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Voi. 72 No. H SANDY. OREGON. THURSDAY. APRIL 8, 1982 <l'SPS481-ltMD Single Copy 25< Portland man dies at Roslyn from self-inflicted wounds The body of a Portland man was found e a rly Tuesday m orning slumped against his car at Roslyn Lake on Thomas Road. The man, whose identity is being withheld pending notification of re la tive s, died of s e lf-in flic te d wounds, according to Det. Loren Peterson, of the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Department. Sandy Fire Chief Bob Rathke said his department received report of a man down at 6:05 a m at the same time that the sheriff's department was dispatched Sheriff’s officers a r rived on the scene about 6 20 a m. Peterson said the victim ’s vehicle had been noticed in the area Monday evening at approximately 10:30 a m Bull Run board studies contract non-renewals The Bull Run School Board is ex pected to take action tonight on P rin cipal Robert Fones contract in the wake of a petition calling for his non renewal Parents in the tiny school district presented the school board with peti tions March 18 calling for the non renewal of Fones’ contract, renewal of teacher Wayne Haas' contract and departmentalization of the upper four grades. However, at its March 30 meeting the board decided not to renew Haas' contract because he is not certified to teach elementary school in a self- contained classroom He could teach if the departmentalization takes Jr w ' Fire completely gutted a home owned by Henry Emrich of 22732 SE McCabe Road Tuesday afternoon. A neighbor reportedly discovered smoke coming from the south side of the fam ily rambler-style home. Emrich and his wife and son were away at the time. Damage is estimated at >15,000 to >20,000, ac- Photo by Von Braschler cording to Sandy Fire Chief Bob Rathke. Value of the house was estimated at >641.000. He said cause of the blare was a malfunction in a kitchen light fix ture. There were no injuries. Attorney’s use questioned by judge by MICHAEL P. JONES Post Correspondent F irst a federal district judge ra m ro d d e d th ro u g h the p r e application for a $1.75 million loan that the Alder Creek Water Users Association would have to pay back, even though it doesn't want the loan. Now. the same judge is saying that the association’s attorney mav not be Index SECTION I Keeping Posted ..................3 Editorials. Letters ..................6 Sports, Recreation ... 7-8 SECTION II Area News................................1 School Lunch Menus 4 Woodland Happenings......... fi Senior Center News ................ 7 Classified Advertising . 8-12 SECTION III TV Revue Inside Tab able to represent all the residents in the water service district. This all comes prior to a federal court hearing on a recent attempt by the water company receiver, Gene Ginther, to secure a $1.75 m illion loan on behalf of the new water districts from Farmers Home Administration to rebuild the water systems and reimburse himself for administering the company as receiver. That bill is estimated between >154,000 and >200,000 Federal D istrict Court Judge Gus Solomon, in a March 25 opinion, said that 10 days prior to the hearing on the loan, a pre-hearing conference w ill be held with both sides' counsel At that conference, assistant U.S. A ttorney Thomas C. Lee, E n viro n m e n ta l P rotection Agency regional counsel Barbara Lither, Ginther’s attorney, Ward Greene, and the Alder Creek Water User’s at torney, Edward Sullivan, w ill discuss the scope, type and extent of the presentations to made at the hearing. Also on the agenda w ill be the fate of Sullivan as attorney for the five special water districts which w ill take over operation by July 1 "We w ill also consider whether the problems of each district are so diverse and so antagonistic to each other that one person and one at torney should not be permitted to represent all of the residents of the area,” said Solomon. Jock Stewart, chairperson of the water users' association, questions the court's intention for regulating the people’s legal counsel. Stewart believes the association’s legal counsel was too effective last fa ll during health hazard pro ceedings which, he said, were aborted after the true facts were made public. “ Generally, wc are appalled by what we consider to be an attempt to divide and conquer,” Stewart said “ We have worked very hard for several months to o btain the credibility and respect we now enjoy “ We resent very much the tutoring of the U.S. Court to paint usin a d if ferent light. We are not a herd of misled sheep being led to slaughter “ The concern over the expertise we hire to achieve our goal appears to be yet another attempt to cloud the issue at hand,” Stewart continued “ The issue is clean and healthy water for several hundred people, not the counsel we hire.” Stewart claimed that in a May 1980 hearing, Judge Solomon said he would not separate the five water systems because they were part of the water company. He also said that when the com panies attempted to separate during the health hazard hearings, claiming that not all the systems violated the federal Safe Drinking Water Act, they were denied. Stewart said the court may try to infer that Sullivan now has a conflict of interest because he represents five districts instead of one company Stewart said a recent membership sampling in the association underlies the support that water customers have for their attorney. “ I^egal counsel is not a matter for the federal courts to decide,” Stewart said “ It lies strictly with the people who pay for such services.” place. That would mean Haas could teach classes he is certified for Another teacher, Helen Swails, would teach the remainder of the classes to the upper grades Board members, however, voted at the same meeting not to departmen talize in the next school year. In the wake of the flap, petitions are circulating through the school district asking for a recall election against the members of the board, chairman Jack Layton, Jim