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Headlight Herald
TUESDAY, MAY 31, 2022
VOL. 134, NO. 22 • $1.50
TILLAMOOK, OREGON • WWW.TILLAMOOKHEADLIGHTHERALD.COM
Tillamook Apartment blaze doused by sprinkler system, quick emergency response Building a mix of apartments, restaurant, lounge and retail shops
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Joe Warren jwarren@countrymedia.net
illamook Fire District personnel responded to a fire at Tillamook Apts. Monday (May 23) evening at approximately 10:45 p.m. The fire was upgraded to a ThreeAlarm-Fire according to Tillamook Fire Chief Daron Bement. According to Bement, there were no injuries due to the fire, but one tenant complained of smoke inhalation and was treated. According to a release provided by the Tillamook Fire District, “The first arriving units encountered occupants evacuating the apartment building, eventually gathering in the laundromat parking lot across the street,” the release states. “There was no immediate flame or smoke visible from the street side. Fire crews advanced hose lines to the third floor where they encountered smoke in the immediate hallway at the top of the stairs with zero visibility. Based on the smoke conditions, a third alarm was issued for additional resources.” The cause of the fire is still cur-
Emergency crews respond to the Tillamook Apartments Fire at 11:44 p.m. Monday May 23. Photo by Ashley Tike rently under investigation. According to Bement the fire broke out on a third-floor apartment. The Chief said that, that apartment sustained major smoke and water damage. Two other apartments as well as the
Rendezvous Bar and Grill were also damaged by smoke and or water. According to Bement, the buildings sprinkler system helped extinguish the fire, and his crews worked to make sure the fire didn’t spread
throughout the building, the fire was out, and helped with smoke abatement. According to Donna Petty-Phillips, owner of the Rendezvous, she was hoping to be open by Tuesday
but she is dealing with a lot of water damage. “I’m in contact with my insurance company, and with the
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Neah-Kah-Nie student wins Hampton Lumber design contest for lumber wraps H
Hilary Dorsey Staff Writer
ampton Lumber Company sought the help of local high school students to create a new design of their lumber wraps for all lumber leaving the mill. One of Neah-Kah-Nie High School’s designs, designed by junior Rossi Nelson, was the chosen winner. Schools invited to the competition were Nestucca High School, Tillamook High School, Neah-Kah-Nie High School, Seaside High School, Warrenton High school and Jewel High School. Hampton approached all the schools in early January with a contest to design the wraps for their lumber coming out of the mills. There are six different mills, and each county asked all the schools within that county to be in the design. “With our county, lumber comes out of the north end of it, so we included Seaside within our group,” NrahKah-Nie High School teacher Steve Albrechtsen said. Schools were given the trimester to work on the design. Neah-Kah-Nie High School students that participated worked on the design and turned in the design in March. Students that participated were Hagar Ayala, Zach Gage, Rossi Nelson, Claudia Hernandez-Sans, Nakai RenyHamer and Dylan Footit. “The design was something that reflected Hampton’s values and the community in which it resided,” Albrecht-
Veterans John Lane and Frank Heyl have been friends since they served together meeting in 1970. Photo by Joe Warren
Left to right: Zach Gage, Nakai Reny-Hamer, Rossi Nelson, Claudia HernandoSanz, Hagar Ayala-Mondragon, and Dylan Footit. Photo by Don Backman. sen said. “We had a total of eight different designs that we submitted. A lot of them had dairies involved and cows and trees.” Albrechtsen said one thing that separated NeahKah-Nie High School from the other schools is that this was not a class assignment. The students worked on the project after school hours. There were six students in the group. Since the design had to be in Adobe Illustrator, they had to learn the new program in order to turn the project in. They met two days per week and worked on designs both individually and as groups. “We knew there was this cash prize in the end,” Albrechtsen said. “We were working hard to try to get that for our school.” From the cash prize, each student that participated at Neah-Kah-Nie gets a $50 cash prize. The school also received a
check for $15,000. “It’s going to get primarily used for art supplies,” Albrechtsen said. The funds will be used to get better quality materials for the students to work with. “Thanks go to Hampton Lumber Co. for honoring and supporting art in schools,” Albrechtsen said. “It’s super exciting for the future of our art department here,” Albrechtsen added. “I think we have a really solid
future of just promoting art in our community and giving students access to equipment and tools and materials that will let them be more selfexpressive.” The high school honored the students that participated in the design during a schoolwide assembly during Prom week. “The image is going to be able to travel the globe,” Albrechtsen said. “That’s exciting.”
Ninety-eight year old veteran has special ties to Tillmaook Air Base brought Frank Heyl here, friendship keeps him coming back
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Joe Warren jwarren@countrymedia.net
rmy Air Force, and later Air Force pilot Frank Heyl, will turn 99 years old in July this year, but his memory of Tillamook and the Air Base is a vivid as the day he landed here for the first time during World War II. “I volunteered to help fly an aircraft going to Oregon for an administration flight,” Heyl said. “They needed three pilots, a crew chief and a navigator and I was one of the three pilots, that was 1943.” Frank’s second tie to Tillamook was in 1970 when he was assigned to the same outfit as John Lane who is from Tillamook County. John says Frank became
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