Thun
14 year old rescues
cat in top of tree
by SCOTT NEWTON
The image of a fireman
rescuing a cat in a tree is
common, but Pam Gracia
of 17860 Van Fleet in San
dy has had that image
dispelled
The Gracias heard a
cat in distress, but for a
couple of days didn't
know where it was On the
second day the cat was
fairly quiet But on Mon
day. which is believed to
have been its third day in
40- to 50-foot Douglas fir.
the cat "cried" all day
So Gracia called the
Sandy Fire Department,
only to learn emergency
vehicles can't be tied up
for the rescue of a cat.
So Gracia
called
Clackamas
County
animal
control.
A
representative
is
reported to have said they
do what she did," said
Gracia
About her attempts to
get help for the rescue.
Gracia said. “I was so
mad at these other
facilities I could have
screamed "
The cat fled upon ar-
nval on the ground
Erika Reagan
The Parent-Teacher
Association for Welches
Grade School has set
Thursday. Oct. 14 for its
first activity of the year
PTA President Judy
Donaldson said a number
of events will be taking
place, and encourages
parents, family members
and interested persons in
the community to attend
A potluck dinner will
begin at • p m and will last
until 7 It will be held in the
multi purpose room of the
new
addition,
said
Donaldson
open house will be held for
parents
The PTA will not hold a
By early next week the
PTA will be sending home
notices with students, giv
mg parents ideas about
what to prepare for the
potluck Donaldson said the
PTA will furnish eating
e tens iIs and the beverage
At 7 p m a half hour
Due to BLM compensation
Bill
Blankenship of August meeting
Welches has been elected to
The term on the board will
fill the vacant position on the be served by Blankenship
Hoodland Rural Fire Protec until elections for new direc
tion District Board
tors take place in March
Blankenship was elected
Also new on the board is
at the board’s Sept
14 Verla Rogers of Brightwood
meeting He replaces Gary She replaced Riley Caton of
Cleland of Brightwood, who Wemme earlier in the sum
resigned at the board’s mer
Bridge to
close in
Brightwood
The Sleepy Hollow
Bridge betwee" Barlow
Trail Road and Sleepy
Hollow drive in the
Brightwood area will be
closed for six months,
beginning at noon on Oct. 7,
according to Dennis Ever
son, Clackamas County
bridge inspector.
"We're reconstructing
the bridge to eliminate the
20-ton load limit that has
existed since 1972,” Ever
son said. “We're also im
proving the access. The
weight limit and the angle
that the bridge meets
Sleepy Hollow Drive have
(caused) problems for log
trucks ”
The *376,743 project will
realign the bridge to the
east of its present position
to provide better traffic
flow onto Sleepy Hollow
Drive. The wooden ap
proach will be replaced
with concrete.
The project is funded by
federal dollars and a local
match of *86,460
serve as volunteers
The monthly tuition for
interested parents is $15 for
one child and *7 50 for each
child thereafter
For more information
contact Bill Knight-Weiler
at the Sandy Community
Center, 668-5569
Oregon and Washington
counties will receive some
*4 1 million from the
Bureau of Land Manage
ment this month to partial
ly compensate them for
service they provide tax
exempt federal lands dur
ing fiscal year 1982, accor
ding to William Leavell,
BLM's state director for
the two states
Oregon's
total
is
12,531,671
while
Washington counties will
receive *1,594,873.
In Oregon, the largest
payment went to Malheur
county with *407 299, trail
ed by Lake and Harney
counties with *301,432
Clackamas County will
receive *46,966 Multnomah
County will receive *6,634
while Hood River County
will receive *19,300
BLM Director Robert
Burford said the national
total to be paid is *95
million to 1,687 units of
local government He said
there are "no strings at
tached to the money by
Washington."
Burford
continued,
‘These payments help
compensate local govern
ment for fire and police
protection and other ser-
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Welches Grade School
students concluded their bi-
yearly California Achieve
ment Tests (CAT) this
week
CAT was administered to
students in the second
through eighth grades, said
Vice Principal Gary
Dietderich.
Each year, generally at
the beginning of the school
year and at the conclusion,
students are tested on
reading, spelling, language
and math. Dietderich said
for four days, students are
tested on one subject only
per day.
The tests are given to
students all over the na
tion, which allows each
participating school to see
how its students compare
nationally, said Dietderich
At times, however,
Dietderich said the tests
can be misleading. For ex
ample, in some of the items
the students may be tested
on, they may not learn until
a later grade.
However, for the past
three years this has not
been the case at Welches.
“Last year we were
above average all the way
across the board (in all the
subject
matter)
nationally."
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can't
"concern
themselves with this kind
of problem.”
A representative of the
Humane Society in
Portland told Gracia they
don't have the equipment
that would make such a
rescue possible, but did
know of a service that
would do it for a fee.
A call to the Sandy
police department proved
fruitless They reportedly
told Gracia they couldn't
make the rescue.
A
spokesman
for
Portland General Elec
tric said they would do it
only if the animal was in-
terferring with their
lines
Finally Gracia's hus
band, Dan, told his wife
that he’d climb the tree
and rescue the cat. But
Enka Reagan. 14. beat
him to it.
Reagan, who was baby
sitting for Michael and
Stella Hemmer, made the
climb. A group of about 10
youngsters on the ground
cheered when she got to
the top.
Asked if she was
scared, the Sandy Union
High School freshman
said, "Yeah, a little bit
when I got to the top and
it started shaking."
Asked why she made
the climb, Reagan said,
“I didn't want to see it die
in that tree.”
“It took a lot of guts to
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