The Sandy Post
SANDY, OREGON. THURSDAY. MARCH 25, 1982
Vol. 72 No. 12
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Senior serial levy
faces voters Tuesday
Charges filed
on second son
o f slain man
by DAN DILLON
A second son of the Sandy
chiropractor slain March 5 has been
charged in connection with the
homicide.
Harvey Hayden Hazelett, 19, was
arrested March 17 by Sandy Police
Chief Fred Punzel in Oregon City
fo llo w in g a m e e tin g in the
C la c k a m a s
C o u n ty
d is t r ic t
attorney's office
He was arraigned Thursday in
Clackamas County D istrict Court on
charges of hindering prosecution,
tampering with physical evidence
and unlawful removal of a body,
stemming from his alleged participa
tion in the homicide of his father,
Hubert Harold Hazelett. 52.
A: the time of his arrest, Punzel
said bail was set at >75,000. He was
lodged in the Clackamas County Jail.
According to Punzel, hindering
prosecutior is a Class C felony
punishable by up to five years in the
state penitentiary The other charges
a re C lass A m is d e m e a n o rs
punishable by a maximum of one
year in the county ja il and a $1,000
fine
Photo by Scott Newton
Brad Carter, Sandy, and Chris Conley, visiting from Parkrose, chose the first weekend of spring to leap into ac
tion and demonstrate some bicycling acrobatics as the sun bathed the Sandy area. Luckily they had some fun in
the sun as rain is expected this weekend.
Want more citizen input
Mt. Hood residents in uproar over plan
by MICHAEL P. JONES
Post Correspondent
The lack of citizen participation in
updating the Mt Hood Community
Plan is not acceptable
That was the message Thursday as
area residents met with Clackamas
County Planning Division staff
However, Ardis Stevenson, assis
tant director of Environmental Ser
vices, told the group that what has
been developed "is not la w " and that
citizen participation could bring
about changes
Revisions in the plan are being
made after the county was instructed
by the state I^and Conservation and
Development Commission to make
some refinements LCDC instructed
the county to insure that sewers
would not expand outside the boun
daries of the Hoodland Service
District.
To accomplish this, LCDC gave the
county 150 days to look at land-use
exceptions outside the service
district. The county is to show that
th a t a rea is c o m m itte d to
agricultural and forest uses
In addition, LCDC asked that the
county re-inventory wetland areas
and detail their locations and size,
both in and out of the service district.
Property owners and members of
the Mt Hood Corridor Citizens Plan
ning Organization took exception
with the county’s process, however
C.J Sullivan, a Welches resident,
reminded Stevenson that her staff
had earlier promised a complete list
of proposed changes before anything
was drafted He said that inform a
tion had not been provided.
“ You put together a bloody pro
posal without asking us what we
wanted,” he charged
He said that the citizen input pro
cess used in 1976, when the plan was
originally adopted, outweighed the
new process when the residents seem
to have been forgotten
"We have elected officials, not
gods,” he said, and suggested that
the proper input process be im
plemented
Stevenson told Sullivan that the
meetings were not a legal require
ment because the revisions of the
plan, so far, are only proposals She
said the county is attempting to get
the citizens involved in the process
and that 4,700 names were taken
from the tax roles and sent informa
tion
john McMahan of Brightwood,
chairman of the Mt Hood CPO, ques
tioned whether all property owners
had received the revision materials.
Less than half of those present in
dicated they had, by a show of hands.
He called it a "significant e rro r" in
the process and suggested that
everyone, not just taxpayers, should
receive the mailings.
S tevenson
c a lle d
th a t
a
"marvelous goal," but impractical.
The residents asked that the revi
sion schedule be lengthened beyond
LCDC’s 150-day deadline.
While county officials want to pre
sent the revisions at the end of May,
CPO officials indicated they would
fight the county in front of LCDC is
they were not granted an extension
for what they called "proper citizen
input ”
Recommends denial in Sandy basin
Committee draws line on hydro siting
by MICHAEL P JONES
Post Correspondent
A citizens committee studying
hydroelectric project siting has
made its recommendation to the
C lackam as County Planning
Division
Among its recommendations,
the committee suggested that
hydroelectric projects be denied
in scenic waterway areas, such
as the Sandy-Salmon waterway,
the Clackamas waterway and the
Willamette River greenway
"W hile many of the proposed
hydroelectric projects are small
in size and have slight individual
impacts, the cumulative impacts
of the proposed projects may
substantially im pair the natural
resources of Clackamas County,”
the report said
The report came about after
Paul Sanders of Zigzag sought
approval of a mini hydroelectric
An expanded service area for the
Sandy Senior Center and a larger
operating budget could be the result
if voters county wide approve a three-
year serial levy this Tuesday, March
30.
