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SANDY, OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 1978
No. 15
Fourth candidate enters Sandy
mayoral sweepstakes
people who are her now."
Harrison said the planning com
mission has been rezoning local
property without thought as to the
impacts of such a move. The fire
department, the schools and the county
should all be consulted before an
nexation or rezoning takes place, he
added.
The Sandy teacher also contends that
too many changes are being made in
local zoning before the completion of
Sandy's comprehensive plan.
"While the comprehensive plan is
being revised we re making zoning
changes that may or may not be in
accordance with it," Harrison said.
Harrison said he recognizes that
growth is inevitable, but added that
inadequate planning has been made for
that growth.
Citing a need for better planning in
city government to deal with Sandy’s
growth. Sandy High School work ex
perience coordinator Dick Harrison
this week announced plans to run for
mayor
Harrison’s entry into the mayoral
contest brings to four the number of
candidates. Dennis Wolf, Bruce Cook
and Jim Duff have already tossed their
hats into the ring.
“ I ’m afraid we re going to have a
rush to annex and rezone without any
concern for the livability of the com
m unity,” Harrison said of his main
concern.
“ This is a beautiful little town, a nice
place to be," Harrison continued. “ And
people who w ill be moving here in the
future deserve as much livability as the
He noted that two of his opponents,
councilmen Duff and Cook, were on
record for "controlled growth," but he
questioned what methods they had in
mind to bring about that control.
Harrison believes that planning for
even such mundane matters as the
“ hiring of a dog catcher" should be
done now.
The last mayoral candidate has
lived in Sandy five years after serving
26 years as Post Engineer for the Army
Corps of Engineers at Fort Lewis,
Wash. He has a degree in mechanical
engineering from the University of
Colorado and a masters degree in in
d u s tria l a rts from Oregon State
University.
Harrison resides in Sandy with his
wife Gertrude. The Harrisons have
three children
Possible poisoning hits dogs
in Sandy neighborhood
Poisoning attributed to a strychnine
like substance has been named as the
cause of death and illness of several
dogs in the Deming Road area of Sandy.
Pat O’Malley of 36663 SE Deming
Road told The Post Wednesday that two
of his dogs had died and a third
seriously affected since last week;
O’Malley said he suspects someone is
poisoning the dogs.
Sandy Veterinarian Dr. Mac Bischoff
said that lab tests had not yet con
firmed strychnine as the cause of the
a n im a ls ’ deaths, but it was a
possibility.
Bischoff said that the poisoning’may
also have been caused by slug bait or by
a dead bird tfA t had been strychnine-
poisoned.
The use of strychnine is illegal in
Oregon.
Bischoff said that the poison’s
symtoms include nervousness, body
rigidity and convulsions. Death may
occur within 45 minutes of ingestion.
Bischoff advised people to keep their
dogs in their yards and not allow them
to wander to help prevent further
poisoning
Clackamas County Animal Control
officials are investigating the cause of
the deaths.
TT'K S P R IN G , and a ttaie for outdoor activities. This week The Post takes a
Dueling chutists
ttok at springtime in Clickamas County—including sports such as
parachuting and hacky sack, home tours and remodeling tops. Bowman’s
Mt. Hood Resort in Welches was the scene of the area's firs t paraski com
petition. See page 3, Section two.
(Post photo)
Roadless area survey
nears June completion
THE FIRE-GUTTED music trailer at Welches School is examined by
Hoodland Fire Chief Don Arm introut (right) and Assistant Chief Lane
Wintermute. Arson is suspected. The double-wide 60-foot mobile classroom
serving band and choir classes was totally destroyed last Sunday night.
along with all band instruments, sheet music and electronics equipment.
The Hoodland volunteers restricted the trailer fire from the main grade
school building just five feet away however, with that wood structure
escaping even paint blisters.
(Post photo)
Arson suspected In Welches school fire
The Welches School music program
went up in smoke last Sunday night,
and Hoodland Fire Chief Don Arm in
trout suspects arson behind the hot
blaze that destroyed the school's music
trailer.
The fire spread quickly and started
under the trailer which is located just
five feet away from the wood wall of the
main building, the chief said
The fire reached an estimated 2000
degrees to buckle the heavy metal
framework of tne double-wide 60-foot
mobile building
Hoodland volunteers, aided by Sandy
firefighters, restricted the blaze to the
trailer by wetting the wood wall of the
main building
“ That volunteer department of ours
did a tremendous job,” said Welches
Superintendent Jack Callaghan "They
were fantastic ”
Chief Armintrout echoed the praise of
his men
" I told the men »hot if we were to
have a critique. I can’t think of one
thing they did wrong "
Armintrout added that the fire was
contained to the trailer with "not an
ounce of paint blistered" on the main
structure.
The fire is under investigation by the
Oregon State Police arson investigator
and the Oregon State Fire Marshall's
office.
“ We re doing everything we can and
are seeking professional outside help,"
he said. "The experts in the field are
sending their best."
