JANUARY 16, 2015, KEIZERTIMES, PAGE 3
Holiday card contest Big Toy group aiming
is being worked on to avoid the big swell
By CRAIG MURPHY
Of the Keizertimes
It was just a couple of
nights before Christmas and
details over the annual Christ-
mas cards were being fussed
over.
Not in the normal sense,
however.
For one, this was the Keizer
Arts Commission meeting at
city hall on Dec. 23.
For another, the card in
question is one for the 2015
holiday season.
KAC member Beth Me-
lendy has been working on a
2015 holiday card contest. As
part of that, artists are being
sought to submit artwork ex-
pressing the holiday season in
Keizer. The selected art will be
used as the city’s 2015 holiday
greeting card.
The winning entrant will
earn a $25 gift card to Mi-
chael’s Arts and Crafts.
When Melendy originally
brought up the idea last fall,
the scramble was on to quick-
ly get the contest together for
the fast approaching holiday
season. However, it was de-
cided to wait until this com-
ing year.
Since then, one of the main
points of discussion has been
when the deadline should be.
Former Mayor Lore Chris-
topher, who chairs the KAC,
had pushed for deadlines to
be moved up so commission
members would have time to
make a decision.
“I only changed some
dates,” Melendy said when
presenting the updated pro-
posal. “The fi rst proposal was
(a deadline of) Friday, Oct. 16.
Lore wanted it earlier. Now it
will be Friday, Sept. 18.”
Melendy has compiled a
two-sided contest form. One
side explains the guidelines,
rules and conditions; the other
side is the entry form.
Submissions must be re-
ceived at Keizer Civic Cen-
ter by 4 p.m. on Sept. 18, ac-
companied by a signed entry
form. The original artwork
must be at least four inches by
six inches but no bigger than
eight inches by 10 inches. En-
tries must be one dimensional
for scanning and recreating
purposes and can be a paint-
ing, drawing or photograph.
Up to two entries may be
submitted per person, with
the artist’s signature appear-
ing somewhere on the art-
work. The art must be suitable
for use as a holiday card and
should depict a local scene or
an event with a holiday theme.
One of the rules deals with
religion.
“Items that are specifi cally
tied to one religion may be
excluded,” one of the rules
states. “Examples include San-
ta Claus, angels, menorahs and
other religious-based images.”
Entries will be judged at
the Sept. 22 KAC meeting,
with the winning artist being
notifi ed by Sept. 25.
While the dates were easily
agreed upon, the main ques-
tion that came up was restric-
tions related to KAC mem-
bers.
“Will we say our family
members are not allowed to
submit?” Melendy asked.
Jill Hagen said they should
be able to.
“They can submit, but then
you can’t be on the selection
committee,” Hagen said.
Rick Day had a suggestion.
“Maybe you’d just recuse
yourself on that one selec-
tion,” Day said.
Nate Brown, director of
Community Development,
brought up the issue of fair-
ness.
“I want to make sure we
have the appearance of fair-
ness,” Brown said.
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The general area is known
for the Big Toy.
However, the exact place-
ment of the play structure
scheduled to be built by com-
munity volunteers in June at
Keizer Rapids Park was still
up for discussion last week.
Mark Caillier, general co-
ordinator for the Big Toy, gave
an update during the Jan. 6
Community Build Task Force
meeting.
“I want to talk about the
Big Toy location,” Caillier
said. “I thought we would
have something to look at, but
you have to picture it in your
mind.”
As approved by the Keizer
City Council in December,
the Big Toy will be going in
south of two softball fi elds, in
part of the current orchard
area.
“The apex of the circle
is 600 feet of softball fi elds,”
Caillier said. “We’ve got to
have space in between the
fi elds. The Big Toy is at that
apex. What we found is if you
look at the dog park parking
(to the west) and extend that
east, where we want to put
our parking, you work your
way east and by doing that we
take a swat out of the orchard.
You cut the orchard in half.
We need to make sure there’s
enough space so farm ma-
chinery can get through the
orchards.”
Caillier said with the park-
ing moved over, that would
create about a 100-yard walk
to the Big Toy.
