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* SANDY (O r . ) POST Thur» F«t> 12 1^81 (Sec I) The Sandy Post Editorial & Opinion Von Braschler. Publisher Caroline Duff Office Manager Mark Floyd, Editor Don Dillon, News Editor Enlist now to help collar burglars R e sid e n ts c o n c e rn e d w ith Sandy's epidemic of burglaries can help put the collar on local crime. Sandy police are sponsoring a timely crime prevention program and seeking community volunteers to assist them There's a growing need for the c o r r e c tiv e m e a s u r e s . L o cal statistics show there were 91 burglaries in Sandy last year alone A large number of these burglaries occurred downtown, but private residences were hit heavily, too The new crime wave includes juvenile burglars who often find easy access to homes and offices ripe for the picking Sandy police are moving to com bat the crime wave, as their 42 per cent record of c le a re d cases testifies (That’s twice the national average of a growing national pro blem ) The high number of burglaries and other thefts not involving forc ed entry, however, has many San dy residents and shopkeepers wor ried Many businesses have install ed electronic alarm systems or hired a security guard Some have done both. Others have banded together to discuss solutions to a common problem Clearly, the problem belongs to the whole community, and the whole community should deal with it. The best wav to deal with recurr ing burglaries in a small communi ty, police say, is to inform the pu b lic on w ays to trip up burglaries Make it tough for them. So Sandy police will sponsor a th re e -p h a se in fo rm atio n and group-hei’' program beginning March 10-11. The March meeting at the Sandy Community Center will train police and volunteers to train the public. First focus will be home security with program information of use of locks, fences and other measures to impede burglars. Second phase will cover proper identification of valuables. Police can trace and often recover stolen property if it is identified w’ith serial numbers (driver’s license is ideal) marked on the items, with a matching list in safekeeping Final program phase will help neighborhoods institute a block watch program, where neighbors keep an eye out for one another during absenses. Commendable attention to a growing burglary problem here show's police concern and should be matched by citizen involvement. The best way to get involved and stifle crime here is to volunteer to assist Sandy police in their crime prevention program Why not attend the March 10-11 volunteers training meeting at the Community Center. What have you got to lose0 (VB) Changes abound at the Sandy Post Changes abound at the Sandy Post — many visable and others subtle, and readers may find some interesting Starting this issue, the local crew at The Post have typeset their own news copy on computer-age elec tronic terminals This frees us from dependency on Gresham typesetters A n o th e r change a llo w s Hoodland, Eagle Creek and other classified ad customers to phone in their want-ads toll-free when they dial 667-6633 long-distance. Simply tell the classified receptionist that you are a want-ad customer m ak ing a collect call Other changes include our own photography darkroom for pro cessing our pictures inside The Legislator’s report: During the interim I served for the first time or a committee that is responsible for raising the money spent on such basic things as basic school support and property tax relief This Revenue Committee decide> the types and amounts of taxes that must be im posed in order to fund state programs 1 am serving on the joint Revenue Com mittee this session and — needless to say — we are faced with man\ serious problems Further compounding the problem is the re cent announcement by fiscal officers that they would have no realiy firm revenue date until June It appears that the state will receive even less funds on which to base its budget than was first anticipated The governor has proposed selective tax increases on cigarettes liquor, business profits and insurance premiums plus a freeze on persona income tax reductions due to become effective next year, in order to pick up some of the gap The speaker of the House and president of the Senate recently issued a directive that calls for computation of an operating level at only about 9b percent of the governor s recommended budget level Using the governor's revenue projections, it appears that basic school suppor’ and homeonwer s property tax relief would share in the 10 per ■ cent reductions I agree with a number of legislators who believe that we should fu lfill our com mitments to school children by assuring tat school support should not be less than a statewide average of 36 percent of the cost for primary and secondary education and also fu lfill our commitment* to homeowners by continuing property tax relief at 30 per cent I feel that these programs should not be sacrificed at the expense of other demands f School flap draws more fire After reading the Sandy Post's feature article and the Post building, plus a new local letters to the editor last week television magazine as weekly in concerning certain school sert to our newspaper Another ad problems. I began to see a dition at The Post involves the birth misunderstnaing being for of my concerns and of our companion weekly publica mulated past statements quoted by tion, “ Mt. Hood Trade Days. The the paper. Thursday mailer will deliver free First. I did not say, nor did shopping news to neighbors in any member of the Lutheran Welches, Brightwood, Zig Zag. Fellowship imply that all members of the Sandy stu Rhododendron. Kelso. Orient, Bor dent body or majority of that ing. Sandy and Eagle Creek body are abusers of alcohol Of course, the big visable and other drugs What I did was that drugs and changes