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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2022

TILLAMOOK, OREGON • WWW.TILLAMOOKHEADLIGHTHERALD.COM

VOL. 134, NO. 42 • $1.50

Halloween fun around county Chelsea Yarnell Guest Contributor

This is Part One of a two part feature on local 2022 Halloween events. Read next week’s edition for another feature on local events. Trunk-or-Treat Port of Garibaldi The Port of Garibaldi is focusing on a safe Halloween. The weekend before Halloween, the Port of Garibaldi will host their first ever Trunk-or-Treat event on Oct. 22 from 3-6 p.m. “Since we are the week before Halloween, we are going to pass out a packet of safety information for how to have a safe Halloween,” Port of Garibaldi Events and Tourism Coordinator Laura Schmidt said. “We’re partnering with local safety responders to promote a safe Halloween experience in our community.” Participating vehicles in the trunk-or-treat event will line Biak Avenue. The street will be closed to thru traffic so pedestrians can safely walk the streets and trick-or-treat. “I was hired on this year to bring more events to the community,” Schmidt said. “During Garibaldi Days, one of our locals did a car show on Biak [Avenue] and it turned out really neat with the marina in the backdrop. I thought it would be really cool to do something similar for Halloween.” In addition to candy, attendees can expect games and prizes, voting for their favorite decorated trunk, and participate in a scavenger hunt. “The scavenger hunt is geared for people to go to local businesses,” Schmidt said. “People will get their little checklist and can return the completed form to enter a raffle drawing for a free Port of Garibaldi kids’ size sweatshirt.” Registration is still open for those who wish to participate by decorating a vehicle trunk. Registration is required at: https://forms.gle/eKrqszhvrkLqU2hc6 If you would like to volunteer or donate to the event, please contact Laura Schmidt at 503-374-1424 or events@portofgaribaldi.org.

Trunk-or-Treat hosted by Rockaway Beach Fire & Rescue will be hosted Oct. 29 from 1-3 p.m. at the Rockaway Beach Wayside (Hwy 101 & S. Pacific). Trunk-or-Treat Rockaway Beach Fire & Rescue A community favorite is back for its third year. Trunk-or-Treat hosted by Rockaway Beach Fire & Rescue will be hosted Oct. 29 from 1-3 p.m. at the Rockaway Beach Wayside (Hwy 101 & S. Pacific). “[Three years ago] we didn’t have one,” Rockaway Beach Fire & Rescue Fire Chief Todd Hesse said. “We saw a need in the community, especially during COVID, to let the kids in the community have a trickor-treating opportunity.” Since its first year, the event has grown from four participating vehicles to a dozen plus. “It’s growing at a great rate and our community loves it,” Hesse said. “Our firefighters come down and interact with the kids and have a great time. You don’t have kids roaming in the neighborhoods, you can put it all in one confined space…and have vendors with people you can trust.” Fire engines will be on site for kids to explore as well as demonstrations for adults. “It’s a good event for everyone; kids of all ages,” said Hesse. In addition to candy, Rockaway

Fire & Rescue will distribute a safety item, such as glow stick, to attendees. “We usually pass out something to mark a dark costume so that the kids are lit and can be seen when walking around,” Hesse said. Sparky the firedog will also make an appearance and be ready for Halloween photos with trick-ortreaters. There is still plenty of room for participating trunks. Registration is required and can be completed by contacting the Rockaway Beach Fire & Rescue Station at 503-3552291. Pick you poison Riverbend Players present: DRACULA! Oct. 21-23 NCRD, Nehalem A radio play by Philip Grecian and directed by Tom Cocklin Trunk-or-Treat Port of Garibaldi Oct. 22, 3-6 p.m. Biak Avenue, Port of Garibaldi Scavenger hunt, games, candy, prizes, best decorated trunk contest, and more! Trunk-or-Treat Rockaway Beach Fire & Rescue Oct. 29, 1-3 p.m.

Rockaway Beach Wayside, Hwy 101 & S. Pacific Meet Rockaway Beach firefighters, collect candy and information for a safe Halloween. Trick-or-Treat the Dory Fleet Oct. 29, 5-8 p.m. Kiawanda Community Center, Pacific City “Trunk-or-Treat” the local dory boats. Hall-O-Nita Oct. 31, 3-5 p.m. Downtown Manzanita Trick-or-Treat at participating businesses. Enter coloring contest at Toylandia for a chance to win prizes. Downtown Trick-or-Treat Tillamook Oct. 31, 3-5 p.m. Downtown Tillamook Trick-or-Treat at participating businesses. Monster Mash Bash Oct. 31, 3-8 p.m. 2nd Street Plaza, Tillamook DJ, dancing, costume contests for adults and children, pumpkin carving/painting, food, pumpkin bowling, and more.

