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The SÉndy Post Editorial & Opinion Von Broschier. Publisher Caroline Duff Office Manager Don Dillon Editor Scott Newton. News Editor SANDY OREGON. THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 30. 1982 Sugar dads keep swimmers afloat Swimming is resurfacing at gradually seeing improvement Sandy High School, thanks to a through drills and competition in Sandy's Blue Marlin Aquatics concerned bunch of supporters. Defeat of supplemental B ballot Club, a high school feeder pro in a recent school district levy gram. Then suddenly YOUR sport dimmed pool lights for many is cut—not 10 percent with all the aquatic prospects of the Pioneers’ others—but completely and sole successful program. ly Swimmers really took it in the That’s the sorry high school shorts. No other sports program situation many supporters are was zapped as badly as swimm working to correct here. Coaching ing, with water polo an early will be donated free. Some con budget cut victim. cerned parents have donated of Without district support, swim ficials' fees Other fees have been mers’ families and friends must waived come up with a lot of money to The goal now is $5,000, which keep the program afloat. still leaves a big chunk for a few Well, a group of 27 die-hards got parents. Still, the successful local together over the weekend and program probably would cost no agreed to do whatever it takes to mere at $200 per swimmer than reinstate the program by Nov 8 moprivate swim clubs charge. under OS.A.A. sanction Nick Roth is heading the drive That could mean coughing up as much as $200 per family, a costly with Roxy Burns, Heidi Lamer and Shawn Burns. They deserve commitment. There’s another way to look at all the support the community can cost, however Imagine working afford. Call 668-6341 or 668-6225 to out hard in a pool since age 8 and help. (VB) Grant us this day our daily bread Sandy and Hoodland really should get in the chow line with all the grants being handed out by Oregon Economic Action Council. They are the bank and govern ment movers and shakers with the bold, red “Are You With Us?" buttons. You’ll recall U.S Bankcorp and others challenged the state to raise a million bucks to get Oregon red hot and rolling again. They said they’ll plow the donated bucks back into the state in wor thwhile economic development. Well, they’re keeping their pro mise, now that the money’s in their hands. A lot of little com- munity projects are getting a helping hand Why not Sandy and Hoodland? Well, first you have to submit a grant proposal Surely, some pump-priming money could be employed here to get the Sandy and mountain com munities economically healthy with something to offer residents in social services. For example, Tigard was awarded $1,000 toward continua tion of a youth employment pro gram The agency offers advertis ing training, work permit assistance and council for serving to more than 6,000 youth. The Economic Action Council have urged even more groups to submit proposals Locally, the ci ty of Sandy, Sandy Chamber of Commerce or Hoodland Chamber could apply. So could other spirited civic groups Anyone here want to hold out a hand for some help9 Requests should be sent to the Council at P O. Box 4889, Portland 97208 (VB) Personally speaking Chance for stardom ‘lost Mark Kuntz telephoned a couple weeks ago There's nothing unusual about the Sandy High School drama instructor giving me a call As he graciously admits, it’s usually tiecause he wants something publicity for a new high school production or a notice about an upcoming audition (or the Sandy Community Players Hut this call was unusal from the start because it came to me at home "This isn I going to be painful," he coax ed "Just come flown to the theater at 7 30 and audition " He said more about the roles in the up production, but coming everything after "audition" blurred I said I'd think about 4t And I did If I'd been intended to be on a stage. I would've been born in the Old West I'd rather stumble over a dangling par txiplc in these pages than stumble over curs, blocking and forgotten lines I fretted about my inability to memorize anything longer than the prefix of the San dy telephone exchange My former parakeet had better line recall than I do and hr never uttered word one Besides, I'd promised a cute, little art student in Minneapolis that I'd write her a letter that night Granted it would have tieen my chance to make a grab for the brass ring of star dom I saw my path to appearances with Merv .md < avrtt and whoever s sitting in for Johnny snap like a Grail* B movie tn mid reel But pawling up the audition didn't really wipe out any chance at Broadway footlights and Hollywood klirgs I'd started down the gilded path before When I was in high school, I wrote a skit for a basketball pep rally It was a nice domestic spoof on a popular television pro gram of the era Il was an all male high school but when 1 penned the one act I naturally assumed the director would venture across the street to the girls school and lure a coed back for the female lead Wrong Ho rt came Io pass that I made my stage debut as Edith Hunker clad in a print drew and hiking taeas All went well until the sweat sock tiosom I d masterfully taped in place slipped about halfway through the production For the denoue men! Edith wrestled her chest instead of A.'f hit s barbed comments My spirits urwlamprned later that year I enmiied in a week long mini course in film making ' emeraman and director were by DAN DILLON already spoken for by the time I strolled into class But, hey. 1 had experience as "talent" so I gave it another whirl It was a classic cops'n'robbers thriller Preston R icci and I were cast as the erudite boys in blue, tiecause Preston bor rowed a couple uniforms and one of them happened to fit yours truly We had wonderful high