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Single Copy 25 Vol. 73 No. 16 Festival expands with downtown booths by DAN DILLON The Sandy Mountain Festival w ill have a new look this year as it begins to sp re ad fro m M e in ig P a r k throughout the downtown area Monday evening, the Sandy City C o u ncil endorsed the idea of Board races draw slate of candidates A full slate of candidates in area school board races w ill await can didates when they go to the polls M ay 17. In the Sandy Union High School district, incumbent board chairman Wayne Johnson has decided not to seek re-election He has been battling illness for several months. Dan M ac Donald. appointed to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Ralph "P ete" G riffin, will seek a full four- year term Incumbent Sharron Cox is seeking re-election to her seat on the Sandy Elem entary District board of direc tors. Candidates who filed for the M ay 17 election are: Sandy Union High School— Position I, 4-year term : Dan MacDonald, 14401 Shalim ar Ave ; Dwayne Ved- der, 18906 Langensand Road Position 4. 4-year term : Janet Albers, 15035 SE 377th Ave ; Jeanne Doty, 18270 SE 362nd Drive; G ary Holland, 11350 SE Bull Run Road. Sandy Elem entary District—Posi tion 4, 4-year term : Debra Hoard, 39360 Barker Court; Sharron Cox, 23665 SE McCabe Road. Welches School District—Position 5, 4-year term : Maryanne H ill, 29304 E Blossom T r a il, G overnm en t Camp; Saundra Japely, 64753 E Broken Bridge Lane. Rhododendron; Sharron Njust, 69450 E River T rail, Welches Index SECTION I 2 3 3 4 5 5 6 8 ..8 9-11 Editorial, Opinion Keeping Posted Senior Center News School Menus Inside the Church Obituaries About People What's Cooking Home and Garden Sports, Recreation SECTION II Classified Ads T V Revue Inside Tab Inside Tab WEATHER Extended Forecast: Unsettled Firday through Sunday with showers at times Highs, 60s Lows, 40s Precipitation: April Total: 1 00 inches, 0 47 inches above nor- mal. 1983 Total: 2181 inches. 6 64 in- ches above normal. establishing wine and food conces sions under a tent on tlie grassy area just west of Decker’s Store Don Wilson, vice president of the Sandy Area Chamber of Commerce, is heading the project which he hopes will appeal to families with a variety of wine and food concessions The area will be roped to keep minors from the wine area, but still allow them to enjoy the other activities Wilson told the council that area wineries, including Wasson Brothers, Big F ir and Hood River are being in vited to participate in a tasting room Local restaurants are also being asked to participate in the four-day event, July 7-10 of festival week Festival chairman D arrell Demp ster welcomes the move. "W e’re 100 percent in favor of it,” he said " It's something that will spread the festival throughout the community and something of high quality that w ill add to the festival.” The city council endorsed the idea pending a review of the security plan by Police Chief Fred Punzel. A second new activity is also in the works for the Mountain Festival. The Royal Rosarians of Portland are celebrating their 75th anniversa’— Pioneer’s donation boosts museum by DAN DILLON For more than 60 years Frieda Whitlock has shared in the history of the mountain area Sunday the Sandy resident gave a little piece of it back. Fourteen years ago she was putting in the lawn at her South Bluff Road home when she came across something a little different " I was raking pretty deep for rocks and it just came up,” Frieda explained. “ 1 knew it was man-made and I knew the pioneers didn't make it .” She’d turned up an old Indian tool used to skin the bark from cedar trees, but she wasn’t sure of its value. " I didn't really know what I had. I'v e been us ing it for a doorstop in the laundry room for 13 years,” she said. Three months ago she heard about a show-and- tell session at the quarterly meeting of the Sandy Pioneer Association. Members were to bring childhood items or pioneer reminders, spend a few minutes after the traditional potluck feed and rem em ber the past, talking about the old days. " I had never gone to the pioneer meetings,” Frieda said Tuesday “ I already was a pioneer; I'm a Santiam Canyon pioneer." But she went up to the meeting and listened while members explained what it was they'd brung to share with their associates. "A fte r everybody was done, I said, T have something here, I don’t know what it is.’” Well, a couple other m em eeri did know what Frieda had raked up in her backyard and their excitement relayed its value " I really didn’t know how important it was,” she confessed, "so I was kind of surprised when I took it up there.” Sunday she went back to another Sandy Pioneer Association potluck, this