“We want to make it clos-
er,” he said. “We looked at
moving the Big Toy west from
the apex, which also makes
the softball fi elds bigger. That
puts the Big Toy somewhat
into the orchard. We would
remove 183 trees. That puts us
on fl atter ground and puts us
in a space to allow for a bigger
softball complex.”
Richard Walsh, co-chair
of the task force’s fundraising
committee, wondered if mov-
ing the Big Toy in the other
direction would be better.
“I guess I’m thinking long-
term with the park,” Walsh
said. “That means this back-
drop will be blocking all the
space behind it. We’re creat-
ing this big no-man’s land.
You would have to go around
the play structure to get into
the parking lot. I wonder if it
wouldn’t be as easy to bring it
to the east instead of the west.”
Caillier said there’s an ob-
stacle in that direction.
“If you move the Big Toy
toy east you run into a swell,
which is right through the
fi eld where a burn pile is,”
Caillier said. “It goes from the
southwest to the northeast. As
you move over (to the east),
you move more into the swell.
If you go straight east, you go
right into it. It has a bigger
grade than we thought, about
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William Ray Hanson
March 15, 1921 – January 11, 2015
William Ray Hanson (Bill),
93, beloved husband, father
and grandfather, passed away
peacefully January 11, 2015
with his family by his side. He
was born in Great Falls, Mont.
to Ada and Emil Hanson on
March 15, 1921.
Bill met his high school
sweetheart, Lois Carlson, in
1939 and they married in
1943. Bill and Lois felt the
luckiest of all people to have
had 71 happy years together.
Their daughter, Kathryn, was
born in 1948 and son Ken-
neth in 1951.
Following graduation from
the University of Montana
with a degree
in Industrial
Engineer-
ing, Bill spent
two years in
the service in
World
War
Hanson
II and was
awarded the
Purple Heart. In 1946 Lois
and Bill moved to Seattle,
where he began a career that
always involved “numbers” in
many applications, such as fi -
nancial reports, budgets and
the stock market.
After some time at Boeing,
Bill moved to Virginia Mason
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Marlene Quinn, chair of
the task force, noted Caillier
and others made the recom-
mendation after going to the
site and mapping things out.
“The swell is pretty bad
out there,” Quinn said. “I’m
not sure we have the time and
money to extend the parking
lot out there.”
Walsh encouraged every-
one to think about long-term
use of the land.
“I want the designer to get
to work on the fi nal touches,”
he said. “We need to get go-
ing with it. As far as the exact
placement, you can go out and
walk it. If it’s feasible without
raising the cost, I want us to
think long-term and at least
explore moving to that east
side. If it’s not possible, I’m
fi ne. I don’t want to give up
the project.”
Caillier said that idea had
been explored.
“We looked at it and we
don’t believe it’s possible,” he
told Walsh. “I would be glad
to go out and show it. Clint
(Holland) is waiting for us to
make a decision so we can get
moving.”
A motion was made to
approve the siting, at which
point Quinn mentioned how
long until the fi ve-day com-
munity build is scheduled to
start on June 11.
“We have 154 days until
the start of the build,” Quinn
said. “We can get going now.”
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capacity. This led to a year in
Berkeley, Calif. to earn a Mas-
ter’s degree in Public Health,
with a major in Hospital Ad-
ministration. The move back
to Seattle involved a three-
month internship in Salem.
Those three months be-
came a lifetime. Bill began at
the State Hospital as Assistant
Superintendent of Business
Services, then Salem General
Hospital Administrator, lead-
ing to a position as a legisla-
tive fi scal analyst for the state
of Oregon.
Bill belonged to several or-
ganizations, including Salem
Convention and Visitors As-
sociation, Oregon Employees
Federal Credit Union Board
of Directors, Salem General
Hospital Board of Directors,
Fraternal Orders of Elks and
Eagles, Disabled American
Veterans and the American
Heart Association Board of
Directors. He was elected to
membership in the American
College of Hospital Adminis-
trators.
A private family remem-
brance service will be held at
Mt. Crest Abbey Mausoleum.
The family sends a special
thank you to Gentiva Hospice
for their care and caring. As-
sisting the family was Virgil T.
Golden Funeral Service.