Vol. 72 No. 11
SANDY. OREGON THURSDAY MARCH 18 1982
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City, businessmen work to weather economy
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leaders attended the Sandy City
Council meeting to demonstrate their
The Sandy business community is
willingness to work with the city in
concerned about the economy and
any capacity to improve economic
looking for ways to weather the
conditions locally.
downswing
Insurance broker Bruce Cook
Monday evening some 30 business
pointed to an increase in highway
traffic without a corresponding in
crease m business
According to the state Highway
Division, Cook said, traffic on the
west end of town increased from
11,600 vehicles per day in 1975 to
14,200 in 1980 at the east end, the rise
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was from 8,200 to 10.600
"While the numbers are growing.
the number of people who've stopped
hasn't kept pace,” he said, resulting
in “ a lot of concern ”
Despite the potentially grim situa
tion, Cook said, " I think we’re op-
tim is tic ”
A committee, composed equally of
Ironically, Monday's agenda con business people and non business
tained three issues that could help
people, will be appointed at the April
local businesses economic develop 5 council meeting to take a look at
ment, a review of the sign ordinance
Sandy's sign code. It will make
and a request by a local businessman
recommendations to the city council
for an auxiliary sign
concerning any amendments which
Bill Granstrom, owner of Sandy
may seem necessary
Arco, asked the council for permis
Jordan outlined steps the city will
sion to use an A board sign to adver take now that the Economic Develop
tise gas prices
ment Commission report is complete
Such signs are not allowed under
in order that it doesn't become a
local sign ordinances
static document:
He said he put up a sign earlier to
— The city should commit itself to
advertise prices competitive with
an active role in promoting economic
Gresham service stations but was
development with staff support and a
asked to remove it by city officials
new executive committee appointed
“ I can’t compete without the
by the city council.
gallons,” he said.
The City Council should continue
D espite fears that it would
to authorize local participation in the
“ snowball” throughout the com
Small Cities Industrial Attraction
munity, become an eyesore and be
Program and use that effort to
difficult to enforce, the council
market the community, while leav
agreed to give local service station
ing the marketing of individual pro
owners 30-day permits, if they sub
perties to the private sector.
mit a written application to City
— The City Council should continue
Manager Roger Jordan The city will
its commitment to expanding the
do so only until an ordinance can be
sewage treatment plant and building
prepared outlining its position
a new water reservoir
"We may have to do some flexing
— The City Council should also
to he* some of these businesses."
develop a public facilities master
C o u n c ilm a n D e an e W ess elin k
pointed out.
plan for areas zoned industrial and
future industrial, including a plan
A biennial review of the sign or
showing methods of providing sewer,
dinance may help the city be more
flexible
water and streets in the. areas.
Action Center, city
gain Block Grant funds
Alisha Watts, a Cottrell School fourth grader, experiments with a talking
computer at the county wide TAG Fair sponsored by Clackamas ESI)
Photo by K u u Nebon
recently at Clackamas Community College.
Gifted students share ideas at fair
by DAN DILLON
Educators are constantly looking for ways to
maintain students' enthusiasm in their day-to-
day classroom activities
When the range oí aptitudes and interests
vary along a wide spectrum, however, the
teachers' job becomes that much more dif
ficult
A program operating throughout the county,
however, works to help teachers keep one
group of students, who might otherwise lose in
terest in education, curious about new pursuits
According to a Clackamas County Education
Service District spokesman, these students
might otherwise be the most likely candidates
to drop out of school
They are students whose IQs are above
average.
"Bright kids get bored and drop out of
school,” said Russ Nelson "The average IQ of
school dropouts is above those in school ”
Yet, thanks to a county wide festival, bright
students get a chance to get together and share
ideas with their peers that they might not other
wise get to share.
The Clackamas ESD sponsored the second
annual countywide Talented and Gifted Fair
recently at Clackamas Community College in
Oregon City.
Some 400 students from 13 of the county’s 2«
school districts participated, according to
Marilyn Hess, TAG coordinator for the ESD
whose position is sponsored by the Northwest
Area Foundation.
