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PAGE A2, KEIZERTIMES, AUGUST 12, 2016 Verda farmhouse ‘unsalvageable’ presented by DRIVE A LITTLE – SAVE A BUNCH! 3893 COMMERCIAL ST SE • SALEM MORE INFO AT NORTHERNLIGHTSTHEATREPUB.COM UFC202 - Sat, Aug 20 Diaz v. McGregor 2 WELTERWEIGHT FIGHT SATURDAY, AUG 20 The BFG (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 5:00 (21 & Over) - Tickets $13 Reserved Seating Available Now Online. LIVE STAND UP COMEDY Lights, Comedy, Laughs! Saturday, August 13 BILLY WAYNE DAVIS & CHASE MAYERS will perform at 7pm and 9pm. Admission is only $10. Ages 21 & over only. Reserved seating for this show. Purchase tickets at box offi ce or at our website. Today in History In an effort to stem the tide of refugees attempting to leave East Berlin, the communist government of East Germany begins building the Berlin Wall to divide East and West Berlin. Construction of the wall caused a short-term crisis in U.S.-Soviet bloc relations, and the wall itself came to symbolize the Cold War. The wall was taken down in 1989 as the Cold War thawed. — August 12, 1961 Food 4 Thought “The public is always right.” — Cecil B. DeMille, Film director: The Ten Commandments Born August 12, 1881 The Month Ahead Through Sunday, August 28 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. Friday, August 12 Keizer author Gina Ochsner reads and signs her new work, The Hidden Letters of Velta B., at Salem’s Book Bin, 450 Court Street N.E. 7 p.m. Saturday, August 13 Free concert at Keizer Rotary Amphitheater, Shoring, 6:30 p.m., no outside food or beverages, no pets. Comedian/actor/writer Brian Posehn at Salem’s Elsinore Theatre. 8 p.m. Tickets: $25-$60. More info at www. elsinoretheatre.com. Monday, August 15 Keizer City Council meeting, 7 p.m., 930 Chemawa Road N.E. Tuesday, August 16 Free admission all day at Hallie Ford Museum of Art, 700 State Street. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. By ERIC A. HOWALD Of the Keizertimes Citing a primitive founda- tion that has led to sagging sup- port walls, the “cow pasture” owners claim the Pugh-Sav- age-Hall farmhouse isn’t worth saving, and vow to block any attempt to have it registered as a site of historical signifi cance. For those reasons, and oth- ers, the Herber family is urging city offi cials to proceed with rezoning the 7.5 acres on the west side of Verda Lane North- east between Chemawa Road Northeast and Dearborn Ave- nue Northeast. If the request is approved, as many as 112 apart- ments could be constructed on the site. Wallace Lien, an attorney for the family, fi led the request with city offi cials Monday, Aug. 1. Area residents wishing to view the documents can fi nd them at keizertimes.com. Those wishing to comment on the proposal now have until Monday, Aug. 15, to respond in writing to the city. Correspon- dence can be sent to City Re- corder Tracy Davis at davist@ keizer.org or via mail at P.O. Box 21000, Keizer, OR 97307. The property owners and their representatives will then have until the end of the month to rebut any comments submit- ted by the area residents. The city council will likely make a fi nal decision in September. Because the farmhouse, which is believed to have been constructed around 1860, is only identifi ed as a “potential” historic site, the “farmhouse is just an old structure, and one not in salvageable condition,” the documents state. The signifi cance of the home was investigated as a re- Back to School Night a Keizer Schoolhouse centennial event including wine tasting at Keizer Heritage Center, 6-8 p.m. Tours, gift basket drawings, photos. keizerheritage.org. Open Mic Poetry Night at The Space Concert Club, 1128 Edgewater St NW, Salem, OR 97304. Speak, spew, spout, improvise, read and share your poetic writings and thoughts with the art loving community, from 7 – midnight, Admission is free. Friday, August 19 The musical 9 to 5 based on the Jane Fonda-Dolly Parton and Lily Tomlin 1980 fi lm, opens at Pentacle Theatre. Visit pentacletheatre.org for showtimes and tickets. Runs through Sept. 10. Free concert at Keizer Rotary Amphitheater, Patrick Lamb, 6:30 p.m., no outside food or beverages, no pets. Saturday, August 20 McNary Estates holds its annual garage sale day with 100 homes participating. Sale Benefi ts Marion-Polk Food Share, bring canned or packaged foods, or a small donation. Blue Day at McNary High School, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The Great Salem Race, team up with your coworkers, friends or family to fi nd all the clues in a fast-paced, fun- fi lled scavenger hunt in downtown Salem. $39.00 for team of 2-4 people. 9:15 to 1 p.m. greatsalemrace.com Monday, August 22 Free admission all day at Hallie Ford Museum of Art, 700 State Street. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday, August 23 Keizer Public Art Commission meeting, 6 p.m., 930 Chemawa Road N.E. Wednesday, August 24 Keizer Community Dinner at St. Edward Church, 5303 River Road N., hosted by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Free. 