Armintrout said the department has
"one very strong lead" in the case.
Sunday night's fire m irrors another
recent fire at the Hoodland Women’s
Club building.
That fire displaced kindergarten
pupils who now meet daily in the
library and forced some library classes
into other classrooms
The Women's Club fire one street
away occurred March 12- one month
earlier to the day. Both fires happened
in the evening and started outside the
buildings Another fire in which arson is
suspected is a fire at a shelter at Toll
Gate Campground, which also hap
pened March 12
Someone also set a fire inside the new
Welches Post Office about a month ago,
but it died out without causing damage,
Armintrout said.
All of the incidents are believed to
have occurred on a Sunday.
Hoodland firemen have sent some
evidence from this week’s fire to the
state crime laboratory for analysis
The destroyed trailer housed all band
and choir classes, as well as their in
struments and equipment
Callaghan said music teacher Tim
McCarthy lost much of his music he
composed, along with a library of
music books
“ Everything is a mess," Callaghan
said
The building was used daily by every
student in school in a regular music
instruction program which now w ill
have to be moved into regular
classrooms
Every band instr*. lent not check'd
out foi the weekend was destroyed in
the blaze
The school had just bought a new
After a year of intensive effort.
Forest Service officials said the week
that their RARE II (Roadless Area
Review and Evaluation) survey should
be completed and ready for evaluation
early this summer.
The survey is aimed at categorizing
roadless forest areas as a step in
determining whether an area w ill be
best utilized as multiple use. wild-
nerness or other purposes.
Mt. Hood National Forest public
information officer Ann Heisler said
that the Forest Service’s final report
w ill contain nine use alternatives for
the identified roadless areas, ranging
from
w ilderness to "in te n s iv e
m anagem ent," a euphemism for
multiple use.
Heisler said that no Forest Service
preference w ill be expressed in the
report.
After RARE II is released in mid-
June public comments w ill be accepted
until September Heisler said that
"anyone who wants to " can give their
imput to the Forest Service, and that
special office hours or open houses may
be arranged to make it easier for in
terested parties to get their comments
heard
RARE II is the continuation of RARE
I, which began in 1972 to identify
roadless areas
But over the years it came under
heavy fire, and RARE II is an attempt
to correct its deficiencies
Heisler said that the orginal project
did a poor job of defining jsut what a
roadless area was. using as its criteria
the terms availability, suitability and
need—which nobody could agree on
The waters were further muddied
when public imput was requested
Heisler said some lumber mills went so
far as to force their employes to sign
electric piano. Speakers, a hi-fi, a
console and sheet music. All were lost
Consequently, the school may have to
cancel a May 18 concert, unless a
blanket insurance claim comes through
in time.
No early estimate of dollar loss has
been set as yet.
Special music classes displaced by
the fire include a fifth-grade band, a
sixth-grade band, a seventh-eighth
grade band, a seventh-eighth grade
morning honor choir and a new fourth-
grade band
Bands likely w ill have in practice on
stage in the gymnasium at the same
time that physical education classes
utilize the gym. Superintendent Jack
Callahan said "The program w ill
continue "
The Hoodland fire fig h te r*, w ith
assistance from Sandy firem en,
The Cottrell Area Land Use Planning
responded at 9:28 p m April 9 and sent
Group w ill meet on Tuesday. April 1*.
out two later alarms
at the Cottrell School rather than on the
The fire was brought under control
regularly scheduled date of April 19
after 16 minutes, and firemen dispat
Clackamas County o ffic ia ls are
ched from Boring were turned back
expected to attend the Tuesday evening
letters opposing roadless areas before
they would be paid.
" I t became a vote count," Heisler
said of RARE I, "a giant paperwork
thing."
Other problems arose when the
Forest Service changed its input
criteria midway through the project
“ It caused a lot of hard feelings."
Heisler concluded of the first RARE
“ We did a poor job all the way around."
The new RARE, begun last spring at
the instigation of Assistant Secretary of
the Interior Rupert Cutler, sets out to
correct the mistakes made the first
time.
Heisler said that the definitions of
roadless areas have been stripped of
"value laden words” so that the study
can be made more objectively.
Methods for receiving input are also
being improved, she added
A common misconception is that an
area classified as “ roadless" w ill
automatically become a wilderness
area.
Heisler said that this is not so and
that roadless area definitions simply
provide the Forest Service with a
yardstick by which to measure the
amount of development in forested
areas
One commented upon sidelight to
RARE is that logging interests and
environmentalist, for once, agree on
something.
They both want RARE II finished as
soon as possible, so they can chart their
next move in the ongoing preserve-
utilize war.
" I think everyone would just as soon
get these plans decided, Heisler said
as RARE approaches its conclusion
Currently, about 47.000 acres in the
Mt. Hood National Forest are defined
as roadless areas
Cottrell group meets Tuesday
enroute
I
meeting which begins at 7:30 p m
Clackamas
County
Planning
Department staff members w ill be on
hand to discuss plan amendments and
zoning for the Cottrell area
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