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Sandy, Oregon 97055 R»pr»»»nt»d Not'oootly by U S SUBURBAN PBESS INC No. 1 Thurs., Jan. 5, 1978 Sondy Needs a Community Center Anyway we look at it, city residents w ill come out ahead w ith the purchase and renovation of the Sandy Baptist Chapel for use as a multi-purpose com m unity center. Much has been said about the building’s potential uses as a per manent home for the Sandy Senior Center. No doubt it would make a good one. But our reasons for favoring the purchase go beyond supporting that excellent program. There are few times that voters are asked to ap prove a bond issue for the purchase of a building which would serve so many. The renovated fa c ility would provide adequate space for a historical display area, public meetings, banquets for up to 100 people and meeting rooms for num erous c iv ic and s e rv ic e organizations. The tim e is right for a com m unity center for Sandy, and the concept has received the enthusiastic sup port of such groups as the Sandy Area Chamber of Commerce, Sandy Golden Age Club, Sandy Kiwanis and Barlow T ra il Retired Teachers. F inancially, the purchase would be a wise one and we believe the city has a good offer from the Sandy Baptist Chapel. Add our voice to those who have come out in support of the bond issue. We don’t think voters w ill go astray by m arking their ballots "ye s” to give Sandy a com m unity center. (SAL) letters to the editor G ood program School Needs More Space On Jan. 10 Sandy voters w ill be asked to vote on a bond measure for a Sandy Elem entary school d istrict b u ild in g p ro g ra m to ta lin g $3.485,000—the largest ever. There is no question that the d istrict has a space problem. Badly overcrow ded now, the d is tric t faces an even worse space crunch over the four years as the student population is expected to increase from 1,471 to 1,761 by 1981, There is a definite need fo r the new school and the Firwood addition. The question is whether or not the d is tric t has seen to it that this money w ill be spent so as to m axim ize its benefit to each student. We believe they have. The elem entary board began work on the problem over a year ago. They have given fu ll consideration to the alternatives brought before them, such as construction or year- round school, and have tried to the fullest to gather patron input on this im portant decision. Even when the board had ap parently decided last month to build a complete new school at the F ir- wood site several of its members were big enough to later adm it that this decision m ight have been hasty. As a result, the board now favors a school built at Kelso, a site we believe better meets the d is tric t’s educational needs while m aintaining Sandy’s "s m a ll town” school at mosphere. For these reasons, The Post stands behind the d is tric t’s bond measure and urges a "yes” vote on Jan. 10. The board and the d is tric t have earned the trust that an af firm a tive vote shows by seeing to it that the money w ill be spent in the best possible way. (DGG) Interesting Race Looms Other than amongst professional educators, there usually isn’t too much interest in the office of state school superintendent. There is this tim e. Not only has incumbent Superin tendent Verne Duncan filed for re- election. but also in the race are Dr. Ruth M cFarland, an instructor at M t. Hood Comm unity College and State Sen. Fred Heard of Klam ath Falls. Others m ay file but those already in the race—Duncan, M cFarland and Heard—assure a live ly cam paign I f no ca n d id a te re ceive s a m a jo rity of votes in the May p rim a ry, the two top finishers w ill face each other in November. As an in cu m b e n t, D uncan probably has an early edge. Heard, however, has been campaigning for months, has an organization already in the field, and has considerable name fa m ilia rity because of his tenure in the state legislature. M cFarland isn’t as well known as the other two and faces an uphill battle. She should do well in the P o rtla n d m e tro p o lita n area, however, where most statewide races are decided. The office of state superintendent is an im portant one and the early entry of three qualified people into the contest is a good sign. To the Editor: I want to commend our music teacher at Welches School. He put on a very- interesting and entertaining Christmas program He seems very talented and interested in our students I would also like to com pliment our principal on a superior job. B eing a tea ch er o r a principal these days is a very- hard and demanding job I ’m sure if many of the parents spent a couple of days at our school they would appreciate our faculty much more. Sincerely. Cindy Grenvik Box 407 Brightwood. 97011 E d ito r's note: The superintendent-principal at Welches is Jack Callaghan and the music teacher is Tim McCarthy. Yes for schools To the Editor: I heartily support the up coming Sandy E lem entary School District bond election to complete the Firwood School and build a starter school at Kelso Our elem entary schools are badly over crowded with eight d isplaced classrooms A look at the housing starts within the district, as well as the projections by state and local authorities, indicate a continued high growth rate. O ur school board has studied the problem for some tim e and after public input on the several alternatives, the board has concluded that the proposed b uildin g p ro g ra m best m eets the present educational needs of the district. Let us support that decision by voting “ yes” on Tuesday. Joanne Seeger 35170 S E H w y 211 Boring. Ore 97009 Vote yes Manning the Post No magic formula seen for making