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Section SANDY. OREGON THURSDAY. JUNE 17. 1982 The Srfndy Post Ä Area News People Home & Garden Features Boring board evaluates superintendent by GWEN BOGH Post Correspondent An evaluation of Joe Taylor. Bor ing School superintendent, by board members, was presented by Carl Aschoff, board member, at a meeting last week Taylor was rated high in the areas of honesty, flexibility, curriculum and finance Areas where improve ment is needed, according to the evaluation report, are in communica tions. and short- and long-term plan ning Concluding the report, Aschoff said that Taylor has “improved this last year ” It was recommended to the board that evaluations on a d ministrators in Boring be conducted on a continual basis Contracts for both Taylor and Je rry P ric kett, principal, were renewed by the board for another two-year term, beginning July I, 1982 They received a 2 percent salary increase A group, calling themselves Con cerned Parents, requested that board meetings be tape recorded Taylor said that according to the law, they have the right to do that. All meetings will be taped in the future. Taylor read a letter to the board from Peter Aiau, a spokesperson for the teachers at Boring, who pointed out that by law teachers are entitled to a 30-minute duty-free lunch per day. Acc ding to Aiau, who talked with The Post at a later date, this has not be i the case for everyone Some teachers, who took duty for 15 minutes of their lunch period, were compensated with a free lunch, but net all teachers received this in return for their time. Aiau said that teachers had brought the lunch problem to the at tention of ad m in istrato rs, and pointed out the law was being broken, but “they chose to ignore the law .” Next year there will be no free lun ches, but the problem of having so meone available to supervise lunch periods was not resolved Area groups to benefit from dinner The Mt. Hood Lions Club will host a seafood dinner June 25 at the Lions Club pavilion to raise money for the area’s elderly, scouts and other groups, as well as to raise building funds. Steaks, as well as fish, will be on the menu PTA President Connie Reynolds said parents might be able to help with lunch duty Another alternative suggested was to hire an aide Prior to the meeting Bob Barren- tine, an architect with Barrentine, Bates and Lee, Lake Oswego, met with Taylor, Clair Reynolds, ad visory committee chairman, and Helen Iuere, Clackamas County com munity development specialist, at Boring School, where a new park is to be built B arren tin e s purpose for the meeting was to get a first hand look at the grounds so that he can begin working to gather appropriate infor mation on play structures and various pieces of equipment. A design committee was to be selected of three people, who will work directly with the architect as the park is constructed Letters of application are being ac- cepted for two vacancies on the budget committee, it was announced The three-year terms of Renae Tram m ell and Bonnie Sterns will ex pire in July, The board will accept applications until July 9 A prerequisite is that the applicants be a district residents. A knowledge of finance is helpful, ac cording to Faith Wilson, deputy clerk. Elections set for water boards Elections for positions on the boards of directors of five newly- formed water districts serving the area formerly encompassed by the Alder Creek Water Company are scheduled for June 29. Five commissioners will be elected to each of the boards of directors for the Alder Creek-Barlow. Riverside, Sleepy Hollow. Wildwood and Coun try Club districts In four of the five special district board races candidates are running unopposed The filing deadline was May 26 In the Riverside election a husband will be competing against his wife for a position on the board. Candidates running for commis sioners in the Wildwood district in- clude John J. Anderson. Frank Frai- jo and his wife, Joyce, Ronald K French and Ron Stanton Mark Bachmann, Mary A. Bot- cheos, R H. Pom eroy, B everly Stonebrook and Jackie L. Yates are running for the Country Club board. The Alder Creek-Barlow water district canidates are Margo Demp ster, Bob Gordon, Maggi Rands, Richard T. Stone and Orville L. Thompson Candidates M a rily n L. H ill, Everard Johnson, Charles Peterson, Jeffery K Shackleford and Dottie B. Shoup are running for the Sleepy Hollow board. In the Riverside district Robert Benson, John C. M«ner, Nan Slenn- ing, and Jock S. Stewart, are running for the board In this same race. Kylie B. Milne will be competing for a position on the board against her husband, Richaid. The Eve candidates to receive the most votes will comprise the board. The precinct for voters living in the Alder Creek and Riverside districts will be Firwood Elementary School, 42900 S.E. Trubel Road, Sandy. In the Cr ntey Club, Sleepy Hollow and Wildv »d districts residents will vote at the Mt. Hood Lions Club on Highway 26 in Wemme. A spokesperson for the Clackamas County elections division said that the two precincts for the June 29 special election will be open from 8 a m. to 8 p.m. - cr « |S S « 4 |M V 7 I I V I I I Kollin Schimniel, Oregon AAV Cultural Exchange coach. In appreciation for the hospitality shown the wrestlers while in Sandy. W eaver’s w ork to be featured at opening by MICHAEL P. JONES the road in February and appeared at the Yakima