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The Sandy Post Von Braschler. Publisher Caroline Duff, Office Manager Editorial & Opinion Keep festival non-commercialized C o o p e ra tio n of Sandy storekeepers should be enlisted by the Mountain Festival Committee to insure the integrity of the arts festival booths in Meinig Park. We re referring, of course, to the outbreak of outcast food and trinket stands outside the park Some feel they detract from the a r tistic purity of the Festival where hand-made items are the only kind for sale. No one really questions the renegades’ legal right to make a buck off the Festival traffic, nor their integrity as street merchants who give honest value for the money. But the Festival people should have an “original” on the idea, and the day should belong to them That’s the way the Festival Com mittee sees it, at least. One of their worst fears each year, according to chairman Darrell Dempster, is that things will get too commercial with fly-by night booths springing up all over town. Indeed, their worst fears seem realized this July, since at least one of the several streetcorner booths Mark Floyd. Editor Dan Dillon, News Editor SANDY, OREGON. THURSDAY JULY 30 1981 STREET CRIME was rejected by the committee as too commercial (mass-produced goods.) The outside booths went over big, however, and seemed to bring only positive reaction from the crowd. The point remains that the Sandy Mountain Festival Committee b r ings this crowd to town each sum mer and shouldn’t have to compete for attention. To date, the com m it tee has brought honor to this com m unity with increasingly bigger Festival crowds and parades—due in large part to their artistic in tegrity. Sandy’s festival is a low- budget success, because it hasn’t degenerated into a cheap carnival a tm o s p h e re lik e o th e r a rts festivals. Perhaps the business persons who donated space in their lots to the renegate booths this summer (probably in the best intent toward Festival involvement) now could get with the committee. Together they might settle on some kind of decal w ith the Festival logo to identify Festival- sanctioned booths—in M e in ig Park (VB) City could encourage involvement -¿¿fit City officials and concerned citizens who sincerely seek broader community involvement should look a ro u n d at w hat o th e r municipalities are doing. Free coffee and cookies at break time during council meetings make attendance at long night sessions almost a social event in some small towns. Other cities publish an agenda of upcoming council meetings in their community newspaper. The teaser topics lure spectators who often get involved At least prior advertising serves more purpose by early war ning than reports after the fact. Shortening those “ long night ses sions helps, too. What citizen on the sidelines wants to tough it out til midnight? Of course, it’s expec ting a lot to ask unpaid councilors to decide all the affairs of state, meeting only twice a month. Still, it might shorten council meetings to have council members thoroughly prepared for actual meetings. Tak ing city staff tim e to explain situa tions to councilors during b i monthly Monday night meetings slows proceedings considerable from a spectator’s point of view. The ideal, of course, is to get residents to attend city council meetings as spectators and then graduate them into more active roles. I t ’s toward this goal we gingerly propose steps to increase public in volvement in city affairs. If the city can’t buy the coffee, maybe an a uxiliary can be formed to assist. (VB) Sale ni scene: Political tricksters tiring In J U K Z IM M E R M A N Associated Oregon Industries It appeared obvious this longest and costliest sessioii would e enact few er measures than anj Legislature n more than a decade or it would add ► et another record to its journ. il and pass m >re than any other M ajor obstacle to adiournr lent was in ability of House and Senate to agree on a revenue program a method of raising enough money to balance the budget for the next two years The House had passed a plan that would have com«1 close, but didn't satisfy the Senate The Upper Chamber was mulling a more generous amount to spend, but neither satisfied Gov Victor Atiyeh The games lawmakers play when such an impasse occurs involve attempts to gain last minute passage of one bill or another— quite often a measure already discarded as hy in the course of the r Tormal pro cess T 'hi* h is i political chic chicanery utilizes what •anery ul M inority Leade House Minority le a d e T r Paul Hanneman •ve rdale> pubi icly hr anded as pari 1eritary trickery and th; d a •e (to halt legislallive pay. unie« the practice cease Even the language to describe what goes on sounds unsavory For instance, a bill that