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The Srfnèfy Post Von Braschler, Publisher Caroline Duff. Office Manager Editorial & Opinion Dan Dillon, Editor Scott Newton. News Editor SANDY. OREGON. THURSDAY, MAY 27, 1982 Personally speaking: Birds best short-term companions Good neighbors take time to weed With Mountain Festival just around the corner, it ’s time local residents clean up their yards for the thousands of visitors who’ll flock here July 10-11. C ity h a ll is e n c o u ra g in g weeding of unsightly yards, too, with a list of four or five agents to help neighbors who just can’t seem to get the jo b done themselves. A nuisance section in the city code allows a clean sweep of yard messes that offend neighbors, with posting of yards targeted by the council and notice by mail with a 10-day response deadline Then the city legally could step in and have the job done by experts and bill the offen ding property owner, putting a lien on the property to pay if necessary. That’s what the city COULD do legally What the city proposes to do to spirit neighborhood clean-up is a lot nicer. Before taking legal action this year, the city plans to spell out the problem and offer names of ven dors to anyone they receive a complaint about. Last year the ci ty took this helpful approach first and spent some $250 to clean up lots of negligent owners—an amount recovered in charges, not liens. And the c ity ’s not leveling clean-up deadlines against every vacant lot with berry bushes, either. New residential subdivi sions are where most complaints about tansy ragweed, uncut grass and thistles arise Tidy neighbors who landscape often consider unkept adjacent lots a public nuisance, and city hall rightfully is sticking up for their clean stand Reader demand prompts tv return By popular demand our weekly television directory is back as magazine insert to The Post. We axed the program listings a few weeks ago to cut back on the number of pages we printed I t ’s quite costly to print that many ex tra pages each week, and we didn’t think many readers would find our service all that indispen- sible. Boy, were we wrong! At least that’s what a hoard of angry readers told us in no uncertain terms, and we listened Apparent ly, a complete cable listings for the Sandy-Hoodland area available nowhere else. is So with a little egg on our face, we resume our directory of local television programs for the week You’ll note we found ways to con dense the full week’s schedule into fewer pages, while making the listings a bit easier to read with a new layout format. We hope it meets your approval, and we vow to continue the weekly service as long as we can afford to do so ('all to say how you like the new format We ll listen. Ask the superintendent: How many try college? hy DH JOHN PETERS Sandy High Suprrlnlrndrnl QUESTION Do moat Sandy High School graduate* go on to college attar gradua tion”* ANSWER We do not have any atatuitica on the percentage of student* attending a particular school after graduation We do know that the majority ot graduate* receive some form ot after high school education Many attend our local com munity college* Others begin four year programs al private or public unlversitiea, while still others join the m ilitary service Some go to work immediately or join ap prenliceahip programs, Our counselor* tell ua that very few students who graduate from Sandy High School fall to put their education Io good uae Q UESTION What does Sandy High School offer in vocational education? ANSWER < urrently. Sandy High School offers a secretarial program marketing, metal*, accounting, forestry, electricity electromes, industrial mechanics child c a re , a g ric u ltu re (w hich Includes agricultural mechanics animal science and horticulture I and work experience In addition to these programs for juniors and •amor*, we offer underclassmen a course called ’ • vocational exploration * which treats at* different occupetional areas in a year long sequence Through contact with several "worlds of work" as a freshman the student is better able to select his or her speciality Drafting and woods are other classes popular with ninth and tenth graders We also have a tutor program for vocational atudenta whose reading, writing and arithmetic skills need im provemenl Thu program u federally funded and designed for he "average ' stu den! We are the only high school in the state of Oregon that uses federal voca tmnal money to assist the "average** atu dent NOTE Qerstlen» far Or Peters sStntM be addressed te The Masdy Pest. PO Bus U dandy. ON r« M He will answer all gees Hews ie this cetema There was one thing we agreed on the whole time we shared the apartment He didn't tell me what to do I didn't put my hand in his cage We let each other be We both liked that in a roommate, even though we both violated the heck out of our unspoken code I>ast December I wrote about that relationship in this space. ‘T v e been befriended by Clint Eastwood and, for once in my life, I have a friend who doesn't talk back, tell me to dust under my bed or criticize my fondness for frozen pizzas Our first meeting set the tone of our relationship Annie Dillard touched on it when she wrote, " It was less like seeing than like being for the first time seen, knocked breathless by a powerful glance . . I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck .” Clint lifted and struck me at the Clackamas County F air in 1980, moments after a friend threw a dime that caught the dish and refused to bounce out The carnival barker asked her what bird she wanted and, although we shrugged helplessly punk'” ' the cinematic Clint snarl ed in the opening moments of "D irty H arry" at a would-be li quor store robber who cowered beneath the business end of his 45 magnum That sentence was the only thing I tried to teach him in the 21 months we shared our basement apartment, but he was his own bird He'd just glare and tell me to change the record by DAN DILLON at each other at the thought of a pet, the light blue and yellow number caught cur collective eye simultaneously I suggested Flip, but there was little doubt the parakeet would be named Clint Eastwood His f ir s t p e tu la n t s ta re guaranteed that, "like being for the first time seen ” " I know that in all the confu sion, you’re thinking. Did he fire five shots or did he fire six shots?’ Well, how lucky do you feel cage Clint had difficulty dealing with his assigned species He barked like a dog when I came home from work He crow ed like a rooster incessantly every morning at dawn. He chirped his thanks when I fed him and he danced like there was no tomorrow whenever Talking Heads records were played on the stereo Last weekend I flew home to Montana answering an unex pected emergency When I got back, word that Clint would never learn his line waited We bought his cage with money garnered from recycled empties. Its color didn’t do his feathered upholstery justice, but it matched his passion for noisy squawks of outrage. Those squawks turned once in to a simple yelp of pain Late for work during the first week of his tenure, I tried to feed him while I dashed out the door He flew the coop, settling on the curtain rod. Catching a parakeet can't be so difficult. I thought Later I listened to an old Jerry Jeff Walker song that used to make me think of all the girls I've split up with in the past six years, and grinned It was funny. Although they all meant the world to me at the time, the only thing that still stands out among the lot of them was their dark hair I grabbed, listened to his wounded squawk and looked at the handful of tail feathers I held They grew hack and with them came a mutual respect I ’ve felt with few friends He didn’t tell me what to do. I didn't put my hand in his It occurred to me that the only one the song really applied to is Clint. " M y b u d d y, m y b uddy, nobody's quite so true. . He didn’t tell me what to do I didn't put my hand in his cage Letters to the editor: School-taught creationsism debated Whose religion? Recently there has been a lot of talk and print about prayer in public schools President Reagan even has proposed an amendment to this effect There exists a lot of public support for volun ta ry p ra y e r in public schools Many people feel that this would help im prove the moral quality of our young people I grew up in a public school system in which both prayer and Bible reading were everyday ac tivities There was no pro blem, and all the students did it without any com plaint The fact that prayer in school caused no problem in those days is not necessarily a proof that prayer would cause no pro blein now Almost all the students in my school were e ith e r B a p tis ts or Methodists, and no real problem in interpretation of the Bible arose Today there are many more types of protestant churches w ith w id ely divergent beliefs Also there are non protestant churches such as the Catholic which certainly don't share protestant beliefs In this religious climate, prayer in public schools could cause pro blems To illustrate my point, I will relate an issue that arose in th is v e ry newspaper a few months ago A local pastor an nounced that he was con ducting a set of lectures on cults and other religious organizations that don t follow the h is to ric al* C h ris tia n p a tte rn s I believe he included Scien tology and the Moon church in this group He also, to my shock and dismay, in eluded the Mormon church The next week a letter ap peared in this section from a member of the Mormon church that eloquently rebuffed the charge Now if a Mormofi was leading a prayer in school, a student who is a member of another church may be upset Perhaps a Roman Catholic would take excep tion to a prayer led by a fundamentalist There is room for all sorts of pro blems Unfortunately, churches s t ill b ic k e r am ong themselves as to dogma This bickering has increas ed recently due to the emergence of conservative fundamentalist churches as a national influence The people pushing the hardest for prayer in school are these fu n d a m e n ta lis ts Since they are making great progress, on joining or in flu e n c in g school boards, the fundam en talists may decide which prayers are said I am sure this would not be pleasing to the more moderate Christian church goers. Schools already have many problems to deal with in their day-to-day ac tivity To avoid further pro b lem s, e ith e r p ra y e r should be left out of public schools or o n ly non- sectarian prayers such as The Lord's Prayer should be a llo w e d in the classroom After all, there is no law against private prayer which comes from the heart Public prayer is usually only a public display without real mean ing. Harold Hayward Sandy Call it science the universe, including the stars, the solar system, the earth, life, and man. came into existence in essentially the complexity we see to day . . . Furthermore, the creation model holds that the earth has experienced a worldwide flood "Actually, no persons religion will be forced upon the public school if we a llo w o nly s c ie n tific evidence in the science classroom—that which has been observed, measured, or reproduced in the laboratory. ‘ Students deserve to be informed of all the major scientific data and the various interpretations of that data To exclude data because it happens to cor respond with statements in the Bible, the Koran, or other religious documents is censorship and poor science ’’ Miss K unkel's le tte r should have been heaiied "Teach science.’’ Joan E Berglund Sandy In the May 20 Sandy Post Tamra A Kunkel, a Sandy High student, wrote an ex cellent letter requesting that science classes at San Sandy Country Market dy High include creation as will open the season this well as evolution, which S atu rd ay, M ay 29, at presently is taught ex Pioneer Park on the corner c lu s iv e ly . The Post of Hwy 26 and 362nd m ish e ad ed the le t t e r A venue T he M a r k e t "Teach religion." The Post features crafts, fresh pro appears to be confusing duce in season, honey, scientific creation with hom em ade b read and biblical creation, which dif pastries, plants and much fer Miss Kunkel made It friendliness clear in her letter that she The market is a social was not asking that the Bi event each Saturday all ble be taught in the summer — open to buyers, classroom c ra ftp e rs o n s and I would like to quote Dr gardeners who would like Walter T Brown, Jr., The to sell their wares What director of the Institute for comes to market is always Creation Research as he a surprise, so you will want explains the differences to come often “ S c ie n tific C re a tio n The dedicated people in deals with the scientific volved with the Sandy evidences that give us in Country Market felt they sight into our origins The had a commitment to their great majority of these community to present an evidences support creation old-fashioned marketplace and refute evolution - thus where people can find the term Scientific Crea useful com m odities at tion. reasonable prices "Scientific Creation can I would like to thank all be contrasted with Biblical of you who gave support to Creation The Bible pro the market last year We vide* many details about hope to see you again this our origins that science year The Market will be cannot support or refute open each Saturday from Biblical Creation is an ap 10 a m to 4:30 p m To propriate subject for the reserve a vending space home, church, and church call Pam Hauff at 668 7257, related schools but not for Pam Hauff science classes in the Sandy public schools On the other hand. Scientific Creation, which draws its support I ’d like to thank all those from scientific evidence who supported me m the and not the Bible, is cer tainly an appropriate and primary election for state exciting subject for science senator, particularly the volunteer workers I hope you'd ad stay with ua for * * . . . The creation model the neat campaign that will holds that everything in culminate with the general Open mart opens Support asked to increase the rate of hous ing starts in Oregon, it would help if some of the other building trades would also reduce their wage demands to encourage the construction of new homes I also said that some mem bers of organized labor have been well paid until the current recession and h ave homes and campers that many small business pople can’t afford This letter is written to and th a t lik e s m a ll express my appreciation to business people, they may everyone who supported have to take less in order to me in my bid fo r get the housing economy C la c k a m a s C o u nty going again, which Oregon s u rv e y o r in the M ay badly needs primary You also repo ted, “ Sen I hope I will have jou r Brown said A m eric an co n tin u e d su p po rt in labor has priced itself "out November, of the market So it’s not Thomas A Milne s u rp ris in g A m e ric a n Oregon City business goes abroad.” Again, you misquoted me I gave th at as the big business argument for go The new s story carried in ing overseas It's a phony the Sandy Post, "Business a r g u m e n t. In tr u th , h a m s tru n g , c a n d id a te American business goes claims,' reporting my May overseas for a number of 4 talk to the Sandy Area reasons (1) they can get Chamber of Commerce, away with paying sub- misrepresents my position. sistance wages, (2) they You reported, "High cost don't have to negotiate with of labor is largely to blame for Oregon business short organized labor, (3) they provide little, if any, social comings,” Brown said. in s u ra n c e and h e a lth This is misleading 1 never benefits, <4) they don’t stated or implied that the have to comply with ade level of wages paid to quate safety standards and Oregon workers, union or environmental protection non union, substantially regulations, (5) and on top deters new business from of this, they pay little if any coming to Oregon I did federal income tax state, however, that a real For many years I have deterrent is the high cost of led the fight in Salem for labor related social in “ Buy American" legisla surance Social Security, tion so that Oregon tax unemployment compensa dollars at least are not used tio n and e s p e c ia lly to buy foreign goods at the workers compensation, a expense of American jobs. cost which is especially I did say that "small high for sm all labor- business is hamstrung in intensive businesses You Oregon" but the thrust of accurately quoted me as my talk was to show that saying, "Business does not want to cume here, if it’s small businessmen, family farm ers and organized labor intensive and they labor must work together must pay those rates,’* he said of workers’ comp ** in Oregon for a graduated c o rp o ra te incom e tax Although Oregon workers' which encourages sm ill compensation prem ium business, workers' com- rates are the fourth highest penstion insurance reform, in the U S ., Oregon ranks near the bottom in benefits f a ir r a ilr o a d shipping e n e rg y in actually paid out to disabl ra te s , dependence, legislation ed workers protecting family farming You in a c c u r a te ly reported, “ Brown said and “ B u y A m e ric a ** campaigning door-to-door leg ialation for Oregon opened his eyes to a new g o v ern m e n t purchases distribution of wealth that where price and quality are favors laborers. " I find substantally equal—if our people living in expensive Oregon economy is to sur homes with campers and vive. Walt Brown boats, who work through State senator labor unions These are houses and campers small Milwaukie business people would like LETTERS POLICY to afford '* The Pest asks that What 1 did say was that I all letters le the commended the plumbers é d ite r he ty p e d , for cutting their hourly deehle-spaeed and wage rates on residential Deadline Is construction from about Tnetday. IIS to SU per hour, and that election in November We’ve tried to gather up all of our campaign signs that were put up. but if we missed one. please call me collect at 873-8365. Joe Davis Republican candidate for state senate Candidate speaks Misquote claimed
