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Sandy, Post. 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’’
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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
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and advice of a local
agent is important
to you in planning
o complete insurance
program.
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Instaod O f M aking New Resolutions For 1977
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