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Spring

2023

TUESDAY, JANUARY 31, 2023

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VOL. 135, NO. 5 • $1.50

Chamber Award winners announced at annual banquet

The Tillamook Chamber of Commerce held its Annual Awards Banquet Saturday at the Tillamook County Fairgrounds to a sold out house. Pictured top left to right: Justin Aufdermauer with Citizen of the Year winner Brian Betgrand with the Tillamook DMV, Small Business of the Year JAndy Oyster Company, Development Project of the Year, Koch’s Drug Store Building renovation, Terry Phillips. Bottom: TBCC Welding Program for Program of the Year and Business of the Year, TP Freight who just celebrated its 100th Anniversary of doing business in Tillamook last Summer. Photos by Cami Aufdermauer.

Tillamook Education Foundation giving over $50K in grants and scholarships T

Will Chappell Headlight Reporter

he Tillamook Education Foundation has been supporting local students for more than 15 years through grants to improve their experience in the district and scholarships to support their continuing education. This year, the foundation awarded $37,950 in scholarship funds to students pursuing postsecondary education and another $15,000 in grants to teachers across the district. “We want our kids to find their interest and we want to support them in that,” said Jennifer Guarcello, the foundation’s director. “Foster their excitement and then help them grow from there.” The scholarships that the foundation offers come from a variety of donors across the community. Community donations to the foundation are funding scholarships for 22 Tillamook students to pursue post-secondary this year. Guarcello was quick to note that the scholarships were available for students pursuing a wide range of programs, not just traditional fouryear degrees. “We’re looking at supporting kids in two-year programs, trade schools and four-year universities,” Guarcello said. Of particular note is the George and Martha Mabon Scholarship, which is specifically intended for first-generation college students. In addition to offering generous financial support, the scholarship pairs students with a Tillamook teacher who helps in the scholarship application process and offers support throughout the college experience. Allison Wilkes is a senior at Pacific University and has received

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the Mabon Scholarship each year of her college career. Wilkes will be attending optometry school at Pacific University in the fall and said that the scholarship was a big confidence boost heading into college. “It’s been super helpful because it kind of made me believe in myself more after I got in and feel really supported,” Wilkes said. She said that the financial support had allowed her to focus more of her time on studying, instead of worrying about working to support herself. She also said that the mentorship provided by Elizabeth Shelley, the teacher with whom she paired to apply for the scholarship, had been invaluable and the two had formed a close Johnny Begin with Black Cheddar, the 1996 Camaro the drag relationship. club rebuilt. “We text all the time, we still text to this day,” Wilkes said. Grants from the foundation bot and handheld microscopes that The foundation awards a long have also been used for classroom she bought with grant funds while list of scholarships in addition to completing a research project for a libraries, art supplies, bilingual the Mabon, including the Tom graduate school class. books for libraries, alternative Fink Scholarship for students at“I saw so much more unseating options for kids and to tending Portland state, the Pastega prompted problem solving and purchase new carpets. Scholarships given to five stuteamwork than before and it was Money for these grants, as for dents annually, the Harold Schild really wonderful,” McDaniel said. the scholarships, comes from Memorial Scholarship devoted to “The grant allowed me to pursue community support around Tilagriculture studies, the Howard something really special for my lamook. Wagner Scholarship for trade students and myself and I am so The foundation hosts an annual school students and five scholarappreciative.” fundraiser, the Legacy Dinner, ships in honor of former teachers. John Begin, who teaches auto which raises around $15,000, The other thrust of the foundashop at Tillamook High School, is while the rest of the funding tion’s work is supporting local teachers with grants to supplement another frequent recipient of fund- comes from direct donations. ing from the foundation. This year’s Legacy Dinner is their classroom budget. Begin has used annual grants scheduled for April 22, and will be Jenny McDaniel, a kindergarto help finance part of his students hosted by Werner Beef and Brew, ten teacher at Liberty Elementary School, has taken advantage of the building of two drag racing cars in who has hosted the event for the the last five years. past two years, donating food and program to enhance her students’ The grants from the foundation drinks. classroom experience three times. along with generous contributions Guarcello said that support for She has used grant funds to from the community have allowed the foundation has grown steadily create math bags for her kids to him to give his students valuable, since its inception in 2007 and that help streamline her classroom’s hands-on experiences. it has paid dividends for students workflow, buy supplies for her “Actually getting out and seeing in the district. writing workshop and buy toys to how these things perform, that’s “It makes our classroom envihelp with STEM education. really what our program in general ronment better,” Guarcello said. “I feel like it’s a great way to is all about,” Begin said. “That’s what we’re about, making go above and beyond for our kids He said that over the past five it a better experience.” and our classrooms and be able to years he has applied for and ask for those bigger things on our received between $500 and $1,000 Please send any comments to wish list,” McDaniel said. annually to help purchase safety headlightreporter@countrymedia. She was particularly excited equipment for the cars. net. about the LEGO wall, codable ro-

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County approves $125K for Homeless Response System T

Will Chappell Headlight Reporter

he Tillamook County Board of Commissioners approved a $125,000 contract to begin work on a coordinated homeless services response system as part of a state pilot program. The contract with X4 Health is the first step in a five-year project to create a system that will better connect homeless citizens with services across the county. Funding to start the program was allocated by state legislators in House Bill 4123 last year. The bill selected eight counties from across the state to receive $1 million in funding over two years to set up offices to coordinate homeless services in their counties. Tillamook’s office will be housed in the Community Action Resource Enterprises (CARE) building in Tillamook and all seven cities in the

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