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About Sandy post. (Sandy, Oregon) 1938-current | View Entire Issue (July 8, 1982)
0*5 i °* 0*** i% * K V , \ 1 à * O 5 ç \> * v Single Copy 25« limits by DAN DILLON The city gained a piece oi property it considers strategic to its growth Tuesday evening, but it remains to be seen if the Metropolitan Boundary Com mission agrees Council annexed a one acre parcel, owned by Robert and Mary Voder, southeast of the intersection of Dubarko Road and SE 395th Avenue While annexation of a one-acre tract is unusual, city staff explained that this is an unusual tract City Planner Don Wilson told the council tha Yoder property is crucial to development of both the sewer and street systems It lies in the Tickle Creek drainage where the sewer line w ill eventually go and is adjacent to Dubarko Road, which is targeted as a mam thoroughfare in the future One-acre parcel annexations are unusual, so the city tied a condition to the remaining irt acres that Yoder plans to keep The condition would prohibit development until that pro perty is annexed to the city and ur ban services are available for development. I»on Deming leans over to give his wife. Myrtle, a kiss after she made him a member of the Royal Order of the Bear in her first act as Sandy Mountain City Manager Roger Jordan ex urban growth boundary tor “ favors plained that without the condition the inside. acreage could be split up into five- The southern portion of the 18 acres acre parcels and would become d if is outside the boundary and part of a ficult to urbanize as they became oc dual in te re s t agreem ent w ith cupied Clackamas County. Wilson said that without the condi The “ favors“ Ward alluded to are tion, the best the city could hope for street improvements and sewer would be an advisory role to the coun easements that were part of other ty on the 18 acres when it came time conditions tied to the annexation for development. agreement Councilman Tim Ward called the Councilman Calvin Jones pointed condition “ extremely restrictive ’ out. “ It is restrictive, but he does and questioned the legality of the city have the option to come back” for trying to control land that is outside it modifications Festival Queen. The ceremony happened under rainy skies Sunday at the an nual July 4 festivities. Sewer rates to jum p with August billing by DAN D ll LON of crushed rock and three inches of asphalt After that the city w ill chip seal that stretch of road City crews w ill also dig new ditches and install culverts on both sides of Bluff Road in that same section where appropriate By constructing the drainage ditches and removing the water from the road surface, the city can expect greater longevity and less maintenance, DiLoreto said. That will mark the first of a three- year rehabilitation program that of. Under the old rate, Mt Hood DiLoreto has mapped out for North Bluff. Work this year would cost ap Refuse Removal reportedly sustain proximately $27,000, ed a net loss during the past year. Other projects earmarked for this The increase means that a summer include an oil mat on Hoff residence with one garbage can pick ed up weekly w ill now pay $6 40 per man Lane from Scenic Street north, on Hoffman Avenue between Hood month, two cans will cost Sil 95 and Pleasant streets, on Strauss Commercial can rates will become Avenue between Pioneer Boulevard $6 90 for one. and Sil 95 for two and Junker Street, and on Junker Despite objections from the owners Street from Strauss to the post office. of Hood Chalet Mobile Home Estates, A chip seal w ill be put on Hood the council also approved a jump for Street from Revenue to Smith mobile home owners to $3.60 per can. Avenue, on Hoffman Avenue from The mobile home park owners Pleasant Street south, and on Sandy argued that monthly billings to Heights from Tupper Road »*ast. The themselves are nearly prohibitive, last project is pending as a question that the residents are senior citizens of jurisdiction is decided. on fixed incomes and that proxim ity of cans makes for easier pick-up In other action, the city council: With the new rate structure, the c i —Purchased a road grader for ty of Sandy still remains below the $20,100. rate that Clackamas County has ap The grader w ill have a cab, which proved for this area under its fran had been considered optional earlier chise agreement with the firm —Extended a sign ordinance STREET IM P R ()V E M E N T S amendment that allows merchants C ity Engineer Greg D iLoreto temporary special advertising: unveiled his strategy for street im —Purchased a new life insurance provements this summer, noting that policy that w ill save the city $2 per ci the biggest project w ill be on North ty employee Council also agreed on Bluff Road from Highway 26 to Bell a workmen's compensation plan that Street will allow a rebate to the city, if The work in that area w ill involve claims are below an established removing damaged sections of pave level. The city has been below the ment. repk , m with IO inches level seven of the past eight years The cost for local residents to have their garbage hauled away w ill take a I5 percent jump beginning Aug l. The Sandy City Council Tuesday night gave its approval to the rate hike request by Mt Hood Refuse Removal to help that firm combat in creases in the overall