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Headlight Herald
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 2020
VOL. 133, NO. 2 • $1.00
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Tillamook Coast Guard grants senior’s wish for a boat ride Cody Mann headlightnews@countrymedia.net Coast Guard Station Tillamook Bay never misses a chance to help someone. This past week, a crew took 92-year-old Stella McDonald and members of her family for a boat ride. She was thrilled. McDonald, who has been a Tillamook-area citizen for more than 65 years, along with her husband raised their children fishing in the Tillamook Bay. Her memories of good times on the water were calling to her, and she wanted to get out there at least one more time. It had been three years since she was out on the water. Social workers at Adventist Health Home Care reached out to the Coast Guard directly with a request on McDonald’s behalf this past November. It was something Station Tillamook Bay hadn’t ever done before, meaning the path to permission had to be mapped out after the request was made. There were concerns about McDonald’s health and mobility, but after speaking with her social worker, it was made clear to the Coast Guard that McDonald is not only mentally very sharp, she is also physically fit enough to be safe on a boat in Tillamook Bay. She doesn’t even get seasick. With that information in hand, they were ready to move forward.
A Coast Guard crew from Station Tillamook Bay took 92-year-old Stella McDonald and family members for a ride. Cody Mann/Headlight Herald The hardest part of preparing for the trip was setting a date. It’s no secret that the Oregon Coast is very unpredictable this time of year. The first voyage was scrapped because of unfavorable weather, but the next date could not have been better picked. McDonald and family strolled down to the Garibaldi Marina on a clear day under warm sunshine. Even the wind seemed to cooperate for a bit. “It was wonderful. Everyone was so kind and so helpful, and they didn’t act like it was a chore for them,” McDonald said. “They enjoyed it, too.” McDonald also joked that she had no idea the Coast Guard would be using such a
big boat for the trip. She expected maybe a rowboat, and she’d get the oars. That probably wouldn’t have allowed for McDonald’s crew – she was accompanied by her son, daughter, and a grandson. Driving the boat was Boatswain’s Mate
First Class Jimmy Thrall, Operations Petty Officer at Coast Guard Station Tillamook Bay. He set a destination to the Coast Guard Tower on the North Jetty, which is roughly two nauti-
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FDA bans fruit, mint flavored cartridges for e-cigarettes released a statement in response to the FDA announcement, Merkley said the health of The U.S. Food and millions of American Drug Administration children will continue to (FDA) issued Thursday, suffer. Jan. 2, a policy prioritiz“This announceing enforcement against ment is simply stating certain unauthorized that FDA will target its flavored e-cigarette enforcement on flavors, products that are said to and even then, it is appeal to kids, including carving out loopholes fruit and mint flavors. for tobacco and menUnder this policy, thol flavors, and vape companies that do not shops,” Merkley said in stop manufacturing, the statement. “FDA’s distributing and selling own announcement of unauthorized flavored preliminary data from cartridge-based ethe 2019 National Youth cigarettes (other than Tobacco Survey shows tobacco or menthol) that youth use of menwithin 30 days, risk enthol e-cigarettes soared forcement actions from in 2019 after JUUL the FDA. stopped selling fruit The final guidance flavors.” outlining the agency’s A spokesperson for enforcement priorities the FDA, Stephanie for electronic nicotine Caccomo, responded by delivery systems such email to the Headlight as e-cigarettes and Herald’s request for a e-liquids comes as the response to Merkley’s 2019 National Youth statement. Caccomo Tobacco Survey results said the FDA believes on e-cigarette use shows prioritizing enforcement that more than five milwith respect to flavored, lion U.S. middle and cartridge-based ENDS high school students are products, other than current e-cigarette users, tobacco or menthol-flawith a majority of those vored ENDS products, reporting cartridgeachieves an appropriate based products such balance between restrictas JUUL as their usual ing youth access to kidbrand. appealing products and Beginning in 30 days, maintaining availability the FDA intends to of options for current prioritize enforcement adult smokers. against illegally mar“A recently published keted electronic nicostudy, focusing on tine delivery systems youth use of JUUL – a (ENDS) products by cartridge-based ENDS focusing on the followproduct, shows that ing groups of products rates of use of tobacco that do not have premar- and menthol-flavored ket authorization: any JUUL products ranked flavored, cartridge-based among the lowest for ENDS product (other respondents (i.e. eighth, than tobacco or men10th, and 12th graders), thol), all other ENDS and were much lower products for which the than those for mint and manufacturer has failed fruit-flavored JUUL to take adequate meaproducts,” Caccomo sures to prevent minors’ said. “Additionally, access, and any ENDS menthol in particular product that is targeted is unique compared to to minors or likely to other available ENDS promote use of ENDS to product flavors, as it is minors. the only flavor available Oregon Sen. Jeff in cigarettes.” Merkley, the top DemoCaccomo said mencrat on the Appropriathol cigarettes are used tions Subcommittee that oversees the FDA, n See VAPE, Page A8 Hilary Dorsey headlightreporter@ countrymedia.net
The final remains of the once-glorious Hotel Annex on Bayocean Spit, 1949.
