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Russian quake triggers Tillamook tsunami advisory WILL CHAPPELL Citizen Editor
was many years in the making, decades in fact, so my role today is to recognize the many hands and hearts who helped envision, plan and build this space,” Aman said. Thanked first were the city councilors who had taken part in the project’s planning, approval and construction. Aman specially thanked Councilor Linda Kozlowski, who led public listening sessions in the wake of a failed
A projected 8.8-magnitude earthquake off the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia triggered a tsunami watch, subsequently upgraded to an advisory, in Tillamook County and across the United States’s Pacific coast early in the evening of July 29. By midday Wednesday, the alert had been canceled. A tectonic summary of the quake from the United States Geological Survey’s National Earthquake Information Center said that the quake was the largest globally since the 2011 9.0-magnitude Tohoku, Japan earthquake, and among the ten largest since 1900. The earthquake occurred at 12:24 p.m., July 30, local time (4:24 p.m. pacific daylight time, July 29) 80 miles off the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia’s far east where the Pacific Plate moves west-northwest against the North American Plate, which extends beyond the continent. The report said that the fault event was likely to have caused a slip around 240 miles long by 85 miles in length and had been preceded by ten days of quakes in the region. In Tillamook County, residents signed up for Everbridge Nixle alerts received a first warning at 5:21 p.m., letting them know that a tsunami watch had been issued for the area. A tsunami watch is issued as advance notice to areas that may be impacted by a tsunami at a later time, with an update around 6:15 p.m. informing the public that impacts were expected to start in Seaside at 11:55 p.m. The watch was upgraded to an advisory around 6:30, meaning that strong currents and dangerous waves from one to three feet in height were expected and members of the public should stay out of the water. The advisory was canceled on Wednesday, July 30, just before 11 a.m.
See MANZANITA, Page A3
See QUAKE, Page A3
(Left to right) City Councilors Tom Campbell, Linda Kozlowski and Jerry Spegman, City Manager Leila Aman, City Councilor Brad Hart and (far left) John Handler, hold the ribbon as Mayor Kathryn Stock and Velda Handler, whose family previously owned the city hall and police station property, cut it to open the new facility.
Manzanita city hall opens for business WILL CHAPPELL Citizen Editor
Several hundred community members gathered on Manzanita Avenue on August 2, to celebrate the completion of Manzanita’s new city hall and police station with speeches, a flag raising, a ribbon cutting and tours of the facilities. Manzanita Mayor Kathryn Stock and City Manager Leila Aman expressed deep gratitude to city leaders and staff past and present, local organizations who
had supported the project and the team that undertook it and said they were excited for the new city hall to welcome the community. “As we open this new city hall, we honor not just a building, but our community; one grounded in service, resilience and sheer purpose,” Aman said. “May this space inspire civic responsibility and may it welcome every voice and guide us always to work for the public good.” The crowd began to gather in front of the new city hall on a
sunny Saturday morning as a DJ played music, attendees enjoyed snacks and kids participated in activities organized by the Hoffman Center for the Arts. After Stock welcomed the group, Bob La Torre played the national anthem on trumpet while Manzanita Police Sergeant Mike Scott and veteran Chuck Bridge raised the flag over the building. Aman then addressed the crowd and thanked many of the people who had contributed to the project’s success. “This project
Home First begins affordable development in Manzanita WILL CHAPPELL Citizen Editor
Work is under way on the Spruce Point development in Manzanita, which will bring 60 units of affordable housing to the city in
