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Section The SrfnÜy Post Area News People Home & Garden Features Solutions to tire dumping problem costly by M IC H A E L P. JONES What to do with illegally dumped tires in the Mt Hood National Forest and on private timber company land is a question officials are asking themselves The U S Forest Service estimates that it will take $8.000 to clean up the growing mountains of tires Private timber companies such as Publishers Paper have yet to put a price tag on the cleanup and have, in most cases, decided to leave tires there until an economical way of disposing of them can be found A northeast F’ortland company has come up with a unique alternative for these discarded tires, and such agen cies as the Oregon State Highway Division and the Clackamas County road department are taking advan tage of this operation Tires are ground up and made into "hogged fuel for use in boilers at lumber mills This fuel is mixed with wood chips and acts as a supplement for tn to produce steam fuel Pacific Energy Recovery Center (PERC) has been operating for six years and is currently serving two mills in southern Oregon and a m ill in eastern Washington A company official estimates that thousands of tires are ground into fuel each week According to Orville Baxter, a foreman with the company, tires are always needed by PERC He said that the company charges a 15 cent disposal fee for passenger tires and 50 cents if it is still rimmed Although most of the tires utilized in the fuel process are from re-cap dealers, gas stations and tire dealers, they are ac cepted from anyone H arry Woodward, a d is tric t engineer with the State Highway Division, said that although the fee for disposing tires through PERC is relatively low. the combined total per tire is about $1.25 when one includes the cost of labor to pick up the discards in the ditches, and the cost .................................................................................................... of transporting them to the disposal site. Woodward said that picking up the tires along the highway is more than just a financial burden to Highway Division officials It's "a mess for the crew because of the water that gets trapped inside the tire and splashes out on a person when the tire is turn ed over " "It's a growing problem," said Woodward "We have a lot of tires on our hand and it ’s difficult to keep up with it Fences are knocked down and signs are damaged as well, because the tires are usually thrown out of the back of a moving truck " Woodward said that the only time anyone has been apprehended for il legal tire dumpings occurred just recently when a Springdale rancher witnessed two men tossing tires out on I 84 from the front door of a school bus The bus was loaded with hun dreds of tires Woodward believes the current dumping problems are the direct . result of the difficulty in having a In eastern Oregon, tires are shred legal place to dispose of tires He said ded to make custom fencing Tires that when the private dumps were are cut into long ribbon-like strips closed, tires quickly became a major and stretched between two posts headache Some ranchers claim that this type of "A lot of these problems have come fencing is better than barbed wire, about with the closure of the small and a lot safer dumps on private land," said Wood In coastal areas, tires are wired ward "People used to be able to together and sunk in the (Kean to dump tires free or for a relatively serve as a spawning area for fish small fee When they were closed for The eggs are laid in the tires, which environmental reasons, our pro blems really began "The other landfills that were open to the public were either too expen sive or would not allow the disposal of tires ” Woodward said that he knows of three additional uses for the tires out Carl Halvorson, United Way cam side of the fuel made by PERC paign chairman, announced Monday One method that utilizes tires is a that they have pledges totaling se lant used on roadways Tires are $12.712,000, or 80 percent of the $16 million goal ground up into a fine compound that seals cracks and prevents deteriora There is one week left before the tion and the eventual breakup of the campaign comes to a close highway H alvo rso n has “ guarded Woodward said that this sealant optimism" about the possibility of has been used by the state for about reaching the goal, according to York three years He said that the sealant Haines, director of public relations has added to the life of the highways "We re still shooting for the $16 and has saved taxpayers a lot of m illion," he said money Over 2,500 companies have yet to serve as a protected environment Woodward estimates that the state is spending over $4.600 annually for illegally dumped tires in the Sandy area alone He said that despite of the lack of public awareness of the pro blem and the difficulty in apprehen ding dumpers, he believe# that as long as the alternatives uses can