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
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SANDY, OREGON, THURSDAY, NOV 15, 1973
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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.
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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
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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