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The Srfntty Post
Editorial & Opinion
Don’t waste local voter control
Regardless of how you feel
about candidates and tax levels,
it’s important to your community
that you vote between 8 a m. and 8
p.m. June 29. Your local school is
one of the last places where your
voice is heeded or needed.
payers to see that schools are pro
perly budgeted and governed by
th e r ig h t b oard m e m b e r s .
Whether local school levies ask
excessive amounts Tuesday is for
you to decide.
Sandy Elementary District cut
some ¿16,363 from a March 30
levy bid. It trimmed two teacher
positions, a $4,000 maintenance
vehicle and $7,000 fencing behind
Cedar Ridge School.
Sandy Union High School
District m eanwhile seeks ap
proval of a $2.7 million operating
levy after May 18 defeat of a $3.6
million tax base.
Welches School District asks
approval of a $106,782 combina
tion A and B special levy for its
$1.02 million budget.
Since government officials cur
rently are finding 12-14 percent of
all property tax uncollectable in
these hard tim es, school districts
are especially hard-pressed to
pad a levy request with enough
cushion.
Von Braschler, Publisher
Caroline DuH Office Manager
Don Oillon. Editor
Scott Newton. News Editor
SANDY, OREGON. THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 1982
Record-burning, Tri-Met spur letters
Burn records
Tri-Met responds
mg to run things from the June 25 and Saturday, June
sports or academically, ex
court house to the commis 26, Thia will be a last
actly what they put into it. I
Hooray for the record
We a p p re c ia te yo u r sioners officers to Warner chance to sign petitions
believe that a good sports
burners! It was absolutely
highlighting the many im Milner Road to the county The following shopping
p ro g ra m is not ju s t
refreshing to hear about a provements scheduled for shops (not to mention centers have agreed to
beneficial, as the old say
demonstration that had no the Tri-M et System in your Marylhurst and Gladstone > sponsor these petition fa in
ing goes. “To keep kids off
political connection or gain
May 20 editorial, “Take the easily can be documented as a p u b lic s e rv ic e :
the streets “ It also teachs
by re c e iv in g fe d e r a l
bus and leave the hassle to by anyone who cares to Eastport Plaza, Oregon Ci our young people how to
E veryone’s naturally looking
monies! No, just a nice ua’ ” Obviously we are con check addresses in the ty Shopping Center, Sunset
compete in this world, how
for ways to save pennies these
honest statement that they
cerned that all riders and phone book
Shopping Center, Canby
to work with other people
think rock records stink!
days of tight budgets, but turning
future riders have an op
The place to start cutting Thriftway and Spring book
and how to establish goals,
My goodness, what will
portunity to learn about the is administration, not the Plaza at Newberg.
our backs on needs of public
I promised myself one
the establishment think?
new system prior to Sept 5
poor secretary who barely
All petitioners have been
thing, and that is when my
schools is not the way. Like it or
How dare these people
If “ Bus School“ and the earns enough to support invited, and those par
children are grown and out
not, our public schools require
have an opinion! If this
com panion a d v e rtis in g
herself and her children.
tic ip a tin g
w ill
h ave
of school. I will not think
keeps up, the unthinkable
were the only mechanisms
public funding to budget.
T he
c o m m is s io n e rs
separate tables for your
that my responsibility as a
may happen, people may
designed for distributing themselves have a chance convenience
citizen of the Sandy com
U nfortunately, local public
start questioning what goes in fo rm atio n , we would to prove their sincerity
The petitions change
munity is over 1 still will
schools as taxing bodies remain
on in Congress
wholeheartedly agree with about concern for ordinary
nothing. Your signature on
be concerned that other
Another
thing,
would
the
concerns
mentioned
in
one of the last places voters may
ta x p a y e rs , e s p e c ia lly
ly will help to get the generations of young peo
your editorial have been as
your edit i ora I. However, senior citizens on fixed in measure on the ballot and
exercise local control. In frustra
pie deserve my support in
quick to criticize the en the second phase of the in comes about to lose their allow a vote of the people
voting fo r the school
tion, many tax-ridden citizens
th u s ia s m
of
th is
form ation program in homes paying in fla te d
If successful in obtaining
budget I will support the
demonstration
if
it
had
also see public schools as their
cludes a detailed guide that taxes that don't really
required signatures (54.669
idea that they deserve a
been for “ gay power” or
will be distributed on all serve any but those ad for initiative and 72,891 for
last whipping boy.
