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2 SANDY (O r» ) POST Thur* . July 7. I »83 (S»c I) The Srfndy Post Editorial & Opinion Von Braschler. Pubiutw Caroline Duff. Othco Manager Dan Dillon, editor Scott Newton. Sporn editor SANDY, OREGON, THURSDAY. JULY 7. 1983 Cyclist pride of Sandy Sandy's Mike Sheppard, 17, con tinues to bring honor to his moun tain com m unity as one of the prem ier racing cyclists in the na tion. Kecently he brought home a silver medal for his tim e in team pursuit and set a new personal record at Colorado Springs by shaving 12 seconds o ff his best 3,000-meter time. While he finished just out of the top four spots to qualify for Junior World events in New Zealand, his fifth-best overall effort is not disheartening to him or fans back in Sandy. Basically, the recent Sports Festival qualifying rounds picked junior national team members in road racing and sprint racing for a long-distance team. M ik e ’s b a sica lly a p u rs u it racer—something he does very well in top competition. In early qualifying rounds at Colorado Springs, he placed fourth in in dividual pursuit and lapped the field. And M ike reasons there’s plenty of tim e at nationals in the Los Angeles Olympic Velodrome to qualify for junior world cycling championships in New Zealand. Making it to nationals and doing well there has been his goal all along. Incidentally, he must race to Los Angeles July 31 and then race back to Sandy Aug 6 to race to New York with the fam ily for an annual reunion on father Peter’s side of the clan. They must be proud of this young man who s till plays with bikes—as we all are. < VB) Chamber tent irtv worthwhile The Sandy Chamber of Com merce has invited the entire greater Sandy com m unity to join them at a no-host wine-tasting party 5-11 p.m. this F rida y at their Wine F a ir and Food Feast tent off Pioneer Boulevard. The inform al party at the “ Bear Garden” —not to be confused w ith the Lions’ Beer Garden, has been organized basically for weekend Mountain Festival vendors to un wind a fte r setting up their booths in the p a rk F r id a y n ig h t. Members of all area chambers also have been invited. The party also represents one way virtu a lly all residents have to show Chamber support. I t ’s also a good way to experience the ¿un the Chamber has created with (ts new 12-vendor festival annex-af- *, 4 fa ir behind Decker and Scales Store. Necessity, i t ’s said, is the m other of invention. Sandy’s Chamber w ith a whopping 96 members but mounting bills to operate and staff an office, long has searched for a good fund raising event. The tent the Chamber rented to lease booth space to companion wine and food vendors may gross an estim ated $5,000 fo r the F e s tiv a l C o m m itte e ’s p aren t bod y, p e rh a p s n e ttin g th e Chamber some $2,000 profit. So purchase of a glass of Chamber wine in a souvenir Wine F a ir and Food Feast glass m ight ba a fun way to help support the Chamber ajid its many civic func tions (VB> Salem scene: Festival team raps Post for cartoon Many helped We wish to thank the San dy F ire and rescue crew, O rv ille H a rts h o rn plus Jack. Karen and Kathy L ayto n fo r th e ir h elp following our recent acci dent Ron and Jim m ila Jantz Sandy finest supplement to the Sandy Post on the Sandy Mountain Festival that has been published to date In the same issue the editor has published a car toon c o n c e rn in g th e festival that is in extrem ely bad taste, to say the least To infer that the Sandy M o u n ta in F e s t iv a l is nothing more than traffic, carnival and beer is a direct slap in the face to the by JACK « ..M M F H M A N Associated Oregon Industries luge in the last decade, it will still push more than 2«Mi measures through tiefore adjourning Senate President E d w a rd E ad eley (D Eugene» has been claim ing for some lim e this Assembly w ill conclude its business and leave many bills unpasaed. still languishing in committees Thai prediction appears quite likely, considering a number of committees in both chambers have ceased work and large numbers of bills still haven't receiv ed final disposition Aa the 25th week started. Senate committees still had 574 aw aiting disposition of one kind or another House committee* still had 35« More interesting than actual passage of Mila, however, it the lim e this Assembly is consuming in the process That 1*71 sea sion adjourned after only 151 days By comparison, this session'a IStst day was 1st June ft The itTZ't session Issued 180 days, while the 11775 session lasted 153 days and the 1*77 session 177 day« The 1*7» session lasted 17* day», while the BMI session lasted 203 days Considering the fact this Assembly ap peered likely to observe at least a two-day Fourth of July holiday, it looked just as likely it w ill match 1*77 and 1*7» sessions tor length and perhps even become the second longest session by beating the I*» day m ark set in 1*73 Thai occurs F n day. July *, this year It'« interesting also to note that since the 1*71 »ession that achieved a 41 percent mark for passage of measures introduced, successive Assemblies have vastly ex la n d e d stalls and fac ilities , ostensibly to achieve greater efficiency Cost effectiveness those expenditures has to be a question in the minds of many observers Despite doubting the amount of spore in which they conduct their sessions and doubting the amount of staff to help them. Oregon Legislative A asem M m obviously are meeting longer and ecoompUeMng hundreds of local people who exert their time, skills and money to put together the finest example of clean fam ily entertainm ent in the Pacific Northwest I believe the editor owes each of those people a