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Wells’ War of the Worlds—a realistic radio dramatization of a Martian invasion of Earth. — October 30, 1938 Food 4 Thought “By changing nothing, nothing changes.” — Tony Robbins The Month Ahead Saturday, October 31 Community Harvest Party—Safe Zone for Kids, 1-3 p.m., Village at Keizer Ridge, 1184 McGee Court NE behind Emerald Pointe Retirement Community. Oregon Dream Ponies, food, music, candy. Free admission. 503-390-1300. Halloween Costume Dance, 7 to 10 p.m., at Keizer/Salem Area Seniors Center, corner of Cherry Ave. N.E. and Plymouth Drive. Potluck is encouraged, $4 admission. 503-390-7441. Remember to set clocks back an hour before going to bed and also check the batteries in all smoke alarms. Monday, November 2 Keizer City Council meeting, 7 p.m. in council chambers at Keizer Civic Center, 930 Chemawa Road NE. Tuesday, November 3 Election Day. Ballots due by 8 p.m. Mind, Body and Soul: Journey to Wellness show, 3-6:30 p.m., Keizer Civic Center. Vendors, information. Free admission. 930 Chemawa Rd. N.E. Community Build Task Force meeting, 6 p.m. in council chambers at Keizer Civic Center, 930 Chemawa Road NE. Wednesday, November 4 Claggett Creek Watershed Council meeting, 5:30 p.m. at Keizer Civic Center, 930 Chemawa Road NE. Keizer Planning Commission meeting, 6 p.m. at Keizer Civic Center (a week earlier than usual due to Veterans Day on Nov. 11). Friday, November 6 Holiday craft bazaar sponsored by Salem Hospital Auxiliary in Building D on Oak Street. Free parking in hospital garage. Twenty-fi ve vendors. 9 a.m.-4 p.m. 503-364-7785. Dare to Believe! at the Historic Elsinore Theatre, 7:30 p.m. Jay Owenhouse: The Authentic Illusionist performs amazing feats. Visit elsinoretheatre.com for tickets. Oregon Symphony Association in Salem presents Rachmanioff’s Rhapsody with conductor Carlos Kalmar with pianist Kirill Gerstein. Smith Auditorium, Willamette University, 8 p.m. Tickets range from $35 to $50. orsymphonysalem.org. Saturday, November 7 Artist reception and awards ceremony for Black, White and Gray art show, one of the most popular exhibits of the Keizer Art Association in the Enid Joy Mount Gallery at the Keizer Heritage Center, 980 Chemawa Road NE. Open to the public, free. 6-8 p.m. keizerarts.com Willamette Master Chorus presents Veteran’s Concert, Rogers Music Center, Willamette University. Performances are 7:30 p.m. today and 3 p.m. tomorrow, Sunday, Nov. 8. Ticket information at www.willamettemasterchorus.org. Sunday, November 8 Thomas Lauderdale plays Gershwin with the Salem Concert Band, 3 p.m. at the Elsinore Theatre. Tickets range from $25 - $35. www.elsinoretheatre.com Monday, November 9 Golden Dragon Acrobats, 7:30 p.m. at the Elsinore Theatre. Tickets range from $20-$35. www.elsinoretheatre.com Tuesday, November 10 Keizer Parks and Recreation Advisory Board meeting, 6 p.m. in council chambers at Keizer Civic Center, 930 Chemawa Road NE. Wednesday, November 11 Veterans Day. Government offi ces and banks closed. Thursday, November 12 Keizer Traffi c Safety/Bikeways/Pedestrian meeting, 6 p.m. in council chambers at Keizer Civic Center, 930 Chemawa Road NE. Shopping cart ordinance passed By CRAIG MURPHY Of the Keizertimes A more business-friendly shopping cart ordinance has been approved by the Keizer City Council. The issue of complaints related to shopping carts be- ing left in neighborhoods was brought up in September, but councilor Brandon Smith ob- jected to some of the require- ments as proposed. Based on the feedback, councilor Mar- lene Parsons withdrew the or- dinance and worked on it some more with city attorney Shan- non Johnson as well as Nate Brown, director of Community Development for the city. The revised ordinance didn’t have many differences, but they were noticeable. For example, the revised ordinance no longer requires stores to set up a toll- free phone line for people to call if they fi nd an abandoned shopping cart from that store. In addition, the maximum fi ne was dropped from $500 to $100, the minimum fi ne was dropped from $100 to $50 and a presumptive fi ne was dropped from $250 to $50. Smith voted in favor of the revised ordinance, while coun- cilor Amy Ryan was the lone no vote. Shortly before the meet- ing, former councilor Joe