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An up-close look at the proposed mural design for Town and Country Lanes.
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Today in History
The strongest earthquake in American history, measuring
8.4 on the Richter scale, slams southern Alaska, creating a
deadly tsunami. Some 125 people were killed and thousands
injured.
— March 27, 1964
Food 4 Thought
“Don’t wait for extraordinary circumstance to do good; try
to use ordinary situations.”
— Charles Francis Richter
The Month Ahead
Through Saturday, March 28
Keizer Art Association presents its March show: Home is
Where the Heart Is at the Enid Joy Mount Gallery. Gallery
hours are 1-4 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
Saturdays. keizerarts.com.
Pentacle Theatre’s run of The New Mel Brooks Musical:
Young Frankenstein, directed by Robert Salberg. Tickets
are $24. Visit pentacletheatre.org for show times and
availability.
Through Tuesday, March 31
Vintage hats, glove and handbags from the private
collection of Kathe Leigh Mash on display at Keizer
Heritage Museum. 2-4 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10
a.m.-4 p.m. Saturdays. keizerheritage.org.
Tuesday, March 31
Call to Artists Mural Planning meeting with members of
the Keizer Public Arts Commission, 6 p.m. at Keizer Civic
Center. Meeting will be to discuss the mural being done
this summer along the north wall of Town and Country
Lanes.
Wednesday, April 1
Claggett Creek Watershed Council meeting, 5:30 p.m. in
Room B at Keizer Civic Center.
Saturday, April 4
Artists’ reception and awards presentation for 25th annual
Colored Pencil Exhibition at Keizer Art Association,
2-4 p.m. Annual show of the Colored Pencil Society of
America runs through April 29. Reception is open to the
public. 980 Chemawa Rd. N.E. keizerarts.com.
Tammy Wild of Keizer will sign copies of Images of
America: Keizer that she wrote and edited as a project for
the Keizer Heritage Museum. Costco, from 1 to 4 p.m.
By CRAIG MURPHY
Of the Keizertimes
Want to be the artist that
helps design Keizer’s next pub-
lic mural?
If so, remember this date:
Tuesday, March 31 at 6 p.m. at
Keizer Civic Center.
That’s when the newly re-
named Keizer Public Arts
Commission (KPAC) will host
a Call to Artists Mural Planning
meeting.
KPAC members Jill Hagen
and former Keizer Mayor Lore
Christopher recently came up
with the idea to have the city’s
second public mural painted
this summer along the long
north wall of Town and Coun-
try Lanes, located at 3500 River
Road North.
With the blessings of bowl-
ing alley owner Don Lebold,
Hagen designed a preliminary
design that will be about 140
feet long and nine feet tall.
Hagen showed off illustrations
Tuesday, April 7
Organizational meeting for Big Toy playground project, 10
a.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Big Toy site in Keizer Rapids Park
in the morning, at Keizer Civic Center in the afternoon.
Wednesday, April 8
Keizer Planning Commission meeting, 6 p.m in council
chambers at Keizer Civic Center.
Thursday, April 9
West Keizer Neighborhood Association meeting, 7 p.m. at
Keizer Civic Center.
Monday, April 13
Keizer City Council work session, 5:45 p.m. in council
chambers at Keizer Civic Center.
Tuesday, April 14
Supports and Services Fair for people with intellectual and
development disabilities, 3-7 p.m, Keizer Civic Center.
Presented by Marion County Developmental Disability
Services. Meet providers and vendors of disability services
including housing employment, case management
and adaptive equipment. Free. 503-361-2671. www.
co.marion.or.us/HLT/DD/.
Keizer Parks and Recreation Advisory Board meeting, 6
p.m. in council chambers at Keizer Civic Center.
Thursday, April 16
Volunteer Coordinating Committee meeting, 6 p.m. in
council chambers at Keizer Civic Center.
Greater Gubser Neighborhood Association meeting, 7
p.m. at Gubser Elementary School.
Book release reception at 6:30 p.m. for Images of
America: Keizer, Keizer Heritage Center, 980 Chemawa
Rd. NE. Author/editor Tammy Wild will sign copies.
Add your event by e-mailing news@keizertimes.com.
there.”
In general, older students –
Christopher is working with
art teachers at McNary High
School – would do much of
the background painting. The
selected artists would mainly be
working on inserts highlighting
various design elements such
as grapes, fi lberts, trees, snow-
fl akes, fi sh, cherries, peaches,
hops, strawberries and irises.
More details will be dis-
cussed at Tuesday’s meeting, in-
cluding fi nancial compensation
for the selected artist(s). Designs
have to be submitted to city hall
by April 30. The plan is to have
the mural done this summer.
Keizer’s fi rst public mural
was completed last year along
the west wall of Keizer Flo-
rist on Chemawa Road. One
advantage of the Town and
Country Lanes location is the
wall being used is much more
visible to vehicles driving past.
