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S A N D Y (O re ) P O S I Ih u r i
A p r 4 21
1988
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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
V o lu n te e rs earned
c o m m u n ity th a n ks
Members of the Living Way Fellowship Church and the Sun
nyside Foursquare Church deserve praise for the great effort
they made in Sandy this weekend.
The group landscaped around the veterans memorial, made
improvements to the gazebo and playground in Meinig Park,
painted the downstairs rooms in the Sandy Senior Center and
cut down blackberries.
Associate Pastor Iziwell Weare of the Living Way
Fellowship said the church has an active youth group, with
adult leaders who are trying to get young people in the habit of
volunteering.
In our opinion the adults are setting a great example. The
church has worked on other projects in Oregon the past few
years, including doing some landscaping at City Hall. But
perhaps even more exciting for church members are regular
trips to Mexico to help impoverished parishioners build
schools, churches and residences.
On its most recent trip , Sandy’s church and four others rais
ed $30,000 for building materials and other expenses.
Weare said the trips to Mexico give Sandy youngsters an ap
preciation for the people of Mexico, as well as an appreciation
for how well we have it in the United States.
Weare said that church members get a great deal of
satisfaction from its service projects. That may lx* true, but
residents of the Sandy area are beneficiaries as well
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Rhett Butler did In the movie ver
sion of "(¡one With the Wind,"
Rhett/Clark (¡able (they are all m ix
ed up in my mind) stood in the door
way and said he didn't give a damn
He did give a damn about Charleston
and he told Scarlett he was headed
where there's a little hit of grace
and charm left in the world "
Rhett was right
Charleston charmed me last week
It lured me down its cobblestone
streets It beckoned me into hidden
gardens And it told me things alxiut
the South that I had never known
that grits taste like warm sand
That the dame, "The Charleston,"
originated there as did "Porgy and
Bess” and the country's first jockey
club That the start of the Civil War
at Port Sumter was really a very
organized affair with courteous notes
passed back and forth between the
Union and Confederate commanders
I went to Charleston with a friend
who likes me so much that she once
gave up chocolate for me And I met
a new friend. Price Robinson, whose
great-granddaddy fought in Con
federate gray at the same time that
my great-great granddaddy wore the
Union blue We go, along just fine
Price showed us a little pink house
where pirates once drank lb- led us
down brick alleys where tiny, shut
tered houses sit next to bowers of
ljid y Banksia roses We visited a
plantation house that was built when
George Washington was 6 years old
It has been painted only twice in 200
years anil there is a pile of stuff in the
basement that has been there a cen
tury
Sounds like my house,"
mumbled one of the tourists
He showed us a church spire knock
ed cockeyed in the las, great earth
quake and introduced us to a pair of
mules that had done a "Hi-Ho,
S liver" and plunged through the back
window of a new Thunderbird
H o sp ice se rvice s
free o f c h a rg e
darned poor to do anything else Built
on a peninsula, it was invaded twice
by foreign armies (the British and
the Union i But everything else,
highways, railroads and progress
passed it by When the Civil War end
ed and the slave-driven economy of
the South collapsed, the wealthy
residents of Charleston found
themselves "too poor to paint, too
proud to whitewash " No, wanting to
be caught at the task, they sneaked
outside at night to polish the brass on
their doors
Much of the lovely city became a
slum Not until World War II did the
city's economy Ix-gin to turn around
and by then Charlestonians realized
they were liv ing in a treasure Accor
ding to a history written by Robert
Rosen, when Standard Oil planned to
put gas stations all over the city in
1929. Charleston established zoning
laws to protect its historic district
Charleston adopted the firs, historic
district zoning ordinance in America
in 1931
Old stuff is gixxl business on the
East Coast Charleston is full of
visitors But preservation is pretty
new to us The ink is still we, on lists
of historic buildings and sites in
Troutdale and Gresham We will be
zoning historic sites in coming mon
ths Such decisions may not lie
popular because Westerners tend to
chafe at another lev el of government
But it's worth remembering, as
freeway s and franchises homogenize
our country, that nobody goes to
Charleston to see suburbs or Burn
side Roads lined with fast-food
places, gas stations and quickie
markets
W ell," I bristle«! EveryI mh I v has
to start somewhere
Charleston exists with so much of
its history intact because it was too
Rhett Butler could ge, a Big Gulp
and chicken nuggets anv where
Thank you so much for the article
about Mount Hood Hospice and the
new board members
We would like the community to be
aware that Mount Hood Hospice is a
most unique program because we do
not bill our patients and families for
services
Insurance companies are billed
and no one is ever denied assistance
because of lack of insurance
coverage
Therefore, th«- m ajority of patient
care costs must be raised through
memorials, donations, fund-raising
and community support
Without the generous financial sup
port of the community, Mount Hood
Hospice could not remain open
Thank you again for your con
tinuous supjMirt
Maryl Perrin
Chairwoman
Mount Hood Hospice
Leaders w e re
a ’d is g ra c e ’
The April 11 high school board
meeting turned into a wild melee
The so-called commons auditorium
was flooded with striking teachers
carrying picket banners and there
was standing room only for patrons
and students
Board Chairperson IXity attempted
to proceed with a previously an
nounced agenda, but was interrupted
by four anti-board people demanding
that the teacher wage issue be taken
up immediately in place of what was
on the agenda, for many people pro
and con had signed up to speak their
views.
