Rebecca Noordam, left, and Mackenzie Mitchell, right. Photo by Hannah Preston, Moments by Hannah Photography
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2024 Miss Tillamook County Rodeo Tillamook local Aubree Fagen, right, and Junior Miss Tillamook County Rodeo, Annika Hedin, left.
Tillamook County Dairy Princess Ambassador Madyson Grimes with the June Baby Owen Dean Koskela
Tuesday, June 18, 2024 | Vol. 136, Issue 24
Rocks rolling for south jetty repair WILL CHAPPELL Headlight Editor
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fter building up a stockpile of six-to-ten-ton rocks at the Port of Garibaldi through May and early June, contractors working to repair the south jetty at the entrance to Tillamook Bay have started transporting rocks across the bay to Kincheloe Point. Andy Leavitt, project manager and president of Trade West Construction, the company performing the work, said that crews would begin placing stones near the root of the jetty within the month, at which point work will speed up. Up to this point, stones have only been arriving at the staging area at the Port of Garibaldi in the early hours of the morning but as work ramps up, they will become common during the day. Leavitt said that they hope to place between 500 and 600 tons of stone a day once they are operating at full capacity. Throughout the entire project, crews will place around 100,000 tons, or between four and six thousand individual rocks, helping to repair two, separate sections of the jetty near its root and head. Initially, the stones are being transported from the Port of Garibaldi staging area to Kincheloe Point directly on the deck of the barge but they will soon be placed in the backs of transport trucks that will drive onto the barge and then directly to the jetty upon offload. Before any of this work could begin, crews spent months preparing the area at Bayocean County Park between Kincheloe Point and the root of the south jetty to support the repair. Those efforts included
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he 37th annual Tillamook County Rodeo and Tillamook Area Chamber of Commerce’s 67th annual June Dairy Parade are set and ready to take over Tillamook for a weekend of family fun. The weekend kicks off on Friday with the Miss Tillamook County Rodeo, Junior Miss Tillamook County Rodeo and Little Tillys pageants. Starting at 10 a.m., the pageant will
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The barge that will haul rocks across Tillamook Bay as workers finished welding the gangway at the aft shortly before rock transport began.
constructing a portion of new road and improving another section of existing road to accommodate the large transport trucks in the mile between the offload site and jetty. Crews also cleared a 10-acre site near the root of the jetty to be used for secondary staging of the stones, although Garrett Bryner, a quality control manager for Trade West, said that ideally rocks would move straight from the barge to the jetty. Workers also installed a temporary scale that will weigh the rocks
for final payment to the contractor. Two or three teams of stone spotters and placers will be responsible for placing the rocks into the jetty using excavators. Leavitt said that finding people capable of performing the painstaking task of maneuvering the stones into the perfect position was difficult but that his crews had become experienced enough to move a stone from a barge into the jetty in Coos Bay in under an hour. Work will begin on a 600-foot section of the jetty near its root this
year, before focus moves to an 800foot section near the head at the end of the jetty. Relatively smaller rocks will be used on the root section, while larger rocks, some weighing up to 40 tons, will be used near the head. The two sections are separated by a 3500-foot section of jetty on which crews will construct a temporary road for hauling the stones. Leavitt said that the team had budgeted for work stoppages during See ROCKS, Page A4
have events throughout the day at the Tillamook County Fairgrounds, before the winners are coronated during halftime of the rodeo on Saturday. On Friday night at the fairgrounds, the rodeo gets underway at 7 p.m., featuring bareback riding, saddle bronc riding, steer wrestling, barrel racing, tie down roping, team roping, breakaway roping and bull riding. Designated kid’s day, Friday’s rodeo features free admission for kids under 10 accompanied by a
paying adult and will feature a stickhorse race at the halftime. Saturday morning activities begin with the annual YMCA Milk Run, starting at 8 a.m. in front of the YMCA at 610 Stillwell Avenue. Registration is open through June 21, and the event features two-mile, 5K and 10K options. Following the Milk Run, the June Dairy Parade will roll through the streets of downtown Tillamook starting at 11 a.m. With a theme of “Tractor Trails and Tailgate Tales,”
the parade will feature an assortment of floats and performers, and is being grand marshaled by Hayden Bush. Festivities will conclude on Saturday night, with the second night of the rodeo and the Hooves n’ Hops Brewfest, hosted at the fairgrounds. The Brewfest is open from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m., while the rodeo will start at 7 p.m. Please see the insert in this edition for more information on all the activities.
