FEBRUARY 6, 2015, KEIZERTIMES, PAGE A11
AWARDS,
continued from Page A1
Christopher was excited to
get the award.
“My mom told me as a kid
you’re judged by the company
you keep,” she said. “I hope
that’s true. I hope that these
people that are in front of you,
the city council members that
I’ve served with, and my fellow
nominees, I hope I’m judged
by those folks because there’s
none fi ner.”
Other nominees for First
Citizen were Rich Duncan,
Richard Walsh, Don Conat and
Mark Caillier. Other Merchant
of the Year nominees were
Keizertimes publisher Lyndon
Zaitz, Scott and Kalynn White,
Shelly Paddock and Larry Jack-
son. Other Service to Educa-
tion nominees were JoAnne
Beilke, Jim Taylor, Scott Co-
burn and John Honey.
A new addition this year was
the opportunity for companies
or organizations to sponsor one
of the front tables and to recog-
nize those making a difference
and Rising to the Occasion,
which was the theme for the
banquet. There were 10 such
tables.
Keizer Fire District recog-
nized retired fi re board mem-
ber Mike Hart, Oregon State
Credit Union recognized Kev-
in and Danielle Dial, Sammies
Pub recognized Keizer Thun-
der coach Jamie Gonzalez, Re-
modeling by Classic Homes
recognized Lakepoint Com-
munity Church for its annual
Servefest event, Chemeketa
Community College recog-
nized McNary High School’s
Rhonda Brattain, Walery’s Pre-
mium Pizza honored the late
Paul Koch, Saint Edward Cath-
olic Church recognized Corky
and Leitha Caron, Avamere
recognized Margaret Murphy
for her volunteering at Ava-
mere Court, 1430 AM KYKN
recognized the Distinguished
Young Women of Keizer pro-
gram and the Statesman Journal
recognized the MHS basketball
teams for raising funds to help
classmate Payton Williams.
Mayor Cathy Clark, who
took over Keizer’s top spot
from Christopher last month,
ended the evening with a toast.
“I’m looking at a whole
room of people who love Keiz-
er,” Clark said. “We will work
diligently to serve you the way
you serve each other.”
Complete profi les of the
main winners will be featured
in upcoming issues of the Keiz-
ertimes.
Future for Keizer RadioShack unclear
By CRAIG MURPHY
Of the Keizertimes
There were no clearance
sale banners on the outside.
But speculation is heavy
about the future of the Keizer
RadioShack, as well as the
chain overall.
According to a Bloomberg
report Monday evening, Ra-
dioShack Corporation is pre-
paring to shut down as part of
a bankruptcy deal that would
close about half of the stores
and sell the other half to
wireless carrier Sprint. A sep-
arate Bloomberg report stated
Amazon could be looking at
the retail spaces as well.
As of Tuesday, things didn’t
look much different at the
Keizer RadioShack, located
at 5410 River Road North in
the Keizer Creekside Shop-
ping Center. Unlike some
RadioShack locations around
the country, there were no
big sale or going out of busi-
ness banners on the windows.
Inside, there was plenty of
open space and a number of
empty shelves.
Katie Whelan, manager of
the Keizer RadioShack, said
she wasn’t allowed to com-
ment on any of the specula-
tion and referred the Keizer-
times to the company’s media
relations people.
A RadioShack media re-
lations spokesperson didn’t
have much information, ei-
ther.
“We don’t have any specif-
ic information to share at this
time regarding stores or mar-
kets,” the spokesperson said in
an e-mail. “We do not have
any comments related to the
ongoing speculation about
the plans for the business as a
whole.”
The Texas-based retailer
opened in 1921 and cur-
rently has about 4,000 stores,
including the one in Keizer,
three in Salem and one each
in Woodburn and Silverton.
The future of the retailer
has been hotly pondered
for months as the brand has
sought to reinvent itself nu-
merous times in an attempt
to stay relevant. Speculation
ramped up Monday when
the New York Stock Ex-
change suspended trading of
RadioShack’s stock immedi-
ately, after the company failed
to submit a plan addressing its
KEIZERTIMES/Craig Murphy
There were no signs on the outside of the Keizer RadioShack
on Tuesday morning to indicate things were out of the ordinary,
but many shelves inside were bare.
lack of compliance with stock
exchange rules.
According to one of the
Bloomberg reports, Sprint is
discussing the acquisition
of 1,300 to 2,000 of Ra-
dioShack’s 4,000-plus loca-
tions. RadioShack has lost 90
percent of its value during the
past year, the report noted.
The company, which was
in its heyday in the 1970s
and 1980s thanks to CB ra-
dios and the TRS-80 personal
computer, has struggled in re-
cent years.
According to Bloomberg,
Amazon.com is interested in
RadioShack retail locations as
the online retail giant looks to
bolster its brick-and-mortar
operations, possibly using the
stores as pickup and drop-off
centers for online customers.
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