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Today in History
Signaling the close of the nearly decade-long Soviet
military intervention in Afghanistan, the last Russian
troops withdraw from the capital city of Kabul. Less than
two weeks later, all Soviet troops departed Afghanistan
entirely, ending what many observers referred to as
Russia’s “Vietnam.”
— February 5, 1989
Food 4 Thought
“Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him.
Remember that the happiness of his humble home,
remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of
Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in
the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own.”
— William E. Gladstone,
19th century British Prime Minister
The Month Ahead
Friday, February 5
Salem-Keizer Volcanoes’ 9th Winter Sports Banquet and
Silent Auction, 6 p.m., Keizer Quality Suites. Keynote
speaker will be Kyle Haines, team manager. Also appearing
is Tony Torcato, former Volcano and Giant. Tickets are
$60 per couple, $35 per person or $225 for a table of eight.
Call 503-390-2225.
Saturday, February 6
Reception for the February Keizer Art Association show,
the McNary High School Art Show, 2 to 4 p.m. at the Enid
Joy Mount Gallery, 980 Chemawa Road NE. Show runs
Feb. 5 to 28.
Mural meeting for Keizer’s next public mural, 3 to 5 p.m. at
Keizer Civic Center, 930 Chemawa Road NE.
Sunday, February 7
Afternoon Tea at the Library, fundraising event for the
Keizer Community Library, 1:30 p.m. at Keizer Heritage
Center. Tea, light refreshments, raffl e. Tickets, $25, are
limited and available at the library or by emailing bachik@
comcast.net. No tickets available at the door.
Tuesday, February 9
Keizer Parks and Recreation Advisory Board meeting,
6 p.m. in council chambers at Keizer Civic Center, 930
Chemawa Road NE.
Big Toy grant request sent to council
By CRAIG MURPHY
Of the Keizertimes
Let’s run those numbers
again.
That was what city leaders
working on a grant application
for the Big Toy at Keizer Rap-
ids Park had to do.
At the January Commu-
nity Build Task Force meet-
ing, committee members ap-
proved plans for how much
local funding would be used
and how much grant money
would be asked for from the
Oregon Parks and Recreation
Department’s Local Govern-
ment Grant.
Nate Brown, director of
Community Development for
Keizer, is completing the grant
with assistance from Jackie
Franke. Brown and Bill Law-
yer, Public Works director for
Keizer, went over the numbers
at the January meeting. Af-
ter CBTF members approved
a motion, it was believed that
was the last time the task force
would have to meet.
However, while reviewing
the numbers with Brown after
that meeting, a Keizertimes re-
porter noticed numbers didn’t
appear to be adding up. Brown
realized there were indeed er-
rors and encouraged another
CBTF meeting.
Such a meeting took place
Tuesday night, with updated
and correct numbers.
Mostly.
The purchase of land at
KRP can be used as part of
the local match for the grant
application. In the paperwork
CBTF members had in front
of them, the entire 28 acres was
listed, worth $1,355,600. That
wasn’t the correct number.
Brown read off numbers from
the corrected sheet using 10.47
acres, worth $506,800.
Once CBTF members had
the updated information, a
motion was made and unani-
mously approved to apply for a
$456,800 grant for the second
phase of the Big Toy project,
with work to include a new
poured-in-place surface, a
pathway to the play structure,
permanent restrooms and grab
bars for disabled users to hold
onto.
Total project costs are esti-
mated to be $1,013,600. Brown
and Franke have had multiple
meetings with Wayne Rawl-
ins, the former OPRD grant
program director who said the
requested grant amount should
be less than 50 percent of the
total project cost. The fi gures
show the grant request is 45
percent of the total project cost.
The city will be using the
$506,800 in land acquisition
costs to cover most of the
match, plus $50,000 in new
Systems Development Charges
(SDC) funds for a total match
of $556,800. The request now
goes to the Keizer City Coun-
Thursday, February 11
Keizer Traffi c Safety/Bikeways/Pedestrian Committee
meeting, 6 p.m. in council chambers at Keizer Civic Center,
930 Chemawa Road NE.
West Keizer Neighborhood Association meeting, 7 p.m. at
Keizer Civic Center.
Saturday, February 13
Salem Audubon Society hosts a walking tour around Staats
Lake beginning at 10 a.m. to view waterfowl that winter in
our area. Dress warmly. The tour, about 1.25 miles, will
last about 90 minutes. Contact Rich Ford at 503-510-9583.
Tuesday, February 16
Keizer Points of Interest Committee meeting, 5:30 p.m. in
council chambers at Keizer Civic Center.
Keizer City Council meeting (a day late due to the
President’s Day holiday), 7 p.m. in council chambers at
Keizer Civic Center, 930 Chemawa Road NE.
Thursday, February 18
Volunteer Coordinating Committee meeting, 6 p.m. in
council chambers at Keizer Civic Center, 930 Chemawa
Road NE.
Greater Gubser Neighborhood Association meeting, 7 p.m.
at Gubser Elementary School.
Saturday, February 20 – Sunday, February 21
Willamette Master Chorus joins with the Willamette
University Chamber Choir to present Handel’s Messiah in
Hudson Hall on the campus. Performances are 7:30 p.m.
on Saturday and 3 p.m. on Sunday. Tickets range from $15
to $30. willamettemasterchorus.org.
Monday, February 22
Keizer Festival Advisory Board meeting, 6 p.m. in council
chambers at Keizer Civic Center, 930 Chemawa Road NE.
Add your event by e-mailing news@keizertimes.com.
cil for approval. CBTF chair
Marlene Parsons and Brandon
Smith are both on the council.
