Vol 78 No 29
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THURSDAY July
21 i 1988
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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.