JULY 31, 2015, KEIZERTIMES, PAGE A5
8th annual
RIVER fair
Saturday, August 8
10 am-8 pm
Keizer Rapids Park
Fun for the whole
FAMILY!
• Junior Archaeological Dig
• Balloon Toss
•Pie eating championships
•Volleyball
• Vendors
• Food
Wine-Beer
Garden
City seeks volunteers
for committee work
The City of Keizer is solic-
iting applications for volun-
teers to be considered to serve
on the following committees:
Budget Committee - Re-
sponsibilities include assisting
the city council in the exami-
nation and analyzing of pro-
posed budgets for the City of
Keizer. The Budget Commit-
tee meets once in April and
three or four times in May of
each year to review the an-
nual budget. Two vacancies.
• Keizer Points of Interest
Committee - This Commit-
tee was established to identify,
authenticate, and memorialize
sites of interest located in the
Keizer area. Sites to be identi-
fi ed may be of the historical,
geographical, botanical, or un-
usual. The committee meets
on the third Tuesday of each
month at 5:30 p.m. One va-
cancy.
Planning Commission -
The Commission assists the
City Council in land use
decisions and recommenda-
tions regarding Keizer’s fu-
ture growth, development,
and beautifi cation. The com-
mission meets on the second
Wednesday of the month at 6
p.m. The planning commis-
sion has guidelines for com-
position and organization.
The guidelines prohibit more
than two members to be en-
gaged principally in the buy-
ing, selling, or developing of
real estate. In addition, plan-
ning commission members
are required to fi le a statement
of economic interest disclo-
sure form with the Oregon
Government Ethics Commis-
sion. Two vacancies.
Youth Liaison/Page –
Opportunities are currently
available to youth for service
on various city committees.
Nominations are also being
accepted for Volunteer of the
Quarter.
Volunteer applications and
Volunteer of the Quarter
nominations are available at
Keizer Civic Center – City
Hall located at 930 Chema-
wa Road NE, Keizer, or you
can request an application be
mailed to you by calling City
Hall at (503) 390?3700. Elec-
tronic applications are avail-
able at www.keizer.org. For
additional information on
volunteer positions, please
contact Debbie Lockhart,
Deputy City Recorder at
(503) 856-3418.
Applications/nominations
must be received by Wednes-
day, Aug. 12, to be considered
at the Aug. 20 Volunteer Co-
ordinating Committee meet-
ing.
Colored pencils at City Hall
A total of 39
works of art by 20
different artists
from the Colored
Pencil Society of
America District
Chapter 201 out
of Portland are
currently on
display at Keizer
Civic Center
through Sept. 30.
The show is titled
Colored Pencil in
Keizer II.
Right: White Egret
by Dee Wagoner of
Beaverton.
KEIZERTIMES/
Craig Murphy
Open Noon-8 p.m.
Pie Eating Contest
Sponsored by Shari’s Restaurant & Pies AND
The UPS Store/Keizer
Pet Parade
Presented by
& Golden Bone Awards
Entertainment
The Brady
Goss Band
6 p.m.
Keizer Rotary Amphitheatre
Also...
• Keizer Community Band
• Cherry City Cloggers
• Vaihere Te Ora Polynesian
• Sheba Dawn & Therese Fratto
• Ballet Folklorico
• Keizer Homegrown Theatre
RIVERfair CRUZ-In
Car Show
11 am-4 pm at Schoolhouse Square
River & Chemawa Roads
Presented by
Making Keizer
Better Foundation
503-390-6840 | www.riverfairkeizer.com
Proceeds fund vocational scholarships for Keizer students
Flood history project
still making waves
By CRAIG MURPHY
Of the Keizertimes
Keizer Points of Interest
Committee (KPIC) members
could see the signs.
Actually, it was a large
mock-up of one sign, but that
was all KPIC members need-
ed at their July 21 meeting.
One of the main tasks for
KPIC is to highlight items
of historical signifi cance and
interest in Keizer. The latest
project to exemplify that is a
project to create a sign with
details and photos from his-
torically high fl oods in Keizer.
Floods being researched are
ones from 1861, 1890, 1943,
1964 and 1996.
Over the last several
months, KPIC members have
been scouring through web-
sites and books trying to fi nd
Keizer-specifi c information
and photos of the various
fl oods. The sign looked at by
KPIC members at the most
recent meeting was a rough
draft of the information that
will eventually be on display
by the Willamette River at
Keizer Rapids Park, along
with a marker in the water in-
dicating the high points from
each fl ood.
Anita Zahniser suggested
keeping wording to a mini-
mum.
“People want to just see the
photos,” Zahniser said. “Do it
with short wording.”
That idea sounded good to
KPIC chair Jill Bonney-Hill,
who is compiling information
about the 1861 fl oods.
“I thought maybe a para-
graph or two on each fl ood in
this area,” she said.
Erica Hedberg, who gath-
ered information for the 1890
fl oods, also agreed.
“I wouldn’t mind if mine
was scaled down,” Hedberg
said. “I like the idea of pictures
with a couple of short things.”
Zahniser had another sug-
gestion.
“We could do just captions
specifi c to pictures and also
maybe some wording that ties
it all together,” she said.
Bonney-Hill
expanded
upon the idea.
“Maybe we can have some-
thing along the bottom direct-
ing people to more informa-
tion, either the city website or
our Facebook page,” Bonney-
Hill said.
That led to one of the lon-
gest discussions of the night:
citing where the information
and pictures came from.
“I got the information
from somewhere; do we need
citations?” Hedberg asked. “I
just noticed there weren’t any
citations.”
Bev Ecklund, who is work-
ing on the 1996 fl ood, fi gured
being cautious was best.
“The librarian in me has
alarms going off,” Ecklund
said. “I’m not sure if anyone is
going to be worried about the
text. But if we post a picture
from 1996 and someone sees
it and is not credited, we may
have issues. I know a lot of the
pictures are from the Oregon
Historical Society website or
libraries. I would be cautious
using pictures until we get
permission. We can just ask
them.”