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On its fi rst journey across the highly competitive Atlantic ferry route, the ship carried some 2,200 passengers and crew. — April 14, 1912 Food 4 Thought “There are many talented people who haven’t fulfi lled their dreams because they over thought it, or they were too cautious, and were unwilling to make the leap of faith” — James Cameron, fi lm director of “Titanic” The Month Ahead Friday, April 14 – Saturday, April 29 Willamette University’s theater department presents Macbeth at M. Lee Pelton Theatre on campus. General admission is $10. 503-370-6221. thtr-tix@willamette.edu. Through Saturday, April 29 Willamette University’s theater department presents Shakespeare’s Macbeth at the M. Lee Pelton Theatre on campus. General admission is $10. 503-370-6221. thtr-tix@ willamette.edu. Through Saturday, May 6 Jesus Christ, Superstar at Pentacle Theatre, 324 52nd Avenue N.W. on Wednesdays through Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m. Tickets $27.50 to $29 for weekends, $26.50 to $28 for weekdays. $1 more for opening night, includes after party. 503-485-4300, pentacletheatre.org. Saturday, April 15 Dance with music by “Charles and the Angels” at the Keizer/Salem Area Senior Center, 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. $5 per person. Contact Bo Allen at 503-390-7441 or boallen555@ comcast.net. Monday, April 17 Weekly meeting of the Iris Festival coordinating committee at Keizer Chamber of Commerce offi ce, 6150 Ulali Dr. in Keizer Station. Open to the public. Keizer City Council meeting, 7 p.m., Keizer Civic Center. Tuesday, April 18 Federal and State taxes are due. Free admission all day at Hallie Ford Museum of Art, 700 State Street. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Keizer Public Arts Commission meeting, 6 p.m., Keizer Civic Center. Wednesday, April 19 Artist Hank Willis Thomas to speak at Oregon State University in Construction & Engineering Hall at The LaSells Stewart Center, 875 26th Street S.W. The talk, “Divided We Fall,” will be at 6:30 p.m. BERNINA Stretch and Sew Fabrics hosting a BEAR-NINA Sew-In event, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., located at the store in Schoolhouse Square, 5089 River Road N. Call 393-0132 to register. Thursday, April 20 By ERIC A. HOWALD Of the Keizertimes In March, Lt. Andrew Co- peland became the fi fth Keiz- er cop to graduate from the the FBI National Academy in Quantico, Va. Copeland spent 10 weeks in Virginia and took part in a variety of classroom activities and discussions in addition to physical training courses and activities. “When you start and go through the Oregon police academy, you deal with the revised statues, use of force, confrontation simulation and then you go into fi eld train- ing. It’s all the basics, but you don’t get a ton of education on leadership issues,” said Co- peland. “This was really an op- portunity to disconnect from the agency here and refl ect on how I’ve policed and how I’ve led.” The highly-competitive FBI program draws offi cers and leaders from through- out the nation and the world. Copeland’s class included representatives from 25 other countries. It made for a variety of entertaining, and sometimes harrowing stories. He recalled one from a colleague in the Republic of Ghana in par- ticular. “He told us how he was go- ing after a suspect he’d caught up with at a bank getting money under someone else’s name. As he was chasing the suspect, people started chasing with him and when he caught up a crowd of people had sur- rounded the suspect,” Cope- land said. The problem was the crowd wanted to have the trial and punishment delivered on the spot. The pursuing offi cer ended up protecting the same suspect he had just chased down. Copeland took part in a number of classes, read a wide variety of books and spent time writing on the practical applications at home in Keizer. In one course, a survey of cyber threats to modern-day agencies and institutions, Co- peland was tasked with gain- ing a deeper understanding of not only the potential dangers but how to work with those who are knowledgable on such issues. In another class on con- temporary issues in modern- day policing, Copeland and classmates dug deep into the history of police work and how it has been perceived by the public. He became animated when talking about a Nor- man Rockwell painting of a cop and a runaway boy sitting at the counter of a diner. “That’s a picture that came out before the civil rights movement. But it’s not who we want to be in law en- forcement. We can’t and don’t want to be focused on just the people who look like us,” Co- peland said. “We focused on building community trust and what that looks like because we need permission from the community to do police work.” Copeland left the class feeling that KPD was doing a better job than some other departments he’d heard about Submitted Keizer Police Department Lt. Andrew Copeland at the FBI Na- tional Academy in Quantico, Va. at the academy, but that there is still room for improvement. “I think we do a better job of hiring people. Especially in the past few years, we are try- ing to hire for character. The recruits may not have any law enforcement background at all, but once you have some- one with good character you can train them to do the law enforcement,” Copeland said. “We are in a good spot, but we need to do better by lis- tening and having empathy. We serve the community and we need to meet them where they are.” In that regard, Copeland came back with a slew of new ideas for one of the depart- ment’s recent hires, Commu- nity Service Offi cer Dorothy Woman pleads guilty in pedestrian death A Medford woman pleaded guilty to criminally negligent homicide in the death of a Keizer man last week. Melody Ann Krewson, 50, was sen- tenced to 36 months of