July 25, 2024 • 29 mins
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Rotary, road trips, and trip down memory lane on this weeks Double R Show!
- Jeanne Sprague, President - Rotary Club of Lincoln City
- Sandy Gruber, Super Road tripper & Volunteer - Retired GIS Coordinator, City of Lincoln City
- Stacey Ehrenfelt, ‘79 Taft High Grad - Sales Manager, Power Lincoln City
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SPEAKER_04 (00:00):
Welcome
SPEAKER_07 (00:07):
to the Double R Show, the podcast that features
everything about North LincolnCounty.
The Double R Show directed andproduced by Paul Robertson and
hosted by the voice of LincolnCity, Roger Robertson.
SPEAKER_03 (00:30):
Rolling with the Double R Podcast one more time.
Before we get into it, we wantto talk about Mr.
Sandman.
And sand, you know somethingabout in a sand competition.
SPEAKER_02 (00:42):
Right, sand competition, August 3rd in front
of the Rhodes End StateRecreation Area down Rhodes End.
Come bring your 20 bucks andsome friends and draw in the
sand for yourself and enter towin some competition.
Well,
SPEAKER_03 (00:54):
you
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could also bring along a birthday card.
Yeah, you could definitely bringalong a birthday card.
SPEAKER_03 (00:59):
Birthday card for St.
Paul celebrating his birthday.
And it is...
August 3rd.
Yeah, it is.
It is August 3rd, but the eventis sponsored by...
SPEAKER_02 (01:07):
The Cascade Head Buys for Collaborative, yeah.
It's good stuff.
SPEAKER_03 (01:11):
So, coming up on the program today, we're going to
talk about wheels are rolling.
Yeah, big wheels are rolling.
Big wheels are rolling.
Stacey Ehrenfeld's going to behere, Jeannie Sprague, and Sandy
did some traveling.
SPEAKER_02 (01:24):
Yeah, Sandy Gruber out on the road, thousands of
miles, and she's going to talk alittle bit about that.
We'll
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talk
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about that and a whole lot more coming
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up right after this.
SPEAKER_09 (01:33):
If you're single and 50, nothing out there.
Like walking up on an avocadobin, there's like seven left.
Five are rotten, two aresuspect.
You just end up leaving with anonion.
SPEAKER_12 (01:44):
Rodney Carrington.
Two shows on Saturday, August3rd.
Chinook Winds Casino Resort.
SPEAKER_09 (01:50):
Any man that thinks he's going to run off and find
him some little 30-somethingwho's 50 years old, good luck
with that.
They're a lot of fun, buteventually you have to talk to
them.
That's when the breakdownbegins.
So what do you want to do withyour life?
Just travel.
Travel the world.
You work at Arby's, probablygoing to be a while.
SPEAKER_12 (02:06):
Tickets on sale now at chinookwins.com, Chinook Wins
box office, or at 1-88-MADE-ACT,a night of comedy and music with
Rodney Carrington.
SPEAKER_09 (02:16):
I got crabs.
SPEAKER_12 (02:18):
I mean, it's real bad.
Not the kind you eat at Joe's,but they kind of make your
girlfriend mad.
Saturday, August 3rd, two shows,Chinook Wins Casino Resort,
Rodney Carrington, Chinook Wins,where concerts are better at the
beach.
SPEAKER_03 (02:33):
Jeannie Sprague is with us, and Jeannie is the new
president of the Lincoln CityRotary.
Congratulations.
SPEAKER_11 (02:38):
Thank you so much, Roger.
I'm
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pretty thrilled.
It is interesting to me, in yourclub, you have the very first
woman that was an OregonRotarian.
SPEAKER_11 (02:48):
Estelle Harlan.
SPEAKER_03 (02:49):
And now, you as president.
SPEAKER_11 (02:51):
Yeah, and Estelle is definitely one of my mentors and
someone I aspire to be in theRotary Club.
She does a ton.
SPEAKER_03 (02:58):
Now, Rotary in Lincoln City, known specifically
for scallops.
For
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scholarships and community service.
So our vision is to help thecommunity and be there to
support.
We have different organizationsthat we fund on a yearly basis,
and then we also make decisionsas a club and as a board, other
events or organizations to fundand sponsor.
We also go out and actually showup in force and help out at
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special events.
For example, there's a fewevents throughout the summer
that we will be attending andhelping just serve food and just
be a part of it, like the annualfood drive, for example.
SPEAKER_03 (03:37):
We're always a part of that.
SPEAKER_11 (03:39):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_03 (03:40):
You raise a lot of money primarily through wreaths.
SPEAKER_11 (03:44):
Yes, that is our biggest fundraiser of the year.
And that's a fundraiser EstillHarlan started years ago.
I mean, it's been decades.
And every Christmas season, thecommunity knows that we are
selling Christmas wreaths.
SPEAKER_03 (03:59):
I know I'm getting a call from Estill.
SPEAKER_11 (04:00):
Yes, she is our number one seller.
And all of the proceeds that weget from that go straight into
funding scholarships forstudents, here in lincoln city
from career tech from taft highschool home school to be able to
go and further their educationand and today at our meeting we
actually handed out thosescholarships so it was pretty
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exciting
SPEAKER_03 (04:22):
what kind of money are we talking about to jenny
SPEAKER_11 (04:24):
everywhere from five hundred dollars to a two
thousand dollar scholarship andreally every year our board gets
together and looks out how muchwe raise through that wreath
fundraiser and then make adecision on how many
scholarships we can get out oneof the things we really want is
more youth to apply so we'recontinually reaching out to Taft
High School, CareerTech, otheryouth to say, make sure you
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apply.
We want to support yourcontinuing education.
SPEAKER_03 (04:49):
Are there special parameters?
SPEAKER_11 (04:51):
No, it's just an application that they need to
fill out, ask them somequestions, and that's about it.
And
SPEAKER_03 (04:59):
a couple of thousand dollars is a lot of money for a
student to go to college.
SPEAKER_11 (05:03):
Yeah, we really pride ourselves in being able to
help out these youth.
SPEAKER_03 (05:08):
Now, you meet every Wednesday at the Cultural
Center.
Center.
SPEAKER_11 (05:11):
We do every Wednesday at noon at the
Cultural Center.
We have a very healthy lunchthat's provided for us.
We have a speaker that comes in.
The topics vary every week.
It can be anywhere fromdiscussing the local hospital or
community service projects,parks and recreation.
It's very interesting andintriguing and you meet a lot of
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people when you come to ourRotary
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meetings.
Who can be a Rotarian?
SPEAKER_11 (05:34):
Anyone.
Anyone can be a Rotarian andthat's my vision moving forward
this next year is to be evenmore inclusive and welcoming to
our community to get more peopleto see that they can just be a
Rotarian too.
How I see myself as a Rotarianis service, giving back to the
community.
So that means I can do that byeither showing up at events and
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volunteering.
I can help fundraise.
I can supply funds should Idesire to do that.
But it's just community serviceand giving back.