The city, too, would be able to
redistribute some its budget to cover
earlier cutbacks
The senior center’s service area
would expand to include portions of
Boring, Cottrell and Damascus Cur
rently it serves only the Sandy area
ditional full-tim e employee and a
part-time outreach worker, accor
ding to Community Services Director
Sandra Potter Marquardt.
That would ease the burden
created with the elimination of a
CETA worker position during fiscal
198(1
The serial levy would stabilize
revenues fo r operation of the
county’s 10 senior centers which de
pend on local monies and the Older
Americans Act.
With the expanded area would
come an expanded budget financed
by taxpayers countywide. Currently,
the center is financed by the city and
federal grants.
Cost locally would be approximate
ly 22 cents per $1,000 assessed valua
tion.
The operating budget would jump
from $54,432 to $67,585 during the
coming fiscal year, and to $75,094 and
$82,603 during the succeeding two
years of the serial levy.
The result would be a savings of
$28,582 that the city was going to put
into the center’s operating expenses.
Each senior center would be
granted a yearly allocation based on
the percentage of senior citizens in
the service area, relative to the
senior population of Clackamas
County
Currently, 31,000 Clackamas Coun
ty residents are more than 60 years
old.
"That money would be reprogram
med into the areas were we did cut
services,” said City Manager Roger
Jordan. " I t would probably make up
for the loss of revenue we have at this
tim e.”
The other alternative would be to
put the money into the contingency
fund
While the county funds would
maintain the operating costs of the
center, while expanding the service
area, the city would still put funds in
to the center.
"The city w ill qtilize some of its
revenues to keep the building up,"
Jordan said, because it also serves as
a community service as well.
The e x tra money generated
through the senior serial levy would
enable the local center to hire an ad
The elder Hazelett’s body was
found in the Sandy R ive r by
fishermen early March 5
Herbert Harlan Hazelett, 17, was
arrested that evening and appeared
before Clackamas County Circuit
Court Judge Winston Bradshaw who
arraigned him on a first degree
murder charge. He is being held at
the Donald E Long Juvenile Home in
Portland
Janine O’Neill, Clackamas County
deputy d is tric t a tto rn e y , said
Wednesday that no determination
has been made as to whether the
younger Hazelett w ill be tried as a
juvenile or adult
If tried as a juvenile, the court
would only have jurisdiction until he
turns 21 years of age.
An autopsy showed the elder
Hazelett died from shotgun wounds
to the chest and massive head in
juries
The homicide is still under in
vestigation.
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project on Mimkahda Creek.
The county hearings officer
denied the project because it
would have been built on slopes in
excess of 35 percent Ordinance
and the Mt Hood Community
Plan prohibit construction on
slopes greater than 20 percent
The Clackamas County Board
of Commissioners also denied the
plan, but directed the planning
staff to redraft the slope or
dinance
The committee's recommenda
tion recognizes that there is an In
creasing demand for private
hydroelectric development of the
county's rivers and streams
which are currently used for
recreational and ag ricu ltu ra l
purposes, as well as a fish
habitat To maintain quality in
these waters, the committee felt
some criteria would be necessary
for hydro siting
Along with scenic waterways,
the com m ittee recommended
denial at historical sites, wetland
areas, streams used for fish
migration, spawning or rearing,
deer and elk winter ranges and
nesting areas
"Unless the director of the
Oregon Department of Fish and
Wildlife, or the delegate of the
d ir e c to r , c e r t if ie s to the
Clackamas County hearings of
ficer that any substantial adverse
impact of a proposed hydroelec
trie project on natural resources
shall be avoided, such hydroelec
trie projects are prohibited,” the
committee recommended
The committee also suggested
requirements for approval, other
than location.
It listed noise standards, fish
and w ildlife support, water purity
and vegetative buffers along
rivers and streams as considera
tions
In the meantime, the county
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Planning Division is developing
its own set of criteria
Planning D irector Dominic
Mancini said the staff would
select all or part of the com m it
tee’s recommendations, but is
under no obligation to accept its
development criteria
He said the draft the planning
staff develops for hydro siting
w ill be sent to agencies who play
a role in examining hydroelectric
impact on a regular basis
The siting criteria is scheduled
to go before the planning com
mission in m id-April and addi
tional citizen testimony w ill be
taken at that time
"Anyone can sanction a given
set of criteria, hut it doesn't mean
it has more cre d ib ility than
anyone else's,” Mancini said
"The committee has only submit
ted what they would like to see.
which doesn’t mean it w ill be ac
cepted ”
CITY LEVY
The city of Sandy w ill need slightly
more than $400,000 to balance its pro
posed 1982-83 budget.
