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About Sandy post. (Sandy, Oregon) 1938-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 23, 1982)
— - ........................ Photo by Scott Newton Flames swept through the Sandy I n ion High School district office early Wednesday morning, destroying the double-wide mobile home that housed five SUHS employees. Fiscal and personnel records were damaged in the blaie. Flames destroy high school district offices by DAN D IL LO N F ire investigators Wednesday sifted through the rubble of Sandy Union High School's district office for clues to the cause of an early-morning blaze that gutted the structure and found faulty wiring A breakdown between aluminum wiring and an electrical outlet in the superinten dent's office touched off the blaze, said San dy F ire M arshal Jim Gallagher The value of the 1,000-square-foot. double wide mobile home, which served as an office Vandals hit Gov’t. Camp rest area by M IC H A E L P. JONES Post Correspondent Beverly Stonebrook has decided that the Oregon State Highway D iv i sion is no Scrooge afterall. The Brightwood woman recently received word that her battle with the highw ay division over the brightly-colored bows advertising her annual Christmas sale is over Since last Christmas, Stonebrook’s ribbons have become a common sign along Highway 26 near the Salmon River Bridge. To form er customers, the bows tell them a sale is being con ducted at her A-fram e house, located just below the west end of the bridge. To others, the bows spark a curiosi ty that causes them follow the bright ly colored ribbons to her house where they find Stonebrook's talents as a florist, artist and interior decorator on display. W all hangings and wreaths decorated with dried weeds 2 3 4 4 7 8-10 Inside Tab Inside Tab WEATHER Extended Forecast: Ram at times through Sunday Highs. 40s to mid-Ms Lows. 35 to 45 Southwest winds 10 Io 20 P r e c ip it a t io n : D ecem ber Total: 7.53 inches; 3 65 inches above normal Troutdale airport H L Pr. Saturday 47 38 31 Sunday 48 39 IS Monday 45 38 1.3 Tuesday 46 36 57 Firefighting efforts were hampered by a strong south winds which whipped the flames and the close exposure of the school building which had to be protected. “The exposure there really made it a pro blem ," Rathke said. “ It doesn’t allow you to concentrate fully on the fire "The building was basically gone when we got there, but the potential for the science wing was there,” Rathke said. “ I think our guys did a super job.” Firefighters had the flames knocked down and the science wing protected eight minutes after the alarm . The fire was under control at 12:38 a m Ixical firefighters were on the scene until 2:10 a.m . mopping up and salvaging records. Student records are kept in another part of the school building. However, SUHS Superintendent Jack Peters said the district lost all fiscal records. Employees’s records were in a fire- resistant cabinet Peters was unsure early Wednesday if they would be salvageable A "brand new" copying machine, valued at $4,000, was destroyed, as well as com puter equipment, a term inal and printer, valued at $10,000 Adding machines ($800), typewriters ($600) and other office equip ment was lost In addition, Peters lost memorabilia from 33 years in education. and flowers, cover the walls of her living room and dining room. On the tables and counters are numerous baskets and jars, filled with her special m ixture of pot pourri. The scents fill the air. Also on display are traditional C h ristm as w reaths, swags and garlands, as well as dried eed and flower arrangements. B u s in e s s is n 't bad, s a id Stonebrook, but the going was pretty rough in the beginning when she first opened a fte r T h a n k s g iv in g Somebody was removing her rib bons She estimated about $100 worth of ribbons for her Christmas sale alone had vanished During her Valentine's Day sale. Mother's and F ath er’s Day, Easter and Veteran’s Day, she lost a $200 worth of ribbons F in a lly , Stonebrook said she discovered who the ribbon thief was. It was the highway division Stonebrook said employees of the highway division said she was in violation of state law. She said they informed her if she wanted to place her ribbons along the highway she’d have to have a sign permit. “ I tried to explain to them that a a couple feet of ribbon tied into a bow was far from being a sign, but it was no use," said Stonebrook. "So I told them to send me the information for a p erm it.” Stonebrook said when the thick packet arrived from the highway division explaining "the what fors and how comes" the ribbons were not even close to being covered. For only $5 a year, the process which one has to go through just to place a sign tem porarily along the highway, was very bureaucratic and difficult to follow, said Stonebrook So she decided to try to reason with representatives of the highway divi sion again, hoping to salvage what she could of her sale. Stonebrook and highway division representatives failed to clear the air at the meeting,, She said she told them she’d hire an unemployed squirrel, and have it place the bows on the very top of her hemlock tree "T heir response was my tree was even in violation with state law ," said Stonebrook. said Failm esger "We couldn't really figure out what was going on." F a ilm e s g e r said Stonebrook’s bows can remain