disposal cost at Rossman's Landfill in Oregon City, which is where all of the solid waste collected in Sandy must be disposed Welches teachers, district at odds in contract negotiations H A EL P JONES By M IC ICHA Post Correspondent absence «nhnni ” ..n|Me absence school H.v day,” unless «i«— given just cause The district wants to maintain the by the superintendent-principal terms of the expired contract which Robertson said under the old con Teachers' leaves and salaries d if allows one day leave with pay. The tract allowed a professional leave on ferences were aired last Thursday as teacher want two days. ly if a teacher worked towards an ad teacher and district representatives R o b e rtso n , re p re s e n tin g the vanced degree at an approved presented arguments in contract teachers, argued that because university. He said there are other talks in the Welches School District Welches Grade School is isolated courses, such as a reading or an en The contract expired June 30 from the metropolitan area it means vironmental course that would cur P rior to the hearing, the school that teachers have to travel along rently not be approved board and the Welches Edication way to conduct th e ir personal Grange disagreed and said to his Association, which represents 21 full business, such as visiting a doctor or knowledge no employee has ever time and one part-time teacher, dentist. been denied a leave under current reached a tentative agreement on Because many of these places close district policy. two issues separating the two sides at 5 p m and the teacher's work day The WEA also has proposed that Six remain unresolved ends at 4 p.m , they can not conduct sabbatical leave, extended leave and One disputed item that Don Robert this business after school. parental leave, written into the new son of the Oregon Educational Regarding professional leave, contract. Association and Russell Grange of Robertson said the teachers want the Parental leave, as proposed by the the Oregon School Board Association wording amended from “ may be WEA, would allow leave to be took issue on was personal leaves of granted" to “ w ill be granted any granted to teachers who are preg Mountain district plots course fo r levy OK Index SECTION I Keeping Posted Senior Center News Inside the Church Obituary Editorial, Opinion Sports. Recreation 2 3 .........5 5 ... « 7-8 SECTION II Area News .................. 1 SECTION III Classified Ads T V Revue.. Moonlite Sale Inside Tab Inside Tab Inside Tab was not the Welches levy, but the poor economy. “ They were voting on their pocket book,” said Blackburn, “ not the Welches budget.” He attributed the area's poor economy directly to the defeat of the levy, as well as to the reduced money received from the state Department of Education which pays money for each child in attendence At the beginning of the school year, enrollment was 348 Based on that figure. Blackburn said the district anticipated receiving $650.04 per child. At the end of the school year, however only 303 still attended and the district received just $619 86 per student, a reduction of $30 18 Blackburn said the Mt Hood cor ridor has a unique economy which was typical of other resort areas It has low income but high real estate values The area, according to Blackburn, has the highest assessment value in a ll of C lackam as County He estimated the total assessed valua tion of property at $187 mill.on. One parent. Marge Wicks, en couraged the board to do more to in form the voters of the importance of the levy and to make them aware that there is an election scheduled She said the only ones who ap peared to be aware there was an elec tion “ was the 216 who voted no " “The claim 'I have never been in form ed* is a cop o u t," said Blackburn If the combined A-B levy fails Aug 10. it will go back before the voters in an A and B ballot in October others Grange said WEA's charts are misleading and claimed there are ac tually 28 districts in the county- 29 if you count the Clackamas County Educational Service District. Information from the excluded districts was unavailable to the WEA, Robertson claimed. Grange said the district could not afford to increase the teachers salaries 6 percent as sought by the WEA, citing high unemployment and high incidences of property tax ap peals in the county. He said that the Oregon School Board Association receives calls dai ly from teachers in other districts, asking to renegotiate their contracts down, because the districts can not meet their operating budgets Sandy’s first pageant queen crowned by SCOTT NEWTON The Welches School Board met in special session last Thursday to plot its next course of action for the d is tric t's levy which had been defeated earlier in the week At th a t m eeting, the board unanimously agreed to bring the $106,782 special school levy back before the voters Aug 10 in another A-B ballot The levy was narrowly defeated June 29 by a 216-210 vote after a low key campaign by the school district failed to attract the anticipated sup portive voters to the polls “ I know for some reason a lot of people forgot to vote,” said board member Richard Hoffman School Superintendent Kenneth Blackburn said the issue which failed ....... .............................. nant, adopting a child, taking care of Regarding salaries, both sides de a sick child or