SPEAKER_03 (06:06):
Club membership-wise, how big is
the...
I think we're at
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32 members right now.
SPEAKER_03 (06:13):
Is there a cap or is such a thing?
No
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cap.
We'll take a million.
I don't know if we can handlethat.
The cultural center isn't thatbig.
SPEAKER_03 (06:21):
It's good, but not quite that good.
SPEAKER_11 (06:23):
Right, exactly.
Yes, we're always welcoming.
SPEAKER_03 (06:26):
Tell me a little bit about your ties with other
Rotary clubs nationwide,statewide.
How does that all work?
SPEAKER_11 (06:35):
So what's great about Rotary is it is an
international organization.
So anytime we as Rotary membersgo to other communities, we can
attend their Rotary clubs.
We work with other Rotary clubsin Oregon, Washington, Alaska,
and California to do trainingstogether on both leadership and
how to best help ourcommunities.
It's exciting to have otherRotarians from all over the
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world come to our meetings andvisit us in Lincoln City and
hear what we're doing.
It's just a really neatcollaborative organization, and
you meet a lot of people andlearn from them.
SPEAKER_03 (07:08):
On an international, national stage, what would be
your favorite project?
SPEAKER_11 (07:13):
Oh, my goodness.
There's going to be a bunch ofRotarians listening to this, so
I'm not going to pick afavorite.
But we do.
Good thought.
Yeah.
We've done a lot.
We've helped build wellsinternationally.
We've helped with food sourcesand gardens.
We have a new project coming up.
So we're consistently lookingfor new projects, not only
internationally, but also withinLincoln City.
SPEAKER_03 (07:35):
Now, some young man, one young woman sitting out
there thinking to themselves, Iwant to be a Jeannie Sprague.
I want to give back 100%.
How do I get into Rotary?
SPEAKER_11 (07:44):
All you need to do is show up at a meeting.
It's open to the public.
Again, that's noon, Wednesdaysat the Cultural Center.
Come on in and we'll tell youall about it.
It's a fun club.
We have a good time and it'sreally easy to join and no
pressure to join.
If you just want to come and seewhat we're about and also join
us on service projects, we canalways use the help with that.
SPEAKER_03 (08:05):
As a member of the Lincoln City Rotary, is it
affordable for some young personjust starting in business?
SPEAKER_11 (08:12):
Yes, it is.
And you can always talk to us,to the club members, to see.
For example, you don't have topay for the lunch if you don't
want to.
Kiwanis kind of does the samefee model that way, so that
you're only having to pay forcertain fees.
So we will work with you to makeit affordable.
SPEAKER_03 (08:28):
Now, you know this interview is going to cost me
some money.
SPEAKER_11 (08:31):
Yeah, it is.
I might get fined, too, becauseyou are interviewing Roger.
SPEAKER_03 (08:36):
Yeah.
Yes.
I'll make certain that you getto find, and I know I'll be fine
as a Kwanian for pushing theRotary theme.
SPEAKER_11 (08:44):
Good.
I'll help pay your fine.
I love Kiwanis.
SPEAKER_03 (08:48):
Jeez, Frank.
The new president, again,congratulations.
SPEAKER_10 (08:52):
Thank you.
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Of the Lincoln City Rotary.
Back in a moment.
SPEAKER_10 (08:55):
Bob's Beach Books in the Ocean Lake area of Lincoln
City does in fact have whatyou'll want to read.
I'm Diana Portwood, and if wehappen to be out of a particular
bestseller, in a day or two,we'll have it back in the store
waiting for you.
Bob's Beach Books, so you canjoin the conversation.
SPEAKER_03 (09:08):
If you're looking for great early garden fresh
produce, it's Kenny's IGA in theBay Area of Lincoln City.
Four generations of Morganscaring for your every grocery
need.
All your favorite beverages, afull deli, meat, produce, and of
course, groceries.
SPEAKER_06 (09:23):
We may be young, but we are experienced.
Hi, Adina Zeller here, andZeller's restaurants are now a
year old, but the experience inpreparing and serving food goes
way back generations.
Zeller's Lincoln City in RoseLodge.
Come on in.
A
SPEAKER_03 (09:38):
lady I've known for a long, long time.
The fact is I knew her dad evenlong before I knew her.
You did?
I did.
Your dad was a doctor in Toledo,correct?
Yes, he was.
Sandy Gruber is our guest.
And Sandy has retired twice,once from the military?
No, no,
SPEAKER_08 (09:55):
no, no.
I just got out of the military.
You just got out of it.
One enlistment.
SPEAKER_03 (09:59):
Was enough?
SPEAKER_08 (10:00):
Yeah.
Well, no, I would have liked tohave stayed, but there were
other outside circumstances,so...
SPEAKER_03 (10:05):
Now, you just retired from the city of Lincoln
City about a year ago now,right?
Year and a half.
Year and a half.
But you just completed somethingthat I am very envious of.
SPEAKER_08 (10:17):
You, who takes a zillion cruises, is envious of
something I did?
Yes, a road trip.
I love road trips.
Do you?
Yes.
Why?
Because they're very up closeand personal, and they...
or whatever I want to make themat any turn, at any
intersection.
SPEAKER_03 (10:36):
And the start point, of course, was Lincoln City.
The furthest away from LincolnCity was?
SPEAKER_08 (10:43):
Maine, probably York.
Maine was the farthest.
There might have been some townslightly north of there that I
went to, but Maine, Montreal.
What was the prettiest city youwent to?
I can't answer that.
There were some places thatweren't pretty, but there
were...
numerous places that werespectacular.
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Leadville, Colorado, at 10,000feet, completely circled by
mountains, is truly spectacular.
I bet it is.
You can't breathe, but it'struly spectacular.
But I got sidetracked on amuddy, packed mud road in the
middle of some Kansas farmfields on my way to the
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geographic center of the lower48 states.
And I stopped, and I wascompletely surrounded by wavy
green fields of something.
SPEAKER_04 (11:39):
I don't
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know what it was.
And, you know, Kansas is prettyflat, not any mountains to be
seen.
But I was so happy to be on thatpacked mud tractor road.
It didn't matter if there weremountains or oceans or anything.
It was just...
SPEAKER_03 (11:58):
Different.
SPEAKER_08 (11:59):
It was beautiful.
It really was beautiful.
SPEAKER_03 (12:03):
Now you mentioned the geographical center of the
lower 48.
Did you make it to thegeographical center of the North
American continent?
SPEAKER_08 (12:11):
I did not make it.
I don't know where that one
SPEAKER_03 (12:14):
is.
Rugby North Dakota.
SPEAKER_08 (12:16):
I did not go to North Dakota at all.
You're killing me.
You're killing me.
But I will put it on one of myfuture trips because I went to
the east-west center of Canadawhen I went on the Trans-Canada
Highway last August.
And so this was another pointof...
