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Today in History The Partridge Family, a show about a band formed by a widowed woman (Shirley Jones) and her children (including David Cassidy and Susan Dey), premieres on ABC Television. — September 25, 1970 Food 4 Thought “There are no secrets to success. It is the result of prepara- tion, hard work, and learning from failure.” — Colin Powell The Month Ahead Through Saturday, October 3 Dead Man’s Cell Phone by Sarah Ruhl at The Veronia Studio theatre at Reed Opera House. Performances after today will be at 8 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays. Tickets are $15. theveronastudio.com. Saturday, September 26 Lewis Black at the Elsinore Theatre, 8 p.m. Tickets $49.50. www.elsinoretheatre.com Sunday, September 27 Blues, Brews, & BBQ featuring music by Lightnin’ Willie and the Poor Boys, 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. at Deepwood Estate. Tickets are $10 regular, $8 member, $15 at the door. historicdeepwoodestate. org. Monday, September 28 Keizer Festival Advisory Board, 6 p.m. at Keizer Civic Center. Tuesday, September 29 Keizer Points of Interest Committee meeting, 5:30 p.m. in council chambers at Keizer Civic Center. Oregon Republican Party Government Transparency Listening Tour, 7 p.m. at Keizer Civic Center. Wednesday, September 30 Community Conversation about Salem-Transit District’s proposed payroll tax, 9:30 to 11 a.m. at Keizer Quality Inn and Suites, 5188 Wittenburg Lane NE. Thursday, October 1 Salem Grow & Show Club meets at Center 50+, 2615 Portland Rd. NE, 7 p.m. Annual garden club fl ower show. Free to all visitors. Friday, October 2 Pentacle Theatre presents The Addams Family: A New Musical Comedy opening tonight. The show runs through Oct. 24. For times and tickets visit pentacletheatre.org. Saturday, October 3 Second annual Claggett Creek Fall Festival, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Vendors, games, food, raffl e. Keizer’s Got Talent show. Claggett Creek Middle School. 971-273-3719. Keizer/Salem Area Seniors is holding a breakfast event from 8 to 10 a.m. Pancakes, eggs, meat, coffee and juice. $4 per person. Corner of Cherry Avenue and Plymouth Drive in Keizer. Artists’ reception for Keizer Art Association’s October show, Occupations and Workplaces, 2-4 p.m., Enid Joy Mount Gallery at Keizer Heritage Center. keizerarts.com Howlapalooza at Keizer Rotary Amphitheater at Keizer Rapids Park, 6:30 p.m. Free. kraorg.com. Sunday, October 4 Anthems of the Anglican Tradition, 4 p.m. at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church. 503.362.3661 www.stpaulsoregon.org Monday, October 5 Keizer Fire District annual open house and safety fair, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., 661 Chemawa Road NE. Keizer City Council meeting, 7 p.m. in council chambers at Keizer Civic Center, 930 Chemawa Road NE. Tuesday, October 6 Community Build Task Force meeting, 6 p.m. in council chambers at Keizer Civic Center, 930 Chemawa Road NE. Wednesday, October 7 Claggett Creek Watershed Council meeting, 5:30 p.m. at Keizer Civic Center, 930 Chemawa Road NE. Thursday, October 8 Traffi c Safety/Bikeways/Pedestrians Committee meeting, 6 p.m. at Keizer Civic Center, 930 Chemawa Road NE. West Keizer Neighborhood Association meeting, 7 p.m. at Keizer Civic Center, 930 Chemawa Road NE.District, 5:45 p.m. Add your event by e-mailing news@keizertimes.com. KFD chief talks about bond By CRAIG MURPHY Of the Keizertimes Ambulances are meant to tow people in need of help to hospitals. Ambulances are not meant to need a tow to a mechanic while a patient needs urgent care. And yet that’s what the Keiz- er Fire District has been expe- riencing. That is one of the key rea- sons the KFD is running an emergency equipment bond measure on the November bal- lot. Fire chief Jeff Cowan has been busy talking about the measure, talking earlier this month at the West Keizer Neighborhood Association and the Greater Gubser Neighbor- hood Association meetings, among others. To underscore the need for new equipment, promotional material put out by the KFD includes a picture of an ambu- lance being towed. “The newest ambulance is one we got in 2008,” Cowan said at the Sept. 17 GGNA meeting. “It has been