tim e to donate her Indian artifact to the budding museum hous ed in the Sandy Community Center. " I knew they were trying to establish a museum. I thought that was the place for it to go,” she said simply. She figures the Indian tool got in her backyard when the area surrounding it was timbered. "This was cedar country all over here.” she explained. The country has changed and Frieda has seen a good deal of it happen. “ The first tim e we came through here—we discovered Sandy—it was the Fourth of July, 1919, and the dust was up to here,” she said, holding her hand knee-high , sun photo She and her late husband, Lew, were going Frieda Whitlock points to the spot in her backyard where she raked up a valuable Indian artifact 13 fishing with friends. They stopped to eat at the years ago while putting in her lawn. Sunday she donated the tool, used to bark cedar trees, to the San old Sm ith’s Cafe before venturing on up the dy Pioneer Museum. mountain to an old covered bridge across the Salmon River. she sells it to her grandson. Through the years, they operated a building The party planned to sleep under the truck that Of her four sons—Henry, Bill, Eddie and m aterials store on Salmon River Road, a pair of night, but fortunately one m ember woke up. Bob—three are in the area. “ Num ber 3 boy has “ W e’d got on top of one of those sink holes and shingle mills and finally a holly farm near wandered," she said “ H e’s down in Arkansas.” the truck was sinking down on us It took us the Veneer Lane where they shipped the ornamental plants worldwide as wreaths and corsages. Frieda wandered too, before she found a home whole afternoon to dig it out." “ According to my husband, nobody could in the shadow of Mt. Hood Undaunted, they traveled on to Government Camp where “ the mosquitoes were so thick, we make corsages like I could and he couldn't Born in Germ any, her fam ily moved to M ill Ci understand why I couldn't teach those women to had to sit in the smoke of the fire to eat.” ty when she was 12 tv, "so I consider that my Two years later, she and Lew were back to set m ake corsages,” she said, chuckling. "Some of home town," she said, explaining her Santiam tle, purchasing the old fish hatchery in the area them wouldn’t even come to work on days we Canyon pioneer handle near Country Club Road. He still 2an a transfer made corsages.” “ 1 lived there five years and came to Portland The holly farm was “ a good business," she business in town and commuted twice a week, to go to school." she said, smiling, "and finally said. Now, after years of turning down offers. but the mountain was gaining a foothold in the m y life got wrapped up in the mountain.” Frieda is happy to keep the site in the fam ily as Whitlocks' hearts. w ith this year's Portland Rose F estiv al. To com m em orate that event, they are planting a special dia mond jubilee rose in festival com munities. Monday, the council O K ’d a plan to plant a special rose on city property In other action, the Sandy City Coun cil: —Scheduled a M ay 2 remonstrance hearing for property owners affected by the creation of Local Improve ment D istrict 6—the site of Heritage Square parking lot. T h e c o u n c il a c c e p te d C ity Engineer Greg DiLoreto's report establishing assess, nents for each a f fected property owner Cost of the project is *66,199.72. Boring p a r k ’s future awaits commission It w ill be another week before Clackamas County’s Board of Com missioners decide the fate of Deep Creek P ark, south of Boring After two and a h alf hours of public testimony last Thursday, the com missioners postponed a decision on the sale of the 76-acre undeveloped park Follow ing Com m issioner D a le H a rlan ’s suggestion, the commis sioners agreed to put off a decision until next Thursday, April 28, a t 10 a.m . at the county annex, 906 Main St., Oregon City. The county has received a bid of *460,000 from Holbrook Forest Pro ducts for the tim ber and land of the park. Dan Zinzer, Clackamas County park adm inistrator, proposed the idea of the sale to benefit rem aining parks in the county's system. He e s t im a t e s t h a t th e re v e n u e s generated by the sale could help run county parks for at least 10 years. The Friends of Deep Creek Park feel that is a "band-aid” approach to financing and would be a short-term investment. They a re also afraid it w ill set a precedent for other parks when the Deep Creek P ark sale funds run out. They have proposed a five-year tria l period during which they would develop nature trails and parking facilities at the park with volunteer help Opponents of the sale have found a frie n d in C o m m issio ner Ralph G ro e n e r . H e c a lle d th e s a le “ myopic.” “ You don't just come in and