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de Garde keeps growing By Ann Powers editor@northcoastcitizen.com What is now Donnie Luper’s beer-cation (think beer plus vacation) started out in Linsey and Trevor Rogers’ brew-age (think brewery plus garage). Luper recently traveled to Oregon from North Carolina to complete continuing education credits for his job. His employer let him pick where he wanted to go. He chose Portland – but not for any kind of professional reasons. “I picked where I was going to go because of this brewery,” Luper said of de Garde Brewing in Tillamook. “I’m a beer snob. I brought two suitcases with me just to bring beer back.” Luper isn’t the only longdistance fan. de Garde’s tasting room, connected to its craft brewery at 6000 Blimp Blvd., is filled
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Manzanita, meet your new mayor By Ann Powers editor@northcoastcitizen.com
you can split teams (Tillamook Red and Tillamook Black) in half and equalize them with good players, then compete against Banks, Scappoose, Astoria and Seaside and win games,” Petersen said. “It is getting the kids more experience when we do that (split into two teams). “It is privately funded, not through the YMCA. We charge $100 every for a kid and they get two-and-a-half months of football. That gets them their equipment and the jerseys they get to keep,” McKibbin added. Petersen and McKibbin were coaches for the fifth and sixth
Barring a write-in campaign coup d’état, City Councilman Mike Scott will be Manzanita’s next mayor starting Jan. 1. Scott is running uncontested, but voters will decide two open council seats and a marijuana ban ballot question in the Nov. 8 general election. Mayor Gary Bullard is retiring from the city’s helm after 10 years. The mayor’s position carries a two-year term. Bullard is confident about passing the mayoral torch to Scott. “He’s well qualified,” Bullard said. “He’s a very good person and has successful experience in private business, on the planning commission and city council.” Scott is wrapping up his second four-year term as a councilman. Previously, the native Oregonian served on the Manzanita Planning Commission for three years and on the Rinehart Clinic Board for eight – two of which he was president.
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Tillamook Black team coaches Nick Petersen and Mike McKibbin stress the focus on making the plays to the members of their fifth/sixth grade team during the ‘championship game’ between two undefeated teams – Tillamook and Astoria – at Doc Adams Field.
Youth football wins championship By Brad Mosher bmosher@countrymedia.net In spite of the size of the players on the fields, there was nothing small about the youth football jamboree Saturday. It brought hundreds of football players from as far away as Ilwaco, a small coastal town on the Washington side of the Columbia River to the Tillamook High School campus for a day of getting grass and mud stains on their uniforms. Each community in the Lower Columbia Tackle Football Association youth league hosts a jamboree and Saturday it was Tillamook’s turn.
Tillamook had teams competing at the third-fourth and fifthsixth grade levels. Tillamook also has one of the largest programs. “We started off with about 17 kids in the program and now we are up to about 100, which makes for a large jamboree with lots of support from the community, according to Nick Petersen, one of the spokesmen for the local program. “We have two third and fourth grade teams and two fifth and sixth grade teams. Tillamook is the only team that has that many numbers,” said Mike McKibbin. “That kind of tells you about the success of the program. “It is really awesome to see that
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Nehalem council race offers choice William (Bill) L. Dillard, Jr.
Micah White
By Ann Powers editor@northcoastcitizen.com Seven candidates are vying for four open positions at Nehalem City Hall, three council spots and the mayor’s seat, in the Nov. 8 general election. In addition to the three hopefuls challenging the small coastal community’s incumbent officials, the word ‘contested’ seems to be another newcomer to the political scene in Nehalem. Tillamook County Clerk Tassi O’Neil confirmed four of the five city council members, including Mayor William L. Dillard, Jr., were not elected by voters. Mayor Dillard, Council Members Hilary Howell, Stacy Jacobsen and Jim Welsh were all appointed. And newcomers are challenging most of them. The candidate filings list: Mayor, two-year term • William (Bill) L. Dillard, Jr. (incumbent running for re-election) • Micah White City Council Position 1, two-year unexpired term • Hilary Howell (incumbent running for re-election)
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• Brooke Hua City Council Position 2, four-year term • Stacy Jacobsen (incumbent running for re-election) • Jeremy Mulcahy-Hill City Council Position 3, four-year term • Jim Welsh (incumbent running for re-election) • Lucy Brook Mayor of Nehalem William (Bill) L. Dillard, Jr. Dillard, 48, was raised in Nehalem, graduated from Neah-Kah-Nie High School and completed one year of community college at Chemeketa in Salem. “I figured I liked working more,” he said. “I wanted to learn in the field that I loved doing.” Dillard has worked at Nehalem Telecommunication since 1984, was elected to city council in 2003 and served as a local firefighter for 14 years. He also volunteered with the Merchants Association and served on the Nehalem Planning Commission, as well as the Oregon Independent Telephone Association.
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Lucy Brook
As council president, and per city charter guidelines, he was appointed mayor last May when his predecessor, Dale Stockton, resigned. Dillard’s father was also a council member for many years. His opponent has accused him of being part of an old-boys’ network with “friends appointing friends.” “My heredity had nothing to do with it,” Dillard wrote in a letter addressed to Micah White. “I will say I am sure that being a lifelong resident of Nehalem versus your three-plus years in Nehalem had much to do with my being selected to fill Dale Stockton’s shoes. They are big shoes to fill. I am proud to follow in his footsteps.” Dillard said the primary concerns facing his hometown include available housing, traffic flow at the corner of 7th and H streets and community involvement “on a general basis, not just people getting involved because they want something.” “I just want to represent the citizens of the town I grew up in and love to the best of my ability,” he added. Micah M. White, Ph.D. Like Dillard, White also holds his
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Nehalem neighbors in high esteem. Unlike Dillard, he doesn’t think they have enough of a voice. “The most important issue facing Nehalem is the lack of responsive government,” said the Occupy Wall Street co-creator. “All other issues ultimately boil down to the need for city council to adopt a procedures that encourage more democracy, more public involvement and more citizen engagement in the decisions being made by the councilors. I believe city council has a duty to consult with Nehalem residents prior to making decisions that impact our community and our lives.” White, 34, moved to Nehalem from Berkeley in 2012 with his wife, Chiara Ricciardone. He has a bachelor’s degree from Swarthmore College and earned his master’s and doctorate at European Graduate School in Switzerland. White is also an author, a speaker, the Nehalem People’s Association founder and a Nehalem Budget Committee member. He and Ricciardone
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