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2013 Tillamook County Rodeo Schedule • • •

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Fun Cow Facts • 93 percent of the dairy cattle in the U.S. are Holsteins (the black-and-white guys). Every Holstein has a different pattern.

• Dairy cows are economic-development engines.

Every dairy cow is responsible for four jobs in the community, from farmers to machinery salesmen to bartenders to people who keep track of statistics like this.

Tillamook. Admission is $10 for adults. Children 6 and over, cost is $5 • 9 p.m. Western Dance at the Tillamook County Fairgrounds, 4603 Third St. in Tillamook. Music by Sweetwater, food and beer garden. $5 at the door.

Sunday, June 23 • 1 p.m. Rodeo at Tillamook County Fairgrounds, 4603 Third St. in Tillamook. Admission is $10 for adults. Children 12 and under get in free.

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Jerry Dove, Barbara Trout, Honorary Grand Marshals

By Joe Wrabek

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Two long-standing – and well-known – volunteers will be the Honorary Grand Marshals of the 2013 Dairy Parade.

Jerry Dove

Barbara Trout Barbara Trout, from Twin Rocks, is a former news director at KTIL Radio.

She’s represented “Subdivision 5” (north county) on the Tillamook PUD board of directors since 1997, and was the PUD board’s president last year. She’s served on the Neah-Kah-Nie School Board (nine years), on the Economic Development Council board (three years), and four different terms on the Watseco-Barview Water District (16 years total). She was president of Tillamook Kiwanis in 2110.

Barbara is also on the boards of the Pioneer Museum and the Latimer Quilt Center. She’s involved in the

Relay for Life and makes quilts for charity raffles, and she created the “Turkey Trot” that gathered food for the needy at holiday time.

However, “I think my big claim to fame is the turnaround at Twin Rocks,” she said.

Barbara was the recipient of Tillamook County’s Citizen of the Year award in 2001, and Rockaway Beach’s Volunteer of the Year award in 2005.

Barbara currently works part-time as the staff of the little Watseco-Barview Water District, and part-time as staffperson to State Rep. Debbie Boone. During the legislative session, “I’m in Salem every week,” she said.

For years the Tillamook County Dairy Women have celebrated June Dairy Month by donating a basket full of baby items and dairy products to the first baby born in June at Tillamook Regional Medical Center.

Joshua Jonathan Daniel Miller was born June 4, 2013 at 7:55 a.m. Baby Miller weighed eight pounds five ounces and measured 21 inches long. His mother is Melissa Miller. He joins siblings Isaiah, Jeremiah and Gracie Sue. His grandparents are David and Teresa Miller of Tillamook. Presenting Joshua with his basket of goodies is Charish Ingram, Tillamook County Dairy Princess Ambassador.

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Jerry Dove, a former Tillamook County commissioner (1991-98) and Port of Tillamook Bay commissioner (19992011), has lived in Tillamook County since 1976. A 6-year veteran of the Marine Corps Reserves, he was an automotive technician for 32 years.

He and his wife Johna have one daughter, Kim, and one grandson, Chad.

Jerry may be best known as the founder of the Whiskey Creek Salmon Hatchery, a facility run entirely by volunteers. The hatchery’s annual fin clipping and Handicapped Fishing Days – complete with barbecue lunches – bring people in from all over Oregon.

Jerry founded the Tillamook Anglers Association and for 25 years has served as its president. He’s a volunteer with Oregon Fish and Wildlife’s “STEP” program and the Oregon Solutions Project. Among his latest volunteer projects is filleting and vacuum packing fish for the Oregon Food Bank.

He’s also a past president of the Tillamook Chamber of Commerce (and served 10 years on the Chamber’s board of directors), a Kiwanis member, and a past

president of the Tillamook High School Boosters Club, which promotes and supports various high school activities. He currently serves on the County Roads Advisory Committee.

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Meet the 2014 Miss Tillamook County Rodeo Contestants

The pageant for the 2014 Queen will be held on June 21 and 22 at the Tillamook County Fairgrounds and will include speaking, modeling, riding, a written test on rodeo knowledge, interviews and participating in a parade.

