FEBRUARY 12, 2016, KEIZERTIMES, PAGE A5
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By CRAIG MURPHY
Of the Keizertimes
Sure, John Honey could
have retired when he thought
he would.
But had Honey merely re-
tired after serving as McNary
High School principal for four
years, he would have missed
out on a couple of things.
For example, there’s last fall’s
opening of the new Career
Technical Education Center, of
which Honey is the fi rst prin-
cipal.
That led to the second thing:
being honored with the 2015
Service to Education Award at
the Jan. 23 Keizer First Citizen
and Awards Banquet. Honey
was presented the award by
last year’s recipients, Krina and
Chuck Lee. Chuck Lee works
alongside Honey at CTEC, a
private-public partnership be-
tween Mountain West Invest-
ments and the Salem-Keizer
School District. Chuck is a
SKSD school board member,
while Krina runs the Salem-
Keizer Education Foundation.
“This person has been in-
volved with the education of
young people for over 30 years,”
Krina said. “After nine years in
the classrooms of North Salem
and Sprague High Schools, this
person worked as an assistant
principal or principal of several
schools before enjoying four
years at McNary High School
as their principal. This person
is now the fi rst principal of
the new public-private Career
Technical Education Center.”
While that made it obvi-
ous, Chuck added some more
details.
“This person’s goal at Mc-
Nary was to get the students
and staff to contribute back to
the community as much as the
community of Keizer had con-
tributed to them,” Chuck said.
“He did this by developing the
JROTC program and improv-
ing facilities.”
Krina noted the recipient
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John Honey (second from right) celebrates after winning the Service to Education Award at the
Jan. 23 Keizer First Citizen Awards banquet.
adopted Keizer as his town.
“He now claims himself to
be a Keizer guy,” Krina said.
“Working in Keizer with many,
many groups has helped him
come to value how closely con-
nected the Keizer community
is and how very easy it is to be
engaged in the family of Keizer.
Please join us in honoring and
celebrating Mr. John Honey.”
Honey, who came to the
stage while the Grand Jazz and
Swing Band played the tune of
Sesame Street, liked the big clock
award.
“I’m going to wear that
around my neck, with a big
chain. It’ll give me real street
cred,” Honey joked. “This is
a great honor. I’m really sur-
prised. I didn’t have a chance
to prepare a speech, otherwise
I could kill 45 minutes. That’s
why they didn’t tell me, I guess.
“I really appreciate the hon-
or,” he added. “I really do con-
sider myself a Keizer guy. It’s
not a job I thought I’d wind up
in, but this is such a great com-
munity with such a strong sense
of purpose and unity. It’s really
nice to be a part of that. Thank
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you for the recognition and all
you do for our students.”
Honey said afterwards be-
coming a principal in Keizer
wasn’t in his plans originally,
but he’s now glad it happened.
“I landed in Keizer almost
by accident,” Honey said. “I
very quickly became part of a
great group of people who care
about each other, the kids and
the schools. I fi nd myself being
drawn more and more into the
community. It’s a great place to
be. I’m very happy to be here.”
Honey said everyone in ed-
ucation shares a vision.
“We know it’s not easy,” he
said. “We don’t do it for a clock.
We don’t do it for awards. We do
it because it’s the right thing for
our kids. Anything we can do
to support them and help them
make meaningful decisions and
make plans for a better life, it’s
worth it. We just need to keep
working hard, doing the right
things for the right reasons and
that’s to help the kids.”
Honey wasn’t anticipating
his late career switch.
“I was ready to retire (after
MHS),” he said. “I had a new
grandson and had been work-
ing for over 30 years. I was kind
of ready to try something new,
but I didn’t think it would be
something new in education.
I’d been a teacher, administra-
tor and then this opportunity
at CTEC opened up. It was so
different.
“I’m a journalism major
who became an English teach-
er who turned into a principal
who became the CTE guy,”
Honey added with a chuckle.
“Now I’m learning to weld
and I’m driving a forklift. It’s
not where I thought my life
was going to go. It was the
culmination of 30 years of ex-
perience, but it really was the
beginning of a new chapter.
Every day I learn something
new and every day I run into
new challenges.”
Honey doesn’t see those
challenges as bad things.
“Really they are opportuni-
ties because I’d never thought
of that,” he said. “I worry about
the price of steel now. I didn’t
think that was in my job de-
scription. We’ll just keep go-
ing. We will keep adding new
programs. Maybe now I’ll re-
tire at the end of next year or
maybe two or three years after
that. As long as it’s exciting and
challenging and we’re doing
good things for the kids and
the community, we’ll keep do-
ing it.”
