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About Sandy post. (Sandy, Oregon) 1938-current | View Entire Issue (July 22, 1982)
•»xA*«*'«» < -, WW* The Srfntiy Post Von Braschler, Publisher Caroline Duff Office Manager Editorial & Opinion Dan Dillon Editor Scott Newton News Editor SANDY. OREGON THURSDAY JULY 22 1982 Deadline needed for weedy lots Sandy City Council is getting tough with homeowners who keep unsightly yards by considering a get-tough deadline for compliance with the city’s present weed abatement ordinance. The measure is needed, because not all residents asked by the city to clean their yards comply readi ly. In fact, owners of 86 city lots are not in compliance or moving toward compliance this summer. I t ’s especially shocking that many of these weedy lots are located in new subdivisions. Lots declared a public nuisance in clude areas of Knollwood Estates, Tickle Creek Estates, Stewart’s Subdivision, Longville Estates, Grass Meadow, Sagewood, Park Crest, Aldergate I I and Highview I II. The city will proceed to clean up these lots for their owners and then bill them for the work, plac ing a legal lien against the value of the property to collect if necessary. Many of these lots were turned in by neighbors. The city notified all offenders by mail and even gave them a second chance to res pond in compliance with the city clean-up code. Some o ffe n d e rs who acknowledged by their second notice have been granted an ex tension period to clean up their weed-covered lots, with the city looking over their shoulders to finish the job if necessary. Next year a deadline for weed abatement on messy city lots seems wise. Some people just don’t seem to get motivated to clean up our neighborhood any other way. And, after all, a city has a right to try to look its best for the morale of those who do give a darn and want Sandy to reflect a good impression. (V.B.) Community hospital needs our aid G res h a m C o m m u n ity Hospital—that crowded former nursing home that serves the area from 122nd to Madras and The Dallas—lies limp at a crossroads, awaiting either death or new life. The crossroads is its limited three-acre Gresham site, where the former Wildwood Nursing Home bursts at the seams on the brink of growing substandard by state health requirements. New life is offered in a 22-acre replacement facility site near Mt. Hood Community College on Stark Street in Gresham, where the non-profit hospital hopes to break ground D ecem ber * What’s needed now is up-front pledge money from local donors as seed money to secure tax- exempt revenue bonds that would pay the other 90 percent of the $13.1 million new facility. Hospital fund-raisers are en couraged to see most of the $350,000 raised thus far against an $800,000 local goal donated by hospital staff and the hospital auxiliary Local pledges are key to demonstrating local com m itt ment to the bond market. The need is great. A crowded emergency room treats some 70 patients a day. Surgical hours at the hospital have tripled in 10 years. Most rooms hold four pa tients, and crowding further hampers administration and ad missions. One nursing station serves 40 beds, while state guidelines suggest 17 as a safe ERA simplistic limit. Congestion is so bad, in fact, Your editorial on Sen that some operations are not at Bob Packwood*« stand on tempted at the local community the Equal Rights Amend ment was repugnant to me hospital. I am a woman, not a The new facility would provide “wltchhunter” I love my room event ually for 300 beds, an femininity and the respect and privileges it gives me expanded and m o d e rn ized I also am very much for emergency department, an inten equal rights The ERA, sive care and coronary unit, cen however, is much too sim tralized laboratory and surgical ple to cover the complex differences between men departments and a free-standing and women. alcohol treatment center. As to S e n a to r The community hospital, owned P a c k w o o d 's " b r a v e ” stand, what's so brave by n o n -p ro fit M e tro p o lita n when you’re a senator from Hospitals, operates without tax a state that ratified the assistance. Without some show of E R A ’ Jeri Richardson support now from the community Sandy it serves, the hospital lies on the brink of a health care crisis Brand omitted through closure by foreseen Corrections on your tear future difficulty in meeting state gas s tc ry : health standards. (V.B.) When I first was con Oops Oops! In this space recently we Gresham area coverage. Our new incorrectly listed new Post classifieds magazine, as lift-out classifieds circulation at 14,500 section from this newspaper, also area homes Actually, Post want- is carried by the Wednesday ads now are delivered weekly to Gresham Outlook and Today some 26,500 homes, including new Magazine for the same price. ,1 a /; the superintendent: Few school meetings secret p QUESTION Why do school boards hold secret meetings’ ANSWER By law, with the exception of