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2 S A N D Y (Or® ) POST Thur* May 21 1981 (S®r I) Road project in phases eruption staged on Hood One year after the eruption of Mount St Helens, Mount Hood erupted Monday, killing 12 people and sending pyroclastic flows down the Sandy River On paper at least The mock eruption was staged Monday the first anniversary of the devastating Mount St Helens blast to test the Mound Hood In teragency Volcanic Coordination Plan A three day scenario was crammed into one day as represen tatives from some 35 government agencies packed a small command post in the US Forest Service’s Mount Hood National Forest head quarters in Gresham The plan was developed last sum mer, partly because of the eruption of Mount St Helens and partly because of seismic activity recorded on Mount Hood last July The federal grant that financed the plan re quired it be tested within one year As the exercise began Monday morning, the agencies were aware of volcanic activity on the 11,245 foot Mount Hood and established an in formation center to carry out a hazard watch And then at 10 04 a m it happen ed Seismographs on the mountain in dicated the peak had erupted, sen ding an ash plume some 30,000 feet into the sky and disintigrating a lava dome in the crater Pyroclastic flows were expected down the slopes of Mount flood, flow mg into the Sandy, Zigzag and Little Zigzag rivers < louds obscured the mountain so airplanes could not be sent to con firm th<* information, according to the exercise There is something major going on on Mount Hood," said Chris Newall of the US. Geological Survey, the agency which drafted the scenario Quickly the map-lined room buzz- ed as officials phoned other agencies to alert them A variety of informa tion began to pour into the center Weather forecasts, wind direction and speed, and more passed from person to person Hourly updates Jake Olson handles telephone during mock eruption Monday provided more information on the peak The second •‘day" began after lunch. The mountain's eruptive stage was pretty well over, said Anne Heisler, Forest Service spokesper son Participants learned all the bridges crossing the Sandy River down as far as the Stark Street Bridge near Troutdale had been lost making several populated areas inacessible The Bull Run conduits than supply water to Portland also were destroyed, leaving Portland with only the water stored in its reservoirs On the third "d ay," most of the search and rescue was completed The ash plume started blowing south Roadblocks and the emergen cy center were in place, Heisler When improvements to Tupper Road begin this sum mer. the project will follow the lead of earlier Sandy street improvements and be done in a phased approach The Sandy City Council Monday night gave its ap proval to the plan because the money is not available to do the entire project im mediately As a result, the street will be improved to 24 feet from Highway 211 to 300 feet past Sandy Heights Street where curbs already exist At some future date, the city and county will widen the road to 32 feet and add a curb and sidewalk on one side Cost of the first phase will be $110,1X8), according to Nawzad O thm an, a representative of Marx & < hase, the G resham engineering firm in charge of the project I he city, in cooperation w ith Clackamas County Department of Environmen tal Services, received a Community Blink Grant for $105,(88) to improve the road The county at that time in- » hv K .1 Sin said, I th ink on the whole we discovered it worked pretty w ell," Heisler said after the exercise I he d rill revealed several areas of internal communication that need sprucing up, such as making sun* everyone in the communications center knows what is happening Of ficials also realized that in a real situation as much information would be coming into the center as was be mg sent out, Heisler said I here also needs to he a person to assess information as it arrives and make necessary decisions about how It should be used and its validity she said Heisler said the USGS labeled the mock eruption "middle of the road, it wasn t the worst possible nor the easiest " / ri-Met set to equip fleet with radios By May of 1982, Tri Met's entire fleet will be equipped with two-way radios and bus dispatchers will have much of their paperwork done for them by automated equip ment The contract calls for all components of the system to be in place within 52 weeks Each bus operator will have the ability under the new system to signal the dispat cher silently when there is an emergency situation re quiring law enforcement of ficials or medical techni cians The radio units will also allow the dispatcher to know when a bus encounters a m a jo r m e c h a n ic a l malfunction SUHS graduation W ednesday The Cottreli School Board meets at 8 p m in Room 3 in the Fast Building Friday, .May 22 Join ( arol DeLude in a free swinging Friday Fling, to u rin g P o r tla n d s Washington Park Rose and Japanese Gardens Meet at 9 a m at the Sandy Communi ty School for carpooling The Timber Valley league District Track Meet con venes at Sandy High School’s track at II a m C liffs id e C em etery Association meets at 7 p m m the basement of Sandy Community Presbyterian Church for the election of a board member Saturday. May 23 A work day is scheduled at C liffside Cemetery. For more in fo rm a tio n , c a ll 668-458» The Timber Valley League District Track Meet gets underway at Sandy High School's track at 12:30 p m "Your