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Volume 28, No. 11
Neah-Kah-Nie student wins Hampton Lumber design contest for lumber wraps Hilary Dorsey
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ampton Lumber Company sought the help of local high school students to create a new design of their lumber wraps for all lumber leaving the mill. One of Neah-Kah-Nie High School’s designs, designed by junior Rossi Nelson, was the chosen winner. Schools invited to the competition were Nestucca High School, Tillamook High School, Neah-KahNie High School, Seaside High School, Warrenton High school and Jewel High School. Hampton approached all the schools in early January with a contest to design the wraps for their lumber coming out of the mills. There are six different mills, and each county asked all the schools within that county to be in the design. “With our county, lumber Left to right: Zach Gage, Nakai Reny-Hamer, Rossi Nelson, Claudia Hernando-Sanz, Hagar Ayala-Mondragon, and Dylan Footit. Photo by Don Backman. comes out of the north end of it, so we included Seaside within our group,” Nrahself-expressive.” supporting art in schools,” Alworked on the project after Kah-Nie High School teacher The high school honored the brechtsen said. school hours. There were six Steve Albrechtsen said. “It’s super exciting for the fu- students that participated in the students in the group. Since Schools were given the ture of our art department here,” design during a school-wide the design had to be in Adobe trimester to work on the design. assembly during Prom week. Albrechtsen added. “I think we Illustrator, they had to learn the Neah-Kah-Nie High School stu- new program in order to turn the have a really solid future of just “The image is going to be dents that participated worked promoting art in our community able to travel the globe,” Alproject in. They met two days on the design and turned in the per week and worked on designs and giving students access to brechtsen said. “That’s excitdesign in March. Students that both individually and as groups. equipment and tools and materi- ing.” participated were Hagar Ayala, “We knew there was this cash als that will let them be more Zach Gage, Rossi Nelson, prize in the end,” Albrechtsen Claudia Hernandez-Sans, Nakai said. “We were working hard to Reny-Hamer and Dylan Footit. try to get that for our school.” “The design was something From the cash prize, each that reflected Hampton’s values student that participated at and the community in which it Neah-Kah-Nie gets a $50 cash resided,” Albrechtsen said. “We prize. The school also received a had a total of eight different check for $15,000. designs that we submitted. A lot “It’s going to get primarily of them had dairies involved and used for art supplies,” Alcows and trees.” brechtsen said. Albrechtsen said one thing The funds will be used to get that separated Neah-Kah-Nie better quality materials for the High School from the other students to work with. schools is that this was not a “Thanks go to Hampton class assignment. The students Lumber Co. for honoring and
With primaries over, Betsy Johnson ramps up independent campaign David Rupkalvis Cournty Media
are two choices. The far left, which would be Kate Brown 2.0, or the far right, where Christine’s views hile Tina Kotek on abortion are out of and Christine touch with most OregoDrazan were fighting for nians. I think it’s a unique the political lives during moment in time to select the recent primary elecan independent leader.” tions, another former state Johnson was born and lawmaker was waiting her grew up in Bend. After turn. With the primaries now college, she started a helicopter company that she over and the two major ran for 20 years. In 2000, parties haven chosen candidates, Betsy Johnson she ventured into politics for the first time. hopes it is now her turn to “The seat in the House shine. was open in 2000,” she Johnson, who served said. “I just finished servfor decades as a modering on a board that didn’t ate Democrat in the state allow you to run for office, House and Senate, is so it was perfect timing.” running for governor as Johnson won the race an independent. Johnson said her run is serious, and for the House and eventuone she only decided to do ally won three terms beafter both parties moved to fore she was unanimously chosen to fill an open seat the extreme. in the Senate. She served “I think my candidacy in that role until last year, meets the moment right when she resigned to now,” Johnson said. focus on her run for gover“People are angry and nor. She said in the current frustrated. There really field, she stands out. “I’m pro-choice, pro jobs and very supportive of responsible law enforcement,” she said. “I think I could be characterized as a maverick, independent lawmaker who is willing to buck my own party to get 7 29467 70001 8 the job done. The last few years, the D’s have moved more to the left and the R’s more to the
