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THURSDAY, SEPT. 23
Oregon Trail Coffee Hour
starts at 9:30 a m.
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SATURDAY. SEPT. 25
The Mt. View Social Club
annual turkey dinner will be
held in the Sandy High School
cafeteria on Saturday, Sept 25
from 5 - 7 p .m . Tickets for the
dinner may be purchased at the
door or from any Eastern Star
member
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MONDAY. SEPT. 27
The Cottrell School Board
will hold a special meeting at 8
p.m. in the West Gym for the
purpose of discussing private
music lessons (or Cottrell
students which will be given at
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No. 39
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Tburs., Sept. 2 3 .1976
A nsw ering an advertisement
An advertisement appearing in this
issue, accompanied by myriad
smaller advertisements, puts forth
some statements which deserve a
response. We believe that this
emotional appeal to the Sandy voters
isn't particularly straightforward.
The group that sponsored the ad­
vertisement is made up of residents of
the Alder Creek area who are in­
terested in preserving Alder Creek as
it is now. They resent what they call
the encroachment of the City of Sandy
in their neighborhood and do not want
any more growth in the area.
This opposition to the water bond is
coming from people who live outside
the city limits. These are not the
people who will be paying for the $1.5
million bond if it is approved Sept. 28.
However, these people do live on the
creek and have a right to give input on
this issue.
In their advertisement, they state
that “ no one in Sandy is going thirsty
for water” This is a true statement.
However, this isn’t the issue. The
facts are the City of Sandy is reaching
its capacity in obtaining water from
its present source at Brownell
Springs and will soon be facing a
moratorium on growth and building if
the bond is defeated. Alder Creek is
the next logical source of water for
the city.
We sympathize with those who hope
for no growth in the Sandy-Mountain
area. However, a no growth situation
is unrealistic and will only lead to the
stagnation of the area.
Growth in an area adjacent to the
largest metropolitan center in the
state is inevitable. Instead of scat­
tered growth throughout the area, we
would like to see growth encouraged
within the urban boundaries of Sandy,
Providing adequate water would
encourage growth in the city. It is
necessary to guide development into
areas that could provide the basic
needs of water and sewage disposal.
We believe that there is adequate
evidence to support the statement
that passage of the bond would allow
for growth to broaden the tax base
and relieve the burden on the in­
dividual taxpayer. We believe that
the need for water will eventually
make it an absolute necessity to pass
the water bond. And it’s not going to
get any cheaper for the Sandy tax­
payers to pay for the water bond.
The Alder Creek residents have
every right to object to the water
bond. But the decision rests with the
voters living within the Sandy City
limit. We believe that the water bond
should be approved next Tuesday.
(SAL)
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Election Results
voters to approve a new tax base in
This has to be a pretty somber day
for supporters of and believers in Mt.
the November election. This is the
Hood Community College.
best way, the most sensible way to
For the fourth time this year, voters
meet the College’s needs.
have turned down a special levy over.
Most interesting result in
the statutory 6 per cent limitation.
Washington state had to be the ap­
There certainly will not be another
parent victory of Dixie Lee Ray in the
attempt, the College must do with
Democratic
gubernatorial race. She
available funds.
won
despite
being
outspent three and
Just what this means must be
four
to
one
by
the
other candidates
determined by the MHCC board and
and despite some pretty wild charges
trimming $783,820 isn’t going to be
by her opponents.
easy. But that’s what the voters have
She is a former chairman of the
ordered.
Atomic
Energy Commission and sup­
The total turnout in Tuesday’s
ports
nuclear
power. Hence, the foes
election was better than in June when
of
nuclear
power and the en­
last the College lost but while the
vironmentalists ganged up on her.
‘Yes’ votes increased, they didn’t
increase enough to catch up with the That they were totally unsuccessful
could be a strong hint that
‘No’ votes
which
rem ained
Washington voters will not support an
remarkably constant.
We hope the College will ask the anti-nuclear initiative in November.
A M atter of Timing
Farmers in the Hood River Valley
have encountered extreme problems
harvesting fruit crops this fall
because of action against illegal
aliens by the U S. Immigration
Service.
Just as the harvest was beginning,
the Immigration Service swooped
down and rounded up some 400 aliens
for deportation. No question but what
they were here illegally, but the
timing of the raid—right at the peak
of the harvest season—was pretty
disastrous to farmers.
High school students have been
released from class and other tem­
porary workers hired to fill the gap.
But some of the crop may be lost for
lack of pickers.
The Immigration Service raid was
timed at the point of maximum im­
pact on the growers, in much the
same fashion as agricultural unions
have struck farmers in California.
Despite 7 per cent unemployment,
U S. workers—at least many of
them—just won’t do harvest work.
They apparently prefer unem­
ployment insurance or other forms of
welfare. The farmers are forced to
get their labor wherever they can.
There should be some other
solution. It isn’t right to use illegal
aliens, nor is it right to enforce the
laws in such a way as to bring
economic disaster to growers.
Perhaps a permit system might allow
aliens in for a specified length of time,
with growers strictly responsible for
their whereabouts.
