North Coast NCRD Breaks Ground for New Pickleball Courts
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Keepsake Graduation Serving North Tillamook County since 1996 Section Inside North Coast HOME Spr ing - Summer IMPROVEMENT 2020 Section Inside Impr ovement ITIZEN $1 C June 4, 2020 northcoastcitizen.com Volume 26, No. 10 NCRD breaks ground for new pickleball courts n May 29, NCRD $10,100 from the pickle- designing the courts. Bids held a groundbreak- ball club, $1,400 from the were invited in March and ingO ceremony on its 7th Friends of NCRD, and the McEwan Construction of street lot in downtown Ne- balance from NCRD. Gearhart was awarded the halem. About 30 members This project began contract in April. of the community attended with a series of discus- The new courts will be to celebrate the beginning sions dating back to late on a mostly vacant lot fac- of construction of four new 2017 when the Nehalem ing 7th street in downtown pickleball courts. Bay Pickleball Club Nehalem, adjacent to the Manning the shovels approached NCRD with NCRD obstacle course. were NCRD board chair a demonstrated need for The club currently has 60 Jack Bloom, Nehalem Bay new courts in the area. members but everyone Pickleball Club President Eventually a plan was involved is predicting Gordon Louie, Friends of developed for fundraising there will be many new NCRD President Con- and community support, players once the courts stance Shimek, and Mi- and by January, 2019, are finished. Pickleball is chael McEwan from Mc- a grant application was reported to be the fastest Ewan Construction. The submitted to Oregon Parks growing sport in America. NCRD board chair Jack Bloom, Nehalem Bay Pickleball Club President Gordon project funding includes a and Recreation. The grant Thanks to the many donors Louie, Friends of NCRD President Constance Shimek, and Michael McEwan from $73,800 grant from Oregon was approved in Septem- and supporters who helped McEwan Construction use the ceremonial gold shovels to break ground for new Parks and Recreation, ber, and work began on make this possible! pickleball courts in Nehalem. Courtesy photo Risky business Hoffman Center sets online music course he Hoffman Center for the Arts will host a six -week online “Music Appreciation You Always WishedT You’d Taken” class, beginning in mid-June and running through July. The class will be led by Peter Kramer and conducted via Zoom. The one-hour sessions will be held weekly on Thursdays at 11a.m. beginning June 18. Tuition will be $120. Registration can be done online at https://hoffmanarts.org/register/ Born in Portland, Kramer graduated from the Oberlin Conservatory, with a double major in Composition and Harpsichord performance, and is finishing his PhD in Composition at the City University of New York Graduate Center. He is returning to Portland and Manzanita this summer to Peter Kramer spend time with his family -- Can- dace Kramer and Drew Prell. “This is primarily a lecture course to inspire and educate people about music history,” said Kramer. “I will send music examples ahead for participants to hear. These will be played again and discussed in class” Links to other music will be forwarded to participants to help them understand how music from earlier eras were incorporated into later works. Kramer said he hopes for interactive sessions wherein people ask questions, and he looks forward to learning A 47-foot Coast Guard boat plows through the surf. participants’ interests and the connections they make. (Bottom) Boatswain Mate 1st Class Jimmy Thrall at The weekly sessions will cover: The Classical Era and the wheel on calmer water of the Tillamook Bay. Courtesy Photos the Birth of the Piano, The Sonata Form, Romantic Era Songs, Piano Music of the Romantic Era, The Modern (prewar) Era, and the Recent Past (postwar) Music. “We appreciate Peter bringing this course to the Hoff- man Center. It fits right in with our mission of helping Surf’s up, he’s people explore arts and culture,” said Hoffman board president Mary Roberts. “Plus, in light of current social distancing concerns, it can be done very effectively got your six! online.” Karl Anderson bia and Ecuador on a drug in- Guest Contributor terdiction mission. “We crossed the equator on that trip”, he County fully reopens hen your average per- said. “I think El Salvador was off Manzanita. We were towing “We had a Coast Guard son thinks of the word the sketchiest place I saw.” her back toward Tillamook helicopter crash in La Push,” “surfman”W they picture a guy His cutter service com- Bay. It was close to midnight. he said. “They had hit a power 13 area boat launches hitting the beach with a board. pleted, Thrall then