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Road bond measure highlights May 21 primary election By Joe Wrabek For the Citizen
Ballots are scheduled to hit Tillamook County voters’ mailboxes May 3 for the Tuesday, May 21 primary election. In Tillamook County, the $15 million road bond dominates the ballot, while the Tillamook School District in central county has a smaller bond issue of its own on the ballot – for $1 million – for safety and security improvements at its schools. There’s a lot more on the ballot besides the bond measures, however. The primary election in odd-numbered years is when voters elect port commissioners, school board members, and the governing
boards of all the other special districts, and Tillamook County has a lot of those special districts. This May, voters will be electing members of the governing bodies of three port districts, three school districts, five fire districts, five sewer districts, two joint waterand-sewer “authorities,” and fifteen water districts, plus the Nehalem Bay Health District, the countywide 9-1-1 District, North County Recreation District, Tillamook County Transportation District, and Tillamook Bay Community College. Only a handful of those races are contested. In a number of instances, there isn’t even a candidate filed for a
position that’s up for election. In north Tillamook County, here’s who’s running for what: • PORT OF GARIBALDI: Incumbents Bob Browning (Pos. 1), John Luquette (Pos. 2), Valerie Folkema (Pos. 4) and Paul Daniels (Pos. 5) are all unopposed. Daniels was also appointed to fill a vacancy and is running for election to the balance of his term. • PORT OF NEHALEM: Jim Peters (Pos. 1) and incumbent Rick Dart (Pos. 4) are unopposed. • NEAH-KAH-NIE SCHOOL DISTRICT: Terry Kelly (Zone 1), Mike Tosch (Zone 3) and incumbent Patrick Ryan (Zone 4) are all unopposed. • NEHALEM BAY FIRE
& RESCUE DISTRICT: Incumbents John Steele (Pos. 1) and Walt Covert (Pos. 2) are unopposed. • NEDONNA FIRE DISTRICT: Incumbents Vickie Goodman (Pos. 1), Clyde Barnhill (Pos. 4), and Terry Bowman (Pos. 5) are unopposed. • GARIBALDI RURAL FIRE DISTRICT: Incumbents Steve Vanderhoef (Pos. 1) and Steve Elder (Pos. 3) are unopposed. NO CANDIDATE FILED for Position 2 or Position 4. • NEHALEM BAY WASTEWATER AGENCY: Incumbents Owen Nicholson (Pos. 3), Bradley Beach (Pos. 4) and
See ELECTION, page 5
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AUCTION CENTRAL COMING TO NEHALEM First live auction scheduled for Thursday, May 23 Page 9
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The Neah-Kah-Nie High School National Ocean Sciences Bowl team. From left: Branson Laszlo, Willa Childress, coach Beth Gienger, Eric Clifford, Chris Mills, Nathan Imholt and coach Peter Walczak. Courtesy photo
Neah-Kah-Nie NOSB team does itself proud at national competition Proud doesn’t even begin to describe how the Neah-Kah-Nie High School National Ocean Sciences Bowl team coaches feel about this year’s team and their performance at the national competition held April 18-21, at Milwaukee, Wisconsin. This year, the NKN NOSB team brought home a first-place trophy for its science experts briefing (SEB) and took fourth in the overall the competition, a school record eclipsing its sixth-place finish just a few years ago. As Salmon Bowl champions representing Oregon, Idaho and southwest Washington, senior captain Branson
Laszlo, seniors Chris Mills, Eric Clifford and Willa Childress, junior Nathan Imholt, along with coaches Beth Gienger and Peter Walczak traveled to Milwaukee to compete against 24 other regional winners from around the nation. The national competition consists of two components, the SEB and head-to-head competition against other teams. The SEB required students to look at HR 5864, the Invasive Fish and Wildlife Prevention Act of 2012, presented to the US Congress in May of 2012, but which did not pass the House of Representatives. Students were required to adopt
the viewpoint of a stakeholder from a governmental agency, state agency, nongovernmental organization, university and private industry, with at least one of those required to be a physical oceanographer and another a social scientist. The students researched both primary and secondary source documents to support their stakeholder’s viewpoint on the need for national legislation on invasive species and recommendations to improve the bill and make it more appealing for passage through the United States
