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Today in History
The National Geographic Society is founded in Washington,
D.C., for “the increase and diffusion of geographical
knowledge.” The 33 founders were a diverse group of
geographers, explorers, teachers, lawyers, cartographers,
military offi cers and fi nanciers. All shared an interest in
scientifi c and geographical knowledge, as well as an opinion
that in a time of discovery, invention, change and mass
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Food 4 Thought
“Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write
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The Month Ahead
Continuing Through Saturday, February 11
Noises Off, a comedy by Michael Frayn, opens at Pentacle
Theatre tonight at 7:30 p.m. Show continues through Feb. 11.
Visit pentacletheatre.org for dates and tickets.
Friday, January 27 – Friday, January 28
First Taste of Oregon, the premier wine, spirits, cider and brews
tasting event, 4 p.m. at Oregon State Fairgrounds. Admission
is $10, $40 for VIP, $8 for seniors. fi rsttasteoregon.com.
Saturday, January 28 - Sunday, January 29
Oregon Wedding Showcase at Oregon State Fairgrounds and
Expo. 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
Sunday, January 29
Fellini at the Circus. Salem Concert Band concert. Hudson
Hall Willamette University, 3 p.m.
Tuesday, January 31
Free admission all day at Hallie Ford Museum of Art, 700
State Street. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Wednesday, February 1
A Midsummer Night’s Dream presented by Eugene Ballet at
the Historic Elsinore Theatre, 7:30 p.m. Tickets range from
$29 to $39. elsinoretheate.com.
Saturday, February 4
Keizer-Salem Area Senior Center pancake breakfast. 8 to 10
a.m. All-you-can-eat for $4. Children 5 years and younger are
free.
Monday, February 6
Keizer City Council meeting, 7 p.m., 930 Chemawa Road N.E.
930 Plymouth Drive N.E. in Keizer.
Tuesday. February 7
Keizer Economic Development Commission meeting, noon,
930 Chemawa Road N.E.
Wednesday, February 8
Keizer Planning Commission meeting, 6 p.m., 930 Chemawa
Road N.E.
Thursday, February 10
Keizer Homegrown Theatre presents Love Letters by
A.R. Gurney starring Mary Bauer Opra and Joe Egli,
7 p.m. at Keizer Heritage Center, 980 Chemawa Rd.
N.E. Tickets are $15, available at the door or by visiting
brownpapertickets.com.
Saturday, February 11
Millstream Knitting Guild meets at Arrowhead Mobile Park
Community Center, 5422 Portland Road N.E. in Salem,10
a.m. to noon. New members welcome, $24 membership
per year. For more information, visit millstreamknitting.
wordpress.com.
Sunday, February 12
Keizer Homegrown Theatre presents Love Letters by
A.R. Gurney starring JoAnne Beilke and Jerry McGee,
7 p.m. at Keizer Heritage Center, 980 Chemawa Rd.
N.E. Tickets are $15, available at the door or by visiting
brownpapertickets.com.
Monday, February 13
Keizer City Council work session, 5:45 p.m., 930 Chemawa
Road N.E.
Tuesday, February 14
Valentine’s Day
Keizer Homegrown Theatre presents Love Letters by A.R.
Gurney starring Lore Christopher and Lyndon Zaitz, 2
p.m. matinee at Keizer Heritage Center, 980 Chemawa Rd.
N.E. Tickets are $15, available at the door or by visiting
brownpapertickets.com.
Free admission all day at Hallie Ford Museum of Art, 700
State Street. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Friday, February 17 – Saturday, February 25
Lear’s Daughters presented by the Willamette University
Theatre Department at M. Lee Pelton Theatre on campus.
Performances at 7:30 p.m. with 2 p.m. matinees on
Sunday, Feb. 19 and Saturday, Feb. 25. Tickets are $12.
boxoffi cetickets.com.
Report:
‘Providers
rarely overlap
and none are
in the same
offi ce’
By ERIC A. HOWALD
Of the Keizertimes
A report by the Salem city
manager delivered to that
city’s council and mayor and
shared with the Mid-Wil-
lamette Homeless Initiative
(MWHI) task force Mon-
day, Jan. 23, sheds light onto
the ways homelessness taxes
public systems ill-equipped
to manage the various issues
contributing to the problem.
