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SAND* (O r« ) rO S I Ih u r.
Thurs
0«< 30. 1982 (*•<. 1)
Welches PTA to consider playground fence
by M IC H A E L P. JONES
Pool Corm pondent
How safe the playground
is at Welches Grade School
is a question parents and
the local Parent Teacher
Association have been ask
ing school district officials
since last year
The original safety con
cern of parents and PTA
members was the road that
runs within close proximity
of the te th e r b a ll and
basketball courts, near the
new addition to the school
Judy Donaldson, presi
dent of the Association,
said there have been some
close calls at that locale
between kids and motor
vehicles She, herself, was
almost involved in one of
these incidents
She said some students
w ill chase runaway balls
across the street without
watching for traffic With
both buses and cars utiliz
ing the road, the potential
for an accident exists, she
contends,
Donaldson said the PTA
approached the school
board during the 1981-82
school year and requested
that a fence be installed on
the north side of the
playground to keep balls
from rolling into the street
A fte r
h e a r in g
no
response from the board
concerning this m a tte r,
Donaldson said the PTA
wrote the board and again
requested they lake some
action on their request
On Oct 15 the school
board discussed the I T A s
recommendation of fencing
the playground, which she
said they rejected due to
the cost In a letter to the
P T A . Donaldson said Ken
n e th
C.
B la c k b u r n ,
superintendent, wrote that
the board had come up with
New budget process initiated
The budget committee
for the Welches G rade
School District w ill meet at
7 p m Jan 3 in the library
of the school's new addi
tion
D ick H o ffm an, board
chairperson, said that the
district is using a different
budget process this year
He said they are currently
looking at the budget from
the ground floor up
"Both the teachers and
the adm inistration have
been asked to draft three
different budgets," said
Hoffman. "W e wanted to
see where the teachers
wanted to be, and where
the administration wanted
to be "
The first would be a basic
budget, or "a starvatior
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job to get done
The second would be a
"comfortable budget," in
which they would have ad
ditional programs
The third is to be a “ pie-
in-the-sky” budget where
everything they want is in
cluded
Hoffman said the starva
tion, the comfortable and
the pie-in-the-sky budgets
w ill all undergo the budget
process before a final one is
selected
Two new programs that
are currently being studied
for inclusion into the cur
riculum include courses on
computer programing and
foreign languages
an alternative solution to
the fencing This alter
native was "to re-advise
the playground aides to be
congnizant of traffic, which
is m inim al, and kids on the
playground "
Donaldson said the PTA
w ill once again approach
the board concerning this
aspect of playground safe
ty. She said she feels that
• 'r e - a d v i s in g "
th e
playground aides of the
potential hazards doesn't
adequately rem ove the
danger of a collision bet
w een p e d e s tria n s
vehicular traffic
and
“ I, myself, speaking as a
parent and not for the PTA,
am not satisfied with this,"
said Donaldson “ W e’re not
trying to make a problem
out of something that isn't.
" I don't think that since
the traffic is m inim al that
there's no problem You
don't need a freeway to
have a problem ”
Donaldson said the PTA
w ill look at various options
available for the fencing
This could include non
This is why the PTA will
be pursuing the issue fu r
th er at the next P T A
Applications burn
in district office fire
Area people who applied
for part-tim e jobs at Sandy
Union High School for
either of two part-tim e
positions with the Extend
ed Day Vocational School,
should resubmit their ap-
meeting, scheduled for Jan
13. At that meeting "the
fe n c e
iss u e
w ill
be
presented again to the
general membership of the
PTA, and we will decide
how we will go about handl
ing it.”
plications
L illia s C r a n e , c o o r
dinator, said all applica
tions that came in before
Dec. 22 burned in the fire at
the district office
continuous fencing or even
an alternative to fencing
itself, which might include
moving the play equipment
away from the road This
decision, she said, will be
up to the membership
Another concern for PTA
members is to alleviate
any p o te n tia l law su its
against the district should
an accident occur, said
Donaldson
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30. 1982 |S«c I) SANDY (Ore.) POST— 9
Safety of ‘Big Toy’ considered at Welches
by M IC H A E L P. JONES
Post Correspondent
On Dec 8 what has been
reported as the fourth acci
dent in a two-and-a-half
month period occurred on
th e
sam e
p ie c e
of
playground equipment at
Welches Grade School
As a result of this acci
dent. parents are beginning
to question how safe the
school's playground is.
