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Vol 78 No 29 The Saiftty Post CAKJnv I I **» rto« SANDY riDCrtOld OREGON TuiiDCriAv THURSDAY July 21 i 1988 .irn e -o» *«xs\ (USPS48I 180 Single Copy 25' SERVING THE COMMUNITY FOR SO YEARS City raises sewer fees Hot w eather hits, even on the slopes High temperatures in the area have been sending people in droves to the shores of lakes and rivers. Some are traveling as far as Tunberline Ixxlge to beat the h e .it "In addition to skiers, we have a lot of people who just come up to play in the snow,” said John O 'N e ill, general m anager at Tunberline Hut skiers still w ill find enough snow on the Palmer snow field to ski all the way down to the lodge On Palmer, the snow depth was 50 to 60 feet, which is about nor m al. said George Rossman, who superv ises summer skiing Temperatures can be in the 80s on the slopes We’re really busy, and it's go ing w onderfully," Rossman said In Sandy, the mercury reached 96 Tuesday, and was well on its way to another hot day on Wednesday The Sandy Eire D istrict keeps track of the highs and lows The danger of fire is not too high at least for now Chuck Hanson, assistant fire chief, said there is s till some green in the grass and trees, so lawn fires have not been a problem The Sandy City Council approved the final reading of an ordinance that will raise the cost of new sewer connection fees business that would use a great deal of water but not provide employment, or only limited employ merit or low paying jobs The ordinance also will give the City Council an opportunity to approve or disapprove of new businesses that would use a large amount of water and thus use up the remaining capacity at the city 's sewage treatment plant The cost to improve the sewage treatment plant is expensive, and the council hopes to extend its life mt«* the m id 1996 b The city only has enough capacity at its sewage treatment plant for another 300 to 400 hookups The council wants to review new commercial and in dustrial businesses to consider the volume of sewage they will create and what kind of jobs they will provide for area residents The amount of sewage a business generates is estimated by the amount of water it consumes City councilors have said they do not want a new Turn to WEATHER, Page J. The new hookup fees are based on E R l's, or equivalent residential units, meaning th«- amount of sewage generated by the average residential unit Any businesses that use 10 or more E R l's must get City Council approval to build in Sandy An 80-seat restaurant would use 10 E R l's Car washes use one ERU for each 250 gallons of water used, and laundries use one ERU for each two washers Some industrial users also could use a large number of E R l's. depending on the product Sew residential construction will not be review ed by the City Council However, the cost of sewer hookups will increase from $800 to $1,000 A new business will pay $1,000 for each ERU instead of the $800 hookup charge In the past, an 80-seat restaurant would have paid $800 for a sewer hookup Sow that same business will pay $10,000 Some money from the increased hookup fees will go into a fund that will help the city pay for expan sion of the plant A task force that looked at capital building pro jects last summei and fall recommended exten ding the treatment plant's life until tfie mid-1990s Pioneer picnic slated for Sunday B rother and sister to be cro w n e d kin g and queen at annual affair The Sandy Pioneer and Historical king and queen Association's annual Pioneci Picnic 1 he five chililren of Nels and Han will be Sunday. July 24, at Nelson nah Johanson Nelson were born in a Pioneer Park log cabin on the homestead just west People will begin to gather at noon of Sandy They were twin brothers for a picnic lunch Die program will Ned and He, George, Milton and An start at 2 p m na. Edward Hub" Nelson and his Ne«l m arried Victoria Alt, who is sister, Dorothy Shrum, will be king from .i Sandy pioneer family of Ger and queen Nelson is a farmer and man descent Dorothy. 8(1. is the Shrum is a retired tea« her ride t survivor of then union Huh The brother and sister are i log Nelson is 78 cabin pioneer stock ' I heir grand After lulu h at the picnic, a family father, Nils later changed to Nels history will l»e read and a coronation em igrated iron. Sweden and eremony will be held homesteaded in the late 1870s on ltdi Th« organization formerly was acres at the site of the present Nelson < alh'd the Sandy I’toneei Society but Pioneer Park tfie name was changed to the Sandy The donation land grant for tfie Pioneei aiul Historical Association so Nelson homestead is dated \pril 10, that [M-ople who were not of pioneei 1882. and is signed by President stock would feel welcome Chester A Arthur M«d Haneberg, [»resident of the The [»ark was donate«! to the Sandy association, said anyone who is in Pioneer and Historical As ociation terested in the history of tin- area is by Be Nelson, an uncle of the 1088 invited to attend B iologists view Im p ro v e m e n ts alo ng Still C reek. S tru ctu res such as rocks and logs p ro vid e resting areas for fish. Program restores creek as h a b ita t by SCOTT NEWTON Staff w rite r Eish biologists from Oregon and Washington visited S till Creek F ri day to see the improvements that won the Mount Hood National Forest a national award Jeff Eubel, a biologist from the Zigzag Ranger D istrict, was glad to show them around The award provides a happy ending to five years' worth of work And Still Creek is a good exam ple of how far habitat manage ment has progressed in 20 years Following a 1964 flood, summer home owners and other residents convinced state and federal of ficials