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PAGE A2, KEIZERTIMES, JUNE 17, 2016 TRUCKS, continued from Page A1 presented by DRIVE A LITTLE – SAVE A BUNCH! 3893 COMMERCIAL ST SE • SALEM MORE INFO AT NORTHERNLIGHTSTHEATREPUB.COM UFC200 - Sat, July 9 Cormier vs Jones 2 LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHT TITLE BOUT SATURDAY, JUNE 18 ZOOTOPIA (PG) 11:00 AM TICKETS ARE JUST $3 SPECIAL SHOWING FOR KIDS AND ADULTS WITH AUTISM OR OTHER SENSORY SENSITIVITIES. 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! Starts Tuesday! SUMMER MOVIE PROGRAMS KID’S SUMMER MOVIE SERIES THROWBACK SUMMER MOVIE SERIES Each Series of 8 movies — Just $5, Starting June 21st, Details available on website. Today in History The dismantled Statue of Liberty, a gift of friendship from the people of France to the people of America, arrives in New York Harbor after being shipped across the Atlantic Ocean in 350 individual pieces packed in more than 200 cases. It was offi cially dedicated by President Grover Cleveland in 1886. — June 17, 1885 Food 4 Thought “Offi ceholders are the agents of the people, not their masters. ” – Grover Cleveland The Month Ahead Through Saturday, July 30 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. Friday, June 17 Oregon State Capitol Tower Tours, weather permitting. Tours to observation deck start in the Rotunda at 10 a.m., 11 a.m., 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. Waiver required. oregoncapitol. com. Season opener for the Salem-Keizer Volcanoes vs. the Hillsboro Hops, 6:35 p.m. 6700 Field Of Dreams Way Friday, June 19 – Sunday, June 19 Brewfest at Oregon Garden, 60 breweries pouring 120 ciders, beers and meads. Food from vendors and a kids activity area. www.oregongarden.org Sunday, June 19 Happy Father’s Day. Monday, June 20 Keizer City Council meeting, 7 p.m. 930 Chemawa Road N.E. vehicles and/or trailers cannot obstruct public right-of-ways, driveways or pedestrian paths; vendors would be responsible for litter produced by their business or customers; ven- dors would only be permit- ted in areas zoned for com- mercial mixed use (limiting them largely to River Road Road and Cherry Avenue Northeast); hours of operation would be between 6 a.m. and 11 p.m. daily; and that vendors must comply with the city’s environmental codes. The last point was a topic of some discussion after fi nd- ing out that Marion County Public Health Department has ongoing issues with some vendors disposing of waste water and grease in storm drains and sewers. While city offi cials will have the authority to issue fi nes of up to $500 per day for illegal disposal, Keizer Devel- opment Director Nate Brown admitted they are rarely used. “In one recent case, our code enforcement offi cer re- ceived a report of a restaurant dumping grease in a storm Keizer Fire Board meeting, 7 p.m., 661 Chemawa Road N.E. Free admission all day at Hallie Ford Museum of Art, 700 State Street. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, June 25 Deepwood Estate Wine and Jazz Fest, 4-9 p.m. Local wine and food. Entertainment by Gail Gage Jazz and Island Jaz Quartet. Admission is $15, $12 for members. deepwoodmuseum.org. Saturday, June 25 – Sunday, June 26 World Beat Festival, experience world customs, traditions, ethnic foods, crafts, discussions, demonstrations, children’s activities, three parades, and dragon boat racing. Join us as we celebrate the food, music and culture of Cuba with special exhibits and performances throughout the weekend. Riverfront Park in Salem. www. worldbeatfestival.org. Lincoln City Summer Kite Festival, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., D River State Recreation Area. Free. oregoncoast.org. 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 28 Keizer Network of Women (KNOW) meeting. Keizer Quality Suites, 5188 Wittenberg Lane N.E. Noon. $13 if partaking in lunch. Keizer Public Arts Commission meeting, 6 p.m. 930 Chemawa Road N.E. Free admission all day at Hallie Ford Museum of Art, 700 State Street. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, July 22 – Sunday, July 24 Wizard of Oz stage production at Historic Grand Theatre (191 High St., Salem) presented by Enlightened Theatrics. Performances are at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m. matinee on Sunday. Tickets are $20 and $30. enlightenedtheatrics.org. Add your event by e-mailing news@keizertimes.com. meeting was devoted to sign codes and where mobile food vendors, who often have sig- nage all over their vehicles and trailers, would fall under ex- isting regulations. Brick-and- mortar businesses are allotted a certain number of square feet for a sign based on the physical size of the business. Vendors will have no sig- nage limits on their food trucks and trailers provided that they move every day. In addition, vendors will have an additional six square feet for sandwich-board, A-frame signs near their vehicles. They will also be able to negotiate with owners of the property on which they’ve leased space for use of feather fl ags, but the number of fl ags is limited to one per 50 feet of frontage overall. All sandwich signs and feather fl ags will need to be taken down when the vendors are not in operation. For a brick-and-mortar establishment, sandwich-style signs limited to 120 days per year unless they are positioned at the entrance of the business. In addition to Bay, two other individuals testifi ed dur- ing the public hearing at the meeting. Keizer resident Rhonda Rich opposed allowing food trucks. “We should support the storefronts we have and en- courage occupancy in the currently vacant buildings along River Road,” Rich said. “We are not a large city and I feel the impact of the (of mo- bile food vendors) in large cit- ies is understudied.” Commissioners also heard from Tina Schneider, a board member of the Oregon Food Truck Association and owner of her own mobile food busi- ness, Cacioppo’s. Schneider said the food trucks that are part of the