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On the third day of the Battle of Gettysburg, Confederate
General Robert E. Lee’s last attempt at breaking the Union
line ends in disastrous failure, bringing the most decisive
battle of the American Civil War to an end.
— July 3, 1863
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“Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its
true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good,
and, when summoned away, to leave without regret.”
— Robert E. Lee
The Month Ahead
Friday, July 3
Keizer city offi ces closed for Independence Day.
Friday, July 3 – Sunday, July 5
Civil War reenactments at Willamette Mission State Park,
9 a.m. to 6 p.m. each day. Tickets are $8 for adults, $5 for
seniors (55+) and students with ID and free for children
under 6 years old. nwcwc.org
Saturday, July 4
Happy Independence Day!
Monday, July 6
Keizer City Council meeting, 7 p.m. in council chambers at
Keizer Civic Center.
Tuesday, July 7
Keizer Economic Development Commission meeting,
noon at Keizer Civic Center.
Free admission at Hallie Ford Museum of Art, 10 a.m.-5
p.m. 900 State Street. willamette.edu/arts.
Community Build Task Force meeting, 6 p.m. in council
chambers at Keizer Civic Center.
Wednesday, July 8
Keizer Planning Commission meeting, 6 p.m. in council
chambers at Keizer Civic Center.
Thursday, July 9
Keizer Traffi c/Bikeways/Pedestrians Safety Committee
meeting, 6 p.m. in council chambers at Keizer Civic Center.
Opening night of Tony-award winning musical Chicago
at Pentacle Theatre. Tickets are $23. Runs through Aug.
1. Visit pentacletheatre.org for show times and ticket
availability.
Thursday, July 9 – Sunday, July 12
Marion County Fair begins each day at 10 a.m. at the
Oregon State Fairgrounds. Tickets cost up to $9. http://
www.co.marion.or.us/CS/Fair/default.htm
Saturday, July 11
Third Annual Hazelnut Festival on Main Street in
downtown Donald between 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. The day
begins with a parade and then many vendors for food,
crafts, and games will be held during the day. The event
is free. To fi nd out more visit donaldhazelnutfestival.com.
He’s back! Patrick Lamb in concert at Keizer Rotary
Amphitheater at Keizer Rapids Park, 6 p.m. Free. kraorg.
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Tuesday, July 14
Keizer Parks and Recreation Advisory Board meeting, 6
p.m. in council chambers at Keizer Civic Center.
Free admission at Hallie Ford Museum of Art, 10 a.m.-5
p.m. 900 State Street. willamette.edu/arts.
Thursday, July 16
Volunteer Coordinating Committee meeting, 6 p.m. in
council chambers at Keizer Civic Center.
Friday, July 17
Loafers, all-city class reunion open to public, at Keizer
Rotary Amphitheater at Keizer Rapids Park, 6:30 p.m.
Free. kraorg.com.
Saturday, July 18
Johnny Limbo & the Lugnuts at Keizer Rotary Amphitheater
at Keizer Rapids Park, 6:30 p.m. Free. kraorg.com.
Saturday, July 18 – Sunday, July 19
Canterbury Renaissance Faire, 6118 Mt. Angel Highway.
A two-weekend festival celebrating the Elizabethan
Era. Event includes knights jousting and battling,
period costumes and events, dances, shopping and
more. Admission ranges from $11 to $24. Free parking.
Continues following weekend, July 25-26. For information
and advance tickets visit canterburyfaire.com.
By CRAIG MURPHY
Of the Keizertimes
After years of debate and
months after approval by vot-
ers, recreational marijuana
became legal in Oregon on
Wednesday, July 1.
But there are some limits.
The Oregon Liquor Con-
trol Commission (OLCC)
fi nanced the What’s Legal?
education campaign to pro-
vide information about what
is and what isn’t permissible
under Measure 91, which was
approved last November.
Some of the key basics: like
alcohol, recreational mari-
juana is only legal for adults
21 years old or more. Recre-
ational marijuana cannot be
consumed publicly and can-
not be sold or purchased. Up
to four plants can be grown in
a residence, regardless of how
many people live at the resi-
dence.
“We know that Oregonians
clearly want this information,”
said Steve Marks, executive di-
rector of the OLCC. “We also
know that questions about
what Oregonians can and can-
not do are going to continue.”
The What’s Legal? website
is at www.whatslegaloregon.
com, while the OLCC has
also established a FAQ page
on the subject at http://www.
oregon.gov/olcc/marijuana/
Pages/Frequently-Asked-
Questions.aspx.
Answers to some of the
most frequent questions:
• You can use recreational
marijuana at home or on pri-
vate property. Public use is
illegal. You can possess up to
eight ounces of useable mari-
juana (dried marijuana fl ow-
ers or leaves that are ready
to smoke) in your home and
up to one ounce outside the
home.
Measure 91 defi nes a public
place as “a place to which the
general public has access and
includes, but is not limited to,
hallways, lobbies, and other
parts of apartment houses and
hotels not constituting rooms
or apartments designed for
actual residence, and high-
ways, streets, schools, places
of amusement, parks, play-
grounds and premises used in
connection with public pas-
senger transportation.”
A general rule of thumb:
If someone outside of your
home can see you, you’re
probably in public.
• Driving under the infl u-
ence of marijuana remains
illegal. Driving under the in-
fl uence of intoxicants (DUII)
refers to operating a motor
vehicle while intoxicated or
drugged, including impair-
ment from the use of mari-
juana.
