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CRAG plan aired at local meeting Firwood’s Neighbors, Inc. will hear the key issues proposed in the discussion draft of CRAG'S Columbia-Willamette Region C om prehensive P lan at tonight's (F e b 13) meeting at 7:30 p.m . a t Firwood School. Dick Smith of CRAG’S Public Information Office will head the presentation. G reat Way To The Mt. H ood Playground Vol. 65 Single Copy 15c SAN DY, O R EG O N, TH U R S D A Y , F E B R U A R Y 13, 1975 No. 7 Agency offers help for people by Nancy Barker Staff W riter What can you do if you are out of work with no money to feed a hungry family? Where can you turn when your house burns down, and the only clothing you and your family has is on your backs? Who can help you if you're in a legal jam , and can't afford a lawyer’ In each case, the Sandy Community Action Center can help—Immediately •'Yesterday, we had a young m other abandoned by her husband, who took the welfare check and food stam ps," related Doug Meeker, manning the desk at the CAC. "She had a small baby and a four or five year old daughter. "Clackamas County welfare could not reissue the check, or issue new food stamps She called the director of the county Community Action Agency, who in turn called up here and asked if we could take her to the grocery store and charge $25 or $30 worth of groceries. The county has funds for this type of thing." This is just an example of the kind of help the CAC can give without going through a lot of red tape. " If someone doesn’t have an agency to goto, we're available to help,” Meeker commented "There’s no other help ser vice out here—we go from Boring to Rhododendron, and from Estacada to Bull Run, even as far as Troutdale. The whole area is fille d w ith poverty." No matter what a person's need, the CAC tried to fill it as soon as possible, or refer him to an agency which can Volun leers often make referrals to the Well Baby Clinic, Latch key, and Headstart, locally, the University of Oregon Medical Clinic, County Welfare , County Health Department, Oregon State Employment Office, or the Gresham C linic. C lackam as County, has no emergency medical facilities. People are referred to the CAC from the Red Cross, Sandy Police, Sandy F ire Deport ment, and again, county welfare "W e’re a resource service for County Welfare,” explained Meeker. "W elfare has become extremely dependent on us "We get calls from welfare asking if we can help certain fam ilies who applied for welfare, but whose assistance wouldn't be here for two or three days Yes we can We give canned food, groceries, t, action i HI ‘ . bv Paul Keller News Editar s Hlvd and Shelley. CAC Is an oasis for people who need help. (Post Photo) Klapsteln, Salem on tap for chamber The Sandy Chamber of Commerce will hear Dr. E a rl Klapstcin, president of Mt. Hood Community College Tuesday and the following week, Feb. 25, chamber mem bers are invited to travel to Salem to tour the State Capital and visit state legislative sessions. Klapsteln will address the regularly scheduled chamber lunch at 12 p m at the Amber lan tern, (form erly Opal'sCafe). Those wishing to partake in the special Salem tour the following week should plan to board the bus at Sandy High School transportation facilities near the school’s athletic field at 8 p.m. Tuesday, according to Jim Patrick, 1875 chamber program chairman. chairman. Reservations for the trip should be made with Patrick at668 6148 R epresentatives from the Sandy Chamber are scheduled to arrive at the state house for hearings on the senate floor at 10 a m. At noon, chamber members will be joined for lunch by the area's legislators in the Blue Room on the capital grounds Patrick said the group could listen to the workings of the House of Representatives in the afternoon, and would return to Sandy between 4:30 and 6 p.m. that evening b VFW post starts here State Commander Harold C. Damm, of Portland, will head the team of officers of the Veterans of Foreign Wars that will institute the new VFW Post No 4273, in Sandy, this coming Friday, Feb 14, at 8 p.m. at the IOOF Hall This will be an open meeting, so fam ily and friends are invited to at tend Initiation of new members will be held; election of officers will take place; new officers will be installed. Any persons in the community Interested in finding out more about the VFW including all veterans of the Viet Nam conflict are urged to attend this meeting. The charter will remain open for 90 days for the addition of charter members of the Post. Basically, "focused growth" constitutes