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Creamery CEO focuses on new ways to ‘love the loaf’ By Sayde Moser
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After finishing his first year as CEO, the Tillamook County Creamery Association’s Patrick Criteser says he’s confident of the future of TCCA – a critical cornerstone of the local community for more than a century. Criteser said the creamery is fueling new growth by aggressively marketing its non-cheese products, building a new wheydrying facility in Boardman, and
acquiring tools and know-how to spread the Tillamook brand geographically. “There’s a huge opportunity for growth in this business,” he said. “We’ve spent the last year in many ways getting ready to grow, by making sure the systems and processes were capable of supporting that growth, making sure our team was right to drive that growth. “And now, what you’ll start to see from us in this next year is taking more action to drive that
growth.” One important piece of the creamery’s expansion strategy is focusing more on its non-cheese products (ice cream and yogurt, for example). “In the last year,” reported Criteser, “we’ve seen a nice increase in distribution of our yogurt down in California. “We’re addressing those geographies where we don’t have a big presence and introducing our non-cheese products, which we
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Patrick Criteser stands outside the Tillamook cheese factory, whose parent organization is focusing on growing the brand.
Tinkering: ‘It’s what men do’ By Sayde Moser
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Doug Hendrickson likes taking things apart. And putting them back together again. “It’s what men do,” he said. “We like to make noise and tinker with things.” Especially old things. “It’s kind of neat when you look at these old machines and think, ‘Someone had to wash their clothes with that. Or make hay.’ If we had to do it like that today, nothing would ever get done.” Hendrickson, a retired fireman, isn’t alone in his passion for old things. Last weekend, he chaired the area’s 10th-annual “Old Iron Show,” where plenty of visitors marveled at the antiques on display “Old iron” can mean a variety of things, many of them indigenous to this area. It can mean threshing machines or combines,
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Barb Sanders poses near the new sign for the Brooten Mountain Montessori preschool.
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Montessori school opening in south county By Joe Wrabek
Vintage and antique tractors lined up at the 10th-annual “Old Iron Show” on Aug. 16-18.
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old tools and engines, and old cars and trucks. The “Old Iron Show” is staged by the NW Old Iron Club and hosted by the Blue Heron French Cheese Co. in Tillamook. The local club was started by Vince Bogard and wife Louise, who had been members of the Early Day Gas Engine & Tractor Association while living in Medford. When they moved to Tillamook, Louise said they thought there must be some old barns and sheds here complete with farm equipment hiding away and just waiting to be restored. In 2004, they officially started the club (a branch of the Early Day Gas Engine & Tractor Association) with 20 members – the only one like it in northwestern
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The first Montessori school in Tillamook County will open this fall, near Cloverdale. Brooten Mountain Montessori will be a preschool catering to children 2 and one-half to 6 years old. “We expect to take 10 to 12 students,” said founder and head teacher Barb Sanders. “Brooten Mountain Montessori will offer children a prepared learning environment,” she said. In addition to a fenced play area, the school will offer its students hands-on experiences with small animals, gardening and other natural learning environments, she said. The school is located on a partly wooded hillside with a small stream. “When we had the opportunity to buy this 2 acres, I knew it’d be perfect for the school,” Sanders said. The property’s two-car garage is being converted into a “children’s house” where the school will be based. Montessori schools incorporate an Doug Peterson demonstrates a rope-making machine.
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Sand dollars and sense By Sayde Moser
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Here’s one of Netarts Bay’s hidden treasures: At the north end, just beneath the water’s surface, lies a sand dollar bed that boasts hundreds upon hundreds of the magnificent little creatures. “It’s really quite something,” said Lisa Phipps, executive director of the Tillamook Estuaries Partnership. “Most people when they see sand dollars, they’ve already died and washed ashore. It’s really something else to see them alive and moving. They’re just gorgeous.” Sand dollars usually don’t exist live in low-salinity waters, said retired
marine biologist Jim Young. Yet because of the area’s limited number of freshwater inlets, this colony has been able to survive – the only one on Netarts Bay. “It’s kind of a favorite for people who like to go out and marvel at it,” said Young. Kayakers in particular, he said. Clair Thomas, Tillamook High School’s natural resources and science teacher, likes to take his students there to study. But Young worries about the fate of the sand dollar bed now that a local business, Shuckin’ Food Oyster Co., LLC, has applied for a 32-acre oyster plat through the Oregon Department of Agriculture. The location sits atop the sand dollar bed.
“It would likely destroy the bed if you spread oysters overtop of it and get people tramping through there,” he said. “In my opinion, that kind of activity will wipe it out.” Karina Mayner of Netarts owns Shuckin’ Food Oyster Co., LLC. She said she picked this plat specifically because oysters and sand dollars can co-exist – and it’s not an easy area of the bay to get to without a boat. “They’re happy living together,” she said. Mayner added that her plat would not prevent people from still enjoying the sand dollar bed. And she’s not planning on commercially harvesting oysters, but rather her
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