SINCE 1979 • VOLUME 38, NO. 1
SECTION A
DECEMBER 4, 2015
Literacy at Kennedy
KEIZERTIMES/Eric A. Howald
Leticia Lemus reads to her daughter and son, Galilea and
Isai Rangel, as part of a literacy event at Kennedy Elemen-
tary School. More than 200 students received free books as
part of the event held last week.
Bud Pierce is
named parade
grand marshal
By CRAIG MURPHY
Of the Keizertimes
The doctor is in the car.
Bud Pierce, a longtime
medical cancer doctor and
2016 candidate for Oregon
governor, has been named
grand marshal of the Dec. 12
Festival of Lights Holiday Pa-
rade in Keizer.
Next Saturday’s 7 p.m. pa-
rade down River Road isn’t
just a normal event: this is the
25th anniversary of the night-
time parade, which started in
Salem and moved to Keizer in
2011. The theme of this year’s
parade, appropriately enough,
is Silver Bells.
With the parade being at
night and in mid-December,
the potential always exists for a
cold and/or wet night. Pierce
hails from Southern Califor-
Bud Pierce
nia and earned both his medi-
cal degree and completed his
residency in fellowship train-
ing at the University of Cali-
fornia Los Angeles. So is the
potential weather an issue?
Please see PARADE, Page A11
$1.00
Keizer native dies
on Mt. Jefferson
By CRAIG MURPHY
Of the Keizertimes
A Keizer native died after
a fall while climbing Mount
Jefferson last weekend.
Tommy Fountain, 32, and
wife Alison, 29, were climbing
Mt. Jefferson on Sunday, Nov.
29, when authorities say
Tommy fell into a crevasse.
Multiple agencies joined
in an effort to fi nd the couple,
with preliminary information
indicating Tommy had been
injured. Alison was able to
communicate with rescuers
via text messages. Authorities
indicated early Monday
morning Tommy had fallen
into a crevasse.
Searchers knew where
the Fountains were Sunday
night, but the diffi cult terrain
slowed rescue efforts.
One team of searchers was
delivered about 2,000 feet
below the couple early on
Monday morning, but it took
them several hours to reach
the Fountains. Another team
of searchers was fl own into
the area later that morning.
Shortly after 9 a.m.
Monday rescuers reached the
Fountains, but found Tommy
deceased as a result of his fall.
Alison was reported to be in
good condition, with crews
working to get both of them
down the mountain. Alison
was reunited with family
shortly after. Crews returned
Tuesday afternoon to retrieve
Tommy’s body.
According
to
their
Facebook pages, Tommy was
a buyer for Illinois-based
Topco Associates LLC, a retail
food purchasing organization.
Tommy’s
page
lists
him as being from Keizer,
but Sgt. Chris Baldridge
with the Marion County
Sheriff ’s Offi ce confi rmed
the Fountains live in
McMinnville. Alison’s page
lists her as being a nurse
at Reach Air Medical
Services in Corvallis and at
Photo courtesy Facebook
Keizer native Thomas "Tom-
my" Fountain, 32, died after
a fall on Mount Jefferson on
Sunday, Nov. 29. His body
was found by searchers the
following day and brought
down on Dec. 1.
Willamette Valley Medical
Center and Cancer Center in
McMinnville.
Multiple pictures showed
both Tommy and Alison to
be avid climbers. Tommy, a
2002 McNary High School
graduate, leaves behind a
young daughter. The couple
married in 2013.
Keizer City Councilor
Roland Herrera remembers
coaching Tommy in Keizer
Little League for two years at
the Majors level.
“He was my lead-off guy
for the Yankees,” Herrera
said. “He was an incredible
catcher and a great kid. It’s
very tragic. I feel so bad for
his family. His parents were
as good as you could hope to
fi nd in Little League. It’s such
a sad thing.”
Though he hadn’t seen
Tommy in about a year,
Herrera noted they chatted
on Facebook.
“I can’t believe it,” Herrera
said. “He was such a vibrant
young man. He was such a
great kid. It’s such a big loss.