a name change assigned to cover the development categories formerly known as "radial corridor" and "combination." Copies of the publication covering the main points of the discussion draft will be distributed at the Firwood meeting. A questionnaire on the back of the booklet reviewed for federal bucks The Citizens Community Development Committee will meet at the City Hall on Tuesday, Feb. 18, at 7:30 p m. to review those critical needs of the city that are eligible for federal funding. In the counties of Clackamas, Mult nomah and Washington Counties, $768,000 is available through the Housing and Urban Developement Act of 1974 to give financial aid for high priority projects. Sandy will be competing with a dozen or more agencies for a portion of these funds. Sandy's priorities will be established' from the housing survey forms that were recently distributed to every dwelling unit in the city. Hearing held on farm zone A hearing on adoption of Rural Farm F orest 10 ten acre zoning d istrict regulations into the county zoning text will be held by the Clackamas County Planning Commission Monday, Feb. 24. Also on tap w ill be discussion of amendments to the zoning text to allow the administration and implementation of the recently adopted Exclusive Farm Use Zoning District (E F U ). The meeting will be held at 7 p.m. in Room 1, third floor of the County Court house in Oregon City. Copies of the proposed ordinance am endm ents are a v a ila b le a t the Clackamas County Planning Department Office at940 Warner-Milne Road in Oregon City, during normal working hours. Familiar foe takes nurse from wheel SUI Doug Meeker pose near Sandy Community Action Center, located at corner of Pioneer a g ric u ltu re lands, and "stresses separation of individual communities with open space.” 'Critical needs' She's pleased tí VOLUNTEERS ASTRI Torbergson. Dick Harrison, Walt Torbergson, and director The CRAG plan emphasizes alternatives to the "business as usual" concept of growth, and has chosen “ focused growth” as the most acceptable approach to providing protection for forest and Due to the length of the CRAG program, the M t Hood In teragen cy and the Huckleberry Plan originally scheduled for tonight's agenda will be discussed in-depth at the F irw o o d ’ s Neighbors, M arch meeting (Continued to Page 9) » : ICE CENTEJ? 668 4746,^1 ! i I jp em ergencies, such as groceries. E m erg en cy aid stores on hand at the center are dependent upon donations. "The program was operated by volunteers until last sum m er when the C om m unity Action Council contacted Manpower for someone to take over in the summer,” said Meeker “ We have tremendous support from the community and volunteers.” Present council members include Pete Sulzbach, president; Dick Harrison, vice- president; S hirley F la th , secretary; and Dorothy DePro, treasurer Astri Torbergson is the volunteer coordinator, and c ity councilm an, Joe Youngbluth is a representative on the County C oalition of Social Services. It would be impossible to list all the names of people who have helped theCAC. "A ll clothing, furniture, and household items here are donated to the center by people in the community,” Meeker declared. "W e s till have canned foods left over from the K iw anis C hristm as Basket project. Incidently, all donors get a tax deduction receipt. "People can come in here and help them get food stamps Last month, we helped 77 persons with emergency food." Besides this type of help, the CAC, operated by the non-profit Community Action Council, also provides transportation, gasoline, counseling, legal aid (T h u rs d a y s ), c lo t h in g , household furniture and ap pliances. fuel oil, help finding housing and jobs, and moral support. flow is this a ll possible? Through volunteers, according m Meeker, a Man&ower trainee who is paid by federal funds He is the only paid staff member. "The center doesn't pay my salary,” emphasizes Meeker, a fo rm e r B ritta n ic a F ilm s district manager and college communications teacher who hopes to get into social service work eventually. O rig in a lly an O ffice of Economic Opportunity project during the Johnson ad ministration, the Sandy CAC is now funded by the Clacka mas County Community Act ion Agency (50 per cent); the Clackamas County Coalition of Social Services (25 per cent); and local civic groups, chur ches, and citizens (25 per cent). These funds pay the rent and utilities. Some of the county funds a re a v a ila b le for The preparation of a comprehensive plan for the region has been made by governments in the