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Tillamook Beekeepers is hosting Bee Days 2024 featuring raffles, honey products, plants for pollinators plus educational workshops
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ranging from building models of macroinvertebrates with clay to learning how to plant a tree seedling to dissecting an owl pellet. The owl pellet dissection was offered bilingually, as were games simulating salmon migration and the impacts of marine debris on
After updating the ordinance governing short-term rental properties in Rockaway Beach in February, the city council approved a cap of 420 licenses for those properties on March 13. However, with no mechanism in place to phase out current licenses, the city will rely on attrition to eventually reach that goal, with 517 licenses currently in use. “I don’t want to turn the clock back on the current STR businesses,” said Mayor Charles McNeilly. “What I want the council to do and that’s what I think it’s doing tonight is to communicate to our community, our residents, our voters that we get the cost and impacts of STR businesses to our community, to our neighborhoods, that we don’t want to unnecessarily hollow out our neighborhoods.” In addition to the cap, the council approved a $95 administrative fee for property owners to join the waitlist for new shortterm rental (STR) licenses. The update to the STR ordinance was triggered by a surge in the number of licenses sought in recent years and a desire to maintain a balance between the city’s tourist economy and livability for full-time residents. The updated ordinance gave the council the ability to set a
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Students participate in a simulated marine debris cleanup activity during the Clean Water Festival at Twin Rock Friends Camp.
TEP hosts Clean Water Festival STAFF REPORT
Fourth graders from across Tillamook County descended on Twin Rock Friends Camp on March 19, for the Tillamook Estuaries Partnership’s 23rd annual Clean Water Festival. The 223 students were joined by representatives from 25 organizations up and down the coast,
who helped to educate the kids about the importance of clean water. Volunteers traveled from as far as Coos Bay and Astoria to participate in the event, representing organizations as diverse as the Oregon Department of Forestry, the Columbia River Maritime Museum and the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary.
Throughout the day, students spent half an hour at six different stations that focused on specific themes relating to clean water. Topics at the stations included macroinvertebrates, marine debris, estuary birds, the water cycle, tidepool animals and salmon migration. Many stations offered activities to bring the subjects to life,
Tillamook Headlight Herald Home & Garden Show coming April 20-21
The Tillamook Headlight Herald Home & Garden show is set to take over the Tillamook County Fairgrounds from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, April 20, and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday, April 21. The show is being cosponsored by Tillamook County Solid Waste and will be held in conjunction with the seventh annual Tillamook Beekeepers Association Bee Days. A wide selection of vendors will be at the show to help residents prepare for the spring and summer gardening season and update their home and garden décor. For Bee Days, the beekeepers’ association will be selling bee-friendly plants and raw and unfiltered honey to raise funds for the organization and showing off a demonstration hive. They will also host a series of classes to educate showgoers about honeybees. Classes will last between 15 and 20 minutes, starting at 9:30 a.m., 11 a.m., 12:30 p.m. and 2 p.m. on Saturday and 11:30 a.m., 1 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. on Sunday. The beekeepers will also be hosting a fundraising raffle, with the grand prize being a Tillamook cheese block themed hive created by Rick Stelzig. A $200 gift certificate for the Tillamook Creamery will be the second-place prize, third place will receive a
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Stelzig, a marine veteran, has created ten American flags crafted out of wood and will be selling them at the show to help bolster the Legion’s mission of bringing more programs to the community. Two vendors will be offering a selection of plants to help jumpstart residents’ gardening season.
Monkey Business 101 from south Tillamook County will bring a wide assortment of berries, ranging from Logan and Lingen to Goose and Boysen, grapes, fruit trees, monkey The Tillamook Beekeepers showed off their demonstration hive at trees and more. last year’s show, while the Oregon Department of Forestry handed Garden Witch Goods out seedlings to showgoers, which they will do again in 2024. Show See HOME & GARDEN, Page A2
cosponsors Tillamook Solid Waste will also be informing community members about their programs while a cheese block themed hive will be up for raffle by the beekeepers.
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$100 gift certificate to the Tillamook County Creamery Association farm store and fourth will win a $50 JAndy Acres Nurseries certificate. Stelzig is also hosting a fundraiser for the recently revived Tillamook American Legion Post 47, which is celebrating its oneyear anniversary in April.
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