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SINCE 1979 • VOLUME 37, NO. 42 SECTION A SEPTEMBER 18, 2015 $1.00 Parks Tour stresses need for cash KEIZERTIMES/Craig Murphy Keizer City Councilors and Parks Board members talk while looking at Meadows Park Monday evening during the annual Parks Tour. By CRAIG MURPHY Of the Keizertimes A lot of things grow in Keizer parks, but money isn't one of them. Hence the repeated re- quests for more funds during the annual Keizer Parks Tour. Members of the Keizer Parks and Recreation Advi- sory Board took Keizer City Councilors on a tour of a few city parks Monday evening. The four parks on this year’s tour were Keizer Rapids Park (which has been a regular part of the annual tour), North- view Terrace, Bob Newton and Meadows. The tour started in the am- phitheater area of KRP, which was an opportunity for Parks Board member Clint Holland to show off work recently done by Jerry Nuttbrock and other volunteers. It also allowed the vacant Charge house to be in the backdrop, fi tting since possible plans for that building were the fi rst main item of discus- sion. Holland, Nuttbrock, mayor Cathy Clark, Keizertimes pub- lisher Lyndon Zaitz and Parks Board member Richard Walsh are among those in a group discussing what could happen with the Charge house in the future. “It’s a loose group envision- ing what could happen in the future with the Charge house in relation to the amphithe- ater,” Zaitz said. “It should be at least a green room, maybe a small classroom space. There are a lot of interesting ideas. The question is, how do we pay for it? Talks are in the be- ginning stages. This is an ex- cellent opportunity to take what’s here and enhance it.” Ideas in the past have in- cluded renovating the build- ing, putting on a new roof as well as tearing down and starting over as a new outdoor educational center. “It might take millions of dollars and years to do it,” Holland said. Schrader talks about highways PAGE A2 Please see PARKS, Page A10 Hearings offi cer A talk among the clouds denies 32-lot development By CRAIG MURPHY Of the Keizertimes Plans for a new 32-lot sub- division in West Keizer were denied recently, but the deci- sion is being appealed. Keizer Hearings Offi cer Cynthia Domas heard the re- quest July 16 to turn 5.73 acres of land on Burbank Street into Bowden Meadows, with lots ranging in size from 5,000 to 10,856 square feet. In a report dated Aug. 6 and obtained by the Keizertimes last week, Domas denied the re- quest. The applicant is appeal- ing the decision, which will be the subject of a public hearing at the Keizer City Council meeting on Monday, Sept. 21. The meeting starts at 7 p.m. in council chambers at Keizer Civic Center, 930 Chemawa Road NE. The project applicant is Mark Farrow on behalf of Trademark Enterprises LLC for property owned by Robert Bowden and Doug Harner on behalf of JDC Homes LLC. Several neighbors back in July spoke against the plans for the subdivision, which had been approved in early 2008 for comprehensive plan zone changes and lot line adjust- ments, though the lots in the current plan with the new ap- plicant are slightly different. More importantly, city en- gineer Bill Peterson spoke against the plans, in particular related to sight distance. “When you skew the dis- tance like that, there is a hori- zontal alignment,” Peterson said. “It doesn’t meet the city standard. If it did, that would improve things quite a bit. There’s a lack of adequate site distance to the south on Bur- bank. In my mind, I think it’s unsafe. Neither (proposal), as far as Public Works is con- cerned, is adequate. I don’t think the proposal meets the code.” The application failed in several areas, including align- ment. “The record refl ects that a prior subdivision applica- tion was approved for the same subject property with one major difference,” Domas wrote. “That difference was the inclusion of Lot 70, which is located to the north of the proposed intersection of Trent Avenue North and Burbank Street North. Because Lot 70 is no longer included in the sub- ject property, street alignment Please see DENY, Page A6 Never forget... KEIZERTIMES/Lyndon A. Zaitz Keizer Fire Chief Jeff Cowan speaks during the Keizer Fire District's annual 9-11 service in front of the KFD building last Friday, Sept. 11. The teacher, the student PAGE A5 Salem KEIZERTIMES/Eric A. Howald Brianna Miller with part of the cloud-centric stage art she is prepping for the annual TEDxSalem conference. Miller, a 2010 McNary graduate, will also speak at the conference. MHS alum preps TEDx Salem stage By ERIC A. HOWALD Of the Keizertimes Brianna Miller’s head has been in the clouds lately, and in more ways than one. Miller, a 2010 McNary High School graduate and a more recent Pacifi c North- west College of Art grad, has been tapped as the fi rst ever artist-in-residence for the an- nual TEDxSalem conference. For the past three weeks, she has been at work developing a cloud-themed installation for the conference’s main stage. It’s an idea that sprang for this year’s theme, Fearlessness. “When I look at the sky I get a feeling of fearlessness and inspiration. I was going to do traditional clouds and make them more realistic, but then I came across the multicolored pompoms and that reminded me of the fearlessness we have as children,” Miller said. The annual TEDxSalem conference is slated for Oct. 3 at the Salem Convention Center. Tickets are $50 and available at http://tedxsalem.us. TED con- ferences, and the TED Talks they spawn and spread all over the internet, celebrate technol- ogy entertainment and design through speakers talking about their passions. This year’s slate includes topics such as social justice, dance, software devel- opment, fi lmmaking and tiny houses, among others. Miller’s fi nal installation will include one large cloud and two smaller ones once they are complete. All are bursts of color. Miller’s initial hope was to take the large paper lanterns that form the base of the clouds, slather them in glue and then roll them in whatever it was she chose to adorn them with, but that soon proved to be an unmanageable strategy. Now she’s spending several hours a week meticulously gluing each pompom onto the base. Please see TEDX, Page A6 ServeFest returns Sunday If you come to Lakepoint Community Church at the Keizer Civic Center this Sun- day, don’t expect a normal church service. More than 200 Lakepoint volunteers will be putting on the seventh annual ServeFest from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., provid- ing a number of free services for citizens. ServeFest encourages Lake- point regular attenders to be the church, which they do by serving critical needs within their immediate community. All are welcome to join Lakepoint members in volunteering. Lakepoint will provide 3,200 lunches, family photos, haircuts, manicures, wellness clinic, including vaccinations (must bring medical identifi ca- tion card), bicycle repair, a chil- dren’s activity center and many More than 3,000 people are expected to take part in ServeFest this Sunday, Sept. 20 at the Keizer Civic Center. File other free services for the com- munity. Lakepoint will be giv- ing away free school supplies, personal care items, clothing for people of all ages and surprise raffl e items. ServeFest wasn’t originally at city hall, but was moved there after outgrowing the original location. “Our fi rst year of ServeFest was 2009 at McNary High School,” said Rachel Taylor, the event coordinator. “We were thinking maybe 500 people would show us and 1,500 did. It was confi rmation for us to keep going.” Keizer Civic Center is lo- cated at 930 Chemawa Road North. For more information, contact Taylor at the church at 503-428-3141 or rachelt@ lakepoint.net. McNary girls soccer 2-0 PAGE A8 MHS football ready for turf debut PAGE A9