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
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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.
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