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Today in History The British Parliament passes the Tea Act, a bill that greatly lowered the tea tax it paid to the British government, thus granting it a de facto monopoly on the American tea trade. — May 1, 1773 Food 4 Thought “A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superfi cial appearance of being right.” — Thomas Paine The Month Ahead Continuing All My Sons by Arthur Miller, at Pentacle Theatre through Saturday, May 9. For tickets and schedule visit pentacletheatre.org. Saturday, May 2 Fabric Fair, Salem Scottish Rite Center, 4090 Commercial St. S.E. Noon to 4 p.m. Large variety of fabric and notions for sale to benefi t charities. 503-409-2543. facebook.com/ fabricfair. Artists’ reception, Keizer Art Association, in connection with May exhibit, Celebration of Flowers, 2-4 p.m. Keizer Heritage Center, 980 Chemawa Rd. N.E. Show at Enid Joy Mount Gallery runs through May 30. Gallery hours are 1-4 p.m, Thursdays and Fridays, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturdays. keizerarts.com. Free Comic Book Day at Tony’s Kingdom of Comics, 5420 River Road N, from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. on May 3. Sunday, May 3 Lemonade Day in Keizer and Salem. Hundreds of stands created by kids throughout the region will sell lemonade made from their own recipes. Teaches children about entrepreneurship. Extraordinary Young Musicians at St. Paul, 4 p.m. at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church 1444 Liberty Street SE. Bryanna West, vocalist. (503) 362-3661 or visit stpaulsoregon.org. Monday, May 4 Keizer City Council meeting, 7 p.m. in council chambers at Keizer Civic Center. Tuesday, May 5 Keizer Budget Committee meeting, 6 p.m. at Keizer Civic Center. Community Build Task Force meeting, 6 p.m. at Keizer Civic Center. Wednesday, May 6 Claggett Creek Watershed Council meeting, 5:30 p.m. in Room B at Keizer Civic Center. Thursday, May 7 Mayor’s Prayer Breakfast, 7:30 a.m. at Keizer Civic Center. Offi cial kickoff to the Keizer Iris Festival. College and Career Fair at Claggett Creek Middle School, 5-7 p.m. Colleges, businesses, community organizations and military personnel will share information to the public. Free BBQ, raffl e for a tablet. 503-399-3701. Keizer Budget Committee meeting, 6 p.m. in council chambers at Keizer Civic Center. Friday, May 8 Author Thomas Romano will sign copies of his new children’s book, Wild Creatures of the World, at The Book Bin East on Lancaster Drive at Sunnyside Road. 3 p.m. 541-361-1235. Saturday, May 9 Moonlight Masquerade, St. Edward Catholic Church’s 10th annual auction/dinner. 6 p.m. $25 tickets include dinner and one drink. Masks are encouraged. For tickets visit sainteds.weshareonline.org. Keizer Art Association presents its annual fundraiser, The Mad Hatter Tea Party, 12:30-2:30 p.m. Keizer Heritage Center, 980 Chemawa Road N.E. Tea, light luncheon, tea hat contest and more. Tickets are $20, $200 for table of eight, available from any KAA board member. For more information visit keizerarts.com. When Rock was Young, the Elton John Tribute, 7:30 p.m. at The Historic Elsinore Theatre. Tickets range from $25 to $45. elsinoretheatre.com. Sunday, May 10 Keizer Volunteer Firefi ghters Association annual Mothers Day Breakfast at the Keizer Fire Station, 661 Chemawa Road NE, 7:30 to 11 a.m. By CRAIG MURPHY Of the Keizertimes Chuck Lee is a familiar name around Keizer. Lee is the former longtime president of Blanchet Catho- lic School who currently is president of the Mountain West Career Technical Institute, set to open this fall. He previ- ously served on the Keizer City Council for seven years and is seeking a third term on the Salem-Keizer School Board in the May 19 election. Lee’s opponent is Tim Moles, a Keizer native who graduated from McNary High School in 1985 and returned to Oregon a few years ago. He is currently starting Joules Power Inc. in Prineville. The two men are compet- ing for the Zone 6 seat on the school board, representing Keizer. With ballots being sent to voters this week, here is an opportunity to see how Lee and Moles responded to identi- cal questions. Keizer Fire Board candidates will be featured in next week’s Keizertimes. Why are you running for this seat? Lee: I’m running for my third term on the school board because I want to be a cham- pion for kids who also models a deep commitment to com- munity service. I have been an educator for more than 40 years and believe the success of our country depends on quality public schools. Moles: Community and education are the bedrocks. It starts here. A common sense of accountability is all I’m asking for. We have to be responsible to each other in a community. Having worst graduation rate as a state, we are part of that num- ber. That is unacceptable. There has been a lot of talk regarding the upcoming implementation of full-day kindergarten. What is the best strategy for locally implementing it? Moles: First I would have to look at the budgets. I’d go further up the chain. I don’t believe we have accountability of children on the level we’re talking about until the age of 8. From kindergarten to age 8 is the transition time when a fam- ily puts the child in the system. By age of 8, the child is clearly coming in. The idea is not to create another hierarchy. Lee: The best strategies to implement full-day kindergar- ten can be described in three different ways. First of all we have a serious overcrowding issue with this implementation of a full-day kindergarten so we need to fi nd creative ways to provide a quality environ- ment for students. Secondly, it is important that the legislature and governor provide adequate funds to take care of our facili- ties issues and fi nance the ex- pense of hiring more teachers. Finally it is important for the district to begin the hiring pro- cess to make sure we get the best teachers possible for our kindergartners. How do you feel about current testing standards