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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-
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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
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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'’