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Today in History
Senator Robert Kennedy is shot at the Ambassador Hotel in
Los Angeles. Kennedy was shot several times by the 22-year-
old Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan. He died a day later.
— June 5, 1968
Food 4 Thought
“There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask
why… I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?”
— Robert Kennedy
The Month Ahead
Sunday, June 7
The Evensong Concert series presents the Oregon
Mandolin Orchestra, under the direction of Brian Oberlin,
at 4 p.m. at Saint Paul’s Episcopal Church, 1444 Liberty
St. S.E.
Monday, June 8
Keizer City Council work session, 5:45 p.m. in council
chambers at Keizer Civic Center.
Tuesday, June 9
Free admission Tuesday at Hallie Ford Museum of Art,
700 State Street. 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Keizer Parks and Recreation Advisory Board meeting, 7:30
p.m. in council chambers at Keizer Civic Center.
Wednesday, June 10
Keizer Planning Commission meeting, 6 p.m. in council
chambers at Keizer Civic Center.
Wednesday, June 10 – Friday, June 12
Wings of Freedom Tour presented by the Collings
Foundation at Aurora State Airport in Aurora Experience
WWII fl ying history with tours and fl ights. Walk-through
tour admission is $12, $6 for kids 12 and under. Thirty-
minute bomber fl ights begin at $450. For information visit
cfdn.org.
Wednesday, June 10 – Sunday, June 14
Keizer Big Toy community build days at Keizer Rapids
Park.
Thursday, June 11
Keizer Traffi c/Bikeways/Pedestrians Committee meeting,
6 p.m. in council chambers at Keizer Civic Center.
Friday, June 12
Mike Farrell (M*A*S*H) will be the keynote speaker at the
annual dinner meeting of Oregonians for Alternatives to
the Death Penalty at the Keizer Civic Center. Reception at
5, dinner at 6 p.m. Tickets are $40. 503-990-7060 or visit
oadp.org.
Monday, June 15
Keizer City Council meeting, 7 p.m. in council chambers at
Keizer Civic Center.
Tuesday, June 16
Keizer Points of Interest Committee meeting, 5:30 p.m. in
council chambers at Keizer Civic Center.
Free admission Tuesday at Hallie Ford Museum of Art,
700 State Street. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Thursday, June 18
Volunteer Coordinating Committee meeting, 6 p.m. in
council chambers at Keizer Civic Center.
Friday, June 19
106th annual Sangerfest Grand Concert, 7 p.m., West
Salem High School Auditorium. Pacifi c Coast Norwegian
Singers and the Thorsmen Norwegian Male Chorus of
Salem. Tickets are $10, available at Music! Music! on
Market Street and at the door. pcnsa.org.
Saturday, June 20
Oregon Forest Fair, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Chemeketa
Community College in Salem. Expo and educational event
is free and open to the public. www.oswa.org
Bark for Life, 8 a.m.-noon, Keizer Rapids Park. One mile
and 5K fun walk/run event for dogs and their owners to
raise money for the American Cancer Society. After the
walk/run, there will be demonstrations, silent auction,
doggie fashion show, games and food. bfl ofsalemkeizer.
com.
Tuesday, June 23
Keizer Public Arts Commission meeting, 6 p.m. in council
chambers at Keizer Civic Center.
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By CRAIG MURPHY
Of the Keizertimes
More than two years later,
there was a sense of nearing
the end of the road.
Tuesday night marked the
last regular meeting of the
Community Build Task Force,
formed in early 2013 as plans
got underway for what be-
came known as the Big Toy
play structure.
The Big Toy is being built
by hundreds of community
volunteers over a fi ve day pe-
riod next Wednesday, June 10
through Sunday, June 14 at
Keizer Rapids Park.
Those wanting to vol-
unteer can sign up at www.
keizerbigtoy.org or can show
up between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m.
on any of the fi ve build days,
for any amount of time.
With the build just a week
away, project general coordi-
nator Mark Caillier gave an
update on where things stand.
“The site is ready,” Caillier
said. “It’s ready to go. It looks
great.”
Tents were expected to be
put up Thursday afternoon,
with posts being put up over
the weekend. Three semis full
of material arrived at the site
on Monday.
“We got the slides, tubes,
iron, lumber, all kinds of stuff,”
Caillier said.
Keizer
Community
Emergency Response Team
(CERT) will be helping with
security, fi rst aid and parking
during the build. There will
be signs for parking and each
tent will have signs to make it
clear what will be happening
where.
Caillier said there will be
150 parking spaces, plus over-
fl ow parking by the far side of
the dog park and by the am-
phitheater, in the area where
the Big Toy was originally go-
ing to be built.
