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Lee, Moles battle for school board
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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
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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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