executive sessions, all meetings of school hoards must be held in public Only those issues protected by confidentiality laws, such as evaluatiom of specific students and staff members, may ba dealt with in executive sessions Though the reaulta o labor negotiations must be announced in public session, as do the result* j f evalua tions. school boards do not have to disclose their private discussions of those matters Whan given the freedom to review parson eel and negotiation matters in dosed eatings board members are better able to make fair and independent judgments which t what the voters expect Sandy High School holds about seven or eight sea sions a year AI1 final decisions are mads in open, public meetings Q J U IT T IO N “ “ Why does Mandy High nd students’ Isn’t suspension I then s three day vacation* ANSWER You have a paint Frequently, studenu who sre denied the right to attend high school far a shad period of limo as a disciplinary action onjny the lime off On the ether hand, many of our excellent perenta mska sure that “the time off is M t spent comfortably In truth, ws are graAssUy moving away from This year we introduced a It out specific consequences for specific acts and gives the teacher more flexibility in work ing with students Built into the system is a series of rewards to reinforce good con duct Under this new approach suspension bscomss a tool to induce students to reflect on thetr negaCve actions Rather than b» mg removed from school, students are sent to arses where they have no dtstrsc Hons Three areas sre empty rooms to which studenu are assigned for varying lengths of time While there, they must sit quietly, remain alert, and do nothing After an hour or so they sre usually eager to return to the classroom and conform to the teachers rules ( N O T E : Dr. Peters will amwer questions addresss 4 te him hi cere ef The Past at P.O Bex SB. Seedy. OB VTSM i Letters to the editor'. Post ERA stai tacted by Gwen Bogh and we met for an appointment May 1, 1 made it clear that it the report she was about to do on tear gas couldn’t be accurate, then not to waste her time or mine Since there was some misinformation. I feel this letter is necessary to clear up the article Paragraph 4 states there w e re a p p r o x im a te ly 650,000 “reported" rapes in ticular brand (by name) to (P a r a g r a p h 6 1 ). I f the U.S last year Since I explain that some C.N. testing your tear gas. don’t got these figures from the could cause perm anent use a cottom swab, as it state police, that figure damage if not washed off would absort any mineral was an a p p ro x im a te p ro perly” ) That quote oil present and give an in n u m b e r. ( A c e rta in didn't belong to me. accurate time test. Spray it percentage don t report ) Since there are many in a cup Take your index Paragraph 19 states I said brands that use the C N as finger and dot some on “ Tear gas feels like a their choice and most peo your face on your cheek to o th a c h e m u ltip lie d pie refer to ail tear gas bone 100,000 times ” This is a (C.N. and C.S.) as mace The way Paragraph 62 quote by Warren Pingrey, did not belong in the same reads easily could be not m y s e lf. W a rre n paragraph misinterpreted Many of operates the Care Free Paragraph 47 states San the carrying cases of dif Center under the name of dy Police Chief Fred said ferent brands are set up the WDR Int in Clackamas “When it is used on so same Where you have a where the first interview meone, it just makes him case with a strap that was held. madder ” It didn't say snaps to the side, you don’t P a ra g ra p h 21 states which type he was referr need to unsnap to get to, or "N e rv e en d in g s a re mg to, but this statement turn on, to use ust reach in, dissolved by tear gas.’* C S has been made ove and take the safety off and then typ e d isso lves fa t t y over by policemen who push down on the top with deposits that cover nerve have used a C N type of your thumb endins A signal then is sent tear gas (Paragraph 58», I have to the brain indicating an il Los A n g eles P o lic e proof th at Chem shield lusion of pain The body D e p a r tm e n t, second could “knock a person to rebuilds fatty deposits to largest in the U S , field his knees and m ake cover bar nerve endings tested tear gas for several another instantly go limp * approximately 20 minutes week and chose Chem- This letter was written by a later, shield (a C.S type) They policeman who had to use Paragraph 26 states the turned around a purchased his ('hemshield in an act of office is in Estacada Since 3,00i) units for all their of duty. Gwen met at our only office ficers Because C.S. causes eye in Clackamas at the Col In Paragraph 50, Roland watering, skin-burning and onial Business ('enter on Cartisser didn’t say how a a feeling of shortness of Highway 224 just west of person is supposed to pro breath (to put it m ildly), it the F re d M eyer tect herself, but didn’t could knock a person down warehouse. I don’t know