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Former city councilor sentenced to 30 days By Joe Wrabek
jwrabek@countrymedia.net
After the dust of the holidays settles, former Rockaway Beach city councilor Tom Martine will be off to serve 30 days in jail, Tom Martine plus three years of probation. Martine was sentenced Nov. 22 for hindering prosecution and tampering with evidence in the case of former police officer Aaron Clark. Clark was arrested in August 2011 on charges of using a child in a display of sexually explicit conduct and encouraging child sex abuse. Clark pleaded guilty in March 2012 to a lesser charge of hindering prosecution and tampering with physical evidence. Clark and his wife reportedly had destroyed three electronic devices on which revealing photos had been located, so there was no evidence to present at his trial. Six months after the evidence in the Clark case was destroyed, Martine found a broken music player in the riprap behind his work site. Instead of turning the device over to police, as one of Martine’s housekeepers had advised, Martine threw it away after discovering it was unusable. Martine’s sentence was pronounced by Tillamook County Circuit Judge Mari Garric Trevino before a packed courtroom, following a hearing lasting more than an hour.
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Salvation Army comes marching back By Sayde Moser
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Two and a half months ago, the Salvation Army in Tillamook closed up shop. Officials said the agency was not leaving for good, just that it was looking to do things differently in Tillamook. Mainly, “We’re not a food pantry,” Raunie Aasland told the Headlight Herald in September. Aasland is service extension director for the Salvation Army’s Cascade Division. On top of that, local Salvation Army manager Steve Forster had taken another job. “We were planning on doing some changes come December or the first of the year,” Aasland said recently, but when Forster made known his plans to leave, the Salvation Army’s timetable for its changes in Tillamook was fast-
forwarded by a few months. What was unanticipated, said Lt. Col. Judith Smith, the Salvation Army’s Cascade Division commander, was the community’s negative reaction to the organization’s sudden absence. “We didn’t expect such a huge impact,” said Smith. “You never just want to pull the plug like that, but when we saw the results of our departure, we knew we needed to come back.” Pastor Tim Mayne of the Tillamook Seventh-day Adventist Church said, “When they left town, we were overwhelmed.” Mayne said the church, which operates its own food bank, quickly added 30 to 40 of the Salvation Army’s former clients. “We even inherited some of [the Salvation Army’s] homeless,” he said.
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Photo by Sayde Moser
From left, Eleanore Montoya, Raunie Aasland, Donna Parks, Judith Smith, Tim Mayne and Patricia Parada pose for a picture commemorating the partnership between the Salvation Army and Tillamook Seventh-day Adventist Church.
Growing Garibaldi’s ‘My taxes
wharf
went up.’ Why? By Joe Wrabek
jwrabek@countrymedia.net
wood. Instead, the upcoming “visioning” session is intended to be interactive. From 3 to 5:30 p.m., he said, the public is invited to come and review information, talk to designers and ask “what-if” questions. “If you’ve only got 15 minutes on your way home from work, you can stop in at City Hall, check out the stuff and throw out some ideas,” said Greenwood. At 5:30, designers will take a break and put together final conceptual ideas. At 6:30, they’ll present “an amalgamation
When Tillamook County property owners received their property tax statements last month, there was a general hue and cry of, “My taxes went up!” Yes, they did. Property taxes went up for two reasons, said Tillamook County Assessor Denise Vandecoevering: • Assessed values went up by 3 percent. The assessed value is the figure on which one’s property tax is based (usually expressed as so many dollars and cents “per $1,000 NEXT WEEK: of asIs the sessed housing value”). market in AsTillamook sessed County value no getting any longer better? has a Read it cononline first nection at tillamook with headlight “real herald.com market value,” which is the county assessor’s estimate of what the property realistically could sell for. Assessed value and market value were disconnected back in 1998, when an amendment to the Oregon Constitution rolled assessed values back to 1995 levels and said assessed values couldn’t increase by more than 3 percent a year. Assessed values go up by 3 percent annually until they’re the same as real market values – something unlikely to happen in Tillamook County for a long time. The market values are substantially higher than the assessed values, she said,
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See TAXES, Page A3
Photos Courtesy of Kevin Greenwood
The conceptual design of Garibaldi’s proposed Commercial Avenue Wharf allows for residents to voice their opinions regarding what types of businesses they’d like to see come to town. That design discussion takes place Dec. 10 at Garibaldi City Hall from 5:30 to 7 p.m.
The Port of Garibaldi is asking residents to speak up about the town’s waterfront By Joe Wrabek
jwrabek@countrymedia.net
Beginning in December, construction will begin on the Port of Garibaldi’s new Commercial Avenue Wharf – and the Port of Garibaldi will be asking the community what it wants to see built atop it. A brainstorming meeting is scheduled for Dec. 10 on the dance floor at Garibaldi City Hall. “With all the infrastructure money that the port has received for the wharf and Commercial Avenue,” Port of Garibaldi manager Kevin Greenwood said, “the [port] commission is
really excited about finding out what the public wants to put on top of it.” That said, the port com-
mission “didn’t want to have a four-hour workshop where a consultant talked at the public,” said Green-
Refocusing Tillamook’s downtown public market by Sayde Moser
smoser@countrymedia.net
After two years in business, the enclosed 2nd Street Public Market in downtown Tillamook is rethinking how it operates. “We always felt this was going to be a growing thing from day one,” said market manger Chris Kell. “We knew we’d have to make adjustments as we went along.” A 2nd Street Market advisory committee recently researched several similar markets up and down the coast. And they made some discoveries. For one, “We were charg-
ing 30 percent commission on consignments,” Kell said, “which was too high.” For another, market officials determined they should adjust the amount of time a vendor is required to spend on site. “Our rules used to be that if you had a space, you were required to put in 20 hours a week,” Kell said. “We did that because we wanted people in the building so when people walked in from outside, it looked like someone was here.” But, she said, that requirement proved a significant obstacle for many vendors. So now, if a business owner volunteers
a certain amount of time for the market every week, the market forgoes its consignment fee. “Ideally, we’ll have more people renting space and coming in to volunteer in lieu of paying a consignment fee,” said Kell. For vendors who choose not to volunteer, the consignment fee will be 25 percent of sales, instead of the current 30 percent. Another management change will be to charge vendors by the square foot, allowing for smaller spaces to be rented. The minimum charge for space now is a
See MARKET, Page A5
The 2nd Street Public Market in downtown Tillamook now allows vendors to rent space by the square foot, providing for a larger variety of items. In addition, vendors who volunteer to spend time at the market won’t be charged a consignment fee.
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