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One-car crash
kills woman
east o f Sandy
A Sandy woman was killed early
Saturday morning when she ap
parently lost control of her vehicle
and it rolled over, throwing her from
the car.
Danell Rene Wilson, 20, died in a
one-car accident at 1:40 a m. on
Highway 26 near Chapel of the Hills,
about one-half mile west of Sleepy
Hollow.
Wilson apparently lost control of
her car. The vehicle first ran into a
ditch and then back onto the road,
finally striking a curb on the right
side of the road.
The impact caused the car to turn
over, throwing Wilson from her car.
She was pinned underneath it when it
came to a stop.
*w,’son was alone in the car, accor
ding to Clackamas County sheriff’s
deputies.
Photo by Dan Dillon
All eyes will be un the lord of the house, here cowering in front of the couch, as he tries to clear
himself with his wife who suspects him of infidelity in Kandy High School's production. "A Flea
in Her E a r." The play opens tomorrow evening at H p.m. Tickets will be available at the door.
French farce fractures fu n n y bones w ith pace
by DAN DILLON
with a misdirected letter thrown in to com
plicate the plot
The Sandy High School drama department
takes another new turn this weekend when the
curtain rises on the French farce. “ A Flea in
Her E a r.”
" I like to broaden the kids' spectrum of
types of plays they're doing,'* said Director
M ark Kuntz, explaining the departure from
the musicals the department has staged in the
past
"Even the musicals were different," he
pointed out ‘“ West Side Story’ was a tragic
musical about death Godspell' was a dif
ferent type of musical and so was ‘Forum .’"
"A Flea in Her E ar" was written by George
Feydeau and translated by Barnett Shaw. It
follows the lines of a classic bedroom force
The wife of a lord suspects her husband of
being unfaithful. As a test of his moral
character, she addresses a letter to him in
which she poses as a smitten woman sug
gesting a rendezvous at L ’ Hotel Des Amis
from whence has arrived a pair of his
suspenders.
He gives the letter to a friend, thinking it
must be intended for him. The wife goes to the
hotel to catch her husband looking for his
secret admirer
When she arrives, the porter at the hotel
looks just like her husband (Craig Thacker
plays both roles) and the already-twisted plot
thickens.
With a set Kuntz calls "a real dandy," the
stage in the SUHS commons will transform
from the living room of the lord’s estate to the
marbled lobby of L ’ Hotel Des Amis.
amount of concentration.” Particularly when
some cast members have more than 30 in
dividual entrances and exits to keep track of,
as some roles call for.
The whole set moves—partly on wheels and
partly on a lazy-susan—and that leads to one
of the characteristic? of farce, according to
Kuntz.
The 14-member cast includes Thacker,
Shannon Spradling, Stu Cabe, James Davis,
Lilian Muff, Julie Griffin, Sam Homey, Dave
Stafford, J.P, McLellan, Kari Sundstrom,
Dawn Davidson, Tomi Griffin, Duane Hall and
Ray Wolf
In the second scene, at the hotel, there are
nine sites for entrances and exits.
"For the kids to learn farce, the pace has to
be incredibly fast,” he said. "There are about
150 entrances and exits in the play. I t ’s the
toughest thing to teach.
Curtain time Fridays and Saturdays, April
30, May 1, 7 and 8, will be 8 p.m. in the SUHS
commons. A special high school matinee will
also be presented next Thursday afternoon
"W ith that number of entrances and exits, it
becomes quite a chore for these high school
kids," Kuntz said. " It takes a tremendous
Ticket information is available by calling
Sandy High School, 668-8011. Tickets will be
available at the door
SUHS seeks ‘inexpensive’ security
by SCOTT NEWTON
Security is as inexpensive as a
Dairy Queen hamburger a week.
At least that’s the way Dr. Jack
Peters, Sandy Union High School
superintendent, likes to look at it.
The school will put a $3,566,965 tax
base before the public May 18 For
someone with a home assessed at
$100,000 that would cost $79 per year,
or $1 64 per week.
" I don't know that that’s too much
to educate 1200 children in high
school," Peters said.
The current tax base, established
in 1916, is $313,853 Explaining why
the tax base should be increased by
more than $2 3 million is the problem
Peters faces
"M any people don’t understand
that a tax base is just like a levy, it
just gives you some stability,"
Peters said.
