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Today in History
Pope Urban II makes perhaps the most infl uential speech
of the Middle Ages, giving rise to the Crusades by calling
all Christians in Europe to war against Muslims in order to
reclaim the Holy Land, with a cry of “Deus vult!” or “God
wills it!”
— November 27, 1095
Food 4 Thought
“If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we
aren’t really living.”
— Gail Sheehy, author, born Nov. 27, 1937
The Month Ahead
Through Tuesday, December 1
Christmas Stockings for Soldiers at Golden Funeral Service,
605 Commercial Street SE in Salem. Pick up a free stocking,
decorate, stuff it and return to Golden Funeral Service to be
shipped to soldiers.
Through Thursday, December 31
Christmas in the Kitchen display at the Keizer Heritage
Center Museum, 980 Chemawa Road NE. Display is the
personal collection of Keizer’s Yvonne Knoll.
Friday, November 27
Santa arrives aboard the Carousel Express at Salem’s
Riverfront Carousel at noon, 101 Front Street NE in Salem.
Free event. Sip complimentary hot cocoa while waiting in
anticipation for Santa. Additional activities for a charge
(photos, face painting, food services). More information
www.salemcarousel.org
Friday, November 27 – Sunday, December 13
The 1940s Radio Hour at the Historic Grand Theatre,
downtown Salem. Presented by Enlightened Theatrics.
Performances 7:30 p.m. Wed-Sat. and 2:30 p.m. matinees on
Sundays. Tickets range from $15-$20. enlightenedtheatrics.
org. 503-585-3427.
Friday, November 27 – Sunday, January 3
Christmas in the Garden at The Oregon Garden, 879
W. Main Street, Silverton. Enjoy ice skating, traditional
German Christmas Market with 18 artisan vendors, festive
music, taste holiday foods, live reindeer, photos with Santa
and walk through 400,000+ Christmas lights in the forest.
Admission: $11 adults, $5 children, free for children 4
and under. Open 10 a.m. daily. More information at www.
oregongarden.org.
Saturday, November 28
Santa Claus arrives by helicopter to Volcanoes Stadium.
Noon to 3 p.m. Free photos with Santa.
Sunday, November 29
Rally in support of U.N. climate talks in Paris next month
at High and Court Streets, Salem, walk to Riverfront Park.
1 p.m.
Tuesday, December 1
Holiday Tree Lighting at Walery Plaza on River Road N, 6
p.m. Two kids’ names will be drawn to help Santa fl ip the
tree lights on at 7 p.m. at this free event.
Wednesday, December 2
Artists in Action’s annual Something Red Art Walk, Exhibit
& Sale, downtown Salem. Art walk held 5-7 p.m. Awards
reception at Elsinore Framing and Fine Art Gallery, 444
Ferry St. SE, 7-8 p.m. Something Red exhibition runs through
Dec. 31. Visit somethingred.org for more information.
Thursday, December 3
The Village at Keizer Ridge staff is holding a holiday dinner
at Keizer Heritage Center, 980 Chemawa Road NE, from 6
to 8 p.m. Called 503-390-1300 to RSVP.
Thursday, December 3 – Friday, December 4
Christmas in Hudson Hall, 7:30 p.m., Willamette University
campus. Tickets are $10. 503-370-6255.
Thursday, December 3 – Saturday, December 5
Dayspring Fellowship Church presents Big Band Christmas:
Because a Babe was Born Free. Free, 7 p.m. each night, 1755
Lockhaven Drive NE.
Friday, December 4
The Trail Band performs traditional music at their
annual Salem Holiday performance, 7:30 p.m. at the
Elsinore Theatre. Tickets range from $25.50 - $40. www
elsinoretheatre.com.
Friday, December 4 – Saturday, December 26
Miracle of Christmas Lights Display in Keizer’s Gubser
neighborhood. Runs from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. nightly.
Donation drop off site, benefi ting Marion Polk Food Share,
is partway through route on Mistwood Drive.
Add your event by e-mailing news@keizertimes.com.
Lacey Court project costs go up
By CRAIG MURPHY
Of the Keizertimes
Well, that cost more than
expected.
