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Citizen North Coast
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Thursday, July 11, 2024 | Vol. 31, Issue 13
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Wesley Wootten
Flamingo Jim’s colorful crew spread smiles during the parade.
Rockaway celebrates independence day
Wheeler welcomes new city manager WILL CHAPPELL Citizen Editor
Throngs of visitors descended on Rockaway Beach for its annual Fourth of July celebrations last week, enjoying the parade, dachshund races and fireworks display at night. The day kicked off shortly before 11 a.m. with a flyover from the Air National Guard before the annual parade down Highway 101 through downtown. Local businesses, charitable organizations and other groups delighted gathered crowds with their costumes and floats, while passing out candy and beads.
Wheeler’s city council unanimously approved the hiring of Wesley Wootten to serve as city manager at their June council meeting, following the resignation of Pax Broeder. Wootten assumed the role on June 24, bringing a background in nonprofits to the role where he says he hopes to support and listen to citizens to help council move the city forward. “One thing that’s really important to me is that the city manager and us here in city hall are here to support the citizens of Wheeler,” Wooten said. “We’re not here to promote an agenda or our
See PARADE, Page A6
See WHEELER, Page A3
STAFF REPORT
Dachshunds participated in the parade before racing in the afternoon.
EVCNB hosts tsunami lecture WILL CHAPPELL Citizen Editor
A standing-room-only crowd packed the Pine Grove Community House in Manzanita on July 28, to attend a lecture on tsunami modeling hosted by the Emergency Volunteer Corps of Nehalem Bay. The lecture by Dr. Jonathan Allan from Oregon’s Department of Geology and Mineral Industries detailed how experts at the department use clues from past tsunamis to predict future outcomes. Allan has worked for the Department of Geology and Mineral Industries (DOGAMI) since 2001 and currently serves as the head of its tsunami modeling and mapping program. Scientists studying tsunamis look at the historical record of tsunamis, in a practice known as paleoseismology, combined with the more recent recorded events to predict what will happen in future tsunamis. Paleoseismologists look for evidence of sediment deposits caused by tsunami inundation in soil records, areas where land subsidence can be observed and ghost forests, where low-lying trees were submerged in salt water after a seismic event, to indicate an area’s seismic activity. After observing those indicators, scientists look
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The exterior of the Garibaldi Bayview Apartments.
New apartments open in Garibaldi WILL CHAPPELL Citizen Editor
The crowd listens attentively as Allan starts his presentation.
at recent, well-documented earthquakes and tsunamis to develop inundation models. Those include the 1960 Chilean earthquake, which at a magnitude 9.5 was the largest in recorded history, as well as the 1964 Alaskan earthquake and 2011 Japanese event. Allan then discussed the situation on the Oregon coast, which sits near the Cascadia Subduction Zone and is susceptible to tsunamis from farther afield. Allan said that tsunami generation requires an earthquake with a magnitude of at least 7.0 on the Richter scale. Distant tsunamis are those that are generated in fault zones elsewhere on the pacific rim and take between four and 12 hours to arrive on Oregon shores. Since 1850, 30 distant tsunamis have impacted the Oregon coast,
with substantial damage caused in Cannon Beach and Seaside by the 1964 Alaskan quake and tsunami and in Brookings by the 2011 Japan earthquake. The more serious scenario for the Oregon coast is a Cascadia subduction zone event, which would cause exponentially more damage due to its proximity. The Cascadia subduction zone is formed where the Juan de Fuca tectonic plate slides eastward under the North American plate just off the coast of northern California, Oregon and Washington. The zone’s existence was not discovered until the 1990s, when researchers pieced together indigenous accounts, geologic evidence and Japanese records to determine that a major tsunami had occurred in 1700.
Since the subduction zone’s discovery, researchers have examined soil records both on land and under the ocean to develop a more detailed picture of the zone’s record. That research shows that 26 partial-margin ruptures, causing quakes around a magnitude 7, have occurred, while full-margin ruptures have occurred on average every 500 years. Allan then discussed the experience of going through and impacts of a Cascadia subduction zone earthquake and tsunami. Depending on the size of the rupture along the fault and location, shaking from the earthquake would last between tens of seconds and five minutes. The southern coast is located closer to the fault itself and is projected to See TSUNAMI, Page A3
Residents are set to begin moving into the new Garibaldi Bayview Apartments at the east end of the city and seven lots prepared for home construction above the complex are on the market. The 3-acre project was shepherded by the development team of Paul Daniels and Ron Halter and marks the third complex they have partnered on in the city in the last decade. Friends since high school, the men became involved in development in Garibaldi in 2014, constructing and operating the Garibaldi Village and Garibaldi Creekside apartments. Daniels has lived in Garibaldi for 33 years after starting a career in excavation in California, and Halter has been a developer in the Willamette Valley for 18 years after working in aerospace. Daniels said that the partnership began over a conversation at his kitchen
table a decade ago and joked that “this whole thing took about 30 seconds to start.” After deciding to team up, the pair found a property within days and hit the ground running. Progress on the Bayview project began in 2019, when Daniels and Halter purchased the property near the east end of the city on Highway 101. The coronavirus pandemic delayed the planning and permitting stages of the project significantly, preventing work from starting until last year. After starting work, the pair’s experience helped to bring the project to fruition expeditiously and 12 of the complex’s 18 units had been inspected by the last week of June, with the rest due for inspection in the coming days. Each of the units will be one bedroom and 710 square feet, with larger apartments not possible due to the property’s topography. Rent will cost $1,450 and pets are
See APARTMENTS, Page A2