"W e could say, with confidence,
that these incoming freshmen are go
ing to go through graduation without
anything closing the school up."
Peters points out that the school
will still be accountable to the public
via the budget process
Also, the school would have tax
base authority that would not be used
during the '82-83 years, and beyond
The tax base, Peters thinks, would
fund the operation of the school until
at least 1965-86
The school needs $3,019,327 to
operate next year, which would leave
$547,638 of untapped tax authority.
According to Peters the board has
a policy that they will not increase
the budget any more than the Con
sumer Price Index.
Total resources for the school are
down about $600,000 for the 1982-83
year. Basic School Support (set by
the Oregon legislature) is down about
$116,000. Interest on investments is
down as Basic School Support will
now be paid eight times a year in
stead of four.
The school will also be missing the
tuition it used to receive from
Redland students, and timber sale
receipts are down about $38,000
The beginning cash balance is
down about $400,000. "We needed
that money to operate," said Joan
Hay, business manager.
As to what is in the present
$4,884,673 budget, an increase of 5.6
percent over last year, Peters said
that 72 percent goes to salaries and
benefits
"W e’re a service organization," he
said "The major portion of our
operation is people."
Peters was asked if it was
necessary to give notice of non
renewal to 19 probationary teachers.
" I t ’s true, we could have waited
and relieved everybody in September
(if no levy passed)," he said. "But I
felt it was important to those 19 peo
ple to let them know.
"Under the law we had to notify
them April 1. Also it gives them an
opportunity, if they wish to look
someplace else, to get going with it.
“The ¿9th of May I intend to write
them each a letter and ask them if
they’ll stay."
Although Peters at times seems op
timistic, about the chances of the tax
base passing, he said, " I think it'll be
close."
Eight of 36 combination A B levies
were approved by Oregon voters in
March.
Some have questioned the addition
of a $3,000 girls soccer program to the
Two sites vying for new post office
The first round hearings on the pro
pro-
posed site for a new Sandy post office
gets underway this Wednesday, May
5, when two groups bring conditional
use applications before the Planning
Commission
U S. Postal Service officials and a
local landowner have both filed ap
plications for two different sites that
they feel would be ideally situated for
the new facility.
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e Postal Service favors the nor
theast comer at the intersection of
McCormick and Wolf Drives, behind
the Scenic Fruit Company.
Mike Me Keel, who owns property
on Tupper Road directly north of the
Tupper Park site, has also filed for a
conditional use for a post office. He
has indicated to city officials that he
will offer his site as an alternative in
the event that the Postal Service’s
snas
in indicated
d ic a t e d th that
a t t h they
e v d o don’t
n ’t want to be
preferred location hits a snag
Some local businessmen have in told what site they have to purchase
dicated they would prefer to have the at no m atter what the cost.
new post office located nearer to the
Jordan said he told them that con
downtown core area
sideration of door-to-door delivery
" I think the site’s certainly accep
could assuage concerns.
table from our standpoint," said City
Manager Roger Jordan, "but that’s
The public hearing on the two pro
definitely a thorn in the bush that
posals will begin at 8 p m next
anyone can raise ”
Wednesday at Sandy City Hall in the
He said that postal officials have City Council Chambers
High bids boost jail expansion costs
Higher bids than expected have
jumped the price of a new expansion
an d
re m o d e lin g
p ro je c t
at
C lackam as County J a il nearly
$800,000.
Last week county commissioners
decided they will ask voters to bear
the brunt of that burden with a
special ta/. levy in November. That
would reimburse funds taken from
the county’s general fund to meet the
reuses since the project was bid
t fell.
In 1900, voters approved a one-year
levy for a $1.5 million jail expansion
project. But when the design-build
team recently received bids from
subcontractors, they found that it
would cost more that $1.9 million for
the project
Since 1980, new standards tor jails
have been set, requiring more space
for each cell. That added cost to the
project, according to architect Phil
Balsiger. Construction costs and
workers pay scales have also risen.
