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JANUARY 22, 2016, KEIZERTIMES, PAGE A5 KeizerCommunity KEIZERTIMES.COM KFD honors employees, volunteers at banquet The Keizer Fire District honored volunteers and em- ployees old and new at its an- nual Firefi ghter Reception on Monday, Jan. 11. Honorees were: Jared Ca- ruth, Volunteer Firefi ghter of the Year and Top Responder; Kelby Frazier, Employee of the Year; Danny South, EMT of the Year; and Victor Hess, Rookie of the Year. Length of Service Awards were presented to: Bob Busch, 25 years; Brian Butler, 20 years; Jim Simpson, 10 years; and Hector Blanco and Sa- mantha Howell, fi ve years. Service Awards were pre- sented to Commissioner Don Flesch (1991-2015), Mike Kurtz (board of direc- tors 1998-2015), and Greg Ego (board of directors 2001- 2015). New employees CJ Thorne, Bill Herring, Matt Dryden, Jason Perkins and Sean Cum- mings were also introduced at the event. Tornado blows trouble into small town in McNary’s Anatomy of Gray KEIZERTIMES/Eric A. Howald Left: Members of the Anato- my of Gray cast react to a vi- cious storm that blows a doc- tor into town. Tix on sale for Night of Jazz The McNary High School band is hosting its only fun- draising concert of the year, A Night of Jazz, Saturday, Feb. 13. The evening includes a silent auction, dancing and desserts at McNary Golf Club, 165 McNary Estates Drive N. In addition to perfor- mances by McNary’s stu- dents, Justin Woodward and Foe Destroyer will be giving a special performance. Tickets are $20 and avail- able at the door or online at mcnaryhsband.org. Library hosting tea funder Sunday, Feb. 7 Tickets are on sale for the second annual Afternoon Tea at the Library, a fundraiser for the all-volunteer, nonprofi t Keizer Community Library. The event is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 7, upstairs at the Keizer Heritage Center, 980 Chemawa Road, NE. Tickets, priced at $25 each, are available at the Library on the ground fl oor of the Keizer Heritage Center, or by contacting event coordinator Gayle McMurria-Bachik, Ba- chik@comcast.net. Tickets will not be avail- able at the door, according to McMurria-Bachik. Only 80 tickets will be sold to the event. Raffl e tickets will be available for a variety of gift baskets, which feature goods donated by library patrons and commu- nity sponsors. Major event sponsors in- clude: the Keizertimes, Jerry Crane of That Food Guy Ca- tering; Sam Goesch Insurance and Rich Ford, Realtor. The library is open 36 hours per week on the follow- ing schedule: Monday through Thursday, 1 to 7 p.m.; Friday, 1 to 4 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; and Sunday, 1 to 4 p.m. The all-volunteer library is seeking additional community volunteers. For information, contact the library, 503-390- 2370, or visit the library’s web- site, www.keizerlibrary.org. For tickets contact Mary Sasaki, 541-270-5926, or Gayle McMurria-Bachik, 503-363- 4548. By ERIC A. HOWALD Of the Keizertimes For Jaida Watson, June Muldoon is one of the most relatable characters she’s ever played. “She’s really sarcastic and not afraid to express herself and I relate to that in a lot of ways,” said Watson, who plays June in the upcoming Mc- Nary High School production of Anatomy of Gray. “She’s the girl who sticks out from the others in the town because she thinks it is the most bor- ing place in the world and she just wants to leave.” Performances are slated Jan. 27-30. Curtain time is 7 p.m. each night and tickets are $5. In the play, June’s father dies early on and sets the stage for much of what then unfolds. Not long after his passing, a doctor, Galen P. Gray played by Osvaldo Torres, blows into town on the winds of a tor- KEIZERTIMES/Eric A. Howald Osvaldo Torres shares a scene with Jesse White and Morgan Hoag during dress rehearsals. nado. Gray is welcomed as a healer, but soon the town is struck by a mysterious illness that even he is helpless to treat. The play features a smallish cast on a mostly bare stage, but the script is lively and chock- full of believable character moments. We are Everything Except Overpriced Senior Dorothy Woolford is enjoying playing June’s mother, Rebekah Muldoon. “Of all the characters, she’s the most well-rounded be- cause you see her grief, her love, and her fear. The play starts out at a fairly dark time in her life and she’s just trying to maintain everything for the sake of June,” Woolford said. Morgan Hoag and Jesse White play the town’s elders, Belva and Crutch Collins. Hoag said the townspeople provide lots of potential con- nection points for the audi- ence. “They all have their own stories. You might discover you know more about the Crutch than you do June, and they all click into place without the audience even realizing what is happening,” she said. White said he anticipates the show’s fi nale most. “I want people to be amazed when they fi nally fi g- ure out how all the pieces fi t together,” he said. Torres, who plays the titu- lar Gray, said he was hesitant at fi rst when deciding if he wanted a role in the play at all. “I was feeling kind of burned out at the time, but I’ve been blessed enough to be trusted to undertake some- thing like this and I’ve fallen in love with the character more each day. He’s a human being in ways both good and bad,” Torres said. Both Woolford and Torres found themselves touched by the origin of the script, writ- ten by Jim Leonard, Jr. “It was written in response to the AIDS epidemic and the prejudice that people went through while suffering from that disease,” said Wool- ford. “Even though it’s not as prevalent in what the story became, I want people to be able to look back on the ex- perience of seeing it and fi nd those messages there.” The beauty of the writing itself was what led Torres to seeing past his early misgivings about taking on a role. “I feel like this play came out of a beautiful place. Not as a commentary, but as an author’s need to express and write,” Torres said. “It’s not meant to shame anybody and that gives it a beautiful shape. 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Dr. John Neal, Pastor Worship - 10:30 a.m. Education Hour - 9:15 a.m. Nursery Care Available www.keizerjkpres.org Jason Lee UMC 820 Jeff erson St. NE Salem OR 97301 Dr. Jon F. Langenwalter, Pastor The church with the purple doors 503-364-2844 Worship at 9:30 am • Child Care Available Faith Lutheran Church 4505 River Rd N • 393-4507 Sunday Schedule: 9:00 a.m. Children’s Church 9:15 a.m. Adult Bible Study 9:30 a.m. Children’s Activities Pastor Virginia Eggert 10:30 a.m. Worship with Communion