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V o l,7 ) The Sandy Post No 39______ SANDY OREGON THURSDAY OCTOBER 1 1981 State studies Alder Creek water system I F USPS 481410 Single Copy 20' Sandy Grade School to celebrate 50th anniversary of construction b> DAN DILLON Responding to the wishes of Clackamas County commissioners, state health officials will hold a hearing on the Alder Creek Water Company on Oct 1 3a tl()30 am at the Lions Club in Wemme The county has asked state health of ficials to consider the water system a health hazard The hearing will be held to determine whether a hazard exists The system is currently run by Gene Ginther, who is the receiver for the company. Alder Creek Water was plac ed under Ginther s control after county officials failed to get owner of the com pany, Gerald "Red Bennett, to bring it up to minimum state standards If a health hazard is declared, the county will form a public service district to run the water system The present water company is composed of fiv e d iffe re n t w a te r syste m s: Wildwood, Country Club, Sleepy Hollow. Riverside and Barlow Sandy Elementary School is 50 years old and students and staff are busy this week preparing for a festive open house to celebrate the brick building's golden anniversary next Thursday, Oct 8 Students are busy researching the respective decades that the school has been open and coming up with some in teresting facts. Stella Moore's fourth grade class is looking into the 1950s During that decade, there were more than 600 reported sightings of uniden tified flying objects each year; Elvis Presley, the king of rock and roll, began his reign, and the popular comic strip, "Peanuts” was born Like the other classrooms in the school, Mrs Moore's worked this week on ways to show guests next Thursday evening what they learned about their special decade Because of the number of UFO sightings, the girls drew their ideas of what the alien crafts must look like I he boys honored Charlie Brown's gang and were busy drawing Snoopy M u ra ls hanging outsid e the (Continued on Page 7) Shopkeeper faces fraud allegations classroom depict one of the most Club has spearheaded a drive to contact popular sports cars ever that was born and invite as many form er ad in that decade, the Corvette, and one of ministrators and teachers as it could to the auto industry's biggest lemons, the come back to the school meet the pre Edsel. sent administration and staff and visit Mrs Moore prepared a tune line that The first authentic record of Sandy traces significant happenings of the Elementary School District was in 186« 1950s She w ill also display a reader she and a number of schools served the used during the '50 b when she taught in area. a one room school house John Strauss donated a parcel of land For her. the decade is particularly to the Sandy Grade School just north of significant She began her tenure at Pleasant Street and the school bought Sandy Elementary in 1958 and all her the adjoining piece children were born in that decade On Sept 7, 1931, the new brick The reader from the 1950s is just one building was dedicated amid much of hundreds of items that will be on celebration County School Superinten display next Thursday to help former dent Brenton Vedder was the principal administrators, teachers and students speakei School board members includ recall their days in the school building ed Melvin Smith. E F Bruns and J.R Principal Darrell Shepherd said that Hall any artifacts or pictures will lx* ac The school, which cost just more than cepted for display right up to the open $30,000, was constructed amazingly mg house which will be held from 7 to 9 fast The final bids were not let until the p m spring of 1931. The school will welcome guests all Next Thursday, the students of today day, however, who wish to drop by and will honor all the students of the past reminisce or watch what activities to and the building that housed them with day’s students are pursuing a birthday party Shepherd said the Parent Teacher See related photos on page 2. Returns right-of-way to BPA Forest Service gives up trees OREGON CITY- Lewis M Newman, 57, former operator of the Kelso Store, will appear in Clackamas County Court next Tuesday, Oct 6, to enter a plea on nine counts involving 88 allegations of fraud Newman, also known as Leon Mickey Newman, allegedly sold securities fraudulently to a number of Sandy and Boring area residents The charges in volve defrauding those investors of about Newman, who was arrested in July in National ('ity, C a lif, on an Oregon war rant, appeared in court Tuesday of