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Section SANDY OREGON THURSDAY. OCTOBER 22 1981 The Sandy Post People Home & Garden Features Area News New firewood permit law to go into effect by MICH \E I P JONES Post Correspondent A new firewood perm it law, House B ill 3022, goes into effect Nov 1 The law is expected to help the State Police, the U S Forest Service, and the Bureau of Land Management, as well as tim ber companies and private Ian downers, with the growing problem ol people illegally cutting firewood The new law requires that a w ritten perm it from the landowner, the Forest Service, or other authorized agents, lx* carried when cutting or transporting “ minor forest products" over roads and highways in the state Cutters w ill have to carry a perm it that has identifying data on both the landowner and the person to whom the perm it is issued It also has to contain the amount and species that is to he cut andor transported In the case of private land, the legal description of the property must he included Carla Jones, assistant fuels manager at the Zigzag Ranger Station, hailed the new law as a positive approach toward dealing with people who have illegally cut firewood on both national forest and private land Jones said that problems have developed in the Mt Ihxxl National Forest in recent years due to the skyrocketing demand for firewood She said that from A pril to May of this year, the Zigzag station issued 3,000 perm its For a four-month period beginning in June and ending in September, 7,500 ad ditional perm its were issued In the first weekend of October alone :">oo were issued Jones said that comm ercial firewood has now become a big business As a result, more and more people are cut ting wixxi on a free use perm it and sell ing it com m ercially She said that it is “ not legal to take something free (from the governm ent) and sell it ” Jones said that she would not even want to guess how many people are cut ting comm ercial wood illegally, but said that she does feel most of the violators are local residents who have easier access to the forests and don't have to pay the high gas prices to get to the area She said that in the Zigzag district alone, there are 25 to 30 persons known to be illegally cutting for profit Jones admits that it is d ifficu lt to catch most violators, but feels that the new law, and increased weekend patrols that are scheduled to saturate the forests soon, could have an impact She said that probably the best they can expect to do is “ to help keep the honest people honest “ Last year only to persons were ap prehended in the Zigzag d istrict selling com m ercial wood illegally Jones said that people most people that get in trouble with the forest ser vice patrols are cutting standing green trees, not taking forest wood tor com mercial use She said that they could tx* fined $40, or else fined what the value ol the tree would be in three years Jones said that the new law w ill assist authorities in stopping people who cut in the forest during high fire danger time, which is prohibited “ In recent years,” Jones said, "when they were pulled over by the State Police, they would deny cutting in the National Forest and claim they had cut on a friend's land, whose name they didn’t remember, or that lived down the road “ It was just too hard to prove anything," Jones said “ But now this is a law that could sovle some of our pro- blems No longer w ill the police have to take their word that they didn't cut il legally Now they have to possess some documentation " Major K irby Harris, adm inistrator of th»‘ si.itc police Traffic Division, recognized this problem and said that his department w ill exercise good judg ment when enforcing the new law Senior Citizen Center to share van The transportation problems that have placed a heavy burden on the staff at the Hoodland Senior ( enter is finally about to be sovled The (’enter’s steering committee* has announced that the organization w ill lx* sharing a van with another center in Canby, Maxine Worley, Senior Center direc- tor, said that it has taken a year, but her organization has secured the use of a van that w ill enable them to provide better recreational a ctivities for her clients She said that they w ill be taking more field trips. Worley added that the van would also lx* used in delivering more and better services for the clients that are shut-in, unable to get out because of health pro blems or physical disablities She said th a t the only m a jo r drawback with sharing the van with the center in Canby is the travel involved in picking it up and returning it The van w ill tx* stored in Canby She said that in spite of the draw back, she is positive that this is the first step toward eventually securing a vehicle on a full-tim e basis in order to expand see vices The Hoodland Senior Center is cur rently seeking volunteer drivers with go<xi driving records to assist with transportation All those interested should contact the center at 622 3331 Special lunch program open to seniors Staff photo Loretta M iller, a student at Clackamas Community College from the Milwaukie area, uses a hailing gun to give a worm pill to a Devon calf that belongs to Jack Travis, 34901 Skogan Road, who is pictured at left. A new livestock facility is be ing built on the ( ( < campus, with a tentative dedication date set for Nov. 31 In the past, and until the livestock facility is finished, students have used others' facilities for laboratory exercises. For the second year the Hoodland Senior Center w ill be participating in a special lunch program sponsored by Welches Grade School Maxine Worley, Senior Center direc tor, said that the lunch program has begun its second successful year The center started taking advantage of the program, offered by the school district, this past September Worley said that the program is serv ing about 20 elderly persons and is held every Monday and Thursday The meals are served in the school's lib ra ry She said that the program provides a vital service for the area's elderly since the meals-on wheels program delivers only up to the city of Sandy Worley said that because there is a large population of elderly living on the mountain that would like to have hot meals delivered, that the program w ill probably be expanded eventually to in clude the Hoodland area In the meantime, the best alternative is the Welches School lunch program Different approach is the key to photographer’s success by SCOTT NEWTON For Sandi Poutala, the owner of Je T a im e P h o to g ra p h y S tu d io , the customer isn’t the only one taking a risk by getting his portrait done “ I think I have to make my own self vulnerable," she said recently “ A lot of photographers are unw illing to do th a t." But Poutala isn't one to ask a subject to sit on a stool in front of bright lights, w ith maybe a projected background behind him “ I think people are tired of being just a number to lx* shuffled in and out and everybody photographed the sam e," Poutala