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of location and being ageographer mapper those kinds of
things are fun for me and yeahso i will yes
SPEAKER_03 (12:45):
when the eclipse hit where were you at that point in
time
SPEAKER_08 (12:48):
i was uh waldron arkansas and waldron is um in
the middle of the wachitanational forest but it's not in
the forest it's it's surroundedby the wachita national forest
west southwest of little rockand i I ended up there numerous
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days before the eclipse i thinkfive or six days before the
eclipse and i was watching theweather and trying to decide
where to go and i got frozen bywhat if i make the wrong choice
you know if i choose to go hereand then it's cloudy and it was
clear where i was so i wasstaying at a facility that hosts
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bluegrass festivals so they'reset up to have 700 rvs why and i
had it to myself My dog and Iwere the only people there until
the day of the eclipse and onlytwo other families showed up.
And it was so beautiful there.
And the people were soincredibly friendly and
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inviting.
In fact, every evening, thesepeople that were working on the
property, they met every eveningon the front porch of this
building.
SPEAKER_03 (14:00):
What fun.
SPEAKER_08 (14:01):
And they came over to the car.
I was sleeping in my van.
And they came over to the carand said, you can't stay out
here.
You have to come up and join us.
And so every night, they invitedme up onto the porch to join
them just for an evening ofcoffee and desserts and
chatting, and they were allfascinated that I would come
from Oregon.
SPEAKER_03 (14:21):
People are people the world round, are they not?
SPEAKER_08 (14:24):
They are.
The thing that I learned aboutthis during this trip, or
reminded myself during thistrip, was...
The politics and the news mediaare one thing that's screaming
at you, and I'm not happy whenpeople don't vote my way, and
they're not happy when I don'tvote their way.
But at the base level, everybodyjust wants you to be kind to
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them, and they really want to bekind to you.
And that's what I found.
SPEAKER_03 (14:51):
Biggest surprise of the entire tour was what?
SPEAKER_08 (14:55):
Oh.
Well, I can stay in Waldron atthis place.
When I stopped there, they said,well, there's fee, we'll talk
about it.
I said, okay.
And when I left, I said, so whatdo I owe you?
And they said, oh, nothing.
SPEAKER_03 (15:11):
Price is right.
SPEAKER_08 (15:12):
And so I was there for six nights, I think, five or
six nights.
And they just said, it doesn'tmatter.
We had a good time.
And that's all that matters.
And
SPEAKER_03 (15:21):
you always remember things like that?
SPEAKER_08 (15:24):
Oh, forever.
Yeah, they were just incrediblynice.
They told me I did day tripsfrom there and just always ended
up back there.
And they just kept telling meplaces to go.
And they were beautiful.
So
SPEAKER_03 (15:38):
yeah, just about out of time.
How many miles?
SPEAKER_08 (15:40):
The ones I have receipts for that I kept track
of for gas and stuff,$14,090,but I think it was$15,200 and
something.
SPEAKER_03 (15:49):
And how many states?
SPEAKER_08 (15:49):
34.
Might be one or two others, but34 that I can
SPEAKER_03 (15:54):
count up.
Now that I know you've got NorthDakota to get to.
SPEAKER_08 (15:57):
Well, I've been to all states except Hawaii
SPEAKER_03 (15:59):
now.
Oh, really?
Yes.
You're not going to drive there.
SPEAKER_08 (16:03):
Paddle, maybe.
Anyway, it was a fantastic trip.
It was just glorious.
SPEAKER_03 (16:09):
Sandy, thanks for sharing it.
And it's a marvelous activity,fun to do, memories forever.
Forever and ever.
Charlotte Latho, FarmersInsurance, Lincoln City.
Auto insurance with farmers is agood deal, right?
SPEAKER_05 (16:24):
It is a very good deal.
Farmers Insurance has made somechanges to the way it approaches
insurance, which is prettygroovy.
So one of the things that we'vedone is Farmers Insurance has
been a preferred risk companyfor years and years and years.
But, but we have...
We've also partnered withProgressive, with National
General, with Safeco, and withTravelers, and with those four
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additional carriers.
Oh, and Bristol West, we canwrite auto insurance through
those carriers as well, whichgives us a much broader scope of
coverage that we can offer ourclients, which is really
exciting.
SPEAKER_03 (17:02):
Now, staff-wise, here in your office in Lincoln
City, you have expanded thatstaff because of the number of
offerings that you have,
SPEAKER_05 (17:10):
correct?
Yes.
Yes, that's correct.
Not only have we expanded withthe health and the Medicare, but
we also have more property andcasualty clients.
So I'm very pleased to say thatwe have three additional fully
licensed agents other thanmyself.
SPEAKER_03 (17:24):
If I have auto insurance and I need homeowner's
insurance, is there a benefit tostaying with one company?
SPEAKER_05 (17:31):
Oh, absolutely.
Because you maximize yourdiscounts that way.
And that's what you want to do.
All the discounts that you canget, you want to maximize them.
Farmers, for example, example,has discounts for individuals
that have advanced Bachelor ofScience degrees.
If you're a doctor, if you're afirst responder, if you're fire,
if you're police, we've got allkinds of discounts that we can
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offer in addition to bundlingdiscounts for the auto, the
home, the recreational vehicles,that type of thing.
SPEAKER_03 (18:00):
And the office is located?
SPEAKER_05 (18:02):
Office is located in North Lincoln City, right next
to the beautiful WildflowerGrill.
SPEAKER_03 (18:08):
Most people know Stacey Ehrenfeld as the guy that
sells cars in Lincoln City, butwe're going to back up a little
bit.
You are also a Taft Highgraduate.
That's right.
A long time ago.
1979.
You played a lot of sports whenyou were at Taft High School,
did you not, Stacey?
Oh, yeah.
Growing up here, that's what wedid back then.
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We didn't have iPhones and themore modern stuff, but everybody
played all the sports all yearround.
A number of the guys in the areathat you played with are still
here.
Oh yeah, there's still a handfulof us.
It's amazing that stayed, thatdidn't leave the Lincoln City
area after we graduated.
As you look back at those yearsgone by, if you will, fond
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memories, frightening memories,what are they?
Oh no, definitely fond memories.
I always thought it was a greatlittle town to grow up in.
Now I look at, you move away,it's too hot in some places.
or it's too cold in otherplaces.
Lincoln City's just right.
As you reflect upon your timegrowing up in Lincoln City, and
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you said there's a lot of fondmemories, talk about some of
them.
Oh, when we were kids, we grewup right across from Pixie
Kitchen, up there on the hill.
Some people remember Bob's19-cent hamburger and Barney's
Kurtz.
That was all right there at thebottom of the hill, so...
We grew up going to thoseplaces, and then a little bit
later on, Pixieland came in.
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So, you know, we went and didadventures out there for
probably about four or fiveyears, and then just watched the
town kind of grow over thetimes.
Things have just changed, andnow it's a year-round
destination where, you know,back when I was a kid growing up
here, it pretty much shut downfor the winter, and then it
would open up at spring break,and then it would reopen up at
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summer.
