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
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