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Food for the body and soul Tillamook’s long-time Senior Meals coordinator retiring BY MARY FAITH BELL mfbell@countrymedia.net
Cleola Spillman and Anna Schriber in front of the Senior Meals and Meals on Wheels truck with their portrait painted on the side.
For more than 30 years, Anna Schriber and Cleola Spillman have been serving meals at the Senior Dining Center on 4th and Stillwell in Tillamook. These two remarkable women are practically an institution in the senior community. Between them, they serve meals five days per week to diners who visit the Senior Dining Center; those who are homebound have hot, nutritious meals delivered to their homes on Mondays and Fridays. Last week Anna served Thanksgiving dinner at
the center for the last time; she is retiring Dec. 31. “I’m going to miss it like everything,” Anna said as she served up steaming plates of turkey and gravy. “I’ve been cooking for 41 years. That’s probably long enough. I started here 30 years ago, never imagining I would be here 30 years later. But I love the people and I love the work. It’s been wonderful for me.” Asked what she’ll do with her free time, Anna said, “I’ve got a huge yard, a double lot, and I love flowers. Now I’ll have time to work in the yard and grow flowers.” The folks she serves will sorely miss her. “You can’t say too many good things about Anna,” said Bob Webster, who ate Thanksgiving dinner at the center. “She is tops, one of a kind.”
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CORRECTION In the Nov. 14 issue we referred to the Oregon Food Bank Tillamook County Services as the Tillamook Food Bank. We apologize for the error.
RETRACTION
BY JOE WRABEK
WEATHER HIGH 60 57 51 55 57 53 51
STATS LOW 53 49 37 35 42 39 33
RAINFALL 1.18 .40 .49 .00 1.74 0.02 0.01
WEATHER COURTESY OF WEATHER UNDERGROUND
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CEANSIDE – Figure skating great James “Jimmy” Lawrence lives in Oceanside. You may know him as a member of the library board, as Lenora Lawrence’s husband, or perhaps as a CPA before he retired. If he hadn’t written and published a memoir, ‘Memories of the Great American Ice Shows,’ a lot of people would never have guessed that Jimmy Lawrence was a championship figure skater, which won him the role as the
lead male performer in the Ice Capades in 1942. Recently Jimmy gave a reading from his book at the Tillamook library, told stories from his professional figure skating years on the ice, and showed film clips of some of his performances. When he retired from figure skating in 1957 Lawrence had traveled the world as a top-billed performer. He’d been part of the first American ice show to perform in London, met royalty – Arabian princes came to the show – and was the first figure skater to do a double revolution in the air in the Ice Capades.
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PC still ‘in running’ for wave energy site jwrabek@countrymedia.net
Last week we printed a letter to the editor titled ‘Thanks for Fond Memories,’ signed Kari Warner. Kari Warner contacted the Headlight Herald after the letter was published and told us she didn’t write it. Someone else submitted the letter in Kari’s name, using her former address.
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Energy devices such as this concept, by Principle Power, are being considered for the Oregon coast.
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A controversial site offshore of Pacific City and Neskowin is still “in the running” to be designated for wave energy development by the Territorial Sea Plan Advisory Committee (TSPAC), the Headlight Herald was advised this week. The TSPAC, appointed by the state Land Conservation and Development Commission (LCDC), met in McMinnville Nov. 16. “It was supposed to be our last meeting,” said David Yamamoto of Pacific City, a “citizen at large” member of the committee. The McMinnville meeting was going to produce final recommendations to LCDC of which areas offshore of Oregon’s coast would be designated for wave energy development. One of the sites – the only one offshore of Tillamook County – has drawn opposition, primarily from residents and fishermen in Pacific City. The proposed site is actually south of Pacific City, noted Paul Klarin, the state Department of Land Conservation and Development (DLCD) functionary who serves as staff to the TSPAC. It’s just south of the mouth of the Nestucca River, and closer to Neskowin than Pacific City. “In the first round of votes, the Pacific City area was pretty far down the list,” Yamamoto said. “But when we looked at sites we could agree on, they were taken up already.” The Oregon Military Department wanted the site offshore from Camp Rilea for their own exclusive use; one near Newport was being used by Oregon State University and others to test wave energy equipment; and the “OPT site” at Reedsport, already licensed to Ocean Power Technologies, wouldn’t be available to other companies.
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Rob Trost Realty expands into Tillamook BY JOE WRABEK
Left to right, Dusty Trost, Rob Trost, Stephanie McRae, Wendy Stevens and Kristi Moore go over a Tillamook County map in the new Rob Trost Realty Tillamook office.
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Rob Trost Realty’s new office — their third — is open in Tillamook, at First and Stillwell. It’s actually been open a couple of months, but the new windows and doors were just installed. A grand opening is planned for Friday, Dec. 13. The office is in the old Thayer Bank building (“BANK” is still etched in the sandstone over the front door), the oldest still-standing building in Tillamook, built in 1895. “It was the first bank in Tillamook County,” Rob Trost said. In the days before Tillamook had a bank, people “rode horses to Salem to get their money.” Most recently, the building housed the Pearl Point Oyster Company for 10 years. The building is in the heart of what used to be Tillamook’s original down-
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town, just a block from Hoquarton Slough, where oceangoing vessels used to tie up in the days before highways. “For our purposes, it’s terrific,” Trost said. Urban renewal funds helped pay for the building and the new Urban
Renewal parking lot is directly across First Street. Another new business, a branch of Pacific City’s Pelican Pub Brewery, will be in the old warehouse building across Stillwell. Stephanie McRae, Kristi Moore, and
Cyndi Lewis will be staffing the new office. “Stephanie will be the anchor person,” Trost said. “She’ll be the managing partner and broker.” Rob Trost Realty is one of the area’s success stories. The first office, in Netarts, opened eight years ago; the second, in Pacific City, two years ago. The Tillamook office is the firm’s third. “We hope to service Tillamook and Rockaway Beach from here,” Trost said. While other real estate offices have closed — casualties of the recent recession — “we’ve managed to not only survive but thrive,” Trost said. He attributes the success to hard-working agents who are intimately familiar with their local area, and a determination not to grow too fast. “We’re expanding, but we don’t want to expand beyond our ability to serve.”
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