resolutions By Sue Lefky Sandy Post editor There may be a magic form ula for making sue cessful New Y e a r's resolutions, but so far I v e failed to learn the winning combination M y only knowledge con sists of a few w ay* not to ring in the new year with good intentions F o r instance one year, banking on brevity. I decided to try the -‘all or nothing approach ” It was one of the s h o rte s t, most co m prehensive resolutions ever m ade "T his year I w ill not make a m istake The burden of the vow began to hang heavy just a few minutes after midnight on Jan 1. One slip of the tongue, one stumble and the whole year was in jeopardy Even my thoughts were suspect I dared not move for fear that m y good intentions would go down the drain Needless to say. that New Year's resolution was past tense by the tim e the band struck up the national an them for the Rose Bowl gam e. So much fo r generalities The re st year I decided that being more specific might make the task easier. “ Pick out a few things that are short term goals." ad vised a good fnend Keep them realistic." Before New Y e a r’s Eve co m p rehen sive p la n ) the co m p rehen sive plan was described as the “ last For months this column w o rd ” — the u ltim a ta - in has attempted to carefully lim ita tio n s as w ell as assess the unnecessary and authority uncalled for invasion of the A p oorly d ra w n , in personal and private rights complete and almost worth of citizenship by the state, less small map indicated a regional and county planning number of divisions in rural bureaucracies. and agricultural lands In ad d itio n , we have The text further divided re p o rte d as fa c tu a lly as these lands into certain soil possible on where and how classifications and indicated we citizens have been losing m a x im u m d en sity by the battle. At times we have lim itin g the n u m b e r of even been able to tell you dwellings to certain lot sizes “ w hy” we have been losing ( num ber of acres). Planners Last week in a sort of an used the text and map, in its end-of-the-year summation most strict application to we noted with some en lim it owner utilization of the couragement that there was land in any sm aller parcels a hardening and a stiffening than allowed by the com of citizen resistance in all prehensive plan levels of state, regional and For example, a minimum county citizenship toward the of 20 acres per dwelling in “ planning” threat, and we c e rta in a g ric u ltu r a l and wrote: forest designations “ In Clackamas County the However, in making their so -called R u ra l Zoning own s ta ff proposals the Project has been almost planners, citing that same brought to a complete halt comprehensive plan as their and its completion date set authority, indiscriminately back from Jan 1 to March 1. lumped parcels of all sizes, Back of it all is the brutal shapes and uses into the challenge of the planning same agricultural (exclusive b u reau c rac ie s to seize farm use) or forest areas’ control of the land. . . . The burning question has R egard less of w hat the now become, “ If a land planners may claim , the owner cannot partition off a people of this state have less than-20 acre parcel from never given up their con his farm , (exclusive farm stitutional rights to be safe in use), how can a planner add their properties or to be free one or a whole group of less- fro m the th rea t of than-20-acre parcels to an unreasonable seizure—nor exclusive farm use ares, w ill they do so in 1978 ” regardless of its size or This concept of the use?” tra d itio n a l and in d iv id u a l The county p lanning rights of the citizen in his department w ill no doubt property is still held by more have a lot of highly technical than 99 percent of the rural reasons for this paradox. At p ro p e rty owners in the moment I have none, nor Clackamas County. Even so, do I believe that a fair, the present power structure believable and legally suf in the county is spending ficient reason w ill be for more than $100,000 a month thcoming for salaries, services and I do h ave one m ore programs essentially aimed question, however If the at destroying or lim iting & answer is NOT f a i r a ___ some of those traditional believable or legally suf rights ficient, bow far up thé chain Paying taxes to support the of command is this ploy necessary cost of decent used’’ ■* government is a burden that C e rta in ly M r. M a n c in i, most c itizen s support acting head of the planning w illin g ly , if not too en department, knew and used thusiastically. it. Being taxed to support the Is John M cIntyre, who now costs of one’s own destruc has the planning department tion is something else. Rural under his a d m in is tra tiv e land-owners and taxpayers control, aw are that planners must look much more closely interpret the comprehensive at some of the uses public plan differently for them money is being put to in selves than they do for the connection with rural land- land-owners? use planning F or that m atter, how about Here is a prim e example. E xtension A g en t-C itizen The most potent, most In v o lv e m e n t C o o rd in ato r often quoted tool of the Ardis Stevenson, the CIACs planners who initiated the and most of all, how about co u n ty ’s R u ra l Zoning the th ree county c o m Project was the county’s missioners? How do they comprehensive plan justify, or explain, a double In nine meetings held in standard and interpretation the p rim arily unzoned areas of an im p o rta n t county of the county, (some areas docum ent lik e the com were being rezoned because prehensive plan’’ their current zoning was not They don’t. Or at least in “ compliance” with the