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Today in History
Financier Bernard Madoff is arrested at his New York
City apartment and charged with masterminding a long-
running Ponzi scheme later estimated to involve around
$65 billion, making it one of the biggest investment frauds
in Wall Street history.
— December 11, 2008
Food 4 Thought
“How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand
one who’s cold?”
— Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian author
(The Gulag Archipelago) born Dec. 11, 1918
The Month Ahead
Through 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.
Through 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.
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.
Through 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.
Friday, December 11
McNary Drama Department presents A Christmas Carol
Radio Show. 7 p.m. in the McNary auditorium.
Saturday, December 12
Keizer Network of Women (KNOW) gift and food basket
delivery, 9 a.m.
Festival of Lights Glow Run, 6 p.m. at Columbia Bank,
4260 River Road N. $25 early registration; $35 day of
from 3 to 5 p.m.
Sons of Norway’s ‘Famous’ Scandinavian Bake & Craft
Sale. 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Salem Masonic Temple, 1625 Brush
College Road NW. Come early for lefse. 503-910-3302.
AAWO Holiday Market, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m., Columbia Hall at
Oregon State Fairgrounds. Free admission. Unique Alpaca
season gifts and products.
Willamette Valley Genealogical Society will hold its annual
Christmas get-together, potluck and auction at 10:30 a.m.
in the Anderson Room A of the Salem Public Library (585
Liberty St SE). For more information, call (503) 363-0880.
Saturday, December 12 – Sunday, December 13
Salem Holiday Market, 10 a.m. Jackman Long Building
at Oregon State Fairgrounds. Largest handcrafted food,
gifts and décor. Free raffl e prizes and Santa visit. Free
admission, $4 parking. Marion Polk Food Share and Toys
for Tots accepting canned food and toy donations. www.
salemsaturdaymarket.com. 503-585-8264
Whiteaker Middle School Concert Choir and the Willamette
Master Chorus perform Vivaldi’s Gloria. Performances at
3 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, 3 p.m. on Sunday. Tickets range
from $15 to $30. willamettemasterchorus.org.
Sunday, December 13
Keizer Fire District Santa Breakfast, 7 to 11 a.m. at KFD
offi ce, 661 Chemawa Road NE. $5 for adults, $3 for
children 12 and under. Pictures with Santa $2. Menu
includes pancakes, eggs, ham, milk and coffee.
Patrick Lamb Christmas concert at Keizer Civic Center,
930 Chemawa Road NE. Tickets are $30, available at
Uptown Music (3827 River Road N or 503-393-4437).
Doors open at 4 p.m., dinner at 5 and Lamb performs from
5:30 to 8:30.
Tuesday, December 15
Keizer Points of Interest Committee meeting, 5:30 p.m. in
council chambers at Keizer Civic Center.
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By CRAIG MURPHY
Of the Keizertimes
Have a desire to paint a fi re
truck on a public mural?
Or how about a marching
band?
Those are two of several
images still available for next
summer’s second Keizer pub-
lic mural, which will be going
on the north wall at Town &
Country Lanes. The wall was
recently primered and directs
those interested to the city
website (www.keizer.org) for
more information.
The mural, a project be-
ing led by Keizer Public Arts
Commission member Jill Ha-
gen, got a boost Dec. 2 as Ha-
gen held a meeting with inter-
ested artists. About 25 people
attended. The next meeting is
scheduled for Wednesday, Jan.
6 at 6 p.m. at Keizer Civic
Center, 930 Chemawa Road
NE.
Lore Christopher, the
KPAC chair, gave a brief in-
troduction of the committee
and thanked Don Lebold, the
Town & Country owner who
was in attendance.
“Don graciously gave
us the side of his building,”
Christopher said. “I wanted
the mural to be refl ective of
the community.”
Actual work at the building
is expected to start in May, but
pre-work will be done long
before that.
“We’re not going to wait
until May,” Hagen said. “We’re
going to start now.”
Hagen introduced sev-
eral of the artists who have
pledged to help with the mu-
ral and to help community
members with their painting.
“This group has tremen-
dous assets and abilities,” Ha-
gen said. “This is our group
we can turn to for help. You
don’t have to be a skilled artist
to do what we’re doing.”
According to Hagen, a
healthy public art program is
a good sign.
“That’s the fi rst indica-
tor your community is do-
ing well,” she said. “Art helps
us feel better. There’s no end
to what the benefi t of having
artwork is.”
Hagen noted the wall be-
ing used is 140 feet long, with
painting to be done in stages.
Sherwin-Williams will be
providing all of the paint and
supplies. Grid work will be
done to give an idea how im-
ages will be transferred onto
the wall, to be followed by
projection work. The bricks
along the wall will help with
the gridding.
“This thing is for amateurs
and professionals, young and
old, skilled and non-skilled,”
Hagen said.
Artists won’t necessarily be
doing an entire piece.
“Say you’ve been working
on something for 30 minutes,”
Hagen said. “Then you’ll
put down your stuff, move
down one space and work
on the next one. That way
your uniqueness gets spread
KEIZERTIMES/Craig Murphy
Jill Hagen (right), who is leading the next Keizer public mural
project, talks to a roomful of artists at the Keizer Civic Center
about the project on Dec. 2.
around.”
