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SINCE 1979 • VOLUME 38, NO. 27 SECTION A APRIL 7, 2017 $1.00 One EPIC pick Antique hunters strike gold in Keizer man’s garage it and my brother, he’s never By DEREK WILEY going to ride it. I’m 46 years Of the Keizertimes Mike Wolfe and Frank Fritz old. I’m probably never going have been all over the coun- to ride it in my lifetime. We try since their television show can take the money from that American Pickers debuted on to get something that we re- the History Channel in 2010. ally want on the road.” The one car that comes to But their most expensive purchase, airing Monday, April mind is a 1950 Frazer Con- vertible the family took on 10 at 9 p.m., came in Keizer. Last September, a week be- trips to Colorado Springs, fore the pickers were sched- Long Beach and into Canada. “Our family vacation was uled to visit, Zane Leek, along a car show, with his moth- usually,” Leek er and broth- said. “It’s been er, met to go all over. It’s through all the a pretty rare stuff his father car. They only had left them made like 65 to determine of them.” what was and But the wasn’t for sale. Frazer hasn’t One item ran in 15 years. they decided — Zane Leek “I’m trying they wanted to get it back to hold on to on the road was a 1922 Ace motorcycle. But that was and make it drivable again,” before Wolfe offered $45,000 Leek said. “It needs brakes and for the bike Leek believes his carburetor work, all that stuff dad paid around $35 for when from sitting. It needs atten- he spotted it under someone’s tion.” Wolfe and Fritz weren’t sat- porch in Portland in the early isfi ed with just the 1922 Ace. 1960s. “I love the bike,” Leek said. The pickers also purchased “It was a classic old bike but three 1930s motorcycles, a it didn’t run and it needed a 1947 Knuckle engine and lot of parts. Obviously, none of another $5,500 worth of mis- the stuff is mine. It’s my mom’s cellaneous items for a grand stuff and I got to thinking my total of $90,550, the biggest mom is never going to get any buy Wolfe and Fritz have ever enjoyment out of that motor- made. The pickers, with a crew of cycle, she’s never going to ride “What you see on TV will be exactly the way it happened.” KEIZERTIMES/Derek Wiley ABOVE: Keizer resident Zane Leek received a visit from the American Pickers crew. LEFT: Mike Wolfe and Frank Fritz. 11 people, spent two days be- tween Zane’s childhood home in Keizer and his parent’s property out in Macleay. They ate lunch at Birdie’s Bistro. “The nice thing was there was nothing that was staged,” Leek said. “Mike and Frank never went inside the build- ings fi rst. What you see on TV will be exactly the way it happened. All the negotia- tions were real. It was a really good time. It was so much fun. I woke up at about two in the morning after the fi rst day, after we fi lmed here and at my dad’s, and thought ‘Oh my God, did I just sell all my dad’s stuff? Is this real?’ My dad would be pissed if he knew I was selling all his stuff. I’m part hoarder, too. I try not to be.” When Zane’s father Larry died, he left the family 150 cars, jammed pack into storage Home & Garden Special Section SEE INSERT Colored pencils at KAA PAGE A3 Please see PICKERS, Page A8 Lots of questions, few answers Parks fee gets at state rep.’s Keizer town hall majority doephedrine products over the counter By ERIC A. HOWALD again. Of the Keizertimes “That was my No. 1 priority and it Rep. Bill Post has had a rough go of it in the early weeks of the 2017 legislature. got killed yesterday,” Post said. Later on in the evening, Post “As of yesterday, all my walked back on the claim that 13 bills are dead. They didn’t all his bills had died. He did make it out of committee,” manage to get one cosponsored Post said. bill passed – but all it did was Post spoke with about offi cially recognize Newberg as three dozen area residents at Oregon’s “Camelia City.” a town hall meeting Friday, Post and his support staff put March 31, at the Keizer Fire up a poll on social media in the District station. days leading up to the event Post had submitted a asking what issues constituents number of bills prior to the would like him to address dur- legislative session, but said Rep. Bill Post