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2 — SANDY (O f* ) POSI Thur« Augut« 20 1987 (S«< I) The Sandy Post Editorial & Opinion Scott N e w to n , e d ito r K o rin d o H e d lu n d , a d v e rtis in g re p re s e n ta tiv e Learning issues duty of the public We have heard complaints about the “notification process" over and over. Whenever an issue particularly riles, someone is always quick to ask why he or she wasn’t notified about an agency’s proposed action. But, although they have the right to be notified of govern ment actions, members of the public also have an obligation to stay informed. The obligation of public agencies to notify the public of possible “ issues” has a limit. A financial limit. Governmental agencies, such as the city of Sandy, certainly have some responsibilities. These agencies should have an ap paratus for answering questions from members of the public. And, certainly, a governmental agency or school district has a responsibility to make available an agenda before a public meeting. But to suggest, as one person didMonday night at the City Council meeting, that the city notify people by mail about up coming issues, is not reasonable. And yet, the same requests have been made of school boards and the Forest Service. The issue at the City Council meeting concerned a sweeping zoning change in downtown Sandy, a change that has since been thwarted or at least put on a back burner for further work. The issue has been debated for several weeks in the pages of two paid-circulation newspapers in Sandy — The Post and The Oregonian’s East Metro section. On some issues, people get their news from television. Other times, they get it from their neighbors over coffee at local restaurants or by knowing someone who serves on a board, budget committee or council. When governmental agencies, such as school districts, send out newsletters, some members of the public complain about the expense. We have never objected, feeling that newsletters are one ad ditional method of communication. In the end, however, it is the responsibility of the individual to learn about public issues. Sometimes the best way to find out all the information is to attend the meeting where the issue in question will lx* discussed. To suggest that the city of Sandy could notify people of all issues that would affect property owners is illogical. The staff time involved in making such notification — not to mention the cost of the mailing — would be prohibitive. We elect public officials to make what are sometimes far- reaching decisions. Accusing officials of not notifying the public of issues — as if they were hiding something — is often unfair. Meinig Park experiment daring Turning over Meinig Park to young adults as a hangout is a daring move by the Sandy City Council. “ The risks are high — you’ll be infiltrated by people who want to blow up this noble experiment,” said Councilor Mort Spence, addressing the possibility of failure. The park is usually closed in the evenings, but the City Coun cil voted Monday to allow young people to use the lower park ing lot and the gazebo as a place to socialize. The city of Sandy’s curfew will be enforced, and Chief Fred Punzel assured the youths at the meeting that police would patrol the area. The council has spent considerable energy addressing the issue of juvenile crime, and it has watched as young adults moved from various “in” locations, which have often been near video game arcades. One teen-ager, Dawn Canada, recently approached City Manager Tom Reber to discuss the problem of a lack of a place to meet. Reber and Canada discussed the public’s image of the group, talking about such issues as litter, vandalism and drug use. Reber obviously was pleased to have been approached by a young person seeking a solution to the problem. The solution Reber proposed is a contract between the city of Sandy and individuals who would like to use the park. The contract stipulates that the young adults keep the area of the park they use clean, and that they not commit illegal ac tivities or play loud music. The city of Sandy is to provide trash receptacles, and