speed car chases the best part of any high school filming and raging gun battles, but it was in the quiet moments that my acting made its mark It wasn't a talkie and the Super-8 camera didn t rival Panavuuon, so the time we weren t directly on camera was ours to do with as we wanted Well in my high school, the illicit chew mg of sunflower seeds was the rage and there were no instructors hovering over us as we filmed the interrogation scene. So, as Preston razzed the suspect on camera I kicked back, put my feet on the desk and proceeded to expectorate seeds into the garbage can at semi long range off-camera, I thought Wrong, again Fortunately, when the movie was shown, the instructor thought my little ad lib add ed authenticity and the principal concur red So I really did think about going down to the theater and auditioning after Mark called Kven though I didn't, I'll tell you what If there's ever a role that calk for a *71416. with a sweat sock bosom, who spits sunflower seeds. I m in the telephone book Im not even going to worry about being typecast Parents bemoan lost swimming, buses Busing poor We are writing this letter in order to express our con cern and anger over the lack of school bus service on our road We live on S E 370th Ave , a gravel road approximately 4 mile from where the bus has been picking up our children I and a few other moms on our road have been tak ing the children to school ourselves or driving them up to wait for the bus We also pick them up at the school or drive up to where the bus lets them off Some of our kids are se cond and third graders, and we feel they are too young to walk the distance alone Personally, I want to be able to see my children board the bus every morn ing so 1 know they are safe The way the bus situation is now is unacceptable to us The high school bus comes down our road and has no trouble We have observed high school and grade school buses coming up our road for years, but suddenly have been left without adequate bus ser vice for our small children We don't like it We are very frustrated, tiecause the school tioard will not acknowledge any arguments that spokesper sons for our road have presented I hope there are many other parents who feel the way we do Maybe we can correct this situation soon Patti Knox Sandy Fix bus stops As many parents of the Sandy Grade school system know, there have been numerous reroutings and cuts in the bus system As tax payers we realize the need for cutting coat but need it be at the expense of children's safety’ We live on 370th behind Sandy Industrial Park and have had bus service since 1971 We have an 8 year old daughter attending Sandy Grade Our children are now asked to walk 4 mile to the bus stop The fact that they have to walk this distance is not our concern, it's th* area they must walk through that worries us It is a wooded area sparsely populated and 'here is a blind curve on this road Twenty years ago this may not have been a problem but in today’s society that s not so We have talked to the superintendent and the school board We were told three reasons for their decision time, money and our turn-around wasn't large enough Our turn around is 80 feet They have used it for eight years Th* iasi two years they have used a driveway The High School bus used this turn around daily Yes. we may save some money in time and gasoline, but what about safety Must something like child molesting have to happen before our administrators wake up Why are the doors locked at school and visitors required to sign in at the office’’ The school's responsibility is to and from school as well as at school. At this point we are tak ing turns driving our children to the bus stop We pay for the bus service the same as everyone else. We know there are other parents with similar con cerns It is time for us to band together Please feel free to call me at 668-5195 Gary and Joy Seibert Sandy O S A. A rules Through fund raisers and donations we are confident that we can meet this goal Some 1,697 patrons said "yes" to the “B" ballot last week We need your help now to keep the high school swim teams in the water this season A year's inter ruption will severely damage the program Please join us with your support for these young athletes! Committee to Reinstate Sandy Swim Teams: 668-6341 668-6225 Nick Roth, chairman Roxy Bums, sec-treas Heidi turner. Shawn Bums co-vice chairmen Be heard The Sandy Post's conti- main strongly opposed to such a measure, it isn't hard to understand how this type of tax bill keeps popping up One would think that local govern ment agencies everywhere would heed the call and frustrations of the tax payer and show us a little conservation when it comes to collecting and spending our tax dollars A few years ago the mountain residents were promised better police pro tection if we would just help pass a new tax base It passed, and so did the pro mise. our taxes went to Oregon City, we are still left without adequate police protection We've increased the fire department budget three- Letters to the editor Save swimming Tuesday. Sept 21, the high school special levy "B" ballot failed 1,989 to 1,697 A difference of 292 votes If the "A” and "B" ballots were combined, they would have passed by a 523 margin Wednesday, Sept 22, the school board rejected a request to resub mit a revised "B" ballot to the voters at the Nov 2 election Within the "B" ballot the total high school aquatics program including both girls and boys swim teams was deleted Other sports were inconvenienced with some monetery cuts, but the total swim teams and waler polo teams were completely axed from the budget We understand cuts had to be made and that sports programs usually have to be reduced, but in fairness to the whole student body, the cuts should be across the board with ail activities being equally cut back The whole aquatics program in this