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About Sandy post. (Sandy, Oregon) 1938-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 2, 1978)
Hearing scheduled Afternoon reflections AN OLD farmhouse near Marmot reposes in the late aiternoon sun uurmK - break in the clouds last week. (Douglas Gantenbein photo> Mayor honored by Sandy chamber Sandy Mayor Melvin Haneberg along the sides and down the middle. He iceived the Sandy Area Chamber of was 2-years-old when the family moved ommerce Community Service Award to Bull Run. The fam ily purchased 20 exras or land L the group’s annual banquet on on Phelps Road and eventually lived in uesday evening. George Morgan, in Introducing a home which the elder Haneberg aneberg for the honor, jokingly built. This home remained in the family eferred to him as “ one of our sacred until 1968 when the Sandy mayor and ows” and paid tribute to his “ faith- his wife, Edna, moved to the city Haneberg attended Oregon State ilness to the office’ and “ boundless College but returned home before nthusiasm for Sandy.’ ’ Haneberg, who grew up in the Bull completing his studies so he could work tun area, is in the midst of his fourth to help support his family. He worked for Portland General erm as mayor. He was first appointed a the post in 1970 to fill the unexpired Electric and for the City of Portland erm of Harold L. Edes. His current Water Bureau before serving in the erm of office expires Dec 31 and he Arm y during World War 11 After being as indicated that he w ill not run for re wounded in Italy, he returned home and went back to work for the city of Por lection. Haneberg has served on the school tland. He m arried Edna, a Bull Run school wards of two of his alma maters, Bull tun Grade School and Sandy Union teacher, on Feb. 17, 1945. The ¿igh School, in addition to holding the Hanebergs have three children, four >ffice of secretary for the Sandy Rural grandchildren and another grandchild on the way. ¡'ire D istrict Board of Directors. At the tim e of Haneberg s retirement He is a member and past president of he Sandy Kiwanis Club and is past in 1974, he was serving as general secretary-treasurer of the Cliffside foreman of the headworks division of Cemetery Association. He has also the Portland Water Bureau. served on the Sandy Planning Com mission and as a member of the Bull Run Watershed Study Group. He is c u rre n tly vice-chairm an of the Coalition of Social Services under the Department of Human Resources for Clackamas County. The mayor was one of ten children born to Louis and Annie Haneberg. The elder Haneberg. a carpenter and m illw right, came to Oregon from Seattle, Wash , in 1910, to build a m ill in Ames His wife and children travelled to Portland in August of 1911. From Portland they came to Bull Run via the Mt. Hood Railway and Haneberg said lla n p h o r tl the railroad cars were flat with benches G reat Way To The Mt. Hood Pt.-yr. round V o l.6 8 Single Copy 15c Single Copy 15c SANDY. OREGON. THURSDAY. FEB 2, 1978 b A N U T .u n c w v . ------------- No. 5 The Clackamas County hearings officer will consider a conditional use request for the R ip p lin g R iver development in Wemme at a 7 p m. meeting on Monday, Feb 13. The Clackamas County Planning Commission on March 14, 1977, ap proved the request for the planned unit development subject to 16 conditions. The applicant is requesting that ap proval be modified by deleting the condition which stipulates that the development be contingent on the formation of a county service district in the regton A spokesman for the Clackamas County Public Works Department, which filed the request, said a service district is still “ some time coming. County commissioners , in December 1977 approved a sewage plan for the area and the spokesman said the county is “ on the threshold of implementing that plan.” He added that until sewage treatment facilities are available, the owner and developer of the property, American Guaranty Life Insurance Co., has discussed taking sewage to Sandy's treatment plant or utilizing holding tanks. American Guaranty has plans for a developm ent consisting of 206 townhouse condominium units, 136 guest units, 160 condominium units, 111 lots for single fam ily residences, restaurant, meeting rooms, offices and a sanitary sewer facility. A spokesman for the planning department said the hearings officer w ill also give “ caretul consideration to any written correspondence con cerning the conditional use request The property is located on the east side of Arran Wanna Toad ap proximately one quartet a* u imle south of its intersection with Highway 26 Donor offers reward for killer When the g irl did not return home by 6 p.m., her mother became concerned and at 8:39 p.m reported her missing to A person who asked to remain the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office. anonymous is offering a $500 reward for Approximately 12 minutes later a information leading to the arrest of the neighbor found the partially clothed person or persons who killed 15-year- body along the route Miss Fernette old Margie Ann Fernette on Jan. 24. “ The individual contacted me and usually took home from school. The path where the Sandy student stated that they wanted to remain was found was approximately 300 yards anonymous,” said Clackamas County from her home and about 50 feet off Sheriff John Renfro, whose department McKinnon’s a ir strip across from is conducting an intensive investigation Roslyn Lake. of the homicide. “ The whole thing is so tragic,” Renfro told The Post that he has Renfro noted. “ We have no evidence to contacted F rank Happold at Clackamas County Bank in Sandy and indicate that this girl was singled out by arranged for an account to be someone she knew or that there was a problem between she and her at established. “ If there is no claim on the reward tacker.” The sheriff said that his department money, it w ill be returned to the con tribu tor,” Renfro said. Other donations has six people working on full time on to the account are welcome, the sheriff the case and that his office is still waiting to receive some of the Oregon added Miss Fernette was killed last State Crime Laboratory reports “ In this case we have nothing that Tuesday after she walked from a school bus stop on Ten Eyck Road through a would lead to the identity of the person wooded shortcut to her home northeast who did this,” said a frustrated Renfro. of Roslyn Lake Renfro said he believes “ The guilty party could be a transient that the Sandy High School sophomore passing through or a person living in was attacked in daylight shortly after the neighborhood We have no way of narrowing that down." leaving the bus sometime around 3 p m. The sheriff said his department does Reports indicated that Miss Fernette have some evidence collected at the was usually accompanied on the walk