Valley Museum in Yakima, Wash. Here she lectured The opening of Rhododendron’s and also taught workshops on “ Glacier Gallery” Sunday, June 20, Navaho weaving. will allow the works of 30 Northwest Her work once again went on the artists to be featured on the moun road in April and appeared in the All tain, including two who have cap Oregon Juried Weaving Show, held in tured some of the history of Native Corvallis. Americans in their art. In May the former I^ake Oswego Sharon Smith, director of the new resident appeared at a Portland in gallery, announced that the Navaho- vitational entitled, “Tapestries By style weavings of Marmot resident Ten Portland Weavers.” Audrey Moore will be included In her spare time Moore is also a among the works featured. consultant on Navaho looms for the Caravan Loom Company. In addition, the petroglyph rubb Since 1974 she has taught classes in ings of Jeanne Hillis, a painter who Navaho weaving at the Damascas lives in The Dalles, will also be Craft Center, where she also con displayed ducts natural dye workshops Moore, who lives on a small farm Jeanne Hollis has three framed in the Marmot area, dyes her own rubbings of petroglyphs featured in yarn and utilizes primarily natural the gallery’s western section These colorings derived from plants in her unique rubbings are from sites once weavings. inhabited by a number of Columbia For her reds she uses the coloring River Indian tribes. substance of the cochineal plant from These ancient petroglyphs were Mexico, said Smith. Her blues are made in areas that have been under derived from the indigo plant, which water since the construction of Bon is native to North America. neville Dam and the river “tapped” Her Navaho-style pieces have been for the production of hydroelectric unique enough to keep her busy power. traveling to shows in both Oregon The petroglyphs, entitled “Small and Washington since 1973. Man From Brown’s Island" and the In January Moore’s work was “ Man With Shaman Circle,” are rub featured at the National Wool bed on rice paper Growers Show and Invitational in Gallery hours are from noon to 7 Portland entitled, “ Wool Is A rt.” p.m. It will be open Wednesdays She took her weavings with her on through Sundays. Post Correspondent H oodland Happenings, M eeting or-, levy to be June 23 MONDAY, JUNE 21 The Welches Community School “ Aerobic Dance” class will continue through the summer months at Welches School in the covered area next to the school playground. Babysitting available for small fee Chris Hutchinson will be leading class every Monday and Wednesday from 9 to JO a m. Fee is $5. The Mt. Hood Corridor Citizens Planning Organization will meet this evening beginning at 7:30 in the Mt. Hood Lions Club building on Highway 26 in Wemme WEDNESDAY, JUNE 23 Welches Community School hikes continue throughout the summer with Lou Tipton leading. Meet at Hoodland Women’s Club building at 9:30 a m. to carpool. The Mt. Hood Lions Club meets this evening beginning at 8 p.m. in the club building in Wemme. Welches School will hold an infor mational meeting concerning the June 29 levy tonight in the multi purpose room of the new school. The Hoodland Chamber of Com merce membership drive is under way. Call John Thompson at 622-3927 for more information. Several openings exist in the Homestead Day Camp program The Day Camp, located in Rhododendron, is for girls in grades l through 8. The first one-week session begins July 12. The second begins July 19. Call Pam Ashland at 622-4285 for more Infor mation. To place an event in Hoodland Hap penings, contact Dawn Morrison at 622-3538. Brightwood Glen on agenda for Mt. Hood CPO meeting The Mt. Hood Corridor Citizen Planning Organization will consider a recommendation on the proposed Brightwood Glen development at its next board meeting, to be held Mon day, June 21. The proposed 347-unit development is planned for 96 acres in what is known as the "Cedar Ridge” area in Brightwood, adjacent to Highway 26. At the CPO’s last board meeting, held on June 9, no decision could be made due to the lack of a quorum. A report on the Clackamas County planning commission hearing on the Mt. Hood Plan revisions, held on June 14, will also be given. Also scheduled on the agenda will be a discussion on what the CPO’s in put will be at the county commis sioners hearing on the Mt. Hood plan, scheduled for July 6. Other business for the Mt. Hood Corridor CPO meeting includes a r chitectural standards for buildings located on scenic highways and roads, fund raising for the CPO, and mailing procedures. Skepticism greets proposed revisions of community plan by MICHAEL P. JONES Poet Correspondent The proposed revisions of the Mt. Hood community plan were greeted with skepiticism and anger Monday night, June 14. A small group of people expressed dissatisfaction with the Clackamas County Planning Commission at a hearing held at the Hoodland Women’s Club on the proposed plan changes, The changes in the area’s 1976 plan, which residents and property owners took issue with, were no dif ferent than those expressed at previous hearings The issues includ ed wetlands, “ down zoning,” density transfer, and the reduction of the Mt. Hood plan to a background report. Ardis Stevenson, assistant director of the en viro n m e n ta l services department, told members of the commission the revisions in the com munity plan were a result of a Dec 4 order by the state