good education and the
for E R A ’ I think not
buses and a t m a jo r
ministering them
constitutinal), you then
privilege of being able to
But schools need our attention,
Ralph A Sandercock Jr
transfer points, transit
Why don't they avail would have four months to participate and learn from
if not our local support. After all,
Sandy
centers, businesses and themselves of this oppor
investigate the issues to the sports program and ex
community centers, com
tunity to help Ronald
they care for our local children
vote They must stand on tra activities that are so
pa mon newspaper adver R e ag an
p ro ve
their own merit.
important in forming a
and mold them into future com
tising which contains a volunteerism does work by
Among the petitions
well-rounded adult.
munity leaders—for better or
I would like to write in mail-in bus information re voluntarily giving back the available will be Dissolu
Because of these beliefs.
quest form, television and raises they got. making tion of the Metropolitan
response to an article en
worse. Consequently, it’s in our
I am a s k in g you to
radio advertising; zone in them some of the highest Service District ( M ETR O ),
title d “ P a s to r fig h ts
best personal interest as tax
rem em ber your respon
fo rm a tio n guides and
against Satan's music ” I
paid commissioners in the Death P enalty, Abolish
sibilities to the young peo
maos, and “ Ask M e“ folks state?
have attended both the
LCDC, Self-Service Motor
ple of the Sandy Communi
Wednesday youth group who w ill assist in this
Also, those who take a Vehicle Fuel. 1 4 percent
ty and vote yes on the
massive comm unication
meeting where it was first
living from the community Property Tax Limitation,
school budget It's time we
exposed and the Sunday effort
really ought to reside in Oregon M a riju a n a I n quit making our young peo
Bus School will continue and support the community
For those of us who can’t get in enough
evening service where it
itiative and other local
ple suffer because of what
being
sc h e d u led
further was examined. I
tim e on the slopes in the w inter,
or county where that living
issues
other generations have
throughout the Tri County is gained
Multorpor-Ski Bowl is offering us a sum
was unable to believe that
In Ore on, it is against
done to the economy Cut
mer alternative
music (rock and roll) of area during the summer It
Why not do, as some the law to have paid peti
back on something else, not
is available to groups or school districts do. require tio n e rs .
Two 2,400-feet long slides are about two-
this typ e could h ave
We a ll a re
the education of our youth
“ backwards masking“ or organizations by calling those w o rk in g fo r a volunteers If you value
thirds complete on the lower bowl. Crews
Jim Wolf
Tri-M et at 238-4917 At this geographic entity to live your freedoms and our
m essages
re c o rd e d
are putting together the pre-cast sections,
Brightwood
building it “ like an erector set.” according
backwards I went home writing we are trying to th e re
O ne
th in g
rights of initiative petition
to Keith Petrie, manager of the Multorpor
and thought it out and said secure a site at the Sandy Clackamas County can’t ing. please make it a point
Ski Bowl area for the past five years
to myself, “ No, it's not Mountain Festival on July afford any more ta to hire to attend the petition fairs
10
possible Even if these
The two slides will run parallel, and will
Congratulations to the
“ outside" experts who
Kathy Manning
Again, we appreciate wouldn't know Colton from
look like toboggan chutes one might see at
messages are there, they
Gresham Sandy schools on their ex
the Olympics
your concern that all Tri- Cottrell
don't affect me.”
ce lle n t ratin g s in the
Met riders have ample op
Those strong-of-heart soles who so
K W “ Kathy" Vaughn
C a lifo rn ia Achievem ent
Well, I borrowed some
portunity to learn about the
desire will ride a 40-inch long plastic sled,
Teats.
Marylhurst
albums from several d if
new Tri-M et and encourage
which is equipped with a handle.
