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July 23 1987 {$•<
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The Sandy Post
Editorial & Opinion
Scott Newton, editor
Korindo Hedlund, advertising representative
Sandy will miss
AD Mike Kostrba
At a state w restling tournam ent a few y ears ago, SUHS
Athletic D irector Mike K ostrba discovered a half-point erro r
in the scoring.
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As we recall, the half a point didn't change the outcome of
the tournam ent, but we offer the exam ple as a way of showing
K o strb a’s attention to detail
There a re a half a dozen different ways a w restler can score
in a tournam ent, and at a state tournam ent th ere a re several
w restlers in a dozen weight classes.
The Pioneer w restling team finished second at state that
y ear. Who is to say what difference a half a point might have
m ade?
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K o strba’s organizational skills are the stuff of legend, and
anyone who doesn't believe that has never been to the Sand>
Invitational T rack Meet.
After 16 years at Sandy - 14 as athletic director - Kostrba
has taken a job as director of athletics at Benson High School.
His new job will provide plenty on new challenges, and we
wish him luck. But he should also know that his contributions
a t Sandy have not gone unnoticed.
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In addition to being a good sports adm inistrato r, I he Kos,
a s he was som etim es called, m ade a lot of friends. Many
fo rm er high school athletes have confided in us over the years
th a t for youngsters who play by the rules, K ostrba is an in
terested friend and supporter.
In our opinion, that stem m ed from K ostrba s love of
athletics; he would not deny the opportunity for any young
person, boy or girl, to participate in organized athletics. He
believes in the value of the experience.
And that should give people in Sandy som ething to think
about. Increasingly, the cost of organized athletic program s,
recreation program s and m aintaining an aquatics center are
being questioned.
Without these activities there would certainly be a void
perhaps there is one already.
Kandy Hutchinson will take over for K ostrba, and we have
confidence in his ability to run a good program . But also
without a doubt, we will m iss Kostrba s wit and enlightened
views of issues in education.
Letters to the editor
Mountain Festival
committee thanked
this year
Bert Key
chairman, Troop No. 176
Sandy
The scouts and parents of B.S A
Troop No 176 would like to thank the
Mountain Festival committee for
a n o th e r s u c c e s s fu l M o u n ta in
Festival.
We would also like to thank
everyone who supported our chicken
barbecue again this year
There are some very special people
whose help we could not have done
w ithout They are Mike Annes.
Howard Blckle. and Ralph. JoAnn
and David laiyne
Special appreciation goes to Frank
Slesh and l.in O rr for the use of their
refrigerated truck and to Lynden
Farm s for the use of the barbecue
pits
It is because of these people that
the scouts of Troop No 176 have earn
ed their way to summer camp again
G roup suys
thunk you
We would like to thank the follow
ing establishments and individuals
for their help in making this year's
Sandy Area Summer Recreation
Association booth a great success at
the Mountain Festival
Sandy 7-Eleven. Jim 's Big Apple,
Shorty's Corner Fuel, Nikola's Store,
Sandy Safeway, Bowman's Sandy
Thriftw ay, Charbos and Dr Mark
Mullins, D.C
Mike Kadum
president-elect
Sandy Area Summer
Recreation Association
Street u milestone in eommunity’s life
You develop a strange sort of
friendship with the road you live on
For 20 years we have lived on Bux
ton in Troutdale Buxton H ill" they
call it in the road reports, because it
is abandoned firs t when snow blows
or ice glazes. "T n -M e t buses w ill
take alternate routes around Buxton
H ill," the radio announces Kids who
live on Buxton know they won't see a
big, yellow school bus until the thaw
The road is a stranger to the subur
banites w ho pass our house each day
Just another delay on the way to the
freeway But 1 know it like a friend
The meter cover that d icks under
your tires at Third Street. I he
pothole on the right just past Fourth
The T-intersection at the bottom of
the hill where you go right to
downtown Troutdale or left to the
freeway. Or, if your brakes are bad,
the road is slick or you are just plain
foolhardy, you can plunge across the
intersection and over the bank and
have a go at the railroad tracks
beyond A truck last week tried that
route and wiped out a telephone
trunkline It makes you wonder about
the wisdom of having such a valuable
line exposed at the bottom of a hazar
dous hill
sort of like putting a china
j f t ___ __
Sharon Nesbit
tea cup on the edge of a table.
Those of us who are really good
friends of the road have a pet name
for it We call it Hungry H ill or,
sometimes, just Hungry, for short
No one knows for sure where the
name came from The best guess is
that years ago when there was a
meat-packing plant at Troutdale, the
m eati utters, hungry for their noon
meal, used to trudge uphill to their
houses for lunch
The hill has figured prominently in
our lives, mostly in winter We
State R epresentative Bob Shipraek, D-Dist. 23, 22610 Forest
P ark Rd., B eavercreek, Ore., 97004. 631-3817. Or: State
Capitol, Room H288, Salem, Ore., 97310. 1-600-332-2313.
State Senator Bob Kintigh, D-Dist. 14, 38865 E. Cedar F lat
Road, Springfield. 97478. 746-1842. Or: State Capitol, Room
S310, Salem. Ore.. 97310. 1-800-327-7389.
Sen. M ark H atfield. R-Oregon. 711 H art Building,
Washington, D.C., 20510. 202-224-3753. Portland office phone
221-3386.