up until after her Christmas sale is completed He said as long as the ribbons are removed and replaced at the tim e there is another sale, there w ill be no pro blems So in retaliation, Stonebrook plac ed a couple of dozen brightly -colored bows on top of he2 hemlock tree The sight drew the attention of travelers on the highway, and more people began to stop at her sale. The state highway division gets ex tra federal funds, said Failmesger. for controlling signs along the right- of-ways of federal highways He said sign control has been here since the "Lady Bird Johnson e ra ," and will probably be here for a long time to come. Recently the highway division and Stonebrook buried the hatchet Ron Failmesger, regional traffic opera tions supervisor, said he was not aware of any problems between the bows and the highway division. When Stonebrook heard that her bows could remain, how did she feel’ “ I wish the state highway division the merriest of all Christmases, because I ’m no Scrooge either " "The main thing the bows did was make them wonder about them ,” City sets money aside to boost development The c ity of Sandy gave its economic development interests an early Christmas present this week As a result, businesses around the state and region are going to have a better feel for what Sandy has to of fer businesses. Monday night, the City Council ap propriated money to sing the praises of Sandy, along with Estacada and Molalla, as sites for possible in dustrial relocation The local money w ill match the contributions of the other two members of the Small Cities Industrial Attraction Pro gram . up to $1,500 The money is earm arked to serve as a "last resort source for advertis ing with the Clackamas County Small Cities group," according to City Manager Tom Reber Any funds re maining w ill be used specifically for the local effort. At a Dec. 15 meeting of the steering committee, advertising strategy was spelled out. including the advertising copy which w ill be placed in newspapers and magazines The money w ill initially be used for advertisements "extolling the vir- SECTION II Classified Ads T V Revue Night watchm an Donn Nicholls had checked the area an hour to an hour and a half before the flames were reported and n o tic e n o th in g u n u s u a l. G a lla g h e r estimated the fire smoldered approximately by DAN DILLON SECTION I Editorial. Opinion Obituaries Senior Center News Church Notes W hat’s Cooking Sports, Recreation The fire was reported at 12:23 a.m. Wednesday by a neighbor, Sara Fork, 38425 Park St 45 minutes before it was reported. By the tim e the first engine arrived on the scene, "the west two-thirds of the trailer had flames roaring out," Sandy F ire Chief Bob Rathke said. The facial boards on the science wing of the school, six feet west of the burning office, had also begun burning. Woman discovers state no ‘Scrooge’ after all Vandals struck the state Highway Division rest area at Government Camp last weekend, creating an ex tra burden for crews already busy with snow removal. “ This is a te rrib le tim e for vandals," said Vickie Rocker, public information officer for the state H ig h w a y D iv is io n . “ O ur maintenance people are up to their eyeballs in snow.” Rocker said vandals smashed out 12 windows, ripped doors out of stalls and broke beer bottles in the building Because of the tim ing of the inci dent and other duties of state crews, she said the Highway Division is uncertain when the facility w ill be re opened for public use. That w ill be a particular problem with tourists and skiers traveling through the moun tain area during the holiday season She added that state crews have nailed plastic sheeting over the w in dows to keep the pipes from freezing until perm anent repairs can be made Index building for five people at SUHS, hadn't been determined Wednesday morning, but prelim inary estimates by Gallagher put the loss of building and contents at approx im ately $50,000. * t j ' V «4 r . ,5'-' - * - d ■ ■ * ■ , • C *\-. i , "The whole thrust is that w e’re close enough to Portland, and then far enough away to have some liveability," he explained Along with the three $1,500 con tributions from the participants. Morgan said the program has some money from the recent U S Bank of Oregon drive to boost economic development Some of that will be us ed to pay for creating lists of poten tial businesses that might be in terested in relocating in the eastern Clackamas County area Money from the County itself is tied to the three small cities’ w ill ingness to appropriate money also. Morgan said The Small Cities Industrial A ttrac tion Program was undertaken about a year and a half ago through the C o m m u n ity D evelo p m en t Block G ran t from C lackam as County; .*■ ' - V • . •: a • 5 Photo hv D m DtRen More than IM area families began picking up Christmas baskets yesterday furnished by Sandy Kiwanis Club members and volunteers. Volunteers, pictured above, worked for the past week sorting food and Christmas presents for the an nual holiday project. • t * * » - - ; ' ■ ■: » 6 tues of the three small cities." said George Morgan, local chairm an of the Economic Development Commis sion and a representative on the County steering committee "W e in tend to do some advertising on our own when our own campaign is underway. , ! » 1 ■ t . • 7 . ». • . • ' „ * w ' £ 6. * I t * 4M t »,