“Sherwin-Williams has al-
ready said they will help us
out with the paint,” Christo-
pher said. “We’re giving artists
the month of April to come
back with a design. At our May
meeting we’ll decide.”
Hagen emphasized her de-
sign is simply a rough draft.
“This is not done; it’s a gen-
eral concept,” she said. “These
are the general dimensions for
these kinds of things.”
Rick Day was surprised
Lebold didn’t insist on another
design element.
“He didn’t ask for bowling
pins?” Day asked.
Hagen confi rmed that.
“He just asked for fi sh,” she
said.
Christopher noted the OCF
grant requires community
members to be involved, hence
the reliance on youth to.
“The thing was about
bringing the whole community
together to experience art,” she
said.
Parks, streets among WKNA topics
By CRAIG MURPHY
Of the Keizertimes
Developments at Bair Park
could mean more money for
Keizer’s Parks Department.
Bill Lawyer, Public Works
director for Keizer, gave an
update on several topics at the
March 12 West Keizer Neigh-
borhood Association meeting.
AT&T has a cell tower at
Bair Park. Recently, Verizon
signed an agreement to co-lo-
cate on the pole, or use some of
the output. That more than off-
sets revenue lost recently in the
orchards at Keizer Rapids Park.
“The rent for the co-locate
for Verizon is $800 a month
to the city,” Lawyer said. “The
proposed reduction with the
orchard was $1,000 a year. The
funds (from Verizon) goes half
to parks, half to the water fund
until the water fund has paid off
its investment at Bair Park.
“There were four half-acre
parcels,” he added. “The parks
fund and water fund each
bought two parcels. We split the
cost 50-50 and built the water
tank. Half the rent goes into the
parks fund, while half goes into
the water fund until we recoup
the investment (for the tank).”
Could some of those funds
be put into the Keizer Parks and
Recreation Advisory Board’s
matching grant program? The
program started this fi scal year
with a total of $14,000.
“The grant question is a
good question,” Lawyer said.
Monday, April 6
Keizer City Council meeting, 7 p.m. in council chambers at
Keizer Civic Center.
of her general concept at this
week’s KPAC meeting, com-
plete with bowling balls near
both ends.
“These are ones I’ve put in,
the little bowling balls,” Hagen
told fellow KPAC members.
Beth Melendy was among
those appreciating the design.
“I love those bowling balls,”
Melendy exclaimed.
Christopher noted the de-
sign could change, though one
thing must remain.
“This could totally change
when we have the artists here,”
Christopher said. “Don really
wanted a stream with jump-
ing fi sh. If we could accom-
modate that, anything else we
can do. We have a $2,500 grant
from the Oregon Community
Foundation. It’s for a commu-
nity tapestry. We’re trying to
engage older kids in the back-
ground, and younger kids with
the hands for iris fl owers. There
might be some other ideas in
looking back
in the KT
“That is a budget commit-
tee or council policy question.
The budget I’ve put together
has the same $14,000 for next
year. We’ve identifi ed some im-
provements we could make. It’s
a little premature to go into the
details, since they have to be
reviewed by the fi nance folks.
We’re proposing to resurface
the Claggett Creek south park-
ing lot and to also redo the ga-
zebo roof there. We knew we
would be able to do the Willa-
mette Manor tennis court. Be-
cause of the additional revenue,
we may not be done yet.”
Also being looked at is wid-
ening Delight Street between
Chemawa Road and Cum-
mings Lane.
“They’ve talked about want-
ing to see what can be done
for bike and pedestrian safety,”
Lawyer said. “We had a draft
plan put together in the past.
I’m trying to explore ways we
can do that.”
Lawyer said plans include
widening Delight by six feet
along both sides of the road.
However, any such project
would have to be coordinated
with the Salem-Keizer School
District, since it would change
the parking situation at Cum-
mings Elementary School
along Delight.
“We would need to have a
solid idea of what we’re plan-
ning to do fi rst,” Lawyer said.
Lawyer said such a project
would most likely be two years
down the road.
“There is a real outside
chance it could be something
we’re working on in July 2016,
but it’s more likely to be the
following year,” Lawyer said.
“There is no defi ned prior-
ity list. There are some projects
outlined in our Transportation
System Plan. There are some
very broad date ranges given to
those, but nothing I’ve seen in
terms of a specifi c prioritized
list.”
One project with more
certainty is sidewalks along
Chemawa from Verda Lane to
Lockhaven Drive, which did
not get discussed during the
Area C discussions last fall.
“Chemawa from Verda to
Chemawa will get sidewalks as
part of the Area C agreement
from the past,” Lawyer said.
“(Project proponents) pay their
fi rst share upon the issuance of
a public improvement permit.
From that point the city has
two budget cycles additional to
get it built. That agreement got
carried forward.”
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