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Investigation continues into fatal vehicle crash The Oregon State Police are continuing their investigation of Sunday’s fatal single-vehicle crash into the Wilson River east of Tillamook. The crash resulted in the death of a Tillamook man and non-life-threatening injuries to the vehicle’s driver. OSP Sgt. Greg Plummer said that at about 7:50 a.m., a 2010 Jeep Patriot driven by Juan Getcemani De La Torre, 23, of Tillamook was westbound on Highway 6 near
milepost 6 when it left the highway, struck a tree and rolled down an embankment. It came to rest on its top, submerged in the Wilson River. Two fishermen heard the crash, went to help and called 9-1-1. They helped the driver from the vehicle. He was taken by ambulance to Tillamook Regional Medical Center. Passenger Atilano Vargas Sanchez, 43, of Tillamook also was taken by ambulance to the Tilla-
mook medical center, where he later died. The OSP said both occupants were using safety restraints and that the SUV’s airbags deployed during the crash. Trooper Sarah Reding is the lead investigator. A donation account has been set up at US Bank in Sanchez’s names to help his family send his remains to Mexico, as it was always his dream to go to Mexico.
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Charles Haxton turning 106 … and counting By Mary Faith Bell maryfaithbell@gmail.com
Charles Haxton has stories to tell. Haxton celebrates his 106th birthday July 17 at Five Rivers Retirement and Assisted Living Community in Tillamook. At that, he’s just a whippersnapper amongst his family. Haxton was born July 19, 1907, in Iowa, the youngest of six siblings in a family that produced four centenarians. His oldest sister lived to 100. His second sister lived to within a week of her 105th birthday. The third sister saw 103. His brother and youngest sister lived to be 98 and 93, respectively. “I’ve beat all their records,” Haxton says with a bit of pride. “There are a lot of days on this body, but I’m still here.”
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As he turns 106, Charles is trim and dapper. He dresses smartly for meals in the dining room and walks around the retirement community for exercise. He’s a soft-spoken gentleman with gracious manners and a warm sense of humor. “I can’t see or hear or remember like I used to,” Haxton laments – then launches into colorful stories about his long life. For instanced he recalls when his father bought the family’s first automobile, a Metz, in 1918. “You’ve probably never heard of Metz,” he says, “but it was a 6-cylinder. And the gas lever was next to the steering wheel. There weren’t any foot pedals. “My dad was a farmer,” adds Haxton. “He was used to driving a team of horses. One day, it was winter, we were coming home and dad drove the car into the garage to park it. But his mitten got stuck on the gas lever and we drove right through the back wall of the garage. “I said, ‘Dad, what happened?’ And he said, ‘The goldarn thing wouldn’t whoa!’” (Charles demonstrates reining a horse.) “After that happened, dad said he wouldn’t have anything on the place unless he could feed it.” Charles’ father was Scottish, a “very straight man. Dad was always set against anybody who was fool enough to make a fool of himself over alcohol, and I guess that made a big impression on me. “I came close to getting drunk once, in the 7th or 8th grade; this was during Prohibition, when alcohol
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Charles Haxton, 105, poses with his daughter, Juanita Emerson, 83, at home in Tillamook. Charles turns 106 on July 17.
Brewery brings beer, business and bucks to Tillamook Community excited by Pelican Brewing ’s local expansion By Sayde Moser
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The tangy aroma of beer mingled with the scents of sawdust and fresh paint as guests gathered around appetizers and drinks at Pelican Brewing Company’s construction open house in Tillamook. “It smells like beer in here,” State Sen. Betsy Johnson declared. Johnson had made the trip to Tillamook to celebrate the brewery’s open house July 12.
Master brewer Darren Welch, said the new facility plans to start brewing its first beer by Aug. 1 – a special first edition to be labeled Stillwell Street No. 1. “This is a very big deal,” said Johnson. “This type of effort puts people back to work, it revitalizes unused space and introduces good beer to the community... I am so proud of this operation.”
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Steve Panos pours Dave Schrom and his wife, Mareena, a microbrew during the Pelican Brewing Company’s construction open house July 12. Dave Schrom is a member of the Tillamook Urban Renewal Agency.
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Second Street, in the heart of downtown Tillamook, is on the verge of a historic makeover. And the city’s Urban Renewal Agency is confident this is but the first phase of a total facelift for the city’s downtown corridor. “We chose Second Street as an area to create a demonstration zone,” said renewal agency member Terra Wilcoxson. “We think it’s the perfect spot to create a pedestrian-friendly boulevard.” The design plan, which includes adding decorative streetlights with a new city banner, plus hanging baskets, benches, planters, new sidewalks and other amenities, was inspired by the look and feel of earlyday Tillamook. Images provided by the Tillamook County Pioneer Museum helped the local Streetscape Committee come up with the patterns and themes to re-create a time when Tillamook’s economy and identity were flourishing. Wilcockson said Second Street, from Laurel to Stillwell, was selected for the pilot project because of its already existing features and activities, such as the summertime farmers market and the Pioneer Museum at one end of the zone, and the under-construction Pelican Brewing Co.’s tasting room within walking distance of the other end. “Part of [the Tillamook Urban Renewal Agency’s] mission is to support the businesses we have and to attract new ones,” said
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