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PAGE A2, KEIZERTIMES, MAY 20, 2016 It’s time for Iris Festival weekend presented by DRIVE A LITTLE – SAVE A BUNCH! 3893 COMMERCIAL ST SE • SALEM MORE INFO AT NORTHERNLIGHTSTHEATREPUB.COM Lights, Comedy, Laughs! UFC199 - Sat, June 4 Rockhold v Weidman MIDDLEWEIGHT TITLE BOUT 9 FIGHTS IN ALL ON THE HUGE SCREEN Live Fights at 5pm (21 & Over) - Tickets $13 Reserved Seating Available Now Online. Get your tickets early. This will sell out! LIVE STAND-UP COMEDY! SATURDAY, JUNE 11 Larry Omaha & David Conolly 7 pm & 9 pm (21 & Over) Admission only $10. Info and tickets at our website. Coming Soon! OUR SUMMER MOVIE PROGRAMS KID’S SUMMER MOVIE SERIES THROWBACK SUMMER MOVIE SERIES Each Series of 8 movies starting June 28th Just $5. Details Coming Soon. Today in History San Francisco businessman Levi Strauss and Reno, Nev. tailor Jacob Davis are given a patent to create work pants reinforced with metal rivets, marking the birth of one of the world’s most famous garments: blue jeans. — May 20, 1873 Food 4 Thought “In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affi rm, and wrong in what they deny.” – John Stuart Mill (philosopher, economist) Born May 20,1806 The Month Ahead Through Sunday, May 22 Keizer Iris Festival. Various events throughout the four days, highlighted by the parade down River Road starting at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, May 21. For complete information about the festival, see the Keizer Iris Festival guide published by the Keizertimes. Through Wednesday, June 15 Legos, from the private collection of Darren and JoDene Summers, on display at the Keizer Heritage Museum and at the Keizer Community Library. Museum hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thrursday, 2-4 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m.-4 p.m. keizerheritage.org. Sunday, May 22 Bark for Life presented by the American Cancer Society, 11:30 a.m., Keizer Rapids Park. Activities will include dog costume contest, Keizer Police K-9 demo and more. Tuesday, May 24 Keizer Public Arts Commission meeting, 6 p.m. at Keizer Civic Center, 930 Chemawa Road NE. Firearm Training Northwest is offering a concealed carry permit class from 6 to 9 p.m. at Keizer Civic Center (930 Chemawa Rd NE). An optional pre-class movie “NRA Personal Protection Outside the Home” starts a half hour prior to class. For more information or to sign up, go to www.fi rearmtrainingnw.com or call (360) 921- 2071. Free admission all day at Hallie Ford Museum of Art, 700 State Street. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday, May 26 American Red Cross blood drive, 12:30-5:30 p.m. at St. Edward Catholic Church. Call Gaye McDougall at 503- 390-1876 to make an appointment. Blood draw takes about an hour. Keizer’s biggest weekend of the year is here. While the Keizer Iris Fes- tival weekend started with a kickoff dinner and party Thursday evening, plenty more is still on tap. Activities conclude with several events on Sunday, May 22 includ- ing runs, performers and the Poker Run. The centerpiece, of course, is the Valley Credit Services Iris Festival Parade starting at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, May 21. The parade starts at River Road North and Lockhaven Drive North before proceed- ing south along River Road before ending at Glynbrook Drive. Parade offi cials are ex- pecting about 120 entries in the parade, which is the only such event for Keizer this year with the ending of the Festival of Lights Holiday Parade. However, numbers appear to be lower than expected. As of Monday, the number of en- tries was at 77. The grand marshal for the parade is Christine Dieker, the recently retired longtime ex- ecutive director of the Keiz- er Chamber of Commerce. Dieker is hoping to have her family ride with her as she waves to the crowd, estimat- ed to be about 25,000 strong each year. It’s a double-honor day for Dieker, as she celebrates her 59th birthday on Saturday. The parade means traffi c impacts for that day. Lock- haven will close to all traf- fi c between River Road and McClure Street North at 6:30 a.m., while River Road will close from Plymouth Drive to Lockhaven at 9. Af- ter that, River Road can only be crossed periodically along the parade route at Chemawa Road, but vehicles will not be able to turn onto River Road. Those in the parade need- ing to get to the staging area must take Chemawa to Wind- sor Island Road North, then go east on Lockhaven. Northbound River Road traffi c from Salem will be di- verted to Cherry Avenue NE via Plymouth Drive NE. River Road will begin to reopen around 12:30 p.m. as the end of the parade contin- ues southbound. There will be other traf- fi c impacts and road closures throughout the weekend as well. For folks placing chairs on the sidewalk for parade view- ing, parade organizers are ask- ing to leave an adequate travel path of at least three feet for use by wheelchair-bound citi- zens. Longtime community volunteers Dave Walery – Christine Dieker may be retired, but she’s not slowing down yet. On Tuesday, the grand marshal of this weekend’s Iris Festival Parade was spotted getting things ready for the various runs taking place. KEIZERTIMES/ Craig Murphy Keizer’s Mr. Christmas – and Scott White have taken over as co-chairs for the Iris Festival. Most events will be centered in or around the Keizerfest Tent, located in the fi eld in front of the Keizer Lions Club at 4100 Cherry Avenue NE. Walery and White have implemented several changes, including a new tent with no outside strings. Handicapped parking will be in the Lions Club parking lot, while