district has been severely damaged by this action Since Sandy residents ap proved the swim center bond in 1965. swimming has been a year round sport in our community - recrea tionaliy, instructionaliy and competitively Within all these areas there is no age limit, size limit or abili ty limit a person must possess to be involved Saturday, Sept 25, a group of high school swim mers, their parents and concerned friends met to discuss possible ways to continue the boys and girls high school swim teams this year A committee was formed and all were in agreement that thia pro gram is important enough We will need approx imately 35.000 to reinstate the program under nuing coverage of the Hoodland I various developments n an impor tant public service There t surely is no one who favors i silted or polluted streams, ruined fishing or crowded I living 1 occasionally visit my daughter and family in this i beautiful part of Oregon i and may have a different I view than a year round I resident who almost takes i this healthful environment I for granted All of us should I realize that once a million- dollar real estate develop ment with its pavement and roofs has replaced the thousands of trees and I shrubs, the Clackamas County commissioners and LCDC can only try to । reduce the damage done to the countryside They can't restore what has been destroyed in the name of "progress " The water problems at the Timberline Rim Development are just an indication of what will hap pen on a larger scale at the proposed Alderwood Mobile Park Brightwood Glen and TilEcum Woods mini-cities The permanent residents who want to prevent the despoliation of their sur roundings still can speak up by attending public hearings, cooperating with volunteers who make up the Mountain Area Con cerned Citizens 1 MACC) or at least sending another contribution tn any amount to MACC. PO Box 131, Brightwood 97011 There still are outstanding bills for lawyers fees, maps and photocopies John Saemann Brightwood fold, but I don't believe our needs have increased at the same percentage If, in- deed we did need all that new equipment, wouldn’t it have been wiser to pay for it with a bond issue9 With a tax base increase we've given the department that money to find a need for every year I’ve never known of an agency to ask for a decrease in taxes when the reason for an in- crease has been meant Also we need to keep in mind the purpose of the department and leave the runny nose calls to the doc tors and the clogged chimneys to the sweeps Every time the fleet of trucks sails out the door, so does the money Schools, although the most important agency, and the one that would be the most unfairly hit by Measure 3 could cut down some extra services and trim down administrative expenses Most important ly. schools should commit themselves to sound business practices I have no problems paying for education, someone paid for my puclic education and daily I ar grateful. These are the top three expenses on our tax bills, all local agencies with local control in the form of board of directors It is time we all take these boards seriously and commit ourselves to making cer tain that members that are elected, all too often by default, are dedicated to conservation and service, rather than individuals who show up ooce a month to nod as the rubber stamp approve» every whim 1 believe that the respon sibility is ours to cut taxes _ and we have not been doing our job Let’s vote no on 3, For the third time in four but recommit ourselves to years we are faced with yet cutting unnecessary ex another 1-4 percent pro penses in government and perty tax limitation, start where we can on the measure 3 Though 1 re- community level All costs up Gail L Wintermute Weiches Dump LCDC Starting at the bottom, we have enforcement, which is LCDC, the en- forcement arm of Senate Bill 100 the next step up the ladder We at the local level feel the effect of plans made at the highest level, and it is maddening when you can’t even build an outhouse without asking some bureaucrat for per mission Now Senate Bill 100 is the pilot plan used in all states to restrict the use of your land, thus making you serfs on land which once was yours The next step up the lad der is regional governance, the merging of several states into regions We are in Region 10, with Idaho, Washington and Alaska Seattle is the capitol of our region The Eord Founda tion planned this regional idea They even have a con stitution of the new states of America Regionalism rakes away our legislative form of state government Ap pointed rulers then are put in, instead of governors Look at the fight the bureaucrats are putting up in Multnomah County, because the people are try ing to get back the right to elect their sheriff, clerk, assessor, etc Home-rule charters are part of the plan, and it sounds good when you say "home rule ” The name implies that things are decided at the loval level, but not so The plan comes from the highest level, and once again the people get the shaft In our nation the top of this pyramid is the U N Ask yourself how many rights you have lost, since we joined the U.N ? In the U N charter there are whole sections copied word-for-word from the Soviet constitution, and the goal of the U N is one world government We are fighting LCDC, which is only the tip of one of the tentacles of the oc topus We need to concen trate on the head of the oc topus The National Coun cil of Churches passed a resolution as follows "The U.S. may soon have to subordinate its will to that of the UN Citizens must be prepared to take it. Citizens should prepare for such eventuality ” Are you ready to give up your rights as an American without right? Remember, ‘ Land control is people control " Are you willing to submit to being "controlled?’’ Let's join hands and vote out LCDC in November See you at the polls. Ann Lucas Estacada