to her home on Latigo Road by a neigh scene such as footprints. If a suspect is found, that information would prove bor, but was not on Tuesday. by Sue Lafky Post editor useful in proving that the suspect committed the crime. “ But the problem is locating an individual to compare (that evidence) with, ” he added. Renfro, however, hasn't deemed the case hopeless. “ I personally feel that the person w ill be identified and subsequently con victed of the crime. It ’s probably going to take some tim e.” Dr. John Schilke, Clackamas County medical examiner, listed multiple blows to the head—presumably with a large rock—as the cause of death Some Portland area media have reported that Miss Fernette was raped, but Schilke said that hadn’t been determined. “ We have considered the notion that she was sexually assaulted. There was at least some element of sexual assault,” he said. “ But I don t think there’s enough evidence to say one way or another.” The sheriff’s office has been working with the district attorney’s office, the Sandy Police Department and the Oregon State Crime Laboratory in conducting an investigation of the case Authorities thought they might have had a lead last Thursday night when a letter showed up at the Main Branch of the Portland Post Office The message, written with purple crayon, was stuffed in an envelope without a postage stamp or postmark Jerry Greene, public information officer for the sheriff’s department, said a postal official turned in the letter which requested authorities call a certain phone number for more in formation. The number, he said, belonged to a restaurant. “ The employes and owner have no knowledge of who m ight have suggested their number," Renfro said. “ It was probably a prank, but it cer tainly contained nothing that has contributed to the investigation at this point.” The sheriff said deputies have con tacted every resident in the area and are asking that anyone contact them( who might have seen a vehicle or in dividual in the vicinity of the Roslyni Lake area near the time of the attack “ It might seem insignificant. They don't have to be a witness to the crim e,” Renfro continued. “ If they just observed a vehicle or anything at all it would be helpful to us. Besides talking to area residents, the department is also checking on past crim inal records of persons in the vicinity to see if any suspects become evident. • Renfro said investigators w ill con tinue on the case until it ’s cleared or “ until we eventually run up to nothing to do.” He added . “ Hopefully, we won't get to that point.” Teachers, district differ over evaluations E sp e cia lly unpopular w ith the working condition negotiations could teachers were provisions outlining the make the d is tric t’s stand illegal involvement The issue goes back to last fall, when teacher’s community responsibility. Superintendent Clark Lund gathered A dispute over the Sandy Elementary But after the tirst meeting contract his adm inistrative staff together to district's right to change teacher talks began and the faculty introAiced review an evaluation policy he had »valuation policies while contract teacher evaluation as a negotiable negotiations are going on has cast a pall written that might better suit district item. Since the law forbids negotiating needs >ver contract talks and raised the Lund said the staff generally liked the parties to discuss contract items out v is ib ility of unfair labor practice proposal, and to get additional input side the negotiations Lund decided to wirgea the district presented teachers with a put a hold on the evaluation committee The problem has arisen in the wake of draft proposal of the policy and invited until contract talks are completed later in administration decision to modify them to review it as well in the spring. ts teachers evaluation policy for the But that left the district without a new Each school elected two represen current year. The district based its e valua tion procedure and a ll tatives to work on the policy and after Tiove on the current contract which evalua tions must be completed by mid- reviewing it among themselves the fives the district the right to determine ‘by whom and when teachers shall be teachers met with the administration to March So as a temporary measure, Lund »valuated (and) which methods of discuss it. asked the elementary board on Jan 10 F a c u lty members expressed ■valuation w ill be used ’’ to approve the draft proposal until Teachers, however, contend that a dissatisfaction with several parts of the which time the committee of teachers policy “ That’s what it (the meeting) change in in te rp re ta tio n of an and administrators can get back Employment Relations Board ruling on war. for,” Lund said by Douglas Gantenbein staff writer 1 together. The board approved the proposal although groups of teachers voiced objections at the Jan. 10 and 24 board meetings. So now representatives of the teachers say they are faced with an evaluation policy that they are not happy with for the current year Lund defended his and the board's actions, saying the current contract is “ very precise” in its discussion of the d istrict’s right to formulate evaluation policy. “ The board feels that 's the basis to go ahead,” Lund said of the contract's present language " I t ’s within the board's right to do this Lund added he believes the new policy, even in its unmodified form is superior to the old one Lund said there was an “ implied threat” of an unfair labor., practice charge in a letter from Sandy Teacher's Association president Mike Jarret “ TTiey contend we are violating the current agreement without the benefit of association involvement." Lund said But according to Lund the district was under no obligation to involve the teachers in the first place “ I see it as a very generous offer on our part,” Lund said “ It ’s frustrating to me We didn’t have todo it but we did invite them And now they’re putting a hurdle in the w ay.” The teachers, on the other hand, say they’re “ puzzled" by the board's decision to adopt the evaluation policy over their objections “ We don’t understand why this (policy) had to be implemented at this tim e," said Jarret “ It caught everbody off guard ” “ I ’m more or less miffed about it," added association member B ill Lufkin. The teachers said they have four main objections to the new evaluation procedure. They question its ob jectivity, its length (eight pages), its ability to be applied uniform ly and its emphasis on community involvement —something the teachers don ’t want in there “ We’d like to see the old t policy > used until spring when the negotiations are at the point that the committee has had a chance to revise the new one." Jarret said A big question mark looming over the evaluation issue is what stand the Employment Relations Board is going to take on the subject /pegs 5