Steve Powers, Salem’s city
manager, wrote that city of-
fi cials have been working to
alleviate the strain, but with
more than 1,600 people in
Marion and Polk counties
experiencing homelessness
the issues rising to the surface
are in need of different ap-
proaches.
One of the leading com-
plaints are criminal behaviors,
such as someone relieving
themselves in public, illegal
camping, possession of alco-
hol in parks, trespassing and
disorderly conduct.
“Behaviors people may
fi nd offensive and unsightly,
such as panhandling, sitting
or sleeping on sidewalks, and
sleeping in parks are not ille-
gal,” Powers wrote.
Panhandling has been
ruled protected speech by
the Oregon Supreme Court
and sleeping in a public park
has been deemed a basic hu-
man function protected by
the U.S. Constitution by the
9th Circuit Court of Appeals.
So long as the individual is
not on private property, in
a closed public space, or in
a vehicle they are generally
protected. Loitering is also
not illegal unless there is in-
tent to interfere with pass-
ersby.
However, sleeping in parks
has led to other frustrations
and costs.
“Transients
have
de-
stroyed sprinkler heads at
Marion Square Park so they
do not get wet during the
night while sleeping on the
ground,” Powers wrote.
Other impacts, like exces-
sive litter, are being felt in
other parks.
Police offi cers have issued
citations and made some ar-
rests to curb the behavior
of some individuals, but of-
tentimes the arrests are not
“lodgeable offenses,” mean-
ing the Marion County Cor-
rectional Facility will not ac-
cept them. The result more
often, Powers suggests, is cre-
ating a cycle of arrest - “ar-
rest, failure to appear, warrant
issued, arrest on warrant, fail-
ure to appear, warrant issued”
and so on.
“Law enforcement is
ill-equipped, both statuto-
rily and resource-wise, to ap-
proach the problem of home-
lessness throughout the city,”
Powers concludes.
Powers suggests an em-
phasis be placed on creating
additional shelter beds and
temporary housing for those
in need. At best, Marion and
Polk counties are equipped to
shelter less than have the cur-
rent homeless population and
reaching that level requires
violating fi re and safety codes
at local shelters during emer-
gencies.
He also sees a need for a
“one-stop” resource center.
“Law enforcement has a
diffi cult time assisting the
homeless in getting them
connected with resources
because one agency deals
with addiction, another with
housing, and yet another with
Cancer survivor talks begin Feb. 1
certainty; communicating with family friends
and health professionals; eating nutritiously; and
setting priorities and fostering supportive rela-
tionships.
Participants receive the book Living a Healthy
Life With Chronic Conditions and the relaxation
CD Relaxation for Mind and Body. Classes are
highly participative, where mutual support
builds confi dence in living a healthier life.
Meeting run once a week Feb. 1 through
March 8, from 5:15 to 7:45 p.m., including a
light meal. Location is Salem Health, Building
A, 939 Oak St. SE, 7th fl oor conference room.
Park in visitor structure.
Space is limited. Call to register at 503-967-
1834 or email health.promotion@nwsds.org.
The Salem Health Cancer Institute and
NorthWest Senior & Disability Services will
offer a free series to help cancer survivors lead
active and fulfi lling lives, starting Feb. 1.
Thriving and Surviving Cancer, a six-week
course developed at Stanford University, is
open to anyone with a cancer diagnosis who
has completed their fi rst series of treatments.
Classes are led by two experts; one of whom is
either a cancer survivor, or has been a caregiver
of a survivor.
Topics include: making decisions about
treatment and complementary therapies; exer-
cise to regain health and maintain endurance
and fl exibility; handling frustration, fatigue,
pain, isolation, poor sleep and living with un-
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hanging questions regarding a
number of activities including:
a possible fun run sponsored
by the Keizer Chamber
of Commerce; a volleyball
tournament; a disc golf
tournament; an event or events
to show off the boat launch and
access to the Willamette River;
and food cart pods.
In addition, some basic
services still need to be
hammered out such as parking,
security, the availability of the
Keizer Community Emergency
Response Team to be on-site
for the duration of the weekend,
and lighting for camping areas.
Parking was the one
area where KFAB members
discussed some available options.
Organizers have fl oated the
idea of using the McNary High
School and Keizer Elementary
School parking lots plan to
Salem-Keizer School District
offi cials. The idea would be to
offer shuttle service to and from
the park.
