The Oregon Department of Forestry closed the North Fork Wolf Creek Shooting Lanes in the Tillamook State Forest this week to tackle maintenance and fire prevention work at the site.
For two days this week, part of Gales Creek's downtown was transformed into Indiana, and the Gales Creek Community Church of God converted to Catholicism.
That is, for a film being shot in the area.
Master Sergeant Tom Baker turned 100 on Monday, and the World War II, Korean War, and Vietnam War veteran was honored by Forest Grove American Legion Post 2 with a ceremony in front of friends, family, fellow residents, and staff of the Marquis Assisted Living Center.
Ninety-two years ago on Aug. 14, 1933 a logging crew at the end of a railroad spur in the upper reaches of the Gales Creek Watershed sparked a wildfire. That spark became the Tillamook Burn.
A Forest Grove businessmen was doing so well in 1875 he simply scrawled his signature on an ad space and bragged about how many customers he had. Then his horse killed himself.
A 2-alarm brush fire, which also burned a shipping container and a junk pile, drew a multiagency response to the Gales Creek Valley on Monday afternoon, including a hazmat team, law enforcement and state fire resources Monday afternoon.
