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About Sandy post. (Sandy, Oregon) 1938-current | View Entire Issue (April 13, 1978)
Thur»., Apr. 12. 1978 (S c 2) SANDY (Or«.) POST - 3 Attendance problems aired Seniors boogie to Hot Shots GRESHAM SENIKOR Hotshots entertained other seniors last week at the first Golden Age Luncheon sponsored by the Boring Kiwanis Club. About 50 seniors from the Boring-Damascus area were on hand for the event at the Hollyview Baptist Church. County budget to cut ten sheriff's deputies A proposed $37.7 million Clackamas County budget would slice 10 deputies from the sheriff’s department, as commissioners and budget officers tighten financial strings in an attempt to slash $9 million from the current budget. The proposal would m aintain most county departments at the current level and will not allow for expansion, Jerry Justice, budget officer, said. The sheriff’s department, which had requested 19 additional employes, found instead that the budget trims its staff by 12 persons, in cluding 10 deputies. Sheriff John Renfro said the plan is “ridiculous,” adding that the cuts would eliminate responses to neigh borhood d istu rb a n c e s, family complaints or runaway juveniles. Justice said cuts are necessary because of low revenue projections, ex piration of federal grants and inflation. Among the program s that has had federal funding cut is a county transportation ser vice for the elderly and handicapped. Funding ex pires June 30 and the program is not included in the proposed budget. In addition, $100,000 in county and state funds was cut from the mental health budget because the county could not meet the state match. More than 90 employes hired since 1976 under the CETA program also may be released or severely cutback because the county does not have the $850,000 needed to pick up their salaries. The county had agreed to assume the salaries but funds are not available, Justice said. Financial administration, personnel, data processing and a new general services departm ent received in creases in the budget. Justice said the increases will make county operations more efficient. Departmental meetings on the proposed budget will begin April 18 and continue each Tuesday through May. O reg o n ’s com pulsory school attendance law came under fire at a recent symposium at the Clackamas County Inter mediate Education District. Educators, counselors, politicians, attorneys and juvenile court authorities agreed that the law, or its enforcement, is lacking “How long do we chase kids to school?" Kelly Fried, Milwaukie High School adm inistrative assistant asked, voicing what was to emerge as a common con cern of educators and school adm inistrators at the symposium. According to Fried, schools have to spend an inordinate amount of staff time handling student at tendance problems. Fried believes that time would be better spent educating students rather than chasing them. As the symposium progressed, the question of who should do the "chasing” also was raised. Don Welch, Clackamas County Juvenile Court director and a member of the symposium panel with Fried, said he “questioned whether the Juvenile Court should be the enforcer for the schools.” It’s a truism that a juvenile who is a “ signigicant problem to the court is also a significant problem to the school,” Welch said. “ However, a student who is a problem to the school isn’t necessarily a court problem. Don Arnold, assistant state attorney general and a panel member along with Fried and Welch, said that at the state level, “attendance is considered to be a local problem.” Oregon passed its com pulsory attendance law in 1889 and there hasn’t been a lot of change in the law since then, Arnold said. Attendance problems have other, less visible ram ifications, as Lake Oswego School Board m em ber Nancy Klinger pointed out According to Klinger, about 40 percent of the cost of educating a district’s students will come from state basic school support funds next year. The amount of money a school district gets is determined by its average daily mem bership, the average number of students enrolled According to Klinger, when a school district looses students, it also looses money. It’s not wise to drop a student from the school enrollment list too soon, she told the group, but it’s also unfair to list students still enrolled after they’ve quit coming. Most of those at the sym posium ex p ressed concern for where students go after they drop out. A juvenile court worker, a counselor, and a social worker all said they felt they were the next stop for students who quit school. Dian Connett, alternative sc h o o l d e v e lo p m e n t specialist for the I EL) and a member of the symposium panel, said Clackamas County has 12 alternative school programs for school dropouts. However, the 12 programs have room for about 4oo students, while 1,100 dropouts are reported in Clackamas County an nually. C la c k a m a s C o u n ty C o m m is s io n e r R alp h Groener, said he felt part of the problem could be solved by hiring, then keeping the best classroom teachers. However, he added, that to get the best teachers, schools will have to pay them what they are worth “Teachers today are also expected to be mother, father, babysitter, and social worker, then when a kid goes wrong, they end up taking the blame,” Groener said. “ It’s time we started shifting the responsibility back where it belongs, back to the parents and society. “ Teachers give the community their best shot at doing a nearly impossible job, and look what we give them in return. If we paid them what we pay a baby sitter, 50 cents an hour times 30 kids times ten months, most of them would make more money,” he asserted. I ED Counselor Consultant Paul Lam bertsen, who organized the symposium, says he is pleased with the results, even though “most of the time was spent venting our frustrations. “ I think it’s good that we vented some of our frustrations,” Lambertsen said. “ Now that we have kind of cleared the air, I believe we can settle down to working on some solutions. He added that plans are under way for follow-up meetings to start taking some positive actions Club ra te d in top ten The Sandy Livestock Club was among the top ten clubs at the recent 4-H livestock judging contest at C la c k a m a s C o u n ty Fairgrounds. The 4-Hers judged beef, sheep, swine, hog. meat cuts and feed ingredients during a three-hour session. Placing in the top ten for interm ediate judging was Michael McMahon, of the Sandy Livestock Club. authority dropped in urban growth boundaries LCDC Substantial portions of the Mt. Hood Corridor and several other towns in Clackamas County have been designated Immediate Growth Areas by the Land C o n s e rv a tio n and Development Commission (LCDC). the request of the Columbia Region Association of Governments (CRAG) which has sought local jurisdiction over the areas in question The decision was made at The purpose of establishing the Immediate Growth Area is to determine land suitable for urban development in the near future. Some of the land had previously been preserved by LCDC for agricultural use. In the Mt. Hood area. LCDC restrictions have been lifted from Government Camp in sewer-served areas, parts of Welches with 50 percent development and areas in Rhododendron that are commercially developed Sandy, Canby and Estacada also had areas removed from the LCDC’s authority. Local jurisdictions will now apply to these areas with regard to planning, zoning and other land-use actions. Good posture theme of contest Fifth and sixth graders in Sandy, Welches, Bull Run and Cottrell elem entary schools will have a chance to make a stand for good posture Sandy chiropractor Dr. H H. Hazelett will award a $25 U S. Savings Bond to the winner of the “ Posture TOPS elect officers TOPS Club 546 (Taking Off Pounds Sensibly) has a new slate of officers Beginning their new term at the April 1 meeting were: Kathy Mohr, leader; Colleen Cunningham, co-leader; Mary Remmick, secretary; Barbara Boswell, treasurer , Norma House, weight recorder; and Florence Unger, ‘assistant weight recorder Club members donated hand-made items for a table at the Sandy Senior Center Flea Market April 7. Proceeds will help sponsor a trip to Bend May 5 and 6 for the annual TOPS conven tion, according to Virginia Rada. _ Shirley Nielson. Sandy was winner of an afghan at the flea market drawing TOPS is open to all per sons who need help with weight problems. For more information, phone 668-4802. Poster Contest” sponsored by the Oregon Association of Chiropractic Physicians and the American Chiropractic Association. The winning poster will be judged in Hazelett’s office on April 25. Selected posters will be forwarded for district, state and national judging, according to the doctor. “All entries should be to my office prior to noon, April 25,” said Hazelett. “ The purpose of the competition is to bring student and community attention to Correct Posture Month (May) as a means of emphasizing the importance of correct posture to good health, and physical and mental accomplishment,” a representative from the chiropractic associations said. 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