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The Vol. 71 No. 24 SANDY. OREGON. THURSDAY. JUNE 1 I. 1981 ■■■■■■■■■■■■I * USPS 481-180) Single Copy 20* State violations charged by DAN D IL I.O N Amid allegations of unfair dismissal practices and abuses of the Oregon open meeting law. the Bull Bun School Board voted last Saturday to renew the contract of teacher JoAnne Rohweder, reversing its earlier decision not to rehire her Wednesday evening, the board had upheld its earlier decision not to rehire teacher Diana Smith The two teachers had requested public hearings to appeal the school board's March 16 decision not to renew their contracts Attorney Wendy Greenwald, who represented the teachers at Wednes day's public hearings through the auspices of the Oregon Education Association, charged that school of ficials had violated Oregon law in their evaluation proceedings. She said the law requires school of ficials to notify teachers of upcoming evaluations, schedule pre- and post evaluation conferences and allow teachers a time to rectify any short comings the evaluation uncovers. "The problem is that teachers are given these jobs to have an opportunity to work," Greenwald said. " I f their per formance is unsatisfactory, they should be given an opportunity to rectify the situation, but (the teachers) didn't get this opportunity." Peetz said a major factor in the board's decision not to renew the con tracts was the success of "two outstan ding new teachers signed by the board for the 1980 81 school year " I got on the bandwagon of getting good, new teachers this year." he said " I was mislead to cast the vote ‘no ’"* Smith and Rohweder both would have become tenured teachers next year She also charged the school board had made the decision not to renew the contracts in an unadvertised executive session Peb 21. Principal Bob Pones said that at that meeting the board told him to inform the two teachers they might look for other work " I told them they could look to be non renewed," Pones said. Oregon’s open meeting law prohibits making any final decisions in executive session It also states that meetings must be advertised at least 24 hours prior to convening Pones admitted that the Peb 21 ses sion had been unadvertised. "Why tell the public, if i t ’s executive board9" he asked. Teddy Peetz, who was serving on the school board at that time, said he felt that a vote was taken, hut added that he didn’t believe the meeting was con ducted "under the table " “ Finalizing a decision was not the intent of the meeting." he said Mountain developer sees Welches as city Rohweder, who taught first- and second graders during the school year was originally not offered a new con tract for reasons that included "failure to provide individual instruction for students of diverse academic ability, failure to effectively instruct a split- level class and failure to demonstrate sufficient self-confidence " hones, who had recommended Rohweder's contract be renewed, said. "She appeared to be handling (the split class) w ell." Rohweder said Board Chairman Jim Bollerman had observed her class Jan 20. but "he didn’t mention any of the reasons stated " She said that when Pones informed her of the non renewal Feb. 27, he told me the vote had been 2-2, and the vote had been broken by the a. * ¿i»- . — chairman of the board," she said Responding to other board charges. Rohweder said. " I don't feel confident at school because there aren't enough guidelines and when they come in (for evaluations), I don't know what they're evaluating me on." She told the board, "Your school does not have goals I have goals because I need them; I don't feel secure without them " Because the hearing on Rohweder’s appeal did not end until 12:37 a m. Thursday morning, the board voted to reconvene Thursday evening for a deci sion only. At that meeting, the board was deadlocked, 2-2, when board member Karen Rollins abstained When she a t tempted to re-introduce a second mo tion to renew the contract, it died for lack of a second The board then dead ed to meet again Saturday evening Saturday, by a 3-2 vote, the board renewed Rohweder’s contract. Rollins. Marcia Hazelwood and Jack Layton voted to renew the contract Bollerman and Ron Jantz voted against that move Smith, who taught the school’s special education. Title I and Talented and Gifted students, was told her con tract was not renewed for reasons that included "failure to maintain a positive and constructive attitude and commit ment to teaching assignments, failure to demonstrate a positive attitude to professional growth and failure to pro vide necessary materials one day a week when not at school " He added that she is "capable of func tioning as a teacher in any resource room in the state of Oregon " Pones told the hoard that he placed a great deal" of emphasis on a letter written by Marty Rose Stewart who served as Smith s aide, in his decision to recommend non renewal. She has indicated that she will appeal the school h o a rd ’s decision in ( lackamas County Circuit Court. The letter alleged that Smith had been late returning from coffee breaks and let students spend too much time with playthings Glory Yankauskas, a parent with a daughter in special education and a daughter in the Talented and Gifted program, said, " I think you have to give it your very best shot and I think that is what Mrs. Smith has trier! to do. She applauded Smith's involve ment that helped her daughter get testing to diagnose her learning d if ficulty. Ralph Branson, director of Special Education in the Sandy Elementary School District, observed Smith in the classroom for part of her work at Portland State University He told the school board, " I would