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