will allow use of the park until midnight through the month of August, and until 11 p.m. during the month of September. At that time, the City Council will review the arrangement. Reber made it clear that people signing the agreement would not be held responsible for the actions of others. The City Council should be commended for taking a risk in allowing young adults into the park at night. In turn, it took a good deal of courage for the young adults involved to seek a solution to the problem. Vienna draws tourist away from home M ake your words sw eet." someone probably m y grandm other — once said, "because you never know when yo u ’ll have to eat them " On M ay 27, I w rote, "P eople who leave here in the sum m er are n u ts ." I follow ed w ith a vow to spend this sum m er in Oregon and even went so fa r as to lis t a ll the things 1 was going to do. I have had to eat those words, but they w e re n 't too bad I ate them in Vienna w ith w hipping cream It was a brochure th a t did it. It cam e in the m a il, a ll blue skies and shining m ountains and castles, and it sucked us in as slick as a door-to-door salesman peddling encyclopedias to the parents of 10 kids So it w ill be next sum m er before I p u ff to the top of Beacon Kock or splash in the hot tub a t the W hite Salmon Inn. Instead I have pictures of castles and alps and glockenspiels And snapshots in m y nund. When I was grow ing up in Madras the biggest la n d m a rk in town was the Jeffe rso n H otel, as unlovely an edifice as ever graced a bare and I I ’SI’S 481-180) M fM tt* « M '« A»v o’ - M u’ x* N w M tp o p * A««ot o ' <>'’ o fU S Sw bvbo Pvb' 1 «•••* y îbv'tdOy« by '*»• Ow*,OOb Pub »b • y « , Be» M SO’’-fy O’»q- ^*055 S>< O'»«! i 'O»% pCYS'HQO po J O’ So<'dy O'»9<>” 668 5548 SUBSCRIPTION RATES s» oo M«/f**vorr«ob (’ou»'»y tIO 00 t i l so ! ( * • * » * • * • .« O 'lfO '' lei No'lhwet' orni P(X ♦ •« Ou'*-<f8 py y»u- I ’O'O* Ov’sdw Noflhw«»' •« J P» .»H ( O8M' S’O»»» p«> Sandy Po»l Sandy Oragon 97055 No 33 t1 4 00 »17 00 Augutl 20 1987 ------ y windswept town But I could read And I read about Vienna, its palaces and noble buildings, the g litte r of gilded rooms, the sparkle of cham pagne and chandeliers. One of the pictures I see is me in Vienna s ittin g smack-dab in the m id dle of the concert h all while an o r chestra plays waltzes by Johann Strauss The p ictu re is captioned, "W h a t's a kid fro m M adras doing in a place like We laugh over u n w ittin g ly o rd e r ing a salad th a t turns out to be a plate of sliced balogna and onions. "O h fo r some Wonder Bread to w ra p around th is ," Hubby mourns. We puzzle out a sign, only to learn it means " E x it . ” And wonder why m ost of the w orld calls it Vienna when the folks who live there know it as "W ie n ." We cross riv e rs we only knew in crossword Ouzzles and I shop in fo u r languages and and six currencies. "Somehow, no m a tte r w hat language she sees it in, Mom knows when she sees a sale' s ig n ," Hubs reports to No. 1 K id when we get home. I dragged a ll the post cards and g im cra cks home but the pictures in m y head are s till the best la ke the guy in the lavender sh irt. We rode a gondola around the bend of a canal in Venice and there he was. He stood up in his boat, spread his a rm s and sang — I know th is is too corny but it's tru e — " 0 Sole M io ." 1 spread m y a rm s wide and yelled, " I ’ve a rriv e d ” It's a long way fro m M adras to Venice. Yesteryear in Sandy Berries, timber economic news in 1937 "Sandy is apparently going to fig u re p ro m in e n tly in the berry business fro m now o n ," according to a story in the Aug 19, 1937 Sandy In dex, w hich ran under the headline, "D em and fo r Sandy B erries Gains " "T h e town can look fo rw a rd to busy tim es when next ye a r's crop is harvested ” The B E. M aling Company and the Hudson-Duncan Company had both announced plans to open receiving stations, and Dale S tew art of Sandy T ru c k U nes said they would haul the berries fo r both companies "T h is d is tric t is showing a good gain in acreage and productionn and the establishm ent of tw o receiving stations here is