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PAGE A2, KEIZERTIMES, DECEMBER 18, 2015 Palma Ciea appraisal complicated presented by DRIVE A LITTLE – SAVE A BUNCH! 3893 COMMERCIAL ST SE • SALEM MORE INFO AT NORTHERNLIGHTSTHEATREPUB.COM UFC 195 Lawler vs. Condit Saturday, December 19, at 11:00 am MOVIE: H OTEL T RANSYLVANIA 2 [ PG ] Sensory Sensitive Show ONLY $3 Special showing for kids and adults with Autism or other sensory sensitivities. UPCOMING EVENTS SATURDAY, JAN 2ND —–———— 21 & OVER —————— Live Fights at 5 pm – Tickets $12 9 fi ghts in all on the HUGE screen! Reserved Seats Available Now Online FREE Christmas Movie Festival Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday Dec 21-23. Polar Express (PG) 10:00 am and Noon Elf (PG-13) 10:30 am and 12:30 pm Brought to you aas a Christmas Gift from Northern Lights! Today in History The Mayfl ower, carrying 120 passengers, docked at modern-day Plymouth, Massachusetts and those on board prepared to begin their new settlement, Plymouth Colony. — December 18, 1620 Food 4 Thought “Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt The Month Ahead 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. Friday, December 18 Santa Claus and his assistants at Marion County Fire District No. 1 deliver candy canes to Clear Lake residents, 6 to 9 p.m. Sing We Now of Christmas presented by the McNary High School Choirs. Doors open at 6 p.m. Concert begins at 7 p.m. Reserved seating $10. Buy tickets at mcnaryhs. ticketleap.com Saturday, December 19 Candy Cane Day. Santa travels around Keizer with the Keizer Fire District delivering candy canes. Listen for the sirens on his approach. France School of Dance performance, 2 p.m., North Salem High School, 765 14th St. N.E. Admission is either three cans of food or a $3 cash donation; all proceeds benefi t the Keizer Community Food Bank. 5K Jingle Dash along cart routes of McNary Golf Club, 3:30 p.m. Race begins at Courthouse Fitness Center, 117 McNary Estates Drive. Adults $25 in advance or $30 day of; youth ages 5-12 $12 in advance or $15 day of. www. keizerchamber.com. Annual Christmas bird count by Salem Audubon Society. This is one of the society’s major events and relies on volunteers from the community to help count. Contact Keizer count leader Rich Ford at 503-510-9583 to participate from your background or one of the trips with other volunteers. Saturday, December 19 – Wednesday, December 23 “Magic at the Mill” at Mission Mill Museum. 5:30 to 8 p.m. 1313 Mill Street SE in Salem. Adults and seniors $6, children 6 to 12 $4. 4 and under free. Free admission to members. www.willametteheritage.org. Saturday, December 20 Festival Chorale Oregon presents Sing We Now of Christmas at the Historic Elsinore Theatre. 4 p.m. The Chorale’s eighth holiday celebration will feature singers in Victorian costume, sing-along and a special story for children. Tickets are $10, children under 12 are free. festivalchoraleoregon.org. Tea with Mrs. Claus at Salem’s Riverfront Carousel. Sittings at 11 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Teas, snacks and stories with Santa’s wife. Free carousel ride and goodies. $20 per person, children under 3 are free if on adult’s lap. Reservation only. Call 503-540-0374. Monday, December 21 Holiday Lights Walk through Gubser neighborhood, free. Meet at 6 p.m. at corner of 14th Avenue and Marigold Street; bring donation for Marion-Polk Food Share. www. justwalksalem.com or 503-373-3760. Tuesday, December 22 Keizer Public Arts Commission meeting, 6 p.m. in council chambers at Keizer Civic Center, 930 Chemawa Road NE. Thursday, December 24 – Christmas Eve Salem Tuba Holiday performs at Elsinore Theatre. Noon. Tickets are $5 for any seat, visit www.elsinoretheatre.com to purchase. Friday, December 25 – Christmas Day All government offi ces closed. By CRAIG MURPHY Of the Keizertimes As it turns out, getting an appraisal on Palma Ciea Park isn’t that simple. Earlier this year, members of the Keizer Parks and Rec- reation Advisory Board pro- posed to see what the value of the park was. The park is on the Willamette River but for the most part isn’t developed and would be hard to develop on. Keizer resident Gary Blake, who lives near the