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. By HERB SWETT For the Keizertimes First reading on a proposed compensation increase for Su- perintendent Christy Perry was postponed for a month by the Salem-Keizer School Board on Tuesday. Director Rick Kimball moved to delay the fi rst reading to the September meeting, not- ing that the board and Perry had agreed in June to an increase in her salary with cost-of-living adjustments for three years, and saying that the June agreement could make the scheduled fi rst reading unnecessary. The June agreement pro- vides for a 2016-17 salary of $192,300 plus the COLA for looking back in the KT Friday, August 26 The Oregon State Fair begins in Salem. Hours, schedules and ticket prices at oregonstatefair.org. the other administrators, a 2017-18 salary of the combined 2016-17 amount plus the next COLA, and a 2018-19 salary of the combined 2017-18 amount plus the next COLA. Under the proposal on Tues- day’s agenda, $17,000 would be added to the current $204,000 total of the salary plus COLA and $14,000 added to the cur- rent $21,000 tax-sheltered an- nuity. For 2017-18, a 4 percent retention incentive would be paid June 20, 2018. For 2018- 19, the amount of the 2017- 18 retention incentive and a COLA would be added to the base salary. Paul Kyllo was the only di- rector to vote against tabling. He said it was “something we could deal with right now.” Perry reported to the board that three administrators were well qualifi ed to substitute for in the event of an emergency. suited for restoration or re- moval to another site. Dry rot and termite damage are also extensive. The home is cur- rently inhabited by the prop- erty caretakers. Regardless of the condi- tion of the house, the request further states that the family would not consent to any at- tempt to have the farmhouse registered as a historical site. Consideration was given to donating the house so that it could be moved elsewhere, the documents claim, but the structural problems make that unfeasible. Other items of note include: • A proposal to attach design conditions to the fi nal rezone approval ensuring that any construction would substan- tially mimic the ones presented during the rezone process. • Regarding traffi c, the re- port takes direct aim at those with concerns: “none of those folks have any credentials in Marion County Fire District 1 has fi led suit to stop the city of Keizer from withdrawing Clear Lake from its boundaries and placing the homes in the Keizer Fire District. 10 YEARS AGO City unveils, sets hearing on Keizer Rapids plan Trails, a BMX biking area and a dog park will likely be some of the fi rst features established in Keizer Rapids Park, a regional park currently under development west of Keizer city limits. She said that Kelly Carlisle, as- sistant superintendent, would be fi rst in line, and that the other possibilities are Michael Wolfe, chief operating offi cer, and John Beight, human re- sources director. The board approved many personnel items, including the following for the McNary High School attendance area: • Employment as fi rst-year probation teachers of Benjamin Busch, science, McNary; Mi- chaelene Larson, fourth- and fi fth grades, English for speak- ers of other languages, Weddle Elementary School; and Justin Lindemann, English, McNary. • Employment as a second- year probation full-time teacher of Eric Schmidt, mathematics, McNary. • Resignation of Holly Jones, effective learning teach- er, Cummings and Gubser el- ementary schools. Enter digits from 1-9 into the blank spaces. Every row must contain one of each digit. So must every column, as must every 3x3 square. Judy Shaffer, coordinator for Keizer Animal Rescue in Emergencies, better known as KARE, is looking for a central place where people can take their animals in an emergency. KARE is in the early stages of planning and developing a program that will provide for the care of animals when major emergencies cause people to evacuate their homes. Ball team considers move to Keizer Owners of a single A baseball team are considering building a baseball stadium near the Chemawa freeway interchange in time to play ball next season. local weather 3893 COMMERCIAL ST SE THIS WEEK’S MOVIE TIMES Independence Day: Resurgence (PG-13) Fri 1:25, 6:10, 8:40, Sat 4:30, 8:55, Sun 5:05 15 YEARS AGO KARE looks to establish emergency animal housing planning or traffi c manage- ment,” and says that the traffi c studies submitted are enough to assuage anxiety. “Where a layman’s opinion confl icts with that of several expert qualifi ed engineers, a reasonable deci- sion maker will in every case follow the opinion of the ex- pert and not the layman,” it states. • Regarding school impacts, the request claims that any new development will have “little impact” on the local schools. It fi nishes with, “The lack of capacity would still exist even under the existing conditions, so that issue is not relevant to the development. There is no question that the school dis- trict would not turn away a high school kid living in this development when they went to enroll.” • Citing little movement during the past two years, the request states that desires to turn the property into a park lack action to match the con- viction. sudoku 5 YEARS AGO Lawsuit seeks to stop Keizer Fire annexation 20 YEARS AGO Free admission all day at Hallie Ford Museum of Art, 700 State Street. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. sult of the roundabout going in at Chemawa Road North- east and Verda Lane North- east, once it was fi led with the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department, it was labeled as “potentially signifi cant” be- cause of some unique archi- tectural features and its history associated with the settling of the Keizer area. Lien’s request also says substantial renovations to the home have rendered it ineligible for historical status. The request to proceed with rezoning states that “a careful and detail (sic) inspec- tion of the Herber Farmhouse was conducted by Multi/Tech Engineering.” Multi/Tech En- gineering is owned by Mark Grenz, the same developer rep- resenting the family during city council proceedings during the past two years. The Multi/Tech report claims an uncut stone founda- tion is the source of problems that make the farmhouse ill- SKSB tables salary talk Keizer Points of Interest Committee meeting, 5:30 p.m., 930 Chemawa Road N.E. Thursday, August 18 File A developer-conducted study claims the potentially historic home on Verda Lane Northeast is in no condition to be saved or recognized. KEIZERTIMES.COM Web Poll Results Will you watch any of the Summer Olympic Games being held in Rio de Janeiro? 54% – No 46% – Yes Vote in a new poll every Thursday! 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