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New lease on life for Carlich House By Joe Wrabek
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Tillamook’s historic Carlich House, next to the post office, will be moved rather than torn down, pursuant to an agreement reached last week between Tillamook County and the Bay City Arts Center. An impromptu Hoquarton Interpretive Center Committee had been working on getting the house moved. Tillamook County commissioners had charged the committee with finding the
funds to do it. That happened April 11, when the Tillamook Urban Renewal Agency (TURA) agreed to commit $50,000, in two phases – contingent on a lease agreement between the committee and the county. Tillamook County commissioners agreed April 17 to lease the building to the Arts Center, which is an incorporated, non-profit foundation in which many of the Hoquarton committee’s members are active. “I almost believe we’ve come full circle,” Arts Center president Dia Norris told commissioners. BCAC was
involved in the original planning for the Hoquarton Slough park 10 years ago, she noted. The Carlich House, on First Street was reportedly built in the mid-1880s, Charlie Wooldridge told the Headlight Herald. Wooldridge, who has been the spokesman for the Hoquarton Interpretive Center Committee, is also vicepresident of the Bay City Arts Center. The house had been lived in for decades by the Carlich family. John Carlich (1913-86) was Tillamook County surveyor for many years. The issue of the house came about because the county was going to have a “parking difficulty” at the courthouse once construction started on the US 101-Wilson River Highway interchange, Wooldridge told the Headlight Herald. “There is not much parking,” Wooldridge noted.
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This week the Headabout the transmission light Herald is launching line in this forum. a weekly Q&A with the Headlight Herald Tillamook PUD regarding Question: Why do we the proposed transmission need a new transmission line to Oceanside. As we line to Oceanside? Why reported last week, the now? PUD is seeking a ruling Tillamook PUD from the Land Use Board Answer: The Project is of Appeals (LUBA) to needed, 1) to reduce the permit the transmission stress on existing facilities line as designed. We will caused by high electricity continue reporting on loads and ongoing load the appeal process as it growth in the area, 2) imunfolds. In the meantime, prove service reliability to we are inviting the comthe system, and, 3) replace munity to submit their aging infrastructure. questions about the transLoad Growth mission line. Send them The Wilson River to mfbell@countrymedia. Substation has two power net. We’ll ask the PUD to answer your questions See PUD ANSWER, Page A8
Crews of volunteers clean up Nestucca Bay
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ABOVE: The Carlich house in 1981.
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LEFT: The Carlich house pictured in its current state.
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Volunteer Charlie Slate of Portland, poses with Watersheds Council Coordinator, Alex Sifford during the Nestucca Bay Cleanup on April 20.
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Left to right: Branson Laszlo, Willa Childress, Beth Gienger, Eric Clifford, Christopher Mills, Nathan Imholt, Peter Walczak.
School Record: Neah-Kah-Nie National Ocean Sciences Bowl Team Places 1st and 4th at the National Competition Proud doesn’t even begin to describe how the Neah-Kah-Nie National Ocean Sciences Bowl team coaches feel about this year’s team and their performance at the national competition. The NKN NOSB won both a first place trophy for their Science Experts Briefing (SEB) and a fourth place trophy for the competition overall. As Salmon Bowl champions representing Oregon, Idaho and Southwest Washington, senior captain Branson Laszlo, seniors Chris Mills, Eric Clifford and Willa Childress, junior Nathan Imholt and coaches Beth Gienger and Peter Walczak traveled to Milwaukee, Wisc. to compete against 24 other regional
winners from around the nation. The national competition consisted of two components; the SEB and a headto-head competition against other teams. The SEB required students to look at H.R. 5864 – the Invasive Fish and Wildlife Prevention Act of 2012. Presented to the US Congress in May of 2012 it is a bill that did not pass through the House of Representatives. The students were required to adopt the viewpoint of a stakeholder from a governmental agency, state agency, non-governmental organization, university and private industry; at least one of those was required to be a physical oceanographer and another a social scientist.
The students researched both primary and secondary source documents to support their stakeholder’s viewpoint on the need for national legislation on invasive species and recommendations to improve the bill and make it more appealing for passage through the United States Senate. Each student wrote a 500-word essay, a 100-word abstract and provided APA citations throughout the document. Students then had a roundtable discussion of their viewpoints and had to come up with a compromise team recommendation which required another 500-word essay and a 100-word abstract with additional, new primary and
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Forty-one volunteers removed a winter’s worth of debris from the Nestucca Bay and its environs the morning of Saturday, April 20. The group gathered under a canopy erected by the Neskowin/Nestucca/ Sandlake Watersheds Council (NWC) at the boat ramp near Bob Straub Park at 8:30 a.m. After signing in and collecting gloves and garbage bags for the task ahead, the enthusiastic group fortified themselves with fresh scones in several varieties, donated by The Grateful Bread of Pacific City, while tipping up paper cups of Fogcutter coffee donated by Stimulus Café of Pacific City. “We really appreciate our sponsors, and we couldn’t do this without our volunteers, thank you all for coming,” gushed NWC Council Coordinator Alex Sifford as he gathered the crowd for a short instructional session before the work got underway. The group dispersed into work parties dividing themselves between clusters traversing the riverbanks south of the bridge in Pacific City and crews ferried to bayside locations by one of the three boaters who volunteered and drove their boats for the tenth annual event. “The catch of the day was probably the water tank found and hauled out by John Warren in his boat, but
the killer was the refrigerator somebody dumped. It took half a dozen of us, but we landed it!” Alex enthused. The effort gathered in a ton and a quarter of debris plus 1 tires. The Nestucca Bay is featured in the third in Tillamook Estuaries Partnership’s Water Trail guides, which was offered to the public for the first time at April’s Watersheds Council Meeting. The guide, printed on waterproof paper, includes 40 pages about south Tillamook County’s waterways, including a fold-out map in the centerfold. Besides identifying 14 public access sites, the handy resource includes safety and etiquette advice, local history, nature education, and some beautiful photographs of local waterways. The Nestucca and Sandlake Watersheds Water Trail Guide is available free of charge at Kiwanda Community Center. The recent NWC meeting included an informative presentation by Joshua Seeds, a forest ecologist who is employed with drinking water protection for the Department of Environmental Quality. He declared that the best water quality comes from forested watersheds because “natural forest and hydrologic processes store, filter and deliver water to
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