As you reflect upon what hashappened to Lincoln City and the
growth that it's had, good,better, best, what is it?
Oh, I think good and better.
You know, I think the casinoplays a big role in that.
Lincoln City definitely istourism driven.
And if it wasn't for that, Ithink it would be another little
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sleepy town on the coast.
And that's really been a drivingfactor for it.
We talked about good memoriesfrom days gone by.
Anything that you reflect onthat you would think, Stacy, I
shouldn't have done that?
Not that I can comment on theair.
No, nothing that I can think ofright off the top of my head,
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no.
It was a good place to grow up,though.
Oh, yeah.
It definitely was a good placeto grow up.
Your neighborhoods and familieswith lots of kids and...
You know, in the summertime,you'd see if the lights were on
at the ballpark, and everybodyknew that it was just time to go
up there and meet up at theballpark and either go play a
game or go watch a game.
You have been in business inLincoln City for a number of
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years, mainly the car business,right?
Correct, yeah.
You know, before this, the last25 years, before that, it was,
you know, Rand Gerb retiredthere for a regime where it was
still in business.
And that was the beginning ofyour...
Automotive career here in town?
Yeah.
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This ground that you're on rightnow with the power car center,
was it not a gas station onceupon a time?
I believe both sides of thisback in the 50s had gas stations
on both of them.
This little area, Ocean Lake,was kind of a real hub for that.
I think there was about five ofthem all within about a block of
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this area that we're sitting on.
It's also kind of interesting tonote, not only did you have all
those gas stations, you hadthree pharmacies within earshot
of here as well.
Folksteads, Rexall, and thePillbox.
Correct.
And actually, the building we'rein is the one that Ron Krieger
started Little Black Sambo's in,I think, like 1957 and 58 for a
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couple years.
Before he built Sambo's?
Really?
Yeah, before he built Sambo's.
This was his original firstlocation.
Did not know that.
Any other history involved withthis building?
I think it was a plumbing shopand an insurance company for a
long time before Bill Giesekbought it and then turned it
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into the car lot.
Yeah, it was Cougar GrayInsurance, and that was, I
guess, late 60s, early 70s.
Because it was an insuranceoffice when we came here, and
that was in 74, so...
Yeah, it's served its purposefor a lot of years.
Yeah, it's been quite a fewdifferent things.
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As a car center, car dealer, anddoes this location hold true to
what you wanted it to be?
Oh, yeah, I mean, withlimitations.
You know, Power, we're glad tobe here in town and providing a
service and a part of thecommunity, and we are limited a
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little bit.
at this location on space justbecause of the geographics of,
you know, streets kind of allthe way around it.
So there's really not anabundance of a way to expand
without moving, you know, to adifferent location.
But we're able to bring productin from all our other locations.
So that's what, you know, makesit work.
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If you had an opportunity totalk to somebody over in the
Valley and encourage them tomove to Lincoln City, what are
you going to tell them?
Lincoln City is just a littlemore laid back, not the
hustle-bustle of the bigbusiness world.
You do have to like the rain.
SPEAKER_07 (23:53):
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SPEAKER_03 (24:41):
Another interesting program, and I thank you, Paul,
for producing this.
Stacey Ehrenfeldt, Sandy Gruber,and, of course, Jeannie Sprague
all joining us.
Good stuff, good information.
And speaking of Jeannie, LincolnCity National Night Out,
sponsored by Lincoln City Parksand Rec.
This free event is Tuesday,August 6th, 5 to 7 p.m.
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A wonderful event.
It really is fun.
SPEAKER_02 (25:07):
Yeah, that's a great event.
It's at Curtis Park, right?
SPEAKER_03 (25:10):
Yes, at Curtis Park, a national night out.
It is sponsored by the Parks andRec, but does really put some
focus on the Lincoln City PoliceDepartment, which is really
quite important.
SPEAKER_02 (25:23):
Yeah, and speaking of the Police Department,
there's a ride-along coming on,or some of the Academy or
something?
Academy, the
SPEAKER_03 (25:29):
2024 Lincoln City Police Citizens Academy starts
on September 3rd.
Learn about law enforcement andthird weeks of classroom and
hands-on experience.
For more information and or toapply, contact Tammy Williams,
541-994-3636.
That's the non-emergencytelephone number at the Lincoln
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City PD.
Or email her at twilliams atlincolncity.org.
SPEAKER_02 (25:58):
It's always a good one just having your phone
anyhow, right?
So if there is a non-emergencythat you need to call about the
PD, you can just have it rightin
SPEAKER_03 (26:06):
your phone.
3636, easy number to Remember,but have it on your phone, like
you said, that along with 911.
But this is not a 911 phonecall.
Please, please, please.
Lincoln City Chamber of Commerceis asking their membership to
become ambassadors.
This is kind of a fun activityfor the Lincoln City Chamber,
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and you get an opportunity tointerreact with lots of people.
Your other son had a big role inthat years ago.
That's true, and theytraveled...
hither and yon at differentevents.
In fact, he's even had astatewide convention here in
Lincoln City that Phil and DonBrunimus and Kim Nisbet and a
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whole bunch of members of theLincoln City Chamber were
involved putting that together.
So it would be good if thisactivity is reactivated and
brought to the forefront again.
SPEAKER_02 (27:03):
Yeah,
SPEAKER_03 (27:03):
nice to see him bring it back up.
I love it.
A couple of other things At thetop of the program, we talked
about sand and art and yourbirthday.
Let's reiterate that one
SPEAKER_02 (27:15):
more time.
Yeah, so the Sand ArtCompetition, Cascade Head
Biosphere Collaborative, puttingthat on August 3rd, that's
Saturday, out in front of RhodesEnd State Park.
And it's$20, and you get a 20 by20 square to create your most
favorite sand art about theCascade Head Marine Reserve.
It is a fun event.
Oh, it's been a great event.
Last year we started it, andwe're going to do it again this
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year, so come Come on downAugust 3rd, Saturday, 8 a.m.
to 11 a.m., and tide waits forno one.
And the publicity this communitygets because of this event is
statewide is quite
SPEAKER_03 (27:48):
good.
SPEAKER_02 (27:49):
Yeah, we've been really fortunate.
We've had the eyes from COIN andKPTV out here.
It's a marvelous event that we
SPEAKER_03 (27:55):
don't want you to miss out on.
And we have some otheractivities and events taking
place in and around the LincolnCity community.
On the political side of things,and it's really not political,
Planning Commission is going tobe meeting.
It's a regular session, aregular meeting, August 6th, 6
o'clock.
A library board meeting has beenpostponed for this month of
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August.
City Council, August 12th, 6o'clock for their regular
meeting as well.
Anything else to your side ofthe table?
No, we're clear from here.
That'll do it for the Dunes onthe Double R Show.
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I enjoyed listening to it allthe way from North Dakota.
On your road trip.
On my road trip.
And somewhere down the road,we'll talk more about that road
trip as well.
With Paul and Jana, I'm DoubleR.
Have a happy day.