Terry Phillips continues to expand his business plans in Tillamook Currently working on two downtown remodels

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Will Chappell Reporter

erry Phillips has built a strong portfolio of businesses in Tillamook over the last twenty-three years, all while staying focused on improving the town and giving back to Tillamook. “I love this community,” Phillips said. “I feel business owners are obligated to give back.” Phillips owns several commercial properties in downtown Tillamook and operates North Coast Lawn and the Dutch Mill Café. He is currently preparing to open his new tanning salon and finishing up work on another Main Avenue property. Phillips was born in Tillamook and grew up in Fort Hood, before moving back to Tillamook 40 years ago. In the 1990s, he became involved in drug dealing, ending up in the Oregon State Penitentiary for a year in 1995. “That’s state custody, it gets no better than that,” Phillips joked. He continued selling drugs after

his release from prison, until starting North Coast Lawn in 1999. At first, Phillips mowed lawns himself, starting with neighbors, but his clientele soon expanded to local businesses spurring fast growth of and leading it to profitability in less than a decade. For Phillips, it was important to establish his businesses in Tillamook. “It’s easy to run from your problems,” he said, “but to have a bad reputation and to turn yourself around in the same town is a difMain Ave building on the Second Street Plaza Terry Phillips ficult challenge, but I think it was bought and is now remodeling. Photos by Will Chappell a challenge that was worth taking on.” he and other building owners have downtown. He is currently finishOnce North Coast Lawn had been undertaking. ing up remodeling work on the old become established, Phillips began He pointed specifically to the Cook’s Drug Store building across expanding into real estate around the street from the Dutch Mill, with Salty Raven boutique operated by 2010, buying a storage rental facilSeasons Kaz Sparks, Todd Bouchaopening expected later this month. ity on Third Street and building a rd’s redevelopment of buildings on He is also in the middle of a portfolio of residential properties First Street and Lisa Greiner’s onmajor project on a building in the around town. going development of apartments Second Street pedestrian plaza. Phillips was successful in resiabove the Oregon Coast Dance Phillips expects the project to dential property management but Center, as examples of the kind of take another three to five years to has shifted his focus to commercial complete, but when finished it will projects downtown needs. properties in the last five years. “People aren’t going to stop for house nine apartments upstairs and He bought the Dutch Mill Cafe one or two little businesses,” Philcommercial space downstairs. on Main Avenue and completely lips said. “But if there’s a handful, Phillips views the revitalization renovated the restaurant, which he six, eight, ten, they’re likely to of Tillamook’s downtown as an now operates. stop.” important project in which he is “I wanted to create something After twenty years in business excited to play a role. that was memorable to people and in Tillamook County, Phillips feels “There’s activity downtown enjoyable to people,” he said of the now, I think we were forgotten for a called to continue to give back to Dutch Mill project. while, but I think it piques people’s That is an ethos that Phillips has interest and motivates people,” he n See PHILLIPS, Page A3 continued to bring to more projects said of the recent redevelopment

Swiss Society to Celebrate 100 years I

t is not covered in a lot of history books, but the Swiss were in America long before the United States was even an idea. More than 200 years, in fact. But, as with many other immigrant groups, it was the late 19th and early 20th centuries when the pace of immigration started to pick up. Nearly a quarter million Swiss are estimated to have arrived in the U.S. between 1860 and the 1910s. Among those pioneers were some who made their way to the Pacific Northwest—Oregon, to be exact— and settled in Tillamook County. Proud of the heritage they brought to their new country, those settlers eventually founded the Tillamook Swiss Society in 1922. A century later, the community is about to celebrate the organization’s 100th anniversary. “The Swiss pioneers brought their expertise in dairy farming to this Oregon coastal environment, with the promise of building a new life for their families and creating a community,” said Julie Hurliman, a 4th generation Tillamook Swiss and the Community and Industry Programs Manager for Tillamook Coast Visitors Association. “With their hard work, collaboration and resilience, they laid the foundation for the area’s cheese making business—now a nationally known brand. I’m thrilled to be able to celebrate the cultural bonds of our community.” The Tillamook Swiss Society has been celebrating with traditional dances, music and food every year since it was founded; but this year is, of course, one of special significance. All the stops are being pulled out for a particularly memorable event on Saturday, November 5 from 10:30 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. at the Tillamook Fairgrounds. Admission is free, and there will be food for sale at the event. Swiss culture at every turn The day begins with a 5K run. But this no ordinary 5K. It’s the Lederhosen 5K Fun Run, challenging participants to make it to the finish line wearing the traditional shorts and suspenders many non-Swiss associate with yodelers from old movies. Prior registration and a registration fee are required to participate in the Fun Run. The cultural salute continues with Swiss music and dance throughout the day, including accordion players, choral groups, alphorns, yodeling, dance academy performers, dance lessons, and even highly-skilled Tirolean dancers. There are even Swiss sports on the agenda: a Schwingen competition and a Steinstossen competition. Schwingen is a traditional style of Swiss wrestling in which competitors face each other in a sawdust ring wearing schwinghosen over their trousers. Schwinghosen is a rough-material pair of shorts secured by a strong leather belt that is grasped in order to perform holds and throws. The winner

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