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Headlight Herald
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 2016
TILLAMOOK, OREGON • WWW.TILLAMOOKHEADLIGHTHERALD.COM
VOL. 127, NO. 25 • $1.00
Teri Jo McGettigan
‘The Biggest Little Show on the Coast’ The annual June Dairy Festival will take place in Tillamook June 25-36 featuring a parade, fun run, and rodeo.
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June Dairy Festival this weekend in Tillamook By Jordan Wolfe jwolfe@countrymedia.net Yar! Pirates are coming to pillage the landlubbers of Tillamook, during this weekend’s June Dairy Festival. The 2016 event, “Dairyland Treasures,” is planning to live up to its “festival” name with a pirate troupe, bouncy houses and treasure hunts to join the annual parade, YMCA milk run and rodeo, according to Tammy Samagaio, Tillamook chamber of commerce office manager. “We will have new entries in the parade and more kid-friendly activities. We hope families stick around and enjoy the day,” Samagaio said. Samagaio said the festivities
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after the parade will be focused in the downtown area. Pirate performers from Portland, PDXYar will be putting on a show. Other activities to participate in will be face painting, a meet and greet with the Dairy Princess, free massages from Russell Smith and a performance from band “Beach Axess.” Terry Phillips, owner of the Dutch Mill Diner and North Coast Lawn, among other local businesses, has been instrumental in creating an after-parade festival, according to Samagaio. She added that special entries to look out for this year, during the parade, include a fly-over from the Oregon Life Guard, the local Boy Scouts of America carrying a 20 foot by 30 foot flag, the Royal Rosarians and floats from two
large festivals, the Astoria Regatta and the Seattle Seafair. “The Seafair makes the Rose Festival look tiny,” Linda Kay Marshall, retiring chairperson of the June Dairy Festival Committee, said. After 13 years, Marshall said she is turning the Festival back over to the Chamber and working in tandem with Samagaio to train her for the position. “We used to be the second largest parade in the state,” Marshall said, adding that the parade has since dropped to a “top five” standing. With a new emphasis on the “festival” portion of June Dairy, Samagaio said she wants to work to bring the parade back up in the rankings. “It’s not going to look like the same old parade, but we will have
old staples like the Shriners and Swiss Society,” Marshall said of this year’s 59th parade. The June Dairy Festival will kick off with the YMCA Milk Run at 8 a.m. and end at 10 a.m. on Saturday, according to the YMCA’s website, and feature a 10k run and 5k walk/run, as well as a 2-mile walk/run and a Kids Challenge Course that begins at 9:30 a.m. The race will begin at the Tillamook YMCA at 610 Stillwell Avenue. At 10 a.m. in the rose garden of the Pioneer Museum, Marshall said there will be a rose planting, featuring the June Dairy Princess, Kalli Swanson. “The Royal Rosarians honor us with that,” Marshall said.
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By Chelsea Yarnell cyarnell@countrymedia.net This weekend Tillamook will celebrate the 30th annual “Biggest Little Show on the Coast” rodeo. The Tillamook County Rodeo will kickoff on 6 p.m. on Saturday, June 25. Events this year include bareback ridings, steer wrestling, bull riding, saddle bronc riding, team roping, barrel racing, tie down roping and breakaway roping. This year’s Rodeo Queen is 24year old Teri Jo McGettigan. According to her bio, McGettigan is currently finishing her degree in Agricultural Business Management at Oregon State University. McGettigan is a 2010 graduate of Scappoose High School. McGettigan also held the title of Tillamook County Rodeo Queen in 2013, as well as Columbia County Dairy Princess in 2011 and 2014.
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State’s housing LIFT plan seeks local help, input By Brad Mosher bmosher@countrymedia.net Oregon has a housing shortage. A big one. There are shortages from Tillamook to Ontario and from Bend to Portland. The State of Oregon may have a plan to help ease the housing shortages around the state, but it still needs to be more adaptable to local and more rural needs, according to members of the Tillamook County Housing Task Force. In the meeting at Tillamook Bay Community College June 13, Kim Travis briefed the task force on a proposed framework set up by the state’s Housing and Community Services. The state has been working with the Housing Stability Council in an effort to build new affordable housing for low income households. The state has plans for $40 million in general obligation bonds to fund the LIFT program in an effort to add to the pool of available affordable housing. The LIFT (Local Innovation and Fast Track) program is focused on developing an efficient use of funding while trying to maximize the impact it could have throughout the state, according to Travis, a housing integrator for the program. The goal of LIFT is designed to create a large number of new affordable housing units to serve low income residents, while also serving rural commu-
nities of less than 25,000 people and communities of color. In addition, the program should push for affordable housing as quickly as possible while identifying ways to innovate and lower the costs of affordable housing. Applications in September The program will open the application process in September for the grant money, with a decision planned by December, Travis said. Each of the applications will be scored by how well it meets certain criteria. One area of the program that could be important to Tillamook County is the focus on rural communities smaller than 25,000 people. Every city and town in the county meets that requirement. According to U.S. Census estimates, the entire county of Tillamook has slightly more than 25,000 residents. The county’s median household annual income is approximately $43,000, according to the census estimates. Hispanics largest minority According to Travis, the largest non-majority ethnicity in the county is Hispanics, with slightly more than nine percent. More than 45 percent of that group is considered to be in poverty. According to the Community Action Team statistics, Tillamook County’s population has increased by 4.1 percent since 2000 and there are nearly 4,000 people living in poverty. That
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Melissa Carlson-Swanson works through the list of housing ideas that are being examined by the Tillamook County Housing Task Force at the recent meeting June 13 at Tillamook Bay Community College. is 16.1 percent – one tenth of a percent lower than the state statistically. The largest group in poverty is single women with children under 18 years old (47.1 percent). It is much higher than the state (40.1 percent). The household income statistics are low in Tillamook County, with the county median being approximately $41,869, according statistics from the yeas 2008 to 2012. At the same time, the state median was $50,036 and the country’s was $53,046. For renters, the median income was more level, with both the county and the state at slightly more than $30,000 in
annual income, while the federal statistic was a little higher at $32,212. According to the statistics released at the meeting, the county has 920 households making 30 percent of the median (less than $12,561) annually. They are considered to be extremely low income. Very low income is where the household is making 50 percent of the median annual income ($20,935). There are approximately 1,405 households in Tillamook County earning between 31 percent and 50 percent of the
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