As he did the day before,
Caillier emphasized when
volunteers are most needed.
“Right now we really need
Wednesday through Friday,”
he said. “Everything we do in
those three days sets the tone
for how much will get done.”
Ron and Kim Freeman,
who are coordinating volun-
teers, both noted volunteers
are indeed fi lling slots for the
fi rst three days.
“The majority of phone
calls have been for those days,”
Ron Freeman said. “A lot of
volunteers are signed up. Kim’s
been making a lot of calls and
getting multiple shifts from a
lot of people.”
Freeman noted 100 new
volunteers signed up at the Big
Toy booth during last month’s
Iris Festival. As of Tuesday,
he said 330 volunteers were
signed up. Project leaders have
previously said there are about
looking back
in the KT
5 YEARS AGO
Developer planning
big-box store
A developer is planning a big-
box store in Area C of Keizer
Station. He said the store will
be about 116,000 square feet
including a discount grocery
component.
10 YEARS AGO
Keizer fi refi ghter
honored
Lt. Dave Lapof of the Keizer
Fire District was honored
by the Oregon Fire Chief ’s
Association at its annual
banquet.
15 YEARS AGO
New principal heads
to Whiteaker
Whiteaker Middle School’s
new principal, Leon Dudley, is
on his way, all the way from
Austin, Texas.
20 YEARS AGO
Hostage report
brings one arrest
Calm heads and quick
thinking helped a Keizer
woman escape Monday from
being held at gunpoint at her
home. Her ex-husband was
arrested later, after a four hour
stand-off with police.
Rotary
chips in
for Toy
Two big Keizer civic proj-
ects are getting a $78,000 boost
from the Keizer Rotary Club.
The service club’s foun-
dation donated $32,000 to
The Big Toy project at Keizer
Rapids Park which includes a
$4,000 match from Rotary dis-
trict grants. The build is sched-
uled to begin next Wednesday.
A $50,000 grant was donat-
ed for the McNary Turf Project
that will replace natural grass at
McNary High School’s Flesher
Field with artifi cial turf. That
project was slated to begin con-
struction this week.
“I think this the largest
amount of money ever awarded
by Rotary within such a short
period of time,” said club presi-
dent Vickie Jackson in a state-
ment.
The two grants bring to
about $600,000 the total
amount of donations given in
the Keizer club’s 50-year his-
tory.
Brooks to
celebrate
French
heritage
KEIZERTIMES fi le photo
The Big Toy site in the orchards at Keizer Rapids Park will be a
busy place a week from now.
1,500 total shifts to fi ll.
“We got a great response
from the Iris Festival booth,”
Freeman said. “Tanya (Ham-
ilton) and Meredith (Coy)
handed out thousands of fl i-
ers during the parade. We’re
looking for a big push. People
can just show up on the day
of the build. Tell your friends
to sign up online. It’s such an
easy process.”
Volunteers will be fed
throughout the fi ve-day build.
Dave Bauer told the Keiz-
ertimes he has all the food
service workers he needs to
ensure volunteers are well fed.
Menus are set, supplies have
been donated and now all that
needs to be done is the cook-
ing.
“Thanks to several church-
es and many merchants, there
will be breakfast, lunch and
dinner all fi ve days of the
build,” Bauer said. “Construc-
tion volunteers will be get-
ting a little bit of everything
from down home cooking to
internationally inspired meals.
It’s now time for the action to
begin.”
Though funds will contin-
ue to be raised after the play
structure is built, fundraising
co-chair Janet Carlson said 86
percent of the $319,009.80
needed for the project has
been raised, with $45,644 left
to raise.
“If we raise more than
needed, that will just be a
down payment for the rubber
surface in the next round,” the
county commissioner said.
Caillier said Makita is do-
nating a number of tools, but
volunteers are encouraged to
bring tools such as tape mea-
sures and hammers.
“We have one week, guys,”
said Marlene Parsons, the
newly married chair of the
task force. “This is so excit-
ing.”
Project leaders will be
meeting at the site at 6 p.m.
Tuesday evening to go over
last minute details.
Dee Moore contributed to this
story.
The Brooks Historical So-
ciety will hold a celebration of
the infl uence of French fami-
lies in the area on June 20 at
Antique Powerland.
The celebration, a potluck
lunch, will review histories of
all settlers of French descent
including the Moisan, LaPrat-
te, Belleque, Gobin, LaF-
lemme and LaFollette families.
The celebration will run
from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Attendees are encouraged
to bring photos, stories, his-
tories and memorabilia of
French settlers to share.
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