Keizer City Councilors ap-
proved a request for a supple-
mental budget addition last
week, covering four items:
reimbursement for Keizer Po-
lice Department training, li-
ability insurance, a new water
fi ltration system and a budget
transfer for the community
center fund.
The KPD amount was
$12,900 for travel and training
expenses to send offi cers to
two training conferences. The
liability was for the city set-
tling two liability cases total-
ing $10,500 while the transfer
was to take $7,400 from the
community center fund and
to increase Municipal Court
expenditures to provide a
one-tenth full-time equivalent
position to help with staffi ng
while court is in session.
The big number, however,
came with the water fi ltration
system for the Lacey Court
well. The original project cost
estimate and the revised cost
estimate differed by $125,000.
“The initial project was
estimated to cost $175,000
and was included in the Water
Facility Fund appropriations,”
said Bill Lawyer, Public Works
director for Keizer. “However,
the revised estimate is approx-
imately $300,000 and includes
installation, engineering and
design. The project will go
through the city’s competitive
bidding process for the pur-
chase of the fi ltration system
and separately for the installa-
tion.”
public
hearings
The Keizer City Coun-
cil will hold a public hearing
Monday, Dec. 7 at 7 p.m. to
consider a petition to vacate
688 feet of Ridge Drive NE.
The council meetings take
place in council chambers
at Keizer Civic Center, 930
Chemawa Road NE.
Council will also hold a
hearing to consider revisions
to Section 2.313 (accessory
structures and uses) of the
Keizer Development Code on
that evening.
The Keizer Parks and
Recreation
Advisory
Board will hold a public
hearing Tuesday, Dec. 8 at 6
p.m. to consider amendments
to the master plans for Keizer
Rapids Park and Chalmers
Jones Park. The meeting takes
place in council chambers
at Keizer Civic Center, 930
Chemawa Road NE.
Lawyer said pilot testing
was done after the current fi s-
cal year’s budget was put to-
gether.
“The results indicated we
need to do a different pro-
cess to do the work,” Lawyer
said. “A fi ltration system costs
more and the installation costs
more. It is unusual to have
such a (cost) difference. It’s
not a higher level project, just
a different, more expensive
process.”
Tim Wood, acting Fi-
nance Manager for the city,
said the Water Facility fund
has $47,500 in appropriations
available plus an additional
$84,000 in unanticipated re-
sources from working capital
and reimbursement proceeds
that could be used for the
project.
After minimum question-
ing, councilors unanimously
approved the supplemental
budget requests.
In other recent council
business:
• Councilors approved
revisions to the Keizer De-
velopment Code allowing
marijuana retailer as a special
permitted use in the same
zones as medical marijuana
facilities. The Keizer Planning
Commission had previously
agreed with such a staff sug-
gestion and recommended the
changes to councilors.
No one spoke during a
KEIZERTIMES/Craig Murphy
Members of Boy Scouts Troop 157 lead the pledge of allegiance
at the Nov. 16 Keizer City Council meeting.
public hearing on the topic
and councilors unanimously
approved the motion without
any comments.
• A public hearing will be
held at the Dec. 7 council
meeting to amend the master
plans for both Keizer Rap-
ids Park and Chalmers-Jones
Park.
• Mayor Cathy Clark an-
nounced she would not be
able to attend the annual
Christmas Tree lighting at
Walery Plaza on Tuesday, Dec.
1. Traditionally the mayor
helps two children fl ip the
switch to turn on the lights,
but this is the second year in
a row the sitting mayor hasn’t
been available for the duty.
25th anniversary for parade
By CRAIG MURPHY
Of the Keizertimes
Silver bells, silver bells.
It’s (almost) Christmas time
in the city of Keizer, which
since 2011 has been the home
of the Festival of Lights Holiday
Parade.
The parade is now in its
25th year, having started in Sa-
lem. Hence this year’s theme:
Silver Bells.
“It makes total sense,” said
parade CEO Cheryl Mitchell,
who is running the Saturday,
Dec. 12 event along with hus-
band Bob.
Per usual, the parade starts at
the corner of River Road and
Lockhaven Drive at 7 p.m. and
heads south along River Road.
The parade disbands at Glyn-
brook Street, with some entries
heading to the Skyline Ford
lot further south for the After
Glow party.
