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End of the road for Rainy Day Books BY MARY FAITH BELL mfbell@countrymedia.net
TILLAMOOK – Rainy Day Books will close its doors for business Dec. 30. The iconic bookstore has been open on the corner of Second and Main Street for 26 years. It is a calling card for tourists and visitors, some of whom stop there annually on their pilgrimages to the beach. It is a treasure trove of new and used books, books by local authors, and eclectic collections
Former Pacific City man charged with murder
of books. It is a charming and personal place to spend a few minutes or a few hours on a rainy day, full of local furnishings such as an antique table and book cases from the old Anchor Tavern in Oceanside, a huge glass-fronted case from McInerney's jewelry store, a pitcher and a clock from Stranahan’s laundry, glass cases and book shelves from the old Cloverdale creamery and even the wainscoting on the walls from the old City Hall. It’s hard to imagine driving through
Tillamook without seeing Rainy Day Books on your left across from the Blue Moon Café and kitty-corner from the Pioneer Museum. But the booksellers industry has changed dramatically in the past 15 years, and one by one, independent bookstores are being driven out of business. “It started with Amazon, about 15 years ago,” said Karen Spicer, Rainy Day Books’ owner.
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Karen Spicer, owner of Rainy Day Books, and Webster the cat who lives in the bookstore.
HIKING THE PACIFIC CREST TRAIL
BY MARY FAITH BELL mfbellcountrymedia.net
Walter Bremmer, a former Pacific City man who was involved in the 2009 murder of John Adkins aboard his fishing boat the Tiger, has been charged with another murder WALTER in Hawaii. BREMMER Bremmer is charged with second-degree murder, first-degree burglary and use of a firearm in a felony in the shooting and strangulation death of Robert John Leong on or about Jan. 26, 2012.
SCARY STORY CONTEST
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ongratulations to our scary story winners Katelynn Sheldon in the child category, Aaron Josi in the teen category and Sarah Welsh in the adult category. We received 24 terrific entries, all of which will be published on our website, tillamookheadligtherald.com Thanks to children’s book author David Greenburg, for providing the prompt to the scary stories and for choosing winners. Katelynn will receive a gift certificate to Flamingo Jim’s Gifts and Clothing, and Aaron and Sarah will receive gift certificates to Pelican Pub and Brewery.
BY MARY FAITH BELL mfbellcountrymedia.net
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illamook native, Bryce Rulifson, recently completed a 2,660 mile hike. Rulifson, who graduated from Tillamook High School in 2000, hiked the Pacific Crest Trail from Mexico to Canada in five months. He began at the Mexico border in April, and crossed over from Washington to Canada in September, averaging 20 miles per day. “It takes about a month to get your trail legs,” Rulifson said. “I trained, I thought I was ready, but it took a while to get acclimated. I was short of breath in the Sierras. I got shin splints and had to take a break until they healed. My feet hurt every day. Actually, my feet still hurt.” To keep his strength up he ate beef nuggets from the Tillamook Country Smoker. In fact, Rulifson said, "I'd pull them out every day and share them with my friends. I ate them in Top Ramen and mac and cheese. Pretty soon 'Beef Nuggets' was my trail name." Back home in Tillamook, Rulifson's mom Nancy told Bob Crossley of the Tillamook Country Smoker that beef nuggets were sustaining her son; and Crossley started sending care packages of jerky to Rulifson at check points along the trail. In that way, a wide community of international hikers enjoyed Tillamook Country Smoker meats on the Pacific Crest Trail.
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INDEX Classified Ads .........................B5 Crossword Puzzle....................B2 Fenceposts ..............................B3 Obituaries................................A6 Opinions..................................A4 Sports....................................A11
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Don’t Forget to Lock the Door BY SARAH WELSH One evening you come home and find your dog barking on the lawn. Your front door is open. You walk into your house, which is dark. You flip the lights on. You see that your house is filled with human size frogs that start walking towards you. You try to turn and run, but one has blocked your exit. Terrified, you run for the back door located in the kitchen. The wooden floor boards creak as you dart across the dining room. You begin to panic, your heart races, and cold sweat forms on your brow. You unlock the door and then glance back at the frogs. You briefly close your eyes in disbelief hoping that when you open them this will all be some sort of strange hallucination. As the frogs move in closer you can hear the sound of their rubbery skin, their black unnatural eyes the size of baseballs fixate themselves on you. Their only thought is hunger as they ravenously extend their long, sticky tongues brushing your skin leaving a moist, slick trail. You count ten, possibly twenty of them. You scream for help knowing no one is home to hear you. You frantically look around the kitchen, multiple tongues have managed to wrap around your ankles and knees yanking, trying to pull you down to the floor. You resist with all your might grabbing tight hold of the kitchen counter. Rib bit, rib bit, another tongue wraps itself tightly around your wrist. You can no longer fight. They are stronger, so much stronger than you. Your hand slips on the cool stone surface knocking over the spice rack. You hear a stinging sound and a decaying smell overcomes you. You realize that the spilt salt burnt the frogs’ tongue and he instantly pulled back. A light goes off in your head at this realization, and you straightaway begin to shake salt vigorously at the others; the effects are immediate.
See TRAIL, Page A10
PHOTO BY RYAN CHOI
See SCARY, Page A9
Rulifson on the trail in the Mt. Hood Wilderness.
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