they have not. as yet. by Bill Sanderson was over I had 32 resolutions "Good grief. ” gasped my friend “ Even Moses only had ten co m m an dm en ts when he cam e down from Mt. Sinai ” And so it went This year I decided to take a fresh approach to the New Y ear s syndrome I only made resolutions for other people So far ! haven't heard how my fam ily and friends are living up to the goals Pve set for them Rumor has it I may never hear from them But meanwhile, the new year is starting out just fine for me and I dont have to worry about trying to keep a ll those New Y e a r's To the Editor: At Christmas tim e three years ago we asked Dick H a lv o rso n , at the Sandy Senior Citizen* Center, for the name of a senior citizen who had no fam ily and would w elco m e some co m p an y during the holiday*. He gave us the name of a 76-year-o ld lad y whose nearest relative is a brother in Canada On Christmas Eve we went to see her for the first tim e and were so c a p tiv a te d by her we couldn't wait to return on Christmas day This was only the beginning and now she is like a member of our fam ily Even our dogs are best friend* W h enever she needs something we can t help her with all we have to do is phone Dick at the Senior Citizens Center and he takes care of it He has even cut wood for her himself, in cluding some he brought from his own property Dick and his wife visit our friend and if they are going o«t of town always phone or stop by to see she is okay- before they leave. M y husband's mother lives in a big city in California and is blind and in a wheelchair We have attempted to get help for her through the senio r c e n te r th e re , in cluding transportation to the nursing home where her husband is confined, but were unable to do so They don’t even have the Meals on Wheels program like we do here Our local Senior Citizens Center provides services to many who would otherwise be without help I urge all of you to vote yes on the bond election on Jan 10 for the p urch ase of the Sandy Baptist Chapel to be used as a c o m m u n ity c e n te r fo r Sandy This community center would also house the Sandy Senior Center I would also like to ask anyone with a little spare tim e and a lot of love to adopt a senior citizen. It is one of the nicest things that has ever happened to our fam ily. Sincerely, M rs Donna Ferguson P.O. Box 625 Sandy Community center m any people it serves One must visit the center, talk and listen to people in the program to fully appreciate the many fine things the p ro g ra m p ro vid e s—espe cially a feeling of belonging, caring and well being for the o ld e r m e m b ers of our comm unity. The dedication of the staff, the work of the volunteers and the involvement of the members of the program in determ ining their own needs and what the program should d e liv e r a ll co n trib u te to making the Sandy program one of the best in Oregon The senior members of our community’ have earned the services and benefits the program provides The staff and the volunteer workers have made the program the success it is. I believe it is now up to the community to lend its sup port and backing in the form of a yes vote to approve the purchase of the building that w ill finally give deserving members of our community a home Bob Rathke F ire Chief Sandy F ire district 72 Remember Spike To the Editor: To the Editor: This coming Tuesday the I t ’s not too late for 1978 people of Sandy w ill be asked In 1956 M r W ill and I met a to approve the purchase of a gentleman in Sandy We both building that w ill be used as a adm ired him. He and his c o m m u n ity c e n te r, and wife, as well as we two. were especially, as a home for the interested in our children’s a re a 's senio r citizen s school friends program We attended the dances The building is suited to the held at the school for these needs of the community The kids Our friendship with the fin a n c ia l fac to rs a re Emersons grew and grew. favorable and it w ill not We were at Spike Em er become a burden on the son s home when he told us people of the city to m ain that Sandy would be his tain However. I believe the home from then on. He was most im p o rta n t point to an agent for W a lra d co n sider is th a t it w ill Insurance after he had left provide a base of operations the teaching field where he and a home for one of the was principal and coach at most successful, useful and Corbett. needed p ro g ram s in the He said, “ I ’m going to live Sandy area here and we must have a Over the past few years, it park in Sandy ” has been my privilege to He had a dream and his watch the birth and growth of dream cam e true Spike was the senior citizens program I have had the opportunity to /p a g e 6 observe the program and the Hoodview Radio Club plan ham classes The Hoodview Amateur Radio Club w ill sponsor two classes in ham radio at Mt. Hood C o m m u n ity C ollege beginning Jan. 10 at 7:30 p.m. The beginners class will be in room 1710 and w ill prepare the student to pass the N o vice Class FC C examination. The course will cover Morse code in- struction and basic radio th eo ry. No previous knowledge of electronics is required The advanced class w ill be in room 1773 and w ill prepare the student to pass the general class examination. No Morse code instruction w ill be given R e g is tra tio n and fee payment can be made SERVICE WE GIVE! INSURANCE WE SELL . . . The personal insurance counsel and advice of a local agent is important to you in planning o complete insurance program. local *o*ro«*iHaH»* Instaod O f M aking New Resolutions For 1977 Why Don t You Just Take Another Shot At The Ones From Lost Yeor’ WALRAD Sondy. O rofon