The c ity ’s proposed budget is up
only two-tenths of 1 percent over last
year’s appropriated budget. The
general fund is up slightly more than
6.7 percent over last year’s budget.
As such, the city w ill be able to
operate within state limitations for a
Ballot A formula, based on inflation
and growth.
The cost to city taxpayers would be
an estimated $6 94 per $1,000 assess
ed valuation for operation of the city
and bonds, which have already been
approved
The city w ill stay within the Ballot A
lim itation, the state w ill cooperate
with taxpayers.
As a result, 30 percent of the local
property tax burden w ill be paid by
the state under the program which
has been in effect for the past three
years
No easy answers seen
to government cutbacks
Area residents, concerned by
federal and state cuts in social ser
vices, met Tuesday in Sandy to
ponder ways vo lu n te e rs could
assume new re sp o n sib ility fo r
welfare of troubled neighbors
They found no easy answers, but a
lot of shared worry over what small
towns like Sandy would lose with
nobody to fill the vacuum of govern
ment cutbacks.
"Is is possible for us to pick up
responsibility at our own doorstep?"
asked fo ru m m o d e ra to r and
organizer Father Lindsay Warren of
S a n d y's C hurch of the Good
Shepherd.
His forum of concerned social ac
tivists included representatives from
Sandy Kiwanis, Mt. Hood Hospice.
Pioneer Association, city govern
ment, Mt. Hood Community College
and Eagle Creek P re sb yte ria n
Church.
"Reaganomics has brought us to
our knees, perhaps, but i t ’s forcing us
to help one another,” said Macy
Brader of new Mt. Hood Hospice
volunteer care for term inally ill.
The forum considered posting a list
of available community resources at
strategic help agencies in town with
nam es, addresses and phone
numbers to contact for welfare
assistance. The busy all-volunteer
Sandy Community Action Center
would be a logical place to post such
referral information, the greup mus
ed, as would city hall and the c ity ’s
Community Center.
Ken Hallgren of Sandy Kiwanis
suggested Sandy has volunteer
groups that want to help neighbors in
need, but individually often lack time
to get deeply involved
"W e’ll have to find some very d if
ferent status fo r the kind of
volunteers Mr. Reagan is talking
about,” city Community Services
D irector Sandra Potter Marquard
said of new Federalism's emphasis
on local volunteers.
One p o p u la r w e ll o f liq u id
volunteers may have run dry, she
noted.
That spring of eager women who
traditionally have staffed volunteer
programs is flowing toward more
paying jobs to survive the tough
economy on the homefront, she sug
gested
"We have a reward system only for
(paying) jobs, but not necessarily for
(non paid) work toward a worthy
goal,” Mt Hood College President
Stephen
N ic h o ls o n
sa id
of
volunteerism
" I t ’s a problem for us, because we’re
a cash economy."
"W e’re a self-serving society,"
Frank Marcy added.
There’s social punishment for
refusing to pay $30 in taxes, Father
Warren noted, but none for refusing
to help a hungry neighbor.
“ It's something that'll have to
catch on—seeing your neighbor help
ing out in the community weekends
instead of taking his boat out,” Ken
Hallgren said.
Gone are the days of 1960s big
government programs when federal
money attempted to solve any social
program, the group concurred.
Sandy City Manager Roger Jordan
said the municipal government could
get involved, but not hope to replace
cut federal social services. .
He told a story of an old man nam
ed George who lived on beer until
recently in a broom-closet size room
on a main street in Sandy
The man wanted to be left alone,
and reject efforts to remove him
from his environment The city
senior center sent in hot meals occa
sionally, and finally the city took
lia b ility through its building inspec
tor to have the old man institu
tionalized.
Still, the city had to work through
bigger government for help in con
vincing Clackamas County Mental
Health Division and a judge to have
the man hospitalized for his own well
being
"Ixx'a l people should meet l<x..l
need," Jordan said, "and here we
find ourselves back to the county
level to remedy a problem with state
and federal funds ’’
Index
SECTION I
Senior Center News
2
Keeping Posted
3
School Lunch Menus
4
Obituaries
...................... 4
Editorials, Letters ................6
Sports. Recreation
7-8
SECTION II
Area News
..................... 1
Around the County
2
Hoodland Happenings
...3
Home and Garden .......
4
About People
5
Classified Advertising
7-11
SECTION III
TV Revue
Inside Tab