place her in the upper 5 to 10 percent of teachers I have ohserved " Toys were often used as rewards for accomplishments in the classroom. Smith said Branson seconded that as being a sound and accepted practice in special education where concrete rewards are needed. The board voted 4 1 to reaffirm its March 16 decision not to renew Smith's contract Hazelwood was the lone ob jection. A third teacher, Helen Swails, will be given a public hearing to allow her to defend her position at Bull Run School at the board’s meeting this Monday. June 15 She teaches third and fourth grade and has been with the district for 18 years Bruns named marshal fo r Sandy parade ----------- I by MICHAEL p. JONES Post Correspondent entire development is completed Welches Because the area is not an in corporated city, "this money would not There is a saying in the Mount Hood A Sandy resident who has been remain on the mountain and benefit the area: " I f you haven’t heard a good nominated for four Academy Awards people, but would go elsewhere in the rumor by noon, go out and start one " w ill lead (he annual Sandy Mountain county. The latest rumor surfacing con Festival Parade as grand marshal It was the day after this tax passed sistently in recent weeks has left some George Bruns, who spent 21 years that I came up with the idea, because area residents in a daze Welches is go writing music for Walt Disney Produc the county would be taking 6 percent off ing to be annexed into a city tions, will be the honored guest when ihe top - not off the net,” he said. ( arl Bright, developer working with the annual parade heads up Pioneer Bright said that by keeping this American Guaranty Life Insurance on Boulevard July 9 at 7 30 p m He w ill $500.000 in the Welches area, the people Rippling River, confirmed that the also take his traditional spot on the and businesses would benefit by self- rumor was true this week and admitted Meinig Park handstand Sunday during government and better services and the that the new city is his idea the festival to lead his Pacific N or Rippling River development itself Bright, a former Alaska and Hawaii thwest All-Star Dixieland Jazz Band would be enhanced The owners of the developer who hails from Texas, said The creator of the song "Davy development which includes 502 con the new city would probably have a < rockett,' which sold more than 8 d o m in iu m s and 113 re s id e n tia l 24-hour police department, its own million records, began as a professional homesites. American Guaranty, have planning commission and would be musician and arranger in 1937 He whole-heartedly given their support to governed by five commissioners who started in motion pictures in 1951 at Bright to pursue the idea of "Welches w ould elect a m ayo r am ongst U P A studio and moved to Disney’s C ity." themselves studio in 1953 He now works as a Bright claimed that by incorporating There would also be a city attorney freelance composer, arranger and con the area, other sources of monies would whom Bright foresees as being Lowell ductor. be gained for the mountain area State Njust, the only locally-practicing at During his career, Bruns was tobacco, alcohol and gasoline taxes and torney. nominated for Oscars for his musical taxes generated by utilities, such as "I.owell would be a likely candidate," scores for "Sleeping Beauty," "Sword Portland General Electric, cable televi Bright said, “ because he’s well liked in the Stone" and "Babes in Toyland.” sion and the telephone company, would and does a good job of providing legal The song "Love" from "Robin Hood" also make the new city an economically services for the area." was nominated for the best song award profitable venture. Bright said the thing that "really Bruns has written the music for more In its beginning, the proposed city motivated the thought of incorporation than 200 movies, teevision shows, car would have a population of nearly 1,200 was the 6 percent room tax for hotels toons and documentaries He has also people, but Bright indicated that addi and motels that passed last year." scored more than 100 commercials tional annexation would be in the new According to Bright. Rippling River Other movie projects Bruns worked Welches' future would lose more than Ssoo.ooo after the on include "A ris to c a ts ," "Absent- Mountain communities, such as Minded Professor," "Jungle Book," Brightwood, Zigzag, Timberline Rim, "101 D a lm a tio n s " and “ Son of the Tillikum Woods development and Plubber." Zigzag Village, would eventually be an W *- nexed into the city Because Rhododen dron is too far from the other Sandy River locations. Bright does not believe that it would be included in any of the city ’s plans for expansion. Bright said a five-year economic feasibility study is currently being con Sandy retired schoolteacher Florence ducted and w ill be completed in approx The bodies of two climbers who fell to Schmitz has tx*en named queen of the imately 30 days At that time, an infor their deaths late last Saturday were 1981 Sandy Mountain Festival mational meeting w ill be held at She will preside over the July II 12 recovered Sunday on the northeast side Bowman's to discuss the merits and of Mount Hood Photo by M ark H oyd arts and crafts festival in Meinig Park benefits of forming the new city. The dead were identified as Billy (orona tion will be June 30 at a special The developer added that he feels Pilkenton. 17. of Newberg and David H Sandy ( ham her of Commerce pro Oarrpll Kid .............. -lud, „ „ Sa„ d, m ihf> | M k m |a>( Thur confident that the majority of the gram Turple. 