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fall 2026. Ben Pray, CEO of Home First Development, the company leading construction of the four-building comples, said that he was looking forward to opening the Manzanita apartments. “We’re excited about this one and we think the design is really going to fit Manzanita,” Pray said. “We’ve spent a lot of time thinking about how this project, how these buildings look and feel, and we want them to fit the character of Manzanita, and we think they’re going to.” Progress on the project began when Jim Pentz purchased a 70-acre property in Manzanita in the mid-201-s with an intention of creating a large, mixed-income, mixed-use, housing and commercial development for the city. He quickly brought his former business partner from a pump manufacturing company, Rick Hinkes, onto the project because the pair had discussed developing the property over the course of 30 years of both men owning homes in the city. The duo formed a company, Encore Investments, that would handle the development of infrastructure at the site, while other builders handled construction on individual lots. The pair initially developed a high-intensity, mixed-use plan that met with pushback from the community, leading them to scale their plans back to an 82-lot neighborhood along the ridge named Manzanita Highlands and an affordable development on a lower part of the parcel. The affordable element had been part of the original development plan, and Hinkes said that both he and Pentz, who had grown up in modest circumstances, always remained committed to including that as part of the project. “Both Jim and I come from let’s just say a modest background, mine in Chicago, his here in Beaverton and we both were in that mindset,” Hinkes said. “I mean it’s just how we were raised and neither of us really care to
forget where we came from so that’s always been part of the driving force behind us.” Individual lots went on sale in 2017 and as the project progressed and their responsibilities began to lessen, Pentz and Hinkes started looking for a company to partner with to turn a portion of the neighborhood into an affordable housing development. A friend connected Hinkes with Pray as well as other developers and they began having discussions about the necessary lot specifications and costs that would make a development feasible. Through that process, Home First, which develops and owns affordable housing apartments in 18 communities across Oregon, including the Willet Apartments that opened in Tillamook in 2023, rose to the top, and were eventually selected as partners for the project. “Ben is fabulous,” Hinkes said, “can’t say enough good things about his company. They’ve been wonderful partners and still are.” A study conducted by Manzanita’s government had determined that the city needed 60 units of affordable housing and with plenty of space, the team decided to build all 60. “We’re pretty simple, we said they want 60, we’re going to give them 60,” Pray said. Upgrades to the city’s water infrastructure will be necessary to support the project, and in 2023, the city received a $2.79-million grant from the state to install a new water main between Dorcas Street and NeCarney City Boulevard, with work planned for next spring and summer. Funding for the project’s $25-million price tag is coming primarily from a $21.4-million loan through Oregon Housing and Community Service’s Local Innovation Fast Track program. The project has also received $615,000 in grants, including $40,000 from Tillamook See HOME FIRST, Page A3
Fair week is here STAFF REPORT
Tillamook County Fair week has arrived, and all the fun will be kicking off tomorrow at 10 a.m. at the Tillamook County Fairgrounds. This year, the fair is celebrating the centennial anniversary of the only-in-Tillamook Pig n’ Fords races as their theme, but fairgoers will also have access to the gamut of beloved fair activities like parimutuel horse racing, nightly concerts, a demolition derby, livestock shows and so much more. After kicking off with the opening ceremony at 10 a.m., the next big activity is parimutuel horse racing, which gets started at 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday and each subsequent day of the fair. With a post time of 1 p.m., there will be eight races Wednesday, Thursday and Friday and nine races on Saturday, as competitors vie for $226,000 in purse money. Rainier Amusement’s carnival midway will be open from noon to 10 p.m. daily, with wristbands required for entry in addition to your fair ticket. Entertainment will continue in the evening when Pig n’ Ford racers square off at 5::30 p.m., with Wednesday, Thursday and Friday’s races serving as qualifying rounds for Saturday’s championship showdown. The fair’s annual concert series will take place the first three nights of the fair on the Main Grandstand Stage at 8 p.m., with Chase Matthew performing on Wednesday, Fleetwood Mac cover band Taken by the Sky performing on Wednesday and Waylon Wyatt rounding out the series on Friday. Saturday night, the fair will culminate in the demolition derby, also in the main grandstand arena, starting at 7:30 p.m. There are a plethora of other activities scheduled through the week, so don’t miss the comprehensive guide in this week’s print issue, also available online or at our booth at the fair, which includes a complete schedule for the week, map and more.