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SANDY. O REG O N THURSDAY. JUNE 17. 1982
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Sandy schools
top national
test average
Ross to lead parade
by DAN DILLON
Sandy E le m e n ta r y D is t r ic t
students reached a high water mark
during the recent school year when
they equaled or surpassed the
average in the 13 te ting batteries of
a national, standa ...zed test
That marked the first time that
district students have fared so well in
the California Achievement Test At
the same time the test, administered
in 35 states, pointed out areas where
the local curriculum could be
strengthened
“The thing that's different is we
have no grade in any of those 13 bat*
teries of the test that is below grade
placement." district Superintendent
Clark Lund pointed out.
He noted an unusual percentage of
students ranked in the 90th percentile
or above in the test. He said that
means that an eighth grader who
ranked in the 90s is performing at a
12th-grade level in basic skills; a fifth
grader would exhibit ninth-grade ap
titudes in basic skills
The California Achievement Test
includes four areas related to
reading, one to spelling, two to
language arts, two to mathematics
and one to reference skills Those
sub-groups are then totaled
The result for Sandy Elementary
District was “especially high" scores
in reading and language arts, and
"a b o ve a v e ra g e " m a th e m a tic s
scores, Lund said
While it is nice that the students did
so well, the superintendent is keeping
the achievement in perspective.
“ All it tells us is how our children
are doing the the national averages, "
Lund said “ It helps us know where
we want to maintain and where we
can improve "
He said the information garnered
from test results could be applied to
grade levels, individual classrooms
and individual pupils
With individual students, the infor
mation can be used in parent-teacher
conferences so tne teacher may point
out areas where the pupil needs im
provement It can tell whether Sandy Sandy area residents burned rock’n’roll records and books Sunday after a church service at Sandy Assembly of God
Elementary School, for example, is during which the music albums were denounced as carrying out the work of Satan. Nearly 300 persons took part in the
activity.
covering the curriculum.
SUHS rehires probationary teachers
Two of the 19 p ro b a tio n a ry
teachers, whose contracts were not
renewed in March after what Board
Member Paul Tucker called “a bath
of tears,” were rehired Monday.
Sue Chambers, who has worked for
Sandy Union High School one year as
an intern and three years as a special
education teacher, will be tenured if
she accepts the school’s contract.
Dr. Jack Peters, superintendent,
called her the “guiding light" of San
d y’s special education program.
Clackamas County Educational Ser
vice District funds pay for the pro
gram.
Peters said rehiring Chambers will
help keep SUHS in compliance with
state and federal handicapped educa
tion laws
The board unanimously agreed to
rehire Chambers, as well as Jan
Luelling, librarian.
Luelling, said Peters, has been in
strumental to making the library a
vital part of our educational process.
He said, “ We used to lose books,
and I know this is unusual, but in one
catagory we ended up with six more
books than we started with."
Luelling will gain tenure with ac
ceptance of the contract.
Dennis Crow, vice p rin c ip al,
discussed California Achievement
Test results. Sandy’s freshman class
finished average or higher in 90 per
cent of the 41 tests, which tested
reading, writing and math skills.
Sandy rated very high in seven of the
41 tests, high in 11 of the tests,
average in 19, and below average in
four.
Areas to emphasize included gram
matical problems and multiplication.
The junior class tested out at
average or above in 80 percent of the
tests. They rated a very high score in
two of the 41 tests, high scores in 13,
average scores in 18 and below
average in eight..
Areas to em phasize included
multiplication, geometry and certain
grammatical areas.
Board Member Bob Boring said
that he would be interested to see
how Sandy compares with other
schools in the county and state, in
stead of just nationally.
Dick Harrison, student services,
said ESD has discussed th at
possibility, but Portland schools and
others do not participate in the
California Achievement Test.
It was pointed out that some
schools don’t do any testing Board
Member Wayne Johnson commend
ed Crow for his diligence in develop
ing the program He cited examples
where Crow made changes in SUHS’s
curriculum to adjust for problems.
Monday was the first day incoming
freshmen from feeder districts could
test out of classes
This allows students to take more
advanced classes during their years
at SUHS.
