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TUESDAY, JANUARY 4, 2022
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Latimer Quilt and Textile Center working museum is a hidden gem for Tillamook N
Mallory Gruben Tillamook Chamber
estled alongside the Wilson River in a former schoolhouse sits one of Tillamook’s greatest gems: The Latimer Quilt and Textile Center. A “working museum,” where visitors can explore the history of textile art while watching quilters in action, the center is one of just 10 of its kind in the nation, said manager Kim Schauss. It draws visitors from all over the world to learn about textile art and view beautifully crafted quilts and weavings — curated over the last three decades. “It’s just a fun place to be. It’s a place you come to learn, to educate and to share,” said Board Chair Carol Weber. This year, Latimer celebrates its 30th anniversary as a member of the Tillamook Chamber of Commerce. Weber said the Chamber has been a great support in ensuring Latimer can carry on its legacy right here in Tillamook, despite some of the challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. “We’ve had to cut back during the pandemic. At first, we couldn’t have anyone in the center. Now, we are open to the public again, but only for 2 days a week,” Weber said. “Through it all, the Chamber has been a very good partner. They’ve provided free supplies like masks and hand sanitizer, and they coordinate a community calendar where we’ve been able to advertise the few events we can have.” A working museum Those events include small open houses for new exhibits at the museum. On display now are more than a dozen holiday themed quilts. Come January, Latimer will show a portion of the newest “crazy quilts” in its collection. (Crazy quilts are made from block with a wide variety of fabrics, cut in different shapes and often embellished with hand embroidery.) “Our gallery features new northwest artists with six shows a year,” Weber said. “We also have an extensive collection of about 400 quilts ranging from the 1700s to present day.” Latimer also displays antique quilts from its collection in the East Room, which doubles as a workspace for seamstresses. Textile-related groups like quilters or knitters can reserve the room for meetings. Down the hall in the West Room, several large looms and spinning
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TCHD reports cases, vaccine clinic updates (Top) The West Room at the Latimer Quilt and Textile Center houses several looms, where local weavers may be found making new textiles at the working museum. (Botttom) Colorful textiles made by local artisans adorn the walls of the Latimer Quilt and Textile Center, a working museum for quilts, weavings and other textiles. Photos provided wheels wait for the weavers to use. Many looms have active projects on them, and once COVID restrictions lift fully, visitors that stop in when the weavers are there, too, can watch as they work. “You don’t have to know how to spin or weave to enjoy seeing the processes in action,” Schauss said. “That’s one of my favorite parts of the center. You can enjoy it whether or not you’ve done textile arts before.” For now, Latimer’s regular crafting groups meet while the museum is closed to the public. But even that is a joyous experience for many of the artists who spent months without their usual companions during the stay-at-home order near the start of the pandemic. “It was amazing the first time our knitters could get together in person again,” Weber said. “They had been meeting digitally over Zoom, but it’s not the same experience. They really missed leaning on each other,
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both metaphorically and physical, for advice, solace and levity during difficult times.” Weber said she encourages anyone interested in learning more to stop by the center when it is open to the public from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesdays and Saturdays. Residents can also purchase a membership, which covers admission for the year (otherwise $4 per day) and includes
resources about all the classes, events and tools available through Latimer. “Even though we get visitors from all around the world and are well known in the quilting community, sometimes it feels like we’re like Tillamook’s best kept secret,” joked Latimer Schauss. “We invite the community to learn more about this special and rare working museum right in their backyard.”
Adventist Health announces free take-home COVID test kits
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dventist Health Tillamook is partnering with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to distribute free, FDAapproved COVID-19 self-testing kits to the communities where Adventist Health Tillamook has medical offices in Estacada, Lincoln City, Manzanita, Pacific City, Sheridan, Tillamook, Vernonia, and Welches. These test kits are available for home use to all patients who request them by walk-in or scheduled appointment to any of our medical offices listed below, starting as soon they are delivered from the federal government. Information on initial availability will be announced on Adventist Health Tillamook’s Facebook page, currently estimated to be the week of January 3, 2022. These kits are supplied to Adventist Health medical offices weekly and distributed while supplies last. Testing for COVID-19 has been identified as a critical component to containing the expansion of the virus,
which has been forecasted to peak again in the coming months due to the highly transmissible Omicron variant. These free COVID-19 testing kits use an antigen test to determine a result, a widely available method of testing that produces results in less than 15 minutes through a test strip that identifies antibodies specific to COVID-19. Gina Seufert, RN, Physician and Clinic Services Executive and Privacy Officer at Adventist Health Tillamook shares “I think it is very important to have easy access to testing when patients are feeling like they have COVID symptoms or know they have been exposed to someone who is COVID positive.” Ms. Seufert continues, “If this predicted wave of COVID comes, these at-home test kits will help contain patient exposure in our communities and will encourage people who are positive to seek appropriate care early on before hospital resources are needed.”
Adventist Health Tillamook locations providing free COVID tests are as follows: • Medical Office – Estacada, 200 SE Highway 224, Estacada, OR, 503-630-5511 • Medical Office – Hoodland, 24461 E Welches Road, Welches, OR, 503-622-3126 • Medical Office – Lincoln City, 1105 Jetty Avenue, Ste C, Lincoln City, OR, 541-614-0482 • Medical Office – Manzanita, 10445 Neahkahnie Creek Road, Manzanita, OR, 503-3686244 • Medical Office – Pacific City, 38505 Brooten Road, Ste A, Pacific City, OR, 503-965-6555 • Medical Office – Plaza, 1100 Third Street, Tillamook, OR, 503-842-5546 • Medical Office – Sheridan, 222 SE Jefferson Street, Sheridan, OR, 503-843-1535 • Medical Office – Vernonia, 1005 Cougar Street, Vernonia, OR, 503-429-1953
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Hilary Dorsey Staff Writer
illamook County had 10 COVID-19 cases for the weekend case count and 102 for the 14-day case count. For the month of December, from Dec. 1-26, the county has had 186 cases, as of Tuesday, Dec. 28. Tillamook County Health Department reported during a community update on Dec. 28 a total of 48 COVID-related deaths. Eight of those individuals were fully vaccinated. “Our test positivity rate from Dec. 19 through Dec. 25 was 7.9 percent,” Emergency Preparedness Coordinator Ed Colson said. “Previous 7-day period was 10.6 percent.” Colson said there are three confirmed outbreaks in Tillamook County, 15 pending investigation, for a total of 18 under monitoring. Oregon Health Authority reported workplace outbreaks, as of Dec. 29, at Tillamook County Creamery Association with eight cases. COVID-19 testing is available through the health center from 1-5 p.m. Monday through Friday at the acute care clinic located at 2111 8th St. in Tillamook. Appointments are required. Call 503-842-3900 to schedule an appointment. Adventist Health and Rinehart Clinic also have testing available. “Early, safe and effective treatment for COVID-19 is available in Tillamook County,” Colson said. “Please contact your provider right away if you have a positive COVID-19 test for treatment options.” The health center’s walk-in vaccine clinic will be open for the month of January from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Thursdays at the Tillamook County Fairgrounds Convention Center. “You can either get your first, second, third and booster doses, as well as the flu and pneumonia vaccines,” Colson said. “Johnson & Johnson is no longer available at our walk-in vaccine clinic.” COVID-19 vaccines are available throughout the week at the health center’s main clinic on Pacific Avenue. Make an appointment by calling 503842-3900. Adventist Health, Rinehart Clinic and local pharmacies also have vaccines available. Colson said the health department has not received word yet if omicron is in Tillamook County. Send comments to: headlightreporter@countrymedia.net
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