This is just one example
ferent people and started
you and your readers to
If one pulls on the handle, it engages the
of how Sandy students are
ex p e rim e n tin g
To my
This is just a reminder g e ttin g yo u r m oney s
contact us with suggested
brakes Pushing on he handle will allow
shock and disbelief, every
for each of us to pause for a worth
Bus School locations and
the wheels to roll freely
one of the albums I played
moment and be thankful
in fo rm a tin d is trib u tio n
The slide is made of a concrete-type
Vote “ Yes” on June 29
You want to reduce pro for the privilege of being
had some sort of message,
points
material.
George Morgan
perty
taxes,
so
you
voted
none of which was good.
able to vote June 29 on the
Petne, who has been in the ski recrea
G inaS Whitehill
Sandy
no’ on the Sandy High new budgets for the Sandy
Now you can say, so
tion business 16 year», has seen the slides
Tri Met School bond issue Before
by SCOTT NEWTON
Elementary and the Sandy
what’ Messages recorded
in action in the New England area
you vote no' again, risking High Schools
backwards can't affect
Asked if the nde is pretty thrilling.
our c h ild re n ’s fu tu re ,
We should feel proud if
The Soviet Union and the
Petrie said, “ We think s o -th a t’s why
season,” second only to the 1977 78 winter, me! But I have done some
please consider Please ex
we vote yes on both
United States now have
checking,
and
there
is
we're putting one in.”
when there was snow on the slopes in early
Dear patrons of Bull Run
some correlation, Other
The company that sold the slide, In November
School D istrict:
v e n t« Corp of Manchester, Vt., has pro
There was snow on the slopes by wise, why would these
I was moved to write this
vided a supervisor, and Petne and hia Thanksgiving this past season, which satanic sayings e x is t*
as
a result of a letter w rit
Black Oak Arkansas on
crew from last winter are building the helped And, the season ran late, The
ten by Wayne Hass, former
slide themselves
winter season runs from Nov 1 to April 30 th«-ir record Haunch und
teacher of the district, in
Multorpor Ski bowl employs about 166 at Tlmberline During that time 140,000 Roll, for example, have one
the Sandy Post last week
p
o
rtio
n
w
ith
Insan
e
persons, full and part time <lepending on visited About 125 were employed full time,
Some of the statements
laughter, and the words
the demand, during the winter He figures and more part time, during peak periods.
and allegations made in his
am ine your p rio ritie s
“
Dogsihe,
Dogsihe,
Natas
he may be able to keep 75 to 86 people
budgets, thereby helping to 50,000 nuclear warheads
“ We play a giant game of Russian
Whose responsibility it is to provide the opportunity for
Natas " ( If you play it letter are untrue, others
employed during the warmer months It
With only a small fraction
roulette," Kohnatamm said, pointing out
give false impressions and
educate your children? Do continuing education that of those d e v a s ta tin g
backwards that clearly
depends, again, on the demand
that they want a lot of snow, but a
some
were
hia
personal
opi
you want to do it full-time’ we had when we were weapons, each side could
saya "Satan, Satan He is
The idea, anyway, la to keep things going minimum number of snow storms on the
nion, I am sure,
The fine young people at young Please don't jeopar
God He is God“ .)
in the summer
obliterate the other In a
weekends This year they were “extreme
Any concerned patron
SUHS and th e ir little due this continuance of our nuclear exchange there
It is hoped that the 1700.000 project will ly lucky “
Pastor Rick McGregor who would like to discuss
brothers and sisters are the educational process mere would be no winner and few
be completed by “ early July."
According to Kohnatamm. it wasn’t such
could find a lot better, my employment with the
citizens of tomorrow What ly because of what it might
Rides will be 13 25 for adults and 62 50 a great season for the resorts in the Col
survivors Those who did
easier ways to pack a district is welcome to write
is it worth to you to place a coat us We owe it to this survive would be without
for children To nde five times will be 610 orado Rockies He reports the vlume of
church than attacking rock me at 41515 SE Thomas
dollar sign on their future generation of youngsters so food, water or electricity
for children and 612 SO for adults
skier» was down 20 percent
and roll He spends a lot of Road, Sandy 97065 I would
(and yours)?