Land Conservation and Development Commission. Stevenson said the county planning staff was to “specifically look at" the zoning outside the Hoodland Sewer District, as well as the identification and protection of wetlands She said LCDC has given the coun ty until Aug 13 to make the revisions before going back to seek approval of the changes Dominic Mancini, planning direc tor, said although there is concern because the 1976 plan is being reduc ed to 13 pages, the area is still pro tected in the Clackamas County Com prehensive Plan The Mt Hood plan was used as a mode! for the com prehensive plan The “condensed" report, which has been c r itic iz e d , M a n c in i acknowledged, contains only those characteristics that are unique to the mountain However, Mancini's explanation did little to dispel the fears that seem to accompany the reduction of the role of the 1976 plan These fears were overw helm ingly interlaced throughout the testimonies given Monday night. Residents fear that the elimination of the area's comprehensive plan, and its replacement with the 13-page . revision, will create both economic flood plains and slopes, to less- wetlands as the issue the county was be disruptive to the land’s “ rain Bright. “ Its going to make a lot of hardships and adverse impacts on sensitive areas. to re-examine, not down zoning. She forest environment.” He described people happy up here in the coming the environment. Tross said that “ Brightwood said she could see no reason for the the land as being both "robust and years.” W ETLAND IMPACTS Glen," a 347-unit development pro county’s actions delicate.” Diane Spies, a land-use attorney Marilyn Leslie of Zig Zag said the posed by the Real Estate Develop This concern was echoed by Frank Kersh said the proposed changes in speaking on behalf of the Sane elimination of the original communi ment Fund of Salem, would have to J Brocker of Portland, who owns 15 his property’s zoning from rural Economic Development Association, ty plan is a mistake because the be constructed around wetlands acres off Aschoff Road in the Lolo residential to a forest designation is requested the planning commission county’s comprehensive plan does located on the property He said that Pass area near Zig Zag. improper since his family's original allow the record to remain open so not adequately protect n atu ral from the standpoint of land-use plan Brocker said he purchased the land plans for purchasing the acreage was that she and her staff could complete resource areas, such as wetlands. By ning, density transfer would be good in March 1975 with “a definite intent to maintain it for recreational pur a study on the properties to be a f lumping the differing values of rural because “ it would preserve wetlands for eventually building a house.” The poses. fected by the proposed down zoning. and urban land-use issues together, by allowing development to take county said it was adequate “for “Our plans are to cluster our own Wes Post, spokesperson for SEDA, the area will be “ unnecessarily and place on less fragile land.” building purposes" and zoned it one retirement home with recreational said the extra time is also essential overly compromised by planned Both Leslie and Baker took issue house per five acres in 1979. cabins for each of the two children as so they can notify all the property developments,” even more than it with the proposed density transfer He said a prior soil investigation they grow older," said Kersh, “and owners who will be affected currently is. and testified that it would improperly conducted by Jerry Marshall of the to preserve the forest atmosphere.” “ We can’t regard a wetland in allow land speculators to be compen Post said a conservative estimate county’s D epartm ent of Public Kersh said to attempt to utilize the Oregon C ity under the sam e sated for wanting to build in areas shows that over 1000 properties Works showed that there are four dif land for timber harvesting would be guidelines as here,” said Leslie. that are unsuitable. would be re-zoned under the planning ferent sites that are suitable for the both e n v ir o n m e n ta lly and “ W etlands here have a much staff's proposed “ blanketed down “The only purpose I see in density construction of single-family dwell economically unfeasible. He said broader far-reaching affect and im zoning." exch an g e is co m p en sation to ing units. because of its limited acreage, poor pact on wildlife, fisheries, rivers and d e v e lo p e r s ,” sa id L e s lie . Now, however, said Brocker, the Due to time limitations in the hear soils, glacial boulder deposits and private water systems, more than in “ Developers are speculators and I proposed zone change would require ing schedule, Post said his organiza slopes, it could not be a suitable urban core areas.” see no need for their risks to be sub a minimum of 20 acres for building tion has not had time to examine “ economic unit.” Beth Baker, secretary for the sidized by the county at further ex purposes each specific parcel and that the best In an interview after his testimony, Rhododendron Neighborhood Group, pense to a r u r a l re s o u rc e - “ I s tro n g ly su p p o rt good Kersh said that during the late '60s they could do is “only hope that each took issue with the county’s remov recreational area planning,” said Brocker “ I, too, and ’70s his family was under cons owner understands the effects (of the