Chairperson Doty refused to
recognize the intruders, ordering
them to their seats or she would close
down the meeting
Board member Bob Boring at
tempted to make a motion to stay
with the pre-arranged agenda, but
the confusion generated by th«- au
dience drowned out any hoj.es of con
ducting business so the Ixuird chair,
on consulting with other members,
ordered the meeting dosed and left
the platform
This was clear thinking by the due
process of elected officials and they
are to be applauded for efforts to
maintain civil order
We now know something of the
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LETTERS
Sharon Nesblt
We saw spiked iron work bristling
at the top of wrought iron walls, a
precaution taken after a threatened
slave revolt in 1822 And we walked
down an alley where it is still legal to
have a duel
Price laughed when I told him that
Troutdale's museum is 88 years old
We've got d irt in the corners older
than th a t." he hooted
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caliber of the supposedly respected
characters w ho are leading our youth
in the paths of civil strife The scene
was a disgrace for Sandy High
C liff Koenig
Sandy
L e tte r w rite rs
best ig n o re d
SUHS patrons would do well to ig
nore the hopelessly nearsighted
blustering* of C liff Koenig and
Roland Cartisser
Neither of these gentlemen seems
genuinely concerned with quality
education Mr Koenig admitted in
his las, letter to The Post that he
thought a strike wou'd improve
SUHS's situation This is an absurdi-
t>
A strike harms everyone in the
community, and I know that it was
only with great reluctance that the
teachers voted to strike
Mr Koenig's swagger suggest that
it is he, not the teachers, who is un
concerned with the quality of educa
tion at SUHS
In his last letter to The Post, Mr
Cartisser raised the bogie of teachers
somehow indoctrinating students
with the "politics of negotiation "
I frankly find this statement in
sulting because it impugns the
credibility of the teachers and th«- in
telligence of the students
In general, I have been pleased
with the education 1 have received at
SUHS Over the past year, however,
many of the school's finest teachers
have left for better-paying jobs at
other schools
Sixteen teachers left last year
alone and I suspect at least as many
w ill be leaving this year Money is a
major concern; one teacher left San
dy and took an immediate $5,000
raise at a neighboring school
There is no question that the quali
ty of education could be improved If
we are to compete as a nation, we
must lune adequately funder) and
staffed schools
W hat our st hoots need, however, is
c o n s tru c tiv e a c tio n , not a n ti-
teacher/taxes naysaying from the
community
Arne Baker
Brightwood
T rilliu m s : Best
if le ft a lo n e
Miles Aubin is right, there are few
flowers mure beautiful than Oregon's
native T rillium ovatum i Sandy Post.
April 7), but I would like to add a cou
ple of footnotes
Please don't pick trilliu m s and, as
he explained, deprive the plant of a
year's food from its leaves It's true
it may not die. but repeated picking
w ill finish that trilliu m
Our woods are full of trillium s, but
they would not be if we picked bou
quets each year, or dug them all Do
as I did pick one, stake the point
where it grew, see what happens next
spring Small leaves, no flower
If you wish to dig a trilliu m , please
have the permission of the landowner
or, if it's at the roadside, have some
regard for others who may want to
see it there
Ixruise Godfrey
Portland
Teachers u n io n
n o w in c o n tro l
It is a relief to the community that
the threat of a teachers strike was
resolved at the last minute
It is sad that our students had to
witness the insubordination and
disrespect shown by certain teachers
and their followers toward th«- school
board and the administration prior to
the strike deadline.
During the latter stage of negotia
tions. the teachers union picketed
businesses where board members
worked A board member is an un
paid volunteer They work many
hours and try to do what 's best for the
taxpayers They can't always please
everyone
1 consider picketing by the union at
board members' places of employ
ment pure harassment' This type of
picketing is illegal in almost all
states The state of Oregon is an ex
ception
At the last two school board
meetings, the teachers union made
every attempt possible to encourage
citizens and students who would su|>
port their cause to attend the
meetings
Although there was a large number
of people at these meetings, the ma
jority of them were not voters or tax
payers from the Sandy High School
District
At the last board meeting, the
teachers union demanded that the
board change its agenda The
teachers and the board have tradi
tionally held negotiations in closed
meetings, but the teachers union
wanted to change these rules The
board refused because they would be
open to u n fa ir labor practice
lawsuits
The mob violence th a t was
displayed after the meeting was ad
journed was a disgrace to the com
munity The teachers who par
ticipated should be dismissed
I feel sorry for the teachers, board
members and students who w ill suf
fer from this last episode at Sandy
High School The small increase in
salaries and benefits may cause the
district to lay off staff next year if the
district does no, win its tax base elec
tion in May.
The class load will increase and
students w ill suffer The district tax
payers have observed that the school
board is not in control Under
pressure from a few agitators, the
board caved in
Our students have learned that
mob violence, disrespect for authori
ty and insubordination pays off They
will be sadly disappointed when they
graduate and get into the real job
world
Roland Cartisser
Sandy
Tail w a g s d o g
at Sandy H ig h
At the Sandy Union High School
board meeting Monday . April 11, the
Sandy Education Association expos
ed its true nature
Almost immediately after the
meeting was called to order SEA
members interrupted the chair
woman and requested the agenda be
changed
This request was denied and the
meeting proceeded for four or five
minutes, and then a group of SEA
representatives approached the
podium and requested they be heard
out of order When the chairwoman
denied the request, SEA represen
tatives then demanded they be heard
and would not sit down
1 may be old-fashioned, but where 1
come from you don't demand
anything of your boss, the school
board This is just one of many ex
amples as to who SEA members
think they are
I believe SEA needs to re-evaluate
its position and approach SEA
members are employees of the
school board and the people SEA
does not own or run the school. The
school board and the people do
SEA members are employer's
employees The tail doesn't wag the
dog
John King
Sandy
by ADAM KRAFT