be u tiliz e d , the problem can be somewhat controled United Way at 80 percent o f goal in Clackamas County conclude their employee campaigns Halvorson reported an ususual in flow of money from private in dividuals, many retired, who have not been solicited at their place of work " I t 's encouraging to see the response we have had since we in itially announced the campaign’s slowness in reaching our objective,” Halvorson said On Nov 24 there will be a Victory Dinner at the Hilton Hotel at 7:45 pm I io od land happenings Medicinal herb class to be followed by walk through Wildwood Park Thursday, Nov. 19 I he Clackamas County Well Baby Clinic and WIC programs will be held at 9:30 a m at the Hoodland Women’s Club on Salmon River Road. Call Patty Henmger. 622-3067, to make an appointment for im munizations or examinations of children newborn through age five Loaves and Fishes will sponsor a luncheon at 11.30 a m in the Welches School library These luncheons are for senior citizens Preparations fo r play going well Photo by Scott Newton ( onnie Ligatich. who plays < orrie Bratter in the Mountain Players’ upcoming production of “ Barefoot in the P a rk .-' anxiously waits to kiss her husband. She will soon discover, however, that she's been yelling sweet nothings down the stairs to the delivery man. played by flank Dalpez. Preparations for "Barefoot in the Park, the Neil Simon play that the Mountain Players are putting on, are going well, according to Dave Ligatich. director Tickets are available at the Zig Zag Inn, Hoodland Rexall. Mt Hood Food and General, Ted’s Brightwood Store, the Clackamas County Bank and the US Bank The play will be performed Nov 20 and 21. and Dec 12. Nov 20 is family night The other nights are cabaret nights The show begins at 8 p m On Nov 21 and Dec 12 the bar will open at 7 pm The play will be performed at the Lions Club building in Wemme The Mt flood Pre-School Co-Op w ill hold its monthly Parent’s meeting this evening beginning at 7 in the Hoodland Women's Club The following Welches Community School classes will lx> held this even mg “ Indoor Soccer." 6 to 7:30 p m ; "Wrestling for Kids,’’ 7 to H p m ; "Recreational Basketball," 7:30 to 9 p m.; "New Games for All Ages," 7 to 8:30 p m , "Beginning Astrology," 7 30 to 9 p m ; and "Bow Making," 7 to 9 p.m For more information or to register call Reva Cox at 622 3397 A medicinal herb class, focusing on herbs indigenous to Ihe Northwest, will be held tonight at 7 p m at The Store, Natural Foods and Cafe on Highway 26 in Wemme Cascade Anderson, a chartered herbalist from f’ortland, will leach the class It will be followed by a walk at Wildwood Park on Nov 22, where herbs that were talked about in class wiil be col lected The walk will begin at Ham , weather permitting The cost of the class is $4 Call 622 3130 for more in formation "Barefoot in the Park" tonight at the Lions Club building This evening will be "Caberet Night," with drinks being served Monday. Nov. 23 A senior citizens lunch, sponsored by Loaves and Fishes, will be held at Welches School library beginning at 11:30 a m Transportation and fur ther information is available by call ing 622 3331 Tuesday. Nov. 24 The follow ing Welches School Com munity classes will be held this even mg "flow to (¡uarantee Your Finan cial Survival during the 1980s, or How to Get Started in Real Estate In vestments and Make a Fort .me," 7 to 8 30 p m ,; “ R e c re a tio n a l Volleyball," 6 to 7:30 p m .; and Preparation for Parenting," 7 to 9 p in For more information or to register call Reva Cox at 622 3397 Wednesday, Nov. 25 Welches Community School Tiny- Tots group meets from 10 a m till noon. Call Louise Hoyt, 622 3752, for information or meeting location Welches Community School's "O il Painting Landscapes" class will meet this evening at Welches School from 7 to 10 p m The Mt Hood Lions Club will hold a general meeting at 8 p m at the club building in Wemme Friday, Nov. 20 "Barefoot in the Park" will be per formed this evening by the Mountain Players at the Lions Club building in Wemme Tonight is “ Family Night " Tickets are $2 75 for adults, $2 for youngsters and free to those under 14 Tickets are on sale at various businesses on the mountain, or can be purchased at the door For addi tional information call Dave Ligatich at 622-3811 between 5 and 7 p m Saturday, Nov. 21 The Mountain Players will perform To place an event in Hoodland Hap penings call Dawn Morrison at 622-3538. New Hoodland chiropractor is glad to be out of the city by SCOTT NEWTON be on sea duty, probably Maybe floating around on an aircraft carrier Dr Larry Oliver, who recently someplace in the Indian Ocean opened the Hoodland Chiropractic " I ’m still a member of the Naval Clinic in Rhixlodendron. is glad to be Reserve, and that’s something I en in a community where one knows his joy and it's doing my part for the neighbors country, but it only takes one In the Navy he was stationed in weekend a month." places such as Newport, R I. San