reemmend tear gas (even temporarily how that information got though it could stop an P arag raph 63 should mixed up assailant, and C.S. does have stated that most tear Paragraph 36 is a dooaie wear off), Maybe we all gas should be replaced It set me up for a lawsuit should start packing a after a year, because it ( Since I never use a par pistol? o fte n loses p o te n c y. Paragraph 71 discusses ap proved sprays in Califor nia, then proceeds to give a list of manufacturers or d is trib u te rs by nam e. Chemshield is approved, but is not on the list. I ’m sure Gwen Bogh tried to get the story ac curately. Camille Schwab Boring Locals triumph The Sandy Red Hots soft- ball team has completed this year's season by winn ing second place in a Tri- County tournament and placing • third in a state championship tournament The girls on this team should be commended for their efforts Each girl con tributed to the success of the team They all can be pro ud of t h e ir ac complishments. We want to publicly thank the parents of these girls for giving their sup port and encouragement to the team and coaches The enthusiastic participation by the families and friends of the Red Hots has made coaching this team a pleasurable and reward ex perience C heryl and Lyle Schwartz, coaches Sandy Red Hots Personally speaking: t ? i j . « x Future world might be easy for some Future world might shock many, but I think it'll be a breeze I say that with absolute faith in humanity's ambition to make things as easy as possible, so we can take life easy in the future Technology works in our favor toward such ambitious ends »Ready technology works for us day and night, so we can work shorter days and enjoy longer nights The chorea of maintaining a home have been reduced from the grind of a scrub maid, kitchen staff and laundress to instant m ic ro w a v e d in n e rs and 3 0 -m in u te w ash c y c le s in m achines ao ind ep en d en tly faithful thetr repairmen are advertised as lonely Work at the office is easier with new technology, too Word p ro ceasing machines used to prim thia Sandy Post article make work a breeze as do other com puters, calculators. conference te le p h o n e s , b o o kkeep in g m ach ines, dictaphones and record-a-caU devises Unfortunately, a person still has to se rv e tim e at the job whether it’s at the plant, of fice or home And that's where future technology comes into play to take the boredom out of by VON BRASCHLER monotonous day-to-day simple chorea Soon clones may do this dirty work for us. as laboratory duplicates created to substitute for their look-alike originate Ac cording to some accounts like David RorvK'k's "In His Image” scientists already know how to duplicate life from a single human cell with all genetic coding required to create iden tical new life Moat surprisingly according to futurists, this new life could m irror the original man or woman from whom the single cell is taken for this spark of life So I daydream about a clone who looks like me, talks like me, thinks like me and even goes to work like me That part about g o ing to work would be the best part. I predict I look forward to sending a double to take my place when the steelhead are running in the Sandy River or whenever there s a big special edition I need to help assemble “ I " will not shirk my responsibilities, of course Instead. I ’ll send Me 2 or Me-3 to gam some experience do ing our” job Just how many of us there will be to share the workload would depend or. how many clones I could afford • I calculate that clones could be costly to possess, and I ’m not thinking just of laboratory “start up" cuets Soon after clones get over their new thrill of being alive and just like real people, they'll iscover they are real peo ple with second-class treatment, Sooc they'll want equal pay for equal work, social respect as In dividuate and even free clinics for psychiatric check ups for their identity crises They might even form unions for clones and picket their sweat shop conditions with signs that say something like “Gone power!” W ell, m ore power to the people-even if they are a bunch of clones Im a g in e , too. the so cio economic implications of gather ing enough clones for an army How would you treat this arm y’ Would they fight for those of us who are original copies? Most im portantly, how could we achieve a safe world balance of power, when e v e ry n a tio n g ains technology to clone legions of fresh conscripts? Should that nightmare come, it could be worse than the civil war where brother fought brother or the world wars where cousins faced cousins We could face ourselves in mortal combat with unlimited numbers of General Grants or General Lees on both sides of the firing line At that time, it might be wise to recall that our destruction wasn't brought about by a bunch of clones that answer to the same name. Blame it on a bunch of laiy In d iv id u a l* who sought throughout time for a servant class to do its dirty work. I