Contestants will be required to participate in interviews, model and give a two to three minute speech.

Speech topic is “rodeo changing with time.”

Horsemanship requires contestants to do a predetermined riding pattern, on their own horse and a horse they have never ridden, work cattle, a flag presentation and a queen’s run at the Saturday and Sunday performances of the rodeo. All contestants will be required to ride in the parade on Saturday morning.

Ariana Nicole Piscitelli

Age: 19 Home town: Newberg Parents: Wendy and Vito Piscitelli Ariana is a junior at Willamette University, double majoring in biology and environmental science.

She is an active 4-H leader of two clubs and enjoys working at Newberg Veterinary Hospital. Ariana graduated from Newberg High in 2011 as a Salutato-

rian. She was also honored to be a National Coca-Cola Scholar, Ford Family Foundation Scholar and an Old Fashioned Festival Court Princess.

Ariana has shown horses since the third grade in 4-H, Junior Rodeo and the high school equestrian team.

She successfully exhibited multiple species including dogs, rabbits and poultry in 4-H and FFA, placing first at the local, state and national level. Ariana’s rodeo partner is a five-year-old bay mare named Drop Dead Diva. Being a title holder in a rodeo pageant shows little girls that dreams do come true.

Sarah Hammond

Age: 20 Home town: Cornelius Parents: Jean and John Hammond

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Sarah, along with her older brother Neal and younger sister Molly was active in 4-H and FFA showing swine.

One passion that set Sarah apart from her siblings was her love for a bigger critter: horses.

In high school, Sarah was active in Oregon High School Equestrian Team, Western Horsemen of Oregon and local play days with her beloved gelding, Scooter. Currently she is an active member of the Rodeo Fly Girls Drill Team and Western Horsemen

of Oregon. Sarah is attending Portland Community College in pursuit of a degree in nursing and dreams of working as a registered nurse. She would like to send an enormous thank you to her family, friends and teammates; she wouldn’t be here today without them.

Keleigh Hoopes

Age: 18 Home town: Tillamook Parents: Mary Manning and Schott Hoopes A 2013 graduate from Tillamook High School, Keleigh was raised in Tillamook County by her mother for the last 13 years along with her younger sister, Josie. She has been actively involved in 4-H for the past eight years, competing in horses, art and agriculture. In high school, Keleigh was very involved

in extracurricular activities like participating heavily in OHSET, volleyball and basketball. She has a 10-year-old quarter horse mare named Bugz, who has been her best friend for eight years.

Of her horse Keleigh said, “we have experienced a wide variety of disciplines including English equitation, western equitation, all sorts of gymkhana events, trail riding and even jumping.” This

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Charish Ingram named the Dairy Princess Ambassador Eighteen-year-old Charish Ingram will be riding high this June Dairy Parade as the 2013 Tillamook County Dairy Princess Ambassador.

“I’m pretty excited about it,” she said. Ingram was crowned this year’s ambassador by Taryn Martin who held the title last year.

Ingram was the only young lady to participate in this year’s contest - but it was her third time competing, and this will be her third time in the parade.

“I enjoy smiling and waving to people and of course being nice to the public,” she said. “It’s a good representation of the dairy farmers in our area.”

Ingram said she takes great pride in taking on the responsibilities of being the dairy ambassador.

She is a recent graduate of Tillamook High School where she served as president of the Tillamook Future Farmers of America chapter. Among a variety of extracurricular activities in high school, she was the co-captain of her Relay 4 Life team, involved every year in a fundraiser for Dornbecher’s Children’s Hospital and plans

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She said as the dairy princess ambassador, she looks forward to getting out in the community and educating them on dairy products and especially how dairy farmers treat their cows.

“A lot of people think we’re not good to the cows,” she said. “I would like to inform people that we are so nice to our cows and treat them with the same respect we would treat a person.”

Prior to the parade, Ingram said she’s looking forward to walking through the farmers market to talk to people and answer any questions they might have of her.

Ingram has grown up on multiple dairy farms and said whether she ever has her own farm or not, she will “always be involved in dairy farms, even if it’s just having my own herd of cows.”

n Miss Rodeo From page 6 fall, she plans to attend Concordia University where she will be playing basketball and pursuing a dual major in biology and chemistry.