At the time he made the decision he Francisco and San Diego And then and his wife had just started their four years ago he and his wife, Ann, family He said they were not real and daughter Carrie, now six, moved happy with the way the Navy was to Portland, where Oliver attended functioning, and the idea of leaving the Western States Chiropractic Col his family for long periods of time lege didn’t appeal to him "We lived, basically, the whole So, they moved to Portland, and he decade of the '70s in cities," said took science classes at Mt Hood Oliver, Community College for a year in "We enjoy living in an area where order to get accepted to Western there’s not this kind of house, and you States. take the floor plan and flip it and Oliver, who was born in Scotland, build it next door, and you flip it the S.D., has a bachelor of science other way and build it across the degree in education from The street " University of South Dakota, and The Olivers recently moved into a taught for a year home at Timberline Rim. Once he got into Western States It was a goal setting class in the Chiropractic College, which is cer early '70s that got Oliver out of the tified by the Council on Chiropractic Navy and into Western States Education, which is in turn recogniz Chiropractic College ed by HEW, he finished a four year The Cass was offered by the program in three years Lutheran Church, and there were no He then served a four-month in holds barred when it came to setting ternship at the Western States outpa goals tient clinic. So. the Olivers put down that they Oliver said that one reason he got wanted to live in the mountains, next into the study of chiropractic is that to a stream, with a mountain in the it’s an occupation where one is able background, and have five acres, and to help people horses The Olivers had been in the Mt. Well, he still doesn't have all those Hood corridor before to cut firewood things, but he is glad he got out of the "We thought. Boy, this is really nice Navy and went back to school. Too bad there aren't enough people " If I'd have stayed in the Navy I ’d up here to support a practice " They had made plans to mave to a small town on the Columbia River "As whoever is guiding us would have it, somebody rented the space we were looking a t," Oliver said Being back to ground zero, they went back up the mountain, and the people they talked to had mixed reac tions about whether the area could support a chiropractor "We finally ran accross Connie Rock down at Merit Properties, and she said, ‘Oh yeah, I think you'd do well up here’ "She showed us around, and then we got to realizing how many people are here ” There are two dentists and the Hoodland Osteopathic Clinic in the area. Oliver is the only chiropractor About the practice of chiropractic, O liv e r said, “ B a s ic a lly , it's chiropractic philosophy that the body is designed to take care of itself We believe by keeping the spine healthy, which in turn keeps the central ner vous system healthy, we keep your body at its very best to ward off all the things that can happen to it. "When you go to a medical doctor, and he gives you a pill, you put that pill in your stomach There's nothing wrong with your stomach It goes to some other part of the body and has the effect he wants it to. "W e treat your spine, and in that way affect some other part of your body as well "Now, another thing that I stress a lot is nutrition." Oliver said that nutrients are pro cessed out of many of the foods eaten today. He said that the current trent toward fitness fits right in with chiropractic "People are more aware of good health, and that just falls right down chiropractic’s alley because we're in the job of making people well through preventative health care " About the relationship between medical doctors and chiropractors, Oliver said, " I don't think anybody has a corner on the health market "You know, chiropractic doesn’t do everything, but what it does do it does very well " I ’m certainly not out to replace medical doctors anywhere I thing we ought to work hand-in hand “So many people say, Well, I talk ed to my doctor and he said I ’ve pro bably got to have back surgery.' Well, I say, 'Let’s try chiropractic first And if chiropractic works, then it saves you the back surgery If it doesn't work then you can still go have your back worked on You’re not out anything ' "So we stress conservative care " Oliver, whose clinic is across from the Dairy Queen in Rhododendron, would like to have a better table than he has, and eventually would like to get an X-ray unit, " I see that as an opportunity for me to provide another service to the community," he said, adding that there is not an X-ray. unit on the mountain. Doing home births possibility. is also a Although Oliver doesn't have all the equipment he would like, he said that he is set up and ready for business 1 I * » '* 1 *" And, he’s glad to to bi* living in a community where one gets to know the people in the area X ■ ■ 1