this week, but his attorney sought and was granted a continuance by Circuit Court Judge Patrick D Gilroy. S. Dennis Miller, deputy district at torney, said Newman is being held under $90,000 bail He said, "In Oregon you have to be registered to take money from people and invest it in securities In this case he was not registered, and our claim is that he intended to defraud them right from the start ” Miller said that both acts are class (' felonies The deputy district attorney said Newman used the variety of investment schemes in 197K and 1979 You name it and he tried it," Miller said Newman operated Gantenbein's Kelso Store at the intersection of Kelso P hoto by Scott Newton Road and Orient Drive The store is Matt Hutchinson spent time on the sidelines last Friday night practicing his pun under new ownership now and is called ting as the Sandy Pioneers fell 13-12 to the Canby Cougar* Matt is the son of assis Nikola's Market tant coach Randy Hutchinson. by MICIIAEI. P. JONES Post Correspondent The vegetation maintenance pro gram for 3,619 acres of power line right of ways and some 32 miles of access roads is currently being negotiated by the US Forest Service and Bonneville Power Administration Ann Heisler, Forest Service public in formation officer, said the agency is rewriting the cooperative agreement with BPA for maintaining vegetation underneath the lines Currently, the Forest Service assists with vegetation treatment, ranging from hand-clearing to application of herbicides by hand Aerial spraying is by contract Heisler said the Forest Service took over vegetation management about 12 years w ith hopes of m arketing Christmas trees grown beneath the lines. Despite the good intentions, "there have been problems," she said As a result, the maintenance is being turned back over to BPA "We thought we could provide a pro duct and maintain the lines at the same tim e," said Zigzag District Ranger Chuck Smay Last year the his district sold more than 7,000 Christmas trees which, he said, "really didn’t cover the cost of maintaining the lines because the brush grew too quickly " Ed Whitmore, Estacada District ranger, said that because most of the good tree-growing areas were inac cessible during the w inte r, the Christmas tree production got out of hand. He said that as the trees grew, the Forest Service's staffing and budget for vegetation maintenance shrank, mak mg the project unfeasible. Taking a good hard look at the condi tion of the right-of-ways, Whitmore said, there is no other practical ap proach to controlling the vegetation than spraying " It has been becoming more and more apparent that this was coming,” he said. "There is no money for us to do maintenance anymore. BPA has the dollars and the manpower. But, because the vegetation on the lines has gotten so far out of hand, aerial spray ing may be the only economically feasible method ." The final decision to turn the maintenance back to BPA will not be of ficial for several weeks as each Forest Service district evaluates the options and makes recommendations Specific plans for treating the transmission right of ways are also Ix-ing submitted "BPA is the expert," said Whitmore "They know when the vegetative growth will become a problem, because if these hies are not treated then there could be power outages and forest fires " Paul Alelyunes of BPA said that if property owners are worried about the application of herbicides, they can hand-clear the right-of-way which they are adjacent to as well as "make use of the land under the lines, as long as it does not compromise their own safety or BPA's maintenance needs '" James McIntosh, BPA maintenance supervisor, said property owners can take out apermit and "enter into a con tract to kw p the right-of-ways clear themselves." II the private citizen can't keep the brush under control, the company will terminate the contract and treat the area itself 1 Index SECTION 1 School launch Menus Keeping Posted ( Obituaries Senior Center News Editorials, letters Sports, Recreation SECTION II Area News Hoodland Happenings Around the County About People Classified Advertising 4 5 7 5 8 9-10 1 ... 