there will be park- ing on Manbrin Avenue and Cherry, with hopes for about 100 parking spaces in that area. New entertainment has been brought in, to go with a renewed emphasis on musical acts. “We will have entertain- ment from noon to midnight in the tent on Friday and Sat- urday,” White said. “We’re try- ing to get more of a crowd for the entertainment down there. There will be something go- ing on in the tent from the start to the end.” For much more about the Iris Festival, be sure to check out the offi cial 60-page 2016 Iris Festival Guide, produced annually by the staff of the Keizertimes. This year’s guide was once again sent out to all Keizer households. For addi- tional copies, stop by our of- fi ce at 142 Chemawa Road NE. Pierce, Willis among winners Voting trends in Marion County tended to refl ect over- all Oregon election trends in Tuesday’s primary. For example, in the Demo- cratic presidential race, Bernie Sanders won the state with 52.3 percent, according to initial numbers released Tues- day night. Hillary Clinton had 45.88 percent of the vote. In Marion County, Sanders got 51.77 percent of the vote, compared to 45.97 percent for Clinton. Donald Trump easily won the Republican presidential primary, with 65.48 percent of the statewide vote and 60.12 percent in Marion County. Colm Willis won the four- way Republican primary for the U.S. Representative 5th District candidacy, getting 56.46 percent of the vote over- all and 60.36 percent of the vote in Marion County. Willis will take on incumbent Kurt Schrader in the fall, who easily won his Democratic primary battle with Dave McTeague. There was a difference be- tween state and county results in the race for governor. Bud Pierce won the Republican primary with 46.53 percent of the vote and will face incum- bent Kate Brown in the fall. In Marion County, Pierce won looking back in the KT with 63.54 percent of the vote. A big battle in the state- wide picture was the contest- ed primaries for Republicans and Democrats alike for sec- retary of state. The Repub- lican race was no contest, as Dennis Richardson bounced back from his 2014 governor race loss to handily defeat Sid Leiken. Richardson got 77.5 percent of the vote in the state, 81 percent in Marion County. The Democratic side was tighter. Brad Avakian won with 38.96 percent of the vote as of Tuesday night, followed by Val Hoyle at 33.84 percent and Richard Devlin at 26.42 per- cent. In Marion County Ava- kian won with 39.32 percent of the vote, followed by Devlin at 31.07 percent and Hoyle at 28.69 percent. State Rep. Bill Post was unchallenged in his Republi- can District 25 race. He’ll face Democrat Sharon Freeman in the fall, who was similarly un- challenged in her Democrat primary. Overall in the state, there was 40 percent voter turnout for the primary. That includes 48 percent turnout for Demo- crats and 46 percent for Re- public hearings The Keizer City Coun- cil will hold a public hear- ing on the proposed 2016- 17 fi scal year budget on Monday, June 6 at 7 p.m. The hearing takes place in council chambers at Keizer Civic Center, 930 Chemawa Road NE. Council will also hold a hearing that night on mu- nicipal lighting districts and special assessments. sudoku publicans. In Marion County, the vot- er turnout was 48.8 percent as of late Tuesday night. One close local race was the Marion County Fire District local option tax. 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Tuesday, June 7 Free admission all day at Hallie Ford Museum of Art, 700 State Street. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, June 10 McNary High School graduation of the class of 2016. The Pavilion at Oregon State Fair and Expo, 5-6:30 p.m. 503-399-3233. Sunday, June 26 McMinnville Garden Club presents its 16th Garden Tour and Faire. Includes fi ve private gardens, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Garden Faire will be held on 3rd and Cowls Streets in downtown. Garden tour is $10 per person. Garden Faire is free. mcminnvillegardenclub.org. Tuesday, June 14 Free admission all day at Hallie Ford Museum of Art, 700 State Street. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Add your event by e-mailing news@keizertimes.com. 5 YEARS AGO local weather Holiday parade coming in 2011 The Festival of Lights Holiday Parade will call Keizer home in 2011 -- and maybe a lot longer. 10 YEARS AGO Budgeters add 2 cops for meth, traffi c The Keizer police department will gain two police offi cers – one for traffi c enforcement and another to fi ght meth crimes – if the Keizer budget committee has its way. 15 YEARS AGO Keizer kids could be West Salem-bound Three of four proposals recommended by a boundary committee would send students from Southeast Keizer across the Willamette River to the new West Salem High School. 20 YEARS AGO School district eyes cuts to pay class size tab Keizer schools will get more teachers and smaller classes under a budget proposed for the Salem-Keizer School District. Finding the millions to pay for those teachers, though will require cuts in just about every other part of school operations. KEIZERTIMES.COM Web Poll Results To add an offi cer to KPD and fund improvements/ maintenance at city parks, the city should… 46% – Not add any new taxes or fees at all, and live with the budget the city has. 17% – Add another offi cer or two at all costs. 17% – Add $1 per month to the Keizer water bill for extra funding for parks. 12% – Add more to the water bill to pay for both an offi cer and parks. 8% – Create a parks district to pay for parks and their operation Vote in a new poll every Thursday! GO TO KEIZERTIMES.COM