Boiler- mann, Ron Jantz, Karen Rollins and Marcia Hazelwood Tonight's meeting w ill begin at 7:30 p m at the school City to use television to aid in sales pitch The city of Sandy plans to go public on Portland television to sell itself as an industrial growth area, along with Molalla and Estacada. The three cities have linked arms in a Small Cities Attraction Program funded by a >37,000 federal block grant through Clackamas County and engineer'd by a Port of Portland technical assistance team. Port officials and Gov Vic Atiyeh w ill be invited for the television show, according to Sandy Economic Development Commission Chairman George Morgan. Attraction program realty consul tant Norm Boise visits with Sandy ci ty officials this week to plan the television program and its list of guest invitations. “ We’re three small cities here who want to say, Hey, we re as attractive as some intersection in Clackamas,” ’ Sandy city manager Roger Jordan said of the industrial marketing ef fort. Presently only about 8 percent of the c ity ’s assessed value comes from local industry, while only 25 percent of the c ity ’s tax burden is borne by all commerce, according to city planner Don Wilson Morgan said the plan of the local Economic Development Commission is to broaden the tax burden to lighten the load for residential pro perty owners by diversifying the economy with at least 50 new jobs here He said targeted would be in dustrial firm s on the east side of Portland, who might be interested in relocating here or expanding into Sandy. Firm s with more than 100 employees would be considered too great an impact on Sandy, Morgan said M o rg a n ’s group, along w ith counterparts from Estacada and Molalla, w ill hold a press conference May 11 in Oregon City to announce their aggressive marketing plan. The three cities are preparing a booklet to help sell liva b ility of the areas. Each city w ill personalize the sales marketing tool with inclusion of its own city profile. Morgan called for a local realtors’ committee to form the nucleus of a work task force to bring industrial residents to Sandy “ I t ’s my opinion they should take the lead, since they’ll benefit as much as anyone by sale of land here,” he said before the Sandy Chamber of Commerce Tuesday. M organ also ch a lle n g e d the Chamber and Sandy Area Mer chants, the retail subcommittee of the Chamber, to send working representatives to the task. “ This team should be aggressive, goal-directed and innovative," he said. “ The land must be competitive ly priced A friendly attitude is need ed in this town.” Because the city has "no spare cash" to help develop new streets, sewer and water, Morgan said, costs must be borne by the new developers Decorating eggs is year-round project for Sandy woman by DAN DILLON With Easter just around the cor ner, thoughts are tu rn in g to decorated hard-boiled eggs in swirling colors and original designs carefully hidden for an early morn ing hunt But when it comes to decorating eggs, some people just don't go quite as far as Jerry Bolinger of Sandy who has sold a single egg for as much as >400 She actually didn’t sell the whole egg. It was just the shell of an ostrich egg. but it had a clock plac ed carefully inside it. Putting a clock inside an eggshell may seem unusual, but for an egg artist, the process is a natural one. “ You start with an eggshell,“ she said, “ and then let your im agina tion go.” During the 12 to 15 years that Mrs Bolinger has been an egg a r tist, she has made music boxes in side a goose egg which happened to be inside a second goose egg. She built a miniature train sta tion inside another goose egg, com plete with train and passengers—a process that took a year of decopag ing, hand painting and rounding up all the elements she wanted to highlight The result, she said pro udly, is “ my grandkids' favorite " And in that period of time, there have been many eggs “ I would V even know how m any," she said laughing She works with eggs ranging in size from the large ostrich and emu eggs to tiny finch and parakeet eggs that, she said, are “ like tissue ” Sh' has grown so adept at her craft that she teaches classes na tionwide and has won several awards She plans to ss situated after moving to Sandy from Califor nia last November Crafting the decorative eggs re quires a variety of equipment and th workroom in her Sandy home The emu. left, contrasts with a parakeet egg. provides testament. She has her d rill for cutting the eggs and lots of d rill bits. With all the calcium in eggshells, she said, bits don't last long against the tough shells. One egg she is elaborately cutting has eaten four bits and she is just about halfway through that project There is a large magnifying glass to help with the fine cutting and a device that helps her mark her eggs for designing There are brushes and seemingly hundreds of bottles of paint Her workroom is also a collection of what she calls “ garbage." Those are the tiny drawers upon tiny drawers filled with hinges for eggs th a t open and clo se , rhinestones arid bric-a-brac for or namentation But mostly, her workroom houses eggs There are stacks of ostrich eggs, emu eggs, goose eggs, parakeet eggs and nearly every other kind of egg imaginable ex cept chicken eggs which she said are “ too thin.” The largest problem she faces are her mechanical eggs, such as those whose parts move when the shell is opened, “ I'm not an engineer," Mrs Bol inger said " I have to go 380 degrees to get what I want " What she wants to do now is build P6o«o by Dan Dillan Jerry Bolinger follows carefully drawn patterns as she drills the pieces away from a goose egg that w ill be an Easter decoration. a carousel in a goose egg. It won't be enough that the horses go around She wants them to go up and down while they go around That's what real carousels do, isn't it, she asked C urrently that one has her stumped, but she is confident she can overcome the mechanics and arrive at her carouseled egg. " I don't think there's anything you can't do with an eggshell ”