After the sky is painted,
buildings and trees will be
painted, followed by Iris Fes-
tival Parade images and parade
spectators. Images by children
will be done last.
“We’re going to get lots
of kids to put their hands up
there,” Hagen said. “We’re
looking for someone to work
with the children.”
Parade images include the
pet parade, McNary High
School band, the Keizer Fire
District’s antique truck, the
Town & Country fl oat, a po-
lice car, color guard, a couple
of small cars, a juggler, an an-
tique car, rodeo horses, Na-
tive Americans, the Volcanoes
fl oat, Keizer CERT, Mexican
horses and a clown.
“Faces will all be fl esh col-
ored,” Hagen said. “We are
going to be selling portraits to
the community for $200. We
won’t have Hitler or anyone
awful.”
Several of the images were
not selected by artists attend-
ing last week’s meeting in-
cluding CERT (Community
Emergency Response Team),
the Volcanoes fl oat, the KFD
fi re truck, the clown, the
marching band and small cars.
Wendy Lusby was among
those pledging to help com-
munity members.
“I would be willing to help
some people if they need it,”
Lusby said. “There will be
people working on this that
may need instruction. I would
be willing to help. Not every-
one working on this has to be
an artist by any means.”
Parks Board amends master plans
By CRAIG MURPHY
Of the Keizertimes
The master plan for Keizer
Rapids Park has been revised
yet again.
This time, however, neither
the changes nor the process
were as intensive.
Members of the Keizer
Parks and Recreation Advi-
sory Board approved relatively
minor changes Tuesday to the
KRP master plan, as well as
the Chalmers Jones Park be-
hind the Keizer Civic Center.
The revisions will be forward-
ed to the Keizer City Council
for fi nal approval.
This marks the second year
in a row the master plan for
KRP has been revised, but
the work was much easier and
quicker this time.
Last year, the master plan
had to be amended as part of
moving the desired location
for the Big Toy play structure,
which was built in June. Since
the process included land not
inside city limits, that issue had
to be dealt with. In addition,
a number of meetings were
held to determine what ame-
nities the park should have in
the future.
By comparison, the chang-
es looked at Tuesday were mi-
nor. Access along the east side
of the park and a proposed
ADA (Americans with Dis-
abilities Act) pathway were
added to the master plan. City
offi cials, at the request of the
Community Build Task Force,
will be applying for a grant
to complete fi nal projects –
the pathway, restrooms and a
poured-in-place surface – at
the Big Toy next year. An ADA
pathway was added in part
since adding disability access
should make the project more
attractive in grant applications.
Bill Lawyer, the Public
Works director who is work-
ing with Community Devel-
opment director Nate Brown
on the application being sub-
mitted to the Oregon Parks
and Recreation Department,
explained the master plan up-
date to Parks Board members
on Tuesday.
“We got to talking about
access, pathways and grant
applications,” Lawyer said.
“There should have been a
path there all along. There is
no way for neighbors to get
there without taking a long
path. This also means there is
a path to the Big Toy without
having to go down Walsh Way.
The best correction would be
to create this east-west path-
way.”
Parks Board chair David
Louden asked what kind of
timeline is being looked at for
the pathway.
“With an aggressive sched-
ule we could have it built this
next summer,” Lawyer re-
sponded. “If it’s included and
approved for the grant, we
could make that happen next
summer. If not, it will be at
least a year delayed. I’m fi g-
uring we’ll be taking out two
rows of trees in the orchards,
but I haven’t counted how
many trees that is. It’s close to
how many we took out for
the Big Toy.”
With Chalmers Jones Park,
the master plan has needed al-
tering for years since the cur-
rent plan was from before city
hall opened in 2009 and the
layout is slightly different than
the plan shows.
“It’s something we’ve
known we’ve needed for a
while,” Lawyer said. “We de-
cided to not include it with
the last master plan update
for Keizer Rapids because we
didn’t want to mud up the
topic then. Since we’re bring-
ing this (KRP) update up, we
fi gured it was time to make it
consistent with the civic cen-
ter. The border of the park
doesn’t match what is there;
the border in the plan goes
through the middle of Splash
Fountain.”
Parks Board members
unanimously approved both
master plan changes.
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5 YEARS AGO
Transit center
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Salem-Keizer Transit offi cials
now have the go-ahead to buy
$1.77 million in land for a
facility in Keizer. The site is at
Lockhaven Drive and Keizer
Station Boulevard.
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New senior planner
gets feet wet
Of the many projects he’ll tackle
as senior planner for the city of
Keizer, avid outdoorsman Sam
Litke has particular interest in
the Keizer Rapids Regional
Park.
15 YEARS AGO
Plan to scrap art room
creates rift at McNary
Thirty-eight McNary High
School staff members, including
four department chairs, have
protested remodeling plans that
would sacrifi ce art classrooms
for new counseling offi ces and
a career center.
20 YEARS AGO
Storm cuts power, fells
trees in Keizer
Downed trees, darkened homes
and dismissed schools plagued
Keizerites as the city endured
one of the strongest wind
storms to hit the Northwest in
decades.
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