Crow reports that 61 students
“ challenged” classes. This is the
largest number of students ever to
challenge, and that was with two
days remaining
Board Member Gary Cleland said
that he would like to know the percen
tage of students who successfully
challege classes Crow said he would
compile this information
Lenchitsky seeks spot on SUHS board
by SCOTT NEWTON
Terry Lenchitsky is one of two per
sons seeking Sandy Union High
School Board of Directors Poa. 2 in
the June 29 election.
Jeffrey M iller of Sandy is also run
ning. An interview will M iller w ill be
published in next week’s Sandy Post.
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Len ch itsky re g u la rly attends
SUHS board meetings and has been
going to budget committee meetings
for two years. He was chairman of
this year’s budget committee.
“ I felt the ’82 budget was very,
very well put together,” Lenchitsky
said, adding that the budget commit
tee received info rm ation from
teachers and administrators before
making final decisions
"The cuts that were made—and
there were many—were for the good
of the students and the community,
and preferably for the good of the
taxpayers," he said
The budget committee, school of
ficiate and others were openly ag
gressive in trying to get a tax base
levy passed in March.
Lenchitsky feels that increased
land assessments, in conjunction
w ith th e depressed econom y,
resulted in the defeat of the tax base.
He feels his business experience
would transfer well to work as a
beard member
He said, “The objective in this
case, instead of making a profit, is to
educate our students the best way
that we can with the dollars we have
Terry Lenchitsky
to spend.”
Lenchitsky put in nearly 25 hours
last winter on the budget committee
alone That does not include time
spent at board meetings
His goals, according to information
he provided The Post, include prac
ticing good money management and
providing affordable but quality
education
“ I ’ve worked with kids all my life,"
said Lenchitsky, who has lived in the
area for 14 years He's been involved
with little league baseball, Boy
Scouts, Kiwanis youth groups and
church youth groups
Lenchitsky manages the Sunset
Fuel and Engineering Company of
Portland About 230 people work for
Sunset F u el, which distributes
heating oil to about 1,000 customers
in the metropolitan area
He and his wife, Judith, have four
children. One will be a senior at
SUHS next school year
They live on Bluff Road between
Orient and Sandy Lenchitsky farms
10 acres He has one acre in raspber
ries, and also has cattle
He has a bachelor of science
degree from the University of
Portland, is president of the SUHS
Booster Club and St Michaels Parish
Council He is a member of the SUHS
co-curricular activities advisory
committee, and is on the Sandy
Kiwanis Club board of directors
Veteran Portland newscaster Richard Ross will be at the head of the
Sandy Mountain Days parade when it heads up Pioneer Boulevard this
year
Festival Chairman Darrell Dempster said this week that the KATU-
TV news anchorman has agreed to be the parade’s grand marshal.
The parade will begin at 7 30 p m on July 8.
Shannon Montgomery, who is organizing the parade, said the final list
of entrants will not be ready until the end of the week but she is op
timistic that many of the bigger entries in last year’s parade will make
a return appearance.
She said that the Royal Rosarians have made a commitment to ap
pear in the parade.
Firemen’s actions save
old Dover Schoolhouse
by DAN DILLON
A little luck and quick action by
Sandy firefighters last Wednesday
saved the old Dover School from total
destruction
“ Another minute or so in arriving
and we probably would have lost the
whole damn thing," said Sandy Fire
Marshal Jim Gallagher
The blaze caused an estimated
$20,000 damage to the 3,600-square-
foot structure, which as valued at
an estimated at >75,000. Loss to con
tents was valued at >10,000
The 56-year-old structure was on
the brink of becoming totally engulf
ed in flames when the first Sandy fire
engine arrived on the scene at 11:39
a m., 11 minutes after the first alarm
came into the main station.
However, firefighters were alerted
to the possibility of a fully-involved
fire by Dover firefighter, Tom
Kasch.
He radioed from the Dover substa
tion that the building had been puff
ing yellowish-gray smoke when he
drove past it as he respoonded to the
alarm Smoke that color is a sign that
all oxygen in the building has been
uabd and the fire is waiting for a new
oxygen source t<> explode
When Sandy Fire Chief Bob Rathke
arrived at the scene, six miles
southeast of Sandy at the intersection
of Kleinsmith and Kitzm iller roads,
flames were shooting out of the eaves
and the attic was totally on fire.
Firefighters then opened up the
roof to vent the explosive capabilities
by g iv in g the c o m b u s tib le s
somewhere to escape. If a door or
window had opened, Gallagher said,
the fire would have exploded.
