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By a 4-1 vote, the Tillamook City Council overruled the city planning commission Tuesday night, March 5, denying a conditional use permit for Tillamook PUD’s proposed transmission line through downtown Tillamook. The council’s action came at the end of a hearing lasting more than three hours. A standing-room-only crowd filled City Hall’s small council chambers and spilled out into the lobby. The PUD’s proposed 115-kV transmission line to Oceanside had been proposed to run overhead along Front Street and an unused Port of Tillamook Bay Railroad right-of-way through Tillamook.

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Anna Welsh’s hearing on charges of sexual abuse of minor males has been set over to Tuesday, May 28, at 1 p.m. Both Welsh’s attorney, John Tuthill, and Deputy District Attorney Anna Walsh Lee Carter attributed the delay to information not being available. “Discovery is not complete,” Tuthill told Judge Mari Garric Trevino. “Information has not been made available.” “There were a number of portable electronic devices,” Carter said. They could have been examined in one batch, but weren’t; instead, they’re at different stages of examination, and the examiners haven’t said when they’ll be done, he said. “The end of May or sometime in June is a reasonable date,” Carter said. Carter also said he couldn’t give defense attorney Tuthill copies of the images that are supposedly on the electronic devices; that would be delivery of sexually explicit images, which is prohibited by law, but the prosecution would make the media available for inspection, in the DA’s office, Carter said.

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For Tillamook County high school students interested in a career in the culinary arts or kids who just like to work with food, there is a new opportunity available through Tillamook Bay Community College. Students can enroll in the Tillamook County Tourism and Recreation program through their local high school and learn the finer points of working in a kitchen, while earning credits for their high school diplomas and earning college credits in the Tillamook Bay Community College Culinary Arts Program at the same time. There is an added feature that hasn't been

available to the high school students in the past: the lectures are now available online so kids who don't live near Tillamook can get the information they need without being in the classroom. “I still meet with the kids once a week or so, but they can get the college credit for almost all of my classes online,” says the program director Chef Alan Joynson. “I've got kids from Nestucca, I've got kids from Neah-Kah-Nie and I've got kids from Tillamook. For some of them to make a half hour drive both ways for an hour lecture doesn't work. So, by scheduling the time for them at their high school for the class as an elective, they are able

to take up to 70 percent of what's needed for an Associated Arts and Science Degree (AAS) in Culinary Arts online before they graduate from high school.” Joynson's program and his work in the culinary arts has earned him professional recognition, including being named at the Oregon Restaurant and Lounge Association's 2013 Inspirational Leader of the Year for the work he's doing with kids. Currently there are about six high school kids taking full advantage of the classes and approximately 20 kids from the college in various stages of the program.

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Police identify the killer of Pecos the cat BY MARY FAITH BELL mfbell@countrymedia.net

The Tillamook County Sheriff’s Office and the Oregon State Police have completed an investigation into the death of a family pet belonging to Bill and Ginger Slavens of Blaine. Their cat Pecos was shot and killed with a bow and arrow February 11, 2013. According to the Sheriff’s Office, “A person who commits a crime of this nature could be charged with Animal Abuse 1 as well as other related crimes.” The Slavens offered a reward for the

arrest and conviction of Pecos’ killer. But they didn’t have to pay the reward; the Sheriff’s Office and the Oregon State Police worked the case until they identified the person responsible, a 17 year-old juvenile in the neighborhood. The case is being referred to the Tillamook County Juvenile Department and the Tillamook County District Attorney’s Office for action. “On behalf of the Sheriff’s Office we’re glad to have resolution for the case,” said Deputy Dean Burdick, “not only for the cat and the family, but also for the community, because knowing that

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Last week the Headlight Herald started a series on prescription drugs, based upon Tillamook Police Chief Terry Wright’s statement that “Prescription drugs are the most serious problem in our community.” This week, in Part 2, we have with a true story about a local young woman, “Alice,” 23, who became addicted to her mom’s prescription pain pills. Alice met me in a local coffee shop to tell her story. She was bravely forthcoming, and raw in her truth-telling and her pain. “I moved to Tillamook when I was a freshman in high school to be with my mom. Before that I lived in Washington with my dad. I was a straight A student, didn’t miss a day of school. My mom’s a meth addict, and she’s addicted to pills. She’s had a lot of surgeries and she goes to a pain clinic where she gets prescriptions for Oxycontin and Methadone. Some friends started mentioning to my mom about buying her pills. They bought pills from her, and they went from snorting them to smoking them. They kept telling me, ‘try a hit, try a hit,’ and finally, I did. When I started smoking pills I was 14. I was a sophomore. Within a week I was smoking 5-10 pills a day and pretty soon I wouldn’t go to school unless I had pills. My mom was providing the pills. That was our connection, our bond. For a while I was smoking pills at school. I think that’s a fairly new thing at Tillamook High School. Someone moved here about nine years ago and taught people how to smoke Oxy. They were smoking on foil in front of us, and then we started doing it, too. There were probably around a dozen of us who were smoking pills in high school, then. I’ve heard it’s worse now; 12 year-old girls are smoking heroin and pills, and they’re doing things in exchange for drugs. Within a year I dropped out of school. I went from being a straight A student to smoking pills every day, all day. There’s no time for anything else. You’re just trying to get well every day because you’re so sick. You’re not just sick once a day, you’re sick again by the afternoon. It’s worse than the flu. You can’t sleep at night; you don’t want to be on earth anymore when you’re coming down. Then one day there are no pills in town. That happens a lot. Everyone’s so sick. You don’t want to go through withdrawal. Then you go to heroin. I smoked pills for three years before I progressed to heroin. But once I started smoking heroin, it’s like, everything’s fair game, so I started using methamphetamine and crack, too. I was seventeen. Generally people progress from swallowing pills to smoking them, then smoking heroine to injecting it. The most popular pills are Oxycontin, Methodone, and Xanax.

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