The non-competitive fair allows bright
students to be involved in a consortium of ideas
that they might not normally be exposed to in
the classroom
Last year the fair tended to emphasize
science projects, Nelson said. This year,
however, the range of projects was limited only
by the students' imaginations.
The TAG students emphasized communica
tions, art, poetry and literature, theater and
mime, Nelson said
Students also focused on "real social issues,”
such as energy alternatives A couple students
build solar panels that actually worked
And the students are young—all elementary
and junior high students.
“ The students came up with an idea, then
researched it,” Hess said "Then they came up
with a project.” The fair was a sharing of pro
jects.
Some students, however, came just to
observe.
Welches School is just getting started with its
enrichment program, yet the teacher “ brought
all her kids down from the mountain to attend
the fair to see what is in store for them ," Hess
said.
What is in store is a chance for an exchange
among young persons and a chance to maintain
an interest in pursuing new ideas
Only the Clackamas County Board
of Commissioners stands between
two Community Development Block
Grants for Sandy that would improve
streets in the north-central area and
enable the Sandy Community Action
Center to purchase its own home.
Approval by the commissioners is
considered a formality after the pro
jects were O K’d by the Policy Ad
visory Board and the Citizens Ad
visory Board, according to City
Manager Roger Jordan
Linder the plan, the non profit Com
munity Action Center will receive
$132,000, probably later this summer,
to be matched by its own $30,000 for
purchase of a permanent home
Chairman Pete Sulzbach said the
center currently pays rent, lights,
heat and telephone bills through an
agreement with Clackamas County
Action Agency.
“ If we can beat rent,” he said, "we
figurewe can still keep operating
even if federal funds are cut off to the
county.”
Sulzbach said the center's m at
ching funds came from a bequest for
the purposed of buying a facility.
He said the aim is purchase of the
Sandy Post Office when a new postal
facility is built Nothing is final on
Mt. Hood CPO blasts updated area plan proposal
by MICHAEL P JONES
Post Correspondent
The Mt Hood Corridor Citizen
Planning Organization no sooner
received official recognition from the
Clackamas County Board of Com
missioners than it locked horns with
the commission.
The CPO has requested the com
missioners return to a more citizen-
oriented review process for the
area's plan.
According to C h airm an John
McMahan, the CPO ’s executive
board has unanimously agreed that
proposed changes in the Mt. Hood
Community Plan and its zoning and
development ordinances are unac
ceptable
proper decision,” McMahan asked
In a letter, he wrote that the CPO’s
executive board "unanimously voted
to reject the process, the proposed
timelines for input, testimony, and
review, and to officially notify (the
commissioners) of our displeasure
and cause for concern over the lack
of adequate public input on the draft
under consideration ”
revisions by the Clackamas County
planning staff unilaterally generated
strikes at the heart of this concept
and, on that basis alone would be
unacceptable to the community we
represent,” McMahan said
which the I^and Conservation and
Development Commission had asked
for
For exam ple, M cMahan said,
In addition, McMahan said the
significant amounts of private land
board is “especially troubled" by the
have
been
re d e s ig n a te d
as
lack of public notification concerning
timberland and the permitted densi
the proposed changes He said the
He said the board's stand against
ty of development has been substan
proposed the 17-member board feels
the changes and the process
tially reduced as a result
the problem has led to a void in the
represents its concern for represen
Board member M arilyn Leslie
planning process and could pose ma
ting the area
cited an example of one parcel where
jor problems for the mountain and its
"Not one single representative
McMahan said the original Mt.
the density was reduced from one
citizens
wanted to take any action that might
Hood Community Plan, adopted in
unit per five acres to one unit per 40
not
totally
represent
the
people
they
"Without adequate time to review
1976, represented extensive citizen
acres
were elected to serve,” he said
the proposals and worse, the lack of
participation in the planning process
In addition, she said, there is a
available materials or data, how can
from start to finish
The board accused planning staff
sewer clause which would not permit
we be expected to make a rational
"The current draft of the proposed
of going beyond a review of wetlands
any private septic system for new
construction in the designated urban
areas such as Wemme, Welches.