expected to stim ulate interest in thus branch of fa rm in g ," according to The Index G etting back to school was also a topic in the newspaper that week The Rev A W Schelp, pastor of Im m anuel L utheran Church, announced that the Lutheran P arochial School w ould ag a in open its doors in September The school, taught d a ily by Schelp, was e n tire ly supported by mem bers of the Im m anuel Lutheran Church B< »bents The Sa ndy Post Sharon Nesbtt th is *" I stood one day gaw king at glockenspiel in the tow er of c ity hall in M unich As toy knights and co u rt jesters circle d in under the clock, I thought about m y own city h all in T routdale and our w ater tow er w ith a d a ffo d il on it. The images th a t I brought back in c lu d e p ic t u r e - p r e t t y s h o ts o f S w itzerland, w hich probably has a la w r e q u i r i n g f lo w e r b o x e s . Blossoms in lip s tic k pinks s p ill fro m the the mouth of every' window But the best p a rt is seeing in real life the landscapes th a t were p a rt of m y fairy' tales Of seeing a perfect va lle y and saying to m yself, if this were m y valley there would be a clu ste r of red-roofed houses there. A riv e r w ith a stone bridge here A church gleam ing on a sm a ll h ill And a castle w ith a c ru m b lin g tow er w at ching over it a ll And then rounding the bend and seeing it fo r real, ju st the way you im agined it. P a rt of m y snapshots are of bum bl ing fools i us) fin d in g our way around in a land w ith a strange language and unknown customs "T h e Squatleys go to E u ro p e ," Hubby calls it. A lthough the school was supported by the church, ch ild re n of non- m em bers were in vite d to attend as w ell There was no charge fo r tu itio n , but parents were asked to pay fo r textbooks ‘U n f o r t u n a t e l y t h e d e n iz e n s o f th e w ild d o n ’t k n o w w h e re th e b o u n d a rie s a re .’ Iva n B a rke r, described by the In dex as the "p o p u la r apothecary,” has installed one of those "n e w fa n g le d e le c tric w a te r h e a te rs, where he tu rn s a sw itch and gets b o il ing w ater qu icke r than he can w rap up a d im e 's w orth of cough drops.” He also has an "a ir-co n d itio n in g fa n " to keep the store cool during the sum m er A pothecary, by the w ay, means pharm acist. The 1937 newspaper also reported th a t logging was in fu ll swing in the M a rm o t area "T h e re are three camps operating now Second grow th f ir made into p il ing and boom logs as w ell as m aple and alder, are being hauled out " A t Ered B e ch ill's cam p in the Evans place, there are eight men employed besides tw o tru c k d rive rs and tw o te a m ste rs," the newspaper reports “ The M a rm o t m aple and alder seem to be of unusually high grade and dealers are cla m o rin g fo r m ore E ig h t d ollars a thousand is paid fo r logs delived on ro ll w a ys." N ext door to M a rm o t, in the B ull Run Preserve, w ild life is protected "U n fo rtu n a te ly the denizens of the w ild don't know where the boun daries a re ," the Index reports " M rs C.E Ten E yck, on her way to town last week, spied a large black bear in the road ahead iT he bear) was stro llin g along evidently taking in the sights but took to the woods on the H.A Ten E yck p roperty when he saw the car. "T w o of the Ten E yck boys found bear tracks in an old orchard where B ru in had been feasting on apples " M rs Wyne G u rle y, of the Sandy R anger Station, was d riv in g up to the m ain road when suddenly a black bear jum ped o ff the bank ju st ahead He w as so d e lib e r a te in h is movem ents th a t she nearly had to stop her ca r to avoid h ittin g him "H e fin a lly , g ru d g in g ly, allowed her the ro a d .” A n d f i n a l l y , goon n e w s to r Rhododendron "T h e Rhododendron stores and eating places are a ll on the m ap this season fo r bigger and better business, w hich means s till m ore patronage fo r another season.” Several Issues of the 1937 Sandy In dex have been loaned to the Sandy Post by Chuck F ra sie r, who is keep ing the newspapers (or the Sandy Pioneer and H isto rica l Association. b y A d u n i K m ft