Egli e-mailed thoughts on the or- dinance, emphasizing that re- moving a shopping cart from a store’s premises is theft. “By fi ning the business we are simply addressing the symp- tom, not fi nding a cure for the problem,” Egli wrote in part. “We are letting our citizens know that it is okay to steal a shopping cart and leave it in the alley because the business they stole it from has to come pick it up. Keizer is a pro-business, thinking on our feet commu- nity that does not just make ordinances because other com- munities have.” Councilor Roland Herrera agreed with Egli’s points. “This seems to be punishing the stores,” Herrera said of the ordinance. “There’s got to be a way not to put another burden on the stores.” Brown noted a business won’t automatically get fi ned if their cart is found off-premises. “We give businesses three days to pick up their cart,” Brown said. “It’s only if they fail their responsibility and we have to get involved, that’s the only thing that kicks it off. Some businesses simply don’t care, but I don’t think that will be any of our businesses. We don’t have the intent to levy fi nes. Only if we have to use our resources to collect and store the cart, that’s the only time we would levy a fi ne. We don’t intend to ever do that.” Parsons pointed out Ben Crosby, Keizer’s Code Compli- ance offi cer, has talked to all of the local store managers about the ordinance. “All companies in Keizer with carts are corporations with businesses in other cities with stickered carts,” Parsons said. “So it would not be another expense. They already have a phone number and stickers. We don’t have stickers now since we have no ordinance. The stores are prepared for this.” Smith explained why he ob- jected to the original version of the ordinance. “I felt it was overbearing and heavy handed,” he said. “I had no less than fi ve people come up to me and say good job, which tells me it was important. The $500 fi ne seemed excessive. It shouldn’t need to be this big of a deal. If you see a cart, call the store and tell them to get it. If they don’t, they should have to pay a fi ne. I felt it was silly to have a separate phone line for the reporting process. Let’s not make it such a big deal.” In other council business: • Clint Holland is looking to put on a Christmas concert at Keizer Civic Center on the evening of Sunday, Dec. 13. “We will have Patrick Lamb doing the program,” Holland said. “We want to upscale it every year to some pretty nice bands or musicians.” As proposed, the event would run from 5 to 8:30 p.m. and include dinner. • The 32-lot Bowden Es- tates subdivision on Burbank Street was unanimously ap- proved without comment. The proposal had originally been rejected by the city hearings of- fi cer due to concerns over the intersection at Burbank and Trent Avenue, but the area was redesigned. “It took the work of the developers and the city team coming up with something that worked,” Johnson said. • Two liquor license applica- tions were approved and for- warded to the Oregon Liquor Control Commission. Salsa Rica Restaurant at 3844 River Road North has been bought by Carlos Pineda and renamed El Patron Mexican Grill, as pre- viously mentioned in the Keiz- ertimes. Pats Cigs, located at 4486 River Road North, has been bought by Najeeb Mohammed and is now named Pats 1 Cig. Parks Board to help Big Toy task force By CRAIG MURPHY Of the Keizertimes Not that there was much doubt, but the Community Build Task Force has picked up a partner. Members of the Keizer Parks and Recreation Advisory Board agreed to partner with CBTF members earlier this month. As mentioned recently in the Keizertimes, members of the task force are looking to apply for grants mainly for a poured- in-place spongy surface for the Big Toy at Keizer Rapids Park. To make the grant application to the Oregon Parks and Rec- reation Department Local Gov- ernment Grant program more attractive, task force members are looking to work with as many boards and organizations as possible. The Parks Board, which includes two members of the task force, was the fi rst partner since some of the additional im- provements being sought – new pathways from Chemawa Road to the Big Toy and new bath- rooms – are technically beyond the scope of the task force and are