Voi. 72 No. H
SANDY. OREGON. THURSDAY. APRIL 8, 1982
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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
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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
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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 ”