said So, what she did was set up a studio on Lusted Road, near Roslyn Lake, w here the n a tu ra l s e ttin g s are unlim ited This, however, was after 13 years as a research associate at the University of Oregon Research Center in Portland, where she was often asked to use her camera She's also worked for two different photographers for about eight years She’s been in business for herself for about two and a half years, and said that her setting up a studio in the coun try had people wondering "Everyone thought I was nuts for moving clear out here, because of the distance and inaccessibility," she said And has it turned out to be a disad vantage? “ Absolutely not. I t ’s been an advan tage, because where can you go to get setting such as we have right here in our backyard?" One of the recent trends, according to Poutala, is to have portraits done where that person, or those people, live. “ I think more and more people are wanting to have their portraiLs done in their own environments, in their own backyards Especially in this area, where people do have acreages, and farm s and ranches We'll go to them " Right now business is gixxf “ We’re keeping very busy right now," said Poutala She has two employees Col leen McGuire, also a photographer, works for Poutala as well as taking on projects of her own And Cindy Freeman, who has taken one of the all- day seminars Poutala offers in the sum mer, is also employed at the studio Poutala, of course, has done it all on her own But when she’s not answering the telephone, doing all the lab work, or be ing the receptionist, she feels she does better work " I feel my own psyche allows me to do better photography when I don’t have so many pressures from running the business." S till, she plans on doing whatever it takes to keep things going "Tim es are bad," she said " I certainly do feel that the recession has hit everyone, every retail business People are hanging on to their dollars a lot tighter than they were a year ago. or even six months ago "T h e y're worried about the future We thought at first, 'Well, this is going to be short lived Everybody's going to get back in the swing, get their jobs back.’ It just hasn’t happened ” Right now, w ith Christmas orders and senior pictures. Poutala isn't hur ting for things to do And. when things slow down in the spring and summer, there are other ac tivitie s that fill the void For example, she's been offering two one day seminars on photography dur ing the summers. The people that take her classes range from those that've just purchas ed a camera to people with five or 10 years’ experience Although some are apprehensive about the numbers on a camera. Poutala tells them not to w orry about it " It 's not all that technical It doesn't have to be h a rd ," she said "People say, Well, you're teaching all these people to go out and take your weddings away and do their own por tra its .' Well, they come back and they’re my best customers They gain an appreciation, maybe, for some of the years of experience that I've had Just the way I've learned to do things It looks easy, but i t ’s taken a lot of years to develop.” And, she adds, " I ’ve never felt that other photographers, even other profes sionals, were my competition I think my competition is w ithin my own self “ The people that w orry about other people taking their business away are a bit insecure, in my opinion " Professional seminars have also helped keep her tim e occupied Last March she spoke to a group in New York, and she spoke at the Western States Convention in Anaheim the year before that "Everyone wants to know, I guess, how women succeed in photography, run a small business and do so w e ll," Poutala said, laughing, and perhaps considering how the first professional photographer she worked fo r had wondered "how people would react to a woman wedding photographer." Poutala has been asked to put together a seminar to take to Man Chester, England, and seminars in Canada and Hawaii are also being con sidered She won th e P ro fe s s io n a l Photographers of Oregon sweepstakes in 1980, w ith the best children's p o rtra it and the best women’s p ortrait. Poutala and her husband, Arnie, and Deedra, 15, and Heidi, 6, make their home in a house just a short distance from the studio Arnie is an insurance underw riter for the Sandy Insurance Agency Personal attention, Poutala thinks, is the reason she's been successful That, and not being afraid to take a risk "Some other photographers say. How can you spend that much time (w ith each individual custom er). You can’t make any money doing th a t.’ "A nd yet, by our orders, and by the happiness of our customers, I feel like we've been successful." She doesn't own as much equipment as one m ight expect She has two large form at cameras, and a 35mm. " I own two lig h ts," she jokes, "(and» one camera bag T hat’s it. " I find that equipment slows me down When I teach my seminars, I teach them how to make use of available light, window light, lamp light, flashlight light Light is lig h t." The im portant thing, she said, is the expressions "M y philosophy is to take the picture and focus later You've got to have tim ing You've got to be there when the ac tion's happening " Poutala wants to tx* innovative, add pizzaz to portraits In one photograph on the wall of her studio there is a saxophone player, playing by a rive r while the sun sparkles off his horn Poutala has a montage with a couple standing by a bicycle, perhaps rem inis cent of a scene from "B utch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid ’’ “ A lot of people w ill have these fan tasies of how they really want to lx* photographed, what their image is "B u t they won't always tell you, so i t ’s a lot of drawing out "Y ou have to be very sensitive to pen pie's emotional status when you’re photographing them They have this very fine little shield, that everybody puts ,n front of them, you know “ They don't want you to get tot) dose, or unveil them too much "A nd for a photographer, that's ex actly what you have to do You have to instantly communicate G<xxl v ib ra tions have to flo w ." So what Poutala tries to do is get peo pie to relax, to get them to allow her to photograph them as they would like to look " I think the nicest compliment that people can give me is to say. That looks just like Johnny Or. that looks just like d a d ,"’ Perhaps she summed up her style best when she said, " I just like to put a little fun in people's lives ’’ Friends of Timberline dance Oct. 24 A Halloween dance, with the pro ceeds to benefit Friends of Tim berline, w ill be held Oct 24. beginning at 8 p m It w ill be the firs t public event to be held in the new Wy East Day Ixxlge The Friends of Tim berline is a non p ro fit organization that is raising money to furnish the lodge w ith con tem porary handcrafted fu rn itu re by Oregon cra ft people. There w ill be a costume contest Saturday night, and music w ill tx* pro vided by Even Steven Call 228-7979 fo r more inform ation v