as- sociation, based in Salem, are trying to set standards above the minimum requirements for operation. “We regulate ourselves as much as possible, and we try to stay involved with the communities where we op- erate. When I do fundraisers with schools and churches and community organizations, I usually end up donating more than $1,000 per event,” Schneider said. Commissioners voted unanimously to forward the recommendation to the city council. Food truck complaints no worse than those for brick-and-mortars By ERIC A. HOWALD Of the Keizertimes As the city council prepares to consider allowing food trucks to operate longer than the standard 90 days allotted to such enterprises, questions came up during the planning commission hearing last week about how other cities are han- dling the issue. At the forefront of concerns was whether mobile food ven- dors are the subject of more complaints than the average brick-and-mortar. The answer is “no,” said Richard Sherman, program supervisor of envi- ronmental health and safety at the Marion County Health Department (MCHD). “There are simply few- er food trucks around than there are brick-and-mortar restaurants. We also get more complaints about the brick- and-mortars because people are usually sitting down and they have more time to notice things,” Sherman said. “For the most part we don’t see huge numbers (of complaints re- garding food trucks), but there are bad actors.” MCHD fi elds the com- plaints and provides inspec- tions for the mobile food ven- dors licensed in the county. In the case of bad actors, Sherman said continuous complaints are typically turned over to mu- nicipalities after repeated vio- lations and fi nes are levied. “In most cases, complaints come from food not being kept warm or cold enough, or because the operators don’t look clean,” Sherman said. Members of the Keizer Planning Commission worried about illegal dumping of grease and waste water, but Sherman said it isn’t a common occur- rence. Aaron Panko, a City of Salem planner, said Keizer’s neighbor to the south has about 27 mobile food ven- dors licensed to serve food in the city. Prior to MCHD tak- ing over the health inspections, code enforcers kept tabs on the vendors. “Our compliance offi cers inspected mobile food units every six months for compli- ance with zoning require- ments, basically to see if they were operating where they were licensed to operate,” Pan- ko said. Prior to approving the changes that allowed food truck in the city, Panko said city offi cials heard from both sides of the issue. “The primary concern was that mobile food units have a lower operating cost which al- lows them to compete on an unfair playing fi eld and poten- tially harm brick-and-mortar restaurants,” Panko said. “On the other hand, we had several people testify in favor of the new regulations who wanted to see more diverse food op- tions in Salem. Mobile food unit operators wanted more fl exibility on where they could operate and wanted to be able to form pods with other mo- bile food units.” local weather Register to run for council, mayor The Keizer mayor’s chair and three seats on the city council will be up for grabs in November, and interested candidates can register now through Aug. 30. Tuesday, June 21 Keizer Points of Interest Committee meeting, 5:30 p.m. 930 Chemawa Road N.E. drain and we issued a stern warning, but it hasn’t risen to the level of a fi ne as yet,” Brown said. More than two vendors within a single area will con- stitute a pod. While the num- ber of vendors constituting a pod sparked some debate, commissioners took into ac- count testimony from Farm- ers Insurance Agent Brandon Bay, who serves several clients operating food trucks. “The future of the food trucks are the pods,” said Bay, noting that clusters of ven- dors in one area result in more varied offerings and can help brick-and-mortar businesses. “Barrel and Keg in Salem can offer alcohol because of the food trucks in the rear of the business.” Staff had recommended that more than one vendor on a single site should be consid- ered a pod. Vendor pods will also be required to have permanent, covered dining spaces able to withstand the elements. Com- missioners chose not to im- pose specifi c standards, but all such structures would need to comply with related building codes. The lion’s share of the looking back in the KT Mayor Cathy Clark’s fi rst two-year term is expiring, as are the four-year terms of councilors Dennis Koho, Kim Freeman and Marlene Par- sons. Koho is resigning his seat on July 1 due to health con- siderations and an interim re- placement will be appointed by the city council. To run for the mayor or city council, candidates must be a qualifi ed elector under the state constitution and a regis- tered voter within city limits who has resided in Keizer for the 12 months prior to the date of the election, Nov. 8. For additional informa- tion, or to request an election information packet, contact Tracy Davis at 503-856-3412 at davist@keizer.org. 5 YEARS AGO Chicken chat at council Here’s the pertinent info on Keizer’s chicken proposal: No roosters, 3 hens maximum, no fee permit required, coop required at least 10 feet from property line. There’s more on the agenda at Keizer City Council meeting as well as info on display chicken coops. 10 YEARS AGO Two arrested after shots fi red at Keizer complex Keizer police arrested a man early Sunday after shots were fi red at an apartment and a vehicle. Ricardo Dominguez, 23, was arrested for unlawful use of a weapon and unlawful possession of a fi rearm. Another man was taken into custody at the request of his probation offi cer. 15 YEARS AGO Fire, shots trigger standoff at Keizer house Keizer police cordoned off streets and called in the interagency SWAT team after gunfi re was heard in a Keizer house that later erupted in fl ames. sudoku Enter digits from 1-9 into the blank spaces. Every row must contain one of each digit. 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