raising a child fend their respective positions, ” We do think pregnancy disability, Robertson compared Welches with as in any other district in this state,” other school districts in Clackamas said Robertson, “ should be treated County and claimed it teachers are at as a physical disability or a medical the bottom of the salary scale, par disability.” ticularly those wit ( more experience Grange said the board agreed that and more education. maternity leave should be considered “ I t ’s obvious where Welches a physical d is a b ility . He did, ranks,” said Robertson, “ and that's however, say they could not agree last. with allowing a male teacher time off “ Even with the d istrict’s figures, to raise of a child. our people are behind in every way,” Grange said the district could not he said “ And that's with hand afford any of the proposed new picked data the district comes up leaves at th is tim e , b la m in g with " economic problems of the district to Grange questioned WEA’s data. be the reason. Sometimes, he said, the WEA’s Robertson, disagreed and cited salary index for the districts in the these economic difficulties as being county at times showed 20 districts minimal on some charts and 21 districts on Four of the 14 contestants in the recent Miss Mt. Hood Area Scholarship Pageant were from Sandy and for the first time ever, so was one of the two winners, Lilian Muff “ I think our class is really outgoing.” Muff, a 1982 SUHS graduate, said “ We do a lot of d if ferent things.” There are advantages and disadvantages to com peting against your friends, according to Muff In a way, it was harder, but she adds, "In a way it wasn't even competing We all did our best, and whoever won, won ” Said said it was nice having pen pie there she knew, although by the time the whole process is that fa r along one gets to know everyone else anyway. She said between the four of them, they figured one of them would end up doing well M uff, 18, the daughter of Leonhard and Elvira Muff, was active in drama, YMCA youth legislature, speech and dancing at SUHS She w ill attend the University of Oregon this fall, and plans to ma jo r in advertising, which is offered th ro u g h the jo u r n a lis m - co m m unications d e p a rtm e n t. Muff plans to minor in theater arts and English. A $500 scholarship, one of the many awards she w ill and has received, w ill help her with col lege expenses Muff also won a $795 scholarship to the Glorea LaVonne Modeling School, as well as an all-expenses paid trip to next year’s Miss Oregon Pageant, in which she will compete A partial wardrobe, a six month membership to the Gresham Athletic Club, and opportunities for more scholarships are other benefits offered the winners of the pageant Muff is Miss Metro East Kim McPhail is Miss Mt. Hood Area The winners w ill also receive a Columbia River Gorge cruise and a flight around Mt St. Helens Other Sandy High students who competed included Tomi G riffin, 18, a 1982 graduate who was active in performing arts at SUHS. Dayna Rainier, 17, an SUHS senior-to-be who is involved in stu dent government and was a varsi ty football cheerleader, and Audrey Chapman. 17, a 1982 SUHS graduate who was first-ch a ir clarinet in the band and a member of the National Honor Society. Originally, 59 were entered in the Miss Mt. Hood Area Scholar ship Pageant. There was a tea for parents and co n te sta n ts in February, and a prelim inary pageant in March Slowly the number was pared to 14; four from Sandy was the most ever In preparation for the Mt Hood pageant, the contestants received advice on their talent routines as well as other aspects of the pageant Asked why she decided to enter The routine runs about two and a half minutes, and although Muff has had a lot of theater experience at Sandy, she reports never hav ing been as nervous as she was the night of the Mt Hood pageant “ I was just terrified,” she said “ And then iny dress got there during swim suit competition, or something, because my mom was home finishing it “ I was a nervous wreck until I got it I thought. ‘Oh no. what if I'm standing here with no dress and it's (tim e for) evening gown competition Luckily, it got there. My fam ily just missed the opening number " A I Lilian Muff the pageant, Muff said, “ It was my senior year, and I've always wanted to do a pageant And, I ’ve been dancing since I was in se cond grade. “ You always watch it (the Miss America Pageant) on TV. and go i wish I was one of them,..’” Muff began dancing in Sandy, but when the company closed she went to other schools in Gresham and Portland. She performed a Broadway* type ja i: dance to “ Don’t Rain on My Parade,“ from “ Funny G irl.” Was she surprised to win? “ Of course, yeah. I was Out of all four of us, just I won, and I th o u g h t. P lease, not th is Anything bu, this.” ’ Muff was selling advertising for the pageant program when she found a sponsor, Achilles Heel in Gresham. They volunteered to sponsor her " I said, That’d be great.” ’ She modeled clothes for them at the Cascade Show Off, an apparel and equipment show held at the Hilton before the Cascade Run Off. She said she'd like to work as a model, but realizes it would be a hard field to get into. She has only one regret about the state pageant. It's held in Seaside at the same time as the Sandy Mountain Days festival
