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Now, is Alta Lund the oldest person in Tillamook County? By Sayde Moser
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Two weeks ago, the Headlight Herald interviewed Charles Haxton, a man with 106 years of stories to tell. Turns out Alta Lund has Haxton beat … by five months and six days. Alta turns 107 on Dec. 25. She moved to Tillamook in 1914, where she first lived with her family in a dirt-floored cabin out by the blimp base. “They came on the steam train,” said Alta’s daughter, Dolores Crawford, 86. “She never did get back on a train after that, because she always said those trestles were rotten and
about to fall down even back then.” Alta’s parents had 11 children. She said she knew only the last six; the others had died before Alta was born. Her dad worked at Coast Lumber, where Rosenberg Builders Supply now sits. “He walked from their house by the blimp base to work every day,” said Dolores. “They never owned a car.” Alta struggles with her memory, but she does recall frequently going to play at the beach. And fishing with her dad in a rowboat in Tillamook Bay. “I was just like any other kid, I guess,” she said. “I just played a lot.”
She said her favorite game was played with her five sisters. It involved standing on the chicken house to see who could pee the farthest. “That was quite the big talent,” said Alta. She married in 1925 and again in 1928. Her second husband, Fred, passed away several years ago. One of her sisters owned a service station and grocery store in Hebo. She said a house her dad built more than 100 years ago still stands there. Alta had three children, Kenneth Martin, Delsa Cordor and Dolores. They lived in a variety of Oregon
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Alta Lund (front) sits with her daughter, Dolores Crawford, at the Nehalem Valley Care Center in Wheeler.
Water ball tournament pumps up ‘Garibaldi Days’ CORRECTIONS In the July 24 article about “Dory Days,” it was reported that last year’s winner of the fish fillet contest was Rob Kliever. It was actually John Eckhardt, who has won the last three years.
No good news at insurance meetings By Joe Wrabek
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In the July 17 article about the fatal vehicle crash on Hwy 6, it was reported that two fisherman helped the driver, Juan Getcemani De La Torre, out of the vehicle. However De La Torre, who was Atilano Vargas Sanchez’s nephew, removed himself from the vehicle with no help. Also, Sanchez died at the scene and not at the hospital.
By Sayde Moser
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During the 53rd-annual “Garibaldi Days” – this year held July 26-28 – an old rivalry was given life again. Not to mention, a fire hose. After a 20-year hiatus, the Garibaldi Fire Department and the U.S. Coast Guard went head to head in an old-fashioned game of water ball. “There is a lot of good camaraderie between those two organizations,” said Garibaldi City Manager John O’Leary. The Rockaway Beach Fire Department also put up a team, drawing quite a crowd to watch (from a distance, of course, for fear of getting wet). “It’s just a fun, simple event that brings people together,” declared Coast Guard Master Chief Michael Saindon. “Everyone watching has fun, because you get sprayed by water.” Water ball is designed to provide participating teams
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Flood insurance premiums in Tillamook County are going up. For some residents, way up. And there seems to be little that anyone can do about it. That was the message delivered during a pair of flood insurance seminars July 29 at the Port of Tillamook Bay’s officers’ mess building. The meeting had been organized by the three Tillamook County commissioners. On hand to explain new flood insurance regulations were Christine Shirley of the Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development and Kristin Minich of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). Monday morning’s meeting was intended for insurance agents, although realtors, bankers, and city and county planners were there as well. A meeting that afternoon included some 40 people, among them homeowners and dairy farmers with property in the flood zones. Shirley told them that flood insurance premiums will become more expensive because of the “Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act,” enacted July 6, 2012, which ended “subsidized” federal insurance rates that
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Kilchis Point Reserve dramatizes local Native American heritage By Sayde Moser
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Kilchis Point Reserve in Bay City once was home to one of the largest Native American villages on the north Oregon coast. An estimated 2,200 Native Americans once inhabited the area, although little is left of their onceprominent existence. “It was one of the best places to live on the coast, because there was plenty of salmon and other food and the weather was mild year-‘round,” said Caitlin Heusser of the Tillamook County Pioneer Museum. “It was an ideal spot to be.” Heusser, along with museum staff and volunteers, is determined to dramatize the significance of
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Caitlin Heusser leads a guided tour July 27 during the secondannual “Outdoor Discovery Day” at Kilchis Point Reserve.
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this area, named for Chief Kilchis, head of the Tillamook Tribe. The museum owns the 200 acres that comprise Kilchis Point – 70 of which are being developed into interpretive walking trails that educate hikers on Native American heritage, pioneer settlements, and local floral and fauna. During the second-annual “Outdoor Discovery Day” hosted by the museum July 27, roughly a third of a mile of trails was available for walking and guided hikes. Museum director Gary Albright said that’s just a fraction of what will be available in years to come. “We’ll be widening [the trails] to about 6 feet and they’ll run for about 2 more miles,” Albright said.
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