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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
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— 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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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930 Chemawa Road N.E.
Thursday, August 18
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A developer-conducted study claims the potentially historic home on Verda Lane Northeast is
in no condition to be saved or recognized.
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