Vol. 72 No. 13
SANDY. OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 1982
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Voters OK city levy, fail school proposal
Clackamas County voters went
to the polls Tuesday in a tight-
fisted mood, approving only three
levy requests countywide.
The city of Sandy was one of the
lucky ones as voters narrowly ap
proved its 1418,219 request
Sandy E le m e n ta ry D is tric t
didn't fare as well with its budget
request Voters turned down the
$2 26 m illion levy by a 749-636
margin
City officials were jubilant Mon
day as they counted themselves
among the fortunate
“ I'm very happy that we had
sufficient support to carry the
election," Mayor Ruth Loundree
said, “ and that we w ill continue in
the same vein as provided in the
budget "
The failure of the countywide
senior serial levy changed the ci
ty's budgeting plans somewhat,
but the result w ill not alter the
way the city plans to operate
There w ill be a meeting of the
City Council and Budget Commit
tee tonight at 7:30 p m to review
the results of the election and
finalize the 1982-83 budget
“ If the senior levy had carried,
we would have revised our
budget,” Loundree said, “ The on
ly thing now, we just can't spread
around the money which was
budgeted for the senior center ”
Had the senior serial levy been
approved, the city would have had
an additional $28,582 to put into
the c ity ’s operating expenses
Loundree said the city w ill now
place a tax base measure before
the public at the November
general election
“We have to do it whether we
want to or not." she said It has
been mandated by the state that
cities attempt to secure a tax base
at regular intervals
Had the senior serial levy pass
ed. the city's senior center would
have offered expanded services to
parts of Boring, Damascus and
Cottrell Its operating budget
would also have jumped some
$13,000,
At the elementary d is tric t,
nothing had been decided Wednes
day morning as to what the
district w ill do now Superinten
dent Clark Lund was not available
for comment
In the races for the district's
board of education positions, in
cumbent Sharron Cox was re
elected to fill out the remaining
year on her appointed term She
outpolled Geraldine Richardson
566-503
In the race for Position 5, a four-
year term, retired Sandy teacher
Dorothy Mills outdistanced two
opponents. She polled 644 votes,
Paul Hayball, 257, and William
Lenon, 195.
CITY OF SANDY
SPECIAL LEVY
Yes ....................................... 232
N o ............................................ 222
SANDY E L E M E N T A R Y
DISTRICT LEVY
Y e s .......................................... 636
No .......................................... 749
SANDY E L E M E N T A R Y
DISTRICT
BOARD POSITION NO. 4
Sharron M Cox
566
Geraldine Richardson ........ 503
CLACKAMAS COUNTY ESI)
BOARD POSITION AT LARGE
Keith Lindahl ...................... 8.205
Steven Woodall.................... 8,628
SAN DY E L E M E N T A R Y
DISTRICT
BOARD POSITION NO. 5
Paul Hayball ....................
257
W illiam W Lenon ................. 195
Dorothy M Mills ................... 644
CLACKAMAS COUNTY ESD
BOARD POSITION NO. 5
Clayton W ills___ . . . . Unopposed
COTTRELL SCHOOL DISTRICT
BOARD POSITION NO. 4
Linda Loomis ............Unopposed
CLACKAMAS COUNTY
SENIOR SERVICES LEVY
Y es....................................... 11,327
N o......................................... 15,316
MT. HOOD COMMUNITY COL
LEGE
SPECIAL LEVY
Y es.......................................6,336
N o.........................................11.241
MT. HOOD COMMUNITY COL
LEGE
AT LARGE POSITION
Gladys Brooke Brooks .........7,361
Glenn Otto ........................... 7.484
Students face
suspension
without shots
Governor sets
campaign stop
at chamber
Th*> number of students in the San
dy area who need immunizations is
well below the state and county
averages, according to a local school
nurse,
A survey released last week in
dicated that 15 percent of Oregon stu
dent immunization records have
been sent to the County Health
Departments for secondary review
In Clackamas County, the number is
13 percent
Meanwhile, only 83 percent of
local students have had their im
munization records sent to the Coun
ty
Sandy High School is running a lit
tle higher than that, said Joyce
Kramer, school nurse for SUHS,
Welches. Boring, Bull Run and Cot
trell
The elementary students are even
further behind the statewide total,
but that can be traced to recent em
phasis on immunizations before
entering school, she said.