SPEAKER_07 (28:53):
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The Double R Show produced byAlways Productions and hosted by
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Welcome
SPEAKER_07 (00:07):
to the Double R Show, the podcast that features
everything about North LincolnCounty.
The Double R Show directed andproduced by Paul Robertson and
hosted by the voice of LincolnCity, Roger Robertson.
SPEAKER_03 (00:30):
Rolling with the Double R Podcast one more time.
Before we get into it, we wantto talk about Mr.
Sandman.
And sand, you know somethingabout in a sand competition.
SPEAKER_02 (00:42):
Right, sand competition, August 3rd in front
of the Rhodes End StateRecreation Area down Rhodes End.
Come bring your 20 bucks andsome friends and draw in the
sand for yourself and enter towin some competition.
Well,
SPEAKER_03 (00:54):
you
SPEAKER_02 (00:55):
could also bring along a birthday card.
Yeah, you could definitely bringalong a birthday card.
SPEAKER_03 (00:59):
Birthday card for St.
Paul celebrating his birthday.
And it is...
August 3rd.
Yeah, it is.
It is August 3rd, but the eventis sponsored by...
SPEAKER_02 (01:07):
The Cascade Head Buys for Collaborative, yeah.
It's good stuff.
SPEAKER_03 (01:11):
So, coming up on the program today, we're going to
talk about wheels are rolling.
Yeah, big wheels are rolling.
Big wheels are rolling.
Stacey Ehrenfeld's going to behere, Jeannie Sprague, and Sandy
did some traveling.
SPEAKER_02 (01:24):
Yeah, Sandy Gruber out on the road, thousands of
miles, and she's going to talk alittle bit about that.
We'll
SPEAKER_03 (01:30):
talk
SPEAKER_02 (01:30):
about that and a whole lot more coming
SPEAKER_03 (01:31):
up right after this.
SPEAKER_09 (01:33):
If you're single and 50, nothing out there.
Like walking up on an avocadobin, there's like seven left.
Five are rotten, two aresuspect.
You just end up leaving with anonion.
SPEAKER_12 (01:44):
Rodney Carrington.
Two shows on Saturday, August3rd.
Chinook Winds Casino Resort.
SPEAKER_09 (01:50):
Any man that thinks he's going to run off and find
him some little 30-somethingwho's 50 years old, good luck
with that.
They're a lot of fun, buteventually you have to talk to
them.
That's when the breakdownbegins.
So what do you want to do withyour life?
Just travel.
Travel the world.
You work at Arby's, probablygoing to be a while.
SPEAKER_12 (02:06):
Tickets on sale now at chinookwins.com, Chinook Wins
box office, or at 1-88-MADE-ACT,a night of comedy and music with
Rodney Carrington.
SPEAKER_09 (02:16):
I got crabs.
SPEAKER_12 (02:18):
I mean, it's real bad.
Not the kind you eat at Joe's,but they kind of make your
girlfriend mad.
Saturday, August 3rd, two shows,Chinook Wins Casino Resort,
Rodney Carrington, Chinook Wins,where concerts are better at the
beach.
SPEAKER_03 (02:33):
Jeannie Sprague is with us, and Jeannie is the new
president of the Lincoln CityRotary.
Congratulations.
SPEAKER_11 (02:38):
Thank you so much, Roger.
I'm
SPEAKER_03 (02:40):
pretty thrilled.
It is interesting to me, in yourclub, you have the very first
woman that was an OregonRotarian.
SPEAKER_11 (02:48):
Estelle Harlan.
SPEAKER_03 (02:49):
And now, you as president.
SPEAKER_11 (02:51):
Yeah, and Estelle is definitely one of my mentors and
someone I aspire to be in theRotary Club.
She does a ton.
SPEAKER_03 (02:58):
Now, Rotary in Lincoln City, known specifically
for scallops.
For
SPEAKER_11 (03:04):
scholarships and community service.
So our vision is to help thecommunity and be there to
support.
We have different organizationsthat we fund on a yearly basis,
and then we also make decisionsas a club and as a board, other
events or organizations to fundand sponsor.
We also go out and actually showup in force and help out at
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special events.
For example, there's a fewevents throughout the summer
that we will be attending andhelping just serve food and just
be a part of it, like the annualfood drive, for example.
SPEAKER_03 (03:37):
We're always a part of that.
SPEAKER_11 (03:39):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_03 (03:40):
You raise a lot of money primarily through wreaths.
SPEAKER_11 (03:44):
Yes, that is our biggest fundraiser of the year.
And that's a fundraiser EstillHarlan started years ago.
I mean, it's been decades.
And every Christmas season, thecommunity knows that we are
selling Christmas wreaths.
SPEAKER_03 (03:59):
I know I'm getting a call from Estill.
SPEAKER_11 (04:00):
Yes, she is our number one seller.
And all of the proceeds that weget from that go straight into
funding scholarships forstudents, here in lincoln city
from career tech from taft highschool home school to be able to
go and further their educationand and today at our meeting we
actually handed out thosescholarships so it was pretty
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exciting
SPEAKER_03 (04:22):
what kind of money are we talking about to jenny
SPEAKER_11 (04:24):
everywhere from five hundred dollars to a two
thousand dollar scholarship andreally every year our board gets
together and looks out how muchwe raise through that wreath
fundraiser and then make adecision on how many
scholarships we can get out oneof the things we really want is
more youth to apply so we'recontinually reaching out to Taft
High School, CareerTech, otheryouth to say, make sure you
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apply.
We want to support yourcontinuing education.
SPEAKER_03 (04:49):
Are there special parameters?
SPEAKER_11 (04:51):
No, it's just an application that they need to
fill out, ask them somequestions, and that's about it.
And
SPEAKER_03 (04:59):
a couple of thousand dollars is a lot of money for a
student to go to college.
SPEAKER_11 (05:03):
Yeah, we really pride ourselves in being able to
help out these youth.
SPEAKER_03 (05:08):
Now, you meet every Wednesday at the Cultural
Center.
Center.
SPEAKER_11 (05:11):
We do every Wednesday at noon at the
Cultural Center.
We have a very healthy lunchthat's provided for us.
We have a speaker that comes in.
The topics vary every week.
It can be anywhere fromdiscussing the local hospital or
community service projects,parks and recreation.
It's very interesting andintriguing and you meet a lot of
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people when you come to ourRotary
SPEAKER_03 (05:33):
meetings.
Who can be a Rotarian?
SPEAKER_11 (05:34):
Anyone.
Anyone can be a Rotarian andthat's my vision moving forward
this next year is to be evenmore inclusive and welcoming to
our community to get more peopleto see that they can just be a
Rotarian too.
How I see myself as a Rotarianis service, giving back to the
community.
So that means I can do that byeither showing up at events and
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volunteering.
I can help fundraise.
I can supply funds should Idesire to do that.
But it's just community serviceand giving back.
SPEAKER_03 (06:06):
Club membership-wise, how big is
the...
I think we're at
SPEAKER_11 (06:11):
32 members right now.