talk about sewers, roads and w ater av ailab ility,” he said “ You have that nebulous thing you associate with quality of life .” Zinzer blames part of the problem on state-mandated services that af fect county coffers. He told The Post that those regulations cause the shut fling of funds to meet the mandated needs and parks are just one victim . At the same tim e budgets are being cut, park reservations are climbing and Zinzer hopes to m aintain a skeleton maintenance crew to keep the parks in acceptable condition Recovering alcoholic hopes to change direction of his life by SCOTT NEWTON In some ways things haven’t been going well for Bill Zachary He's unemployed, is being evicted from his apartment in Sandy, and recently spent a couple nights in ja il. "Things really started turning around when 1 landed in ja il," said Zachary, 23 After drinking three quarts of beer one Saturday night, he and his wife, Mardeil. started arguing about some stupid little thing ” During the argument he hit her several times, giving her a black eye and causing "multiDie severe bruises " M ardeil called a friend, who caUed the police. The Sandy police handcuf fed him and look him to ja il “ When an in ju ry is involved, it's an ..w — .« m «, arrest,” BUI — id " I t weren’t no fun. 1st me tell you " B la m ii« alcohol would be a cop- out,” M B said. " I had a conscious choice whether to think or not drink. But I felt I wmddn't hove done it If I hadn’t boon dkinkiag.” ; himself) and walk aw ay." His problem with alcohol began 10 years ago, when he was 13 and stole a bottle of vodka and a can of grape juice “ I didn't like the taste, but 1 liked the feeling it gave m e,” Bill said He drank when he could at 14 and 15, and drank regularly by the age of 17. It was then he realized it was a problem He attended Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, but it didn't keep him from playing pool and drinking. He was a favorite at one bar because he'd play pool with his pet cat perched on his shoulder. He and his roommates in Garibaldi kept a small refrigerator stocked full of beer H e’d wake up in the morning and his roommates would tell him about the things he'd done the night Because of alcohol he said ha s lost jobs and friends, and blown relation- His goal is to never drink again “ Once 1 start drinking. I keep drink lug," he said. Circumstances were perhaps at their worst whan Bill was in ja il In Oregon City Ha was with numerous other people in a large call, which had a toilet in open view at one end He didn't know if M ardeil would press charges, and he was even more concerned about losing her " I didn’t like the person I was anymore than M ardeil did," he said. "About 96 percent of the people in there blamed alcohol or drugs either directly or indirectly” for their in te r n m e n t, B ill s a id . “ M o s tly alcohol " He was surprised that most of them weren’t bitter They accepted the blame for being in jail. Mardeil left Sandy the day after the incident and stayed with her mother and sister, who tried to talk her into divorcing Bill, whom she met in Tillamook on a Wind date "And neither one of us believes in blind dates,” she joked. They’ve been m arried three and a half years Bill got out of ja il on a Monday, and the next couple of days were long ones. M ardell’s mother doesn't have a telephone, so Bill couldn’t call her, and she didn't call him. A few days later he got a check from the State Accident Insurance Fund, which provided him a means of paying some of the bills he'd ac cumulated during his unemploy ment The next day Mardeil called and she agreed to give him another chance “ I think he's made the change,” Mardeil said last week “ I ’d go through it all again for him to realize he had a problem he couldn't handle I came back with a renewed faith in God I turned it all over to him “ When I was down there staying with mom ( and my sister 1 1 felt emp ty and alone, even though they were there I realized the more mom said Bill did the beating, it was the alcohol The real Bill wouldn't do that ’ Bill and Mardeil are members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, and credit Pastor Bemell Clark and his wife, Karen, for helping them through their crisis “ I don't believe in most of the things I used to do," Bill said “ I'm not a good example of what the church teaches Moat Seventh-day Adventists are good people I want people to understand that " Mardeil and BIB Zachary Bill said his faith “ definitely" helped him Bill and M ardeil are both seeking employment As for Bill, he's been dry for three weeks now BUI said the only reason he's will lng to share his story is because he hopes ba can keep someone else from going through the pain he and MardsU have suffered