Sen. Bob Packwood, R-Oregon. 259 Russell Building,
W ashington, D.C., 20510. 202-224-5244. Portland office phone
221-3370.
Rep. Denny Smith, R-5th Dist., 1213 Ixmgworth Building.
Washington. D.C., 20515. 202-225-5711. Salem office phone (toll
free) 1-800-452-7889.
Or the tim e my neighbor, Al,
started down the icy h ill, flipped
around and slid trun k-first into the
rear of another car. The claims ad
justors scratched their heads for
days.
Hungry is best on the day after a
snow, when the county closes the
road and the kids sled there We
creep out of our houses into the bright
winter light to watch Troutdale’s
greatest downhill event. Kids and
dogs and pieces of plastic and Mon
tgomery Ward sleds in a screaming
m ix of snow and gravity.
Buxton has always been a road.
The kind with a ditch at the sides and
pavement chewed away at the edges.
People who hike the hill duck tra ffic
on one side and blackberry brambles
on the other. You’re in good shape if
you can walk to the top without puff
ing.
But this sum m er H ungry has
undergone a metamorphosis from
road to street. M agicians w ith
bulldozers and sorcerers with ce
ment trucks thundered in. It was
awful for awhile, this m ajor surgery ,
w ith the road ripped apart and its
guts spewing gravel. But when the
last truck roared away, it left behind
a street with pavement black as
velvet, gleaming yellow lines and
th a t h a rb in g e r of c iv iliz a tio n ,
sidewalks. Sidewalks where the d it
ches used to be Sidew alks where Al's
car ended up truncated to another
Sidewalks where kids ditched their
sleds.
It's a little like dressing a cow in a
negligee, this business of turning our
road to a street But we’re getting us
ed to the frills .
Vern Rathman, who lives up the
road io r street), said it best when he
was pondering our fancy-pants
throughfare Saturday at the T rout
dale picnic.
"F o r years and years,” he said,
“ I've wanted sidewalks on Buxton.
Now we’ve fin ally got one and I ’m too
old to walk up the h ill."
Deadheads \vi££le in tie-dyed finest
floor to the shaded area As the music
crashed along, so did the fans But
wait now These guys and gals
weren’t slam-dancing or shaking
themselves senseless
I wiggled with a whole bunch of
folks Sunday who probably think
Ollie North is a fink
Foolish boys and girls
Where to write
measure winter by whether or not we
can get to our houses I remember a
granddaddy blizzard in the 1960s
when the city pickup, then the only
four-wheel-drive in town, toted com
muters up the hill. Men in business
suits and topcoats, hatless and
breathless, stood in the pickup bed,
clung to the top of the cab and
squinted through driving snow. It is a
picture that sticks in my mind the
same as the flag-raising on Iwo Jima.
They evidently don't know l.t Col
Oliver North is the new American
hero I doubt if they care They did
show a hint of political emotion,
however, by applauding and cheer
ing when the sky w riter finished gass
ing "Impeach Reagan" in the deep
blue Eugene sky
Who are these folks, these silly
boys with long braids and girls with
graying underarm h a ir'1 You guess
ed it I ’m talking about Deadheads
Deadheads, one and all. descended
on Duck City four days ago for a sun
ny afternoon of hailing their own
heroes The Grateful Dead and Bob
Dylan
Some 43,000 Deadheads
dressed
in their tie-dyed finest
and Dylan
fans and the young one and I squirrel
ed our way into Autzen Stadium for
music, dancing and people-watching
The 120-per-ticket concert was bill-
Dave Pinson
ed as an event, H IE show of the sum
mer And that it was, although most
of the show was on the stadium floor
and in the stands
Not too concerned about getting
close to the stage, the young one and I
wandered into the fray just as the
Dead were thumping out their first
song We worked our way around the
rim of the stadium, stepped down a
set of stairs and decided to cross the
Not a bit. these folks were wiggling
and groovin' like a herd of people on
muscle relaxers Before I go any fu r
ther, let me say that the audience
was half true blue or born-again
Deadheads, the real hard-core wig-
glers The rest of the crowd were peo
ple like the young one and myself,
there for the event and to watch the
crowd Anyway, down on the floor,
which m ight be better called the
dance floor, were all these folks just
a-wiggling mindlessly to the tunes
A testimony to the Deadheads' way
of thinking came from the young one
as we made it to the other side of the
football field I didn't get stepped on
once and e v e ry o n e e xcuse d
them selves," she said. " I t 's so
mellow "
That was it That was the word I
was looking for These boys and girls
were mellow Maybe a bit zoned out.
th a t’s true, but mellow
One observation I would like to
make is that since the Summer of
Ixive in 1967, some of these folks have
gained a little weight and seem to
take a few more showers. But th a t’s
OK That’s life And we were all
grateful concert-goers for the latter
as we sat in the sweaty summer sun
But back to the show During the
Dead's second set, it struck me that
nobody at the stadium, be they w iggl
ing or watching, likely thought of Mr
O. North as a national hero
North, of course, is the pawn of the
powers-that-be and has supposedly
caught the imagination of Americans
everywhere. I couldn't help but
wonder what would happen if North
were to show up at the concert.
F irst, I'll bet, old Ollie would
receive a loud boo or two But then
the Dead would start to play and if
old Ollie could get even one wiggle
out. one small wiggle for mankind,
then someone would hand him a tie-
dyed shirt and we could all groove
out one more tim e
b y A duni K ruft
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