Junior/Teen Miss Rodeo Oregon Pageant Schedule:

Friday, June 21 8 a.m. – Tillamook Cow Internet Radio Station, 1910 2nd St. (contestants and judges only).

9 a.m. – Pageant Orientation – Tillamook County Fairgrounds skating rink.

10 a.m. – Horsemanship Warmup – Tillamook County Fairgrounds rodeo arena (open to the public).

10:30 a.m. – Horsemanship Competition – Tillamook County Fairgrounds rodeo arena (open to the public).

2 p.m. – Interviews and written test – Tillamook County Fairgrounds skating rink (contestants and judges only).

4 p.m. – Autograph signing – Tillamook Fred Meyer.

7 p.m. – Dinner, modeling,

speech round one and impromptu questions – Tillamook County Fairgrounds skating rink (open to the public, ticket required in advance, $20).

Saturday, June 22 8:30 a.m. – Parade – Tillamook County Fairgrounds staging area (open to the public).

2 p.m. – Queens luncheon, speech round two – Tillamook County Fairgrounds skating rink (open to the public, ticket required, $10).

4:30 p.m. – Autograph signing – Tillamook County Fairgrounds (open to the public).

5:45 p.m. – Rodeo performance – Tillamook County Fairgrounds rodeo arena, coronation during the rodeo (open to the public, admittance with rodeo ticket).

Following coronation – Pageant reception – Tillamook County Fairgrounds. Contestants will pick up their category awards. 2014 Junior Miss and 2014 Miss Teen Rodeo Oregon will sign contract and say a few words. Formal photos will be taken (open to the public).

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Verna Creech named 2013 Pioneer of the Year

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The Tillamook County Pioneer Association named longtime volunteer Verna Creech “Pioneer of the Year” at the organization’s June 2 dinner and meeting at the Swiss Hall. Creech was presented with flowers and a ceremonial tiara, and will ride on the organization’s float in the Dairy Parade June 22.

Creech, who was born in Mohler and raised on a

dairy farm, graduated from Neah-Kah-Nie High School in 1957 and from Western Oregon University in 1962; she retired from teaching in 1994. She has five children and 11 grandchildren.

Those named Pioneers of the Year are members of the Pioneer Association and have been active in either the Association or the Pioneer Museum for at least five years, Ruby FryMatson told the Headlight Herald. Fry-Matson, who works at the Museum, had

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their legs are built wrong. (So if you want to prevent your cows from running away, keep them on the top floor.)

• Cows have front teeth only on the bottom, not on the top. There’s a thick pad of skin on the top of their mouth instead of teeth.

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2013 Pioneer of the Year Verna Creech (with flowers and tiara) with past Pioneers of the Year at the June Pioneer Association dinner. From left, Jean Bailey, Verna Creech, Quentin Borba, Verta Bell, Jim Hurliman, Virginia Darby. Not in photo: Ruby Fry-Matson. Photo by Joe Wrabek

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been a Pioneer of the Year herself in a previous year.

The Pioneer Association helps raise money for the Tillamook County Pioneer Museum, which the association started in 1935 “in its present building,” FryMatson said. The Pioneer Museum is in Tillamook’s second courthouse, built in 1905.

At their meeting, Pioneer Association members re-elected George Widmer as president, Gretchen Jacob as secretary, Kimber Lundy as Treasurer, Verna Creech as Memorial Treasurer, and Karen William, Jim Hurliman and Tom Edwards as vice-presidents from North, Central, and South County, respectively.

They also heard reports from Carla Albright on the Pioneer Museum, and from Gary Albright on the museum’s Kilchis Point Reserve in Bay City. Two grants have been received for Kilchis Point this year, from the Collins Foundation ($10,000) and Tillamook PUD ($8,250), and a third has been awarded, Gary Albright said -- $50,000 from the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department (OPRD).

OPRD is funding only 18 grant requests (out of 49 determined eligible), he said, and three of those are in Tillamook County. “This county got one-quarter of the money the state passed out this year,” Albright said.

