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SANDY (O r* ) POST Thur»
July 2. 1987 ($•<
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The Sandy Post
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Scott Newton, editor
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Good library to
improve with grant
Supporters of the Sandy Public Library have a reason to be
uxcited. The library recently received a $95,500 federal grant.
Librarian Sue Newlands, City Manager Tom Heber and City
Councilor Mort Spence are among the people who helped work
For the grant. Thev are to be congratulated.
The city of Sandy must match the grant, and it will be able to
jo that comfortably thanks to about a $60,000 donation by the
Sandy Women’s Club a few years ago.
The ball is now in the City Council’s court. In the past >ear.
the City Council has discussed every option from building a
new building to cutting back on senior center and recreation
* While a lively debate over the direction of the city may be to
the public’s benefit, the library grant is going to force some
decision-making with long-range implications.
For now, fans of the Sandy Public Library can enjoy the vic
tory Newlands has won in lobbying people within the Oregon
State Library system, which administers the federal grants.
The Sandy Public Library has 13,000 to 14,000 books listed in
its card catalog. If patrons checked in their books at the same
time, the shelves wouldn’t hold them all.
The library turns over about half the books on its shelves
each month, which is nothing short of phenominal.
The library has about 5.000 books stored in closets and cor
ners of City Hall, books that should be on the shelves
Floor space will be expanded from 1,794 to about b,000
square feet. The additional space will be used in a number of
ways, including the addition of books in Spanish.
The expansion will also allow the library to add another
computer terminal for access to its card catalog, and it will
allow the library access to the state’s “research library.
( ìuest o p in io n
Early intervention may curb drug use
by I.II.I.1AS ( K A N E
Special to The Post
The Sandy library already does a good job of providing new
fiction. Access to additional research materials will add
another dimension to the library.
Although elbow room will be the most significant addition to
the library, there are numerous other services the library will
be able to provide, including access to a copying machine,
typewriter and audio room.
’ The library has 6,100 card holders a primary service area
with a population of about 8,500. There is a secondary service
area with a population of about 7,500. The additional services
should help meet the variety of needs the public has.
Newlands and the library staff have offered a good service
despite the limited facilities. We have no reason to believe the
expanded library won’t be better yet.
Letters to the editor
be racing a Junior car
My Dad is out of town in the Na
tional Guard and could not help me
build m y car
I would like to thank the people who
took m y D ad's place and helped me
build m y car They are Kent Cox.
B a rry Eretz and l>es C.roombridge I
would also like to thank m y sponsor,
the Sandy VEW Post No 4273 I-adies
A u x ilia ry
K elly Key
Sandy
Tunk thanked
for support
andy VEW Post No 4273 and Aux-
ry would like to apologize to
»lity Tank and Co. Inc for om it-
( th e ir name in our le tte r of thanks
everyone's support in our Buddy
ppy program
It was uninten-
la lly om itted
g il Polk
nnis E llis
rb a ra E llis
ddy Poppy chairpeople
Correction
The person at the Sandy E lem en
ta ry D is tric t board meeting who sug
gested the d is tric t conduct a com
prehensive drug use survey was
M ike Gregus The Post incorrectly
listed hts name in an ed ito ria l on
June 25 We regret the e rro r
{neersays
hanks for help
This weekend is the Soap Box Der-
y races I am 10-years-old and w ill
Sandy Post letter poliey
The news deadline of noon Tuesday
is also the deadline fo r letters to the
editor
le tte rs should be accurate, free of
libelous rem arks and in good taste
This newspaper attem pts to publish
a ll letters it receive it receives from
area residents
We reserve the rig h t to edit letters
to conform to style guidelines or for
length le tte r s should be 300 words
long
lx-tie rs to the editor should be
typed, double-spaced and signed An
address and telephone n u m b e r
should also be provided, although on
ly the name of the le tte r w rite r and
the c ity or area he is fro m w ill be
published
le t t e r w rite rs may also wish to in
clude a title or office held if it is ap
propriate considering the subject
m a tte r of the le tte r
The Sandy E lem entary D is tric t
board is d e liberating the addition of a
drug program into next year's c u r
ric u lu m To fu rth e r support the need
and d e s ira b ility of im plem enting this
p rogram , a recent study should be
taken into consideration
The study is “ D rug Use Among
Oregon P u b lic School S tudents,"
1985. w hich was conducted by the O f
fice of Alcohol and D rug Abuse Pro
g ra m s , D e p a rtm e n t o f H um an
Resources
This study looks specifically at
eighth and 1 ith graders in a ca re fu lly
chosen
s a m p le
of
s tu d e n ts
throughout Oregon (N ot included in
the survey were “ school dropouts or
students in a lte rn a tiv e schools. I
F iv e g eographic regions were
designated, w ith Sandy being includ
ed in th e P o r tla n d S ta n d a rd
M etropolitan S ta tistica l Area; le,
counties of Clackam as, M ultnom ah
im in u s the c ity of P o rtla n d ) and
Washington.
