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About Sandy post. (Sandy, Oregon) 1938-current | View Entire Issue (May 3, 1979)
Thur« . Moy 3. 1 *7 4 (Jac 2) JA NO Y (O ro.) ROST— J 9 ‘How I feel about Sandy Small kids have big ideas on how things should be.... 0 Ask a youngster whet he thinks about living in Sandy, and you get some pretty pointed answers, The kids tell is as they see it, as Sandy Kiwanis members learned in a local essay contest tor first, second and third grades at Firwood E lem en tary and Bull Bun School M arjo rie Whitlock in M rs Raleigh's class at Eirwood thinks that Sandy needs "m ore trains to come in" to be a really fine com m unity, although she adds that "Some more bildings hate to lie bill." "Sandy is great becausee it is sm all, and you w ill never get lost,” argues Jeff K ram e r 'if Firwood “ Once I almost got lost,” he admits M any of Sandy’s youngest citizens feel that Sandy needs more parks, playgrounds and recreational facilities Typical replies mention a bowling alley, a skating rink, a second swimming pool (outdoors), an after school basketball court and teeter totters as things most wanted by kids here. ‘Sandy needs a howling alley and skating rink.* M ostly, the W) youngsters in the survey said good things about their hometown and its quiet, pollution-free woodland setting They praised the schools, the policemen, the stores and their ability here to play in a city park, ride horses and go swimming indoors The favorite activity of kids in Sandy, according to the survey, seems to be swimm ing in the community pool at Sandy Grade School T heir only complaint seemed to be that the pool is so popular that it becomes crowded at times The Sandy Kiwanis Club sampled the opinions of local youths on th eir hometown to provide the club with direction on possible future club projects for local youths They choose an essay contest as their approach, to get kids thinking about things like comm unity and change — Steve Ragsdale 'Sandy needs more trains to com e...’ _ m jU L ^ J L - -, - A A w - , _ STULsd » 7 \< j. & ~ r \ju c o r n # - ¿ v c . c6& ■f A W " ? * f ^ ' . C ^ . /¿o&Àoü. A y r r jL & n Z . iA L^üUL t- 'T 'U L ß d ^ C L c{ <- ( V > t A B E N J Y K IN G , age 7, Firwood, wrote: “ I like living in Sandy because it is not very big and it doesn’t have very much smoke.” W E N D Y CA L U S T E R , second grade, Firwood, wrote “ I want a pet shop in Sandy that sells hamsters.” M 3 / £ — Shannon Adovnik 1 r,R. c a n T K IS II SPANNAL’S, grade three, Firwood, wrote: " I t would be neat to have a circus that would be open all the tim e, and you could go in and not pay.” T IM M Y D C L A N E Y . first grade, Bull Run, wrote: "The bank is my favorite place. It saves m y money.” GARDEN TRACTORS? \ q f o W O y D W A Y N E S TEVEN SO N , third grade, Firwood, wrote: "Sandy needs two outside sw im m ing pools Sandy needs a sum m er school” NICK P H IL L IP S , grade three, Firwood, wrote: "Sandy needs to slow the speed lim it down to 20. ” s t^ & z ljc A jc The club w ill send 20 youths to a Kiwanis youth circus June 16 at Clackam as High School The Kiwanians selected youths who wrote survey replies most representative of the group Winning circus tickets are W illie Whitlock, Jeff K ram er, Dwayne Stevenson, Nick Phillips. Benjy King, M arjorie W hitlock, Scottie Powers, Aleta Alps, Natalie McNeil, Mike Reinoehl, E rik Gertzen, Trish Spannaus, Tim m y Thy Dulaney, Heidi Scott, Randy Wheeler, E ric Stafford, Brenda Swart, Shannon Adovnik, Clayton H a ll, Michael Pursel and Danny Ray M a rtin The kids — all 90 of them - got right to the point in spelling out their likes and dislikes about living h ere: AN D Y C A T E L L O , second grade, Sandy Ridge, wrote, "Sandy needs to haf swings and teeter-totters” M IK E R E IN O E H L , second grade, Bull Run, wrote: " I like the policeman in our community, they keep people from taking our m oney.” S C O T TIE POW ERS, second grade, Sandy Ridge, wrote: " I like Sandy because it used to have a junkyard. 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