Vol 72 No 32
SANDY O REG O N THURSDAY AUGUST 12 ,982
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It’s back to the drawing board tor
Sandy Union High School officials
and board m em bers a fte r the
d is tric t's second attem pt at an
operating levy was defeated by
voters
This time, however, school officials
hope district patrons w ill be more
helpful in the budgeting process
when the school board convenes Aug
16
Voters Tuesday re je cte d the
district's $2 7 million proposal by a
1,328-1.061 margin The Welches
School D istrict’s combined A B ballot
was approved 365 284
"W e’re all disappointed," said
Dick Harrison, director of student
services " I think that goes without
saying "
Superintendent Jack Peters was
unavailable for comment, but Har
rison and Assistant Principal Dennis
Crow are optimistic that the school
board w ill arrive at a budget that is
palatable to district patrons
"We are going forw ard," said
Crow. " A ll alternatives w ill be
discussed at the board meeting Deci
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Photo by Sandi Poutala
Susie Gwynn munches a banana as J.P. McLellan tells her he wants to call off
the wedding in one act of ‘‘Lovers and Other Strangers." The play, produced
by Sandy Community Players, opens Friday evening at the Community
Theater at N p.m. with a special one-dollar bargain night. It runs for four
weekends on Friday and Saturday nights.
County fair gates swing open Tuesday
The 76th annual Clackamas County
F a ir gets off to a rousing start this
Tuesday, Aug 17. when hundreds of
yo u n g s te rs pour th ro u g h the
fairgrounds gates in the 1982 version
of the annual Kiddie Kapers parade
The parade w ill leave Canby bet
ween 10 and 11a m
Tuesday is K id ’s Day at the fa ir
Wednesday w ill be 7-Up Fam ily Day
and Thursday is Senior Citizens Day
Stage shows w ill be presented on
the hour every hour each day beginn
ing at 1 p m with a wide variety of
professional and amateur enter
tainers booked for the six-day event.
The annual IRA World Champion
ship Rodeo has slated performances
each weekday night, beginning at
7 30 p m and Sunday at 2 p m
Headliners Jo Anna Burns, who
was a finalist in Lawrence Welk’s
quest for a "Champagne Lady." and
B ill Younger, a balladeer who looks
and sounds like Burl Ives, w ill
spearhead a parade of performers
during the fa ir
"O ur outdoor stage is really going
to get a workout this year," said
Gerry Mickelson, fa ir manager
The big even of opening day w ill be
the annual talent contest scheduled
to begin at 8 p.m Tuesday night The
event, which draws capacity au
diences every year, w ill offer variety
acts in two age groups, a junior and
an adult division with the age break
at 14
Some 30 acts, all of which have
been carefully screened in prior audi
tions, w ill be presented during the
evening
The Miss and Mr 4 H coronation
w ill be held on the outdoor stage at
"People w ill come to the meetings
with their ‘we wants' ‘We want a
performing arts center, we want a
better vocational education pro
gram ' but they they vote no at the
polls." he pointed out "People
should participate in the democratic
process at other times besides at the
polls "
The chance lor greater citizen par
ticipation w ill be this Monday, Aug
16, at 7:30 p in when the school board
convenes in Rooms 50-51 at the high
school
Council extends hunt
for new city manager
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sions w ill be made with the interests
of the students in mind
Harrison cited a need lor greater
community involvement in planning
the budget
"I'm not speaking lor Jack." he
said, "but the decisions will be dil
ficult The board needs a lot of sup
port and advice People should come
to the board meeting Aug 16 with
their recommendations
"We need to know what people w ill
vote for We know what they'll vote
against." Harrison said
6:30 p.m Tuesday The 4-H Fashion
Review is scheduled for 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday evening
The Old Time Fiddlers w ill be on
hand to entertain from 8 p m until
late in the evening on Thursday, Aug
19, which is Senior Citizens Day. A
sharp contrast to the old-timers w ill
be a presentation by the Doris Davis
Belly Dancers at 2 p m Thursday
The bulls they bring to the annual
F a ir rodeo are so mean they truck
them to Tulsa, Okla., each year for
the nation’s top rodeo event, the In
ternational Rodeo Association finals.
Major events at the rodeo include
both bareback and saddle-bronc
riding, bull riding, calf roping, g irl’s
barrel racing and kid ’s bull riding, an
event open to youngsters 13 to 15
years old.
The fairgrounds barns w ill be
packed with prize livestock, with
judging events going on in the showr
ings each day of the fair. A con
tinuous series of horse shows are
scheduled Thursday through Satur
day and there w ill be special exhibits
of rabbits and poultry
A full program of 4-H and FFA
events are on schedule, with the an
nual Junior Livestock Auction slated
for 1:30 p m Saturday, Aug 21.
