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«- SANDY (Or* ) eOST Thur» Oc» 7 I «92 («*■ H Review School menus Welches Sandy MONDAY. OCT. 11 Baked lasagna Tossed green salad Applesauce Garlic bread Milk MONDAY. OCT. 11 Spaghetti with Meat sauce Cole slaw Roll with butter Pears Milk TUESDAY. (XT 12 Hot do# on a bun Catsup Potato rounds Apple Milk TUESDAY. (XT. 12 Beef taco lettuce and cheese Buttered mixed vegetables Crazy cake Peaches Milk WEDNESDAY. OCT 13 Chicken salad sandwich Fruit salad Broccoli Milk THURSDAY. (KT. 14 Burrito Seasoned green beans Sliced peaches Cookie Milk FRIDAY. OCT. 15 Spaghetti with Meat sauce Cabbage & carrot salad Bread and butter Oranges Milk WEDNESDAY. OCT. 13 Baked beans Wiener coins Tossed salad Roll with butter Fruited jello Milk THURSDAY. (XT. 14 Burrito with sauce Ta ter tots Carrot coins Applesauce Milk FRIDAY. OCT. 15 Beef and noodles Buttered peas & carrots Cheese biscuit Orange wedge Milk Cottrell MONDAY, OCT. 11 Macaroni and cheese Hot rolls with butter Buttered broccoli Raisins Banana Milk TUESDAY. OCT. 12 Com dogs Cheese nachos Cucumber wheels Cherry crisp Milk WEDNESDAY. OCT. 13 Beef stew Hot rolls with butter Popeye salad Cookie Ice cream Milk THURSDAY, OCT. 14 Barbecued pork sandwich Buttered green beans Crispy celery sticks Applesauce Milk FRIDAY. OCT. 1$ Tomato soup Toasted cheese sandwich Crackers Carrot sticks Fruit Brownies Choice of milk Book traces roots of Volga Germans by CHARLES WALTERS JR Sons and daughters of Volga German im migrants, many of whom settled in the Sandy area after 1886, can now see their forbears both before and since they came to Oregon An in-depth and readable book on the subject was released in September by Halcyon House Publishers entitled "Wlr Wollen Deutsche Bleiben (We Want to Remain German), the Story of the Volga Ger mans.” mans, not Russians They fled the steppes and hills along the lower Volga River near Saratov in 1876 because—in the words of one of them - “there was no opportunity " Young men drafted into Russian military service could no longer make their Easter duty, and the inter national wheat traders were robbing them blind Within two years after many of them arrived in the plains states, their habits of hard work and perseverence gave birth to the seventh and greatest breadbasket of the world The message of this "roots ' type history seems clear enough Families outlive countries And in this book families from the Sandy area with a Volga German heritage may well find that missing element in their social history The descendants of the Volga Germans who live in the United States and Canada now number 2 million Few know of their roots in the Rhine Valley, Hesse-Darmstadt and the Bavarian Alps At square one. “The Story of the Volga Ger mans ” is simply a book about one of history ’s most distinguished migrations The Volga Germans came to the United States from Russia but they were Ger Their cousins fought with the British in the American Revolutionary War, but they weren't mercenaries as history books say. but drafted farmers sentenced to fight for a fee that was paid to their governments Few descendants of the Volga Germans now living in Sandy know about the great hungers of the 1920s in German Russian, or the demise of the Volga Republic that was built and governed by German speaking people a hundred years removed from their ancestral homeland that, forming an Amencan Historical Society of Ger mans from Kussia in the early 1970s, now head quartered in Lincoln. Neb Since then researchers have tunneled back to learn what realy happened when Germans immigrated to the Russian steppes in 1763. hard on the heels of the Seven Years’ War in Europe Now the stories of those great great great great grandfathers are be ing told those clashes with Kirghiz tribesmen, the social beauty of a cultural ly autonomous enclave in Russia, finally the coming Since the publication of Alex Haley's "Roots.” and the television series of the same name, interest in ancestral heritage has been generally on the upswing in the U S But the Volga Germans started unraveling the mystery of their history even before of communism, pauperism depopulaton and defeat The mam elements of the Volga German family tree, roots to out rmost bran ches, have now been assembled and bolted together into a highly readable, sorrowfully ac curate, and devastatingly poignant story of the Volga Germans “Wir Wollen Deutsche Bleiben. The Story of the Volga Germans." by George J Walters, is available from Halcyon House Publishers. Box 9547, Kansas City, Mo 64133 To purchase curtain ‘Sun catchers’ aid school The Parent Teacher Club of Sandy Elementary School has scheduled a ma jot fund drive this week. Oct. 7-14, to raise $4.000 for purchase of curtains for the school's gymnasium stage Sandy Elementary are sell ing a window decoration, called "Sun Catchers." as a means to raise money for the much needed curtains “Sun Catchers” are designed to resemble stain ed glass The 12 styles vary from cathedral windows to PTC President Debra Hoard said students from Tiffany Each student who par ticipates has a chance to win a prize, the highest prize is an Atari video game The items are gift boxed and sell for $3 75 For more information, call Hoard at 668 9264 For employers Tax credits available Congress recently passed legislation extending the Targeted Jobs Tax Credit (TJTC) program to Dec 31, 1984. allowing employers to continue to receive tax credits for hir ing persons from targeted segments of the population Employers who hire in dividuals from any of the targeted groups can claim as a tax credit up to 50 per cent of an eligible employee's first $6.000 in wages the first year and th percent ot the first $6.000 in wages the second year, for a potential credit of $4,500 Since the start of the pro gram in May 1979, Oregon employers utilizing TJTC have realized a net savings of more than $27 million The targeted groups who qualify for the tax credit in clude Vietnam veterans, handicapped individuals enrolled in Vocational Rehabilitation, corrections clients, persons receiving general assistance or sup plemental security income payments, work incentive participants and recipients of aid to dependent children. To obtain the tax credit an employer must simply submit a written request for certification of the employee prior to the day the new employee starts Sandy-area work employers interested in hiring an individual from the target groups should contact Gwen Simpson at the Clackamas County Employment and Training Agency at 635-4591 The intent of the legisla tion is to further increase the partnership between employment and training programs and the private sector in their efforts to deal with the nation's unemployment problem The TJTC program is designed to increase private sector employment opportunities by providing employers with a cost effective tax credit hiring incentive Shhh IT’s 1 SAVING MAYTAG preferred washer Coast to coast consumers were asked which washer they would like to own the answer: Maytag No. 1 over any other brand! 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