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PARKING PROHIBITION A look at downtown Tillamook’s sometimes confusing parking rules BY JOE WRABEK jwrabek@countrymedia.net
“If I live another 20 years, parking will still be an issue,” Doug Henson said. Henson serves on the Tillamook City Council. There is parking downtown. A lot of it isn’t used. People who work downtown are frustrated because they see empty parking places and they can’t use them. They have to park a ways away. They don’t understand what’s going
on. And they don’t know how to change it. Tillamook is an old town, incorporated in 1891. Most of downtown was built without reference to parking because there was no traffic. Downtown Tillamook was on the waterfront, city councilmember Doug Henson said. The traffic—and the need for parking—came later, after the construction of decent roads to the Willamette Valley, Lincoln City and Astoria, and later still, after the North Coast became a seasonal mecca for
tourists. Today, the traffic is still seasonal. The City of Tillamook had parking meters for a while. They were reportedly taken out after the Fred Meyer store opened north of town. The feeling was the giant free parking lots there—and at the old Safeway store (now demolished), the cheese factory, and other businesses along Highway 101 North—would draw customers away from downtown if there was a charge to park downtown. The Downtown Parking District dates from 2006. Most on-street parking within
an 18-square-block area is limited to two hours (there are a few areas where it’s three hours, and some where it’s 15 minutes), and people who work or live downtown are specifically prohibited from parking there. The intent was to make parking space available for customers. “They didn’t want anybody who works downtown to park there,” Don Hurd said. “It was an attempt to open up parking spaces.”
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Warming Center needs volunteers
Forest crimes
BY MARY FAITH BELL
TCSO deputies battle timber theft, littering
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In January 2011, in the dead of winter, 415 homeless people were identified in Tillamook County, among them 198 children and 217 adults. They were living in vehicles, in campers and tents, in the woods and under bridges, and some of them couch surfing, sleeping here and there for a few nights at a time. Last winter Tillamook opened a Warming Center in December, a safe, warm place for people to sleep indoors in dangerous weather. The Warming Center is activated by weather reports: when temperatures dip below freezing, or wind storms or flooding are predicted, the Center opens to offer a harbor from the elements.
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Air Museum promotion gives members a free ride
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he Tillamook Air Museum recently started offering a membership program to its patrons. Membership comes with an extraordinary incentive: individuals, depending upon their level of membership, are being offered plane rides on some of the rarest and most classic World War II aircrafts on earth in a program the museum is calling “Soaring with the Warbirds.” “We would really like to see more people actively involved in the museum and taking advantage of the educational programs as well as the other programs we have coming soon, so we’re starting this membership program,” said Tillamook Air Museum Curator Chris-
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Talk turns to ocean power BY JULIUS JORTNER For the Headlight Herald
PACIFIC CITY – About 30 people attended the meeting of the Community Planning Advisory Committee for Pacific City and Woods, held at the Central Building on Oct. 20. The attendees included members of the CPAC, representatives of the dory fishing fleet, and interested residents from the area and as far away as Nehalem. Jason Busch, the executive director of the Oregon Wave Energy Trust, gave a talk offering an industry perspective on developing off-shore waveenergy power generators. OWET is a nonprofit organization that is seeking to promote ocean energy development in
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Tillamook High School Homecoming Queen Jacqueline SainDon is crowned by 2011 Queen Samantha Vanselow. Mike SainDon, Jacqueline’s dad, looks on with pride.
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The Tillamook Futures Council will host a meeting on the Territorial Sea Plan, which will identify potential sites for offshore energy development, at 6 p.m. Nov. 8 at the Officers Mess at the Port of Tillamook Bay.
Oregon. Its membership includes many industrial entities interested in wave energy. Busch showed the latest maps, compiled by Oregon’s Territorial Sea Plan Advisory Committee, which aim to identify offshore regions most suitable for development of alternate power. One of the few favored areas on these maps is
off Pacific City, between Haystack Rock and Neskowin. The closest other such areas are off Warrenton to the north, and off Newport and Reedsport to the south. TSPAC will hold several workshops seeking public reactions in coming weeks. To supplement those, none of which currently are scheduled in Tillamook County, a public workshop will be hosted by the Tillamook County Futures Council, on November 8th , 6 – 9 pm, at the Officers Mess at Port of Tillamook Bay. On behalf of the PC Dorymen’s Association, Paul Hanneman said the fishermen will release a formal statement about the sea plans on Oct 23.
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tian Gurling. “We don’t want people to think that just because they’ve been to the museum before, they’ve seen it all and nothing is new. We’re adding new exhibits on a regular basis, hopefully giving them a chance to stay involved. And we do think offering rides on these rare airplanes will be a big selling point.” With the annual membership comes a free ride in a particular aircraft. For example, the Stearman membership, at $295, allows free access to the museum for a year, two guest passes, free admission to the museum’s Mini-Guppy (the bulbous aircraft in front of the hangar), a gift shop discount and one free ride in the Museum's PT-17 Stearman, an open cockpit WWII trainer.
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If you look at a map of Tillamook County, you’ll see is that the majority of the county is forest. Specifically, it is Tillamook State Forest, federal forest – both U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management (BLM) forest – as well as privately owned forest. All of that forestland is bisected and crisscrossed by windy dirt roads, rivers and streams, steep slopes, narrow valleys, vast expanses of wilderness. Not exactly what you might think of as a high crime area; but think again. Perhaps it is the very remoteness that draws people with criminal intent to think they can get away with crimes in Tillamook’s forests. Their crimes include extensive timber theft, not only individual households cutting firewood without a permit, (which is stealing), but organized black market fire wood selling.
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