NOVEMBER 20, 2015, KEIZERTIMES, PAGE A3
Planning ongoing for mural Leaders take Covanta tour
By CRAIG MURPHY
Of the Keizertimes
The new public mural on
the north wall of Town &
Country Lanes won’t be done
until next summer, but the
prep work is still going on.
Jill Hagen, the Keizer Pub-
lic Arts Commission member
who’s in charge of the proj-
ect, gave an update during the
Oct. 27 KPAC meeting.
In recent weeks, some of
the visible prep work was
done as gray primer now
fi lls the space, along with the
wording “Join Keizer’s mural
project 2016” with the city
website address (www.keizer.
org) underneath.
Hagen thanked KPAC
members Jessi Long, Rick
Day, Kim Steen and Keizer
City Council Amy Ryan for
their work getting the prim-
ing done.
“You guys did wonderful
job on the priming and let-
tering. It looks great,” Hagen
said.
Hagen noted she has talked
to three artists about shar-
ing the workload, including
showing community mem-
bers the fi ner points of work-
ing on murals.
“I want this to be a com-
munity mural,” Hagen said. “I
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The primer has been applied to the north wall of Town &
Country Lanes, where Keizer’s second public mural will be
going up next summer.
thought of the idea of having
people work for 20 minutes
on this one design, then 20
minutes on the next one. The
artists have offered to talk to
our group about mural de-
velopment. So far three artists
have agreed to work with me
on presentations. We will have
these people present different
ideas and techniques. You can
create distance with the use
of color and size. I want the
community to feel comfort-
able with doing this. Our plan
is to offer free classes.”
Lore Christopher, chair of
the KPAC, liked the idea.
“So three artists will be do-
nating their time and volun-
teers will get instructions from
the artists,” she said.
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Beth Melendy said she
knew of several other artists
who could help out.
Ryan said something about
the project needs to be added
to the city’s website, especially
since the writing on the wall
refers people to the website
for more information.
“I can do it,” said deputy
city recorder Debbie Lock-
hart, who noted one design
issue with the city’s new web-
site is the lack of a true front
page. A banner message has
since been added.
Christopher noted she had
a similar issue trying to fi nd
information about the KPAC
holiday card contest on the
city’s website.
Hagen said she would be
getting dimensions for each
piece of art to go on the mural
and arrange dates for meetings
and presentations with the
artists.
“What I’d like to do is of-
fer the artists $50, to pay them
something for their time,”
Hagen said. “Not only are we
going to ask them to do a pre-
sentation, but also to super-
vise one time. I’d like them to
think about doing supervision
for a four-hour period.”
B
C
Covanta Marion, Inc. host-
ed local government offi cials
on a tour of its waste-to-en-
ergy plant in Brooks and its
ash monofi ll location north of
Woodburn on Saturday, Nov.
14.
Keizer mayor Cathy Clark
and councilor Kim Freeman
were joined by Keizer city
recorder Tracy Davis along
with Woodburn mayor Kathy
Figley and Marion County
Commissioners.
A: (from left) Woodburn
Mayor Kathy Figley, Councilor
Kim Freeman, Mayor Cathy
Clark and Marion County
Commissioner Kevin Camer-
on tour the operations room.
B: Scott Anderson, Covanta
Marion’s chief engineer, ex-
plains the plant’s controls.
C: Control room at Covanta
Marion’s waste-to-energy
plant in Brooks.
Photos by
Lyndon A. Zaitz/KEIZERTIMES
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