Photo courtesy of Thomas Robinson, Historic Photo Archive. Photo: Hugh Ackroyd
Lost City of Bayocean premiering on OPB On an upcoming episode of Oregon Public Broadcasting’s (OPB) “Oregon Field Guide” learn more about “The Lost City of Bayocean.” The 30-minute program offers a historical look at the once-thriving coastal town in Tillamook County, uncovering the mystery behind its rise and fall. It tells the story of a pioneering vision and dreams lost to a man-made environmental catastrophe. The narrow spit of land that separates Tillamook Bay from the Pacific Ocean was once home to a thriving resort known as “The Atlantic City of the West.” Founded in 1907, Bayocean
Park boasted a natatorium (complete with heated seawater and a wave generator), a dance pavilion, a hotel and elaborate plans for many other amenities. By 1914, commercial interests in the region needed a jetty to tame the treacherous Tillamook bar. The Army Corps of Engineers proposed a dual jetty system. But local communities couldn’t raise enough money to fulfill the plan and The grand natatorium and open-air dance pavilion on the beach at Bayocean. Photo courtesy of Lorraine Eckhardt opted for a single jetty on the north side, which was shoreline. was completely breached completed in 1917. That By the end of the 1920s, and what remained was a miscalculation unleashed Bayocean’s buildings were shrinking island with just a the powerful forces of the beginning to tumble off handful of stalwart inhabitmighty Pacific that began palisades into the ocean. carving away Bayocean’s In 1952, the narrow spit n See BAYOCEAN, Page A3
Idaho stop: New law lets cyclists yield at stop signs Hilary Dorsey headlightreporter@countrymedia.net A new state law set to go into effect Jan. 1, 2020 will change what cyclists are legally required to do at intersections. Senate Bill 998 states that bicyclists
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approaching an intersection with a stop sign or flashing red light may proceed through the intersection or make a turn without stopping as long as they slow to a safe speed, yield the right of way to pedestrians, and yield to traffic that is already in the intersection or approaching. Under current Oregon law, individuals riding bicycles on public roads are treated like other vehicles and must stop at intersections controlled by stop signs or a flashing red light before proceeding through the intersection. Several other states, including Idaho, allow bicyclists to treat stop signs or flashing red lights as yield signs and proceed through the intersection if the bicyclist takes certain precautions. Senate Bill 998 allows a bicyclist approaching an intersection regulated by a stop sign or flashing red light at a safe speed to proceed through that intersection or make a turn without stopping. It also creates a traffic violation of improper entry into an intersection controlled by a stop sign and improper
entry into an intersection controlled by a flashing red light. A violation of either occurs when a bicyclist fails to yield to traffic within the intersection or to traffic that is approaching so close as to create an immediate hazard, disobeys a police officer or flagger, fails to exercise care to avoid an accident, or fails to yield the right of way to a pedestrian. Under the new law, a cyclist can be fined up to $250 to failing to yield at a stop sign or red flashing light intersection. Testimony received by the House Committee on Rules on June 24 was in favor of the new law. Alex Graham, a cyclist in Portland, has been a cyclist for decades and a bike commuter for more than 10 years. “This bill is an easy win for all road users and should absolutely come up for a vote and receive the support of all Oregon lawmakers,” Graham wrote. Graham said the law was an obvious
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