improvements already in the master plan for the park. “We will need to partner with the Parks Board to come up with the match (for the grant),” said Richard Walsh, a member of both the Parks Board and the CBTF. Keizer City Councilor Mar- lene Parsons, chair of the CBTF, noted the new surface and paved paths would make the Big Toy more ADA (American with Disabilities Act) accessible, which would also make the project more attractive in grant applications. “In order to make the pack- age beefy, we felt it was nec- essary to ask you to help us,” Parsons said. “The more part- ners you have in the grant ap- plication, the higher the chance they’ll accept the application. It’s important for a walking path to get to the Big Toy and to the park in general. “We want to go big,” she added. “The worst they can say is no. We want to do the disabil- By CRAIG MURPHY Of the Keizertimes Ever feel like an e-mail you send to the government gets lost somewhere in cyberspace, based on the lack of a response? At least for the last week, Keizer city employees have a valid excuse: a glitch meant city employees didn’t have their e- mail or voicemail service start- ing Oct. 21. As of Tuesday after- noon, crews were still working to resolve the issue. “As of right this moment, we now have the ability to receive and send e-mails,” city manager Chris Eppley said around 2:30 p.m. on Oct. 27. “We have a block of e-mails from Oct. 17 to earlier today we’re having to go through and identify that they are or are not corrupted. Everything from before Oct. 17 and from 2 p.m. today going forward is fi ne.” Assistant controller Tim Wood has been working on the issue. “Apparently something caused the fi le server to be- come corrupted,” Eppley said. “It could have been coming for a long time and didn’t show an effect until it shut down the system. We had to wipe the en- tire system entirely clean, then rebuild it with a new operating system. It just took time.” During the service interrup- tion, city e-mails weren’t work- ing and voicemail messages couldn’t be left. As a result, city employ- ees were using texts, personal e-mails and faxes to fi ll in the communication gap. “We use VoIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol), so the voice- mail is embedded in our e-mail,” Eppley said. “We’re looking to see if we could separate the two, based on this experience, so that even if one goes down, you still have the other.” City e-mail, voicemail down ity package.” Walsh pointed out children with disabilities and grandpar- ents alike have diffi culty with the current engineered wood fi ber surface because it’s uneven. “That’s the big picture,” he said. “It’s expensive, but impor- tant.” The estimated cost for a poured-in-place surface is $150,000 to $180,000. Walsh and Parsons said more solid cost estimates are being pursued. “We are asking for cost es- timates to know what to ask for,” Parsons said. “The match- ing part could be materials, cost of land, different things. Right now we’re trying to get as many partners on board as possible.” local weather sudoku looking back in the KT 5 YEARS AGO Orcutt, grocer and fi refi ghter, recalled as community stalwart Sam Orcutt, former training offi cer for KFD and owner of Orcutt’s Market, died Friday, Oct. 16. The street in front of where his store used to be is named for him. 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 Retailer list grows at Keizer Station Seven retailers have signed letters of intent stating they plan to open new locations at Keizer Station. 15 YEARS AGO Neighbors tighten security after break-ins 3893 COMMERCIAL ST SE KEIZERTIMES.COM Web Poll Results After four burglaries in one week, residents in the Shoreline Drive neighborhood were heeding police warnings to lock doors and windows and leave on outdoor lights What will you do on Halloween? 20 YEARS AGO 34% – Stay home & turn out the lights 32% – Stay home & give out candy 18% – Go trick or treating 13% – Go out for the evening 3% – Watch scary movies Students suspended for showing tape of group beating opossum Two McNary High School juniors were suspended and now face police investigation after videotaping themselves while beating, dousing with gasoline, and setting on fi re an animal. 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