“The school district is
concerned
about
people
sleeping in the parking lot and,
if there is a shuttle, there will
need to be security at McNary,”
Parsons said.
Board members Rob Miller
and Bob Shackelford, who are
also members of the Keizer
Chamber of Commerce, said
they wanted to fi nd ways for
the chamber to get involved.
Shackelford suggested they
might be able to put together
a map of Keizer businesses to
hand out to park visitors.
“This needs to be a
partnership and want local
businesses to reap a benefi t, so
I like seeing what we can do to
get (the Chamber) involved,”
Parsons said. “We want them to
leave the park and see Keizer,
too.”
Those
interested
in
volunteering to help with some
aspect of the event can contact
Debbie Lockhart at lockhartd@
keizer.org. Donations of money
or services to the event are tax
deductible.
sudoku
mental illness. These provid-
ers rarely overlap and none
are in the same offi ce,” Pow-
ers wrote.
Taking a cue from Salem
Mayor Chuck Bennett, the
MWHI added the establish-
ment of a one-stop resource
center to its list of recom-
mendations once the task
force concludes its work next
month.
“Our general feeling in
the city is that the lack of co-
ordinated resources has creat-
ed a barrier. We believe that is
an important part for helping
people out of homelessness,”
Bennett said.
He added that develop-
ing a centralized database to
collect information with the
goal of getting a better han-
dle on the problem could be
part of its services.
Shaney Starr, director of
Strategic Initiatives for Dick
Withnell, said she supported
the idea, but didn’t want to
accept another recommen-
dation for a project without
funding.
“You’re making a really
good point, but I think this is
a chicken-and-egg problem.
We need the recommenda-
tion to begin assigning the
resources for these kinds of
programs,” Bennett coun-
tered.
Starr ended up supporting
the recommendation.
Jon Reeves, executive di-
rector of Community Ac-
tion Agency, said elements of
the CAA offerings would be
willing to relocate under one
roof with other agencies.
Another
recommenda-
tion accepted by the MWHI
members involves establish-
ing a sobering center with
the cooperation of Salem
Health, the City of Salem,
Marion County and non-
profi t organizations.
Sobering
centers
are
equipped to provide safe
spaces for severely intoxi-
cated people or those suffer-
ing from an acute reaction to
drugs until they no longer
pose a threat to themselves
and others. Those in need of
the sobering center would
also have access to addiction
services.
According to a recom-
mendation outline provided
by Bennett, Salem Health’s
emergency room admits
about 10 people per night in
need of detox services.
“The result has been really
tremendous pressure on the
emergency room, and it’s as
an expensive a way to han-
dle sobering as we can fi nd,”
Bennett said.
The recommendation was
approved unanimously.
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5 YEARS AGO
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THIS WEEK’S
MOVIE TIMES
Boucher’s GM is City’s
Merchant of the Year
Collateral Beauty (PG-13)
Fri 4:45, 6:50,
Sat 5:20, 9:30, Sun 4:35, 6:30
A Monster Calls (PG-13)
Fri 2:10, 4:20,
Sat 12:50, 2:20, Sun 12:50
Doctor Strange (PG-13) Fri 1:50,
6:30, Sat 3:50, 9:20, Sun 2:00
Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (PG-13)
Fri 9:00, Sat 7:15, Sun 8:20
Hacksaw Ridge (R) Fri 6:00, 8:30,
Sat 4:25, 6:05, 8:35, Sun 6:10, 8:40
Allied (R) Sun 4:55
The Accountant (R)
Fri 8:45, Sat 6:55, Sun 7:20
Miss Peregrine’s Home for
Peculiar Children (PG-13)
Fri 11:40, Sat 2:55
Trolls (PG)
Fri 12:00, 4:05, Sat 12:00, 1:55,
Sun 12:05, 3:00, 4:15
10 YEARS AGO
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Randy
Moseley, general
manager of Boucher Jewelers
will be honored as Keizer
Merchant of the Year at
the Keizer Chamber of
Commerce First Citizen
and Awards Banquet at the
Wittenberg Inn.
15 YEARS AGO
Raffl e to buy
defi brillators
The Keizer Rotary Club
launched its 2002 raffl e
fundraiser, with a major
goal of buying defi brillator
equipment for Keizer Police
Department cars.
20 YEARS AGO
Serious crimes drop
in Keizer
Serious crime dropped 15
percent in Keizer the past year
as police steadily added to
their ranks.