SINCE 1979 • VOLUME 38, NO. 10
SECTION A
FEBRUARY 19, 2016
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Man dies after shooting at Starbucks
Jerrid
Goodpaster
was a 2006
McNary HS
graduate
By CRAIG MURPHY
Of the Keizertimes
A McNary High School
graduate died after a shooting
Sunday night in Keizer.
Keizer Police are still
looking for suspects from the
Sunday evening fatal shooting
at Keizer Station.
Offi cers with the Keizer
Police Department responded
to an assault call at 6:36 p.m.
Sunday, Feb. 14 at 2555 Jorie
Lane NE, the Starbucks in
Keizer Station.
According to the KPD,
offi cers arrived and located
a 28-year-old male victim
from Salem, later identifi ed as
Jerrid Goodpaster, who had
been shot and was seriously
injured. Goodpaster was
transported to Salem Hospital
by the Keizer Fire District and
was later pronounced dead.
According to his Facebook
Courtesy Facebook
Submitted by Keizer Police
Top left and Left: The victim, Jerrid Goodpaster, was a 28-year-old Salem resident who graduated
from McNary High School in 2006. According to Facebook photos, he was married shortly after.
Health
& Wellness
Magazine
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Above: A look at the crime scene outside of the Keizer Station Starbucks on Sunday evening,
Feb. 14.
page, Goodpaster was married
to Angela and graduated from
MHS in 2006. He listed his
employer as being MiGar
Corporation in Salem, a
company that builds homes.
The shooting is being
investigated as a criminal
homicide. The KPD is being
assisted by members of the
Homicide Assault Response
Team with investigators from
the Oregon State Police and
the Salem Police Department.
Jeff Kuhns, deputy chief
with the KPD, indicated
Goodpaster
knew
the
suspects.
“There is no reason to
believe this incident was
random or that the public is
in any danger,” Kuhns said
Tuesday morning.
No suspects have been
taken into custody yet, but the
investigation is continuing.
No suspect or vehicle
information has been released
by the KPD.
Anyone who witnessed the
incident or may otherwise have
related information is asked
to call KPD detective Arsen
Avetisyan at 503-390-3713
ext. 3514 or 503-390-2000.
V-Day at
Willamette
Lutheran
PAGE A8
Brandon Smith moving
to Salem, leaves council
KEIZERTIMES/Craig Murphy
Brandon Smith (left) said goodbye to Marlene Parsons and other city councilors on Tuesday.
Future growth being
planned in Keizer
By CRAIG MURPHY
Of the Keizertimes
It was a long time coming and it’ll be going on for a long
time.
Last week, Keizer City Councilors and Keizer Planning
Commission members held a joint work session to look at
future growth planning.
Nate Brown, Keizer’s
director of Community
Development who led the “You would have
city through the Economic
Opportunities
Analysis to be under a
(EOA) and Housing Needs rock somewhere
Analysis (HNA) a few years
ago, reacquainted all with the to not know
data fi nalized in 2013.
Keizer has been
“The intent of tonight is
to lay out issues we’re going working on this.”
to have to deal with in Urban
Growth Boundaries or Keizer
— Nate Brown,
future growth,” Brown said.
Keizer's Director of
“Over the last several years,
Community Development
we have been doing a lot of
work through the process
of analyzing. We’ve done a land inventory. We have gone
through a lot of work. You would have to be under a rock
somewhere to not know Keizer has been working on this.”
For those who don’t have a photographic memory of
the work approved by councilors in the spring of 2013, the
updating of the city’s
Please see GROWTH, Page A6
By CRAIG MURPHY
Of the Keizertimes
The way Brandon Smith
fi gured it, he would fulfi ll his
term on the Keizer
City
Council
before making his
move.
It didn't turn
out that way.
Staying in Keizer until son
Keifer graduates from McNary
High School this year?
No, not that either.
Smith is moving to Salem
soon – as in, he takes possession
of a Salem home March 1 –
and thus left the city council
this week.
Smith announced the
evening of Feb. 10 this week's
meeting would be his last. That
indeed happened on Tuesday
night (the meeting was a
day later than usual due to
President's Day on Monday).
“It has been a genuine
honor to serve the citizens of
Keizer in various capacities
since 2005,” Smith wrote
last week. “When I ran for
council again in 2014, I had
every intention of serving
a full term. However, life
sometimes throws unexpected
and exciting
opportunities
at us when we
least expect
them,
and
doing what's
right for my
family
will
B. Smith
always come
fi rst for me.
“I am constantly amazed
and inspired by the quantity
and quality of people
who give of themselves
for the betterment of this
community,” he added. “To
my past and present colleagues
on the city council, the many
people who serve on citizen
advisory committees and the
dedicated and driven staff at
city hall, I thank you and wish
you the best of luck.”
Smith, who moved to
Keizer more than 20 years ago,
fi rst got involved with city
government in early 2005 as
a member of the now-defunct
Please see SMITH, Page A7
Fixing KLL Park, one field at a time
By CRAIG MURPHY
Of the Keizertimes
Clint Holland knows
what the fi elds at Keizer
Little League Park look like
in prime condition.
After all, Holland is one
of the scores of people who
used to work on the fi elds,
which at one time were the
heart and soul of the city.
The fi elds have since
fallen into a state of disrepair,
with various talk in recent
years about how to improve
things.
Now Holland has a new
plan: working with a couple
of guys willing to pay for the
complete renovation of one
fi eld a year.
Holland, a member of the
Keizer Parks and Recreation
Advisory Board, brought up
the topic at the Feb. 9 Parks
Board meeting. He also
toured the facility on Feb. 16
with the guys he referenced
– Tony Cuff and Chris Argue
– along with Brad Arnsmeier
and city parks supervisor
Robert Johnson (see related
Ebbs wins
district
wrestling
PAGE A10
Kuch swims
to state
PAGE A10
KEIZERTIMES/Craig Murphy
Clint Holland points to a wall at Keizer Little League Park.
story, pg. A2).
“It’s sad every time you
go out there,” Holland said
in regards to KLL Park. “It’s
really becoming an old facility.
These guys are rockers and
shakers. They want to work
on one fi eld every year. I’m
talking dugouts, sod, better
dirt, irrigation and mowing.”
Holland said the fi rst fi eld
proposed to be worked on
is Field 3, the large one at
the top of the facility by the
water tank.
“They’ll take the old turf
off, put in new turf sod, get
rid of the old grass and bring
in new dirt,” Holland said.
“The fi elds are becoming
a hazard to play on. Last
year several kids got injured
fi elding ground balls. They’ll
put in new sod and new
dugouts.”
Holland noted he’s been
talking with Rick Day about
helping with new concrete
dugouts. As envisioned, there
would be new soil, sod and
sprinklers.
Please see KLL, Page A7