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