a lemon. It was in the shop for nine months last year. We had it fail twice on 911 calls.” In 1996, Keizer voters ap- proved a 20-year bond to pay for the KFD headquarters on Chemawa Road. That bond will be paid off in February, with the new bond taking its place if ap- proved. The new bond is for fi re trucks, ambulances and various emergency equipment and ap- paratus. “Our staffi ng and service levels have improved,” Cowan said. “Now it’s all about the equipment. We’ve sacrifi ced equipment for people over the years, because people put out the fi res.” The KFD has 30 career fi re- fi ghters and paramedics, plus 40 volunteers. Cowan said the per- sonnel are kept busy. “We’re averaging about 13 calls a day this year,” Cowan said. “Last year it was 12 calls a day. It could be 14 calls a day next year.” With an average call for re- sponse being about two hours, Cowan said adding a second unit has been justifi ed. An en- gine and an ambulance go to each call, meaning six personnel are on site in case people need to be moved. “All of the calls put more miles on the ambulance,” Cowan said. “The engine will bounce from call to call. Some days it is gone 12 to 14 hours.” Two ambulances have already been ordered, which means the fi re district will pay itself back if the bond passes. The process had to be sped up due to the re- liability issues of the current rig. “We’re using operational money for the new ones,” Cowan said. “We couldn’t wait. It takes nine months for them KEIZERTIMES/Craig Murphy Keizer fi re chief Jeff Cowan (right) talks during the Sept. 17 Greater Gubser Neighborhood Association meeting. to come. They are custom built. An ambulance is right around $250,000. The last one was built on a Ford F-450 chassis, so it’s not a truck grade chassis. It cost $180,000 and we fi gured we’d be able to rotate it. We went with Freightliner chassis for the new ones. You can put 500,000 miles on it over 10 to 15 years. It’s not really about the miles, it’s about the hours, the cold starts, idling for hours. Ambulances take a lot of wear and tear.” Cowan said the average rate for the new bond will be $.14 per $1,000 of assessed value. The rate will go down as the popu- lation increases, with the bonds being issues in three phases. All told, the bonds will bring in about $6.2 million. The KFD currently has two engines more than 20 years old, while the ladder truck – bought used from Salem – is 24 years old. “This thing is 24 years old and has been like a battleship carrier,” Cowan said. “It’s a solid rig. We will have it refurbished for $500,000, one-third the cost of new, and it’ll be good for 15 years. It’ll have new electronics and equipment and will come back McNary blue.” Other equipment to be pur- chased if the bond passes in- clude Jaws of Life machines and life packs with EKG monitors. Mark Caillier, GGNA presi- dent, was part of the group that came up with the recommen- dation for the bond. “We appreciated that it was what they need, not necessar- ily what they want,” Caillier said. “We’ve done it in a phased approach to keep the dollars down. As the community im- proves and gets bigger, the rate will go down. They’re doing re- ally well with what we provide them.” Rep. Schrader likes idea of CTEC By CRAIG MURPHY Of the Keizertimes September typically signifi es the start of a new school year. In the Salem-Keizer School District, the new school year this month meant the debut of the district’s new Career and Technical Educational Center (CTEC) on Portland Road in Salem. Count U.S. Rep. Kurt Schrader (D-Canby) among the fans. “It’s the way of the future,” Schrader said during a visit last week with the Keizertimes editorial board. “If we’re go- ing to be doing the 40-40-20 (students ready for at least col- lege and beyond), community colleges and high schools with technical education will be the emphasis for a lot of jobs. A lot of people my age are retiring. There’s a dearth of folks to fi ll the pipelines. That’s where the next generation can fi nd eco- nomic opportunities.” It’s something Schrader has pushed for at the national level. In late April, the Congressman reintroduced the Building Un- derstanding, Investment, Learn- ing and Direction (BUILD) Career and Technical Educa- tion Act. The