that they may be better
To get to the top of the slide, one will ride
Most would be wounded
He said those big name resorts rely on
time with kids, and is show be happy to answer any of
Some of us truly are hur
up the lower bowl lift, getting off at an “ In the airlines lor maybe three quarters of
able to accept the respon
w ith o u t h o s p ita ls or
ing what he has found your questions regarding
ting financially But, com
sibility of adulthood and of medical care. The nuclear
termediate unloading platform,” built their skiers With air fares up. the number
because he cares, not Io get my position as deputy clerk
pared to other peoples of assuring that our country
two-thirda of the way up.
exchange would make vast
of skiers able to afford air fare and a trip to
his name in the newspaper
of Bull Run School
the world, we all enjoy a remains strong
Ilelmeta are not necessary, and pre- the slopes was down
a re a s
u n in h a b ita b le
Those who dismiss his as a
I would ask that you not
very high standard of liv
flight insurance will not be available.
Please don't be influenc
because of radioactivity.
The areas on the mountain, being able to
fanatic or a nut should go m a k e an y p re m a tu re
ing. Voting no against the ed by the fact of whether or The ozone would be damag
Seriously though. Petrte said that one draw from the ski population in Portland,
home, take out some of judgment» based on the
school bond is a way of ex not you now have children ed, food production would
has good control of the sleds
have an advantage that way
your rock records and play misinformation contained
pressing our frustration attending school The need cease, most animals in
In a related item, Multorpor “had a good
At Mt, Hood Meadows. 330,000 skiers
them backwards Dr, bet
in M r Hass' letter
and anger at rising infla for education goes on as cluding us would be blind
season Not a runaway season, hut still a visited the slopes, providing full time work
ter yet, listen to some of
Patty Klascius
tion and unemployment. does our responsibility to ed Civilization would be
goofl season "
to 260 throughout the season, and to 365
th em fo rw a rd s
Then
Sandy
Property taxes, which pay provide this opportunity.
destroyed.
About 75,000 spent lime on the slope« during the peak period, according to Dana
decide la thia the kind of
for our children's educa
near Government Camp thia winter
S u re ly
a
n u c le a r
I am confident that those
Walker, director of operations
trash I would like to listen
tion, are the only taxes we who gave of their time and f r e e z e —w ith
30,000
D ic k K o h n a ta m m , m a n a g e r at
Y«a. for those who can pay the piper, the
to’ Or have my kids listen
can vote on directly Thia is effort to prepare these w arheads s till in our
Timberline Izidge, called it “an excellent fun never ends on Mt Hood
to?
an
u n fo rtu n a te
c i r budgets have trimmed all arsenal ready to go at the
So the Clackamas County
cumstance, I think, for our the unnecessary fat posai
I remember when you
touch of a button does not
children
had to really search to find budget is greatly overspent
ble, and they now present endanger us Rather, it is a
I urge you to attend and to us a re a lis tic and first step to reduce nuclear
some of the trashy music in and underfunded once
the stores That was when again When will the county
speak out at school board workable budget
armaments To go forward
meetings. If you want to
all you could see were good wake up and stop electing
Please don't ignore your on the nuclear arms race is
the
folks
who
got
it
that
shows and movies, before
change school policies
privilege and your respon
to march to oblivion.
by UK JOHN P E T E R *
Write to your legislators sibility of voting on June 26,
all the moral standards of way?
In Oregon we are urging
Poor management has
decency were broken
and senators to let them and most important don't people to sign an initiative
Sandy High Hepertntendent
A ll these years my certainly contributed to the
know your opinions on in search for an excuse to not petition that would place
Q UESTIO N
I understand that your
teacher» arx parents have current fiscal mess, that
flation and taxes
vote yes Say 'Yes' June 26 the critical issue of mutual,
I M2 83 school tiudget is to he voted on June
kept asking me. who do 1 and a great lack of com
Please vote yes for the
Pete Cartoon verifiable nuclear freeze on
26 I am planning to be on vacation and
mon
sense
Unfortunately
listen to that’ And all this
future qulity of the com
the general election ballot
would like to vote an absentee ballot How
time I have said, “ I t ’s for the taxpayer, it's not all
munity Vote ‘yes' for San
in November The Oregon
may I obtain one’
harmless I only listen to that common, especially in
dy Union High School June
secretary of state requires
ANSWER
An absentee ballot may be
government
26
the music, anyway “
or
I have lived in the com 54,669 s ig n a tu re s
picked up in person at (he Clackamas
For example, it must
W ell, I nave started
Jobeth Anderson munity of Sandy since 1660. registered voters, before it
County Courthouse in Room 104 at Eighth
listening to the words And give the unemployed and
Sandy I attended Sandy Elemen
can be voted on If you have
and Mem Streets in Oregon CKy You may
I really believe what I have those who need food
tary School and Sandy High not signed the petition,
have someone obtain it for you, but you
found about being exposed stamps a real inspiration to
please do so before June 25
must write a request and sign your name
School, graduating in 1661
have to go to Lake Oswego
to dangers of rock.