SPEAKER_03 (06:13):
Is there a cap or is such a thing?
No
SPEAKER_11 (06:16):
cap.
We'll take a million.
I don't know if we can handlethat.
The cultural center isn't thatbig.
SPEAKER_03 (06:21):
It's good, but not quite that good.
SPEAKER_11 (06:23):
Right, exactly.
Yes, we're always welcoming.
SPEAKER_03 (06:26):
Tell me a little bit about your ties with other
Rotary clubs nationwide,statewide.
How does that all work?
SPEAKER_11 (06:35):
So what's great about Rotary is it is an
international organization.
So anytime we as Rotary membersgo to other communities, we can
attend their Rotary clubs.
We work with other Rotary clubsin Oregon, Washington, Alaska,
and California to do trainingstogether on both leadership and
how to best help ourcommunities.
It's exciting to have otherRotarians from all over the
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world come to our meetings andvisit us in Lincoln City and
hear what we're doing.
It's just a really neatcollaborative organization, and
you meet a lot of people andlearn from them.
SPEAKER_03 (07:08):
On an international, national stage, what would be
your favorite project?
SPEAKER_11 (07:13):
Oh, my goodness.
There's going to be a bunch ofRotarians listening to this, so
I'm not going to pick afavorite.
But we do.
Good thought.
Yeah.
We've done a lot.
We've helped build wellsinternationally.
We've helped with food sourcesand gardens.
We have a new project coming up.
So we're consistently lookingfor new projects, not only
internationally, but also withinLincoln City.
SPEAKER_03 (07:35):
Now, some young man, one young woman sitting out
there thinking to themselves, Iwant to be a Jeannie Sprague.
I want to give back 100%.
How do I get into Rotary?
SPEAKER_11 (07:44):
All you need to do is show up at a meeting.
It's open to the public.
Again, that's noon, Wednesdaysat the Cultural Center.
Come on in and we'll tell youall about it.
It's a fun club.
We have a good time and it'sreally easy to join and no
pressure to join.
If you just want to come and seewhat we're about and also join
us on service projects, we canalways use the help with that.
SPEAKER_03 (08:05):
As a member of the Lincoln City Rotary, is it
affordable for some young personjust starting in business?
SPEAKER_11 (08:12):
Yes, it is.
And you can always talk to us,to the club members, to see.
For example, you don't have topay for the lunch if you don't
want to.
Kiwanis kind of does the samefee model that way, so that
you're only having to pay forcertain fees.
So we will work with you to makeit affordable.
SPEAKER_03 (08:28):
Now, you know this interview is going to cost me
some money.
SPEAKER_11 (08:31):
Yeah, it is.
I might get fined, too, becauseyou are interviewing Roger.
SPEAKER_03 (08:36):
Yeah.
Yes.
I'll make certain that you getto find, and I know I'll be fine
as a Kwanian for pushing theRotary theme.
SPEAKER_11 (08:44):
Good.
I'll help pay your fine.
I love Kiwanis.
SPEAKER_03 (08:48):
Jeez, Frank.
The new president, again,congratulations.
SPEAKER_10 (08:52):
Thank you.
SPEAKER_03 (08:52):
Of the Lincoln City Rotary.
Back in a moment.
SPEAKER_10 (08:55):
Bob's Beach Books in the Ocean Lake area of Lincoln
City does in fact have whatyou'll want to read.
I'm Diana Portwood, and if wehappen to be out of a particular
bestseller, in a day or two,we'll have it back in the store
waiting for you.
Bob's Beach Books, so you canjoin the conversation.
SPEAKER_03 (09:08):
If you're looking for great early garden fresh
produce, it's Kenny's IGA in theBay Area of Lincoln City.
Four generations of Morganscaring for your every grocery
need.
All your favorite beverages, afull deli, meat, produce, and of
course, groceries.
SPEAKER_06 (09:23):
We may be young, but we are experienced.
Hi, Adina Zeller here, andZeller's restaurants are now a
year old, but the experience inpreparing and serving food goes
way back generations.
Zeller's Lincoln City in RoseLodge.
Come on in.
A
SPEAKER_03 (09:38):
lady I've known for a long, long time.
The fact is I knew her dad evenlong before I knew her.
You did?
I did.
Your dad was a doctor in Toledo,correct?
Yes, he was.
Sandy Gruber is our guest.
And Sandy has retired twice,once from the military?
No, no,
SPEAKER_08 (09:55):
no, no.
I just got out of the military.
You just got out of it.
One enlistment.
SPEAKER_03 (09:59):
Was enough?
SPEAKER_08 (10:00):
Yeah.
Well, no, I would have liked tohave stayed, but there were
other outside circumstances,so...
SPEAKER_03 (10:05):
Now, you just retired from the city of Lincoln
City about a year ago now,right?
Year and a half.
Year and a half.
But you just completed somethingthat I am very envious of.
SPEAKER_08 (10:17):
You, who takes a zillion cruises, is envious of
something I did?
Yes, a road trip.
I love road trips.
Do you?
Yes.
Why?
Because they're very up closeand personal, and they...
or whatever I want to make themat any turn, at any
intersection.
SPEAKER_03 (10:36):
And the start point, of course, was Lincoln City.
The furthest away from LincolnCity was?
SPEAKER_08 (10:43):
Maine, probably York.
Maine was the farthest.
There might have been some townslightly north of there that I
went to, but Maine, Montreal.
What was the prettiest city youwent to?
I can't answer that.
There were some places thatweren't pretty, but there
were...
numerous places that werespectacular.
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Leadville, Colorado, at 10,000feet, completely circled by
mountains, is truly spectacular.
I bet it is.
You can't breathe, but it'struly spectacular.
But I got sidetracked on amuddy, packed mud road in the
middle of some Kansas farmfields on my way to the
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geographic center of the lower48 states.
And I stopped, and I wascompletely surrounded by wavy
green fields of something.
SPEAKER_04 (11:39):
I don't
SPEAKER_08 (11:40):
know what it was.
And, you know, Kansas is prettyflat, not any mountains to be
seen.
But I was so happy to be on thatpacked mud tractor road.
It didn't matter if there weremountains or oceans or anything.
It was just...
SPEAKER_03 (11:58):
Different.
SPEAKER_08 (11:59):
It was beautiful.
It really was beautiful.
SPEAKER_03 (12:03):
Now you mentioned the geographical center of the
lower 48.
Did you make it to thegeographical center of the North
American continent?
SPEAKER_08 (12:11):
I did not make it.
I don't know where that one
SPEAKER_03 (12:14):
is.
Rugby North Dakota.
SPEAKER_08 (12:16):
I did not go to North Dakota at all.
You're killing me.
You're killing me.
But I will put it on one of myfuture trips because I went to
the east-west center of Canadawhen I went on the Trans-Canada
Highway last August.
And so this was another pointof...