ing the meeting. However, the most hope for what he called the “Sudafed bill,” which would have ones that received the most attention in allowed Oregonians to purchase pseu- the poll – like the state budget, transpor- tation package and funding for veterans – were not ones Post has a hand in craft- ing. He lamented his lack of a voice in the legislative fi scal committees saying, “It’s kinda bad, but kinda good because I’m not responsible for what happens.” Post spoke to some high points in recent budget assessment from the Leg- islative Revenue Offi ce, and summed it up saying, “The revenue is going up, but the spending is going up slightly more rapidly.” He added that when the state was more fl ush with revenue, he and other colleagues had supported socking mon- ey away in a rainy day fund, but that did not come to pass. bus every day. “I asked my teacher to keep a look out for a job that came By ERIC A. HOWALD Of the Keizertimes The future of a fee that would create a dedicated parks fund is now in the hands of the Keizer City Council. At its meeting Monday, April 3, members of the parks board and public works staff submitted the fi ndings of a parks survey that residents completed during the past three months. The council agreed to schedule a special council meeting to look at what the next steps will be. No date was set, but there will be time for residents to offer public testimony. Matt Lawyer, a member of the parks board and the point man leading up the survey ef- fort, delivered the results with visual aids. Lawyer brought in two basketball hoops, one that was rusty and broken taken from a court in Claggett Creek Park and a new one he purchased himself and was do- nating as a replacement. “One of these is where we are right now, the other is where I think we deserve to be,” Lawyer said. Residents returned 1,102 surveys, which amounts to about 8 percent of Keizer’s roughly 14,300 households. Most survey respondents (23.8 percent) said they supported a $4 fee, but the results were fairly close across the board. An $8 fee was supported by 21.9 percent of respondents; a $2 fee garnered in with 21.6 percent of the votes; 17.2 per- cent wanted no fee; and a $6 Please see 100, Page A10 Please see FEE, Page A8 Please see TOWN, Page A8 Keizer’s fi rst doctor turns 100 By ERIC A. HOWALD Of the Keizertimes Dr. Vernon Casterline sus- pected he might make it to 100 years old. “I had a second cousin who lived to 100 and two aunts who lived a little longer,” Casterline said. “I thought maybe I would, but it wasn’t something I was shooting for. Now, I’m getting cold feet.” He attributes crossing the threshold to “moderation in all things,” but he suggests getting started pre-birth. “Pick good ancestors,” he quipped. Casterline will celebrate the centennial of his birth with friends and family at Avamere Court on Thursday, April 13, but those who have gotten to know him over the past 10 decades are invited to attend a birthday open house at Keizer Heritage Center on Saturday, April 15, from 3 to 5 p.m. Casterline’s time in Keizer predates the city itself by more than three decades. He was the fi rst doctor with an offi ce in town and served as the team doctor to a generation of Mc- Nary High School athletes. Casterline was born on his father’s homestead in eastern Montana, but ended up living with his grandmother in Min- nesota after his mother died a year-and-a-half after his birth. He never set out to be- come a doctor, but some old- fashioned grit and curiosity led him to his vocation. “My family was all farmers. The homestead was thistles, grasshoppers and rocks. When I look back on it now, I didn’t re- alize it was happening,” he said. Casterline departed Minne- sota with a plan to fi nish high KEIZERTIMES/Eric A. Howald Dr. Vernon Casterline opened the fi rst doctor's offi ce in Keizer on Sept. 8, 1950. school back near his father’s home, but the nearest school was 35 miles away in Glasgow, Mont. It meant a long trek on a support Veteran gets helping hands PAGE A5 Lacrosse goals vandalized PAGE A7 CLOSE OUT SPECIAL ON MIELE FLOOR MODELS 899 FREE INSTALLATION WHEN YOU MENTION THIS AD DISHWASHER G4227SCU 4101 River Rd N (former Knecht’s) 503.390.0161 VISIT US FOR COMPLETE PRICING!