has passed one chamber may be gutted" in the other and stuffed with different provi sions and passed in the s d ch; mber ft nber i ncurrence In retribution for the gutting rl a l i i f t i n o _ the first chamber may hold tiat mutilated measure hostage"' The gutting and stuffing has become con Land use, spending slow legislature by KEN J E R N S T E h T State Senator. Dial. 28 The 1981 legislative session will go down in history in more ways than one, but how far down still remains to be seen The summer of 1981 ruefully w ill be remembered by many as the year the baseball players quit and the state legislators wouldn’t. This session is already first among the worst It is the longest and most costly one in Oregon's history The state’s largest newspaper neatly summer up the session "Never before have so few met so long to accomplish so little .” There are all sorts of explanatory theories and plenty of people trying to play political pin the tail on the scapegoat The House is blaming the Senate leadership, while the Senate leadership is blaming Governor Atiyeh The public is blam ing everyone involved in the process The most recent in a string of wind up dates projected by the Senate President is July 28, so perhaps by the time this column is in print we will have adjourned But I wouldn't bet on it! There has been some action at long last on several m ajor issues that faced this Legislature: land use p la n n in g ( L D C D ) , le g is la tiv e redistncting and some phases of state spending Another m ajor issue has been d e c id e d -a w orkers compensation b ill—though watered down over the course of months of d e lib e ra tion— finally has been passed by both chambers Perhaps the m ajor provision is establishment of a system for set ting rates of compensation by in surers Oregon’s present system is the most expensive in the nation, nearly 50 percent costlier than the second most expensive state One of the m ajor problems is that more than half of the money goes to attorneys, the healing arts and state bureaucrats not to the injured workers who need it. Economies have been made in the system through Atiyeh adm inistrative in itiatives, but the savings are only a drop in the bucket and do little to r e lie v e th e o n e ro u s b u rd e n employers are groaning about The change involves abolishing the recommended rates set by a na tional rating bureau, financed by the insurance industry, and the substitu tion of a system in which insurers in O regon w ould co m p ete on a business-by-business basis in cer tain job classifications It is ex pected that this change will increase the competitiveness amoung in surers in Oregon and thereby reduce rates The bill also would allow injured workers who successfully appeal the dollar amount of their original in jury award to keep the entire award At present 25 percent of the enhanc ed award goes for legal fees The change means that attorneys who win for their clients will be paid by the losing insurance company. At this writing the m ajor issues standing between us and adjourn ment are headed for conference com m ittees, the revenue bills package and c o n g re s s io n a l redistncting So th e S ix ty f i r s t O reg o n Legislative Assembly, which got off to a limping start, is approaching a whimpering finish Letters to the editor: T he Legislature may have adjourned by the time you read this Or it may not It quite* likely is still adding days, dollars and confusion to a session that has become a political liability for all concerned At the same time, tin* so called crunch of frantic, last minute hill passing that usually accompanies final weeks of a regular bien nial session had failed to materialize on the* respective floors of this 61st Oregon Assembly Only 711 measures had achieved final passage by both House and Senate, little more than 28 percent of the 2,528 measures so far introduced Of that number, only 432 achieved final passage in a span of five weeks Legislator’s report: Mother offers parade suggestions Legislative Report from the State Capital F X C L U S IV E to Oregon's Weekly Newspa pers from Associated Oregon Industries fusing this session a journeyman reporter of the scene in Salem prompted an editorial that angrily requested gubernatorial veto of a measure that had passed both houses in different form and was still far from résolu tion and a potential Atiyeh signature By way of example, the bill was SB 623, designed to permit school districts to call special tax levy elections. It passed th Senate 19 to 9 on May 5 and was sent to the House The bill finally was passed by the House on July 14, but no longer dealt with school tax levy elections The House passed version of SB 623 had been gutted and stuff ed with provisions of HB 2640, that proposed permitting Independents