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The Sandy Post
No 39______
SANDY OREGON THURSDAY OCTOBER 1 1981
State studies
Alder Creek
water system
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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