They are also concerned
with how the district com
pares with others in regard
to safety.
The accident occurred on
the Big Toy," a large log
structure that has been at
the school for the past six
years Injured in the acci
dent was a first grade girl
who suffered a concussion
after falling from the top of
th e a p p a r a tu s , w h ic h
measures a distance of
about eight feet
At the December board
of d ir e c to r s m e e tin g
Dawson Hubert, one of the
parents whose child has
been injured on the Big
Verla Rogers joins
board of directors
Verla Rogers was of
ficially sworn in as a new
m ember of the Welches
School Board of Directors
earlier this month
Rogers was appointed to
fill the seat vacated by Ron
Worrell, who was forced to
resigned when he was
tra n s fe rre d to an o ther
state by the company he
works for
The term of office for the
board position now oc
cupied by Rogers w ill ex
pire on June 30
Toy, appeared before the
board He wanted to know
how the school stood in
respect to safety on the
p la y g r o u n d
an d
on
playground equipment
" A r e th e s e re c o rd s
available and how do we
(Welches G rade School)
stand on safety,” asked
Hubert
K e n n e th B la c k b u r n ,
superintendent, responded
that the most recent acci
dent occurred after school
during a Brownie meeting
being held in the Welches
Community School room
He said. "There was no one
supervising ( when the acci
d e n t o c c u r r e d ) , as I
understand "
A cco rd in g to A ndrea
Cabral, a troop leader for
the Brownies, there was
supervision when the acci-
dent took place
Later in his explaination.
however. Blackburn, who
was not present when the
accident occurred, said he
actually wasn't certain "if
there was anyone there
supervising or not.”
"Sir, 1 didn't mean to a t
tack." said Hubert " I f this
happens to be the fourth kid
hurt on the same toy, I
want to know This is what
I am looking for ”
Blackburn said he didn't
feel, in relationship to the
number of youngsters who
use that particular play
equipment, that it has a
high percentage of ac
cidents.
He said the school had
two Big Toys, an old and a
new one To determ ine
which accidents occurred
on this piece of equipment.
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even better yet or worse
yet. wherever your coming
fro m ,"
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H u b e rt
That's the second acci
dent within a month and a
half that I ’ve been per
sonally involved (w ith) We
need to take that thing out
before somebody really
gets hurt."
Another problem Hubert
dent reports kept on file by
the district He said he'd
make the contents of those
reports public
Hubert said this was the
second accident within a
month and a half. The first
involved his child
“ If it's the old one. th at’s
High school students
donate cans and cash
Students at Sandy Union
High School donated over
MOO and 3,000 cans of food
to the Kiwanis Club's food
drive, according to Curtis
Heath, activities director
The junior class won the
Associated Student Body’s
can contest, collecting 1,335
cans of food.
Members of the student
body did a "tremendous
job ,” Heath said.
A r ie l, a ro ck band,
played Dec 21 as part of
the fund raiser
id e n t if ie d
w ith
th e
playground area is the use
of bark dust below the
equipment instead of dirt
He said the doctor who
dressed his daughter's arm
when she was injured had
d iffic u lty rem oving the
bark dust from her wound
D ick H o ffm an, board
chairperson, agreed and
said studies have shown
that dirt is safer than bark
dust in play areas
something about i t . "
Hoffman, in an interview
M onday night, said he
doesn't see a problem with
that particular play equip
ment He said the four in
juries is m inim al He said
out of 310 students, about
150 s tu d e n ts use th e
playground facilities on a
daily basis
Later. Hoffman said that
other alternatives to bark
dust should be explored due
to the infection it causes
"Not to blow anything
up, I'm just saying you got
to replay (the accidents),"
s a id
H u b e r t.
" Is
everything safe, and if it is,
great If it isn’t, le t’s do
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