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• — » » Tku»a i..lw 13 1972 (Sac. I I 1 - i A N U T l u r i i r u u , --------- Confab for blind visits Oral Hull 1 ÜB f fi . JUDGE GEORGE Howeiler, Sandy, and Mrs. Claire Belsher stand in front of the Oral Hull Booster Cabin. which houses caretakers Joe and Marie Webb. GUIDE DOGS are led to a bowl of water located outside the Gardens of En- chantment. but seem more interested in getting to know each other. Approximately 250 American originated with Claire Belsher. Council of the Blind convention of the Oregon State Federation goers from over 34 states of Garden Clubs, who saw a visited the Oral Hull Foun clipping about a "five senses' dations for the Blind Park garden in a magazine Funds located near Sandy last week for the garden and the park The convention was held July have been obtained by 5-8 at the Portland Hilton Hotel donations According to Judge George An outgrowth of the garden is Howeiler. Sandy, the purpose of the Touch and Grow Garden the organization is to advance the interests of blind people The trip to Oral Hull Park provided a break from the convention routine with a tour of the Gardens of En chantment. a barbecue chicken dinner, which was sponsored by the Parkrose Lions' Club, and en tertain m en t by the Twilighters, a group of blind DAVID SCHRIBSTEIN, New York, reads one of the musicians braille information plates which are located around the The Gardens of Enchantment garden. Tape recordings are also available in the garden is a “ five senses" garden, which is constructed so that for blind visitors. — the blind may enjoy the beauty of a garden in a park which has taken their special needs into consideration Audio tapes are stationed throughout the garden and tell of the highlights of the special sections of the garden Braille m arkers fu rth e r assist in proximately 150 pages on the The annual picnic of the identifying plants and a tree history of Sandy Sandy Pioneer Association will exhibit which was prepared by Stones, family histones, or be held on Sunday, July 30, pictures for publication in this the U.S Forest Service beginning at 1 p.m. at Pioneer Five distinct gardens ac book should be brought to the Park, corner of Highway 26 and tually comprise the Garden of picn-c or given to M a n e Sch Duncan Road. Enchantment There is a touch warts. There will be special music Coffee will be furnished, but section, a fragrance section, a and the speaker will be Mrs taste section, a section for tableware, plates and food Claire Belsher. who will talk sighted garden visitors, and should be brought by in about the Barlow Road even a hearing section, com dividuals attending the pot-luck The Pioneer Associations is Dlete with a fountain and wind working with the Sandy Cen dinner It it is raining, the picnic will tennial Committee in preparing be held at the Masonic Building for 1973 The committee plans to publish a book of ap- on Main Street in Sandy. Club for the blind Oral Hull Park consists of a 22 acre tract of land set along the Sandy River with the garden, a fish pond stocked with trout, a bicycle ring, cam p er and tra v e l tr a ile r facilities for eight units, a stove shelter, and a caretaker s cottage. section, smell section, sight section, and even a sound section complete with chimes and a fountain THE GARDEN of Enchantm ent are comprised of five distinct gardens which can be appreciated by both the sighted and the blind There is a touch section, taste F u tu re plans include an orchard of dwarf fruit trees which will provide new ex periences for many who have never before picked their own fruit fresh from the tree Then- are also plans for a rose gar den and a garden pavillion, which will accommodate up to 50 people ooo Half of the nearly 1 million chem ical products on the market today did not even exist a decade ago ooo Thirty thousand gallons of paint a year are required to paint San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge JACK GRANT'S Beavers State Drivers Training SERVING SANDY AREA Individual Lessons. Dual c o n tro lle d cars Teenagers to senior citizens Days. Evenings. Weekends - j f a u - ,Psa, Order Now for Summer Awnings - Ratio Covers - Screens Also Screen and Storm Door Repairs Pioneers set VIE SELL WINDOW GLASS annual picnic Residential Window A Door "Ten Years In Gresham Area" 21931 S.E. Stark 665-S212 Special Summer a<3 FURNACE ' SERVICE Summer Service R ile Plu» Pert» •» Summe» Servite Pete» COUNCIL of the Blind con who met In Portland July 5-* isited the Oral Hull Foundation for bar-b- ue chicken dinner and tour of the garden» THAT SURE U/AS A BIG BREAKFAST FOR * 1 5 0 665 2188 U n io n H E A T IN G OILS Hoodland 6 2 2 31 84 If no in iw e i D ial 0 A d i lo» C o m n w c » 9 9 6 9 T o ll Free by HERB FENW IC K LOG TRUCKS pull up beside this log ramp at the Sandy Scale Station to be measured before they go to th e ir various One way to give your car a lasting finish is to race a railroad train to a crossing destinations. Station m anager Rocky Smart says that the logs go to over 28 destinations after leaving the station Street a broad flat surface used tor ine storage of "no parking" signs. (Continued from Page 1) Smart said he learned how to scale from a district ranger who took him out to examine logs, a scaling manuel, and lots of experience C ontrol scalers come around penodically to check the scalers and the scalers also visit saw mills regularly "to see if we’re estimating right ” “We have to find out if a person is taking enough off for a certain kind of defect or if he it giving too much,” Smart said When the trucks are coming in during the peak season, the scalers are sometimes working from 6 a m until 6 or 7 p.m. " If you listen to those things all day, said Smart as a log truck pulled into the station, “ you about hear them in your sleep at night ” “See that yellow sport over on that Hemlock," asked Smart as he pointed to a log, "That ia rot If a log is less than one third sound, we call it a cull log “ About the only thing a cull log is good (or Fellow we know couldn't afford a watchdog, so he did the next best thing — taught the kids how to bark. is pulp or chips, he added Smart estimated that approximately 80 per cent of the logs that the Sandy station scaled were either Douglas F ir or Hemlock “ However, we do get some White F ir, White Pine, Western Red Ceder and a half a dozen other odds and ends,” he said The length of the trees that come in vary, but Smart estimated that moat are between 34 and 40 feet long “ It depends on where the m aterial's going and what the base length is,” he said Maybe the angels who fear to tread where fools rush In used to be the fools who rushed FLY-1N BREAKFAST Old age is when you feel your corns more than your oats. If oats is what you need, FENW ICK F E E D STORE has a full line of feeds and farm supplies, 12 Mile Corner, Gresham.