The Atrium Art Gallery, the photo
exhibit and Hobby Hall w ill occupy
the mezzanine floor of the main
pavillion, with a wide variety of com
mercial exhibits on the lower level
The Cookie JarParade w ill be a
highlight of 7 Up Fam ily Day at the
fair, Aug 18, and participants w ill
gain free admission to the fa ir 4hat
day by simply showing their cookie
containers at the gate
by DAN DILLON
The Sandy City Council last week
extended the hiring process for selec
tion of a new city manager
Because more people are in
terested in the job than had been an
ticipated—63 had applied by this
week—the selection process was set
back two weeks to allow more time
for background checks of applicants
As result, interviews with five
finalists w ill be conducted by the city
council on Sept. 11, instead of Aug 28
as had been planned.
Outgoing City Manager Roger Jor
dan, who resigned to take a sim ilar
position with the city of Dallas, Ore ,
said. "We re hoping the new city
manager could be on board by mid-
October or, at the latest, the first of
November."
Jordan's resignation is effective
Aug 31. During the period between
managers, Mayor Ruth Loundree
w ill handle managerial duties if ad
m inistrative questions come up.
Finance Director June Isaakson w ill
handle fiscal matters
The background checks, w ith
assistance from the League of
Oregon Cities, w ill assist the council
before propspective city managers
are called to Sandy.
"We want to be sure we re serious
about interviewing someone before
we ask them to take the travel time to
come up here for an interview ," Jor
dan said He added that a number of
applicants are from out of state, but
because of the confidentiality of the
hiring process declined to elaborate
The five finalists w ill be selected
from among 15 candidates who sur
vive an in itia l screening by a
citizens’ panel and the city council.
The citizens' panel w ill be compos
ed of Bruce Cook. Kathleen Eldridge,
Mel Haneberg, Bob Kallen, Al
Morner, M arilyn Rowell and Kathy
Simonson.
The council’s profile for a new city
manager calls for someone with
b u d g e tin g
e x p e rie n c e
and
demonstrated financial know-how
The council is also interested in fin
ding someone with a strong sense of
the needs of a small community,
rather than someone who has been
tested in the often turbulent waters of
a larger m unicipality
Applicants were asked to have a
minimum of four years experience in
local government administration
Filing deadline for the position is
Aug. 16.
State terms own chlorine testing ‘invalid’
by MICHAEL P. JONES
Post Correspondent
Tests last week by the state
D epartm ent of E nvironm ental
Quality, investigating complaints
that high levels of chlorine are
polluting the .Sandy River and
Roslyn Lake, were invalid, accor
ding to an agency spokesperson
L arry Patterson, regional DEQ
supervisor, said tests conducted
Thursday in the Sandy River near
Wemme and at Roslyn Lake were
invalid because DEQ investigators
were looking for higher doses of
chlorine than those reported by an
Audubon Society member
The chlorine was discovered by
Dennis Tylka of Welches in the
Sandy River and Roslyn Lake
about a month ago His tests show
ed a chlorine concerntration of 02
P atterson said the DEQ in
vestigation tested for 2, a much
higher dosage and easier to read
with their testing equipment
"A t 02. I don’t know if we can
register that low concentration of
chlorine," said Patterson, " I do
know what the investigaton did is
totally worthless ”
Patterson said he doesn't know if
investigators w ill conduct addi
tional tests to track the source of
the chlorine down He said "w ith a
diminished number of employees
at the department, we really have
to pick and choose what we go
after.**
Mark Fritzler. DEQ public af-
fa in officer, said Monday that the
mix-up in the tests resulted when
his department followed up on a
complaint made by the operators
of the new Hoodland Service
D istrict sewage treatment plant,
not the Audubon Society
The employees of the Hoodland
Service D istrict reportedly took
tests in the same area as Tylka.
just upstream from the outfall line
in Wemme, and discovered a
reading of 2 The service district
reported the findings to DEQ, said
Fritzler, so they wouldn't be blam
ed for the high concentration of
chlorine discharging into the river
with the effluents from the plant
Fritzler said investigators took
the type of tests they did because
below chlorine levels of .2 aren't
generally a concern and shouldn’t
cause adverse effects on aquatic
life
He also said testing for a lower
dosage of chlorine would require
complicated equ'pment, "not easi
ly or readily avanable in the field ”
Gerald M Bel,. DEQ fisheries
biologist, said he does t know what
effect low doses of chlorine w ill
have on aquatic organisms He
said to conduct such research
would be complicated Unlike high
doses of chlorine, which k ill fish in
relatively short periods of time, it
would be d ifficu lt to recognize the
consequences of lower doses
E arlier. Bell had said, studies by
fisheries biologists have shown
that trout w ill avoid passage
upstream if as little as 001 parts
per m illion of chlorine residue is
present
Bell also said tests at the Colum
bia River dams have shown that
salmon w ill avoid passing over fish
ladders if sm all amounts of
chlorine are in the water
If future testing does not reveal
the presence oA chlorine in the
Sandy River or in Roslyn Lake.