per sonal apology D arrell Dempster, chair man Mountain Festival Com mittee ..the bid is now 14 Billion.. Cartoon slammed Legislature ‘unproductive’ The 62nd Oregon leg islative Assembly is about to adjourn, sine die Or, the «2nd leg islative Assembly IS N 'T atiout to adjourn, sine die On the other hand, the Assembly A L R E A D Y may have adjourned, sine die. by the tim e you read this Based on rumors ram pant in the ( ipitol's corridors, these are among con elusions drawn, as the I W regular bien nial session of the leg islatu re concluded 25 weeks of deliberation in Salem For a number of reasons, the first assumption appeared the most likely. Among them was the fact this Assembly hadn't yet solved the m ajor problems it faced when it first convened last Jan 10 The state’s tiudget for the next biennium wasn't yet balanced a constitutional re (julrement All of Ways and Means Committee's spending bills ban t yet been approved by laith House and Senate The session's major land-use law revi *ion bill hadnt been passed The property tax relief and revenue reform Issue was far from settled If those reason* weren't enough to suspect lawmakers would continue the present session for some tim e to come, consider the fact they had enacted only something less than 25 percent of alt measures introduced during the last six months In light of those considerations, the le ^ s ltu re was about to adjourn Hut not quite yet I hie to years of persistent recession that produred dwindling tax revenue» hardly anyone expected this session to he one during which a flood of spending proposals would swamp the process If fewer bills were introduced, it also appeared likely fewer would achieve enactment (In thia session » 172nd day. a total of 2,070 had been introduced the lowest numtier in a decade comparingmost rioely with the l . l t t l mtrodured in IV7I Rut that year lawmakers enacted 7 « of Ihoae measures to IJI days Thai was t l percent of all maneurea considered la te r «— m as saw 2 4*1 introduced and M l passed '34 preentt in 1*71. 3 ,0 * in troduced and M7 paosed ig i percent i in 1*75. 2.812 intioduced and *7* passed >3» Letters to the editor: The staff of the Sandy Post spent many hours in terviewing people plus col le c tin g d a ta and photographs the past lew weeks to put together the L E T T E R S PO LIC Y The Post asks that ail letters to (he e d ito r be ty p e d , double-spared aad signed. Deadline is noon. Tuesday Let ters should be ac c u ra te , fr e e of libelous rem arks and in good taste This newspaper attempts to publish all letters It receives and may edit m aterial lightly Io c o n fo rm Io g u id e lin e s . M a x imum length is zao words Personally speaking: Town w ith Big Macs rules Sandy's in the winner's circle, some say. now that McDonald's is coming to town The ground breaking on the highway near Jam Berry land already has some folks excited Sometimes you gotta wonder what they put in those little burgers that makes people keep coming hack like addicts O r maybe it'» the charm of the clown and his band of m erry men at McDonaldland " I dunno But the big top's coming to Sandy, and we better be ready I mean, it s big stuff for a small c it y to have your own McDonald s Witness what h ap pened in Juneeu. Alaska, awhile bach, according Io Bnghtwooder Barth Cknten who works at Wi Idwood Park W e ll, the Last F ro n tie r's capital city s i Juneau really isn't that big at approximately 13.0» third largest town ta Alisha and rartntafy a mecca «f marketing by VON BRASCHLER one. and the other surrounding to w n s h ip s —is o la te d fro m civilisatio n of mecca - turned green with envy Talk about your Big Mac a t t a c k " Apparently some kids can t go too nog it ta the bush c oa nt ry The Sourdoughs without the sesame seed buns therefore a p plied for ‘‘foreign aid " Folks in Juneau came to their aid A p p a re n tly the c ity folks treated their nearby country cousins to an a ir drop of burgers, known regionally as a "Big Mac Attack Vac " Guess "v ac” is the inside-out m ilitant word for "e vac .” as in "medi-vac " Only here the goods went in. rather than the problems being shipped out OR. "vac" could have been a shortened word for "vacuum,” which the depriv ed nearby village certainly suf fered. McDonald's-wise > The nice thing about Sandy ’s McDonald's -o ther than the 35-40 persona it probably w ill employ here on the west end of town—will be it's accessibility Deprived neighbors in Hoodland. Eagle Creek, Estacada. Baring and Bull Run can run over to Sandy via handy dandy roads and quench a Big Mac atta ck ." should one strike That's what's nice about having the city of Sandy located smack-dab in the m iddle of a m a jor state highway with nearby connections for other highways and m ajor a rte ria li Obviously, that fact appeals to the bread and butter folks of McDonald's, who hungrily eye the more than 10,000 cars that cru ise through Sandy d a ily EACH W AY That's a lot of mun c h k in a to p ro w l th ro u g h M cD onaldland or any other business you might want to set smack-dab in the m iddle of things N aturally, Sandy city fathers with their scorn for big. gaudy uptown signs, wouldn't approve the famed 200-foot golden arches that identify McDonald's stands the world over The 34 foot by 77 foot building, rather, waa granted a SO-foot sign to snare cars off the highway Indeed, half of the b u s in es s fo r th e S an d y McDonald's is expected to filte r through the stand’s drive-up win daw One wonders next whether Ronald McDonald Lunseif will help Sandy M ayor Ruth Loundree cut the ribbon on the local stand when completed And who's gonna keep an eye on the hamburglar during all the big-time festivities'’
