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WOMEN’S BANTAMWEIGHT TITLE
Today in History
Orson Welles and his theatre company cause nationwide
panic with their broadcast of H.G. 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
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opossum
Two McNary High School
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now face police investigation
after videotaping themselves
while beating, dousing with
gasoline, and setting on fi re an
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MOVIE TIMES
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Fri 6:10, 7:45, Sat 6:00, 8:20,
9:05 Sun 4:25, 6:05, 8:25
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Fri 4:15, Sat 4:50, Sun 12:45
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Fri 6:30, Sat 8:55, Sun 7:40
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American Ultra (R)
Fri 8:30, Sat 7:05, Sun 6:45
Trainwreck (R)
Sun 5:10
Minions (PG)
Fri 4:00, 5:50, Sat 12:35, 2:40,
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