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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
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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
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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
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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 "
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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