T h is a r t ic le c o v e rs o n ly the
P ortland SMSA Eor a complete
report, c a ll 1-378-2163.
To quote the study: “ Alcohol and
drug use and abuse is recognized
widely as a m a jo r and grow ing pro
blem among high school students
They gave me a nice w ritin g award
Saturday night in W illia m sb u rg . Va
It made me th in k of Bobbie M c ln tu rf
and Betty Peterson
As I told the N ational Federation of
Press Women. I learned to read when
1 was in the firs t grade By the tim e I
got to the second grade, 1 figured
anybody could w rite something bet
te r than "See Jane ru n ." So I sat
down w ith a blue-lined tablet and a
No. 2 pencil and discovered the in
credible m agic of stringing m y own
words together
Not having much to com pare w ith,
1 d id n 't know whether they were any
good or not u n til I went to the fro n t of
the room and read them to m y class
Bobbie M c ln tu rf went nuts He
groaned in ecstasy , kicked his legs
out into the aisle, dragged his hands
through the bristles of his crew cut
and said, "Gee, th a t's good
Now I don't know where Bobbie is
today. I'm pretty sure he is not w o rk
ing as a lite ra ry c ritic anywhere And
he may not have cracked a book
since high school But his words then
were the encouragement I needed
and I ’ ll never forget them
Nor w ill 1 soon forget the awards I
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Newport The fa ct that they come
fro m o th e r w rite rs m ake them
special because they know how hard
it is sometimes, this putting words to
paper
I have never actually had beads of
blood break out on my forehead when
I was sta rin g at a blank sheet of
paper, but w ritin g often is like
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No 77
U llia s Crane is a counselor at
Cedar Ridge School.
July 7 1987
I
there Move a pocket fro m one place
to another A djust a button U n til you
get the whole w orks to fit
And sometim es it never does And
th a t’s where Betty Peterson comes
in.
We knew when we met that we lik
ed each o th e r and h u m o r and
nostalgia and her fa t, old dog
I w ill never know how I came to
m ake the aw ful m istake of ca llin g
her B etty R obertson" in a story I
w rote about her It m ust have been
some kind of b ra in spasm that reduc
ed my cerebral m a tte r to je lly At
least I was consistent I called her
Robertson a dozen tim es
The m ira cle is that she forgave me
and even suggested that I in te rvie w
her husband, Pete.
