JANUARY 22, 2016, KEIZERTIMES, PAGE A5
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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
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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-
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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.
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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. I
know I would be disappointed
if I was not a part of this.”
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John Knox Presbyterian Church
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SUNDAY WORSHIP
8:30 am • 10 am • 11:30 am • 6 pm
PEOPLESCHURCH
4500 LANCASTER DR NE | SALEM
503.304.4000 • www.peopleschurch.com
Celebration
Services
Saturday Evening
6:00 pm
Children’s Programs, Student and Adult Ministries
1755 Lockhaven Dr. NE Keizer
503-390-3900
www.dayspringfellowship.com
Sunday Morning
9:00 am
and
10:45 am
452 Cummings Lane North • 393-0404
Father Gary L. Zerr, Pastor
Saturday Vigil Liturgy: 5:30 p.m.
Sundays: 8:15 a.m. & 10:30 a.m.
La Misa en Español: 12:30 p.m.
Rev. 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