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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
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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.”
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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.
Johnson said the staff rec-
Council says no
to apartments in
north Keizer
Backing up unhappy neighbors,
the Keizer City Council turned
thumbs down on a controversial
apartment project on Wheatland
Road.
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