SINCE 1979 • VOLUME 37, NO. 36
SECTION A
AUGUST 7, 2015
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New proposal for hazelnut orchard
By CRAIG MURPHY
Of the Keizertimes
Maybe those hazelnut trees won’t
be lonely and decaying after all.
In a somewhat surprising twist, a
farmer stepped up last month with
an offer to farm the 22 acres of fi l-
bert orchards on city-owned property
at Keizer Rapids Park. In June, Tony
Weathers was granted a release from
his contract with the city to do the
harvesting. Weathers cited possible liti-
gation for using pesticides as the rea-
son for wanting out of the contract.
At the time, it was believed no oth-
er farmers would be willing to step in
due to the same litigation concerns.
However, Kevin Schurter with
Schurter Enterprises LLC submitted
a proposal on July 14 to Bill Lawyer,
Public Works director to Keizer, to
harvest the orchards.
Of note, Schurter is proposing to
not use pesticides or other chemi-
cals. He has only requested the ability
the use glyphosphate (RoundUp) on
the ground underneath trees to keep
weeds controlled.
The issue was discussed during a
Keizer City Council executive ses-
sion Monday evening. Later during
the regular meeting, councilors unani-
mously approved a motion to give city
manager Chris Eppley the authority to
enter into a one-season contract with
Schurter, with the idea that formal
Request for Proposals will be done for
next year.
In his proposal, Schurter mentioned
using “mechanical means” for upkeep
of the trees and the ground under the
trees.
McNary
Estates
garage sale
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KEIZERTIMES fi le/Craig Murphy
Please see ORCHARD, Page A6 There have been concerns expressed about how long the fi lbert trees in the
Keizer Rapids Park orchard will last, but one farmer is willing to try farming them.
Turn on, tune in and listen for the mic drop
Keizerites help give KMUZ distinct voice
and donors.
She began volunteering,
but was soon asked by one of
the KMUZ board members
to go through the deejay
training. After
declining
several times, she gave in and
went.
“All these people were
coming in and talking about
who they were and exactly
what type of program they
were going to be doing.
It was interesting, but I
didn't want to be a
deejay,” she said.
She was on her
way out of the
building
when
lightning
struck
again.
“I was going down
the hall and the voice
returned.
Everything,
the name More Accordion,
the type of show and the
concept all just came to
me,” Hathaway said.
The fi rst episode of More
By ERIC A. HOWALD
Of the Keizertimes
Tara Hathaway caught
lightning in a bottle. Twice.
The fi rst time was fi ve
years ago when the Keizerite
and KMUZ (100.7 and 88.5
FM) community radio deejay
picked up an accordion for
the fi rst time.
“That came from an
overwhelming feeling of
needing music in my life,”
Hathaway said. “Out of
nowhere it was a
little guiding voice
saying, 'Tara play
the accordion.'”
Once she had the
instrument in hand
she had to fi gure out how
to play it. Helped along by
an innate ability to play
by ear, she hit YouTube
and began playing along.
About a year later, she
saw a Craigslist ad asking
for volunteers to talk with
potential KMUZ listeners
Accordion, which features
music for and including the
accordion aired Dec. 30, 2011,
and is still going. It airs every
Wednesday at 2 p.m.
The
show
features
accordion music from around
the world as well as a healthy
sampling of cover songs. A
cover of AC/DC's Highway to
Hell performed on accordion
elicited one of Hathaway's
favorite listener responses.
“Apparently, some guys
working at an auto shop were
listening and one of them
stopped work to look up
the station's number after it
played just to leave a message
telling me how hard they were
rocking out when that song
came on,” Hathaway said.
Hathaway is one of
a handful of Keizerites
producing shows for KMUZ
that run the gamut from
quirky to traditional and help
fi ll the airwaves with uniquely
mid-Willamette Valley voices.