park, im- mediately took the process to mean the city was trying to sell the property and quickly voiced strenuous objections. While selling the property was one possibility, Parks Board members emphasized no de- cisions had been made, with solid numbers needed before any decision could be made. The issue was forwarded to the Keizer City Council, with councilors directing staff to get an appraisal done. City Attorney Shannon Johnson gave an update on the process during the Dec. 7 council meeting. There was more discussion during the following night’s Parks Board meeting. Johnson said staff deter- mined the confi guration of the property, including the location of the river wall and EARLY DEADLINE: Submissions for the next two upcoming editions of Keizertimes (Dec. 25 & Jan. 1) need to be received no later than Monday at noon of the same week. ommendation was to keep the Palma Ciea Park property as park ground and noted coun- cil had three options: leave the property as a park, make the property sellable as home sites or sell the property to adjoin- ing property owners. Leaving the park as a park could either entail leaving it as is or modifying the park. Mak- ing the property useable as home sites would require sev- eral steps, all of which could be objected to by neighboring property owners. Selling the property to adjoining prop- erty owners would be more likely to work if those prop- erty owners were interested. “That last one would only work if all the neighbors buy in,” Johnson said. Mayor Cathy Clark had a suggestion for Parks Board members. “I would like to encourage the Parks Board to work with folks who live around there, to go ahead and form a working group, to determine what they would like to see happen,” Clark said. “Maybe they can use matching grant money if they put something together for that.” City Manager Chris Ep- pley suggested coming up with a plan of action. “The fi rst step is to get a plan,” he said. “Opening a dia- logue (with the neighbors) is important.” Councilors unanimously voted to terminate the idea of getting an appraisal for the park. The issue was brought up again at the Dec. 8 Parks Board meeting. “The West Keizer Neigh- borhood Association had said they were working with resi- dents who want to keep it a park,” councilor Marlene Par- sons told Parks Board mem- bers. “Our suggestion is for you to go back to those guys and see what they want to do. It’s a conversation to have with the neighbors. Invite them to a meeting and ask what they want to see.” Parks Board member Richard Walsh asked if the land could be leased for com- munity gardens. “You could,” said Bill Law- yer, Public Works director for Keizer. “That would be an in- teresting concept.” David Louden, chair of the Parks Board, liked the idea of bringing in the WKNA mem- bers. “They dipped their foot into the pool and continue with a full swim,” Louden said. Louden indicated he would call WKNA chair Rhonda Rich with an update on the issue. Paddle wheel could be with fl ood sign By CRAIG MURPHY Of the Keizertimes A big wheel could be fl ooded with history. Members of the Keizer Points of Interest Committee (KPIC) have proposed com- bining a project they’ve been working on for a while with a piece of history. KPIC members have been spending recent months put- ting together a sign with in- formation about signifi cant fl oods in Keizer’s history. As envisioned, the sign would be put up at Keizer Rapids Park, in view of the Willamette River. Then there’s the second part: Jerry Nuttbrock has a paddle wheel from the histor- ic Sternwheeler Jean, which was built in 1938 and stayed in service on the Willamette River until 1957. KPIC members in No- vember discussed the idea of partnering with Nuttbrock to create an outdoor mu- seum of sorts, which would include the paddle wheel as well as the fl ood history sig- nage. KPIC co-chair Sherrie Gottfried brought the idea up at the Dec. 8 Keizer Parks and Recreation Advisory Board meeting, since it was recom- mended KPIC get formal permission from the Parks Board to place the museum in the park. “This is something we’d like to do,” Gottfried said. “We would like to partner up with Jerry, maybe do some- thing besides history. He is