The nuclear freeze coor
My first year in college
in order for a ballot to be issued Also, you
to
apply.
Going
to
the
I believe that Pastor
I would like to remind all
was a rude awakening I dinator for your region to
can request en absentee ballot through the
McGregor la on the right richest area in the county
citizens that the deadline
realized that if it were not Peter Bergel at 3718002 or
mail, but It should be timely < within three
track While I know not all in order to get services
for all ci the 21 state-wide
for the education and prep c o n ta c t y o u r c h u rc h
or four days of the election) and will again
when
you
are
poor
has
got
people will believe him or
initiative petitions for the claaaes at Sandy, I never representative
need your signature The address to w rit* tary band, wind ensemble, stale band,
what he is trying to do. 1 to be a salt in-the wound
Nov 2 election is upon us
Jim Weaver
w ou ld h a v e m a d e it
is Elections Office Clackamas County counterpoints ptonairs symphonic choir,
challenge people who don t experience
All of those petitions through thia first year. I
U S Congressman
Courthouse, Eighth and Main S treet!. concert c h o ir, d ra m a , p e rfo rm e rs ,
For
examples,
downtown
to e x a m in e the issue
have a July 2 filing date believe that academically I
Fourth District, Oregon
Oregon Q ty, OR 67*46
stagecraft, two year* of general drama
carefully M o r e dismissing O reg o n C ity and the
with the state, and it to im
did get a good education at
QUESTION
What doau Mandy Union education and photography We also in
it -especially parents of O regon C ity Shopping
perative that ail filled or Sandy. 1 also believe that if
High School offer in art education and chide la this department all of our home
im
p re s s io n a b le
k id s . (Tenter both are loaded with
partially filled petitions be It would net have bean far
what pert of the total school budget is ear economics classes such as general foods
Listen, really listen, to vacant office space The
mailed to their sponsors no the fact that I was deeply
marked for art education?
We would like to thank
instruction and clothing The new gradue
price is right now. too, as
what they listen to
later than June a.
involved la sports, I would everybody who has been so
ANSWER
Sandy UM m High School of t*on requirements recently adopted by the
businesses
and
profes
I think you will see what I
The
c o m p la in t
wa
m a a M o to
fere art within a department called par Mate hoard of education require students
kind, understanding and
mean 1 have been made a sional offices are leaving in
repeatedly hear
to that the pets in the competitive
tris
tieipatlag and performing arte. That to complete one year of either fine arts, ap^
generous since the death nf
droves to move to Hilltop
believer,
and
hope
you
will,
citizens have beau unabto world that we Uva in today
ala per r snl of the piled arts er foreign language Many
our soa and b ro th e r.
where the action to.
too
to locate petition»
I foal that each individual Lauren Frank HUlbruner
It includes three y e an students elect one or more of the courses
The inefficiency of the quently, wa
Tim
Sytsma
_____
student will gat from their Gordie, M ary. Jama and
of general art «durstion calligraphy, pet above to fulfill this requirement
Sandy county’s operations in hav-
five petition f a in Friday, education, w hether in
Lyooe Hiitbrunar
Records bad
Fun never ends on Hood
Students excel
Foi schools
Pass levy
Freeze nukes
Bull Run flap
Letters to the editor
County wastes
/Is À
the superintendent:
Vote absentee on schools
Levies worthy
Petition fair
‘Thank you*