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INSIDE: YOUR GUIDE TO THE TILLAMOOK COUNTY FAIR

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Tillamook Cheese names CEO Branding to be big focus for TCCA’s new leader tional, a Portland-based coffee roaster, where he has served as president and CEO. Criteser will replace Harold Strunk, who announced in April his plans to retire from TCCA. Strunk has remained with TCCA on a consulting basis, and Mark Wustenberg, vice

BY SAMANTHA SWINDLER sswindler@countrymedia.net

The Tillamook County Creamery Association has hired its next president and CEO. Patrick Criteser comes to Tillamook Cheese from Coffee Bean Interna-

Nestucca elementary gets ‘Focus’ designation

president of quality and member relations, served as interim CEO during the hiring process. Criteser has spent the past eight years in the coffee industry. While at Coffee Bean International, he grew sales by more than 300 percent, according to an announcement from

TCCA. Prior to his role at Coffee Bean International, a TCCA announcement touts that Criteser “held management and strategic development roles” at Nike, Walt Disney Company and Procter & Gamble. Criteser will officially begin as TCCA’s eighth chief executive on Aug. 20. “For as young as he is, he has a ton of experience in branding, and he gets

the value of a brand like Tillamook,” said TCCA President Joe Rocha. Branding, Rocha said, will be Criteser’s main focus with TCCA. “We’re just continuing the strategy that we put into place,” Rocha said. “Our plant needs to be at capacity with branded projects, and we’re not there yet.

See CEO, Page A7

Drunk driver pleads guilty

NEW MOVES, OLD TRADITION

BY ERIN DIETRICH edietrich@countrymedia. net

CLOVERDALE – Nestucca Valley Elementary School has been named one of 95 “Focus” schools across the state, the Oregon Department of Education announced Aug. 3. Test scores placed the elementary in the bottom 15 percent of Oregon Title I schools – schools that receive financial assistance based on the number of low income students. The designation is a component of Oregon’s new accountability system approved last month by the U.S. Department

BY MARY FAITH BELL mfbell@countrymedia.net

Jake A. Adams, 26, from Bay City, pleaded guilty to four charges of assault in the third degree, all felonies – one count each for the mother and three children he injured when JAKE he smashed ADAMS into their van while driving drunk on Feb. 24. Adams also pleaded guilty to driving under the influence of intoxicants. He was sentenced to 40 months in prison, and his driver’s license was suspended for five years.

See NESTUCCA, Page A7

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From left, Emily Schwend, Jessica Schwend, Katie Mercier and Chella Anguiano from the Tillamook School of Dance perform at Moonlight Madness on Aug. 3 in downtown Tillamook. The traditional pre-fair event draws shoppers out to late-night sales from local merchants, dance performances from local students and inflatable toys for children. For more photos, see page A2.

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STATS LOW 57 57 56 56 53 58 57

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See GUILTY, Page A7

The colorful Al Wylder PART I OF II

WEATHER COURTESY OF WEATHER UNDERGROUND

From Pearl Harbor to Pete Rose, South Countian shares his story

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BY MARY FAITH BELL mfbell@countrymedia.net

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John Clark (above) received a $2,600 hospital bill after he jumped into the ocean to save a young boy, and was subsequently pulled from the water by Rockaway Fire & Rescue and transported to Tillamook County General Hospital.

Hospital bill draws national attention BY ERIN DIETRICH edietrich@countrymedia. net

A high school student from Vancouver, Wash. was the subject of a viral news story this week, following multiple reports that he received a bill of nearly $2,600 from Tillamook County General Hospital following a beach rescue involving himself and a 12year-old boy last month. News stations across the Pacific Northwest, and even nationwide, reported on July 31 the story of John Clark, 17, an Eagle Scout and recently certified lifeguard. Clark was billed by TCGH after he rode there in the ambulance, along with another patient, immediately after he and another boy were pulled from the ocean. Following the news reports, several individuals said they would help pay Clark’s bill, although it has not yet been confirmed whether the bill has been paid.

See BILL, Page A7

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NOW $10.99 1920 Main Street North Tillamook, Oregon 97141

breakfast. When I went back out they flew right overhead, strafing us, they were shooting their dad-blamed machine guns at us. Well, I went back inside, we all did, until they flew past. Then we loaded up in our trucks and headed for battle stations. “I was an infantryman. I manned a machine gun from a beach position near Pearl Harbor. That day the smoke was so thick and black from the bombed out ships and planes that the streetlights came on. Everybody was all out of sorts and antsy as heck.”

See WYLDER, Page A7

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Al Wylder at his Hebo home, trying on a friend’s pilot’s helmet.

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HEBO – Al Wylder, 89, of Hebo, is well known in south Tillamook County, where he has lived for the past 20 years. He is known for his waxed, white, handlebar mustache, his colorful clothing, friendly demeanor, his huge, outsized laugh, and his love of good food. Al is a life-long runner, and folks still see him burning up the pavement along Hwy. 22, running with his dog, Buddy. Folks may not know that Al is a WWII veteran of the attack on Pearl Harbor. He saw the bombs falling from the sky. “I graduated from Rogers High School in Spokane, Wash. in June of 1941. In July of ‘41 I joined the Army. I was 18 years old. At the time, the war was going on in Europe, but we weren’t in it yet. I joined up because they were going to start drafting people for two years’ service at the age of 21. I figured I’d sign up at 18 and be done with it before I turned 21. But it didn’t quite work out that way. “After basic training I was stationed in Hawaii. That was just about as close to paradise as a guy could get; it was just wonderful, before December 7th, that is. “The morning of December 7th, 1941, I was eating bacon and eggs for breakfast when we heard the Japanese planes overhead. It was that unmistakable dive-bomb sound. All of a sudden there was a boom that shook our whole building. I went outside and saw the son of a guns diving, I even saw their bombs. “I went back inside and finished my

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