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PAGE A8, KEIZERTIMES, JULY 10, 2015 BOOK, continued from Page A1 TAX, continued from Page A1 “It was tough, I know noth- ing about the internet and the cleaning lady at our retirement home had to help me with that. You would have thought I worked at Offi ceMax since I spent so much time there, but they were a big help,” Christo- pherson said. The hard work paid off in the end. Graham’s fi rst book, Wally’s Friends, is already avail- able on amazon.com and barnesandnoble.com, and three more are in the offi ng. Graham and Christopherson think there are several morals to their story: listen to the nag- ging kids, never feel too old to try something new, something or other about the importance of friendship and seeing each other’s uniqueness. “Wally is a terrifi c human being even though he doesn’t always believe it,” Christopher- son said. “I never would have done it without him,” said Graham. “I would have gotten disgusted in the fi rst 10 minutes of trying.” It’s almost too easy to draw parallels between their story and Graham’s fi rst poem about Allan Pollock, general manager of Salem-Keizer Transit, said the transit district wouldn’t start collecting the funds until April 2017. How- ever, more service would be implemented before that. “The plan as it stands now is to implement Saturday ser- vice in the summer of 2016, then Sunday and extra eve- ning service probably the summer of 2017,” Pollock said. “We have reserves to use before the funds are collected, but we’re still not sure of the exact timing. That is our ten- tative schedule.” Weekend and extended evening service used to be part of the transit district, but were cut several years ago due to the recession. Adding ser- vices back has been the main goal of the district’s Moving Forward plan. Phase 1 of the plan, be- ing implemented on Sept. 8, calls for increased frequency on busy routes, buses run- ning on a consistent schedule and more cross-town routes throughout Salem and Keizer. The additional service to Submitted Wally Graham’s illustration for the Mister Toad poem. a toad and a bear, but the resem- blance is too precious to ignore. That very fi rst poem, written more than 20 years ago, ends with the line: “So children, don’t be blue. There’s something special about every one of you.” be funded by the payroll tax would be phase 2 of the Mov- ing Forward plan. In the spring, transit offi - cials conducted surveys to see if the payroll tax or a property tax would be more popular with the public. “We did two surveys, a telephone survey and an on- line survey,” Pollock said. “The data from the telephone sur- vey, which is statistically valid, is when we surveyed 300 like- ly voters in the service area.” In the phone survey, half of the voters were asked about the property tax fi rst, with the other half asked about the payroll tax fi rst. When the property tax option was given fi rst, 58 percent of respondents were in favor. When the pay- roll question was asked fi rst, 67 percent were in favor. When more specifi c costs were given, support for prop- erty tax fell to 49 percent, while support for the payroll tax fell to 57 percent. Once the payroll question was clari- fi ed to indicate employers would be the ones paying, support went back up to 61 percent. “Then we did an online survey, which had more than 2,000 respondents,” Pollock said. “We were very pleased with 2,000 responses. Gener- ally the numbers were pretty much the same.” Based on those survey re- sults, board members opted to go with the payroll tax option, which would be about $1,050 a year for a business with an annual payroll of $500,000. 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