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Sandy high board awaits price tag for expansion By THOMAS TAYLOR News Editor Expansion plans of Sandy High School will be placed before district voters on Feb. 19 The district is proposing a ninth grade starter wing, major remodeling of the older portions of the main campus, a multi-use auditorium; and completion of the grandstands and track facilities Monday night (Nov. 19) the board will meet with the district’s architect to determine definite cost figures for the proposal, according to district superin tendent Joe DeMarsh It is expected the cost will be between $2.2 and $2.4 million for the overall ex pansion program. “These projects are necessary if the high school is to continue to provide our students with the best education and educational facilities possible,” said DeMarsh. The ninth grade wing is proposed for the lower portion of the district's grounds set by the state fire marshall Portions of the campus were constructed between 1932-1936 The music and vocal department areas along with the girls physical education areas will be remodeled This will include a gymnastics room The multi-use auditorium will be con structed at the front entrance to the campus next to the main gym. This auditorium will seat 500 and will be used as a multi-classroom area during school hours. "In planning this auditorium, the board insisted it be used for daily school func tions as well as for special productions,” said DeMarsh. The district has constructed a new bus garage on the parking area at the athletic field Funds from the levy would be used to convert the old garage into more vocational shop areas The completion of the grandstands will include the construction of locker room adjacent to the north end of the athletic field This property was purchased this past year by the district. The wing will include nine classrooms, gymnasium, resource center, and locker facilities The wing will accommodate from :«xi to 350 students If approved by the voters, DeMarsh stated this wing would be completed in time for the 1975 fall class of freshmen. “At first, the district will make use of schuttle transportation to move the students from the new wing to shop and other areas on the main campus when they would have classes," DeMarsh told the Post He said the new wing is needed now because the present school facilities now house 997 students which is about 175 over capacity. “When you overload your facilities you hurt your education,” said DeMarsh. The remodeling work will mean bringing portions of the old campus up to standards facilities under the stands This will be the conclusion of the original plans for the grandstands Also the eighth lane for the track is needed to hold any official meets on it According to DeMarsh, if the district had put the eighth lane on when the track was installed, it would have co6t only about $1,500. now it will cost over twice that amount All this remodeling work will be com pleted hopefully by January 1975 if the projects are begun this spring “ The construction work will be scheduled to interfer with the normal school functions as little as possible,” said DeMarsh If the voters approve these expansion plans, the Sandy High campus will have a capacity to handle 1200 students The board will review the plans and discuss the cost with the architect at the Monday. Nov 19, meeting This will begin at 8 p.m in the high school library The public is urged to attend - I" jSafìdy À G reat Way To The Mt. H ood Playground Voi. 35 No 46 SANDY, OREGON, THURSDAY, NOV 15, 1973 Single Copy 15c Sandy to join Boring, Estacada in centra/ fire dispatch system HEAVY SNOW, iheu rain ana then heavy snow and rain in the Sandy-Hoodland area has brought local rivers and streams up to a more natural winter level. The mountain areas this week reported more snow while the lower elevations have been drenched with rah This photograph taken irom Revenue Bridge shows the Sandy River on the raise after a dry summer. Several of the mountain ski areas are now operating for the season. This is one of the earliest starts in several years. ( Post Photo) A rea youths survive four days in snow The two Sandy area youths reported lost two miles before locating the log truck. „n the snow near Bagby Hot Springs last They crawled in the truck and left a week are now safe and have recovered. sleeping bag on the cab as a signal. They Jay Cee Neuman and Mike Jordan, both were located by the CZ employes Byron 19, were located after spending four days Painter and Fred Christner who were out lost in the snow. driving a snow-cat. The two were located shivering in an The two had had little food during the abandoned log truck late last Wednesday time they were stranded and had listened by two Crown Zellerbach employes. to the car radio while waiting in the They were taken to Willamette Falls snowbound vehicle. hospital in Oregon City and were given Neuman was to return to military duty quick-thaw treatment Both were reported at Ft Lewis Wash, this week, and Jorden to have suffered little ill-effects from their is back at his home in Sandy. snowbound experience. , Neuman and Jordan had spent three days trying to walk out in the snow, but each time they returned to their trapped The Bull Run neighborhood committee vehicle before deciding on the fourth day involved on the Sandy-Boring area land to make a final effort