Columbia-Willamette Region in response to problems arising from elem ents common to a ll com munities: traffic congestion, pollution, poverty, energy shortages, unem ployment, etc. can be filled out and returned to CRAG as part of their request for citizen par ticipation. Looters hit Firwood Around $1,700 of equipment was taken from Firwood Grade School sometime earlier Sunday morning, according to the Clackamas County Sheriff’s office. The stolen goods included tape recor ders, record players, cassette players, film projectors and adding machine calculators. Police say the burglars forced their way Into the building through a door on the Inside of the school's courtyard At least someone in Sandy is pleased with Tri-M et, the three-county Portland based bus service that sports a bad reputation in these parts. Local businessmen resent chipping their dollars into a Tri-M et payroll tax at identical rates charged downtown Port land merchants when bus service here is highly disproportionate. Others grimace at Tri-M et's “ ride-for- free” program in downtown Portland and fume because outlying services areas aren't receiving such bonuses. But Mrs. Helen Bates, Rt. 2 Box 595, Sandy, could fill a terminal of Tri-M et coaches with kind words about the com pany. After some griping of her own Mrs. Bates received just what she wanted from the metropolitan mass transit service: her own bus run. A Portland commuter to Physicians and Surgeons hospital w here she is a registered nurse three days a week, she was growing tired of the bite the back and forth driving choped out of her pocketbook. And, she was just plain tired of driving. She phoned the tri-county bus service and told them about the sleeping motorist who almost slammed into her and ex plained to detail the black ice that had both her car wheels and nerves spinning She said she was a wreck by the time she arrived at the hospital in the morning and she didn’t like her commuting situation at all. Why didn't Tri-M et provide an earlier run from Sandy to Portland she asked? Mrs Bates told them she wanted an earlier commuter run to and from Sandy, one that would have her in downtown Portland before 7 a m. She got what she asked for. After a few more phone calls she pierced the mass transportation service’s deaf ear and a special early run was sent to Sandy. The first day, Jan. 23, the bus came and left the Sandy city limits with as many aboard as it had when it departed from the lot that morning: just the driver. No one else boarded the big diesel powered hulk. It was Mrs. Bate’s day off. On the following Monday the registered nurse joined the lonely T ri-M et driver for the run from Sandy through Gresham She was in Portland by 6:35 a m. “ I ’m saving a lot of money now,” says Mrs. Bates who hopa on the early Sandy I Mrs Bates is overjoyed that the tran bus three days each week instead of sportation service is finally considering sweating it out behind her own dashboard. According to the Portland communter, workers like herself and not catering other workers have joined her on the early solely to shopper Even so, she’ll have a rugged time convincing most about the morning service she instigated. Mrs. Bates figures by taking Tri-M et she beneficence of Tri-Met. is saving $50 a month on gas, insurance Maybe more people should grab a phone and car upkeep. and s ta rt up th e ir feelings in the " I t may take a little longer, but at 70 bureaucratic bus's ear. cents per day how can you lose? I ’d hate to see this bus run discontinued, we need it,” proclaims Mrs. Bates. The superintended of schedules in Tri- Met’s main office downtown confirmed that Mrs. Bates alone successfully nudged H L P t the company into providing an early Sandy 40 33 00 February 5 run. 36 30 .19 February 6 "We thought we'd give it a try,” ex February 7 42 32 .33 plained Leonard Smith at Tri-Met. “She February 8 35 27 .23 February 9 48 27 .04 needed a bus herself and we figured she'd February 10 49 41 .17 find kinship with others in the same February 11 57 42 .55 situation.” According to Tri-M et officials, the early The Troutdale station weather morning run here has proven itself suc readings are made by8:30p.m. cessful and is a permanent fixture in their scheduling. weather For a sw eetheart of a buy - - choose a new Chevrolet for your valentine We L U V to have Chevrolet Motor Division give our customers$500 back: when you »elect a new 1975 Monza 2 + 2 Coupe from Carbon ChevroUtJfou II get back $200 if you purchase a new 1975 Vega or Novo. 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