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right.” She said in Oregon, there is no longer one state, with most lawmakers paying no attention to the rural areas. “We have an urban/ rural divide,” she said. “I know because I have represented rural Oregon for many years. I think most Oregonians are feeling disrespected, not heard and totally misunderstood. At least the governor knows there’s Oregon south of Eugene and east of Bend.” Johnson has served with Kotek and Drazan for years in the legislature, but she said her decision to run was not personal against either woman. “I think an independent governor drawing the best ideas from both parties is what our campaign is selling,” she said. “I want the best ideas.” And if she’s elected, Johnson said she will be in Curry County and will make sure the community knows the state is behind it. “If I’m governor, you can damn sure count on me to come down and talk about opportunities,” she said. “There’s enough assets on the South Coast, and we need to develop
it.” While Johnson believes she can win, she does not expect anything to be easy. “It is a challenge,” she said. “I will not have the machine or the money the established parties have. I’m not relying on the established parties.” Johnson said she has organizations in every county that will begin circulating petitions to get her name on the ballot in June. She said once she collects the signatures, she will work through November for every single vote. “We’re in it to win it,” she said. “We’re aggres-
sively out in the field. We’re about to start a tour to meet Oregonians where they live and work. In a three-way race, I offer an alternative, and I would represent my candidacy is the best way to lead.” While there is a lot of work to do, Johnson said she hopes the state is prepared to live up to its motto. In English, Alis volat propriis means “She flies with her own wings.” As a former pilot, Johnson said it could be her motto, too. “I hope Oregonians elect someone who lives up to the motto,” she said.
Veterans John Lane and Frank Heyl have been friends since they served together meeting in 1970. Photo by Joe Warren
Ninety-eight year old veteran has special ties to Tillmaook County Air Base brought Frank Heyl here, friendship keeps him coming back Joe Warren jwarren@countrymedia.net
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rmy Air Force, and later Air Force pilot Frank Heyl, will turn 99 years old in July this year, but his memory of Tillamook and the Air Base is a vivid as the day he landed here for the first time during World War II. “I volunteered to help fly an aircraft going to Oregon for an administration flight,” Heyl said. “They needed three pilots, a crew chief and a navigator and I was one of the three pilots, that was 1943.” Frank’s second tie to Tillamook was in 1970 when he was assigned to the same outfit as John Lane who is from Tillamook County. John says Frank became his mentor and the two have been close friends ever since. Frank still comes down from his home in Zillah WA, to visit John and Frank says although he still drives himself, “John takes me around.” Frank started his long military career in 1942 right after he graduated form High School. His father served in World War I and World War II and it was Frank’s time to serve his country. After World War II Frank wanted to reenlist and continue his service. “My supervisor told me to ‘go see a psychiatrist and go see the chaplain,”’ Heyl said. “I went to see the chaplain and he told me ‘go get a degree, pilots area a dime a dozen, so I went and got a degree in education.” After graduating from college in 1950 Frank got married and soon after that being enlisted in the reserves, he was assigned to Korea. “In the span of six months I graduated, got married and went to Korea,” Frank added. After Korea Frank flew for a while during the Cuban Missile Crisis, spent a year on the runway with the 101st ready to invade Cuba. After serving in World War II and the Korean War, Heyl was assigned to a reserve squadron at the Portland Air National Guard Base and was teaching in Portland Public Schools when in 1970 he was assigned to be the combat aviation survival training officer and safety training officer “because no one else wanted to do it,” he said. Heyl, who attained the rank of lieutenant colonel, underwent training with the Royal Canadian Air Force in France and England, among other places. In 1970 Heyl became the 6th Army Survival School’s principal instructor, and for 23 years he was the principal instructor and director for training in both military and contract survival schools. In 1975 Heyl was appointed chairman of the Oregon Search and Rescue Council, and in that position he assisted in writing the state’s search-and-rescue training standards. He also wrote the book, ‘Why Some Survive’ a book about
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