Keizerite Beth Nevue co-
hosts the Celtic Music Hour
alongside Ann McBride and
was another deejay who had
no expectation of ending
up on air. She belongs to
a group called Ceili of the
Valley, which celebrates Irish
culture and heritage. Early on
in KMUZ's development the
president of the group signed
up for an hour exploring Irish
music and culture.
“Then I was asked to
sit in on a meeting and the
next thing I knew they were
training deejays,” Nevue said.
Celtic Music Hour airs
Fridays at 7 p.m.
At fi rst the idea of operating
the mixing board, which
controls sound levels and a
rack of CD's among other
components, was foreign.
“Now, if a problem
happens, we know how to
deal with it fairly well. They
taught us how to engineer our
own program,” Nevue said.
She and McBride start
planning each show by
selecting a theme and then
diving into their respective
music collections looking
for the music that will play
during the hour.
“One time we were able
do an entire program on
one family. They started out
revitalizing traditional music
then there were all these
offshoot groups. You can only
play so many songs from one
CD, but we were able to trace
this family through all the
different groups,” Nevue said.
Next, they get together
to discuss their fi ndings and
Please see KMUZ, Page A10
Smoking ban asked for Dishing out a big
mess at RIVERfair
By CRAIG MURPHY
Of the Keizertimes
They may have had differ-
ent motives and rationales, but
two citizens speaking to Keiz-
er City Councilors on Mon-
day shared a similar request.
Rhonda Rich and Darrell
Richardson both spoke dur-
ing the public comment por-
tion at the start of the meet-
ing, asking for a smoking ban
at parks in Keizer.
For Rich, the president of
the West Keizer Neighbor-
hood Association, her concern
was due to safety, especially
at Keizer Rapids Park in her
neighborhood.
“I have concerns about tall
weeds and limbs around the
orchards and cigarettes be-
ing discarded into the grass,”
Rich said. “There needs to be
clearer signs about the dan-
gers and a temporary ban on
smoking in the park. We need
to protect our neighborhood
and city.”
Bill Lawyer, Public Works
director for Keizer, agreed ex-
tra signage would be a good
idea in the midst of such a dry
summer.
Parks
Board
updates
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camp
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“I have no problem about
putting up signs about ex-
treme fi re danger and no
smoking in the park,” Lawyer
said. “I can put signs up to-
morrow. We will cover every
access point.”
Richardson brought up
the idea of a smoking ban in
Keizer parks back in April.
The suggestion was passed
on to members of the Keizer
Parks and Recreation Adviso-
ry Board meeting, who didn’t
move forward on such a ban.
Please see BAN, Page A9
KEIZERTIMES fi le/Dee Moore
Fun times at NNO...
Anne-Marie Storms (center) reacts to having pie dumped on
her by Andrew Copeland (right) during last year's RIVERfair
pie-eating contest. Jerry Wade (left) won the contest.
KEIZERTIMES/Craig Murphy
Reni Wilson and Megan Wolfert, both 5, show off their crazy faces during a National Night
Out event on Newberg Drive North Tuesday. For more NNO photos, see page A5.
By CRAIG MURPHY
Of the Keizertimes
In case you’re wondering:
don’t put blackberry pie in
your hair.
That PSA comes courtesy
of Anne-Marie Storms, the
public outreach specialist at
Keizer Fire District.
In case your next question
is “And she would know that
how?” there’s a good story be-
hind it.
It happened at the pie-eat-
ing contest during last year’s
RIVERfair. The annual event,
put on by the Making Keizer
Better Foundation, returns to
Keizer Rapids Park this Satur-
day from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. The
pie-eating contest starts at 2
p.m. at the amphitheater. (For
a complete preview of the day,
see page A2).
Storms has had a year to get
ready for this year’s contest,
which means she’s had one
year more of preparation time
compared to last year, when
she and Lt. Andrew Copeland
from the Keizer Police De-
partment stole the show with
their impromptu pie-fl inging
grudge match.
S-K beats
Sox off
Everett
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Please see PIE, Page A10
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