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estucca Rural Fire Protection District Chief Jim Oeder took over as president of the Oregon Fire Chiefs Association in March and will lead the organization for the next year, coordinating lobbying and outreach activities. Oeder said that his primary focuses would be on amending new health and safety rules that would negatively impact firefighting services and working to boost funding for services across the state that are cash strapped due to rising costs and demand, and restrictions on taxing. “It doesn’t matter whether we’re Portland area, Tualatin Valley, Clackamas Fires or even smaller than us, your Bay City,
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your operating costs are getting to where we’re going to make cuts because we just can’t do everything anymore.” Oeder took over the presidency of the Oregon Fire Chiefs Association (OFCA) after serving on the board of directors for the previous six years and holding the second and first vice presidencies in the last two years. The OFCA includes members from more than 300 firefighting services across the state and advocates for issues concerning them, as well as providing training. Oeder has been a professional firefighter since arriving in Nestucca in 2009, following a 30-year career as a volunteer firefighter in Lebanon while working as a machinist. In his role as president of the
OFCA, Oeder has already traveled to Washington D.C. to meet with federal legislators but says that most of his advocacy work will take place in Salem. Addressing the funding crunch hitting fire services across the state is the top priority for Oeder and the OFCA, as departments are caught between rising costs and stagnant revenues. Oeder said that firefighting apparatuses and equipment have seen cost increases anywhere from 50% to 200% in recent years and that less features are now included as standard, driving costs even higher. Combined with Measures 5 and 50 restricting property tax increases in Oregon, Oregon fire districts are being forced increasingly to rely See OEDER, Page A4
he Tillamook County Board of Commissioners approved a $670,000 contract with DOWL for the design and construction engineering phases of the Shiloh Levee Project. Rehabilitation of the 72-yearold levee that holds water back above Highway 101 north of the City of Tillamook will cost a projected $4.3 million total. County officials had been aware of issues with the levee dating back at least a decade and a 2018 survey by the United States Army Corps of Engineers gave the levee a rating of minimally acceptable due to shortcomings in the riverward slope and erosion. Funding for the project has so far come from two grants from Business Oregon, one for $1.3 million and the other for $400,000. Tillamook County Chief of Staff Rachel Hagerty said that she is investigating further grants to support the project and that Business Oregon has a loan program that could also be used to fund the project, if none are available. DOWL will manage the design and construction engineering phases of the project, including a wide variety of survey and model work, environmental assessments, and local, state and federal permitting. The firm will also be responsible for developing a plan for the work and helping to put the project out to bid in March 2025. Commissioners also approved adding the new veterans’ memorial coming to downtown Tillamook to the county’s insurance policy at a cost of $250 annually. The new memorial is scheduled for installation in the last week of June and will feature a sevenfoot-tall granite plinth topped by a bronze bald eagle situated in the triangle property between Pacific and Main Avenues and First Street. The front of the monument will bear an inscription memorializing veterans, while the right side will feature a POW MIA logo and the left an image of boots, a rifle and a helmet in honor of soldiers who died in combat. The memorial cost around $83,000 on its own, while the overall budget for the project including pathways to the memorial, the foundation for the memorial and landscaping will be over $200,000. Late Tillamook City Councilor Doug Henson spearheaded the project, raising funds and in-kind contributions to construct the memorial in 2023. Tillamook City Councilor Nick Torres has taken over the project since Henson’s passing in late April and said that the memorial needed insurance provided through a government entity, with the county being the most logical partner. Commissioners unanimously approved the request and voiced their appreciation for the monument’s addition. Commissioners also approved the installation of a French drain at the site of Community Action Resource Enterprise’s forthcoming homeless shelter on First Street in Tillamook and a $59,450 contract with Praxis Political to promote the campaign for a November bond in support of a new emergency radio system for the county.
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