FEBRUARY 20, 2015, KEIZERTIMES, PAGE A7
BIG TOY: ‘We can get it
done and built now.’
it $105,000 after getting some
rough quotes (for the pour-
in-place surface).”
At the Feb. 3 CBTF meet-
ing, Keizer Public Works di-
rector Bill Lawyer said the
wood fi bers would meet ADA
(Americans with Disabilities
Act) standards. He also noted
a pour-in-place surface would
need time to set.
“With poured into place,
the playground will not be
open when construction is
done,” Lawyer said.
Marlene Quinn, chair of
the CBTF, liked the idea of
going with the cheaper option
and trying to get grants later
for more.
“We can get it done
and built now,” she said. “I
wouldn’t be opposed to doing
wood fi bers now.”
Caillier pointed out the
pour-in-place surface also has
to be cleaned every 30 days to
keep the warranty valid.
Lawyer said city staff would
not have time to apply for the
grant this year.
(Continued from Page A1)
Subtracting the $105,000
means a total of $311,509.80
would have to be raised. As of
the Feb. 3 CBTF meeting, a
total of $205,948.86 had been
raised.
“The poured in material
could be added later,” Rich-
ard Walsh said at the Parks
Board meeting. “We can have
the city apply for a grant for
the pour-in-place cover next
year. (The surface) is the larg-
est ticket item. This makes the
whole Big Toy project very
doable.”
Caillier said cost estimates
from project consultant Leath-
ers and Associates in late Janu-
ary had the engineer wood fi -
bers costing about $3 a square
foot for the 15,000 square foot
project, or $45,000. A ground
rubber surface was estimated
at $7 a square foot, while the
pour-in-place surface was $10
to $13 a square foot.
“We had in our budget the
$45,000 for surfacing,” Cail-
lier said this week. “We raised
REACT,
continued from Page A1
“We’re not going to be able
to get it done,” Lawyer said.
“We don’t have the time as
staff to get it done.”
Volunteers could pick up
the slack, however. When
Lawyer mentioned the staff
time issue at Tuesday’s Keizer
City Council meeting, no
fewer than three names of
people who could help were
suggested in the span of sev-
eral minutes, with councilor
Amy Ripp among those of-
fering to help.
At last week’s Parks Board
meeting, Lawyer said if a grant
is secured later for the pour-
in-place surface, the wood
chips put down initially could
be reused.
“If it is two years out, we
can use those chips in other
parks,” he said.
Quinn, who also serves as
the council liaison to the Parks
Board, feels the pour-in-place
surface is in the future for the
Big Toy.
“It will happen, it’s just a
matter of when,” Quinn said.
“There may have been
some people really interest-
ed in it, hanging onto every
tweet,” Thatcher said. “I wasn’t.
It wasn’t distracting to me. It
was a point of discussion and
rumor. It was kind of a back-
ground chatter, about what
was happening next. You kept
up with it in learning what
the next moves would be. You
have to triage your activities. It
ABBAS,
continued from Page A1
Abbas has a 3.78 grade point
average and balances that with
working at Walgreens part time
and other extracurricular ac-
tivities. Teacher Dan Borresen
said writing has always been a
strong suit for Abbas. One tes-
tament to that was his inclusion
in the annual anthology of stu-
dent creative writing produced
by McNary’s Write Club.
“Zach has the ability to
view concepts and reading ac-
tivities from varying perspec-
tives. This unique skill allows
him to connect to ideas and the
didn’t seem too important to
what I was doing at the capi-
tol. I needed to be aware of
the bills in front of me, their
potential pitfalls and I had to
point those out.”
Overall, the situation struck
Thatcher as unique.
“I haven’t seen anything like
this, not in Oregon,” she said.
“I don’t think a person in Or-
egon has seen something like
this. It’s such an anomaly. We’re
kind of wondering what’s next.
Kate Brown will be the gov-
ernor, but who will take her
place? Will that create another
vacancy in state government?
“I
couldn’t
imagine
(Brown’s agenda) would be
that much different than John
Kitzhaber’s,” Thatcher added.
“I don’t think whoever replac-
es the Secretary of State will be
that different from the agenda
Kate Brown has. It’s probably
not going to change things a
whole lot. There’s a set of bills I
and my Republican colleagues
feel are bad for the state, so
we’ll do our best to halt or
change them and let people
know what is going on so they
can be activated.”
claims of authors in a thorough
and scholarly manner, making
his insights and analyses incred-
ibly thoughtful and perceptive.
High school students often
struggle when asked to con-
sider other perspectives; Zach
does it naturally,” Borresen said.
“I always enjoy reading his ar-
ticles and essays.”
This semester, he’s tak-
ing three advanced placement
courses in biology, European
history and literature. Abbas is
still taking stock of his options
for college, but he has a fairly
clear goal in mind.
“I always thought I wanted
to be a doctor, but I started
working at Walgreens and talk-
ing with the pharmacists and
pharmacy techs. Conversations
with them swayed me. Now
I’m going to pursue a phar-
macy degree. I think providing
the medicine for patients will
be just as interesting,” he said.
With so many balls in the
air already, Abbas is still making
time to mentor younger stu-
dents and imbue them with his
interest in reading and writing.
“I’ve been working with a
friend coaching an elementary
school team for Oregon Battle
of the Books. As a student, I
took part in it as a member of a
team, but it’s cool to be on the
opposite end of that,” he said.
Abbas is the son of Janine
and Dan Kidd and Harry
“Leon” and Nanette Abbas.
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