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TUESDAY, AUGUST 29, 2023
TILLAMOOK, OREGON • WWW.TILLAMOOKHEADLIGHTHERALD.COM
VOL. 135, NO. 35 • $1.50
Hangar B marks 80 years with day of festivities and fundraising gala
Local vendors and a stage set up shop in Hangar B’s vast expanse to celebrate. WILL CHAPPELL Headlight Editor
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he Friends of Tillamook Air Museum celebrated Hangar B’s 80th anniversary on Saturday, August 19, with
a day of family-friendly activities ahead of a fundraising gala that drew in more than 200 supporters. During the day, local bands performed in the hangar, while members of the public were offered free
admission and given the chance to shop at vendors and participate in activities. In the evening, Fathead BBQ catered a meal before a swing band played 40s era music and partiers danced the night away.
Tim Hall resigns as Garibaldi Mayor-Letter “
He’s not one of us.” This hurtful remark comes from the cecall organizers who have worked for nearly three years to tarnish my reputation and accomplishments as well as try to poison my pride and faith in Garibaldi. Since joining the Council in 2019 and now serving as mayor, I have worked to lead the City Council to address the problems that were neglected, ignored and covered up for years. Streets got paved, new stop signs hung, new businesses supported and a major road improvement project on the horizon. There are dedicated city council members now working as a team to try to finally fix the city’s problems. I’m proud of them. And after one year, the city now has a qualified interim and potential permanent city manager who actually knows how municipal government works to get things done. It was upsetting to see qualified experienced professionals - Juliet Hyams and
former City Finance Officer Marni Johnston - chased away solely because I recruited them. Members of the Recall group were openly malicious toward them. Judy Riggs even admitted to Councilor Linda Bade she was trying to force out Hyams for no reason other than I selected her. None of the baseless accusations in the Recall letters are true and the false claims have been verified as deliberate lies to paint me as a deceiver and villain. A lot of people were lied to. I understand there’s anger towards me over certain individuals’ selfish issues and complaints. However, it is what’s in the best inter-
coasts of the United States to monitor for enemy submarine activity during World War II. Naval Air Station Tillamook was originally home to two hangars, which each housed eight K-Class blimps responsible for
patrolling the Pacific Coast between San Francisco and the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Hangar A was completed in just over a month in July and August of 1943, while SEE HANGAR B PAGE A12
Emergency assembly point drill held at Tillamook Airport
ests of a majority of citizens that was important to me. They say no good deed goes unpunished. My calling for an investigation into suspicious and possibly illegal financial dealings no doubt made some folks uncomfortable. Why else would they repeatedly try to derail and stop inquiries into how past city funds were spent. I’m accused of forcing out City employees because I spoke up against former employees who spent half their workday drinking in a bar, who stole gasoline and threatened co-workers, who promoted themselves and SEE TIM HALL PAGE A8
The event was organized by the Friends of Tillamook Air Museum (FOTAM) as part of their ongoing efforts to raise funds to restore and maintain Hangar B. Hangar B was built in 1943 as one of 17 blimp hangars along the
WILL CHAPPELL Headlight Editor
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fficials from Oregon’s Department of Human Services attended a two-day training event with local officials and volunteers at the Port of Tillamook Bay on August 22 and 23, deploying the emergency assembly point that was recently stationed at the port. Local volunteers showed up in force and helped to assemble the evacuation point in just three hours on Tuesday, and the board of county commissioners held their regular weekly meeting in a tent at the assembly point on Wednesday before
The deployed assembly point on Wednesday morning shortly before volunteers began disassembly efforts. breakdown. “It really shows you what public and private partnerships can do when they put their mind together,” said Jeff Gilbert, northwest region emergency coordinator for the department’s Office of
Resiliency and Emergency Management (OREM). The evacuation point is the first of its kind in the state and was designed to coordinate medical care and SEE EMERGENCY PAGE A6
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