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of location and being ageographer mapper those kinds of
things are fun for me and yeahso i will yes
SPEAKER_03 (12:45):
when the eclipse hit where were you at that point in
time
SPEAKER_08 (12:48):
i was uh waldron arkansas and waldron is um in
the middle of the wachitanational forest but it's not in
the forest it's it's surroundedby the wachita national forest
west southwest of little rockand i I ended up there numerous
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days before the eclipse i thinkfive or six days before the
eclipse and i was watching theweather and trying to decide
where to go and i got frozen bywhat if i make the wrong choice
you know if i choose to go hereand then it's cloudy and it was
clear where i was so i wasstaying at a facility that hosts
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bluegrass festivals so they'reset up to have 700 rvs why and i
had it to myself My dog and Iwere the only people there until
the day of the eclipse and onlytwo other families showed up.
And it was so beautiful there.
And the people were soincredibly friendly and
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inviting.
In fact, every evening, thesepeople that were working on the
property, they met every eveningon the front porch of this
building.
SPEAKER_03 (14:00):
What fun.
SPEAKER_08 (14:01):
And they came over to the car.
I was sleeping in my van.
And they came over to the carand said, you can't stay out
here.
You have to come up and join us.
And so every night, they invitedme up onto the porch to join
them just for an evening ofcoffee and desserts and
chatting, and they were allfascinated that I would come
from Oregon.
SPEAKER_03 (14:21):
People are people the world round, are they not?
SPEAKER_08 (14:24):
They are.
The thing that I learned aboutthis during this trip, or
reminded myself during thistrip, was...
The politics and the news mediaare one thing that's screaming
at you, and I'm not happy whenpeople don't vote my way, and
they're not happy when I don'tvote their way.
But at the base level, everybodyjust wants you to be kind to
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them, and they really want to bekind to you.
And that's what I found.
SPEAKER_03 (14:51):
Biggest surprise of the entire tour was what?
SPEAKER_08 (14:55):
Oh.
Well, I can stay in Waldron atthis place.
When I stopped there, they said,well, there's fee, we'll talk
about it.
I said, okay.
And when I left, I said, so whatdo I owe you?
And they said, oh, nothing.
SPEAKER_03 (15:11):
Price is right.
SPEAKER_08 (15:12):
And so I was there for six nights, I think, five or
six nights.
And they just said, it doesn'tmatter.
We had a good time.
And that's all that matters.
And
SPEAKER_03 (15:21):
you always remember things like that?
SPEAKER_08 (15:24):
Oh, forever.
Yeah, they were just incrediblynice.
They told me I did day tripsfrom there and just always ended
up back there.
And they just kept telling meplaces to go.
And they were beautiful.
So
SPEAKER_03 (15:38):
yeah, just about out of time.
How many miles?
SPEAKER_08 (15:40):
The ones I have receipts for that I kept track
of for gas and stuff,$14,090,but I think it was$15,200 and
something.
SPEAKER_03 (15:49):
And how many states?
SPEAKER_08 (15:49):
34.
Might be one or two others, but34 that I can
SPEAKER_03 (15:54):
count up.
Now that I know you've got NorthDakota to get to.
SPEAKER_08 (15:57):
Well, I've been to all states except Hawaii
SPEAKER_03 (15:59):
now.
Oh, really?
Yes.
You're not going to drive there.
SPEAKER_08 (16:03):
Paddle, maybe.
Anyway, it was a fantastic trip.
It was just glorious.
SPEAKER_03 (16:09):
Sandy, thanks for sharing it.
And it's a marvelous activity,fun to do, memories forever.
Forever and ever.
Charlotte Latho, FarmersInsurance, Lincoln City.
Auto insurance with farmers is agood deal, right?
SPEAKER_05 (16:24):
It is a very good deal.
Farmers Insurance has made somechanges to the way it approaches
insurance, which is prettygroovy.
So one of the things that we'vedone is Farmers Insurance has
been a preferred risk companyfor years and years and years.
But, but we have...
We've also partnered withProgressive, with National
General, with Safeco, and withTravelers, and with those four
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additional carriers.
Oh, and Bristol West, we canwrite auto insurance through
those carriers as well, whichgives us a much broader scope of
coverage that we can offer ourclients, which is really
exciting.
SPEAKER_03 (17:02):
Now, staff-wise, here in your office in Lincoln
City, you have expanded thatstaff because of the number of
offerings that you have,
SPEAKER_05 (17:10):
correct?
Yes.
Yes, that's correct.
Not only have we expanded withthe health and the Medicare, but
we also have more property andcasualty clients.
So I'm very pleased to say thatwe have three additional fully
licensed agents other thanmyself.
SPEAKER_03 (17:24):
If I have auto insurance and I need homeowner's
insurance, is there a benefit tostaying with one company?
SPEAKER_05 (17:31):
Oh, absolutely.
Because you maximize yourdiscounts that way.
And that's what you want to do.
All the discounts that you canget, you want to maximize them.
Farmers, for example, example,has discounts for individuals
that have advanced Bachelor ofScience degrees.
If you're a doctor, if you're afirst responder, if you're fire,
if you're police, we've got allkinds of discounts that we can
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offer in addition to bundlingdiscounts for the auto, the
home, the recreational vehicles,that type of thing.
SPEAKER_03 (18:00):
And the office is located?
SPEAKER_05 (18:02):
Office is located in North Lincoln City, right next
to the beautiful WildflowerGrill.
SPEAKER_03 (18:08):
Most people know Stacey Ehrenfeld as the guy that
sells cars in Lincoln City, butwe're going to back up a little
bit.
You are also a Taft Highgraduate.
That's right.
A long time ago.
1979.
You played a lot of sports whenyou were at Taft High School,
did you not, Stacey?
Oh, yeah.
Growing up here, that's what wedid back then.
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We didn't have iPhones and themore modern stuff, but everybody
played all the sports all yearround.
A number of the guys in the areathat you played with are still
here.
Oh yeah, there's still a handfulof us.
It's amazing that stayed, thatdidn't leave the Lincoln City
area after we graduated.
As you look back at those yearsgone by, if you will, fond
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memories, frightening memories,what are they?
Oh no, definitely fond memories.
I always thought it was a greatlittle town to grow up in.
Now I look at, you move away,it's too hot in some places.
or it's too cold in otherplaces.
Lincoln City's just right.
As you reflect upon your timegrowing up in Lincoln City, and
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you said there's a lot of fondmemories, talk about some of
them.
Oh, when we were kids, we grewup right across from Pixie
Kitchen, up there on the hill.
Some people remember Bob's19-cent hamburger and Barney's
Kurtz.
That was all right there at thebottom of the hill, so...
We grew up going to thoseplaces, and then a little bit
later on, Pixieland came in.
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So, you know, we went and didadventures out there for
probably about four or fiveyears, and then just watched the
town kind of grow over thetimes.
Things have just changed, andnow it's a year-round
destination where, you know,back when I was a kid growing up
here, it pretty much shut downfor the winter, and then it
would open up at spring break,and then it would reopen up at
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summer.