Community—Keep ing It All Together,” a potluck at the Sandy Com mumty Center scheduled for today, has been postponed It will be rescheduled in the. fall Monday. May 25 Today is Memorial Day Tuesday, May 26 Hoodland Women’s Aglow Fellowship celebrates its sixth anniversary at the Red Lion Inn at * Bowman's in Welches with an 11 30 a m luncheon Sandy Union High School will host Baccalaureate at 7 : 30 p m in the gymnasium Wednesday, May 27 The Sandy TOPS (Taking Off Pounds Sensibly) Club meets at 9 a m in the Sandy Community Action Center The Sandy Union High School Class of 1981 will hold its Com m encem ent ceremony at 7 p m at Ran now Stadium In the event of inclem ent w eather, the ceremony will be held in the school gymnasium Thursday, .May 28 Sen Mark Hatfield will ad dress the Sandy Chamber of Commerce at 12 noon at the Tollgate Inn, in lieu of the regular Tuesday luncheon meeting Reservations may be made by calling the Chamber office, 668 4006 The Sandy Golden Age ( lub w ill host its semi monthly potluck at 12 noon at the Sandy Senior Center The Sandy Design Review Board meets at 7 30 p m in the Sandy City Hall I he Rebekah Ixidge meets at 8 p m a, the I () () F Hall D e a n e W e s s e lin k . o w n e r Due to staff changes and the impending vacation season, "Your Community: Keeping it all together” potluck, scheduled for this Saturday, May 23, at the Sandy Community Center will be postponed until fall I he event, sponsored by the Center and Sandy Com m um ty School, w ill be rescheduled and dates and times announced . 3 3 y e a rs e x p e rie n c e Complete Automotive Repairs: Ernest M. Cox F u n e ra l s e rvice s fo r Ernest M erritt Cox. former ly of lion ng. were held Tues day in the chapel of Carroll Funeral Home in Gresham. He died May 15 at a Portland hospital He was 82 Born March 1», 1899. at Eureka. Kan . he attended Manhattan State College in Manhattan, Kan He mar ried Clara Ida Whipple in November 1919 at Sappolpa. ok la She has since died In 1944 he moved to Trout dale where he was employed as a pot tender at Reynolds Metals Co He retired after more than 25 years service Mr Cox was a member of the United Steel Workers DIET CENTER & THE LAST WEIGHT-LOSS PROGRAM YOU'LL EVER NEED. Union. He is survived by four sons, Charlie of Sandy, Richard and Ernest, both of Troutdale, and Robert of Kennewick, Wash ; seven daughters. Patricia Gasser of Sandy, Betty Winchester and Marilou Collins, both of Troutdale. Thelma Walker of Gresham. Alberta Net tleton of Reno. Nev , Terry l^arson of Camas. Wash . and Joan Moyer of Van couver. Wash ; a brother. Wayne of Eureka, Kan , 25 grandchildren, and 20 great grandchildren Private interment was at Douglass Cemetery KitchenAid fa c to ry a u th o riz e d Itlr /.w a i U x lB iiL 4» N ow you can set your w ater heater at 120 p L and -.Ian saving energy Be< ause there s n o need to keep tem peratures at 140 or higher tor the sake ot a dishw asher The new Kite h e n A id Energy Saver IV is the only dishwasher that heat its o w n hot w ater in e very c o m p le te cy« I«- That means around t h e i lot k savings ( ut your total hom e water heating < osts by |()% Plus Te« Proven Cleaning Superiority 4 * Automatic Transmissions Exhaust Systems * Brake Work* General Tune up Indepen dent tevling labs ( ertily that us n g e n e rg y saving 12(1 in p u t water. rx> other dishwasher gets lishes as i lean as the K iti h e n A id ^«C O U P O N ••** V Save s50 on any KitchenAid Built-in Potluck nixed Deane’s Auto Repair Obituaries Gresham Alarm Tri Met recently awarded the two way radio contract Io Motorola Corporation of Illinois Keeping Posted: Thursday, May 21 dicated it would inmprove a street However, topography Roger Jordan to prepare a 28-foot section along Tupper and right of way limits pre staff report reviewing the Road, which is a county road vent that from occurring, minutes of the Off-Street inside the city limits as Tup along with the gross ex Parking Committee which per Road is. pense. formulated the off street U n fo rtu n a te ly , the Thus, the project was parking ordinances county's road budget was dropped to a 32 foot improve A question has been raised slashed and the city was ment which will allow two regarding the feasibility of notified that the Department way traffic and parking on making the vacant lot west of Environmental Services one side of News' Union 76 station a could no longer participate In other action, the city parking lot for the station in the project, in terms of ac council. However, because of cost, tual cash outlay. Awarded a hid for a new the property owner is pro The city agreed to transfer backhoe to Case Power and posing that the lot be gravel its Community Block Grant Equipment for $16,6(11 34 ed, rather covered with Eunds to the county so some —Asked City Manager asphalt im provem ents could be made The city w ill not take over the street until either the county or city have the total funds necessary to BURGLAR FIRE make the improvements SECURITY ALARMS Ixist year, the Community B lock G ran t p ro g ra m a llocated an a d d itio n a l $35.000 to the Tupper Road improvement project, hut — —--------------------------------------Inc. $140,0(8) still would not pay 39373 Proctor, P.O. Box 40 for the entire project, so the phased approach was in 668-5016 or 666*5200 itiated ------ SANDY------ The Sandy comprehensive C L O S E D F R E E ZE R plan o rigin ally indicated that Tupper Road would C IR C U IT T .V . 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