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SINCE 1979 • VOLUME 38, NO. 39 SEPTEMBER 9, 2016 $1.00 RISING ASHES FROM THE SECTION A McNary Sports special section SEE INSERT KEIZERTIMES/Eric A. Howald Nyla McCarthy and Joe Botkin rehearse for Keizer Homegrown Theatre's production of The Guys at Salem's Kroc Center. FALL SPORTS PREVIEW New KHT play is a different kind of 9/11 memorial By ERIC A. HOWALD Of the Keizertimes In the wake of the attacks on Sept. 11, one fi re chief is faced with crafting eulogies for several of his men at once. He connects with an editor who helps draw out that material he needs from a hodgepodge of memory and trauma. The story of how the two worked together to craft remembrances is the basis for Keizer Homegrown Theatre’s latest production, The Guys, writ- ten by Anne Nelson and directed by Linda Baker. Keizer man recognized for volunteer efforts Stories We Like Please see SHACK, Page A9 Please see REZONE, Page A9 Keizer 3555 River Road N, Keizer (503) 463- 4853 KEIZERTIMES/Eric A. Howald Bob Shackelford, with wife Tanya, was honored as Keizer's Volunteer of the Quarter at the city council meeting Tuesday, Sept. 6. To this day, he drives around town with a weed wacker in his truck looking for trouble spots where he can jump in and fi ll a gap. After becoming MAK’s de facto leader, Shackelford brought together groups of volunteers to assist KNOW with its giving tree operation around the holidays and then started branching out. “We started looking around and identifying some of the areas along River Road where the landscaping VOLLEYBALL – CROSS COUNTRY – Back to school PAGE A5 ‘Cow pasture’ rezone draws more detraction was getting in the way of traf- fi c and going out to address those problems,” he said. One recent outing took the group to Creekside Shop- ping Center where shrubbery was blocking the view as cars tried to exit. The MAK crew cleaned up the area to make for safer egress. While they’ve tackled many projects of that nature, MAK members have tried to fi nd other ways to plug in. capitolauto.com 2016 Please see PLAY, Page A9 By ERIC A. HOWALD Of the Keizertimes Keizer residents continued a drumbeat of opposition to a proposed rezoning of the area commonly known as “the cow pasture” in documents submit- ted to the city. Residents had until Mon- day, Aug. 29, to submit rebut- tals to the new evidence pro- vided by the Herber family, the owners of the property west of Verda Lane Northeast between Chemawa Road northeast and Dearborn Avenue Northeast. The Herber family is seek- ing approval of city offi cials to rezone the land and pave the way for a new high-density de- velopment in the form of 112 apartments. The Keizer City Coun- cil rejected the proposition in October 2014, but the family returned earlier this year with a slightly modifi ed plan calling for eight fewer apartments and a new look designed to help the apartments fi t in among the residential neighborhoods surrounding it. The city council is expect- ed to make another decision on the rezone proposal at its Sept. 19 meeting. No public testimony will be allowed at the meeting, which begins at 7 p.m. at Keizer Civic Center, 930 Chemawa Road N.E. Karen Okada provided the most lengthy and detailed re- buttal of the proposal. While the plan proponents have sug- gested that the decision to re- zone the property for apart- ments was based on Keizer’s housing needs and inventories, the need for residential housing Saluting the people that make us proud of our community town with the word “volun- teerism” embedded into the city’s motto, he got his fi rst taste of volunteering in Bend. “There was a committee that got together and volun- teered on the weekends to go trim and weed the places the city didn’t have time for. The city supplied the vests and the gloves and the shovels and the rakes and we did the rest. I really got into that because I’m a yard guy and like to see things looking really sharp,” Shackelford said. FOOTBALL – PAGE 3 GIRLS SOCCER – PAGE 16 BOYS SOCCER – PAGE 18 The play opened at Salem’s Kroc Center, 1865 Bill Frey Drive, Sept 8 and continues with shows Sept. 9-11 and 15-17. All tickets are $15. First responders can buy one ticket and get one free. Curtain time is 7 p.m. each night except Sept. 11. The memorial performance of the show begins at 4 p.m., Sept. 11, and will be followed by an opportunity to talk with the actors, director and local fi rst responders. A portion ($5) of each ticket sold to the 9/11 performance will be donated to Firefi ghters Cancer ‘Shack’ puts the action in MAK By ERIC A. HOWALD Of the Keizertimes When Bob ‘Shack’ Shackel- ford took notice of the work the Keizer Network of Wom- en was doing around the city, he wondered why there wasn’t a male-led counterpart within the Keizer Chamber of Com- merce. That’s when he found out about Men of Action in Keizer (MAK). Shackelford began at- tending meetings of the group at Big Town Hero, but soon grew dismayed at the lack of actual action. “They would meet for cof- fee and talk about fantasy foot- ball or the latest movies they saw. They weren’t doing much of anything,” Shackelford said. After about three meet- ings, Shackelford started trying to move the group in a new direction – toward providing material support to the city and its residents. For those ef- forts, Shackelford was honored by the Keizer City Council as the Volunteer of Quarter by city offi cials at a meeting Tues- day, Sept. 6. Shackelford grew up in Keizer and graduated from McNary High School before opening and operating the Game Crazy store that used to be part of the Creekside Shop- ping Center. He later moved to Bend and then Arizona before returning to Keizer as a real estate broker with Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices. Despite growing up in a M C NARY HIGH SCHOOL Mural dedication PAGE A7 'Gus' back to lead Celt soccer PAGE A10 % 1.9 66 MONTHS ON SELECT VEHICLES* APR FINANCING FOR FUSION ESCAPE F-150 *Not all buyers qualify for Ford Credit fi nancing. 1.9% APR for 66 months at $15.97 per month per $1,000 fi nanced, on select vehicles. regardless of down payment. 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