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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14, 2019
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Four arrested for drugrelated charges
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Bay City Council approves new attorney
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n July 31 at approximately 9:30 a.m., Tillamook Narcotics Team detectives along with Tillamook County Sheriff patrol deputies and Tillamook City police officers served a drug related search warrant at 813 4th Street in Tillamook. Detectives contacted four adults: Jason Huddleston, age 44; Shawna Gomez, age 43; Nicolas Mobley, age 34; and Skyler Winfrey, age 29; and one juvenile at the location. The sheriff’s office said during the search, methamphetamine, oxycodone and cash was located, along with evidence of narcotic sales. The minor was turned over to his parents. The adults were arrested and taken to the Tillamook County Jail on the following charges: Huddleston was charged with alleged unlawful possession of methamphetamine, unlawful delivery of methamphetamine, frequenting a place where drugs are sold, endangering the welfare of a minor, unlawful delivery of oxycodone, and unlawful possession of oxycodone. Gomez was charged with alleged unlawful possession of methamphetamine, unlawful delivery of methamphetamine, frequenting a place where drugs are sold, endangering the welfare of a minor, unlawful delivery or oxycodone, and unlawful possession of oxycodone. Mobley was charged with alleged unlawful possession of
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Marty Walker with a pig under his arm speeds down the track to the finish line in his No. 13 Model T in the Pig N Ford Championships Saturday at the Tillamook County Fair. Ben Salo is right behind Walker in the No. 20 car owned by Ken Salo. Headlight photos by Cody Mann
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Walker crowned Pig N Ford Champion 2019 Cody Mann headlightnews@countrymedia.net
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Tillamook tradition since 1925, the Pig N’ Fords race was packed with spectators again this year – some said the most ever. Marty Walker took home the top honors this year in his No. 13 Model T. He’s a returning champion with numerous previous wins. The one-of-a-kind race has the drivers snatch up a pig from the starting line, rush to their Model T, crank it up while clutching the oinker, and speed off for a lap. They swap in a fresh pig for the second lap, crank that engine up again and they’re off. It’s a three-
lap event. Before the race, drivers pick numbered ping-pong balls that determine starting positions and which pigs they’ll have riding shotgun. The spectacle was born after Tillamook County farmers who were transporting pigs had one get loose. They had so much fun chasing the escaped pig around in their Model T Ford that it became a fair event. Parry Hurliman, who owns the No. 18 car driven by Nick Hurliman, said in the old days anybody could get into the race. In the early 1950s, a 10-franchise racing association was formed. The race was divided into two heats with five
cars racing one day and the five another and they began recording finale champions. Kenny McDonald took the first championship win in 1952 in the No. 10 car. An exhibition race was added for fun around a decade ago. “You can’t afford to screw up or miss a crank or you’re toast,” Hurliman said of the intense competition. The champion wins a revolving trophy engraved with all the past winners’ names and bragging rights until next year. In a mudslinging finale this past year, first-time winner Jake Martin unseated then-reigning champion Ben Salo, who came in second. Walker finished third in 2018.
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ay City Council approved a contract with a new city attorney last month. Christy Monson was chosen after a statewide search, according to Mayor Christopher Kruebbe. Monson has focused her career on public-entity advocacy, according to her website. She has served as legal counsel and Lobbyist for the League of Oregon Cities and, prior to law school, as a school district communications director. Monson now advises governments on all aspects of public law. She specializes in employment and labor matters, elected official training, intergovernmental relations, ethics, and telecommunications. She is also a regular trainer for many associations, including the Special Districts Association of Oregon, the Oregon Fire District Directors, and the League of Oregon Cities. Personal Monson served as a chairwoman of the Oregon State Bar’s Government Law Section. She has coauthored the government ethics chapter for the League of Oregon Cities City Coun-
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Sonic boom shakes Tillamook Coast Monday Cody Mann headlightnews@ countrymedia.net
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esidents and visitors in Tillamook County took to social media on Monday with questions about a boom that shook homes along the coast from the areas of Netarts to Sandlake. While some suspected an explosion or earthquake was responsible, the majority consensus was the sound and shaking were caused by military aircraft. The 142nd Fighter Wing of the Oregon Air National Guard is currently hosting training with FA-18F Super Hornets from the VFA-41 Squadron out of Naval Air Station Lemoore, California. The jets are conducting dissimilar air combat training, executing realistic scenarios that use advanced aerial tactics to prepare for actual warfare. The training, considered essential to military readiness in support of the Portland Air National Guard Base’s national and state missions, was slated for Aug. 11-23. Gordon’s Tillamook Weather Center, a popular
local social media page run by Tillamook County Sheriff’s Office Lt. Gordon McCraw (who also serves as the county emergency manager), reported that callers began asking about sonic booms around 10 a.m. on Monday, Aug. 12. McCraw later posted a refresher of an explanation he gave in June regarding sonic booms. He noted that the jets aren’t zooming and booming above Tillamook towns, rather they’re over the ocean just off the coast, adding that how far and fast sonic booms travel is affected by Sailors prepare an FA-18F Super Hornet for flight operations on the flight deck of the atmosphere. He the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis in the Pacific Ocean, Feb 15, 2019. Photo: said when it’s warmer Oregon Military Department and wetter the sound travels more. ing it between surface and stacks in the morning. If the Canadian border on a “Obviously, we are the inversion level. He said the smoke climbs then 24-hour alert as part of Air warmer and more muggy Tillamook County generstops and spreads out, that Combat Command and the these days, and the winds ally has an inversion layer is where the inversion is. If North American Aerospace are westerly, which helps in the morning hours. it keeps climbing, no inver- Defense Command. the sound move inland fur“Normally, temperature sion is present.” The training flights will ther also,” McCraw said. decreases with height. An The 142nd Fighter depart from and land at McCraw wrote that inversion is an area where Wing flies F-15 Eagle the Portland International another influence could be the temperature temporarily fighter jets, guarding the Airport daily after 8 a.m. temperature inversion, trap- rises with height,” McCraw Pacific Northwest skies and will conclude before 4 ping the sound and bouncwrote. “Watch the smoke from northern California to p.m.