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1988 Se-
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Parents pursue
plans for day-care
BORING Several parents of Bor
ing sc hcxtl students are looking fur
th er into estab lish in g school-
sponsored day-care program in 1989,
organizer Ian Wierima said.
The group will plan its next steps
during a meeting at 7 30 p ni May 5
in the Naas Elementary School
library
The parents will develop a formal
needs survey for all district parents
and .m inventory of current school
building uses, and brainstorm fund
raising ideas. Wierima said
The upcom ing m eeting was
sc beduled after a meeting April r at
the* sc hcxil to gauge interest in offer
ing txfore- and aft« r sc hcxtl day care.
|xissibly in a st hcxtl building
The service could lx* offered as ear
ly as January 1989. Wierima said
The first meeting attracted seven
parents and several others showed
interest in the idea, she said
Wierima invites those who are
unable to attend May J to 1 all
her at
W>3-5543 or the grade m hcxil at
Wi.t-5W»‘i to get on the contact list
The next needs survey would ex
pand on an earlier one, which
generated alxiut 25 responses from
parents interested in alternative day
R ichard lig h lb o d y has a d d r d fis h in g po n ds to (he O re g o n Ark M o te l.
feel "
Correspondent
I like things natural,” he added
1 want to see the laud used in the
most natural way."
With the purchase of the proper
ty. l.ightbody received water and
reservoir rights for up to BMI acres
of water storage
I hat's one acre KMi feet deep, or
ten acres ten feet deep," he said "I
probably won t need that much
water for just a trout farm "
l.ightlNidy pointed to a spring It
bubbled from the ground in torrents
into one of the ponds "We have
atxiut 20 springs of this size," he
said We had the water tested, and
it's absolutely pure."
I .ighttxxly's efforts to open the
land tx-gan last summer A good
ileal of the exi avation for the ponds
was done by tin- company ex
c a v a tin g
RV W onderland
l.ightlxxly provided fill dirt from
his |Minds for the new resort
With (Hinds in place. l.ightlxxly's
chief obstacle is Clackamas Coun
BKIGHTWOOD
The crystal-
clear. spring-fed ponds at the
Oregon Ark Motel are only new to
this generation. Owners Richard
and Mary Ijghtbody are in the pro
cess of restoring a fish hatchery
and trout farm that date back to the
early 1920s
• When I got h e re .” said
Ijghtbody. the place was quite
overgrown, but the entire area
looked like it should have water
I .ighttxxly. who (»ought the m otel
in 1‘JfM. said some exploration
revealed the area had been a fish
hatchery from 1923 until the tune of
the second World War
Said Ijghtbody
The head of the
state fisheries built this He had a
natural lake and eight ponds "
l.ightbody said he is concerned
about aesthetics in the restoration
project "Part of the idea," he said,
is to keep the old Forest Senn «1
L o g g in g
ty's zoning division
"The zoning in Clackamas Coun
ty is quite strict," he said
The property was rczoned from
commercial to farm/forest rural
residential in the 1970s It's really
too bad," he said Ijghtbody said
ItrightwiHxl has suffered partly as a
result of that zoning, and the area
has been overlooked in the cor
ridor's growth
The county has made the motel
and the mobile home park condi
tional use," said l.ightbody He ex
plained that the business was allow
ed to continue since it already ex
isted when the zoning was ( hanged
The conditional-use < la use limits
the amount of building 1 can do "
Plans for a restaurant is high on
I .ightIxxly's agenda, but again, zon
ing remains a problem
This is an area where we have
no restaurants," said l.ightlxxly
There are three motels, he explain
ed. with no restaurants to service
those customers We happen to lx-
the middle motel, so it s a logic al
place to put one "
Brightwcxxl's Oregon Aik Motel
is probahlv best known fix the tai i
boat structure that lies angled hi its
front yard
•
The ship has drawn much atten
tion. and Ijghtbody laughed as he
described his work I about killed
myself putting that roof on. he
(buc kled Working on the shingle
roof in wet weather proved most
hazardous "The Ixird heljied me
keep from breaking my leg. but
boy. 1 got twinged up
I .ighttxxly s vision lor the future
includes extending the ark theme ,<>
a restaurant, more motel rooms, in
door recreation areas and even a
museum He is considering the
shape of the historical ark for the
facilities
Perseverenc e. " reads the sign
facing east from the motel It s all
a faith operation," l.ightbody said
( tintinnici from Page 1.
justify coming after we listened to
them for so many hours," said Scott
Candland. general manage) of Hqtpl-
ing River and president of the Mount
Hcxxl Area 1 'handier of Commerce
"I think it gix-s lieyond disappoint
ment a little, to anger." Candland
said
Kerr said the* Forest Service is
managing the national forest as a
tree farm Hut regardless of its a.
turns, the timber industry is in
decline
"There's about 20 years of old
growth forest left." he said
Kerr said the reduction in jobs in
the limber industry is caused by im
proved technology as well as a reduc
tion of available timber
He conqiared 1987 and l'.Mkl, two
years of peak production In 1987.
there were 25 percent fewer mills,
one-third fewer jobs and one-half as
much revenue to counties, though the
tuutx'r yield was comparable
It now takes two-thirds of a log
truck load to employ one person in a
mill for an eight-hour shift Hut Kerr
said a new mill in Eugene using
lasers, electronic eyes and com
puters would require two log truck
loads of timber to keep one person
employ ed for eight hours
The timber industry s piece of the
Task force
Continued troni Page I V
logging would lx* feasible in the area
Those harvest methods, along with
other newer mcthcxls that differ from
traditional cable logging, would re
quire less road construction and
reconstruction.
