T he C olumbia P ress
December 28, 2018
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Bank to donate closing branch
for medical clinic in Naselle
Bank of the Pacific will do-
nate its building in Naselle,
Wash., to Ocean Beach Hos-
pital for use as a medical clin-
ic.
The branch at 309 Knappton
Road is 2,000 square feet and
slated to close Feb. 1.
Customer accounts will be
consolidated into the nearby
Bank of the Pacific branches
in coastal Washington and
Oregon. An automated teller
machine will be retained at
the building site.
The
hospital’s
medi-
cal clinic in Naselle is in a
1,000-square-foot
mobile
home about 2 miles from the
new building.
It has been part of the
Naselle community for more
than 35 years.
The new location offers
twice the space and the medi-
cal clinic will benefit from the
increased visibility.
The Bank of the Pacific
branch in Warrenton also
will close, but the bank will
retain the building and keep
the ATM there functioning.
New lodging tax begins Jan. 1
Left: Kenzie Ramsey lays the ball in during a game against the Rainier Columbians. Right:
Dalton Knight plays an aggressive offensive game and was high scorer against Rainier.
The week in Warrior basketball:
Girls win; boys win one, lose one
Warrenton’s boys team
lost its game 51-32 against
Rainier on Wednesday,
Dec 19.
Dalton Knight had the
high score for the Warriors
with 13 points.
Then the boys came back
Saturday, Dec. 22, and
beat the Willamette Valley
Christians 68-41.
The girls team beat the
Rainier Columbians 61-36
on Wednesday, Dec. 19.
Kenzie Ramsey was the
high scorer with 21 points.
The girls resumed play
for a three-day tourna-
ment in Stayton that began
Thursday, Dec. 27.
The boys have a two-day
tournament in Neah-Kah-
Nie that begins today, Dec.
28.
Vets with service disabilities can get new placards
Oregon veterans who quali-
fy for a disabled parking per-
mit and have a service-con-
nected disability are eligible
for a new Oregon Wounded
Warrior parking placard.
The new placards are being
offered by the Department of
Motor Vehicles and available
to those who are VA-rated at
50 percent or greater.
The parking placard ex-
empts the driver from paying
fees in public parking areas
with metered parking.
It also enables veterans to
park in time-limited spaces
for longer than the posted
limit (except in zones that
are designated 30 minutes or
less).
There is no fee for the plac-
ard, and it will carry the same
expiration as the veteran’s
driver license or ID card.
Qualified veterans who al-
ready have a disabled park-
ing placard and would like to
apply for the Oregon Wound-
ed Warrior designation must
fill out Form 735-265, the
DMV’s application for a dis-
abled parking permit, which
will be revised to include a
check box for the Wounded
Warrior placard.
The revised form will be
available online and at DMV
field offices Jan. 2.
A new countywide 1-percent
lodging tax goes into effect
Jan. 1.
The new tax, adopted by
the Clatsop County Board of
Commissioners in July, will
fund jail operations and tour-
ism promotion.
The tax is in addition to any
city, state or county transient
lodging tax already in place.
Transient lodging provid-
ers, which include hotels,
motels, bed-and-breakfasts
and short-term rental prop-
erties, who are engaged in
business on Jan. 1 must reg-
ister with the Clatsop Coun-
ty Assessment and Taxation
Office no later than March 1,
2019.
For more information, see
the “Countywide 1 percent”
link on the Clatsop Coun-
ty website, www.co.clatsop.
or.us.