Bell said, that should not be inter
preted as meaning it never was in
the water or that it won't happen
again Monitoring w ill be the only
way to keep on top of the problem
"The thing about chlorine, i t ’s
volatile," said Bell. " I t ’s just like
carbonization You open the bottle
for a while and the carbon is gone
That doesn't mean it wasn’t there
in the first place
"Chlorine comes out (of the out
fall pipe) and goes into the at
mosphere Over a period of time it
goes away ”
Dave Abrams, Clackamas C’oun
ty u tilitie s director, said last
Thursday he requested a report on
the chlorine found above the outfall
p ip e fro m D w ayne W o rle y,
superintendent of the sewer plant
He said the report w ill detail the
te sts ta ke n by the p la n t’s
employees as well as the testing
procedures and equipment used
The findings of that report w ill be
made public
" I am quite confident it (the
chlorine source) is not us (the
sewer p la n t) but we want to make
sure the stream ’s okay," said
Abrams " I t 's part of our job If it's
happening upstream, it w ill flow
downstream and we re subject to
the blame as well as anyone else”
The report w ill also be sent to
DEQ. said Abrams, so that agency
can evaluate the plant's testing
procedures for preciseness and to
determine if the testing equipment
is satisfactory
Abrams said he wants the
employees of the plant to begin
monitoring the chlorine levels in
the Sandy River and do whatever
they can to track down whatever
the sources of
contaimination
might be
" I want to start a program of
continual testing so our records
w ill reflect what is happening to
the riv e r," said Abrams
"The fishery is vital to that <the
Mt Hood-Sandy > area and d peo
ple think there is damage being
done to the fisheries, it wouldn't be
good." said Abrains "The com
munitv has spent a lot of money to
protect tha, river, and we have to
sec that it remains protected "
Roslyn Lake testing proves futile
by MICHAEL P. JONES
Post Correspondent
Tests by the state Department of
Environmental Quality last Thurs
day failed to verify the existence of
high levels of chlorine in Roslyn
l,ake near Sandy.
The chlorine was reported in i..°
lake by Dennis Tylka of Welches,
an Audubon Society member who
was following up on sim ila r com
plaints about the Sandy River in
the Mt Hood area
Larry Patterson, DEQ regional
supervisor, said the testing equip
ment used would only register con
centrations of 2 m illion parts
chlorine and not the lower d(«e of
02 which Tylka reported
Tylka said he tested the lake as
well as the water which passes
through the power generation
fa cility on the lake where it flows
into the Bull Run River
His claims of chlorine in Roslyn
Lake is being disputed by Portland
General E lectric's Bull Run Power
House, an engineer for the city of
Portland's Water Bureau and a
state Department of Fish and
W ildlife fish biologist "
Jay Massey, a fish biologist for
Fish and Wildlife, said the high
chlorine level in the lake was a pro
blem several years ago on two oc
casions. but that isn't the case now
" I don’t have any knowledge of
chlorine coming into the reservoir
now," he said
The man-made lake, which was
built sometime between 1910 and
1912. began generating power to a
predecessor of PGE's in 1912 It is
stocked frequently, according to
Massey, with "catchable tro u t,"
"W e re not having a problem
with fish su rviva l," he said
Tylka claimed tha, one likely
source of the chlorine is the Bull
Run River which is a domestic
water supply for Portland He said
water is occassionally sold by
Portland to PGE
Bob Wesselink, PGE Bull Run
powerhouse operator, said that
PGE purchased w a te r fro m
Portland last fall for 130 days from
Nov 13 to A pril 2 During that time
an estimated 106 m illion gallons of
water flowed the five miles from
Marmot Dam into the lake every 24
hours
Paul Norseth, Portland Water
Bureau's chief engineer, denied
any responsibility on the city's
par, for releasing chlorinated
water into to the lake
In his 25 years at the water com
pany. Norseth said, he is aware of
chlorinated water tieing mistaken
ly released into the lake only once
Carl Bell, Bull Run powerhouse
supervisor, said it is hard for him
to believe there is chlorine in the
lake He said the only time he
re m e m b e re d c h lo rin e con
(aminating the lake from Bull Run
water was about nine years ago,
but no, recently, to his knowledge
As for dead fish being found in
the lake, Bell said, they could be
"suckers" killed by fishermen who
don't want them He has seen this
done a number of times
Bell said he has received calls
from fishermen concerned about
what Is going on in the lake