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About Sandy post. (Sandy, Oregon) 1938-current | View Entire Issue (July 21, 1983)
r 9 y—r i f f •” »- e- Thur» July 2 1 1 9 8 3 í$»c I] SA N O * (O re .) POST 9 Pioneers see growth, set sights on museum by SCOTT .NEWTON W hen th e S an d y P io n e e r A s s o c ia tio n formed in 1926 many of its members had come to the area in wagons over the Barlow T rail Though there are plen ty of old tim ers around, there aren't any pioneers F o r th a t reason the .Association felt a name change would be ap propriate. to the Sandy Pioneer and Historical Society But one need not be the son or daughter of a pioneer, or even an old tim er, to join the Sandy Pioneer and Historical Society, according to Mel H a n e b e rg , p re s id e n t •’ W e 'r e w e lc o m in g everyone.” The 57th annual Pioneer Picnic offers that opportunity It w ill be held July 31 in Pioneer Park. Highway 26 and 362nd D r iv e P e o p le should take their own "picnic style" lunch at 1 p m There w ill be a short business meeting, with the program to begin at 2. Some music w ill be pro vided. and a history of past kings and queens given Then Henry and M an e Schwartz w ill be honored as the royalty this year Along with lunch, it is recommended that peo ple take folding chairs Coffee will be furnished H a n e b e rg s a id the Pioneer Society has been working on a couple of projects While a "fine job" was done of the first history of the area, the "Sandy Pioneers. Early Settlers and Barlow Road Days." Haneberg said a lot of fam ily histories didn t get in He added there are some errors that need to be corrected, and places for more com plete explanations should a revised publication be undertaken A n o th e r g o a l is a museum Currently ar tifacts and memorabilia are on display at the San dy Community Center, with the items rotated in the half dozen display cases Plans for either a new addition or a new building have been discussed A building at Pioneer Park has been su g gested, though security would be a c o n s id e ra tio n Haneberg said most favor an extension at the Com munity Center, and the ci ty seems "very am iable” toward the idea H aneberg feels that many old photographs. tools. Indian artifacts and other item s would be donated were there such a facility "W e know if we had a building there's just a world of things people would like to put in it. " he said Haneberg understands the importance of having a record of the past His fath er was in Alaska twice land his mother once > during the late 1800s. the gold rush days He and his wife, Edna, visited Alaska this sum mer, and he said he’d give anything to have paid more attention to his parents stories. H a n e b e rg 's p a re n ts moved to Bull Run when he was 2, in 1911. The railroad served the area then, and the Hanebergs lived about a m ile from the station The fam ily 's posses sions arrived four months late, and Haneberg is sure they were sent back east to the other Bull Run, b e fo re m a k in g it to Oregon He watched Bull Run grow to a town with a hotel, store, apartment buildings, post office and about 20 homes, and then he watched it dwindle T h a t is one o f th e histories he feels he could contribute to in a revised pioneer publication To get anywhere then one had to go through dense forest Then cor duroy roads, made of logs split in half with the flat side down, allowed horses better traction on hills. These gave way to plank roads, which were nice and smooth u n til the spikes worked loose, in which case "you could hear someone coming for miles.” Sandy, a town of pro bably 200 when Haneberg was growing up. rem ain ed the center of com merce in the area The old Meinig General Store, c o m p le te w ith th e harnesses and other hard ware. would "have made a g re a t m u s e u m .* ’ Haneberg said Haneberg. form er San dy m ayor, worked for 35 years for the city of Portland w ater district at Bull Run His wife is a retired elem entary school teacher. 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