Three miles of handicappedaccessible trails at Kilchis Point have been paved thus far, he said. “We put our next bridge down in two weeks.”

Membership in the Pioneer Association is open to anyone who was born in Tillamook County or has lived here at least 40 years. They meet three times a year, in south, central and north Tillamook County, respectively. The Assocation’s next meeting will be at the Lions Den in Rockaway Beach on Oct. 6.

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Local bull riders ready to hang on Tillamook County Rodeo Queen Josiah Darr

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Between the three, there has been no shortage of success in their combined careers. A big contributor to that success has been their work with owner and operator of Big River Bucking Bulls School, Tillamook Rodeo President Mickey Hays. Hays has been running Big River Bucking Bulls for over four years now at Travis Cole’s Glen Acres Farm up Tony Creek near Blaine.

All three young men have been riding and learning from Hays for years and while it may seem like holding on for dear life is the only advice a bull rider needs, Hays said there’s a lot more to it if you want to continue to be successful and

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is Teri Jo McGettigan The 2013 Tillamook County Rodeo Queen lives in Warren, Ore. with her proud parents, Cora VanOsdol and Terry McGettigan and four American quarter horses on an orchard. She has had her main rodeo partner, Jez, for less than a year.

Teri Jo graduated in 2010 from Scappoose High School. She participated on the High School Equestrian team and won many timed events and qualified for state competition three years. Teri Jo is now at Oregon State University majoring in agricultural business management. She plans on using her degree to run her family’s orchard.

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equine events going to state competition several years. Teri Jo is currently a co-leader of her former 4-H club.

“As Queen, I would like to encourage everyone to participate in equestrian activities hopefully leading to a life long passion for horses,” she said.

Teri Jo encourages everyone to come enjoy the spectacle showcasing western heritage and don’t forget the unique to Tillamook Dairy Parade on Saturday and kids day on Sunday.

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There’s no question that skills used in the rodeo are much like skills used in any other sport.

While baseball players hit thousands of balls in the batting cage to fine-tune their swings, barrel racers practice their turns and prepare for their seasons in their own special way.

What if you went into your season knowing throughout the course of the year, things would happen you could never prepare for? Things that were so wild and crazy at any second they could instantly end your season and put you in the hospital. It’s those types of unexpected and unimaginable events that are the norm for a bull rider, and Tillamook County has a few young men that are tough enough to handle that challenge.

Orrin Ouska, Nathan Parks and Garrett Martindale are three of the most notable and successful young bull riders in Tillamook County and all three of them, along with many others from out of town, will be on display in this year’s rodeo doing everything they can to hang on for eight seconds.

It’s been a great year for these three bull riders so far.

Orrin Ouska has been a past Northwest Rodeo Junior Bull Riding Champion; last year he was the reserve champion in the senior division by a single point in the Northwest Youth Rodeo and this year as a freshman in high school he’s been to several rodeos and he was the average winner in the Prineville High School Rodeo. Currently Ouska is ranked No. 4 junior bull rider in the state while Nate Parks is sitting at No. 5.

Parks took first in a rodeo in Prineville, he covered a bull in Hermiston and he took third in the Northwest Rodeo in St. Paul.

Garrett Martindale is a past Northwest Junior Bull Riding Champion and this year will be his first year in the senior division.

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“First of all, in my personal opinion, you need to have athletic ability because it’s a very athletic sport,” Hays explained.

“The main thing I’d teach someone just starting out would be the use of the knees and the feet and body positioning.

“Bulls basically move in a rhythm. It’s a jump kick rhythm. Especially for the younger kids when they’re starting out. As you get older, the bulls start spinning and there are counter moves that are very important.”

While bull riding is a sport, it’s a far cry from a friendly game of golf. Adding a 1,500-pound angry animal into the sport amplifies the danger to an immeasurable degree. According to Hays it’s not a matter of if you’re going to get hurt riding bulls,

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Steve Neahring chosen as 2013 Grand Marshal

garden,” past Grand Marshal Roy Peterson said. (Steve’s wife Linda maintains, however, that Steve’s real hobby is his work.)