at walking out. The two stated they had taken a wrong use plan has set a meeting for Tuesday, turn in the snowstorm when they had tried Nov. 20. The meeting will be held at the Bull Run to drive out from Bagby Hot Springs, and school at 2:30 p.m. and is open to all in became lost. In an effort to keep warm, the two took terested citizens in the Bull Run area The Bull Run committee representatives turns sticking their feet under the other’s are Ross TenEyck and Dorothy Nordin. armpits. On the final effort, the two went about These two will represent the local com mittee on the executive committee which “Sandy will be joining Boring and Estacada in a central dispatch system for fire districts on Jan. 1,” says Sandy fire chief Bob Rathke. The move towards the central dispatch has been in the works for several months. Estacada since Aug. 1 has been operating with Boring on the system. “The only thing that could hold us up would be the telephone companies,” said Rathke The system must work with the three phone systems (General Telephone Cascade Utility and Western Valley Telephone) which serve the area. “With this new system, the residents will have a toll free number to call to report a fire or emergency,” said Rathke According to Boring fire chief Matt Shields, the central dispatch system has been “ working real good” between Estacada and Boring fire departments. The way the system works is the Boring fire hall serves as the headquarters to dispatch fire rigs for all three districts “When a person in the Sandy district phones in a fire report, it will go directly to the central dispatch office in Boring,” said Rathke. “The dispatcher then will radio dispatch the proper rigs in the district which has jurisdiction to answer the call.” “ The only difference between the present system and the central dispatch system is the call will go to Boring not the Sandy fire hall.” Sandy currently has its own dispatch system. This radio system will be main tained as a backup to the central dispatch once the switch is made, according to Rathke. During the hours when the Sandy station is not open, there will be a “hotline” phone for use at the local fire station. This phone will be located on the outside of the building and will be free for use and will connect directly with the central dispatch system “The Sandy fire hall will be open regular business hours like it is now,” said Rathke, “but will be closed when no one is at the station Presently, the station is open 24 hours because we have our dispatch of ficers on duty ” The dispatch officers will no longer have a job once the switch to the central dispatch is made. Two of them are already slated to go to work for the new Ambulance Service and answering service once it begins to operate from the new facilities under construction off Hignway 26 near the N. Bluff Rd intersection The new system will have in addition to the hotline and emergency phone num bers, a business phone This business phone will go to the Sandy fire station during business hours and then will automatically go to the central dispatch at Boring during off hours "The central dispatch will not only provide better fire dispatching service for all three districts,” said Rathke, “but will also save the Sandy district some funds each year." The funds will be saved on less salary funds spent for dispatchers, and no need to update the Sandy system as would have been done if Sandy had not gone to the will be in control of organizing the land use plan. The Sandy area citizens committee has also slated a meeting to discuss the plan This meeting is tonight, Nov. 15, in room 48 at Sandy High School This meeting will begin at 7:30 p.m. The local executive committee members for the Sandy area are Judy Berger and Kenneth Buss. Residents from the Firwood, Kelso and Bull Run areas are urged to also attend this meeting. The Damascus citizens committee will also meet tonight, Nov. 15. This meeting will be at the Damascus Grade School at 7:30 p.m. Area representatives are Neal Wright and Barbara Ledbury. The neighborhood committees in Boring and Firwood areas held similar meetings earlier this week. The next meeting for the executive committee has been set for Dec. 6 at the Boring Fire Hall This meeting will begin at 7:30 p.m. and residents from the study area are urged to attend with the local area representatives. The Sandy city council will try again to discuss the long range water plans of the city This will beat least the third try The council will meet in an adjourned meeting Monday, Nov. 19, 7 p.m. in the city hall City engineer Martin Boatwright will discuss the water plans with the coun- cilmen He had been scheduled at both an October council meeting and a meeting held on Nov. 5 Both times Boatwright was unable to make the meetings The council also has other business items carried over from the Nov. 5 meeting on the agenda for Monday night. These include the discussion of plans to evaluate the city public works department and the development of the city’s main tenance yard off of Sunset Ave. The city Planning Commission mean while, has slated the first public hearing on the proposed city comprehensive plan for Nov. 20 This meeting will be held at the city hall and will begin at 7:30 p m central dispatch. “This will mean a savings to the district of about $10,000 per year," said Rathke “This first year the district will only save