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Missionary barge must move soon By Joe Wrabek
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A large barge under construction and moored at Crab Harbor in Tillamook Bay will be required to move sometime after Jan. 1, the Headlight Herald has learned. Tillamook County Sheriff Andy Long and U.S. Coast Guard Master Chief Michael Saindon said they visited with the boat’s owners, Linda and Ed Ebel, on Dec. 19. “The four of us talked a lot,” Long said. “It was a very frank discussion. They’re very nice people.” The purpose of the meeting was to inform the Ebels of a Department of State Lands limit of 30 days on living in a non-commercial vessel. Tillamook Bay’s submerged lands are under the department’s jurisdiction. And, said Long, the two spoke with the Ebels about the permitting process that applies to vessels and floating homes. Long said it was unlikely a moorage permit would be granted because of the barge’s 40-feet by 80-feet size. “We don’t have an official letter from the state yet” regarding the barge’s fate, Long said. That’s expected shortly after the first of the year. “We conveyed our serious
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Call him Colt .45 – proudly By Sayde Moser
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At just over 3 weeks old, Colt Stratemyer is by far Tillamook’s youngest celebrity, thanks to his parents’ choice of a middle name for the boy – .45. That’s right, he’s Colt .45 Stratemyer. After his birth announcement appeared in the Headlight Herald, baby Colt has drawn national attention. From NBC to a “Comedy Central” blog to an anti-gun editorial, everyone seems to have an opinion about the newborn’s name. “His older brother’s name is Hunter,” mom Rebekah Stratemyer reported. “And since my husband and I aren’t likely going to have any more children, we wanted to stay with the hunting theme and do something fun.” Stratemyer, 26, said she wasn’t expecting the name to garner so much attention. “His birth announcement is all over the Internet,” she said. “And people are saying really negative things
about his dad and I, and they don’t even know us.” Stratemyer and her husband, Josh, are Tillamook natives who grew up enjoying the outdoors. “We’re country folks,” she said. “We enjoy hunting, fishing, target shooting and all that stuff. “We weren’t naming him to be rude, we just liked the name.” “His name doesn’t make him who he is,” said David Schwend, the baby’s step grandfather. “Why not be happy he was born healthy?” Stratemyer said she and her husband did their research to ensure they could legally name their new son Colt .45. “I’m very proud of my kid and where he came from,” she said. “I think his name emphasizes that. It’s different, it’s unique and it might really mean something to him when he gets older.” Added Schwend, “There’s got to be more important things happening in the world than what two people decide to name their child.”
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Colt .45 Stratemyer poses with his mom, Rebekah Stratemyer. Colt’s middle name has received national attention over the past last few weeks.
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Local knitters making ‘tsunami hats’ for local Women’s Resource Center By Sayde Moser
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Tangled Yarns in Tillamook is a hoppin’ place on Friday evenings, where you’ll find baskets jammed with colorful yarns, and needles – and dice. Each of the evening’s participants selects the makings for a hat. Then, storeowner Candy Wilkins rolls the dice. Whatever numbers land face up on the dice totals the number of minutes each knitter
has to spend on a hat. When the time is up, the hat is passed to the right, the dice are rolled again and the game goes on. The finished product is referred to as a “tsunami hat.” “They’re a totally unique, one-of-a-kind piece of art,” said Wilkins. One of her customers suggested they be called tsunami hats because they’re a “coming together of different colors and yarns in one cluster, much like a tsunami
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Kathy Scott puts the finishing touches on a one-of-a-kind “tsunami hat.” The hats are for sale at Tangled Yarns in Tillamook as a fundraiser for the community’s Women’s Resource Center. would do to the coast,” Wilkins said. “Since we’re here on the coast, it made sense.” Each knitter brings a variety of yarn scraps for the projects, making each hat virtually irreplaceable. The hats are on sale at Tangled Yarns at $50 for the adults and $35 for the children. All of the proceeds benefit the Tillamook County Women’s Resource Center. “We wanted to do something to
give back,” said Kathy Scott, one of several knitters who work on the tsunami hats. “We’re always in here knitting anyway, so we thought why not make hats and donate it to a local charity.” The tsunami hat group began forming in October. Those interested are invited to jump in, regardless of their knitting expertise. “The more, the better,” Wilkins said. “It makes it very creative that way, so the hats turn out to be oneof-a-kind.”
Garibaldi’s port manager hired by Port of Newport By Joe Wrabek
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Kevin Greenwood, 46, is leaving Garibaldi to manage the Port of Newport in Lincoln County. That offer was made Dec. 12, pending a background check, the Headlight Herald was told. Salary and benefits were still being negotiated. Greenwood will replace Newport’s port manager for the past 17 years, Don Mann, who has announced his retirement. He’s tentatively scheduled to begin in Newport on Feb. 3. Greenwood’s new job is “a huge accolade for Kevin, a huge loss for Tillamook County and a big benefit to Newport,” said Tillamook County
Commissioner Mark Labhart. said. He’s looking forward to “ways Greenwood, a Nehalem resident, to promote and utilize the new interhas been manager of the national terminal,” which Port of Garibaldi since was completed in August. May 2009. He previously “Newport is just a bigwas Garibaldi’s city adger version of Garibaldi,” ministrator for five years. Greenwood said. “There’s He also chairs the a very supportive and board of the North Coundiverse port commission ty Recreation District, with a lot of respect for based in Nehalem. one another. It’s not like Greenwood said he I’m going to a place that had not planned to apply needs to be rebuilt.” for the Newport job, but The Port of Garibaldi Kevin Greenwood that “one of their port will have six months to commissioners asked me to apply. I find a new manager, Greenwood figured there was no harm.” said. Whether to hire an interim In addition to its science and report manager “is still being dissearch facilities, the Port of Newport cussed.” has the largest commercial fishing Greenwood has presided over fleet on the West Coast, Greenwood major capital improvements and
long-range planning as Garibaldi’s port manager. That said, there still is work to be done. “My focus in the next six weeks will be the highestpriority projects,” said Greenwood. The community’s “visioning” plan for its new waterfront “is one of my main things to wrap up,” he said. “The port commission has received substantial [public] comments. They can really start identifying where they want things.” That strategic plan, shepherded by design consultant Scott Keillor, is scheduled to be completed by March. As for rebuilding Garibaldi’s Commercial Avenue wharf, funded almost completely with grant dollars, it’s “comfortably on its way,” Greenwood said.