probation, had her license permanently revoked and was ordered to perform 180 hours of com- munity service for her part in the death of James Alton on Sept. 25, 2015. Krewson was also ordered to pay a $200 fi ne. On Sept. 25, 2015, about 7:30 a.m., Keizer police offi cers responded to Che- mawa Road North and Newberg Drive North on a report of a vehicle-versus- pedestrian traffi c collision. As offi cers ar- rived they observed a male laying on the ground with a citizen attempting to ren- der fi rst aid. Krewson was driving a 1999 Ford Ranger pick-up and she remained at the location for offi cers to arrive. The initial investigation indicated Krewson was driving east on Chemawa Road and did not see Alton as he was crossing the roadway. Alton suffered life threatening injuries and succumbed to those injuries after be- ing transported to Salem Hospital. Krew- son cooperated fully during the investiga- tion. She had been scheduled to go to trial earlier this week when the guilty plea ended the proceedings. McLeod: Home sales strong Realtor Amy McLeod de- livered her semi-annual report on the state of the real estate market at the Rotary Club of Keizer luncheon Thursday, April 6. Here are some of the high- lights from the presentation: • A shortage of homes is benefi tting homeowners. Price increases in December 2016 were the largest in more than two years. The year-over-year increase in Oregon is 10.3 percent, and 3.3 percent on a quarterly basis. • Home appreciation is up to 5 percent per year since lows of -5.4 percent during the Great Recession. It is expected to gradually decline to about 2.8 percent in 2021. • Homes spend an average of 30 days on the current market. • The largest growth in home sales has been for those in the range of $200,000 to $400,000. • A new home is typically sold within three months of completion. • Sales of distressed proper- ties is down to 7 percent from a high of 35 percent in January 2012. • Oregon is one of many states where the buyer traffi c is strong. Washington state’s numbers are currently the highest with Oregon in the second tier. • Mortgage rates are about half a percent higher than they were a year ago. McLeod is principal bro- ker of the The McLeod Group with Keller Williams Capitol City. sudoku Enter digits from 1-9 into the blank spaces. Every row must contain one of each digit. So must every column, as must every 3x3 square. Greater Gubser Neigborhood Association meeting, 7 p.m., Gubser Elementary School, 6610 14th Avenue NE. Laila Ali is the featured speaker at the annual benefi t for the Medical Foundation of Marion-Polk Counties, 7 p.m. at the Historic Elsinore Theatre. Tickets range from $32 to $47. Proceeds benefi t individuals without health insurance or are underserved. mpmedicalfoundation.org. 10 YEARS AGO THE WILLAMETTE VALLEY’S Best Kept Secret ASSOCIATE GOLF PACKAGE Spotlight on Literacy Award Dinner & Silent Auction at the Willamette Heritage Center at 6 p.m. Tickets are $50. More information at www.midvalleyliteracycenter.org. $ 875 annually MENTION KEIZERTIMES AD FOR AN EXCLUSIVE OFFER! CALL 503.982.1776 5 YEARS AGO Down in the dirt Smoke alarm clears Claggett Creek Middle Now available for only Southeast Keizer Neighborhood Association meeting, 6:30 p.m., Salem Mennonite Church, 1045 Candlewood Drive NE. looking back in the KT Grant Snitker is studying archaeology. It’s rare enough that McNary High School graduates choose to pursue doctorate-level degrees. Rarer still when two of them happen to be siblings at the same university, Aundrea and Grant Snitker are doing just that. State Sen. Kim Thatcher and state Reps. Rich Vial and Bill Kennemer will hold a town hall meeting on transportation from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Wilsonville City Hall Council Chamber, 29799 Town Center Loop E. Friday, April 21 Diehl. “Dorothy is my agent for public trust, and I had to write a 10-page paper on public trust and it gave me a ton of ideas,” Copeland said. In the coming months, he’s hoping to organize Coffee with a Cop sessions around town for residents to drop by and ask questions or alert offi cers to the problems they know about. “We want to change peo- ple’s minds if they have a neg- ative view. We need to do a better job of working with the communities that don’t have a voice right now and doing those types of things will also get the next generation geared up to become police offi cers,” he said. Enjoy unlimited play on the toughest 5400 yards private course Associate Members Must Be 50 & up First year prorated BERNINA Stretch and Sew Fabrics hosting a BEAR-NINA Sew-In event, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., located at the store in Schoolhouse Square, 5089 River Road N. Call 393-0132 to register. Firefi ghters found the school building evacuated and smoke was visible. Fire crews identifi ed the source of the smoke as a faulty electrical cord in a lamp used as a prop by the school’s drama department in a backstage dressing room. Firefi ghters removed the lamp and ventilated the area. Students were then allowed to return to the building. No injuries were reported. 15 YEARS AGO Softball squad extends win streak to three McNary has climbed into a tie for fi rst place with a three game winning streak. The varsity girls softball team outscored three Valley League foes by a combined 20-1 to improve to 3-1 early in the season. 20 YEARS AGO Keizer’s water is state’s best Saturday, April 22 Marion County presents Earth Day at the Oregon Garden from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is free, parking on site is $5. For more information, call 503-874-8100 or email info@ oregongarden.org. www.WoodburnEstatesGolf.com Keizer’s water was up against water from 20 other cities and in the fi rst year Keizer competed for the distinction, it was named “The Best Tasting Groundwater in Oregon”.