• You can grow up to four
plants per residence, out of
public view. Only four plants
can be grown in a residence,
regardless of how many adults
live in the residence. For ex-
ample, there can only be four
plants in a residence of four
adults, not 16 plants.
• You can share or give
away recreational marijuana.
However, you can’t sell it or
buy it until licensed retail
shops open. OLCC will begin
accepting license applications
from those who want to oper-
ate retail marijuana outlets or
commercially grow, process or
wholesale marijuana on Jan.
4, 2016. It’s estimated such
shops won’t be open before
fall 2016.
• You can make edible
products at home or receive
them as gifts, but you can
still only use them in private
places. Growing, sharing and
gifting are currently the only
ways to legally acquire recre-
ational marijuana.
• You can’t take marijuana
in or out of the state. That
includes Washington state,
which legalized recreational
marijuana in 2013.
Marijuana can’t be bought
in Washington and brought
across state lines, since taking
marijuana across state lines is a
federal offense.
• OLCC offi cials are still
working on the availability
of edibles and extracts, which
will eventually be available at
retail locations. Updates will
be posted on the What’s Legal
website.
Trash rates, other council news
By CRAIG MURPHY
Of the Keizertimes
It’s a trashy subject, but it
has to be dealt with from time
to time.
At their most recent meet-
ing in June, Keizer City Coun-
cilors approved an option to
add weekly organics service,
following a public hearing in
May.
For the fi rst time since
2010, rates will be going up
starting Aug. 1. A 20-gallon
solid waste cart plus 95 gallon
organic cart collected weekly
and a 95-gallon recycling cart
collected bi-weekly goes from
$17.05 a month to $19.30 a
month. A 35-gallon solid waste
cart (others staying the same)
rises from $18.95 to $21.45 a
month, while a 64-gallon solid
waste cart rises from $25.88 to
$29.30 a month.
The matter was brought to
council by Loren’s Sanitation
and Recycling and Valley Re-
cycling and Disposal, Keizer’s
franchised solid waste and re-
cycling haulers.
“Garbage haulers are an
allowed monopoly, but you
folks get to set the rates,” city
attorney Shannon Johnson
told councilors.
Johnson noted he and city
manager Chris Eppley “re-
viewed this matter carefully,”
in particular with regard to
having reasonable and regular
Consumer Price Index in-
creases, rather than larger in-
frequent increases.
In addition, Johnson said
local garbage and recycling
collection companies have
made about all the strides they
can.
“They’ve reached their top
level of effi ciency,” Johnson
said. “It has taken a number
of years, but they can’t be any
more effi cient.”
looking back
in the KT
5 YEARS AGO
Splash Fountain
set to debut
In other recent council
business:
• Evaluations on Johnson
and Eppley were recently
completed by councilors,
with both men having been
determined to provide satis-
factory service over the past
year. Johnson reached the top
step of his pay range last year
and was thus only eligible for
a Cost of Living Adjustment
(COLA) increase of 1.5 per-
cent.
Eppley likewise reached
the top step of his pay range
last year, so he was also only
eligible for the 1.5 percent
COLA increase. However, Ep-
pley signed a waiver to forego
the increase.
• Two new resource offi cers
were sworn in for the Keizer
Police Department. Recruit-
ment began in January and
two reserve offi cers graduated
from the Mid-Valley Reserve
Training Academy on June 5.
Greg Harrison and Daniel Ri-
erson were sworn in.
• July was proclaimed as
Parks and Recreation Month
in Keizer. The proclamation
was done at the national level
by the U.S. House of Repre-
sentatives as well.
In Keizer, more than 500
volunteers coming together
to help build the Big Toy at
Keizer Rapids Park and proj-
ects being funded through
the Parks and Recreation
Advisory Board’s matching
grant program were noted as
achievements.
Clint Holland, a member of
the Parks Board, accepted the
KEIZERTIMES/Craig Murphy
Greg Harrison (left) and Daniel Rierson were sworn in as new
reserve offi cers with the Keizer Police Department recently.
proclamation. Holland also
runs the Keizer Rotary Am-
phitheater, which kicked off
its annual free summer con-
cert series last weekend with
a performance by Kimberly
Hall and Friends. The evening
also included a thank you to
Big Toy volunteers.
Concerts resume July 11
with Patrick Lamb, to be fol-
lowed by Loafers (July 17),
Johnny Limbo and the Lug-
nuts (July 18), Shakespeare in
the Park: A Midsummer Night’s
Dream (July 23-25), Magical
Mystery Four (Aug. 1), RIV-
ERfair featuring Brady Goss
(Aug. 8), The Brian Odell
Band (Aug. 14), The North
Santiam Band (Aug. 15), Pig-
in-the-Park Hawaiian Luau
10 YEARS AGO
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 think-
ing helped a Keizer woman
escape Monday, held at gun-
point at her home. Her ex-
husband was arrested later, af-
ter a four hour stand-off with
police.
local
weather
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the blank
spaces. Every
row must
contain one
of each digit.
So must every
column, as
must every
3x3 square.
The brand new Splash
Fountain at Chalmers Jones
Park will be open to the
public for the fi rst time this
weekend, weather permitting.
Keizer fi refi ghter
honored
(Aug. 22), Oregon Valley Boys
(Aug. 29) and Briana Renea
(Sept. 12).
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