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Headlight Herald
TUESDAY, AUGUST 22, 2023
VOL. 135, NO. 34 • $1.50
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Oregon Tuna Classic donates almost 10,000 pounds of fish to local food banks
Team T-Sea departing the Garibaldi Marina. PHOTO COURTESY OF THE OREGON TUNA CLASSIC
WILL CHAPPELL Headlight Editor
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he Oregon Tuna Classic took place on August 11 and 12, with competitors sailing out of
Garibaldi for the friendly competition that benefits the Oregon Food Bank, local food banks and Ducks Unlimited. In its 18th year, the tournament raised over
$150,000 and caught almost 10,000 pounds of tuna, which is being processed and donated to area food banks. “It’s a bunch of people who really love to fish and wanted to give back and
that’s’ the true mission for the Oregon Tuna Classic,” Oregon Tuna Classic Board Member Scott Kenney said. The event was started in 2005 by Dale Stevens, who wanted to use his
passion for fishing to help give something back to the community. In its early days, the Oregon Tuna Classic was a 501(c)3, but in recent years they have become a chapter of Ducks Unlimited, which
helps handle administrative duties. Competitors in the tournament are encouraged to donate their catch to local food banks, with most SEE TUNA CLASSIC PAGE A4
Tillamook Bay Watershed Garibaldi council hires interim city manager Council redesignated WILL CHAPPELL Headlight Editor
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illamook’s Board of County Commissioners designated the Tillamook Bay Watershed Council as a watershed council at their meeting on August 16, completing the group’s return to full recognition after issues led to a brief loss of state and county recognition. The commissioners were also briefed on Tillamook County Library’s strategic plan for 2023-2027, designated August 31st “Overdose Awareness Day,” approved a contract for a hearings officer and a memorandum of agreement for a homeless services office and were updated on the process to replace retiring Commissioner David Yamamoto. With a busy agenda after taking a week off to help at the Tillamook County Fair and Commissioner Mary
Faith Bell on vacation, Commissioners Erin Skaar and Yamamoto led the two-hourplus meeting. The Tillamook Bay Watershed Council was initially formed in 1998 to protect and enhance the waterways in the watershed of Tillamook Bay. Watershed Councils are overseen and funded by the Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board (OWEB), which withdrew its recognition and support of the Tillamook council in 2020 because of concerns over its management. OWEB’s withdrawal led to the county with-
drawing its recognition from the group and its dissolution shortly after. In 2021, a new group came together to revive the moribund council, forming a new board and receiving a two-year, interim recognition from the county to resume its work. The new board, led by Chair Haakon Smith, was able to take the necessary steps to receive recognition and funding from OWEB, which awarded a $166,000 council capacity grant to the Tillamook Watershed Council in July. SEE WATERSHED PAGE A5
WILL CHAPPELL Headlight Editor
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aribaldi’s City Council hired John Schempf to serve as interim city manager at a special meeting on August 15. Schempf brings over 20 years of municipal management experience to the position and has applied to fill the position on a permanent basis as well. “I feel confident that we’re going to be able to turn it around and get to smooth sailing,” Schempf said. Schempf most recently
worked as the interim town manager in Mammoth, Arizona, and before that had served in a similar role in cities and towns in Vermont, Maine and Arizona. Schempf holds an economics degree from Dartmouth College and a master’s degree in strategic planning from National Defense University and served in the coast guard for 13 years. Schempf visited Garibaldi the week prior to the council meeting and met each of the councilors and city staff. Public commenters at the meeting were allowed to ask
Schempf and the council questions about the hiring process. They raised concerns, chief among them how Schempf would handle the transition to Oregon and why councilors had shared copies of Headlight Herald articles documenting the town’s struggles with him. In response to the former, Schempf said that his top priority would be familiarizing himself with Oregon laws and the city’s charter and that he would also work to resolve issues in the charter. As for the latter, Schempf
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