A red, white, and blue recipe for the Fourth - pg. 9
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June 26, 2014
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Gearing up for the 4th of July!
Meet Manzanita’s 2014 Citizens of the Year By Dave Fisher The Citizen
Construction of the Manzanita Branch Library got underway in earnest in 1987. Courtesy photo
In quest of a community library
1986 was busy year for library organizers as fundraising efforts gained steam and the North Tillamook Library Board was established Part 2 of a 3 part series
By Patty Went For the Citizen
Though the size of a new library was hotly debated, the plan was to go with a 1,600-square-foot building that would house a reading room, meeting room and children’s room and space for displaying art. As early as October 1985, architect Tom Bender was presenting sketches at public meetings. The Oregon Library Association was requiring 2,000 square feet as a minimum for their grants. They went back to the drawing board. “The participation and enthusiasm in the community was tremendous,” wrote Jim Shields in his account of the founding. Several people had given memorial donations for the library. The garden club had an opportunity to sell dahlias, and they gave the proceeds of that to the library fund. Throughout 1986 the community activists were busy. They had established the North Tillamook Library Board as a non-profit, which allowed them to solicit tax deductible donations. Property owners made contributions and many organized activities occurred. Mary Kay Eskridge was one of the major promoters and organizers. Others named in the news clippings were Jim Shields, who served as financial consultant, and his wife Sandy, Jean Prentiss, Ann Knipe, Eldridge Appleton, Helen Janowski, Bonnie Carr and her husband, Warren Zumwalt, Dave Eskridge, Betty Dey, Norman Craig, and Charles and Charlotte Hoskins, Walt and Gloria Stickel, Peter Walczak, Tom Bender and Bob Rieke. Doubtless there were many others. There were pancake breakfasts with the help of local merchants, Greg Movosian and Joe (at Nina’s). The first pancake breakfast was a real hit and they eventually had several at the firehouse. They also held progressive dinners. Carol Povey organized a silent auction. A dessert was sponsored by the Manzanita Women’s Club. There was a pub crawl, a wine tasting party and a musical. They sold used books, t-shirts, greeting cards, Entertainment Books, book bags, etc. They joined the effort with a VFW sponsored dinner, a grade school children Read-A-Thon and High Tea. Numerous individuals donated hours of time and effort. In the words of the draft of the application for the grant in March of 1986 Tom Bender wrote, “Preliminary architectural plans and cost analysis for the project
See LIBRARY page 6
Catching up with Cal and Dianne Getty to inform them that they had been chosen Manzanita’s 2014 Citizens of the Year proved to be a chore this time around for the Manzanita City Council. The couple was in Victoria B.C., literally “out of the country,” celebrating their 20th anniversary when the council met for its regular June meeting when the announcement is typically made. City Manager Jerry Taylor tried to arrange a special meeting of the council a few days later requiring the Getty’s attendance on some fictitious issue, but that didn’t work either. So on a Wednesday morning, a week after the council hoped to let the cat out of the bag, a group of city councilors, including Mayor Garry Bullard, Jerry Taylor and former Citizens of the Year trooped over to the Getty’s residence and knocked on the door. Said Bullard, “It was as if we were from Publishing Clearing House calling on them to award a prize.” Fortunately, for band of well wishers, the Gettys were at home and they answered the knock on the door; the third time was a charm. “It was overwhelming,” said Dianne, who was initially clueless why a bunch of people shoed up at her doorstep, led by the mayor. “Everyone piled into the house and gave us hugs.” “It was certainly something we didn’t expect,” added Cal. I was over 20 years ago the two former elementary principals from Vancouver’s Evergreen School District moved to Manzanita. Dianne had “discovered” the coastal community previously through a friend and had purchased a house. When it came time to retire the obvious place to be was Manzanita. Cal joined her and the two were married on the beach on a sand dune, as Cal recalls, not far from the house. “We were single at the time and had known each other for years…we shared a common philosophical outlook and had similar backgrounds,” Dianne
Cal and Dianne Getty at their home in Manzanita where they have lived the past 20 years. Photo by Dave Fisher
explained. A couple they met on the beach stood up for them during a short ceremony. Dianne’s sister and husband were there as well. A couple of weeks later they celebrated the occasion with a big party at their house.
Newly retired, they were not prepared to do nothing and they quickly became involved with Pine Grove Community House. That was in the early 1990s and, at the time, Pine Grove was teetering on the edge of the fiscal cliff. To make matters worse, the building, which dates back to the 1930s, was in a state of deteriorating condition. “The question back then was are we going to sell it or make something out of it?” said Dianne. Their background in education and as administrators lent This year’s Fourth of July poster itself well it turned out. Cal led a was created by Neah-Kah-Nie High visioning process after taking over School freshman Gabe Calkins. The as president of Pine Grove. Dianne Mudd Nick Foundation and Art Haptook the lead in renting the facility. pens sponsored the 2014 edition of Goals were set and steps taken to the poster with proceeds from sales restore the facility. benefitting the Mudd Nicks. “Steve Taccogna, a roofer The full-color poster depicts the turned chiropractor, replaced the parade route along Ocean Road in roof for the cost of materials…we Manzanita as it heads north to Neahgot a lot of pro bono type help,” kahnie Mountain. A border featuring said Cal. “We needed to do someAmerican symbols of freedom and Inthing so Dianne and I painted Pine dependence Day celebration surround Grove inside and out, even the the parade route artwork. floor on our knees.” Posters may be purchased for $20, As rental of the space increased, or $30 for a limited number of signed thanks, in part to an enhanced and numbered poster, at the Manzanita rate structure, so did revenues, Mudd Dogs hot dog stand, Manzanita and more and more people began Rental, Great Northern Garlic Co. and discovering Manzanita. Suddenly, Salt & Paper.
Fourth of July poster unveiled
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Earlier this month, members of the Manzanita City Council got a firsthand look at what was once the Manzanita Fire Hall on Fifth Street to review the condition of the building and see if it could be possibly renovated into a new city hall for Manzanita. Led by city building inspector Doug Dick, the visual tour was a first step as the council hopes by year’s end plan a course of action for city-owned property. That doesn’t mean a new city hall would be built anytime soon, City Manager Jerry Taylor told the Citizen, but, at least, the city council hopes to determine what is possible in laying out the initial groundwork. The “rough evaluation” by Dick of the station’s condition left councilors satisfied for the time Cracks in the exterior masonry wall of the former Manza- being, said Taylor. “As a building nita Fire Hall due to the foundation settling is a big concern inspector, Doug has an intuitive for city building inspector Doug Dick. Photo by Dave Fisher feel” for the condition of buildings,
he added. “My unofficial advice would be that it would probably cost as much to bring it (the existing station) into compliance as to build a new city hall from the ground up,” said Dick. “There’s some pretty major deficiencies that would have to be corrected it was turned into an office building.” One of those deficiencies is cracking in the exterior masonry walls. “The building wasn’t built to today’s seismic standards and isn’t up to code,” said Dick of the station that was initially built in the 1950s and added onto over the years. Dick indicated that there was evidence that the foundation in certain areas was sinking thereby causing the cracks in the walls. While the goal is to make a decision by the end of the year as to how to proceed, financing a new structure is still up in the air. “The perception is the public is
See CITY HALL, page 3