very excited about this op- portunity.” Gottfried said she fi rst needed formal permission for placement of the project and will then come back to the Parks Board later – likely by March – to ask for funding via the board’s matching grant program. “It will be a combined education with history,” Gott- fried said. “We want to part- ner with Jerry and do it all at once. It would be benefi cial to have the sternwheeler and fl ood history together.” Several Parks Board mem- bers had trouble picturing what Gottfried was describ- ing. “We don’t see what’s on your mind,” Donna Bradley said. Gottfried said the sign would be similar to the Marie Dorian kiosk at the Ryan J. Hill Memorial Park in Keizer Station. “The paddle wheel will be a separate piece of that por- tion,” Gottfried said. That didn’t necessarily less- en the confusion. “So you’re bringing the looking back in the KT paddle wheel into the park?” Parks Board chair David Louden asked. Gottfried said that is in- deed the case, with the paddle wheel being in the same area as the two-sided fl ood sign. After a motion was ap- proved for the sign, a new mo- tion was made to allow place- ment of the paddle wheel. “I don’t think you’re there yet,” Public Works director Bill Lawyer said. “You don’t have a place, a sign, nothing but the concept. Approv- ing the placement is prema- ture, but you can approve the concept. I know Jerry has a sternwheeler. These things are huge. Place one of these paddle wheels in a park isn’t something we’ll just do, be- cause it’s so big. I want to make sure you understand the scope of this.” Parks Board member Richard Walsh pointed out some work may need to be done on the wheel. “As I understand it there’s the possibility to construct the wheel a bit,” Walsh said. “It was chopped off so it’s not a full wheel. They would have to add new material, or do it with the way they are.” Walsh noted other com- munities with such displays have done concrete stands. Keizer Parks director Rob- ert Johnson noted Nuttbrock just happens to be handy with concrete. “These concepts have been batted around forever,” Walsh told Gottfried about the paddle wheel being placed at KRP. “For you to step up and do this is awesome. Thank you so much.” local weather sudoku 5 YEARS AGO Utility fee cut by city council Sewer and stormwater fees were cut back at a Keizer City Council meeting last month. Councilors voted to cut back the rates to 5 percent. 10 YEARS AGO Heroin ring stretched from Keizer to Ft. Smith, Ark. 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. 3893 COMMERCIAL ST SE THIS WEEK’S MOVIE TIMES A three-month investigation led to 23 arrests as a heroin traffi cking ring that led from a doorstep in Keizer to Fort Smith, Arkansas, was shut down. 15 YEARS AGO McNary owners, developer make peace over road McNary Estates residents ham- mered out an agreement about use of the community’s streets with lawyers for Monterey De- velopment just hours before a controversial housing plan was due for a Keizer City Council hearing. 20 YEARS AGO Add your event by e-mailing news@keizertimes.com. power lines coming over the river, make the property diffi - cult to sell. It was fi gured there would be at most two small buildable lots, which could be classifi ed as riverfront lots. The situation got thorn- ier when an appraiser found an old plat showed the park was dedicated to the public years ago and wasn’t outright owned by the city. “Since this changes the is- sue, I requested that the ap- praiser postpone further ap- praisal work,” Johnson said. “We received the deed from Marion County, but Marion County never got the deed to it.” Johnson recalled the situ- ation being similar to what happened many years ago with Fernwood Park, which was behind the Schoolhouse Square. After the old Keizer School was moved from that location to its current loca- tion next to the Keizer Civic Center, it was determined the Schoolhouse Square location was not suitable for a park. “In that situation, the neighboring property own- ers agreed with the vacation process and then the city sold the property to the adjoining property owners for relatively nominal amounts,” Johnson said. 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