SINCE 1979 • VOLUME 37, NO. 25
SECTION A
MAY 22, 2015
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Keizer
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Review in Pictures
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Photos by Eric A. Howald and Craig Murphy,
Dee Moore and Andrew Jackson/KEIZERTIMES
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City staff
getting
healthy
For more photos see
pages A11–13 and
also check out our
Facebook photo
gallery. For parade
video, check us out
on YouTube.
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Lady Celts
win the
league title
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A) An Athletic Edge gymnastic walks on his hands down the parade route. B) The Keizer Public Works mascot rides along the parade route. C) Harrison Bodi waves to the passing
parade. D) A dancer with the France School of Dance parade entry. E) The Queen of Hearts hands out coupons for Mr. Video. F) The Canby Rodeo Queen waves to the crowd. G)
Runners David Harkin and Andrew Fudge run the marathon. H) Kaela Hartwell, Devin Ferguson, Tyler and Brittany Gardner, Colette Livengood and Jesse Graham in the Big Tent.
Patterson, Hart, Lee, Busch win races
By CRAIG MURPHY
Of the Keizertimes
Yes, there was the contested
school board race and the
contested transit board race.
But the two races from the
May 19 election that truly
got people fi red up – bad
pun intended – were the two
contested battles for positions
on the Keizer Fire District
Board of Directors.
The Position 3 battle
between James Mulhern
and Chet Patterson was
an interesting clash since
Mulhern is a 21-year
fi refi ghter with the Marion
County Fire District No. 1, the
entity that had a memorable –
and expensive – battle with
the KFD a few years ago.
Patterson, meanwhile, is one
of Keizer’s founding fathers
and was part of the original
Keizer City Council when the
city was incorporated in 1982.
Mulhern
campaigned
in part to help MCFD and
Patterson
Hart
KFD work together better.
His campaign drew the ire of
multiple groups at KFD, who
in turn supported Patterson.
Then there was the Position
5 race between longtime
former city councilor Jim
Taylor and Betty Hart, whose
husband Mike served on the
fi re board for years until health
issues forced him to resign his
seat late last year.
In the end, Patterson and
Hart scored convincing wins.
Meanwhile, Chuck Lee easily
won a third team on the
Salem-Keizer School Board
and Colleen Busch won the
Subdistrict 2 race for the
Salem-Keizer Transit Board.
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Lee
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According to the initial
Marion County Clerk’s Offi ce
results on Tuesday night,
Patterson led with 1,616 votes,
or 57.51 percent as opposed
to 1,176 votes (41.85 percent)
for Mulhern.
“It’s very rewarding and
humbling to put your name
out there and to have the
voters reward you with votes,”
Patterson said. “It’s a big
responsibility.”
Patterson, who noted
Mulhern didn’t emphasize his
involvement in the fi refi ghting
profession, felt his experience
with fi nancial management
was key.
“That said a lot about the
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expertise I have and what I
bring to the board and the fi re
district,” Patterson said. “My
commitment goes back to the
early 1980s. When I retired (as
a CPA), I wanted to get back
involved in the community.
This really does it in a big
way.”
Mulhern didn't return
messages seeking comment on
the results.
In the other race, Hart
handily won with 1,761 votes
(60.7 percent) compared to
Jim Taylor getting 1,126 votes
(38.81 percent).
“I’m really excited. I have
to admit I worked pretty hard
on this election, so I was really
hopeful I would win,” said
Hart, whose efforts included
being in last weekend’s Keizer
Iris Festival Parade. “Getting
the results showing me in
the lead was great. I had a lot
of help doing this. Anybody
who’s working on an election
has a lot of people helping and
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I certainly had a lot of people
helping me.”
Hart credited her husband
for encouraging her to run.
“What really makes me
excited about this opportunity
is I have some skills to bring to
the fi re district that I hope will
be supportive of moving the
fi re district in the direction it
needs to go,” she said, noting
Taylor has “done a lot to
serve” the Keizer community.
“I’ve been working in local
governments as a member of
staff. Having to develop policy
and local budgets, I do bring
a different set of experiences.”
Taylor, who has applied
for an opening on the
Keizer Parks and Recreation
Advisory Board, was gracious
after losing on his birthday.
“She’ll be fi ne,” Taylor
said of Hart. “I’m happy for
her. She’ll do a fi ne job. I’m
disappointed but I’m not
upset at all.”
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