She also said helicopter logging
would have less visual impact
Walker said the visual impact of
logging on Enola Hill would lx*
minimal, although she agreed that
what ttie Eorest Service defines as
minimal alteration of the landscape
was not acceptable to most ,x*ople on
the task force
Walker said there are some stands
of trees within the area that have a
form of rexit rot. Under the Eorest
Service's original proposal. those
areas would be harvested and replac
ed with disease-resistant strands of
trees. Walker said there alreadv arc
openings in the trees from the* roc
rot
Some of the diseased areas cover
as much as an acre, and a few are
close to joining and leaving a five
acre clearing, she said
Interviewers wearing identifica
tion badges are conducting an exten
sive on-board passenger survey for
I ri-Met
Emplovcfs of the Marke, Dec I-
-ion- Corp of Portland will survey
110.000 In-Met passengers during
Xpnl and May to help design serv ice
that is convenient and cost-effective
The interviewers will lx* passing
out questionnaires to riders more
than 12 years old
Iri-Met and the Metropolitan Ser
vice Distric t will use the information
for transportation planning for the
next 10 years
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668-41 3 9 c o i i tor A ppointm ents
Recreation Area in 1975; the En
dangered American Wilderness Act
in the Three Sisters and Wild Rogue
wilderness in 1978; the Oregon
Riparian Area Protection Act of
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Kerr chuckled when he was told
that the Enola Hill task force had met
for 35 to 40 hours of public meetings
Kerr said it was his guess that they
had heard a great deal about new log
ging tec h n iq u es Task force
members laughed and nixldcd in
agreement
Kerr called the process "over
public involvement." and said that
no matter what the task force
decides, the distric t ranger's deci
sion will still lx* to log on Enola Hill
Hut Kerr said Forest Serv ice per
sonnel are the employee’s, the IJ S
Congress is the board of directors
and voters are the stcxkholders
"The democratic process works,
even if it is imperfect," Kerr said
Hut tie said supporters would have to
unify and make it clear that they do
not want logging on Enola Hill or in
the Mount Hcxxl corridor
He warned that the battle will not
be an easy one " There are a lot of
Enola Hills out there."
pie is shrinking," he said
And old growth forests
those
forests that are from 250 to 1,000
years old
are being cut rapidly
Oregon and Washington are expor
ting about a billion board feet of
timlier a year, which is equal to
about 20 |M')i cut of the cut on the na
tional forest each year in (»regon and
W ashlngton
Old growth forests are being
replanted, but the Forest Service
manage - them for timlx-r harvests
hoi example, the Forest Service
might i eplant Douglas fir. spray to
kill brush species, thin the trees for
maximum growth, commercially
thin the li ves after -ill or 50 years, and
then c lean ut the* area in 80 to 100
years
It Icxiks to me to lx- closer to a
corn field than a forest," Kerr said
Hi- sa il the Oregon Natural
Resources Counc il is not opposed to
IimlM-r harvests but also would like to
see sustained yields of salmon, elk,
trails and scenery
I he group has filed more than 200
administrative appeals against logg
ing projects throughout the state,
Kerr said
A ccording to the c o u n c il's
literature, the group worked to
establish the Hells Canyon National
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Kerr told the group not to worry
alxiut what the chstric t rani < r thinks
No matter what, von arc ■«.. '
have all upset distric t rangei
He said the Forest Service judges
its district rangers on three tac tors
w hich are safety. providing equal op
(xirtunity employment and tbecut
A fo u rth fac to r, he added, m ig h t be
a distict rangers a b ility to avoid
public controversy and lawsuits
If a large group of (xstple opposed
logging in the Mount Hood corridor
it could lx* stop,ted, Kerr said
Kerr ilex's no, expec t the problem
of dwindling fores, resources to go
away Recent public controversv
over logging is cxeurring bet a use the
remaining areas to lx* logged are in
sensitive areas
"There's no where else for the
Eorest Service to go." K e rr said
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This survey will try to reach
parents of every child in Boring
schools and will be sent home with
the students. Wierima said
The vet-unnamed group also is
receiving help from Boring Middle
School Principal Marilyn Heaton in
listing when and how space in both
schools is used
The group also will find out how to
become a state-certified day-care
center and present a report to the
district superintendent and in
terested school board members,
Wierima said
The center would allow students to
study, play and snack under supervi
sion before and/or after school,
Wierima has said
The earliest start-up date would be
January 1989, or possibly the follow
mg fall, depending on the timeline for
certification, she said
We'd love to shoot for next fall but
I don't see that happening," Wierima
said
Alxiut »I school districts in the
state sponsor similar child-care pro
grams
The Boring PTA is offering help in
funding and starting a day-care pro
gram. but not in running it, she said
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