to come will include im say alcohol are readily available provements in news content, as on that campus, and it now defined by our readers in our appears that they are in readership preference survey (See terfering with the education that public school is suppos page 7, this section.) Many already ed to provide for each of our have responded, and we thank children. them for their cooperation We Secondly. I did not say that won’t be totaUy happy, however, the e d u ca to rs or a d at Sandy High until we have YOUR completed ministrator School are inadequate That questionnaire would be a gross untruth, for most members of that staff are hard working concerned public employees W'hat I did say was there have been, and still are. teachers at Sandy whose behavior is not above reproach Because of the likability by the students, they become role models and set values that many con cerned parents find offen sive Many parents, including m yself, feel the school should not have to babysit our children and that the students themselves should bear some of the respon sibilities of their actions However, I tell you that many kids between the ages of 14 and 18 are not mature enough to make decisions that may well effect them for the rest of their lives I fur on state revenues and that the Ways an ther believe that we do not .Means Committee should act on these two have to make it easy for issues immediately The committee should not ignore them un them to make those wrong decisions. til it is too late and further crippling of local We do not have to have governments or increase in income tax to fund property tax relief or — even worse — open campuses, so that our children can wander off and an increase in both income and property on when they desire, show taxes to fund other budgets. ing up just when their bus Another thing that concerns me is that ci leaves for home with neither ty and county governments not be hit with a letter nor a phone call from legislated programs for which the local the administration to an governments end up paying unknowing parent The whole budgeting problem reminds me We should not fail to notify of the old story of an old man. a boy and a parents when we know of a donkey . Whatever is done will be wrong in drug or drinking problem someone s eyes and we should not let the kids im m e d ia te ly back into Last week I wondered if a bill that pro school who are knon poses a change in the opening date of the abusers influencing those legislative session would surface Since who are not, but easily then the House Revenue Committee has swayed sponsored one that changes the date from We should encourage good the second Monday in January to the second academic performance in Monday in March That is their proposed our athletes and not allow solution for the delay in work caused by hav them to engage in athletic ing to wait until May or later to have basic events with the present low date with which to work requirement* of four Ds and Call me anytime through the toll-free two Fs Watts line 1 -MO-452-5674 Or dial direct to We do not have to water down our academic re 378 885<i Shelter schools, tax relief b> KEN JERNSTEDT State Senator Dist. 2* Letters to the editor: quirements for fear a child w ill drop out of school. Perhaps if his or her mind was challenged, the student would find a sense of pride in academic accomplishment Parents of children who have had no known problems with any of the above items of concern. I am indeed hap py for you Perhaps you never w ill be affected by these particular happenings But there are parents who have been affected And the particular events I chose to relate to M r McMahan th ro u g h the L u th e ra n Fellowship meeting were neither rumor nor hearsay, but actual incidents seen or experienced by either a close friend or a member of my own family I and other members of the c o m m u n ity have been criticized for not coming for ward sooner with these con cerns. but we — possibly like other parents — thought that these events were only isolated incidents I now feel that there have been too many ” isolated in cidents,” and we all — as concerned parents — must try to do something to help our school provide a happier and mentally healthier at mosphere. so our children can reach their potential both academically and as good moral citizens Steven H Sweitzer Sandy Charges rile I am responding to the front page article of the Jan 29 issue of the Sandy Post. I was very offended at the allegations made about our teachers, students and ad ministration Our faculty has upheld high standards in behavior and conduct They devote much of themselves to school every day-not only at school, but also in their private lives They always are willing to lend an ear to listen to you, to help you out when you don't understand something, whether it be personal or about school I admire all of the teachers at Sandy High, and I have almost never had an occa sion to complain about the teacher or a class or any member of the faculty. John McMahan is a very dynamic and caring man As principal of our high school he has a lot of responsibility that 1 doubt you or I could handle He really cares about this school I have had the opportunity to meet with Mr McMahan on several oc ca sio ns, as I am the secretary of our Associated Student Body I am impress ed with his concern for the welfare of us all He doesn t have all the answers but I know that he wants to help us and that he is doing his best to do that. I am affronted at the generalization made about the students of Sandy High We. the students, are not all stoners or alcoholics In fact only about five percent at mo6t really are involved in drugs and alcohol. The other 95 percent really care about their school and are concern ed about the reputation of Sandy I know many people who are o u ts ta n d in g students and athletes, and