Honey spent the day of the
banquet painting his kitchen
and told his wife he was think-
ing about not going.
“She said you said we’d
go there and we had already
bought the tickets,” Honey
said. “I’m glad I came.”
By HERB SWETT
For the Keizertimes
Two six-fi gure grants and
several much smaller ones for
the Salem-Keizer School Dis-
trict were approved by the Sa-
lem-Keizer School Board on
Tuesday.
A $971,665 grant from the
Oregon Department of Edu-
cation will provide services
and staff professional devel-
opment for English language
learners. ODE also provided
$142,210 to the high schools
to improve career techni-
cal education funds. McNary
High School received $15,839
for automotive mechanics
technology, $3,394 for solar
energy technology, $2,828 for
culinary arts and $2,000 each
for computer programming
and graphic design.
Nine of the 10 remaining
funds were $3,000 apiece and
went to elementary schools.
The source was the Let’s Move
Active School Grant, funded
by Nike, Kaiser Permanente
and the Northwest Health
Foundation. Keizer Elemen-
tary School received $3,000
to purchase developmentally
appropriate physical education
equipment and equipment in-
volving health-related compo-
nents of physical fi tness.
The remaining grant was
$1,639 from the Siletz Tribal
Charitable Contribution Fund
for the annual Eagle Feather
Celebration, which promotes
completion of high school.
In other board business,
most of the Spotlight on Suc-
cess portion of the meeting
honored people in the Mc-
Nary attendance area. Uptown
Music and its owner and gen-
eral manager, Paul Elliott, were
named Business Partner of the
Month because of the Play
It Forward! guitar program,
which donates a new instru-
ment to the McNary music
Keizer cellist takes spotlight
Keizerite Noah Seitz will
be the featured cello soloist
for two upcoming perfor-
mances of the Salem Philhar-
monia Orchestra.
Performances are slated
Feb. 26 and 27 at 7 p.m. The
Friday concert will be at Uni-
tarian Universalist Congrega-
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program for every fi ve donated
by the public. Uptown Music
was credited with enabling the
McNary music program to
start a guitar class.
The counseling program at
Claggett Creek Middle School
was honored for its recogni-
tion as a RAMP (Recognized
American School Counseling
Association Model Program).
Claggett Creek, the only mid-
dle school in Oregon to be so
certifi ed, is one of only six Or-
egon schools with this designa-
tion. Two of the other fi ve are
South Salem High School and
Hallman Elementary School.
John Honey, principal of
the Career Technical Educa-
tion Center and former Mc-
Nary principal, was recognized
for having won the 2015 Ser-
vice to Education Award from
the Keizer Chamber of Com-
merce.
Fallon Dunham, a McNary
senior, was honored for having
her T-shirt art design chosen
for the logo of the Salem-
Keizer Education Foundation’s
2016 Awesome 3000 run. She
also received a $100 check and
earned a $250 award for Mc-
Nary’s art department. Tied
for second place in the design
contest were Melody Smith,
also a McNary senior, and DJ
Carpenter, a Sprague High
School junior. Each won a $50
check.
Personnel actions approved
by the board involved four
people in the McNary atten-
dance area. Contracts were ap-
proved for Connie Schroeder,
basic skills, Keizer Elemen-
tary, as a temporary part-time
teacher; David Holcomb, social
studies, McNary, and Taylor
Miller, second-grade English
for speakers of other languages,
Keizer, as temporary full-time
teachers; and Maria Neads,
second-grade ESOL, Kennedy
Elementary School.
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Noah Seitz
tion of Salem, 5090 Center
Street N.E. Saturday’s perfor-
mance will be at the Cheme-
keta Community College
Auditorium, Building 6, 4000
Lancaster Drive N.E.
Seitz is adjunct professor
of cello at Pacifi c University,
where he is instructor of cello
and chamber music. Tickets
are $15 for adults, $10 for stu-
dents and seniors, and free for
youth up to age 17.
Since 2003, Seitz and his
family have been residents of
Keizer. He continues to teach
in the Salem-Keizer area and
performs regularly with his
wife, pianist Sara Greenleaf.
The couple has two musical
daughters, Lilla and Clara.
WorshipDirectory
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John Knox Presbyterian Church
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SUNDAY WORSHIP
452 Cummings Lane North 393-0404
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
1755 Lockhaven Dr. NE Keizer
503-390-3900
www.dayspringfellowship.com
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
9:00 am
Dr. Jon F. Langenwalter, Pastor
The church with the purple doors
10:45 am
Worship at 9:30 am • Child Care Available
6:00 pm
Children’s Programs, Student and Adult Ministries
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.
Sunday Morning
and
503-364-2844
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