http://www.sandypost.com/features/index.php Portland and surrounding area community news and information http://www.sandypost.com/features/story.php?story_id=121496617841519700 Walt Burke and Martin Montgomery both started working for the city of Sandy Public Works department within months of each other in 1980. For a while, it looked as if the duo would retire at about the same time, too. That changed two years ago when Burke, 53, discovered he had cancer of the ... http://www.sandypost.com/features/story.php?story_id=121496597571518800 After more than three years of plan revisions, delays and development, the Sandy Walgreens is poised to open at 8 a.m. Thursday, July 3. The pharmacy and general store, located at the corner of Highway 26 and Bluff Road at the “gateway” to downtown Sandy, will offer the company’s ... http://www.sandypost.com/features/story.php?story_id=121496515092262400 The following college news appeared in the July 2 edition of The Post: Marylhurst University Andrea Lee Blaesing, the daughter of Lindy and Charlie Smith of Sandy and Phil Blaesing of Clackamas, graduated Saturday, June 21, from Marylhurst University. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in ... http://www.sandypost.com/features/story.php?story_id=121496346889740700 Dorothy Fairbanks hardly takes life sitting down. The Sandy resident, who will turn 99 this November, walks every morning, reads, knits, crochets, embroiders, paints, visits the Sandy Senior Center twice a week and tutors at Kelso Elementary School during the school year. And she hardly thinks ... http://www.sandypost.com/features/story.php?story_id=121496326135403300 R. S. “Bob” Smith came to Sandy in about 1911, working in a shop as a blacksmith, doing mostly horseshoeing and wagon repair work. It was a time when automobiles were emerging in greater numbers, and Smith could perceive that they would soon replace the horse and buggy. In 1914, he ... http://www.sandypost.com/features/story.php?story_id=121496312999931200 Many professional fireworks displays across the United States will feel the effects of China’s fireworks shortage, but rest assured, Sandy residents – the show will go on at dusk Friday, July 4. A mysterious, massive explosion at a fireworks warehouse on Valentine’s Day started a ...