The INDEPENDENT, August 18, 2005
Page 5
Business Notes
Another generation takes over the kitchen range at the Spar Tree
when he says he “likes to make
food and see people enjoy it.”
He is also a stickler for quality
ingredients.
Plans for the restaurant, be-
side adding a second story for
more living space, include con-
tinuing to add new dishes, such
as fresh fish entrees using fish
chosen the same day in Asto-
ria, offering a book of Gloria’s
recipes, more retro 50’s deco-
rating, perhaps a deck for out-
side dining, maybe a leather
‘biker’ shop in back. In the
meantime, look for good quality
ingredients cooked into old and
new favorites.
Nicolay’s Spar Tree Cafe is
located at 62467 Nehalem Hwy
N. and is open Sunday and
Tuesday through Thursday
from 8:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., Fri-
day and Saturday from 8:00
a.m. to 8:00 p.m. and are
closed on Mondays.
Now everyone in Clatsop & Columbia counties can join!
Life is full of
Maria and Christian Nicolay in the Spar Tree Café
Everything old is new again.
On July 1, Nicolay’s Spar Tree
Café replaced Gloria’s Spar
Tree Restaurant, though most
of your favorite dishes from
Gloria’s are still being served.
The reason much of the menu
is the same is that the new
owners are Gloria’s daughter
and son-in-law, Maria and
Christian Nicolay. The Nicolays
came for a visit and decided to
stay and take over the restau-
rant, since Gloria was planning
to retire. But, the visit really
brought them home, since
much of Maria’s family is here
while Christian is from Vancou-
ver, Washington, and still has
many friends there.
Before settling here, Christ-
ian and Maria had been work-
ing together in a landscape and
property management busi-
ness, though both have been
around and in restaurants off
and on for many years. Maria
first worked in one of Gloria’s
restaurants when she was nine
years-old and Christian has
cooked in Mexican restaurants,
pizza parlors (making hand
thrown pizzas) and as a prep
cook in different restaurants.
Nicolay’s is now offering
Mexican specials, such as
steak or chicken fajitas and tor-
tilla soup, in addition to many of
the familiar favorites. Christian
is also making Gloria’s famous
pies and wanted to be sure
everyone knew he “finally
learned to make mom’s hash-
browns.” Christian is deaf, but
has no trouble taking orders or
making himself understood
Hearings on proposed changes in
the state’s Forest Practices Act
The Oregon Department of
Forestry has scheduled public
hearings on proposed changes
to forest practice rules con-
cerning the approval of harvest
operations.
The changes implement re-
Vernonia City Council
From page 4
was successful from a police
standpoint. Chief Workman
said most of the arrests were
out-of-town visitors and most
involved alcohol. There were
22 police, including six from
Vernonia, on duty during Jam-
boree weekend (not all at
once). The police made eight
arrests and over 40 traffic
stops.
visions in the State Forest
Practices Act passed by the
2003 Oregon Legislature and
would make permanent tempo-
rary rules included in House Bill
3264, which passed in 2003
and took effect Aug. 2, 2005.
The new law changed the
Oregon Forest Practices Act to
remove authority of the Board
of Forestry or the State
Forester to require prior ap-
proval of forest practices and
approval of written plans de-
scribing how operations would
be carried out. In place of this
required approval of forest har-
vest plans, House Bill 3264
changed the State’s role to re-
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