about $5,000 because half the fiscal year will be over.” Sandy will use about $3,000 of this money to make improvements to the district’s main building in Sandy and to possibly purchase needed property in the city The central dispatch radio will have an 8 channel capability and will monitor the state-wide fire radio which the present Sandy radio system does not do According to Chief Shields, there will be an emergency battery operated radio for standby in case of loss of electricity. The system will also record all incoming calls and outgoing dispatches. Both chiefs Rathke and Shields feel this move to the central dispatch is the correct one to improve the fire safety of the Sandy- Boring-Estacada area A citizens advisory board is being established to review how the system works and to make recommendations for improvements or changes needed The board will be made up of persons from all three fire districts involved in the central dispatch. 34 pages 2 SECTIONS j Early Post ' next week j ' The Thanksgiving holiday will mean a change in publication days for the Post next week. The Post will be printed next Monday, Nov. 19 and mailed on Tuesday. The deadline for news and display ad vertising copy will be Saturday at 12 noon The Post will be open Saturday from 9 a.m. to noon. The classified ads will have a deadline of 5 p.m. Friday for the Monday Post. Classified ads to go into the Gresham Outlook will have the regular deadline The outlook will have two papers next week, with classified only being in the Friday Outlook. Centennial year eveni Friday The Centennial year Sing-A-Long will be Friday, Nov 16, at Bowman's at Wemme. This dinner-singing affair will begin at 6:30 p.m. Residents from the Sandy-Hoodland area are urged to attend this event which is sponsored by the Sandy Cenennial Committee City council slates another Neighborhood committees meet try on water Judge to hold court at chamber A N Y W A Y YO U LOOK at it, Carlson Chevrolet is proud to have played a little part in the large growth of the Sandy and Hoodland communities. Times have changed, but the Barlow Road still passes through Sandy today as it did a century ago. PETE J CARLSON ••1-4111 SANDY r •pta laadaj 5 The municipal court has returned to the city of Sandy after several years of ab sence The Sandy Area Chamber of Commerce will learn about the new court on Tuesday, Nov. 20 Municipal court judge Garrett Romaine will be the guest speaker at the noon luncheon at T J’s in Sandy. The city council moved this fall to re establish the court and Judge Romaine is now holding court every Thursday night. The public is invited to the Chamber meeting which will begin at 12 noon Commissioners consider controls The Clackamas County board of com missioners will consider the adoption of land use controls for an area in Welches on Nov. 21. This item was held over from the Nov 7 commissioners’ meeting so Mrs Godsey could have additional time to become informed on how the adoption of these controls would affect the property in which her husband has one sixth interest. This area is 578 acres in Section 16. The Nov 21, 10 a m. meeting is when the commissioners will rule on the adoption of the land use controls (Zoning and the 1970 Uniform Building Code) for the area THE ORAL HULL Park for the Blind Foundation received another donation this past week. A check for $400 was presented to the Foundation from Hobart Jones, left, and R.S. Braucher, far right. Jones presented the check from Wilber Ellis Company which is associated with Dow Chemical represented by Braucher. Jones became interested in the park through his son who is legally blind. Accepting the check is Howard Berger, second from left, president of the Oral Hull Foundation. Judge George Howeiler and Mrs. Rich W esselink. Both H ow eiler and Mrs. Wesselink are officers in the foundation. (Post Photo) Seventh in series Subdivisions need im pact statem ent A new ordinance providing standards and procedures for subdivisions was recently adopted by the City Council The ordinance replaces an earlier one which went into effect in 1965 One of the new requirements in the in clusion of an impact statement indicating how the development will affect the safety, health and welfare of the people of Sandy Nine different items must be covered in the impact statement relating to schools, economics, vegetation and animal life, atm ospheric considerations, hydraulic considerations, geologic considerations, roads, relationship to other services and identification of a public need for the proposed development. Much of the new- ordinance explains the various steps and procedures that must be followed in laying out and presenting a subdivision plan for consideration by the Sandy Planning Commission The ordinance also sets out all standards and principals of design in a subdivision It designates the various improvements that the subdivision must include, such as streets, including drain ag e; sanitary sewers; water distribution lines and fire hydrants, sidewalks; street name signs; street light poles, and underground power and phone lines. The subdivision ordinance also establishes a minimum filing fee of $200 for up to ten lots Additional per-lot charges are added to larger subdivisions Purpose of the ordinance is to establish uniform public improvements throughout the city to make sure Sandy's growth occurs in a safe and orderly manner