ing protection from wetlands and “ At this time we must question the would abhor wild development of the down zoning) on their property.” tant pressure to sell the land for other fragile areas The proposed need for the immediate planned beautiful Mt. Hood corridor. “ I don't know what down zoning e ith e r developm ent or tim b e r revision would allow one unit per five developments,” said Leslie. “ Mt. “ I have no intention of speculative harvesting is,” said Terance Foster, who owns acres if seotic requirements could be Hood is suffering a housing glut both use of my land,” said Brocker. “ But I " It seemed like once a week so 10 acres. “ I don’t know if I ’m going to met. The 1976 plan does not allow to private owners and developers. do resent retro-active rezoning which meone would call up wanting to pay more taxes or less taxes " such development. More dense housing will make this can totally alter the original purpose develop it,” said Kersh Then when Foster accused the members of the Baker testified that as far back as situation worse and devalue existing of purchase Especially seven years timber was high we’d get calls from planning commission of not having a June 1924, the original plat prepared homes even further in a depressed after the fact." ‘clear-cut’ loggers. heart and fears they want his land by civil engineer Sam H. Bellah for economy, not to mention the tremen Brocker s daughter, Lori, testified “Our goal is not to develop or log Susette Franzette, an early-day real “ If you people want the property dous impact we will be facing in an that the land was purchased with in It,” said Kersh "Our goal is to main for the market value, you can have estate developer in Rhododendron, area which has no economic base to surance money from her mother’s tain it for the family We are not ‘fly It," said Foster angerly. id e n tifie d the 3 0 -ac re adequately meet the needs of its pre death so each of the children could by night' developers. Our intent is to m eadow t r ip a r ia n system as sent residents.” Renee Knapp of Zig Zag said if the have a cabin constructed. The new preserve it." “ recognized as unbuildable ” “ As for property owners who are proposed down zoning is approved it zoning would effectively “ interfere Carl Bright, developer of the Rippl Fifty-two years later, Baker said going to suffer economic loss, I ’m will lower the tax base for the county with this heritage ” ing River subdivision in Welches, that CH2M tHill, a private planning sorry for them but if these same since the number of units allowed for Karol Wyatt Kersh and his family also spoke against the down zoning firm hired by the county to develop a owners had spent their money on own a 24 acre parcel of land on East construction would be reduced Bright said that although he is not comprehensive plan for the corridor, gold stock or Litton Industries or Barlow Trail Road that lies between “ Has the economic impact of this being affectedby the re-zoning, he recommended there be “no building some other stock which has gone Sandy River Acres and the National down zoning been considered." asked was compelled to speak out “ in whatsoever in the Rhododendron down,” said Baker. “ I ’m sure M errill Forest boundary. He said this parcel Knapp, "because this is a very large distress about the (affected) rural meadow.” Lynch or their stockbrokers would of land had also been purchased for issue and should be.” area.” He called the proposed new Thia was supported by the county’s not have sent sympathy cards nor constructing recreational cabins. zoning "very disturbing because of DECISION TO BE R E N D E R E D own soil expert, said Baker, who con made any great effort to help them Kersh said his father and mother the economic devastation to the peo The planning commission voted to ducted an analysis of the area and recoup their losses Land purchased had purchased the property, on ple ” hold a work session on the plan's “stated that the marsh would not for speculation should be considered which there was a small logger’s People should have been a con revision, Monday, June 21, at the support building.” as such—some win, some lose.” cabin, on June 11, 1952 Also, a por sideration when the new zoning was county’s environmental services of DEN SITY TRANSFER DOWN-ZONING FEARS tion of the old Barlow Road crosses studied, said Bright, but this was not fice. 902 Abemethy in Oregon City. Jeffrey R. rross, a land planning Nancy Spencer, a property and over the land, which he said the fam i the case He said a change from the They will allow written testimony to and development consultant for a former-business owner in the area, ly treasures and will maintain rural zoning to timber would allow be submitted until noon, June 23. proposed subdivision in the Cedar sa id th e p la n n in g s ta ff has He said if is the family's intent to this area to be clearcut On June 28 they will make their Ridge area near Brightwood, spoke “drastically overstepped” what the construct up to four residences, as To allow a house to be constructed recommendations on the plan public in favor of transfering development LCDC had directed the county to do. well as develop a “proper" timber on “a two-acre parcel of land is not and then forward them to the Board from fragile areas like wetlands, Spencer said LCDC had identified management plan, which would not going to devastate the area.” said of County Comissionert
