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Vol. 2, Issue 30
July 27, 2018
Many-class reunion brings out old friends, old stories Skimmer device
found at credit
Right: Carolyn
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y
Shepherd, center,
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talks with Kay and
union’s ATM
Saturday’s Warrenton High
Frank Vollmer.
y
indy
ingst
School reunion was 100 years in
the making.
Dozens of people gathered in the
WHS cafeteria to celebrate good
times, connect with old friends
and acknowledge the school’s first
century of graduating classes.
“To me, this was one of the best
educational systems that I’ve been
a part of,” said Rod Hardin, whose
first teaching job was at WHS from
1968 to 1974.
He left to become vice principal
of a high school in the valley.
“They had great facilities,”
Hardin said, “but the attitudes
of the staff: they didn’t have high
expectations of the kids.”
He was sitting with longtime
friend Glenn McMurray, a WHS
teacher from 1973 to 1975.
“It was a really good experi-
ence,” McMurray said of teach-
ing in Warrenton. “Teachers
here didn’t check out at 3:30.
Below left: The orig-
inal Warrenton High
School before the
new campus was
finished in 1950.
Below right: Susan
Jensen Walker,
class of 1980, and
her husband, Brian
Walker, class of
1975.
Photos by Cindy Yingst
The Columbia Press
See ‘Reunion’ on Page 4
The Columbia Press
A skimming device was found on
a drive-through automated teller
machine at Wauna Federal Credit
Union’s Warrenton branch.
Warrenton Police issued a warning
last weekend for anyone who may
have used the ATM Saturday or Sun-
day.
Credit union officials told police
they’d inspected the ATM about 10
a.m. Saturday and it had no device on
it then. A motorcyclist who’d stopped
to use the ATM at 1 p.m. Sunday spot-
ted an irregularity and called police.
Video from the ATM shows a person
wearing a very tightly pulled hoodie
attaching the device about 10:30 p.m.
Saturday, Chief Matt Workman said.
The perpetrator kept their head and
face away from the camera and only
their hands are visible.
“You can’t tell race, gender, noth-
ing,” Workman said.
See ‘Skimmer’ on Page 5
County fair promises ‘carnival days and country nights’ during four-day run
The Columbia Press
This year’s Clatsop County Fair will
feature farm animals, a carnival, ven-
dor booths, Jeep races, a petting zoo,
musical groups and so much more.
The 2018 fair, “Carnival Lights and
Country Nights,” kicks off Tuesday
with five full days of entertainment.
“We’re trying to make a lot of chang-
es and make it more appealing to ev-
erybody in the community,” office
manager John Lewis said. “It’s noto-
rious for being a 4-H fair because we
have lots of animals.”
New things this year: Jeep races,
monster truck rides and an exhibit of
restored antique tractors and equip-
ment. A team of civil war re-enactors,
recently relocated to the fair from
Fort Stevens State Park, will bring a
blacksmith shop and providew some
demonstrations.
This year’s fair will be more spread
out over the entire fairgrounds, too.
Old favorites like the petting zoo,
bounce house, rock-climbing wall,
mutton busting, magic shows and
plenty of carnival food will return.
About 1,200 people attend week-
days and 1,800 people are expected
Friday and Saturday.
“The fair, in itself, is one of our big-
gest moneymakers,” Lewis said. “But
we rent out the grounds almost every
weekend.”
There are weddings, Christmas par-
ties, antiques and car shows. Hamp-
ton Affiliates just had its company
picnic there.
“It’s a great thing for the
community to have some-
thing to go and do and we’re
trying to have things year-
round,” Lewis said.
The full fair schedule can be
found on the Clatsop County
Fair website. Here are some
highlights:
t uesday
• Opening ceremony, noon,
center stage.
Courtesy Clatsop County Fair
• Meghan Schoenbohm,
Mutton
Bustin’
is
like
bronco
riding but involves
children’s music, 12:30 and
fluffy sheep and children ages 4 to 7.
5:30 p.m., center stage.
W ednesday
admission.
• Military Appreciation Day. All mil-
• Whole Hog Roast, 4 p.m., free.
See ‘Fair’ on Page 8
itary members with ID will get $3 off