to dean out or sterilize — the upper Sandy River, S till Creek and other waterways. Heavy equipment was used to remove boulders, logs and woody debris But instead of stabilizing the rive r banks, the opposite oc curred " I t basically looked like a freeway in here," Uebel said to the biologists as he stood on a bridge overlooking S till Creek For five years Eubel and other U.S. Forest Service employees have tried to im itate what occurs in nature They put hardwood logs in the riv e r to create spawning pools. They dropped boulders in at s tra te g ic loca tion s to create desired water patterns And they excavated 100-foot-long side channels, most of which are fed by ground water They filled the side pools with woody debris to provide a covering for the fish The forest service built 40 of the pools along S till Creek, and another 20 along the Sandy River S till Creek, which is 11 miles long, is fed by the P a lm e r W a te r c o m p a n y g ive n rate hike Sky view Acres Water Co , which has .38 customers and serves homes on and near Virginia Court north of Sandy. has been granted a rate in crease by the state Public Elihty Commission S taff ptw4o b) S ro(I N ew t on B iologist Jeff Eubel tells a b o u t Still Creek h a b ita t im p ro v e m e n ts . Turn to HABITAT, Page 3. The rate increase went into effect July 1, so customers will not see the increase until they rei eive their two- month billing in Scptembci Majority stockholder- in the , oin- pany are (Iran aiul Virginia Denhart The Denharts said they hail tieeii operating the company at a loss They sought an ini Tease to pay for in creased labor costs, and also to pay for a liability insurance poll« y Tfie PUC ruled that Sky view A< res should 1 m - allowed to increase its an nual operating revenins from $8 749 to $12,712 After deducting, operatun: expenses of $11,855. Skyview Ai res w ill earn a net annual income of $8.«7 Tfie increase will «i>iii[»« ris.ite th«- Skyview Water Co H .:’illl|,.| in« r< .« ed labor costs, $470 for liability in Mountain Festival leaders can point to a history of progress INSIDE by SCOTT NEWTON Staff w riter S ports: It has been 15 years since a handful of artists walked down to Trapper's Trek and Barlow Bend in Meinig Park w ith shovels and rakes to clear an area for booths The Mountain Festival has seen its budget increase from $432 the1 first year to the present $22,000 annual budget Hut some things have remained constant since 1974 The city of Sandy public works crew contributed to park im provements from the start The weather has been nice every year And free musical entertainment and .« family atmosphere were establish Pitcher Eric Ansen of the Sandy IV m id g et N atio n a l te a m th r o w s a fa s tb a ll a g a in s t W e lc h e s In th e d istrict p layo ff to u rn a m e n t in R ockw ood Tuesday. Several local yo u th league team s are p layin g in p layo ff gam es. See Sports. Page 7. a ed at the very beginning A count taken in 1987 determined that 44.000 people visit th»' two-day festival each year Hut the size of the crowd is as much a part of festival lore as the weather Estimates of crowd counts, and the method for obtaining that count, have been a topic of conversation for years What is known for certain is that the pathways of Meinig Park are fill ed each year as people make the rounds from the Front Stage to th«' Bird» age Theater, visiting the 150 a r tists' booths or the 18 food booths A year by year history of the Moun tain Festival follows 1974 John Armstrong, manager of the Oregon Trail Savings and Loan and a member of the Sandy Chamber of C om m erce, was asked by the chamber to come up with an idea for an annual community gathering ot festival Armstrong, who now lives m Spokane, stopped in at the Blushing Zebra craft shop .mil brainstormed w ith owners Lynn Ellis and Ann E'en- wick Fenwick said Ellis also had been kicking around the idea of starting up some kind of festival She was a [ mt son w ith lots of innovative ideas. E « n- wick said Ellis, who had lived in Sandy since 1962, was surprised w hen Armstrong told her about Meinig Park Ellis and Fenwick immediately put up the "Gone Fishing" sign and went with Arm strong to take a l«w»k They liked the park, the sit«' of ear ly pioneer picnics, from the start Turn to FESTI\ AI-, Page 3 suiaiiii- $780 in plant operating ex- [M-nses for a system to monitor an emergency warning system, and for other cx|»enses Customers will pay a $15.20 base rate, plus $1 38 for each 1 (Ml cubic feet of water used Oran Denhart said customers us«- from 7ixi to 2.000 cubic feet of water per month Even cu sto m ers who use a minimum of water will see a slight increase in their water hills, fie said Customers of tfie Cottrell water service had expressed apprehension in I lecemlxT 1987 when Skyview Ai re: applied for a 300 percent in crease Die increase granted by the P l'(' is 4.» 3 percent Die water system, build by the Denhart family in 1976, serves customers along a two mile line that run along Virginia Court. Bluff Hoad and Hudson Road Du- company buys the water from the city of Portland It comes from the Hull Run watershed G o v e rn o r se ts v is it to S andy Gov Neil Goldschm idt is scheduled to attend a town hall meeting in Sandy on Aug 2 I tie meeting, to be held in the high school commons from 7 to 9 p m , is being organized by s ta te Rep Rob S h ip rack , D Beavercreek No specific to p ic is on th e a g e n d a Goldschmidt and Shiprack are expe« ted to address the crowd and then comments will be taken on issues people in the au dience wish to discuss Shipra« k has held sim ilar town hall meetings in Estacada and Canby, but Goldschmidt did not attend those meetings.