As you reflect upon what hashappened to Lincoln City and the
growth that it's had, good,better, best, what is it?
Oh, I think good and better.
You know, I think the casinoplays a big role in that.
Lincoln City definitely istourism driven.
And if it wasn't for that, Ithink it would be another little
(20:18):
sleepy town on the coast.
And that's really been a drivingfactor for it.
We talked about good memoriesfrom days gone by.
Anything that you reflect onthat you would think, Stacy, I
shouldn't have done that?
Not that I can comment on theair.
No, nothing that I can think ofright off the top of my head,
(20:41):
no.
It was a good place to grow up,though.
Oh, yeah.
It definitely was a good placeto grow up.
Your neighborhoods and familieswith lots of kids and...
You know, in the summertime,you'd see if the lights were on
at the ballpark, and everybodyknew that it was just time to go
up there and meet up at theballpark and either go play a
game or go watch a game.
You have been in business inLincoln City for a number of
(21:04):
years, mainly the car business,right?
Correct, yeah.
You know, before this, the last25 years, before that, it was,
you know, Rand Gerb retiredthere for a regime where it was
still in business.
And that was the beginning ofyour...
Automotive career here in town?
Yeah.
(21:25):
This ground that you're on rightnow with the power car center,
was it not a gas station onceupon a time?
I believe both sides of thisback in the 50s had gas stations
on both of them.
This little area, Ocean Lake,was kind of a real hub for that.
I think there was about five ofthem all within about a block of
(21:47):
this area that we're sitting on.
It's also kind of interesting tonote, not only did you have all
those gas stations, you hadthree pharmacies within earshot
of here as well.
Folksteads, Rexall, and thePillbox.
Correct.
And actually, the building we'rein is the one that Ron Krieger
started Little Black Sambo's in,I think, like 1957 and 58 for a
(22:12):
couple years.
Before he built Sambo's?
Really?
Yeah, before he built Sambo's.
This was his original firstlocation.
Did not know that.
Any other history involved withthis building?
I think it was a plumbing shopand an insurance company for a
long time before Bill Giesekbought it and then turned it
(22:32):
into the car lot.
Yeah, it was Cougar GrayInsurance, and that was, I
guess, late 60s, early 70s.
Because it was an insuranceoffice when we came here, and
that was in 74, so...
Yeah, it's served its purposefor a lot of years.
Yeah, it's been quite a fewdifferent things.
(22:54):
As a car center, car dealer, anddoes this location hold true to
what you wanted it to be?
Oh, yeah, I mean, withlimitations.
You know, Power, we're glad tobe here in town and providing a
service and a part of thecommunity, and we are limited a
(23:14):
little bit.
at this location on space justbecause of the geographics of,
you know, streets kind of allthe way around it.
So there's really not anabundance of a way to expand
without moving, you know, to adifferent location.
But we're able to bring productin from all our other locations.
So that's what, you know, makesit work.
(23:34):
If you had an opportunity totalk to somebody over in the
Valley and encourage them tomove to Lincoln City, what are
you going to tell them?
Lincoln City is just a littlemore laid back, not the
hustle-bustle of the bigbusiness world.
You do have to like the rain.
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Another interesting program, and I thank you, Paul,
for producing this.
Stacey Ehrenfeldt, Sandy Gruber,and, of course, Jeannie Sprague
all joining us.
Good stuff, good information.
And speaking of Jeannie, LincolnCity National Night Out,
sponsored by Lincoln City Parksand Rec.
This free event is Tuesday,August 6th, 5 to 7 p.m.
(25:04):
A wonderful event.
It really is fun.
SPEAKER_02 (25:07):
Yeah, that's a great event.
It's at Curtis Park, right?
SPEAKER_03 (25:10):
Yes, at Curtis Park, a national night out.
It is sponsored by the Parks andRec, but does really put some
focus on the Lincoln City PoliceDepartment, which is really
quite important.
SPEAKER_02 (25:23):
Yeah, and speaking of the Police Department,
there's a ride-along coming on,or some of the Academy or
something?
Academy, the
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2024 Lincoln City Police Citizens Academy starts
on September 3rd.
Learn about law enforcement andthird weeks of classroom and
hands-on experience.
For more information and or toapply, contact Tammy Williams,
541-994-3636.
That's the non-emergencytelephone number at the Lincoln
(25:52):
City PD.
Or email her at twilliams atlincolncity.org.
SPEAKER_02 (25:58):
It's always a good one just having your phone
anyhow, right?
So if there is a non-emergencythat you need to call about the
PD, you can just have it rightin
SPEAKER_03 (26:06):
your phone.
3636, easy number to Remember,but have it on your phone, like
you said, that along with 911.
But this is not a 911 phonecall.
Please, please, please.
Lincoln City Chamber of Commerceis asking their membership to
become ambassadors.
This is kind of a fun activityfor the Lincoln City Chamber,
(26:28):
and you get an opportunity tointerreact with lots of people.
Your other son had a big role inthat years ago.
That's true, and theytraveled...
hither and yon at differentevents.
In fact, he's even had astatewide convention here in
Lincoln City that Phil and DonBrunimus and Kim Nisbet and a
(26:51):
whole bunch of members of theLincoln City Chamber were
involved putting that together.
So it would be good if thisactivity is reactivated and
brought to the forefront again.
SPEAKER_02 (27:03):
Yeah,
SPEAKER_03 (27:03):
nice to see him bring it back up.
I love it.
A couple of other things At thetop of the program, we talked
about sand and art and yourbirthday.
Let's reiterate that one
SPEAKER_02 (27:15):
more time.
Yeah, so the Sand ArtCompetition, Cascade Head
Biosphere Collaborative, puttingthat on August 3rd, that's
Saturday, out in front of RhodesEnd State Park.
And it's$20, and you get a 20 by20 square to create your most
favorite sand art about theCascade Head Marine Reserve.
It is a fun event.
Oh, it's been a great event.
Last year we started it, andwe're going to do it again this
(27:36):
year, so come Come on downAugust 3rd, Saturday, 8 a.m.
to 11 a.m., and tide waits forno one.
And the publicity this communitygets because of this event is
statewide is quite
SPEAKER_03 (27:48):
good.
SPEAKER_02 (27:49):
Yeah, we've been really fortunate.
We've had the eyes from COIN andKPTV out here.
It's a marvelous event that we
SPEAKER_03 (27:55):
don't want you to miss out on.
And we have some otheractivities and events taking
place in and around the LincolnCity community.
On the political side of things,and it's really not political,
Planning Commission is going tobe meeting.
It's a regular session, aregular meeting, August 6th, 6
o'clock.
A library board meeting has beenpostponed for this month of
(28:17):
August.
City Council, August 12th, 6o'clock for their regular
meeting as well.
Anything else to your side ofthe table?
No, we're clear from here.
That'll do it for the Dunes onthe Double R Show.
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On my road trip.
And somewhere down the road,we'll talk more about that road
trip as well.
With Paul and Jana, I'm DoubleR.
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