The best p a rt of th is job is sittin g
around on somebody's patio listening
to stories and petting the fa t, old dog
as I did that day Pete Peterson was a
pioneer plum ber who gave m any
Gresham folks their firs t indoor
bathroom and he had a fund of stories
to te ll
You people continue to astonish
me You sit me down, pour me coffee,
and let me ask nosy and in tim a te and
hard questions 1 have watched and
w aited w ith you when you met new
babies at the a irp o rt, buried your
g r a n d c h ild r e n , h a d a h e a r t
transplanted, celebrated a m a rria g e ,
rode in a parade, pounded a gavel or
ju st lived long and well
1 keep tw o files One is fo r insults
and com plaints The other is fo r
praise No note anyone ever sends to
me is throw n away. The tric k is to
keep the praise file th icke r than the
co m p la in t file You may never know
how m uch a hastily-scribbled note
has m eant to me on a day when it was
h a rd e r than usual to shove the rock
u p h ill
A t the same tim e I learned of my
other aw ards, Betty Peterson sent
me such a note
W ritte n only a week a fte r her
beloved husband had died, she told
me that m uch of the a rtic le I wrote
about Pete in 1985 was used in his
eulogy
T hey say th a t we jo u rn a lis ts
alw ays want the last word, and that
m ay be true because 1 was touched
and pleased
Eor a w rite r, the best prizes alw ays
come fro m the readers
by Aduni Kraft
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correlates of drug use w ith the
behavior of students is now a p rim e
concern to educators, parents, law
enforcem ent o fficia ls and those who
are responsible fo r program s of
prevention, intervention and tre a t
m ent
" L o w a c a d e m ic p e rfo rm a n c e ,
a b e rra nt and d isru p tive behavior,
and school dropouts are among the
m ore visib le negative behaviors
“ S e n sitivity by p ublic o fficia ls to
these issues and the dem onstrable
fu tility of law enforcem ent as a
p rim a ry defense against drug use
have led to great concern fo r user-
oriented and demand-oriented pro
gram s of public education stressing
awareness and prevention in addition
to
m o re
p u b lic
tr e a tm e n t
p rogram s "
There is m ounting evidence that
prevention and e a rly intervention
are effective in reducing problem s
associated w ith alcohol and drug
abuse The best of a ll strategies is to
prevent it fro m occu rrin g in the firs t
place
E or those who choose to e xp e ri
m ent w ith alcohol and other drugs,
in te rve n tio n is c ritic a l to halt usage
patterns before they become habit
fo rm in g " and addiction occurs
Writer’s top prize comes from readers
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l^ s s acknowledged is the extent of
involvem ent of our youth w ith these
drugs at ages e a rlie r than high school
e ntrance."
Alcohol 181 3 percent I and c ig a re t
tes (45 6 p e rce n ti are the most fre
quently reported drugs every used by
eighth graders M a riju a n a (22.8 per
cent) and inhalants ('23 5 p e rce n ti
are the most frequently reported il
lic it drugs. One in eight eighth
graders have used coc aine and a m
phetamines (7.4 percent and 8 5 per
cent, respectively I.
N on-prescription diet and pep pills
were reported used in sig n ifica n t
am ounts 113 7 percent and 6 6 per
cent 1.
“ E x p e rim e n ta tio n ” can be a
reason fo r some of the percentages at
the eighth grade level but one must
exa m in e closely the in fo rm a tio n
reported in the m onthly prevalance
of use "
Alcohol 133.5 percent I and c ig a re t
tes (22.2 percent) again are the most
fre q u e n tly rep o rte d illic it drugs,
follow ed by cocaine (2.1 percent) and
am phetam ines (2.5 percent I.
Consistent, continual usage at this
age is the beginning of habit fo rm a
tion and possible addiction
The use of alcohol and drugs in
creases between the eighth and U th
■. Alcohol '92 4 p e rce n t' and
c ig a r e t t e s i 63 1 p e r c e n t ) a re
reported most frequently as having
been used by 11th graders. M a ri
juana use is reported by 48 7 percent;
c o c a in e by 19 9 p e rc e n t; a m
phetam ines by 19.7 percent; and in
halants by 24 2 percent of students
surveyed
Monthly p revalence" of use also
increases s ig n ific a n tly at the 11th
grade level Alcohol, 59.1 percent;
cigarettes. 33 8 percent , m a riju a n a ,
23 5 percent; cocaine, 6.7 percent;
am phetam ines, 8 6 percent; and in
halants. 5.4 percent.
Io fu rth e r q .o te the study: “ The
A t