they are really exceptional people I am involved in a lot of ex tracum cular activities in and out of school in addi tional to doing the best I can scholastically , and I am no means alone Many of you who believe that no good comes out of Sandy should have come to the Booster C lub banquet honoring students and athletes from the month of Sept through Dec Several of the athletes also were honored by being nominated scholastically. T his group of honored students were a small por tion of the large group of outstanding students at San dy Many parents came to the banquet — parents who cared and were willing to come to school with pride, because they are involved through the activities of their sons and daughters. But what of the parents of the other 1,300 students0 Do they care enough about their child to come to the teacher co nfe re n ces held each quarter0 Do they come to ta lk w ith th e ir c h ild s counselor0 The answer is no, unless they come to com plain It really irritates me that so many parents have hand ed over the role of bringing up their kids to the school. The teachers are not their parents, and the school is not their babysitter, nor a day care center where they can drop off the kid It is a school — a place of secondary education to stimulate in terest in learning S tudents should be d is c ip lin e d enough by parents to want to come to school, go to class prepared, study at home, and want to learn If the student doesn t, don't put the blame on the school. The school had nothing to do with the upbr inging of your child You did. and it’s your responsibility If your child drinks or is into drugs again it's not the school s fault The school isn’t here to teach your child his morals, he (or she) should already have his own morals, taught by you. the parent If- they don’t have enough self esteem or intestinal for titude to face the outside world of school and face become surrogate parents, their peers, then what hap only to be chastised, should pens when they graduate0 your teenager tell you of I also feel that the state something or some need they ment made by Tim Systma . have filled in for you rings so true: ‘‘If you can't How many of you so-called deal with the pressure by parents are non-drinkers your peers, change your and non-smokers0 Some of peers ” We pick our own you even smoke marijuana friends, and we should be If you want to really help, able to see if we should need search your own hearts to change them. What kind of example are I invite the Hoodland men you setting0 Just because to attend a student council you’re an adult doesn’t give senate meeting to see what you a license to set a bad ex we do The senate is our ample for your teenagers lifeline, and the students How long has it been since here at Sandy do care For you've shown a sincere in the most part, we show it! terest m what they 're doing” Where they’re going in life 0 Paula Woster How long has it been since Senior at SUHS you've hugged them and said, “ I love you°” So, you see, you’re just looking for an excuse, so meone to blame for your own There are some teens to failure as parents. Until day th a t are re b e llin g you're willing to face reality, against any and all authority how can you expect our — parents, teachers and teenagers to° even the law Parents who These problems started in have tried to teach the child the home, not in the high right and wrong and lovingly school. disciplined and guided the child through life sometime Micki Ray find themselves facing a Sandy totally rebellious child who is caught up with a group of yo u n g s te rs of s im ila r nature The often desperate, often The family of V Robert heartbroken parents only Randall sincerely wish to ex can do so much, as can the press their gratitude for the teachers. In cases like this, grave effort extended by’ the parents — rather than Ron Kipp of Birdie I^ane and turning against the schools, Hoodland Fire and Rescue saying “ It’s all your fault’’ A special thanks to Dr — must accept responsibility Bruce Free and the rescue for their child and try to join team of Don Armintrout, forces with the teachers and Lane Wintermute, Mike Eby sometimes the police to try and Frank Douglas to keep the teen out of jail It is a comfort to know that and in school. these tra in e d e x p e rts Adults must help each responded to quickly and other with the teens of today, were at the scene in the time keeping the teen in mind, required to save a coronary trying to help them learn in victim, and we know that the school, helping them learn to best possible treatment was cope in the world where they given live. The sincere empathy of Judy Bowman these gentlemen in answer Sandy ing our questions during our Mother of 6 teens and ex time of sorrow cannot be ex teens pressed adequately Jean Randall. Kathleen Boom how er I ’m a single mother with and Carol Sommers two daughters One is a stu dent at Sandy High School, the other a student at Welches Elementary School The Sandy Parent Teacher I would love to meet those Club would like to express perfect people who were our appreciation to all of the responsible for the most community for making our unrealistic article I ’ve ever first carnival and chili feed a read (J a n . 29 Post, great success. We want to * Residents complain of lack thank all the area merchants of discipline at SUHS ” ) for donating gifts and the Discipline is something many volunteers who helped that must be taught in the with the event. home by setting a good ex We feel everyone felt a ample and teaching respon great deal of school spirit, sibility to our teenagers. and that’s what we re all It is not a teacher s respon about' Thanks again’ sibility to have to cope with what a parent has failed to Mary Marshall do Teachers are human P TC. president too Yet they are put upon to Show concern Thanks given Start at home Many helped