and what, if anything, would you like to see changed about them? Lee: I support Common Core and the Smarter Balanced student assessments. I support them because it increases the rigor that our students need to be exposed to and attain. While I support this, I also support the right for parents to opt out of the Smarter Balanced student assessments. Moles: I’d leave the stan- dardized testing. You have to Lee Moles have some way to measure if students are meeting the stan- dards. You do it on the front end and back end of the year, you have a baseline of where you are with that child. With Com- mon Core, a child must meet that standard. It’s not appropri- ate. That has to be a judgement call left to teachers and admin- istrators. They have to have the tools to carry that out. What grade would you give the district overall in terms of educating our children? Moles: I look at the over- all state of affairs of education in our state, not individual dis- tricts. I’m not here to beat up on anybody. Lee: I would give our dis- trict high marks for the edu- cation we provide. Since I was elected to the school board we have cut $144 million dollars from the operational budget. We have had to lay off hun- dreds of employees and take several furlough days. Despite that our dropout rate has been signifi cantly reduced and our test scores have improved. We have also built four new schools and done deferred maintenance on virtually all of our schools. What would you like to see done to improve the job the school district is doing? Lee: To improve our dis- trict we need to focus on three things. We need to invest in early childhood education, we need to implement full-day kindergarten and continue to invest in career and technical programs that prepare students for the work place and get them advanced college credit. Moles: I would like to see the school board get involved in rolling up their sleeves and cleaning up schools in the phys- ical form. I took my dog for a walk by Clear Lake Elementary. The grass was up to the doors. And that’s one of our newest schools. That’s unacceptable. I think we can do better. Between the two of you, there is a past, current and future involvement with technical education. How necessary is it for school districts to beef up such efforts? Moles: My overall view is to increase educational ef- fi ciencies, wherever we can fi nd them. Once students are 16, there are three tracks. You have the liberal arts students. The bulk will be going voca- tional so they can get a job to pay for things; they need to be prepared for that life. Then you have the other guys that aren’t doing anything. That’s their choice; they’re enough of an adult to know they reap what they sow. We need to do more work with industries to come back with what they are look- ing for (in future employees). Come up with a list of you do this, you are eligible for em- ployment. Lee: As a board member and in my professional life I’m fully committed to improving our career technical education programs. I will continue to support the growth and sus- tainability of CTE (career and technical education) by work- ing with fellow board mem- bers, community and industry partners and district staff to ensure we have the resources to do so. Stevenson, Busch talk transit issues By CRAIG MURPHY Of the Keizertimes In the fall, Salem-Keizer Transit District is expected to ask voters for more funding to support the next phase of its Moving Forward program, with the end goal of restoring week- end and evening service. Before that, the transit dis- trict will gain a new board member. Brad Coy is not run- ning to retain his Subdistrict 2 position. Richard Stevenson and Colleen Busch are compet- ing for that spot. In terms of background, Ste- venson has previously served in public offi ce in his native New Jersey and is currently chair of the transit board’s Citizens Advisory Committee. Busch has served on the KFD budget committee since 2008. The answers below from Busch and Stevenson have been edited for brevity where deemed necessary. The same questions were asked of both candidates. You both have done some public service in the past. What about this particular role intrigued you? RS: I truly believe by doing public service we give back to our community. I sought ap- pointment to the transit board’s Citizen Advisory Committee with the idea of working toward Saturday service. I have come to have an extensive background in our systems policies, current challenges and future planning goals. To be a part of this process excites me. CB: Salem Keizer Area Mass Transit is a tool and connector for our area. It’s a regional sys- tem with many parts and play- ers. The intrigue became: How does it work, why do people use it and how can I help make it better? It’s a public system which a fraction of the population uses. Yet, the number of benefi ts for why to ride a transit vehicle abound. For $1.60 you can get Please see TRANSIT, Page A13 local weather sudoku Enter digits from 1-9 into the blank spaces. Every row must contain one of each digit. So must every column, as must every 3x3 square. looking back in the KT 5 YEARS AGO Keizer Council debates rate changes for sanitation A rate increase and compost pickup by local sanitation companies will be debated at Keizer City Council’s public hearing. 10 YEARS AGO Two students arrested for starting fi re Two Keizer youths, and students at Claggett Creek Middle School, were arrested Saturday night on arson charges stemming from a fi re earlier that day at a vacant house. 15 YEARS AGO McNary actors bring the Bard to Keizer stage The McNary High School Theater Arts Department’s presentation of Macbeth opened last Friday to a large and enthusiastic audience. 20 YEARS AGO Keizer gets grant to help owners fi x homes Keizer has been awarded a $300,000 Community Development Block Grant to be used by low- and moderate-income owners of homes to repair their houses. 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