“Isn’t it amazing?” Mitch-
ell said of 25 years. “At times
it feels like forever, at times it
feels like the blink of an eye. It’s
been amazing. Can you imag-
ine how many lights, glue and
duct tape have been used in the
last 25 years? That’s been a lot
of supplies.”
To mark the silver anniver-
sary, Mitchell is trying to bring
in some special groups to pro-
vide entertainment. She has a
grand marshal selected – the
looking back
in the KT
announcement is expected to
be made the day after Thanks-
giving – and has plans for past
grand marshals.
“We’re trying to focus on
gathering all the grand mar-
shals from the past,” Mitchell
said. “We do have quite a few
past grand marshals and will put
them on the Cherriots bus. We
have a parade timeline on our
website, which we will do as
a banner on both sides of the
bus.”
The day’s events aren’t just
limited to the parade. A Glow-
On party, a new addition last
year, returns this year at 3 p.m.
in the parking lot of Colum-
bia Bank at 4260 River Road,
where River Road and Man-
brin Street meet.
Also at 3 p.m., runners can
start signing up for the Glow
Run, a 5K race that starts at the
bank at 6 p.m. and goes until
7. Because of those events, ve-
hicles will only be allowed to
cross River Road at Chemawa
Road, as Manbrin and Dear-
born Avenue will be closed to
vehicles.
“We focused on doing the
runs a bit differently this year,”
Mitchell said. “We wanted to
have more of a glow effect,
so we changed the glow logo
and the run name. All of the
pre-parade activities will be
at the bank. Those in the run
sudoku
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Council gives nod to
freeway mall pact
The Keizer City Council decid-
ed to enter a pre-development
agreement with Northwest
National LLC, the group of de-
velopers that wants to build a
retail and industrial mall on the
freeway-area land known as the
Chemawa Activity Center.
20 YEARS AGO
Keizer police track
persistent burglar
A busy burglar has been leaving
his fi ngerprints in Keizer homes
in recent months. Police believe
one person is responsible for 26
burglaries in west Keizer.
will have special seating in the
bank parking lot to watch the
parade.”
Everyone who signs up for
the run will get a fl ashing Santa
hat and a clip-on safety light.
Two other new additions
from last year are being carried
over this year. The $500 cash
prize for the Grand Sweep-
stakes award winner – which
went to May Trucking a year
ago – is back, as is the After
Glow Celebration in the Sky-
line Ford parking lot at 3555
River Road N.
“They both went really well
last year,” Mitchell said. “For the
After Glow party we’ve hired
the Party Doctor. He will do
fun stuff with the kids. We’re
going to have 20 vendors there,
with entertainment and music.
All of the award winners from
the parade will be coming into
Skyline. The bigger entires will
be in the back of the lot and the
smaller ones will be in the front.
It will be a nice setup. It will be
nice to bring the kids so they
can see the entries up close.”
With the parade starting at 7
p.m., the After Glow Celebra-
tion should get going around
8:30. Keeping with the glowing
theme, Mitchell is encouraging
parade goers to dress in glow-
in-the-dark attire. In case you
need any, a vendor will be on
hand selling such items.
There were some complaints
after last year’s parade from
those at the end of the route,
saying the parade ended early.
Mitchell said that wasn’t the
case, but steps have been taken
anyway to clarify the issue.
“We’ll let people know
where we disband in different
areas,” Mitchell said. “It’s always
been that way. We will have new
signs up. We have to have room
Please see PARADE, Page A3
Urban renewal
district lives on
In a unanimous vote, the Keiz-
er City Council approved an
amendment to extend the max-
imum indebtedness of the ur-
ban renewal district. The change
could fund a new civic center.
Last year, mayor-elect Clark
fi lled in for then-mayor Lore
Christopher.
• Councilors agreed to
cancel the December work
session, which had been
scheduled for Dec. 14. The
November work session was a
Saturday tour of the Covanta
plant in Brooks, though only
mayor Clark and councilor
Kim Freeman attended.
• Field usage rates at Keizer
Little League Park were ap-
proved unanimously without
any comments. Depending
on which of the 12 fi elds are
used, rates range from $30 for
a two-hour period to $135 to
use Field 6 with lights for 135
minutes.
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