JULY 10, 2015, KEIZERTIMES, PAGE A3
Big Toy paving
KEIZERTIMES/Craig Murphy
Construction crews worked in extreme heat recently to pave the parking area and entrance
to the Big Toy play structure at Keizer Rapids Park.
death notice
Neville J. Grieve
July 17, 1921 - June 25, 2015
A celebration of life service will be held for Neville J. Grieve at 6 p.m. on Friday, July 17 at
Keizer Senior Center, 930 Plymouth Drive NE in Keizer.
Assisting the family is Virgil T. Golden Funeral Service.
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MONDAY, AUGUST 10
A four decker burger?
By CRAIG MURPHY
Of the Keizertimes
Some details have yet to be
nailed down in regards to a
famed Keizer pub.
As mentioned recently in
the Keizertimes, Porter’s Pub
will be reopened soon under
a new name with new own-
ers. Peter Keller and Dennis
Ekstrom, both veterans in the
restaurant business – Denny’s
in particular – will be reopen-
ing the restaurant at 4820 Riv-
er Road soon as Full Monty’s
Burger Bistro.
Keller was the lone audi-
ence member at Monday’s
Keizer City Council meet-
ing, speaking during a public
hearing for his liquor license
change request to the Oregon
Liquor Control Commission.
Keller noted he lives in
Vancouver, Wash. and has been
commuting to Keizer recently
to work on the business.
“We started the renova-
tions today,” he said afterwards.
“We’re hoping to be open in
four weeks.”
Keller told councilors both
he and Arizona’s Ekstrom
have longtime affi liation with
Denny’s.
“I have run nine of them,
while my partner is a CFO
and runs 90 Denny’s.”
Keller also explained why
the partners are in Keizer.
“We stumbled across The
Pub,” he said. “It was under-
performing the way it was. It
was underperforming with
the leadership that was there.
We want to make it a lot more
family friendly and do a lot
more with the food. It had a
great reputation at one point.
We fully intend to bring that
back.”
The previous owner, Den-
ny Graue, indicated frustration
recently to the Keizertimes.
“The support wasn’t that
great,” Graue said in a story
published June 26. “We were
losing money...It was disap-
pointing, but if the business
isn’t thriving there’s no use in
keeping going. There are so
many bars along River Road,
the city can only support so
much. The reputation of the
place after Don Porter passed
got worse and worse. We were
trying to fi x the mistakes of
everyone that came after him.”
Mayor Cathy Clark wel-
comed Keller to Keizer on
Monday, while councilor Amy
Ripp noted she’s been getting
questions about the name.
Keller said artwork is being
worked on.
“We’ll have a guy holding
a big burger,” he said. “We’re
still polishing his caricature. It
will be on our logo and sign.
He’ll have a big smiling face.
We’re going to be doing stuff
with burgers. The menu is still
evolving. It’s possible we’ll
have a four-decker burger.
A single decker is a quarter
Monty, while four parts is the
Full Monty.”
Though Keller is applying
for his liquor license – coun-
cilors approved the request
unanimously and forwarded
it to the OLCC for fi nal ap-
proval – that won’t be the
main focus.
“It’s not our intent to sell a
lot of liquor,” he said. “We will
have kids in there until 9 p.m.
We want to be more food-
based and family friendly. We
just started the renovation to-
day. We’re putting more than
$100,000 into the place. I’ve
heard from our employees a
lot is happening on social me-
dia about our establishment.”
Keller noted he’s been
warmly embraced in Keizer
so far.
“We’ve been very happy
with the people in Keizer,” he
said. “There’s a feeling of wel-
come up and down the street.
You wouldn’t get that in Port-
land. There is this atmosphere
we wouldn’t get up north.”
Keller said afterwards more
research is being done.
“We will not just be burg-
ers,” he said. “We want to fi nd
what the community wants.
I’ve been visiting businesses
and our employees know
what others are telling us.”
In other business Monday,
July 6:
• City Manager Chris Ep-
pley said a hearing at the July
20 council meeting for real
estate potentially for sale is
property in Keizer Station
Area C owned by the city. The
address is listed as 2110 Che-
mawa Road NE.
“We purchased the lot on
the east side of Chemawa off
Lockhaven (Drive) many years
ago, when Area C was starting
to percolate,” Eppley said. “We
knew it would be needed for
right-of-way in the future, so
we locked up some proper-
ties. We’re using it for right-
of-way, then what’s left will be
sold.”
• The city’s new website fi -
nally went live last week, more
than a year after the project
started. Eppley noted Tim
Wood, the city’s assistant con-
troller, was the key point per-
son for government website
developer Evo Gov to work
with. The work began in May
2014.
“Tim Wood was the main
person involved with the
website,” Eppley said. “It was
a long effort. The site looks
great.”
Wood noted before the
meeting most of the material
went up last week, with the
expected few glitches to be
worked on as they become
known.
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