storm.” The recent winds, rain and flooding were about what McCraw and the National TOTAL RAINFALL Weather Service Bay City – 6.07 inches in Portland had Tillamook – 9.02 inches anticipated. Southfork (up Highway Still, Tillamook 6) – 13.42 inches County generally saw minimal WIND GUSTS damage. Garibaldi – 81 mph Tillamook recorded PUD crews and Tillamook – 72 mph county employrecorded ees dealt with a few blown FLOODING transformers, The Wilson River crestdowned trees ed at 12.19 feet (flood See STORM stage is 12 feet)
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By Sayde Moser
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It’s been 60 years since the final family moved away. What’s become of Bayocean? The town was created in 1906 on what now is called Bayocean Spit, a small stretch of land forming the west side of Tillamook Bay. Perry Reed’s family moved to Bayocean in 1944 when he was 6. His mother was the community’s postmistress. Now, Reed says, he can count on one hand the people still alive and living in Tillamook County who were raised in Bayocean. “It was really a good place to grow up,” he recalls. The once-
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Father-daughter duo work to account for extinct Bayocean thriving community boasted hotels, motels, vacation rentals, a natatorium (a building containing a swimming pool), dance hall, and miles of paved roads with a dozen different businesses. At the corner of 12th and Bay Street, Reed and about 20 other youngsters would wait to catch the school bus. “It was the heart of the town,” he says. Not any longer. It’s all flat, open land. No houses. No buildings. Just a single sign sticking up out of the ground that reads “Bayocean Townsight 1906-1971.” Reed and his daughter, Sarah Macdonald, built and placed the
See BAY OCEAN, Page A7
Martine sentencing postponed to Nov. 22
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Above, one of the hotels in Bayocean.
The sentencing for convicted felon Tom Martine of Rockaway Beach has been postponed until Nov. 22. Martine was convicted Sept. 4 of hindering prosecution of a felony and tampering with evidence, both involving the case of former Rockaway Beach police officer Benjamin Aaron Clark in 2012. Clark had been arrested in August 2011 on charges of using a child in a display of sexually explicit conduct and encouraging child sex abuse. He pleaded guilty in March 2012 to a lesser
charge of hindering prosecution and tampering with physical evidence. Clark reportedly destroyed three electronic devices on which sexually explicit photos had been located. Martine later found an electronic device and rather than turn it in to the police as evidence, threw it away. The postponement of Martine’s sentencing, authorized by Tillamook County Circuit Judge Mari Garric Trevino on Sept. 27, was requested by Martine’s defense attorney, Thomas O’Neil. O’Neil had filed a motion
Tom Martine for a new trial the previous day. “I believe witnesses were
lied to,” O’Neill told the judge. “I don’t know what to do when the prosecutor just makes up facts. I need a transcript to know what parts of the testimony are tainted.” “I need to sentence him before we take up your motions,” the judge told O’Neil. “I have been in practice 31 years and never heard anything like this,” said prosecutor Josh Marquis. “The defense wants to relitigate the case.” O’Neil had alleged witness tampering and official misconduct, Marquis noted. “The hill one has to climb
to get a new trial is a high one,” he said. “I think we need to move ahead with sentencing today.” About 30 people, most of them Rockaway Beach residents, attended the hearing. They included some former colleagues of Martine’s on the Rockaway Beach City Council. Martine, who had been serving as a Rockaway Beach city councilor at the time of his convictin, resigned Sept. 11. Judge Trevino granted O’Neil’s request for a postponement, but said she would deal with both the
See MARTINE, Page A8
‘The Blade’ fillets on Garibaldi’s waterfront By Joe Wrabek
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Garibaldi’s newest business sits on a dock built out over the water into the boat basin. The small building, a former charter boat office built entirely over the water, fronts on Mooring Basin Road. That’s where Kelly “the Blade” Barnett plies his services. On a nice day – and there have been plenty of those – you’ll find Barnett outside at his covered filleting table overlooking the busy boat basin and facing the mountains beyond. “Nobody else has an office like mine,” he said. “I cook crab, I fillet fish.” His spot is called … The Spot. 011112:Layout 1 10/1/13 11:59 AM Page It’s next to the popular Fisher-
men’s Korner restaurant. Two other (and larger) fish processors, Garibaldi Cannery and Ocean Gold Seafood, both also on the waterfront, are a short distance away. “I bought the dock and leased the building,” Barnett said. The building is owned by the Port of Garibaldi. “I needed a place to fillet my fish. Some people go to psychiatrists; I fillet fish.” Some of the traffic to The Spot is drive-by, some is word-of-mouth. Barnett had a number of filleting clients at the Garibaldi Cannery who followed him when he left to open The Spot. His business serves both sport and commercial fishermen. Some of his fish is canned, too. 1
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Kelly “the Blade” Barnett at his fish filleting business, The Spot, which overlooks the boat basin in Garibaldi.
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