1 2 4 9-11 SECTION 111 Television Directory Inside Tab ‘Barrelfull o f Pennies' opens Friday evening by DAN DILLON The Sandy Community Players have a goal They want to be recognized as a viable, contributing part of the San dy community And they want to eliminate any lingering impressions which may still label their produc tions "amateurish ” The players are amateurs. SCP member Jim W ilhite agrees, but on ly in the sense that no one makes a penny from their participation in the three year-old theater group SCP members strive for quality produc tions and live theater enthusiasts throughout the area are learning SCP draws an audience from San dy. Gresham, Portland, and as far away as Beaverton, Yet, it is the Sandy portion of the audience that the players would like to bolster Having scanned the guest book in the lobby at the conclusion of each production, Wilhite estimates that only 25 percent of the SCP audience is local An increase in local au dience involvement, however, could boost SCP's stock in the eyes of foun dations which give grants to local theater groups Such a grant could double the group's annual $20,000 budget to include a summer stock troupe which, Wilhite estimates, could draw some 200 theater goers to Sandy every night during the sum mer Attendance with those numbers would also give a shot in the arm to local merchants, he suggests. Friday night SCP launches its 16th production, "A Barrelfull of Pen nies,’ at 8 p m in the Sandy Com m u n ity T h e a te r on P ro c to r Boulevard and Wilhite, who directs the play, is enthusiastic " I fell in love with it when I read it last March," he said. "But the w hole thing was, How do you handle all those animals?'" All those animals include six dogs, six parakeets, two rabbits and a duck, and seven "w ild actors" who present the world of Adonis P. Samaritan (Ken Tebo), a New York City taxi driver who can't say, "N o," to anything or anybody left stranded out in the rain. To complement his own family. Samaritan has gathered a "Goodw ill reject" who attempted to rob him with a water pistol. Cousin Lu whom he found penniless in the park and the menagerie of animals, which in cludes an off-key canary who Samaritan is convinced only needs an enema Julie G riffin is Sam aritan's daughter, A lic ia O ther cast members include Stella Hammer as his wife, Mina, Ken Fox as the oc- tagenarian. Uncle Nemo, Shirley I^awson as Cousin Lu. and Greg Tebo as Alvin, the hippie folksinger rejected by Goodw ill Andrea Bailor is Moonbeam, a telegram girl Written by John Patrick, whose "Everybody Love Opal" and "The Curious Savage" have also been pro duced by SCP, the play offers a new challenge for the theater group. Wilhite said It marks the first time the players have attempted to bring such a con coction of animals to the stage. The problem was reso lved , however, when Wilhite contacted Barbara Burks of Sandy She has been a local 4 H leader for a number of years and members of her family have raised guide dogs as projects As a result, Wilhite located six obedience trained dogs who won handling awards this past year at the Clackamas County and Oregon State fairs "Of all the concerns we have over the animals," W ilhite said, "the an ticipation was at least three times the realization." He said the dogs' handlers have mastered getting the animals located in their proper place with a minimum of sound in 25 seconds—in the dark Technical aspects of the play have been handled by Assistant Director Rob Lawson, Technical Director Bill l^awson and Stage Manager Coreen Bergeson Lighting Director Gary I-a ng has installed lighting tricks, sound and special effects which, Wilhite says, will be ready for all future productions A large number of the cast and support crew have progressed through the Sandy High School Drama Department, a sign that Wilhite sees as positive "Their graduates are having a strong input in SCP," he said "Now, instead of some of those who are interested in theater having to go all the way to Portland to participate, they are staying home " That uniqueness is exhibited in the areas the audience is drawn from and from its impact on local restaurants on show nights, Wilhite said He said that they told him that they could see marked increases on nights when SCP performs That is a *• N Pboln In Sandi Pnutala Adonis P. Samaritan (Ken Tebo) and his co-star will be part of tomorrow night’s opening of "A Rarrellful of Pennies ” positive" step toward the viability SCP seeks. Wilhite said The play will run Oct 2-8. 9-10, l® 17 and 23-24 at 8 p m each even ing at the theater The group also offers an evening of entertainment package that lasts "from when you leave the house un til as late as you want to make it," Wilhite M id That includes a recep tion on-stage after each per for m ance and a pizza p a rty at Buckboard Pizza after each show, featuring live musical entertain ment Theater party information and reservation* are available by calling Wilhite, M l-021$, or Marlene Tebo. 695 2845 Tickets are also available for the first time at Sandy Country Florist during business hours