Commissioners went ahead with
plans to add 50 beds to the jail Costs
will be cut by not finishing a room
that would have held 18 beds, and by
not developing an outdoor recreation
area The 18-bed room will be used as
an indoor recreation area, according
to the new plan
The addition will provide extra
beds as well as adding on to the kit
chen facilities
If voters don't approve of covering
the price hike in November, the
money will still come from the
general fund.
The new jail standards prevent cut
ting the size of the expansion project
without jeopardizing the county's
goal for keeping up with a growing
jail population
According to Balsiger, the costs
per cell and per square foot of space
at the Clackamas County project are
lewer than other jail projects around
the state
*82-83 budget in these austere times.
Peters referred to the federally-
mandated Title IX legislation. The
boys still have one more sport to
choose from than the girls through
the course of a school year
Even if the part of the budget
marked "co-curricular" were cut, it
would only save the school $236,209
Cutting co-curricular, in effect,
would eliminate all athletics and ac
tivities.
Peters said that nearly all students
at SUHS participate in some extra
curricular activity. "Ninety-four per
cent of our students stay all year. On
ly 6 percent drop out," Peters said.
He feels activities, to a large
degree, help keep the dropout rate
low.
Asked if it is possible for what hap
pened in Estacada last year to hap
pen to SUHS, Peters said, " I hope
not. If we’re not funded in September
we're not open, and that’s a fact of
life
"How do you handle the lady that
will call me right after you publish
your article and say to me, *1 get sick
and tired of you threatening to close
that school.
" ‘I ’ve lived in Sandy,’ this year
she'll say 39 years, 'and it has always
been open ’
"Last year she said 38
"Thirty-nine years and it has
always been open She's absolutely
right. I t ’s always been funded We’ve
always had a levy
"Lord, I can tell you, I wish we
didn’t have a $600,000 shortfall.
" I t ’s a tough one I ’m out there
meeting with my neighbors, and
they’re telling me how tough times
are I know that.
"But I also know that if your house
is worth 100,000 bucks, the increase in
taxes will be one Dairy Queen ham
burger a week."
One way in which the school is at
tempting to gain voter support is
through a back-to-school night, which
will be May 10 at 7 p m
Midway through the evening pro
gram there will be a presentation by
the tax base committee This will be
held during a regular school board
meeting, which it is hoped will make
it the most well-attended board
meeting in SUHS history
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Sandy cyclist
hurt running
from police
A Sandy man suffered minor in
juries last Thursday when he lost
control of the motorcycle he was
driving while attempting to elude
local police.
Ronald Scott Coombs, 21, was cited
by Sandy police for attempting to
elude, disobeying a stop sign and
failure to display license plates after
police chased a man on a motorcycle
on the west end of Sandy.
According to police reports, the
motorcycle rider lost control of the
m o to rc y c le and slid in to an
automobile at the intersection of
Bluff Road and Scenic Avenue at 6:25
p.m.
Elsewhere, a Revenue Street resi
dent told police Saturday evening
that someone entered the residence
after kicking open a door. The
burglary was thwarted when the
residents returned and scared off the
intruder.
Sunday, police responded to a
minor fender bender on Langensand
Road Fawnda Lynn Buck told police
she was backing out of her driveway,
didn’t see an oncoming vehicle and
got hit.
The driver of the second car,
Michael Steven Chesnut, of Sandy,
was southbound and told police he
couldn’t stop in time.
No citations were issued
Button sale
underway to
aid festival
The new 1982 Sandy Mountain
Festival buttons have gone on sale in
local businesses this week
Designed by Mark Peasley, they
feature a totally new look, but still in
clude the fam iliar mountain man and
dancing bear which is the registered
logo of the Sandy Mountain Festival.
Buttons sell for $1 and proceeds go
to help finance the ninth annual
festival, set for July 10 and 11.
Buttons may be purchased at Joe’s
Donuts, Rexall Drug, Clackamas
County Bank, Independent Bank of
Sandy, Sandy Sentry Market, Cejka
Hardware, Montgomery Ward, Ron's
No Place, Gateway Inn, Calamity
Jane’s, Shorty's Corner, Tollgate
Inn, TJ's Fireside Dining, Paola’s
Pizza Barn. Sandy Decor, Sandy City
Hall, Thriftway, the VFW Club and
Janz Berry Land
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