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TREE,
continued from Page A1
Pack, who helped with the
planting but was unable to at-
tend the dedication, noted such
an event lines up perfectly with
the school.
“One of the three focuses
SMOKING,
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Walsh said in most cases a
non-smoker can walk away
in a park if there is a smoker.
He noted an exception could
be confi ned areas like the am-
phitheater at Keizer Rapids
Park, in which people who
wanted to watch a perfor-
mance wouldn’t necessarily
walk away to accommodate a
smoker.
“Maybe there are some ar-
eas where it’s appropriate to
say one cannot smoke there,”
Walsh said.
Board member Scott Klug
was intrigued by that.
“I like the idea of a limit at
the amphitheater,” Klug said.
“Sunset Park might fi t because
of the small size. We should
look into something like that,
but I don’t know how to pull
it off.”
After several comments
about the rights of smokers,
Richardson spoke again.
“What about my rights as a
non-smoker?” he asked.
Walsh saw where Richard-
son was coming from.
“I get your point, Darrell,”
Walsh said. “Smokers would
get upset about your point
about my rights. If we put in
this ban, it would be illegal to
smoke just about every place
but the house with your kids
C
of our teaching, in the charter,
is environmental education,”
Pack said. “This is the second
year the charter school partici-
pated in an Arbor Day/Earth
Day tree planting. This year we
wanted to focus our efforts on
one larger tree and found the
site at Keizer Rapids Park.”
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or on the street. Then it’s gone
too far.”
Parks Board members
unanimously passed a motion
to recommend to council no
smoking ban. A second mo-
tion recommending a public
hearing to discuss the topic
was also approved.
At the April 6 council
meeting, mayor Cathy Clark
had empathized with Rich-
ardson and noted she’d had
two asthma attacks the previ-
ous weekend in Washington
state due to recreational mari-
juana, which will become le-
gal in Oregon in July.
“Your timing is incredible,”
Clark told Richardson. “I had
two allergic reactions. It is so
potent. I can’t believe it came
up so quickly.”
Clark asked councilors if
they wanted to discuss the
topic in a work session, but
the decision was made to have
the Parks Board look at it.
This isn’t the fi rst time in
recent years the idea of ban-
ning smoking in Keizer parks
has been brought up. The idea
was also brought up at the
Parks Board level in late 2010,
with a year-long ban as part of
a pilot project being discussed.
The Keizer City Council re-
jected that idea in early 2011.
Walsh, new to the Parks Board
at the time fresh off his time
on the council, expressed sim-
ilar concerns then to the ones
he had last month.
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KEIZERTIMES/Craig Murphy
A: Students get excited as they get their fi rst glimpse of the
new tree at Keizer Rapids Park.
B: John Miller with Mahonia Nursery is given a gift bag.
C and D: A number of students did tree artwork.
E: City Parks employee Don Shelton shows off the jar with
maintenance money and a tree stump he got from students.
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