aimed his We knew the bar was going to pole and sheared off the tail be picking up and we wanted to rotor. I was called up as part of Hilary Dorsey But for Boatswain Mate 1st sights at surfman certification. Staff Writer Class Jimmy Thrall, he plows He attended Basic Coxswain hurry and get them in. The bar the search and recovery team through the surf behind the School for two weeks, fol- was going to be deteriorating and later as part of the salvage The Tillamook Board of County Commissioners wheel of a boat to save people lowed by Heavy Weather Cox- quickly. When we started get- operation.” voted Wednesday, May 27, to reopen 13 county boat or vessels in distress. Specifi- swain School for three weeks, ting close to the bar, the other The only survivor was the launches seven days per week. Effective at 6 p.m. cally, a 47-foot boat owned by and Surfman School for four lifeboat came out to see what co-pilot, Thrall said. “Two of Friday, May 29, these 13 boat launches will be open the U.S. Coast Guard. His title: weeks, all in Ilwaco, Washing- would be the best area to come the crew members were killed for access by users with a Tillamook County Annual ‘Surfboat Driver’ or ‘Surfman.’ ton. During this time he was in. We decided the north side but we couldn’t locate the pilot. Parking Pass or Day Pass. Fully reopened boat launches Thrall, a resident of Bay assigned to Station Quillayute of the bar was the best because We had to assume at that point include: Burton Fraser, Fishers Point, Little Nestucca, City, began his career with the River in La Push where he the south side had already that he might have still been Lake Lytle, Memaloose Point, Nehalem Bay, Netarts Coast Guard in 2005 and has remained until 2015. started to break. alive. Landing, Pacific City, Parks Landing, Roy Creek, Sollie been at Station Tillamook Bay In May of 2015 he was When we started coming in Debris from the wreckage Smith, Steiner and Three Rivers. for the past five years. assigned to Station Tillamook through the jaws a big wave was everywhere. They finally The Tillamook Tidewater ADA access boat dock on “I entered boot camp at Bay. came through and picked up found the pilot’s body in the Highway 131 is also open seven days per week. Cape May, New Jersey in Of the 40 Coast Guard per- the boat, causing it to surf up front part of the fuselage un- Commissioner Mary Faith Bell said the county February of 2005,” Thrall said. sonnel currently at the station, the towline. There was only derwater. He was still strapped encourages people to continue safe distancing practices. “That was for eight weeks, only five are surfmen. one guy on the boat.” in his seat.” Just because the weather is nice, it does not mean the which was followed by cutter Thrall said the Tillamook Thrall instinctively applied Station Tillamook Bay danger has passed. duty. “I was on the buoy tender Bar is unquestionably the most more power to keep the towline confirmed that “As one of the The Cape Kiwanda boat launch at Hungry Harbor cutter ‘Anthony Petit’ from dangerous bar on the Oregon taught. Senior Duty Officers at the Drive shall be open seven days a week to commercial 2005 through 2006 and then on coast. “It is so unpredictable “We got her in just seconds station, he (Thrall) has coor- dory boat operators, who are also permitted to the park the cutter ‘Active’ from 2006 due to so many shallow spots before the north side started to dinated or responded to 105 on the beach. The boat launch is open to recreational through 2008.” that are caused by the jetties. break,” he said. “Had it started search and rescue missions, dory boat operators Monday through Friday. Recre- Thrall sailed on the ‘Active’ Conditions can change in a to break before we got there, preserved 6.9 million dollars ational operators are prohibited from parking on the from Port Angeles, Washington matter of minutes.” we would have been forced of property and has saved 11 beach but are permitted to park trailers in the Cape down the Pacific Coast all the When asked if saving lives to wait out there until the tide people.” Kiwanda parking lot. The Hungry Harbor Drive boat way to the waters off Colom- has been his biggest challenge changed, or all night.” In addition to his job as a launch will be closed at 6 p.m. on Fridays to the recre- as a surfman, he candidly said While he said three boats surfman for the Coast Guard, ational fleet. “I really don’t think of saving have capsized on the bar during Thrall has also been a volun- Commission Chair David Yamamoto said, things are lives as a challenge. It’s just my his five years at the station, teer firefighter for the Bay City going very well with opening the boat launches.