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Headlight Herald
WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 2016
TILLAMOOK, OREGON • WWW.TILLAMOOKHEADLIGHTHERALD.COM
VOL. 127, NO. 20 • $1.00
Jacob Krumenaker
High speed chase
By Jordan Wolfe jwolfe@countrymedia.net
Courtesy photo/ OCSR
A proposed rendering of the new train depot, hopefully being complete by December 2017, according to Jessica Jung, the business manager for Oregon Coast Scenic Railroad. She plans for the new depot to be a steady source for jobs and be open year-round. The depot will be a historically accurate replica Southern Pacific Depot Style No. 11, which Garibaldi’s station used to be, Jung explains.
All aboard for Garibaldi! By Jordan Wolfe jwolfe@countrymedia.net
All aboard! A historically accurate train depot is going to upgrade the current one in Garibaldi. Jessica Jung, business manager for the non-profit Oregon Coast Scenic Railroad (OCSR), hopes to have the new depot debut by the end of next year. “We’re the only business uniquely set up to directly ef-
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fect other communities. That’s a big responsibility.” She described the upgrade as a transformation of the current depot, located next to the Old Mill Marina and Lumbermen’s Park. Once renovations are complete, it will be a replica Southern Pacific Depot Style No. 11, what Garibaldi’s station used to be, Jung explained. “We’ve been operating here for 13 years, it’s getting stuffy,” she said, “We’re getting too big, we don’t even have running water or a sink in the engine house.” That problem will eventually be alleviated. According to Jung, the depot will add a historically accurate water tower that will feed water
to the steam engines, on a daily basis. However, she said it is third on a list of priorities for OCSR. Within the first two years of operation, Jung hopes to be open for business year-round and create a steady job source. “The new building will house a gift shop, ticket counter and community space that could host job trainings, CPR trainings, and different meetings like Chamber of Commerce or the Lions,” she said. Jung and the OCSR expect a 10 percent increase in ridership the first year after the expansion is complete. In 2015, she added, OCSR had 23,000 riders. The expansion is not expect-
ed to alter the current offerings of OCSR, she added. The seasonal Coastal Excursion, dinner trains and off-season Sunshine Express will all continue as-is. To create more space for the expansion and stabilize the static museum display No. 90 train set, OCSR spent $15,000 to move the train onto new, more stable tracks, she said. The train, owned by the Garibaldi Lions Club, was sinking at it’s old location, she said, and moved several feet closer to Lumbermen’s Memorial Park. According to Jung, however, the move occurred last week and has since spurred some
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Three people are wanted for their involvement in driving over 120 miles per hour and evading arrest. Tillamook County Sheriff’s Office is actively searching for Eric Nedrow, 27, Jacob Krumenaker, 26 and Chelsea Mayhew, 25, after a May 6 incident, according to Gordon McCraw, director of emergency management. He said the driver, Nedrow, led police on a high-speed chase through Bay City. During the pursuit, Nedrow reached speeds of 120 miles per hour and blazed through school zones while school was in progress, ran stop signs and narrowly missed collisions with other vehicles, as he attempted to flee, McCraw said. “Obviously, he has no concern when driving - for the local population,” he said, “If he were to lose control, he could cause some severe damage.” Nedrow led police to Kilchis Forest Road, where the car, an Audi, was found abandoned and is currently being held as evidence, McCraw said. All three now have warrants for felony evade. The first high-speed chase incident occurred on April 2, during daylight hours. Driving the Audi, Nedrow and two others, were clocked going 124 miles per hour on Highway 6. The car, again, was found abandoned and held by the city before being released back to the owner, according to McCraw. “At this point, he is a danger whenever he gets behind a wheel.” Any information regarding the whereabouts of Eric Nedrow, Jake Krumenaker and/or Chelsea Mayhew are encouraged to call, confidentially, 503-815-3321.
Local housing task force brainstorms for solutions By Brad Mosher bmosher@countrymedia.net After an afternoon of brainstorming at Tillamook Bay Community College Monday, the local housing task force started to sharpen its focus on how to meet the residential needs of people in the county. The group spent three hours deciding what might be the proverbial “low-hanging fruit” that could help solve the housing problem for the short term, the long term – or both. After calling for ideas and suggestions, the people were asked to “champion” an idea they liked to do more research on before the June meeting. “I thought the meeting today was great,” said Erin Skaar of
C.A.R.E. Inc. afterward. “One of the wonderful things about this committee is that we are bringing together so many members of the community who have so many great ideas and energy. “The people are coming together and saying how they can positively impact and change the housing situation for Tillamook County. I am excited to see what comes of it.” One thing that was news to Skaar and several others was that several “Tiny homes” had been moved into Bay City. “We are really excited to see that tiny homes are coming into our community and see that somewhere there is zoning and planning that says that is okay,” she said. “That is something that is
happening quickly without us having to do some legwork and try to push it through zoning and planning. We can look at examples where it works. It just helps us …. it’s low-hanging fruit that is quickly getting housing into place. “If that turns out to be a viable solution, that would be great,” Skaar added. The discussion came up with a number of ideas which the members of the task force offered to investigate and come up with more research before the next meeting, June 13. Some of the ideas included arranging for temporary zoning changes that could allow residential developments for a certain amount of time before the rule or guidelines would expire
or sunset, while another idea was examining how to try to utilize the number of structures in the county that are vacant for most of the year. Another suggestion was to develop a series of legal and financial incentives to help homeowners to work to help ease the housing crisis in the county. “Let’s not penalize or bite the hand that feeds us,” Skaar said during the meeting. Another suggestion was to create a local partnership between corporations and property management businesses to create a form of symbiosis to address the problem, Skaar said. One suggestion focused on researching if modular homes which could be placed in a group residential development.