bill would create a two-year, $20 million CTE pilot program to ensure greater cooperation between school districts and industry. “CTE programs give stu- dents the in-demand, high- level skills they need to get jobs available in their communities,” Schrader said at the time. “This bill will have an important ef- fect on our economy and create a direct opportunity to boost American manufacturing. We need to help our kids secure good paying jobs here at home and put more American-made goods on our store shelves.” On the whole, Schrader doesn’t feel enough is being given to education. “We’re not funding aca- demic education the way we should,” he said last week. “We need more revenue sources. We can put money into technical education. I want to see high schools partner with unions. The new (CTEC) in Salem is critical. If we want to improve test scores and see more kids graduate from high school, we need to get them into career technical programs.” With gas prices coming down, Schrader feels this could be a good time to raise the gas tax and help pay for infrastruc- ture. “You can make the case the transportation infrastructure is in a horrible situation right now,” he said. “People under- stand it. They’ll buy into that.” Schrader likes the idea of ex- panded transit, but noted such systems have their places. “Transit lines in Washington, D.C. are lifesavers,” he said. “I don’t have a car there because the traffi c is so horrible. I was in Great Falls, Montana recent- ly. Transit wouldn’t make any sense there currently. But you still have to plan for the future. Great Falls will need transit in the future.” Schrader likes what he sees around here for transit. “The Keizer Transit Center is a good thing,” he said. “It re- ally makes sense.” On the other hand, Schrader doesn’t like the current Veterans Administration situation. Earlier this month, Schrader wrote a letter to director Joanne Krum- berger with the VA Portland Health Care System regard- ing the number of employees leaving the Salem Community Based Outpatient Clinic. “It’s been an ongoing prob- lem in the Salem-Keizer area,” he said. local weather public hearings The Keizer City Council will hold a public hearing on Monday, Oct. 5 to consider a liquor license application with change of ownership for Dim Sum House at 3843 River Road North, which is becom- ing Ocean Sushi and Teriyaki. The hearing will be during the council meeting starting at 7 p.m. in council chambers at Keizer Civic Center, 930 Chemawa Road N. sudoku looking back in the KT 5 YEARS AGO A perilous intersection, but what’s the solution? Four people have died in separate incidents at the intersection of Wheatland Road and Brooklake Road just north of Keizer since 2000, according to state records. Enter digits from 1-9 into the blank spaces. Every row must contain one of each digit. So must every column, as must every 3x3 square. 10 YEARS AGO Neighbors rally for barricade Fernwood Park neighbors packed the Keizer City Council Chambers to preserve the street closure enacted in 1992 on Fourth Place North. 15 YEARS AGO City could face lawsuit over freeway ‘delay’ 3893 COMMERCIAL ST SE KEIZERTIMES.COM Web Poll Results A Salem lawyer representing a group of landowners has threatened to sue the city of Keizer because of the Keizer City Council’s “delay and nonaction” on freeway land development. Would you support a tax to establish a parks fund in Keizer? 20 YEARS AGO 73% - No 27% - Yes Embattled youth club eyes new site Facing a wave of opposition to a proposed satellite club at Cummings Elementary School, the Boys and Girls Club of Salem is seeking other possible sites at Keizer schools. Vote in a new poll every Thursday! GO TO KEIZERTIMES.COM THIS WEEK’S MOVIE TIMES Pixels (PG-13) Fri 4:10, Sat 1:45, 2:15, Sun 1:45 Ant Man (PG-13) Fri 6:20, Sat 4:15, 6:30, 8:10, Sun 3:15, 3:45, 6:00 Fantastic Four (PG-13) Fri 4:00, 6:00, Sat 12:00, 3:45, Sun 12:20 Avengers: Age of Ultron (PG-13) Sat 4:30, Sun 2:15, 7:50 Vacation (R) Fri 8:40, Sat 7:15, 9:10, Sun 8:15 Spy (R) Fri 8:00, Sat 5:50, Sun 6:55 Trainwreck (R) Fri 6:40, 9:05, Sat 8:45, Sun 5:30 Shaun the Sheep Movie (PG) Fri 4:40, Sat 12:00, Sun 12:00 Tomorrowland (PG) Sat 2:00, Sun 12:45 FOR ALL SHOWTIMES GO TO NORTHERNLIGHTSTHEATREPUB.COM