Making the Big Toy more
accessible for people – youth
and seniors alike – has been
an emphasis with the second
phase of the project. Replacing
the bark ground covering with
a smoother poured-in-place
surface is a key component to
that. The pathway would be
another part and would also
make it easier for neighbors of
all abilities to access the park.
Installing new permanent re-
strooms would make KRP the
fi rst of Keizer’s 19 parks to have
such facilities.
Estimates show the restrooms
would cost about $223,000 in-
cluding the buildings, septic
system and power. The new
poured-in-place surface would
cost about $200,000, with the
bulk of that being $184,800
for 12,000 square feet of the
surface at $15.40 a square foot.
The pathway part of the proj-
ect would be about $83,000.
Another $1,200 is being allot-
ted for grab bars.
Franke and Brown said the
hope is to have the grant appli-
cation written by mid-March,
allowing time for CBTF mem-
bers Richard Walsh and Janet
Carlson to review it before the
April 1 deadline. Letters of sup-
port are currently being sought.
“We’re not meeting again as
a task force unless something
comes up,” Parsons said. “Once
we get this past the council and
when Janet and Richard ap-
prove, I don’t think we need to
approve it, do we?”
Brown said that depended
on what the council decides.
“Our efforts are going to be
focused on getting the letters
in,” Brown said.
Next mural workshop is on Saturday
By CRAIG MURPHY
Of the Keizertimes
A rough sketch of a timeline
for Keizer’s next public mural
has emerged.
The mural, which has been
discussed a number of times
during Keizer Public Arts As-
sociation (KPAC) meetings, was
originally going to be done last
fall on the north wall of Town
& Country Lanes at 3500 River
Road N. The timeline has since
been pushed back to this sum-
mer.
Jill Hagen, the KPAC and
Keizer Art Association member
heading up the mural project,
gave a timing update during last
week’s KPAC meeting in re-
sponse to a question.
“Do we have an idea when
we will start on the wall?”
KPAC member Beth Melendy
asked.
“We’re looking at May,” Ha-
gen replied. “Once we start do-
ing something, work parties will
be out there. Right now we’re
getting information to the pub-
lic. If you give people things,
they will see something good in
it and they will return because
they have a part.”
Hagen said more priming on
the wall – a fi rst level of primer
was applied last fall – would
be done before any images are
painted.
“Some of the painting will be
done, then some images will be
put up there,” Hagen said. “That
whole process will probably be
May to July. I would expect it to
be done in August, when you’d
just have the fi nal tweaking left.
Putting up kid hands will be the
last step.”
In recent weeks, Hagen has
had artists claim images they’d
be willing to help paint. The
mural, to go along a wide, short
wall estimated by Lore Christo-
pher to be 140 feet wide, will be
various images from the Keizer
Iris Festival Parade. There will be
images depicting a parade going
down River Road, smaller im-
ages such as old businesses and
dignitaries including Keizer’s six
mayors and handprints of chil-
dren representing irises.
Before then, Hagen is sched-
uling art classes during which
artists will teach people how
to paint a mural. The next such
class takes place this Saturday,
Feb. 6, from 3 to 5 p.m. at Keizer
Civic Center. Shirlee Johnson
will be teaching about coloring.
A day-long workshop is also
scheduled for April 9. During
that, gridding will be done to
get artwork ready to be put up.
Nancy Erickson will be leading
that workshop.
Hagen said Kathy Hainey
will be heading up a composi-
tion group, in charge of scal-
ing the artwork and helping to
put the images on the Town &
Country wall.
Melendy suggested more
will want to get involved with
the project once they see things
starting to go up on the wall.
“People will be curious,”
The Keizer City Council
will hold a public hearing on
Tuesday, Feb. 16 to consider
proposed revisions to day care
standards in Sections 2.102,
2.103, 2.104 and 2.105 of the
Keizer Development Code. The
hearing will take place at 7 p.m.
in council chambers at Keizer
Civic Center, 930 Chemawa
Road NE.
Also that night, the council
will hold a hearing on 2016
Keizer liquor license renewals.
Councilors will make a
recommendation to the Oregon
Liquor Control Commission.
Give chickens a chance,
group pleads
The plight of urban chickens in
Keizer got a little brighter as the
Keizer City Council opted to
further study the issue. Currently,
chickens are considered a farm
animal - as opposed to a pet - and
thus are only allowed in zones
allowing agricultural uses.
sudoku
Parents fear new school
bounds will split Keizer
The issue surfaced when Salem-
Keizer School District offi cials
unveiled new elementary bound-
aries and options for channel-
ing those students into White-
aker Middle School and the new
Claggett Creek Middle School.
20 YEARS AGO
Commercial project
booming as developers
‘discover’ Keizer
Throughout the city, construction
is underway on both new
businesses and expansions for
existing businesses from one end
of town to the other. In the center
of town, construction crews are
fi ghting mud and rain to put up a
$7 million Safeway store.
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Melendy said.
KPAC member Rick Day
suggested selling limited edition
of mural prints, an idea others
liked.
“I would love to take that
on,” Day said. “One thing is a
picture of the picture, which
anyone could take. I envisioned
something different, a painting
of the painting. We could do
both.”
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public hearings
Wednesday, February 10
Keizer Planning Commission meeting, 6 p.m. in council
chambers at Keizer Civic Center, 930 Chemawa Road
NE. The meeting will cover Urban Growth Boundary
expansion and will be a joint work session with members
of the Keizer City Council.
KEIZERTIMES fi le/Craig Murphy
Plenty of dirt and bark was laid for the surface of the Big Toy
last June, but project leaders are hoping for a new surface.
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