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Headlight Herald
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 25, 2019
VOL. 132, NO. 52 • $1.00
TILLAMOOK, OREGON • WWW.TILLAMOOKHEADLIGHTHERALD.COM
Quilters warm hearts at youth facility A
good quilt will last a lifetime and more, providing familiar warmth and comfort to its owners. Combine that with the spirit of holiday giving and you’ve found the perfect gift. Around a dozen members of the Tillamook County Quilters Guild pulled together to make six beautiful, unique quilts that were donated to the Tillamook Youth Correctional Facility. The quilts will find their way into the hands of deserving young people under supervision or approaching departure. The project began around springtime, with the ladies working on the quilts as time allowed. The Guild meets monthly, so some work was done after meetings or in homes, a steady routine of cutting and sewing. When they were done they went to be longarmed. They took a while just getting onto the machine. The idea was credited to John Laurin, husband of Quilters Guild Treasurer Diane Laurin. John is a longtime volunteer with the Master Gardener Program at the youth
facility and spends a lot of time there. Facility officials spoke highly of John’s work and dedication. Diane and Quilters Guild President Lisa Wiley delivered the quilts to the facility, where they were warmly received by Tillamook Youth Correctional Facility Superintendent Tony Kornegay, Camp Tillamook Office Specialist 2 Deborah Westoby, and Camp Tillamook Director James Sapper. Wiley and Diane said the Guild chose the youth facility for a quilt donation project because it’s local, there is a clear need, and it’s a good group of people who they knew would appreciate the gifts. Sapper said in the business of developing young people, showing a connection to the community is valuable, particularly for those transitioning from the facility to society. “Kids who are troubled or who have a rocky past, they need to know that there’s other people out there who don’t even know
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Tillamook Youth Correctional Facility Superintendent Tony Kornegay, Camp Tillamook Office Specialist 2 Deborah Westoby, Camp Tillamook Director James Sapper, Tillamook County Quilters Guild President Lisa Wiley, Tillamook County Quilters Guild Treasurer Diane Laurin. Cody Mann/Headlight Herald
Tillamook County Shop with a Cop celebrates 15 years L
ocal law enforcement went shopping with kids for the 15th year at the Tillamook Fred Meyer on Saturday, Dec. 21. The aim of the Shop with a Cop program is to build trust and rapport
between the children in the area and law enforcement. “We are so excited to able to celebrate this as our 15th year,” Tillamook Police Chief Terry Wright said in a press release. “Over the years, we
have served so many children in need. We are now serving children who their parents are past participants.” The program originally began in 1978 in Las Vegas, Nevada. It was designed
to give children who have experienced a negative contact with law enforcement a chance to purchase Christmas gifts for themselves and family members. That might include being removed from
home, a death investigation or other unpleasant encounters. It also serves to enhance the image of the police in the eyes of those children. The program has reportedly been a great success in Tillamook
County and has become an annual tradition Tillamook law enforcement and Fred Meyer. The goal is to have around
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Tillamook County Sheriff’s Office Chaplains John Elms and Sean McRae take a Tillamook County Sheriff Jim Horton shopping with an excited Jace Kreutzer. quick break from shopping with Alejandro Sanchez. Cody Mann/Headlight Herald Cody Mann/Headlight Herald
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Santa’s Toy Bag: A community effort for those in need Cody Mann headlightnews@countrymedia.net
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illamook Fire District and its Volunteer Firefighter Association, Tillamook Creamery and Fred Meyer joined forces with the Tillamook Ecumenical Council Christmas Basket Program again this year to bring toys and joy to those in need. All the toys and gifts donated go to Tillamook-area families. Fire Chief Daron Bement thanked Fred
Meyer and others for supporting the effort to reach the public and gather donations and toys. Tillamook Creamery holds its own internal toy drive and makes a large donation of gifts on behalf of the company and employees. This year, the local Creamery employees donate around 160 toys in Tillamook alone. Tillamook Creamery has been participating in holiday giving opportunities for several years. The company changed it up about seven years ago to the toy drive in support of the Tillamook
Fire’s Santa’s Bag Toy Drive efforts. Including this year’s 160, more than 900 toys have been donated to local kids by the Creamery, more than 700 in Tillamook specifically. The toy drive is all about what’s best for children, whether that’s Legos, RC cars, bicycles, stuffed toys, dolls – this year saw cash turned into gift cards as well as a few donated Kindles and other items for the more mature age groups,
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Les Schwab Tire Center’s holiday drive donates toys to various organizations Hilary Dorsey headlightreporter@countrymedia.net
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es Schwab Tire Center in Tillamook collected toys at their
store for their annual Holiday Drive. They delivered toys on Wednesday, Dec. 18, to Adventist Health Tillamook Regional Medical Center, Tillamook Lion’s Club, Tillamook Elk’s Lodge, Tillamook Seventh-
Britta Lawrence, Tillamook Chamber of Commerce; Dane Lawrence, manager of Les Schwab; Albert Willhite, from Les Schwab; Micah Smith, finance officer at Adventist Health; and Eric Swanson, president of Adventist Health.
day Adventist Church and a catholic church. This is the second year Les Schwab has done the drive with the hospital but has held a Holiday Drive for many years. “The hospital is kind of a unique one,” said Les Schwab Manager Dane Lawrence. Les Schwab also took cash donations at the store. Whatever donations they receive throughout the season, they match it, go to Fred Meyer and purchase stuffed animals, teddy bears and blankets. They put the items in ambulances or have them for newborns. Many of these items go to children and newborns at the hospital. Lawrence said the turnout of donations this year was really good. Les Schwab collected about 15 bags of toys and collected $841 and went above the match. “We thought this would be a way to help the families, not necessarily just the patient or the kid,” Lawrence said. The Young Pros of Tillamook also did their own toy drive and dropped off four bags and a cash donation to Les Schwab.
“They were a big part of this as well,” Lawrence said of the Young Pros. Les Schwab delivered the donations toys to Adventist Health at 9 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 18. They also fully funded Adventist Health’s Reach Out and Read Program for 2020, as well as for the remainder of 2019. Lawrence said the hospital is one that gets overlooked during the holidays. “It’s important to give back to a community that supports us throughout the year,” Lawrence said. They delivered the check for the Reach Out and Read Program to the hospital on Friday, Dec. 20, for $1,050. “It’s pretty amazing what this town does for kids,” Lawrence said. “We usually give to the Catholic church, but they were already full.” Lawrence said the church already had all the toys they needed before they could get to them, so they were able to disperse them out. “It’s really amazing how this community kind of pulls together, especially around the holidays, and it’s pretty cool to be a part of it,”