52 of Portland residents in the area w ill be in favor of Turple was one of three adult guides Queen Florence has long played an what could become Oregon's newest c i in chage of an outing, sponsored by the active role in Sandy Civic Services ty V>u,h for ( hrist, for 10 boys from the Business and Professional Women’s < lackamas ( ounty Commissioner MacLaren School at Woodburn The Club and Sandy Chamber of Com Ralph Groener, who said he had never members of the group had camped out merce, in addition to Clackamas heard of the Welches annexation, said Friday evening, climbed to the top of Associated Chambers of Commerce k. Wl/ l l A • _ the process would be "long and dif by M IC H A E L P. JONES the mountain Saturday via the Cloud whom she has served as secretary the pumping station ficu lt." Tuesday Dick Wixon, of the state Post Correspondent Cap route and were on their way down She shares royalty honors with new Abraham said that raw sewage flow He added. "You just don’t annex Department of Environmental Quality, when Pilkenton slipped near the princesses Helen Lamke, Jan Pox. Pat ed into the pump station line, then back overnight and become a city There are visited the site to determine what had sy Wessel ink and Er(n Fenwick Stories have been circulating since 8,500-foot level ed up out of two manholes located just boundaries to decide upon, not to men actually taken place and who was the fall about raw sewage being A spokesman for the Hood River below the holding tanks at the bottom of responsible tion the opposition of the people dumped or spilled from the sewage County sheriff's office, said Turple the hill Sewage subsequently flowed in themselves They will have their work Wixon said he was convinced that the holding tanks at Rippling River, tried to save the youth and the two were to a small creek that emptied into the cut out for them." evidence of the discharge, on the leading into a small creek that even swept to their deaths down the steep -Salmon River Groener may be right hillside leading from the holding tanks tually finds its way into the Salmon rocky slope of Elliott Glacier According to Sanders, a contractor George Sheets, chairperson of the En to the No 2 fairway at the golf course River. Don Miller, pastor or the Bethany working on the pump station for the SECTION I vironmental Committee on Suitability was not related to the spillage that This week, those stories were verified Baptist Church in Portland where Tur county cleaned out the line and plugged Senior (’enter News 3 i ECOS) which is opposing a proposed came out of the two manholes, as the by ( lackamas County officials ple was a member, said one of the it to prevent any further accidents Inside the Church 4 county claimed ^'gzag heliport, said his organization According to Dave Abraham, utilities guides who witnessed the accident said However, in March another mishap oc Keeping Posted learned of the new city while conduc There was an obvious discharge director of the Department of En Pilkenton had insisted on glissading curred and the contractor was again Obituaries ................ 5 ting research through the county. from up here,” Wixon said, standing vironmental Services for (’lackamas down the ice and snow of Elliott (Racier forced to clean out the line Editorials, letters .. 6 There w ill be a solid city stretching near the southeastern holding tank (o u n ty . two sewage spills were despite efforts to discourage him Sanders said the contractor replaced Sports, Recreation 7 g from Rhododendron all the way down reported to his office, the first during Wixon took a "fecal analysis" to be When Turple saw that Pilkenton was the plug To guarantee there would be the mountain to Sandy." Sheets said certain that no other untreated sewage the ( hristmas holiday and the second in out of control, he planted an ice axe and no more accidents, "the plug was seal SECTION II ' We've seen maps with new subdivi mid March "The exact dates are not was leaking into the Salmon River The lav flat in front of the runaway boy in an ed over with concrete." he said In 10 Area News , sions, streets and sidewalks This results w ill be available in a week. readily available." Abraham said effort to stop him. M iller said months when the sewage treatment Home A Garden ....... j mountain has already been violated Meanwhile. Wixon warned Rippling A b ra h a m e x p la in e d the c i r A patch of fog hid the two at that plant is completed, the line will be re About People enough Is there any way to stop it while cumstances surrounding the spills are River that any more mishaps would point, according to M iller, and when it opened Hoodland Happenings ... 4 we can9" result in a fine if the DEQ is not notified "sort of complex," cleared up. all that was left was the ice However, the manhole with the sup Bits A Pieces ......... 5 Bright doesn't think so With year of the accident Sanders said he believ- axe He said that Bill Sanders, civil P«edly plugged line was examined last Classified Advertising........ 9-12 round skiing provided by the Palmer engineer technician from his office, ed that DEQ had been notified M iller said that Turple had made SI Friday with Carl Bright, developer at Chairlift at Timberline, the area has discovered a cap missing from a line However, it wasn't until Wixon s of trips up the mountain, most of them Rippling River, and the plug was not SECTION III the potential of becoming the world's fice was asked for an environmental leading out of a manhole at the top of with students from MacMren. cemented as the contractor allegedly Television Directory Inside Tab most popular ski area the holding tanks that led "dow nhill" to impact assessment by The Post that told the county they became aware of the problem Two bodies recovered from Mt. 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