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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
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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