The prim ary screening by schools
was completed March 14 Records
found to have incomplete immuniza
tions or insufficient information and
lists of students with no records were
forwarded to the Clackamas County
Health Department for the secon
dary review at that time, Kramer
said.
On April 5, parents of all students
determined to be in non-compliance
with the new statewide Immuniza
tion Law w ill be mailed an Exclusion
Order by the County Health Depart
ment.
This o rd e r o ffic ia lly n o tifie s
parents that unless necessary action
is taken, his or her child w ill not be
permitted to attend school on or after
April 21.
Kramer said a County clinic that
provides immunizations generally
visits Sandy on the second Thursday
of the month, April 8, which would
give an opportunity to catch up on
shots locally.
However, she said, the problem of
getting everyone immunized is so
new, "yo u ’re kind of making up the
procedure as you go along ”
There w ill be another immuniza
tion clinic at Sandy High School on
April 14 from 8 a m to noon
Parents are responsible to get their
children immunized if they receive
an Exclusion Order.
Gov. Vic Atiyeh, Sheriff Paul
M cAllister and Commissioner Stan
Skoko w ill address the Sandy
Chamber of Commerce this month.
A student excluded for school on
April 21 w ill be considered an unex
cused absence. Nothing in law
removes the responsibility of the
school administrator to notify the
district or county attendance super
visor of such unexcused absences
Index
SECTION I
Keeping Posted .......................3
Senior Center News
4
School Lunch Menus................ 5
Obituaries ............................... 5
Editorials. Letters ............. 6
Sports. Recreation ............. 7 8
SECTION II
Area News................................1
Hood land Happenings.............4
About People .......................... 7
Classified Advertising ... 8-12
SECTION III
TV Revue............... Inside Tab
Atiyeh’s visit here w ill be noon,
A pril 20, at Tollgate Inn for a
re servations-only Chamber lu n
cheon
Luncheon tickets may be purchas
ed at the door, but seating lim itation
of 80 persons necessitates reserva
tions through the Chambers office,
668-4006
Clackamas County Sheriff Paul
M cAllister w ill address the Chamber
and visitors noon, A pril 13, at
TolIgaU* In n .'
Clackamas County Commissioner
Stan Skoko w ill visit Tollgate Inn
noon, April 27
Next Tuesday, Sandy Economic
Development Commission Chairman
George Morgan w ill address the
Chamber on the Commission's three-
year study
S ta ff photo
Sandy police officer Ed King gathers information from a driver involved in
this fender bender Tuesday afternoon at the intersection of Proctor
Boulevard and Meinig Avenue. There were no injuries. Names of the drivers
were not available at press time.
The general public is welcome at
these C ham ber noon luncheon
meetings, according to program
chairman Darrell Dempster.
Water users fear *1.75 million loan application
by MICHAEL P. JONES
Post Correspondent
A federal judge last week ordered
the Farmers Home Administration to
accept pre-application of a $1.75
m illion loan by the Alder Creek
Water Company’s receiver
FHA was ordered to accept the pre
application as if it came from the
customers of the new five special
water districts themselves
The order, signed by U.S D istrict
Judge Gus Solomon, modifies the
original terms of the receivership of
Gene Ginther who took over opera
tions in September 1986
The order instructs Ginther to
“ submit the pre application to the
Farmers Home Administration on
behalf of the Alder Creek Water Com
panies and any district or districts
which may be formed for the purpose
of operating and controlling such
drinking water systems .’’
The Alder Creek Water Users
Association is calling the decision
“ Mt. Hood’s own Aldergate ”
“ This is Aldergate* and there is no
other way to describe it," said Jock
Stewart, chairman of the association
“ This is something that happens in
Poland, not in the United States
“ Whoever heard of a federal judge
initiating a process which could ram
a loan down people's throats who
don’t want it in the first place?" he
asked
Stewart said the five special water
districts w ill not be officially in
operation until July At that time the
districts w ill prepare plans to correct
problems or rebuild any of the
systems, if need be.
No one has the right to go out and
borrow money that somebody else
w ill have to pay back, he said
Stewart charged that Ginther is
trying to recover money which he
claims is owed from his acting as
receiver That figure is reportedly
approximately $200,000
FHA EXPLAINS
Larry Spendler, of FHA, said M ar
vin Price, Ginther's administrative
assistant, filed part of the pre
application package March 9—two
days
b e fo re
the
P o rtla n d
Metropolitan Boundary Commission
approved the five water districts.
