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Thursday, May 1, 2025 | Vol. 32, Issue 9
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Garibaldi council delays decision on water, sewer rate bumps WILL CHAPPELL Citizen Editor
PHOTO BY KATHERINE MACE
Showgoers browse the Dahlia clumps at Old House Dahlias booth.
Residents prepare for spring and summer at Home and Garden Show STAFF REPORT
Crowds amassed at the Tillamook County Fairgrounds on April 26 and 27, for the Tillamook Headlight Herald’s 36th annual Home and Garden Show. The show featured a wide as-
sortment of vendors selling goods to prepare the home and garden for the summer, while other community organizations also took advantage of the event to spread their messages. Tillamook County Solid Waste, who cohosted the show,
was on hand to teach residents about forthcoming changes to the county’s recycling system and answer any questions about disposing of materials. The Tillamook Beekeepers hosted the 2025 Bee Days at the show, bringing their demonstra-
tion hive and raffling off a hive, while the Kiwanis Club of Tillamook hosted a raffle to support scholarships for local youths. Old House Dahlias and Monkey Business 101 brought plants to the show while Pacific Restaurant served food.
100,000 fins clipped at 36th annual Tillamook Anglers Fin Clipping Day WILL CHAPPELL Citizen Editor
Two to three hundred Tillamook County residents assembled at Whiskey Creek Fish Hatchery on April 12, for the annual Tillamook Anglers Fin Clipping Day. By the end of the day, the volunteers had removed around 100,000 adipose fins from Spring Chinook salmon, which will be released in the waters of the Trask
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River in July. “That’s our future,” said Tillamook Anglers President Jim Skaar, “the kids that are doing this, someday they’re going to catch these fish.” The Tillamook Anglers were born in 1987, when Jerry Dove and other local fishermen were looking for ways to support local salmonid populations after the closure of hatch box programs run by the state of Oregon. Two years later, a friend mentioned a disused University of Oregon hatchery that had operated on Whiskey Creek along Netarts Bay, that could help with the group’s efforts. But when Dove went searching for the hatchery it took him several passes along Netarts Bay Road to find the property, which had become completely over-
grown with blackberries. After finding the hatchery, Dove requested permission from the state to take over the property, and after receiving it, the anglers set to work removing overgrowth, rehabilitating the fish rearing ponds and building a new maintenance shed and structure around the ponds. Even as the property underwent maintenance, repairs and additions, the anglers hosted their first annual Fin Clipping Day in 1989, welcoming members of the community to clip the adipose fins from young salmon fry, marking them as hatchery-bred fish that can be kept if caught. Fish for the hatchery come from the See FIN CLIPPING, Page A3
Volunteers manned the fin clipping line throughout the day, removing adipose fins from anesthetized Spring Chinook salmon fry.
Garibaldi’s city council delayed action on proposed increases to the city’s water and sewer utility rates on April 21, electing to wait until their May meeting to give the city’s budget committee a chance to weigh in. The proposed water rate increase would see the city’s base water rate for customers with three-quarter-inch pipes jump from $37.62 to $48.91 for 4,000 gallons and would be the third increase in as many years. The proposed sewer rate increase would see the base rate rise from $62.71 to $81.52. Council also delayed a decision on a proposed street maintenance fee of $19 per month per property. The proposed new fee and fee increases were brought forward by City Manager Jake Boone as part of the city’s budgeting process to match the projected costs to the city of each of the infrastructure systems. In the case of the proposed street maintenance fee, Boone explained that the city currently replenished its street maintenance fund from a franchise fee on the Tillamook Peoples’ Utility District and transient lodging tax revenues, but that the income was insufficient to meet the city’s needs. Boone said that historically, the city had relied on awards from the Oregon Department of Transportation’s small city allotment program, but that these grants were only awarded every few years to each city, and recent successes meant that Garibaldi was unlikely to see major funding from the program soon. The proposed fee increases were calculated based on the needs of the water and sewer systems, and Boone explained that failures to raise rates in the past had led to insufficient collections and deferred maintenance, making the large increases necessary. The city’s base water rate, for example, See RATES, Page A3
Weber concerned by transportation proposal WILL CHAPPELL Citizen Editor
As the long legislative session in Salem passes the halfway mark, State Senator Suzanne Weber is apprehensive about the proposed transportation package put forward by Democrats in Salem last week. Weber said that she was uneasy about the impacts of tax and fee increases on her constituents, and the absence of benefit for the heightened costs, while taking Democrats to task for their lack of transparency and bipartisanship in developing the bill. “It’s been said that we’re going to sit down and we’re going to negotiate several things in this structure. So far, no one has been approached to work on that,” Weber said. “It needs to be a team approach because it’s got to be more than just the Democrats deciding this, it’s got to be a concerted effort between both sides.” Weber is a member of the legislature’s joint transportation committee but said that as of last week she had only received the four-page document released to the public describing the proposed package. In the document, Democrats proposed a 20 cent in the state’s gas tax, from 40 to 60 cents, implemented in four phases by 2032, increasing title and registration fees, as well as the See WEBER, Page A3