Steve Neahring has spent 21 years on the Tillamook County Creamery Association’s board of directors, and is in his third year on the Oregon Dairy Products Commission. He and Linda have been members of the Farm Bureau for 34 years.

In addition, Steve has served nine years on the Tillamook County Extension

Service’s budget committee, nine years on the Nehalem Bay Wastewater budget committee, and has been on the Elder Board of Manzanita’s Calvary Bible Church for more than 20 years. For more than 20 years, he’s also taught Bible study classes there.

The flood of 1996 wiped out the Neahring farm (“We lost everything,” Steve said), and everything has been replaced since then. Today, the house and farm buildings sit on higher ground. “They brought in fill from Brighton,” Neahring said. Homes across McDonald Road have all been raised four feet, he pointed out. There have been more floods since 1996, but none as bad, he said.

Sons Tim, Josh, and Mario are married (to Carla, April, and Rocil, respectively), as is daughter Becki (to Brian Bailey of Cloverdale).

Jordan and Raedeane are still in school. (One son, Nathan, died in an auto accident as a teenager.) The Neahrings currently have 13 grandchildren.

“Not everyone gets back on,” Hays said. “If it’s early in their career, just starting to learn how to ride, the odds of them coming back and getting back on are very slim.

But, if you’ve been riding for six years like Orrin had been and was successful at it, it’s in your blood.

“I’ve had broken legs, pulled ligaments, been knocked out, had a horn stuck in my head and into my ear and woke up in ambulances, but to this day, I would still get back on in a heartbeat if I could,” Hays said.

With injury inevitable, it’s hard to understand why anyone would want to get on a bull, but Hays said anyone who ever gets on a bull at his school or in a rodeo takes every possible precaution.

“All safety precautions are taken no matter what,” Hays explained. “Besides being an EMT myself and having radio accessibility and dispatch immediately, everyone wears a helmet, everyone wears a mouth guard and everyone wears a protective vest. You’re not getting on in my facility without all those things. It’s protection I wish I had back in my day.”

“As far as kids riding and getting support from their parents, it only takes once.

They do it once and they don’t like it and never want to do it again, or they do it and they crave it from then on. I won’t ever let parents try to push their kids into it if they don’t want to because that’s how kids get hurt, but mom and dad can always stop them if they want to.”

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Mohler dairy farmer Steve Neahring was chosen as the Grand Marshal of the 2013 Dairy Parade.

“I’d heard about that,” Neahring deadpanned when contacted by the Headlight Herald. “I hadn’t expected it,” he said of the award.

Steve Neahring and wife Linda have 200 head of dairy cattle on their 180-acre farm on McDonald Road. They’ve had the farm for 34 years.

Both are from long-time Tillamook County dairy families; Steve’s parents had a farm on Highway 53, while Linda’s parents’ farm was where the Fred Meyer store now sits, at the north end of Tillamook.

These days, two of their seven children, Tim and Josh, are partners in the operation, while a third, Mario, who works at the Nehalem Bay House, is relief milker.

“Since his sons have assumed much of the responsibility, Steve has had time to spend in his greenhouse and

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it’s a question of when will you get hurt and how bad will it be; the three riders from Tillamook County are no exception.

Last fall in Mollala, Ouska got hung up and drug across the arena. Eventually he came loose landing on his left side and the bull’s right foot came down on his jaw, breaking it in two spots. He now has three plates in his jaw to repair the damage.

While it took him some time to get his confidence back, Ouska did exactly what so many other bull riders have done before him. He got back on.

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By Joe Wrabek

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“The guys in white suits” will be coming again to the June Dairy Parade. They’re not here to take anyone off to an asylum, however.

They’re the Portland Rosarians, and they’ll be here to oversee the planting of two roses in the Pioneer Museum’s Memorial Rose Garden.

The Rosarians, with their trademark all-white suits and straw hats, are the City of Portland’s official greeters and ambassadors.

They’ve been around since 1912.

