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Editorial & Opinion
Scott N e w to n E d ito r
D Kaye B a kke A d v e rtis in g R e p re s e n ta tiv e
M ountain Days
can still grow
It is hard for us to imagine that it would be possible to make
ianv more improvements in the two-day festival in Meinig
Park
The artists and food booths, and the music and other perfor
mances, are pleasant, well-run affairs.
New ideas and fine tuning can always occur, but in general
the festival is a quality event. The Mountain Festival commit
tee is correct in wanting to see the event remain that way
without worrying about expansion.
But Sands Mountain Days, the entire slate of events that ac
companies the two-day Mountain Festival, does provide an
Hitlet for continued growth and innovation.
The Sandy Recreation Department does an excellent job
with its activities, the Soap Box Derby always runs smoothly
and the Health and Survival Fair is off to a good start.
T he e a n 1 examples of activities that capitalize on the high
sp irit, of the Mountain Festival and provide healthy outlets
for youngsters, or, in the case of the Health and Survival Fair,
g iv e s health care institutes and emergency service groups a
chance to educate the community.
It is important, from time to time, to consider the benefits of
the Mountain Festival. The food booths generate about $30,000
in gross revenues.
l'en percent of that goes to the Mountain Festival commit
tee. which hires bands, pays for security, provides telephones,
publishes promotional materials, runs the parade, buys
awards and met - other expenses associated with the festival.
Bent for arti
booths, and commissions from T-shirt and
postei sales, a ls o contribute to the Mountain Festival’s
budget.
I m the civic organizations that run the food booths, this one
weekend can raise the money to send youngsters to camp, of
fer scholarships, provide health care for the terminally ill, and
a range of other projects that are good for the community.
1 he Mountain Festival also has led to the development of
M einig Park over the past 15 years into one of Sandy’s leading
assets.
Since the two-day event draws so many people to Sandy for
the weekend, it is a great opportunity for the town.
\nd we can l<>ok to the example set by the Mountain Festival
c o m m itte e as a way to improve Sandy Mountain Days even
more.
I lie Mountain Festival committee is organized and in
novative 11 r. m a i n s innovative Ix'cause it participates in
workshops put on by the Northwest Festivals Association.
people from Sandy will have the opportunity to participate
in one of th e conventions when the group comes to Rippling
River in November 1989.
I he Mountain Festival is a great economic contributor to
i i\ic groups, and it has allowed Sandy to identify with an en-
joyable, successful event.
But it will take continued innovation outside Meinig Park to
k e e p the Sandy Mountain Days a quality operation. We should
seize the moment
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LETTERS
cant column headed bv "News in the
V o te yes
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1 support the Sandy Elementary
School District in asking for a one
year operating levy of $274,145
It is necessary for us to keep our
schools operating and it is also
necessary for us to keep them in
repair Delaying repair work only in
creases the costs at a later date, and
ignoring the problem doesn't cause it
to go away.
We have more children in the
schools and this requires more ex
pense
Paying fo r w in d
an inside joke
by SIIAKON NESHIT
Staff writer
!t's a great joke on us.
You know bow they laugh at us liv-
in> out he i- in the wind from the Col
umbia l . I I > How we .ill list .1 little
fi i'in leaning into the wind llnw the
wm t . .line' whipping down the gorge
and swoops a< ions our rooftops anil
kn ks up whiteeaps in the water in
• it toilet
Mid how the fellow was
di tv Hu dow n the gorge at 55 mph and
was passed by a paper cup
But th> wind is having the last
laugh l hes> dav s the breeze blow ing
through tin gorge smells of money
Most of it is blowing in from Hood
River and The Dalles where four
e le m e n t
have combined to create
the i 1 ■ mistiv « ailed profit Take the
irftx rd Put a sail on it Place it on
watei preferably water with a
stroni urrent to it Add wind
that five elements, the last
thing you need is a voung, urban pro-
id I 'n.'liev and the
strength, balance and skill to sail in
the gorge
M a ke
On any breezy day they are there
dartiiu hack and forth across the
Columbia River The bright sails
p akc them look like frantic one-
winged butterflies Their presence
has hanged our view of the river
lh. goat Columbia that carried
I ewe ind Clark on its hack is now
giving th rill rules to people in wet
suits
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Instead of canoes, they arrive in
vans loaded with boards and sails
and mountain bikes .for the days the
wind refuses to blowi But they don't
carry trinkets m irrors and Jefferson
medals They carry money
In 198, they toted $17 S million to
Hood River By 1993 experts predict
hat the ooar I sailing industry w ill be
worth $ 07 1 m illion There is a tra f
fic ( m ntcr at the Hood River Marina
that tallied up 480.000 people during
the three months of summer last
year Not bad for a city of 5,000
If is harder to tell how the people in
tin , irg<> feel about this annual inva-
sion
Mostly the wind surf people
stay down by the river and they don’t
get up m the heights," said a woman
from the Hood River Chamber of
Commerce.