1» is now 1974 and the 'Planning Report* Is now
by the ‘Inter-Agency Planning Group.'
( letters to the editor )
Support water
To the Editor:
When the voters of Sandy go
to the polls to decide whether or
not to authorize the completion
of phase two of our long range
water needs, each of us will be
torn between obligating our­
selves to increased taxes now
or the realization that we are
putting off a problem that must
be solved in the future at a
greater cost.
Why must we have more
water? Why can’t we stay just
as we are with no more growth?
Some people have told me that
this is just what they want and
this is what they moved to
Sandy for - to live in a small
town with elbow room, nice
surroundings, good schools,
etc What we need to do, they
tell me, is to clean up those
unsightly vacant lots, beautify
and pave the streets, improve
public parking, tear down or
renovate the old buildings and
give us better police and fire
protection. B u t, no more
growth.
Beautiful! utopia! A small
town of 2,100 people living in a
garden spot with no pressures
of population to bother us. I'd
buy that sort of a plan if it could
be
accom plished;
but
re a lis tic a lly , we know it
couldn't because of the
prohibitive taxes.
No growth to any town means
no im provem ents w ithout
higher taxes. No growth means
a shoddy and deteriorating
town. What merchant is going
to rebuilt, repair, or renovate
his premises if there is no
promise of increased business’
When
a
progressive
businessman leaves town
because be sees no future in
staying in a no growth
situation, as some surely
would, who would take the risk
of replacing him? Why should
the landowner in a town clean
up a vacant lot if he knows no
one will purchase it or he
cannot built on it?
How will we ever hope to
pave streets and sidewalks and
improve parking with in­
creased costs of materials and
a deteriorating tax base?
Industry, necessary to Sandy
to relieve the tax load, moves
into an area when they are
assured the population will
provide workers for their
factories. What inducement
will a town of 2,100 provide?
No growth means stagnation.
Stagnation
leads
to
deterioration. Growth means
life. A no-growth town is dying
on the vine.
I, too, chose Sandy as my
home because it was a small
town. However, I also chose it
because 1 felt its citizens were
fo rw ard
looking
and
progressive. Having lived in
the area for 65 years, I have
seen Sandy grow from a
wooden-planked. board-walked
town to the pleasant little city it
is now Growth has been slow
and early development of the
city area casual. Merchants
and home-owners built where it
seemed
advantageous
and
desirable.
However, the situation has
changed.
M any
people
discovered the livability of the
P a c ific
N orthw est
and
populations began burgeoning.
Sim ultaneously,
with
the
population boom came another
phenomenon. City dwellers got
the urge to move to suburban
areas as roads are improved
and commuting became easier
and less time consuming. With
increasing uneasiness people
saw urban sprawl taking over
our finest farm lands. Not only
were we losing our open space;
but, with the ever increasing
drilling of wells on the small
parcels of land, the water table
dropped in many places and the
saturation of the soil from so
many
septic
systems
threatened the purity of the
ground w ater itself.
Regardless of how we per­
sonally feel about growth in the
metro area, it will inevitably
come. Sandy can participate in
the orderly development by
providing the basic services to
absorb its share and benefit its
citizens by so doing. If the
citizens of Sandy are concerned
about the quality and direction
of the development of their city,
as they should be, they spould
participate in the planning
function to assure themselves
that it meets the standards the
desire.
Water is the key to future
development. We have the
source available We have the
need. Whether we continue to
improve our city or stagnate
and regress is up to you. The
tax burden is not excessive and
will become less as we realize
the benefits of more water. I
urge you for the good of all
citizens of Sandy to vote “ yes”
on this crucial issue.
Melvin Haneberg
Mayor, City of Sandy
Ornamental ¡ob
To the Editor:
The Clackamas sheriff is
broke, so he says. Needing
support from us all he asks
help, and we may all join in
telling him how to stop waste.
Here’s one.
End that ornamental “ rescue
coordinator“ task of deputies
(from Sandy) on M t Hood Our
sheriff needs that work and
expense even less than the
mountain climbers need him.
Being up frong there in an
exciting rescue story, the
sheriff gets his name in the
paper but we know the climbers
and rescuers don't need him.
They take good care of their
own.
Joe Stein
Star Route
Zig Zag 97049
For orderly growth
To the Editor:
The City of Sandy is putting
before the voters • measure
that will have far reaching
effects for each of its citizens.
Hanging in the balance of this
election is the question of
whether or not the land owners
of the city will be able to
develop the property they now
own.
Without water all develop­
ment residential, commercial
and industrial will come to a
complete standstill and the
property owners will have only
one privilege left to them and
that is to continue to pay ever
increasing
taxes on the
property without the ad­
vantages of development.
As in the last election, the
voters of the city will be faced
with organized opposition to a
favorable vote. This opposition
is not coming from the
residents within the city limits,
but rather from people who live
outside the incorporated city
limits who have Sandy ad­
dresses. I urge; each of the
Voter»to take a good lookatthe
issue and judge It on its own
m erit as it affects each of us
now and in the future.
LETS TA K E A LOOK AT
SOME OF T H E FACTS: The
city started a long range water
study in 1969 which en­
compassed a look at all the
water sources to the east of the
city. The study involved the
North and South Boulder
Creeks, Salmon River, Alder
Creek and the Little Sandy
River.