Since the early years of the Dairy Parade, the Rosarians have donated a rose to the Pioneer Museum’s garden, dedicated to someone the Rosarians select. The rose-planting ceremony was tied to the increasing number of Portlanders coming to Tillamook for the Dairy Parade, the Museum’s Carla Albright told the Headlight Herald. The 2013 rose will be dedicated to Chandra Allen, community and member relations coordinator for the Tillamook County Creamery Assn.

In 2012, a rose bought by the Tillamook Dairy Women was also planted in the Memorial Garden in the name of the Dairy Princess.

That’s scheduled to happen again this year.

The ceremony takes place at the Memorial Garden next to the Pioneer Museum at 10 a.m. Saturday, June 22 – an hour before the Dairy Parade starts.

“They don’t actually plant the rose,” Albright said. “They’re wearing white suits. We plant the roses,” she said. The Memorial Garden is a favorite site for weddings, she said.

While the Rosarians are by definition all from Portland, they have an affiliate group, the “Honorary Rosarians,” comprised of people who don’t live in

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The Memorial Rose Garden next to the Pioneer Museum is a favorite site for weddings. The Portland Rosarians will be overseeing the planting of this year’s rose at 10 a.m. Saturday, June 22.

Portland who have worked to promote their hometowns and the state of Oregon as a whole. Linda Kay Marshall,

31st Annual YMCA Milk Run The Tillamook YMCA will host its 31st annual Milk Run in conjunction with the June Dairy Parade festivities June 22.

Participants are encouraged to register at the YMCA prior to the race, or by going online at www. eclecticedgeracing.com.

Click on the ‘race calendar’ tab and find the milk run under June. If that is not possible, registration on race day begins at 7 a.m. at the YMCA and ends at 8 a.m.

Those registering on the day of the race may not be able to purchase a collector’s shirt.

All races begin at 8 a.m., except the Kids’ Outback Course, which begins at 9 a.m.

Race options are:

Kids’ Outback Course

For children ages 3-8. All races are co-ed, and parents need to be aware that their children might get dirty.

Parents are encouraged to help younger kids stay on track.

This is an obstacle course and is guaranteed fun for all. All participants receive a ribbon; the top two in each age division will also win a medal.

Age divisions are: 3-4 years; 5-6 years; 7-8 years.

Cost is $10 and includes a tee-shirt. All participants will receive a ribbon and the top two racers in each division will receive medals.

Walking or running races A two mile course for anyone over the age of nine, along with a 5K walk or run and a 10K run will also be held.

Each of the walking or running courses will be broken into age divisions including: 9-11, 12-14, 15-19, 20-29, 30-34, 35-39, 40-44, 45-49, 50-59, 60-65, 66-70, 70-75 and 76 and up.

All divisions are divided into male and female, and the top two in each division receive medals. A special prize will be awarded to the top overall winner per division.

Cost is $15 for runners ages 9-18 and $25 for runners 19 and older with a shirt or $20 without the shirt. Shirts are available on race day for $12 each.

Snacks will be provided for racers before and after the race.

For further information, call the Tillamook YMCA at (503) 842-9622. The YMCA is located at 610 Stillwell Avenue in Tillamook.

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Portland Rosarians to plant annual Dairy Roses in museum’s garden

longtime coordinator of the June Dairy Parade and Festival, was “knighted” as an Honorary Rosarian in 2010.

Meet The Bookcart Brigade!

Tillamook County Library’s first-ever Book Cart Drill Team!

The stereotype of librarians as grumpy old ladies with horn rimmed glasses and their hair in a bun is about to be challenged. Introducing The Bookcart Brigade, Tillamook County’s very own group of marching librarians who will perform a variety of marching maneuvers as they push their book carts through the streets of Tillamook in the annual Dairy Parade. You may never look at the library staff the same way again!

Why a Library Cart Drill Team? Bill Landau, manager of the branch libraries and director of the drill team, says it is a way to give back to the community. “We love to show up for the county parades and see all of our faithful fans. Bruce and the Bookmobile is always a hit along the parade route,” says Landau. “But this year, we are adding the drill team as a way to attract new users into the library who may have thought the library was too stuffy for their taste. We hope to change outdated impressions and show the public that the library today is full of friendly, fun-loving people.”

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