If you believe the magazines w rit
ten on the subject, board sailors say
rad" and "radical" a lot and follow
the sport from Maui to the gorge,
much like a migrant worker follows
the crops
A recent edition of a wind-surfing
magazine that featured the gorge in
cluded an article by a young woman
who had
horror of horrors
spent
the entire winter in Hood River in
stead of going off to board-sailing
rnecca in Maui The w inter was only
tolerable m Hood River, she said,
because of skiing on Mount Hood
The last I heard, most gorge dwellers
live there year round
Despite this uneasy feeling I have
that board sailors are just using the
place, they have brought a breath of
fresh prosperity to the gorge Take a
drive some day from Troutdale to
The Dalles and fiack down the
Washington side Cour years ago in
Hood River we had a hard time fin
ding a nice place for lunch Today the
storefronts are filling up There are
trendy places to eat
The signs are even more apparent
on the Washington side of the gorge
Restaurants are springing up Pots of
flowers grow in Stevenson, a town
that still rings to the sound of loggers'
caulk boots Bright wind socks fly
from little houses that have suddenly
gone from shabby to quaint
The progress is slow Timber-
related economies have had to come
up from the cellar
"B u t things are happening,"
marveled a friend
They haven't
painted their houses yet. but they
have painted the trim ."
Gorge residents are learning that
the fabled " ill wind" can do more
than blow the shingles off the roof
It's a great joke and we re laughing
all the way to the bank
The safety net was a temporary
move and was not expected to solve
the problem of school financing
Each time we turn down a budget.
It only addts to the costs because
elections are expensive
Ix-t's get behind our schools and
give them the money necessary for
operating properly
Howard Berger
Sandy
Thanks fo r
b e a u tifu l q u ilt
I would like to thank the people at
the Sandy Senior Center for the
beautiful quilt I won in the raffle at
the Mountain Festival I ’ll get lots of
good use out of it
I j II is Hammers
Sandy
N ew s la c k in g
in Sandy Post
Recently, I've noticed a change of
priorities in positioning of news in the
Sandy Post
I've been a subscriber for 25 years
and news of local interest or import
would be given a prominent ex
posure But in the last year or so,
several items which have had im
mense local impact or interest have
been relegated to an obscure section
or page and m inuscule p rin t
allocated
Eor example, Kelly Adovnik's
"Police Officer of the Year" award
being relegated to a small, insignifi
BOBCATS
these times
1 OK race
best ever
B rie f "
Even more pronounced would be
Sandy's nationally recognized Art
Skipper, who recently set a national
mark in the javelin and has won two
major meets in Sacramento and
Chicago since, received such an m-
firmed and minuscule write up, most
of my acquaintances overlooked it
In my opinion, the morning after
the national mark was made, at least
one-third to one half of the front page
should have been allocated to this
happening, both in recognition to the
individual and for generating in
terest in the community
If selling newspapers is the name
of the game, I'm saying
sell
newspapers " The content of the past
year or so w ill not enhance circula
tion.
I ’m not sure if "out of area" owner
ship has any hearing on our headlines
but I read most of our" news in the
Gresham Outlook.
Hopefully, this inappropriate and
inadequate format w ill change and
readership w ill rise
Nicholas J Roth
Boring
S u p p o rt in su re s
successful d e rb y
Several hundred interested patrons
enjoyed the finals on Sunday, July 3,
where two fine young people senior
division champion Mike Cox and
junior division champion Samantha
Sanu" Jones
were rewarded for
their six-month effort with their
parents with an all expense paid trip
to Akron, Ohio, for the international
competition in August
Derby week in Akron is com
parable to Rose Festival week in
Portland in terms of grandeur, size
and spectator involvement
I personally wish to thank all who
gave of their energies, talents, time
and funds for the effort it took to com
plete this satisfying task which we
undertook for the sixth consecutive
year
Barry Eretz Sr
director
Sandy Soap Box Derby
Thanks to the total community , the
in d u s tria l park m anufacturers
Baert's Metals, L' S Metal Co . Jim
Turin and Sons. Eldridge Construc
tion, and Mitchell R V i, the civic
and service organizations Op
timist«, Kiwamans. I Jons. VEW and
Auxiliary, police department, fire
department and officials of the city of
Sandy I, the area businesses, and
parents and other patrons of our
community.
We haven't forgotten the support of
Buck M edical Services, whose
presence was essential for a safe and
prudent event
Sandy High School provided star
ting and finishing facilities along
with tables and chairs for registra
tion Bob and Pat Whitlock and Julia
Ijitim ore provided water stations
Thanks to everyone who par
ticipated in any way for making
1988's race the largest and best ever
The Sandy Ridge Riders 4-H Club
would like to thank the citizens of
Sandy for supporting the club's car
wash
Heather Chelín
Sandy
Christopher M Roth
director
Race Committee
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Sandy's sixth annual Soap Box
Derby was land is) a perfect blen
ding of efforts from all sectors to help
build and stabilize the family unit in
Especially helpful was Chief Fred
Punzel and his able and willing crew
of patrolmen, reserve office Sean
Burns, and off-duty fireman Tom
Rutledge and the use of their equip
ment in the governing of the busy in
tersections along the race route
Thirty volunteers helped staff the
regLstration tables, provide water
and run-through mist, monitoring the
finishers' places, bookkeeping, sign
making and placing in appropriate
locations, and clean up
Thanks. Sandy
fo r s u p p o rt
Another year, another derby,
another successful youth activity has
passed
the most successful youth-
parent project this community has
ever produced
We wish to thank all those who
helped make the 1988 i6th annual'
Sandy Mountain Festival 10K Run
the success it was
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1988
by ADAM KRAFT