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See RECYCLING, page 5
The Emergency Volunteer Corps of Nehalem Bay held its annual meeting Monday, April 22, at the Pine Grove Community House in Manzanita. EVC President Linda Kozlowski told the audience that the strength of the organization was the wide number of people who have become involved in it. She asked division leaders to highlight their recent achievements. Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) leader Bill Harshbarger said 14 new people were trained, bringing the total number available to perform in a disaster up to 76. He added that Paula Peek had trained 40 Teen CERT students at Neahkahnie High School. CERT also recently learned how to provide rehab services to firefighters involved in major incidents. Sue Remy and Paula Peek discussed the five-year history of the local Map Your Neighborhood (MYN) program, which builds neighborhoods as it improves readiness. To date, over 200 locals have signed on and been trained in MYN. Training is also being provided to groups outside north Tillamook County, based on the local success. Peek said last year’s tsunami drill helped involve more people. It also provided good practice for radio communication drills. She said MYN would try do additional communication training every six months. Annual meeting facilitator John Olson called MYN “the backbone of the organization… teaching people to take care of
See EMERGENCY, page 7
How China’s decision affects your recycling
CARTM Director Jan Hamilton explains to Josie Geiger that she will have to hold on to her plant pots for a few weeks until research can be done for new markets or new uses. Plant pots are one of the materials not currently being accepted at CARTM, or anywhere in the world for that matter. Photo by Lorraine Ortiz
Non-Recyclable Plastics Effective immediately, CARTM is unable to accept the following kinds of plastic for recycling: • Containers with #3, #6 or #7 recycling symbols • Plastic bags (thin film plastic) • PP polypropylene bags • Baling twine • Vinyl garden hoses (not rubber) • Plastic coolers • Tool boxes • Fiberglass • Polystyrene food trays • Tyvek • Plastic caps and lids • 55-gallon drums
A salute to moms everywhere... Happy Mother’s Day - May 12
A long time employee at Manzanita Grocery & Deli, 27 years in all, Sue Stinnett is the familiar face in the deli department serving up hot-to-go entrees, fresh deli salads, meats and desserts. She is also the ‘artist’ who assembles fresh deli platters for any special occasion. By the way, she’s a mom. Happy Mother’s Day from your friends at Manzanita Grocery & Deli. “the little apple” 503-368-5362
EVC recounts successes at annual meeting
New policy in China forces CARTM to rethink recycling We’ve all heard “think globally, act locally,” right? This week that adage flipped, as we must now “re-think locally because of global actions.” In response to a sudden decision by China to stop accepting several types of recyclable plastic, CARTM has quickly responded by instituting changes to its plastic recycling program. “The timing is unfortunate. We just asked our community to learn a new method of sorting recyclable paper, which was planned for, but this one came as a big surprise to us, and the rest of the world,” said Jan Hamilton, CARTM executive director. Hamilton put the situation into perspective by pointing out that China’s decision means behavior changes for the local community, but to major urban
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Paula and Bill Peek were named “Volunteers of the Year’ by the Emergency Volunteer Corps of Nehalem Bay at its annual meeting held April 22. Accepting the award, Paula told the members, “I’m so proud of all of you. It’s been wonderful working with everybody.” EVCNB Photograph
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CARTM continues to see out new markets for the above items, and for the time being asks that community members hold on to them for a few weeks. If unable to store them, they must be discarded as trash. CARTM does not accept (and does not expect to accept any time soon): • Styrofoam (except packing peanuts for resale) • PVC polyvinylchloride For a full list of acceptable recyclables and how to sort them at home, visit CARTM’s website: www.cartm.org/materials.