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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.”
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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.
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