Nineteen minutes after arrival, the
fire was under control.
“ We had excellent response out of
our volunteers and excellent work at
the scene," Gallagher said. Thirty-
two Sandy firefighters were assisted
by tanker truck crews from the Bor
ing, Estacada and Hoodland fire
districts.
The fire was reported by the owner
of the building, Bonnie Workinger,
40296 SE Kitzmiller Road, and by a
neighbor who saw the smoke as he
was working in his field
Cause of the fire was a woodstcve
chimney in contact with combustible
framing, Gallagher said The fire
started in the living room—a former
classroom—and worked its way into
the attic.
The occupant, Anna Malchow, was
not at home and the building's owner
had been watching it while she was
away. Gallagher said Workinger had
been in the building about 45 minutes
before the fire was reported and had
started a fire in the woodstove.
The school building was con
structed in 1926, replacing an earlier
Dover School which was destroyed
by fire. The building was used as a
schoolhouse until the district con
solidated with Sandy Elementary
District.
(See related story on page 5.)
Second civil su it file d
in tim ber theft case
by M ICHA EL P. JONES
In each case the persons and
businesses who are alleged to have
co m m itted the trespasses and
A Gresham logger accused of wrongful timber removal are the
timber theft who is one of the defen same, said Phillips.
dants in a >1,860,000 suit filed by
The trees were cut by the same
Clackamas County has been named crews, shipped by the same trucks
in a second civil complaint that seeks and sold to the same buyers, she said.
damages up to >180,600
Phillips said on July 13, 1981. she
Donald C. Rogers and W .R .
and the Rogers’ filed a joint motion
Rogers, co-partners in Rogers Con before Oregon Circuit Judge Howard
struction Company of Portland, have J Blanding, requesting a consolida
filed a suit in Clackamas County C ir tion of trials in the two civil cases.
cuit Court charging that Tim M
After hearing oral arguments from
Henderson stole timber, crushed
the defendants and plaintiffs, Blan
rock and gravel from their land near ding denied the motion for consolida
Brightwood along Boulder Creek
tion
On August 10, 1981, a motion for
Also named in the suit are Hender
considering the consolidation of the
son’s wife, Darlene, his partner in
two trials was again filed and again
Henderson Forest Products, and the
rejected
Tacom a based Cascade T im b e r
Because the two trials would be
Company and two of its top corporate
lengthy and complicated, and each
officers.
would contain the same evidence,
The plaintiffs charge that Hender
Phillips said a joint trial would have
son illegally entered their property,
been practical, saving both time and
around Nov. 21, 1979 and “wrongfully
money for all involved
took" crushed rock and gravel
No trial date has yet been set in
valued at >25,000
either of the civil cases against
Timber priced at >60,450, triple the
Henderson.
market value, was also allegedly cut
and sold
Post Correspondent
The Rogers' suit claims that
Henderson’s road construction and
logging operations were conducted in
such a manner that he violated the
state's Forest Standards and Prac
tices Act. As a result, the market
value of the land allegedly suffered
>45,150 in damages.
In addition the plaintiffs are seek
ing >25,000 in general damages and
>25,000 in punitive damages
The Rogers' property is adjacent to
county land and within close proximi
ty to land administered by the
B ureau of Land M an ag em en t.
Henderson is also charged with il
legally removing timber from county
and BLM lands along Boulder Creek,
in addition to Forest Service land on
Lolo Pass Road, near Zig Zag.
C y n th ia P h illip s , a s s is ta n t
Clackamas County counsel, said it
is believed that gravel from the
Rogers* property was used in the con
struction of the roads that gave
Henderson access to the county's
timber This made both thefts “ part
of the same trespass ”
County cuts
hearing crew
The Clackamas County hearings
officers are going out of business
At a m eetin g re c e n tly ,, the
Clackamas County Board of Com
missioners voted to take over the
responsibilities of the hearings of
ficers in an effort to balance the
county budget for the fiscal year that
begins July 1.
The 30 percent budget reduction re
quired for these divisions because of
reduced revenue also means elimina
tion of eight and a half jobs and
>175.000 for materials and services
“The county will save over >30,000
that is now pays to a Lake Oswego
law firm to conduct hearings and
make decisions on zone changes, con
ditional uses, variances and other
land use m atters," said Ardis Steven
son, Environmental Services assis
tant director