Zigzag and Rhododendron
Instead, owners and developers
will be required to hook up to the new
Hoodland Sewer District
and maintained by the service users
tion and unity of the citizens' group
provements, it is no easy task to con
McMahan said CPO members and
within each geographic area and
In a report to the Commission.
vince the users.”
other citizens of the area will be at
each will concentrate efforts to pro
Gerald C Schmidt, of Oregon Water
Schmidt said that by allowing the
tonight's scheduled plan review
vide adequate and safe drinking
Consultants, wrote that based on his customers a role in the system's
meeting in full force to make the
water
experience in working with smaller operation, and by giving them an op
county planning representatives
He complained that in the past not
water systems there were two main
portunity to determine their future
aware that their proposals and
all the systems had problems with
problems common to all systems, direction, participation will not be a
notification tactics are not accep
quantity and quality of water
private and public,
problem
table.
Stewart said that because all fiver
A former state Health Division
Stewart agreed and said the
In a letter delivered to the commis
systems were owned by Gerald
employee, Schmidt said that most
customers' recent role in the hear
sloners prior to tonight's meeting,
"Red" Rennett, who was battling the
water systems are privately organiz ings process illustrates that.
the CPO requested the county return
Oregon Health Division, the U S En
ed, administered and maintained,
Schmidt admitted that most small
to the original process of involving all
vironmental Protection Agency and
which neither requires nor en companies usually have difficulties
citizens in the development of the
Federal District Court on allegations
courages participation from people financing necessary capital Im
area's plan.
of contam ination, the systems
being served
provements for financing water
The CPO has offered to meet with
“ became targets for condemnation
• ‘ T h e s m a ll w a te r sy ste m s
system improvements
the county to develop a new review
proceedings ”
historically have had little planning
“ A special service district allows
process which would allow new pro
At last Thursday evening's
and no aid in understanding good
the people to bond, make special
posals to be submitted for review
meeting Commission Member Eric
waterworks practices.” Schmidt
assessments or to finance water
(See related story on page I, ser
Jorgensen applauded the organize
said “ If those systems do need im
tion I I . >
system improvements," he said
Boundary Commission OK’s water plan
by M IC H A EL P JONES
Post C o rrespo nd ent
The Portland Metropolitan Boun
dary Commission last Thursday
unanimously approved the Alder
Creek Water Users Association plan
to form five separate water districts
The approval summed up months
of work and dedication by the
customers of the problem riddled
company, said Chairperson Jock
Stewart
For the first time since the early
1970s, the five water companies that
made up the Alder Creek Water Com
pany are legally independent, he
said
Unlike in the past, Stewart said,
each district will be administered
The center has been at its presen
location for five years, Sulzbach said
Prior to that it was located in th<
building that c u rren tly house:
Decker & Scales and Sandy Travel
The city will receive $35,000 in 1964
to be matched by its own $11,600 foi
improvements to Pleasant Street
Beers Avenue and Scales Avenue
T o ta l im provem ents a re not
finalized, Jordan said, but he an
ticipates storm drainage and some
street improvements will be ac
complished
He plans to involve residents of the
area in the decision-making process
Fall fatal to
Sandy River
fisherman
\ 55-year-old Fairview man died
Tuesday night from injuries sustain
ed earlier in the day when he slipped
and fell 40 feet onto rocks while
fishing in the Sandy River about one
quarter mile below Marmot Dam
Jack L Moore died about 5:15 p.m
at Portlan d Adventist M edical
Center
According to Scott Roskelley. a
hospital spokesman, Moore was ad
mitted to the facility at 2:15 p m with
multiple fractures and facial lacera
tions after he was airlifted from a
small island in the river by a 304th
Aerospace Rescue and Recovery
Squadron helicopter
Moore reportedly slipped from a
riverbank, landed on some rocks and
fell face down in the river He was
pulled from the icy river and onto an
island downstream near Marmot
Dam by Tom Oldenburg, 26, of San
dy
C la c k a m a s C ounty s h e r iff's
deputies credit Oldenburg's action
for prolonging fellow fisherman
Moore's life an additional few hours
He was placed on a litter and
hoisted approximately 150 feet into
the h e lic o p te r , a c c o rd in g to
Roskelley. and flown to the hospital
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