to vote in partisan Prim ary elections - a concept that had been tabled in House committee back in April. So what part of the Legislature thought was a good idea has been sacrificed for something another part of the Assembly long ago deemed unworthy The party of the first part was sitting on the party of the se cond part's skulduggery, until thé parties of all the other parts got their respective acts together 1 nfortunately for this Assembly, this practice is not uncommon Examples fairly abound Another specific is HB 2241, passed by the House as a measure absolving child caring agencies for filing annual reports It turned up on the Senate flor last week, emasculated and patched up to require public officials to file lobbying reports This particular ploy so outraged another member, he offered a minority report that would have prevented Legislators from receiving any campaign contributions from lobbyists After lengthy heated debate, the new ver sion of the bill was declared nongerm a ne and referred back to another Senate com mittee Parade questioned I am the mother of two boys, both in v o lv e d in scouting The younger of the two boys is in the Weblos group of the Cub Scouts and here is where I am upset. The Cub and Weblos were in the Sandy M o u n tain Festival Parade, but these young scouts were placed at the tailen d of the parade By the tim e they were to begin marching, they were all tired, restless and could not march in any kind of order. They also all missed the parade Since as they were the last in the line, they did not get to see any of the floats or other groups who M argulies were in the parade By the tim e th ey re a c h e d the disbanding area, all other parade participants were long gone The Boy Scouts who were in the parade did any of their marching up in the front areas of the parade Everyone knows the atten tion span of a child is usually pretty short, and children do tend to get very restless So why couldn't they have been placed closer to the front of the parade, so that they too could have enjoyed being in the parade with the chance to see some of the parade Sharon Clarke Sandy A bear hug READ IT '(OURSELF. I'M RETIRED! » Thank you, Sandy Op timist Club and M r Bates of Sandy Mobil for your spon sorship to the AAU grand n a tional wrestling champion ships in Lincoln. Nebraska This is the second time that the generousity of people in my community has helped me to have a chance to com pete in the junior Olympic championships. I placed first in Greco- Roman and freestyle in the zone to u r n a m e n t in Pullman, then advanced to a meet in Vancouver. B C . with Oregon's AAU Cana d ia n c u ltu r a l e x ch an g e team I placed first there, then injured my ear in prac tice the first night I had left for Nebraska In my first Greco-Roman match I hyper-extended my elbow, pulling the muscles in m y r ig h t u p p e r a rm Although I managed to place second with a 3-2 score, in freestyle I came up only fourth These injuries ended my plans to go with an Oregon team to Iowa for the high school boy's championships Without the support of my community. I could not have gone a ll th ese p la ce s Without the great coaching I have gotten from coaches Calhoun. Seale. Coy. Stock ing and Kearney at Sandy H ig h S c h o o l, co ach Takeuichi at the junior high and Roy Pittm an of Penin sula W re s tlin g C lu b , I wouldn’t have been able to go Thanks, coaches T h a n k yo u . S a n d y .lt makes a difference in a tight spot to know your town is with you I^arry Topliff Sandy Cars donated We would like to take this opportunity to personally and publicly thank the two Sandy automobile dealer ships Pete Carlson Chevrolet and Paul Koch Ford, for the use of their 1981 Chevrolet M a lib u and 1981 F o rd Granada this past two mon ths in our summer driver education program It has been a pleasure to drive these two fine vehicles during student in < a r driver instruction Zel Gernhart Glen Haberstich SUHS Driver Education In structors Paper honored ( ••ngratulations on receiv ing the Elmo Smith Award, given to you by the Oregon N ew spaper P u b lis h e rs Association T h e fin e jo u r n a lis t ic e n d e a v o rs of your newspaper are a credit to the the profession The strength of our democratic system depends in great measure on the integrity of the fourth estate, Your com m unity deserves to be proud of you and your staff Sincerely, Dell Isham State Senator M ajority le a d e r LE TT E R S PO LIC Y: The Post asks that all letters to the editor be typed, double-spaced and signed Deadline is noon, Tuesday. Letters should be ac c u ra te , fre e of libelous remarks and in Hood tas te. This newspaper attempts to publish all letters It receives and may edit m aterial lightly to con form to guidelines. M axim um length is Mi words