He said Price was informed at that
time that Ginther is not eligible for
an FHA loan because he doesn't
qualify The pre-application was sub
mitted anyway
To qualify, Spendler said, the ap
plicant “ must be a legal entity,” such
as a water district, a cooperative, a
non-profit corporation or any group
that is non-profit.
Also, the applicant "must be cu r
rently serving a given rural water
area whose facilities are located in
that same rural area, with a popula
tion being served that is less than
10,000 persons "
“ Mr Ginther is not an eligible appli
cant and (he and the courts» are
aware of it," Spendler said “ (The
pre-application form ) is nothing but
a piece of paper.”
Although he has not seen the
federal order, Spendler said he would
have concerns if such an order would
require his agency to accept such an
application
my knowledge, nothing like this has
ever happened, at least not in
Oregon," he said.
ALARM SAID UNFOUNDED
FHA Regional A ttorney Arno
Reifenberg, however, said his agen
cy has no choice bu to accept the
fe d e ra l o rd e r and the p r e
application, however, that doesn’t
necessarily mean Ginther w ill get his
$1.75 million loan.
The water users, he said, “ may be
fearing too many devils" because
G inther's move is only a pre
application, not the actual applica
tion.
According to Reifenberg, the FHA
w ill talk to those who would pay back
the loan and use the service
He said the FHA "w ill not pay for a
Cadillac system, when a Chevy w ill
do the jo b ,"
Stewart disagrees. He contends
that Reifenberg may be playing
down the seriousness of the situation
because "every story has a beginn
ing
Reifenberg said that in more than
30 years with the agency, he has seen
nothing like this before
"T h e
q u e stio n
is ,"
sa id
Reifenberg. “ can the federal court
order Ginther to make an application
and then order the FHA to accept the
application, plus pay for not only Gin
ther’s proposed water system, but all
the money owed to him ”
He doesn’t believe FHA funds can
be used to pay off a back debt.
Stewart, in the meantime, said the
federal order unified the water
customers and they are prepared to
take the case all the way to the U.S.
Court of Appeals, if need be
He said the people are “ raising
money to battle ‘Aldergate' right
within the federal court system
“ This case deals with not only the
violation of individual rights, but also
states’. Here we have the federal
government intervening in what is a
state case since the new water
districts are under state jurisdiction
and the quality of the systems are
under the state Health Department,"
Stewart said
A hearing has been tentatively
scheduled for U S District Court in
30 days to listen to the concerns of the
water users.
Rhododendron woman in House race
Carolyn Smith, Democratic can
didate for House D istrict 23, got in
volved in Oregon politics "because
our future generations are entitled to
the same high quality lifestyle that
we have enjoyed "
Towards that goal, the Rhododen
dron resident said, “ I would support
le g isla tio n to encourage sm all
businesses which are our economic
backbone "
She said she would back all efforts
to attract high technology industry to
the state which is. compatible with
Oregon's “ high-quality way of life ."
The state's greatest asset is the
natural resources she said
" I would encourage alternate
forest products usage to diversify the
industry and provide more jobs,"
Smith said
She cited recovering and recycling
logging slash for both chips and fuel
as an example of utilizing what is
generally considered forest waste
Quality education, Smith said, is
essential to the state's economic
growth. Diversified education, on
both community and state levels,
must be provided to secure people
jobs, she said
Smith said she supports services
which allow the elderly, handicapped
and d is a d v a n ta g e d " t o help
themselves "
She advocates the hospice pro
gram, in home care, senior services
and tax incentives for hiring the han
dicapped
Smith wants a balanced budget,
hut would not support an "In e
quitable sales tax "
“ I do not represent any special in
terest groups, but rather all the in
Carolyn Smith
terests of the com m unity," she said.
Smith la active in community ac
tivities. She is chairman of the
Welches Community School Advisory
Committee, a member of the Moun
tain Community Park Association
She is also active in planning
issues serving on the steering com
mittee for the Mt Hood Natural
Resources Coalition and serving as
vice chairman for the Environmental
Committee on Suitability.
A 1971 graduate of the University of
C a lifo rn ia -B e rke le y in p o litic a l
theory. Smith has been a resident of
the new House District since 1974
She operated a small business in
Estacada for five years and said she
learned first-hand the problems (hat
small businessmen must deal with.
Smith has two sons, Nathan, 6, and
Justin, 3.