He was a leader. He had so
much potential. It was truly
a pleasure coaching him. He
was one of those kids you
don’t forget.
“He was just a wonderful
kid to be around, very
positive,” Herrera added. “He
was always making people
laugh. He was a fun guy. It
was hard news to hear. I can’t
imagine what his family is
going through. I coached
his brother, too. They were
both good kids. Tommy will
be missed. I’m so sad for the
family.”
Assisting the MCSO
with the rescue efforts were
personnel from the Linn
County Sheriff ’s Offi ce,
Corvallis Mountain Rescue,
Eugene Mountain Rescue,
Marion County Jeep Patrol,
Marion County SAR COM
team and the Oregon Coast
National Guard.
Panthers pounce on AVID learning
By ERIC A. HOWALD
to classes in January.
Of the Keizertimes
“Our kids struggle picturing
For the past six years, teachers themselves three or eight years
and administrators at Claggett from now, this is a way to help
Creek Middle School have them visualize where they'll be,”
put a focus on AVID teaching Schoepper said.
methods, after Christmas break
Greer said the ideas were
it will start looking the part as
well.
2013-14 GPA at
“We're going to visually
Claggett Creek
reinforce priorities for our
students. If a college-going
culture is important, we have
to reinforce that everywhere
students are in the building,”
said Rob Schoepper, CCMS
principal.
AVID (Advancement Via
Individual
Determination)
is a teaching methodology
that emphasizes college- and
AVID Students
career-readiness
through
writing-to-learn strategies that Non-AVID Students
allow students to spend time
refl ecting on lessons as much
as absorbing information itself. sparked by a visit to Gresham's
AVID students spend more time Parkrose High School, an AVID
working in small groups and demonstration school, earlier
support each other through the this year.
challenges they encounter in
“I was really paying attention
school alongside
to 60%
how 80% their
0%
20%
40%
100%
trained tutors on
building looked
loan from local “Our kids strug-
and that's where
colleges.
we got a lot of
gle picturing
Schoep-
our ideas. One
per and Kelley themselves three
of the ones I'm
Greer, CCMS's or eight years
most
excited
AVID coordina-
about is that
tor, have been from now, this
we're going to
working togeth- is a way to help
have signs on the
er the past few
outside of the
weeks on ways them visualize
building
with
to incorporate where they'll be.”
exactly how far
AVID goals into
(in miles) it is
the atmosphere
Claggett
— Rob Schoepper, from
at the school it-
to the area
CCMS Principal
self. New looks
colleges,”
she
in the hallways,
said.
as well as new names for them,
The
cosmetic
changes
fl ags representing local and coincide with a culture shift
regional colleges and other at the school, a big push to
changes are in the works for incorporate AVID strategies
unveiling when students return schoolwide.
Chasing
Dark links
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Thief is
Targeted,
arrested
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Christmas
tree lighting
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KEIZERTIMES/Eric A. Howald
A Claggett Creek Middle School AVID student looks over his
notes during class Tuesday, Dec. 1.
All graphs by KEIZERTIMES/Andrew Jackson
2013-14 OAKS Testing Results
for Claggett Creek Middle School
READING
MATH
WRITING
SCIENCE 8
Last year, in a comprehensive
self-study, the school achieved
2s and 3s in every analysis of
AVID adoption. It means that
all the AVID efforts have either
achieved routine use or are
already a sustaining, schoolwide
practice.
“It was a big year for us,”
said Schoepper. “We also earned
the designation of AVID Site of
Distinction, which puts us on
the path to becoming an AVID
demonstration school if we stay
on track during the next 18
months.”
Becoming a demonstration
school
would
mean
administrators and teachers from
throughout the region would be
making visits to Claggett to gain
a better understanding of how
AVID works. CCMS would be
only the second school in the
state, Parkrose was the fi rst, to
achieve that distinction.
0%
20%
40%
AVID Students
60%
80%
MHS swim,
wrestling
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100%
ALL Students
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