North and South Boulder
were rejected because of low
water flows, Salmon River was
rejected
becuse
of
the
development that has occured
along its banks.
This left only Alder Creek
and the Little Sandy River as a
possible surface source open to
the city. The city engineer
undertook a study of all well
logs of record on the possibility
that well might be developed to
supply the needed water, but
based on well lots it was very
remote that this source could
be productive. The city also
investigated the purchase of
water from the City of Port­
land. There were a number of
problems encountered in going
to the City of Portland: (1) this
water source could be cut off at
any time due to City of Port­
land's prior rights to the
water, (2) the developmental
costs initially would be lower,
about 750,000 dollars, but added
to this would be the cost of the
water at about $15,000 a month
(based on 1000 gal per minute)
would not be too many years of
paying water cost to Portland
would not be too many years of
paying water cost to Portland
to equal the total cost of the
A lder
Creek
project
of
$1,500,000.
The City of Sandy has been
working with the City of Port­
land since 1972 in hopes that
water rights to the Little Sandy
Water might be given to the
City of Sandy This would take
action
by
the
Oregon
Legislature since the exclusive
rights to the Little Sandy water
has been granted to the City of
Clackamas County Bank
M < n i h er P.D.I.C
the school Parents are Invited
to attend.
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TUESDAY, SEPT. 28
This Is the day of the Sandy
Water Bond election.,
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The Chamber of Commerce
will hear from Phil Kcifenrath,
manager of the Gresham
Chamber of Commerce.
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WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 29
There will be a 9 a m.
meeting of the Taking Off
Pounds Sensibly group at 21421
SE Firwood Road This is the
home of Barbara Boswell.
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Sandy Area Merchant! will
meet at Griff's at 6:30 a.m .
Sandy, Oregon • Phone: 660-5501
HOODLAHD BRANCH Wemme, Oregon « 622-3131
Portland by legislative action.
As you know, the Government
moves very slowly and the
water need is now
The City of Sandy con­
sidering all of these facts chose
Alder Creek as the best and
least costly source of water to
meet our needs for the growth
to at least the year 2000 The
Q ty of Sandy was granted a
filing of 1,800 gallons per
minute on Alder Creek on Jan
11,1971. If the city were to go to
the Little Sandy (if it did
become available) it would add
an estimated $750,000 to buy
and lay the additional 5 to
miles of pipe necessary to
reach the Little Sandy River.
The city council is trying to
solve the water problem at the
lowest possible cost to the
taxpayer.
If the bond is approved the
estimated cost in the first year
^ $2^23 per $1.900 of true cash
value» which when added to the
city tax will be $7.41 per 1,000
dollars in 1977 1978 as com­
pared to $8.86 per 1,000 dollars
in the 1975-1976 tax year.
I urge the voters not to be
deceived by the organized
campaign by those who do not
live within the city limits. Use
your vote wisely Vote for
continued orderly growth, for
this is your city.
James C. D uff
City Councilman
Sandy, Oregon
What now?
To the Editor:
The many of us who are
concerned about the library
service in Clackamas County
which has been lost as a result
of the defeat of the Aug 31
library & parks levy would like
you to meet with us to discuss
what possibilities might be
explored at this time.
We already feel the loss of
bookmobile service in the
numerous locations where the
bookmobile stopped every
month.
The schools and senior citizen
homes also are now without the
reading materials which they
have had from the County
Library,
Library cards, cataloging
and interlibrary loan will
become the responsibility of
each library individually with
the closing of the County
Library.
Where can we go from here?
Is it possible to hire a con­
sultant to study what system
will work moat effectively in
Clackamas County? Is another
levy to fund library service the
answer’
Please bring suggestions you
may have to a meeting on
Tuesday, Sept. 28, 7 p.m. at
C la c k a m a s
C o m m u n ity
College, Barlow Building. 2nd
floor, board room.
Martha Matthews
Oregon City
Program to note
outdoor skills
I I
A one-night preview of basic
outdoor skills will be presented
at C lackam as C om m unity
College Tuesday. Sept. 28, at 7
p.m. by Vahan Yazarian.
Information about the free
program is available from the
college's community education
office. 656-2631, ext. 311.
Attendance
rewarded
by Kiwanit
S everal
Kiw ania
Club
members were recognized for
their perfect attendance record
at last week's Kiwanis Club
meeting
Ivan Barker was recognized
for 28 years of perfect at­
tendance at Kiwanis meetings.
Howard Berger has had perfect
attendance for 26 years
Others who were recognized
were Ralph Richardson, 23
years; Dr. Al Lamke, 20 year»;
George Morgan. 12 years; Ned
Dyal, 11 years; Dale Nicholls,
eight years; and W illa rd
Boring, five years
There are two ways to build financial
security. With luck. Or with a plan.
How lucky have you been so far?
Let’s talk plans. Person to person
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Chuck Craven»
14905 Bluff Road
Office 223-5144
Home 668-5304
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Exercise Your Rights.
Vote on Tues.
Sept. 28